Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-28601337-20170612004120/@comment-18014300-20170614014719

SupremeAssassin wrote: The eagle mechanic is just stupid... I'm sorry, I just can't get behind something so silly. Assassin's Creed was never meant to be fantastical, while Prince of Persia was a spiritual precursor, let's not sit on ceremony here. I'm also not sure how I feel about the voice actor, but I would have preferred if the protagonist was a former Hebrew slave or some such, but I was legit expecting an Egyptian. I don't know how that giant snake fits into things. 

I think Bayek being a Medjay is fine because it explains how he had so much elite combat training when he wasn't raised as an Assassin but will help create them. If you were expecting an Egyptian, well, Bayek may not be ethnically Egyptian but Nubian, however, the Medjay could be said to have been Egyptian by nationality I guess, less so than a Hebrew. I'm glad they didn't go the Exodus route after all, would've been too tangled with real religion.

Oh yes, by the way SupremeAssassin, would it be rude of me if I shared this quote by Ubisoft creative director Jean Guesdon, and said I told you so about why the 5th dynasty would not have been a reasonable setting (though the Pyramids were built in the 4th dynasty)? :P

"Egypt was there, Rome was growing, and after that it would be different. In terms of embedding our strong narrative of the origin of the brotherhood into a pivotal moment that would explain why things coalesced like that, it makes total sense. If we would have picked the building of the pyramids, there was almost nothing: one city, several locations, and massive pyramids. Yes. But that's it. Here, we can play with tons of different layers of characters, of stories, of locations that have been forgotten." [1]