I feel like Ubisoft is really forgetting the core of their franchise's history. While it's nice that they're bringing us to new places, introducing new characters, and adding new gameplay mechanics, it's repulsive what they've done to the Assassin Order.
While I am a part of the 1% that actually enjoyed ACIII, I was really annoyed with how they completely skipped Achilles teaching Connor the morals and history of the assassins with a simple fade out.
While ACIV was an amazing game, they had even less lore. Pretty much none. Nill. Zip. We got absolutely nothing, and the amount of PoE time was weak. We got NSA blood cubes. That was it. Where's the morality, the story, the powerful Pieces of Eden?
Ubisoft better not -blam!- ACU's story up.
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Story spoilers ahead! [spoiler]AC4 showed where Haytham came from, from pirate Kenway. He learned how to fight from his father obviously, but he never grew up with the assassins to learn their values. The order is too frayed while the templars are organized and always plotting. Just look at the modern state of the assassins (in game terms of course lol), they're just a rogue group doing espionage while the templars are psuedo corporations with hidden motives. It only makes sense that the Assassins are frayed and losing purpose, it's the reason why the templars are so powerful in the modern age.[/spoiler]