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Next Assassin's Creed Location and Time Period

Story-wise, the French Revolution provides a great playground. Not a lot of black-and-white... lots of grays... all parties involved did some terrible stuff... very violent. It was a HUGE fucking mess. Plus it was incredibly important. They'd have to make sense of all that and present it in a way that people can process -- would be very interesting. They tried to do the shades-of-gray thing in III but failed horribly, resulting in an incoherent mess.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is no way they're not going to do some French Revolution shit eventually. I mean... it's perfect for the spirit of the series.

Gameplay-wise, French Revolution seems a bit safe. Personally I don't think they should focus so much on just messing with the edges of their myriads of "systems" -- coming up with new weapons, tweaking combat and stealth, etc.

Instead they should come up with some seriously great stealth missions. Draw some influence from Hitman perhaps. Make it not just a checklist game but something with more mission substance. Make each major assassination feel like a long project again... but more so. (Disclaimer: I am only on sequence 3 of IV. Maybe they're already moving in that direction... we'll see.)
 
As long as they still have to make it cross gen, so wont be rewriting the engine from the ground up, they may as well keep milking that nice boat tech they developed and go with Scandinavian vikings

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Sinsem said:
That was the all point of Desilet's 1666 Amsterdam.
Too bad we will never see that game.

But for AC, I remember they said that feodal japan was a really bad idea. French Revolution is more likely, wait for the annual Ubisoft February leak :-)
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Shit, didn't know Desilet already pitched the time period for a game. Too bad, I think the setting has a lot of potential.
 
I'd like to see a take on pre-war (ww1) turn of the century europe. It's a time period we don't see explored much

But a feudal Japan or China would get no objections from me. I'd like to see a return to the crusades era too.
 
My money is on the French revolution era, i.e. the end of the 18th century.

It would be awesome to see a French take on the assassins saga that includes cardinal Richelieu, but I doubt that'll happen.

A steampunk-ish industrial revolution Creed in England would also be a sight to behold.

Edit: just saw the viking images. That would be awesome too, though the story'd have to be pretty bonkers to somehow tie this into an assassins versus templars scenario.
 
Net_Wrecker said:
And yes we going back to horses. Horses are great and I miss horseback assassinations. And I want to see the power of next gen with dozens of samurai riding into battle carrying their flags and weapons of war.
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Horseback archery assassinations. DO IT.
Imagine actually taking part in those epic battles in Onimusha and Yakuza Kenzan in real time.

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Best of both worlds.

Revolutionary France and Neo-Tokyo. Like, a legit Neo-Tokyo would be nice.

Neo-Tokyo's not gonna happen though.

Twist: Desmond is still alive inside the programming of the Animus, and the city you play around in is a manic, twisted, horrific mess of various, scattered cities and time periods that all of his ancestors lived through. Industrial-Era Britain next to Ancient Egyptian Architecture. A dry dusty desert running through an Italian market place. A forest, growing... within the Bastille.

His targets? Everyone. Twisted variants of his friends and allies and echoes of the past come to haunt him once more. Bring the bleeding effect back in. He is all his ancestors, and none. And then he must ascend back to reality. The ghost within the Machine. Taking control of his own destiny. Who cares if it doesn't make sense. It'd be so crazy, they have to try it. Every single setting, in one game. A mad locale at war with itself.

Call it...

ASSASSIN'S CREED: RISE.

Boom.
 
Nihilistic Monk said:
Yeh, that quote made me laugh. Abstergo says they'd be
"hampered by the semi-catatonic state most people enter when driving for medium and long periods of time – and this makes data retrieval somewhat more difficult.”"

Not like...say...driving a pirate ship over the sea for large periods of time at all then? :-P

I do think it's quite neat that they basically answered the question about modern day AC within the fiction of the game itself though. There's quite a few nice touches to AC4 with how they can riff off the whole Abstergo mechanic. I liked it.
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Don't forget free falling and when you got to use DaVinci's flying contraption. Such a weak excuse lol. Maybe his ancestors were racing drivers?
 
What a lot of people don't seem to realise whenever this kind of discussion comes up is that an AC game set before the first one (was that set in the 11th or 12th century AD?) would not make a whole lot of sense because the Assassins only started fighting over the pieces of Eden and against the Templars during the events in the first game. Before that they didn't have anything to do with those things.

(And yes, I'm aware of the statues in the vault in AC2. That's proof that even Ubisoft don't know their own games' stories.)

If we forgot about all that and didn't have to worry about logic and continuity, I would love a game set in ancient Egypt or ancient Greece. However, as we do have to worry about that, I'm all for the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. A fascinating and gruesome piece of history that would perfectly fit the AC formula. Just imagine climbing Notre Dame, chasing through the Parisian Catacombs, infiltrating Versailles,...
 
I would love:

France, WW1: dive about in the muddy trenches, fighting close up with improvised weapons, avoid mustard gas. It has horses, mele combat, primitive firearms and hasn't really been done to death like WW2. It would ooze atmosphere and horror as well.

That or: Afghanistan / India during the British fallback, China boxer rebellion or Egypt.
 
a modern dystopia where electricity and fuels have been eradicated after a giant war

leaving behind only small amounts of bullets and weapons that have to be collected or built
 
There is a "hacked email" in AC4 that pretty much says that motor vehicles of any kind would never work in the Animus (for whatever bullshit reason). No doubt because of engine limitations of course, but at least it will restrict what time period will be available in open world settings for sure.
 
Location: Ocean
Character: Fish
Date: Whenever

Think Finding Nemo but with a dark edge on trying to get back your son.
 
Nowadays Chicago...

Oh wait !


I think AC during the french revolution could be an interesting game, with great story, good political background + Paris.
 
An assassins creed set in Ancient India would be amazing imo. There's so much lore and mythics and it's said to be one of the birth places of martial arts.

My Second Hope is Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate
If it covered that era it could be awesome. It saw the Rise and fall of Christianity and the introduction of western influences into Japan. It would be ideal for an Assassins Creed Game.


China, Boxer Rebellion. I think there's plenty of spots you could choose for a Chinese campaign. Though the Boxer Rebellion is relatively unexplored and does have the ability to fit in the game series well since it involves a Christian Uprising.
 
The more important matter at hand is what Ubisoft intends to do with the mythology. Its reaching a point (If not already reached it) where a resolution has to emerge with the solar flare/end of the world that Juno/Minerva were plotting to avoid. Desmond is dead (for now) so shit really needs to wrap up.

Lets put the Doomsday plot to bed and start a new trilogy with an Ezio-like character with a modern day descendant's more intimate conflict. Subject 18 is ripped from his life in suburbia to go flying through the animus to uncover a cure for cancer from the ones who came before. Or something...The stakes dont always have to be so apocalyptic.
 
Escape Goat said:
The more important matter at hand is what Ubisoft intends to do with the mythology. Its reaching a point (If not already reached it) where a resolution has to emerge with the solar flare/end of the world that Juno/Minerva were plotting to avoid. Desmond is dead (for now) so shit really needs to wrap up.

Lets put the Doomsday plot to bed and start a new trilogy with an Ezio-like character with a modern day descendant's more intimate conflict. Subject 18 is ripped from his life in suburbia to go flying through the animus to uncover a cure for cancer from the ones who came before. Or something...The stakes dont always have to be so apocalyptic.
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This has always been my greatest problem with the Assassin Creed games, I love them to death but I feel their ability to expand is limited because the story is tied down to a fixed point in the future so they have a sort of rigged cannon they must follow.
 
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Virrey times in South America, before Argentina's independence, even San Martin freeing several countries is a revolutionary time that has a lot of potential, and this would be original, has several ingridients that have never been used in games as setting and type of characters
 
Post-War Japan, please. To me it's the second most important period in history for art and technology after the Italian Rensaisance, it just makes so much sense and it would be enough of a surprise that they might actually DO it. (Ubisoft already put the ixnay on FEUDAL Japan, World War Two GERMANY and Ancient Egypt for being too obvious.)

Also, Japan's Peace Constitution would be a good excuse for limited guns.

edit: France seems overdue seeing as how Ubisoft is a french company, and it seemed like that's where they were heading next with every game since Brotherhood. I'm split between whether or not it should be set during the French Revolution though, as I think doing a leap of faith off the Eiffel Tower would be rad as heck.

Also, vikings would be cool. Good chance to go back to the combat roots of the series (albeit maybe abandoning the navigational roots...) and I'd love to learn more about norse culture. It would make a good low-budget side-game like Revelations.
 
ChiliManiac said:
This has always been my greatest problem with the Assassin Creed games, I love them to death but I feel their ability to expand is limited because the story is tied down to a fixed point in the future so they have a sort of rigged cannon they must follow.
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How about just junking the modern day storyline completely and just setting the entire game in the past. 4 is a pretty huge step in that direction already.
 
Always thought a Victorian London setting would be amazing. It's about the time the city was being really built up, so nice vertical playground, and there's so much you could do with the setting - want a Da Vinci style sidekick? Have Arthur Conan Doyle being a detective style character, who uses his time with you as a basis for the Sherlock Holmes stories. Jack the Ripper would make either a great Templar villain or an Assassin who the Templars are putting stories out about to destroy him. Even set it as a secret war between monarchy and State with one as Assassins and one as Templars.
 
Victorian London is my dream setting. All dark and smoky and Jack the Ripperish.

But ancient Egypt and the French Revolution would be sweet as well. I also think the middle ages could be further explored, seeing as though AC1 didn't totally wear it out in my opinion.
 
wow! the fan made art is incredible. the asian setting will definitely work if they want, but from what i remember the series creator wanted egypt as the next setting?
 
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