Time's running out for Assassin’s Creed’s modern day protagonist Desmond Miles. Chatting at a Ubisoft press event overnight, Assassin's Creed III's creative lead Alex Hutchinson explained that the character "needs to end” before his plot begins to run out of steam.
He said:
Things that go on too long lack resonance. We're asking people to remember seven years' worth of story. Which is like saying you were in junior high and now you're finishing college. And you need to remember what you were doing in junior high.
Hutchinson compared Miles’ story to a wrapper that ties the whole series together. “It’s like The Twilight Zone,” he continued. “There's always a guy introducing it and he's there every episode, but each game completes its own story.”
Ubisoft has already started to move away from Miles’ plot, with the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation on Vita set to focus on a new protagonist completely unrelated to the Animus augmented bartender.
What's your opinion of the divisive character?
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I understand Ubisoft had to find a way to tie the story together, but the modern day aspects of the series are by far the low points. Even if they're only used now and then, I hated being taken out of Ezio's story and being plonked back into Desmond's dull and extremely generic character, along with his 'Scooby Doo' friends. In my opinion the sooner they get rid of him, the better off the series will be. It would give them far more freedom with the franchise.
I didn't mind the Desmond sections in the first two games, but it is getting a bit ridiculous now. This will be the fifth entry in the series now where we'll have to stop playing the best parts of the game to get Desmond's story, so I completely agree with Hutchinson, it's time to tie up that part of the AC universe.
It dosen't sound to me like they are even thinking about ending the modern day sections, only Desmond's story line. As long as it has a satysfying end I'm okay with it.
And haven't all portable verions of Assassin's Creed been absent of Desmond?
I don't hate the Desmond bits as much as some people, but I'm not his biggest fan, either.
Also, I agree with Hutchinson regarding the narrative-bloat. Every AC plot has so many incidental little details (not to mention all the multi-media spin offs...)...that by the time the next title arrives, I've completely forgotten about them. Still, at least it's easy to remember that Assassins = good, and Templars = bad
Normally I'd agree, but let's remember this whole main AC story revolves around Desmond reliving these ancestor memories and from AC2 and on, learning from them to become a capable assassin himself to fight against Abstergo. While we have no idea how the modern bits in AC3 are going to play out yet (aside from finding this "Grand Temple" that has been teased about in all four games), It's hard to imagine Desmond's story ending here. In my opinion, if they want to give proper closure to Desmond's Story, they should have one more game though this time, set it in Modern Times with Desmond as the Main Assassin, using the skills he has acquired through Altair, Ezio, and Connor from the Bleeding Effect. And think of it from the Templar perspective, The multiplayer in Brotherhood and Revelations give off this storyline of training templars through assassin-like tactics to fight the modern assassins, Abstergo still has plenty of mystery around it (remember, Warren Vidic is not the head of the company/templar order), and we have their plot of the Satellite they intend to use to amplify the power of an apple of eden if they had one to end this whole war in their favor. All of this alone puts together a good plot for a modern-setted game, which if you ask me, they should take up on.
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