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Assassin’s Creed 4 is Really About Pirates: OXCGN Gets it Right Again

OXCGN:

"For those of you who don’t know, we at OXCGN are arguably the biggest Assassin’s Creed fans out there.

Most of our most-viewed articles of all time are in some way connected to Assassin’s Creed.

Ever since 2007 when we began, David Hilton — OXCGN’s resident old person — has been been conjecturing and offering guesses as to where the next games in the series will go. Nearly every single time, has has been right.

With the most recent rumors circulating about Assassin’s Creed 4 (or whatever it will be called) being pirate-themed, we bring you the final piece of the puzzle."

Proeliator4073d ago

Not too sure about this. Naval battles were fun... but an entire game?

This site's been right in the past, so we'll see

Root4073d ago (Edited 4073d ago )

I know right, they should just use the naval stuff they learnt in AC3 to make a new IP out of.

We haven't had a good Pirate game why didn't they just make a new franchise.

Besides if this is going to feature Haythams father, a prequel to AC3, then why call it Assassin Creed 4.

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Why continue the game using Desmond when he's dead...they said the trilogy was his story and they told it. So why go back to one of his ancestors..

AC4 should of been the start of a new trilogy with a new character. This character should of been the descendent of Eve.

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@Below

Well thats the thing, they might not feature him but a whole game just based in the past with no break where we come out of the animus and do something in the present to change things up...would seem a bit too much for me. Plus Desmond is connected to Haytham and Connor so he's connected to Haythams dad aswell. I mean if it was called AC3: Black Flags then fair enough it's still part of Desmonds trilogy.

BadCircuit4073d ago

Surely Desmond won't feature! That would suck.

gaminoz4073d ago

Pirates are always fun if done right. The RPG games that have attempted it recently have had faults...mainly too much questing, not enough action!

I still think back with fondness to Legend of Black Kat last gen.

I do agree this should be a new franchise offshoot, not AC4 though.

Proeliator4073d ago

well, people have been itching for a good pirate game...

BadCircuit4073d ago

I think it will work and be a good game to feature on both sets of generation consoles.

The next big one will probably be 5, and this one will just work on what they did with the ships from 3.

broli40004073d ago

I could see it working out for them. Ubisoft does a good job with their games and while naval warfare can be a little boring, I can see the fights being especially fun.

I don't see them going that way though.

BadCircuit4073d ago

I hope you attack forts and get to land and do more than dancing a la Sid Meyer's Pirates!

gaminoz4073d ago

I sucked at dancing!

I would love being able to explore and settle places like with the frontier part of ACIII. Build a settlement, fight on sea and shoot at forts, and explore ruins in the jungle.

NewJersian4073d ago

If they decide to go Pirates, I'm sure they will put their best foot forward. It's not like Ubisoft is gonna be like "lets make a half-assed game. It feels like they should have gone in a different direction rather than the next Assassins Creed. Only time will tell

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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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thorstein51d 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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OtterX65d ago (Edited 65d 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

isarai65d 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?

Chocoburger64d 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.

porkChop64d 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_Sakai64d ago (Edited 64d ago )

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

darksky64d 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.

LucasRuinedChildhood64d ago (Edited 64d 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."

yeahokwhatever64d ago

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

senorfartcushion63d 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.

SyntheticForm64d ago

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

Yi-Long64d 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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