Assassin’s Creed Isn’t Really Taking A Year Off Anymore and I Couldn’t Be More Excited

Assassin's Creed has seen a new iteration release every year since 2009, but that pattern is ending this fall, well, sort of.

[Cy]

How anyone can still like this series baffles me. It's just a never ending parade of mediocre-at-best history primers, filled with revisionist history and overdone conspiracy storylines.

[DarXyde]

I stopped caring midway through Revelations. Felt like a chore getting through it. 2 and Brotherhood, in my opinion, will always be the pinnacle of the series.

[Cy]

The whole Ezio trilogy was the pinnacle of the series for me. I stuck with 3 because I liked the setting and I thought I'd actually be getting a conclusion to the story I'd been playing for five years, but I stopped halfway through Black Flag when I couldn't stand the awful writing and characters anymore. I haven't touched an AC game since.

[migh_and_highty]

Syndicate was pretty good tbf

[scark92]

I agree completely, Revelations was so hard to beat but I did it, 2 and brotherhood are also my favourites! 3 was ok, I enjoyed Black Flag quite a bit but I was so used to AC gameplay by then to fall in love with it. Have not played any Unity or Syndicate yet.

[Darkwatchman]

I could understand that someone could still like the series even though I don't, HOWEVER I don't understand how he is happy to have the same games every year and is happy for remasters this year when they're all so similar that they start to feel very samey.

Take that familiarity and now add in actual old games being brought back this year and this guy is happy after almost a decade straight of the same core game?

I'll use this and liken it to God of War series. The franchise is not annual, but there were 6 games and I love them all except Ascension. I think it's a great series, but that doesn't mean I wanted the new God of War to be more of the same. Despite my love for what God of war is, enough is enough. They're all essentially the same game. You'll use the same blades(with a different name) in every game and they all have the same combos in EVERY game except for Ascension where combat was changed ever so slightly. We already have 6 games of the same crap. We need something new now so I'm glad the new God of War is what it is. Different.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Syndicate is actually the only one I liked :3

[CrimsonWing69]

Dude you freaking said it, Ubisoft just stop already!

[vickers500]

Last one I played was 4. Really liked that one. They're good and fun games if you haven't played them in a while. I always buy them on sale. Just bought unity for 5 bucks used a couple of weeks ago, will get around to it eventually.

[starchild]

I've played most of them and I've enjoyed them. I love the gameplay mechanics and freedom of the games. I love the historical settings. And the stories are generally pretty interesting to me. I don't find the Assassin's Creed games to be any easier than 99% of other games out there (minus Dark Souls, Nioh and a few others). I've especially loved the stealth mechanics in Unity and Syndicate, as well as the customization options.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I don't play the Assassin's Creed series and I vaguely remember the first game when it first released.

I can completely understand why people play Assassin's Creed in enjoy it simply because we're all Gamers seriously buddy gaming is not something that's an absolute or objective, it is something that is subjective.

I may not like a lot of games but I'm fully aware why someone likes a game...

For you to question why people like a game that you don't is extremely self-centered, I mean you do know other people exist in the world besides you right?

[AbhishekGIS]

ma chuda apni bhene ke lode

[marioJP87]

A series that needs to see its end.

[sdcard4gb]

As quickly as possible.

[leahcim]

seriously

[starchild]

Or how about you just buy what you like and let us do the same?

How freaking arrogant and selfish to ask for a series to die just because you personally don't like it. What about the millions of us that do?

I've never understood this mentality some people have. I'm sure there are certain game series you enjoy that I think are crap, but I would never say they should cease to be made.

[fenome]

Exactly, I don't particularly care about AC or COD, but that doesn't mean I'm just going to bag on it. I'd rather focus on the games that I actually like than worry about the ones I don't.

People try to act like games are tailor-made just for them now. It's kinda funny sometimes, but mostly just sad and pathetic the rest of the time.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Completely 100% agreed have you seen the idiots on this site begging for series to disappear based on their own personal distaste?

What's funny is Assassin's Creed disappearing doesn't automatically even mean another series would take its place we've seen many intellectual properties disappear with nothing to fill the void or the team out right being closed down.

This is a situation where it's by what you like don't buy what you don't I see Zero reason to cry and complain about a titles existence simply because you don't like it that seems extremely strange arrogant and self-centered and that's a lot of people on this site.

Consider every single time remastered gets released one of the top whining tearful responses is that they've already played it , as if its sole existence was for them to play it a second time, never mind that Millions upon Millions have been played the title.

They are literally unable to discern that other people exist it's literally as if they have no idea that the purpose of its existence could also be for others to play it there simply only thinking about what they want.

Smh.

[Kaneki-Ken]

And Prince Of Persia need to make a comeback.

[R6ex]

I miss Elika!

[rezzah]

They just need to end where the last story left off with the new prince.

[Seafort]

I think Call of Duty needs to end ASAP doesn't mean it's going to happen.

I just think Assassin Creed has got stuck in a rut and I hope Ubisoft can pull the series out of it for their next game.

[Psychotica]

Why? Does it keep you awake at night?

[rezzah]

Watch Dogs is the end, but they sought more money and took the idea for the ending of AC and made a completely different game out of it.

Think about it, Watch Dogs is basically modern day AC without climbing.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I don't know if I could say all that I do believe that the series needs a bit of a reboot in order to jump-start enthusiasm about a new version because I believe they're making many versions concurrently and they're not having enough time to analyze previous versions to help fix the newer versions being created.

I don't know if something like Assassin's Creed could even have an end if you consider it doesn't really just have a singular story.

I mean you could have Assassin's Creed feudal Japan, Assassin's Creed Industrial Revolution, Assassin's Creed Ottoman Empire, Assassin's Creed Aztec or Mayan.

You could even have an Assassin's Creed with the Vikings or something in Scandinavia you have to realize the world is extremely diverse and being able to have a game set in a realistic time period With a fictional story is something that literally could go on forever.

Like I said because it's not really a singular story I'm not sure it would matter if the series continued in different areas and time periods. ie Assassin's Creed medieval plague lol

But I do believe that the series needs a bit of overhaul and a little time in between some of the developments to allow for new features to be implemented. By the time in Assassin's Creed is finished and released and in consumers hands another version had already been in development for at least 2 to 3 years which doesn't even give them enough time to change really anything based on user feedback of the current game.

[sdcard4gb]

Stupid person.
Watcha gonna do ? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[NecoTehSergal]

I stopped caring for the series after AC2 ended and my attachment to Ezio had ended. I can't really imagine anyone else falling for 'another' assassin after what they had done with Ezio, albeit, I'm an Altair > Ezio kinda guy, AC1 had such a unique take and was a mystery and when I beat the game I had to go into a brainstorming mind-gasm of what the secret ending meant and had predicted the bleeding effect long before it was discussed - I was incredibly happy and pleased as a fan of the series.

But now....it's just CODified and they milked it, I had 100%'d the games up until they kept adding Multiplayer elements and Multiplayer trophies and all that crap. Now I have absolutely no care for the series, they lost me. I was one of the original people who helped make the first game viral by the Secret-Service websites they launched to spread the word for prizes. Most users in the sites got the game for free and cool swag like AC sweaters, t-shirts, games, and the top prizes like Sony VAIO laptops, surround sound speakers. We were merely a few thousand doing it but it was fun, good times. 1191AD and Live by the Creed, representing - but long gone.

[Haru]

Exactly! AC1 was so special and AC2 was even better and the story plot was so good too, such a pitty to see such a great serie turning into a clusterf**k mess.. :/

[NecoTehSergal]

AC1 was of course, the most archaic, the most brown, the most repetitive - am sure 'Disagrees' on my post are from those types of people.

AC1 had the best story and character development. The game was harder to really get into but the ending made it all worth it, the story of an arrogant character, who we begun playing as a flawed asshole who matured alongside with us to become the noble character he was. Ezio was a more fleshed out character and given to us literally from birth to give us a faster, easier bond, though to me it was a bit forced - but, not like it's something I can negatively critique objectively. Altair's growth was more interesting to me, the games also were more capable of easing people in and giving us more to do.

I'd have enjoyed a continuation of Altair, or a prequel that isn't a side-story or portable-game.

[SonyStyled]

I have only played AC1 and 2, with the exception of Black Flag last year. Although BF is not a 'Creed' game, you are skipping out on a fantastic experience. I love tropical ecology and just couldn't get enough of it

[NecoTehSergal]

I actually had played Black Flag too. The ship combat was definitely the best part, I destroyed all the major ships, was one of the titles I got on PS4 at launch. Sea shanties were the best, I just couldn't care about the 'lineage' of the characters, and how they craptastically handled the ending, and Blackbeard. I envisioned an angry scenario of him being captured and Blackbeard hung as we try to rescue him or the like. Instead it simply was - he died, 5 seconds of sadness from the main character and we sorta stop talking about him. I expected more from someone as notorious and huge as Blackbeard, they fucked up that character big time.

[guyjean]

gotta keep milking the cow

[DillyDilly]

I'm surprised we did not get a typical game but based on the movie

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Ubisoft gonna Ubi

[Count_Bakula]

They turned the game into an arcade hack-and-slash, giving lame health bars to even low tier enemies as you swing away at bare skin and cloth. At least before the combat was somewhat realistic from a damage standpoint. It was easy, sure, once you got into the swing of things, but if that's a problem don't play the damn game or enjoy the story. Or, add two combat modes, one with lame health bars and the other with the old combat. Until they bring back the chaining combat from before (last true form of it was Flag and Rogue I think), I'm done.

[sullynathan]

Ass creed combat was never somewhat realistic. When 5 people fight one person, they don't take turns. You had the whole health regen after every fight.

Chaining combat just made the already easy combat to be a one button win game.

[starchild]

That's not true. I don't find the difficulty to be much different than most AAA games. I die here and there just as in the majority of games.

As for realism, well, that's an "issue" with games in general. Although, really it's not an issue. Games are designed to be fun to play, not act as reality simulators. I mean, you're not going to tell me Uncharted's gunplay is realistic are you?

[sullynathan]

if you actually die in any Ass Creed game then you must be pretty bad in video games. I will somewhat excuse it if it was the first game because the first game was clunky and arguably the worst Ass Creed game. Since Brotherhood, all you had to do was kill the first enemy then chain/insta kill every single other enemy that wasn't a captain.

It was easy, it was really easy and was an example of the wrong things to do with a AAA action game.

[TheUndertaker85]

@sullynathan: Your comment shows you didn't care enough to play past Brotherhood then insist you know exactly how the newer titles play and fare.

Having multiple other ships attacking your one ship, particularly in the early stages of Black Flag is almost certain death. Even having your ship go against multiple Man-O-Wars requires one to have a good sense of how their ship works.

[sullynathan]

you're right, since brotherhood the only other Ass Creed I played was syndicate. I still don't know how the ship parts of black flags refute my comment.

[starchild]

@sullynathan
"you must be pretty bad in video games."

Actually, no I'm not. I've beaten many of the games known for their difficulty (Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden series, SoulsBorne games, Nioh demos, etc), but I stand by what I said: Assassin's Creed is no more casual or easy than the vast majority of games these days.

I don't die a lot in the Assassin's Creed games, but I don't die any less than I do in games like Uncharted, Batman Arkham Knight, Mass Effect, etc.

[sullynathan]

Ass Creed is objectively easier than all those games because it requires little participation from the player for its gameplay and it's AI does not punish the player heavily.

For example, in combat, more than one enemy will ever attack you. Killing just one enemy will open you up to insta-kill every other enemy around.

Now outside of combat again, the game isn't challenging. Ass Creed's platforming and free-roaming is mostly automated with the press of two buttons. Hold rt & A and you keep moving on and on in the game. The free roaming doesn't require though or the combinations of anything except holding rt+A. You also have no traps or enemies during the platforming that keeps you on edge and with its checkpoint system, it means you will always respawn very close to where you died. This formula is very contrary to what Ass Creed's predecessor, the 3D prince of persia games did and those games did the platforming and combat better than Ass Creed.

So from this it is far more easy than all the four games you mentioned. There are no difficulty settings in the series but unlike games that don't have difficulty settings the game poses no consistent challenge throughout the game. Combat is not engaging and free-roaming is automatic. Ass Creed doesn't have the satisfying combat, combos, level design, bosses or stealth of the Arkham games. It's platforming is even easier than Uncharted's while it doesn't get as challenging as say ME3 on its hardest difficulty.

The only time you would die outside of combat, is if you jumped from a high building to the ground. This is understandable for pretty much any game with platforming, but is still rare in Ass Creed because the platforming isn't challenging and doesn't require much thought nor does it have much creativity.

If you died in combat on the other hand, you probably didn't care or were just new or bad because the AI is very forgiving.

[phantomexe]

I still love the series in fact its right up there with uncharted for me. My man cave is decked out in AC stuff. Were talking todd mcfarland action figures posters some novels. Connors axe is on the wall with altir dagger. AC is bigger then any one game. I know alot of people who enjoy it just as much as I do and its not like ubisoft makes you buy them. People enjoy the lore and history tied to the games. I want the story to continue and I know there are lots of others that do as well.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

A lot of whiny, self-righteous people in the comments, I see.

[SilverClock]

Thanks for adding something productive to the conversation bro. /sarcasm

[starchild]

His comment was more accurate and had more relevance than most of the stupid hipster comments in here.

[SilverClock]

His comment strictly put down other people without adding anything productive to the conversation. I stand by what I said 100%.

[DragonPaw]

Whining about whining. You must disagree. Instead disagree and leave out the whine.

[SilverClock]

Edit: Wrong person ignore this message.

[WellyUK]

ah yes the traditional AC haters are out in force again...

[The7Reaper]

They say they hate the game but still click on articles about the game their idiotic logic is just shocking.

[Artemidorus]

Charge the millennials 500 for a regular copy and 500 for the season pass.

Make them pay a premium for supporting cancerous gaming.

[Pandamobile]

You've got a serious stick up your ass about millennials . You seem complain about them and blame the ills of the industry on them in most of your comments. What gives, old man? Where did they hurt you?

[Artemidorus]

You are seeing yearly repeats instead of fresh new ideas from time to time.

As I said they should now consider a large premium to people who support it.

[ShaunCameron]

What's so cancerous about Assassin's Creed?

[Artemidorus]

Repeats after repeats graphics almost the same with small differences.

Gameplay almost the same with little bita added.

Multiplayer has changes but almost the same for some years.

500 for game 500 season pass.

[Ristul]

Prepare for glitchy AC games galore! ;)

[Phoenix76]

I lost interest after #3 rather than bring the whole story to a close with both Desmond and Minerva, they have dragged It out now so much, I don't even think they (ubisoft) know what they doing with it now. Shame

[Ken85]

The AC games are great. 3 and Unity are the only ones that have a dip in quality imo. People love to hate the series though.

[Zarock]

What happened to the original Alien race story now If they go back to those days It would make the series Instresting again.

[jay2]

What a load of rubbish it's a probably crap HD port of ancient games you can pick up for a tenner

[Red_Renegade]

making the game yearly is a bad idea.

[SilverClock]

R.I.P. Desmond and Ezio. My love of the series died with you.

[Automatic79]

I loved Black flag

[TheColbertinator]

I miss AC but Ubisoft needs to rethink its delivery. On the other hand I'd like to see Prince of Persia again

[MetroidFREAK21]

I've only played AC:Unity... And it's an alright game... Nothing too special about it. The game plays and looks good. 8/10

[Nathan_Hale53]

Don't get this series. 4 was good, but before that, Brotherhood, II, and I are the only ones worth to play. They need to quit milking the series.

[SlightlyRetarted]

Bad level design, bad stealth mechanics, bad mission design, bad combat, ton of bugs, modern day story line that has been stretched over million games. Casual AF game series that gets milked every year. Ezio trilogy was fun because of the setting, overall mystery of Precursors and their items, Assassins vaults and history, and Ezio and other characters. Black Flags boat stuff was fun too.

[PGRfox]

Yawn!

[R6ex]

Why did you have to kill off Elise?! :(

[Section8]

I don't know if we'll see a creed game next year. There was an interview with the CEO the other day and now they're changing it to, when it's ready. But we most likely might see it next year.

[neutralgamer1992]

time for a complete reboot and have a vision of a trilogy

story focused with much more improved/varied gameplay

we can all agree the story in AC games started with potential and towards the end even UBI didn't know neither cared

do like mass effect,halo and god of war

make one trilogy with couple of spin offs than rest for few years than another trilogy

[DragonPaw]

I'm a fan of historical fiction, whether it is books or in Assassin's Creed. I have been ProCreed since AC2. I don't care if they flounder to find a concept or fail with some. The idea of seeing part of history unseen but with our imaginations, is what makes me a solid follower of this series. Aside from their over ambitious Unity (our consoles could not handle it), I have found respect for Ubisoft in their way of bringing us to a past that is hard to envision.

Historical fiction is a great tool in understanding and respecting our ancestors. Understand that they are trying to recreate the lives of whom are directly related to many of our own. Do you not wonder about whom you came from? I do. Assassin's Creed has given us open worlds to see what our ancestors saw. It may not be perfect, but even memory is not perfect. I respect their endeavor.

[Warshade]

Here is hoping the next game makes the franchise feel fresh again. Also focus on telling an insane epic bad-ass plot. I can take or leave the history stuff.

[The7Reaper]

Why do people say this series needs to end? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean other people don't, quit trying to speak for the masses I don't like GTA but I don't go protesting for it to end if you don't like the series why even click on news about the series then?

[SilverClock]

What baffles my mind even more is people that expect other people to stay quiet when they see a series they once loved driven into the ground! As if people disagreeing with other people on the internet was like some brand new thing that shouldn't ever happen. God forbid.

[kingjames18]

Blackflag was the last one I played to completion. Couldn't get into the one with the brother and sister combo I tried and it just got boring. It was better than the one in Paris though but not by much.

[quent]

I think a lot of us have become immune to the hype train following the whole NMS debacle, if they elevate the game above anything hire then a collectathon or go there stab that or postal worker, then maybe it will get deserved attention, I'm passed pretty looking visuals and millions going into marketing to hype shallow lackluster, unoriginal annual cash ins.

[saimcheeda]

Last good game was Assassin's Creed IV. Last good story was Revelations. Hope they find their footing back for the next game!

[Nosferatu_Zodd]

AC for life

[windblowsagain]

I enjoyed the original, played some of the second game, but got bored with it.

Picked up Black Flag and although I enjoyed the ship fighting, I again got bored with it.

I won't ever be touching a AC game again.

On a side note, We need new AAA games, new experiences.

[Aquacure]

At this point it seems to me that Ubi is purposely leaving things out of the game just to make a future game. It took a while but I was done during Revelations, I just hadn't realized it. I bought III, but the colonial style houses threw me off. In this more modern world of hammers, wood and nails there was a disconnect with this guy parkouring to get to the top, so I tried walking around to places and it was hella boring. Then on top of that I hit a game breaking glitch VERY early in the game (something dealing with horse drawn wagons) and wound up taking this thing to 2nd & Charles. Honestly I would give it a try again if they set it in feudal Japan, then it would be like a more modernized version of one of my sleeper hit favorites on the PlayStation, Tenchu. They both have stealth, roof running, raining death from above, mostly melee while having crude firepower at times. But it's hard to believe that this wouldn't have come up somewhere in Ubi's meetings so they probably won't do it, so yeah......done.

[PersonMan]

Assassin's Creed 3 was the best game for me. I know a lot of people hated it, but I loved it.

[Sion8626]

I LOVE the AC series but it needed a break and im happy to wait and let them figure out how to push the series forward. Syndicate was amazing and a step in the right direction. I want Ubisoft to take its time and figure out things as far as the gameplay and story are concerned. Ill be happy to give them my money for a quality release.

[formanbradley]

They're so amazing that you are always bored of it by the time the next one releases (less than a year). Exactly like CoD

[hirobrotagonist]

The first two Ezio games were good and the first game in the series was ok for what it was. The pirate stuff in Black Flag was mostly amazing, but mostly this series is just garbage and it's overplayed and overdone.