‘ASSASSIN’S CREED 3’ Creative Director: Your Desired Locales Are Dumb

You have to hand it to  Alex Hutchinson, creative director for Assassin’s Creed 3. Dude lobs bombs at the internet and then doesn’t really back away from them. There’s a certain appreciable quality to the stupidity he’s displayed lately.

Joystiq:

Despite  Assassin’s Creed 3  creative lead Alex Hutchinson’s recent fighting words with the internet over  its “boring” ideas for potential AC settings, he told us this morning that he still loves you. Or something like that. “It’s part of a bigger discussion. Obviously any setting is potentially awesome,” he said in a brief PAX East show floor followup. “The point we were making was that some settings are more familiar in video games than other settings. And the two particular ones that were mentioned are very familiar video game settings.”

Hutchinson is referring to both the World War II and Feudal Japan ideas brought up during an interview with OXM recently. “The exciting thing is that the game can go anywhere,” Hutchinson said. “We’ve had versions of the assassin … people have thrown ideas around for probably literally any setting that people would think of. But when you get right down to it — when we’re doing the actual nitty gritty of spending the time on it, spending a couple years making something — we wanna go to a setting that other games haven’t gone to.” As for the aforementioned pair of settings? “We’re trying to find places that will surprise people.”

And Hutchinson doesn’t want you to hate him, internet. He also spoke to his statements regarding net denizens coming up with “the most boring settings” for future AC games. “If people think they have the worst ideas, I apologize for that,” he told us. “But really, they’re very predictable. The internet is not the place for insight, unfortunately,” Hutchinson added with a laugh.

A) The internet can absolutely  be a place for insight. I’ll grant you it’s a wind tunnel for malaise, anger, and apathy. However with the World Wide Interwebs coming to consume most of humanity, it’s also a venue that needs to be appreciated for the potential to engage in meaningful conversations. Hutchingson is also not helping to spark any of that which he claims it lacks with his blanket statement.

B) It’s going to be awkward as hell when they run out of places to go and end up taking it to Feudal Japan.

C) Feudal Japan would be awesome.