"Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag" lead writer Darby McDevitt took to Reddit to answer questions about the future of the series.
If you're a fan of the AC series, you've asked yourself if the games are leading to a present day story line between the Templars and Assassins. However, McDevitt has shot down the idea, telling Reddit users the game-making mechanics would get too complex to make it "believable."
"I doubt we would do a modern day AC," wrote McDevitt. "There are just too many mechanics we would have to develop to make it [believable] ... vehicles, plausible modern cities, a huge array of ranged weapons, etc."
However, Ubisoft is releasing "Watch Dogs," an open world game which allows players to hack into technology to retrieve information about an organization that is corrupting the city. McDevitt told Reddit users it will satisfy their desire to for a modern day AC.
"The modern day will most likely remain as a 'context' for all future games, something to tie them all together," McDevitt said.
"Watchdogs will scratch the itch for a modern day AC. Just wait!" he added.
And if you're looking for the Assassins and Templar to make nice and resolve their issues, you're going to be disappointed.
"As for the Assassin Templar storyline resolving," McDevitt said. "I don't think so. [It's] been going for 80,000 years already. Why stop it now?"
"There will certainly be a resolution to the most recent plot developments, but the overall conflict will probably rage forever, just like most deeply divided philosophical conflicts," he added.
Another unlikely scenario McDevitt talked about was the continuation of Connor's story in "Assassin's Creed III." The lead writer said it was unlikely that the Assassin's story would be continued in a future game and there are no plans for a short film, like they did with Ezio's story in "Assassin's Creed Embers."
"Not at this time," he said. "Embers took [six] months to make. [I]t was a big project, and beloved by all, but those teams are busy with other things right now. But we loved the project, so maybe we'll go that route again one day."
Check out the full Reddit Q & A here.
