shikamaru317 said:
Yeah, I have to laugh at that myself. I told so many people who were begging for AC to go back to the classic formula that it was a bad idea. There is a reason why Ubisoft evolved the series into WRPG's to start with, it's because people had grown tired with AC games as they were in the past, which is precisely why AC Syndicate has the 3rd lowest reviews in the mainline series and was a sales flop (selling about half the copies of earlier AC games), even though it is one of the best games in the series. Ubisoft evolved Assassin's Creed at precisely the right time to save it from total decline. Now they let whining classic AC fans influence them into giving them a brand new game in the series in the old formula (instead of sticking to remakes to satisfy the classic AC fans instead), and what did it get Ubisoft? A 76 review average on AC Mirage, which makes it pretty much tied with the aforementioned AC Syndicate for 3rd lowest reviewed mainline game in the series. Ubisoft will definitely be sticking with the RPG formula after seeing these reviews, because all 3 RPG AC games reviewed better than Syndicate and Mirage, the 2 most recent classic formula AC games. We already know that the next 2 AC games, Red in Feudal Japan and Hexe in the Holy Roman Empire circa 1500-1600's, are back to the RPG formula. Maybe we will get the rumored remakes of AC1 and AC4, but I think it is safe to say they will stick with RPG's for brand new AC games moving forward. |
I can't adequately describe just how much I hate this argument. Yes...Ubi went back to the old formula...but they did it in the most low effort way imaginable. It doesn't take old school AC and iterate upon it in any way to provide something in any way beyond those old games. Hell, it doesn't even go so far as to meaningful overhaul parkour back to be on par with AC Unity. It's the most barebones callback to classic AC imaginable.
I would LOVE a full classic AC game, and never had even any remote interest in Mirage, because it never looked like anything more than a pumped up DLC, that yes...probably will be held up by people to say "SEE! CLASSIC AC IS DEAD!"
