Assasins Creed IV - Black Flag

I haven't even finished AC3, it feels like playing the same game as last time for the fourth time. I can't help but feel the core gameplay mechanics are starting to become stale after so many outings :/

The story has just gone a bit over the top for me. It started out pretty simple with the whole templar vs assassins thing, but once all of the ancients and stuff got involved I was just a bit like....eh.

See if they gave Master Chief a snazzy new bomber jacket to go over his Spartan suit, Halo 5 would be a whole new experience. XD

It doesn't look awful (or good for that matter, not enough has been shown), but I do like the idea of a Caribbean setting. The tropical environments and the beaches should prove to be quite refreshing for the series. Though the pirate theme does not look too interesting, but we'll see.

Honestly, I really love the Assassin's Creed franchise. The problem is, the games have been suffering since Brotherhood. After that game, they started to go downhill and proved that Ubisoft cannot pump out a game every year and have it be better than it's predecessor. While I did like AC: Revelations and AC:III, both of them fell very short of my small expectations.

The mulitplayer in both was ruined and so many great elements that made Brotherhood's multiplayer so much fun were removed for no reason. Sigle player experience wise, AC: Revelations wasn't long enough and didn't hold that much to me and after I platinumed it, I left it and eventually traded it in for another game. You think the game would of also explained Lucy's disappearance, but it didn't and neither did AC:III, ridiculously.

Conner from AC:III was not a very interesting protagonist and seemed to be more of a stubborn, know-it-all assassin with a very uninteresting story line that you had to play in a game full of endless glitches.

Personally, I believe that Ubisoft needs to quit milking a series that was once so great and work on different series entirely, like a sequel to PoP '08 or even focus it's attention to Watchdogs.

An Ancient Egypt AC with a female lead sounds fantastic. I would definitely be here for that. It still irks me that the only female lead AC game was relegated to a handheld platform but I can't say I'm surprised when female lead games don't get nearly the same promotional budget as male lead ones. :/

It made me laugh when they said that female protagonists don't sell, if you compare the sales figures of 24 games of this generation that have female leads against male then you are going to have skewed data from a kickoff. Without going all nerdy statistics you would need to break down the figures to weight them accurately because I have a feeling that those published are more or less just direct comparisons which do not always provide great reading.

Plus a female lead game isn't going to sell as well if designers aren't designing them, if you had a shelf of 6 games and one was FL then there is a very good chance that the other 5 outsell the one FL. I thought we were starting to get past all that until all the news about Remember Me came out.

Anyway this is HIGHLY offtopic! Please continue....AC4

I finally got the chance to pick up a copy of this game, and I absolutely love it! Who knew sailing around the Caribbean in a pirate ship could be so much fun? I'm only 9% into the game, but it's been a blast! I keep getting the pirates of the Caribbean theme stuck in my head because of this.

I could care less what happens in the story about Abstergo, I just want to play a game about pirates! The ship game play is a lot of fun and can be challenging at times. I can't wait until I unlock the Ram for my ship, for I will ram ALL the enemy gunboats!

So yeah, I'm really enjoying the game.