"Obviously any setting is potentially awesome. The point we were making was that some settings are more familiar in video games than other settings. And the two particular ones that were mentioned are very familiar video game settings. If people think they have the worst ideas, I apologize for that. But really, they're very predictable. The internet is not the place for insight, unfortunately,." - Assassin's Creed 3 creative lead Alex Hutchinson

So...a bit of a backpedal on the previous statement, but another zinger tossed at the people of the internet. Last time I checked, that was billions of people...give or take a million.