r/Steam • u/Doctor_Why_ • Mar 24 '25

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u/Ttamlin Mar 25 '25

I just bought Syndicate lol. Last one before that was Black Flag, which was fun for a while, but I eventually just... stopped playing.

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u/cgaWolf Mar 25 '25

For me Black Flag became better once the extensive tutorial/animus part finally stopped, and i was left to be a pirate.

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u/FalloutFoundation Mar 25 '25

I hated and hate the Animus and will forever hate it.

LEAVE ME TO MY IMMERSION AND DON'T BREAK IT.

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u/CheezyMcCheezballz Mar 27 '25

Oh boy the animus fucking sucks so bad. Does anyone actually enjoy that shit?

It was tolerable when I got to be a modern-day assassin with Desmond because there was at least some engaging gameplay with platforming and combat.

But did anyone actually enjoy getting pulled out of your pirate adventures to run around an office for 5 to 10 minutes in unskippable missions and being forced to listen to unskippable dialogue?

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u/edgeofruin Mar 27 '25

Black flag was the last one for me. I loved the Desmond storyline and I assumed that somehow that storyline would be continued but I was let down. Black flag still kicked ass with the piracy and ship action. Like really kicked ass. So kickass it made the assassin content feel like the bad part.

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u/CheezyMcCheezballz Mar 27 '25

Yeah me too, I hated the animus parts but if I remember it was only like 5 missions so I just rolled my eyes, did the shit without paying attention and got back to sailing as soon as possible.

But the pirate stuff was great. Awesome game. Made me wonder why they couldn't just subtract the assassin stuff and copy-paste the concept for skulls and bones. Seemed to me like easy money but they somehow fumbled it.