Assassin's Creed Shadows Is 5 Years Too Late

The Nerd Stash: "Ubisoft is finally bringing players to Japan with Assassin's Creed Shadows, but this samurai/ninja epic might arrive too late."

[-Foxtrot]

More like 12 year...people have been going on about Japan or China since after Assassins Creed 3

Hell I even remember seeing people talk about it before Brotherhood or Revelations came out.

Ubisoft ignored people for over a decade and clearly decided to do it once they saw how successful games like Ghost of Tsushima become.

[isarai]

Well, the funny thing is in the very first game once you unlock the eagle vision outside the Animus, people deciphered the writing on the wall and it gave a lot of hints to China and japan being the next or one of the next locations. And now they only do it when someone else already did it for them, and better imo.

Hell one of the directors literally addressed people's demands to.follow through on the hints the game had, and blatantly said they will never have an AC set in that location.

Me and my friends called it while playing GoT, like "i bet Ubisoft announces an AC game set in China or Japan now" and they announce TWO 🤣

[Inverno]

The creators had plans for this series which where put on hold indefinitely for the milking Ubi had planned. Pretty sure they were gonna take this to Japan after 2, but then focused on Ezio. Which is why the modern day stuff fell apart too.

[notachance]

They know it was heavily requested so they kept it as a trump card while milking the series until it was dry. GoT finally snapped their eyes open but since you can't just release a game on the spot it takes them this long for a catch up game.

Idk how successful it will be though, with all the controversies surrounding it, either about the race stuff or ubisoft bad practices in general.

[-Foxtrot]

Sad thing is rumour has it that the preorder sales are "very strong"

It's like people don't give a shit about Ubisofts shitty anti consumer practices.

[notachance]

seriously, with only a CGI trailer?

even the forced online to install from disc stuff didn’t deter people from preordering it? I guess they are comfortable with not owning their games indeed. $70 rental holy sh*t..

[victorMaje]

I fear there’s a growing amount of gamers that doesn’t know any better or have been conditioned to not care.
They just want the next toy to fiddle with & stream their playthrough online. I hope I’m wrong.

[-Foxtrot]

@notachance

Yeah I was thinking the same, we've only had a CGI trailer and people have gone to preorder despite all the shit Ubisoft has done over the years along with their out of touch comments.

Even when this was teased and was on the GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, if you said anything bad about Ubisoft or the game you're downvoted to oblivion. It's crazy.

[Dirtnapstor]

Such a tired argument imo. This "race stuff"? Because the game is not expected to historically accurate, there are some narrative liberties taken. People need to chill out. Ubi should just amend the character build to allow for a male Japanese character, then the naysayers will be appeased.
Also to those who still cling to "anti-consumer" nonsense... Why won't you just wait it out then? The game will go on sale, then you won't feel like you spent your week's paycheck for 100 hours of entertainment.
People expect everything on the cheap. You may not like Ubisoft as a business, but it's a business. The slight is ridiculous considering what the Devs provide for us.

[victorMaje]

Exactly. Ghost of Tsushima scratched that itch & then some.
Thing is Sucker Punch focused on making a great game, Ubisoft’s focus is probably once anything but.

[CrimsonWing69]

Better late than never. I haven’t been into an Ass Creed game since Black Flag and I only liked the non-Ass Creed parts of that game. This one will be the first I’ve played since Unity, which killed any interest I had with the series,

[jznrpg]

Black Flag was a lot of fun for half of the game. But they had those stupid follow the guy missions that really broke the flow of the game and the fun. Rayman was a great too. But I haven’t wanted to play an UbiSoft game for many years and they are making it so I don’t

[DarXyde]

I gave up after Revelations. You've gotten much deeper into the lore than I have, that's certain. Loved 2, but after Revelations, I wasn't willing to give any new entries since a chance.

They might be good games, but you can't play them all, I guess.

[Friendlygamer]

Nah, tsushima is all countryside and beach and sekiro and nioh are fantasy, a more urban feudal japan setting is fresh. Besides we get a new European medieval game every 10 minutes, why can't multiple companies do Japan ? I would love onimusha, tenchu and way of the samurai to come back.

I hate the idea of a gaming company 'owning' a setting, I want more high budget cowboy games besides red dead !!!!

[neutralgamer1992]

Ghost of Tsushima has set a high bar for games in the vein of Assassin’s Creed. While having more options is generally beneficial, Ubisoft seems to struggle with their direction, which can sometimes undermine those benefits. If it was not for the success of Tsushima I don’t think we would ever get assassin Creed game in Japan. Even now sucker punch are a much much smarter team of developers that did Tsushima And now we have Ubisoft who have 15 studios helping making one game

Games like Ghost of Tsushima, Nioh, and Sekiro stand out because they focus on gameplay and setting without the burden of microtransactions or mandatory online connections for single-player content. They prioritize quality over quantity, something Ubisoft could learn from.

The upcoming Assassin’s Creed game will inevitably be compared to its predecessors and other high-quality titles. It needs to meet or exceed these quality standards. We don’t need another 80-100 hour marathon; we need content that offers a compelling and engaging experience.

Instead of criticizing other companies for excelling, we should encourage Ubisoft to elevate their standards. No single company owns a setting or genre, but the quality of some releases naturally sets a benchmark for others. Let’s push for better quality from Ubisoft rather than lowering our expectations

[Good-Smurf]

Pretty much, I hate that if its western devs ARPG they either go middle ages knights and dragons castle town brown looking or its in sci-fi soap opera.
Please branch out for once ffs.

[chicken_in_the_corn]

Why release it at a time when the setting is so common? Releasing it now lets it stand out more.

[Samonuske]

Damn imagine having more than 1 game in a similar setting. Could never be me.

[Knightofelemia]

Should have made the game earlier then the AC burn out would not be there. I considered preordering the game but like I said I am burned out on AC games. Odyssey was the last one I enjoyed besides Rogue, Black Flag, and Ezio.

[Chocoburger]

Too late is right, but not for the reasons you thought it was.

Its actually because the series is terrible now, and I would have appreciated a Japanese setting back before the series was so focused on being a grindy filler sloppy borefest.

Too little, too late, Ubi-junk!

[Makersbreath2]

I think it was always their plan to keep pumping out assassins creed games until interest started to erode and they saturated the market with enough titles then release a Japanese setting to reinvigorate interest since it’s what everyone wanted.
Don’t know if it’ll work. Can’t say I’m a fan of trying to manipulate consumers so blatantly.

[GhostScholar]

I disagree. I can’t wait for it. There hasn’t been one bad ac game in my opinion. Even unity was good after being fixed.

[ElaBosak]

Hell yeah

[ZeekQuattro]

I would of liked it sooner but I'm not going to balk at it now that it will soon be a reality. I don't care if GOT and ROTR are things. It's not going to take away from my love for these types of games.

[Demetrius]

If the mc wasn't black mfs wouldn't complain, lol I seen comments complaining about miles in spiderman 2 ps5 also, lol it's hilarious how many folks hate us and literally would probably try n boycott anything with a black lead character 🤦🏾 anyways yeah Ghost Of Tsushima a classic but I'm still looking forward to ac red atleast they're not releasing souls like copy n paste games, I tried rise of the ronin but it felt way too much like fromsoftwares titles like they were the ones who made it 🤣

[jznrpg]

I don’t care about the black character one bit. It’s the always online that I dislike and it most likely will have Micro Transactions and locked content behind paywall like Starwars Outaws. It’s their practices that really bother me. The game itself looks good but I can wait to play it when it’s dirt cheap bargain bin if it’s worth playing. Trailers can make games look better than they are. That being said I’m sure you are correct and there are many upset about the black guy who is an actual historical character but I’m not one.

[jznrpg]

Online requirement is lame. Star Wars Outlaws having 4 different price points with locked content is lame. They really want to go out of business I guess.

[DefaultComment]

Oh yes I agree. I remember poeple asking ubisoft for a new AC in feudal Japan and all that stuff and then came Ghost of Tsushima and Sekiro so now that itch has been scratched poeple no longer see or care for a new "Japanese samurai/ninja" game.
Like poeple said too little, too late.

[RiseNShine]

AC is completely burn out, Mirage sold a lot less than Valhalla, story doesn't make sense anymore, gameplay has been done to death, the million collectibles are annoying and useless, i doubt Shadows will change any of that.

[Viryu]

I think Ubisoft knew it would do bad and didn't even bother with advertising. I've barely seen anything about that game compared to previous entries. It didn't get community's interest as well, I've barely seen any references on other sites like 9gag for example.

[Fonsecap]

I don't even know why is it still called assissins, because you really don't assassinate anyone in theses games anymore, you defeat them in combat after many hours of needless grind to level up to the character level you want to defeat, so this should be called warriors creed or whatever.... I miss the old assassins creed games.

[Hugodastrevas]

We're spoiled for choice of samurai games right now

[Redemption-64]

This is pure stupidity.

[wesnytsfs]

It looks good to me. Loved the previous trilogy so glad to see it come back after Mirage which was awful compared to the previous RPG titles.

[Silly Mammo]

Still holding out for an AC in Mesoamerica

[Gameseeker_Frampt]

It could be worse - they could of spent the last 10 years working on it like Skull and Bones after the success of Assassin's Creed 4.

Hopefully the game is good. I'm not going to preorder it and haven't played an AC game since Unity but I find it is ridiculous for some to think we can only ever have a few open-world samurai games and they all have to be released at the same time.

[ElaBosak]

Nah, Ghost of Tsushima is not scratching the AC itch by any means. GoT is a worse version of a Batman game.