Poll: So... Assassin's Creed Female protagonist leaked. No Multiplayer. Now do you care?

[Fappy]

It's cool to see a female star in a big budget AAA game, but it's not enough to make me buy the game. I pretty much despise AC and Ubisoft and I'm not really a fan of the modern Action/Adventure AAA genre these days. If I want to play an action game I usually prefer something that's actually challenging, because I'm not going to get anything else out of it. AC isn't really know for its compelling story/characters (besides Ezio I guess).

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

Unless they do another AC2 and fix all the problems with Unity, I'm not getting mt hopes up. Plus it sounds like they added the female assassin grudgingly after they got torn to shreds for not having the ability to have a female assassin in Unity.

 

[Glaice]

Nope, AC should just be strung up to die and be forgotten. The franchise is a lost cause to me now.

 

[SonicMTD]

If it's one thing I learned from doing a dual live stream of Unity/Rogue is that I stopped caring after Black Flag.

The only way I would buy AC Syndicate at full price is if

A) It gets a good reception from the public.

or

B) I have to review it.

 

[DementedSheep]

Unless they do another AC2 and fix all the problems with Unity, I'm not getting mt hopes up. Plus it sounds like they added the female assassin grudgingly after they got torn to shreds for not having the ability to have a female assassin in Unity.

Oh? Where is that implied? because so far I don't think they have really said anything about it.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

The last Assassin's Creed I enjoyed was 2 and the last one I played was 3. I didn't care enough to play the side-stories and I'm sure as Hell not going to buy a next-gen console to play another Ass-creed. Nice to see that they decided to add in a female protagonist but I just don't have fun with that series of games. Watch_Dogs 2 on the other hand is something I may possibly be interested in.

 

[OManoghue]

I only started the Sassy Creed series like, two months ago and just recently finished Rogue (awesome) last week. Honestly, I don't mind the annual release thing, I like the games even if Brotherhood was crap and III was a loud "meh" but not terrible.

I will eventually play Unity once my PC is done being upgraded and then will probably get onto Syndicate. That being said, Syndicate looks like the absolute least interesting one to date. Dishonored without magic, the industrial revolution was dull, filthy and brown, and it looks like it's going to be another class warfare "Yay poor people, boo Aristos" story that we've played or seen in films about 100000000 times at this point.

Furthermore, since Black Flag and Rogue take place in modern day Montreal at Abstergo Entertainment, we know that nothing we do will stop the Templars. Nothing in Syndicate can possibly be achieved that won't be undone between it's setting and whenever the Hell the Templars decide to pack up and set up shop in Montreal.

 

[Ronald Nand]

It seem like the female protagonist thing will work the same way it worked in Gat Out of Hell. I imagine you can freeroam as the male or female assassin and certain missions will only be available to the male or female assassin. My biggest worry about the female assassin is that she'll end like Kinzie in Gat Out of Hell, completely ignored by the main plot with it assuming you play as the male assassin.

 

[Dalisclock]

Okay it was surprising and they almost had me... almost.
She is supposed only playable for about 25% of the game while the focus is clearly is on Jacob that is a cop out if I ever saw one. Nope I don't buy it.

Somehow this doesn't suprise me. I recently played "Saints Row: Gat out of Hell" which lets you play as Johnny Gat or Kinzie Kensington and can switch out whenever you want. Unfortunatly, almost all of the cutscenes, missions briefings and ending focus exclusivly on Johnny and act like Kinzie doesn't exist.

What makes this worse is that Johnny's one defining character trait is that he's a charismatic sociopath whose only hobby is killing people and despite hogging the limelight, he doesn't get any sort of character developmnent in game.

 

[Random Argument Man]

If I base thing on Ubisoft's track record, there's a released broken game with a new engine during one year and released better game the year after. However, I did learn to not trust track records. I was pretty die hard about AC until a new gen was released. I want to try Unity, but I'm not willing to pay something over 40$ for it.

 

[VanQ]

I put the controller down at the end of Brotherhood after killing the Magical Pope and thought to myself that I had gotten everything out of the series that I could ever ask for.

I have not bought or cared about any of the games in the franchise since.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

The multiplayer was the best part about Unity, why ditch that? The co-op missions were pretty funny, no matter if you went into them with crazy randoms and just enjoyed the mayhem go down or if you went in with a coordinated team of friends and tried for flawless execution. I mean, they were certainly more funny than most of the single player missions.

 

[Metailurus]

AC series is incredibly tired by this point. They need to rest it for a few years and devise a way to make the next release in say 5-10 years a blockbuster.

 

[Zhukov]

If they had done this six Assassin's Creeds ago, I might have given a shit.

As it is, I only buy AC games when they're like 90% off, if at all.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Last time I tried an Assassin's Creed game was...it was 2 and one of 2's interminable sequence of followups prior to 3. It did not translate to PC well...the controls were unbearably clunky, and rather than feeling elegant it was a chore to play (Shadows of Mordor and the Arkham games played fine in spite of being similar, something was weird about Assassin's Creed). Subsequent releases always seemed like MOTS with very slight changes in historical period and locale. I feel like the opportunity to grab my attention with something new has come and gone. Series feels stale and controversy riddled now.

Someone mentioned accelerating it into the future and putting out a cyberpunk-style game. That I could see being intrigued by.

Now if FAR CRY wants to take a shot at a female protagonist, I could see being down for that. Or, you know, improving on 4 by having *a* protagonist. With an actual personality and everything, not just a POV camera with name. There's a series in need of a creative makeover almost as badly as Assassin's Creed.

 

[JemothSkarii]

No, not really.

The gender of the character doesn't really matter to me and Ubisoft lately feels like a series of disappointments. I did enjoy Black Flag because I think pirate stuff is cool as hell. But with The Division, Rainbow Six: Siege and all the other things I just have no hype. Couple that with the disappointment of Order 1886 doing Victorian England and I'll just pass and twiddle my thumbs for something else.

 

[L. Declis]

Oh, an Assassin's Creed game about Victorian London and they actually bothered to get some British voice actors for it?

Well, I'm the Assassin's Creed fan they plan for, I get every one. So I'm in.

Can't wait for when I have to fight Jack the Ripper for some reason.

 

[Dalisclock]

Oh, an Assassin's Creed game about Victorian London and they actually bothered to get some British voice actors for it?

Well, I'm the Assassin's Creed fan they plan for, I get every one. So I'm in.

Can't wait for when I have to fight Jack the Ripper for some reason.

I want to reverse myself and say it probably won't happen because it's set in 1868 and the Ripper Killings occurred a good 20 years later. However, somehow I suspect there will be a DLC where you hunt Saucy Jack in 1888. Or they'll have it start in 1868 and end 20 years later, like AC2 did.

Actually, I think most of the numbered games have unfolded over the course of a decade or so.

 

[Cryselle]

If the game is good, I'll care. If it's not, I won't. I can't say I have a lot of faith.

Perfectly honestly, Ubisoft could announce that the next Assassin's Creed has you riding a rainbow unicorn through space on a quest to assassinate a black hole before it swallows the galaxy, and I'd probably shrug and respond with "Prove you can pull it off" at this point.

 

[MrFalconfly]

Player character gender has NEVER EVER been a reason for why I've bought (or not bought) a game.

And I lost all interest for AC after Rogue. And having a female player character isn't a reason for why this AC will be a good (or not) game.