Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"
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  • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    9 hours ago

    “No, no, hear me out. It’s exactly the same game. The same thing we make every single time. But this time, it’s in… Egypt.”

    “Holy shit! What a maverick! Who is that guy? I like the way he thinks. Give him a corner office and the same budget we gave the Greece one!”

    • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      You know what I would buy? Hitman set in ancient Egypt.

      Infiltrating a workgang forced to build a pyramid, putting a spitting cobra into a nasty enforcer’s chamber pot because he owes the Potiphar some serious myrrh?

      Sign me up.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      5 hours ago

      The Egypt one was definitely one where they changed it a lot. So much so that I no longer enjoyed playing them.