These Wild West themed threads keep popping up every few weeks, it seems like. I vented a little steam on the last one I saw going into detail about why I think it would be awful, but this idea really seems to have a decent number of proponents, so I just want to ask... why? I'm legitimately curious. I mean, I'm as hungry for a good Wild West game as anybody else (Red Dead superfan here) but what is it specifically about Assassin's Creed that makes people think it would be a good stage for a Wild West adventure? The OP mentioned gun duels and train robberies, so okay, but what about AC's lore or established mechanics makes you think that it would be a good fit for this series? I mean, gunfights and train robberies are cool and all, but they don't scream "Assassin's Creed" to me. Like at all. It seems to me like people are just saying "I want an open-world Western game" and tacking that wish onto AC just because it's the most visible open-world series.
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exactly. My friends find it a great setting for AC and when I ask them why they reply ''Why not, we can climb buildings and uh shoot people and stab them'' And than I say: Play Red Dead Redemption. Here is the game look here is a knife do what you please. UghOriginally Posted by LoyalACFan Go to original post
What about ancient hellenistic times?
The diadochi wars after Alexander the Great and his empire in Egypt, Syria, Greece and India, until the distruction of the diadochi states by the Roman republic.
The war between the Roman republic of Octavian and Agrippa against Hellenistic Egypt of (traitor) Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII Philopator, until the death of the boy king Ptolemy XV, son of Caesar and Cleopatra, killed on emperor Augustus command, who fears a revolt in the occupied Egyptian world.
Rome became an empire under Octavian who called himself "Augustus".
I like the idea of twisted politics.
I was just thinking this. Remember in Unity, Bishop mentioned to the initiates ("us") after completion of a sequence, if we realize how sinister Abstergo is and how they are attempting to change the history? What if that is actually an allegory for UbiSoft trying to reboot the franchise. By going back far in time when nothing was documented, it'll be a perfect opportunity for UbiSoft to set up a plot and use it as an excuse for the reboot. Abstergo trying to find a piece of artifact back in time in Egyptian tombs or Roman tombs and use it re-write the history of the game universe and alter the events and make them not unfold the way as we have seen so far in previous games. It could be another opportunity to re-introduce a modern day protagonist. Do you think it might have been a hint? or just another line from a script?