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after ezio and desmond (ac 3 last good game) end

If Ubisoft did the same thing for 15 years, and all games were like 1 and 2 parts, you would be whining that they copy one concept for many years and lazily siphon money from players, that the series has no new ideas and they buried themselves without looking for new concepts. Times change, so does the market, and with it the preferences of the players. Entertainment is a privilege, not a right. If you don't like the game, pass by and choose something else.

If Ubisoft did the same thing for 15 years, and all games were like 1 and 2 parts, you would be whining that they copy one concept for many years and lazily siphon money from players, that the series has no new ideas and they buried themselves without looking for new concepts. Times change, so does the market, and with it the preferences of the players. Entertainment is a privilege, not a right. If you don't like the game, pass by and choose something else.

Anything after Revelations is absolutely shit. Except Black Flag (A very bad assassins creed, a very good game)

During lockdown I replayed every single AC while I was waiting for Valhalla to come out. One thing I learned is that out of the "colonial games" let's call them (3, Black Flag, Rogue, Liberation) this one is the one that actually ended up aging the best.

"the focus on stealth" comment kinda stood out to me. My experience (now that it's finally on PC) is that, while all the tools are there and it's certainly competent for the genre, you are discouraged by the narrative to be a sneaky bastard. But the Mongols are such a dominant force that marching up to the front door for an honorable crossing of swords isn't an option (at first), so you have to. Then once you get stronger, it's usually faster (and imho more fun) to just stride up in full samurai armor and yell "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" at everyone in earshot. I also feel this is reflected in how there are more armor sets and skills for open combat, while the stealth dagger upgrade is relatively cheap and I had it maxed out long before the first castle liberation. Though tbf I'm the kind of player who likes to meet (most) games on their terms. I loved Red Dead 2's slower pace, the camping, the fishing, the cooking and drinking and sleeping, in the same way I love watching Jin contemplate his allies, father, struggles, violating his oaths as a samurai while he's soaking in the hot springs water. I love how the bamboo cutting is how you level up your Resolve. I love that a certain bird will chirp and lead you to a POI, but are easier to ignore than a blinking compass marker if I'm not in the mood. While the wind is effectively no more than a diegetic GPS, I love how the line "[your father] is the wind at your back" gives a character motivation to care about it. The role-playing part of the RPG is so much more important to me than min-maxing stats and optimizing gameplay so it's a treat to play another game that says, "this is the fantasy, you are the guy, go be the action hero you used to daydream about" after Red Dead 2 did that for me with cowboys. It doesn't really do anything new outside of nailing the samurai fantasy, but it does everything *right*.

Assassin's creed odyssey saved the franchise i aint mad at it

I’m less than 20 seconds in and already know the answer is odyssey

I praise you for giving Syndicate it's flowers. Even though people say Syndicate was a step back from Unity (which I mostly disagree with), it actually fixed a whole bunch of Unity's problems but not enough people give credit for that.

Your content is amazing, glad I found this channel yesterday. The effort you put into your scripts are next level.

Odyssey and Valhalla should have been named that take away Assassins Creed and games go up. Origins I like because it gives you a story of how the brotherhood started and got Its creed.

In my opinion, brotherhood is when it got bad. 1 was new. 2 was a huge improvement. Brotherhood didn’t get better or worse Then everything after was a tailspin

I'm glad that you're not worried, I'd like to share your sentiment but... I really don't know. The way that most gamers behave today, how they approach games in general, makes me think that stealth games will never return to their prime.

I loved AC oddessy. Thought it was fantastic.

Unity has a lot of problems, including a terrible story, and glitchy mechanics- but god I love it. I love freerunning, combat, and side content. Yet above all I ADORE Paris. It’s an enormous inspiration for my worldbuilding, and gorgeous eye candy as well as feeling very detailed and lived in, at least for me.

If you are expecting AC Red will be any different, you are gravely mistaken... It came out as 'AC Shadows', the most generic name of a video game ever... and it is utter shitshow and dumpster fire... none of the things players wanted is present... dense cityscapes, complex parkour, social stealth... it is a cheap ripoff of Ghost Of Tsushima's perfect gameplay systems (it's glaringly obvious how Ubislop tried to copy them and failed miserably), the voice acting and facial animations are soulless garbage and abysmal and visuals done terribly and pathetically.... I deeply regret having faith in Ubishit and now I hope that the company goes bankrupt soon...

Hmm…i liked this game alot

Honesty in my opinion combat was the soul of like a dragon because controlling kiryu and smashing through thousands as a one man army, and it was satisfying, brutal, fun and i don't mean this in an edgy way but yakuza lost its masculine urge from the combat switch because Kiryu felt like a beast while retaining human abilities, and as for the new party its just magic and goofiness, i like the goofiness, but that overemphasized over the top action where fights felt anticlimactic to say the least, im sure im not the only one who feels this way

I disagree with your opinions. I understand that samurai were shinobi, but this game is not about any shinobi but a samurai fighting the mongols. He becomes the ghost, or a mythical stereotype that the local Japanese are easily convinced to believe, and that is that.

I was genuenally thinking this while playing, its litelarly a ac game, just better, and hey thats why they are finally making a ac set in japan, and its somehow gonna be a less good ac than a non ac game

The gameplay loop was enough to go through the maps but the story was utter trash. You spent like 11 missions chasing a shoved in girlboss trash and let her go at the end of the mission while painting the narrative she was a strong independent victim despite commiting mass attrocities lmao what!

I like most of the games especially black flag, but they shouldn’t have called black flag assassin creed, but still tied it in with the lore somehow

If they had just renamed this game “Shadows of Valhalla” or something like that it would have gained more popularity. Such a good game imo, great music too. You know a game has good soundtracks when you have to go, “wait, I have to look up this song”

Play a male hollywood-style viking with a female name. I rest my case.

The gang system was surprisingly very in depth and i keep wishing one of the new AC games would expand on it

Assassin's Creed only needed (like, really) a crouching mechanic when social stealth started to be impossible in >most< situations. I don't feel the need for it in AC1, for instance. Since AC2, the design for the game cleary changed. I've replayed the Ezio Trilogy recently and what I've most missed in those games, compared to Syndicate (the game I was playing before playing the Ezio Trilogy again) was, actually, a cover mechanic. If AC2, Brotherhood(In a lesser extent since the social stealth is well implemented in this game) and Revelations had a cover mechanic, most of my problems with stealth in those games would simply vanish. In recent games, I also feel that. The tall grass stuff is okay, but not enough, there were so much room for design if a cover system was present in Mirage, for instance. I think AC is mostly built for social stealth. Of course, the game was initially design with that philosophy both narratively and mechanicaly, but I really mean it. If most AC games used that to it's full potential, those games would have a very, very good stealth without falling into the same categories as other stealth games. I don't expect the social stealth mechanic to come back like in AC 1 or Brotherhood anytime soon, but after playing the classics again, I've noticed that Assassin's Creed only really NEEDS a crouch mechanic, sometimes even a cover mechanic, when social stealth is very, very poorly implemented or when the game present challenges in closed quarters like the tombs in AC2.

That was genuinely a really great, thoughtful, well-reasoned and brilliantly articulated video. Well done. I'm looking forward to hear more of your thoughts on other (ac) games.

I think it's already started appearing on Unity

i mean it SO isn't. Gameplay wise it is incredibly limited. All the great story and style can't make up for it's complete lack in creativity in quest and gameplay. Every Quest, without any exception is "go somewhere, kill someone". All the great writing and voice acting can't hide this after a few hours. Sometimes with some enforced stealth which more often than not makes no logical sense and feels like a crowbared in handicap.

Assassins creed was seperated from prince of persia for the same reason Odyssey should have been seperated from the AC universe. And I love ACO.

what the fuck bro

If the graphic quality of ac shadows isn't closer to GoT than ac mirage I'm going to be a little disappointed 😢

When was ac ever good?

odyssey was the first one i played and i very much enjoyed it. i stopped valhalla after about 5 minutes, and i was not able to return it. i haven't been back.

Gloomwood lol

Unity probably

it was always bad

It became bad when Assassins Creed became Ubisofts Greed

It's great analysis. Very well made video. The one thing i disagree with is great cinematography. It's beautiful, but the cinematography itself is veeery mid. Especially side quests, especially if you compare it with something like Wither,

crouch-walking is like aim down sights in first person shooters. older games proved it's not needed, but it slows your movement to give more control and also a feel of safety and precision.

If they wanna make rpg games just change the name to something else why Assassin's creed 🥲

If you've ever duck-walked for more than 30-40 seconds, you'd realize that a big hit to Stamina should be a big repercussion of crouch-walking 😮‍💨

My biggest criticism of the game is that it can get very repetitive, too much fighting and not enough variation, the open world lacks activities, other than that it’s a great game.

There are many players like myself who just want an ending to the story that was started by AC1: The Piece of Eden, the aliens, and the genetic memories. I'd like to see an Assassin's Creed game go with: "Mankind is destined to leave this world and expand among the stars one day." Then the technology is acquired to travel the stars. From there, future games could find other races/beings in parts of the galaxy not unlike the aliens who left the Piece of Eden behind.

The new Assassin's Creeds are empty/devoid of life. There are lots of buildings but no people. But, as many other commenters have noted, the title is Assassin's Creed. The main characters are assassin's first and foremost. And that means there should always be the option of completing objectives using purely stealthy means. I especially hated Odyssey for a wide range of problems: XP scaling, dialog options that you have to go look up on a Wiki to get the best ending, limited inventory, no assassin options, ISU power stealing, etc. I spent more time in my web browser on the Odyssey wiki pages to figure out what to say and selling junk from my inventory than actually playing the game.

I tried to get into Valhalla and I just really can’t. I’m still trying but it’s meh to me. I love Odyssey a lot. But Valhalla is missing something and I don’t know what it is. And as far as the bird goes I thought I wasn’t utilizing it right. I was about 10 hours into playing assassin’s Creed Valhalla until I went back and played Odyssey because that was the game that came before it only to find out it wasn’t me not utilizing correctly. It’s just that the bird is really useless in Valhalla.

I don't mind a predictable story, the issue with GoT is it was told in such a boring way. The cutscenes have bog standard video game dialogue and drag on for far too long. To compare them them to classic Japanese cinema is to not understand carefully crafted use of language.

Alright. After beating AC1 and AC2 for the first time, I played AC Unity and loved it. The game is ambitious, The buildings are so large, I wouldn't be surprised if they're real size, and the missions are really elaborate, and it also has the best cutscenes in the franchise. I don't understand the criticism; I think you just have to 'git gud.' While the game can feel clunky at times, I eventually got the hang of it and now I'm having a blast. My playstyle is stealth-focused, so I avoid killing unless absolutely necessary. The game truly delivers the most complete assassin experience. To top it all, I play with all the HUD elements turned OFF. All of them.

Assassin's Creed is am action/stealth series. Not a grindy RPG that requires 100 hours to complete a 30 hour story.

Finished playing the PC port last week. It and the rest of the open world PlayStation PC ports (Spider-Man, Horizon, Days Gone, God of War and the like) play too similarly and too safe. It all becomes generic Ubislop after about 6 hours in each of them. Stop applauding mediocrity.