Ubisoft Teases Assassin for Next Assassin's Creed

[beema]

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...

 

[Catchy Slogan]

*sigh*

Its not going to be Victorian London, is it?

No. Because that would be an awesome idea. We can't have that now, can we?

 

[Davichu]

I'm surprised that a french studio hasn't dabbled into its own history. The French Revolution, the 100 year war...they could have loads of events from that country and feel like they are doing their country proud.

 

[ultimateownage]

If it isn't in London with you taking the role of Jack The Ripper's arch enemy, I will be disappointed.

 

[havass]

I do like the idea of multiple timelines and assassins. Imagine if the bleeding effect was strong enough that Desmond can relive memories without the Animus, and Desmond can control it. Skipping through periods to look for clues to the temples would be a way to progress the story. On the other hand, maybe Assassin's Creed 3 is about him learning how to control it at will?
Either way, not a bad premise.

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

How did anybody do those puzzles in AC2? I'm not the best with puzzle games that's easy to admit, but some of them were beyond ridiculous. Some obviously weren't that bad like searching pictures for a beeping red dot and so on, but there were some that were codes upon codes within codes hidden by spinning pictures and covered by a layer of philisophical quotations. Thanks IGN for not telling me what the trick is. "Give a man a Fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to Fish and he'll never go hungry".

 

[[.redacted]]

Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?

Why ever pay for more of the same franchise?

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.

 

[Derelict Frog]

So far we've had 2 dates, 1 of which is close in the lore to Ezio's birthdate, another close to Altair's birthdate.

The assassin in the most recent preview looks like Altair. We've seen some sort of mountain fort; the Phaistos Disk; the Hagia Sofia and now the Byzantine Standard.

Hopefully this isn't another spin-off game or FB game, because there is nothing to say its gonna be a new character yet.

However, if it is it could be set at the fall of the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople in the late 14th to mid 15th centuries. It could be the joint ancestor that Subject 16 and Desmond share, because he comes in somewhere just before Ezio?

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

You could just as easily play as Altair's son, seeing the old "you" would be kinda cool... and a little weird.
That would give you access to most of the gadgets and techniques Ezio used, since they were invented by Altair anyway.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

If Ezio is the main character I will not be buying it.


Altair was a total douche, but at least he felt like a real character -- Ezio just felt like a ridiculous stereotype.

and he was nowhere near as badass.

I also won't be buying it if they do ridiculously stupid things to put in famous historical people like Da Vinci and Machiavelli again. (and also, wouldn't it have been so much more awesome is Da Vinci was like, your nemesis? that would be freakin' epic. But no, they made him a flamboyant, useless sidekick)

 

[Hive Mind]

Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?

Why ever pay for more of the same franchise?

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.

A sequel can change. A series can evolve.

People are welcome to buy whatever they please. I simply don't wish to support developers in their effort to milk an idea, rather than generate new ones.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

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 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.
In any case, there are no pieces of Eden in Japan -- there are a couple of China that could've been taken there, but that's a longshot.


PS:
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET A FEMALE A ASSASSIN? :'(

 

[Mr.Squishy]

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

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!
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.

 

[Baldry]

Okay I really want a new character but this looks like it'll be Altair, or Desmond has finally got a hood.

Anyway after hearing what people have said about the flag, I guess it may be set in the Byzantium empire, which means Constantinople, which would be awesome.

 

[saruman31]

It would have been awesome if it were placed in the time of the shogunate and you were a ninja.

 

[Thyunda]

The Facebook Reveal page shows two assassins. One looks to be Altair, standing outside a high-walled city on a hill, and the other wears dark brown/bronzish coloured clothes, with the hood, with fur-lined bracers. And a beard. In the background of him is a tall, thin spire and a dome.

 

[jhlip]

It would have been awesome if it were placed in the time of the shogunate and you were a ninja.

I was really hoping for the same thing man.

 

[WolfEdge]

Let me guess, you climb buildings, run through streets and assassinate people in puzzle like environments?

My god. The originality overwhelms me.

Why fix what isn't broken? "Originality" kills more franchises than it saves.

Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?

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]

Let me guess, you climb buildings, run through streets and assassinate people in puzzle like environments?

My god. The originality overwhelms me.

Why fix what isn't broken? "Originality" kills more franchises than it saves.

Why pay for the ability to play the same game a year latter with new skins?

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!

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.

But hey, who needs to research what they say before they post?