The Games That Got Away

[Departed]

I really liked Revelations. It had a genuinely beautiful environment with an incredible soundtrack and while the story's pacing wasn't great, I had fun with it from start to finish. It was the RPG games that I just dropped altogether. I never bothered finishing Origins and even though I own Odyssey and Valhalla, I've never so much as opened their cases and probably never will. The combat had potential to be fun, but I hated the gear leveling system and hated that parkour was such an afterthought. The mechanics of combat, simple as they are, can be fun, but not when there's an arbitrary level I have to be at for my sword to behave like a sword.

Shadows is the most fun I've had with an AC game since Unity because of the return of stealth and having guaranteed assassinations, but the gear system is why I haven't finished it. Honestly, give me an AC game with an environment like Istanbul, Shadows stealth and combat mechanics, sans the stats and levels, Mirage's post-brand new DLC parkour with a few more tweaks to make it more like Unity, Jesper Kyd's music and a story that has characters I actually care about, and I'm all the way back in with AC.