Personally, i am extremely dissapointed by the English nationalism displayed by the AC devs.
I have played and loved, each and every AC game, up untill Revelations.
I could not have enough of AC and rapidly became my favourite series and Ubisoft my favourite game company.
Ok, AC 3 was a huge dissapointment, for various reasons, it was smth every AC fan wanted to forget and pretend it never happened.
I would like to see a totaly new approach and scenery set up, a new hero with completely new origins, story and background.
But sadly the Kenway kin has haunted the series for the next 2 ios and 2 console games. Ever since the AC is either of British origin or hunted by redcoats, like there is no other part of the world and history available...
The fans desperately asked for a feudal Japan or Chinese set up, just because they also wanted a completely new scene change.
Ubisoft made a mockery of this, claiming that this set up was overused and kept going with the most overused theme in the gaming industry.
The only pause we had was with Unity and France and that title, being the new entry, with a new engine, in a new console generation, was destined to fail and that failure was outlined by Ubisoft themselves by announcing DLCs cancelations and the next AC, yet again ruled by the series favored superior English race, with English protagonists (yet again) English enemies and English location.
The greatest irony of them all was that it took place in Victorian England, the favourite place of all English/US nationalisists, with many of them thinking that all the important historic facts happen during that era and place alone... The most overused gaming theme of all times.
After playing Bioshock, Thief, Van Helsing series, Batman, The Order, Bloodborne, etc etc, in 2014-2015, Ubisoft has oferred yet again more of the same
and they advertised/announced that right on Unity's launch, so that the English nationalistic would know and could easily skip the French variation, while focusing their expectations for the coming favourite victorian playground...
And now we have no clue about the next game, they want to capitalise as much as they can from our lack of options and only speak about Victorian London and steampunk DLC
new excuses are made, that there was a big investment on this game engine and it is likely to stay in this era and set up for this generation.
While they never tried for Unity to have a lasting effect, they are desperate to impose the Victorian London theme, as the only viable and succesful option!
So, althought i pre-ordered Victory, this is the first AC game i cannot bear to finish.
I have finally now lost my faith in the series too (as many other non English/US nationalist AC fans) and i believe that it will be forever be used to promote the English nationalistic propaganda of their race superiority and global dominance. What a shame!! I loved the series for the potential it had to give a realistic reincarnation of various and exotic historic destinations. The lack of cultural variation is suffocating!
I am sure that the next AC protagonists will be of English origin too, there are no alternatives!
Most likely we will see some spinoffs, but even then and there, they will be in an English colony, starred by English characters. Even Connor had to be half English, so the next Indian protagonist will surely be half English too and the next pure blood English and so on...
This is a pattern that repeats itself and is likely to go on forever. The first hero was rightfully of Arabic origin, to honour the ASSASSIN word origins, everyone's favourite Ezio was overshadowed by the US Desmond and ever since the English characters took over and never let it go...
Fuedal Japan would be a tough one, how could they find an excuse to have an English/US character there and then? (maybe they will recreate the last samurai tale?)
When was the last time we have seen a stealth action Ninja game of this quality, set in a realistic enviroment similar to AC series really?
Vita's Shinobido 2? That 2011 title? Or 2008's Tenchu?? Is Ubisoft afraid of the direct comparison with that Vita/PSP game and not afraid of 2015's The order and Bloodborne comparisons?
Who are they kiddin? They dont fool me though, i know what to expect.
AC team claim that they are a multicultural team of various beliefs, depicting multicultural views and subjects without bias and yet somehow 80% of the Assassin's and Templars they speak of are of English origin and 66% of the games take part in English/US countries/colonies, fool us once, shame on them, fool us twice...
Here goes our chance to become part of Alexander's army, stab Ceaser with Brutus, assasinate Emperor Qin Shi Huang, how could an American/English nationalist could relate to a Greek/Persian/Chinese/Egyptian hero? NO, it always has to be of English/US origin and the AC series is made for them and them alone.
Thank you for voicing these thoughts!Originally Posted by Arashigake Go to original post
This is completely what I've been saying since 2009.
Cheers mate.
It would be but I do think it's worth it.Originally Posted by cawatrooper9 Go to original post
I would appreciate the help! Let's keep it as concise as possible. Feel free to message me and we'll come up with a plan.
Closed but relevant to this thread-
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...dividual-game)
I don't think you're entirely wrong but I also think you're entering a bit into conspiracy theory territoriesOriginally Posted by Arashigake Go to original post
It is an undeniable fact that this series, ever since the very first game, sells the most in the USA, so of course the developers are going to make this games with that market in mind, they even justified the British accents in Unity on the ground that US audiences equate British accents with foreigners in old times.
They certainly aren't going to make one of this games with Korean audiences in mind when the series barely sells there, also remember that Ubisoft is a French company and most of the developers are Canadian.
That post above, well:
I won't call it 'nationalism'. AC III, a game that I don't like that much, was called anti-british due to the fact like 4234'9234923'42 redcoats were killed by Connor on all those trailers preceding the game .Then its native protagonist ends up being 'abandoned' by his former 'friends', the US founding fathers. Not exactly good propaganda stuff right there.Originally Posted by Arashigake Go to original post
I could dig Meiji Japan, but the feudal period has never been a favorite of mine me not because the era itself, but mostly due to its strong advocators which can annoy me at time because of their believe that EVERY symptom of AC current sickness can magically be cured "CAUSE NINJAS". Talking about Japan, I do believe UBI will finally satisfy the HUGE demand of a game set there. Although it might not be the uber desired feudal period, but instead one closer to modernity....Originally Posted by Arashigake Go to original post
Originally Posted by Arashigake Go to original post
I don't entirely disagree with you, but I`m with Ze on this one. You are going a little bit to far!!!!!
Annualization and not nationalism is the main reason!!!! If you are gonna release one or even TWO games per year, finding a balance between having 'new' settings while being able recycle enough assets and resources becomes a must. Don't get me wrong, though. I utterly HATE games released annually, in my ideal world we would be switching through eras and places in no particular order. You know; from China to Mesopotamia and Victorian London or the French Revolution, for instance. It's just that I don't think we are dealing with the stuff you said above.
Think about about it! Aside from the that sole 12th century game, AC I, since the franchise went annually Ubi has been dividing their games into eras they can exploit and stick for a while. First The Renaissance, then the XVIII century and now the XIX century, may be????? I seriously believe that a game set in the Meiji era is coming.........
In regards of the english/british thing....Let´s face, for bad or good, with the advent of the Age of Discovery, European presence became more 'prominent' and 'frequent' throughout the world. The English/british alone have being 22 countries shy of being able to claim the world have been entirely theirs at one point or another:
2) As ZE said, UBI is in the end a french canadian company that has an established target marked. Although, by the way, is funny that the most request setting has been feudal japan... However I could be worse, It could be the anime/manga HUGE industry focusing their art/work like 95% of the times on japanese-centered lore/themes and characters
I mean, look at One Piece, its version of " the golden age of piracy" includes martial arts and some antagonists that resemble the admirals of the Meiji japan during the late XIX and early XX centuries
PD Just in case, that last part of the post cannot be even more sarcastic
There is already some back story to this, which is linked below.
http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Iran
Personally I would find it cool to go back to the middle east at one point in Assassin's creed again. Now many of you are going to not like an AC game with a lot of guns. I did some research and mostly no assault rifles were used in the revolution against the Iranian people, so we can have our bolt action / cannon fire combat system in the game. The story could be about Assassins making a deal with the Shah of Iran to keep him the king while Templars are trying to overthrow him, or perhaps something much cooler beyond my imagination.
May the father of understanding guide you.
They did side with Louis XVI during Unity, and he was the same as the Shah. They are also pals with Prince Suleiman, Lorenzo, Napoleon and Queen Victoria. AC has always struck a balance between interesting content and controversy, but lately it's been leaning to safety.Originally Posted by Assassin_M Go to original post
Hey OP, perhaps you wanna check this upcoming game out:
http://inkstories.com/1979RevolutionGame/