The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

Yaaaaay!! Rumors!
I don't really have a favourite setting; as long as they do it well, it's fine with me.
This is a long shot, but does anyone recall an interview with Jade Raymond where she may have mentioned her favourite historical era? I doubt it, but it'd be great.

Wait - no China?

I'm surprised they haven't officially announced the next AC game yet. Just hoping it won't come out this year.

In that case we should have a bet on how soon it's announced.

Sounds like a poll topic.

PAGING STABGUY!

Sometime in march.

One of the more prevelant rumors is that there are TWO Assassin's Creed games planned for consoles this year: one for last-gen (360/ps3/wiiu) and one for current gen (ps4/xbo/PC).

This both signals the beginning of the transition into a fully next-gen series, and also possibly taking a break from the series for a year, since they had to use two dev teams' work in one year and one of them will need time to provide a similar companion game for ACVI.

In that case, there would be a lot riding on ACV. It would be ubisoft's first exclusive next-gen game, and would have to make a big enough impression that hype doesn't die down during the off year (from their perspective, that's the reason they didn't just have two years on nothing before AC3, to grow the audience in the meantime)

What does that mean for us? Hopefully, a real next-gen AC full of tons of cool new mechanics and expanded and/or better executed scope.

I want a ton of enterable buildings, for one.

Next-gen?

I want more people. Like, a lot MORE people.

http://www.accesstheanimus.com/Brief_analysis_on_the_leaked_assassin.html

The link above is a artical from Access the Animus concerning a "leaked" image from ubisoft. Based off this ACV could be in london which is awesome.

I also wanted to leave a link of a ACV theory video:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2AZPJfLjo

Really good video, makes a lot of since. Could be what ubisoft is aiming for. Probably not but one can dream.

I was just thinking about this yesterday. I definitely hope a larger crowd and more detailed and dynamic animations for moving through them are a priority. A truly large crowd would totally change a lot of how the game feels. side alleys and isolated spots would be dangerous places while pursued, and main paths would become your safe havens.

re: that potential leaked image, I've got to say I'll be disappointed if it's another male assassin, as it appears to be. There's so much potential in this series to live the lives of many different kinds of people, but we've been limited to a male viewpoint for almost every game.

Different backgrounds and races and genders lead to different stories, and a series that releases games so often should strive for variety.

I'm also hoping the setting is somewhere people would never have expected, not Victorian London.

Wait...so no China?

http://games.yahoo.com/news/leaked-images-hint-amazing-next-assassin-cre...

Looks...the same. Draw distance doesn't look that sharp...

Keep in mind that much of the visual polish comes together in the last year of development. This is stuff they weren't ready to show. E3 demo will prolly be polished up to be more representative of final product.

I'm honestly more interested in the rumored changes to the nav system and hopefully new crowd stuff than visuals.

Compare Watch Dogs between last year's E3 and the most recent gameplay videos and tell me that's true.

Trailer for watch Dogs from a few days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rdr9chzsP0

Watch dogs at last E3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z3iG2QlJXk

I don't really see any difference.

No-one compares watch dogs with last E3, they keep comparing it with that demo from before they even knew what the final specs of the consoles would be.
obviously they had to scale it back from then, but it looks really good now.

This happens every generation, and stops happening pretty quick as developers understand more clearly what they can and can't do on a console.

Assassin's Creed Unity is going to be mostly finalized visually by the time of E3, and come out like 5 months later.

Here is a comparison shot. They set expectations and failed to meet them.

Wow that car looked terrible...
I didn't know there was such a big difference with the actual game.

This is literally what I was talking about. That build is from a prototype of Watch Dogs from before they had a concrete idea of what the final specs for the consoles would be. It was from several years before the game would come out. And Ubisoft is a really big company. The Watch Dogs team is separate from the AC team. The AC teams have had a history of showing in-game footage that matches up or is exceeded by the final project.

Moreover: this AC Unity video is from a game that is coming out less than 9 months from now, on Next-Gen only (which is a huge deal. games that have last-gen versions are always held back), and the capabilities of the next-gen consoles are now known. And watching it in full quality on Gamersyde, you can see a lot of the imperfections that are difficult to notice in a youtube video, but make it feel a lot more like an attainable game world. If they wanted to just totally bullshit us, they'd have gone a lot further. Eg: the reflections in the windows are reflecting the wrong things, there are a few bits of lighting pop-in, there's judder and artifacting.

Unity won't for sure look exactly like that footage, but it has a far better chance of hitting that mark than Watch Dogs did for hitting its best-guestimate footage from 2012 on both next and last gen.

Are we sure that the crappy version isn't from current gen consoles? It IS coming out on both. It's hard to believe next-gen is going to look that bad.