Assassin's Creed II is Good Until it Isn't 

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And the real villain of Assassin's Creed 2 was that farmer in the Bonfire of the Vanities DLC who wanted to hoard all the hay

Templars just have to put a dagger or rock in there and they'd win.

@@Kometheus AC Rogue missed a real opportunity to use "Assassin Traps". Since we play as a templar WHO KNOWS the way of the assassins, we should have been able to hide spikes in haystacks and wait for dumb assassins to impale themselves. Man, we need another game where we play as the templars and get to do such stuff.

​@@shubhroy7960 all fun and games until you forgot you put a trap there and accidentally impaled yourself

@@shubhroy7960that’s genius

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average tuesday activities in London actually

@@jungi001 lmfao

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Well, Police officer wouldn't shoot a teen because he's running with a hoody. Huh... nevermind. USA USA USA!

But it starts when he’s a new born baby in the very beginning so technically he’s right. I hated this video tho, he’s whining about the lack of antisemitism and slavery not being in Venice when that’s not really what was happening in the story. He seems to think that’s what people would want In their video games. It is not supposed to be a simulator it is a video game

@@Succubusy Agreed, highlighting sensitive subjects in a game focusing on literal magical artifacts is just irrelevant and infuriating.

@@Succubusy I’m not finished the video, but he’s not really reviewing it’s quality as a video game, and it’s game play though. He’s reviewing how accurate it is to it’s historical setting. To which the lacking of anti-semitism and racism against slavs and slavery, and general black and white washing of some historical figures would actually be points against it. Remember, he’s not IGN or meta critic, he’s a history youtuber

@@mackenziebenedict8403 yeah, but he overdoes it a bit. I mean say it once... WE GET THAT THERE IS NO RACISM. stop saying that every 30 seconds

@@shubhroy7960 he mentions it twice, both times during the section on Venice.

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Dude I aced the renaissance part of sophomore high school history class because of AC2 😂 knew all the syllabus already

A 20+ hour game is better at teaching history about Italy during the Renaissance than a single lecture having to cover a much broader subject without acces to such visualisations? Who would have thought.

It's not

@@adrianalicea6704 Yeah it really isn’t. But it’s a good basis to start off with to delve further into Italian history.

It is also missing a certain villa…..

@@mathewkirk1748 sadly yeah🙁

*Firenze

Revelations was the peak narrative wise.

AC 2 suffers from very mid writing especially with ezios character arc with it being practically non-existent and it making no sense.... ppl only say that ezio was well written because of the simple change of him being revenge driven but then turning into a wise adult which is simply not true... ezios character growth happens way too quickly and doesn't help thr fact that the game time skips constantly... so by the time ezio is in sequence 5 or 6, he's already a wise not revenge driven adult who explains how much he has grown in that speech in sequence 13 but it ultimately falls flat because ezio remained the same as he was since sequence 4 or 6.... and he explains how his ppl aka the assassin's showed him the path of vengeance isnt right even though thats not true because they always wanted him to kill templars and trained him to do so... even the girl that got betrayed just like ezio gave ezios the abilitied to aid him against templars... also ezio never makes any mistakes except for disrespecting francescos son but it was over so quickly that it didn't even matter and because ezio himself hangs francesco brutally and has the music to show that this was cruel but it is never mentioned and never has any reprocussions for that action that ezio did, ubisoft hinted at making ezio somewhat grey with that snippet of him hanging francesco and the cinematic trailer where the templar seems like somewhat of a decent person as well as the guards but ubisoft just decided to not do that and instead abandon what they had from the 1st game where everything was morally grey and you couldn't decide which sides were right... now ezio vs the borgia is basically just like tlou2 but somewhat worse and I love how everyone praised this but not TLOU2, however ubisoft did fix ezios character in brotherhood and in revelations and using his character to reflect on how he was in AC 2 where machiavelli just said that ezio was a prophet even though ezio never really was able to cope with it as well as retiring after dealing with rodrigo borgia but all that changes where his city gets attacked and is done with this shit

plus why is everyone forgetting about AC1 who arguably has the most interesting story out of any ac game..... the game is very unique in its gameplay and story as well as pointing out how everything is morally grey which AC2 fails at but still had hints of it like with Uberto even though he wasn't a templar

@@memecliparchives2254 Objectively correct sir

I'd argue AC1 is peak AC. I Just prefer ACII, Brotherhood and Unity. All by the same original Montreal division . AC1 has best story AC1 is the most immersive & AC1 is fundamentally the closest game to Patrice's original vision, coming off POP Assassins.

Yeah the actual historical information is mostly in the index entries, as well as more recent games historical tour modes. IIRC Black Flag even acknowledges that one of the famous churches you can find in Jamestown wasn't even built during the game's time period, and it's explained in-universe as Abstergo Entertainment embellishing a famous landmark for marketing purposes.

@@JaykPuten or costumes.

@@haseebsheikh7189 Really can't agree more. The Ambient soundtrack makes the game.

and for the claim of anti semitism: there's not a single place and time in history where the jews weren't hated/discriminated against except the modern (post ww2) western civilization

​​@@shrimpfry880 it's about time we stop pretending that Jews were always hated for no reason after being expelled from over a 100 kingdoms.

Revelations disagrees

@@antonioskoda9516 you're right Revelation did have a few good songs but still fell short of assassin Creed 2 songs.

@@rdf4315 the good ones I can specifically name from AC2 are Ezio's Family, Venice Rooftops, Sanctuary and Home in Florence. Revelations has many better ones IMO. I respect your opinion cause AC2 has a near perfect soundtrack.

@@antonioskoda9516 you missed Earth from AC2

@@danieltraistaru8981 it's as overrated as Ezio's Family, while being basically the same song.

The writer just an SJW who wants to flex about how virtuous he is, I’d let it slide

For real. I hope with mirage Ubisoft goes back to AC's roots like they said they will.

Stiff? Wut? How? I played it and found it absolutely refreshing, and every bit as good as it was the first time I played it. It had a solid vision, unlike these modern AC games where the vision of what they are meant to be is so very fragmented.

@@ivansalamon7028 You do know AC 2 and especially brotherhood are the games that introduced the "checklist" style of open world design right?

@@hawken796 That's the thing. They introduced a lot of things that were later bastardized and bloated. Whatever checklist gaming was in AC 2 was fine. Its not necessarily a bad thing, within reason. Its nice to have collectibles and things to strive for alongside your main content, but I do see why you think its a problem. AC2 also inadvertently introduced a slightly stylized art direction of things such as, primarily armors, and some enemies, that while I think worked great for the renaissance period they were portraying, set the foundations for much greater departures from historical accuracy down the line. I don't think their vision was bad in any sense. It worked amazingly for the Ezio trilogy. Its just the fact originality was lost over the years and shareholders had to get their share, and gamers got tired of the same old thing... Look at AC Valhalla, for example. Its not a bad game by any means. It has some amazing things about it, and is quite rich in good stories told, locations, immersion etc... but just as full of bloat, and never have I ever seen a game of such disjointed gameplay mechanics, reflected even in the artstyle of the game.

@@ivansalamon7028 Youre only saying its fine because of nostalgia, fact.

@@SharkSprayYTP No. Not at all. I replayed it recently. It was EVERY bit as good as I remembered. Gave me the same butterflies, so to speak. Nostalgia is a myth. The game is simply that good.

Don’t understand the hype. The gameplay is stiff and janky and the combat is extremely awkward and frustrating. Plus movement is painfully slow

​@@youtubeman2001yes, but the setting and accuracy are S tier.

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes as a speaker of Ligurian and French, i can say that they are very similar to the point of mutual intelligibility. Modern Spanish and Italian are also mutually intelligible today, as are most Italian dialects

I feel like the same could be said about dutch and german or german & other stuff, but some of the people writing this in the comments would maybe lose their shit if it was pointed out

Yeah I was about to say, AC2 takes place well after The Divine Comedy, whose Tuscan dialect gets credited as the origin point of modern Italian. Any educated Italian of the Renaissance was very familiar with Dante's tongue.

Yeah I did wince a little remembering I said that in this video. Is not true.

I thought the idea was that the rest of Europe butchered the Slavs' name for themselves into "slave", not that the Slavs' name derived from being slaves.

for what it's worth: there is a video like this on youtube talking about Rome 1 Total War, but i forgot the name of the video

Also Rogue because if you liked AC 4 then Rogue is basically just more AC 4

If you will recommend Brotherhood and Black Flag for the gameplay and Rogue for the story, then you're not really doing justice to the rest of the games that also excelled in at least one of the two, particularly Revelations.

I think AC3 is good for that last point too. You get to see their point of view through Haytham

@@uglovasgaming true, but how they handled connors responses kinda messes with me a bit, like I understand he’s ignorant of the whole situation but his acting and story was just a little harder to believe than Shays, who albeit the entire game is about him, you can follow and completely understand why he does what he does, Connor kinda is just like ‘where my da, me mum dead’

@@cba2make1up that’s not to say other AC’s aren’t great, Revelations, Syndicate, etc

imagine not liking odyssey when its the only actual good game out of the RPGs

plus skipping the grind isn't an requirement if you actually play the game.... the main story is paced well until the end things are noticeably off but beginning to middle narratively transitions smoothly into gameplay as you progress through side quests that are well thought out and tie in the main story.... thats just many things but yes grinding isn't an issue.... the issue is the difficulty scaling with enemies and how much damage you'll give which is way harder to maintain a proper build throughout the end portion of the game... origins did this much better with difficulty and character progression