This. I liked the idea of having a gang of assassins but Brotherhood is the game that made me realize how much boring bullshit you have to play through in these games to get to the good parts.
Brotherhood was major cognitive dissonance for me. The trailer was amazing and the game was too apparently, then I played it and it's weirdly paced, Rome is like big Firenze, the "brotherhood" was a nothingburger and the whole Cezare ending was underwhelming. I think that's when my brain slowly began the process of jumping off the AC train
Brotherhood is odd in that it's far too ambitious for its own good without really devoting enough time to anything.
You got Ezio dealing with his nonexistant love life now that he learns Caterina only sees him as a means to an end, the family feud with his sister, the conspiracy mystery, the Cristina memories. It's all over the place, which is a shame because it has good ideas, one of ACII's flaws is how little fleshing out the supporting cast got and Brohood tries but doesn't fully commit to it.
Still my favourite though
yeah because Rome being frickhueg full of nothing nothing is much better than climbing on trees, right? just look at all those lush terrain you get to mash X on your horse on bros oh wait there's the coloseum let me climb it for no reason and parachute back down to my horse to continue galloping
People who like Brotherhood have not played in the past decade
They all look the same because of the engine they run on, its not really about looking different for the game but continuing the Ezio/Desmond story and grander Abstergo business. That's what you get with "Movie" games so to speak that are interactive set pieces really than video games. The lore is more interesting in that trilogy than others of the series, they ruined themselves with the woke slop and stopped caring about the series and ubisoft in general because of that endless pandering cringe instead of actually caring about good lore.
Revelations was the point where fatigue fully set in. In some ways it feels almost intentional, some metacontextual way to make you mirror Ezio's own relationship to the Assassin shenanigans at that point, the whole thing just felt tired and uninspired.
I did end up buying ACIII many years after its release out of curiosity and I only saw my choice validated, Colonial America is a terrible setting for a parkour game, with low buildings and wide streets it simply doesn't gel.
I remember being a kid on gamefaqs talking to older guys on there about the upcoming AC3 and how colonial America was a poor choice, and them arguing I was just uneducated and there'd be plenty of cool tall buildings to climb.
Turns out they were all morons.
That's because the hype for AC was in full swing at that point. That'd be like criticizing Mass Effect 2 for its problems back in 2010, people would look at you like you're crazy and don't know anything about good games
Rogue is the last one I've played. There were red flags before like Brotherhood and Revelations, but once Desmond's story ended it became obvious Ubisoft has little idea what to do with the franchise except milk it to death.
I intend to play Origins one day because I'm a sucker for Ancient Egypt aesthetic, but I'm not not in a particular hurry to do so.
If you get around to playing Origins I'd consider getting a bundle with the DLC on sale.
The RPG level gating is easily the most annoying part of the game, where enemies will get really spongy when they outlevel you and you'll do no more than tickle them if they are more than five levels above, but most other things are fine enough. The DLCs make for good content additions and the Curse of the Pharaohs outright includes a level boosting function that will put you at level 45 and primed for that content, which is above the max level required for the main campaign. You could use that boost and turn on level scaling so that the enemies in the story keep up with you without dealing with the hassle of areas too high level for you and the annoying loot grind.
You can also just use a trainer if you're on PC but the DLC is neat so you should still give it an eye in case it appeals to you.
Blackflag
Shouldve quit at 3, i absolutely hated it, but i finished it.
Blackflag was objectively better and i had fun in it, but at this point i just got kinda bored of the franchise and didnt bother finishing it at all
3 because i realized the plot of those who came before was never going to actually amount to anything, and the modern day story went full moron
connor was okay though
I played the first one, Origins, and Valhalla.
First was mid, Origins was okay felt like a worse Witcher 3, Valhalla was Origins but worse.
I won't buy another none of them were great.
Abandoned Ubisoft games after AC3 and Far Cry 3.
Got memed into playing Black Flag because it’s “so good”. Turns out I t’s the same boring shit all over again. Yeah ships are a cool addition but it’s fun for a couple of sails and then turns into a gimmicky time waste.
When I had to start doing trailing missions as a ship I immediately uninstalled.
Frick all the gays shitting on revelations. It improved upon brotherhood and has a fresh new setting. Did it reinvent the wheel? No, but it did give us more of what we clearly enjoyed. It's a perfectly fine ending to the ezio trilogy.
I only recently played and this time around beat Black Flag because it was the 10 year anniversary and I had never beaten it only playing a little bit of it for my birthday back in 2014 when I was 18 and my god does it hurt knowing with the benefit of hindsight how much Ubisoft does not give a shit about the modern day segments in Assassin's Creed despite Black Flag sowing seeds of how that storyline could have continued post Desmond's sacrifice at the end of III
Unity
It was the last time they tried to make an actual assassin’s game and tried to innovate with it.
Once Black Flag kicked off before it though and with how popular it was, that was truly the death of AC. Despite loving the Black Flag it’s the beginning of Ubisoft no longer focusing on making the series as a whole revolve around being an Assassin anymore. It’s a fantastic pirates game but it’s not an AC game and it doesn’t try to be. Kenway literally robs his costume from a dead Assassin. Every game after just follows that formula. Viking sim, Greek warrior sim, Medjay sim etc. Ubisoft is Abstergo in AC3 they just give you sims of various time periods under the title of AC.
Unity. It was also the last game before they butchered the parkour system. They had it so close with Unity but of course, this chicken shit company saw failure once and decided to never attempt it again.
After Origins. I liked Unity and Syndicate apart from the horrible town design unsuited for parkour. Origins removed everything I liked in the series. They replaced cool alien tech on the edge of what's believable with straight up magic, turned to shitty RPG system, completely nerfed the landscape for parkour, turned every historical character into a joke, shat on Bayek by the end for no reason and filled the game with grind. Gone were the fun references to famous scholars and philosophers and they stopped playing with conspiracy theories which always gave me a Deus Ex vibe in early AC games. People like to say the decline started with Unity but I disagree. People were just a bit tired of AC. The decline began and culminated with Origins, everything after is just going downhill and doubling down on Origins' mistakes.
Origins is such an odd game in how it handles its lead. They write Bayek as a really cool and loveable dude while at the same time trying really hard to make him less important than his exwife, it just feels as if they're continually robbing him of things
Aya was clearly originally intended to be the protagonist, but the market suits told them a female protag wouldn't sell as well, so they made it Bayek instead but still gave Aya all the cool shit to do.
And then they went split gender protag for the sequels
Originally, I stopped at 3 on Xbox 360.
Few years later, I decided to pirate Black Flag on PC and had fun, got Origins free, tried it, didnt care too much, bought Odyssey when it was cheap, was better but still didn't like how it played, pirated Valhalla, quit in 2 hours because boring bullshit. I should've stopped at Origins.
3 has the best naval combat just not enough of it. And my favorite protagonist
Valhalla has issues but I enjoyed running around the countryside and skipping the story
It's a Ubisoft game, which means Epic exclusive on PC for a year, so nope. But from everything I've heard, the "return to roots" bullshit was basically just an excuse to create a shallower game.
>"return to roots" >by the way here's our protagonist teleporting all over the screen because apparently the animus can't keep track of his speed (even though all his animations are slow as shit)
>Basim is supposedly defined by being fast and sneaky >reuses more than half of Eivor's animation sets even down to the slow as molasses sprint
I really feel like an Assassin now
i played it hudless + no fast traveling and it was semi kino. i think i felt a hint of feminist agenda being pushed in some of the historic notes though because of how well they portrayed the status of women in the society and i sort of refuse to believe that of the arabs in the middle ages so i kept cross referencing articles on whatever they tried to claim, good on ubisoft honestly, now i know a lot more about abbasid caliphate than before i played the game.
I'm enjoying it after origins made me quit the series. There isn't any RPGshit to speak of. Only carry over from the Not-Assassin's Creed games is the eagle which is whatever. Combat is hard so you're encouraged to be stealthy. It's about as good as you're going to get with modern ubi
Got 3 from my mom back in new years 2012, I liked the previous ones and was excited to see how the story ends, the disappointment from the ending made me stop playing these games for good
Resolved in a comic book. Abstergo grew a Isu clone just close enough to one that the shroud could identify it as Isu and fix it for them, Juno possessed it, then Desmond's son killed her.
Revelations.
I got AC3 for free with one of my old GPUs, and I have not played it yet to this day cause I heard it was shit.
By the time I was interested in AC again, Origins had just come out and I was already really done with ubisoft open world checklist shit, the last thing I wanted was a stat system for damage to prolong that grind even more.
3
ended up getting the rest up to Oranges for cheap on sale, but really actually stopped after 10 minutes with the Egypt one because it felt weird and the audio quality was fricked up
I recently beat Unity via Xbox because FPS boost so that. I have been keeping up on the modern day plot so I can be annoyed at how bare minimum it is now.
i knew it was going to go south when they added multiplayer and cut the game length in brotherhood seemingly to squeeze more money out of people by making revelations a separate game. they were both pretty mediocre, black flag was cool, and then once all the bug videos hit of ac3, i cancelled my preorder and quit the series.
I made it through most of the games, but I skipped the chronicles games after trying to stay interested, and I skipped Syndicate because it just sucks. I also skipped Odyssey because it's just as bad as Syndicate. My favorites are Brotherhood, Unity, and Origins.
I played the American revolution one and the renaissance Italy one forever ago. Both seemed cool, but I never came back. Just got odyssey, origins, and whatever the Paris one was because they’re cheap and I want to walk around the areas
Blacklag/Unity/Rogue, those were the last I played but I don't remember in what order.
Never finished Unity because it was buggy trash at launch, but it's supposedly mostly patched up now so I may give it another go someday.
AC1 prioritizing stealth is such a huge meme, and I say this as someone who liked the game. Combat is easy, you just counter kill everyone. Even back then reviews were complaining that getting sloppy during an assassination doesn't even matter since Altair is a master swordsman as well and you can easily cut your way out. If anything, AC2 encouraged "trickier" approaches more simply by giving you more tools. Usually "stealth" in AC2 is more fun than the direct approach.
What AC1 did have was great setpieces for the targets and an excellent historical atmosphere.
I played the whole of the reboots including the louisiana one and the ezio rerelease in order save for Rogue which was the last one I played and made it like halfway in before suddenly starting to question why I was still playing this shit.
AC2
And never completed any game after that
AC1 is the only fully realised game in the series in narrative, parkour and atmosphere
Every other game completely fricks it up in one department
>At what point did you quit?
after rogue, i pretty much forced myself to finish 3 but i'll always be thankful for it for introducing sailing and ultimately 4 and rogue.
i didn't pick up an ac game until just last spring when i played origins and odyssey which i enjoyed because they barely even felt like ac games, especially odyssey, but i also got my fill of ubi games for a very, very long time. i have zero plans to play beyond odyssey unless something truly dramatic happens but that doesn't happen in aaa anymore.
He was basically replaced by Layla who was manipulated by a plan Loki hatched 75000 years ago to be brought back to life and reunited with his AI wife but it's okay since she's now doing Calculations with Desmond in Yggdrasil
Layla was a new Desmond but her trilogy ended much like his, the Isu talking to her fricked her over and now she is trapped in cyberspace with Desmond.
before all the Layla stuff, they kind of tread water with the modern day plot. Black Flag had (You) as an Abstergo Entertainment employee which was fictional Ubisoft. The historical story has you learn about sages, and then it turns out a sage in the modern day was working as a tech guy at the company, and a he tries to kill (You) but fails.
Then Unity and Syndicate barely have any modern day stuff where (You) are a consoomer of Abstergo games and you inadvertently help the Assassins learn unimportant shit or something. They really barely did anything.
AC Black Flag, too many fricking issues with the game, its unplayable and unenjoyable mess, I wanted to enjoy some pirate shit in AC setting, fix that shit and I might replay that broken ass shitter. (Played through 1-3 on X360 with used copies mostly for $5-10 each so it wasn't that bad of an experience from gamestop back inna day.)
I still play every release and stand by that only Valhalla and the newest one that was originally dlc are bad.
>The originals up to 3 were all very fun and interesting. >Black Flag is still regarded the best pirate game. >Unity is finally getting the praise it deserves. >Rogue was bland but had a neat twist on the Templers and assassins and delivered more black flag if you wanted it >syndicate is very good imo and suffered from franchise fatigue. Had an awesome jack the ripper dlc. >origins and odyssey are both 9/10 experiences for me
I understand the weak points in the series but god damn I love them. Really hope they move away from Valhallas engine and gameplay though. That was the first time I felt bored playing the games.
Valhalla
But I do plan to finish it and go on.
It's one of those series that you know is fricking shit, but you still want to see where they go with it.
i dont even get what is supposed to be shit about the games, compare it to the absolute clusterfrick if modern cancer that is watchdogs for example, and a shocking lack of woke shit to boot. i really hope they dont start to get uppity with AC:red, i know its probably journo bait and the homie samurai will just be a sidekick character, not an actual playable character since that would just be extremely dumb.
They're very formulaic and mechanically very basic but then again the historical tourism is the real reason anyone played them
Also the stories are generally not great and the open world full of extreme amounts of filler. For me the filler is the game and the story gets in the way of that but obviously to each their own
>Also the stories are generally not great
not great, agree, but they're not bad either. meanwhile in something like far cry 6 the story is legitimately bad in a manner that it starts to get on your nerves. AC stories are at least immersive and don't insult the player by hamfisting dumbass takes from the devs into it
The overall quality of the games is abysmal. Compare the new one, Mirage, with Unity, Black Flag or even Revelations and you will see just how much AC games have regressed in characters, story, parkour, atmosphere, voice acting, etc.
i only played the original and ezio games outside of the nucreeds, the ezio games feel quite campy compared to something like origins. but its not like i play these for the narratives anyway. the parkour is also wahtever. i dont get why people wank over it. its like in dying light, muh parkour, but i and everyone i know just starts spamming the grappling hook as soon as you unlock it. the immersion factor is just better in the new games that one is for sure though.
Unity was the last one. I've gotten Syndicate for free, twice, and I still haven't given it a spin. AC as an RPG never felt right to me either, so I haven't bothered with recent entries.
i wish these games would just let you make your own character and upload your save file/character appearance data and when the subsequent games came out the default appearance of the mc would look descended from your previous character but you can still customize stuff like hair, beard, etc. and you could inherit cool weapons from your previous character(s) maybe design a cool family sword that get passed down and each generation adds thier little touch to it.
I sometimes feel like I'm from some parallel dimension because as far as I can tell the writing in AC2 and Brotherhood is idiotic, and they depict cartoon worlds compared to AC1's fairly sensible presentation. Like I cannot imagine AC1 even being part of the same series with AC2 when the latter has inexplicable medieval wooden contraptions where pulling a tiny lever somewhere rearranges a gorillion tons of stone into the shape of a wiener and balls.
AC1 was about normal people having an ideological battle in the real world where the scifi artifact is just a valuable tool, and post-AC1 is a treasure hunt where you race against mustache twirling saturday morning bad guys to uncover the secrets of Monkey Island or whatever the frick. Half the time the plot in the Ezio games doesn't go anywhere at all. Entire years pass and everyone's just been sitting on their asses because there is no clear objective.
Brotherhood
This. I liked the idea of having a gang of assassins but Brotherhood is the game that made me realize how much boring bullshit you have to play through in these games to get to the good parts.
Brotherhood was major cognitive dissonance for me. The trailer was amazing and the game was too apparently, then I played it and it's weirdly paced, Rome is like big Firenze, the "brotherhood" was a nothingburger and the whole Cezare ending was underwhelming. I think that's when my brain slowly began the process of jumping off the AC train
Brotherhood is odd in that it's far too ambitious for its own good without really devoting enough time to anything.
You got Ezio dealing with his nonexistant love life now that he learns Caterina only sees him as a means to an end, the family feud with his sister, the conspiracy mystery, the Cristina memories. It's all over the place, which is a shame because it has good ideas, one of ACII's flaws is how little fleshing out the supporting cast got and Brohood tries but doesn't fully commit to it.
Still my favourite though
this, i remember looking down on 3 because it was set in america and it couldn't have any majestic architecture to parkour on
yeah because Rome being frickhueg full of nothing nothing is much better than climbing on trees, right? just look at all those lush terrain you get to mash X on your horse on bros oh wait there's the coloseum let me climb it for no reason and parachute back down to my horse to continue galloping
People who like Brotherhood have not played in the past decade
i liked the country and slow riding my horse around
?t=45
Rome is fricking Rome, dumb american
who cares about climbing the rickety wooden shack where washington lived when you can climb the pantheon?
not him but some of the open parts in rome were really shit
I played the first game, really enjoyed it, but never felt like going back for more. They all look the same.
They all look the same because of the engine they run on, its not really about looking different for the game but continuing the Ezio/Desmond story and grander Abstergo business. That's what you get with "Movie" games so to speak that are interactive set pieces really than video games. The lore is more interesting in that trilogy than others of the series, they ruined themselves with the woke slop and stopped caring about the series and ubisoft in general because of that endless pandering cringe instead of actually caring about good lore.
BlackFlag
Revelations was the point where fatigue fully set in. In some ways it feels almost intentional, some metacontextual way to make you mirror Ezio's own relationship to the Assassin shenanigans at that point, the whole thing just felt tired and uninspired.
I did end up buying ACIII many years after its release out of curiosity and I only saw my choice validated, Colonial America is a terrible setting for a parkour game, with low buildings and wide streets it simply doesn't gel.
Always wondered how they planned to make "climb on top of the one story log cabin parkour" game interesting, turns out they didn't.
I remember being a kid on gamefaqs talking to older guys on there about the upcoming AC3 and how colonial America was a poor choice, and them arguing I was just uneducated and there'd be plenty of cool tall buildings to climb.
Turns out they were all morons.
That's because the hype for AC was in full swing at that point. That'd be like criticizing Mass Effect 2 for its problems back in 2010, people would look at you like you're crazy and don't know anything about good games
Rogue is the last one I've played. There were red flags before like Brotherhood and Revelations, but once Desmond's story ended it became obvious Ubisoft has little idea what to do with the franchise except milk it to death.
I intend to play Origins one day because I'm a sucker for Ancient Egypt aesthetic, but I'm not not in a particular hurry to do so.
If you get around to playing Origins I'd consider getting a bundle with the DLC on sale.
The RPG level gating is easily the most annoying part of the game, where enemies will get really spongy when they outlevel you and you'll do no more than tickle them if they are more than five levels above, but most other things are fine enough. The DLCs make for good content additions and the Curse of the Pharaohs outright includes a level boosting function that will put you at level 45 and primed for that content, which is above the max level required for the main campaign. You could use that boost and turn on level scaling so that the enemies in the story keep up with you without dealing with the hassle of areas too high level for you and the annoying loot grind.
You can also just use a trainer if you're on PC but the DLC is neat so you should still give it an eye in case it appeals to you.
Blackflag
Shouldve quit at 3, i absolutely hated it, but i finished it.
Blackflag was objectively better and i had fun in it, but at this point i just got kinda bored of the franchise and didnt bother finishing it at all
3 because i realized the plot of those who came before was never going to actually amount to anything, and the modern day story went full moron
connor was okay though
I played the first one, Origins, and Valhalla.
First was mid, Origins was okay felt like a worse Witcher 3, Valhalla was Origins but worse.
I won't buy another none of them were great.
>American revolution
What were they thinking?
Right after Revelations
the latest one i played was 3 but the one i played last was revelations
the perfect duo of dogshit to make me drop the series
I've played every main line game day 1 except the London one which I didn't play until a few months after it came out. Ask me anything.
Why
4
Abandoned Ubisoft games after AC3 and Far Cry 3.
Got memed into playing Black Flag because it’s “so good”. Turns out I t’s the same boring shit all over again. Yeah ships are a cool addition but it’s fun for a couple of sails and then turns into a gimmicky time waste.
When I had to start doing trailing missions as a ship I immediately uninstalled.
Farcry 4, black flag and Rogue are good, sorry that was hen you grew out of gaming
Black Flag
1
Frick all the gays shitting on revelations. It improved upon brotherhood and has a fresh new setting. Did it reinvent the wheel? No, but it did give us more of what we clearly enjoyed. It's a perfectly fine ending to the ezio trilogy.
Setting was cool but I remember the missions and setpieces were pretty gay. I vividly remember one mission you're just running around picking flowers.
Unity was when I quit everything after is pure shit
III
I only recently played and this time around beat Black Flag because it was the 10 year anniversary and I had never beaten it only playing a little bit of it for my birthday back in 2014 when I was 18 and my god does it hurt knowing with the benefit of hindsight how much Ubisoft does not give a shit about the modern day segments in Assassin's Creed despite Black Flag sowing seeds of how that storyline could have continued post Desmond's sacrifice at the end of III
Unity
It was the last time they tried to make an actual assassin’s game and tried to innovate with it.
Once Black Flag kicked off before it though and with how popular it was, that was truly the death of AC. Despite loving the Black Flag it’s the beginning of Ubisoft no longer focusing on making the series as a whole revolve around being an Assassin anymore. It’s a fantastic pirates game but it’s not an AC game and it doesn’t try to be. Kenway literally robs his costume from a dead Assassin. Every game after just follows that formula. Viking sim, Greek warrior sim, Medjay sim etc. Ubisoft is Abstergo in AC3 they just give you sims of various time periods under the title of AC.
Unity. It was also the last game before they butchered the parkour system. They had it so close with Unity but of course, this chicken shit company saw failure once and decided to never attempt it again.
After Origins. I liked Unity and Syndicate apart from the horrible town design unsuited for parkour. Origins removed everything I liked in the series. They replaced cool alien tech on the edge of what's believable with straight up magic, turned to shitty RPG system, completely nerfed the landscape for parkour, turned every historical character into a joke, shat on Bayek by the end for no reason and filled the game with grind. Gone were the fun references to famous scholars and philosophers and they stopped playing with conspiracy theories which always gave me a Deus Ex vibe in early AC games. People like to say the decline started with Unity but I disagree. People were just a bit tired of AC. The decline began and culminated with Origins, everything after is just going downhill and doubling down on Origins' mistakes.
Origins is such an odd game in how it handles its lead. They write Bayek as a really cool and loveable dude while at the same time trying really hard to make him less important than his exwife, it just feels as if they're continually robbing him of things
Aya was clearly originally intended to be the protagonist, but the market suits told them a female protag wouldn't sell as well, so they made it Bayek instead but still gave Aya all the cool shit to do.
And then they went split gender protag for the sequels
I miss when AC had this conspiracy shit
Use to do this at like 2am late at school nights and thought id see a fricked up gore image or something didnt help the ambiance was freaky
Are you me
Originally, I stopped at 3 on Xbox 360.
Few years later, I decided to pirate Black Flag on PC and had fun, got Origins free, tried it, didnt care too much, bought Odyssey when it was cheap, was better but still didn't like how it played, pirated Valhalla, quit in 2 hours because boring bullshit. I should've stopped at Origins.
I just lost all motivation during the first hour of 4 despite having heard it was the best.
black gay. I got memed into trying unity and I'm completely done with the franchise they milked it too hard.
3. Revelations is when I noticed that the game stopped being very good. After that, 3 is just so fricking boring that I never finished it.
Also obligatory
Brotherhood > 2 > Revelations > The rest
I love brotherhood the most too, BUT AC:II music is god tier.
Black Flag being shit and Rogue even more so
1 and 3 remain my favorite, Valhalla isn't so bad.
>Hates Black Flag and Rogue, likes 3 and Valhalla
Wtf is wrong with you?
To be fair Rogue being a worse Black Flag is not a contentious statement
3 has the best naval combat just not enough of it. And my favorite protagonist
Valhalla has issues but I enjoyed running around the countryside and skipping the story
I'm glad someone else enjoys how weighty 3's naval combat feels. Black Flag feels really arcadey with how the Jackdaw turns on a dime
Has anyone played Mirage?
Did it actually go back to the franchise's roots like they kept saying?
It's a Ubisoft game, which means Epic exclusive on PC for a year, so nope. But from everything I've heard, the "return to roots" bullshit was basically just an excuse to create a shallower game.
>"return to roots"
>by the way here's our protagonist teleporting all over the screen because apparently the animus can't keep track of his speed (even though all his animations are slow as shit)
>Basim is supposedly defined by being fast and sneaky
>reuses more than half of Eivor's animation sets even down to the slow as molasses sprint
I really feel like an Assassin now
Sort of, it's a complete joke due to recoverable knifes that delete corpse's and it still feels like RPG creed. It was worth the Ubisoft+ sub.
i played it hudless + no fast traveling and it was semi kino. i think i felt a hint of feminist agenda being pushed in some of the historic notes though because of how well they portrayed the status of women in the society and i sort of refuse to believe that of the arabs in the middle ages so i kept cross referencing articles on whatever they tried to claim, good on ubisoft honestly, now i know a lot more about abbasid caliphate than before i played the game.
I'm enjoying it after origins made me quit the series. There isn't any RPGshit to speak of. Only carry over from the Not-Assassin's Creed games is the eagle which is whatever. Combat is hard so you're encouraged to be stealthy. It's about as good as you're going to get with modern ubi
>made by a multicultural team
>All of its mainline entries take place in Western Europe
And don't say Origins that's as much a Roman game as Egyptian
It's disappointing, tbh
>set game in Egypt
>set it in a point in history where it's been heavily Hellenised and Ancient Egypt is already ruins
>India, China, and Russia all wasted settings as sides scrollers or mobile shit
>Japan entry won't let you even play as a Japanese
Got 3 from my mom back in new years 2012, I liked the previous ones and was excited to see how the story ends, the disappointment from the ending made me stop playing these games for good
Whatever happened to the Juno plotline they kept hyping up?
She got killed by Desmond's sage son in a comic book I believe
Resolved in a comic book. Abstergo grew a Isu clone just close enough to one that the shroud could identify it as Isu and fix it for them, Juno possessed it, then Desmond's son killed her.
Do you have any hope for German AC?
Have they shown anything beyond saying it'll involve witches?
My only expectation would be that they will have a cool idea they will not deliver upon
AC Japan was always a terrible idea
Revelations.
I got AC3 for free with one of my old GPUs, and I have not played it yet to this day cause I heard it was shit.
By the time I was interested in AC again, Origins had just come out and I was already really done with ubisoft open world checklist shit, the last thing I wanted was a stat system for damage to prolong that grind even more.
3
ended up getting the rest up to Oranges for cheap on sale, but really actually stopped after 10 minutes with the Egypt one because it felt weird and the audio quality was fricked up
After 1. It's a story about tha Hashishin so that's where it ends. Neat little cliffhanger at the end, but that's all it is.
Played AC, AC:II, AC Brotherhood, skipped Revelations. AC:III killed the series for me, it was so shit I never touched another AC.
Black Flag like every one else should have
Odyssey. way too long.
I recently beat Unity via Xbox because FPS boost so that. I have been keeping up on the modern day plot so I can be annoyed at how bare minimum it is now.
Syndicate. I really wish the gameplay designers and writers were as good as the people who make the map/world
The second one.
It removed the cooldown on grabbing ledges.
There's no cooldown on ledge grabbing, anon
i knew it was going to go south when they added multiplayer and cut the game length in brotherhood seemingly to squeeze more money out of people by making revelations a separate game. they were both pretty mediocre, black flag was cool, and then once all the bug videos hit of ac3, i cancelled my preorder and quit the series.
I thought the multiplayer was pretty fun.
The series got way too dependent on Pieces of Eden as a plot device
In fact the whole ancient humans plotline for worse with every installment
Stopped after marathoning through revelations. Kind of tempted to play 3 and black flag but not interested in anything after that.
I made it through most of the games, but I skipped the chronicles games after trying to stay interested, and I skipped Syndicate because it just sucks. I also skipped Odyssey because it's just as bad as Syndicate. My favorites are Brotherhood, Unity, and Origins.
Syndicate is kinda fun if you play it like a bootlegged Batman game
Started and stopped with Black Flag
When Eagle vision started using actual eagles
I quit on the first game because it won't run in rpcs3 for some reason
>I quit on the first game because it won't run in rpcs3 for some reason
why are you emulating it?
I played the American revolution one and the renaissance Italy one forever ago. Both seemed cool, but I never came back. Just got odyssey, origins, and whatever the Paris one was because they’re cheap and I want to walk around the areas
Once Ezio's games were over
Blacklag/Unity/Rogue, those were the last I played but I don't remember in what order.
Never finished Unity because it was buggy trash at launch, but it's supposedly mostly patched up now so I may give it another go someday.
Chronicles because they were the only interesting setting
Ironically they were the games closest to the Assassin fantasy since AC1 since they actually emphasised stealth and trickery over overt combat
>AC1
>emphasised stealth and trickery over overt combat
lol
AC1 prioritizing stealth is such a huge meme, and I say this as someone who liked the game. Combat is easy, you just counter kill everyone. Even back then reviews were complaining that getting sloppy during an assassination doesn't even matter since Altair is a master swordsman as well and you can easily cut your way out. If anything, AC2 encouraged "trickier" approaches more simply by giving you more tools. Usually "stealth" in AC2 is more fun than the direct approach.
What AC1 did have was great setpieces for the targets and an excellent historical atmosphere.
3 halfway, came back for Black Flag and had a blast.
Unity gets shilled a lot around here, so I might still pirate that one at some point.
I am still bummed out there isn't MP like brotherhood
I played the whole of the reboots including the louisiana one and the ezio rerelease in order save for Rogue which was the last one I played and made it like halfway in before suddenly starting to question why I was still playing this shit.
pre-reboots*
AC2
And never completed any game after that
AC1 is the only fully realised game in the series in narrative, parkour and atmosphere
Every other game completely fricks it up in one department
>At what point did you quit?
after rogue, i pretty much forced myself to finish 3 but i'll always be thankful for it for introducing sailing and ultimately 4 and rogue.
i didn't pick up an ac game until just last spring when i played origins and odyssey which i enjoyed because they barely even felt like ac games, especially odyssey, but i also got my fill of ubi games for a very, very long time. i have zero plans to play beyond odyssey unless something truly dramatic happens but that doesn't happen in aaa anymore.
Stop after Revelations. That's it.
The vr game is really good
Is it? Isn't it super short?
I tried playing the original on PC recently, but it was such a stuttering mess that I gave up.
AC:Red is the only game I'm looking forward to in 2024.
Rogue was the last one I played. I enjoyed it.
Valhalla. Origins was the last AC game.
To those that stuck around, what happened after Desmond died? I heard he had like a secret son and Juno was killed in a comic book or something.
He was basically replaced by Layla who was manipulated by a plan Loki hatched 75000 years ago to be brought back to life and reunited with his AI wife but it's okay since she's now doing Calculations with Desmond in Yggdrasil
>a plan Loki hatched 75000 years ago to be brought back to life and reunited with his AI wife
That just sounds like the Juno plot almost exactly.
His corpse was taken by Abstergo to make shitty Ubisoft games
I'm not joking
Did he at least become a gene ghost like the previous subject?
Kind of
Some weird AI/ghost appears at the end of Valhalla and is implied to be Desmond uploaded to the singularity
And he and Layla are going to put their minds together to build an Animus that actually allows you to go back in time
That sounds kinda stupid.
The minute any franchise involves time travel. you can tell its because they wrote themselves into a corner
ah yes the recluse moron bartender as a ghost on the job to build a time machine
Wait if they actually make this...wouldn't they actually be able to stop the Templars for good?
Or are they gonna puss out and go "no one should have that kind of power."?
if they do that they'll be just like them
Layla was a new Desmond but her trilogy ended much like his, the Isu talking to her fricked her over and now she is trapped in cyberspace with Desmond.
before all the Layla stuff, they kind of tread water with the modern day plot. Black Flag had (You) as an Abstergo Entertainment employee which was fictional Ubisoft. The historical story has you learn about sages, and then it turns out a sage in the modern day was working as a tech guy at the company, and a he tries to kill (You) but fails.
Then Unity and Syndicate barely have any modern day stuff where (You) are a consoomer of Abstergo games and you inadvertently help the Assassins learn unimportant shit or something. They really barely did anything.
Then Origins introduced Layla
Every AC thread I just feel compelled to voice about how bad Syndicate combat was. Its the worst AAA system I've ever played, couldn't finish the game
>miss the hug Leonardo prompt
>have to restart the whole game
AC Black Flag, too many fricking issues with the game, its unplayable and unenjoyable mess, I wanted to enjoy some pirate shit in AC setting, fix that shit and I might replay that broken ass shitter. (Played through 1-3 on X360 with used copies mostly for $5-10 each so it wasn't that bad of an experience from gamestop back inna day.)
I really liked Syndicate because I'm a fan of the victorian age and jack the ripper
I never finished the American one
I still play every release and stand by that only Valhalla and the newest one that was originally dlc are bad.
>The originals up to 3 were all very fun and interesting.
>Black Flag is still regarded the best pirate game.
>Unity is finally getting the praise it deserves.
>Rogue was bland but had a neat twist on the Templers and assassins and delivered more black flag if you wanted it
>syndicate is very good imo and suffered from franchise fatigue. Had an awesome jack the ripper dlc.
>origins and odyssey are both 9/10 experiences for me
I understand the weak points in the series but god damn I love them. Really hope they move away from Valhallas engine and gameplay though. That was the first time I felt bored playing the games.
Unity was the last I played but the magic was dead after 2
Valhalla
But I do plan to finish it and go on.
It's one of those series that you know is fricking shit, but you still want to see where they go with it.
Honestly this
There's really no other open world games using historical settings as a backdrop outside of maybe Kingdom Come
i dont even get what is supposed to be shit about the games, compare it to the absolute clusterfrick if modern cancer that is watchdogs for example, and a shocking lack of woke shit to boot. i really hope they dont start to get uppity with AC:red, i know its probably journo bait and the homie samurai will just be a sidekick character, not an actual playable character since that would just be extremely dumb.
They're very formulaic and mechanically very basic but then again the historical tourism is the real reason anyone played them
Also the stories are generally not great and the open world full of extreme amounts of filler. For me the filler is the game and the story gets in the way of that but obviously to each their own
>Also the stories are generally not great
not great, agree, but they're not bad either. meanwhile in something like far cry 6 the story is legitimately bad in a manner that it starts to get on your nerves. AC stories are at least immersive and don't insult the player by hamfisting dumbass takes from the devs into it
This was especially true for Odyssey, where the filler was exceptionally good, while the story was some autistic mess that was hard to get through.
The overall quality of the games is abysmal. Compare the new one, Mirage, with Unity, Black Flag or even Revelations and you will see just how much AC games have regressed in characters, story, parkour, atmosphere, voice acting, etc.
i only played the original and ezio games outside of the nucreeds, the ezio games feel quite campy compared to something like origins. but its not like i play these for the narratives anyway. the parkour is also wahtever. i dont get why people wank over it. its like in dying light, muh parkour, but i and everyone i know just starts spamming the grappling hook as soon as you unlock it. the immersion factor is just better in the new games that one is for sure though.
WHERE IS CHARLES LEE?
Unity was the last one. I've gotten Syndicate for free, twice, and I still haven't given it a spin. AC as an RPG never felt right to me either, so I haven't bothered with recent entries.
3 is so shit. My biggest gaming disappointment in my entire life
i wish these games would just let you make your own character and upload your save file/character appearance data and when the subsequent games came out the default appearance of the mc would look descended from your previous character but you can still customize stuff like hair, beard, etc. and you could inherit cool weapons from your previous character(s) maybe design a cool family sword that get passed down and each generation adds thier little touch to it.
started with 1 and Black Flag is the last one i played
I sometimes feel like I'm from some parallel dimension because as far as I can tell the writing in AC2 and Brotherhood is idiotic, and they depict cartoon worlds compared to AC1's fairly sensible presentation. Like I cannot imagine AC1 even being part of the same series with AC2 when the latter has inexplicable medieval wooden contraptions where pulling a tiny lever somewhere rearranges a gorillion tons of stone into the shape of a wiener and balls.
AC1 was about normal people having an ideological battle in the real world where the scifi artifact is just a valuable tool, and post-AC1 is a treasure hunt where you race against mustache twirling saturday morning bad guys to uncover the secrets of Monkey Island or whatever the frick. Half the time the plot in the Ezio games doesn't go anywhere at all. Entire years pass and everyone's just been sitting on their asses because there is no clear objective.
Syndicate. Unity was amazing
I guess after Syndicate. I did play Origins but that was just recently and it didn't convince me to get back into the series.
I finally beat Revelations recently, so that's where I'm at. I might play three.
Unity for me.
Brotherhood
Then I returned for Black Flag but that's not an AC game.
And then I gave a shot to Unity for Co-op.
Haven't touched it since.