Rumors: Assassins creed 2020 will be more RPG.

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Other details include even more RPG-like elements than Odyssey, something the franchise has seemingly been building toward; Scandinavia isn't the only territory on Assassin's Creed 2020's map, again befitting because of how Vikings led raids; lots of supernatural appearances for the First Civ, most likely similar to how the Isu appeared as Greek Gods in AC Odyssey; and finally, a complete refutation that co-op would be returning, one of the most pronounced rumors thus far.

Well Well. now ubisoft will milked the RPG elements out of it. more and more RPG assassins creed coming. more grind, more lootboxes. more ubisoft.

It's rare you see a title that quite literally, not exaggerated or metaphorically has the effect of an automatic eye-roll.

Assassins Creed is a remarkable franchise.

It never got the basic core gameplay down, and the best part is when you're on a boat not actually playing Assassins Creed.

Instead of making any of it good, it's like a father trying to distract a child into eating it's dinner by dangling shit in front of it each entry.

And it works, sells like hot-cakes. Even though it was never, and probably will never, be good.

RPG is the best. Why the hate?

it appears that RPG elements are more of cash cow now. the RPG assassins creed games are worse than older ones.

That just means more repetitive side quests and grinding to level up. Yawn.

grinding, made combat worse and bulletsponies, too much focus on boring dialogues. they are staler than stale at this point.

Honestly I don't even know what RPG is anymore.

Next game must be a much tighter experience than Odyssey for me to buy it. Odyssey was just waaay too much, first AC game I couldn’t finish. Tried a few times, but made me almost physically ill 🤢.

So this is not good news if true.

I enjoyed Origins for a while, but Odyssey just felt like more of the same with even more bloat.

they need better writers and voice actors if they are going to stick with this direction.

I grinding through open world showered with cookie cutter objectives is relative. For a Far Cry game, liberating outposts is where the action is, gives players chance to flex muscles with growing skills and tools acquired. In AC, the tasks are so tedious and difficulty walls now seem set by stats of weapons and player level and not how abilities and tools clash with mission design.

@uninspiredcup said:

@Grey_Eyed_Elf said:

Honestly I don't even know what RPG is anymore.

whoever made RPG. its bound to be crap. unless its FPS/RPG.

Sad, but damn near true these days. Especially non-indie Western "RPGS"

They're so obsessesd with TW3 , yet they can't see what made that game great

RPG's as a game genre are great, and I don't think many people hate them.

But RPG mechanics tacked on to a game that has no business being an RPG is not the best. It's a lazy way of adding depth, or rather the illusion of depth, without actually working very hard to add any substance to a game.

Let's look at an example:

1. In a regular action-adventure game without RPG mechanics, you are rewarded with new equipment and abilities, and these often involve quests and stories and actual content. So you might start off with your basic weapon, but then after meeting some new characters you are tasked with stealing something, bringing it back, and then I don't know maybe some mystical blacksmith turns it into a new and cool weapon.

You've met new people. The quest you finished to get that reward had meaning and purpose. That item you were rewarded with was earned, and you had fun getting it, too. It was a genuinely good experience.

2. In an action-adventure game with RPG mechanics, you don't get rewarded. You get paid for your time. It is more akin to work (hence the term "grind") than to play, because all you do is go from side quest to side quest hoping to get enough xp/credits/etc. to unlock a new ability. And of course you actually need this ability or item in order to advance to the next level, so instead of actually adding content with characters and meaningful quests, they've more or less locked the rest of the game behind an "XP wall" requiring you to invest time into stuff that is meaningless because god forbid they actually put some effort into a game.

Next thing you know, you're 60 hours into a game and 40 hours of it was essentially the same thing over and over again, and you're wishing you could have just gotten to the end of the game at 30 hours, but no, they're tracking how much time you put into the game so they can run to their CEO's and shareholders and go "Look how much people love our game! They're playing for DOZENS of hours!" when in reality we don't have a choice [if we want to beat the game].

And that's really what it comes down to with tacked-on RPG mechanics in non-RPG games; keeping you playing long enough so that when the DLC for the game comes out, you're still playing, still subconsciously wanting to get that next level or skill or whatever.

except that game not great too.

Eh, couldn't even stick with Origins, which i've attempted 4-5 times.

repetitive player grinding?