Also the part where it implies the vikings are the good guys fighting against the ‘bad’ Saxons. Wonder how else they’ll whitewash them.

Also those poor oppressed vikings who definitely weren’t ravaging England by raping and enslaving everywhere they went while fighting against those evil Saxons!

I know. The argument the other person picked with you was so dumb.

The Ezio games were maybe my favorite franchise of the Xbox 360/PS3 era, and then with Assassin’s Creed 3, my interest for the franchise died a quick death. For me, the charm of the franchise was being able to virtually visit these big, sprawling cities and run around from rooftop to rooftop, and over the course of…

I’m more concerned with Ubi touting their “brutal” pillaging and raiding. While that might be historically accurate for the time period, I find it harder to justify acting as a protagonist who destroys the livelihoods of others for simple conquest and expansion. We tend to call those people the villains in most games…

Heh, kinda reminds me of a conversation I had with my super Christian cousin years ago. I had something along the lines of every army believing God to be on their side in some form or another. He stated smugly that Vikings didn’t, and I corrected him saying they worshiped Odin.

If it up to me I would soft reboot the series that connects all these games in the past by using a future assassin who has the bloodline of all the past games characters, only this time there’s actually a story of why you need to go back and revisit all the locations. The main thing is you can’t kill anyone important…

Even though it makes way more historical sense for female warriors in a Viking setting than the classical Greece, which was borderline Taliban-esque when it came to women’s social status. 

That’s all I’m saying and we can see this with Ubi’s other games Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six (even though I love siege) even beyond good and evil is going to be a big open world game and I wouldn’t like to see that happen to Splinter Cell (if they are even making another one)

Why is the male/female protagonist worth noting?  I say this as someone who only plays female protagonists when they’re available, but I thought they had already done this in the previous game.  I’ll admit I haven’t gotten around to playing that one, but I could have sworn I saw my brother playing it and the avatar…

Very informative! THANKS!

This makes me thirst ever so more for a God of War 2018 sequel. This looks interesting though. God of War leaned heavily on the Norse mythology and the lore with the gods and etc. This clearly seems to be more focused on vikings themselves, more grounded, etc. The shoutout to Odin there makes me wonder if there will…

Not gatekeeping anything. If you want to play and enjoy this new AC go ahead. All I said was I don’t Splinter Cell going this route but you all took it as an attack towards AC and got all personal. It’s all good, please enjoy your game.

lol gatekeeping another all these false claims. I’m not stopping anyone from playing, all i said was at this rate Ubi shouldn’t even bother with a new Splinter Cell.

You keep adding all these extra assumptions to what I’m saying but ok. It’s clear you aren’t going to say why you think the newer AC games are AC but to say it’s what the creators want (creators who are different every new installment) but fine

Comment section be like “I bet someone somewhere is mad that they’re including women! That makes me mad!”

my guy, this is a conversation not a condescending contest. if you disagree, at least state some reasons. Don’t be a trump and just laugh off points

oof imagine if Splinter Cell went from stealth to cinematic combat...scary

No one used the word “real” but if we want to talk about what is the real AC, Patrice Desilets and the earlier games are exhibit A. These newer ones are just borrowing the AC name because Ubi wouldn’t greenlight them otherwise

Kinda over the Norse/Viking stuff. God of War did it perfectly, Skyrim kinda cribbed from that culture, Thor, etc... I wouldn't have minded a 5th century/ Anglo Saxon thing. That could have been interesting