@garfield666: What does the studio being in Canada have to do with any of this?

@nilsdoen: It seemed like Ubisoft was trying a new direction for the series with Mirage, but then Mirage wasn’t very well received, so I don’t know what they’re doing with Shadows. But I hope it’s not another Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla, because those games all got boring way before they were over.

@daidochus: I doubt we need to worry about an Assassin’s Creed protagonist being a capable fighter. Whether or not Ubisoft writes a good character for their setting, we’ll just have to wait and see.

@cherub1000: I gotta assume they learned something from the reaction to Season 1.

Hopefully it's that making their protagonist completely unlikeable was a bad idea and Galadriel sustains a head wound early in Season 2 that results in a major personality shift.

@ceelogreen94: Here's hoping the game turns out good.

@ceelogreen94: Well, I don't think ethnicities and internet demographics are really the same things, so I don't mean whites or blacks, I mean the folks who subsist on YouTube drama videos about how there's a black samurai in the new Assassin's Creed. I suppose they could be any skin color.

@mrbojangles25: Sounds like the other playable character covers that base.

@pillarrocks: Mirage was a story that never felt like it mattered and gameplay that never got particularly interesting. I still want AC to get away from the far-too-large, far-too-shallow loot driven pseudo-RPGs that the last three mainline games were, but Mirage was not a well executed return to form for Assassin's Creed.

Here's hoping Shadows is better thought out.

@Sushiglutton: I doubt most of the folks very focused on the identity of the protagonist are interested in the giving the game a chance, and probably wouldn't be interested in it at all if not for the "political" main character. They're here for the drama, not the game.

@noodles227: Certain internet demographics are powered entirely by melodrama, so this is really a boon for them.