Agent Gibbs
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Probably rip off breath of the wild and give us paragliders with paraglider battles
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New Assassin's Creed Empire details?
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Probably rip off breath of the wild and give us paragliders with paraglider battles
CopperPuppy
Member
Pretty sure that's straight from last year's leak.
A character from the 18th century, in ancient Egypt? Is time travelling a thing in these games now? Lol
I remember playing the first Assassin's Creed and calling my mom over as I scaled the Dome of the Rock.
"Mom, do you know what this is?"
Al Aqsa?
"Yeah, isn't it cool that I'm climbing it?!"
She wasn't impressed hehe.
If they have Alexandria in this new game, I'm going to show my dad and ask him, "hey, is this alley where you used to play as a kid?"
The Silver
Member
Not looking forward to a massive desert, Black Flag was fun cause you had a pirate ship and could do pirate things in it's open world.
ComputerBlue
Member
Black Flag team, both good and bad with that. The bad being the ridiculous amount of tailing missions and the world was a little big, the good, everything else. But the tailing missions almost killed the game for me, the main missions really suffered because of them.
The Illiterati
Member
We should be able to spear sandworms like the whales from Black Flag, and ride them around. Don't tell me these didn't exist back then.
Thanks, that looks indeed massive, especially if they can't cover it all in water like Blackflag.
I didn't say they were, i'm saying you should look at the whole picture, Zelda is getting 10s across the board, people calling it the best game ever made, and it has a massive open world with plenty of empty space and fetch quests and collectibles and towers and all the shit people are supposed to hate.
It's all in the execution, and i don't expect an Assassin's Creed to set the world on fire like Zelda did, for sure, but Syndicate already found ways to make much better use of its spaces, with more open ended missions you could play around in more.
The point is that "substance" is always used in very vague terms when shitting on open worlds, and it's not very clear what "substance" is, since i personally enjoyed the side missions in Syndicate, with the improved stealth mechanics and more open design to missions.
For other people anything other than a main story mission is "pointless filler" though.
Even Witcher has more side activities being "go here and use Witcher sense" but holistically the game works just fine, because of the writing, because of the balance and pace of said activities, etc.
I think the AC series has plenty of stinkers (probably more than good games) in its roster, but "big world" isn't the problem, and i think knee jerk reactions about that line, are missing the point of why some open world works, and some don't.
Ubi, please give a current gen Pirate game before you kill the IP, PLEEEEEASE!
AC4 is on PS4.
xrnzaaas
Member
Yep the tailing missions were a chore, but I think Ubi got the message because no other AC game had a problem with having too many of them.
SuperEpicMan
Banned
People have no imagination lol, imagine travelling through the desert and seeing the pyramids and cities forming in the distance, coupled with a day and night mechanic, arriving at Giza as the sun is dawning. I can imagine it being pretty majestic.
Like Watch Dogs 2? Yeah, it's great.
Soul of the Beast
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Can you imagine open world camel riding in a map 3 times bigger than Black Flag...
I like the sound of it overall, especially that desert mirage part.
kill me now
I like the sound of it overall, especially that desert mirage part.
SuperDowns
Banned
First off the world doesn't need to be 3 times larger than Black Flag. That instantly makes me shy away... Also there better be some over-arching narrative to these games or I'm donzo. This needs to be a proper Reboot and if it is Altair then that's a no go too.
I'll be approaching this with extreme caution.
I'll be approaching this with extreme caution.
WhiskerFrisker
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Doug Heffernan
Member
Oh God, NO!
The Dutch Slayer
Member
All good things in my mind
Loved BF and Egypt is one of my fav history setting
Loved BF and Egypt is one of my fav history setting
If they make these huge worlds like how BotW and Gta 5, Red Dead Redemption. do it hell yeah if not
Because yeah don't want to explore huge empty worlds.
Doug Heffernan
Member
If only there was a giant river in Egypt for that... I could say the name of it but I'm in denial.
If they make these huge worlds like how BotW and Gta 5, Red Dead Redemption. do it hell yeah if not
Because yeah don't want to explore huge empty worlds.
I mean I like RDR, but it and GTAV are empty as shit. At least horse riding is fun in RDR, moving around in GTA V is fucking intolerable and boring.
Wut? GTAV is filled with shit to a fault.
The map looks like a theme park, and driving around in GTAV is surely way better than riding on a horse in RDR.
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
I live in America, and went to public school in the 80's and 90's. It's a miracle I know what a continent is!! Still... it's a magic carpet. Those can be found wherever we want them to thanks to suspension of disbelief
Forsaken82
Member
Uhh... I guess Watch Dogs, Far Cry, Ghost Recon and Division don't exist in your world of Assassin's Creed Fatigue...
C
Contica
Unconfirmed Member
Three times bigger really isn't a selling point. That alone kills all interest I might have in it.
There's a lot of desert in Egypt.
And thats why I hate it so much. The entire game is based on fire and forget mechanics. There is no sense of progress or flow as you move through the world. Every activity is meaningless and feels solely there to exist as content.
Even though the side missions have cutscenes, they are all incredibly restrictive, forcing the player to stick to a script, and any deviation from it = failure.
To me, GTAV is a thesis on everything wrong with open world games. Just a big world, with meaningless junk to do.
Say what you will about ubi games, but at least their activities have some form of meaningful movement of progression for the player. What do you get in GTA? Just money so you can buy a fucking car or a gun but the piss easy shooting mechanics make different guns straight up pointless.
Baron_Calamity
Member
The most logical point of entry would be the main character is the first human to interface with the Precursors and that started us down the road.
More_Badass
Member
You do realize that ancient Egypt had massive cities, and incredible architecture, and not just mostly desert, right?
Partially why I'm happy they're doing this era. Ubisoft always does the setting justice in Assassins Creed, so the world here might help alter the notion that Egypt was just camels, desert, pyramids, etc
Baron_Calamity
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Hexa
Member
If it's 3x the size of Black Flag, then the majority of that will likely be empty space, which in this case means desert.
Edit: I guess if the map was pretty much centered only around the Nile it could be mostly water instead, but with that map the boating would be pretty boring imo.
More_Badass
Member
One doesn't correlate to the other
Possumowner
Member
Black Flag team has me optimistic,but not to big...Camels can only move so fast 😋
Because the assassins creed franchise has been fragmented with different leads, writters, composers, etc since Patrice left after Brotherhood
Alex Amancio- Revelations, Unity
Alex Hutchinson- AC3
Ashraf Ismail- AC4
Ubi Quebec- Syndicate
Honestly, I have a lot more faith in Ismail because he was originally a fan of the series, who ended up becoming a creative director. He also seems in tune with what fans want in these games (ex: bg music when exploring)
Hexa
Member
What else is the empty space going to be?
Are we sure there are actually specific teams inside of Montreal or are those just different leads with ever changing and fluid teams? Honestly curious.
Its fluid. From what I've understood how these games work are
1) A small team splits off coming up with the creative side (ex: the setting, the character, the gameplay mechanics ,etc)
2) The game enters prototyping with the team who split off (also other ubi studios across the world might collaborate on this step)
3)When a chunk of people finish the previous game, they work on the new one and it enters full production
So yes, I feel with how the AC development cycle is, the creative leads are the ones whom seem to have the most influence.
Its why when you look at them all, they all kinda emphasize different things.Like how we went from going from actual Native American Actors in 3, to authentic pirate slang in 4, to everyone is British in Unity.
Creatives in this series have more power, because of how fluid the dev team is.
More_Badass
Member
That's your mistake. Your argument doesn't make sense
Black Flag had open/empty space
Empire is 3x as large
You conclude Empire will have 3x as much open/empty space
When multiple cities, more towns and settlements, ruins/temples/pyramids/etc. are just as likely and probable
It helps when you show them pictures
Alexandria (Cleopatra era)
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/07/cleopatra/alexandria-map
Temple of Amun-Ra in Karnak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnak
For example this is how Memphis looked in movie Exodus
