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Professor Jeff: Assassin's Creed Revelations Facebook Trailers
Last week a mysterious video appeared on Facebook showing what is assumed to be the next game in the Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed Revelations. It was quickly pulled, but not before teh internets grabbed it and posted it up for all to see. So rather than try to stuff the cat back in the bag with litigation or magic or something, Ubisoft has reactivated the Facebook page for this new title, including some tantalizingly ambiguous videos. The page is here, but if you don't want to screw around with Facebook, here's what you're missing:
Hmmm. Not a whole lot there, but the imagery seems to suggest that Altair will somehow be involved in whatever this is. Which honestly, is kind of a disappointment for me. Don't get me wrong, I liked Altair as a protagonist. I mean, he wasn't exactly deep or nuanced, but he got the job done. Ezio on the other hand remains an extremely interesting and well developed character, that I'll probably never forget. I just thought that for the next game, we'd be moving forward in Desmond's timeline and get to see the world through the eyes of a whole new assassino. But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. The videos above don't exactly say much outside of, you know ... nothing at all. But really what I want to talk about is this Facebook shit, of which I have had enough.
When I loaded up Dragon Age II I was positively horrified at the fact that, in order to get one of the bonus items, you had to 'Like' Dragon Age II on Facebook. I remember grudgingly hitting the 'Like' button only to have one of my friends call me up a few minutes later and say 'I didn't know you liked Dragon Age.' To which I replied:
'I don't really, I just hit the button to get the item.'
Which is what makes me so upset about this social media creep that seems to be starting to occur in the games industry. Take the Assassin's Creed videos for example. In order to see any of this content you have to hit 'Like' on the Assassin's Creed Facebook page. Then once you've seen the ambiguous trailer, the site encourages you to bug other people via email, Facebook, and Twitter. But it's not just bugging because you think what you saw is cool. The site monitors how many people are pestering other people and promises to unlock a new trailer once we're all sufficiently fed up and sick of ourselves. It is one thing to give people a way to show their friends cool stuff, but rewarding the average Joe for voluntarily spamming people is downright atrocious.
But that's not the worst part. If this catches on, eventually services like Facebook will become useless. Why? Because you'll never be able to tell if anyone really is a fan of Band X or Movie Y or whether they just hit the 'Like' button so they could see the trailer, or get the preorder bonus, or whatever other carrot these assholes can think up to stick in front of our noses.
Maybe it doesn't really matter in the long run, but 'Project $10' has shown us that if a video game company can get away with doing something unpleasant, they generally will. What do you guys think? Am I overreacting? Will you be tweeting your friends so that you can see the new trailer? Why not right? I mean it worked for the Potato Sack ... oh wait, no it didn't.
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Tags: Assassin's Creed, Professor Jeff, Revelations, The Loading Bar, Ubisoft, Video Games
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Comment by BigRedd on May 5, 2011 at 8:00pm -
Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be the final part in Ezio's storyline, where they will bridge Altair and Ezio.
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Comment by Brutuxan on May 4, 2011 at 12:58pm -
@Mr. Plainview,.........Huh?
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Comment by Mr. Plainview on May 3, 2011 at 10:23am -
Fuck this social media cross over shit. I've already deleted my Facebook page months ago just because of bullcrap like this.
As for video games I hardly buy them any more because they just aren't worth $60. I love video games but now days most developers seem to focus on making beautiful looking spectacles that have no real content to speak of and sub par (at best) writing/plot. Frankly I have better things to spend my money on than 4hrs of gameplay; regardless of how visually stunning it may seem.
Then you have games that are the opposite of that like Limbo, it's graphics are nothing special and it doesn't even have dialogue, and it's story or open to your own interpretation lack of story is marvelous, but it's a fucking amazing game.
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Comment by Cthulhu R'lyeh on May 3, 2011 at 8:42am -
Fungusmonkey, have you seen the mini series they did for AC2? It was pretty cool.
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Comment by Jazzman on May 3, 2011 at 7:53am -
A teaser image for a project by Ubi Workshop came out a while back. I don't know what actually became of that project, but an Assassin's Creed game set in Egypt would be great. Or set in the Russian Empire, like those badass comics.
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Comment by Denimourson on May 3, 2011 at 1:15am -
Its too late Jeff that fad of unlocking game content through social media has caught on. For I recall BF3 had a similar like to unlock this game video.
Here's an article about it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/1-million-facebook-likes-require...
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Staff Comment by Fungusmonkey on May 2, 2011 at 9:02pm -
It has Altair on the left side, and I Think Ezio on the right. From the rumors I've been hearing, it's a new character, but it all ties into the previous games as well (like the short segment in... I think it was 2?... where you got to play as Altair briefly). Other rumors are that it's Desmond again, but that because of the traumatic experience at the end of AssBros (and because he's been in the Animus for too long), he's having a much harder time keeping everything straight in his head. I've heard that it will introduce a lot of cross-fading between eras (the new, Ezio's, and Altair's).
You can see as it boots up that it says something about Animus 2.0 (post AC2), and then something about a ddna failing and it can't boot.
The other theory that's going around is that it's a woman main character for the first time (presumably Eve), but that her story intertwines with both Altair and Ezio's (either because she is part of an Assassin family as well, or maybe even a Templar one). It makes sense because of the ending of Bros, and also because the whole multiplayer aspect of Bros is based around Abstergo training their employees to use the Animus.
And yeah, Ubisoft just starting a film and TV production company to bring AC and their other titles to other mediums. If they can get better actors and up the visual effects from their live-action shorts, I think it could be really cool. I would KILL to see an Assassin's Creed series on Showtime or HBO. Something with a side character (since Desmond works best in the game), but tie it into the franchise.
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Comment by Lunatik on May 2, 2011 at 8:08pm -
shit im still playing assassins creed II, i know im kinda late on this series..fuck it
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Comment by Tron on May 2, 2011 at 6:19pm -
This is interesting, the thing that really caught my attention in Teaser #3 was the Phaistos Disc at 0:05, hmmm? Oh well I love Ubisoft, so i am willing to go along with whatever they have going on, as long as it advances the Assassin's Creed story forward, not back. YOU HEAR ME, UBISOFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Killboy Powerhead on May 2, 2011 at 6:17pm -
The potato sack did work, we got Portal 2 a whole 30 minutes early. I guess if you added in the 5 hours of over processed servers, the thousands of error messages, and the general fact that people had to buy 40 dollars worth of useless games to get the one game they wanted a day early. Shame on Valve for that, I lost a lot of respect for them when they did that.
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