Next Assassin's Creed Game Reportedly Set During The Viking Age

[jolldan]

I am obsessed with origins. Such a romantic setting, very Laurence of Arabia. I’m actually replaying it now! I wonder if it’s worth getting the dlc? It’s still so overpriced

Yeah personally I think its almost criminal that we didn't get a trilogy with Bayek hands down the best assassin since Ezio imo.

Can't comment on the DLC as I have never played but I know it got really good reviews.

Oh yeah, i think so far its my favorite setting.
The Vibrant colors, the landscape, its all so incredible to look at.
Sadly it didnt get the same level of content Odyssey gets, you pretty fast got to the point where you have seen all...which of course is also because you have to a large extent "just" sand and that can get a bit boring after a while.
Odysseys landscape has a bit more variety and more missions, weapons etc.

I do hope we get back there one day because i dont think we "need" to lock a setting into just one game.
You can go back there a few hundred years later or so and tell another story.
But for now i just wanna meet the Viking "Assassins", dont care for anything else.

One thing AC usually excels at is cinematic trailers. So I hope they put together a good one for this can just picture it now.

"Start with a fleet of Viking ships crossing a very storm sea towards England. They arrive on the beach and see the walled city of York and hurry towards it, they use the element of surprise to start attacking settlements outside the city and use ladders to breach the walls. From there you could show the ensuing panic and violence as the Vikings pillage their way through the city showing the Vikings to only really be interested in gold, silver and other treasures they can take back. Then you show the usual Templar organising his men to stop the invaders. That's where you first show our protagonist as he is looting a house he see's the Templar leaders cross on his shirt and pulls out a piece of parchment with a drawing of that cross. From there you see the majority of the Viking and English forces meet in a courtyard with our protagonist commanding the Viking's and the Templar commanding the English. You could show off some of the cooler Viking legends like a few Berserkers charging at the full English fighting force taking multiple arrows and still cutting down soldiers this causes the English to lose morale and the Vikings overwhelm them. You finish by having the Viking assassin standing over the dead Templar and taking his cross."

 

[Mani-Man]

Yeah personally I think its almost criminal that we didn't get a trilogy with Bayek hands down the best assassin since Ezio imo.

Can't comment on the DLC as I have never played but I know it got really good reviews.

Yes, while i do like them all...Bayek after Ezio was the first one that really had me invested in his story.
The rest was fine but nothing where i said i want to see more after their AC game.
Bayek was a really well written character.

One thing AC usually excels at is cinematic trailers. So I hope they put together a good one for this can just picture it now.

"Start with a fleet of Viking ships crossing a very storm sea towards England. They arrive on the beach and see the walled city of York and hurry towards it, they use the element of surprise to start attacking settlements outside the city and use ladders to breach the walls. From there you could show the ensuing panic and violence as the Vikings pillage their way through the city showing the Vikings to only really be interested in gold, silver and other treasures they can take back. Then you show the usual Templar organising his men to stop the invaders. That's where you first show our protagonist as he is looting a house he see's the Templar leaders cross on his shirt and pulls out a piece of parchment with a drawing of that cross. From there you see the majority of the Viking and English forces meet in a courtyard with our protagonist commanding the Viking's and the Templar commanding the English. You could show off some of the cooler Viking legends like a few Berserkers charging at the full English fighting force taking multiple arrows and still cutting down soldiers this causes the English to lose morale and the Vikings overwhelm them. You finish by having the Viking assassin standing over the dead Templar and taking his cross."

Its one of the biggest joys of every new AC games imo, the first cinematic Trailer that reveals the setting...there is nothing better than this.
Be it E3 or so, its always a thing where you really get excited for because of the quality of those trailers.

 

[psylockolussus]

Eh they rarely attach the cinematic trailer to the actual game and its not even similar to the gameplay graphics and actual cutscenes of the game. Imo they are a bit misleading.

 

[Mani-Man]

Eh they rarely attach the cinematic trailer to the actual game and its not even similar to the gameplay graphics and actual cutscenes of the game. Imo they are a bit misleading.

That too yeah, but they are damn good to look at.
But the actual gameplay trailers dont need to hide either, its really nice stuff...they know how to promote their AC games.

 

[psylockolussus]

Its what attracted me first to Ac, those damn trailers, I think Revelations was the only one that attached the trailer/cg scene in the actual game. I haven't played ac1/odyssey.

 

[jolldan]

Eh they rarely attach the cinematic trailer to the actual game and its not even similar to the gameplay graphics and actual cutscenes of the game. Imo they are a bit misleading.

Yeah I can agree to that, AC3 & Unity are two of the worst assassins creed games imo but they had two of the absolute best cinematic trailers the series has ever done.

 

[Silvermoth]

Yeah personally I think its almost criminal that we didn't get a trilogy with Bayek hands down the best assassin since Ezio imo.

Can't comment on the DLC as I have never played but I know it got really good reviews.

Oh my gosh a trilogy would have been amazing. Doesn’t even need to just be Bayek although I loved him. Egypt is just such a perfect setting and so tumultuous.

I understand people saying they got a bit worn out. I was just starting to get worn out when I hit the ending so I’m lucky. But I still loved it. I actually loved the pacing, long western type shots of you travelling the desert, seeing how random people lived their lives.

I wonder if they can ever revisit a previous location? Give it another rinse? Probably not because everyone’s always clamouring for something new. What a shame

 

[psylockolussus]

I thought Bayek was boring. Origins worn meout and the thing is, unlike the previous games, I didn't finish it quickly because I got physically ill for a month and I still felt the fatigue after numerous breaks from the game. The structure of the missions were just tiring, and the lack of progress tracker/game percentage also didn't encourage me to finish the side missions. I hope Odyssey, when I pick itup, would have a different experience on me.

 

[Mani-Man]

Oh my gosh a trilogy would have been amazing. Doesn’t even need to just be Bayek although I loved him. Egypt is just such a perfect setting and so tumultuous.

I understand people saying they got a bit worn out. I was just starting to get worn out when I hit the ending so I’m lucky. But I still loved it. I actually loved the pacing, long western type shots of you travelling the desert, seeing how random people lived their lives.

I wonder if they can ever revisit a previous location? Give it another rinse? Probably not because everyone’s always clamouring for something new. What a shame

There would have been so much to see in Egypt despite Origins being already this big, so i would be all for going back there one day...maybe even in modern setting, egypt is a nice place.

Origins "problem" is that while its a incredible setting, there wasnt as much variety as it is in Odyssey, so the length of Origins was a problem.
That and that you didnt really had a feeling how far you came in terms of the story, im still surprised at how fast i suddenly arrived at the ending of the story

Im currently 50hours in Odyssey according to the game and dont feel like im tired of it or so, its still a lot of fun to explore and do missions.

Im all for going back to previous locations, maybe seeing how things changed etc.
France should definitly get a second chance imo.

 

[psylockolussus]

France in Unity looked great, despite being overcrowded. Setting wise, I hope there would another game similar to the look of Paris and London.

 

[jolldan]

Its what attracted me first to Ac, those damn trailers, I think Revelations was the only one that attached the trailer/cg scene in the actual game. I haven't played ac1/odyssey.

Yeah AC trailers also are responsible for getting me in to Woodkid lol they had a couple great tunes in those trailers "Run Boy Run" & I believe it was "Iron" that was used for Revelations. Still often listen to them on a run.

France in Unity looked great, despite being overcrowded. Setting wise, I hope there would another game similar to the look of Paris and London.

Syndicate was so bad that I agree I don't think we really got to appreciate the incredible industrial revolution setting of the game so I wouldn't be opposed to another one. Think like you said though you would need to change it to Paris or even New York I think could be cool.

If you went with NYC you could even work in an angle of the gang wars of the 5 points being the templars trying to establish control of the city.

 

[psylockolussus]

Id like to see them go to Spain and feature bulls.

For another Syndicate/Unity kind of setting, I don't want New York as that location was already featured twice. Maybe Los Angeles? or another European city.

 

[jolldan]

Oh my gosh a trilogy would have been amazing. Doesn’t even need to just be Bayek although I loved him. Egypt is just such a perfect setting and so tumultuous.

I understand people saying they got a bit worn out. I was just starting to get worn out when I hit the ending so I’m lucky. But I still loved it. I actually loved the pacing, long western type shots of you travelling the desert, seeing how random people lived their lives.

I wonder if they can ever revisit a previous location? Give it another rinse? Probably not because everyone’s always clamouring for something new. What a shame

Yeah I would love another outing with Bayek. Its just a shame that Augustus doesn't have a more AC suited death but then again "natural causes" could easily just mean the assassination had to done in secret but I think he would make an excellent antagonist for Bayek because if you look at any list of the greatest Roman leaders of all time Augustus is pretty often ranked 1st and if not in the top 3.

I wouldn't be opposed to a totally different Protagonist either later back or further forward in Egypt's history. Tiberius and the crucifixion would be really interesting imo (even though would be outside Egypt) although I understand if Ubisoft don't want to touch that with a 10ft poll

Id like to see them go to Spain and feature bulls.

For another Syndicate/Unity kind of setting, I don't want New York as that location was already featured twice. Maybe Los Angeles? or another European city.

Yeah Spain has some awesome time periods to go through. Spanish Inqustion, The Muslim Caliphate (756-1031) (if you want to continue on from the Viking game) and Late 15th century Spain.

 

[Silvermoth]

I know we have to go back to the tread topic eventually but I have a controversial opinion. I actually found Oddysey more repetitive than origins. I actually was the one who got overwhelmed with that and once I had hooked up with a few blokes I found I couldn’t keep playing. But to be fair I went on holiday halfway through so I kind of lost the momentum.

Spain would be cool though. Really there’s so many choices

 

[psylockolussus]

Spain just conquered a lot of countries, for a long time, including the country that I live in, and I think my ancestors were probably Spaniards.

 

[Silvermoth]

I was thinking even if they couldn’t do egypt again they could do something similar like the Persian empire or Syria, Jordan. Lots of places. But Egypt really is special.

I wonder if they did Spain if they would do the running of the bulls as a mini game? Pretty controversial

 

[Mani-Man]

I just checked out all the parkour animations from 1 to odyssey...and i cant say which one i like the most.
Unity probably was the smoothest for me, i think there i had the best flow...but i cant really say for sure.
Its really cool that they all have a unqiue style, even if just subtile.

 

[psylockolussus]

I just watched Assassin's Creed the movie (now with the experience of playing the games) and Spain was underused in that film!

 

[Silvermoth]

Oh no I hated that movie. What was Fassbender thinking? You could just tell from the metal music played over the credits it was going to be sh**.

Is there anything about the Viking life that would make a good mini game type thing? Like origins had the colleseum, black flag had shark fishing etc

 

[Mani-Man]

Is there anything about the Viking life that would make a good mini game type thing? Like origins had the colleseum, black flag had shark fishing etc

Crafting i think could play a big role that way...or hunting.
I could also see it be a bit like AC3 with building a village or so.
There is a lot possible.

One thing at this point i would like to have is the possibility to customize the character we play as.
We will be able to choose between two characters, ubisoft said this will be the norm from now on.
So why not going a bit further and let the player also customize at least a bit the look too?
Especially when we go to the vikings this would be neat with different beards and stuff, markings.
Nothing too big but just here and there a few changes, that would be sweet.

 

[WereCoyote]

Yeah I can agree to that, AC3 & Unity are two of the worst assassins creed games imo but they had two of the absolute best cinematic trailers the series has ever done.

AC3 is the Revolutionary War one right? Thats my favorite game they've made and the one that got me hooked on Assassin's Creed.

 

[WereCoyote]

Personally I'd like to have a game set in ancient Israel.

 

[Silvermoth]

Crafting i think could play a big role that way...or hunting.
I could also see it be a bit like AC3 with building a village or so.
There is a lot possible.

Yeah, crafting has appeared in previous games so I’m sure it will come again. Building a house sounds pretty cool. That might be fun. Sort of give it a bit of a fortnite flavour

Personally I'd like to have a game set in ancient Israel.

Oh my gosh I would love that! Israel is such a fascinating setting with so much history and potential.

 

[jolldan]

Is there anything about the Viking life that would make a good mini game type thing? Like origins had the colleseum, black flag had shark fishing etc

Like Man-Man says I think building could be a big part although I have a different idea for what.

1. Strongholds. More so on enemy land as a mini game could be about establishing Viking strongholds so you can return for bigger raids. Not sure how it would work but having it if you establish a base on English or French soil you can leave men there and when you return they will have found extra ways in to the enemy bases and generally just increase the incursion force you are taking with you on missions.
2. Trade Routes. It sounds boring but having that the more trade routes you establish offer better gear, resources and gradually whatever you are buying getting cheaper. For example establishing trade routes in the middle east could offer better armour and the meddeterianan better weapons.
3. Naval Battles. We've already had this in Black Flag and while it wasn't anywhere near as common in Viking times naval battles still did happen.
4. Norse Pantheon Gods. Much like in Origins with the stone circle missions you can't make a Viking game without having some nod to the Norse pantheon.

 

[psylockolussus]

I'd like an Ac game in which we can control an aircraft and take down aircrafts while in the air. Though that would be hard to me as when it comes to games that features planes, I always suck at it. But For a game that featured riding horses, parachutes, carriages, small boats, ships and trains, it seems like a natural progression.