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I just beat the game.
What. The. Hell. Was. That.
After 5 goddamn games, you're told that everything you've done for the past few centuries was irrelevant, and then you just hand the keys to the planet over to a megalomaniac. And then you are unceremoniously killed. Cut to credits.
What the actual hell.
The ending of this game is downright nihilistic and just goddamn depressing. It's message is that Humanity is fundamentally too flawed to ever be anything more than a band of warring, ignorant animals, that we're destined to either never mature as a species, or die out, and that our only salvation is through becoming slaves to 'higher' beings.
Screw that. That's the exact opposite of the message these games have been carrying this whole time. It basically takes the last 2 minutes of the entire series to say "Oh yeah... all that freedom stuff you were going on about this whole time? Yeah, that's all bull. Kthxbye." I don't know what the developers were aiming for, but it just comes off as a giant middle finger to the fans from where I'm sitting...
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Well Ive ruined the ending and spoiled for myself. Its okay its my own damn fault for not staying away from the thread. But guys assassins creed 3 was still a damn great game and connor was way better than ezio in my humble opinion, mostly because hes more serious, cold and stoic than ezio. But the dude was awkward at times. And the gameplay is great. I love the frontier and ship combat. But maybe desmond just went into some kind of coma? I thought he died at the end of brotherhood myself.