Assassin's Creed Infinity - Everything We Know About Ubisoft's Game Hub

I really hope they make this hub for the fans and not be coined "Assassin's Greed". A central spot to explore all of the titles, DLCs, stories / novels, fan art similar to what some collections do nowadays, will be excellent.

I'm a massive fan of the Assassin's Creed series. I've loved nearly all of them, save for some of the latest entries.

Odyssey was by far the worst in terms of fitting into AC IMO, and Black Flag was a great 'pirate' game, but not an Assassin's Creed game. The rest I've enjoyed. Oh, and the bugs everyone talks about? Never found them, as I'm always about a year or two late to the party. Sometimes a great perk of being a dad with kids, I don't get to the new releases until they're heavily discounted, and by then, they're patched! I even loved Unity although everyone didn't because of the "faces" bug, never experienced it.

I'm not even that excited for "Red", which I don't think will hold a candle to Ghost of Tsushima. I've already played it Ubisoft, you had your chance, move along. I enjoyed the 2D title in China too with the female protagonist, having the hidden blade in her boot. Was great. But again, you could have expanded this setting into a full game.

The only titles I have yet to play are Syndicate, Valhalla, and the latest Mirage.

So i am imagining something like the Hitman "hub", where you can access the 3 games from and such..

Can we get a remaster for AC IV: Black Flag? I've been holding off playing it, assuming that a re-master will be around the corner. Just give us some high res textures, at least.

I wouldn't mind a higher res version of AC: Unity as well - as that'd graphically shine at a higher res!

Is Ubisoft gonna be surprised when this ends up being the least popular AC game yet?

I'm not feeling the whole 'game as service' route. I like my games to tell a story or on a more basic level just be entertaining, but at some point it needs an ending. I want a complete experience for my money and that just won't happen with such a model.

I also feel that the assassin's creed games would be better on a smaller scale. The last ones felt big for the sake of being big. The aegean sea and egypt were awesome locations but after so many hours they do lose there appeal. You're left with water and sand.

Should have just ditched AC as a series with the newest two games, only bad parts about them were the AC baggage. Also service monetization is a no go. Someone else out there just keep making open world RPG standalone games with historic settings, there's a big market for that.

On this Game Length topic..

As an avid gamer more quality time in game is good.

But from a games reviewer/entity perspective less time in game is less "work" from job to job, review to review, which from that perspective shorter is "better".

I think that plays into this discussion as well.

I'd rather smaller than larger for AC as well; the last few have gotten boring well before the main quest lines were done, even ignoring most of the side stuff. Going smaller would allow Ubisoft to hand craft more unique content, instead of filling these massive maps with a bunch of repeatable activities that feel procedurally generated.

That said, if Infinite is a bunch of different settings, that can each be smaller and more bespoke than your average AC game, that doesn't sound too bad either, even if the game as a whole is bigger than ever.

"If they take my advice". I honestly hope they do NOT. Also, there's absolutely NOTHING in the game that prevents you from bypassing all the extras, collectables, side missions, etc, to complete the game. NADA. You can follow the main quest to your heart's content.

Make a smaller game. You're out of your mind. Some of us gamers LOVE these huge open worlds filled with smaller missions, side missions, explorables, etc. Stop putting your opinion as facts. More people want the larger worlds KEPT than those that want smaller worlds. Also, just an fyi, if they do make a smaller game people will complain for weeks about how they changed the game.

I totally enjoy the larger open worlds in the last three AC games (Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla). Valhalla for me was much less compelling/enjoyable due to progress stalling hidden keys hunts for locked doors and chests that artificially extended play time. That said I totally enjoyed all three games and prefer the direction the single player experiences AC has gone mainly due to large, varied open worlds to explore and easily 100+ hours of gaming enjoyment.

I have seen this “Game’s too big…” chant by some and I suspect it is partly due to slow progress WRT collecting/earning achievements and 100%’ing the game since players must explore the game world which takes time. Also it seems many players race to “beat” a game before others versus taking time to enjoy what is actually IN the game and not being spoon fed their achievements is frustrating for them.

Bottom-line: The priority for me is maximum amount of in-game fun and the last priority is racking up achievements.

As long as my time exploring any open world game is compelling and fun I feel the game has done an awesome job of making my time worthwhile…the bigger the better.

Lastly WRT AC Infinity…I don’t enjoy multiplayer modes and no matter what Ubi does I hope they end up creating a large interesting and compelling AC single player experience.

I've never cared less for Assassin's Creed. Should be called Assassin's Greed these days. I'm done with Ubisoft now, their games seem to regress in quality, they are full of worthless microtransactions and the DLC is weak! The company itself sounds evil in the press these days. I really cannot condone giving these sleezebags money.

Sounds kind of bad, but still too early to tell. The thing is that AC pretty much works like this already. They make a base game (AC:3, AC Origin) and then they use that template for a number of sequels and DLC:s.

So the difference may not be as large as people thinks.

Well, I guess this is as good a time as any for me to call it quits with Assassin’s Creed. No “service games” for me.

What we also know is that its an open world game made by one of the shittiest developers in the whole gaming industry. The chance of this game being garbage is 100%. Yes, you heard it, 100%. There are not even a single percent chance of it being a good game. They will gate and have a metric shitload of inconveniences just so you say "**** it" and visit their outrageously overpriced store to skip the bullshit THAT THEY INCLUDED IN THE GAME for your $60.

POS dev making POS games. Wouldn't play their shit even for free.

I was wondering how Ubisoft was going to squeeze more money out of us after their NFT and battle royale ventures failed.

And this is it.

If you look at games like Anno 1800 (a great game, by the way) it's like 49.99 for the game. I think now they're on Season Pass 4, with each season pass costing about 20-40 dollars.

So to get the whole game, you need to spend close to 200 dollars.

"That's too much!" we say, and sales go down.

"Hmmmm...how do we charge people the same amount, but make it so they don't know!" and in walks "Games as a Service" and it says "Don't worry, blokes, we can charge them for service. The game will be cheap, even free! But we keep the on the line for years on end and drip-bleed them 5-10 dollars at a time!"

BRILLIANT! And terrible.

So basically its going to be like the current Hitman games?

I was already kind of done with the new assassins creed games. Now I know I'm finished with them.

“It’s going to be very innovative, but it’s also going to be exactly the same.”

-Ubisoft

Sounds about right.