Everything after brotherhood has been a steady decline. Black flag was fun but only the parts that were pirate roleplay and not the actual assassins creed parts. I cant even remotely tolerate the most recent ones

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I dont quite have what OP is saying because I do usually fight the endgame bosses but I do have what you’re describing where I never mop up or do postgame content. I will sometimes come back to the game a good while later and replay it in ng+ though