User blog comment:ACsenior/AC update: AC in the "future"?/@comment-3046679-20130404202053

Back on the topic, I feel we're moving more and more away from the Assassin-esque gameplay into just having hooded guys with Bond-esque gadgets. Hell, even attire changed way too much - we no longer have white-robed, beak-hooded assassin, and before that we had beige-robed blue-accented assassin.

And they're moving more and more away from a man with a hidden blade and two support weapons to guys with seventy billion firearms, darts, bows, dual swords and what else have you.

I feel we've moved way too far from the core idea the first and second games had. Sure, Ezio had more gadgets than just throwing knives, but apart from the hidden gun and secondary blade, he still relied on just regular weaponry.

This is basically an issue of too large gaps - we've jumped three centuries between AC1, 2 and 3, and it shows they just felt the need to include more and more gadgets for whatever reason, and now we're going back instead of forward with AC4, since next 300 years jump would mean purely modern setting to play in, and they realized they won't ever do that, because it would completely break the current mechanics.

It would also apply to any sort of far-future AC. They'd have to go with Nanoblades or some stupid things like that.