Assassin's Creed Origins was the first true RPG-like AC... Assassin's Creed Origins - theGeek.games review

[BadSector]

It was excellent (minus the horrible PC performance and optimazation) but I really would like a TRUE AC game next. What do think?
https://thegeek.games/2017/11/04/assassins-creed-origins-kill-like-an-egyptian/

[EvaUnit02]

They ran the "classic" style of AC into the ground, Syndicate was a sales disappointment and even if the Unity "early access release" PR disaster hadn't have happened the annual game sales would've been in decline since the franchise sales height of AC3. They've found success financial with the RPG style so I highly doubt they aren't "going to go backward". You need to make peace with this.

[BadSector]

I replayed Unity not long ago (fully patched), and I am not joking: it was one of the best games in the series. While it was a true AC game, it had innovations (you could approach and kill your target several ways, climbing system revised etc.), a great story, with the past of the actual Templars revelead, a great setting (French revolution is my favourite historcial era) and a symphatetic, interesting main character haunted by his past. I liked Origins and Odyssey very much, but they were a bit bloated, with Origins a bit average main story, and a Witcher-like RPG system and world which was good, but it had nothing original about it. And it also ceased to be a true Assassin's Creed game. And let's don't even mention the fact, that the historical assassins were dated back to the first game and not before.

[BadSector]

Honestly: they should have dropped the AC franchise with the two latest games and simply make historical RPGs. Still, I like them ofc.

[David Davidson]

Originally posted by BadSector:

Honestly: they should have dropped the AC franchise with the two latest games and simply make historical RPGs. Still, I like them ofc.

Thing is; people will pay for "Assassins creed" not "A new Ubisoft historical RPG"

And Origins is barely an RPG, I can't fine-tune things like str, dex, agl, end, etc. It just has more RPG elements, kind of like how AC2 allowed you to purchase your own weapons, choose your own fighting style and unlock extras via sidequests.
Origins (and I assume Odysseus) is the natural evolution of an AC game.
Has the series been massively overdone? Yes. Does "Assassins creed" still turn a profit? Yes.
Don't expect any changes until gamers start voting with their wallets.
Will it change in 2019; maybe. There's been more pro-consumer outcry this year (and at the end of last year) than ever. However compared to EA, Activision-Blizzard and especially Bethesda. Ubisoft have managed to stay fairly silent and thus keep under the radar, I don't doubt they've noticed that any AAA developer that has opened their mouths in 2018 (except for Capcom, people seem to really be looking forward to the RE2 remake; myself included) have gotten buried under a mountain of excrement.
As such Ubisoft seem to be doing what they do best; attempting to keep the shareholders happy, even if it means they keep quiet about new releases, mostly at least; hearing that Beyond Good and Evil II would be an online only piece of craptacular DRM infested software I would assume many people no longer want Ubisoft's strange online only space-herpies tainting their drives.