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Why I’m Thankful That Connor Won’t Return in Assassin’s Creed IV

"The recent detail leak about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed IV has made a few things clear, first and foremost the new setting and most importantly the new lead character."

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jc485734073d ago

I kinda feel the same way. This character doesn't work? move on the next one.

Root4072d ago

They havent really moved onto the next one though have they...it's basicaly a AC3 prequel, not a sequel.

Theres no leap like what we saw with AC2 to AC3.

I mean Connor isn't in this one but he's still part of Haytham and Edward. So they havent really moved on

They should of set AC4 in London or Japan.

SideShort4072d ago

Yeah, I'd totally pass on the London concept.

Npugz74072d ago

Connor was the worst assassins character by far! Anything is better than him in my opinion!

jeeves864072d ago

You could play the entire game as Desmond. Would that be better?

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SaffronCurse4072d ago

Connor sucked, hope he never makes an appearance in this franchise again.

shivvy244072d ago

i liked connor but yea his story felt like it concluded with AC3

ArcanaEX4072d ago

Hold up, you guys are comparing Conner to Ezio, Altair? You can't do that! I loved Conner, I hated Revalations! So boring! Ezio was good in Brotherhood Because it was all about the creed, after that Revaluations just flipped the script. And im sure the next Assassin would be shit too, Admit it if you didn't play assassin's creed 3 you be scratching your head play AC4 going were the fuck is Desmond
So shut up and stop complaining you ignorant pricks.

TekoIie4072d ago

Riiiiight lets pretend that brilliant scene at the end of Revelations didnt happen...

Revelations has so far been the only Assassins creed to have a great all round story.

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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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thorstein53d 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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OtterX66d ago (Edited 66d 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

isarai66d 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?

Chocoburger65d 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.

porkChop66d 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_Sakai66d ago (Edited 66d ago )

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

darksky65d 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.

LucasRuinedChildhood65d ago (Edited 65d 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."

yeahokwhatever65d ago

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

senorfartcushion65d 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.

SyntheticForm66d ago

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

Yi-Long66d 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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