Hey everyone, how's it going? As you all know, I'm a big fan of the Assassin's Creed series, as it is one of my many favorite video game franchises. I've loved the experiences I've had with these games, but well, now, I'm starting to fear that the franchise is plummeting to the Call of Duty route of franchise fatigue. This doesn't mean I don't like the franchise anymore, but you know, after Assassin's Creed III, I really couldn't see another game being made, and well, I figured since Desmond's story was over, the series would end. Black Flag was released last year, and although I've heard great things about the game, I haven't gotten the motivation to buy it. The game looks stunning and fun to play, but I really don't have an interest in having it for now. And now there are two more Assassin's Creed games on the way, and I'm starting to wonder if the franchise will evetually die out.

 

I mean, don't get me wrong, the games are awesome, but they should at least take a two year gap between releases, that way we'll be hungry for a new installment, while not feeling like its: "Oh, another Aassassin's Creed game." It's impressive how they get games like these out yearly, but Ubisoft should really take their time and expand on new franchises or make installments for old beloved franchises. I don't know, I just got mixed feelings about the Assassin's Creed series now. To be honest, the best part of the Assassin's Creed lore is Ezio's story, as I found it to be the most engaging, as we saw how the transition between child, adolescent and adult played out. With Connor in Assassin's Creed III, I don't know, Connor's life was told a bit rushed in my opinion. But well, that's just my opinion. Anyways, I love the Assassin's Creed series, but I fear that the games may suffer the Call of Duty franchise fatigue symptom. (I know the Call of Duty games always have good sales, but what I mean by franchise fatigue is the fact that with each new installment they don't do much to improve the multiplayer setting, and if they do add things, they are only very minor. The only Call of Duty game I have is Black Ops, and I don't think I'll buy another Call of Duty anytime soon.)

 

And before you say: "But Kingdom Hearts has yearly releases too!", remember that Nomura always changes up the gameplay. ALWAYS.  That's what I like the most about him.  He's willing to take chances and experiment with different play styles, for better or for worse.  Each Kingdom Hearts game has something fresh to it, not to mention excellent storytelling.  Well then, enough about my opinions, what do you all think of the current state of affairs of some video game franchises you think should take a two year rest between releases?  And what do you think of the way they release the games in general?

Edited May 1, 201411 yr by Golden Fighter

I'm a pretty impatient person, so yearly releases appeal to me I actually loved Black Flag and thought it took everything that AC3 had and improved upon it. I thought AC3 was extremely boring and the ship combat wasn't fun at all. Yet, I loved Black Flag despite how much ship combat it ended up having. I'm personally hyped for the next releases of AC.

I loved Black Flag. The game took some elements from AC3, like hunting and ship combat, but made them way more fun. At first I thought I would not really like the ship combat that much, but it was actually pretty cool and fun in my opinion. I also really liked Edward, he is just such a badass, and come on, he is a freaking pirate, what's not to like? I also liked the missions outside of the Animus, where you play in first person and have to do some hacking mini-games thingies. So yeah, In my opinion AC 4 Black Flag is a great game and SO much better then AC3 I can't wait for AC Unity.

I'm looking forward to the next game, tbh. Maybe it's because I got into the franchise after ACIII came out, I don't know. A year is a long time and I enjoy the series, so I find it acceptable for AC to do yearly releases. After all, the series DOES evolve and change itself up with new characters, story, environments, the time period itself, stuff like that. What does Call of Duty do? It changes some things up here and there, but it's almost more like an expansion pack than an actual full game, never really evolving.

 

Point being, I find Assassin's Creed the exception to the rule when it comes to yearly releases.