I'm not sure they said it would be the last game with Altair. I think he's relevant in some way through out the entire series. I'd bet actually that all the people Desmond ends up reliving come around now and again (however many that turns out to be). However, if we don't get to play Altair in AC:R, which I'd bet we do, I would still enjoy another game with him. Not his trip to Constantinople obviously, but perhaps wherever he goes next.Woodsey said:
Disappointed by Assassin's Creed?
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Aww I couldn't disagree with this more. Ezio has never been one of sacrifice. In fact, a better end for him would be to have the enemy believe him dead while he escapes and perhaps takes up residence with Sforza, living out his days in hiding, fooling around with the handmaidens and suchI.N.producer said:
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AC: Altair in the Holy Land
AC2: Ezio in Italy
ACBroHood:...Ezio in Italy
ACRev: ...Ezio... in the Holy Land.......
AC whatever title: Probably Ezio again.
I'm getting sick of Ezio's screen time. I actually prefered Altair...
AC2: Ezio in Italy
ACBroHood:...Ezio in Italy
ACRev: ...Ezio... in the Holy Land.......
AC whatever title: Probably Ezio again.
I'm getting sick of Ezio's screen time. I actually prefered Altair...
No, I think they improve with each game.
That said; I think it's well over due that they retire Ezio and start exploring other eras of time. I like him, but I thought they were making a one ancestor per game kind of thing. Would've been much cooler.
That said; I think it's well over due that they retire Ezio and start exploring other eras of time. I like him, but I thought they were making a one ancestor per game kind of thing. Would've been much cooler.
Assassin's Creed 2 was like a marathon in the right direction-- the plot, setting, characters, gameplay, pacing, progression, atmosphere, music, and engagement were all given significant improvements over the first one (and that isn't to say the first one sucked).
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood felt like one step forward and then three steps backward. To me they just tired out the characters, dragged-on the story, and added a bunch of features that frankly made the game a lot less awesome.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Revelations. I just want them to be f***ing done with Ezio and Altair already, but I'm really hoping Ubisoft Montreal doesn't disappoint here.
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood felt like one step forward and then three steps backward. To me they just tired out the characters, dragged-on the story, and added a bunch of features that frankly made the game a lot less awesome.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Revelations. I just want them to be f***ing done with Ezio and Altair already, but I'm really hoping Ubisoft Montreal doesn't disappoint here.
Although I do think its pretty substandard to be releasing games with such a similar gameplay and setting just with new gimmicks every year is pretty unacceptable, you have to give Ubisoft points for its excuse which went something along the lines of: "The game [AC 3] is set in 2012, so that's when we'll release it"
Yeah, no.
Ezio's story was always meant to be a trilogy, and Revelations explains an enormous amount of the plot of the entire series.
As I like to say, Ubisoft can make a better game in one year than Infinity Ward can in two.
Ezio's story was always meant to be a trilogy, and Revelations explains an enormous amount of the plot of the entire series.
As I like to say, Ubisoft can make a better game in one year than Infinity Ward can in two.
I wouldn't mind playing as Ezio for three games if he was a remotely interesting individual. No matter how refined the gampeplay is, Ubisoft's rehashing of Jason Statham in a period piece doesn't satisfy me on a narrative level.
I'm a bit disappointed with it too. I thought that this series would be an awesome time-travelling assassin thing, with the Desmond storyline being an excuse to go and visit a bunch of hugely different and interesting times, but instead we're stuck with an Ezio trilogy.
The Middle East, and then Renaissance Italy, both of which were fantastic. Then we got another Renaissance Italy game, and now we're getting a Renaissance period Ottoman empire. Thankfully that means that we'll get different architecture and culture, at least, but I was hoping for Feudal Japan, London, Paris, China, Ancient Rome - or just something different that you don't often see in video games.
Come to that, the Ottoman empire isn't half bad. It's cool, unique, it rarely shows up in video games or even popular culture, and it is very different. I guess I'm just bored of Ezio, and annoyed by Brotherhood.
The Middle East, and then Renaissance Italy, both of which were fantastic. Then we got another Renaissance Italy game, and now we're getting a Renaissance period Ottoman empire. Thankfully that means that we'll get different architecture and culture, at least, but I was hoping for Feudal Japan, London, Paris, China, Ancient Rome - or just something different that you don't often see in video games.
Come to that, the Ottoman empire isn't half bad. It's cool, unique, it rarely shows up in video games or even popular culture, and it is very different. I guess I'm just bored of Ezio, and annoyed by Brotherhood.
ACB was basically what people wanted. People liked Ezio and wanted more of him. ACRev isn't even out yet, is it? Aside from an attempt to merge all the story so far, which isn't really "stuck" anywhere, it's not out yet.Hides His Eyes said:
Besides, their next planned move was Desmond in the future. There was no plan for Victorian England. You know what might make that happen, though?
The current direction you are decrying. Now that it's become a major franchise, we might actually see that kind of expansion. Once they close the open arcs, which people seem to want.
No.
The AC games has shown consistent improvement over the last two iterations and they always hold my attention from beginning to end.
The AC games has shown consistent improvement over the last two iterations and they always hold my attention from beginning to end.
Sorry, but this just doesn't make sense. The game's original potential, as I see it, was that each installment could do the same cool concept at a new point in history. That premise must have come before the ins and outs of the story. My problem is that that story has been dragged out into multiple games instead of being kept tight and lucid and serving the original premise.Beliyal said:
Anyway, interesting responses. I may have been a little harsh on Brotherhood and Revelations, but I still can't help feeling cheated. And to those people who claim Brotherhood is a proper sequel and not what would have been called an expansion pack, I can only assume you're too young to remember what games were like in those days. Consider the difference between Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life 2, or Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark and Neverwinter Nights 2.
I'm glad to hear AC3 will be a new setting and character.
You're missing the point. The developers could have written the story however they wanted. It didn't HAVE to get stuck in Italy following Ezio around, that was not set in stone. They could have written it so that the Renaissance Italy part fitted into one game. And that's what they should have done, in my opinion, instead of dragging it out into three because they know the fans will pay for them all. They are not restricted by the story that THEY ARE MAKING UP, that's ridiculous.dashiz94 said:
And I agree they put a lot of effort into building the first two games, no doubt, and in fact that's why it bothers me that Brotherhood basically re-used everything they had built for AC2, and that they tried to pass it off as a completely new game and not what it was: a glorified expansion pack. I'm glad to hear Revelations moves to a new location, but it doesn't excuse the practice of dragging one game into three and selling each one at full price. In my humble opinion.
I think it's too bad the developers decided to stick with Ezio for three whole games. Don't get me wrong, I love his character and I love the games, but... I had hoped Revelations to have a new character in a new time period.
For what it's worth, I just want the next game to be set in Paris during the Revolution and to play a female Assassin.
For what it's worth, I just want the next game to be set in Paris during the Revolution and to play a female Assassin.