Poll: So... Assassin's Creed Female protagonist leaked. No Multiplayer. Now do you care?

[Gearhead mk2]

Nope. I only ever played the Ezio games, because I didn't give a damn about the overarching story and the gameplay never really evolves. I just liked Ezio. He was the most developed and human character in the series. His story literally went from the moment he was born to the moment he died, and it was incredibly powerful. If they have another properly written arc like that, maybe I'll jump back in.

 

[LaoJim]

but Rogue is the most interesting one so far =P

cool as the others are, Rogue is the only one (at least from the ones I played) that shows a side other than the assassins
even if it is black flag 1.5

Okay, well ask me again after I've started/finished Black Flag and I might feel differently. Nothing that I've seen about it particularly grabs me though - I've traditionally enjoyed playing AC for the city settings, haven't got to any of the ship based combat sections which is what everyone seems to like about AC3/Black Flag. Really, I've got to have a stab at completing at least one or two in my backlog before buying another one.

 

[ecoho]

the only ubisoft game I would even consider buy at this point is beyond good and evil 2. Otherwise my boycott of their company stands

 

[Dalisclock]

I don't particularly care. I've played and beaten all the main games up through 4 and while I've more or less enjoyed them, it's telling that 2 and 4 were the ones I really enjoyed, because they actually changed things up a bit. And while I love the idea of doing a Victorian London game, somehow I don't have much faith in their ability after Unity. The French Revolution was a golden opportunity on a platter, full of real life intrigue and...they squandered it.

But anyone want to bet that the new Victorian Assassin will end up killing Jack the Ripper? And Jack will end up being a Templar of some sort?

 

[NerAnima]

Nope. I haven't cared about Assassin's Creed since Brotherhood, and I'll probably never care about it again unless they announce one set in feudal Japan.

Nothing so far on that front, there is a mobile one, I think, set in Imperial China, but it's more akin to Mark of the Ninja than any of its 'brethren', as it were.

Personally, I like the idea behind the Chronicles, especially the one taking place in Russia during the Revolution (at least that's when it's taking place, that could be just my dreams mixing with my sleep-addled mind).

However, I am not so bedazzled to forget what utter shit the last few games have been (Black Flag not included), and I definitely don't think that it will be worth it right now. I'll need to hear good things about it from reviewers I can trust before I even consider touching it.

 

[Dalisclock]

Nah, I'm quite sick of the last 500 years, so the era this is set in is not appealing to me. Give me something from the ancient Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia, or something like that and I'll happily buy it.

Yeah, remember how AC2 had that whole room below the villa with statues of famous Assassins, from Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, China, Central Asia, Persia, etc?

Wouldn't it be nice to see some of them in action? Maybe after 10 more AC games creeping ever closer to the present they might finally show us one of those.....

 

[SweetShark]

If they reach to the point which a new game of the series take place to a HEAVY Cyberpunk World, then I will care.
I mean, look at this:

Spoiler

Sure, in this pic he look like a Helghast, but something similar will be a giant plus.
Also in a Cyberpunk World they don't give a single F*CK how you look in appearance. This will make more sense that the other settings....

That picture is just too ridiculous. I don't have a problem with the idea of a science fiction AC but that picture specifically just looks bad, there's no way that would actually blend in with civilians, it looks too militarized. And those soldiers look more like a super villain's goons. I could the gear looking believable in a specific location with lots of pollution maybe, but not all the time.

I didn't said to be like this exactly, but something similar won't hurt.
Also thing of all methods they can include which you can assassinate a target.

 

[stroopwafel]

'Care' is a big word but I always enjoy the AssCreed games. There is no denying the settings in the games are gorgeously realized, and I always enjoy the dry tidbits of history the game throws at you. If anything these games are just really good virtual tours through some historic location. That the newest is set in Victorian England is even better, since that is one of my favorite settings.

Also I quite enjoyed Unity, espescially after the enormous patch. I liked the changes they made to the combat and parkouring, and it made me feel more in control of the character despite the gameplay being still way too clumsy and imprecise. Still, it's probably the closest to a series 'reboot' we'll ever see. The real star of the game was Paris though. The lighting and the town were soooo pwweeetty.

So yeah, AssCreed isn't a series I really look forward too but it isn't a series I hate either. Espescially not given the care and incredible attention to detail they put into realizing the settings in the games. Gameplay wise..yeah it remains not that great. Boat combat not considered.

 

[SweetShark]

I don't particularly care. I've played and beaten all the main games up through 4 and while I've more or less enjoyed them, it's telling that 2 and 4 were the ones I really enjoyed, because they actually changed things up a bit. And while I love the idea of doing a Victorian London game, somehow I don't have much faith in their ability after Unity. The French Revolution was a golden opportunity on a platter, full of real life intrigue and...they squandered it.

But anyone want to bet that the new Victorian Assassin will end up killing Jack the Ripper? And Jack will end up being a Templar of some sort?

This is a well-known motive for all the games? A well-known person to be a Templar or an Assassin?
I never played a AC before, but I get the general idea.

Anyway, if Jack in the end he is indeed a Temple, this mean only one thing:
Hydra. The Temples act like Hydra from Marvel Movies. The Temples send Jack to clean the world from the a specific target that are a danger for them in the future. Specificaly a prostitute.

 

[Dalisclock]

Anyway, if Jack in the end he is indeed a Temple, this mean only one thing:
Hydra. The Temples act like Hydra from Marvel Movies. The Temples send Jack to clean the world from the a specific target that are a danger for them in the future. Specificaly a prostitute.

Or they rip the plot of "From Hell" where it turns out Jack was actually Sir William Gull and is murdering Prostitutes because he had a vision where God told him so(or more likely, having stroke which caused him to hallucinate), but working for the Templers(in the story, he's very deep into the Masons)

 

[SweetShark]

Anyway, if Jack in the end he is indeed a Temple, this mean only one thing:
Hydra. The Temples act like Hydra from Marvel Movies. The Temples send Jack to clean the world from the a specific target that are a danger for them in the future. Specificaly a prostitute.

Or they rip the plot of "From Hell" where it turns out Jack was actually Sir William Gull and is murdering Prostitutes because he had a vision where God told him so(or more likely, having stroke which caused him to hallucinate), but working for the Templers(in the story, he's very deep into the Masons)

Btw, The Temples are very fanatics with the whole God thing or they are just control-freaks like Hydra?

 

[Whispering Cynic]

Yeah, remember how AC2 had that whole room below the villa with statues of famous Assassins, from Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, China, Central Asia, Persia, etc?

Wouldn't it be nice to see some of them in action? Maybe after 10 more AC games creeping ever closer to the present they might finally show us one of those.....

Oh I remember drooling all over those - all that potential. I'm hoping someone in Ubisoft finally takes the hint, but yeah, it will probably take some time (and a few more AC games)

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I don't particularly care. I've played and beaten all the main games up through 4 and while I've more or less enjoyed them, it's telling that 2 and 4 were the ones I really enjoyed, because they actually changed things up a bit. And while I love the idea of doing a Victorian London game, somehow I don't have much faith in their ability after Unity. The French Revolution was a golden opportunity on a platter, full of real life intrigue and...they squandered it.

But anyone want to bet that the new Victorian Assassin will end up killing Jack the Ripper? And Jack will end up being a Templar of some sort?

This is a well-known motive for all the games? A well-known person to be a Templar or an Assassin?
I never played a AC before, but I get the general idea.

Anyway, if Jack in the end he is indeed a Temple, this mean only one thing:
Hydra. The Temples act like Hydra from Marvel Movies. The Temples send Jack to clean the world from the a specific target that are a danger for them in the future. Specificaly a prostitute.

Or maybe we'll play as an aging Queen Victoria, grossly overweight yet somehow still able to sprint across the gothic rooftops of London and scale 8 storey buildings to assassinate the Templars trying to steal her Empire.

 

[Dalisclock]

Anyway, if Jack in the end he is indeed a Temple, this mean only one thing:
Hydra. The Temples act like Hydra from Marvel Movies. The Temples send Jack to clean the world from the a specific target that are a danger for them in the future. Specificaly a prostitute.

Or they rip the plot of "From Hell" where it turns out Jack was actually Sir William Gull and is murdering Prostitutes because he had a vision where God told him so(or more likely, having stroke which caused him to hallucinate), but working for the Templers(in the story, he's very deep into the Masons)

Btw, The Temples are very fanatics with the whole God thing or they are just control-freaks like Hydra?

Control Freaks. There's a running theme about how the Templers want to create a stable, peaceful world, by more or less mind controlling the world. In AC4, which is in the early 1700's, some of the Templars talk about Slavery, where one says how he doesn't like Slavery, where the other retorts "Well, you want to enslaver minds, so how is enslaving their bodies different?" "Well, when you enslave minds, their bodies will follow". Good Job Templers. I was almost starting to respect your worldview, until the whole "Well, mental enslavement is totally worth it if it makes the world peaceful"

From 1 until 3 there was a subplot about putting an Apple of Eden(which can mind control people) into a Satellite, launch it into orbit and thus...world mind control. So for 4 games they hang this over your head along with the solar flare apocalypse plot, and eventually just say "Well, the Templars scrubbed the satellite launch because they didn't have anything to put in it(despite apparently have several apples as recently as the 1960's) but it doesn't matter because in a week everyone is going to die because of a solar flare"

 

[Evonisia]

I personally don't care because the series has never gripped me. I vaguely liked the first two and that was it. Even IV didn't hold on to me. I can't imagine that this game will be a major shake up.

That said, my Dad is a big fan, so I will probably at least get some perspective on the game by watching him play it.

 

[Ishigami]

I wanted chime in on not caring about AC but then I got some nice idea: I will buy it, if the protagonist is female.

Ha! Dodgeed that bullet!

In all seriousness. The first AC was okay, flawed but acceptable. AC2 was an improvement in the mission structure and storytelling but still flawed in combat. By then it was already obvious that the frame narrative will go nowhere. Therefore I dropped it.
I played AC BlackFlag because it was bundled with my graphics card. It was okay. Probably of the ones I played the best, combat was still flawed and the activities were at large plagued by repetition as it was with all ACs. It was further prove that the frame narrative at this point is entirely useless.
I don?t plan to buy any ACs anymore.

But I stand to my word: If it actually happens that protagonist is female, I will buy it.
BTW: this got nothing to do with making a SJW point, I couldn?t actually care less, but it?s about reminding people of UbiSoft bullshitting you on every AC ever.

 

[Dalisclock]

Yeah, remember how AC2 had that whole room below the villa with statues of famous Assassins, from Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, China, Central Asia, Persia, etc?

Wouldn't it be nice to see some of them in action? Maybe after 10 more AC games creeping ever closer to the present they might finally show us one of those.....

Oh I remember drooling all over those - all that potential. I'm hoping someone in Ubisoft finally takes the hint, but yeah, it will probably take some time (and a few more AC games)

I think it's gonna be like the remake of FF7 everyone has been waiting for. It's their hail mary once everything else has failed, because they know people will pay attention when they do it.

So maybe that means that if we want to see those AC games, we have to stop buying any AC until they make the ones we want?I want to say that should work but somehow I don't think ubisoft will take it that way. I can only imagine they'll take failing games to mean "Oh, you want more features and minigames tied into Uplay? You want less QA before launch? Why didn't you say so?"

 

[SweetShark]

Anyway, if Jack in the end he is indeed a Temple, this mean only one thing:
Hydra. The Temples act like Hydra from Marvel Movies. The Temples send Jack to clean the world from the a specific target that are a danger for them in the future. Specificaly a prostitute.

Or they rip the plot of "From Hell" where it turns out Jack was actually Sir William Gull and is murdering Prostitutes because he had a vision where God told him so(or more likely, having stroke which caused him to hallucinate), but working for the Templers(in the story, he's very deep into the Masons)

Btw, The Temples are very fanatics with the whole God thing or they are just control-freaks like Hydra?

Control Freaks. There's a running theme about how the Templers want to create a stable, peaceful world, by more or less mind controlling the world. In AC4, which is in the early 1700's, some of the Templars talk about Slavery, where one says how he doesn't like Slavery, where the other retorts "Well, you want to enslaver minds, so how is enslaving their bodies different?" "Well, when you enslave minds, their bodies will follow". Good Job Templers. I was almost starting to respect your worldview, until the whole "Well, mental enslavement is totally worth it if it makes the world peaceful"

From 1 until 3 there was a subplot about putting an Apple of Eden(which can mind control people) into a Satellite, launch it into orbit and thus...world mind control. So for 4 games they hang this over your head along with the solar flare apocalypse plot, and eventually just say "Well, the Templars scrubbed the satellite launch because they didn't have anything to put in it(despite apparently have several apples as recently as the 1960's) but it doesn't matter because in a week everyone is going to die because of a solar flare"

So in other words, the whole Templars thing start very cool, until they gave this very poor explanation about the slavery of the mind.
Also how they know about the solar flare? Did the Templars saw the future?

Btw, there is a Manga who did this MUCH better!
And it is only one chapter.
But sadly I don't remember the title.....

 

[Dalisclock]

So in other words, the whole Templars thing start very cool, until they gave this very poor explanation about the slavery of the mind.
Also how they know about the solar flare? Did the Templars saw the future?

I can respect the whole "Break down class divisions, have a peaceful and stable world" thing but mind control is what makes it so repulsive. Apparently the Templars don't see any problem with it though. Frankly, the Templars from AC3, IMHO, came the closest to justifying their actions.

As for the Solar flare, it seems like the Templars had no idea the world was about to end, and so it was up to a small group of Assassins to stop it all(though that ending is incredibly Deus Ex Machina-equse) because Desmond and co were the only ones who saw the messages about the last solar flare and the warning about the new one about to it. Really, in the "Future" setting, it seems all the Templers care about is the whole "mind control satellite" bit which just seems like overkill considering they already control the world and have for centuries at this point. Apparently a handful of rebels who really can't hurt them is enough justification for them to mind control everyone.

It's one of my issues with the series. The only reason the assassins come off as looking like good guys most of the time is because the Templers are so into puppy kicking with some "For the greater good" justification they love to shout at you while they are dying. "I did horrific medical experiments on people because I WANT TO HELP THEM!"