Assassin’s Creed Shadows pioneer A New Storyline that will be used in future entries as a base?

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Ezio had three interesting endings and payoffs. I dont trust ubisoft to do it but sequels dont necessitate poor prequels.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    2 days ago

    I think it’s really hilarious thay they think it will sell enough to have multiple games, considering how bad this game is being received. Thats not even to mention how dysmal the sales were for Star Wars Outlaws, Skull and Bones, and Avatar Frontiers of Pandora.

    This game will be a colossal flop, and Ubisoft absolutely deserves it. That is what you get when you ignore feedback from literally everyone.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      2 days ago

      Even if this game functioned worse than Unity at launch, there’s basically no world where it’s a “colossal” flop, but it would affect sales of the next game. Plenty of previews are positive, so even if this entry is less well-regarded than its predecessors, it will still have its fans and likely do better than Outlaws.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        2 days ago

        Plenty of early reviews for were positive for Concord and Dragon Age Veilguard, but those ended up being pretty worthless reviews. Access media has ruined critic credibility. It would be stupid to trust a reviewer that knows their media outlet won’t get review copies of the next game from a publisher if they review the game badly, because that will absolutely change the review to be more favorable.

        If Star Wars Outlaws, a game connected to an IP that absolutely has a way bigger market than Assassin’s Creed, did that badly, I can almost guarantee that Shadows will not do better than Outlaws.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          2 days ago

          Concord reviews being semi-positive don’t matter when the audience knows that their purchase is worthless without a critical mass of other people purchasing it. Veilguard actually did do well; probably profitable already or will get there in the next few years on the game’s “long tail”, and it does have its fans. It was just under EA’s projections/expectations, but we also understand from reporting what that game was rescued from. What we know about Shadows is that its pre-order numbers are tracking with Odyssey, the second-best-selling game in the franchise, and people have been dying for this series to go to feudal Japan for a long time. It would take extremely negative reviews to truly sink this game financially.

            • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              2 days ago

              We know they sold 1.5M copies in only a few months at an MSRP of $70. We know that very few games cost more than $100M to make, and last I heard, this one barely squeaked over that line. You can do the math there. It won’t take long for this game to become profitable if it isn’t already.

    • GamingNews@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      The previews say, it is not that bad. Considering the previous history of the franchise, I think it will sell good.

      • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Thanks. For those that don’t read Japanese (and want to drop it in their favorite MTL or what have you), here’s the relevant interview answer from creative director Jonathan Dumont:

        ――ネタバレは避けますが、ゲームのオープニング時の映像はちょっとびっくりするような、怪しげな感じでした。本作をクリアーするころには、その謎は解決するのか、あるいは謎に近づくことができるのでしょうか？

        ジョナサン 　これは現代編の新しい出発点です。時間とともに発展するストーリー部分があるため、今後の複数のシリーズでも続きのストーリーが語られることでしょう。ここで目にするのは、長年のファンにとってすばらしく感じられる部分であり、新しい物語を予感できるはずです。また同時に、新しいプレイヤーにとっても非常に期待を持ってもらえるようなコンセプトになっていると思います。