The end of the Assassin's Creed series?

[River_Rat_459]

Sooner or later, I'm sure they'll get to the conclusion. But there's still a lot of history to build around characters.

"There is an end" to the Assassin's Creed series, Ubisoft says
"Each iteration has its place."

By Tom Phillips Published Monday, 5 August 2013

Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft has said it has ideas in place for the series' eventual ending - whenever that might be.

In a conversation with Eurogamer, Assassin's Creed 4 game director Ashraf Ismail explained the franchise's bosses had a rough idea of how they wanted the series to finish.

"We have multiple development teams, then we have the brand team that sits on top and is filled with writers and designers concerned with the series' overall arc," Ismail explained. "So there is an overall arc, and each iteration has its place inside this.

"We have an idea of where the end is, what the end is. But of course Yves [Guillemot, Ubisoft's overall boss] announced we are a yearly title, we ship one game a year. So depending on the setting, depending on what fans want, we've given ourselves room to fit more in this arc. But there is an end."

One advantage of having multiple games in development at the same time is different teams are now able to share notes and include hints at future series entries.

"We're now able to seed stuff earlier and earlier in our games," Ismail continued. "So for example in [AC4] we have Edward, who was seeded in AC3. But there's a lot more stuff in our game that is hinting at other possibilities."

Ubisoft's collection of studios collectively gets at least two years for each major Assassin's Creed game, but there are still work-in-progress features pushed into the next instalment.

Ship boarding had to be reduced to a cut-scene in AC3, despite originally being planned as a real-time event. AC4's team have now managed to implement this in Black Flag, but found themselves too ambitious in another area.

"The biggest cut we made - which we were pushing hard for but we felt we couldn't achieve at a high enough quality - was multiplayer with naval [battles]," Ismail said.

"We had really cool prototypes but to get it to work and to balance the systems - the balance of naval is tricky - to do that in multiplayer... we just couldn't do it in this iteration."

We already know a few details about Assassin's Creed 5 - or whatever 2014's AC entry will be called. One of the primary studios working on it is Splinter Cell: Blacklist developer Ubisoft Toronto, which is headed up by one of the series' original co-creators, Jade Raymond.

SOURCE: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-series-ending

[jxspyder]

The conclusion. Until they continue a whole new arc.

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[iamthesgt]

Too much money in it to stop. HALO was 'finished'...until the reclaimer trilogy.

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[jxspyder]

Too much money in it to stop. HALO was 'finished'...until the reclaimer trilogy.

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Halo wasn't finished, Bungie was.

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[Rickety Rob]

Halo wasn't finished, Bungie was.

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True statement

[GhostOverride]

All I can say is money talks....they like money...right

[iamthesgt]

Halo wasn't finished, Bungie was.

You sure? I remember people talking about how it was done. In any case, the principle is the same.

[KaNtSt0PMeH]

While I love the AC series, closure is a beautiful thing. If you over complicate things it tends to become dull. Even though they are doing different characters/settings/stories the basic premise of Assassin's vs Templars is getting overplayed. Eventually we will need to end it. Unless they do the Final Fantasy thing, and doing a complete new story/concept moving forward. Just my opinion.

[MikaelTyson]

Too much money in it to stop. HALO was 'finished'...until the reclaimer trilogy.

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They had to "reclaimer" my money.


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[jxspyder]

You sure? I remember people talking about how it was done. In any case, the principle is the same.

Absolutely. 3's ending aside, there was no significant downtime between 3, ODST, Reach, and 4.

And not really. This is discussing a possible end to the franchise, not just an end to Desmond/Master Chief's specific storyline.

While I love the AC series, closure is a beautiful thing. If you over complicate things it tends to become dull. Even though they are doing different characters/settings/stories the basic premise of Assassin's vs Templars is getting overplayed. Eventually we will need to end it. Unless they do the Final Fantasy thing, and doing a complete new story/concept moving forward. Just my opinion.

I'd disagree that its getting old, but that's just my opinion. I'm loving the new stories within an ongoing story that they're doing.

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