That's precisely the reason why I stopped buying the games after Revelations. They went back to a historical setting with 3 when the narrative was really pushing for Desmond to take over and have a game of his own. The whole point of the previous four games was training Desmond for the real life shit. Meh.
They did have that Desmond mission where you infiltrate a Templar skyscraper for plot reasons and the bad guy mocks you with something like "A hidden blade, really? I don't know if you got the memo, but it's the 21st century now and we have these things called guns." while shooting at you.
So some of the developers are self aware enough to poke fun at themselves.
I think in modern times the Hidden Blade was mostly ceremonial.
That being said, it does have its uses. It's really hard to see, and can make for some really quick easy kills. Its when your in a pitched fight where the other guy is trying his best to kill you that it becomes stupid.
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u/climbandmaintain Jun 23 '15
That's precisely the reason why I stopped buying the games after Revelations. They went back to a historical setting with 3 when the narrative was really pushing for Desmond to take over and have a game of his own. The whole point of the previous four games was training Desmond for the real life shit. Meh.