@mrougeau: Yeah if they're able to expand then I don't see the problem. They may not cover everything but as long as it's nothing currently notable it may have been something they'd overlook anyway.

@risingdawn: Then I really encourage you to just watch it and not look up anything about it. Just know it's one of Night's best movies, it stars James McAvoy and the girl from The Witch (who's playing Magik in the New Mutants movie soon), and they did a fantastic job.

I'm kind of split on this connected universe trend on one hand it gives big studios the excuse to only use big franchises instead of original one off films, to make each of them as similar as possible, and completely over saturate a genre. On the other hand it's nothing new and some of the best stories of all time take place in them. DC, Marvel, Steven King, Asimov, Tolkien, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, ancient mythologies from throughout time and all over the world. I don't think it should be taboo to make adaptions of any of those writers work connected to each other just because of how bad it can go. The same goes for anyone making a new connected universe but the main problem is it's hard to trust any big movie studio to look past the MCU's success and do it right. Anyway even if none of Wan's movies or the ones he oversees are modern classics I do enjoy a lot of them and I'm glad to see he's specifically trying to make these spin-offs different.

Journey for 2012 really? Not angry or anything but I just don't get it. Here's my best of for 2012. Dishonored, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Far Cry 3, Mass Effect 3, Sleeping Dogs, Dragons Dogma, Borderlands 2, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Spec Ops: The Line, Telltale's Walking Dead Season 1, Hotline Miami, Mark Of The Ninja, and Torchlight 2. Obviously not everyone holds all of those games in the same regard but for me a game that only has a a fantastic look, music, and overall atmosphere doesn't beat any of them. Alright it at least gives Walking Dead a run for it's money but remember that was before they made the exact same game for a dozen different franchises and the story is still one of their best.

@jasperwest: People just take the Ubisoft hate too far. Criticizing AC Unity's technical problems, the fact they released Rogue on the same day, and that Syndicate was still too similar is one one thing. But things like "Oh there's AC comics obviously they took important story out of Origins so there's another thing to buy or "If they had to take Red Dead into consideration then they have no ideas left because Far Cry 5 must be the same game". There's so many wild assumptions that make absolutely no sense even when it's easy to see something as a positive.

@Louis: That makes sense I just wanted to make it clear despite a concept that doesn't sound interesting initially a lot of comic book superheroes you wouldn't think could make a good leading character have had great stories. The MCU is still ridiculously successful and one of the only natural progression I can see from here is great stories that are clearly in that universe but don't directly relate to much else like Matt Fraction's Hawkeye, Tom King's recent Vision series or Warren Ellis's fantastic Moon Knight run. Another is things like Marvel 2099 which could be the MCU's future or one for another universe but it doesn't matter because it's still new characters taking on old mantels and all the stories keep to themselves.

@Louis: If you like superheroes but not enough to see every movie that comes out the best thing to do is just not see any of them right away but also don't dismiss them and listen to the reception. Especially since a lot of the more obscure or B-D level characters in comics like Moon Knight, Vision, Doctor Strange, or Hawkeye occasionally get Marvel's best comics since they don't have to adhere to anything else going on at the time and can just be their own thing. Eventually we're going to get to a point where the MCU can do that and those are going to be the movies and shows to look out for.

@nyran125tk: Like I said I have problems with how they handled franchise up to this point. I just think Assassin's Creed has such a huge concept that there isn't a problem with showing one of the protagonists a teenager here or an American Templar in late 1920's Shanghai there. How does that affect the rest of it? Why can't those just be cool stories on their own? I know it's easy to call this milking a franchise but if the side stories are good and only stand on their own or even support the main games what's the problem?

@marctheheretic: I should probably add that I don't like everything that's happened with the AC series and I think the changes in Origins are very needed. I just don't like when something like expanding a series in a way that doesn't negatively affect it is treated as an inherently bad thing. There are a lot of assumptions people who don't actually read this stuff make with these things and I've never seen them turn out to be true. Nobody is going to make a big budget project like an Assassin's Creed game or a Star Wars movie and strip out part of the story for an $8 novel that won't even be released in hard cover just for another thing to sell that's insane. If it feels like more was needed for a part of the story that flaw would be there whether or not the book or comic existed.

So many of you are complaining about these extra stories just existing but have any of you actually tried one? For the most part the Assassin's Creed books and comics are pretty good or even great sometimes. Look expanding into other media is normal for big franchises Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and others have done it successfully for a long time and it doesn't always work out but do you guys realize if nobody ever tried it we never would've had the best comic book movies or DC's animated universe that started with Batman The Animated Series? Things like that have been so prevalent for so long maybe AC tie-ins seem completely irrelevant but it's a very similar situation and if you stop whining about it and just don't buy it if you don't want it we might get something amazing out of it.