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Glad you had the pyramids with the gold & limestone. I thought some of the stuff they did with Jack the Ripper and his victims in the Syndicate DLC used a good blend of historical accuracy and AC Lore.
Because of ac2 I got A in world history . In the books it was about who's families banks were the most influential and all the political stuff that I could not remember .
I kinda wish these games were a thing when I was in school. I got my Xbox 360 for X-Mas 2009 and people asked if I've played Assassin's Creed 2 yet. Me being me, I was all like "I haven't played the first one yet" and so I bought it at Game Stop during my lunch break. You can probably get by skipping it, but I still enjoyed it and it still has Kristen Bell 😍 like the second game and Brotherhood
And SOOOO much more. Assassin’s Creed has a lot more historically accurate stuff in it then you would think. I love everything about this franchise and I’m impressed by just how much they’re able to keep the spirit of it alive while delivering us new and unique stories.
Wish some things got kept in though. Like the J quarter of Rome (there was huge scumbaggery done by Cesare's henchmen in the quarter, so it wouldve reinforced his villainy, but also would introduce some moral ambiguity since Rodrigo actually allowed the Js in), Renaissance slavery (would've been very interesting to explore), Lorenzo Medici being kind of a scumbag and Ezio doing his dirty work (would've introduced some much needed moral ambiguity and would've been emotional if we had to assassinate Lorenzo. Instead it's only brought up once by Lucrezia and completely dropped), and way more accurate clothing for Valhalla. Also wish the Greco-Persian War segment of Odyssey wasn't just a more accurate retread of 300
@@ManiacMayhem7256 Can’t help but agree with all of your points, dude. Though the games you mentioned are truly great with what they have, there are definitely some things that could be better historically. I thought about the whole “Medici” thing while I was replying AC2 recently. And though some of Eivor’s outfits (excluding the Helix store ones) are pretty well based in historical accuracy, some of the outfits of the other characters and background NPCs (Like all of the Ally Vikings that wear blue) could for sure be better.
Remember folks AC helps preserve history, remember the church that burned down? AC has the perfect rendition of the inside and outside of the church and that church was notre dame cathedral AC was amazing, it still is amazing regarding the action, parkour and story but newer AC is just basically any generic RPG, back then it was pure We can still enjoy the newer ones but going for historic accuracy, original combat system and just plain Assassins creed might not be what present day people want, for old fans yes that is a godsend but for newer fans it might be boring, ubisoft is still a company and their main goal is to make money, so theyll choose profit over praise anyday
I played the original for the first time only 2 years ago. It's aged so well. Some mechanics are a bit simplistic but all in all it's still a great game with good graphics
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6:51 Robespierre was indeed shot in the jaw however it was a failed attempt by him to commit suicide rather than be arrested, tried and executed by the mob after him. all the shot did was manage to break his jaw which shut him up but failed to kill him. He would be tried and executed by guillotine in 1794. Ironically a device he was so fond of using to execute his rivals. Another name for him was the Prince of Terror. Due to his role in the Reign of Terror during the first French Republic. France would go through 3 additional Republics before modern day.
The assasin order was inspired by an order called Hashashins or Ismaelian they were in the time of seljuke empire in todays Iran they were just like assasins and masyaf was inspired by alamut, Al-mualim was inspired by one of their famous leaders called Hassan Sabah.
Almulim was inspired by Rashid adin sinan .the old man of the mountain and masyaf did and still exists . The assassins in the game was inspired by and represents the Syrian branch of the hashashin or as they call them self albatenia which ironically roughly means the implied ones or the hidden ones 😉 they were first invade by the Mongols and then came back to be dismantled and assimilated by the mamluks of Egypt
I passed both AH1 and 2 and World History because of AC, they also gave me a newfound interest in history after I'd passed the classes. For all of the mistakes Ubisoft makes for their games, they absolutely do an amazing job at bringing their worlds to life.
Another bit of history AC had nailed is the attempted assassination attempt of the Medici by the Pazzi conspirators (this event was depicted in Assassin's Creed II) That in-game sequence was based on the real life assassination attempt to Lorenzo de Medici in 1478 as part of Pazzi conspiracy. The attack happened at il Duomo in Florence, Italy. Lorenzo's brother, Guiliano was killed by the attackers (which was also shown at the game) and Lorenzo was wounded but survived. One major difference between the game and the real life event was that in ACII, the attack happened outside the il Duomo, but the real life event happened inside the church.
As much as I hate to admit it, I like how grotesque they made Robespierre’s severed head look in one of the multiplayer missions… . It’s pretty interesting… and disgusting… . I love it!
I was surprised they get the Paul revere story mostly right. Referring to the red coats as “the regulars” as opposed to “the British”, and not just riding through a town shouting “the British are coming”. Aside from the obvious made up part of Connor riding Revere around, the only thing really inaccurate is Paul revere being the only one telling the townspeople, in reality there were a few people riding horses telling the townspeople of the regulars arrival.
You can do that. Black Flag introduced sharks, I always feared swimming in those waters. Bad enough one diving bell mission required swimming with the sharks, but later missions i went right back up if I saw sharks. Do they only attack during diving bell missions then. As Kassandra in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, I used arrows to clear them if they were guarding quest items. Kassandra can use her blade underwater, but I still didn't want to go down there lol 😝
It always bugged me that the islands were so tightly clustered together, but I guess it makes mechanical sense and in my experience there was enough open sea that it didn't bother me much
That's not exactly what happened. Ubisoft hired an architecture expert named Jean-Pierre Houdin who had a theoretical model as to how the pyramid was constructed. A separate, unrelated team was using an imaging technique that's sort of like an x-ray to map the interior of the pyramid, and sure enough it matched Houdin's model -- including the locations of interior chambers.
It’s crazy how people forget there was explorers and treasure hunters out there who found a lot of these places before anyone else could and they took all the valuable stuff .. such as the gold on top of the pyramids lol
@@Tavish_Studios I mean it IS kinda weird that we don't really know a "when". Apparently they were already missing in the antiquity. I mean - it's not like you could jsut walk up there and take them without someone noticing? 😂 It's even assumed that the Giza pyramids didn't have gold pyramidions - that would question the "why" as well :D
To be fair, the "old school" gatekeepers are some of the worst fans of any series. Constantly bashing the newer games when they haven't given them a chance. I'd take Valhalla over AC2 any day
I mean... they abandoned their "roots" at AC2 lol. They didn't even stick with the original Assassins and Templars for more than one game, so can you really call it their roots when it was only ever a single game?
@@FreezyBreeze14 I feel like you are only saying that because of the technological differences between the two games. I mean they are like more 15 years apart Valhalla is going to be bigger and better technically speaking. Story for story however AC2 is better. And I think that’s what people get upset about. AC has abandoned its roots but refuses to admit it. I’m not saying that the mythology trilogy wasn’t bad because I quite enjoyed them however they didn’t feel like ac games. They just had the ac name to boost sales. I think after 5 years people just want to play as assassins again.
@@mckenlyoneal143 I personally preferred the parkour/combat mechanics better in the new games. I also thought characters were more fleshed out in the newer games (particularly villains), at least relative to AC2 (still slowly working through Brotherhood to Syndicate, sans Black Flag). While AC2 was more focused on stealth, it still felt pretty broken, and I don't mind that Valhalla leaves it to the player to decide how they want to approach combat.
@@FreezyBreeze14 I see where you are coming from but they’re are definitely things you should consider. you definitely need to play at least all of Ezios story before talking about fleshed out characters and talking about how you like the new games better haha. Seems like your judging one side having the full experience and the other side not have much at all. The Borgia family were some of the most fleshed out villains in the series. Ezio himself is the most fleshed out character in all of AC period. Going from a revenge stricken adolescent to a true master assassin. Then you have people like Eivor who actually had a big break through in character progression about how being prideful is bad and one shouldn’t always seek glory, the literal thing that separates her (using cannon eivor who is a girl) from Odin only to then deny becoming an assassin because she doesn’t like that there is no glory in it for her. Doesn’t really make sense. What was the point of this story and her entire arc? Also Arthur being the leader of the cult doesn’t make sense at all either and seemed thrown in their very rushed at the end and goes no where. Like I said before of course you like the parkour/combat of the new games better because they’ve had 15 years and new technology to make it better, however one could argue that the stealth mechanics in the new games are actually pretty bad, borderline broken, and that it’s much more focused and favored on running in and just killing everyone, especially Valhalla. If you like player decision on combat unity and syndicate actually had the best choose your own route to kill a target. Biggest thing I recommend is actually going through the old games and give them the time and credit they deserve, especially the Ezio trilogy. There’s a reason he got 3 games and is pretty much the face of AC all these years later.
Jack the Ripper really did terrorize White Chappel in London during the time Assassins Creed Syndicate's DLC on him takes place. Though historians have no clue to the identity of the murderer of ladies of the night. A man really did exist that did those things. They just took the liberty of making him an Assassin that went full lunatic and started killing in cold blood.
Watching that hidden chamber be discovered in real-time shortly after Origins launched was so surreal. If I remember correctly, they even got the location of it correct. It leads me to believe that Ubisoft is actually a covert Abstergo selling Assassin Secrets as videogames in a side hustle to fund their modern-day Templars to search for the Pieces of Eden
Atlantis was located on the southwest coast of Spain, just west of Gibraltar, on a river delta. It was also called a couple of other names by the civilizations that traded with it. It's also buried under around 80 meters of mud.
@@God_Is_An_Atheist It _is_ fact, dumbass. Take a Ground Penetrating Radar setup out there and see for yourself. The Spanish gov't won't allow an excavation, as it's under a nature preserve.
@@garyballard179 If it were an actual fact then the scientific consensus would agree with you based on the evidence, but it doesn't. Philologists and classicists agree that Atlantis is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations, even the Athens in the story are nothing but a pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state. And ground-penetrating radar alone is not enough to prove anything, and to believe that any amateur could come to a reasonable conclusion with this technology is pseudoscientific. Interpretation of radar-grams is generally non-intuitive to the novice and considerable expertise is necessary to effectively design, conduct, and interpret GPR surveys.
@@God_Is_An_Atheist Dude, some scientists still refuse to accept that Europeans and Asians reached the American continents well before Columbus, despite physical evidence of their presence. Despite claims by politically motivated individuals, there's still no consensus on whether or not "man-made" climate change is significant, or even measurable. Scientists still ignore cryptids, even after some have been identified, or allegedly extinct species are rediscovered. The chupacabra, for instance, has been identified as a hairless canid hybrid, though many zoologists dismiss them as "mangy dogs" without even testing the specimens collected. Yetis have potentially been identified as a subspecies of polar bear previously believed extinct. A few species have had to be removed from the "extinct" list after living specimens were recorded. Zoologists even dispute the number of black panther sightings, claiming it's "virtually impossible" for more than one North American panther to have black fur at any given time. There's still a debate over whether paper masks offer any protection from COVID despite research showing they don't. The city of Troy was located decades ago, and people still don't fully accept it. A lot of scientists still dispute the evidence that religion came before agriculture, and played a large part in forming societies that settled in one location. Some scientists even ignore the existence of Gobleki Tepe and the surrounding structures because it invalidates their hypotheses on the earliest societies. A number of archeologists dispute that Egyptian pyramids were used as tombs - or, more accurately, grave markers - despite the evidence that at least some of the few we've uncovered _did_ house the dead. There's even an argument about how they were built. So I don't need your uninformed opinion when a GPR survey has shown structures indicating manmade buildings of at least a large town under mud flats on the southwestern coast of Spain, at a location matching the general description of three different cities. Especially when all three cities specialized in metallurgy, idolized bulls, were located on islands, and had temples dedicated to Poseidon.
@@garyballard179 It doesn't matter what "some scientist" say, the scientific method exists for a reason and it will lead to a consensus based on the evidence. But you don't really care about that, do you? Because there is a consensus on climate change. The vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists (97 percent) agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change, and that it will become even more serious unless we make big changes in how we generate energy. If you're looking for "politically motivated individuals" look at the oil industry and car manufacturer. If you care about evidence and science, read a scientific journal. But reading through the rest of the your drivel makes it pretty obvious that you don't care about science or evidence, unless you can somehow skew it to fit your preconceived world view. That's why you push so hard for pseudoscientific narratives, because then you don't have to rely on the scientific method and actual scientific work.
you forgot the hype accurate recreation of the notre dame that was later used to help with the current restoration of it after the fire. then there's the Akropolis,
AC2 was far more accurate than 'The Borgias' drama series with Jeremy Irons. It irked me that the TV series portrayed Micheletto as a shady assassin owned by Cesare. In reality, he knew Cesare since childhood and became one of his military leaders. Although he only makes a brief appearance in AC2, it's in the right capacity.
@@Vampirecronicler Well, of modern England, as William set the foundations of the modern kingdom of England by introducing French governance, law, language, etc, replacing the old Anglo-Saxon law and tradition, to the point that today English really only Germanic in its core
It would be hard to set it in the civil war, because not many notable people were killed during the war. (Other than Stonewall Jackson, who'd be a really good mission in an assassins creed game)
Almulim was inspired by Rashid adin sinan .the old man of the mountain and masyaf did and still exists . The assassins in the game was inspired by and represents the Syrian branch of the hashashin or as they call them self albatenia which ironically roughly means the implied ones or the hidden ones 😉 they were first invade by the Mongols and then came back to be dismantled and assimilated by the mamluks of Egypt
Surprised you didn't mention the statues under the villa auditore, specifically Amunet's. It says she used a snake to kill Cleopatra, and even though we believe she committed suicide using a snake, we didn't back then.
Caterina Sforza allegedly really did lift her skirt when her children were kidnapped, and yell "I have the tool to make more!" She wasn't wearing panties though
The scene with Blackbeard's decapitated head was out of scene, how do you know they were parading his head around? His last words weren't even the correct ones.
Any historical inaccuracies are explained in the first game as it's the textbooks that are wrong problem solved lol 😝 Got all sequels on PS4, would love it if the first game could be played on that too. I'd take a port/remaster, but imagine if it got remade. The gameplay didn't bother me, but I'd love me some database entries, I'm kinda disappointed Origins & Odyssey didn't have those. Some say Odyssey & Origins are prequels, but they're forgetting modern-day. Am I glad the Ezio Collection I got on PS4 fixed the muted dialogue I experienced in the 360 version of Assassin's Creed 2 Atlantis footage showing Alexios instead of Kassandra 😯
After Blackbeard falls, the game tells you to flee. I chose to remain and try to destroy all those fuckers' ships and avenge Blackbeard. I took a few down but realised quickly two of them were literally invincible. Slowly wearing my ship down, I had to leave. Absolute bullshit.
Let's get something VERY clear here: Assassin's Creed didn't get any of their historical details WRONG so much as they either embellished or changed some details for the games. The teams always have historical consultants that know exactly what they're talking about. To say they got historical details wrong implies they are making 100% historically accurate games which is not the point of any of the AC games.
