Okay, time for me to argue for Assassin's Creed to be split up!
It's an All Media Types tag, so all the games (and books, comics, audio drama, movie) are included in there. Aside from that, I'd argue that the main games are separate enough for them to be split from each other.
Basically: the games are connected by the modern storyline, which is becoming less and less important (in terms of plot and in terms of playtime in-game) as the series progresses.
The bulk of the games themselves centres on different casts in different time periods in different countries (Renaissance Italy, Greece during the Peloponnesian War, Revolutionary France, etc.). They're only connected by the concept of Assassins vs Templars (and in the case of Origins and Odyssey, not even that), and the vague idea of there having been people who came before humans and left artefacts behind. None of the backstory of which you need to know in order to understand the main plot of an individual game. It's completely possible to be into one part of the series in isolation and the story of the others just not matter at all.
Crossover of characters is generally limited to a) brief cameos or mentions, or b) the modern storyline, which represents a tiny portion of each game's playtime. Without the modern storyline, they're in continuity with each other the way human history is in continuity, and you probably wouldn't nominate Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Judi Dench in the same fandom. ;)
The issues I can see with splitting the games would be:
1) crossovers (because if you wanted e.g. Ezio from the Ezio Trilogy and Jacob from Syndicate, well, they're 400 years apart and not in the same games) 2) it would be theoretically possible to have an all-Assassin's Creed signup if you wanted more than one game 3) there are also games outside the main series, like the Chronicles games (which could be nominated separately) and the mobile games (which I've never seen anyone request, but I also don't know enough about them to make any suggestions)
I'd probably split this into the individual games, except 2/Brotherhood/Revelations together as the Ezio Trilogy. Crossovers between games I'd suggest either its own crossover tag (some exchanges have used a separate crossover tag for in-universe Star Wars crossovers, for example) or Crossover Fandom.
I'm arguing for splitting primarily because I do think it should be split, but also because it's possible to run up against the 6 character limit for requests very, very quickly if you're into multiple Assassin's Creed games - they have huge, separate casts and you'd be over 6 just by having one ship per game.
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Date: 2020-06-14 04:04 am (UTC)It's an All Media Types tag, so all the games (and books, comics, audio drama, movie) are included in there. Aside from that, I'd argue that the main games are separate enough for them to be split from each other.
Basically: the games are connected by the modern storyline, which is becoming less and less important (in terms of plot and in terms of playtime in-game) as the series progresses.
The bulk of the games themselves centres on different casts in different time periods in different countries (Renaissance Italy, Greece during the Peloponnesian War, Revolutionary France, etc.). They're only connected by the concept of Assassins vs Templars (and in the case of Origins and Odyssey, not even that), and the vague idea of there having been people who came before humans and left artefacts behind. None of the backstory of which you need to know in order to understand the main plot of an individual game. It's completely possible to be into one part of the series in isolation and the story of the others just not matter at all.
Crossover of characters is generally limited to a) brief cameos or mentions, or b) the modern storyline, which represents a tiny portion of each game's playtime. Without the modern storyline, they're in continuity with each other the way human history is in continuity, and you probably wouldn't nominate Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Judi Dench in the same fandom. ;)
The issues I can see with splitting the games would be:
1) crossovers (because if you wanted e.g. Ezio from the Ezio Trilogy and Jacob from Syndicate, well, they're 400 years apart and not in the same games)
2) it would be theoretically possible to have an all-Assassin's Creed signup if you wanted more than one game
3) there are also games outside the main series, like the Chronicles games (which could be nominated separately) and the mobile games (which I've never seen anyone request, but I also don't know enough about them to make any suggestions)
I'd probably split this into the individual games, except 2/Brotherhood/Revelations together as the Ezio Trilogy. Crossovers between games I'd suggest either its own crossover tag (some exchanges have used a separate crossover tag for in-universe Star Wars crossovers, for example) or Crossover Fandom.
I'm arguing for splitting primarily because I do think it should be split, but also because it's possible to run up against the 6 character limit for requests very, very quickly if you're into multiple Assassin's Creed games - they have huge, separate casts and you'd be over 6 just by having one ship per game.