The Games That Got Away

[NateDog]

MGS4. Was such a disappointment that it didn't really follow 2; tied itself so closely to 3 and resolved everything with 'nanomachines'.

(dis)Honourable mentions to AC3 (what was that ending?) and the Burial At Sea DLC to Bioshock Infinite.

AC3 is a big one for me. In interviews, the Dev Team and Nolan North (who is notorious for just spitting whatever he wants about the game dev cycle of projects he's worked on and spoiling anything he wants to) said there was initially an idea for Desmond to be around in about 10 or so games for the franchise as the central protagonist and for it to culminate in a finale where it's 50/50 gameplay split between modern day stealth with Desmond as a kind of "ultimate" assassin and the classic historical split.

Honestly gutted we didn't get that, I feel that Assassin's Creed's reluctance to even address the modern world now and how the Templars use their research as a method of thought domination in our current society was totally dropped (aside from some minor story beats which might as well be fucking Easter Eggs) is a fucking huge bummer.

I always detested what they did with Lucy. They had so many routes to take with her character and story, and they destroyed it all in one fell swoop and reduced her to the most redundant and simplistic option possible.