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[cormack12]

French revolution setting as strong as American Revolution

./backs away

 

[vpance]

Say what you will about Ubi, but only they can pull off this magnitude of development. I'm very interested in the results of their true next gen projects.

 

[Roo]

Can't wait to sit 3 hours watching those credits. Hnngggg!

 

[jelly]

Suppose it isn't that hard when the game is cookie cutter and more depth is place items here to find.

 

[Tex117]

Wait a minute...will we be able to skip the credits?

 

[Riki]

This is depressing to me.
Ten studios working on a single game.

 

[Exterminieren]

Between this and the supposed last-gen AC, probably somewhere around 70% of Ubisoft is working on AC games for this fall.

Interesting that Comet isn't mentioned in the PDF, though. You'd have thought they'd be trumpeting that if it existed.

 

[astroturfing]

well, can't blame for not being ambitious.

in some perverse way i like what they're doing, trying to crank out impressive and huge open-world games every single year. i certainly don't want every developer to do that (a yearly GTA would be awful, it's much more special when we only get one or two per gen), but i'm kinda glad someone is doing it.

i still haven't had time to play AC4 yet though..

 

[QaaQer]

Say what you will about Ubi, but only they can pull off this magnitude of development. I'm very interested in the results of their true next gen projects.

So no PS360 versions?

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

It's funny because the combat will probably still suck.

 

[w00zey]

Maybe this time people can skip the credits or fast forward them.

for real! I mean I don't mind the multi studios working on different parts but the credits must be a half hour long at least.

 

[Statue of Limitation]

I wonder how they're able to work in tandem, especially since there are so many of them.

The trick is they don't

 

[Berto]

They probably have a couple of studios just to make the credits.

 

[Omega]

Those end credits are gonna be longer than Ground Zeroes

 

[Finalizer]

Like MGS4 cinematics, but with credits.

 

[IcyRhythms]

10 studios

Will still be poorly optimized on PC.

 

[BeforeU]

This is coming this year as well? So many AAA ubisoft games this year
1). Assassins
2). Crew
3). Watchdog
4). Far Cry

Is this for real? Hope they all do good though.

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

Can you imagine how many COD games Activision could turn out every year with that many studios?

Well, at the pace that they are going it shouldn't be long.

 

[lefantome]

This sound like an incoming mess of a game.
I don't know if this strategy will pay off in the long run, unfortunately it has until now

 

[SirMossyBloke]

End credits will be DLC.

Or a 7gb patch.

 

[Suzushiiro]

Why does it take so many resources to develop a game that merely follows a template with a few changes here and there? I've yet to play ACIV but AC3 also took a lot of people to develop and it ended up being nothing to write home about.

The vast majority of those people are working on graphical assets. New gen means you need more detailed 3D models to keep up with the power you have available, which means you need more people in order to make those models in a reasonable amount of time. The amount of people working on all the other parts of the game- story, mechanics, music, voices, QA, engine programming, etc- is probably not that much bigger than in the average AAA game of the PS2 era. Or at least it's only grown linearly while the number of people working on churning out visual assets has grown exponentially.

 

[DoubleTake]

I cant...

 

[MormaPope]

"Let them eat cake" is an apocryphal quote intended to demonstrate Marie-Antoinette's total ignorance of the horrible living conditions of the French people at the time. Using it to mean "The customer is always right" is incredibly stupid, and also kind of gross.

Marie-Antoinette was executed via guillotine. I can only hope the same thing happens to the Assassin's Creed franchise.

I also agree. Ubisoft with its boat loads of money is risking it on complacency.

 

[donny2112]

Using it to mean "The customer is always right" is incredibly stupid, and also kind of gross.

The unfairness of the quote made me want to jump into the game and start righting wrongs. What made you interpret it as "the customer is always right"?

 

[Reavr]

Welp... looks like they got the 'unity' part right.

 

[sjay1994]

The trick is they don't

But AC4 had more studios than 3 did.

3 was made by Montreal, Singapore and Annecy. With other studios porting the game to other consoles

4 was made by

Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Annecy
Ubisoft Bucharest
Ubisoft Kiev
Ubisoft Milan
Ubisoft Montpellier
Ubisoft Quebec
Ubisoft Singapore
Ubisoft Sofia

And 4 is widely regarded as a much better game than 3

 

[Phamit]

Oh no,

10 hours end credits incomming

 

[Suzushiiro]

I wonder how they're able to work in tandem, especially since there are so many of them.

IIRC each studio works on a single part of the game (one zone and its environment, character models, quests, etc.) in parallel and they bring them all together at the end.

 

[Demon Ice]

I don't understand how they can have so many devs working on these games and yet the mission structures are so freaking repetitive and basic. This game has 10 dev companies. I don't think there were even 10 different mission types in AC IV.

 

[Emperor_EL]

Could you imagine if Platinum had that kind of manpower? They'd put out like 80 games in the span of 3 years.

 

[RangerBAD]

End credits will be DLC.

No, it'll be a 5 GB day-one patch.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

A 1000 person dev team across continents sounds like a great idea.

When a 6 million unit selling game still gets a studio shut down, this isn't a great idea or a shitty idea, it's the only idea.

 

[-NeoTB1-]

herp derp credits

I'm excited! Love this series.

 

[Corpsepyre]

Still waiting for that rumoured Ancient Egypt-based AC. Imagine the epicness and the puzzles! Damn...

 

[ironcreed]

Now that is not bloated at all. You know what they say about too many cooks with their hands in the stew.

 

[ZSeba]

Nooo! First far cry 4 and now this ;( I wish they had a better studio handling their pc ports. Ubi kiev is terrible!

 

[CambriaRising]

I think i'm done with AC.

 

[fallingdove]

Man - someone needs to kill this shit with fire. There is no way Assassins Creed is going to iron out its age old kinks when you have 10 different studios following the blueprint.

 

[petethepanda]

Dat Ubibloat.

 

[Ubersnug]

Oh lawd, incoming 45 minute credits section.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Their innovation is Amazing Next-Gen Graphics.

 

[Its Quite Toasty]

This had better blow my socks off

 

[Angelus Errare]

And through all of this the combat will still be garbage. Sigh, at least the graphics will be nice for screenshot threads.

 

[spekkeh]

So that confirms AC5 to be another checklist conveyor belt game.

And that I won't buy it.

 

[Timu]

Wait, they're not releasing this on PS360?

Bold move, good on them.

They're getting Assassin's Creed Comet instead.

 

[CastorTroy]

Jesus Christ.

 

[sjay1994]

Their innovation is Amazing Next-Gen Graphics.

Eh, as long as its 1080p its good enough for gaf.

 

[spekkeh]

I don't understand how they can have so many devs working on these games and yet the mission structures are so freaking repetitive and basic. This game has 10 dev companies. I don't think there were even 10 different mission types in AC IV.

Because external companies have no authorative control and just follow a set template.

 

[Duxxy3]

2015 goal - bring down development costs

Assassin's Creed Unity 10 team development

 

[Stumpokapow]

The unfairness of the quote made me want to jump into the game and start righting wrongs. What made you interpret it as "the customer is always right"?

"Let them eat cake" is routinely used in a manner similar to "The customer is always right" or rather "Give the people what they want"--in other words, used to imply that people's needs should be met. This is the exact opposite of the original and intended purpose of the quotation.