The 5 Biggest MISSED Opportunities in Assassin's Creed... 

Connor: “Assassins...ASSEMBLE!” Arno, Aveline, and other Assassins: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” Shay: *commands Templars*

They definitely planted all of the seeds for an Avengers style AC crossover game with Connor, Arno, Aveline, and Shay. Even the books build up to it, which makes it all the more frustrating that it didn't happen. In Unity's novel, Arno learns about Connor, Edward, Haytham, and Jennifer after reading Élise's journals. It ends with Arno being in possession of Haytham's letters about unifying the two sides and the Templar necklace that Haytham gifted to Jennifer (the one you see Arno holding in Unity's key art). Arno basically has Kenway heirlooms right now, yet we'll never get to see him interact with Connor. 😔 AC games are so distant from each other in terms of the timeline now that there's basically zero crossover potential like there once was with AC3 through Unity (short of having Kassandra pop up in more games).

Asssassin's Creed is like Star Wars. Despite it's many issues and missed opportunities, we just love it, and always want the best for it.

Bayek not having a sequel will ALWAYS be the number 1 biggest mistake 😢 What an amazing character

BRO! ive imagined an AC5 where Arno comes to the US in hunt for Shay, while Shay is hunting Connor (not knowing he's Haytham's son while trying to avenge him). At the same time Connor is trying to settle down at the Davenport Homestead while helping Aveline with some of her missions. Craziest part is ive been calling it AC VENGANCE cuz u know AC5 or ACV as well XDXD . when fans know and think alike HAHA.

AC Vengeance w/polished Unity controls & graphics would be a dream come true for me.

I have said it before and I'll say it again but it breaks my heart that the series didn't follow in Unity's footsteps. The parkour, large crowds, and lively city were never recaptured since and I can't help but feel every subsequent game was a downgrade. (Sigh) If only they delayed Unity and didn't fundamentally change the series.

5 missed Characters development : -Shay and his Grandson being hunted by Connor, Ade Grandson and Arno, kind of a secuel of Rogue and AC 3 -Bayek and Aya being older Assassins -Black Flag Secuel -What happened to Juno and Miles son Elijah

What Unity and an Arno trilogy could have been is without a doubt the biggest missed opportunity in AC history

Hey Master Assassin Ever considered turning your Assassins Creed Vengeance script into an audio series that someone could animate? I’ve worked on voice acting and writing and directing a series like this. I’d love to help if possible

The biggest problem with meeting the mentioned 4 is the age of each of the characters, especially Shay. (As of 1795: Connor is 39 years old, Aveline- 58, Shay- 64, and Arno is only 27) So unless the creators sent Arno to the United States as soon as possible, I doubt he would make it before the assassin hunter's natural death.

I wish ubisoft would just take their time making these games and actually put their heart and soul into them

I think one of the biggest missed opportunities in assassin's creed history was not making Origins take place in the bronze age because if it did there could be stories about the bronze age collapse with the event being the biggest failure of the brotherhood, or a story taking place near the beginning of Rome showing that it was founded by Templars, and many more story opportunities are lost now

Still waiting for Haytham's own game to complete the Kenway trilogy 😫

This is the order of games we should have gotten: AC1 AC2 Brotherhood Revelations AC3 (But Desmond survives in the end)/ Liberation The sixth Desmond game Black Flag Unity/Rogue Your AC Vengeance Syndicate Origins Origins Sequel And we'd be lining up waiting on AC Red

I think the biggest missed opportunity for me was with AC Unity. I was really hoping for a revenge story where we play as Arno tracking down Shay and kill him at the end of the game, that story could of been so interesting to flesh out BUT NO

In my opinion one of the biggest missed opportunities is game about Haytham Kenway as a main protagonist

One of the missed opportunity in Unity I still think is not being able to assassinate La Touche from on top of the guillotine. Like, can they add an additional high post or crossing line for the sake of that!? They shown us the possibility in a gameplay demo trailer and not even carry that idea over!

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1:40 I've never seen that concept art! Outfit and character looks very cool!

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Biggest missed opportunity will always be not giving Arno and Connor a game. Arno and Connor versus Shay would be so damn good. It could be like Eveline introduces Arno to Connor, Connor comes to Europe, and they work together in the Napoleonic Wars to kill Shay.

Here's my idea of a game featuring the sequel to Arno and Shay story. After finishing both Rogue and Unity, I feel a BIG Wasted Potential on an AC game featured 2 previous protagonists on 2 opposite sides. For example, it took place in the Napoleonic War, with both the Templars and the Assassins ultimate goal is to stop Napoleon, but both sides have different means to achieve that goal and try to gain an upper hand over the opposite factions. Shay is now old, but he has trained a group of Templar Hunters specialized in countering assassin's tactics. Those Hunters can be a special type of enemies that actively hunting Arno and strongly resist some tools like smoke bombs and hidden blade kill (someone like the Shakiriyya in Mirage), which force Arno to rely more on creative environment kill tactics. Since this is a 3-sides war between the Assassins, Templars and Napoleon armies, the player can lure the mobs from the other 2 sides into fighting, or maybe even suggest a temporary alliance with 1 other side in some missions. Since the Templars led by Shay also increase their impact by helping the locals, normal folks NPCs under the Templar area will also actively help them by calling Hunters everytime they see an assassin, or fighting along side them depends on Arno's notority. To counter that, Arno and the Brotherhood must also actively increase their fame by helping the locals and assassinate high profile targets that under Shay's command. Also, there should be an ambush mechanic like in Rogue to make the map more immersive. The kidnapping mechanic in Syndicate is also a nice addition, since it helps Arno sneaking more effectively in Templar's area. To improve the stealth even more, I suggest the interrogation mechanic where the player can interrogate mobs so that they can give info on the high-profile targets locations. Arno motive in this game would first be helping the Brotherhood to stop Napoleon, then finding the answer for his father's death, but not for revenge, he only want an explanation from Shay. As for Shay, his motive would be killing Napoleon and bring back the Eden artifact to the Templars side, so he would think that Arno is a dangerous Assassin that wants the Artifact for the Brotherhood own interest and neglect the danger it may pose, then at the end of the game he discovered that Arno is the child of the man he killed years before As for Connor and Aveline, they would appear later in the story, and their role is something like how Haytham appears in Rogue. They will help the Brotherhood to fight off the sudden attack of Napoleon army and the Templars. I don't think that Connor will interfere with the battle between Arno and Shay, since he wants Arno to find the answer for himself, like how he came to realization after Haytham's death.

Connor vs Shay. Arno vs Shay will be sick, but Connor vs Shay is literally a climatic battle of the Kenway saga. Shay destroys the assassin's brotherhood. Connor rebuilds the brotherhood.

Hey, I just found your channel and have been bingewatching since... I really appreciate your content! I played only the first AC game when it released and maybe 1/3 of AC2 and AC3 (Time-Issue) and jumped in to Valhalla lately. Bad Idea so far, that game is just so broken on so many levels.... What part of the series would you guys and gals recommend to get back into AC?

U should do a who's the most stylish assassin? Take into account animations and outfits

Will be really interesting to see what happens with infinity. Id love to see Ubisoft remake all the previous titles link them together,enhances the gameplay (where appropriate)and fix a lot of the issues of some games ie syndicate.

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I think a missed opportunity was when they did assassin’s creed chronicles instead of giving each character, 20 to 25 minutes of gameplay. They should’ve given each one of them their own separate full fledge game.

For me.. AC origins deserve one more DLC but for Aya in Rome. About how she built the Roman brotherhood, how Brutus got his outfit(from brotherhood) And for AC3, i wish we could get 2 DLCs, one between 1985-1990 where connor rebuilds brotherhood and one in 1800s with eseosa(but we play as eseosa with connor as quartermaster of Aquila)

The Bayek/Aya sequel could've been set only in Rome having more of Unity's mechanics rather than the RPG system and continued to develop the Arsenal and skill set of the Hidden Ones 😢

biggest missed opportunity was a game set during Alexander's conquests that could have been the size of all of valhalla's + dlc's

One could probably make a Top 20 list with this same topic. 5 is just scratching the surface.

I've always been annoyed that Unity's story never touched on Arno's father's killer and having a crossover between Arno and Shay but having four main characters from different games in one game sounds so awesome. Though I'm not sure Aveline would have as much of a reason to cross paths with the other three assassins as they do with each other.

Honestly I played Origins, AC1, Ac3 and AC4:BFlag....and it was very werid how abruptly the act of Desmond dying was almost like a inferred idea to make him come back in future titles. Like AC Black Flag had a werid vibe when I was playing, where they kept giving information on Desmond and made me think of why they were. Desmond's original pitch sounds insane in a good way. Also that game with Shay, Arno, Avaline and Connor would be crazy it it would've happened.

From now on, I'm gonna be that one annoying person and comment under every single one of your new videos and ask if you will ever play The Devil May Cry series. this was the first one, be warned! Oh and about the video itself. I totally agree with your list, especially the last one (ACV). There is really not much to say, Ubisoft literally just said no to a whole lot of money by missing that.

My opinion is that new characters bring fresh stories and cover the potential players who do not like recycling. I would personally have it as you say but new characters and games also bring the sales of new merchandise, figures, statues, shirts... and money grabbing companies are more into more profit I think, that the new thing would bring.

i feel like u should do 5 more in a seperate video and maybe other videos about lesser known things ubisoft didn’t do

Replayng black flag the audio tape contain many intresting stuff, like the oter subjects could contain or just an ac in recent past like se see in ac unity beginning

I’d love to see a game more focused around the Isu civilization and the apples of Eden. Would be cool to have the new unity system connect all the games and you have to retrieve all the artifacts from all other games and games to come.

I think a good idea for a game, showing Edwards life after black flag and seeing Haytham become a Templar

I think something like AC: Vengeance could still happen if they continue Nexus VR. The biggest problem is that there are too many locations to realistically do in one open-world game but Nexus shrinks that to linear levels with very limited open-world which would make it doable.

There's a remaster of AC IV been made. AC III also got a "remaster", ACU still in the mind of everyone and Rogue... yeah it's okay. They could pull off an AC with all of them today, specially using the "return to roots" shit they like so much to hype everyone. I don't think they ever will, but it is doable. The real reason why AC misses so much opportunities is clear: they produce at LEAST two ACs at the same time, in two completely different studios. When AC stops been Ubisoft's CoD, if that day ever comes and if they don't kill the franchise if it comes to that, then we might start seen an Assassin's Creed which rewards us for keeping it up with all their different plots.

Ubisoft BETTER be taking notes

Shay is incredibly underrated, same with Aveline

To me the biggest issue with Unity is the story. They had the fricking French Revolution and basically decided to ignore it to focus on a boring Romeo and Juliet ripoff.

for other video i think it will be great idea if you compare jack the ripper to other assassins,who could beat him,or even how strong and intelligente he is jack.i think he is very interestind brutal and deadliest person which game developers have brought and it would be nice to compare him to tamplers or to assassins.

Edward kenway sequel, telling us a little bit more of his origins (like in the book) and what happened after black flag. Also finding the shrouds of eden and faking his own death (that i made up myself a few years ago because i am in denial to believe that he died that way)

Not finishing the Phoenix Project and Juno storylines in the games. The comics are a very niche part of the franchise, and I understand if people are surprised this is the medium the storyline was concluded in.

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Suprised how how you didn’t mentioned AC odyssey in this video 😅

-Seeing Desmond and Lucy getting together and Lucy having to make a decision in the Assassin-Templar war. If only Ubisoft and Lucy's voice actor had reached an agreement then this could have happened. -No protagonist in general post Revelations getting a sequel. Would have been nice to see Edward's life as an assassin. -Having a consistent storyline for the modern day since AC 3. -Not exploring Eivor's character and his/her relationship with Sigurd in Valhalla's main story rather than focusing on forming alliances, and the same goes for the DLCs.

I enjoyed Valhalla for the most part, but Bayak/Aya sequal set in Rome would've been perfect. The Roman Empire just after the fall of Caesar would make a great setting that fits with the last two game. They could've called it the antiquity trilogy.

I wanted a connor, aveline and Adewale game, I know what shay does...but I just like those 3.

You can also blame Kristen Bell for messing up Desmond's story. In short Kristen Bell became super famous, and wanted more money for them to continue to use her voice, and likeness. That is why Lucy's death seemed to just happen out of nowhere. I think this jump started the end of Desmond's story.

Here's to hoping anything is possible in Assassins creed Infinity... hopefully after Red and Hexe we could see old stories be finished rather then them making more new ones... I mean Infinity means forever ♾️ ♾️ ♾️

Shay wouldn't have a issue with Connor as long as Connor wasnt going to mess with precursor sites and Aveline is in Louisiana and Arno is off somewhere on Europe doing his own thing so it wouldnt make sense for all these characters to interact unless you forced them to. Not to mention Arno doesnt know any kf them and Connor is too busy rebuilding the brotherhood.

For me, Shay cormac is the biggest missed opportunity in the ac franchise.

after showing us the bad side of the assassins and the good side of the templars in ac rogue they had a perfect oportunity to split the community into templars and assassins like athenas fortune and reapers bones in sea of thieves, and they could have online missions where players from both sides fight towards an objective, or have story missions where there is times when the templars and assassins need to work together and make a game where the player can choose to progres the story for the assassins or the templars and have different endings and interesting benefits in the world, like being allowed to go to certain places or guards dont attack you but at the same time you lose benefits for the other side. Things like that are obvious for the game designers who know what they are doing but they are probably restricted for other reasons like overwatch developers are.

I’m gonna get so much hate for this take but please read it with an open mind😢😅 Kassandra deserves her own series. Yes I said it. They opened up the Isu lore with AC Odyssey. We learn with/through Kassandra that the various “gods” in mythology are Isu (as seen with the Greeks and Norse) and how they handled their extinction event. She visits 3 Isu lands (Elysium, Hades, and Atlantis). In my opinion, she could have a great series building off of that that helps us, the player, root for her. Imagine playing as her hunting down Isu artifacts derived from various cultures and mythologies. She knows of the New World since 400BC! Could y’all imagine a game playing as Kassandra coming over with Columbus or the Spanish to find El Dorado, knowing full well it’s an Isu city and therefore full of artifacts? Coming across the statue of future sages we see in IV? There’s many other mythologies to include that could’ve led to many games of her own series. If they focused on THAT part of her story to tie into Assassin’s Creed (the Isu mythology) I think the players and fans would accept Odyssey and her character much more positively.

A game with Arno, Shay, Aveline and Connor together would have been awsome. That's one off the missed opertunities

I personally would like a more grounded assassin creed game where the esu (I don’t know how you spell it) aren’t mentioned in the game at all, or in the game entirely and it’s just focuses on the assassins and the Templars.

I strongly agree with nr1

For me Ubisoft did all the set up for their equivalent of the Avengers crossover with Connor and Arno and Aveline vs Shay and then just never made it. I will die on this hill! A game where the trio meet up to hunt down Shay only to fail and have his child hunt them down across the Napoleonic wars there is near infinite potential for this story I really can’t fathom how Ubisoft missed this, it should have been the inevitable peak to their stories and they utterly failed to deliver it makes me so sad we never got this game. Generally speaking I think Ubisoft is missing a trick by not giving us sequels in this franchise anymore, so many people go on about Ezio and his games for a reason! Even if not a direct sequel with the same character they could have an Assassin a few decades later thinking about the legacy of those before them as they struggle against the Templars, or have the same setting such as a London or wherever duology/trilogy set in Tudor/Stewart/Georgian times, or follow a piece of Eden around the globe as different people interact with it like Chronicles but better. They are really failing at developing their stories and characters which is so sad because they accomplished this so well in the Ezio trilogy and Kenway saga

Not building on Unity and not having a game featuring Connor, Arno and Shay are the two that hurt the most for me

I'm going to say this there should have been an Arno vs Shay boss fight in AC Unity. That would have been cool. Shay a former assassin with all the skills, Arno a newer assassin with not all the skills.

Now Ubisoft has gone on record of saying they don't ever want to do Feudal Japan, but here me out. I've been thinking about this for a while and they unintentionally opened the avenue to do so. In AC Odessy, when you are out of the animus you can explore and talk to someone who is literally an ex-yakuza japanese assassin. So here was my thought, return the animus to when you had to actually be related to dip and have him be our main character. Not only that but as ex-yakuza the out of animus segments could be a second part of the game instead of glorified walking and exposition. Have the two parts of game work with each other. You having to go into the past to find information that you can use in the present. Imagine running around in the modern day exactly like you would in the animus with combat and exploration. I'm curious as to feed back so reply if you are intrigued or even want to debate it

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I'm still waiting for the ac game where we play as a member of the assassin brotherhood that were part of the catalonian anarchists during the spanish revolution.

I still would have loved a Connor and Arno sequel/ crossover so they can hunt down Shay and maybe have Kassandra pop up also

Friendly reminder that a game with Arno, Aveline, Connor and Shay could also include Kassandra

These are certainly a lot of great missed opportunities. Part of me once upon a time thought that this franchise could be the Doctor Who of video games. But nope. The pooch was screwed on that one.

If they had done a bayek/amunet sequel with both assassin's playable and with 2 unique sets of targets that would have been insane...set it in Rome and it would better bridge ac origins to Valhalla... Odyssey shouldn't have been made My 2nd is putting China, India and Russia in 2.5 side scrollers they deserved the full ac treatment

I kinda just wrote off everything after the second game. It felt like another COD how they seemed to spit the same game out year after year. Maybe I need to go back and try them out...

I think that despite being hated initially, I think Connor deserved another game, people complain that he didn't develop and while I disagree with that, I do think that his arc was definitely incomplete at the end of AC3, and getting more of him would have been really interesting, I also really wish we got a game set in Mongolia in the middle ages, so much so that I actually began writing a story for a potential game in that era, unfortunately though, I know Ubisoft well, and if we do someday get that game, it will probably be another massive RPG with little focus on the actual assassins. But the biggest mistake to me was switching to the RPG genre in general. That single handedly dismantled the brand that I loved and turned Assassin's Creed into the Trainwreck of a franchise that it is today, and I don't think it will ever get better, because Ubisoft seems to only be concerned with making money resulting in little care towards the actual quality of the product they produced

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I agree with 100% on these missed opportunities. AC syndicate could of been way better than it was. I don't have a problem with the dual protagonists but I wish they used a different approach than the dumb is more fun style with Jacob. But your assassin's creed vengeance story is where it's at. That story would've been a great way to end that chapter. I wish that they worked on that and save Valhalla and odyssey for later.

"Why is this franchise so sickened by it's own potential?" - Whitelight

Arno deserves a trilogy one where he's taking down napoleon and then the vengeance as the 3rd game

Still want that jazz age ac game

The only part of the parkour from unity that needs to come back is the controlled descent.

Part 2 pls

A possible AC Vengeance would probably make Shay the strongest character in the series. It's 3 great assassins against a templar, to balance things they would be forced to make Shay good enough to resist against all 3 of them. Ngl, i'd like it as an idea. I'd make Connor and Aveline die, and make Shay die by Arno's hands

AC with Aya/Bayek might still happen in codename Invictus

There's two missed opportunities that I really wanted to see happen. 1. Putting For Honors combat system in an AC game. Could you imagine not only jumping around rooftops and having that classic AC feel and then having an actual realistic one on one sword fight with one of the most complex combat systems? 2. Remaking the older games. I know their already doing this for black flag but I know a lot of people would be happy if the whole Ezio franchise was completely buffed up and revamped.

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number 6 missed opportunity is remaking the Chronicles games into full open world games. Shao Jun needed a 3D sequel since she was kinda the next protagonist after Ezio until Connor showed up full game of Arbaaz as a prequel to Syndicate would have been interesting idea and we get to learn about Ethan Frye and meet young Henry Green and a World War 2 as Nikaolai would have been great idea and would expand to another sequel of Anastasia Romanova and if Nikaolai came across Lydia Frye during his younger days then that would have been a smart move. there's actually another idea for Arno's sequel instead of hunting Shay and that Arno would help Napoleon with the Napoleonic Wars with the modern main character as Callum Lynch (the guy from AC movie) and also make a full game of Aguilar since he is an ancestor of Callum as well and it would be a great marketing plan if Aguilar met Ezio since they were Assassin's during the same time and in the same place

Unity was clearly the path the series should have continued down. That game still looks unbelievable.

If Desmond had all the abilities of assassins. Heck even if it was just the first 3 Altair, Ezio and Connor. He would be unstoppable. Especially if he use the apple. The wisdom, leadership and 92 years of experience of Altair. The skill, knowledge and versatility of Ezio. The hurting skills, physical strength and pain tolerance of Connor. Might be better than Batman.

Ubisoft was too busy chasing gaming trends to make AC Vengeance and instead said 'let's change AC into our own version of the Witcher games'. Look I like the RPG games but that is indeed a huge missed opportunity. Alas, Ubisoft is atrocious at figuring out when to innovate. They innovated on the franchise when nobody wanted them to, and now that they really need to innovate...they don't.😒

A game about Thomas de Carneillon was a very big missed opportunity

I like good same in assassin's Creed Jabe for Assassin's target for in Assassin's Odyssey

agree

Relegating Juno's story to comics no one read was a big mistake.

- Victory - pass - Syndicate was great the way it was delivered, anyway - Desmond - I understand why they didn't do it. It would've been too OP and unrealistic - Unity - pass - Bayek deserves a sequel. I can't say the same for Aya, though - Shay deserves a sequel and a bigger game. Maybe a Templar RPG (one can only hope 🙂 )

I haven't played Syndicate yet, but the idea that it's one of the most lighthearted games in the series with the setting is really questionable.

I want a ac game where you play as a templar

Hot take: Rogue should’ve never happened. As much as I love the game because it’s like a Black Flag DLC, it does little to affect the other games in the series. In Unity, Arno had no interest in finding his father’s killer. If that was a motivation for his character, rogue would’ve made more sense. Instead I think AC3 should’ve cut out haythams prologue and just focused on Connor. Haytham should’ve had his own game. Shay’s a cool character, but I would definitely take a haytham game over rogue.