I'm the exact opposite.

The thing that got me excited to keep playing back when I first started the series was the idea of the modern-day plot building to an awesome conclusion. I first got into the franchise after Revelations was released, but before 3 was, and played through all of those games pretty quickly. When 3 came out, I heard that they had killed off Desmond, and I immediately noped out. Never bought 3, haven't played an AC game since. I quote a comment I saw over a decade ago back on the alien site:

What I wanted in Assassins Creed was a concise set of games, Four or five games, with a focused story the ultimately led to a modern day game where Desmond Miles topples the templars.

But no.

Now we have a platform for games rather then a cohesive set of narratives.

It felt like the first two games were part of a main narrative that was building towards that modern-day showdown. Brotherhood and Revelations were sort of interludes, and game 4 or 5 probably should have been the last mostly-historical one, followed by one final game in which the historical aspect is secondary to the modern day conclusion to the final plot. But instead of building a cohesive overarching story, they just found a way to turn AC into a historical version of Call of Duty or FIFA, churning out the same shit over and over again with just enough new paint to keep people buying.

I only ever played the first 3 games but those endings blew my mind. The apple artifact projecting a map, fist fighting the pope, the angel character breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the camera. Just wild stuff for video game storytelling for me as a teenager.

I’m on my fourth replay of black flag, and I wouldn’t change a damn thing about it. I couldn’t even get past the boating walkthrough in Odyssey, and I don’t even remember the abstergo parts of syndicate or origins, so I couldn’t tell you about the “new” ones.

I loved 1-3 (including all 3 parts of “AC2”). I didn’t like black flag because I liked the stealth and parkour mechanics, and didn’t care much for the ship battles.

Unity was the last game I played. I didn’t like the leveling mechanics (it’s not the game that started it but it did progress it) but otherwise it largely had what I was looking for in an AC game.

Unity is also the first game to do multiplayer right, in the form of co-op missions.

I keep looking at the trailers for the newer games but it doesn’t look much like the story driven stealth-based games I enjoyed.

Instead I’ve be getting into games like Dishonored and Deus Ex, which arguably do the stealth mechanics better. But I do miss the AC lore.

I don't play this game, but my gal does like ten-fold. Well at least, she plays Odyssey. It's one of her favorite games. She doesn't like any of the other one's that much. I got her the one with the Vikings, but she played it two seconds - had her family smashed then it time-skips and you're smashing other people's families? She didn't dig that setup. She dipped her toes in the Egypt one, but just keeps going back to the Greek one (I am guessing it's Greek - you know - by the title).

I get motion sick from 3D games, so I haven't really watched her play them. But I did give it a go playing that one game where you're a southern mixed gal of wealth freedom fighting for others. But I really don't play these types of games as a whole, and I got to the swamp and got lost. Ended up returning it (especially because spinning the camera around to figure out how I got lost and where I could go was making me sick). But I did have my gal check it out and I guess the two systems are different and the one I was playing is the older system and she has little to no interest in playing it. Which is actually what I was trying to say in all of this. But also she likes that one Battlefield that everyone hates, so she might be in a super minority here. Eh.