Ordinaryundone said:
I actually think an Assassin's Creed set in Feudal Japan would be much more interesting than any open world RPG with the setting.
This. I've been waiting for an AC game to be set in Feudal Japan since the first one hinted at it in some of the secret text at the end.
The thing is, while it's an era everyone knows and that has been featured in games a tonne, it's still never truly been done justice in the west in a truly 3D world. Shogun 2 was a fantastic game that really captured the dramatic and violent world of the feudal era, but it's never received the amazing treatment that Constantinople or Acre have been given by Ubisoft.
The really strange part is that it makes perfect sense to set an AC game there. There's tonnes of mythology surrounding the era and it's mystified all the time, allowing the developer to really get in there and create their own story and play around with the more fantastic elements of the game. Even with the supernatural taken aside, the time was full of political intrigue and hidden violence, with different warring factions pitting themselves against each other in the shadows just as often as on the battlefield. All of them want one thing and they'll take it however they can. Ubi are free to align the main character with any of these factions, or make up their own, or even set the protagonist as a free agent
That's before we even get into the world and the benefits of rendering it faithfully in the now-trademark style of AC. Japan is an incredibly varied and beautiful country, and to see an Ubisoft-rendering of the buddhist temples precariously sitting atop mountains, the huge castles and sprawling, quaint towns surrounding them with something to see around every corner, to the junk armadas sitting on the coast decked out with important targets.
I mean, just imagine being tasked with the assassination of someone residing in Himeji Castle.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_txusjTRqWyY/TMHdGQsuOaI/AAAAAAAABIs/BlQQ-VTrBa0/s1600/himeji-castle-japan.jpg
That would be awesome.
