Though he has a point regarding franchise fatigue. Anecdotal, but I never even considered buying the game. It's likely my loss, but AC 3 burned me so badly, I have next to no interest in coming back to the series. A couple posters on ERA almost got me to reconsider at one point, but that faded quickly.
Same. I've been done since 3 as well, and I just tuned out all of the praise that Black Flag and Origins got. I'm just uber-selective about how many big open-world games I'm willing to invest in, and in a year with two real standout ones and with how underwhelmed I've been by a number of Ubisoft's open-world games, it was never going to get a look from me. Especially not with so many other good games that came out last year.
I didn't even look at assassin's creed. Every single one is accompanied by such an overwhelming marketing push that I just tune them out. Maybe the new one is actually really good but I'll never know.
Yeah, there's this part of it too. It's good that they took a year off, but I feel like Assassin's Creed as a series would have to disappear completely for, like, 5 years in order to get me to come back. For as much fatigue I still have from playing those games, there's almost as much franchise fatigue from just hearing about the next Assassin's Creed game coming every year.
Just reading the posts in this thread here makes me feel tired. There's just too much of it, it really is overwhelming.