That’s because the player basically had to make Desmond walk around and talk to his friends for immaterial conversations.There were hardly any action sequences here, with the worst of situations being the entirety of the first ’ gameplay where we had to arrange a bunch of blocks for Desmond.

Samples taken from Desmond Miles' body in the moments after his death have enabled Abstergo Industries to continue to explore his genetic memories using the Animus' newfound cloud computing abilities. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. Here's what we do & don't miss.Saim Cheeda is an entertainment writer covering all of Film, TV, Gaming and Books. However, a lot of the elements about the Desmond games have aged well, which makes us appreciate certain things about the story and gameplay. Desmond Miles (1987 – 2012) was a member of the Assassin Order and a descendant of numerous familial lines that had sworn an allegiance to the Assassins; including individuals such as Aquilus, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Edward Kenway, and Ratonhnhaké:ton. Where things go slightly different in the temple, and Desmond gets to go home - only, not as he'd imagined. "You were brave." "Load of good that did me." The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Apart from freelance writing, Saim is a lifestyle blogger, co-owning the blog 3 States Apart. It was also exciting to uncover a new area to travel to, as it gave the games a refreshing change of pace.Having to sit through more of the Isus’ monologuing isn’t something we imagine anyone would miss, and these used to dominate quite a lot of the present-day setting in the Desmond games. He's been a writer for The Gamer, Screen Rant and CBR since 2017, contributing 100+ articles for a variety of topics.

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There just wasn’t much material present for players to be invested in their conflict, so Desmond’s angst over this issue only came across as annoying.The gameplay also tried to engage players in this, with Lucy’s laptop messages showing correspondence with Desmond’s father, and dedicating several scenes toward those, none of which were memorable or entertaining in the slightest.There’s been a definite sense of detachment between the current present-day protagonists and the assassin whose memories they access in the Animus, mainly because there’s no connection between them and because there’s nothing to suggest the characters have anything in common.

In the games following Desmond’s death, though, every game has had a singular storyline that hasn’t crossed over to the next, making it next to impossible to be attached to the main protagonist.For the most part, the newer games have focused on exploration and side missions, forfeiting the attachment that players had to the protagonists in the Desmond games since those characters were followed right from their young days to their old times.The series has always had a liking toward leaving fans wanting more, but there was always a big gaping hole left in a player’s satisfaction level during the Desmond games because those stories tended to end abruptly.They started becoming more frustrating as the games went by, with some kind of huge revelation uncovered, only for the following game to make it seem like it was never a big deal.