Heir of Memories

[Anticitizen 1]

I hope the rest of Atlantis missions are better than this. Modern sections have been the worst part of AC since the very first game and having more of them is not a good thing. I want to play as a badass ancient assassin, not some modern day Animus muppet.

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I miss modern era assassins stories.
They are still at war with templars.

Modern day progress is the thread that holds all the assassin games together, it should have its priority.

[Anticitizen 1]

Originally posted by <blank>:

I miss modern era assassins stories.
They are still at war with templars.

Modern day progress is the thread that holds all the assassin games together, it should have its priority.

Modern missions are boring, they always have been and always will be. I never cared about the overall story of Assassins vs. Templars, I just want to be let loose on a historical playground.

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Originally posted by Anticitizen 1:

Originally posted by <blank>:

I miss modern era assassins stories.
They are still at war with templars.

Modern day progress is the thread that holds all the assassin games together, it should have its priority.

Modern missions are boring, they always have been and always will be. I never cared about the overall story of Assassins vs. Templars, I just want to be let loose on a historical playground.

it's boring because it brought people back to reality, where they need to work and pay for bills, or reminding them they are nearly broke and have to move back to mom's basement, unlike the in-game environment where we do not have to worry about money and food. It disrupted immersion, but also the missions are badly designed.

If ubisoft can merge far cry gameplay into modern day story it will not be as bad. Heck even the watch dog series are better. Or make the modern assassins doing mirror-edge-like parkour when running away from the Templars.

[( i ) ACTION BASTARD]

Hopefully there is a lot more like this in the Fate DLC - and face it, there will be. Heir leaves off with Layla having unlocked the gate and simply waiting. You know Fate will include her going inside. Deal with it.

The modern day story IS Assassins Creed. It always has been. Layla is the new Desmond and if anything, is even more important (and awesome) than Desmond.

Layla is the real protagonist of AC, even more than Kassandra (who was one of the most important characters in the Creed canon).

Get used to it or find a new series <3

[Tiudyr645🧉]

I highly doubt that Ubisoft is going to bring back any more actual relevant and playable present day sequences, they left it to the comics a couple of years ago, so don't worry.
I hope I'm wrong, I really enjoy all these sequences and really missed them since AC3 ended. The heir of memories gave me som good old warm memories from what the AC series used to be.

[Bee]

I like modern time segments. I just found the quests on this one kinda boring and repetitive. But since it was all setting up what was going to happen in the end, I understand. I look forward to playing more with Layla after that.

[EazyCheeze1978]

Raising an old post since I just discovered, booted up and finished the quest today.

I think it was a great way to revisit a plot point that got pretty quickly discarded after we discovered it: (my whole commentary on this DLC quest is spoileriffic, so I've marked it as such)

We discover how our sculptor friend Phidias died in a quite traumatic, what TV Tropes refers to as a "Player Punch" way for Layla.

We jump into Deimos' memories as he beats some information out of poor Phidias.

Layla, though she needs this information, has the option to fight Deimos' grotesque torturing of Phidias, but the memory resets every time we try to fight, making it more of a But Thou Must and a Deconstruction of "fixed" memories - thus making Layla the unwilling, titular Heir of Memories as Deimos actually changes to her several times in our view.

Meanwhile, it is established that the Isu, Those Who Came Before, assign those with high concentrations of their DNA, and/or those chosen to hold their Artifacts such as the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, to be Seekers of those similarly 'blessed' in the 'modern' times, who will, with the various incarnations of the Animus, examine and follow the lives of their predecessors to uncover the secrets to help them survive the ever-deepening conflict of their world.

Therefore, it follows that just as Kassandra (who is of course the canon Eagle Bearer) is Seeker for Layla, Altair and Ezio were the Seekers for Desmond Miles. The world-building comes together quite nicely here.

Looking very forward to Tuesday and continuing on in Atlantis both with Kassandra and Layla!

[The_Count]

just because you don't like the modern day setting it doesn't mean that it sucks, as a matter of fact if it wasn't for the modern day segment there wouldn't have been an AC franchise, would you have known the bigger picture if AC1 started off without desmond entering the animus? you would've played it and had no idea what the templar vs assassin conflict be all about except the one time when you got to kill several proeminent members from altair's time, AC3 wouldn't make any sense at all without the modern bit when desmond saved the world from the second solar flare which would've caused the same level of the destruction like the toba catastrophe and so on, the modern bit is just as much a part of the AC like the isu and their weird ass technollogy

[Morethan2Letters]

Originally posted by vlad_bortis:

just because you don't like the modern day setting it doesn't mean that it sucks, as a matter of fact if it wasn't for the modern day segment there wouldn't have been an AC franchise, would you have known the bigger picture if AC1 started off without desmond entering the animus? you would've played it and had no idea what the templar vs assassin conflict be all about except the one time when you got to kill several proeminent members from altair's time, AC3 wouldn't make any sense at all without the modern bit when desmond saved the world from the second solar flare which would've caused the same level of the destruction like the toba catastrophe and so on, the modern bit is just as much a part of the AC like the isu and their weird ass technollogy

Sometimes nobody cares about the "story" we just want to have fun, 90% of the time I press the skip button during cut scenes.

[Anticitizen 1]

Originally posted by Advanced3:

Originally posted by vlad_bortis:

just because you don't like the modern day setting it doesn't mean that it sucks, as a matter of fact if it wasn't for the modern day segment there wouldn't have been an AC franchise, would you have known the bigger picture if AC1 started off without desmond entering the animus? you would've played it and had no idea what the templar vs assassin conflict be all about except the one time when you got to kill several proeminent members from altair's time, AC3 wouldn't make any sense at all without the modern bit when desmond saved the world from the second solar flare which would've caused the same level of the destruction like the toba catastrophe and so on, the modern bit is just as much a part of the AC like the isu and their weird ass technollogy

Sometimes nobody cares about the "story" we just want to have fun, 90% of the time I press the skip button during cut scenes.

Precisely this. Modern sections are not fun and not particularly good for the story either. The attraction of AC games has always been about playing around in a historical playground, not the extremely dull modern day sections.

[Tiudyr645🧉]

Originally posted by Anticitizen 1:

Originally posted by Advanced3:

Sometimes nobody cares about the "story" we just want to have fun, 90% of the time I press the skip button during cut scenes.

Precisely this. Modern sections are not fun and not particularly good for the story either. The attraction of AC games has always been about playing around in a historical playground, not the extremely dull modern day sections.

Well, then this DLC isn't for you. They already teased us that we're going to play as Layla again in the fate of atlantis, and she'll take an important role. It seems like only true fans appreciate the modern day stuff...

[Derrame]

yes
modern day misions totally break immersion

I want to play as misthios kassandra in super badass epic spartan battles

[Anticitizen 1]

Originally posted by Tiudyr645:

Originally posted by Anticitizen 1:

Precisely this. Modern sections are not fun and not particularly good for the story either. The attraction of AC games has always been about playing around in a historical playground, not the extremely dull modern day sections.

Well, then this DLC isn't for you. They already teased us that we're going to play as Layla again in the fate of atlantis, and she'll take an important role. It seems like only true fans appreciate the modern day stuff...

True fans lol. I am a fan of good gameplay, something I am yet to see in any mordern day section in any AC game that I've played. Like someone else said, apart from tedious gameplay and flat characters, MD sections also serve to break immersion.

[The_Count]

Originally posted by Anticitizen 1:

Originally posted by Tiudyr645:

Well, then this DLC isn't for you. They already teased us that we're going to play as Layla again in the fate of atlantis, and she'll take an important role. It seems like only true fans appreciate the modern day stuff...

True fans lol. I am a fan of good gameplay, something I am yet to see in any mordern day section in any AC game that I've played. Like someone else said, apart from tedious gameplay and flat characters, MD sections also serve to break immersion.

AC actually is about the modern day struggle between the assassins and abstergo, the only reason they used the animus was to look for the artifacts that would give abstergo an edge over their enemies and the assassins to rob abstergo of that advantage, i for one liked the modern day plot and was curios if someday an entire game would be set in it but was furious when they resolved the juno plotline in a comic book instead of the game

[Anticitizen 1]

Originally posted by vlad_bortis:

AC actually is about the modern day struggle between the assassins and abstergo, the only reason they used the animus

The only reason why MD plotlines indeed is to give us an excuse to get into the animus. The only reason why animus exists is as an easy way to keep a franchise consistent.

Most players don't care about MD sections, even the developers don't really care since they always play poorly. It's as if MD in general is an afterthought for devs.