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  • MaryMary
    Posts: 2
    Sorry folks. I am very disappointed by this. I think that given the popularity of costume dramas over the world. They should have made a 10 part mini series out of each game, covering the historical period and politics that took place. But...sigh...
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    Posts: 12,837
    A mini series could work but it'd have to have a pretty big budget to do the games justice make the parkour and the fighting look good. It would allow them to develop the characters as well as the games did though. I wouldn't want them to adapt any of the games. New stories with the game characters though, that would be cool (if he's not gonna get another game, can we have Connor in the film sequel?).
    Agent007391 wrote: »
    . The modern day was important to the games, as well, but too many people complain about it.

    It's really not important at all (there's a reason it's the historical assassins that are on the box art, they're the main characters), especially since Desmond died. And is it any wonder people complain? The modern day sections could have been something great if it were treated as anything more than a framing device. As it stands it feels tacked on, the characters are underdeveloped (Desmond was a joke, and even when they did try to flesh him out in Revelations it was through that dumb mini game), the story is a mess (what happened to that satellite launch?) and the sequences are never fun. They yank you out of the action and the story you're invested in to do some tedious puzzle solving or hacking mini game. Even in AC 3 when Desmond was an actual asssassin, his missions were poor.

    The modern day could have been great (AC 1 and 2 felt like the modern day sections were at least building towards something) but they f***ed up with it. The historical sections are fun to play. They have good stories with fleshed out main characters that develop over time, set in rich open worlds that are fun to explore, with loads of fun things to do. The modern day sections never have any of this. Shit, it's called Assassin's Creed but Desmond never actually even assassinated a target. And now we don't even play as Assassin's in the modern day bits.

    They're pointless, they've never done anything but drag the games down and rather than making them more and more inconsequential (to the overall story and the game itself) so as not to upset new fans, I wish Ubisoft would just have the balls to get rid of it altogether. Unity, for all it's many faults, had pretty much no modern day sections, which I was glad about, but even then, every now and again you'd get a voice coming through reminding you that you weren't really playing as an assassin during the French Revolution, you were just a guy (a faceless mute character) on a computer.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    Yes, they f*cked up the modern day segments because people complained about them. People tend to forget that the historical backbone of the game was to progress the future segments.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited August 2015 Posts: 12,837
    Agent007391 wrote: »
    People tend to forget that the historical backbone of the game was to progress the future segments.

    Yeah but it didn't really have to be, they could have written it otherwise. I dunno, I could tolerate the modern day stuff up to AC 3, where it was at least building towards something, but after that game, with Desmond dead, it feels even more pointless thanks to the lack of an ongoing story. They may as well ditch it entirely and make the games stand alone period pieces, which is what they should have been from the start imo. I've never enjoyed the modern day stuff at all.

    It did have one benefit though: I really liked what it did for Ezio's character. All the sh*t he went through was all so he could deliver a message to someone (Desmond) he'd never even meet, so that person could carry out a task that Ezio knew nothing about. The moment when he accepted this at the end Revelations, basically coming to terms with the fact that he was just a pawn in the grand scheme of things and would never receive the answers he was looking for, but was content enough with his life, was really good.

    I think it's one of the best examples of showing how well written these games are (or were, up until Unity :( I'm hopeful for Syndicate though, it all looks really cool and they showed with Rogue that they haven't lost their touch yet, hopefully Unity was just a one off, a blip on their track record).
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,978
    I suppose this can go here.

    The upcoming film has added Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson to the cast. Can't say I've ever seen a more impressive cast for a game-to-film adaptation before:

    http://www.slashfilm.com/assassins-creed-jeremy-irons-brendan-gleeson/
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,978
    This could turn out to be a video game-to-film adaption that is actually good.

    And I don't know about anyone else, but I like that the film isn't an adaption of any of the game, instead it's an unseen chapter.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,978
    @MajorDSmythe, I think that's what gives the movie promise: it's a separate story, all on its own. If it wasn't, you'd have the die-hard fans who would nitpick, debate, and despise every little thing done wrong in the movie. In this way, they can make it their own.

    With a cast like this in a standalone game-to-film adaptation, I have high hopes. If this doesn't work, then no game adaptation can work. They have such a strong cast lined up, it'll be hard to mess this up.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,718
    16 years ago I would have said 'Goldeneye' is the best film adaptation of a video game, sadly I wasn't aware then that the film series came first. ;)
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    Despite my current feelings about Assassin's Creed, I may still see this film based on the cast alone.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,978
    Agent007391 wrote: »
    Despite my current feelings about Assassin's Creed, I may still see this film based on the cast alone.

    I haven't been able to enjoy any of the games since the second one, but with this cast lineup, I'm more than interested in the movie.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    The cast is looking impressive to be fair.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited January 2016 Posts: 40,978
    The film version of 'Assassin's Creed' has wrapped:

    http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=130060

    Also, a trailer was released last week for 'Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India,' which is also out now:

    http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-18100-Assassin---s-Creed-Chronicles--India-Trailer-Released.html
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