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Moliere wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 1:10 pm Publisher: We need a new Assassin's Creed game!
1st Developer throws a dart at the map.
2nd Developer throws a dart at a timeline of world history.
3rd Developer reskins the character costumes and scenery.
10 minutes later a new thread is born.

Looks like the first dart landed on Japan. The second dart landed on the Feudal era.

I think this is perhaps the Assassin's Creed people have been waiting for the most, as I know players have been clamoring for one set in Japan for decades now.

Japan? Really? Don't we have enough feudal Japan games at the moment? I'd think dynastic China would be much fresher and more interesting.

Seems awfully soon. Aren't we awash in AssCreed games? I just reinstalled Odyssey yesterday and started a new game. I was playing it only 2 days when my wife died and never went back to it until now. Its not as I remember it ...not sure if they'd patched stuff in or my memory is just shit for that time..which Im sure is most of it.

Depends on what you consider soon. Mirage just came out, and I'd expect the next big AC release to be right around the corner. Sounds about right to me, if the release date is indeed right. This would have been in development for several years already.

Assassin’s Creed Peoria. I’m just sayin’.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:18 pm Japan? Really?

Since they've already done AC Pirates it stands to reason that they're going to do AC Ninjas.

Joking aside, I’m honestly surprised it took them this long.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:18 pm Japan? Really? Don't we have enough feudal Japan games at the moment? I'd think dynastic China would be much fresher and more interesting.

Because there's a market for feudal Japan, and there never was for China - and that was before the current political climate regarding same.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:35 am

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:18 pm Japan? Really? Don't we have enough feudal Japan games at the moment? I'd think dynastic China would be much fresher and more interesting.

Because there's a market for feudal Japan, and there never was for China - and that was before the current political climate regarding same.

No market for feudal China?

Victoria Raverna wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:24 am

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:35 am

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:18 pm Japan? Really? Don't we have enough feudal Japan games at the moment? I'd think dynastic China would be much fresher and more interesting.

Because there's a market for feudal Japan, and there never was for China - and that was before the current political climate regarding same.

No market for feudal China?

Of course there is, unless you're taking what I said 100% literally. There's a market for premodern Inuit history, Cossack history, and a hundred others, including Chinese history. But compared to the market for katana/ninja/samurai? Their goal isn't to tell stories about cool periods of history, their goal is to sell millions of copies of games. See how long it takes to find five Nipponophiles. Now go see how long it takes to find five Sinophiles. Japan sells.

I've always assumed that if they were ever to do an AC set in China, that it'd be set during the era where the Great Wall is being built. Could have the Mongol invaders allied with the Templars.

I think a modern day setting for a China based Assassin's Creed would be kind of cool. Avoiding the government and all that. It would add a whole new level of danger and suspicion.

Id like a more modern day setting in the US. Say NYC where your character is in the 1930s with the mafia and such around.

Too bad, I thought Red might mean during the Russian Revolotution.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:34 pm Id like a more modern day setting in the US. Say NYC where your character is in the 1930s with the mafia and such around.

That will likely never happen. I remember reading that the developers have said they don't want to get too close to modern settings due to politics. The closest to a modern setting was the quick bit in Syndicate when you're brought to WWII London.

Jaddison wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:42 pm Too bad, I thought Red might mean during the Russian Revolotution.

They already did one, but it was one of the side-scrollers. It was part of a AC sidescroller trilogy featuring China, India and Russia. I've only played the one set in China and it was just Ok. Kind of played like the original sidescrolling Prince of Persia games, but with added stealth.

Time to update the thread title! Coming 11/15/24



NOTE: Full gameplay reveal in June 2024.

Yawn

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 6:15 pmYawn

Thanks for stopping by.

Looks good, but for some reason Mirage didn't grab me. I hope the story in this one is better.

AC in Japan with a female character and a non Japanese character as the main characters? Ubisoft is brave.

I'm going to buy it but I think there are going to be a lot of snowflake gamers upset about that.

It could be they've given the main character a fish-out-of-water scenario, which is often a trick used to convey inexperience to the player.

On another note, I've been seeing criticism that the game will require an online connection to install the game, which perplexes me as it's been standard practice for decades, if not more, for a disc to start a download process, with hardly any files on the discs themselves. I'm not sure why gamers are making such a fuss over it now. Whenever you insert a disc, it almost always triggers a download as part of the install process. In fact, the actual installation is usually the second thing it does after fetching a download.

Yeah I don't even think about that stuff anymore as I haven't bought a physical copy of a game in years. I remember the last time I tried to launch a game and it told me I had to put the disc in I suddenly felt like I was in the 1800s. Do I have to churn my own butter too?

Rumpy wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 2:29 pm It could be they've given the main character a fish-out-of-water scenario, which is often a trick used to convey inexperience to the player.

It's also a great tool for explaining the world to the player without breaking the fourth wall. You have someone who is just as clueless, then have someone explain it to them.

On another note, I've been seeing criticism that the game will require an online connection to install the game, which perplexes me as it's been standard practice for decades, if not more, for a disc to start a download process, with hardly any files on the discs themselves. I'm not sure why gamers are making such a fuss over it now.

Because the game's popular, and popular things must be criticized. It's probably also a factor that Ubisoft is a pretty awful company anyway, so people are looking for an excuse.

Is this an online activation thing (i.e. unrelated to installing the files) rather than online installation? That would put it into the realm of DRM, which is never going to be a thing that doesn't cause people to complain. On top of that, Ubisoft has lately being pushing that idea that customers don't own the games they "buy", for example by revoking the licenses for The Crew when they shut down the servers, so I can see why some people would be salty about anything that hints at Ubisoft setting the stage to take away access to a game down the road.

Ubisoft ended up putting out an official message to clarify. They say it's to install, rather than to have it be on all the time, like DRM, which means the behaviour's the same as it's ever been. That's what I find so perplexing about the criticism. I don't even remember the last time I put a disc in and it was ready to play right on the outset. It's the number one reason why it takes a long time to install games these days.

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