The Antitype
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Note: Didn't see it posted anywhere, mods please delete if this is old.
http://www.totalxbox.com/82294/an-a...n-would-feel-over-familiar-says-ac3-director/
I post this knowing full well that there's a chance AC3 haters who are also lovers of the particular setting will be tempted to take some shots at the guy.
That said, as a huge fan of the franchise including AC3, I think he's dead on. I've been there before. I've been in worlds that heavily draw inspirations from that place and time before. All of the architectural, artistic, cultural and military touchstones and visual cues are well-worn and familiar. The sense of wonder, of exploring a place that a game has never taken me that almost every AC provides in some way or another, would be lost.
I'd take either of these 10,000 times a day, every day, over heading back to Feudal Japan.
Thoughts?
"You could always do it, but the point I was trying to make was that in the broad strokes and scale of history, that's a theme that's been well-mined in videogames," Hutchinson began. "So, Assassin's Creed is one of those games that can take [lesser-known] time periods or corners of the world and make them cool, fun, new and refreshing.
"Feudal Japan would work as an Assassin's game, for sure, but I feel like it would start to look like 'oh, have I played this?' You know what I mean - 'oh, I've been a ninja before, I've been a samurai before'."
http://www.totalxbox.com/82294/an-a...n-would-feel-over-familiar-says-ac3-director/
I post this knowing full well that there's a chance AC3 haters who are also lovers of the particular setting will be tempted to take some shots at the guy.
That said, as a huge fan of the franchise including AC3, I think he's dead on. I've been there before. I've been in worlds that heavily draw inspirations from that place and time before. All of the architectural, artistic, cultural and military touchstones and visual cues are well-worn and familiar. The sense of wonder, of exploring a place that a game has never taken me that almost every AC provides in some way or another, would be lost.
As for where Hutchinson might take Assassin's Creed, were he back in charge of the franchise - the answer remains India during the British Raj (aka, the mid-19th to mid-20th century). It's not just Hutchinson's call, of course: Assassin's Creed 4 game director Ashraf Ismail has said that he'd "love" to visit Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs.
I'd take either of these 10,000 times a day, every day, over heading back to Feudal Japan.
Thoughts?