User blog comment:SpaceKat/assassin's creed in general/@comment-187.32.127.181-20120411044356/@comment-1153722-20120411163643

Sorry, I meant more types of Pieces of Eden, was thinking multiple things at the same time. And no, they aren't just "to make money," they are made to expand the story. They didn't make more money by putting the Armor of Altaïr in the game, or having Revelations revolve around the Masyaf Keys. In the end, every gaming developer wants to make money, but that ultimately doesn't rely on whether or not they expand the storyline but on the games they develop. Saying that they do it to make money is frankly quite childish and misplaced. For example, Tommy Vercetti from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was not mentioned in Grand Theft Auto III. He was a new addition to the series, just like how the things you mentioned were added later on.

You have to bear in mind that the basic plot for Revelations originally was intended for Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy. I am also quite sure that Revelations was made in a slightly shorter production time than Brotherhood was, but I could be wrong on that. Both games were made within a year, and they did exceptionally well on both games with such a short amount of time. We shouldn't have expected them to match up to the first two games, which both had a development time of two years.

Subject 16 was in my opinion not thrown away at all. I personally found that they made more use of him than I thought they could, which I liked. The rest of the things you mentioned are personal opinion which I'm not going to get into.

And no, I don't think people should have doubts about the series after Revelations. Especially considering that the team behind the first two games has been developing AC3 for nearly three years. As I have said, Revelations indeed promised more than it could deliver, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it and it expanded the universe a lot more than most people see. Especially about the Assassins and Templars. And a lot of other 'little details' which most people did not see. A lot of things in the series get taken at face-value, which people should not do. The Altaïr memories were a big let-down for me as well, I have never denied that. Nonetheless, Ezio's story in Revelations was great and I don't have any complaints about it. Opinions differ, and no opinion can be given away as fact.

It is not right to assume that AC3 will be "the same as" ACR. No AC game is the same. The "old AC" never went.