Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.

Ignorant

kinda agree, but i can say "video gamez" and move on.

You mean Connor?

Yeah, because that's the part that doesn't make sense about it.

@Shun_Akiyama said:

You mean Connor?

No, he means Desmond. This is the entry where Desmond can travel through time and meet up with his ancestors and steal their clothing for no good reason.

There haven't been any screenshots of Desmond in AC3 released yet have there?

@Winternet said:

Yeah, because that's the part that doesn't make sense about it.

He makes a good point. These are games about putting Nolan North Desmond into a machine and finding memories from his ancestors in his DNA in order to find ancient artifacts from long dead aliens or something.

@Wolverine said:

Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.

Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.

@Wolverine said:

Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.

Yeah... except it's not Desmond...

I hate Desmond, he is the weakest part of the entire series.

The main characters have always painfully stuck out, with no one dressing even remotely similar to them. But, it's a videogame.

Altiar was the only good design in the games. He blended more so than Ezio ever did.

The Native Americans wore all kinds of shit didn't they? I'd say it's just another primitive outfit, I don't see how he "sticks out like a sore thumb." 
 
P.S. The name is Connor not Desmond. Get your Assassin's Creed right bro!

While it may look out of place, I guess it's the first time it's actually worked as a camouflage, what with all the snow and stuff.

They designed Altair to at least present the illusion of fitting in, and then that character design became emblematic of the series and so they've stuck with it, even if it gets ever more ridiculous in context as the series goes on.

@Shun_Akiyama said:

You mean Connor?

No, he means Desmond. This is the entry where Desmond can travel through time and meet up with his ancestors and steal their clothing for no good reason.

http://www.native-languages.org/headdresses.htm

Native american males wore a variety of headgear. But none of the examples were hoods.

As for Westerners during the 1700s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne

Both the colonist and Native Americans wore hooded cloaks. Especially if it was raining.

@TentPole said:

Both the colonist and Native Americans wore hooded cloaks. Especially if it was raining.

I thought the benefit of the tricorne was to shield you from rain.

I think he looks ridiculous as well. I play on PC so hopefully someone will mod it to give him more appropriate clothing.

It's not Desmond, but I've thought about it before and kind of agree with you. I still think the white hooded robes look cool, but I'm not sure they really work here. I could accept that Altair and even Ezio could use them to disguise themselves as priests in their time periods (although you'd think after some time the guards would get damned suspicious of priests), but a native American trying to remain stealthy by running around in white hooded robes is gonna need one hell of a story justification if they want to make it seem like it fits. Oh well, it's not the biggest deal.

Ezio stood out as well. No matter how well dressed you are, if you're walking around with a sword, crossbow, and throwing knives around your belt people should take notice. I think Connor gets away with it more because it's the wild frontier and it'd make sense to have something on you to defend yourself with as you travel. It makes less sense when you're in a crowded city like Florence and the only threat is town guards. I think the hood is the last thing to worry you.

@Gamer_152 said:

It's not Desmond, but I've thought about it before and kind of agree with you. I still think the white hooded robes look cool, but I'm not sure they really work here. I could accept that Altair and even Ezio could use them to disguise themselves as priests in their time periods (although you'd think after some time the guards would get damned suspicious of priests), but a native American trying to remain stealthy by running around in white hooded robes is gonna need one hell of a story justification if they want to make it seem like it fits. Oh well, it's not the biggest deal.

There were screenshots of snowy areas, so the white cloak and hood could conceivably work as camouflage in those areas. If that were to be the case, then the outfit would become immediately more useful than it ever was to Ezio. Seeing as you're playing a native American (or someone of that descent, if I recall correctly), it would make sense if there were a lot of areas where you weren't allowed in, regardless of your attire. Hopefully, this game will have a functional-ass stealth system to accompany that.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Shun_Akiyama said:

You mean Connor?

No, he means Desmond. This is the entry where Desmond can travel through time and meet up with his ancestors and steal their clothing for no good reason.

What

Surely the OP was using Desmond as a placeholder name as we don't know the protagonist's name (although I guess we do, I am just hypothesising) and it's easier to type Desmond than 'this entry's protagonist'.

But hey, I can be a cunt too. DON'T YOU MEAN CONNOR YOU IDIOT.

@The_Nubster: I thought about that as well, but surely if this game is taking on a colonial American theme you're not going to spend the majority of your time in snowy areas. And it disguises the fact that he's a native American but there are about a million other outfits that would do the same job.

That's kind of what the Assassin's wear.

Agreed, the hood looks ridiculous. In fact, his entire outfit being white looks ridiculous.

It looked ridiculous back in AC2, when Ezio, wore his renaissance-era Batman outfit. He always looked like some Lord of Dance / renaissance-era pimp.

considering the ability to dye clothes has been around for a while, I'd be surprised if it didn't carry over to this entry as well. He's probably all in white here for the same reason that most of the Mass Effect promotional stuff still use the default Cmdr; it's what people recognize.

The only time that outfit made anysense was in the first game, but it became so symbolic for the game that they stuck with it.

There are a lot of things in AC that don't make sense it you think about it, but those are petty details

I think I can overlook a gaudy outfit in a game with magical hay, a memory simulator machine, and crazy anachronisms just to name a few.

@Gamer_152 said:

@The_Nubster: I thought about that as well, but surely if this game is taking on a colonial American theme you're not going to spend the majority of your time in snowy areas. And it disguises the fact that he's a native American but there are about a million other outfits that would do the same job.

That's true. Well, as some of the other people in this thread have said: videogames!

You rolled around an a wooden tank in AC:B. This should not be a big deal.

Its a family tradition to wear hoods

@Winternet said:

Yeah, because that's the part that doesn't make sense about it.

You do know you can change the color of your hood right? It won't always be white unless you want it to be.

@Dany said:

@Wolverine said:

Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.

Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.

Though you can totally unlock a Desmond skin in Revelations, haha.... If you wanna talk about out of place, try playing the game like that.

Hoods have been worn throughout history, it's the white outfit that sticks out, not the hood.

@TentPole said:

Ignorant

You rolled around an a wooden tank in AC:B. This should not be a big deal.

The real reason the hood is there is not because "now it got associated with it so it has to be there"... that was always the intention. The reason they wear the hoods, especially with a big peak in the middle, is to keep hammering home the Eagle motif. It's not an accident based on public reception, it's intentional artistic theory.

Even Desmond wears a hood, he just always wears it down.

Hoods have been worn throughout history, it's the white outfit that sticks out, not the hood.

It makes them money at this point to have a hooded dude in white in their game.

@Wolverine said:

Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.

Its not about what they wear in that time period, its about what the Assassins wear you nooblet. Besides, the lead character isnt part of the Colonist, he can wear whatever the fuck he wants.

@Djratchet said:

@Dany said:

@Wolverine said:

Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.

Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.

Though you can totally unlock a Desmond skin in Revelations, haha.... If you wanna talk about out of place, try playing the game like that.

You can unlock Raiden in brotherhood can't you? As an outfit for completing to animus challenges? Never tried that, that would ahve been weird.

@Dany said:

@Djratchet said:

@Dany said:

@Wolverine said:

Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.

Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.

Though you can totally unlock a Desmond skin in Revelations, haha.... If you wanna talk about out of place, try playing the game like that.

You can unlock Raiden in brotherhood can't you? As an outfit for completing to animus challenges? Never tried that, that would ahve been weird.

Haha, yeah. You totally could. I remember one of the story missions was triggered by Ezio finding a cardboard box too, lmao. Gotta love that cross promotion.

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Winternet said:

Yeah, because that's the part that doesn't make sense about it.

He makes a good point. These are games about putting Nolan North Desmond into a machine and finding memories from his ancestors in his DNA in order to find ancient artifacts from long dead aliens or something.

Nolan north voiced him?!

It's confirmed, he is a cyborg.