00:00Black Flag re-sync director says modern audience doesn't care about Desmond's story.
00:04I think Richard Knight is both right and accidentally highlighting one of the
00:08franchise's biggest long-term problems. He's right in the sense that most modern players
00:12probably don't care about Desmond Miles anymore. It's been over a decade since his storyline ended
00:17in AC 3, and Ubisoft never really replaced him with another equally compelling modern-day
00:22protagonist. Back in the early AC games, the modern-day story actually felt important,
00:27and it kinda tied everything together. Even people who mainly cared about Ezio or Altair still had
00:33this feeling that the historical stories were built towards something bigger. But after Desmond,
00:37Ubisoft seemed unsure what to do with the modern timeline, and it became fragmented. And I can
00:42confirm this from my own experience, because recently I started replaying Black Flag, and when
00:47I think about it, I played for Edward Kenway, the naval combat, piracy and exploration, and not
00:52walking around Abstergo's offices reading emails. And when I think about pacing nowadays, the original
00:58modern-day interruptions are kinda boring and unimportant. So yeah, removing Desmond-era
01:03modern-day content probably makes Black Flag re-sync more accessible, but it also quietly confirms that
01:09Ubisoft has never fully recovered from ending Desmond's arc without a strong long-term replacement plan.
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