That, and there's no way to fight beside them like in the other two games, and sending them on missions guarantees at least a few of them will die, unlike AC where you could stack their odds of survival by leveling them up, or SoW where you could help them directly.

While you can recruit far more people in that game than in AC or SoW, your level of interaction with them is painfully limited at best. Similar for the other game I played: MGSV, The Phantom Pain. But it still didn't scratch the itch while the Nemesis system is insanely cool and the combat mechanics satisfying, that isn't a guild of assassins: it's an army and it's commander.

I went looking for other games to fill that void of a good recruiting and managing mechanic the Middle Earth Shadow series the best I found. Then, you know, they didn't bring it back at all.

Played each and every one, was sad that the guild mechanic was nerfed in ACIII, was even more sad they basically removed it entirely from the following three games, was pretty happy with Syndicate's nerfed version, even if it was a signal that it was coming back. The recruitment and managing of your own assassin's guild is what brought me to those games in the first place, and now I'm an avid AC fan (Up until origins, at least).

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