Assassin's Creed, or Leaping From Rooftop To Rooftop Murdering Guards All The Time

[Aldurin]

Guns being supersilent is meant to counterbalance the bullshit of guard telepathy, or having your cover blown to everybody because your only witness was the guy you killed the moment he saw you.

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

or having your cover blown to everybody because your only witness was the guy you killed the moment he saw you.

Guards aren't people. They are humanoid creatures governed by an overly protective overmind. This is true in real life as well.

But for serious, I kind of hope that when they make AC3 they have the same kind of leap in mechanics like it was from AC to AC2 (where everything was just a bajillion times better). As the gameplay is now though, moving to a higher focus on guns for the player probably wouldn't end well.

[PyrosNine]

It may not actually take place in another time period, but in a different area. Just because Desmond and Ezio are direct descendents of Altair, doesn't mean their DNA only points to Altair- a good Assassin's creed game could be anywhere, anytime-

Though it does look like Desmond will get more action soon, a recurring theme is that while Desmond is pretty all powerful in the animus, the bleak cyberpunkian (in themes, anyway) future he's in leaves him powerless to do much.

Here's hoping he gets a sneaking suit in the assassin style with stealth camo, disguises, and more urban stuff.

Then there's the idea that maybe we are someone using an animus to see Desmond using the animus seeing Ezio using the old style animus seeing Altair originally finding the animus to see---?

I do think at one point we'll go all the way down the rabbit hole, and play as Adam or Eve.

One thing I do like is how the ideology of the Templars is used. They aren't deluded fools, and while they collectively push for an extreme, they have sympathetic and human qualities. They can claim that they're pushing for a better world and state that they are doing so by using politics and real forces (prestige, wealth, trade) to make this happen, and in many ways they are doing so, we're just seeing the places where they had to break more than just a few eggs to make their omelet.

I notice the greatest logic failure of the templar order is that while anybody can want to create a better world, the only people who are attracted to the Templar order are the people who also want power. Regardless of whether or not they actually deserve said power. Kinda like the first officer from Cryostasis, whose controlling tendencies lead him to assume more responsibility than he actually acted upon. They talk about how devout and how worthy their cause is, but most people are signing up because they like the power and how it can let them fulfill their own personal ends.

In a nutshell, Warren Vidic is not a member of the Templars because he genuinely wants a better world, but because it gives him all the funding he wants for his research, unlimited wealth, and complete control over the entire field of science he wants. All his happy buttons are pressed, and therefore he'll fight for the Templars.

[CelesJessa]

Originally Posted by PyrosNine

It may not actually take place in another time period, but in a different area. Just because Desmond and Ezio are direct descendents of Altair, doesn't mean their DNA only points to Altair- a good Assassin's creed game could be anywhere, anytime-

I think I heard in an interview that Ezio isn't Altair's descendant anyway, they just happen to both be Desmond's ancestors.

From some of the trailers I've seen of Revelations some stuff that was mentioned in the first novel seems like it will probably tie in with the game, and I'm wondering how much of Altair's life after AC1 they're going to show/If they're going to make me cry like a baby.

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I am impressed NPF! I never thought I'd actually inspire intelligent discussion with this topic.

I probably didn't anyway, but it came about regardless. I would very much like to see what's going on with Assassins the world over. We see from emails in Brotherhood that there are in fact teams in Japan and Russia. I can only imagine this means that there were branches of the Assassin Order in these areas at other points in history. I'd kill to see an AC set in Meiji Restoration Japan, or perhaps during Lenin's revolution in Russia.

[Mr.Bookworm]

Originally Posted by EckScizor

I'd kill to see an AC set in Meiji Restoration Japan, or perhaps during Lenin's revolution in Russia.

There is a comic called AC: The Fall that is almost exactly this. Most of the first issue (out of three) is up on the Ubisoft website.

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SO HEY, REVELATIONS GETS RELEASED IN TWELVE DAYS, THAT'S A PRETTY BIG DEAL I GUESS WHO'S GOT PREORDERS?

[Melfice]

I dooooo! =D

[Arcanum]

I'm excited. Are you guys excited? I think you're excited. That's good, you should be.

In other Assassin's Creed news,

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Last month, Variety reported that Sony will soon be signing a deal to adapt Assassin's Creed [...] But Vulture has learned that this is no ordinary rights deal: [...] Ubisoft was able to demand and receive an unheard of amount of control over the project. To make the deal, Sony had to grant the gaming company approval over just about everything — budget, principal cast, script, release date — and Hollywood spectators are flabbergasted. [...] As a director, even Steven Spielberg cannot get this kind of deal.

This is like, the greatest thing ever for video game movies. Ubisoft can, if they feel the movie is going to be horrible, pull the plug and make it never see the light of day. But hopefully that won't happen since they are also capable of making sure the movie sticks to the source material 100% of the way. This will ensure something like Russel's "Uncharted"Not Related To Uncharted In Any Way Because Russel Is A Complete Retard movie script never happens.

But it seems like Hollywood doesn't like it when people muscle in on their turf.business of ruining franchises by taking WAY too many creative liberties.

“It's [Ubisoft’s] billion-dollar brand, so I get that they're protective,” says another head of a different studio that hung in longer than DreamWorks, but ultimately passed. The exec adds, “But they're not moviemakers, and the only way to make sure it's a bad movie is to undervalue what movie studios do — and this is a deal that totally undervalues what movie studios do.”

Yes because everything every movie studio has ever made is solid gold, and telling a movie studio "hey, no, stop that, our writers are better than yours, we know what we're doing" is the only way to make a bad movie. CLEARLY.

Anyway for once I'm actually excited about a video game movie.

[Aldurin]

*looks at unfinished playthroughs of U3 and Dark Souls*
*Looks at the list of steam games that still need to be played*

FUCK YOOOOOOUUUUUUU NOVEMBER!