Assassin's Creed 3

CONFIRMED for 2012.

Let the speculation begin.

I haven't even played Revelations and I'm quite wary of this (especially since I'll have to buy two games by the time I get it). That's, what, four games in as many years?

Yeah, they're definately wearing out the franchise, and with the development of the game moving at such breakneck speeds I imagine that the quality is going to suffer eventually. As it is, the whole free-running mechanic is already showing it's age due to how "sticky" Ezio tends to be when jumping, and while Revelations was definately a good game there were sections of the game where I was feeling bored and only interested in progressing the story, nothing else.

Nah Revelations was fine. I enjoyed it more than Brotherhood- imo that's the game that felt padded and pointless.

Dunno where 3 will go. A change in setting alone will be good enough personally, at this point I don't think they need to introduce more vestigial mechanics and instead focus on tweaking and adding more options to the mechanics they already have (like crafting bombs or the Brotherhood aspect). Also they should add some greater variety in the types of quests you can do using the mechanics Brotherhood and Revelations added.

What I'd like to see would be an improvement in the parkour mechanics. Right now it fells really robotic and scripted, and sometimes Ezio will end up missing a jump that should've been doable just because the game thought you were trying to grab a different spot or WAAAY overjump a simple hop down to a slightly lower rooftop, usually resulting in him crashing into the streets. It's as if the designers don't trust gamers to be skilled enough to time the jumps and grabs correctly, or decide exactly how high or low Ezio will jump. Plus, it'll add some more challenge to the diffcult climbs, like the top of the Vatican or distant targets!

Another idea might be have players manually aim their crossbows and hidden guns now. It's likely that the next game will take place in an Era where guns are available (I'm thinking the American Revolution, maybe French Revolution), so keeping the current aiming system in place would feel akward.

I still haven't gotten through AC:Rev. It was when I was walking around pretending to be a minstrel that I thought "Why am I not stabbing people right now?" and turned the game off.

I don't think I'll be picking up AC 3 unless they get rid of all that really useless bullshit and focus on the stabby/hidey/runy bits.

I wouldn't be worried about the quick pace of the games release; Ubisoft has like half a dozen studios (a few of them full sized) working on this franchise.

edited 14th Feb '12 6:16:51 AM by Rationalinsanity

I take it the next one would at least feature Muskets as usable weapons to add in Sniping. Or would your guy still have the Hidden Gun?

If it did take place in the American Revolution, wouldn't the Assassins be on the side of England? Wasn't Washington a Templar agent, if I remember (read it from somewhere)? I mean, I'm not big on the idea of them making Ben Franklin Rodrigo Borgia 2.0 or something...

Gotta read up on this when I'm not behind my work's content blocker.

Does it confirm that Desmond will remain the POV character in the modern era? I ask because Revelations, for all its Mind Screwdriver plot reveals, left us with yet another cliffhanger.

I personally loved every part of Revelations. The camera controls weren't any worse than previous games and the pacing felt a lot tighter than Brotherhood, with far fewer pointless sidequests to manage. The minstrel part was so freaking hilarious that I didn't mind that I wasn't stabbing people myself.

I've been watching and rewatching the end over and over and over and it just keeps being as awesome as it was the first time. The End of the World as We Know It is coming, can Desmond and pals stop it? Film at eleven!

You mean to tell me that you wouldn't want the final boss fight to be an epic hand-to-hand brawl against Franklin (or maybe Washington) in the heart of Congress? What madness has possessed you, man?!

x3 They'd probably have him using an actual rifle then. They did exist back then.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:34:32 AM by rmctagg09

Well if we're going that far, apparently Thomas Edison was a world class Templar dickwad and I'd love to beat him senseless with one of his own "inventions".

Hey folks, we have a main AC thread and it looks like two AC3 ones that created around the same time. Let's put it all in one place.