Had a pretty cool main theme, non Assassin parts kinda sucked, the MC was cool looking, liked the setting, world was kinda ass, ending sucked, 4 was pretty dope tho
>ending sucked
ubi actually wrote a kino speech for connor to give at the end of the game but decided to cut it last minute for apparently no fricking reason
I enjoyed it.
And I liked having a kinda dumb football player-bodied guy as the protag not some stealth guy for a change.
And being rash is cool. Those honkeys did deserve to be killed.
I enjoyed it fully until you swap to Connor.
Then I enjoyed everything that was unrelated to the story, minus the ending.
I'm still seething about Ubisoft shooting themselves in the foot back then btw.
piss off vidya is starved for games in the Enlightenment and Victorian eras and there is only so much Anno 1800, Empire Total War, EU4, and Vicky 2 I can play to get my fill
Garbage setting for a series centered around parkour.
Half the game being a prologue and a tutorial screams of two studios having different ideas of how the game should have been.
it's a decently fun game. hatham's speech at the end of the game makes it worth playing for that alone. honestly i remembered more about hatham than connor.
Wew, what's this Kingdom Hearts 1-tier control scheme? The console version ties camera control to the analog like any sensible person would, and Brotherhood and onwards on PC do as well so I really don't know what were they thinking to do that. Parkour is very camera relative in old AC so that's got to majorly suck.
Have you looked around on Steam discussions to see if anyone has fixed that?
>Camera is controlled with R2 and L2.
No, it's not. What kind of weird cracked version do you have? I just downloaded AC2 with my UC account just to make sure. I'm even using a DualSense for this so it's not even a natively supported controller. Just enable the default settings for the controller and rebind the face buttons because they're wrong (It had grab where attack was for some reason) and it works fine. Don't touch the medicine/HB/Weapon/Fists though because it breaks the d-pad in menus kind of. It's why you see me delay going up a couple times, it rebound it to left for some reason. I'll have to double-check if not touching those fixes it.
>best part
It was fricking dogshit. Furthermore, if you want that sort of content go play literally fricking any other game. Even this jank ass Mount and Blade variant is better than the ship content in any Ass Creed, whether it's 3, 4, rogue, or fricking odyssey.
I like history times and I have a poor visual imagination, so being in these games is just kind of neat all on it's own. I also like winter settings. Wasn't very good, very frustrating at times, but fun overall.
It was a step in the right direction in almost any regard. The new animations and parkour were a lot more fluid while at the same time retaining all the complexity of previous games. Combat was always piss easy since Brotherhood, so the fact they revamped it and gave it a bigger focus on cinematic slow mo was a good decision imo, even then, they managed to cramp a little bit of nuance into it (some enemies you have to stun before you combo kill, marksmen line up and try to shoot at you, you can't counter kill officers) though you can see that all of that fell off in IV where it was just counter kill anything without effort and with just dual swords now and uglier animations. I liked the slow prologue and transition into Connor but sadly it all fell apart into muh charles lee and participate in historic battles. Winter / Summer transition was kino. Homestead missions and the frontier were soulful in general. The setting itself was dull compared to Rome and Constantinople, but you can see there's a lot of detail in New York and Boston, especially when it comes to sound/ambient design, walk through the New York in Rogue and you'll see how lifeless it feels. Overall this feels like a very polished game and one of the only complete ACs there's simply so much to do and almost everything is just as well fleshed out. You can tell this game spent years in development while most other ones before it and after only months.
Rogue would have been one of the greatest games in the series if it was given a full team and allowed to be fleshed out further.
I don't care if they were filler missions, I just wanted wanted everything to be bigger.
Why do you keep making this thread?
The parkour is bland because of the setting, the stealth is undercooked, using a weapon other than the tomahawk is silly because Connor was designed specifically around using it and as such sword and dagger will recycle animations from it.
Haytham was more interesting and the game suffers from hiding Ratonhnhaké:ton's more personable qualities behind a Homestead many won't engage with. Rope darts are rad, though
>using a weapon other than the tomahawk is silly because Connor was designed specifically around using it and as such sword and dagger will recycle animations from it.
Only the dagger does, sword has its own set of animations completely different from the ones Haytham uses
Sword does have its own animation set but it still shares anims with the tomahawk, some of the parries and the attacks where Connor hacks with the middle of the blade are very obviously taken from it. It is just a shame that there's a standard set by how pure quality the tomahawk choreography is, vicious and intricate, that isn't quite maintained throughout. I do love how Connor will pace around when left idle in combat with a heavy weapon, lad's built like a wall and it feels right.
This was when I dropped Assassin's Creed for good. I'd been a big fan since the first game, but I was just totally bored by this one and found myself mostly uninspired by it. Never picked the series back up since.
The fact that you don't get any cool outfit to showcase Connor's Native American heritage beyond the Kanienkehaka clothes from when he was a kid is disappointing. The DLC outfit is perfect but the game doesn't let you use it in the main campaign. It almost feels as if that side of him slowly gets erased as he spends more time in the colonists' world and that's sad.
The first AC game where the game felt clunky (later titles only exacerbate this until Odyssey) and no feature felt exciting. Revelations got shit on but it brought strongholds and zip-lines which felt exciting and interesting while finishing Ezio and Altair's story. AC3 felt forced as frick.
I used to think it was possibly the worst but then I saw some gameplay from the Egypt one and Viking one. Like the actual frick did this series evolve into??
all ACs starting with 4 bar Unity and Syndicate should have been a completely different IP
you could tell they want to make a completely different game to the Assassin's Creed mold but they want to have the name for marketing purposes
I have a feeling they were saving the Japan setting and ninjas as a get-out-of-jail card for when Ubisoft/Ass Creed started spiraling
unfortunately they chose to break out the card when it became almost mandatory to shoe in the sacred Black
I'd be inclined to agree if it weren't how conveniently he's placed in history. He was basically a gift to oda nubunaga from Jesuit missionaries, he was present for several historical events, escapes nobunagas execution, and met several major players in sengoku japan. The ass creed games need someone who is historically present but not noteworthy enough that they don't have narrative flexibility. I HATE to admit it, because it reeks of tokenism, especially when there's other historical figures that fit that description from the same time period, but his outsider position and privilege in that time period makes him damn near ideal. When you consider that the assassins originated from outside of a closed off ethnostate it makes sense that our main character wouldn't be Japanese. What doesn't make sense, is that he's an assassin when Jesuits and nobunaga were NOT the good guys. The climax of the game should be you chasing nobunaga into the burning castle and cornering him for his seppeku.
maybe the protagonist could start off as a templar? sort of like a reverse shay where he grows increasingly disillusioned with the templar way of doing things and eventually converts
>modern day was so rushed they literally spawn a tiny textureless knife on his other hand to mimic Connor's hidden blade >didn't even bother animating it, when not it combat it literally just spawns and vanishes from his hand the moment you enter combat
Typical anti-Cesare homosexual propaganda. He was the Savior that Europe needed, but didn't deserve. If the Borgia plan to have him installed as pope-emperor of all Christendom had been successful we wouldnt be living in a israeli dystopia, but syphilis and his own chadlike bravado were the undoing of us all
>bow and tomahawk was unsatisfying as frick >the area with all the snow was AIDS >hunting sucked >defend yourself from wild animals. Forced to go through skinning animation on each one or get a game over >fight with the father was shit. Would have been better if it took place in the wilderness where you canonically have an advantage. Instead you just toss him around like he has never been in a bar fight
Only enjoyable part was the ship. This entire game was nothing but an overglorified demo to Black Flag. It did have the best trailer in the franchise though
>Instead you just toss him around like he has never been in a bar fight
Why was Haytham so incompetent in that fight anyway? Connor had been messed up by the cannonball, but Haytham was uninjured and yet just lets you ragdoll him around
I might be insane, but am I the only one that noticed a pattern
AC3 is about (repelling) the british
It sucks
ACU has british people voicing the french
it sucks
AC Syndicate is set in britain
it sucks
AC Valhalla is set in old britain
it sucks
the only odd one out is AC4 where the protagonist is english.
Sean Hastings is a shit in all of the games since 2 so he's not even a factor.
this specific period seems to be rather forgotten in games sphere, nothing besides an rpg would work there proper I feel like, unless it's some "control a single soldier in an army" multiplayer game
all things considered, ubisoft is pretty good when it comes to recreating historical settings, game could have been better for sure, but I am glad that this time period at least got a shot
I don't think I ever finished it.
I bought the game because the trailer (coming home) was cool. I remember very little about the game, but it always annoyed me that you had to play as not even the assassin for a chunk of the game, before you could play as connor (?). I liked the setting but getting around the map was annoying, and I didn't pay a lot of attention to the story
A massive disappointment. After Venice, Rome, and Constantinople, you get...trees, bushes, snow and houses that look like the one my grandparents live in. And the dumbest, most convoluted story in the series so far. The intro with Haytham was awesome, but holy shit did they drop the ball with the main game. Bonus points for killing off Desmond. My interest in the series just never fully recovered after 3.
Loved it, it was one of the first games I pirated and being my only AC after Brotherhood, I played the frick out of it. I found Connor charming, the combat really satisfying and the setting cool enough, despite usually hating Americanized things. I recently played Tyranny of King Washington and realized the controls are kinda clunky, but I still love the setting and I think it got undeserved flak, specially with everything it introduced and with Black Flag being so beloved, despite only changing the setting and bloating the map even more (I like Freedom Cry way more).
>one of the first games I pirated and being my only AC after Brotherhood
GO PLAY REV RIGHT THE FRICK NOW. this is coming from a guy that only really likes AC1, and only tolerates the rest until 3/4/Rouge. there is a really cool moment near the end of Rev that you will appreciate if you like the first two AC games
It was fine gameplay wise, some changes to earlier entries but nothing crazy.
Narratively it was weak though. Connor has barely any agency of his own and it felt like just going through civil war set piece to civil war set piece which just sorta happen around Connor.
Black Flag was an improvement in all areas.
pros >ship combat and wind and stormy weather, they tightened the controls in 4 but removed the variety >tree climbing and vaulting/sliding as well as the original AC climbing add even greater depth to an already deep system >snow and weather being comfy >combat actually a challenge in AC again thanks to sheer numbers, aka exactly what an assassins greatest weakness would be
on this, running around on the floor like a moron is near-garaunteed death thanks to rifle squads, so taking to the roofs is actually required which is nice for an AC game >working windmill you can climb and be moronic on >only redeeming part of the story was exploring how templars and assassins are two sides of the same coin and in alot of cases their goals are ultimately aligned
cons >unhinged story in both the present day and the past >connor, while not being quite as bad as people meme, is pretty uneventful as a protag. can you even name 1 life event that happened to him? compared to ezio, who we know everything >uneventful story missions, TAIL, EAVESDROP, CHASE >anything that isnt in a big city is copy-paste, even down to the same 5 trees everywhere (because they have to be climbable)
i could pad out both sides more if it wasnt literally decades later. bottom line is that alot of people got filtered by the combat of this game, despite it being the best AC combat to date. is there a greater feeling than chaining attacks mixed with body blocking against bullet storms back to back to back?
that isnt in a big city is copy-paste, even down to the same 5 trees everywhere (because they have to be climbable)
lol i remember this. you'd recognize the exact cluster of trees and know you can hop through them on the branches
Currently on a mission to complete all the "mainline" AC games; recently finished the remaster of 3 and was decent enough to hold my interest until the end. Black Flag is currently killing my will to proceed with the stupid stealth-boat bayou bullshit (I know it's a meme complaint, but well-deserved imo)
I liked the addition of some more wilderness and wildlife and that's about it. They did something to slow down the combat in this one, and I guess colonial American cities just weren't much fun to climb on.
I liked playing as Haytham WAY more than Conner and I wish the game would have just followed his story and detailed the rise of the Templar order in the colonies during and after the 7 years war.
The world was boring, I didn't like how little there was to do in the frontier, some more activities like fishing and card games might have helped spice the world up a bit. I know you had the old board games like morris but it really needed something shorter that you could just pick and play whenever you were bored.
I liked building up the homestead but if I remember correctly it was very linear and certain hidden requirements had to be met before you could make any further progress.
All in all a solid 5/10, could have been better.
I'm disappointed taunting was never again a thing after Brotherhood. You could argue old Ezio and Connor aren't the type but Edward definitely would have for one
>worse faces >worse facial animations >worse ship crew animations (they don't walk around or climb up or down the nets or mast) >worse ship animations (in AC3 you can see the side booms get positioned to use the stun'sl when Connor calls for full sail, as well as the crew moving faster when giving commands, whereas in AC4 sails magically elongate or shorten while the crew does nothing) >pointless story that leads nowhere and is only well remembered because of melancholic ending >worse combat animations and sound design ( you can't tell wtf Edward is doing whenever he's using the dual swords, most of the time he just slashed someone in the back while some out of sync poorly recorded audio plays) >worse combat variety (you can't equip any weapon but the dual swords, even though the animations for them exist when you take them from enemies) >worse and unnecessarily much easier combat >3 small cities, 2 of them are 75% grassy hills >worse audio in general (random awkward silences without music or sound effects all the time) >worse hunting >beginning of the pointless modern day plot era
Graphics and music are great, the game was great fun, but it's obvious to anyone that played AC3 that this is nothing more than a rushed asset flip, one that turned out better than it had the right to do, but the lack of polish is apparent in all aspects
Strong start that gets progressively worse once you gain control of Connor, peaks at the teamup, and then crashes to the ground after that.
The Homestead is the best part of the game because Connor is an actual person in it whereas in the main story he's a complete butthole even to people he's helping or a man who raised him for more than half of his life.
The Templars act nonsensically just to justify Connor hating them and it brings the story down because it's the main reason why Connor does anything.
The ship combat is the best of the series and every game that came after it did it worse because it made it much more arcadey.
The Frontier is okay and I didn't mind it.
The shipping system is cancer, especially when you have to physically go out and defend it if you're unlucky enough to be in the Frontier when you're sending one out.
Despite the Illuminati tunnels being monotonous they were also an interesting idea and pretty cool to explore.
The DLC was boring and exhausting despite having magical powers.
I thought the story was horribly paced, the protagonist was unlikeable, the setting didn't allow for interesting freerunning, the gameplay was streamlined into moronic "hold x to let the game play itself" shit, it just wasn't good. I did not have fun.
I tried playing it. I didn't get far because the animations bothered me. They made those adaptive procedural animations, and just running and/or taking a turn made it look like the character was tripping and stumbling all the time. It made me uncomfortable, as if I'm subjecting the characters to such trouble, and I stopped playing about when it turned out the British dude was a bad guy, which I'm told is before the Indian character is even born.
In essence, the cool new animation technology took me out of it.
I'm going through all AC games now and I have finished this one last week.
I liked gameplay more than in previous games, more moves, weapons, gadgets, cool finishers, guns etc. Tomahawks are very cool
Most locations suck hard, colonial towns and forts can't compare to some of the most famous cities in the world filled with famous landmarks from AC2. Captain Kidd's missions had cool locations though
Growing Homested was more fun than buying shops in previous games
I didn't care much for Connor, he wasn't annoying or dumb, but after finishing the game I can't say that I would like to play as him again. Lost family/home as a child - trained under old man and went on the quest for revenge, all standard stuff.
Not really a fan of that particular history period or USA all together, so I can't say anything about that
Plot twist at the end of Haytham's part was the peak of the story, I didn't get engaged much after.
Haytham was cool.
Going to play DLC and Liberation now
Forgot two things
Crafting and caravans seemed kinda pointless, dunno why they made entire system with dependencies on multiple artisians and tiers, when the only reason to craft shit was to get items for few delivery quests and maybe couple weapons
Naval missions were actually kinda fun, unless you wanted to beat secondary objectives. The Giant and the Storm was one of the most frustrating things to get done in video games I did in a while. I guess that Black Flag will have more of those, so I'm not entirely looking forward to that
Are you doing a normal or completionist playthrough?
Do you just jump at the next game when you're done or do you take a break(burnout isn't nice)? >t. was thinking of playing through the entire series(not sure about odysee and valhalla however) as well
I'm going for 100% in every game as you can see in the screenshot
In steam version. you can't actually acces some stuff in AC2 and Brotherhood now, like Auditore Crypt, Da Vinci Disappearance and bonus slots for ammo. Thankfully, you can unlock that, if you download a save which was made when all of that was still avaiable, I got saves for both games from steam forums.
For some reason, Revelations didn't have this problem
Forgot about second question >Do you just jump at the next game when you're done or do you take a break(burnout isn't nice)?
I try to not binge play/watch stuff, so after finishing one AC game I go play something else and repeat. I'm in the process of going through all my backlog, I haven't bought any games since last winter sale and I won't buy any until I finish every single game I have. I don't have that many of them (less than 100 titles), but I have a job, so it takes a lot of time
Not him but I did 100% runs in everything from 2 to Odyssey in a row with no breaks including the Chronicles games when I got my Xbone X a couple years back. Only games I didn't do were 1 because I did a 100% run a few months back, Bloodlines because I don't want to go through that again, Altair's Chronicles because it's a bad game, and Discovery because I don't care for it. Valhalla was out but it wasn't on sale yet so I didn't buy it at the time.
You really REALLY gotta be in a mood for it because when I reached Syndicate I started getting the "I don't think I really want to do this" feeling which went away about half way through the game, then came back for the Last of the Maharajah, then went away again with Jack the Ripper. Origins rekindled my passion for the series, and then I was hating Odyssey from the moment I started it.
It only got worse the longer I played Odyssey because it was the antithesis of what an AC game should be and wasn't even that great for virtual tourism because there was so much repetition in the world. I got a second wind when I got my 100% crit set going because it finally played somewhat like an AC game again and only hated playing it when I was given choices or had to use the Adrestia because the ship battles in Odyssey are by far the worst part of it by far. Then I got back into the Groove with the DLC, both were fine though DLC 2 of Legacy of the First Blade was pure filler and gave you a weapon even worse than the oil slick in Rogue.
My recommendation if you are going to do 100%s in a row:
Have something to watch. I was watching TV shows, Youtube, and listening to music whenever I was doing the checkmarks and collectibles, tuning in and out and enjoying both sides at the same time. It really helps with some of the monotony. It's honestly one of my favorite things to do with collectibles in open world games.
I really wish Syndicate’s main could’ve had the same vibe as the Jack the Ripper DLC, or that they went with the original Victory proposal that got scrapped after Unity’s initial reaction according to Jacob’s voice actor.
He's still in her head, the epilogue confirms this. They even have a chat, she just rules the roost and his has to sit in his mind shed unable to do anything.
no back or side ejects
slow as frick parkour system from Origins~Valhalla where there's no feeling of speed or flow returns
superpowers from Odyssey because lmao Animus glitch
UAV drone bird returns
there will be a skill tree
we already know that the protagonist is a literal god or some shit so there's no stake or risks in the story at all.
Connor's movements, parkour, and combat are so well animated. It's crazy playing a modern AC game and they just stopped caring and everything looks so jerky and cartoonish. And the cutscenes, minus modern day stuff and remaster, are really good. It also has one of the best winter themes in any game. The people who dont like Connor cause he's "boring" are children who should stick to anime.
Shay was just a colossal dumbass that suffered from shit tier writing, just like everyone else in Rogue.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>dumbass
Ignore the writing and he was smart enough to realize the Assassins were losers
9 months ago
Anonymous
He was a moron that couldn’t explain what happened like an adult. His entire arc of questioning the Assassin Brotherhood is stupid when he mindlessly accepts the Templar Order. He’s probably the dumbest out of all of the protagonists, and the entire game feels infuriating because that, along with the Assassins becoming comically evil or stupid caricatures to justify the story.
9 months ago
Anonymous
He continues to stay with the Templars after the smallpox blankets, so he’s a hypocrite too.
9 months ago
Anonymous
And he killed Ade for no justifiable reason at all.
9 months ago
Moose
He also thought Ade was one of the best people he knows of yet went through with the kill anyway. He straight up had an entire discussion where all he did was praise him.
9 months ago
Anonymous
He also thought Ade was one of the best people he knows of yet went through with the kill anyway. He straight up had an entire discussion where all he did was praise him.
>The people who dont like Connor cause he's "boring" are children who should stick to anime.
You have to admit that Connor's writing leaves something to be desired. It's a good thing that he's so radically different from Ezio but he's an on/off switch that keeps flipflopping between annoyed at everyone and naive
>What is your non-meme opinion of this game?
it has a ok-ish story but it fails as an assassin's creed game in gameplay and story >try playing AC2 because heard it’s the best
what you are looking for is Assassin's Creed (the first one)
For some reason this scene, especially the finishing shot from 1:50 onwards stuck with me after I first saw it.
Something about the POV of being stabbed and then shot by a musket by deadpan George Washington felt brutal as frick. Probably one of the worst ways to die.
The game is one of the worst ACs though.
>The map is extremely repetitive and repeats the exact same sanctuaries, oceanside towns, and square buildings in mountains constantly to the point of you being sick of them. >Has the worst tombs in the series by a significant mile, and the only thing that differentiates each snake maze is if it has a bottom floor that's flooded or not. >Is filled with so much collectible bloat it took Valhalla multiple patches and DLC spread across something like two years before it surpassed it with the base game alone being more bloated than Unity, a game criticized for its item bloat. >Builds should never exist in an AC game, but the fact that Assassin builds are outright required just to kill more than basic mooks, and 100% crit builds are required to assassinate everything without consuming Adrenaline and kill mercenaries is moronic.
Don't even get me started on the completely worthless bow unless you specifically spec into Hunter (Which is almost worthless in combat because it relies on Adrenaline for skills that do all its damage) or 100% crit. >Alex/Kass are easily at the top of "Worst MC in the series" because they flip what they believe in at complete random, act like buttholes to their friends for no reason, take moral high grounds while being fine with murdering innocents, and are absolute hypocrites during the main story. >Character development outside of Barnabas is nonexistent to the point that when you go to Athens to recruit people to literally overthrow the government your "closest friends" are people you met at a wine party and helped with extremely mundane tasks a whole one time after the fact.
Herodotos almost never appears in any scene and is on Barnabas level according to the story, it's beyond moronic. >The Cult of Kosmos is so poorly developed that Elpenor, the very first guy you meet and who you kill within an hour, is the most developed of them all. >Naval fights are by far the worst in the entire series here.
It's such a mess of a game.
I like Odyssey but I have to agree with pretty much everything here.
HOWEVER >Builds should never exist in an AC game
Not to a Diablo-like extent where you juggle numbers and stats but I think different play styles should be encouraged.
The problem is that unless you do it the Unity way or the Valhalla way it's complete garbage because it locks you out of multiple tools you can use in gameplay. AC is about being a generalist, a jack-of-all-trades. Odyssey took that and smashed it into the ground unless you're playing a 100% crit run. The bow is literally on your back all game and does next to no damage unless you run one or two builds.
>Builds should never exist in an AC game
I'm with the other guy on this. While I definitely don't want RPG crap I do think specialisation would be an interesting twist on the formula, if only because it feels like the only feasible way to have an Assassin's Creed where I can play as a squishy sneakster that relies on being underhanded to get past enemies.
I'd think an evolution of Liberation's personas could be interesting but limiting your movement ends up meaning that any persona that can't free run is just not fun to play.
>Liberation's personas
Man, what a wasted concept. I know it's basically Hitman but it would be cool if all those outfits you unlock had an actual effect.
Actually didn't Syndicate have minor stuff like that? Small boosts to ranged damage or ammo capacity etc.
Yeah, Syndicate follows on Unity's gear system where certain belts gave you more ammo for specific tools and all that. Tbh AC in general could benefit a lot from taking inspiration from Hitman, there's a reason the assassinations from Unity are remembered so much
Yeah Unity introduced loot autism into the series for better or worse. Shit I think I need to replay Syndicate, there was a mission that let you infiltrate a place by posing as a corpse, that one really stuck with me.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>introduced loot autism
It didn't introduce anything other than "tiered" enemies.
Besides how you can swap armor and weapon on the fly, the way gear works in Unity is not different from Ass Creed 2~4.
Ass Creed 2 added the concept of various tiered equipment to begin with.
Outfits were what gave you bonuses. Jacob’s belts and Evie’s capes just increased your defense and stealth stats, with the belts focusing more around defense while the capes were focused more around stealth.
should never exist in an AC game
This is what I fault AC Unity the most for opening the doors for. That shit made sense in co-op missions if you wanted to approach them differently, but in a singleplayer games it makes no goddamn sense.
Unity barely has any builds.
Being able to carry more ammo(belts, gauntlet substats) or making you slightly more quiet(torso and legs) when running doesn't fundamentally change how you play at all. Especially when you can just magically spawn ammo and spam smoke bombs. >in co-op missions if you wanted to approach them differently
Heist missions in particular forces stealth for the best returns, even for the other missions Unity's system/balance doesn't allow them in the slightest.
Kitting out in legendary medieval armor to "tank" for example will just make you survive like 1 to 2 hits more.
Being a "sniper" is a lost cause when you have about the same pathetic range as the enemy regardless of whether you're using a rifle or a handgun+melee.
Being the "healer" or a "recon" is borderline worthless.
There are like a handful of moments where the disguise ability is borderline mandatory but even that can be overcome by bruteforcing with stealth.
I like the aesthetic. I don't like the gameplay. the story is boring and I don't remember very much if I'm honest. the protagonist is unlikable and I didn't identify or sympathize with him. haytham was a real ass homie who got to frick some prime native pussy. BRING ME CHARLES LEE. how did a black man in colonial america earn enough of a salary to build himself such an amazing home and on private property? the homestead shit was pointless. the underground sections that served as the assassins tombs were trash. the mulitplayer was alright if a little barebones. I didn't play the DLC. desmond dying in the end was the worst moronic hamfisted ending they just pulled out of their asses.
I liked the homestead stuff the best.
Connor is a wet blanket of a protagonist.
They squandered a really interesting setting with tons of intrigue baked in and the main character spends most of the war sulking in his tent.
We do agree that Connor is a top fighter and would be one of the last standing in an Assassin battle royale, right? Everyone always seems to undermine him
I'll always like Connor for how much of a fricking tank he is. I think putting the hood on him might have been a mistake though, he's more of a brawler like Bartolomeo (?) in 2.
Altair is canonically the most skilled Assassin ever because video games love jerking off the first protagonist in any given series. Remember AC1's sync system means he never canonically got hit in any gameplay moment.
no, no that's not true at all. you basically have like 3 enemy types >grenadier >standard soldier >knife dude >captain
and you simply respond accordingly to each one; the grenadier can't be parried and auto killed, you have to trip him first and stab him while he's on the ground; the standard soldier can just be killed in any way and doesn't have any special requirements; knife dude will slash at you and avoid your attempts to grab him; you have to disarm him of the knife then you can kill him; captain has a gun and will attempt to shoot you from afar. if he's got a battalion nearby, they'll all take position and fire at you like a firing squad. you can disarm the captain and pretty much kill him in the same way you would a knife dude or you can trip him up like the grenadier and kill him while he's on the ground. as for the firing squad itself, it will do tremendous damage, but you have to avoid that shit by grabbing a body and using it as a meat shield or by parkouring out of sight.
it was often compared to batman arkham combat, but honestly that shit is slightly more complex because it at least throws multiple enemies at you at once and you have to sort of juggle them. in asscreed, everyone just waits in line to be slaughtered like good little NPCs. come to think of it, I suppose it's a step up from previous asscreed games, so by asscreed standards the combat is good.
>Altaïr's robes in 3
that's a problem in most games where you can unlock those, real fricking lazy
just like having his empty dagger sheath on the back and similar moronic choices
I get that they literally copypasted his model from AC1 for the Ezio games but seeing that dagger sheathe be always empty irked me to no end. Either remove it or put his short blade in there as a prop.
the tutorial is way too goddamned long, the main character was disappointing and unlikable, the homesteading was too pointless for how much of a hassle it was, and the level design was B O R I N G
No, they're not. It's literally a (You) issue, you can see
>Camera is controlled with R2 and L2.
No, it's not. What kind of weird cracked version do you have? I just downloaded AC2 with my UC account just to make sure. I'm even using a DualSense for this so it's not even a natively supported controller. Just enable the default settings for the controller and rebind the face buttons because they're wrong (It had grab where attack was for some reason) and it works fine. Don't touch the medicine/HB/Weapon/Fists though because it breaks the d-pad in menus kind of. It's why you see me delay going up a couple times, it rebound it to left for some reason. I'll have to double-check if not touching those fixes it.
me showing you it works fine on PC. Either your controller is busted or you didn't set it up at all.
I have a wired Xbox controller. I googled it and tons of people have the exact same issue. I can't even properly set the buttons up in the mapping because it won't recognize RT/LT
I have a wired 360 controller and an Xbone controller which I also use wired on my PC. I genuinely have no idea how you are having this issue, are you sure Steam isn't causing it?
>Builds should never exist in an AC game
I'm with the other guy on this. While I definitely don't want RPG crap I do think specialisation would be an interesting twist on the formula, if only because it feels like the only feasible way to have an Assassin's Creed where I can play as a squishy sneakster that relies on being underhanded to get past enemies.
I'd think an evolution of Liberation's personas could be interesting but limiting your movement ends up meaning that any persona that can't free run is just not fun to play.
Like I said, Unity or Valhalla's way of doing it is fine with specializations into Eagle Vision duration or extra tools for example. Odyssey's locking off of entire gameplay styles was moronic when that's a huge chunk of your moveset just vanishing into thin air.
Yes. Camera is controlled with R2 and L2. It’s horrible. It’s the PC version.
I remember having this problem a while back, I was using an og xbone controller and the issue boils down to some inconsistencies in the axis being assigned to the triggers. Some old xinput drivers would assign both triggers to the same axis basically preventing you from pressing them both at the same time. You have to use x360ce to fix this, it was a while ago but I remember you could just download a present specifically made to fix this issue in this game (and AC1) since enough people were having it, but yes, you're supposed move the camera using the right analog.
I find Haytham eternally amusing in that the one Templar cross the outfit does have is actually really subtle, while Assassins display their symbol as loudly as they can.
Connor is unironically more interesting than young Ezio; I really like how thoughtful and formal he is
People calling him boring are just midwits - just because he isn't flamboyant or extroverted doesn't make him boring - he's actually a great character for an Assassin who you'd think would be quiet and understated - unlike Ezio who everyone would remember after one conversation with him
is asscreed multiplayer dead? can't connect to ubisoft servers on ac3. ah, it's just as well, it wasn't really worth playing that much to begin with, but it'd be nice to relive it for a bit, for old times sake
>Weapon experience. >Gets armor almost every kill.
I expected it because it looked more like Odyssey than anything else. There is no way this is a mobile exclusive though, look at that UI clutter and how many ways they can monetize just from the drops alone.
I'm 90% sure it's getting a simultaneous PC release but honestly I haven't heard or seen that much about the game.
Step up yo game, Ubishills. btw when's Skull & Bones
China gets fricked over again with a shitty mobile game. What’s worse is that the main character is the adopted child of Wei Yu, the Chinese Assassin mentioned in AC2 that killed the first Chinese Emperor with his spear. They honestly decided that it’d be a good idea to make a mobile spinoff of some literally who instead of making a full game of Wei Yu.
So instead of just giving you Ezio in Giovanni's robes you make a worse design that is sure to please no-one? He looks like a bootleg, if you wanted to go for an Ezio between Brohood and Rev you could put him in the Armor of Altaïr since it's canon he retrieves it after the game but it is never elaborated upon
it marked the beginning of the decline of AC. AC2 was an improvement over AC1 (gameplay-wise) and ACBrotherhood can be seen as a small improvement over AC2. AC3 was an obvious downgrade and the series never recovered.
last game of the series i played. the worst game ive ever played. has 5 chapters where you play ay haytham then with connor you start another tutorial. half the game seemed a fricking tutorial. boring parkour that was downgraded and the location didn't help either. going from renaissance italy or Constantinople to early days America is insane. all building are copycats and no complexity to them. same gameplay that wasnt improved upon even with new engine. the main protagonist is a literal cuck: he learns that it was Washington that gave the order to burn his village and yet connor still helps them. instead of training or making alliances with other tribes, he chooses to "help the lesser evil". it could've been a tragic story of a racemixed Black person trying to save his land but in the end fails. no we get some garbage story instead. dont get me even started with desmonds plot, what an absolute joke. ubisoft is lucky that morons kept and still keep buying asscrewd games after ac3. was a great series with incredible atmosphere, amazing locations and soundtrack with, yes i admit, a very simplistic gameplay but the games had a certain charm to them. the conspiracy about modern abstergo was incredible too, especially when deciphering the glyphs you would find around the maps. with ac3 and afterwards it became far cry but with assassins, well not even assassins recently
fricking fun cool cinimatic trailer, sick ass music >I MUST FIND CHARLES LEE
endless lust for revenge for mommas death and frick everything attitude for them twisting the mind of your best frens best interest
intro to the beloved boat sailing for black flag
various amounts of killing styles and with weapons
damn this shit was great, need to hop back onto multi-player
Trouble in town gets the blood pumping
Only Americans seem to have liked it while everyone else didn't give a single frick.
It dragged out for too long, had the same flaws as the previous games with a few new ones, story was trash, gameplay was trash, but graphics were good and music was okay I guess.
>2nd grade >in 2012 >readily admitting to being underage
you'd be consider yourself lucky that jannies are too lazy to do anything about this. come back in 2030.
ur a homosexual
Had a pretty cool main theme, non Assassin parts kinda sucked, the MC was cool looking, liked the setting, world was kinda ass, ending sucked, 4 was pretty dope tho
>ending sucked
ubi actually wrote a kino speech for connor to give at the end of the game but decided to cut it last minute for apparently no fricking reason
I enjoyed it.
And I liked having a kinda dumb football player-bodied guy as the protag not some stealth guy for a change.
And being rash is cool. Those honkeys did deserve to be killed.
I enjoyed it fully until you swap to Connor.
Then I enjoyed everything that was unrelated to the story, minus the ending.
I'm still seething about Ubisoft shooting themselves in the foot back then btw.
Connor is boring
the setting is also boring af. WTF were they thinking?
piss off vidya is starved for games in the Enlightenment and Victorian eras and there is only so much Anno 1800, Empire Total War, EU4, and Vicky 2 I can play to get my fill
Naw man, that's what got me to try it. I love that American revolution period and wish there was more games in similar time periods and places.
I SHOOT A MOFO IN THE THROAT WITH A BOW
kino
how will the bri ish ever recover?
not having a giant beautifully crafted city from history fricking sucked ass. americans can't build for shit.
Get back here Charles Lee! CHARLES LEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! YOU CAN ESCAPE ME!!! I'LL CHASE YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EEEEEEEAAAAARRRRRTTTTTHHHHHH!!!!!!!
That was an intentional Where’s Waldo joke, since Waldo, or Wally, is translated as Charlie in French.
>or Wally
It's only Waldo. Rest of the world doesn't count.
French Canadians were a mistake.
Ta geule pédé
I don’t speak coward.
the ship combat was so good they made an entire game around it. Everything else was meh
Garbage setting for a series centered around parkour.
Half the game being a prologue and a tutorial screams of two studios having different ideas of how the game should have been.
The Assassin symbol axes were baller
That being said every aspect of this game sucked. The UI to the gameplay to the story and acting
I liked it, but it takes way too long to get through all the introductory prologue stuff
Its literally over 10-15 hours. It's fricking super boring to replay more than once. I am autistic and finished it on Wii U years ago
it's a decently fun game. hatham's speech at the end of the game makes it worth playing for that alone. honestly i remembered more about hatham than connor.
Did anyone play this?
Only us who had a Vita and were starved for games.
Doubt anyone bought the PS360 and PC port.
Yeah, it's like a budget AC3 in the bayou, pretty fun.
no
Pretty much this
but I couldn't make it through, the MC and mechanics that come with it just ruins it
Bored me to tears at release. Its not even close to Ass Creed 2. Connor sucks ass. His Dad was cooler.
>try playing AC2 because heard it’s the best
>controls are atrocious, analogs don’t even control camera
This is just how lots of older games are camera assist kills my fricking soul
>analogs don’t even control camera
Are you sure you have your controller set right?
Yes. Camera is controlled with R2 and L2. It’s horrible. It’s the PC version.
Wew, what's this Kingdom Hearts 1-tier control scheme? The console version ties camera control to the analog like any sensible person would, and Brotherhood and onwards on PC do as well so I really don't know what were they thinking to do that. Parkour is very camera relative in old AC so that's got to majorly suck.
Have you looked around on Steam discussions to see if anyone has fixed that?
>Camera is controlled with R2 and L2.
No, it's not. What kind of weird cracked version do you have? I just downloaded AC2 with my UC account just to make sure. I'm even using a DualSense for this so it's not even a natively supported controller. Just enable the default settings for the controller and rebind the face buttons because they're wrong (It had grab where attack was for some reason) and it works fine. Don't touch the medicine/HB/Weapon/Fists though because it breaks the d-pad in menus kind of. It's why you see me delay going up a couple times, it rebound it to left for some reason. I'll have to double-check if not touching those fixes it.
sounds like somebody is using some shithouse 3rd party gamepad or fricked up settings.
>try playing AC2 because heard it’s the best
What you are looking for is AC2: Brotherhood
It added naval battles and for that it belongs in the fricking trash
But anon that's literally the best part of the whole shitty game.
>best part
It was fricking dogshit. Furthermore, if you want that sort of content go play literally fricking any other game. Even this jank ass Mount and Blade variant is better than the ship content in any Ass Creed, whether it's 3, 4, rogue, or fricking odyssey.
anon meds
The boat parts were better and ships felt meatier than the shit that they pulled in Black Flag.
awful
the setting wasn't great either for a series thats all about parkour and climbing buildings
I like history times and I have a poor visual imagination, so being in these games is just kind of neat all on it's own. I also like winter settings. Wasn't very good, very frustrating at times, but fun overall.
Kino
You get to experiencing a decaying brotherhood instead of a rising one like AC1 or starting a new one like AC2.
I also remember the writing being pretty solid, the dialogue had its moments and most characters spoke properly instead of comical caricatures
It was a step in the right direction in almost any regard. The new animations and parkour were a lot more fluid while at the same time retaining all the complexity of previous games. Combat was always piss easy since Brotherhood, so the fact they revamped it and gave it a bigger focus on cinematic slow mo was a good decision imo, even then, they managed to cramp a little bit of nuance into it (some enemies you have to stun before you combo kill, marksmen line up and try to shoot at you, you can't counter kill officers) though you can see that all of that fell off in IV where it was just counter kill anything without effort and with just dual swords now and uglier animations. I liked the slow prologue and transition into Connor but sadly it all fell apart into muh charles lee and participate in historic battles. Winter / Summer transition was kino. Homestead missions and the frontier were soulful in general. The setting itself was dull compared to Rome and Constantinople, but you can see there's a lot of detail in New York and Boston, especially when it comes to sound/ambient design, walk through the New York in Rogue and you'll see how lifeless it feels. Overall this feels like a very polished game and one of the only complete ACs there's simply so much to do and almost everything is just as well fleshed out. You can tell this game spent years in development while most other ones before it and after only months.
Glad to see someone recognizing how fluid the animations were. pretty crazy to see the jump from Revelations to 3 in the same console generation
Rogue would have been one of the greatest games in the series if it was given a full team and allowed to be fleshed out further.
I don't care if they were filler missions, I just wanted wanted everything to be bigger.
The story would still be garbage.
Setting was cool.
Haytham and Connor were both cool.
Homestead and hunting in the Frontier are peak comfy.
The naval missions were cool.
The optional objectives were NOT cool.
Having to manually reveal most of the map because sync points didn't do it for you is AWFUL.
Combat was good. Connor's animations were sick, and there was actually weapon variety unlike ACIV.
Why do you keep making this thread?
The parkour is bland because of the setting, the stealth is undercooked, using a weapon other than the tomahawk is silly because Connor was designed specifically around using it and as such sword and dagger will recycle animations from it.
Haytham was more interesting and the game suffers from hiding Ratonhnhaké:ton's more personable qualities behind a Homestead many won't engage with. Rope darts are rad, though
>using a weapon other than the tomahawk is silly because Connor was designed specifically around using it and as such sword and dagger will recycle animations from it.
Only the dagger does, sword has its own set of animations completely different from the ones Haytham uses
Sword does have its own animation set but it still shares anims with the tomahawk, some of the parries and the attacks where Connor hacks with the middle of the blade are very obviously taken from it. It is just a shame that there's a standard set by how pure quality the tomahawk choreography is, vicious and intricate, that isn't quite maintained throughout. I do love how Connor will pace around when left idle in combat with a heavy weapon, lad's built like a wall and it feels right.
I liked how Connor fought and the ship combat but that's about it
This was when I dropped Assassin's Creed for good. I'd been a big fan since the first game, but I was just totally bored by this one and found myself mostly uninspired by it. Never picked the series back up since.
The fact that you don't get any cool outfit to showcase Connor's Native American heritage beyond the Kanienkehaka clothes from when he was a kid is disappointing. The DLC outfit is perfect but the game doesn't let you use it in the main campaign. It almost feels as if that side of him slowly gets erased as he spends more time in the colonists' world and that's sad.
I feel like that's the point, Achilles is his main influence and Connor served the assasins first before his tribe
The first AC game where the game felt clunky (later titles only exacerbate this until Odyssey) and no feature felt exciting. Revelations got shit on but it brought strongholds and zip-lines which felt exciting and interesting while finishing Ezio and Altair's story. AC3 felt forced as frick.
I used to think it was possibly the worst but then I saw some gameplay from the Egypt one and Viking one. Like the actual frick did this series evolve into??
Egypt one is the only good one of the "Hassan(the Desmond replacement) trilogy"
Witcher 3 made a lot of money and goodwill so Ubisoft wanted a piece of that pie. Gotta wonder what would AC be like now in a world without TW3
>Gotta wonder what would AC be like now in a world without TW3
It would be like Dark Souls but with combat that is only marginally less dogshit
all ACs starting with 4 bar Unity and Syndicate should have been a completely different IP
you could tell they want to make a completely different game to the Assassin's Creed mold but they want to have the name for marketing purposes
It's the worst entry of Ass creed's America era.
>worse than Liberation
At least you got to play dress up with a QT mulatto girl in that game
I played the Vita version and it bugged out when I was shooting homies in trees and when I reloaded my save waypoints wouldn't work anymore.
Wtf?
I remember it being ok but I was starved for anything on the Lifeststation.
My opinion on that game is the same as my opinion on the series. Picrel.
>Series had over a decade to make a game in Japan
>Ghost of Tsushima already stole its thunder
I have a feeling they were saving the Japan setting and ninjas as a get-out-of-jail card for when Ubisoft/Ass Creed started spiraling
unfortunately they chose to break out the card when it became almost mandatory to shoe in the sacred Black
If Ubisoft really wanted a black AC protagonist that badly, the American Civil War is right there.
I'd be inclined to agree if it weren't how conveniently he's placed in history. He was basically a gift to oda nubunaga from Jesuit missionaries, he was present for several historical events, escapes nobunagas execution, and met several major players in sengoku japan. The ass creed games need someone who is historically present but not noteworthy enough that they don't have narrative flexibility. I HATE to admit it, because it reeks of tokenism, especially when there's other historical figures that fit that description from the same time period, but his outsider position and privilege in that time period makes him damn near ideal. When you consider that the assassins originated from outside of a closed off ethnostate it makes sense that our main character wouldn't be Japanese. What doesn't make sense, is that he's an assassin when Jesuits and nobunaga were NOT the good guys. The climax of the game should be you chasing nobunaga into the burning castle and cornering him for his seppeku.
Nobunaga’s death was already done in a mobile game.
maybe the protagonist could start off as a templar? sort of like a reverse shay where he grows increasingly disillusioned with the templar way of doing things and eventually converts
Modern day stuff bothers me. Desmond should fight like Ezio, not Conner and you'd think he'd force Vidic to send critical data to the Assassin's.
>modern day was so rushed they literally spawn a tiny textureless knife on his other hand to mimic Connor's hidden blade
>didn't even bother animating it, when not it combat it literally just spawns and vanishes from his hand the moment you enter combat
He should have had moves from all 3 of Altair, Ezio and Connor but that would be asking too much
Typical anti-Cesare homosexual propaganda. He was the Savior that Europe needed, but didn't deserve. If the Borgia plan to have him installed as pope-emperor of all Christendom had been successful we wouldnt be living in a israeli dystopia, but syphilis and his own chadlike bravado were the undoing of us all
Oh wait my bad I was thinking of the previous game. I got sick of ubislop before that one came out
i was filltered by 3h tutorial
twice
Best AC
>bow and tomahawk was unsatisfying as frick
>the area with all the snow was AIDS
>hunting sucked
>defend yourself from wild animals. Forced to go through skinning animation on each one or get a game over
>fight with the father was shit. Would have been better if it took place in the wilderness where you canonically have an advantage. Instead you just toss him around like he has never been in a bar fight
Only enjoyable part was the ship. This entire game was nothing but an overglorified demo to Black Flag. It did have the best trailer in the franchise though
>Instead you just toss him around like he has never been in a bar fight
Why was Haytham so incompetent in that fight anyway? Connor had been messed up by the cannonball, but Haytham was uninjured and yet just lets you ragdoll him around
Haytham just loved his son too much.
I might be insane, but am I the only one that noticed a pattern
AC3 is about (repelling) the british
It sucks
ACU has british people voicing the french
it sucks
AC Syndicate is set in britain
it sucks
AC Valhalla is set in old britain
it sucks
the only odd one out is AC4 where the protagonist is english.
Sean Hastings is a shit in all of the games since 2 so he's not even a factor.
holy digits anon
So the amount of british dictates how good or bad the AC game will be.
The start of Ubishit's downfall and the reason we have 'collect 15 bear anuses' style crafting in vidya now.
winter is comfy as frick
the homestead is also comfy
only criticism is that Philadelphia should have been included
Connor should have worked with the Templars
TOMAHAWK TOMAHAWK
this specific period seems to be rather forgotten in games sphere, nothing besides an rpg would work there proper I feel like, unless it's some "control a single soldier in an army" multiplayer game
all things considered, ubisoft is pretty good when it comes to recreating historical settings, game could have been better for sure, but I am glad that this time period at least got a shot
I don't think I ever finished it.
I bought the game because the trailer (coming home) was cool. I remember very little about the game, but it always annoyed me that you had to play as not even the assassin for a chunk of the game, before you could play as connor (?). I liked the setting but getting around the map was annoying, and I didn't pay a lot of attention to the story
A massive disappointment. After Venice, Rome, and Constantinople, you get...trees, bushes, snow and houses that look like the one my grandparents live in. And the dumbest, most convoluted story in the series so far. The intro with Haytham was awesome, but holy shit did they drop the ball with the main game. Bonus points for killing off Desmond. My interest in the series just never fully recovered after 3.
It's unironically my favorite in the series but that's not saying much.
Loved it, it was one of the first games I pirated and being my only AC after Brotherhood, I played the frick out of it. I found Connor charming, the combat really satisfying and the setting cool enough, despite usually hating Americanized things. I recently played Tyranny of King Washington and realized the controls are kinda clunky, but I still love the setting and I think it got undeserved flak, specially with everything it introduced and with Black Flag being so beloved, despite only changing the setting and bloating the map even more (I like Freedom Cry way more).
>one of the first games I pirated and being my only AC after Brotherhood
GO PLAY REV RIGHT THE FRICK NOW. this is coming from a guy that only really likes AC1, and only tolerates the rest until 3/4/Rouge. there is a really cool moment near the end of Rev that you will appreciate if you like the first two AC games
It was fine gameplay wise, some changes to earlier entries but nothing crazy.
Narratively it was weak though. Connor has barely any agency of his own and it felt like just going through civil war set piece to civil war set piece which just sorta happen around Connor.
Black Flag was an improvement in all areas.
3 > Blacked Flag
Started out great, but once you reached New York it just crashed and burned.
pros
>ship combat and wind and stormy weather, they tightened the controls in 4 but removed the variety
>tree climbing and vaulting/sliding as well as the original AC climbing add even greater depth to an already deep system
>snow and weather being comfy
>combat actually a challenge in AC again thanks to sheer numbers, aka exactly what an assassins greatest weakness would be
on this, running around on the floor like a moron is near-garaunteed death thanks to rifle squads, so taking to the roofs is actually required which is nice for an AC game
>working windmill you can climb and be moronic on
>only redeeming part of the story was exploring how templars and assassins are two sides of the same coin and in alot of cases their goals are ultimately aligned
cons
>unhinged story in both the present day and the past
>connor, while not being quite as bad as people meme, is pretty uneventful as a protag. can you even name 1 life event that happened to him? compared to ezio, who we know everything
>uneventful story missions, TAIL, EAVESDROP, CHASE
>anything that isnt in a big city is copy-paste, even down to the same 5 trees everywhere (because they have to be climbable)
i could pad out both sides more if it wasnt literally decades later. bottom line is that alot of people got filtered by the combat of this game, despite it being the best AC combat to date. is there a greater feeling than chaining attacks mixed with body blocking against bullet storms back to back to back?
that isnt in a big city is copy-paste, even down to the same 5 trees everywhere (because they have to be climbable)
lol i remember this. you'd recognize the exact cluster of trees and know you can hop through them on the branches
It was so boring and lame it made me check out of the series forever
Currently on a mission to complete all the "mainline" AC games; recently finished the remaster of 3 and was decent enough to hold my interest until the end. Black Flag is currently killing my will to proceed with the stupid stealth-boat bayou bullshit (I know it's a meme complaint, but well-deserved imo)
I liked the addition of some more wilderness and wildlife and that's about it. They did something to slow down the combat in this one, and I guess colonial American cities just weren't much fun to climb on.
I liked playing as Haytham WAY more than Conner and I wish the game would have just followed his story and detailed the rise of the Templar order in the colonies during and after the 7 years war.
The world was boring, I didn't like how little there was to do in the frontier, some more activities like fishing and card games might have helped spice the world up a bit. I know you had the old board games like morris but it really needed something shorter that you could just pick and play whenever you were bored.
I liked building up the homestead but if I remember correctly it was very linear and certain hidden requirements had to be met before you could make any further progress.
All in all a solid 5/10, could have been better.
I'm disappointed taunting was never again a thing after Brotherhood. You could argue old Ezio and Connor aren't the type but Edward definitely would have for one
AC2, Brotherhood, Revelations and AC4 all mog it
AC4 absolutely does not
Aside from the fact it does
Boat combat sucks and the assassin gameplay is bad in 4
Hur dur but this assassin game is actually a pirate game
All i see is cope AC3 cuck
>worse faces
>worse facial animations
>worse ship crew animations (they don't walk around or climb up or down the nets or mast)
>worse ship animations (in AC3 you can see the side booms get positioned to use the stun'sl when Connor calls for full sail, as well as the crew moving faster when giving commands, whereas in AC4 sails magically elongate or shorten while the crew does nothing)
>pointless story that leads nowhere and is only well remembered because of melancholic ending
>worse combat animations and sound design ( you can't tell wtf Edward is doing whenever he's using the dual swords, most of the time he just slashed someone in the back while some out of sync poorly recorded audio plays)
>worse combat variety (you can't equip any weapon but the dual swords, even though the animations for them exist when you take them from enemies)
>worse and unnecessarily much easier combat
>3 small cities, 2 of them are 75% grassy hills
>worse audio in general (random awkward silences without music or sound effects all the time)
>worse hunting
>beginning of the pointless modern day plot era
Graphics and music are great, the game was great fun, but it's obvious to anyone that played AC3 that this is nothing more than a rushed asset flip, one that turned out better than it had the right to do, but the lack of polish is apparent in all aspects
It's my favorite AC after 2 and Rogue.
Connor isn't very likeable and not a true Assassin (just like Edward) but the setting was interesting and Haytham was based as frick.
Best outfit never made it into the game.
I never liked how skinny it makes Connor look, feels like a skinwalker
Strong start that gets progressively worse once you gain control of Connor, peaks at the teamup, and then crashes to the ground after that.
The Homestead is the best part of the game because Connor is an actual person in it whereas in the main story he's a complete butthole even to people he's helping or a man who raised him for more than half of his life.
The Templars act nonsensically just to justify Connor hating them and it brings the story down because it's the main reason why Connor does anything.
The ship combat is the best of the series and every game that came after it did it worse because it made it much more arcadey.
The Frontier is okay and I didn't mind it.
The shipping system is cancer, especially when you have to physically go out and defend it if you're unlucky enough to be in the Frontier when you're sending one out.
Despite the Illuminati tunnels being monotonous they were also an interesting idea and pretty cool to explore.
The DLC was boring and exhausting despite having magical powers.
>The shipping system is cancer
It's really not that bad. It all boils down to sending ten bear asses across the Caribbean for free money.
Beaver pelts make the most money overall so you're shipping them more than anything else, then the bear pelts.
What the frick does "non meme" mean?
I thought the story was horribly paced, the protagonist was unlikeable, the setting didn't allow for interesting freerunning, the gameplay was streamlined into moronic "hold x to let the game play itself" shit, it just wasn't good. I did not have fun.
>Black Flag
>enemies use single swords, daggers and naval axes
>Ed can only keep dual swords and flat out doesn't fight with daggers
I don't like this
I tried playing it. I didn't get far because the animations bothered me. They made those adaptive procedural animations, and just running and/or taking a turn made it look like the character was tripping and stumbling all the time. It made me uncomfortable, as if I'm subjecting the characters to such trouble, and I stopped playing about when it turned out the British dude was a bad guy, which I'm told is before the Indian character is even born.
In essence, the cool new animation technology took me out of it.
I'm going through all AC games now and I have finished this one last week.
I liked gameplay more than in previous games, more moves, weapons, gadgets, cool finishers, guns etc. Tomahawks are very cool
Most locations suck hard, colonial towns and forts can't compare to some of the most famous cities in the world filled with famous landmarks from AC2. Captain Kidd's missions had cool locations though
Growing Homested was more fun than buying shops in previous games
I didn't care much for Connor, he wasn't annoying or dumb, but after finishing the game I can't say that I would like to play as him again. Lost family/home as a child - trained under old man and went on the quest for revenge, all standard stuff.
Not really a fan of that particular history period or USA all together, so I can't say anything about that
Plot twist at the end of Haytham's part was the peak of the story, I didn't get engaged much after.
Haytham was cool.
Going to play DLC and Liberation now
Forgot two things
Crafting and caravans seemed kinda pointless, dunno why they made entire system with dependencies on multiple artisians and tiers, when the only reason to craft shit was to get items for few delivery quests and maybe couple weapons
Naval missions were actually kinda fun, unless you wanted to beat secondary objectives. The Giant and the Storm was one of the most frustrating things to get done in video games I did in a while. I guess that Black Flag will have more of those, so I'm not entirely looking forward to that
Are you doing a normal or completionist playthrough?
Do you just jump at the next game when you're done or do you take a break(burnout isn't nice)?
>t. was thinking of playing through the entire series(not sure about odysee and valhalla however) as well
I'm going for 100% in every game as you can see in the screenshot
In steam version. you can't actually acces some stuff in AC2 and Brotherhood now, like Auditore Crypt, Da Vinci Disappearance and bonus slots for ammo. Thankfully, you can unlock that, if you download a save which was made when all of that was still avaiable, I got saves for both games from steam forums.
For some reason, Revelations didn't have this problem
>Da Vinci Disappearance
That'd suck. I loved playing dice and having more Leonardo content
Forgot about second question
>Do you just jump at the next game when you're done or do you take a break(burnout isn't nice)?
I try to not binge play/watch stuff, so after finishing one AC game I go play something else and repeat. I'm in the process of going through all my backlog, I haven't bought any games since last winter sale and I won't buy any until I finish every single game I have. I don't have that many of them (less than 100 titles), but I have a job, so it takes a lot of time
Not him but I did 100% runs in everything from 2 to Odyssey in a row with no breaks including the Chronicles games when I got my Xbone X a couple years back. Only games I didn't do were 1 because I did a 100% run a few months back, Bloodlines because I don't want to go through that again, Altair's Chronicles because it's a bad game, and Discovery because I don't care for it. Valhalla was out but it wasn't on sale yet so I didn't buy it at the time.
You really REALLY gotta be in a mood for it because when I reached Syndicate I started getting the "I don't think I really want to do this" feeling which went away about half way through the game, then came back for the Last of the Maharajah, then went away again with Jack the Ripper. Origins rekindled my passion for the series, and then I was hating Odyssey from the moment I started it.
It only got worse the longer I played Odyssey because it was the antithesis of what an AC game should be and wasn't even that great for virtual tourism because there was so much repetition in the world. I got a second wind when I got my 100% crit set going because it finally played somewhat like an AC game again and only hated playing it when I was given choices or had to use the Adrestia because the ship battles in Odyssey are by far the worst part of it by far. Then I got back into the Groove with the DLC, both were fine though DLC 2 of Legacy of the First Blade was pure filler and gave you a weapon even worse than the oil slick in Rogue.
My recommendation if you are going to do 100%s in a row:
Have something to watch. I was watching TV shows, Youtube, and listening to music whenever I was doing the checkmarks and collectibles, tuning in and out and enjoying both sides at the same time. It really helps with some of the monotony. It's honestly one of my favorite things to do with collectibles in open world games.
I really wish Syndicate’s main could’ve had the same vibe as the Jack the Ripper DLC, or that they went with the original Victory proposal that got scrapped after Unity’s initial reaction according to Jacob’s voice actor.
What happened to Odin after Eivor rejected his mantling(?)
banished to the schizo dimension
At least Clay will keep him company
He's still in her head, the epilogue confirms this. They even have a chat, she just rules the roost and his has to sit in his mind shed unable to do anything.
wtf? I don't remember this scene
is this Ragnarok?
No, the epilogue was added in the last patch. You get one of the best armor sets in the game too.
Raven bros, I love you guys but you ain't got no sense for fashion.
I actually changed that to one of the sets that look relatively normal. It actually looks like this.
pls tell me that's at least animated
The peawiener feathers? They're static but sheen based on the light hitting them.
God damn it I feel like we're always having the same conversation about Ubisoft's art team lmao
I liked it but I never finished it
man why is asscreed being forces here now, this place gets worse every day. why are you homosexuals even here, why would you want to be here
mirage hype
no back or side ejects
slow as frick parkour system from Origins~Valhalla where there's no feeling of speed or flow returns
superpowers from Odyssey because lmao Animus glitch
UAV drone bird returns
there will be a skill tree
we already know that the protagonist is a literal god or some shit so there's no stake or risks in the story at all.
he's not a god, just a vessel for loki (an isu)
Connor's movements, parkour, and combat are so well animated. It's crazy playing a modern AC game and they just stopped caring and everything looks so jerky and cartoonish. And the cutscenes, minus modern day stuff and remaster, are really good. It also has one of the best winter themes in any game. The people who dont like Connor cause he's "boring" are children who should stick to anime.
He is excessively boring and unlikeable.
He’s boring, but I wouldn’t call him unlikeable. There are worse protagonists throughout the series.
Who
Shay
Layla
Aya
Alexios/Kassandra
Eivor
Shay was just a colossal dumbass that suffered from shit tier writing, just like everyone else in Rogue.
>dumbass
Ignore the writing and he was smart enough to realize the Assassins were losers
He was a moron that couldn’t explain what happened like an adult. His entire arc of questioning the Assassin Brotherhood is stupid when he mindlessly accepts the Templar Order. He’s probably the dumbest out of all of the protagonists, and the entire game feels infuriating because that, along with the Assassins becoming comically evil or stupid caricatures to justify the story.
He continues to stay with the Templars after the smallpox blankets, so he’s a hypocrite too.
And he killed Ade for no justifiable reason at all.
He also thought Ade was one of the best people he knows of yet went through with the kill anyway. He straight up had an entire discussion where all he did was praise him.
Maybe Shay is just a psychopath.
>The people who dont like Connor cause he's "boring" are children who should stick to anime.
You have to admit that Connor's writing leaves something to be desired. It's a good thing that he's so radically different from Ezio but he's an on/off switch that keeps flipflopping between annoyed at everyone and naive
>What is your non-meme opinion of this game?
it has a ok-ish story but it fails as an assassin's creed game in gameplay and story
>try playing AC2 because heard it’s the best
what you are looking for is Assassin's Creed (the first one)
For some reason this scene, especially the finishing shot from 1:50 onwards stuck with me after I first saw it.
Something about the POV of being stabbed and then shot by a musket by deadpan George Washington felt brutal as frick. Probably one of the worst ways to die.
The game is one of the worst ACs though.
WHERE IS CHARLES LEE??!!!
GIVE ME LEE
kino
Cringe
It was the first game I have ever played on a proper top-end PC and so only have good memories of it.
muss y u not liek osdy
it comfy
>The map is extremely repetitive and repeats the exact same sanctuaries, oceanside towns, and square buildings in mountains constantly to the point of you being sick of them.
>Has the worst tombs in the series by a significant mile, and the only thing that differentiates each snake maze is if it has a bottom floor that's flooded or not.
>Is filled with so much collectible bloat it took Valhalla multiple patches and DLC spread across something like two years before it surpassed it with the base game alone being more bloated than Unity, a game criticized for its item bloat.
>Builds should never exist in an AC game, but the fact that Assassin builds are outright required just to kill more than basic mooks, and 100% crit builds are required to assassinate everything without consuming Adrenaline and kill mercenaries is moronic.
Don't even get me started on the completely worthless bow unless you specifically spec into Hunter (Which is almost worthless in combat because it relies on Adrenaline for skills that do all its damage) or 100% crit.
>Alex/Kass are easily at the top of "Worst MC in the series" because they flip what they believe in at complete random, act like buttholes to their friends for no reason, take moral high grounds while being fine with murdering innocents, and are absolute hypocrites during the main story.
>Character development outside of Barnabas is nonexistent to the point that when you go to Athens to recruit people to literally overthrow the government your "closest friends" are people you met at a wine party and helped with extremely mundane tasks a whole one time after the fact.
Herodotos almost never appears in any scene and is on Barnabas level according to the story, it's beyond moronic.
>The Cult of Kosmos is so poorly developed that Elpenor, the very first guy you meet and who you kill within an hour, is the most developed of them all.
>Naval fights are by far the worst in the entire series here.
It's such a mess of a game.
I like Odyssey but I have to agree with pretty much everything here.
HOWEVER
>Builds should never exist in an AC game
Not to a Diablo-like extent where you juggle numbers and stats but I think different play styles should be encouraged.
The problem is that unless you do it the Unity way or the Valhalla way it's complete garbage because it locks you out of multiple tools you can use in gameplay. AC is about being a generalist, a jack-of-all-trades. Odyssey took that and smashed it into the ground unless you're playing a 100% crit run. The bow is literally on your back all game and does next to no damage unless you run one or two builds.
Haven't kept up too much with Mirage but I think the combat is still like Valhalla?
In which case OOF
>Builds should never exist in an AC game
I'm with the other guy on this. While I definitely don't want RPG crap I do think specialisation would be an interesting twist on the formula, if only because it feels like the only feasible way to have an Assassin's Creed where I can play as a squishy sneakster that relies on being underhanded to get past enemies.
I'd think an evolution of Liberation's personas could be interesting but limiting your movement ends up meaning that any persona that can't free run is just not fun to play.
>Liberation's personas
Man, what a wasted concept. I know it's basically Hitman but it would be cool if all those outfits you unlock had an actual effect.
Actually didn't Syndicate have minor stuff like that? Small boosts to ranged damage or ammo capacity etc.
Yeah, Syndicate follows on Unity's gear system where certain belts gave you more ammo for specific tools and all that. Tbh AC in general could benefit a lot from taking inspiration from Hitman, there's a reason the assassinations from Unity are remembered so much
Yeah Unity introduced loot autism into the series for better or worse. Shit I think I need to replay Syndicate, there was a mission that let you infiltrate a place by posing as a corpse, that one really stuck with me.
>introduced loot autism
It didn't introduce anything other than "tiered" enemies.
Besides how you can swap armor and weapon on the fly, the way gear works in Unity is not different from Ass Creed 2~4.
Ass Creed 2 added the concept of various tiered equipment to begin with.
Outfits were what gave you bonuses. Jacob’s belts and Evie’s capes just increased your defense and stealth stats, with the belts focusing more around defense while the capes were focused more around stealth.
should never exist in an AC game
This is what I fault AC Unity the most for opening the doors for. That shit made sense in co-op missions if you wanted to approach them differently, but in a singleplayer games it makes no goddamn sense.
Unity barely has any builds.
Being able to carry more ammo(belts, gauntlet substats) or making you slightly more quiet(torso and legs) when running doesn't fundamentally change how you play at all. Especially when you can just magically spawn ammo and spam smoke bombs.
>in co-op missions if you wanted to approach them differently
Heist missions in particular forces stealth for the best returns, even for the other missions Unity's system/balance doesn't allow them in the slightest.
Kitting out in legendary medieval armor to "tank" for example will just make you survive like 1 to 2 hits more.
Being a "sniper" is a lost cause when you have about the same pathetic range as the enemy regardless of whether you're using a rifle or a handgun+melee.
Being the "healer" or a "recon" is borderline worthless.
There are like a handful of moments where the disguise ability is borderline mandatory but even that can be overcome by bruteforcing with stealth.
No clue dropped the series 1/4 the way into 2 as it was worse than 1 and 1 was already at the border of what's acceptable.
I was a dumb kid and never got the hang of crafting in this game. All in all, it's okay, but I missed the parkour in AC2.
I like the aesthetic. I don't like the gameplay. the story is boring and I don't remember very much if I'm honest. the protagonist is unlikable and I didn't identify or sympathize with him. haytham was a real ass homie who got to frick some prime native pussy. BRING ME CHARLES LEE. how did a black man in colonial america earn enough of a salary to build himself such an amazing home and on private property? the homestead shit was pointless. the underground sections that served as the assassins tombs were trash. the mulitplayer was alright if a little barebones. I didn't play the DLC. desmond dying in the end was the worst moronic hamfisted ending they just pulled out of their asses.
I liked the homestead stuff the best.
Connor is a wet blanket of a protagonist.
They squandered a really interesting setting with tons of intrigue baked in and the main character spends most of the war sulking in his tent.
We do agree that Connor is a top fighter and would be one of the last standing in an Assassin battle royale, right? Everyone always seems to undermine him
I'll always like Connor for how much of a fricking tank he is. I think putting the hood on him might have been a mistake though, he's more of a brawler like Bartolomeo (?) in 2.
He definitely looks the best with the bear pelt from the DLC, but at least the Assassin robes do a decent job of emphasising his shoulders
He's definitely near if not at the top when it comes to physical strength but I'm not sure he'd overcome more technical and trained fighters
Altair is canonically the most skilled Assassin ever because video games love jerking off the first protagonist in any given series. Remember AC1's sync system means he never canonically got hit in any gameplay moment.
Connor is still my favorite Assassin in term of gameplay just for being the brutal unga bunga character
Funny how he was the most naive too
It died so AC4 could live. I can respect it for that.
Is it true that combat in 3 is very good?
no, no that's not true at all. you basically have like 3 enemy types
>grenadier
>standard soldier
>knife dude
>captain
and you simply respond accordingly to each one; the grenadier can't be parried and auto killed, you have to trip him first and stab him while he's on the ground; the standard soldier can just be killed in any way and doesn't have any special requirements; knife dude will slash at you and avoid your attempts to grab him; you have to disarm him of the knife then you can kill him; captain has a gun and will attempt to shoot you from afar. if he's got a battalion nearby, they'll all take position and fire at you like a firing squad. you can disarm the captain and pretty much kill him in the same way you would a knife dude or you can trip him up like the grenadier and kill him while he's on the ground. as for the firing squad itself, it will do tremendous damage, but you have to avoid that shit by grabbing a body and using it as a meat shield or by parkouring out of sight.
it was often compared to batman arkham combat, but honestly that shit is slightly more complex because it at least throws multiple enemies at you at once and you have to sort of juggle them. in asscreed, everyone just waits in line to be slaughtered like good little NPCs. come to think of it, I suppose it's a step up from previous asscreed games, so by asscreed standards the combat is good.
AC3 also added the ability for enemies to attack two at a time, which translates into a counter that will kill both of them regardless of type.
Reminds me of the absolutely atrocious iteration of Altaïr's robes in 3, with the tails completely glued to Connor's legs.
>Altaïr's robes in 3
that's a problem in most games where you can unlock those, real fricking lazy
just like having his empty dagger sheath on the back and similar moronic choices
I get that they literally copypasted his model from AC1 for the Ezio games but seeing that dagger sheathe be always empty irked me to no end. Either remove it or put his short blade in there as a prop.
for me? it's hreidmar
the tutorial is way too goddamned long, the main character was disappointing and unlikable, the homesteading was too pointless for how much of a hassle it was, and the level design was B O R I N G
I tried AC2 again. The controls are in fact fricked for gamepad on PC.
No, they're not. It's literally a (You) issue, you can see
me showing you it works fine on PC. Either your controller is busted or you didn't set it up at all.
I have a wired Xbox controller. I googled it and tons of people have the exact same issue. I can't even properly set the buttons up in the mapping because it won't recognize RT/LT
I have a wired 360 controller and an Xbone controller which I also use wired on my PC. I genuinely have no idea how you are having this issue, are you sure Steam isn't causing it?
Like I said, Unity or Valhalla's way of doing it is fine with specializations into Eagle Vision duration or extra tools for example. Odyssey's locking off of entire gameplay styles was moronic when that's a huge chunk of your moveset just vanishing into thin air.
Nope I'm directly on uplay. Weird..
Maybe add the game to Steam and see if Steam does recognise the controller properly?
I remember having this problem a while back, I was using an og xbone controller and the issue boils down to some inconsistencies in the axis being assigned to the triggers. Some old xinput drivers would assign both triggers to the same axis basically preventing you from pressing them both at the same time. You have to use x360ce to fix this, it was a while ago but I remember you could just download a present specifically made to fix this issue in this game (and AC1) since enough people were having it, but yes, you're supposed move the camera using the right analog.
The bastard child of the AC quadrilogy
I don't count anything after 4
It could be good. It was decent on it's time.
Did Brohood remove the dagger counterkill where you stab the enemy's foot? I've been trying but it's not showing up
Colonial US is one of the most boring settings for a videogame, shit never fails to put me to sleep.
I thought it was neat.
Pirates are cool af tho
For me it was fresh and neat.
>t.euro
I hate Americans thinking they're the center of the world and their self perceived importance in the world's history, but I loved the setting.
still works flawlessly
speaking of controller scheme, when's china?
SOUL
I didn't remember Ezio also spoke the Creed's maxim in Arabic, I thought it was Machiavelli who did
might be from when you get new recruits in Brotherhood, honestly don't remember
the best part of brotherood? davinci's war machines t.b.q.h.f.a.m.
no other game has made me cringe as much
Then you haven’t played enough games
Fricking beggining of the DLC and I can't get 100% sync with that fricking cannon segment
My favourite part, closely followed by 2.
BLACK FLAG FRICKING SUCKS
Godawful protagonist
Awful setting
Shit tier cities
Boring story
moronic modern day pelit
One of the worst ACs and they aren't that good to begin with.
I only liked the prologue
I find Haytham eternally amusing in that the one Templar cross the outfit does have is actually really subtle, while Assassins display their symbol as loudly as they can.
Connor is unironically more interesting than young Ezio; I really like how thoughtful and formal he is
People calling him boring are just midwits - just because he isn't flamboyant or extroverted doesn't make him boring - he's actually a great character for an Assassin who you'd think would be quiet and understated - unlike Ezio who everyone would remember after one conversation with him
I liked the game, and still has the best plot twist of the series.
I was like OOOOOOOHHHHH MYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOD
the achievement was great as well lol
Whoever had anything to do with the optional objectives in this game can burn in hell.
Interesting question: Was AC BETTER as an annual franchise?
is asscreed multiplayer dead? can't connect to ubisoft servers on ac3. ah, it's just as well, it wasn't really worth playing that much to begin with, but it'd be nice to relive it for a bit, for old times sake
no.
look how they massacred my boy
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>Weapon experience.
>Gets armor almost every kill.
I expected it because it looked more like Odyssey than anything else. There is no way this is a mobile exclusive though, look at that UI clutter and how many ways they can monetize just from the drops alone.
I'm 90% sure it's getting a simultaneous PC release but honestly I haven't heard or seen that much about the game.
Step up yo game, Ubishills.
btw when's Skull & Bones
It’s a free to play mobile game according to the official website, so it’s going to have micro transactions up the ass.
China gets fricked over again with a shitty mobile game. What’s worse is that the main character is the adopted child of Wei Yu, the Chinese Assassin mentioned in AC2 that killed the first Chinese Emperor with his spear. They honestly decided that it’d be a good idea to make a mobile spinoff of some literally who instead of making a full game of Wei Yu.
Well, it's trying to be an AC game.
>that flip into slide into kill
it's a beta alright lmao
Looks like a reskinned mobile version of AC Odyssey judging by that webm alone. Meh.
That ubisoft needs to crash and burn for not removing Connor's speech in the game.
just removing*
Odyssey is the best nu Creed
damn I just fell down a weird rabbit hole
what's up with this hybrid outfit for Ezio?
they're just mashing all of his outfits together lmao
Why does he look old though?
I'm going to fricking set Ubisoft Barcelona on fire. Brotherhood's design was perfect, don't change it
What the frick is this
some facebook VR shit, ignore
frick if I know, his outfit combines elements from 2 and Brotherhood so I think the face is supposed to imply Rev but there's no beard
>outfit combines elements from 2 and Brotherhood
But why
Because he technically gets his own siganture outfit in Brotherhood but everyone likes his look in 2 more.
For me its old ezios armor in revelations.
So instead of just giving you Ezio in Giovanni's robes you make a worse design that is sure to please no-one? He looks like a bootleg, if you wanted to go for an Ezio between Brohood and Rev you could put him in the Armor of Altaïr since it's canon he retrieves it after the game but it is never elaborated upon
Black person he's already said he doesn't know.
We need an Al Mualim game when he was young and in his prime.
bro your Mirage?
Ah yes, that game set 400 years before, that's totally a prequel and I'm going to preorder it right now, Ubisoft.
it marked the beginning of the decline of AC. AC2 was an improvement over AC1 (gameplay-wise) and ACBrotherhood can be seen as a small improvement over AC2. AC3 was an obvious downgrade and the series never recovered.
last game of the series i played. the worst game ive ever played. has 5 chapters where you play ay haytham then with connor you start another tutorial. half the game seemed a fricking tutorial. boring parkour that was downgraded and the location didn't help either. going from renaissance italy or Constantinople to early days America is insane. all building are copycats and no complexity to them. same gameplay that wasnt improved upon even with new engine. the main protagonist is a literal cuck: he learns that it was Washington that gave the order to burn his village and yet connor still helps them. instead of training or making alliances with other tribes, he chooses to "help the lesser evil". it could've been a tragic story of a racemixed Black person trying to save his land but in the end fails. no we get some garbage story instead. dont get me even started with desmonds plot, what an absolute joke. ubisoft is lucky that morons kept and still keep buying asscrewd games after ac3. was a great series with incredible atmosphere, amazing locations and soundtrack with, yes i admit, a very simplistic gameplay but the games had a certain charm to them. the conspiracy about modern abstergo was incredible too, especially when deciphering the glyphs you would find around the maps. with ac3 and afterwards it became far cry but with assassins, well not even assassins recently
fricking fun cool cinimatic trailer, sick ass music
>I MUST FIND CHARLES LEE
endless lust for revenge for mommas death and frick everything attitude for them twisting the mind of your best frens best interest
intro to the beloved boat sailing for black flag
various amounts of killing styles and with weapons
damn this shit was great, need to hop back onto multi-player
Trouble in town gets the blood pumping
>multiplayer
it's dead.
there's apparently a full blown MP game coming
Only Americans seem to have liked it while everyone else didn't give a single frick.
It dragged out for too long, had the same flaws as the previous games with a few new ones, story was trash, gameplay was trash, but graphics were good and music was okay I guess.
never played it, and Ubi gave it for free.
I remember when it came out I was in like 2nd grade and I wrote in my class journal about how I was excited for it and my teacher got butthurt.
>2nd grade
>in 2012
>readily admitting to being underage
you'd be consider yourself lucky that jannies are too lazy to do anything about this. come back in 2030.
Anon, he’d be 18 or 19 by now.