Ubi: No Two Players Can Have The Same Experience in AC Origins; The Extra Year Allowed High Quality

Ubisoft's Jean Guesdon stressed the importance of having an extra year while developing Assassin's Creed Origins to deliver high quality.

He also stated that no two players can possibly have the same experience in the game.

[ccgr]

Looks promising!

[thekhurg]

This is PR nonsense. Tons of players will have identical experiences. You can't code the game to be 100% unique across millions of players...

Still looking forward to the game, just wish developers/publishers would quit all the nonsense talk.

[Gh05t]

Its all technical jargon... when they add random encounters, not everyone will receive the same encounters at the same time or the same order or the same location, so they could easily make it so no one plays the exact game the same way, but it doesnt mean that every person wont experience essentially the same thing. Making the "No Two Players Can Have The Same Experience" statement lose all value. So I played and the first thing that happened to me was I fought a lion, but you played and it was a Templar... DIFFERENT, but the next fight I had a Templar and you had a lion so essentially, The same.

I hate when people talk like its something amazing when its something shallow.

[Bigpappy]

It is an open world that allows for many different approaches to taking on your enemies and the order in which you do your quest. You also chose which abilities you want to apply as you level and each weapon you choose to fight with has a different attack and defense mechanism.

So surely from that you can see how all of those combination add up to most having unique experiences, No?
Given the facts I have laid out, it is therefore NOT "PR nonsense".

[Averyashimself]

This reminds me of how Peter Molyneux uptalked Fable II. "INFINITE POSSIBILITIES"

[seanpitt23]

"Having an extra year while developing Assassin's Creed Origins to deliver high quality"
Sorry but I can't see it, yes the world looks fantastic the rpg elements look good and refreshing but the combat and gameplay looks mediocre and boring, this is the main thing they needed to focus on make the gameplay outstanding and different not try and copy the Witcher 3 and make it worse.
W3 combat was good because it had gore which made W3 not as boring because of the legs and arms flying everywhere.

[Phil32]

I just liked seeing a year break between titles. Using that to polish the game even further is even better.

[Timesplitter14]

At this point, even with a year break, the AC franchise still remains milked to oblivion and I can 100% guarantee everyone's gonna have the exact same experience of this game.

It's gonna be a good old stardard Ubisoft game:
- Big open world that is as soulless as it is large
- Crazy production values all focused on quantity and not quality
- No interesting concept whatsoever because the marketing team doesn't like when things get interesting and it alienates some potential customers
- "So many ways to play!" You can enter a building through the door on the right OR on the left!

[StuffAndThings]

Any franchise that makes money is milked to oblivion

[Goldby]

the simple fact that every skill can be unlocked meaning everyone will be a jack of all trades assassin and amaster of none means we will be experiencing everything everyone else does.

You want different playstyles for the people. limit the amount of skills we can unlock so we actually have to decide what we want to focus on,

i've had enough of these, uber powerful end games where nothing is challenging

[Saijahn]

You can say that about most triple a games, especially yearly games. If you're looking for innovation, you have the wrong hobby my friend.

[bluefox755]

Agreed. No matter how polished it is, it's still the same damn formula. People might say: "Well, every open world game is like that, just look at Horizon Zero Dawn!", and they would have a point, but at least they did something interesting with the gameplay by making it fun and dynamic. AC doesn't need to reinvent the wheel, but they do need to think of a new and creative way to package it, IMO.

[Bleucrunch]

That is a fantastic explanation as to why I do not mess with the Assassin's creed franchise, I dabbled in Black Flag only because I love games with Pirates in them.

I am not going to get this game either, maybe borrow or rent it but Ubisoft is a company that has great ideas for games but just brutal with execution.

[EyeAmTJ]

no franchise is more milked than Mario

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Except almost every hands on preview form gaming sites have stated the exact opposite so yeah keep hating. People complained ac neeeded a break so they gave it a break and when this releases it will have been just shy of two years since syndicate which was amazing btw yet people still complain. The opinions of critics who have got hands on time with it have said it's still ac at its core because of course it's going to be but with plenty of refinements and additions that make it feel fresh. I have no worries everything they've showed and said as sounded great so I'm happy I preordered the deluxe edition and almost have it paid off.

[Imp0ssibl3]

This is my most anticipated game this Fall!

[YAO-BLING]

/s

[InTheZoneAC]

Lol

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Yeah you go dude you tell him what game he's supposed to have as his most anticipated smh gtho with your condescension the dude can look forward to any game he wants

[YAO-BLING]

sorry mom

[KaiPow]

I hope to see some drastic changes from the usual formula!

[andrewsquall]

Have you SEEN the footage from E3? A few changes, okay, but certainly nothing "drastic".

[SoulMikeY]

The combat has seen "drastic" changes. And that is one of the most important pieces. Nioh, the Surge, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls have never gotten old. Even after 200+ hours on each. That's what makes it fun. Fun gameplay + average story is still a great game to me.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

The way their handling sidequests and main quests is drastically different then previous ac games along with the combat,exploration,leveling system etc

[sizeofyou]

I don't know about anyone else but the voices don't seem to fit. Looks nice...but sounds annoying!!

[DeadSilence]

High quality? Lmao

High quality is Witcher, Horizon, Bloodborne, Forza Horizon.

Assassins Creed Games are low quality in comparison.

Maybe he is talking high quality when compared to older ACs.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Well the last ac game syndicate was high quality

[andrewsquall]

The footage that IGN released around E3 was just woeful. Have people, who are anticipating this, watched some of this gameplay??? https://youtu.be/I3rb0SmlEL...
Just look at 2 minutes of this clip from this point. LOOK at this clunky character stumbling around the map with awkward animations, dumb as hell AI, floating in the air running, not even a simple stylistic lock on to the enemy like previous games.
WHAT is going on here with the enemy's animation when he gets hit with the sword? https://youtu.be/I3rb0SmlEL... So glad they changed the old combat system to this horrible mess lol.

Almost 2 months ago this did not look like a game that was going to be going gold in 15 weeks time. Should have given it 3 years of development by the looks of it.

[InTheZoneAC]

Just so you know games are often developed longer than whatever time it takes between releases.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

It has been in development for three years nice fail troll

[kevnb]

I'm looking forward to it, even the games in the series I didnt care for could have been better with more time.

[bluefox755]

I hope so, but I don't have a lot of confidence in Ubisoft these days. Hope I'm wrong.

[2pacalypsenow]

Ill believe it when I see it..

[OldGuyStillGaming]

Looks great but I'll wait till I finish the new South Park game first

[ironcrow2386]

Decent variety in gameplay instead of fetch quests and rince repeat bandit camps and ill be a happy bunny ☺

[narsaku]

Haha. Bullshit. Bargain bin buy it is.

[ufo8mycat]

Wow I seriously hope people don't fall for this garbage that Ubisoft is spewing. Now I'm not saying it won't be a great game, but it ain't going to be any different then any other open world AC game.

[MatrixxGT]

Oh you've played it?

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Yeah except almost every hands on preview has stated the exact opposite of what you claim but cool story

[TheOptimist]

I hope I am supposed to laugh at this

Ubisoft is inversely proportional to quality.

[Relientk77]

Can't wait to play it and explore Egypt and tombs

[Nesflix]

I trust Ubisoft as much as I trust food labels disguising Aspartame as aminosweet.

[Outlawzz]

Never could get into assassin's Creed. The gameplay is too repetitive for my tastes and the story about them going back in time through memories and being regular crappy people in real life is boring to me lol

[Woozeh]

The only way no two players can have the same experience is if only one person in the whole world gets their game. It's PR talk, no more, no less. What was shown at E3 gave no impression of anything special going on with the series. I just wish fewer people would fall for this type of stuff, especially after No Man's Sky >.>

[paulust2002]

Hmmm, you can likely have the same experience playing any other Assassins Creed. Hope I'm wrong.

[ShadowWolf712]

They lost me when they started adding supernatural powers.

[generic-user-name]

I think this game is being way overhyped by Xbox fanboys because of its association with Scorpio. The rest of us can see that it looks like another AC.

[Nintendo4Lifex]

They say and hype this on every game they make. For Honor, Division, Watchdogs 2. All their games are hype and zero innovation. Just because you turned it into Horizen don't mean I'm buying this. Ya fooled me enough.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Watchdogs 2 was great though and they did a lot to improve on their open world formula in that game. It's easy to tell when people like you criticize a game that they haven't played

[Germaximus]

That's nonsense. If 2 people 100% the game I can't see how the experience would be any different.

They're trying to play it off like just cuz some people don't do all the side quests while others do makes it a completely different experience. Please.

That said, Origins looks amazing and I'm pretty hyped for it.

[mogwaii]

Yeah yeah blah blah ubisoft.

[InKnight7s]

I am sure that most of games developers said the same, yet no game gave real variety of options same as Witcher 3( the only game have different experiences).

[C-H-E-F]

Duh, when you play an open world game the first 60 seconds the user is in the game will less likely be the exact same experience. Some wonder, some get lost (adventure off), others do all kinds of stuff before doing the next mission after the first one... lOl...

Please don't let these BROAD words stroke your perception of what the game can/will be, it's all a marketing gimmick.

[C-H-E-F]

The only game that will allow unique experiences from the beginning is No Mans Sky, because everyone spawns on a different planet, in a different galaxy billions of miles from another planet lOl.