User:RShepard227

About me

I've been playing the Assassin's Creed series since I was an impressionable 18-year old. Assassin's Creed was the first M-rated game I was able to buy without a parent (GameStop carded minors, and Amazon wasn't a thing yet). The Creed "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" became a core part of my philosophy that ultimately allowed me to shed some of my earlier dogma and become much more fair-minded towards different people than I was as a teenager. I am 29 now, and this marks my 7th year as a member of Wikia (it will always be Wikia to me, no matter what Fandom does...).

I was content to leave the collation of information to the regulars at this wiki, as they've had a very good format going from day one, only providing sporadic edits maybe once a year. With Assassin's Creed: Odyssey bringing branching dialogues, consequential choices, among many other role-playing mechanics (which IMO introduces an element of "revisionism" that goes against the core usage philosophy of the Animus, to present the historical events around these heroes' lives exactly as they happened, without room for misinterpretation and bias, but I digress), I figured my experience from in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age communities would have something to offer on that front.

Though I sincerely hope for a return to the tactical assassination action and social stealth that set this series apart (which still exists to a certain extent, but the increased emphasis on damage and hit points greatly diminishes its effectiveness and synergy with the skills used by Altair, Ezio, the Kenways, Arno, and the Frye twins).