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Next Assassin's Creed Location and Time Period

Shame that it's a discussion about the next Assassins Creed game, instead of the next possibility for a new open world IP. I just feel like these teams are so talented, and doing something fresh would be incredibly beneficial to the industry.

Ubisoft, please.
 
I would love for it to be based on the setting of the book The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.

Basically, period is 1790-1810, Dutch East Indian Company has the sole contact with Japan via a trading post/harbor in Nagasaki.

Dutch East Indian Company could mean Ubisoft could recycle naval missions (they LOVE asset recycling ;) ) Also makes the bridge from Western to Eastern culture easier. Make some Dutch or English guy who is on a trade mission become an Assassin in Nagasaki or whatever. Put in Amsterdam as well.


DO IT.
 
Egypt is tempting but I think it would look too visually similar to the first game.

I bet it'll be feudal Japan, makes a lot of sense.
 
Phil4000 said:
China or Japan.
No cross-gen, with The Division quality visuals would be incredible!
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Agree 100 percent. Such amazing architectural options. I just started ac4 and pirates/islands are cool- but wow would japan be so amazing. Ninja armor, katanas and throwing stars... Come on.

Btw I did not even finish ac3. First one I didn't complete. Fan of the series though.
 
Seems like Feudal Japan is a no brainer even though I have similar feelings about that as I do with the great AC4.

I just wanted a pirate game and in the case of Japan I just want a Ninja/Samurai game.

The animus, the templars/assassins, magic apples, blah blah..sorry I stopped caring. Too convoluted for its own good and it got boring after brotherhood.
 
Edwards_Omatic said:
Yeah sounds like fun, I can imagine all the follow and eavesdrop missions - everyone loves those right?
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well if we're posting fantasy ideas for games, i guess part of the fantasy would be not having to be saddled to with the traditionally garbage mechanics and mission design the series has had thus far.

also, briefcase gun
 
I'd love to see Victorian London. It's ripe for a game like this. Spiritualism, secret cults, foggy and rainy weather, a huge antiquated city, etc. The era oozes atmosphere. It's perfect for Assassin's Creed.
 
Would it kill em to just not release a new ASSCREED in 2014? Wouldn't it build hype and anticipation for the series if they took a year off? I understand it's basically Ubisoft's CoD at this point, but c'mon now.
 
GetemMa said:
Seems like Feudal Japan is a no brainer even though I have similar feelings about that as I do with the great AC4.

I just wanted a pirate game and in the case of Japan I just want a Ninja/Samurai game.

The animus, the templars/assassins, magic apples, blah blah..sorry I stopped caring. Too convoluted for its own good and it got boring after brotherhood.
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The Templar/Assassin story has infinite potential, it's just that Ubisoft themselves stopped caring at this point. They haven't done anything relevant with the Templar vs Assassin plot since the original game. It's the only one that really showed the shadow war, the different aspects of both factions and the hundreds of years this battle has been going on. Altair was just a small cog in a much larger machine, the world didn't revolve around him [unlike the Ezio saga where Ezio is the center of the universe in multiple aspects]. AC's story was fascinating stuff, especially how the Templars are portraided as evil dictators trying to rule the world and piece by piece you learn the true philosophy and how they don't seem any worse than the Assassins themselves.

I loved it, and I HATE how Ubi just threw all the subtlety, all the nuance of the backstory out the window in favor of a more blockbuster-ish, accessible "good guy Assassin vs bad guy Templar" story. Assassins are nothing more but a bunch of lunatics who kill people because they feel like it's the right thing. It's a fragmented mess and as a result nobody cares and nobody should. Because why care about something the dev themselves obviously don't really care for.


[I've been rooting for the Templars ever since the original Assassin's Creed, if Ubi had guts they'd actually make a game from the Templar's perspective]
 
Darkmakaimura said:
I'd love to see Victorian London. It's ripe for a game like this. Spiritualism, secret cults, foggy and rainy weather, a huge antiquated city, etc. The era oozes atmosphere. It's perfect for Assassin's Creed.
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Guy Fawkes was basically described as an assassin. Enough intrigue and backstabbing during that time to make a compelling story out of.
 
moltonasty said:
Would it kill em to just not release a new ASSCREED in 2014? Wouldn't it build hype and anticipation for the series if they took a year off? I understand it's basically Ubisoft's CoD at this point, but c'mon now.
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I too was growing weary of the yearly entries, and I thought I was done with the series for good after the terrible AC3, but then I played AC4 and it rekindled my love for the series in a way few games can.

Now I find myself eagerly anticipating 2014's Assassin's Creed, wherever it is. Madness.
 
kaysee said:
official image of ubi's indian assassin creed graphic novel.

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i hope they go to india with AC 5
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India would be amazing too!!
 
SJRB said:
The Templar/Assassin story has infinite potential, it's just that Ubisoft themselves stopped caring at this point. They haven't done anything relevant with the Templar vs Assassin plot since the original game. It's the only one that really showed the shadow war, the different aspects of both factions and the hundreds of years this battle has been going on. Altair was just a small cog in a much larger machine, the world didn't revolve around him [unlike the Ezio saga where Ezio is the center of the universe in multiple aspects]. AC's story was fascinating stuff, especially how the Templars are portraided as evil dictators trying to rule the world and piece by piece you learn the true philosophy and how they don't seem any worse than the Assassins themselves.

I loved it, and I HATE how Ubi just threw all the subtlety, all the nuance of the backstory out the window in favor of a more blockbuster-ish, accessible "good guy Assassin vs bad guy Templar" story. Assassins are nothing more but a bunch of lunatics who kill people because they feel like it's the right thing. It's a fragmented mess and as a result nobody cares and nobody should. Because why care about something the dev themselves obviously don't really care for.


[I've been rooting for the Templars ever since the original Assassin's Creed, if Ubi had guts they'd actually make a game from the Templar's perspective]
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One could argue that Assassins Creed 3 was really about Haytham Kenway. He was clearly the most fleshed out character in the game.
 
My favourite would probably be something oriental. Osmanian or byzantine empire, fighting with scimitars.

Wouldn't mind Japan or China either.

England or France seem kinda boring to me.
 
SJRB said:
The Templar/Assassin story has infinite potential, it's just that Ubisoft themselves stopped caring at this point. They haven't done anything relevant with the Templar vs Assassin plot since the original game. It's the only one that really showed the shadow war, the different aspects of both factions and the hundreds of years this battle has been going on. Altair was just a small cog in a much larger machine, the world didn't revolve around him [unlike the Ezio saga where Ezio is the center of the universe in multiple aspects]. AC's story was fascinating stuff, especially how the Templars are portraided as evil dictators trying to rule the world and piece by piece you learn the true philosophy and how they don't seem any worse than the Assassins themselves.

I loved it, and I HATE how Ubi just threw all the subtlety, all the nuance of the backstory out the window in favor of a more blockbuster-ish, accessible "good guy Assassin vs bad guy Templar" story. Assassins are nothing more but a bunch of lunatics who kill people because they feel like it's the right thing. It's a fragmented mess and as a result nobody cares and nobody should. Because why care about something the dev themselves obviously don't really care for.


[I've been rooting for the Templars ever since the original Assassin's Creed, if Ubi had guts they'd actually make a game from the Templar's perspective]
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I disagree about infinite potential because everything has to be tied to the animus and those two groups. You know what has unlimited potential? the imaginations of developers unfettered by leavings of previous games.

I agree the first game had a much more nuanced story and for the first game that was fine but where does it end?

Nah, bring on new IPs ubi. A new Pirate IP, a new Ninja/Samurai IP.
 
I've had enough of European history. I always thought that Japanese (Chinese probably has more interesting history, but c'mon, samurai assassins) Assassins Creed would be cool, but I think Post-Classical Islamic Caliphates or the roaring twenties would be cool settings as well.
 
Ubisoft knows a lot of people want it to be set in Japan, maybe thery're just waiting to do it with a new engine for next gen and PC only. That would be awesome.
 
Egypt, Japan, China etc will all make it in to AC, it's just a matter of time and order. The survey ubisoft issued some time after the release of AC2 has suggested this, only to be suggested more so recently.
 
Mid 19th century China, the opium wars. It was entirely about the British forcing trade and empire of the Chinese, perfect AC fodder. Great localities, characters.... It's got it all.
 
No Japan, no China.
There are too many god damned games in Japan, I do not care if "but there is not an Assassin's Creed game in Asia".
I am sick and tired of asia in video games.
Plenty of other companies put Japan and asia in games in some form or another.
 
Hex said:
No Japan, no China.
There are too many god damned games in Japan, I do not care if "but there is not an Assassin's Creed game in Asia".
I am sick and tired of asia in video games.
Plenty of other companies put Japan and asia in games in some form or another.
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You probably don't see it this way but there is a big difference between games set in Japan and games thst are set in fanasy japan with magic and demons. Also, I am curious how many recent games are actually set in japan or china. Sleeping dogs is the only one I can think of from the top of my head. Also I guess you can say Yakuza but it has a really small fan base and not many people play it. I'm wondering where this Asia fatigue is coming from.
 
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