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[Evlar]

Brotherhood is pretty great so I'm still in favor of more Assassin's Creed, and exploring an entirely new time and place will be nice.

I'm also hoping for revolutionary France.

 

[Data West]

That's fine with me. When you have so many teams working on the product and when the main concept of the game and mechanics is done, you can probably pump out a good one every year

I'm also throwing in French Revolution suggestions. I could definitely see a cutscene of having to save someone from a guillotine.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

People defending the "game a year" strategy are mindblowing. Sure they're still good, but haven't you heard of too much of a good thing? Also, these sequels are getting to be just slight iterations in a different city which will ultimately lead to Guitar Heroing the franchise. It's too much too soon for a franchise like this, and as a result isn't being as innovative as it could be.

 

[Oxymoron]

brb, starting work on the OT

 

[duckroll]

This news is so shocking. Look at the shock on my face. It is true shock. No I'm not just stretching my muscles to make a funny face. Honest! I am truly surprised by this amazing and unexpected turn of events. I am!

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Lol.

 

[.la1n]

You know, lets say the ACs are 30 hour games. Is it really that big a deal if you spend a 30 hour chunk on the same franchise every 365 days?

The games keep getting better, so it's not really milkage in the way we've come to know it.

This.

 

[TheFightingFish]

Skipped brotherhood and will skip Rev, will buy the true sequel next year.

Nothing against either of the AC2 expansion games, I just don't want to burn myself out on the series.

Yeah I'm in this boat as well. Looking forward to hopefully a totally new time period, main character and setting. I love the historical touches of these games, so I'm excited to see where this one will take place.

 

[Apoc87]

let it die.

 

[Mr. B Natural]

So, if next year's annual game is "full fledged" then what does that make the game that is coming out in a week?

 

[boingball]

they are really mass-producing them.

I like AC and I am astonished that they manage to get a quite polished product out every year (ok, the jury is still out on Revelations), but I fear they are throwing them out to fast. Guitar Heroing it...

 

[Data West]

People defending the "game a year" strategy are mindblowing. Sure they're still good, but haven't you heard of too much of a good thing? Also, these sequels are getting to be just slight iterations in a different city which will ultimately lead to Guitar Heroing the franchise. It's too much too soon for a franchise like this, and as a result isn't being as innovative as it could be.

Too much of a good thing is something that builds up over time. Guitar Hero 3 was so-so, then the next was bad then continued to be awful. It is way too late in the console cycle for a game like Assassin's Creed to risk being innovative.

 

[Grisby]

So, Ac3 hopefully? I'd like a new protagonist and setting. Let's get some classic Victorian stuff up in this bitch.

 

[ultron87]

People defending the "game a year" strategy are mindblowing. Sure they're still good, but haven't you heard of too much of a good thing? Also, these sequels are getting to be just slight iterations in a different city which will ultimately lead to Guitar Heroing the franchise. It's too much too soon for a franchise like this, and as a result isn't being as innovative as it could be.

Every Guitar Hero after 2 got shittier. So far this hasn't been the case with AC.

As long as it continues on an upwards trajectory there isn't anything wrong with them putting out a quality game every year.

 

[LiK]

Can't wait to see what time period it'll be set at.

 

[hatchx]

Why announce this mere days before the release of the next AC?


I am not very interested in Revelations, but now I'm less interested.

 

[Derrick01]

12.12.12 release date or bust.

That'll be the date of the delayed PC version.

 

[rockman zx]

Isn't the team working on these games huge?

They have 6 teams working on Revelations, the core team is on Montreal, the rest around the world, they have everything figured out to make them fast and hard.

They will take a break after next year game, Amancio believes it at least. Ubisoft president said sometime ago that they want one AC game every year, so probably, they will release smaller games till the next generation is here.

Also, these sequels are getting to be just slight iterations in a different city which will ultimately lead to Guitar Heroing the franchise.

One of the best things of the AC games is the fact that you can explore a new big and very detailed city/cities in every game, so that it's not going to be a weak point in any AC game never.

 

[duckroll]

Can't wait to see what time period it'll be set at.

I hope it takes place on a Space Colony in 2078.

 

[thetrin]

I'll probably skip Revelations. I was done with Ezio after Brotherhood.

I'll wait for the next major AC game.

I hope it takes place on a Space Colony in 2078.

Caveman Assassins....IN SPACE

 

[Exile550]

I would have preferred a new Prince of Persia game while AC is taking a breather. Still love this though.

 

[Anteater]

Why stop at 1 game per year? They should go for annual trilogies, worth a try

 

[RealMeat]

I like Assassin's Creed, but I really wish they would switch to every other year. Too many games to play.

 

[scitek]

AC3?

 

[LiK]

I hope it takes place on a Space Colony in 2078.

killing space nazis and cyborg popes.

 

[ultron87]

I hope it takes place on a Space Colony in 2078.

Replace swords with laser swords!

And no uses guns because that would break the game.

I think that is actually the biggest challenge the series faces going forward, since having guns be the primary weapon in whatever time period they pick (or in the modern era) would change pretty much everything about the game. Obviously, this kind of shift in the gameplay could be just the thing the series needs to inject a bunch of new ideas.

 

[Dennis]

Assassins Creed: Occupy Evilore

 

[Kaako]

I hope they have 2 dedicated teams working on this (at least 2 year dev cycle) but I know they're probably just milking it with one giant team. Please don't let it diminish in quality. I'll be perfectly fine with Ass Creed game once every 2 years.

 

[Glass Rebel]

After being mildly disappointed in the first one I never really took a second look at the franchise until this year thanks to that MS points thing and got ACII which I enjoyed. I'm obviously behind with the games, not having played Brotherhood yet with Revelations coming up but even though I'm thirsting for more AC right now I don't really see it as a good thing to have this many games in such a short timespan. I'll probably play ACIII in 2015 at this rate.

 

[Grisby]

I hope it takes place on a Space Colony in 2078.

"Requisite in pac-OH GOD I"M FLOATING AWAY."

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Assassin's Creed: Generations
Assassin's Creed: Unleashed
Assassin's Creed: Retribution
Assassin's Creed: Extreme
Assassin's Creed: Redemption
Assassin's Creed: The Return of Samus

 

[The Antitype]

let it die.

Yes, no more quality games that provide a gameplay template that nobody else (save maybe Batman) offers.

Kill it! More shooters!

 

[infinityBCRT]

Assassin's Creed 3 has already been sorta confirmed by various people in Ubi over the last year.

 

[timetokill]

Ubisoft will look at what is successful this year and title it:

Skysassin's Creed

Or they will name the main guy Skye. Guaranteed.

 

[Evlar]

After being mildly disappointed in the first one I never really took a second look at the franchise until this year thanks to that MS points thing and got ACII which I enjoyed. I'm obviously behind with the games, not having played Brotherhood yet with Revelations coming up but even though I'm thirsting for more AC right now I don't really see it as a good thing to have this many games in such a short timespan. I'll probably play ACIII in 2015 at this rate.

Well that's a good thing. Think of all the money you're saving.

 

[kaskade]

I'm still excited to play AC games, they really are the only of their kind. Can't wait for Revelations.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Too much of a good thing is something that builds up over time. Guitar Hero 3 was so-so, then the next was bad then continued to be awful. It is way too late in the console cycle for a game like Assassin's Creed to risk being innovative.

OK, maybe not innovative in the most literal sense of the word, but at least an AC -> AC2 jump. Is that too much to ask for? Brotherhood and Revelations as good as they are and might be, respectively, are pretty much expansions. 5 games in 5 years for a franchise like this is too much for my tastes.

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*says all this after highly enjoying AssCreedBro, and anticipating Revelations and AC3*

 

[macfoshizzle]

please let it be ninja's in feudal japan!

 

[rataven]

I feel like we knew this already. Maybe it's just that yearly release expectation.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Assassin's Creed: Generations
Assassin's Creed: Unleashed
Assassin's Creed: Retribution
Assassin's Creed: Extreme
Assassin's Creed: Redemption
Assassin's Creed: The Return of Samus

Assassin's Creed: Reckoning X Uprising

 

[ultron87]

Ubisoft will look at what is successful this year and title it:

Skysassin's Creed

Or they will name the main guy Skye. Guaranteed.

So you're saying they should steal the Skylander's idea and let you switch between various historical assassins on the fly by placing figures on your console's Animus peripheral?

(I would play that game so hard.)

 

[Dennis]

inb4 Kabouter says

Assassins Creed: Dutch Republic

 

[Rainy Dog]

They must have an astounding number of people working on these games to be able to churn them out every year.

 

[GrayFoxPL]

please let it be ninja's in feudal japan!

This! Fucking this!

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Is it true that Ubi has 500 people working on AC games? They are making a lot of AC games.

 

[braves01]

I'm cool with this, just as long as there are some iPhone apps and Facebook games to keep me busy until the sequel comes out.

 

[The Antitype]

please let it be ninja's in feudal japan!

One of the better parts of the AC games is that they tend to stay away from eras that have been done to death in games.

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Based on the video unlocked by solving the Subject 16 puzzles in part 2, the architecture in the ancient civilization looked pretty interesting... I wouldn't be surprised if we visited there for some of the game.

 

[BruiserBear]

There is something hilarious about proclaiming that "next year is the year", before you've even released this year's annual installment of your game for the 4th consecutive year.

 

[(._.)]

Color me surprised.
I remember being excited for what I thought would be a trilogy.

Same. II came out and it was ok. I thought maybe III will be a bit more exciting but they ended up releasing two more games based off of the previous games. This series went down the drain. Really such a shame how publishers will milk a franchise.

 

[Cheska]

Do they really need to announce this before Revelations is even out?

First thing I thought too. I'm a huge fan of the series, and am already picking up Revelations but this could potentially kill sales.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

I'm cool with this, just as long as there are some iPhone apps and Facebook games to keep me busy until the sequel comes out.

Is Assassin's Creed like, the only game you play?