
Mike Laidlaw, one of the main creative minds behind much of the Dragon Age series, left BioWare around a year ago. Since then, he's been working as a consultant throughout the industry, but now he's back at a major studio.
Today, Laidlaw's revealed that he's actually landed a job at Ubisoft Quebec as creative director on a currently unannounced project. Ubisoft Quebec is the team that spearheaded Assassin's Creed Odyssey, a game that's more of a role-playing adventure than it is a traditional Assassin's Creed title.
It's an interesting move because a part of us can't help but wonder whether Ubisoft has its own RPG property in the works. The publisher has a history of pushing various gameplay elements in Assassin's Creed before using them as a basis for their own games -- just take a look at Skull & Bones, which is built on the foundations of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's naval combat.
Right now, especially with Laidlaw's involvement, it seems entirely plausible that Ubisoft could take the role-playing aspects of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and branch them off into their own thing. In any case, we're looking forward to eventually seeing what this mystery project is.
[source linkedin.com]
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Ubisoft's making some kind of original RPG. Either that, or it's doubling down on the RPG elements of Assassin's Creed at Ubisoft Quebec.
I reckon it's the former to be honest.
Please make a new series for the RPG stuff. Please release AC from it. Please!
I hope it’s a new ip, but I will not be surprised if it’s the next AC.
@ShogunRok yeah i'm also going with the former.
i think the next AC is already in deep development anyway,so it would not be for the next AC,maybe the one after that. but my money is a new RPG game.
testing the RPG stuff out in AC oddessey to see how people would react to a full blown ubisoft RPG would be a understandable move.
@ShogunRok I'm game for either.
@Splat yeah I’m interested regardless of which it is but I would love to see an original IP.
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