Bro came back from war and decided to kick a 20 y.o., creatively long-dead franchise.

What a legend

Bro came back and instantly dissing Ubisoft, we're eating good.

Ezio killing every random guard in Italy hoping to find those responsible for the murder of his family: 'Tis for justice.
Ezio when he actually finds the man responsible: Nah we good fam, you can go.

The vibe of a war veteran getting home and immediately kicking down Ubisoft's door to start throwing hands with their evil philosophy is hilarious.

I must admit, the creed seemed like the product of writers who were trying to come up with something that sounded cool and would justify the assassins, but that they didn't really understand.

Bro didn't get slimed by a drone so decided to make it Ubisoft's problem.

What a legend !

That is why Desmond's real-world storyline was necessary. After all, Desmond was literally told that nothing inside the Animus matched the history books he had studied in school. Yet, Desmond has been gone for over seven games now, and all the historical realism—as well as the historical critique grounded in that realism—has been lost.

The timing of this is uncanny. My fiancée was just going through which videogames she should get rid of. She asked me if if assassins creed 3 is bad. I thought for a second, and thought about the new ones and said the first few are not as terrible as the last few.

But then it clicked and i said "well actually their whole 'everything is permitted' is a creed of relativism" it is about as terrible as it gets.

Assassin's Creed as a series would have worked much if both the Templars AND Assassins were BOTH morally questionable factions fighting a morally questionable war, with both sides representing two extremes... Order and Freedom. Tyranny and Anarchy.

The most ironic thing about assassins Creed is that the assassins they are based on we’re actually defeated by and we were forced to pay tribute to the Templars

Can we have a story where the hero is an unapologetic conqueror? Somebody who reaches the conclusion that the only way to save a land or even a whole world is by becoming its ruler.

It really comes down to the fact that the famous maxim originates from the 1938 novel which inspired the games in which the Assassins were presented as less heroic but more intriguing with their bizarre contradictory morality that we could then use to reflect upon our own society  by contrasting it. The games make the Assassins the heroes because they are protagonist centered narrative saga. As such they cope with the nihilistic maxim by making it into an esoteric metaphor for... well whatever you want really, which for the developers tends to mean the values of the UN.

I was in my mid teens when I played AC1-2 and I remember just how super cool atheism and moral relativism were in 2010, so Assassin's Creed was merely riding the zeitgeist. A lot of millennials are still stuck in that frame and will never get out of it.

It's just gnostics vs freemasons. Both Alistar Crowley and Albert Pike express the ideals of "There is no Dogma, other than my anti-Dogma" and "Do what tho shall will, that is the whole of the law."

I'll watch this right now before it gets taken down for using that title

It really bugged me that they took a morally dubious but badass cult and tried to make them into some sort of heroes

The Rebels against Authority decided to eliminate those who rebel and or threaten "their" Authority.

Their symbol looks really similar to a symbol at that one weird church at my city...

It's also important to remember that asscreed came out when ancient astronaut theory was the coolest thing ever and every normie thought the da Vinci Code was real. It's a window into a very particular time that no longer exists.

I watched the movie made about the game, I heard the creed and thought “how very dumb and immoral.”
I thought, “then how are the Templars the bad guys?”