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I didn't hate Assassins Creed III. I played every single game up till then too and also through IV this past Fall, and all the way through, often getting lots and lots of extra content covered. But AC III did feel short and choppy in areas, and the main protagonist, Connor, just wasn't as likeable as he was a lot more vengeful and immature than Altair, Ezio, or eve Edward (who was pretty daft for a while himself); Altair was sort of quiet and reserved, albeit ignorant, from the beginning; Ezio started off as only a ladies man with a huge ego, often involving his fists, but he had the deepest character development of all the Assassins Creed characters; Edward was also very cold and vengeful for a while, but a bit of the ways into the story (too far to be honest) he started to actually get the hint that he needed to change before he completely fell apart due to some serious turns. Connor came to that realization too, but he still seemed to be very much in the dark about many things and in some ways he was the most lonely of all protagonists thus far in the series in that he just didn't have all that many friends, he lost his family, and he killed his best friend as well as his father and fulfilled his vengeful quota, to a point, which probably just made him feel empty. It didn't help though that Connor only had a very old mentor for guidance and support with no other Assassins, and a Templar daddy who couldn't care less for his sons side of the story. So Connor had a very sad story, but how it was presented just didn't rub off well onto many gamers, especially me. I probably won't pick AC III back up, but I'd play AC 2, Brotherhood, or Revelations again (especially AC 2), just because I love the main character and the setting a bit more, and even the music for that matter.
If AC III was longer and the protagonist more likeable, many more people would've enjoyed the game. He whined too much, but that didn't detract me from enjoying the core components of the game.
That said, I have to wonder why my weapons in Renaissance Italy (the firearm respectively) and even on the Carribean high seas were more powerful and in some ways had a faster reloading time than what Connor used many years later. The combat in AC III felt a bit slow because of this, even if it was at it's core the same exact game.