How is Assassin's Creed so succesful?

Dont get me wrong, its my favorite ip this gen. but when you look at what the game is, its a a game that roots itself in history, with a sci-fi narrative, that at first had no multiplayer, with a first game that had many negative opinions(i liked it), it doesn't treat its players like idiots, and yet its sales rank up there with the biggest shooters and sports games. i think its pretty impressive and gives me hope that not all gamers care about guns, explosions and multiplayer.

cause its fun. gamers dont usually care where a game is set or what weapons it has. as long as it has some manly dude stabbing people

The game makes you feel awesome, has an insanely addictive multiplayer (I maxed out leveling, but I can't remember the cap), has great free roaming gameplay, and, most importantly (for me), has an incredibly creative and deep storyline. Love those games! Even the first one.

The combat is simple and makes you feel like a badass. The platforming/parkour are top notch as well.

Jade Raymond , a killer trailer , and the hype machine. Later they actually made a great game out of it.

I am surprised that its become so successful as well. (Btw, I love the series.)

I dont get why its so successfull too, it should have ended with the first one but it didnt instead it got slaughtered to no end to make money for ubisoft.

Cause they're brilliant games, possibly with one of the greatest story archs this generation. I hope it doesn't get too convoluted with Revelations, and the whole Inception aspect though.Merex760

This is essentially my view on it as well. Assassin's Creed is a great series, really unique and fun to play.

Because it's impossible to dislike the hidden blade.

I too think its success is surprising. I think the main characters design helped a lot personally he was a nice looking edition to peoples video game hero collage mashups, also standing out from all the bald close shaved main characters that were introduced this gen. We know that it doesn't only have to be a great game to be succesful for all the people saying its because the game is good itself.

Grand Theft Auto IV is an open world crime game that seems to defy the very notion of modern heroes or FPS conventions, and yet it sold millions. The God of War series tends to sell boatloads of copies despite not having "GASP" a single gun in any game! Not to mention the massive success of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Mortal Kombat and many other non military FPS games.

If a game is enjoyable, no matter what kind of game it is, it will get acclaim and with enough marketing sell a good amount. Expecting otherwise because a game isn't an FPS is narrowminded, because I remember a time when everyone though 3D platformers and fighting games were the only kinds of games that could become huge hits (hint: it was the 90's), and right now FPS games are getting big love thanks to breakout successes like Bioshock, Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 4.

Because (besides the first one, which isn't good) they're terrific games and Ubisoft have marketed them well.

Dont get me wrong, its my favorite ip this gen. but when you look at what the game is, its a a game that roots itself in history, with a sci-fi narrative, that at first had no multiplayer, with a first game that had many negative opinions(i liked it), it doesn't treat its players like idiots, and yet its sales rank up there with the biggest shooters and sports games. i think its pretty impressive and gives me hope that not all gamers care about guns, explosions and multiplayer.

lostfan132

"It doesn't treat its players like idiots"?

Being able to go on a vacation while the game is still running and still be at full health when you return just by putting a weight on the parry button is an obvious sign of deep and complex combat mechanics, right :roll: ?

Cause they're brilliant games, possibly with one of the greatest story archs this generation. I hope it doesn't get too convoluted with Revelations, and the whole Inception aspect though.Merex760

Creative ways of assassinating people is what does it for me.

The whole premise of being able to go back and re-live history doesn't hurt either.

it's not bad, but i have never thought it was anything special.

The combat is simple and makes you feel like a badass. The platforming/parkour are top notch as well.

BPoole96

Dude, you can climb the freakin Colosseum.

But in all seriousness, being able to climb to great heights is what sells me to the game. And the story arc is fascinating.

when I visit Roma 10 years ago, i've been to pantheon, colloseum, st peter basilica and many more but I got no idea I always use bridge to Castel Sant'Angelo like ezio did until I play ACB..... I saaid wow...... I've been there!! getting excited like small kidhippiesanta

Ubisoft really nailed the marketing for the first AC. Just go back and remember when you first watched the trailer of Altair killing the dude with the hidden blade. It sent chills down my spine, and obviously it had a lot of hype from the more hardcore gamers like us. But I think the marketing is what made a lot of the mainstream guys jump on the game to. I didn't like the first game at all, but I'm playing the 2nd one right now and really loving it. Will buy Brotherhood after I'm done with this.

Flawless marketing(see: Tobuscus AC video). That and the AC game engine is capable of handling massive crowds which a sufficient number of gamers fancy, not to mention its combat mechanics are quite good considering the scale of the environments. AC:B has some of the best multiplayer I've come across for an open world stealth game and I think ACR will be on the MLG Pro circuit :D

How's the story of the games?danish-death

the 1st one was a terrible game and it blew me away it was gamespots action goty back in the day with so many glaring flaws.

the rest have been very good games that i enjoyed very much.

it all turned out great in the end but wow was that first one ever terrible.

3mph horsey rides, some of the worst ai i have ever seen since i would kill people in front of guards and they run up and go "who did this!!!", having to one hit counter kill through the entire game or be involved in a 10 min fight, 5 missions types in the entire game and that's only if you want to count climbing towers and sitting on a bench and evesdropping on people as missions.

!the blazing adventures of evesdropping! way to go! lol.

i say it's easily this gens most improved series.

Its friggin badass. Its advertised with a modern theme in a historic landscape. Its cool. Its also a very unique franshise. What other game has an open climbable 16th century world? No game plays like Assassin's Creed. I think its sad that so many games try to copy other games, when the most successful IPs are the ones that do something to innovate. CoD4 was an innovator, Assassin's Creed was an innovator. GTA was an innovator. If you want to make a lot of money, you have to do something different. It has to be awesome, but it has to separate itself from the crowd as well. AC did that.

AC is successful because it attracts people who are into history and brings in the sci-fi conspiracy wackos aswell. I like the historical setting sof the AC games as they actually tend to be pretty damn accurate and the storyline it'self is also very well told and it's one of the few games that makes you think and question things. The only other game out there that I can remember making me do that is Bioshock 1, that game is actually saying ALOT about society...

The AC series does have it's flaws though, in particular the combat is TOO easy. Just stand there and press square button to counter and you always win. And the controls suck, climbing and running is a pain in the ass, I always miss a jump or the stupid guy doesn't grab on to something in time and just commits sucide. Why didn't they just make one button for jumping like they do in EVERY other game out there! That would make more sense, and the climbing is awkard, they should make it like Uncharted's climbing where it actually WORKS! These two things really piss me off about the series and it stops it from being great in my eyes, the games are still good, but not great at all.

Oh and what the hell happened to the graphics between AC 1 (a repetitive mess) and AC 2? The graphics got a SEVERE downgrade! I was like "wtf happened to the graphics" when I played AC2 lol.

Its a good game.

I have Assassins Creed 1,2 and brotherhood but they are all untouched its going to be a long time till i get there because i still have games that i brought last gen in my backlog like Okami, Shadow of the collosus, JAK 3, Kingdom Hearts 1/2, MGS 2, MGS 3 some of these games are untouched too.

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The story , the characters, the setting and the puzzles are why I love the AC series.

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When I first played AC I was blown away. Play AC 1 now and Ill understand the hate but man did they get it together for Brotherhood.

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I have Assassins Creed 1,2 and brotherhood but they are all untouched its going to be a long time till i get there because i still have games that i brought last gen in my backlog like Okami, Shadow of the collosus, JAK 3, Kingdom Hearts 1/2, MGS 2, MGS 3 some of these games are untouched too.

hippiesanta

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Dont get me wrong, its my favorite ip this gen. but when you look at what the game is, its a a game that roots itself in history, with a sci-fi narrative, that at first had no multiplayer, with a first game that had many negative opinions(i liked it), it doesn't treat its players like idiots, and yet its sales rank up there with the biggest shooters and sports games. i think its pretty impressive and gives me hope that not all gamers care about guns, explosions and multiplayer.

N30F3N1X

"It doesn't treat its players like idiots"?

Being able to go on a vacation while the game is still running and still be at full health when you return just by putting a weight on the parry button is an obvious sign of deep and complex combat mechanics, right :roll: ?

Yeah!

They should make the combat continue even after you shut it off. That would be HARDCORE!

On Topic: It got way more popular once they added a gun. ;)