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Kotaku: Leaked Images Reveal One Of This Fall's Two Assassin's Creed Games
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bryanee
Member
What?
You mean the oldest continuous civilization in the world, often among the most advanced during at least half that history, with its' distinct architecture, and very rarely seriously explored... is somehow a boring setting?
Like it doesn't have 'plenty of history'? You can't think of any way it could be more interesting than literally any other historical setting?
I'm not even that mad that they're going to the French Revolution, but China threatens to be anything but 'boring'.
Are you not burnt out on the series yet?
Yawn...
I feel a little more interested in Comet than Unity now.
I wish we could finally get an AC that didn't just focus on cities from one region, and allowed for globe trotting to aesthetically different cities in a single game. Like, visiting Petra in Jordan, Shanghai, and London, all in a single game. I would love the variety.
Paris seems too "more of the same", and even when we visit a neighboring city, it'll probably look just like Paris (like how Boston was a carbon copy of New York and every populated island looked like a little Havana).
I feel a little more interested in Comet than Unity now.
I wish we could finally get an AC that didn't just focus on cities from one region, and allowed for globe trotting to aesthetically different cities in a single game. Like, visiting Petra in Jordan, Shanghai, and London, all in a single game. I would love the variety.
Paris seems too "more of the same", and even when we visit a neighboring city, it'll probably look just like Paris (like how Boston was a carbon copy of New York and every populated island looked like a little Havana).
GutsOfThor
Member
You and me both buddy!
ReplacementPelican
Member
Are you trolling or did you just skip history classes at school?
I'm not really excited, but I do know that come December, I'll be givin' Ubisoft another $30-40 (no way I'm buying it at full price, but that doesn't stop me from being a fool and buying it).
Sickboy007
Member
Very interesting. Thanks for answering!
mullet2000
Member
Japan I'm with you because it's already pretty well represented in videogames.
But China? Anywhere from 16th to 18th century China would have been amazing.
Blood Red Sky
Banned
Me too! Should be fun.
There are only limited number of open world/sandbox titles get released every year, so we, fans of the genre, play whatever we got.
False Witness
Member
I really don't understand people who 'suffer' from franchise fatigue. It essentially does not exist for me when each game in the series has enough variation in setting and story.
Gaffercake
Member
Most likely a controlled leak and that 'story' was just fabricated
Do the core mechanics not get tiring for you? Like the same, unchanged (if anything made simpler) automated free running? Or the automated, counter heavy "take turns to attack" combat system? Or the same old mission structures and collectibles? The change in characters and locations/time periods is great. But at a systems level it's the same thing, no more evolved then a re skin. The only step forward the series has seen in terms of big differences is the naval combat/boarding.
Some settings would peak my interest though, mid west america, victorian london, and feudal japan. But that's mainly because those time periods and locations would require a drastic change in their approach to combat and stealth. Be it japan forcing a more refined stealth system (actually being able to crouch, and sneak), or a western forcing new combat opportunities due to developments in handguns etc
I'll keep buying them as long as they keep making them.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Looks incredibly boring. I imagine this may be the iteration that just sinks the AC boat totally. Constantly skipping Victorian London just feels like insanity.
I'm thankful for it to be honest. While I would really like new IPs for these settings, AC makes it cool for the masses to take interest, which allows these games to sell and thus get funding.
AHA-Lambda
Member
I don't get it either. It's sad cos there used to be a time were I'd be excited by a new AC, 2 games a year sounds bloody obscene >_>
Of that I have no doubt, but still an interesting footnote
AHA-Lambda
Member
Wouldn't it be better just to cut out the stale run of the mill one?
Surely 2 a year just leads to further fears of fatigue, burnout, saturation and also confusion to the average consumer?
I do not understand why Ubi would do this.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Not sure if serious.
Just because Japan and China have a history I can learn doesn't mean I don't find it incredibly boring.
ReplacementPelican
Member
The fact you don't makes me wonder whether you learnt it at school, both countries have an incredibly fascinating history. Hell, even their modern histories would be fantastic.
It sounds like you haven't even bothered to go so far as to try and learn about it.
I am the same.
I am getting excited just looking at the screen shots. I can't wait until it is formally announced.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I learnt about it in school.
You guys really are defensive about my opinion huh?
It's alright guys, I don't work for Ubisoft. It may still happen. There's no need to be upset.
Just because you burnt out, doesn't mean everyone has.
AC4 freshened up the series, and I am excited to see what they do with PS4/XBONE.
Also the two games is fine, it lets us see what they can do unshackled from the PS3/360, but doesn't mean they abandon the people who haven't upgraded yet
metalslimer
Member
Nvm
I hope this is a very early test because that looks pretty terrible for a current gen game.
I hope this is a very early test because that looks pretty terrible for a current gen game.
bryanee
Member
CriterionDog
Member
If the two games connect and are pretty different I would get both versions.
But as for now, I will go with the PS4 next gen version. : )
But as for now, I will go with the PS4 next gen version. : )
ReplacementPelican
Member
Not defensive, just confusion and a wee bit of contempt.
That was a joke, don't worry
Yeah, it's nothing historically accurate like...the pope fistfighting a contract killer using future past alien technomagic.
SmackAttack
Member
After how surprisingly good IV turned out to be, I'm down for more. Though, I need to actually see the gameplay before I decide whether they'll be purchases or rentals. The setting for these games can do a lot for me.
Metroid-Squadron
Banned
Consider that The Order is a corridor shooter while AC is an open world game.
The Antitype
Banned
Sweet.
Just thrilled it's not Feudal Japan or Ancient China or whatever.
Just thrilled it's not Feudal Japan or Ancient China or whatever.
metalslimer
Member
The Witcher 3 is also open world.
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
Oh hey, another Assassin's Creed...
Lol yeah
I mean it in the way of Naruto and those cheesy Ninja movies leaping from the ground to. Rooftops etc.
Blast Processing
Member
Ugh, they're still making these...
Is what I think when I read posts that begin that way in AC threads. The games are good, and make money, and make substantial changes entry to entry. Get over it.
Is what I think when I read posts that begin that way in AC threads. The games are good, and make money, and make substantial changes entry to entry. Get over it.