User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-173.189.47.87-20141118042127/@comment-3046679-20141118043726

And I'll wager we'll finally leave the 18th century.

It is a piss-poor time period for the series, currently with AC3 and Unity being the "meh" games set in it, and Rogue and Black Flag being the good ones.