Assassin's Creed anyone?
My favorite is the first. I realize this puts me in the minority.
That said, I enjoyed ACII and I still haven't finished ACIV ... it's quite fun though, and having a good protagonist helps. My favorite will always be Altaïr (he reminds me of Kivan tbh), but Edward Kenway is cool!
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I still unable to decide. I played III a little and I didn't like being in America nor using ships (I kinda like stealth and other stuff from this game, the 'jump from the 11th floor and tear his neck away'). I haven't played IV so I can't talk about it. III has nice mechanics, but, god, it has more bugs than BG:EE at it's release.
And about the II's expansion or whatever they are (Brotherhood and Revelations) I don't played them either and I don't think I will, computer gamer here (and I'll try other games a soon as I find out one that is as good as BG).
Edit btw: is that GIF an Assassin's Creed Harlem Shake? Why no Harlem Shuffle (The Rolling Stones!!!!).
I haven't played III but I doubt I would like it. I bought it for my sister because she wanted to play it for the sake of the series ... I told her most people thought it was bad but went ahead and got it for her, and yeah, her reaction was "So that was pretty bad. Thanks for the gift, though."
I haven't played the spin-offs either. I do think IV brought some credibility back to the series after III sort of stumbled.
I have no idea what the GIF is, other than hilarious and very out of character.
Also in the gif they look like dancing, sorta weird.
Really I won't recommend III, it isn't very good. And it's full of glitches, I remember jumping over a cage and getting into it's animation and then being unable to get out
What I ever found weird is that Altaïr/Ezio/whomever is good aligned (mostly) and (besides following most orders) an assassin.
AC2 was okay, I liked Brotherhood, but when Revelations hit it just felt like a huge cash grab. Ezio is a fun character, and all, but yeah it just felt like this story was dragging on and on.
AC3, I'll admit, I liked the whole American Revolution theme. That being said, I wish that Haytham was the main character instead of Connor.
AC4, I haven't played all the way through, but I do like Edward.
Those Kenway boys are good. Well, except for Connor.
AC2 and its expansions, I felt, were also well-made, especially Revelations. Brotherhood wasn't bad, I'm just not a big fan of the "recruit a team"-mechanic when it's done as padding rather than attached to the central storyline. I liked recruiting a team in Mass Effect 2.
AC3 had high aims and a lot of promise (very interesting period and setting, deciding the fate of the new world), but suffered from ham-fisted storyline and the lack of an interesting/charismatic protagonist. Also as stated by this point the plot narrative had become stale and I just didn't find it very interesting what was going on anymore. With Desmond getting ever closer to a kind of messiah figure it felt like the game split up into having two protagonists, making it difficult to focus on Connor.
With AC4 it seems more like the focus has shifted away from the present day-plot, whereas the pirate setting and gameplay is (mostly) carried out excellently. The only real problem I have is that it's such a bleak tale, almost the entire setting is about how the age of piracy is fading away. Maybe it's just me, but I could have gone for an injection of swashbuckling and matiné romanticizing. Either way, by now it seems like focusing on the time period and the local protagonist rather than on the present day is the way to go.
AC1 astounded me at first because the concept of parkour was totally foreign to me. I'd never heard of it and climbing around on stuff like that was AMAZING. The novelty wore off once I got to Sequence 5 or 6 because the game was so repetitive. The combat was the hardest in this game, whereas now you can just stride right into a guard patrol and slaughter them all as they line up single-file for you to kill them.
AC2 is my favorite of the series. It improves upon 1 in every conceivable way.
Brotherhood is where the problems started, like killstreaks and full synch. Rather good nevertheless. Ezio's Roman assassin robe is my favorite outfit of his.
Revelations was Padding: The Game. There was so much side stuff to do that I forgot about the main plot. The tower defense was the stupidest thing in the AC series so far, but if you were skilled you didn't have to deal with it more than once. Altair's story was very intriguing and the Hookblade was SOOO satisfying. Unf.
And 3 is where everything just came to a grinding, screeching halt. Absolutely horrible PC optimization. "Simplified" parkour often takes me in directions I don't want to go. An awful protagonist, loads of DLC, and an asspull of an ending that is ALMOST on-par with Mass Effect 3. That was when I decided that I shouldn't be a fan anymore.
4 is better than 3 in every way, but there's veritable motherlodes of DLC. Switching from piloting a ship back to Edward is satisfying but I don't see how this game has anything to do with the Assassins besides the name, and stealing some poor git's equipment.
I think I enjoyed AC2 about as much as the first, maybe a little more. It definitely improved upon the original in many ways, but that was offset by the fact that the parkour aspect had lost much of its novelty.
I bought AC Brotherhood but never ended up playing it.
the world needs another assassin's creed game right now about as much as Athkatla needs another lich
...That was a joke.