To all those going on about the AC franchise: I hate it. I hate what it's become and what a monstrosity it is becoming.
I despise it for the sole reason that I played the original game, and found that the good parts of the game were taken out in the future games. I actually liked gathering information on my target, the location, the guard patrols, and then implementing that myself in a way that was completely different to the next player, who would try something different. The future games just seem too much like GTA, you get a mission, you get told how to do it, and then you do it. I liked the whole self-planning and preparation you were given. Sure, you could actually just try to bull-rush your target, but you could plot a route towards him (not get given one, which is very obvious) and then go for the stealthy kill. That's what made it good, not the fact that the combat was amazing (it was in all of them) but the fact that you didn't engage in combat every five minutes, you only did it when it was necessary. The newer games forget this, and make the character some kind of one man army, having to fight millions of guards or templars, instead of the stealthy assassin that they are supposed to be.
Still, while the newer games aren't nearly as good in my opinion, I still like them a lot more than Mass Effect 3s ending. They at least stated from the start (of the franchise) that there was going to be a bunch of glowy, omnipotent people, who would make me do very unusual things for little reason and actually explain why the hell I'm strapping myself to a table and living through memories of ancestors. I understand why people like the way the franchise is going, but I'm not too happy with it, still play it, because the everything in the game more than makes up for the "on-rails" style of assassinations, unlike here, where despite the game being good otherwise, it's just not good enough, there's still a few spots that I found should have been addressed a little.
Back to the primary topic a little more, anything to report from the last few days?
Hold the Line, my comrades.
*End of Contribution*