For me there’s a lot of video gamey ness to the AC series. I don’t find this breaks my immersion because the character I’m playing as is canonically in a simulation.

If the Animus wasn’t there as a framing device there’s a lot of stuff that I would find extremely hard to look past. I think it’s a great way to justify loads of stuff that would otherwise marr the experience.

The game character coming out of the Animus appears a lot up to AC3. There’s sections in AC 4 in the game dev’s offices, I’ve not played Unity, and there’s the stuff with Layla in Origins (incidentally, it’s only just occurred to me that I went to school with someone called Layla Hassan!).

There’s a lot more of it in the Desmond games, including part of AC3 where one gets to do assassin shit in modern times.

Flag shagger upset that there’s other flags?

Sounds like you’re talking about the Animus as sections where the player isn’t in the historical period rather than what I mean, which is that the historical experience takes place in an in-universe simulation.

It was an example to illustrate my point, not the entire line of reasoning. There’s loads of other stuff I feel the Animus side of the setting works well for, I just didn’t feel like writing an essay so provided just one example to support my line of argument.

Maybe they should just ditch the whole Animus plot.

I think if that was going to happen it would have happened after AC3.

Personally I’m glad the Animus is there, it makes it much easier for me to suspend disbelief about so many things in those games. I wish AC3 hadn’t messed up Desmond’s story though, I wanted a cool conclusion, rather than having Desmond get Poochied.

But for me, it was always the annoying immersion killing part.

I’m always exactly the opposite! For me it lets me forgive all the gamey-nonsense. Why can’t I leave the map? Because this ancestor never did so there’s no data for anywhere beyond here.

Yeah, I was expecting a race and got a Let’s Play and quickly lost interest. Nothing wrong with that, but it wasn’t what I was interested in watching.

They listed it in the race category and declared a winner at the end too, which muddied the waters a bit more than I’d like.

Still, glad you enjoyed it!

Runs I enjoyed:

• American Idol
• Grandma, No!
• Balatro
• Super Mario 64

Not as much stuff as I’d usually enjoy. I still need to watch a couple of runs but my biggest disappointment was the Super Mario Maker 2 troll “race”. Felt more like a Let’s Play. Normally Mario Maker is the highlight of the marathon for my wife and me, so perhaps our expectations were too high.

Not originally.

Tracing it back then, I don’t get the appeal of cigarettes either!

I do feel like an alien walking around looking at so many people vaping. I cannot fathom the appeal at all.

I’m reminded of the mockup of the government’s response to every petition.

It seems like such false economy having all these systems and awfulness to reduce fraud. Of course, that’s not why they’re there, but still, the justification is dumb.

|| Battle Beast ||. A friend had it when it was new and the art style always stuck with me.

Happened to me with Banjo Kazooie. I got to Grunty and found it needlessly hard, extremely boring, and decided that the fun bit of the game was done. I didn’t need to see the ending.

I think we’ve found one of those mythical people that reply to questions people ask online with “I don’t know”.

I’ve had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I’ve got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.

Is this thread really for you then?

You’re allowed to swear here and MDs weren’t proprietary.

UMDs were though.