Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-5088097-20151219195318
Hi all, I'm back from the dead (I wasn't dead, terrible joke) and I have been keeping up with the series, from the fantastic Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, to the stellar though somewhat lacking AC Unity, (I should mention here, I skipped Rogue and went straight to Unity) and am now currently playing through the newest roster to the series, Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
What I actually want to say, aside from how blown away I am by how gorgeous the visuals of West Indies were, to how detailed the architecture was in Paris and the sheer size of London in Syndicate is the scope of the overall series, and where I see them taking it next, and hopefully will take it next.
For those of you familiar with the emails in Black Flag ala the modern day hacking side quests, much of the potential time periods that were discussed that could house a Piece of Eden apart from Feudal Japan, Medieval England, French Revolution, to name a few others, was also the Old West aka Wild West or as it is known in secular history the American frontier .
Now I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon (get it, bandwagon? Y'know, cause of the era... ah, nevermind) and say how thoroughly I would enjoy the time period due to how popular culture has romanticized the era much in the same way the Golden Age of Piracy was romantized (Black Flag) but I am going to say this one thing, it can be done. Now hear me out, I've been poking around on other websites' forums and fans have brought up the possibility of Ubisoft exploring the Old West in future titles, even gaming sites have brought up the idea as seen in this article here. Some fans of the series have circled around the opinion that the Wild West doesn't offer very much in the way of big and bustling cities, but as this YouTuber, RetroRound says, in his video below, it's possible. He goes on to explain that in previous entries, such as ACIV Black Flag and ACIII, the Assassin protagonist was limited to exploring wildlife terrain (The frontier in ACIII and the Carribean Sea in Black Flag) and that free running was only available once the player got to areas in which there were buildings such as the small fishing villages in Black Flag, and the small towns located in the frontier, while both previous titles had Boston and New York, and Havana and Kingston as major cities, the majority of the game's story took place beyond these areas, a good chunk of Black Flag was spent piloting the Jackdaw around the West Indies, and RetroRound argues, and which I think is a good point, the Gunslinger Assassin or Cowboy Assassin could also easily spend time galloping away on a horse through the Arizona desert for instance before rearching a town in which they can free run. Now to also add on another point to this, the World War 1 sequence in Syndicate that has you playing as Lydia Frye who is the granddaughter of Jacob Frye and the neice of Evie Frye is an Assassin who still wields the iconic dual Hidden Blades, has a revolver, throwing knives, hallocinogetic darts, etc (One could easily argue it was copy and pasted from the main arsenal of Jacob and Evie) but other protagonists such as Nikolai Orelov and Desmond Miles, the former of which lived in a time when guns became the main weapon of choice for war and combat, still used the Hidden Blades. I think at this point I've been typing for too long, I live it up for discussion to see what everyone else on the Wiki thinks about this. Though PS: Other fans have noted that it would be compared with Red Dead Redemption, seeing as how I did not play that game, I cannot comment on this.
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