When I heard that VGA was going to do Assassin’s Creed I had mixed feelings. If they skip to Assassin’s creed 2 like many people were asking they would get the wrong impression about the writing. In assassin’s creed 1 the writers spent a lot of time on showing the duality of the Templars and Assassins, showing the philosophies of both parties and comparing them. In assassin’s creed 2 having established the complex morality of the Templars the story moves one to showcase the main downside of their philosophy, in short it attracts the power hungry, the greedy, and the egotistical. without the previous game to back it up it comes across as a simple “Templar bad! You assassin! Go Kill!” Storyline and newcomers would have a hard time understanding why people like the story so much.
On the other hand the gameplay in assassin’s creed 1 is tedious and laborious.
For a time I was organizing a series of Youtube links showing only the assassinations and the story associated with the them. I was planning to submit this list and a suggestion to Frasier simply : Play the first assassination on the show off the good/bad qualities of the gameplay as a whole. then watch the assassinations/story bits to cover the real meat of the game. bing bang boom. Assassin’s creed 1 in about 2 hours. Most fans appeased, got the complex plot summarized without cutting out the meat, and moving on the much better gameplay of AC2.
Unfortunately before I was able to make the list life got in the way and this project was sidetracked. Then Frasier announced he was going to play assassin’s creed 1 first. Mixed feelings abound. but then he says he will beeline it to the assassinations. That made me happy. skipping any quest to tedious to watch cuts the play time down considerably. Unfortunately yesterday Frasier’s completionist nature got the better of him. attempting to replay a boring and annoying mission over and over overwhelmed him and he quit. Completely understandable. I only hope that this won’t cause him to completely throw AC1 out the window.
It’s a long shot but if Fraiser is willing I could finish the youtube links list and send it to him within a day. High quality assassinations and quick story bits. In one live episode; he, Ben, and Becky could watch the videos and comment on them, allowing AC1′s complex but interesting look at the differing Ideologies of Assassin’s creed a chance to engage them. They would go into assassin’s creed 2 with a understanding of why people like AC1 despite its tedious gameplay, but circumvent the gameplay itself.
I think Frasier would enjoy this story. His reactions to the statements of the Doctor and the Slaver’s clear belief that they were doing the right thing indicated that he was intrigued and this perspective is what is highlighted in AC1 but lost in AC2.
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