Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag

[K9]

Get ready to be a pirate.

[Hawkbit]

After AC3, this will not be a day 1 purchase for me.  AC3 is so bug ridden and poorly crafted that I can't even slog through it like I did Rev. 

Hoping for the best, expecting the same.

[Sky]

Henry Rollins finally snaps.

[sickrubik]

I will buy this if there IS a downloadable skin of Mr. Rollins.

[Rendakor]

Meh. I haven't bought one since Brotherhood was mediocre, so this doesn't do anything for me. Just another formerly decent series getting shitty due to annual releases.

[Yegolev]

Henry Rollins finally snaps.

Got me with that one.

[koro]

Guess they've given up on Connor already.

[Fabricated]

Next Assassin's Creed will be ninjas then we can finally wrap this shitheap up.

[luckton]

Ugh, what's next?  Assassin's Creed 5: Bronx Ghetto?

[Yegolev]

Plenty of untapped time periods, especially if they don't try to stay linear.  AC5: Club the Pharaoh: Moses Infinite ; AC6: Get High and Fuck: Burning Man 2009 ; AC7: 99% Perspiration: Edison's Sweatshop ; AC8: Colons: HUH: What Are They Good For?

[Rendakor]

I assumed they were staying linear since they had been this far.

[Lantyssa]

AC9:  Everybody Walk the Dinosaur

[Ingmar]

AC9:  Everybody Walk the Dinosaur

I would totally play 80s New Wave Assassin's Creed.

[Yegolev]

Shamefully, so would I.  I probably wouldn't even need the New Wave qualification.

[Lakov_Sanite]

AC10: Rage against the Machine

[KallDrexx]

Apparently the PS3 version will have 60 minutes of exclusive gameplay

rabble rabble rabble

[Sky]

Assassin's Creed 11: My Own Prison

[Paelos]

Hmm, perhaps instead of Rapehorse we'll get Rapeboat.

[Rendakor]

Assassin's Creed 12: A Space Odyssey

[rk47]

Just give him dual light sabers already.
Shia Lebouf to star in the movie adaptation.

[Gets]

http://i.imgur.com/G1WBFO8.jpg

 

[Ironwood]

Bullshit PR Speak turns out to be Bullshit Shocker.

[HaemishM]

I lost all will to give a shit about AC at the final boss fight in the first game. Spend the whole goddamn game learning how to kill people 1v1, then get dickslapped with a final fight where you have to kill a gaboodle of fuckers to win. Then get treated to Desmond's ending which is basically "Fuckers are coming into the building, and you can wander around aimlessly but never get out of this room and no, we won't explain who you are or give you any sort of resolution on this story."

Fuck Assassin's Creed.

[Yegolev]

omg spoiler

[Kail]

I lost all will to give a shit about AC at the final boss fight in the first game. Spend the whole goddamn game learning how to kill people 1v1, then get dickslapped with a final fight where you have to kill a gaboodle of fuckers to win. Then get treated to Desmond's ending which is basically "Fuckers are coming into the building, and you can wander around aimlessly but never get out of this room and no, we won't explain who you are or give you any sort of resolution on this story."

Fuck Assassin's Creed.

We must have played different versions of AC.  My playthrough was more like "spend the whole goddamn game trying to kill people 1v1, and then bumping into the guy right before stabbing him or something retarded like that and suddenly you're in a sword fight with like ninety guys."  My brother kept looking over my shoulder as I played it going "I thought this was a stealth game" as I was wading through a sea of corpses after the target turned around right as my knife was coming down or something.  It was pretty sad.

Seriously, though, I agree with the bitching about the ending, and it's the big reason I didn't buy AC2 until it went on sale for like $5.00... but the second game is way better.  Ending is still kind of though.

[Paelos]

Everything about overarching "story" of AC is 

If you could just play a fun stabby stabby game without the conspiracy nonsense, I would probably like it better. However, AC1 is still may favorite because it was about killing. Running jump stabbing archers is still fun no matter what version.

[UnSub]

The meta-narrative conspiracy of the AC series is its second worst part.

The worst part are those first person jumping sections of Desmond's.

[Venkman]

If you could just play a fun stabby stabby game without the conspiracy nonsense, I would probably like it better.

This.

AC3 was a big disappointment. I can't even be arsed to finish it. And it's a testament to their delivery that they're jumping to IV right away rather than milking 3 with a few years of same-character sequels. Black Flag indicates a lot more of the ship combat introduced in 3. I didn't hate that stuff. But the meta conspiracy (such as it is*) has passed the big voodoo 12/12/12 thing, and with all those years to develop, this particular team didn't really seem to go much for the quality thing.

So I'll wait for the real reviews before thinking about it.

* I swear the AC conspiracy shit is like that recent Bungie b.s. video where they said absolutely nothing with great feeling for 20 minutes.

[Azazel]

Plenty of untapped time periods, especially if they don't try to stay linear.  AC5: Club the Pharaoh: Moses Infinite ; AC6: Get High and Fuck: Burning Man 2009 ; AC7: 99% Perspiration: Edison's Sweatshop ; AC8: Colons: HUH: What Are They Good For?

ok, this cracked me up. 

[K9]

Trailer

Not seeing how this game will offer as much in the way of free running and such, but I guess the trend is towards more fighting.

[HaemishM]

Assassin's Creed: Capt. Cloud 

[Paelos]

We'll sing him down with a long, long roll. Where the sharks'll have his body and the devil have have his soul.

Yo ho!

[Fabricated]

Assassins Creed could've done a ton of really cool stuff with the "DNA contains your ancestor's memories" thing and the Animus but instead it's Evil Templars Vs. Assassins over the magic alien macguffins.

[Rendakor]

Alternatively, they could've dropped all the Animus/DNA/Aliens bullshit and just made games about assassins.

[tmp]

I'm deeply disappointed at what looks like a lack of pirate hat on the protagonist.

I mean srsly, wtf.