Assassin’s Creed 3
Talk about a terrible ending to cap off one of the worst games in the entire franchise. The present setting for Assassin’s Creed has always been the series weakest link, but the final culmination to the Desmond story was nothing short of disappointing. Once you’ve beaten the game and your merry band of present day assassins have located the final artifact, Desmond is presented with two choices.
Survive the end of the world and help rebuild society (which will obviously repeat the same mistakes) or release an all powerful god who may or may not just kill everyone to begin with. It’s an interesting moral dilemma that could challenge players perception of what the “greater good” really is.
At least it would have been if the game just didn’t decide to make the choice for you, robbing you of any sense of reward or sense of accomplishment. If the game is going to go through the whole trouble of describe and showing the potential outcomes, they better let us pick which one we want. Not to mention, Desmond just up and dies on us, which gives the entire present day story arc a sour conclusion. Seriously, can we just go the simplicity of killing Templars and not weird, cosmetic world ending entities?
