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1/10/2013 6:02:20 PM
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What was the goal of the Templars in Assassin's Creed?
AC1 - The Templars are evil because that's just how it was back then. No huge conspiracy is revealed yet. By the end it's revealed the Templars are trying to find Pieces of Eden to control the population and push their "agenda", whatever that is. Truth or something. Hints at First Civ.
AC2 - Get more Pieces of Eden because Templars are bad, mkay. More First Civ hints, more info about Absertgo.
ACB + ACR - Oh crap, the world's gonna end! But wait, why are we looking for the Apple and the other Pieces of Eden? Oh well, they'll stop it all somehow. Clearly, the Assassins have been working towards a goal of helping the future assassins prevent the end. The Templars are aware of the end of the world, and want the Pieces of Eden...for some reason...
[spoiler]AC3 - World ends. The entire cataclysm that Juno and Minerva have been trying to preempt has reached a point where it cannot be stopped. But...the entire time they've been manipulating events to reach a certain endgame...Juno even says that the Templars and Assassins wasted hundreds of years. Then why the hell did they bother setting things up for Desmond? Why didn't they just tell Altair to go get the key and the power supplies and sail to America and stop it all? It makes no sense. Regardless, Desmond is forced to pick the option that the Templars would have chosen.[/spoiler]
So what exactly where the Templars doing? They clearly knew about the apocalypse, and were organized enough to stop it. Throughout the entire series, every Templar leader the assassins kill reveals that the assassins are ignorant idiots messing with a larger plan...but that plan is never revealed.
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It's very clear that whoever was the brains behind the story in the original Assassins Creed left shortly after the second game was started. It doesn't make much sense for the central conflict in a videogame series about assassination to be Man vs. Natural Disaster afterall. The Templars in general are very poorly portrayed, villains should be respected and feared, Abstergo are a bunch of clowns who send Security Guards with Night Sticks to frighten a group of highly trained assassins. Also could you tag you post with #criticism? It would be nice if that were a thing, I do enjoy these sorts of threads that discuss the flaws of games and how they could be improved.
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I played bits of each AC, and I got the thought from AC3 that the Templars were doing the same thing as the Assassins, only they were competing to be the first one for some reason. Like a competition to see who can save the world first, but stopping each other to get ahead.
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Ubisoft would have to know for us to know. Make no mistake they don't have a clue. And how could they when this franchise has been captained by multiple creative leads and sequels are green lit if the previous yearly entry sold enough.
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Well, I now understand why my friend traded it back in for Halo 4. The ending sounds like a real ass-biter..
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4 RepliesSomething about world domination I think. I don't know, the parts outside the animus are just there to give some overarching narrative to running around in history. really isn't necessary.
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Their supposed goal was a world which was controlled, ordered, and everyone in it obedient. It was a huge plot-hole in terms of the writers for AC, bit of a mistake on their part.
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They planned to take control of the Human race. The only problem that faced them was that the writers never took control.
