Even though Ubisoft has already revealed that the journey of protagonist Desmond Miles will be coming to an end in Assassin’s Creed 3, it’s still going to take a while for gamers to cope with that fact. Beyond just a major in-route for the story of AC, Desmond has become the one staple of the franchise — a comfortable figure that appears soon after the player boots up the newest game.
However, like any franchise worth its salt – which Assassin’s Creed no doubt is – there has to be some sense of closure at various milestones, which makes Assassin’s Creed 3 all the more important. Not only with this newest entry introduce a much-anticipated new setting (the American Revolution), and a new protagonist (Connor), but, as AC3‘s Lead Designer explains, it will also “bring some finality to Desmond’s story.”
Speaking with OXM, Masters once again reiterated the fact that Desmond Miles, as a protagonist, might not be long for the world of Assassin’s Creed 3. When Alex Hutchinson spoke on concluding the Desmond portion of the story he was very wary about using the term death, whereas Masters avoids discussing it altogether.
Masters does, however, explain that the team at Ubisoft wanted players to experience “a big leap forward in the story,” which leads us to believe the story will progress beyond the cataclysmic event the series has been leading up to. In fact, Masters even teases that Assassin’s Creed 3 is going to lay a lot of the series’ cards on the table, and do away with the “meandering” that gamers have been admonishing since Brotherhood.
“A lot of the misdirection and the way we’ve been meandering a little bit has been kind of frustrating as a player and for the audience, so we wanted to make sure there was going to be more substance to get your teeth into.”
If Assassin’s Creed 3 wasn’t already one of gamers most anticipated games, the promise of more answers and less stalling is sure to bring more than a few back into the fold. Moreover, now that we know this will be Desmond’s last game it begs the question of where the series goes from here. While we can’t say that Assassin’s Creed 3 will deliver all the answers, it should presumably tease where the franchise is headed in the near future.
Do you agree that Assassin’s Creed has stalled as of late? Are you ready to say goodbye to Desmond?
Assassin’s Creed 3 releases October 30, 2012 for the PS3 and Xbox 360, November 18th for the Wii U, and November 20th for the PC.
Source: OXM
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I may lose it if there are 1st person missions in this like in Revelations, those were worse than the Tower Defense, and that was awful.
I completely agree with you, I hated those bits. I ended up just watching the videos on Youtube because I was too focused on the platforming during the game to pay attention to what was being revealed in the story. Other than the introduction mission to tower defense, I never had to use it past that, maybe because I leveled all of my assassin’s up rather quickly and installed them in the towers. I rather hope for a return to the “Truth” puzzles of the prior games, as you had to find them in game, and then use your brain to solve them.
No first person missions, no tower defense. There is the Truth and Navak Battles though..
I don’t get way people dislike the tower defense so much, I thought it was interesting, would rather just have a big melee vs. the templars though in the regular gameplay.
I Agree, one of the reasons I love AC is that is a legit break away from all the first person shooters and RPGs and then they pulled that s***…
I’ll be happy to see the end of the stalling but sad to see the end of the main character. You barely get to use him at all and when we finally do they kill him off? That blows…
Awww!
I love Desmond and you don’t get to play with him that much and to be honest I was looking forward to getting to play as him and have some serious abilities.. and now they are going to kill him off??? They already killed Lucy and I was pretty ticked at that and then they don’t even go and mention her really in Revelations… What are they going to do, switch to a different Subject??? Were they not using Desmond’s ancestors for a reason??? They better have some serious answers in AC3! Or I am gonna be very disappointed…
Idk I heard this before.
I think it’s probably a good idea to end Desmond’s story line here. I like him but this will be the 5th game he’s in & I think in the interest of giving the series new energy it makes sense to jump to another assassin after this game with a new story line and objective…That would also let the developers to be able to go back in time to whenever they want when creating new, “assassin flashbacks” which I’m sure will be a liberating thing for them. I’m really excited about AC3 and the future of this franchise.
Desmond was never the main character, only a tool to tell the Altair and Ezio story arcs. The way they told the story could have implemented Desmond a bit more, but I never found the times we did use him all to entertaining, aside from the beginning of Brotherhood.
The entire build up toward Connor, and the future in the next few titles has me excited more than ever for what’s in store for the next group of characters we will be introduced to.
It’s the FIFTH game and finally they want to do something with the protagonist? At this point, no one cares about Desmond, and hasn’t for some time. Ezio by the end of his journey was a thousand times more interesting. So was Altair. I can’t imagine that we’re going to see Desmond reach old age, or somehow become an actual character and not just the medium by which we experience more interesting people.
This was the worst Assassin’s Creed ever. Lame story line, and Conner was a straight up prick. While I loved the others this game sucked so bad that I won’t be buying another if one comes out.