Assassin's Creed: Origins Will Be A Fresh Start For The Franchise

Assassin's Creed: Origins will be a fresh start for the franchise, and the start of something gamers will fall in love with all over again.

[-Foxtrot]

If it was it would be a reboot so we can start fresh for real

[FullmetalRoyale]

Yeah, I got sick of seeing that modern British guy, and that girl a few games ago. I just don't find the story compelling. I would definitely be for a fresh start, or at least a different story arch.

[andrewsquall]

I think just having a fresh NEXT GEN engine built from the ground up a second time after the first marketing parity engine disaster would be good enough. :)

[_-EDMIX-_]

and you know its not how?

[crazychris4124]

Hopefully they dont screw it up. Havent played an AC game since Black Flag

[RuleNumber5]

Loooved Black Flag. So good.

[Nitrowolf2]

I think part of the reason why black flags was so good was because it wasn't really an assassin game, but more of a pirate game.

It's in my favorites everything else after that fell short with me but at the same time those one stayed more true to the idea that you're an assassin

[ziggurcat]

Syndicate is actually good.

[jmetalhead77812]

I agree. Enjoyed that game very much

[AnubisG]

Just my opinion but I think it was bad. Maybe has to do with the fact that Victorian London is a setting that I find highly repulsive.

[ziggurcat]

@anubis: what's repulsive about that setting?

[MatrixxGT]

I've heard it's pretty good but haven't tried it. I stopped at black flag. I think by time syndicate came out gamers still felt burned out on the series especially after horror stories of Unity.

[andrewsquall]

Syndicate is great but was still built on the awful foundations and engine of Unity which is what still holds it back. It really did have amazing likeable characters throughout though. I hated EVERYBODY in Unity including the main character who somehow completely forgot his father was killed only a few years earlier.

[starchild]

@andrewsquall

What are you talking about? Syndicate looks amazing, is stable and solid, very few glitches, etc. Nothing wrong with it. At least not the PC version I played through. I also rented it for my PS4 too and it seemed pretty solid. No real issues to speak of, although I only played through a smaller part of it.

I liked the characters and story, the gameplay improvements, the customization and the setting. Overall I had quite a lot of fun with it.

[ziggurcat]

@squall: Actually Syndicate had far fewer issues than Unity had - I think mostly because they cut MP completely out of the picture, and kept it entirely single player.

[Glak18]

Easiest ways Ubisoft could screw up Assassin's Creed even more:

1) Have every AC protagonist from past games together in one game like a lame Assassin Squad
2) Turn the game into a drop in/out multiplayer game with a large map and pointless missions to gain XP
3) Include an in-game store that allows you to "rank up" your Assassin

The trifecta of crap.

[pinkcrocodile75]

@Glak18 - This was a stupid post but I thought I might as well see if I can beat it;

4) Have a Japanese Studio develop it
5) Have a Zombie mode (It made Call of Duty a waste of space)
6) Sell it to Activision (they poison the soul - if there is such a thing - of everything they touch)
7) Have it run at 60fps (such a bad idea)
8) Have an ftm AND mtf transgender couple at the heart of the story (the silly homophobes on this site would have a heart attack - mind you that might be fun to see happen - still it's a shite idea for an AC game - we should stick to history afterall)

Now all that said, I love AC and bought them all. I will support Ubisoft and AC: Origins and with their new mantra "it'll release when it's ready and not before" I think it's fantastic. Anyone who bitched about quality of Unity should have nothing to say about this.

[DarXyde]

"Anyone who bitched about quality of Unity should have nothing to say about this."

The operative term being "should". There are plenty of companies who've done a lot of wrong by consumers and Ubisoft is no angel. I've retired from Assassin's Creed a while ago (after Revelations, which I really didn't care for; II and Brotherhood are my favorites), but I can understand people still willing to give these games a chance and having high expectations.

They say they won't release it before it's ready, but I find that to be a very difficult promise to keep if you're Ubisoft, Activision, or even Capcom. It's generally the smaller developers with tempered expectations that can deliver on that.

I suppose we'll see.

[andibandit]

hmm a japanese studio, I just cant imagine AC with a child protagonist.

[pinkcrocodile75]

@andibandit

I know, I don't know what is it with the dangerous line the Japanese take on (in my view) way to young characters in adult plot points. In any other country a lot of the imagery would be banned or at the very least have a parental warning slapped on it.

Assassins Creed is European through and through and you are bob on with a much older protagonist

[pwnsause_returns]

making a game out of it....every year....

[dilbig5]

When there was no other game like it though. And still isn't.

[jrshankill]

The IP has been beaten to death. Why people still care about Ubisoft is beyond me.

[pinkcrocodile75]

OK, I'll tell you since you can't bothered to read.

I love the story, the exploration of period set pieces and while it has had issues with mechanics etc, that has never been an deal breaker for me. Yes the issues were irritating but I'm not a short fused teenage idiot, so I put it on the back burner until they updated it.

Its the experience which I love.

As for Ubisoft, they have AC:O, FC5, SP:TFBH this financial year and I loved all their predecessors.

Now Bungie? They can kiss my arse

[BlakHavoc]

Let's see how much they've changed, I'm only gonna be interested if they got rid of the eavesdropping and trailing missions. Haven't played an AC game since BF but I must admit that it has peaked my interest.

[J-DARKnes]

Thr only way I'll buy this is if they get rid of the stupid eavesdropping missions and no MP.

[ClayRules2012]

I hope we'll be shown a demo at E3 or at least a trailer of in-game footage. Not some CGI trailer...

[KryptonKronos]

I actually really like AC Syndicate, it just got over shadowed because of how bad Unity was. My favourite AC game is surprisingly AC Rogue, the story was just so superior to the rest and the main character was actually someone i invested my time in.

[FullmetalRoyale]

Rogue sounded so cool to me, I just never played it because I had left last gen behind already. But even after platinuming Black Flag, I wanted to play Rogue for more of that naval combat.

[Aloren]

Unity wasn't "bad". It wasn't ready when it came out, and probably too ambitious graphically, but after a few patches, it was a pretty decent AC game. I'd say the assassinations in Unity had a classic AC vibe that was pretty enjoyable.

[Goldby]

With ubisoft's shift towards live games I highly doubt it will be the sp game everyone is hoping for.

Be prepared for Mt galor

[ASBO-5]

Seriously why are they still making AC games?

[CandarianGaming]

Not that they are all bad but should have ended the series after brotherhood

[Yi-Long]

Would be nice if they could leave out all the sci-fi crap from now on...

[classic19]

Assassin creed 2 hands down the best out the series for me following by black flag and ac3.

[showtimefolks]

Ubi I don't trust your words prove it

A lot of big empty promises

Say what gamers want to hear than downgrade or deliver the same Repetitive Gameplay and quests

[MrCrabPuss]

"Assassins Milk Run"

[Inzo]

It will be an RPG which would suck as RPGs are flooding the genre space at the moment.

[The_Kills]

Doesn't need to be a fresh start, why would they need to start from nothing. Take all the best things from the others, discard the nonsense most critics agree on, then multiply the amount of best things by doubling the amount of the bad aspects they discard, and we're good.