Thought never crossed my mind. I hated Unity's "story" and by that, I don't mean Arno and Elise. I never bought these games for the historical settings. I couldn't care less about the Crusades, the Medici and the Pazzi, or the French Revolution. What I cared about was the lore with the Animus, the bleeding effect, and the modern day impact. What I got with Unity were transmedia content locks by our beloved community managers. Chests you had to register with acinitiates.com to unlock, Companion app missions you had to pay money for premium to speed up, Club competitions you had to grind points for a 25% chance to unlock a piece of gear. To hell with that! EA is starting a new trend of no longer selling the base game for $60 but the base game and season pass for the $80. If Ubisoft tries that shit I'm done with them. These games are already a third of what they once were. They used to but modern day, historical setting, and multiplayer. Now it's just historical setting, and they can't even write a compelling story like they did with AC2. I hated Rodrigo Borgia at the start of AC2, but grew to sympathize with him over the course of ACB. Now we just get random Templars to kill and a plot that makes no sense. Why does Abstergo want Precursor DNA? Are they going to put the Precursor clone in an Animus and sequence it's memories? Why? Every game we get story time with a Precursor. It's not like these beings are hiding their pasts from us. They talk more than old people at a retirement community. And what's the deal with these artifacts no longer carrying any risks? In ACB when Ezio used the Apple, it nearly drained all of his health, or when Desmond touched it, you know what happened. If I was writing these games, the sword can endow the user with superhuman strength, but induces rage and causes the user to go berserk, the shroud can grant the user eternal life, but makes the user sterile. It's not hard. I'm sorry to say, Elise's death didn't really carry weight. I recall this moment when Arno told Elise a story from their childhood and said he was that same boy, but the scene would have made a bigger impact if we got to play it. I hate exposition story telling. It's just lazy. From what I gathered, it didn't matter if Arno or Elise were in their respective orders. There were other factions that carried more weight. They were insignificant. Just like the initiate "hacker."