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

[Extra-Ordinary]

Sure.
I mean, I'm not as big an AC fan as I used to be, I've definitely been spiraling downward after Black Flag, at this point I feel like I'm playing them because I have to, not necessarily because I want to... but hey, that's negative thinking.
Still don't like Unity though, maybe I'm just too used to being able to take down fifty guys all by myself and I keep getting my butt kicked but I'm gonna finish it eventually.

As for a female assassin, that's cool, new direction, not blowing my mind but I think it's cool.

 

[wizzy555]

I haven't played AC since the first one. My wife has played most of them so she probably will.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I think the last AC game I played was...what, AC: Brotherhood? Then I totally lost interest.

They dicked around far too long with Ezio and it became Madden's Creed of Duty. Not interested. I'll probably give Black Flag a shot when I see it a heeeavy discount. Or, alternatively, just grab Mordor for my open world killy thingy fix once it's on a similarly steep discount.

This...? Eh. Maybe one day? They could DEFINITELY stand to let this series sit for a couple years.

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

I like the AC games, but the last one I played was Brotherhood. I still have to finish Ezio's trilogy. Then there's... III, Black Flag, Unity... am I forgetting something or is that it?

 

[Lightspeaker]

I'll probably give Black Flag a shot when I see it a heeeavy discount.

To be honest like I mentioned earlier I was pretty fatigued of AC myself by the time of Black Flag (especially after the dreadfully dull characters and painfully uninteresting story and setting of AC3) but Black Flag is magnificent.

I think its because its not exactly an Assassin's Creed game. Or at least I don't think of it that way. For Black Flag you just have to ask yourself "do you want a third person action pirate game?" If the answer to that is yes then you should probably get it because its really fun.

 

[Piorn]

After they sold me AC2 three times I quit.
I only ever really cared for the meta-story, and since I missed so much of it by now, I won't get back in.

 

[babinro]

Assassin's Creed has already had a female protagonist.
Why would having a second one renew interest in any meaningful way?

I picked up an Assassin's Creed pack from a steam sale some years back. Got through about 2 and half of the games and lost interest. Too much of the same stuff without a compelling enough story to draw me further.

The games are fine. I have nothing against their continued existence just like I'm fine with CoD, Madden, WWE and the like having ongoing releases. I simply have no plans to get into any of the newer games until which time I finish Brotherhood, Revelations, AC3 and yet still find myself wanting more.

 

[happyninja42]

No I don't really care. I stopped caring about the AC series with AC 3, which was so lifeless and bland it gave me a digital lobotomy.

I'm glad that they are putting some diversity in their protagonists, just on the standpoint of diversity being a good thing in my opinion, but it's not going to make me buy the game.

The awesome pirate sailing goodness of AC: Black Flag wasn't enough to make me give Ubisoft anymore of my money.

They have shitty business practices, and have a significant level of contempt for their customer base. So, I choose to not be a part of their customer base as a result.

They could make every hero from this point forward be a different ethnicity, and flip the genders all the time, and I still wouldn't buy anymore of their products. Which does sadden me a bit, because I think from a gameplay standpoint, they make some very fun games. But there are a lot of things in this world that I like, but don't like the people who make them, or what they stand for, so I don't buy their products. Ubisoft is just the most recent addition to that list.

 

[Roofstone]

Strangely enough. Yes. Now I am interested.

Is that sexist? I feel like that is sexist in some weird weird way.

 

[Captain Marvelous_v1legacy]

snip

Did I...leave a Shadow Clone kicking about? This is surreal...

:O

Spoiler: There Can Be Only One!

Premier is going on right now if anyone is interested in watching.

 

[go-10]

ummm is the game focusing more on stealth? If it is then yeah I'm all for it

if this is another boat game then I don't care

 

[Rattja]

I'll care once they do one in an Asian setting with ninjas and stuff, it would be perfect for that. Why they have not done that yet is beyond me, and no that 2.5d thing does not count!

 

[AgedGrunt]

Lost interest in the series around Brotherhood. Playing sea pirates looked amazing, but then, can anyone spot the silliness in this for a stealth-assassin game?

To be fair, even Metal Gear Solid, one of my all-time favorite series, wore me out; I don't even know all the titles' names to date. Either way, I'd say what did me in on AC was a narrative that just seemed to go nowhere and was largely written by people on morphine. The protagonist has been irrelevant to me since Ezio.

 

[WhiteNachos]

I just want confirmation of a playable female assassin. That will determine the rest of my interest.

Why? Why do you care that much about the gender of a person that doesn't actually exist?

 

[WhiteNachos]

Strangely enough. Yes. Now I am interested.

Is that sexist? I feel like that is sexist in some weird weird way.

Well it's needlessly focusing on sex so you tell me.

 

[Cowabungaa]

After seeing Unity fall on its face, for which I was slightly excited as I really digged the setting, I've felt burned out with Assassin's Creed. I thought AC:U could revive the franchise after the slump and eventually decline it went into after Revelations (with the exception of Yo Ho Ho Edition) but oh boy that game was a disaster.

So I should be raising my eyebrow at this game and going "Hmm..." But honestly? I just can't, the trailer had me brimming with excitement. The setting is even more palatable to me, I've been wanting Victorian London since I played the first AC. Everything about that short gameplay trailer just makes me feel pumped. Fighting on steam trains? Check! Day/night and weather cycles for even cooler prowling? Check! Top and bowler hats? Check! Protagonist variation? Check! Underworld shenanigans? Check! A seemingly bigger focus on fisticuffs? Check!

Honestly, I'm pumped. Ubisoft can't really afford another installment of one of their top series burning and crashing again, so who knows, this might be the revival I've been waiting for. And hopefully my PC can run it too.

Strangely enough. Yes. Now I am interested.

Is that sexist? I feel like that is sexist in some weird weird way.

A little, because you're sort-of reducing a character to their sex. By going about it that way you get token characters. It's why I loved an interview with Kevin Levine we saw a while back, he has some great views on how to create actually interesting characters.

 

[Dalisclock]

Lost interest in the series around Brotherhood. Playing sea pirates looked amazing, but then, can anyone spot the silliness in this for a stealth-assassin game?

Hey, it may be silly but it's also pirates. PIRATES! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

Besides, who needs stealth when you can shoot someone in the face with a couple dozen cannon?

Granted, that's not entirely retorical. While the ship sections are awesome, the one huge flaw that the game has is that every other mission on land is either Evesdrop/Tail/Evesdrop and Tail someobody, without being seen and often through guard checkpoints. It's almost as if someone said "This game is too awesome. We need to make it about 20% less awesome. Put in a bunch of tailing missions!"

 

[baddude1337]

Assassin's Creed has already had a female protagonist.
Why would having a second one renew interest in any meaningful way?

A lot of people seem to totally forget about AC: Liberation. Although portable it was a full fledged AC game. Then there's the recent side scroller with one, and all the multiplayer has various genders and races to pick from...


I don't get the backlash about no female character in Unity. Sure, the big main console game have never had one (if you don't count the HD version of Liberation), but there has been several in the series. I feel like Ubi's handling of the backlash is what made it worse.

 

[Olas]

Why is it that when playing as female assassin's the strict adherence to the absurd assassin hoodie get's dropped?

Anyway, Ubisoft would have to dramatically overhaul the AC series at this point for me to get even mildly interested. I bought AC4 over a year after it came out at a reduced price, I might buy AC Rogue since it looks like an interesting departure from the usual story, but honestly it's pretty low on my list right now.

 

[Slycne]

I was kind of underwhelmed by the announcement. Given the entire scope of interesting historical times and places, I feel like Ubisoft is taking the most boring and predicable approach to Victorian London. There's certainly still opportunity for interesting stories and characters, but "unite the gangs and fight the social structure" is so paint by the numbers. It was going to take something really exciting to pique my interest in a new Assassin's Creed and Syndicate isn't it.