Soapbox: Assassin's Creed Is Fuelling My Excitement for PS5

I sank a frankly obscene amount of time into Ass Creed Origins and Ass Creed Odyssey, so I'm excited to see what's next.

I remember back when the PS4 launched, Black Flag was one of the first games I played on it, and I thought it was amazing. It's still pretty good now, but I think Ass Creed is a good franchise to have around on day one. You can bet on it being a big game that'll keep you busy, and it's bound to look pretty.

So yeah, totally agree with Liam's article, can't wait.

sounds good EXCEPT this bit

"Make dialogue choices more impactful — putting relationships on the line and agreements with rival leaders at risk"

those need to go completely, don't get me wrong they are good game play mechanics BUT when your supposed to be playing historical events, things that have already happened then dialogue trees and relationship choices shouldn't be a thing because they have already happened and then it just leads to issues like Odyssey had when they had to do something that went against many peoples way of playing the game and their choices because it had to happen for the Story

remember your living a persons memories not their lives

@FullbringIchigo In Odyssey's defence, though, it's not much of a historical game — it's straight up fantasy at points, just with a historical setting.

And I think the dialogue options made Alexios/Kassandra into really likeable characters. I don't think the story would have been as good without them, to be honest.

Having said all that, I do agree with people who say that Odyssey isn't really an Assassin's Creed game. It's much more of an action RPG that just happens to be set in ancient Greece. The absolute worst parts of the game are the bits that try to remind you that it is an Assassin's Creed game, namely the modern day pap.

@FullbringIchigo Yeah, but history isn't telling every person's story. They can easily choose to use characters from that time that don't have a direct impact on historical events, but they exist in the time those events happened.

I have a feeling TLOU 2 will be setting the bar pretty high for storytelling. I'm excited to see how Death Stranding does as well. I think it's exciting times for all us--zero load screen times while in game (which exists now), more adapt storytelling, deep graphical and audio immersion, etc.

I'm sure the PS5 will finally make me get a bigger 4K TV

@kyleforrester87 I'am Sure The Bird Can Give You Some Codec Assistance If You Need It

I'd be excited if they went back to older style or at least scaled it down a bit. Bigger isn't always better and I feel like Assassin's Creed would be better with smaller maps with more meaningful things to do.

Odyssey is one of my favorite games this gen. I love me some Kass. I'm a bit sad knowing her story is over. Looking forward to what comes next tho.

Loved Odyssey, it's easily in my top 2 and at times I actually think it could've surpassed Black Flag, but it's missing some core AC stuff that bumps it down.

They could always just make a visual novel with the various dudes from the series and call it Ass Creed.

because nothing says brand new beginning like the twelfth sequel to a franchise that began two generations prior.

@ShogunRok. Black flag was amazing.i agree playa.word up son

Ooh I love a good open world game. I'd say Ubisoft are one of the best of a bunch who can create stunning open worlds. Rockstar is still king, though.

@ApostateMage. Rockstar is the best i agree word up son

@ShogunRok I will be very happy if the AC brand will become a series of massive action RPG set at different historical periods.... Vikings, the 100 years war, ancient Rome, feudal Japan, Italy during the city states time etc etc...

I am an history sucker and I really liked AC 4, Origins and Odissey for their settings

@kyleforrester87 PS5 games are gonna be on CD's....weird...😃

Im looking forward to next AC game, got plat for both origins and odyssey. And if i get the plat for a game it must be pretty good. The combat in the new games are what i liked the most, much more fun than the older ones.

I wish these Assassins Creed games had nothing to do with an assassins creed. Id love a great ancient Greek game or a pirate game without this AC storyplot.

So, like, are all these games connected story-wise, or can I just jump into whatever? The last couple seem like they're probably pretty decent, but I'm not excited to play the older ones, if I'm being honest.

@Ralizah well, the most recent 2 are technically prequels, so, if ever, now is the best time to jump in and get the gist of what it's all about!

@J2theEzzo Cool! Might be worth jumping in sooner than later, then.

On an only vaguely connected note, does anyone think it is strange that we haven’t seen a second of gameplay for ‘Gods & Monsters’ considering when it’s due out?

On topic I am excited for the next AC, Black Flag was my very first PS4 game. I think they should just drop all connections to animus/assassins going forward though and just make historical open world RPGs. Maybe bring Assassins back in a few years closer to the original idea but also drop the reliving memories guff. I know some people like it but I believe most don’t and that’s why they have slowly diminished its part in the games.

@JoeBlogs I guess there will be a lot of English monasteries to climb and pillage and lot of friars to send back to God

@ShogunRok the thing is though in the frame of the AC franchise what you play has already been done, already written, think of real world history, your teacher in class doesn't say something like "and then Germany invaded Poland and started world war 2 BUT now i'm going to give you 3 options so we can change the outcome and then that will be what really happened"

what they should use the dialogue and relationship bits for IS the modern day stuff

@starhops true BUT the thing is this is basically an alternate world with it's own history yes none of these characters or events happened in our but it did in theirs and as such they are events that already happened at the point we/they (aka Desmond or Layla) are experiencing them and as such from a narrative standpoint and keeping in the lore of the series doesn't make sense, they are good fun mechanics to use i'm not denying that but i think at least in the historical segment of the game they are out of place, like i said remember when we are playing as Kassandra/Alexios we are not playing History we are watching History, yes the Animus can be used as an excuse but that can only go so far because like the DLC in order for the history and important plot points to happen peoples decisions have to be ignored

I am still trying to figure our what this Ass Creed is that @ShogunRok mentioned. Sounds like some kind of snake oil that one buys online to melt away fat on the gluts.

Note: Joke

I'm more excited about the inevitable GTA 6 on PS5

GTA hasn't released this generation (GTA 5 was ported) so knowing its been 2 generations since the last one, i am excited for what it will be.

@arnoldlayne83 I would love to see one set during the time of Charlemagne. The PS5 could help create a proper massive Western Europe map

I would love to see an Assassin's Creed game set in feudal Japan.
Come on UbiSoft, make it happen.

You’ve got more faith in them then I do.

I would love to see if the Assassins creed game will move with the Haythem Kenway's full life story.Yeah,I like that man

@Ralizah The first game, the Ezio trilogy, and AC3 are all one related storyline, so jumping into one of the later ones like Revelations or AC3 would leave you a bit confused with the modern day story arc. But then AC4 seemed to reboot things in the modern arc a little, although there is still connections to the historical protagonist from AC3. Honestly, after AC4, I stopped playing them, but I think they all become a little more stand-alone after Black Flag. Certainly, like has been said, Origins and Odyssey I understand to be prequels and barely related to anything else other than the main hook of playing as your ancestor and experiencing their “memories”

The early games are good action open world marker chaser collectathons with decent story, especially if you’re a history nerd like me. I’m not sure how the older games would hold up to be played now though in the post Red Dead 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, Breath of the Wild era. So Origins and Odyssey are likely to be good entry points to try them out. I plan on finally getting on with Origins soon for my open world fix.