OXM UK: "The forthcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations is the last set in Renaissance Italy, bidding a fond farewell to grizzled pretty-boy Ezio Auditore and his spectral forebear Altair. Where will Assassin's Creed 3 raise the flag? Here are some ideas..."
"Hello everyone, we have more details to share concerning the upcoming decommissioning of online services affecting several AC titles, including additional information regarding the DLC for these titles."
When will you decommission this new one? I’m only asking so I can be happier by not buying it at full price.
The dog Chorizo from FAR CRY 6 has wheelchair legs, so is hardly a decommissioned pet. In fact very useful for digging up dirt.
Xfire writes "Worldbuilding is a crucial part of any story. It's not an easy task to create a believable setting with its own set of rules, customs, traditions and political affiliations and then weave a story into the said setting. Luckily, storytellers and video game writers don't always need to create complex settings when we've got history books as thick as Big Chungus.
Historical eras make a fabulous setting for video games. They've already got the world-building nailed, complete with their own set of rules, customs, traditions and political affiliations. Honestly, I don't think I need to justify the fact that historical eras make an amazing setting for video games. If you don't believe me, just go ahead and play the Ghost of Tsushima or any of the Assassin's Creed games."
The first crusade would be pretty sweet. I’d probably enjoy any of those on your list if they were done respectfully. Like not some dork in Portland making a Russian Revolution game.
Benin Empire, Far East, Central America. Games are pretty biased toward Europe, North America, and the Middle East. There is a very big world out there.
Fans of Assassin’s Creed will want to check out a new Build Your Own Bundle featuring ten different games from Ubisoft’s popular action-adventure franchise.
You know a game comes out too often when we’re getting BYOB (Build-your-own-bundle) deals! And this cheap? Good deal for parkour lovers! Haha!!
What Ill be doing for valhalla, wait for a sale. Ac and far cry games go really cheap pretty quick. Picked up fc5 for $5 and Odyssey for $10.
Or just wait til Ubisoft gives em out for free lol. they've practically given out all the AC games for free, as well as both Watch Dog games, and Rayman. Ubisoft is weird
I'm expecting a massive change-up from AC3. Brotherhood was great and Revelations looks excellent, but there's no denying the series has settled into a rut, both in terms of premise and gameplay.
Into the depths of spin off hell.
They should stop with AC for this gen. Let it rest and then bring it back on next gen.
AC has been milked way too much in home consoles, portables, smartphones,...
I think Assassin's Creed is one of those franchises that could go on and on and still remain really good and fresh if handled right.... which would be good as I'd hate to see it turn out to be a game that just gets milked!
There are so many places and historical times that they have the basis for so many stories.
Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Feudal Japan, China, British Empire, French Revolution, America, Mayan, Russian.... it goes on and on.
I think though that as they went into different stories it might help to change the style of gameplay somewhat as well....
Like there are many different types of assassination and intrigue, like you could have a much more stealthy type assassin that sticks to the shadows and hiding places and have a different game mechanic for the player to exploit as shadows and line of sight become more relevant than jumping from rooftops.
Perhaps poisons being used, with things like poisonous snakes being slipped into peoples beds as well as the more obvious poisoning food and drinks or using blow darts. Basically trying to make some assassinations seem like accidents or natural causes than a blade through the head!
Places like the British Empire where you also have the whole social stealth thing upgraded as you have to disguise yourself, and mingle at court ect. Maybe having to do missions where you are in some way connected to people like Horatio Nelson in a similar way as Ezio was connected to Niccolo Machiavelli.
And with the devs penchant for actually teaching history alongside the gameplay.... people might actually learn something too!
Either they finish it up and set in in modern times with Desmond vs Abstergo or I'll forego the series until Ubisoft does so.