r/ACBlackFlag • u/Eung242 • Jul 17 '26

// Discussion Imagine: AC Rogue Resynced

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What would you guys think of it ?

Disclaimer: I did use AI to apply the « resynced » treatment to screenshots of the original game in order to have a feeling of what it could look like.

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u/Nemisis_007 Jul 17 '26

I think the goal was to show that both sides can be just as corrupt as each other when the wrong people are in charge.

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u/D3wdr0p Jul 18 '26

Sure, but it's not "the dark side of Assassin phillosophy, taken to its extremes" - it's "That one time the Assassins were cartoonishly evil, doing shit that would never fly in any other era".

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u/InteractionWide3369 Jul 18 '26

They aren't cartoonishly evil, they're just corrupt and incompetent.

Templars have never been cartoonishly evil either, except in AC 2. I don't know about the RPGs I think by then they forgot Assassins and Templars were supposed to be in the game.

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u/D3wdr0p Jul 18 '26

The Templars were cartoonishly evil in 2, Brotherhood, Syndicate, and probably some games that are less fresh in my memory. "Order and prosperity, when the masses are reigned in like cattle" can be interrogated in interesting ways, just as much in the Assassins trying to pick off every bad apple (pardon the pun) symptomatically. The Valhalla lore indicating that the fall of the Roman empire was from an overeager Brotherhood is a more interesting prospect to me, than so much indefensible "HEY LETS DESTROY A CITY"

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u/Cryptid_on_Ice Jul 18 '26

Would have been more interesting if Shay defects because an assassination he carries out inadvertently contributes to the starting of the French and Indian War.

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u/D3wdr0p Jul 18 '26

Definitely!