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Assassin's Creed IV: Modern Day Missions - New Faces, Old Faces and Locations

Assassin's Creed IV is coming very soon. The series always features modern day missions, details have emrged about what these will be like. Find out inside.

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ShugaCane3918d ago

No please, no Desmond. No cameo, no flash back, no additionnal costume, no relative to Desmond. No Desmond's father, mother, uncle, aunt, son, whatever. Please. ENOUGH with Desmond.

Lwhit63918d ago

Haha problem solved, Desmonds dead. It's all about you now.

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CrossingEden3918d ago

yes, let's just not mention the MAIN CHARACTER whatsoever -_-

phantomexe3918d ago

Yea but the hardcore AC fans will want to know whats going on in the AC universe. I'm cool with jumping to present time and there being alot of that lore. I don't care for desmond ether but theres more to the AC universe then just desmond or the games. The book and comics play right along with the games.The game needs to stay true to AC not just be a pirate game.

levian3918d ago

I was kind of sad with how they ended AC3, after all the training Desmond went through, it felt like such a waste! But oh well, what's done is done. They'll probably continue with Desmond's father because Desmond was connected with the artifacts and all

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Axonometri3918d ago

Mention Desmond to tie in... Fine. Playing or making Desmond major part, he'll no. This is about pirates. And pirates is why it's my #1 buy this holiday season. Please keep it about pirates and new characters.

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Lwhit63918d ago

The great thing about this game is that the "pirate-people" can go ham on their ships while the people who fell in love with ac2 can get back to good old assassins creed.

rigbybot1273918d ago

This is looking to be the best since Brotherhood, and possibly the best in the series. Bring it on, Ubisoft, and while you're at it, Watch Dogs, as well. You already hold a monopoly on my wallet, you sick puppies, you.

Master-H3918d ago

I hate the modern day segments , only time they were tolerable i think was in brotherhood , if i wanted to play a modern day assassin's creed i will buy Watch Dogs .

LucasEVille3918d ago

The most modern moment I would want is a WW2 assassin... I "dislike" the Desmond moments as much as the next AC fan but will put up with them if it explains more about the lore.

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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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thorstein54d 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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OtterX68d ago (Edited 68d 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

isarai68d 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?

Chocoburger67d 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.

porkChop68d 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_Sakai68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

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

darksky67d 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.

LucasRuinedChildhood67d ago (Edited 67d 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."

yeahokwhatever67d ago

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

senorfartcushion67d 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.

SyntheticForm68d ago

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

Yi-Long68d 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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