Badlucktroll
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this sounds like what konami is doing with silent hill
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[Tom Henderson] Ubisoft going "All in" on Assassin's Creed with 4 more games already planned
Gameplay Gods Bless
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DeaDPo0L84
Member
I can't get excited for assassins creed anymore. What was once a fresh idea with a interesting storyline is just this bloated convoluted mess with endless chores to complete that they call "content".
fart town usa
Member
Make Zombi 2 you cowards.
Schmendrick
Member
Sounds desperate.
Kurotri
Member
Maybe I should've worded my post better, but I thought the actual details, like Sofia making a game with 3 settings was interesting and not the general prospect that there are new ACs coming. That's a no-brainer!
Hawking Radiation
Member
Cashing in while the IP's still mildly warm.
donfonzie
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Rippa
Member
This is my dream scenario for a reimagined Assassins Creed.
It’s either that or kill it with fire already. I grow tired of the copy pasta with a fresh coat of paint.
rabbity-thing
Member
I just want a game that takes place in the far future where the protagonist is using the Animus to play through Desmond's memories. He really was the heart of the series. Without his narrative, a compelling parallel in the modern world, the MacGuffin-hunt loses a lot of its luster.
dispensergoinup
Gold Member
This forum seems so hate AC so much, but I love it.
I do prefer if they kept it Middle Eastern / Eastern Europe though, this time around.
I do prefer if they kept it Middle Eastern / Eastern Europe though, this time around.
Iced Arcade
Member
Yeah fuck a splinter cell 
Ffs Ubisoft just sell the IP and Montreal studio to literally anyone.
Ffs Ubisoft just sell the IP and Montreal studio to literally anyone.
Oh, guess I slept through that presentation, my bad!
March Climber
Gold Member
Yeah fuck a splinter cell
Ffs Ubisoft just sell the IP and Montreal studio to literally anyone.
Ubi should have confirmed a connected universe and merge the brands. There were already hints in recent AC games and Watch Dogs titles that both of them may be a connected universe. The same thing applies to the Clancy games too.
Making a cinematic universe where someone like Desmond Miles meets up with Aiden Pearce, or a Clancyverse where Sam Fisher meets up with a Division agent, or even Rainbow Six meet up with Ghost Recon on a dual location mission, could open the doors to some interesting crossovers and even genre crossovers.
Imagine a Watch Dogs game, where for a part of it, you have to enter an animus and then apply that historical knowledge to solving your next present day mission. Would be way better than the usual Assassin’s Creed game where it suddenly feels bad or awkward to play the minute you step out of an animus(or they just keep you in the animus too long and then you don’t care about anyone from the present day). Combining both, you’d have all of the tools of the Watch Dogs combined with your assassin’s knowledge from the animus and then a way more engaging dual story being told.
Assassin’s Creed at this point is a fictional form of The History Channel in video game form, and yet all they can think of genre-wise is an open world checklist action adventure stealth game followed by another open world checklist action adventure stealth game. So much potential and it’s all just so…safe.
It’s sad.
Yui's Empire
Member
Well, I can't complain about this, I love Assassin's Creed games and I think the nu-trilogy may have been the highest point in the series so far (the Ezio trilogy was awesome too). If they space out the projects well they can all come out reasonably packed with content and polished instead of iterative installments with not much reason to play.
On the other hand, it's a bit of a shame Ubisoft seems to fall short with a lot of promising games of theirs. Watch_Dogs never quite realized its awesome potential, with Legion having tons of excellent ideas and a sensational open world yet not being too much fun to play. Hyper Scape was mechanically lovely but it really didn't need to go that hard on the battle royale/Twitch combo, it may have served better as an arena shooter. The various Tom Clancy games aside from Siege have been rather mismanaged despite some undeniable underlying quality. Skull & Bones should have just been pushed out, I doubt they can turn it around with other delays if they haven't nailed the basics thus far. Prince of Persia remake seems dead in the water, not to mention Beyond Good & Evil 2. The Crew is coming back but both games failed to go near the bests of the genre despite, again, sound ideas. Far Cry desperately needs a revamp in the formula, although 6 took some interesting ideas but underneath it's still all the same.
And among all that there's Assassin's Creed that just works, but they can't rest too easy because Valhalla's DLC plan was not very good ultimately, and the free updates have been hit and miss as well. We'll see, but the projects we saw (even the mobile one) look good.
On the other hand, it's a bit of a shame Ubisoft seems to fall short with a lot of promising games of theirs. Watch_Dogs never quite realized its awesome potential, with Legion having tons of excellent ideas and a sensational open world yet not being too much fun to play. Hyper Scape was mechanically lovely but it really didn't need to go that hard on the battle royale/Twitch combo, it may have served better as an arena shooter. The various Tom Clancy games aside from Siege have been rather mismanaged despite some undeniable underlying quality. Skull & Bones should have just been pushed out, I doubt they can turn it around with other delays if they haven't nailed the basics thus far. Prince of Persia remake seems dead in the water, not to mention Beyond Good & Evil 2. The Crew is coming back but both games failed to go near the bests of the genre despite, again, sound ideas. Far Cry desperately needs a revamp in the formula, although 6 took some interesting ideas but underneath it's still all the same.
And among all that there's Assassin's Creed that just works, but they can't rest too easy because Valhalla's DLC plan was not very good ultimately, and the free updates have been hit and miss as well. We'll see, but the projects we saw (even the mobile one) look good.
The_Observer
Member
Aztec Empire and India sounds amazing if they are realized like the previous games, but the others are meh
Lucifers Beard
Member
What a surprise. I think Ubisoft are the most boring fucking publisher ever at this point. Reskinned gameplay all the damn time, no matter the franchise.
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
I enjoyed the first few games but I think I'm tired of seeing it's name every year. They should change it's name to Ubisoft FC at this point.
TheGodfather07
Member
I'll take the one that's like the old formula please. Never want to play an "RPG" assassin's creed ever again. I got post traumatic completionist disorder from all the icons on the map.
Sentenza
Gold Member
I fucking despise it.
It's not even that I'm tired of it. I just think it was never really good since AC1.
balls of snow
Gold Member
Relax they are probably gonna cancel ike half of em anyway. Also, Ac syndicate is fixed on ps5 finally and I remember people dissing that game because of ac unity residual backlash. Now its regarded as a decent game.
Drizzlehell
Banned
I want ancient Roman Empire. Why the fuck they're just sitting on that idea is beyond me.
skit_data
Member
Funny decision, because going all in on AC is probably what started their descent into an uninteresting publisher.
Personally I’ve started playing The Division 2 recently and I’m just so surprised that I barely hear about it because it’s actually pretty damn good outside of the atrocious loading times and sometimes vague mechanics/overwhelming amount of subsystems. Pretty wierd they haven’t released a dedicated next gen version because it sure would make the game a lot more enjoyable if fast traveling didn’t take 1-2 minutes.
Personally I’ve started playing The Division 2 recently and I’m just so surprised that I barely hear about it because it’s actually pretty damn good outside of the atrocious loading times and sometimes vague mechanics/overwhelming amount of subsystems. Pretty wierd they haven’t released a dedicated next gen version because it sure would make the game a lot more enjoyable if fast traveling didn’t take 1-2 minutes.
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Spaceman292
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There's never enough NFTs! We've got so many NFTs we need to make seven new AC games to fit them all in!
In all fairness all big publishers are concentrating only on their biggest franchises due to market contraction.
Difference is Konami didn't care for years about their IPs, Ubisoft keep pumping the same games, Valhalla came out in 2020, the only reason they don't do yearly realeases it's because making games takes more time
Lunarorbit
Gold Member
Damn! I'm an ass creed fan to some extent. Usually complaints about length, combat, and the overwhelming amount of icons on the map.
Very glad to hear the different directions they going in.
Very glad to hear the different directions they going in.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
This.
Badlucktroll
Member
Hopefully they do the same with Metal Gear and make a high quality AAA universe out of it.