Ubisoft will “surprise players” with “fresh, different ideas” to avoid Assassin’s Creed fatigue

No. No, you won’t.

Way too late for that. You should only be at your third entry in the franchise with this impending release.

Sure try telling us the same thing when Assassin’s Creed 5 is announced this time next year.

How about you surprise us with a new engine for this dated game.

The attempts to deviate from parkour+blade combat are what turned me off to the franchise. Revelations’ lousy tower defense was the last straw. Changes to the basic premise are not welcome. Improvements, yes; deviations, no.

@5 Exactly, the naval battles in 3 for example were aclaimed by a lot of people, but it has nothing to do with the premise of the game, and now they take that and do a new game?

I’m tired of it, and it’s hard for me to me become tired of franchises I really like.

A Break this year would serve equal purpose.

Use a female protagonist. That would change a lot in the tone of the game, especially if set in a historical context where women were more restricted than now.

Then make it about assassinations. Perfect that. When people complained about AC1 lacking variation what was asked for was not added minigames, wood trading and training assassins via a menu system. Instead, make the assassinations more creative. Make it possible to approach them from different angles with different solutions. And put in some good characters to make the journey more interesting. So cut the distractions and make a more engrossing and focused game.

But I guess the ubisoft solution will be as previously in the series: Add more stuff to do outside of the actual core game. More bulletpoints at the back of the box.

I have been suffering from said fatigue for sometime now…

@5: Precisely. Nevertheless, I will stay with the franchise in the hope that *one day* they will deliver us the French Revolution and Victorian London settings I so desperately crave.

@8: We already had that.

Yeah, The PS Vita version of AC3 has the girl,and it’s the same game. Same battle system, same slow FPS, same BS. The ship battles where not that fun in my opinion. I’m not going to shell out $60 for a ship battling expansion.

@7 Yeah except they wouldn’t make as much money, which is the point really..

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt because it does sound like they will bring something new to the series. We just have to wait and see if “new is better”.

How about a fresh, new IP? Or maybe one of the actually good ones you’ve left for dead?

AC has been fatigued since brotherhood.. What ubisoft needs is a new IP.. Far Cry 3 was a good game but it was just a FPS AC.. Loot, Climb towers to synchronize the maps, Side quest’s, etc.. It gets repetitive real fast.. AC will always be a good game but in all honesty their milking the series.. Ubisoft needs a new IP to get the job done.. Create something NEW.. Not watered down.. Not over exaggerated but something new and actually fresh..

They are basically saying they plan to make this the new Call of Duty

@15 ” Ubisoft needs a new IP to get the job done.. Create something NEW.. Not watered down.. Not over exaggerated but something new and actually fresh..”

They did just that with Watch Dogs, also coming to a retailer near you this fall. Yes, that’s right, two large, open world games, both releasing this fall, both from the same publisher. On top of that you have the release of GTA V this fall, also a huge open world game. Ubisoft will be competing with itself this fall as well as the usual lot. Is this really smart? Necessary?

@11 We already had a male lead, too. So why not skip that for once? Why should a male lead always be the default? Are men more standardized humans? And the female lead was in a vita game not the main series. And who has a vita, really?

And if they have to have a male lead, how about not making him have the same personality as in most other games.

@17: They should just take a break with Assassins Creed and let Watch Dogs take the reins this year.

I was actually looking forward to ACIII since it was a kind of re-invention of the franchise and in a totally different setting, but the seven hour tutorial just turned me off immediately.

The problem is that Watch Dogs is now looking like AC. Really, look at the gameplay showed in the PS meeting. He climbs, he kills, he run away, he relys on scenario tools to get away from the pursuers.