animus and cringe

[StormRend]

The animus has always been odd to me, and honestly would be much better without it.

However they have never been too bad.

Origins on the other hand, is just cringy.

"So aggro" ugh. Just let the animus part die already...

[Soulless]

The Animus is fine it's the whole Abstergo storylines that suck, shoulda left us with the Brotherhood side of things considering they left us at the end of Revelations with way too many unanswered questions and a whole load of temples and other places that Desmond discoverd but it's all been tossed aside for Abstergo to make Video games of all things.

Can we please get back to what happened at the end of Revelations Ubisoft? Forget Abstergo and stick with the Assassins, Underdog stories feel a hell of a lot better to play and get invested in rather than the generic crap.

[StormRend]

Originally posted by Avare:

Unity and Syndicate did't have animus.!

The only ones i never played ! lol time to go back i guess

[ZX119A]

Honestly, I'd have been fine with Origins serving as a reboot instead of a continuation of a storyline with no clear direction or end state in mind. I'm of the opinion the whole animus/abstergo/brotherhood thing needs to be retooled completely, or abandoned in favor of each AC game serving solely as a loose continuation of the last, minus the modern day stuff.

[Darth Revan]

Assassins creed is based on the animus, without animus you have no assassins creed because you have no machine with which you could see the rememberings of your ancestores which are stored in your DNA. (or the DNA of other people, depending on the animus model.)

the animus and assassins creed are bound together, you cant have the one without the other, unity and syndicate also had the animus, you just have no "real world" interaction with it but you still play someone who uses a animus to see the rememberigns in the DNA of somebody.

The whole franchise is build up on the idea that humans too have rememberings in thair dna like some animals have and about the animus, thats the core idea/element of the franchise.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Originally posted by Legat Lucanus:

Assassins creed is based on the animus, without animus you have no assassins creed because you have no machine with which you could see the rememberings of your ancestores which are stored in your DNA. (or the DNA of other people, depending on the animus model.)

the animus and assassins creed are bound together, you cant have the one without the other, unity and syndicate also had the animus, you just have no "real world" interaction with it but you still play someone who uses a animus to see the rememberigns in the DNA of somebody.

The whole franchise is build up on the idea that humans too have rememberings in thair dna like some animals have and about the animus, thats the core idea/element of the franchise.

And thats the problem. They ♥♥♥♥♥♥ themselves from the beginning by including it in the first game. Even with the first game I would've greatly preferred if it was just a story set in ancient times and each game just being different in the same vein as GTA without some ridiculous convuluted subplot.

[Garrett]

+1

[Coldhands]

I've always liked the modern day sections of Assassin's Creed and the way the main plot ties into the historical plot. But the writing in the modern day sections of Origins is really bad, yeah.

[Kwcten]

all them bad photoshops were kinda really funny

[It´sAllAimAssist]

I´ve never been a huge fan of the "play in modern time animus" stuff in the games either, not because of the actual idea itself. They have some making of really cool sci fi makings there with "the ancients" or whateve they´re called and the animus DNA memory/time warp stuff.I really liked looking for those puzzles in AC2 to get that video thing ,
even if it doesn´t make any sense why is Ezio looking for something he can´t see since it´s the person reliving his memories that finds them or wait ..what ?
.Anyway If used properly they could go for some serious Matrix meets Inception kind of deal,
Perhaps even an AC where you actually have a decent plot an gamepay set in modern time where the animus and all that is used as tool etc. Problem is the actuall use of any of it in game apart from the first one hasn´t been very good. Both confusing and an annoying forced break usually than anything ..

"f*** reading memos and sticky notes ! put me back in the computer so I can keep stabbing people!"

Also I am totally lost on whats going in in the modern day stuff..I lost track of it somewhere around AC3 which I can´t bring myself to finish for some reason.

[em_t_hed]

Originally posted by Hailtothedogebby:

The animus has always been odd to me, and honestly would be much better without it.

However they have never been too bad.

Origins on the other hand, is just cringy.

"So aggro" ugh. Just let the animus part die already...

And it's people like you that turned it into Ezio's Creed after AC2... Who the eff cares about ezio's effin life!!! he was cool for 1 installment... the next two... ResidentSleeper!!!!!!

[Atma]

Originally posted by Legat Lucanus:

Assassins creed is based on the animus, without animus you have no assassins creed because you have no machine with which you could see the rememberings of your ancestores which are stored in your DNA. (or the DNA of other people, depending on the animus model.)

the animus and assassins creed are bound together, you cant have the one without the other, unity and syndicate also had the animus, you just have no "real world" interaction with it but you still play someone who uses a animus to see the rememberigns in the DNA of somebody.

The whole franchise is build up on the idea that humans too have rememberings in thair dna like some animals have and about the animus, thats the core idea/element of the franchise.

I feel like people would play them regardless without the modern day stuff.

I got Origins to run around Egypt as Bayek, not run around a cave as Layla.

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by D.well:

.......Also I am totally lost on whats going in in the modern day stuff..I lost track of it somewhere around AC3 which I can´t bring myself to finish for some reason.

abstergo is using a new version of the animus to make video games, movies and other media now, for this reason they founded a new subsidiary called abstergo entertainment.

Thair first game was "liberation" which tells the story of the assassin aveline de grandpré

if you are interested you can read about it here:

http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Abstergo_Entertainment#cite_note-AC4-1

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by Atma:

Originally posted by Legat Lucanus:

Assassins creed is based on the animus, without animus you have no assassins creed because you have no machine with which you could see the rememberings of your ancestores which are stored in your DNA. (or the DNA of other people, depending on the animus model.)

the animus and assassins creed are bound together, you cant have the one without the other, unity and syndicate also had the animus, you just have no "real world" interaction with it but you still play someone who uses a animus to see the rememberigns in the DNA of somebody.

The whole franchise is build up on the idea that humans too have rememberings in thair dna like some animals have and about the animus, thats the core idea/element of the franchise.

I feel like people would play them regardless without the modern day stuff.

I got Origins to run around Egypt as Bayek, not run around a cave as Layla.

well, without the animus you would have no trail of the gods for example since it is not more than a animus glitch.

They already made games in which you were playing someone who uses the animus withotu any "real world" interaction with it.

But if they completely remove the animus it would not be assassins creed anymore which would not be a problem if they find a new name for it.

[fatherjimbo]

Originally posted by Hailtothedogebby:

The animus has always been odd to me, and honestly would be much better without it.

However they have never been too bad.

Origins on the other hand, is just cringy.

"So aggro" ugh. Just let the animus part die already...

I like the modern day stories. Well except for the straight abstergo ones. Where's the damn downvote button?

[Atma]

Originally posted by Legat Lucanus:

Originally posted by Atma:

I feel like people would play them regardless without the modern day stuff.

I got Origins to run around Egypt as Bayek, not run around a cave as Layla.

well, without the animus you would have no trail of the gods for example since it is not more than a animus glitch.

They already made games in which you were playing someone who uses the animus withotu any "real world" interaction with it.

But if they completely remove the animus it would not be assassins creed anymore which would not be a problem if they find a new name for it.

I feel like it would be relatively easy to come up with a plot device as weak as the animus to allow you to fight gods. You literally fight a god already in a priest-induced dream. :P

I also think that you might be placing too much emphasis on the modern day elements which haven't really mattered since Desmond, when we were trying to stop the end of the world (lol 2012).

I figure the point of AC is the creed itself and what it means to each of the assassins, which shapes their personalities (or often, lack thereof).