Post by Eorl @ 02:01pm 02/04/13 | 23 Comments
"The players will tell us," states an assured Mallat when asked about the annual releases, claiming that "right now there are more and more coming into the franchise, so I don't see that day." The key fact for Mallat however is ensuring that Ubisoft will be able to maintain the high quality of each game despite the series' rigorous release schedule, something that can be contributed to having multiple teams working on the franchise.
"When we say we are annualising the franchise, we don't say the teams only have one year to work on a project," Mallat explained.Currently Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is schedule for a release on October 31st, though as you can expect Ubisoft has already revealed another title will be ready for release next year so mark your calendars.
"Assassin's Creed is mature enough in terms of reaching the critical mass of players and community, but also in terms of envisioning enough content for years to come, and in terms of technology to sustain all that.
"And more importantly, it's mature enough in growing the talent and the core teams so we can have several core teams working on the next one and other projects on the brand.
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Posted 03:00pm 02/4/13
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Posted 04:51pm 02/4/13
Posted 05:08pm 02/4/13
Posted 06:09pm 02/4/13
It will be in their financial report somewhere.
Posted 06:44pm 02/4/13
It's like every time they open their mouth they cant help but make some s***** boast about how proud they are to be turning this into an industry of sodomists.
Posted 06:50pm 02/4/13
Like eski, I think it's mega arrogance on Ubisoft's part. But they want to make money and AC is a cash cow. My concern is it'll go the way of Prince of Persia. Sands of Time was amazing in so many ways, but they wanted to appeal to the teenager male demographic so made the character a douche bag in the sequels.
Posted 06:57pm 02/4/13
Posted 07:23pm 02/4/13
And gamers just keep bending over and taking it up the rear pocket (where the wallet is kept).
Posted 07:30pm 02/4/13
Posted 07:32pm 02/4/13
Seriously AC3 had some teriible, terrible design choices. Makes it unplayable for me
Posted 11:04pm 02/4/13
Some excellent new inclusions and some poor design choices, but overall I would rate it less then AC2 but better then AC1.
So, I'd find it hard to say that the franchise is slipping, yet.
Posted 02:02am 03/4/13
Is it worth me playing 1 to 4 or just 4, are they top-notch gaming experiences?
Posted 05:20am 03/4/13
Like?
Posted 08:21am 03/4/13
Posted 09:26am 03/4/13
This was enchanced poorly by the choice to release some of these games only on selected devices.. (phones for example)
When this started happening I realised it was just a cash cow and the artistic storytelling side to this series was long lost, which was a damn shame.
It will follow the same life of Prince of Persia which lets face it... it was just replacing that series anyway.
Posted 10:23am 03/4/13
Posted 10:33am 03/4/13
Changing the weapon interface so you have to see a loading screen every time you change weapons
Making all the cities tiny and taking away all the tall buildings.
Making the side missions completely irrelevant.
Making you play for 6 hours before you get access to the game proper.
I could go on.....
Posted 11:33am 03/4/13
Heard about that.
Havent yet got to AC3. Finished #1, got most of the way thru #2, played 35mins of brotherhood before the mouse issues made me RQ and i havent gone back, dont have revalations or #3.
The f*** you talking about? I assume the free running button but theres the primary hand, off hand, head, legs buttons plus different actions between gentle and rough (forget their terms) action stances. Dont get me wrong, i hate when games bind multiple actions to 1 key bind (normally console games without proper conversion to PC key binds) but IMO AC was not one of them.
Posted 12:06pm 03/4/13
What loading screen, hold R to change the bound weapons. No loading screen when choosing from weapons at the homestead either. Unless you count opening a new menu/interface as a loading screen.
What tall buildings? 1700's were not known for sky scrapers.
They're side missions, some were pretty boring, just ignore them.
Damn that story set up!
This is all it takes to make something unplayable for you?
The one bad move I still remember with the AC franchise was in AC2, the vambraces... they made you a god since you could block attacks with out a weapon.
Posted 07:00pm 03/4/13
That's my complaint. They detracted from the otherwise pretty good story and fun gameplay. Well except the half-native american guy might as well have been a tree for whatever his personality was, except that one time he complained like a teenager as an adult.
AC2+expansions was a bit better with the sidequests feeling like they helped you in the main game and grow your player as a person. Just a feeling, not actually helped the main gameplay.
Anyway I look forward to the next one :)
Posted 10:14pm 03/4/13
Oh I just hate everything. Life is less disappointing that way.
Posted 05:28am 04/4/13
I'm neither so it does not really bother me.