@@MrGMoney1944 No Controversy there. I replayed Unity recently and while it had bugs and the usual pointless collectibles, the city looks spectacular and the game world feels really nice. Sandbox nature of the missions are great too. Unity refined could have been amazing, and now we're stuck with Odyssey.
Still one of my favorite AC games. The co-op was clunky but really fun. The story was hackey but of the hackey AC stories and tropes I think this one does it best.
I've got a suggestion for an AC game: World War One. You're a Serbian rebel (and member of the assassins) who was tricked by Templars into killing Franz Ferdinand, and so has been forced by your order to atone for your mistake. You alternate your time between sandboxing in various international cities around Europe, and fighting in the trenches, where your goal is to sneak behind enemy lines and personally introduce them to the painful end of a trench spike. In the final twist, the young German soldier who you spare from such a fate is actually Adolf Hitler, who is driven to revenge against the assassins, kick-starting World War Two. Sorry, I've had that idea rattling around my brains since I finished AC2. I just had to get it out there.
Normally I would say that an assassination attempt on Hitler in the WW1 trenches would be Jumping The Shark, but this series jumped the shark back in AC2 when the game ends with you fist-fighting the Pope and meeting aliens.
I'd say Assasin's Creed Rogue made the graph go up slightly, but Unity made the graph go into freefall. Then again, we won't know for sure about Rogue unless Yahtzee reviews/plays it. Edit: Apparently I spelled "Rogue" wrong.....
The assassins creed series: Assassins creed 1: garbo assassins creed 2: Ha le lu ya hallelula Assassins creed bh: (My personal favorite) ha le lu ya halelleula assassins creed revelations: meh, atleast we can tie up the lose ends Assassins creed 3: *yawn* Just tell me when its over assassins creed 4: rrr me maties! Assassins creed rogue: Never played this one, so i cant tell u Assassins creed unity: more garbo!
Me six minutes ago: "Now, which Zero Punctuation episode was the one in which he made his PC cry and had to commit the worst PC gamer sin and buy the PS4 version? It was obviously one that was famous for being buggy on release." I got it first guess.
not being able to use the hidden blade is a huge deal breaker for me, like seriously, who the fuck at ubisoft thought it would be a good idea to limit the abilities of their most iconic weapons from one of their most popular franchises... the controls on pc are also seriously inconsistent, if you wanna do a leap of faith the game tells you to press w, shift, and e to jump into the hay, which works, but so does w and space, which means at one point i was chasing down a guy in the game and while i was free running mr. master assassin randomly decided to jump into the damn hay...
ugh, I hate not being able to have full control of my weapons. I gold medal'd all combat challenges including the hidden blade, I want cool finishers, I don't care about stats that's why I loved the pistol swords.
+NovaStone Why? Because they don't give a shit. They'll do whatever the fuck they want to there game and you'll just Buy it anyways. Like, haven't you realized that Game devs care for nothing but their profits. Because there a company and Companies exist to make money. and to hell with everything else. they couldn't give two shits about what you (the customer/s) think. they know people will buy their games regardless.
I think as Assassin's Creed game in which *you* choose which targets to kill, and those choices lead to you being affiliated with the assassins, the templars, or you're just a rogue assassin with your own agenda, would be a much welcomed addition to this seeming never-ending series of games.
here's an idea,different assassin clans like the main order splits into smaller groups fighting among themselves you can chose which one to join or support do special missions take out important clan leaders get into gang wars that sort of thing just needs the right time period
Oh hell yeah, I'd love to have my own character make moral decisions that affect the outcome of history! (and it's just an animus simulation so, like the AC:III DLC it could all just be a "what if?" scenario) and having your character choose their own targets and allegiance's, which could affect what weapons and mission tactics you use and also what historical figures you ally with, could add a lot of replayability.
I love how the game "holds you upside down and shakes coins out of your pockets". and the game takes place in the french revolution when that did happen.
this is ironic. a game about being a revolution overthrowing rich shitbags who milk people out of their money is milking the gamers out of their money....viva la resistance!
I think you hit the nail on the head with "This is all fairly solid stuff, but solid stuff on a wonky table will nonetheless collapse". If they had given it a few more months to fix the bugs and improve the combat and free running, rather than simply trying to get in for Christmas, then I think 80% of people's problem with the game would vanish. It's got a decent story, it's going back to making the assassinations more creative and letting you do them how you want to, and the co-op is at least an interesting feature. The only major gripes left would be the endless content you have to buy even after you have the game, but that's nothing new with Ubisoft.
I was expecting Yathzee to say: ACU has takes a bit from the other games: You're an Ezio looking for revenge like in II You're in a revolution like in III You probably once banged a templar like in I (despite shown in II) The girl you like has red hair like in IV You get a shitty ending like in almost all of them.
Stop buying their games people. Want them to stop being shit? Make them earn your money, don't just pre-order everything that has an assassins hood on the cover.
I recently finished a playthrough of AC1, and I noticed something about this series in general. I've NEVER played a series that progressively become disinterested with its own mythology and become spunkgargleweewee. Remember that the first game had an Adam and Eve payoff?? What, you DON'T?!? That's because these game have gone from somewhat interesting stories to an excuse to stab shit in random timelines.
@@TheStormbringer8751 i am playing unity right now six years later again and this game makes me angry at myself yo like origins and odyssey as they are not half as legit ac game as this one
It deeply saddens me that Ubisoft has such a great property that has immense potential and they're wasting it by pumping Ass Creed every year milking it dry until only the rich fuckers get to buy all of them and they don't give a shit if they wasted their money on it, cause they just have more to waste.
Asides from the fact that zero punctuation makes my heart giggle with glee, he always says all the things that are actually wrong with the game that almost every other review fails to mention like ign or whatever.
They're running out of series NOT to boycott. Rahman for the bullshit with Legends' delay. Beyond GE because they screwed over that series. Any sports games because they've all been screwed by Kinect.
TailsTheFox31 and for me it's Splinter Cell, after Chaos Theory, old NSA spy went from slowly creeping around the place to jumping up walls like a chipmunk and it no longer requires slow methodical movements.
Yeah, whatever. The only successful boycott/protest was the Take Back Mass Effect one and that was ridiculed by everyone in "the industry". So even if you did get around to boycotting them and it became successful they'd just sick their media lap dogs on you and undermine your whole argument *Cough* GamerGate *Cough*.
The logic is is simple, if a BIG CORPORATION releases a game, pirate it, play it and if you like it, buy it, if you dont, fuck them. if they cant be bothered, than why should you?
My main problem is, well, the main gameplay stuff is getting dry. Proper character action games like Bayonetta offer FAAAR better combat. MGS or, hell, even Far Cry do stealth better. The free running is ok, but after so many years, it's getting old, and frankly, some games are starting to do it better. The pirate ships added some new life, but such things are gone from this entry. It's mostly that I picked up Far Cry 4, Dragon Age. Inqusition, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Smash Bros 4 the same week as this game. And I'd much rather play all of those. Even an annualized series like COD has that twitch gaming community that draws people in. Assassin's Creed really doesn't have that many compelling gameplay hooks. At the very least there needs to be a major combat overhaul. It's waaaay too easy, and has been since the first one.
The controls and mechanics are still absolutely nowhere near where they need to be for a third-person stealth/action game. There are finally designated cover and sneak buttons (GREAT!), but they're both incredibly finicky and don't work like you'd expect them to (I /really/ can't turn corners in cover?). Recent additions have improved both stealth and combat, two major ones being whistling, to attract guards, and human shield, to deal with gun-toting enemies. And now they go and bloody remove them?! The cherry bombs do fuck-all to attract guards, and what do you expect me to do, Matrix-dodge the bullets? The combat is okay, aside from the fact that you lose way too much health way too fast in comparison to previous titles. I like that the medicine mechanic is back, as opposed to regenerating health, but two hits removing all of my health is a bit much, don't you think? Especially from enemies the same level as me? It begins to feel like a ploy to get you to partake in all of the microtransactions to get better gear. There are a significant amount of good things about the game, but the basic mechanics of the series need a serious reworking.
I want everyone to just pretend that saying or typing the words "character," "action," and "game" in sequence will cause their heart to rupture. It's a word as stupid and inappropriate as "roguelike."
BoySamusMetroid 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Why is it that they always seem to remove gameplay mechanics that made the previous games good? Not just AC, but videos games in general. Like how DA:I has no more mage healers (in combat). I think FC4 did it right though. Keep the mechanics of the previous game and EXPAND upon it.
TheAtomicGoliath "character action game" is a word used by stupid people to describe "action" games. "Roguelike" is a word used by contrarian hipsters to describe a game with permadeath.
I'm so glad that Yahtzee is still here. I don't know what happened, since Jim is apparently going solo now. Zero Punctuation is my fav show here anyways.
The main problem i had with unity was the bugs and the false advertising. Join the revolution they said. You're fighting for France they said. When in actual fact your character tries his hardest to stop the revolution while the templars try to start it, giving me the weird feeling that now im the bad guy.
The revolutionaries murdered tens of thousands of people. They didn't call it the terror for nothing. The French Revolution was really awkward and not all that nice, and was full of extremist fanaticism because it was run by people like Danton and Robespierre instead of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. I mean, they said they were for the rights of man, but I'm not sure that chopping people's heads off in kangaroo courts over political differences is really a good example of such. It took the French a few tries before they actually figured shit out.
+Andreas Otto Hansen Ironic isn't it? More interesting characters, and I actually felt bad about killing some of your former friends. Can't say I felt much in Unity, even when the actual good characters died, they were handled poorly. Hell looking back, why wasn't Shay the main bad guy? I mean he did MURDER YOUR DAD! Instead you care more about your step dad then real dad. That was a waste of potential, because the main villain isn't really all that memorable.
thomas brady I knows its infuriating, there were characters I actually liked, but they either dropped off at a point, or they got rid of them in really lame ways. And yet that game had some of the most impressive architecture of the series, and on the other hand they took away key features like whistling and dodging. Dodging bullets basically broke down to running in a circle hoping you don't get caught on terrain. The game isn't terrible, but they fumbled the ball hard.
The Sewer Willy Wonka level was ridiculous, that's when I learned about the hidden blade assassination thing. I could have shot him right there at that small cutscene where Arno spoke QUITE LOUDLY near a bar fence, in perfect view and pistol-aiming distance of the assassination target.
Ubisoft is a joke. I've long since boycotted all their games. It blows my mind people still shell out money to buy their crap, after all Ubisoft's bullshit.
115_zombie_slayer and Ubisoft is a joke. I've long since boycotted all their games. It blows my mind people still shell out money to buy their crap, after all Ubisoft's bullshit.
Sky Rising I don't really care about the practices of Ubisoft. I buy their games because I enjoy playing them. If they stop making them, fine, but until that time comes I'll continue to play them. There are far, far more important things then gaming companies pulling tricks.
14Schofield Don't say that or someone will call you an idiot or say you're not a true Gamer or some crap like that. I don't see how enjoying games is something negative but that's how Modern Gamers are nowadays
You forgot the character designs. You got Super Mecha Xphlartshith, the Under-The-Green-Hood Animatronic Chaser, Jsplony The Black Stop-Motionist, and let's not forget Slephton the Walrus Keeper. Such wonderful faces.
This is the second time I've heard someone say "I played it on the PC version but it was so unreliable that I got the Playstation version." It's almost like Ubisoft did that on purpose...
wafflecopter11 I am just annoyed because I know FF13 is terrible, but the game was still "functional". I just want a big triple-A title such as AssCreed Unity to get a worst game award. Yahtzee gave Other M second worst game of 2010, he has never given a Nintendo game a best game award which is kind of depressing to me.
I have had a dislike towards AssCreed mostly because I get SO FREAKIN' BORED....I get it that there is a lot of real life history and conspiracies going on. But why does this series get a pass when Nintendo keeps getting shot down by everyone but their fans and IGN? I just want to see AssCreed get some crap thrown back at them for their problems. This AssCreed should have gotten worse than FF13, at least Lightning didn't get stuck on random doors and NPCs for all eternity until the player resets the console.
I never understood the hate for the "modern day" portions of the game. They're usually not very long. And it's a nice break from the same old scenery and time-period stuff. I actually enjoy it in most of the AC games. Though I liked it a bit more in AC4 than others. It was a nice break from the normal running around stabbing things. I could relax for a few minutes and look around for easter eggs and collectible things. Then, when I was done, go straight back into the main game. I mean, sure. I don't play AC for the modern day stuff. Most people don't. But it's not gonna kill you to play a 5 minute section of the game.
I kinda wish they stuck with the abstergo employee that became a templar in Assassin's Creed rogue because he was also an undercover informant for the assassins and that would have been a cool story
Ok, I love assassins creed, all of them, every single one, but I'm no fanboy, ubisoft is ruining one of my favorite game franchises, I didn't even get hyped for ac unity, I intentionally avoided all trailers for it, but to no avail, it still sucked. so I have here a list of ideas to make assassins creed great again. 1: no more yearly releases, instead try to space them out between 2-5 years, for maximum development time. 2: longer story, the story in ac unity was so short and un-memorable, i literally forgot everything the next day, so try and make memorable missions. And try to achieve 13-20 sequences. 3: unique characters: ever since ezio, they have been using him as a template for characters ever since, well, ever since Connor kenway was a bore. 4: actual q and a testing: make sure you games run great, optimize them, don't worry if you don't have max graphics, just keep the frame rate smooth. 5: non predictable story/ unrevealing trailers: the story to ac unity was so predictable that it was funny, not took me by surprise, no death made me feel anything. This also happened with watch dogs too, in one of their trailers, aiden was talking about Clara and how he can't trust her, that right there told me, Clara did something major to widen that hurt him, so it took me by no surprise that she helped kill aides niece. So try and keep the story out of the trailers. These should put ubisoft on the right track. Unfortunately, they will never see this, or put in consideration because I'm a nobody.
The next one has been leaked it's set in Victorian London and is called Assassin's Creed: Victory (I really hope that's not the final title because it's shit). It's not feudal Japan but to me it still sounds like a pretty cool setting unless they get all the voice actors to try and sound like characters from Oliver Twist.
Jacob Newby Totally agree on that accent thing... When I bought Unity, I didn't do it to hear a bunch of Englishmen talk! Seriously, where are the French accents!?
Oh I wasn't talking about Unity I haven't actually played it yet. I'm worried they'll do it in Victory because that's the stereotypical accent of that era.
Yahtzee, you should try AC Rogue, I quite enjoyed the gameplay (similar to Black Flag but slightly improved) and what I really enjoyed was the story. How they portrayed the Templars and their cause and how the Assasins have their issues is a fresh look at the lore of the franchise, a more realistic view rather than the Assassin good Templar bad that was the norm
Am I the only one that never had any major bug issues on the base version of unity (when I played it I didn't have internet so I couldn't download patches) The only bug I experienced was when I entered a closed window of a solid building so I was essentially stuck in a big box
+SamuraiMarmoset I enjoyed both a lot, to be honest, but Rogue is indeed one of the most underappreciated games of the series. It's not without flaws, but it combines the best aspects of AC3 and AC4 into a game better than either of said predecessors.
Assassin's Creed Unity was the last straw for me. I bought it on PC, realised it's unplayable at ANY graphics setting, tried to fix it for 4 hours, realised they fucked up so bad there is no fix for the issue I had, and tried to return the game but couldn't. I was so upset I've never bought an Assassin's Creed game since. I recently went back to Unity on PC and IT'S STILL BROKE AS FUCK! They didn't even bother fixing their broken game! Now whenever I feel like playing an Assassin's Creed game, I just go back and play Black Flag. Ubisoft can't have anymore of my money, they don't deserve it.
But the story though. The story is interesting. The characters are likable. I feel engaged the whole way through the movie. Yes I know, I watch youtube movies of games cause I'm too busy to actually play through the things. But as a movie it was good.
This review is accurate-ish, he didn't cover some of the great stuff about the game but he also didn't cover the lack of checkpoints and how if you die you have to go back to the start of the mission after a two hour period of mission. Nice work escapist
yeah yahtzee pretty much nailed it, the climbing in particular is ESPECIALLY wonky, as he pointed out it somehow seems worse in unity than in any other game. one thing he didn't mention is how limited your options are in this game as they have stripped out a ton of your arsenal. I can see why some might find revelations to have been a bit absurd with all the tools at your disposal but black flag managed stripped it down a bit and still did great, in this game you feel comparatively unequipped after 5 games of getting enough tools to make inspector gadget drool in envy.
A while ago (I think it was in the Lichdom: Battle Mage video), he said he hated colons in titles and said from now on whenever he saw a colon he'd pronounce it with a dry hurl.
***** Yes, so where was it in this video? There was no dry hurl, even though the title of the video shows a colon. Jamie Beesley Although the video has a colon, the actual box art doesn't have a colon, even though a colon is clearly meant to be there.
game was really dull. we need something radically different, something like an assassin's creed with all animals. the protagonist is a cat. i'd love to play that
Scott Price yeah, until recently I bought used games at a local pawnshop (the non stolen stuff kind of place) for $10-$25 apiece, plus bundle discounts and my own haggling. I once got a year old, great game still in the package for $15.
Oatmeal yeah, but now there $70 regardless of quality whereas you used to be able to get lower quality games for $40 instead of the usual $60. It's also alot harder to get used games now since "backwards compatibility" is a dirty word now. I'm mainly talking about full console games, computer games are, as always, our salvation.
This game is so frustratingly broken. Poor frame rates, repeat character models, pop in characters, idiotic ai, shitty combat and free running system that never does what you want it to do... Used to be a fan of the series, but I doubt I'll get another assassin's creed after playing this one. Fuck you Ubisoft!
LOLed at the imps getting fought on, even in clusters. And I LOLed at the time an imp gets decapitated by a guillotine and its blood sprays on Yahtzee! XD
So I'm looking to get into the Ass Creed series. I'm already enjoying 2 after having skipped 1, and I have no interest in multiplayer so I'll probably skip Brotherhood. So which over Ass Creed games are actually any good and worth playing?
1 2 and brotherhood. 'No interest in multiplayer' then don't play it.. The story in that is better than the rest of the AC games, despite what people say black flag is also pretty bad so be wary of that. If you like 2 you'll like ACB
Black flag is the best, also brotherhood is pretty awesome. Forget about revelations. The first one is good but if you went for ac 2 first you'll get bored. I'd say give AC3 cause I really enjoyed it but a bunch of haters would jump on me. Unity is utter shite, stay away from it.
***** Enjoying AC3? that's uncommon LOL way to many bad quests. like oh ride a horse to a circle then press and tell them to attack then go to the other circle then the third one then back. Or Paul Revere (go left Connor) dude quest marker says right (left Connor left) why do i need you again? ah cause of history? LEFT!!!... He is the AC version of Navi "hey listen" but she was way more helpful. running on rooftops is punished way too harshly it became annoying so i found myself running and horse riding more than anything, Well is not like parkour is a big selling point for AC right? right?. I'm a big AC fan so for me they are like pizza even the bad ones i can find some sort of joy in them but AC3 was bad! in comparison to AC2 and Brotherhood and i didn't even speak things about Desmond. Black Flag is Good but it feels like the odd game in AC series like Black Flag is the best Pirates of the Caribbean game we never got.
You know what would be an interesting idea for a future AC game's historical plot? A game where the historical setting is the American Civil War where, like America, the Assassins are split in two and are fighting each other (no Templars involved, or at least not to any noteworthy degree).
Just finished Unity and it is garbage. Worse than Rogue, worse than 3, do not play this game, especially if you're an AC fan. It'll make you rage at how idiotic their design choices were. The combat is the worst that AC has ever seen it (Yes, worse than 1), they fucked up the free running by trying to compromise between Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed 4's free running games, the stealth is awful and guards seem to be infinitely more perceptive than they've ever been. Oh, and it's full of shitty RPG elements so right out of the gate even the wimpiest guards can 3-shot you. You need to buy new weapons and armor all the time or else you're completely and utterly fucked. Even so, combat isn't easy because the camera is lodged up your ass for the duration of it and it barely gives you a prompt when an enemy off-screen (Read: All of the enemies) wind up for an attack. The combats themselves feel like a grind because your tools have been hilariously limited. You can no longer use your hidden blade in combat or your bare hands (So no disarming enemies and killing them with their own weapon). You can use a rifle, but if you do, you don't get a pistol and your rifle is also your melee weapon. Otherwise you can have a melee weapon and a pistol, you have the Phantom Blade (Basically just the Blow Gun/Air Rifle from 4/Rogue) and some useless bomb weapons. And I swear to god that every fucking assassin ability is an unlock that you need to spend synchronization points on. Double Assassination? Gotta unlock it. Oh, Double Air Assassination is ANOTHER unlock (And you need to be past Chapter 5 for either of them). USING A RANGED WEAPON WITHOUT BUYING THE ABILITY? Are you mad? Sorry, can't blend into crowds without buying that ability. THE ABILITY TO TUCK AND ROLL AFTER JUMPING FROM HIGH UP IS A FUCKING UNLOCK. You can certainly stab a downed enemy in combat, but it won't be an execution until you buy another ability (This one doesn't unlock until chapter 10. And it's expensive)! This game is a fucking mess. It was still fairly buggy, and I'm playing it more than a year after it was released! The game just feels so bad and clunky that I find it hard to believe that anyone actually tested this. So many of the missions are poorly designed and frustrating, and in general the game is just a pain in the ass. Hey, remember in AC1 when enemies would eventually get suspicious just by you being nearby? Yeah, well that's back. Certain groups of enemies will start harassing you if you do high profile actions in their sight (you know, like RUNNING). Stick around for too long and they'll attack for basically no reason. Even just getting too close to them can piss them off. What's worse is that they can completely fuck you on missions because they'll come after you even if you're not in a restricted area. It makes the game feel so much more restricted and annoying. Anything good? Well, Paris looks as good as you'd imagine it to be, I generally like Arno (Yahtzee's right that he's basically just Ezio 2.0, but that's not really a bad thing) and I think his romance with Elise is believable; they have some serious chemistry, and both of them can be really funny. And the assassination missions where you just have a big sandbox and get to approach the target how you like? That's a really good idea and lends itself to be played through multiple times... if I could stomach the rest of the game more than once. This game was actually fucking painful to play through. I haven't been that angry playing a game in a very, very long time. Don't play Unity. Even if you're an AC fan, it's just not worth it. Hell, I got this game for $10 and I'm regretting it. It really is that bad.
Joe A. Verage Back to its roots? I played Assassin's Creed 1 and I loved it. This is not Assassin's Creed roots, this is EA seeing how many RPG elements they can crowbar into Assassin's Creed and then how much they can get away with charging players for. You claim that this isn't an action game despite the gigantic arsenal of unlockable weapons they stick in front of you and the missions where you have no choice but to fight. I didn't have much problem with the actual stealth. Methinks someone is projecting a little bit. Running up and slaughtering a dozen guards isn't the problem, it's usually just killing a few. Starting an open fight with two or three guards should not be this much of a hassle. The higher level enemies have a retarded amount of health. How is that the roots of Assassin's Creed? I recall earlier Assassin's Creed games where stabbing someone with a sword would make them dead. That's not even counting that the camera is fighting you the whole time and never pulls out enough to show you when you should be countering. And once again, why is the game holding key abilities locked in its fun chest until I get most of the way through the game or grind through missions? God forbid I can use a feature that has been in the games since Assassin's Creed 2. If you think that Ubisoft can do no wrong, you're deluding yourself and blind to criticism. This game was pretty universally panned. I don't care if you like playing it, more power to you, but don't shoot down my opinions just because they don't align with your perfect views of Ubisoft and EA.
Joe A. Verage Yes I suppose it would help if I stopped sacking at games. Here I am being told to assassinate people when all I can do is put them in bags. What's wrong with me? Here's the jist: The game isn't hard, but it's constantly making things harder than they have to be. Not intentional raising of the difficulty, but poor design that makes the game difficult. See: my complains about how shitty the camera is. Of course I understood when you're supposed to hit counter, but that didn't help when the game's camera was hanging around way too close during combat, making it impossible to see an attack until it was too late. None of the other AC games had this problem; they helpfully pulled the camera away during combat so you could see everything. I really have no idea what you're on about that I have yet to point out any of Unity's problems. Go read my initial post without all of that fanboy-rage clouding your vision and you'll see that I pointed out plenty of problems with the game. I imagine you wouldn't be so mad at me if I hadn't pointed out any of the game's problems so either you're lying or you're trying to use your rage to change the fabric of reality. I'm not going to bother continuing with this conversation. It's clear that you're tuning out everything I say so that you can stand up on your soapbox and continue to defend your precious game. It actually doesn't matter what I say; I bet I could start agreeing with you and you'd still manage to find some issue with how I'm agreeing with you. So take this as a victory if you want, I've ceased to care.
Personally I like the looks of Unity. The looks. The gameplay looks stale at best. Sure, what all the other Creeds have done were summarized in either counter killing or spamming, but it was fun nonetheless. in Unity, it tried to be more elegant. It nearly got there, too. But it's still boring watching anyone fight. Even more so doing the fight itself. So in the end I believe ubisoft should take more time with the next Creed. Because it's clear they're not going to stop. But it's also clear they're pulling a DICE and trying to get something cool out really quick.
If you're interested in the swordfighting, the gameplay actually feels fairly different. It's not, but the minor changes have made it much more difficult (and, by extension, much more fun and rewarding to do). Regarding stealth, it's gotten worse.
Your right about the stealth. However it's clear you have a more lenient view on the swordplay. Personally I just dont like it. However I do like how they sectioned off Paris to more powerful enemies. That, at least for me, made some of the fights more enjoyable. Maybe I just need to give it another go.
I think TB described it best. It looks great in screenshots and paused, and it does certain technical advancements we don't see very often. But in motion, the clipping, people spawning out of the ground, floating in mid-air, and the atrocious framerate on ALL systems make it look horrible.
its a disgrace the AAA industry treats its most loyal customers ai the people spending 60 bucks on the game with horrible buggy releases. then here come i spending 12 bucks on the game and have a great experience since everything is fixed a few years down the line
That's what I always like to do! Part of the reason I bought assassin's Creed origins there was a sale of the Gold edition like a year after it came out for $20 or something like that I had a fair amount of fun with it
I have more than 50 hours in Unity, Yes, it's buggy. Yes it drops frames sometimes Yes you rarely, but still do, fall through the world and die. But the story is good the assassin is likeable the assassin order doesn't matter (like always) Co-op is awesome (when it works) And yes, you aren't on the high seas of the Caribbean anymore, it's back to land based stuff in Paris- and Paris only, but there is nothing wrong with a game going back to its roots
New-Generation games are always on a smaller scale and have tech issues, though. It takes a few years before the developers are comfortable with the hardware and have had time to build bigger more complex games for it. Maybe Unity has enough problems to warrant criticism or even to be nigh unplayable (I don't have it, so I don't know), but I am tired of the early adopters complaining about being early adopters. Guess what, guys: the first year or two a console comes out, the previous one is still going to have more games and generally better games. Launch titles are rarely anything more than bloated tech demos. Accept it.
The story is ehh a more interesting story (which I'm sure is DLC) would be Arno with napoleon after the revolution because in unity the revolution never really affects the story like it should have yes there is a few times you use it to your advantage but it's not the center point like it should be. It's more like it's just going on while your investigating the death of your father in law. Then add on all of the other problems with the game and that's where I begin to fall off the series
dorsk188 I agree I don't have a next gen console but Im still having fun with my ps3 only problem is there are barely anyone on them anymore to do multiplayer or co-op which some people carn't even get the achievements/trophies any more to fully complete the game
im just thinking though ubisoft is the creators of splinter cell which had co-op in it why didn't they think of it sooner for the earlier assassin's creed games!!!!!!!!!
I think Unity is on par with 2 and Brotherhood. The combat is better, the story is good, you never really leave the assassin to do some boring ass abstergo subplot thing, the graphics are pretty nice for the series. I mean think about it. All new EVERYTHING and you people say its shit. You hate games for repetition, but hate them when they change. Sure it was buggy, but not only was it on a NEW CONSOLE and a NEW ENGINE; but they fixed it quickly and then gave us DLC or a FREE FULL GAME.
I hate Unity because they the story, the characters, and everything has nothing to do with the French Revolution. If the game were set in Chicago, what would change, apart from the names of the characters?
RemnantTheCheese As a guy with a history degree, with a focus on the french revolution, I kind of have to disagree here. Their treatment of marquis de sade, citizen mirabeau and robespierre were quite an interesting take on the historical record, and not without merit. Napoleon was a bit out of place (although his personality, I felt, was spot on), and there is just enough historical interaction to sate my interest, while not getting ridiculous, like AC3 did.
I've just started playing Unity for the first time with all its patches and updates and fixes and I must say...at least NOW it is pretty great, I recommend people play it. It is pretty fun now that the breaks have been fixed, the map is small but STUFFED with so much detail and personality that I hardly noticed and the combat feels heavy and satisfying and for once...difficult! If you come up against more than 3 guys at a time you will probably die, which I LIKE, I always hated how the "assassins" in Assassins Creed games eventually became super humans who could single handedly kill a legion of fully armored guards with a six inch blade strapped to their wrist, complete nonsense. Also I find the missions themselves are fun and varied, the murder mysteries are some of the best missions in ANY AC game to date, and the actual assassination missions FINALLY go back to their roots and FEEL like assassinations. Its annoying that you can't kill main targets with anything but the hidden blade but honestly I kind of like that you can't use it in open combat at all. I like realism in my games, and it is realistic that NOBODY would be able to kill multiple people in open combat with such an ineffective, small, short range weapon that is literally stuck to their arm...they kept it real..its a stealth weapon used to slit throats and that is it, which I ended up liking. however, I didn't like that they completely took out daggers as a possible weapon class or that there isn't competitive multiplayer like in previous games, i LOVE assassins creed multiplayer. If you havent played this play it now, its been fixed and is to a point where I at least put it above assassins creed 3 and 4 and maybe revelations.
I agree. While I felt that the story and characters were forgettable, the combat is the best in any of the series so far. A pretty serviceable entry. Now that it's been patched up.
Well, it's your opinion, both fans and critics responded positively to IV and Rogue is getting pretty good responses but AC:U is the worst in the series so far from what I've seen.
Initially, the Animus(tm) framing device made sense. It added depth to the story with a big ol' slow burn conspiracy theory sub-plot that raised the stakes by giving the whole game some relevance to the modern world and had the manners to wrap itself up in a convenient trilogy (more or less). Now, that framing device is thoroughly spent, but it still hangs around like John Cleese's dead pet Albatross and I can't really figure out why. It's like someone at Ubisoft who is paid a lot more money than me is worried that we'll be bored of the history in his historical fiction or that we'll be unable to distinguish between fiction and reality if we don't have an occasional reminder, and might try diving off the nearest skyscraper into a nearby bail of hay. There's no longer a promise of 2012 apocalyptic climax, no longer a threat of imminent death from a vengeful Sun, just a flow-shattering "hey, Templars and Assassins here, still doing our thing, catch you later, ciao" done in a series of ham-handed sequences of Ubisoft reminding me it can turn this game of alternate history ninja into an office-temp job simulator whenever it bloody feels like unless I pay them back that loan.
despite all the negativity surrounding the game I think this is easily the series best since they ran Ezio into the ground. I can't really understand the complaint of world size shrinking as this is a vastly different game than Black Flag. Sure Black Flag had a larger world, but it was 80% Water and 20% small towns with the largest being about the size of one town from Altiar's adventures. Now I wouldn't say Black Flag was a bad game, but it certainly was a rather weak Assassin's Creed game. Unity is a good Assassin's Creed game. I also personally have been waiting for full interiors since AC3 so I'm pretty biased here. As for Arno being Ezio 2.0 I can't argue there, he is, but I would say that he's a more interesting character. He doesn't join the brotherhood because he believes in the cause, he merely does it because they can help him find the man he is looking for. Sure it's in his blood to be one, but his dick was also clearly in a Templar so it's more about two star-crossed lovers doing whatever it takes and working with whoever they have to to get back at a man who has caused them grief. As for all the sign up here shit it's pretty annoying and doesn't always work, but most of it can easily be overlooked. I really loved this game and despite all of it's bugs I think it's one of the years best right alongside Shadows of Mordor and Watch_Dogs.
