Desmond Deserves Better *SPOILERS* | Forums

[NateTheGreat_0]

"The rest is up to you, Desmond" Ever since I heard that line at the end of AC2 I have been beyond pumped for a modern day Desmond game. Then Brotherhood came along, the game had a little more Desmond gameplay and had to lead up to his epic game, and I couldn't complain with more ezio. Then the brotherhood ending guaranteed yet another ancestor game since Desmond was now in a coma. Then at the end of Revelations, which is the best out of all them, it perfectly sets up AC3 to be all Desmond. Then AC3 comes out, and yet another ancestor! He has to go in the animus to find a key...a key. Again. Sure, there was at least 3 Desmond missions and the usual conversation options. Then we get to the end. Desmond finds the key, opens the door, and saves the world, happily ever after! Time for a game where we fight.modern templars as the assassin who gas been gathering his ancestors skills for 5 games now! But no. There's a twist, good ole Juno has "tampered" with the device and if Desmond uses it he dies, and releases Juno upon the world, or let the world "end" and start over. So Desmond goes for option A, and decides to sacrifice himself for the good of the planet. I thought to myself, "hey, at least it'll be a epic ending" That dream also crashed and burned. He screams at his father and team to go, walks up, touches the device, boom dead. I was beyond mad. Not only did Ubisoft not give us a full based Desmond game, which we've been waiting for since AC2 and further while the bleeding affect makes him a master assassin. But no, Ubisoft built up Desmonds story for 5 games for absolutely nothing. I will not buy the next assassins creed game because of this, I want a Desmond game, or at least a decent ending at the least. Very disappointed.

[ace3001]

I don't think many people really wanted an all-out Desmond game. Frankly, that would've just turned into another random 3rd person shooter, and thus would've sucked hard. There's only so much you can do in modern times, and most of it has been done already by current 3rd person shooters. There is very little room for innovation there.

[ACfan443]

While I don't necessarily think it should have been a full modern game, I definitely think Desmond's role should have been massively expanded on, there was barely any of him, his missions were short and boring, and he wasn't the master assassin he was supposed to be.

[Bangkok92]

I am just disappointed that at the end of AC3, it feels like all that time playing as Ezio was useless. All the Ezio games set AC up for an EPIC ending but this never happened.

[pirate1802]

I don't think many people really wanted an all-out Desmond game. Frankly, that would've just turned into another random 3rd person shooter, and thus would've sucked hard. There's only so much you can do in modern times, and most of it has been done already by current 3rd person shooters. There is very little room for innovation there.

Agreed. I wouldn't buy a full-on Desmond (or any modern ancestor) game, and I also think that'll never happen if you read into the dev quotes ("history is our playground" and all). Anyways, there isn't a way you can have an AC in modern times without turning it into a Splinter Cell/GTA rip-off. All the modern sections we had till now consist of stupid fistfights/stick fights/apple fights, they appear ridiculous but I understand why they are like that: devs don't have a lot of room for maneuvering there.

[D.I.D.]

Not interested in a Desmond game, nor his character, and if you wanted any proof of what a bad idea that would be then AC3 was it.

The part where Vidic tells Desmond to drop by at Abstergo is shockingly bad. He has his "mwahahaha" moment, telling Desmond to come in with the devastating weapon that controls people's minds and kills everyone in proximity and can only be operated by certain individuals with the correct DNA.

That's just staggeringly stupid, even by game standards. I don't think I could stand much more than what we got.

[Sickull]

You know they never said Desmond died, Minerva said "Our gift to them and you would have it returned" what if Juno needed to take Desmond's sixth sense to use it as a key for her escape or maybe she switched places with Desmond stripping him of his free will so now he's stuck in the cave and Juno is out running a muck. Even though AC3 doesn't have a particularly good ending (for Desmond anyway we all know ever AC game essentially ends twice) there is alot of information there like the possibility that Juno and Minerva might be the mother's of the Assassin's and the Templar's and the fact that it seems like Desmond hasn't learned anything based on the choice he made and it's probably what the Templar's wanted I doubt Altair would have made the same decision.

[LightRey]

Why in god's name did people keep expecting an all-Desmond game? It's absolutely ridiculous.

[pirate1802]

Why in god's name did people keep expecting an all-Desmond game? It's absolutely ridiculous.

+1000

[she-assassin]

Why in god's name did people keep expecting an all-Desmond game? It's absolutely ridiculous.

I don't know maybe because there are people who actually like Desmond and care about the modern-day story? *GASP*
Is it really so surprising? Wouldn't an all-Desmond game be a natural conclusion of his story arc? Especially when the writers tried so hard to make it look like Desmond was indeed the centre around which all the other storylines revolved? Of course story-wise, the gameplay would be a completely different issue.
I can honestly tell you that every AC fan I talked to before the release of ACIII couldn't wait for Desmond's part of the game, and no one, not even one of them was really excited for the ancestor's story, although, that might have something to do with the fact that they were not extremely excited about the American Revolution setting, but the point is that many AC fans do get invested in the modern-day characters and expect more modern-day gameplay with every new game. And that's a fact.