The Next Assassin's Creed is Set in 19th Century London

[Ambitiousmould]

I watched a gameplay video of this, and my first thought was "I wonder when the inevitable petty criminal Cockney orphan will turn up?". One minute. It took one minute. Also the fact that the first main enemy mentioned was someone called "Bloody Nora" was rather cringe-worthy. I suppose she'll be alongside Blinking Emma and Gordon Bennett, too.

 

[Fox12]

What's up with Victorian London being so popular all of a sudden. The Order, Bloodborne, and now AC all have the same aesthetic. It's a cool aesthetic, don't get me wrong, but it's weird that this is becoming the next fad. "Steampunk Victorian" never struck me as the next mainstream AAA environment.

 

[Souplex]

So you're playing as Jack the Ripper, and all the women you're killing are Templar agents?

 

[voltair27]

What's up with Victorian London being so popular all of a sudden. The Order, Bloodborne, and now AC all have the same aesthetic. It's a cool aesthetic, don't get me wrong, but it's weird that this is becoming the next fad. "Steampunk Victorian" never struck me as the next mainstream AAA environment.

Bloodborne is gothic, not Victorian.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Hard to work up much enthusiasm for the series at this point.

you hit the nail on the head I was just going to post;

"we should care why?!"

ubisoft has burned people way too often to be taken seriously now.

I couldn't be excited even if they announced a Feudal Japan AC, which I've been bitching about since forever.

 

[ecoho]

Hard to work up much enthusiasm for the series at this point.

you hit the nail on the head I was just going to post;

"we should care why?!"

ubisoft has burned people way too often to be taken seriously now.

I couldn't be excited even if they announced a Feudal Japan AC, which I've been bitching about since forever.

Yeah at this point if Ubisoft wants me to even think about opening my wallet they need to release beyond good and evil 2

 

[Fox12]

What's up with Victorian London being so popular all of a sudden. The Order, Bloodborne, and now AC all have the same aesthetic. It's a cool aesthetic, don't get me wrong, but it's weird that this is becoming the next fad. "Steampunk Victorian" never struck me as the next mainstream AAA environment.

Bloodborne is gothic, not Victorian.

I would strongly argue that it has elements of both. It draws from multiple genres and time periods for its visual aesthetic, architecture, and character designs. A plague Doctor mask is neither Victorian nor Gothic (which is more of a style then a time period), for instance, as it was utilized during the black death in a failed attempt to protect the user against airborne pathogens. It fits the visual design of the game, however, and works inside the plague infested city, so it gets a pass. A top hat is very Victorian, however. Given that the game is a mash up of things that existed in completely different time periods, it's best seen as an amalgamation of different styles.

Incidentally, the game bares many similarities to The Order, and to Europe during the 1800's, so I think the comparison stands.

 

[Glaice]

I predict this is going to be another mess just the way Unity was. Besides, how many people really care for the Assassins Creed series after that game, let alone milking the same franchise for a long time.

 

[Callate]

Moving away from Unity's multiplayer focus, Syndicate will be singleplayer only. Ubisoft explains that it made this decision in order to allow the developer to "focus on creating the biggest city based open-world that we've ever had for an Assassin's Creed game."

Read as: "Building Unity around the idea that multiplayer would be a central conceit gave us a bug-filled game and a widespread belief that shoehorning in a female avatar while trying to get said bug-filled game to market should have been easy, all so people could discover for themselves how a handful of random strangers could totally screw up allegedly stealth-based missions. So, yeah, not doing that again."

 

[Shadowstar38]

I saw the gameplay video and I have to say, I'm pretty hyped for this based on how they improved combat and traversal. Looks like it'll be fun to play if nothing else.

How did they improve combat? All I saw was the same old combat with different animations. Maybe they changed it so that enemies don't die after you press the attack button once, instead they die after you press it two or three times. They just made the combat longer without making it more challenging. We don't even know how many moves you execute by pressing the attack button once. So how exactly has the combat been improved?

Traversal is dumbed down even more. What was once a key feature is all of a sudden considered a chore apparently so they're making it even easier, despite the fact that AC is often criticized for being too easy.

Right away I see the grappling hook fixing 2 senarios. IE, getting halway up a building and getting knocked down by some douchebag with a rock and seeing where I need to go but having to run around buildings in a weirdass path to get to it.

Far as combat, I like the bit where he pulls a body around the corner to hide it. Don't know if they had something similar in Black Flag and Unity. Also the way the grappling and strikes are animated once the character engaged felt more fluid to me than previous games. I can't really describe it.

 

[Grabehn]

I dunno what it is, but his "outfit" looks awful to me, it reminds me of some kind of "dressed up" Alex Mercer from Prototype. Guess the popped up collar is what makes it worse.

 

[Schwenkdawg]

The more I read about Unity, the happier I am that I didn't play it, and that the last AC game I did play (Black Flag) left a very good impression with me. I guess that's a long-winded way of saying I'm probably more excited than I should be, because my last AC game was good

 

[infohippie]

A bit of irony in the names there. Unity has a heavy multiplayer focus, while Syndicate is purely single player. Heh.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

Anyone who preorders this is a mug and deserves mockery. To save the apologists the effort: " something something new engine something something its OK to leave a game broken and move on to the next."