“The Assassin’s Creed franchise evolved into the household name it is thanks to rare, or at least rare-among-AAA, support for risk-taking at Ubisoft”
Fucking lol.
Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"
Submitted 4 days ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to games@lemmy.world
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Visstix@lemmy.world 4 days ago
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 days ago
“No, no, hear me out. It’s exactly the same game. The same thing we make every single time. But this time, it’s in… Egypt.”
“Holy shit! What a maverick! Who is that guy? I like the way he thinks. Give him a corner office and the same budget we gave the Greece one!”
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The Egypt one was definitely one where they charged it a lot. So much so that I no longer enjoyed playing them.
med@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You know what I would buy? Hitman set in ancient Egypt.
Infiltrating a workgang forced to build a pyramid, putting a spitting cobra into a nasty enforcer’s chamber pot because he owes the Potiphar some serious myrrh?
Sign me up.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 days ago
Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre and harass their employees while being protected by HR and their higher-up.
Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.
ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Assassin’s Creed’s shift to open-world RPGs would never have happened at many companies, Alex Hutchinson says
Literally everyone and their mother could have expected this change. It’s literally the one single way AAA studios have been padding gameplay and time for a decade and a half now.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Even From and Zelda went open world.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Zelda is classically open world though - since the og nintendo
dukemirage@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ubisoft codified a certain style of open world design that many other AAA releases were using as a template. He’s right, you can’t deny the impact the franchise had.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Oh yeah, climbing a tower to unlock a part of the map is so innovative, especially after the 15th fucking time they used it.
amol@piefed.social 4 days ago
Ubisoft has practically only produced confusing Open World games of the same IPs for the past decade. My definition of risk and innovation is slightly different 😅
And that’s just because Open World games are easy to mass produce. You just change assets and few minor things and reuse more or less the whole game
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
The Assassin’s Creed franchise nowadays seems more like one of those slushy machines at the mall that perpetually move the same ingredients around in a neverending cycle of despair and stagnation.
itkovian@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Assassin’s Creed is about equivalent to Colgate, I guess.
lukalix98@programming.dev 4 days ago
I’m clueless, what happened to Colgate?
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Some scandal. A Colgategate, if you will.
yunglucifer@lemmings.world 4 days ago
Weird, Assassin’s Creed died with 2 when they fired the creator.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Okay but Black Flag slapped. Maybe not as an AC game per se, but Black Flag was still a greater game.
Senseless@feddit.org 4 days ago
Agreed. Black Flag was awesome. Never finished the story though. Just sailing, singing shanties.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And Rogue. I rarely hear Rogue mentioned but it’s my favourite. I find the story the most appealing, and it comes with so much moral ambiguity.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Black Flag was a mediocre Assassin’s Creed game, at best. It was a phenomenal pirate game
Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Is that why the third one never concluded the series as it was originally intended?
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 days ago
Probably more to do with boatloads of money to be made
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Sad because 2 is where it hit its stride
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Least self-aware Ubisoft employee quoted in post title
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Controversial opinion: I like comfort games these days.
The first AC came out when I was in high school, and my one of my favourite bands for a good few years released their first album around then as well. I may not have as much time or love for either now, but I still get a nice buzz when I engage with a new release - especially when it does something a bit different (even if not revolutionary) compared to previous ones.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Life’s too short to avoid something you actually enjoy just because other people told you it’s not good enough.
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Toothpas?
afaix@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Like gamepass, but tooth
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They came from toothpas?
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Looks like the title got cut off.
“Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies”
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And the title should have been much shorter.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
You know how in tv shows or movies in the 90s, there were always a pair of villains or goons that worked for the main villain and were comic relief? Like the Jessie & James pair in Pokemon or the two guys in power rangers or whatever I’m thinking of.
Remember how occasionally, like if it were two guys, they’d fight between the two of them, on-screen?
I don’t know why this memory popped up. Curious…
mohab@piefed.social 4 days ago
🎶 Assassin’s Creed is a good franchise 🎶
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
“Forever brand” really has “forever chemicals” vibes.