Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Out Now!

[mjbethancourt]

They really need to do a Cilician Pirates installment of Assassin's Creed. (The Cilician Pirates are a naval coalition power in 2nd-1st century B.C., based mostly in the eastern Mediterranean, filling the power vacuum after Rome and Carthage exhausted themselves in the Punic Wars.) That way you get to keep doing ships and naval combat, you get to go back to Rome (but in Imperial Roman times, not Roman ruins), you'd get to track the entire Iron Age Mediterranean region, from Turkey and Syria all the way to Spain, and everything in-between (Classic Greece, Malta, Crete, Alexandria, etc.), and the historic tie-ins could be huge: Hannibal, the assassination of Julius Caesar, Spartacus and the slave-revolt, and so on.

I think this is the perfect balance of getting back to basics, keeping the popular ideas they have had along the way, and also doing something fresh.

[Blu-Benny]

all i know is i'll be waiting to pick this game up after seeing how fast unity dropped in price.

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

all i know is i'll be waiting to pick this game up after seeing how fast unity dropped in price.

AC games always drop down in price after launch. Luckily I grab these in Target's B2G1 sales so it doesn't bother me.

[Havok83]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

all i know is i'll be waiting to pick this game up after seeing how fast unity dropped in price.

You make it sound as if every other game in the series hasn't dropped quickly in price

Originally Posted by detective392

AC games always drop down in price after launch. Luckily I grab these in Target's B2G1 sales so it doesn't bother me.

I got Black Flag free last year during Amazon's PS4 promotions. Prior to that, $35 at BB on BF

[Blu-Benny]

Originally Posted by Havok83

You make it sound as if every other game in the series hasn't dropped quickly in price

was too blind by the game to take notice.

i was too for the next AC game and didn't care if i paid full price.

not this time.....esp. since i haven't even opened up Rogue yet and only have done 2 sequences in Unity.

[mike79]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

was too blind by the game to take notice.

i was too for the next AC game and didn't care if i paid full price.

not this time.....esp. since i haven't even opened up Rogue yet and only have done 2 sequences in Unity.

Honestly I thought Unity was decent, not as bad as some make it out to be and I had barely any glitches. However, I love Rogue. It is almost identical to Black Flag with a different setting, however it is much better than I expected it to be. I stopped playing Unity for a while when I got Rogue.

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Havok83

You make it sound as if every other game in the series hasn't dropped quickly in price



I got Black Flag free last year during Amazon's PS4 promotions. Prior to that, $35 at BB on BF

Same here, forgot Unity was Target and BF was Amazon along with Knack and BF4. BF still has to be my favorite AC game but if Victory turns out good this could become my favorite one. I love the setting.

[detective392]

New Assassin's Creed Reveal [UK] - YouTube

OPPRESSION HAS TO END
ASSASSIN’S CREED WORLD PREMIERE LIVE STREAM
12.05.15
17.00 UK TIME

[Harlock415]

Originally Posted by detective392

New Assassin's Creed Reveal [UK] - YouTube

I was thinking that we'd have a yeah without a new Creed game, but then I realized the date was European style with the day, then month. So...May 12 will be the announcement, cool.

[TheWildWhelk]

Chance that the release of this game will be a total disaster like Unity? Probably bordering on NoneWhatSoEver! I mean, seriously, no way can Ubisoft screw up the release of this title! And the setting of Victorian england is a great one to boot. Looking forward to this. Hopefully this time around the PS4 is lead platform!

[Blu Lemmy]

Should probably play Unity, still new and sealed

[Himmel]

Displayed in the image is a set of brass knuckles, Inscribed on the melee weapon is the phrase "Strength Through Loyalty."

There is also a message that reads "God Save The Queen," which lines up with the game's rumored British setting.

"We Forge The Chains We Wear In Life." This quote is from English author Charles Dickens' "The Cricket on the Hearth," which was originally published in the 1840s.

a reference to "Rooks," which may be related to the bird of the same name commonly found in northern Europe. You can also see an image of a bird.

[detective392]

Originally Posted by TheWildWhelk

Chance that the release of this game will be a total disaster like Unity? Probably bordering on NoneWhatSoEver! I mean, seriously, no way can Ubisoft screw up the release of this title! And the setting of Victorian england is a great one to boot. Looking forward to this. Hopefully this time around the PS4 is lead platform!

Different development team for this game. I know Unity had trouble but once they patched it it played very smoothly for me (actually didn't play it while it was a bugged mess). Some games don't even get patches to fix problems.

[TheWildWhelk]

Originally Posted by detective392

Different development team for this game. I know Unity had trouble but once they patched it it played very smoothly for me (actually didn't play it while it was a bugged mess). Some games don't even get patches to fix problems.

The general public don't look at games like that, all they care about is if the next game is going to be good and was the previous one up to scratch? AC: Unity has tarnished the Assassins Creed name in the worst possible way; people are going to be staying away in droves approaching launch day unless Ubisoft get early release copies out that vanquish any and all concerns that the game is even remotely similar to the bug-ridden disaster that Unity was. Ubisoft must turn this around. "Not only does the game play in super slick fashion, it's also got a compelling narrative, folks!"

[detective392]

Originally Posted by TheWildWhelk

The general public don't look at games like that, all they care about is if the next game is going to be good and was the previous one up to scratch? AC: Unity has tarnished the Assassins Creed name in the worst possible way; people are going to be staying away in droves approaching launch day unless Ubisoft get early release copies out that vanquish any and all concerns that the game is even remotely similar to the bug-ridden disaster that Unity was. Ubisoft must turn this around. "Not only does the game play in super slick fashion, it's also got a compelling narrative, folks!"

I don't think the general public is that smart. Unity was a very good seller for Ubisoft well after launch when all the known problems were out in the open. Bad reviews and bugs did not stop the public from eating it up.

[Himmel]

The new Assassin's Creed game set to be revealed next week is entitled Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and stars an assassin named Jacob Frye, according to promotional material leaked to Polygon.

The information obtained by Polygon reinforces this, as it states Syndicate will "transport millions of gamers to an astonishing recreation of London during the Industrial Revolution where they will find themselves immersed in a game world they'll have to see to believe."

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ass.../1100-6427212/

[TheWildWhelk]

This setting moves the AC franchise the closest it has been to modern times since the very first game. I prefer the original title of 'Victory' rather than Syndicate, but whatever. Hopefully the recreation of victorian London is stunning, At least that could be said of Paris in Unity.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by TheWildWhelk

This setting moves the AC franchise the closest it has been to modern times since the very first game. I prefer the original title of 'Victory' rather than Syndicate, but whatever. Hopefully the recreation of victorian London is stunning, At least that could be said of Paris in Unity.

If they don't learn to cut NPC's running around madly then I expect a few patches a long the release date window.

Defintely interesting to have a setting in the early 19th Century. I had fun with Unity for awhile but ultimately these games are too big & cram too much stuff to collect which I am a sucker for so I will probably try the game & doubtfully finish it.

[Havok83]

I dont like the Syndicate title either bc it reminds me of the futuristic video game

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by TheWildWhelk

The general public don't look at games like that, all they care about is if the next game is going to be good and was the previous one up to scratch? AC: Unity has tarnished the Assassins Creed name in the worst possible way; people are going to be staying away in droves approaching launch day unless Ubisoft get early release copies out that vanquish any and all concerns that the game is even remotely similar to the bug-ridden disaster that Unity was. Ubisoft must turn this around. "Not only does the game play in super slick fashion, it's also got a compelling narrative, folks!"

People said the exact same thing about AC3. I can almost bet everyone who says they wont buy it, will buy it anyways!