User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-117.213.115.155-20150312181123/@comment-4975789-20150313000237

I think it's just that people know their own history best and like to relate to events happening in the game's story to their own knowledge, and speculate about this before the game's released. Whereas if the setting is something they know nothing about (truthfully I had this experience with ACIII) there's less of the "Hmmm, I reckon if [historical event] will be included? And [another historical event] definitely seems like some sort of Templar plot", which for me lessens the anticipation. That's just me though.

Personally, I think Tudor England could have worked well, but I doubt we'll see England again (at least in a main game) now that Victory is being produced. I'd also be up for Ancient Egypt or Greece (maybe Rome but less so). I'm sure there is great history in the Indian subcontinent and in east Asia but I'm pretty much clueless when it comes to picking out specific time periods for an AC game in those regions so much as I think the environment & architecture would be cool in any place in India, China, Korea, Mongolia or Japan I can't pick out a specific time for an AC to take place in one of those locations. Australia as well might be interesting but would take place at too similar a time to the last 3 years of games and that period's getting a bit bloated now so preferably they'll go back in time a couple of hundred years for the next game. Possibly the start of Russia in Kieven Rus, but not sure how well that would work. Those are just my thoughts on this.