User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Future settings discussion/@comment-733050-20131107001435

China / Japan (sorry to group them together) - AC4 revealed Desmond does have East Asian ancestry, and Abstergo have footage from the 14th century Ashikaga shogunate and 19th century Taiwan. Plus, it's significantly different from previous eras. Granted I don't fancy spending decades watching Shao Jun trying to kill Jiajing. This is interesting btw, granted it's two centuries after the 14th century but St. Francis Xavier came to Japan during this shogunate.

French Revolution / Napoleonic Wars - Again, Desmond's mother has ancestors present during these periods and Napoleon, Nelson and Wellington are great men who a gamer will more easily recognize than most Far Eastern people. We know Ubisoft began collaborating with French authorities on the game started this January. The issue here is we've had two huge games of muskets, frocks and King Georges.

Ancient World - Ubisoft has some potential assets from the cancelled Osiris game and an image from it appeared in the Abstergo Ent. email exchange. The chances for this become considerably larger when you consider Greece, Egypt, Rome and Iran were all territories of certain empires.

Tudor / Stuart England - It may come across too much as a blend of AC2 and AC3/4's eras but I've done a blog post on the Apple's potential presence in the lives of William Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell.

American Civil War - Too similar to the American Revolution. The team made the choice between having Washington or Lincoln as a character and they chose the former, and that should be it for now.

Summer of Love - Billion to 1 chance. As funny as it would be see Desmond's mum as a hippy, no. This was just Darby's reference to the Simpsons gag right?

Personally, I just want a satisfying conclusion to Connor and Aveline's stories and wonder how Ubisoft would accomodate that. The exclusive Aveline DLC just whetted my appetite for more.