Gaming Altair You a New One: The Assassin's Creed Series

Yeah, the colonial American setting is breathtakingly beautiful and completely fascinating. The Revolutionary War is one of my favorite historical periods and they really captured it perfectly. It's just an amazing feeling being able to walk around in it. The games do such great jobs with their settings -- a huge part of the attraction is just how beautiful their worlds are, how fun and immersive and evocative it is to just walk around in them and get lost in the history. And if you think colonial America is beautiful, wait until you get to the Altair and Ezio games set in Italy and the Middle East. I've never seen better environments than I have in the AC games.

 

So has anyone else heard the news? No full AC game this year:

http://blog.ubi.com/a-message-from-the-assassins-creed-team/

I for one am ok with this decision. We have the movie coming out this year, and we had 2 full games in 2014.

Hopefully the break will give Ubisoft more time to really focus on making the next game excellent.

I found Syndicate's gameplay very enjoyable, but the story was rather bland in my eyes, other than the parts involving the Shroud and Edward Kenway. Ultimately I actually found Unity's story more interesting, though both were still quite weak in the series.

 

It's obviously a good move for Ubisoft (they'll likely have Watch Dogs 2 this fall to replace it), and apparently folks who have seen the next AC game set in Egypt say it's looking pretty great.

 

For anyone who's interested in the soundtracks, in October I helped sort and organise the unreleased tracks from AC1 with Unreleased Game Music on Youtube.

This playlist contains all unreleased tracks from AC1, with detailed descriptions of where each plays. For all fans of AC music, I hope you enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiVSF2AAhkqcG_7JI8Sr82dJ44QdIXf83

 

I welcome the decision for delay for 2017. First, better product and second will give me the opportunity to catch up, since I'm still in the middle of Unity and i still have Syndicate to play.

 

I will desperately miss the Creed this year, I know many people have wanted them to take a year off, but I will go stir crazy without a new game.

 

For all its flaws, AC1 was a charming and I daresay revolutionary game. The formula was then perfected with AC2 and Brotherhood. But every game since has failed to recapture that charm, IMO. I think it's more than well if the franchise takes a hiatus, if not actually put to rest.

 

Just occupy yourself trying to 100% No Man's Sky!

 

Yes I try, but its not always easy. Throwing myself into Star Wars is my way to survive, it doesn't always work, but hey I might make it.

Besides we got films coming out this year, in both AC and SW. This will be fun, and hopefully make up for the absence of a new game.

 

The trailer's finally out:

 

Don't care for the hip hop song but everything else looked cool.

 

How do you play that thing? Is it massive prolongued, photorealistic custscenes with little to no gameplay (eew, like Metal Gears, uggghh).

No Altair, no Ezio, GTFO.

 

He has two hidden blades? Who the hell does he think he is? Ezio?

 

Ezio and NotMagneto there are nearly contemporaries. Maybe the Spanish Assassins heard of this hotshot Italian kid wielding dual hidden blades and probably said to themselves "coño, porque no?"

 

Thanks to Unreleased Game Music on Youtube I was able to compile several tracks from the Freedom Cry DLC, that have never been released or even published before. It took a while to find the right tracks and their components. It really opened my eyes as to how complex the music system is in ACIV. Each combat track is broken up in about 4 or 5 short segments that play in a random order. It did make assembling some of the tracks niightmarishly fiddly, but at least the music's finally available to listen in some form.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEtVbo8oKTgqOLllQNviqsKoD4o9hKbTm

 

The Ezio Collection, coming to PS4 and XBONE November 17th.

I'm honestly surprised that it took Ubisoft so long to remaster these games. But now that it's almost here, I'm not entirely certain that I'd fork over $60 for it. Hopefully they made the Desmond segments of Revelations more tolerable. Those were pretty awful, imo.

 

But what's the point of this upgrade? I already have ACII, Brotherhood, Revelations and all the DLC. So what's the motivation for upgrading? The graphics aren't noticeably better to my eye, and even if they were that's not enough of a motivation.

There's no new content either is there?

Also odd is the choice to omit AC1, the game that would benefit most from a few added features (mainly a database). It will also leave the collection starting on a loose end, carrying on from the cliffhanger ending of 1.

 

I don't mean to be an ass, but the answer's pretty simple: "new hardware that allows you to play new games, replacing obsolete and unsupported hardware". Regardless of that, if that absolutely does not interest you for any other games, there's no reason to buy that updated trilogy, especially if there's no new bells and whistles included in that package to sweeten the pot.

 

I admit that the visuals in the trailer aren't exactly jaw-dropping. However, I've played Black Flag on both the 360 (stunning, btw) and on the Xbox One, and I noticed the visual difference immediately. So maybe the trailer doesn't do the upgrade justice, because the Xbox One version of Black Flag was, imo, incredibly superior (though it might just be that I'm easily blown away by Black Flag's visual beauty regardless of console ).

 

Um, I played Black Flag on the 360 and then on the Xbone and, tbh, I didn't notice a spectacular level of difference. I mean, it is a beautiful game, no doubt, but there's only so much you can do as a developer to distinguish one version from another when you must create a graphics engine to fit both old and new gen consoles.

 

Yeah. I didn't do a side by side comparison, so like I said, maybe I'm just enchanted by Black Flag itself.