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Assassin's Creed: Origins Gold Edition pre-order cards at Target, detail contents
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texhnolyze
Banned
Assassin gone tomb raiding. Interesting.
Basically this. But if you want to catch up on the modern day stuff, yes the Titan Comics series are what you want. Assassin's Creed and Templars, followed by Uprising (and Reflections if you want little vignettes.)
I would also recommend Brahman since it first introduced the Koh-i-nor and certain characters that are fairly important in Uprising. Also it's a gorgeous book.
Presumably the modern day protagonist is Charlotte de la Cruz, according to a 'leak'.
Dreadnought
Member
I'm still upset over the name change from Empires to Origins
The Last Wizard
Member
My man.
texhnolyze
Banned
Well, yes, I did say "I feel". That ought to have made it clear I was expressing my opinion on the matter, not an incontrovertible truth.
Also, in no way did I imply that Origins' combat will be faultless if I do find it satisfyingly challenging. Combat encounter design is only but one aspect of a combat system, after all.I didn't say it would be. Not only did I mention in my first post on the matter that the original game has a challenging combat system, albeit with the caveat that well-timed hidden blade counters are too effective, but in the very post you've quoted, I categorically agreed that Unity's combat encounters "are more challenging" (than those in post-AC1 entries), just not as much as "they should be" in order to be fulfilling. That we don't appear to see eye to eye on that is perfectly fine with me; I'm not one to dismiss an opinion rather than merely disagree with it.
Kiraly
Member
Joseph and Maria to appear in the game confirmed.
Lord of Castamere
Member
I hope the crowds return to some degree. Imo, Syndicate felt a little lifeless with the downgraded lighting, and lower crowd size. The river in Syndicate was something special though, I hope the city has a river that busy.
I think it's safe to say that the Nile will feature prominently.
Muffdraul
Member
I've assumed they were intentional ever since "airplane leak guy" posted once with the Syndicate leak and never came back. I thought he was an obvious Ubi plant.
krimsoncharge is still an active member of the forum. He just doesn't post regularly.
Lord of Castamere
Member
That doesn't mean it'll be as busy as River Thames. Might opt for a less busy river, because you control a boat.
To be honest AC always had good soundtracks. I wouldn't mind to see most of the AC composers back.
rockman zx
Member
This is the last thing I want from AC, a little bit is OK but a full game of parkour in a city or set in modern day?, no, thanks. AC is not about that in my opinion.
Now that it seems to about the origins of the Assassin Order, I don't mind it as much, but Empire was better. Though personally was hoping they just went with 5, just to show it's the start of something new and will be changing things up a lot more than the last few have (I know being numbered doesn't necessarily mean it would, but it's the thought that count).
SlipperyFishes
Banned
I hope this game goes full in with some good old business secrets of the pharaohs.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I hope this game goes full in with some good old business secrets of the pharaohs.
If they make a reference to it, it's straight away my favourite AC game ever.
I'm confident that there'll never be a modern-day AssCreed. It'd encroach into territory now occupied by Watch Dogs.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Unless they merge the two series, where dedsec is the Assassins's order and Ctos is a tool of the Templars.
I'm not seriously suggesting they do this, but they could get away with it if they wanted. I bet they have had that conversation too.
Its just a name mate, its not going to have any impact on the gameplay lol
Haha, well, I can certainly see some sort of crossover happening in a comic or short film. Game-wise, though, I don't think Ubi will meld the two any further than including the occasional nod.
It's got the best storyline out of all of them but its gameplay was fairly repetitive, yeah. That was definitely fixed in the second game and Brotherhood. (Though everything after Brotherhood is kinda hit-and-miss.)
Bolivar687
Banned
That looks dope!
I mean. the Assassin Brotherhood existed waaay before this game's time period, so that's still suspect as a name. Also Unity is referred internally as V.
ScaryShark
Banned
It's antiquated and hasn't aged well in some ways.
Do we know the exact date this will be set? Because the earliest known Assassin Order was around 400-500BC, this could very easily predate it.
Internally doesn't mean much though, publicly it has no number, Black Flag (4) was the last numbered entry.
That's way earlier than I was expecting, good find. I'm fairly confident it'll be about the start of the Assassin's Order now, if it's set during the Fifth Dynasty.
I think there was a rumour that mentioned some of the missions being set at different points in time (sort of like those weird rift thingies they had in Unity, I suppose). If that's true, it could explain some of the weird inconsistencies we've come across regarding the period it's set in.
Yeah, there are two rumours that mention rifts being in the game:
4Chan said:
Reddit said:
Kssio_Aug
Member
Interesting setting (Egypt). I hope they do some great changes in gameplay and try something interesting with the story. I'd love they just ignore abstergo and this shit ever existed, but obviously it won't happen since they made a movie about it.
But we will see... with enough changes and this setting, I may check this one.
When I played AC1 and then AC2 I wanted the 3rd game to be set fully on modern days.
But they decided to turn the franchise in a big mess and milk it till the last drop; and because of it all the story they were trying to tell about the modern days went down the drain.
Nowadays I'm "okay" with they releasing more AC games, since there's tons of different times they could explore as long as they refresh the gameplay accordingly, but I'd prefer they totally ditch the modern day story as it never existed.
But we will see... with enough changes and this setting, I may check this one.
AGITΩ;239553519 said:
When I played AC1 and then AC2 I wanted the 3rd game to be set fully on modern days.
But they decided to turn the franchise in a big mess and milk it till the last drop; and because of it all the story they were trying to tell about the modern days went down the drain.
Nowadays I'm "okay" with they releasing more AC games, since there's tons of different times they could explore as long as they refresh the gameplay accordingly, but I'd prefer they totally ditch the modern day story as it never existed.
Lord of Castamere
Member
I hope that ends up true. That and the nemesis like system.
My goodness. That would take it to unheard of heights imo, just as Uncharted 4 did with The Dread Pirate Threepwood.I hope this game goes full in with some good old business secrets of the pharaohs.
More_Badass
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You see this interesting article from last month?
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/05/10/piecing-together-the-assassins-creed-rumours
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/05/10/piecing-together-the-assassins-creed-rumours
This is all fan art by a current Ubisoft concept artist before they started working at Ubisoft. But given the current leaks, such as the t-shirt and box art in this thread, I wonder if the game was at least partially influenced by that
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Love the wa that design looks in the second picture. A little too much going on in the first.
Eh, it looks quite anachronistic to me.
Thanks for linking that.
So there isn't much in the way of leaks. Either way, E3 needs to hurry up.
WraithWalker1893
Banned
Gameinformer's next cover is supposedly Origins.
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Yup - Can't make a new thread so I'll throw it in here, has scans of the article.