since a lot of the members here mentioned egypt, feudal japan and world war ii…

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/05/assassins-creed-3-creative-director-doesnt-like-your-ideas-in/

to which here’s a follow-up…

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/06/assassins-creed-3-creative-director-doesnt-dislike-your-ideas/

my take? the guy has a point. those settings have indeed been familiar and typical settings for other games, but i hope mr. hutchinson does not dismiss them in such a way. ubisoft has managed to put an interesting, and, dare i say it, educational twist on the previous 3 settings for ac1 and the ezio trilogy of ac games. they might do so again for ac3 (might since we can never really draw a conclusion yet since the game isn’t out yet). but the point is, those 3 popular settings the fans have been clamouring for are already interesting and it would only provide ubisoft more opportunity to use what has already been established in those eras to create a more interesting and – dare i say it again? – educational approach to egypt, feudal japan, and/or world war ii. it’s like what my historiography professor told us: there is always something new to discover in any point in history regardless of how many books and documents have been written about it.

and, in this day and age, it is not really a good idea to piss off some fans. it might have been better if mr. hutchinson simply didn’t put any mention of those 3 settings instead of putting it out and getting a negative interpretation. i’m pretty sure he means well, but like i said, fans today are, well, too sensitive. but at the same time, please, mr. hutchinson and the rest of ubisoft, don’t pull a mass effect 3 on us. stand by your decisions and do a 180 on the story simply because the fans didn’t like it. unless, of course, it’s part of the marketing strategy.

for you he may not be dismissing the fans’  suggestions. to state the word “boring,” however, is one way to not get on the fans’ good side; and, for me, that felt like a dismissal of not just my ideas but – and i am not speaking on their behalf – of other fans as well. how many people here suggested the three aforementioned settings? i believe there’s even a thread about that. i wonder how they would take a “egypt is boring” comment from mr. hutchinson. don’t get me wrong, i will accept whichever setting they would come up for assassin’s creed LXIX, just don’t call the fans’ ideas “boring.” some people didn’t like the american revolution setting for ac3, but how many of them would still go get it and play it anyway? would their opinions about it change after finishing it? maybe. maybe not. would they find it satisfactory?

and for the mass effect 3 bit, if the fans don’t hate it, how come it got to a point where fans created a petition charity? ok, maybe the word “hate” may seem a bit harsh. hate, dislike, disagreed… whatever. am i saying ac3 will have an alternate ending if desmond ends up impregnating juno and fans don’t like it? no. i am simply stating that if the fans don’t like, hate, or disagree with the ending, then they don’t like, hate, disagree with the ending. ubisoft does not change it. i am merely using the mass effect 3 controversy as an example of how fans can be fans.

only because im scottish i feel that they could make an amazing creed from scotland vs england but the assassin would need to be scottish or ubisoft can do a run and jump hahahahaa

it would be best for the assassin to be scottish because many of the nobels where easyily bribed so they could assassinate the trators thats my idea and im sticking to it anyone who wants a fight can come ahead hahaahahaa

Some locations just don’t seem AC enough. For instance Egypt wouldn’t have enough buildings in some places and would take awhile to travel.

@pedgz but the main difference is that there is not a lot of trees

no. my point was there aren’t a lot of tall buildings in ac3, but they managed to make a game setting out of it by incorporating trees in the climbing aspect of it. the frontier, or even the settings in ac1-ac3 had big areas covering them, but the traveling aspect were addressed by incorporating traveling stations, tunnels, and horses.

the point is any location can or cannot be too “ac enough” if they choose it to be. the point is any location or time period can or cannot be boring if they see it already as is.

What I mean by not enough buildings in Egypt is like when you have to just go through the desert running or on a camel.

With all of the Carte Blanches for the encyclopedia, you know we just love those brainstorms at ubiworkshop! While I would tend to agree with @spencerman007 that what we picture of ancient egypt is mostly desert, there certainly was enough buildings to house an entire civilization, but they were quite small compared to the 2 or 3 story buildings from Renaissance Italy or Constantinople. At first sight, it makes for some less exciting parkour, but @pedz points out something interesting when taking the example of the trees in AC3. It was the role of the designers to find a way to apply the fun navigation mechanics of AC in this new setting with very few buildings and using the forest was the clever solution. It is the combination of location AND time period that justifies it really well and that’s how you can determine what makes the best possible AC setting for a certain location or a time period.

Reusing the examples listed:
1) WHEN would Egypt be the best AC setting?
2) WHEN would Japan be a good AC setting?
3) WHERE would World War II be a good AC time period?

I think the most obvious answer is not necessarily the best one.