Next Assassin's Creed is called Odyssey, takes place in Ancient Greece.

[Chewster]

After they miked the fuck out of II, I sort of began to lose interest in the series, though I played until Black Flag because at least that one was fun (III was utter trash though). Have any since or any of the spin-offs for PSP or Vita been set in Victorian England? Because missed opportunity there, if not.

I had heard Origins was kind of good but I'm actually surprised anyone still gives a shit about this series. It's became the Call of Duty or whatever sports franchise of open world games ages ago. Add a new coat of paint, throw in some gimmick, shoehorn in some historical figures that no one actually bothers to know anything about, away we go.

 

[sXeth]

Considering AC: Brotherhood had Ezio pilot a:
-Prototype Tank which could reload and fire cannons almost instantly(with a small crew)
-Glider with a small mounted cannon which reloaded automatically(despite ezio the only one on the thing)
-Small armored boat also with mounted cannon(which loaded itself automatically because ezio was piloting the thing solo)

Yeah, somehow I don't think too many shits are gonna be given on the realism front here.

Huh, I'll be. I've only ever played AC1 and Black Flag and know pretty much nothing about the others except their setting, so I was mostly basing my comment off the former, but apparently they were far from the highlights on the shizo-tech front. For a moment, I thought it ridiculous, but then it made sense.

Renaissance. Italy. It has Leonardo Da Vinci in it, doesn't it?

The whole series has the ancient alien stuff. But yeah, 2 (and spinoffs) were big on giving you weird steampunk tech stuff. Origins has power armour made via the forebearer stuff, but its effectively just really good armour.

 

[Dalisclock]

After they miked the fuck out of II, I sort of began to lose interest in the series, though I played until Black Flag because at least that one was fun (III was utter trash though). Have any since or any of the spin-offs for PSP or Vita been set in Victorian England? Because missed opportunity there, if not.

I had heard Origins was kind of good but I'm actually surprised anyone still gives a shit about this series. It's became the Call of Duty or whatever sports franchise of open world games ages ago. Add a new coat of paint, throw in some gimmick, shoehorn in some historical figures that no one actually bothers to know anything about, away we go.

Syndicate took place in Victorian England. You get a steam train as your mobile base, get to meet Queen Vicky, etc.

I like the gameplay loop and the stories were generally good enough to keep me interested. They even did this fun thing with Rogue where it linked "Freedom Cry", III and Unity together by having Shay be the guy who devastated the Colonial Assassins and Killed Arno's dad(as well as explaining the deal with the mysterious package in Freedom Cry). I mostly lost interest because it became very clear that Ubisoft was just treading water on where any of this was going in the long term. Once the Desmond storyline went belly up, it pretty much went to "Templers are making video games off people's memories, you're a dude playing video games based on people's memories. See how meta we are".

 

[Hawki]

Stuffs with the Persian empire?

I'd like to imagine that if Assassin's Creed ever went to Persia, there'd be:

a) Crossover with Prince of Persia

b) References to Prince of Persia

c) Fan outcry that Assassin's Creed has basically supplanted Prince of Persia

d) All of the above

I can't claim to be a big fan of either series, but I'd argue that PoP has at least one thing over AC, and that's its ability to go full supernatural/mystical. AC still has to keep at least one foot in the boundaries of reality.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

So. Much. Ramming.

So just like in Ancient Greece... Hiyo!