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

[templar1138a]

I gave the first Ass Creed game a try a year or so ago. I really liked the hide-in-plain-sight mechanics (even though Altair's outfit is stupidly conspicuous), but I hated the modern-day interludes. I wish someone would make an overhaul mod that cuts out all the crap involving Desmond's time, as well as the stupid monologues that Altair's victims recite even though their throats have been slashed.

And I haven't been interested in any of the sequels because of how they stopped being about stealthy assassination and more about real-estate management. Plus they didn't kill Desmond until Ass Creed 3 (which wasn't the third game either), and even after that, they maintained the modern side of the plot. So no, I really don't give a damn about this new one.

 

[Metalmacher]

Despite the problems of the franchise, I really respect AC because it tries to do very revolutionary stuff, complex simulation building and all that.
... At least, that's what I thought before Unity. Now they went too far. Ima sit in the sidelines for this one, unless it's proven to be good.

Explain, please.

All of the assassins games rebuild historical cities and locales with breathtaking authenticity which is absent from pretty much every historical game ever made, The animation complexity of the games is evolving constantly, citizens' AI is increasingly immersive and the way you can interact with them is ever growing... In those departments, I'd say there is no equal to AC. I HAVE to respect the developers of Ubisoft for the attempt to improve with every game. It's those folks at the top you should all be hating, because of their yearly release demands, and stuffing their microtransactions sensibilities inside the franchise. Unity might be broken, but honestly, it was inevitable. A new engine, with new animations and mechanics, plus Co-op, plus creating all of paris, multiplatforms optimizations... couple that with the yearly-release nature of the franchise, and you cannot expect anything else... It happened before TWICE in the franchise: 1) The original Assassin's Creed and 2) Assassin's Creed 3. Both used new engines for their time and the result was apparent...

That doesn't mean I'm not weary of the franchise, as I've said before... But I believe respect should be given where respect is due, and folks on the internet have a tendency to forget that sometimes.

 

[Auron225]

How many Assassin's Creed games are there now, total? I estimate there are as many Assassins Creed games as there are episodes of The Simpsons by now.

That's what I'm wondering. Maybe they're trying to make more AC games than news broadcasts. I've only played the first 2 (and rather enjoyed them) but trying to keep up will need me to play nothing but AC games for the next couple of decades, and I didn't enjoy them THAT much.

It does seem to be that the period of time the memories take place is slowly moving forward through history. I'm calling it now; eventually they'll have a machine which sends memories forward into the future and we'll be assassinating people in a sci-fi setting.