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Discussion in 'Assassin's Creed' started by nicksick, Mar 2, 2013.
AC4 takes place before AC3..
It's curious that you exclude Brotherhood and Revelations, they are part of the story too you know? Just saying.
Just let him have his day.
You can't know for sure until we have some info on the (if any) modern day settings. Because the main plot device of these games is people from present day reliving memories of the past, it doesn't really matter when the past memories occurred. They can just as easily access the memories out of order, it's basically equivalent to a time travel device. If the memories accessed in AC1 were only from the 1980's instead of Altair, AC1 would still be the first game chronologically because you're just using the Animus as a present-day window to view the past.
It's before AC3 because it's before Connor but after Ezio and Altair. What you said works conversely, many fans don't care about the modern side of the story and no matter how you place the time line 1190 is still before 1456. When they access the memory is irrelevant to the past time line it's only important when making a modern story timeline.
There's two timelines for every game here in other words.
I understand what you're saying but you're simply choosing to ignore the parts of the game you don't like. We only play the historical memories within Assassin's Creed using Desmond as a conduit *from the present (~2012) day*. Whether "many fans don't care about the modern side of the story" or not is entirely irrelevant. If every fan disliked the modern day story it still wouldn't matter. The modern day story happens/happened/hasn't ended yet whether you enjoy it or not. Without the modern day Animus, the characters do not access the past, and we do not see it.
1190 of course happens before 1456, but if I read a newspaper from 1456 today and a newspaper from 1190 tomorrow, my reading of the newspaper from 1190 happened after my reading of the 1456 paper. It's not a prequel of my reading from yesterday. When Desmond jumps in the Animus, it's just like he's reading a newspaper from back then, except he gets to see and relive those experiences instead of only reading about them. The majority of the gameplay in the series is genetic memories, they are not a series of chronological events.
The entire series up through AC3 takes place in 2012. Altair If you don't care about the modern day part of the story, that's perfectly fine and your call, but it's undeniable that you'd be ignoring the main narrative of the game. The memories accessed in AC4 will take place before the memories of AC3, but due to the time travel plot devices, which for one last time *do* count whether you like it or not, AC4 does not have to be a prequel to AC3.
Basically this. The past events might take place before AC3, but it really all has to do with the modern day story. And really, it's not surprising that they're going back in time some. I wouldn't want them to get much closer to the present day with the Animus story. (God, please no WW1 or WW2 entries....)
Really what I was trying to convey is that despite the modern timeline there's also a past timeline. If Zelda fans don't ignore the various timelines why should we after all? Lumping them all together is at least possible in this game but still there's two timelines going on at any given time.
i hope no assassin creed 7 call of duty or call of duty: assassin's gun
I don't ignore any of the timeline, I just accept that we are able to travel through time out of order from a consistently progressing present day timeline. One day we visit the American Revolution, another day later we visit 60 years or so before it. In Zelda games you aren't a present day Kokiri descendant reliving the past memories of another Hero of Time by meditating in a Deku Tree to find a piece of the Triforce in order to prevent another great flood of Hyrule. In Zelda games you are playing the piece of the timeline wherever it happens to fit in. In Assassin's Creed games you are playing a guy who is playing the story. In the simplest terms, yes the majority of the gameplay of AC4 happens before the majority of the gameplay of AC3 happened, but because the games are actually set in present day (it is now confirmed that AC4 takes place in 2013) it doesn't matter.
Does it matter?
It's highly similar there ARE time travel portions it's just usually going forward instead of backward. The fact remains that a complete timeline would be linked or separate.
What does progressing out of order have to do with it? You order it yourself after all. Rather than it being a complete fact saying it's set in 2013 is only part of the fact, surely you can say it's set in 2013 with a guy going back in time but that's just vague. For the sake of an actual timeline you would say the game takes place in 2013 and xxxx-xxxx years. The technical details as you say still matter but there are years shown in the past timeline for a reason too.
I played AC3 first then the others in random order liked them all.