To the people who don't get it: Specifically speaking for the Assassin's Creed series, most people play those games for exploring historical eras and the overarching stories. If you remove the story, then you're not giving much of a motivation to continue playing all the way through. Imagine for a moment if Ezio's story was largely removed; ACII would be lifeless and boring. Or let's point out AC Rogue's story of revenge. Removing that would defeat the purpose of the entire premise the game is based on. A big chunk of the reason that I play the AC series are for the interesting stories. No, of course they aren't Oscar-worthy scripts, but they are emotionally-gripping enough to keep me engaged to the end. Ubisoft needs to leave the story alone. Perhaps it could be tweaked for improvement, but don't outright remove the narrative. If there's anything that should be removed, it's the damned view points that you have to get to and activate.