Why ever pay for more of the same franchise?Hive Mind said:Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?
A sequel can change. A series can evolve.Niagro said:Why ever pay for more of the same franchise?Hive Mind said:Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?
Who needs film sequels?
Who needs the next in a series of books?
Who needs a continuation of what they enjoy at all, as opposed to bland repetition of exactly what they have done in the past?
People want more of what they like, it's pretty much that simple.
I'm not that much of a fan of assassin's creed, I didn't even play the third one, but you have to understand that just because it's essentially the same goal with many of the same limitations - it is an extension of what people evidently enjoy.
The problem with fuedal Japan is that the game so far has taken great care to maintain the historical credence of its timeline -- there is no logical way for Desmond to have had an Assassin ancestor before the time of Altair as before then his family had always been in the middle (as he is a direct descendant of Adam and Eve) and it is highly improbable he would have an ancestor afterwards, or at the very least, not one that was actually Asian.beema said:I was kind of hoping that the next iteration in this series would make more of a departure from this setting/time period and the same old characters.
I remember reading somewhere that they were floating the idea of having it take place in feudal Japan, which I thought would be incredibly cool.
I guess the white hood & Mediterranean setting are just too iconic for the series to abandon...
The american revolution? You want the Assassin's Creed game to take place there? Okay, I am all for new settings etcetera, but by god, why does it always have to be 'murrkuh that the game is set in? And if it's not america, then by god it's space america or medieval England. Because, you know, who wants to explore interesting settings such as the middle east, europe, Asia or Africa? Those are for losers! Everybody knows that everything ever has to be about America or some clever proxy for that travesty you call a country!nomad240 said:ungh seriously the american revolution.. * dons a gay british accent* Excuse me good sir what are you doing!
I am stealing your Battle plans for Hamburger hill!
Oohhh What a pickle! gurads dear guards shoot this man at once!
Tra! blam blam blam as he nobly rides away on his mustang gotta keep it amurican!
or better yet we can be assassinating General Howe or Sir Guy Carleton or or or even better the whole war of independance was a ruse for the evil church people and we have to HELP the british by assassinating american revolutionaries... yeah.. THAT game will sell.
and honeslty the emblem that kept flashing either before or after the numbers depending on what part of the loop you were on looked austrian in my own opinion
I was really hoping for the same thing man.saruman31 said:It would have been awesome if it were placed in the time of the shogunate and you were a ninja.
Why not read The Fellowship of the Ring three times, instead of buying all three books? I mean it's all done in the same style of writing right? And with the same damn characters even! C'mon Tolkien, quit being such a hack and be original for once!Hive Mind said:Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?Brennan Lowery said:Why fix what isn't broken? "Originality" kills more franchises than it saves.Hive Mind said:Let me guess, you climb buildings, run through streets and assassinate people in puzzle like environments?
My god. The originality overwhelms me.
Lord of the Rings was one novel. It was only split into three separate books books in mainstream media as one HUGE book is more intimidating than three medium ones.WolfEdge said:Why not read The Fellowship of the Ring three times, instead of buying all three books? I mean it's all done in the same style of writing right? And with the same damn characters even! C'mon Tolkien, quit being such a hack and be original for once!Hive Mind said:Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?Brennan Lowery said:Why fix what isn't broken? "Originality" kills more franchises than it saves.Hive Mind said:Let me guess, you climb buildings, run through streets and assassinate people in puzzle like environments?
My god. The originality overwhelms me.
EDIT: DOODEEDOO DIDN'T SEE THE BIG "Europe" HEADER DON'T MIND MEMr.Squishy said:The american revolution? You want the Assassin's Creed game to take place there? Okay, I am all for new settings etcetera, but by god, why does it always have to be 'murrkuh that the game is set in? And if it's not america, then by god it's space america or medieval England. Because, you know, who wants to explore interesting settings such as the middle east, europe, Asia or Africa? Those are for losers! Everybody knows that everything ever has to be about America or some clever proxy for that travesty you call a country!nomad240 said:ungh seriously the american revolution.. * dons a gay british accent* Excuse me good sir what are you doing!
I am stealing your Battle plans for Hamburger hill!
Oohhh What a pickle! gurads dear guards shoot this man at once!
Tra! blam blam blam as he nobly rides away on his mustang gotta keep it amurican!
or better yet we can be assassinating General Howe or Sir Guy Carleton or or or even better the whole war of independance was a ruse for the evil church people and we have to HELP the british by assassinating american revolutionaries... yeah.. THAT game will sell.
and honeslty the emblem that kept flashing either before or after the numbers depending on what part of the loop you were on looked austrian in my own opinion
In fact, let's look at games by setting.
North america:
Fallout 1-2-3-NV
Saint's Row 1&2
Silent Hill (The entire franchise)
L.A. Noire
Max Payne 1&2
Prototype
Infamous
Duke Nukem (most, if not all of the games)
Homefront
Modern Warfare
GTA (The enitre fucking franchise)
A buttload of cowboy games
Bioshock (seeing as how the underwater city of Rapture was built to emulate 1950's America, and built by an american, I would say this counts)
South America:
Monkey Island (it IS set in the carribean, right?)
GUN, countless other western games (I think)
Postal 1&2
Half-life 2 (or at least a proxy representation)
Bloody likely Portal 1&2
Mirror's Edge
Europe: (Not counting 'Thedas', 'Albion'or other medieval england settings etc.)
Hellgate: London
Assassin's Creed 2 + Brotherhood
Middle East:
Assassin's Creed 1
Modern Warfare
Asia:
Yakuza (The entire franchise)
Army of two (at least one mission)
Africa:
Halo 3(Briefly, at least)
Can you see why I'm kind of pissed? What makes it worse is that you're a youngling nation with not even half as much interesting history or culture as pretty much the entire rest of the world.
So go ahead. Set another game in 'murrkuh. I'll just quietly weep for interesting settings somewhere that I don't disturb your terrorist hunting.
Semantics, you've yet to refute what my POINT was, so...Hive Mind said:Lord of the Rings was one novel. It was only split into three separate books books in mainstream media as one HUGE book is more intimidating than three medium ones.WolfEdge said:Why not read The Fellowship of the Ring three times, instead of buying all three books? I mean it's all done in the same style of writing right? And with the same damn characters even! C'mon Tolkien, quit being such a hack and be original for once!Hive Mind said:Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?Brennan Lowery said:Why fix what isn't broken? "Originality" kills more franchises than it saves.Hive Mind said:Let me guess, you climb buildings, run through streets and assassinate people in puzzle like environments?
My god. The originality overwhelms me.
But hey, who needs to research what they say before they post?