OMG NO WAY THEY DID NOT MAKE WINDOWS OR HOUSES LIKE THAT IN COLONIAL AMERICA WTF.

It does look cool.

 

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Could be. It's a huge departure from the roots of the game though. Look at how in those pictures you don't see one roof-jumping situation, and all but one of them are outside a city. An AC game not about running around the roofs of big urban environments is going to be a very different sort of game.

I wouldn't mind them evolving the gameplay. Some of those shots look like Red Dead Redemption, which wouldn't be a bad game to emulate.

 

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Looks like it's still mirroring reality to me.

Nannji, your tirade doesn't change the fact that historical accuracy is important to this game. It's obviously a work of historical fiction, and it has built its fantastical integrity around certain realities. If they changed that now, they would be changing the physics of the game that they've already developed. Even broad fantasy can't get away with changing the dynamics of the "reality" it crafted. (Imagine Rand al'Thor Naming and thus controlling the angel Gabriel to fight in his Last Battle. Or Aslan roaring at trees to create Ents in the Lord of the Rings. It just wouldn't make sense once the stories foundation (be it fantasy or reality) has been created.)

How cheesy would it be if they had built the Empire State Building in their last installment, plopping it right down in Constantinople? Sure they could do it, and they could probably even work it into the story somehow, a line about a glitch from Desmond's memory and maybe throw in a secret location there that develops his personal story. But that would be ridiculous and would detract from the games integrity.


Again, all I'm responding to is: I was not aware that historical accuracy was relevant to a fantasy video game.

 

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No. It's not. It never has been. Even at the most anal level for which you are reaching it does not have to be accurate at all. It has to be fun and entertaining. If they built a fort the size of New York only an uber dork is going to get his underoos in a bunch over it.

They need just enough to create the mood and no more than can stretch credibility.....FOR A FANTASY VIDEO GAME.

But perhaps you can answer my earnest question. What period was time travel invented?

 

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It's not time travel, it's a virtual reality memory reconstructor!

 

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Thanks for your accuracy!

 

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If i were anal I'd have corrected you the first time.

Look, history is obviously important to this game, even if you personally don't care about it. What's the first thing that pops up everytime the game loads? Blah blah developed by a multicultural staff blah blah. Go to the menu sometime, click on database. If history wasn't important, why do they give tons of historical fact about people, places and events?

There is a layer of depth in this game that is founded on history. It is important whether you appreciate it or not because the game itself puts an obvious importance on it.

 

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"If" you were anal?

 

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dammit!

 

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