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[Draugoth]

According to new information shared by YouTuber JorRaptor, who creates a lot of content about Ubisoft projects, he claims that Assassin's Creed Red and Assassin's Creed Hexe represent the two biggest investments in single player games ever made by Ubisoft.

He didn't reveal many details, but it seems that Ubisoft is committed to making major investments in the next games in the franchise, suggesting that we have two major projects here.

 

[SJRB]

Doesn't really matter how much money you throw at it, honestly. AC has a lot of problems that upping the budget won't fix.

 

[ManaByte]

I love Mirage. Finished it and will mop up the rest of the achievements. I can't stand the 160 hour bloat of Valhalla. I hope these don't go back to that trash, but they probably will.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Hmmm, red for Chinese?

Hexe??? Is Hex like whitchcraft….. Boston/Salem 1620s????

 

[Luipadre]

Skipped mirage but excited for RED

 

[ManaByte]

Hmmm, red for Chinese?

Hexe??? Is Hex like whitchcraft….. Boston/Salem 1620s????

Red is Japan, two Assassins. One is Yasuke, other is a woman.

Hex is set in Salem during the witch trials.

Assassin's Creed Jade (the mobile game) is China.

Skipped mirage but excited for RED

You skipped the best AC since Black Flag.

 

[Kurotri]

Good.

 

[Sybrix]

 

[DavidGzz]

I love them all but they are B- games for the most part. I enjoy the more modern games the most but I agree about the bloat. I hope the money went to some advancements with the engine so they don't keep feeling too samey.

 

[cormack12]

Unity map g9ves me PTSD

 

[DaciaJC]

Hexe??? Is Hex like whitchcraft….. Boston/Salem 1620s????

Red is Japan, two Assassins. One is Yasuke, other is a woman.

Hex is set in Salem during the witch trials.

Assassin's Creed Jade (the mobile game) is China.

Hexe is set in Germany during the 16th or 17th centuries. The word itself means "witch" in German, and it was during that time that some of the biggest witch trials in history took place.

 

[Represent.]

They better look like it.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[ungalo]

The two choices of settings don't appeal to me at all. Especially Hexe, a story about some witches in the holy roman empire, it's so lame already. You could do so much with the history of Europe.

But even if they chose an interesting historical context there's still their abysmal writing that's getting worse with every entry anyway.

 

[AJUMP23]

You have to filter in Unity.

 

[VanCityGamer]

The two choices of settings don't appeal to me at all. Especially Hexe, a story about some witches in the holy roman empire, it's so lame already. You could do so much with the history of Europe.

But even if they chose an interesting historical context there's still their abysmal writing that's getting worst with every entry anyway.

Hexe is one of the most intriguing AC projects ever.

 

[Hudo]

Let's see if AC Red can "outdo" Ghost of Tsushima.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

I love them all but they are B- games for the most part. I enjoy the more modern games the most but I agree about the bloat. I hope the money went to some advancements with the engine so they don't keep feeling too samey.

While I 100% agree, I have a feeling that Ubisoft will substantially change their open world game design going forward. Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla all came out within 3 years from one another. By the time Odyssey came out, it was quite clear fans of the genre were burnt out by the Ubisoft formulaic approach. And by that time in 2018, it was too late to drastically change Valhalla's game design. I would hope Ubisoft heard their criticisms, and that is why there will be a 4.5-5 year gap between mainline AC games, with Red expecting to arrive in 2025.

For me personally, as much as the Ubisoft generic open world sucks, it is the combat that is incredibly bland. They have to know they need to 100% overhaul it, especially when Ghost of Tsushima 2 and Rise of the Ronin will completely overshadow them if they don't

 

[ManaByte]

While I 100% agree, I have a feeling that Ubisoft will substantially change their open world game design going forward. Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla all came out within 3 years from one another. By the time Odyssey came out, it was quite clear fans of the genre were burnt out by the Ubisoft formulaic approach. And by that time in 2018, it was too late to drastically change Valhalla's game design. I would hope Ubisoft heard their criticisms, and that is why there will be a 4.5-5 year gap between AC games, with Red expecting to arrive in 2025.

For me personally, as much as the Ubisoft generic open world sucks, it is the combat that is incredibly bland. They have to know they need to 100% overhaul it, especially when Ghost of Tsushima 2 and Rise of the Ronin will completely overshadow them if they don't

People acting like Mirage doesn't exist.

 

[Perrott]

Hexe is going to be amazing. Full trust in Clint Hocking.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Hexe is set in Germany during the 16th or 17th centuries. The word itself means "witch" in German, and it was during that time that some of the biggest witch trials in history took place.

Ohhh, like a brothers Grim?

 

[rhodesianshepard]

People acting like Mirage doesn't exist.

Mirage was a throwback AC game with probably 1/4th the development costs and time compared to AC Red. And it was made by a studio that hasn't released any of the 3 previous mainline AC games

But I edited my post to say "mainline AC games"

 

[balls of snow]

Bring it. Valhalla was boring but a Japan and Salem theme ass creed is an open world I can lose weeks in.

 

[Elbereth]

Red is one of my most anticipated games this year. I loved AC: Valhalla and Ghost of Tsushima, and Red sounds like the best of both worlds.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

IDK man, I haven’t played an AC game since Odyssey and now that Valhalla is on game pass and……I’m really enjoying it. The writing isn’t that bad (there’s worse mainstream TV series out there)
I didn’t realize the dude who plays
Cnut (see-nut) lol from that Last Kingdom show is the main protag…

 

[DaciaJC]

Ohhh, like a brothers Grim?

I don't know if they'll be adding mythological elements - given that Clint Hocking is at the helm, I imagine they'll be going for a strictly realist approach.

 

[ungalo]

Hexe is one of the most intriguing AC projects ever.

I don't know, if it's really focused on witch trials, it doesn't intrigue me, but perhaps it will have a broader context.

The other problem for me is that the game will probably have this whole central europe pagan baba yaga aesthetic, which has become very redundant and boring in my opinion, we saw that in so many games these last few years. Probably since TW3.

Even in Valhalla there were some witch bosses in the swamp.

 

[Xtib81]

They really need to shake up the formula but that IP has unlimited potential. I'm still waiting for peak Rome era btw.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Valhalla made them the most money, of course the next proper AC was going to be even bigger.

 

[touchfuzzy]

AC is the big bread winner for Ubisoft right now and one of the most popular single-player IP in the industry. So yeah, they will invest heavily in it.

I liked Mirage and look forward to hearing more about Red.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I've recently gone back to unity and III. People didn't like those much at the time but it's great now that they run better. I wish they'd go back to that combat

 

[Braag]

Hexe is going to be amazing. Full trust in Clint Hocking.

He has hit or miss ideas a lot of times.

 

[Represent.]

Let's see if AC Red can "outdo" Ghost of Tsushima.

Of course it will. That game was stuck in the PS3 era in everything but visuals.

 

[SJRB]

He has hit or miss ideas a lot of times.

Clint Hocking:

- boosts Far Cry to incredible new heights
- boosts Splinter Cell to incredible new heights
- Thermonuclear bombs Watchdogs to such a degree that the entire IP is killed

What a wild track record this man has.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Of course they are, imagine the filler you can do with AI.

 

[Perrott]

Clint Hocking:

- boosts Far Cry to incredible new heights
- boosts Splinter Cell to incredible new heights
- Thermonuclear bombs Watchdogs to such a degree that the entire IP is killed

What a wild track record this man has.

Plus, he got to work on an unreleased very systems-driven Star Wars game and on Left 4 Dead 3 at LucasArts and Valve, respectively. And he coined the term ludonarrative disonance.

One of the most interesting character arcs in the industry.

 

[DAHGAMING]

I was hopeing for a modern era England where we can play as a blue haired soy boy and we are fighting for the Just stop oil mandem and the Templars are fat bald hard working men trying to enjoy a pint in there local boozer and rep the St George flag hard.

 

[Audiophile]

Hoping these are major generational leaps and more revolutionary than evolutionary; and that there's also another fully-classic style AC after these.

6yr dev cycles, three game types: rpg/hex/classic, release a game every 2yrs, each with well-defined, distinct characters and stories. Make "Infinite" into a 3D environment launcher where can load into all games you've bought; with a current/future day custom avatar and base/hq that you can customise, with its own animus, rooms with collected items and little side quests etc. So much potential if they really go for it.

In reality they'll probably dump classic ac after mirage, red/hex will be showy reskins and infinite will be a clunky, gaas-driven, half-arsed mess.

 

[Moses85]

Hmmm, red for Chinese?

Hexe??? Is Hex like whitchcraft….. Boston/Salem 1620s????

As far as I know, Hexen is supposed to be set in Germany (Southern Germany (Spessart, Austria, Bohemia, Bavaria)

 

[NeoGiffer]

AC will always stand for air conditioning and nothing else.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I wonder if people will still be fatigued when Red arrives since it's been a few years since Valhalla and Mirage was in some ways different and not that long to 100%.

For me personally Origin is the max what I accept from a single AC game. I'm not gonna bother wasting time on bigger titles where grind is often necessary to progress in the story.

 

[Beer Baelly]

I saw Valhalla on GP, almost pressed download but was like

 

[TheRedRiders]

I could care less about the Ubisoft criticism from posters on this site, I have shamelessly enjoyed the crap out of recent AC titles like Origins, Odyssey and Mirage. I just couldn't get stuck into Valhalla, too boring. I'm a guy who still loves the OG games dearly by the way.

Red is going to be awesome I'm sure, but the one I'm most excited about is Hexe, it sounds very intriguing and I'm super curious too see what is in the works.

 

[gtabro]

Can’t stop reading it as “Hexy”, but I’m
intrigued about what the concept will really be.

 

[KungFucius]

Doesn't really matter how much money you throw at it, honestly. AC has a lot of problems that upping the budget won't fix.

But the biggest of those problems can be fixed by downing the budget. Huge open worlds with a ridiculous amount of repetitive content is a major turn off.

 

[RyRy93]

The title says “the two biggest”and not “two of the biggest”, you’d at least expect these to be two of the biggest projects since they are next gen AC games

 

[Kenpachii]

Hope it has framegen and looks better then mirage, that game looked rough.

 

[Lunarorbit]

I don't have any faith that these games won't be filled with the same ubisoft overwhelming icons like all the rest.

That's one of the reasons I haven't followed either of these games. I'd love to be wrong as ac black flag was the last AC I really enjoyed. Origins and odyssey had so many cool parts to it but ultimately the combat/encounter system needs to be overhauled if I'm gonna go back to it.

 

[Fake]

Their last one tried to go back to the roots and still was mix...