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Assassin’s Creed 4: When & Where To Next? The Future of Assassin’s Creed: Caution! Spoilers ahead

OXCGN:

"The big problem with a history-based series is that you have to match the known historical data with your own story.

This spawns a great many creative boundaries for a game developer.

But the Assassin’s Creed universe has a ready-made invented historic period that they could cover in Assassin’s Creed 4 that could be based on our ancient societies and architecture, but hand complete freedom to the developer."

BadCircuit4163d ago

That would make a pretty cool game, but I bet they aren't quite brave enough to do it yet.

iamnsuperman4163d ago

I do not think it will work. The one thing (lets say "mission" statement) of the AC series is to go to places in history that isn't usually explored. I think the first civilisation would be cool but goes against that "mission statement". I see it staying in Europe if it is in the historic past as Europe ruled the world.

I think French revolution or industrial London could work. Again there are many time periods that can work and fit within the AC universe. I suspect it will be finding the other pieces of Eden to start another revolution

gaminoz4163d ago

SPOILER!

But wouldn't it be a shame if they've built this great backstory and ended with the conflict between Juno and Minerva and then not go there?

How can you build up to the end of the world and then suddenly go back to finding apples of Eden or whatever? For what reason? Another end of the world?

iamnsuperman4163d ago (Edited 4163d ago )

@gaminoz

I agree it would be but where could they realistically go.

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They have set up the big fight with Juno and how the Assassins need to fight her as it was their only option. They know that the Pieces of Eden (or what ever they are called) were used to over throw the ones that came before before and so history is kind of repeating itself. The could go there to see how they did it but they all ready know combining the pieces makes a bigger weapon.

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Nimblest-Assassin4162d ago (Edited 4162d ago )

I don't think you will get a full game that goes to FC times, but rather your going to get bits and pieces in each upcoming game.

I mean, I though AC3 would take place only in current times, and I was wrong

My theory is that the future character will be a descendant of eve, as only those interbred with the FC are immune to the POE's.

And you will go through different memories throughout history learning about the FC, and how they lost the war... but there will not be a full game about it

Beastforlifenoob4162d ago

There will be no Assasins creed III, Im pretty sure thats what the developers said... Too bad so sad

Scotty0564162d ago

No, they said Desmond's story loop is over. They're open to more games as long as there is a demand and they have ideas. However they said it'd only be a few more games.

ATi_Elite4162d ago

Egypt and the time of the Pharaohs of Course!

Would love to do some dives off the Pyramids!

NukaCola4162d ago

Prince of Persia....Aladdin...

gaminoz4163d ago

I like it, but think we'll get another Connor one first.

DeusExer4163d ago

I'm not too sure about that.

AC3 dealt with a fair chunk of Connor's life, and it seems like he has already completed the most important parts of his story.

But then again, Ubi could always make up some further narrative.

I think his decreased popularity will not see him back.
Also, how can we have another Connor game with the ending to AC3?

iamnsuperman4163d ago (Edited 4163d ago )

Well the biggest problem is that (like you said)

[SPOILERS}

Desmond is dead. SO how can they realistically use Connor again unless they use another relative but that just seems to coincidental and also a lame story mechanic. Like the old you have destroyed the biggest bag guy ever only to have a new even worse enemy to appear all of a sudden

[SPOILERS]

I agree he will not be back due to his unpopularity

Paris994163d ago

The way they could get him back is to have someone "hack" the Animus and explore its memory banks or some such nonsense.

That's why you can still 'play' the memories of Connor in the game even after SPOILER Desmond is dead.

They can always explain anything away...

gaminoz4163d ago

Connor could lead into the French Revolution, but they'd have to develop his character a bit beyond "I'm for my people and for freedom and a big grouch".

He needs more personality.

claud34163d ago

That would work on so many levels

Paris994163d ago

Hope the multi-player improves with its maps and characters!

gaminoz4163d ago

Agree: I love the Revelation maps way more.

Nimblest-Assassin4162d ago

Free roam ala Red dead would be awesome in an AC game

Proeliator4163d ago

We're gonna have a comment war because people are going to refer to a single thing without stating it, and everyone will say "Your idea sucks!"

On topic: I like the idea of the French Revolution. Maybe do it in a Brotherhood-style sequel in a year or two?

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein45d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX59d ago (Edited 59d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai59d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger57d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop58d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky58d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever57d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion57d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm58d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long58d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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