The Downfall Of Assassin's Creed 

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The hidden one has great foresight

more downfalling coming soon

It was funny in retrospect when you quoted the AC3 creative director saying the worst AC settings would be “Ancient Egypt, Japan, and WW2”. That’s 2 out of 3 down (Japan I assume being the “break glass in case of falling revenue” setting due to the demand), and I guarantee you they’ll do WW2 eventually if there’s even a single cent left to be squeezed from this franchise.

Japan is a setting people have been demanding since the ezio trilogy ended. It’s a slam dunk.

Defenders are coping consumers.

like obviously i can’t scale one of the tallest buildings in the world in 20 seconds not realistic in the slightest but it’s something that’s fun while not being outerworldy, the game is about the war between the assassins and templars over all of time and they somehow switch it to a character like Layla fighting gods and 50 foot tall monsters as a viking??? like talk about dropping the bag

Yeah that's true, but honestly I like the way it turned, but also, I can understand why some people don't like that

Same here 😊​@@emak2999

@@emak2999 Honestly I just find the series to be very silly now. I mean in Valhalla you have a rap battle against Thor.

I agree. Still remember the massive disappointment I got from playing AC4 and nothing about Desmond or present day timeline was mentioned. Absolute shit AC game. Fun pirate game tho

@@ldope3904 Agreed.

​@@ldope3904It did. You would have to play hack computer mini-game to see the Templar claim Desmond body. But I do get your point, it would be better if we find out from the main story.

Forcing me to kill Lucy killed my interest in the modern day story.

@@dahelmang Same

Fantasy stuff? So there was never a magical unicorn in assassin creed 2? A magical apple able to create things out of thin air. I guess that isn’t fantasy then.

@@X_xWolfx_X the unicorn in ac 2 is one Easter egg gag type inclusion that isn’t integral to the plot in any way. The Apple obviously isn’t real but it’s more sci fi than fantasy, in the new rpg the fantasy is like huge parts of playing the game and integral to the gameplay. I DONT want to play a Viking fantasy rpg, I wanted ASSASSINS CREED. I wanted to be cloaked Norsemen with a realistic Viking appearance walking around England and Ireland being an assassin. I’m not saying it has to all be historically accurate, because it never was. But they always wanted it to seem grounded in reality and put some thought into history.

@@tristancausa3766 it literally was grounded lmao. There was no fantasy in that. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@X_xWolfx_X The heck you mean there was no fantasy? You literally fight mythical creatures in the RPG games which is so stupid.

@@X_xWolfx_X huh? Idk If you played the game because that is not what i saw. There’s a whole dlc for more Norse mythology stuff dude

I was personally hoping that they would take the Assassins to the modern day in one game to try it out, but yeah that never happened.

Yeah I was really disapointed when they did that and I quite like Assassin's Creed 3.

Yeah it really felt like they were building up to Desmond becoming the new Assassin of the modern age from all the training he inadvertently received.

@@Justmonika6969*we have modern assassin now* insert "watch dog" anyone remember watch dog? anyone?

​@@hailuong9295there's no leap of faith in Watchdogs.

Frl

"Assassin's Creed"? More like "Developer's Greed"

I wouldn't say "Developer's Greed", but more "Corporate's Greed"@@BLET_55artem55

​@@RGisOnlineyh, that's what I meant. Thx for phrasing it properly

Assassin's Greed

I thought they removed it because it made ranged assassinations too easy?

@@dylenwithanethat too

They are still easy in AC1 ​@@dylenwithane

Y’all acting like the goddamn Apple of Eden doesn’t fckin exist in AC1 😒

@@sgxmp8565 No one is acting like it doesn't exist. It does not compare to valhalla's crazyness because it fit within the story with a clear purpose and explanation behind its existence.

to me once i saw that you had to be a high enough level to one shot assassinate enemies was the deal breaker

@@bdawg2320 Same. If I can't assassinate people in Assassin's Creed, someone somewhere screwed up

thats exaclty my experience

Origins is really good tho and probably the only modern AC game that doesn't require grinding, plus side quests are all intertwined with the main quests and doing them grants you enough xp to progress with easy.

@112523 If I have to use in game currency to maintain unique gear in order to keep their stats appropriate for my level, I don't want to bother with it. In almost any other RPG, legendary loot is normally something good enough that I can keep using it through to the end of the game, not immediately outclassed by some common item after a couple levels. Plus in older AC games, you just unlocked new gear for your character. None of the Diablo style having to keep track of a dozen different stats. I hate the fact that areas are level gated like an MMO where a trash enemy in one area is trivial to deal with but that same enemy in a different area kills you just by looking at you and is so much of a damage sponge that nothing you do will kill it until you level up half a dozen times. And as I mentioned before, if my hidden blade can't actually assassinate someone in one hit while their guard is down in an Assassin's Creed game, someone has screwed up the game design. If you enjoy the game, cool. But the modern AC game design isn't something I can get behind

For me it’s the opposite. The first AC game I played was Valhalla, so going from the RPG games to the older ones felt like a downgrade. I got used to them, but I prefer more options in how you can play, so the RPGs are better

The RPG aesthetics of the newer games was not needed. I get why they added it but they definitely miss the mark. AC games to me were always about being a badass assassin and having the combat skills to match. Watching the camera pan around as you took out enemies one by one in crazy combat moves was always awesome to watch, especially since as the series evolved the combat animations got more and more complex. With the RPG elements, it's turned into button mashing and a grind which wasn't needed in an AC game.

Honestly the only rpg game that interest me was Origins. I played Origins after going through the Ezio collection, and some of Unity, and loved it. Honestly depending on my mood i see my self going back to multiple games in the series (except Unity because i just found that game a chore to get through). Each of them has strengh and weeknesses with things i love and things i hate, but not enough to not enjoy them or go back to them. I just recently 100% Syndicate for the first time and finished Black Flag, and have now gone back to play more of Origins. I think the only issue is that each game after the Colonial games play pretty different with different control schemes that i have to train my brain to get used to.

​@@MiBrCo4177agree. They did not need to put in rpg mechanics with a leveling system. I didn't like them in Unity or Syndicate and despite Origins being one of my favorites i could have done without it. If i want to play an rpg i`ll boot up any of my Kingdom Hearts game or play Tales of Baseria or Alterlier Riza.

Yall want every game to play like dark souls or skyrim🤣🤣

Black Flag made me hate the series. It was no longer an Assassin game. Fuck AC4

​@@ldope3904At least it implemented the Assassin's into the story, unlike these newer ones.

@@marioluigi6024even if at the time Edward wasn’t an assassin the game is what led him to join the assassins. Not to mention it still was about assassins vs templars. Unlike now where it’s mostly a single assassin and the templars rarely appear in the story.

Id personally say the peak was Valhalla or unity

@@adarshsridhar6051 Unity is mid and Valhalla is bad.

@@adarshsridhar6051AC Valhalla is a joke

I agree, the Ezio trilogy was the best but I think it peaked around black flag. I saw the downfall at unity and stopped playing around there.

​​@@adarshsridhar6051 unity is a good game NOW. You have to remember if you played upom release you can argue it was one of the worst games and a weak story didnt help all the bugs and faulty gameplay

2008, 2019, 2021 and 2022, the only years without a new game

Oh yeah I forgot about 2021 and 2022, thanks :)@@emak2999

Witcher 1 was a terrible game.

Unfortunately cd project red seems to be planning to remake the original for modern audiences, hoping they don't ruin it...

Witcher 1 was bad. Vert bad. Look at steam, like 4% of ppl could even stomach it to the end. Also Cyberpunk??? Ubi have never made abuyhinf that bad. Their biggest crime is repitition.

How are we defining pessimistic? I'd say it was pessimistic fans that brought about the downfall. Many people complained that AC1 combat was too hard so Ubisoft gutted it and made it boring then made less boring in Brotherhood but also much easier. People complained that parkour was too hard so they 'streamlined' it and made it less engaging with each era. Those of us who stuck with it and learned the ins and outs of got shortchanged at every point. I don't want to seem bitter, though maybe I am, I just don't play the games that don't appeal to me

I think there should be a balance. Have combat and a large open world like Origins, parkour more refined with Unity type qnimations but the smoothness and freedom of games like 2-Black Flag. Get rid of the leveling system and allow new skills or tools to open up through the story or through side missions instead. Have one hit kill assassinations like the series have always have. Make combat an optional for some scenarios method of transversal (think Ghost of Tsushima and how you can either stealth through bases or fight). Build up on the social stealth by implementing disquise mechanics like Liberations, giving you even more options on how to approach stealth and the ability to blend into crowds. Have the ability to hide bodies, use human shields, and cool finishers. In other words take mechanics and elements from other games and actually refine them and make them better.

@@Pooky1991As much as I would love a balance, I’m not Ubi is capable of that kind of creatively as they are now. The devs definitely are, but corporate is probably gonna make that difficult. Making each game for a specific target audience might be the best they can do right now

I'm confused ah by all these comments.

@@RyuLongRHOG why?

Lmao thats actually kinda funny, would love to play it, but if its the same rpg style game, then i probably wont play it

That doesn't really sound like an event one would play through since it is basically just tying torches to farm animals and leading them down a road.

@@GeorgeMonet better than walking through Rome, carrying a chest and being forced to guess which way to go by listening to the guards saying that you’re taking a weird route. Or that mission in AC 3 when you’re riding from house to house to warn people about the brits.

Here's hoping they overhaul the parkour. Mirage's parkour is lacklustre at best. Using the RPG parkour in a world not designed around it was a terrible idea

@@teneesh3376 hopefully they bring back something similar to the hook blade. The Shinobi used hooks and different tools in order to climb and scale walls, so the hook blade would fit this era.

Their focus groups told them that modern day was “boring” and hard to follow; and that those players wanted more historic content. It was a poor decision imho; Desmond’s arc was the glue holding the series together and they should have moved him to a modern day assassin game.

@@BENR8108it was canned because if they created a modern Desmond game that resolved the assassin Templar conflict hey would effectively end the series and Ubisoft’s wallets really didn’t like the sound of that.

The past is the past 🤷

​@@jonathanwyatt6572never forget your history

​@@jonathanwyatt6572You like soulless, generic Ubisoft games and that's ok.

@@CherryPauper I only liked Origins and enjoyed Odyssey somewhat

​@@jonathanwyatt6572it's ok to like crap games. Nothing wrong with that.

Same feeling about mirage

What? Origins and odyssey was good af

​@@picklezchannel394Odyssey isn't an Assassin's Creed game. There's not even really an element of Assassin's to it.

@@marioluigi6024 if you make a build you can assassinate everyone with the cost of other stats being low. People tend to go for high Bows, or high attacks, or balanced that they never used the assassin method. People was too thirsty to finish the game and not take time on a big rpg map to assassinate people but who fault is that? They also have to look at a business point of view. If we sell a basic AC game people go buy other games for the big maps. Then every year as inflation increase they lose money cause kids rather buy a big open world rpg then a classic AC.

@@picklezchannel394You can have the big open world without compromising the assassin and stealth mechanics of the franchise. In my opinion they need to find the middle ground in combat between the RPG style and traditional style games. I’d like to see combat based off countering specific moves/enemy types rather than a leveling system. Fighting super spongy enemies isn’t fun. Make it more tactical. The same goes for stealth. Incentivize stealth play. One hit assassinations, expand the toolbox, etc.

I just reinstalled and began session play again which is the only way to approach this beast. Decided to clear any collectibles left over in each territory - one at a time and log out after one was cleared. I'll eventually get this game finished and then a NG+ for just story like the others.

The first, the ezio trilogy, black flag, and even rogue is what I like. I'll even say 3 is also within the same boat. And that is literally where I stopped playing Assassin's Creed.

Yea Valhalla was great for the setting as got my city Lincoln in the game and to see some small parts of that are there in real life was great but that is all the game had going for it. And god the collectables were boring as hell so many i have just over 250 hours playing it to get all achievements and i cant for the life of me even remember what the story was about as it took so long to finish it. The older games was more about the story not the gameplay and world setting that is what i think it has lost it more about the open world making it bigger and bigger while making the story of it short but padded out by RPG level locking so you have to do so many side quest to even play the story killed it for me.

@@giggity4670 If you played for 250 hours, you at least liked the game, you can't tell me you would play a game you don't like for that long, makes no sense whatsoever.

I can see what you mean about them i think if they removed assassins' creed form them and made them there own kind of setting would of been better then focus more of the assassins' story like the older games would of had a better outcome for assassins creed fans.

Its ok if they are afraid to making experiments. Not the best choice it sure is keeping them from getting even more hate

Why do we always need to “innovate” all the time. Is it wrong for some people to want the same thing they got before?

Valhalla was just their cheap attempt to steal some of that God of War hype and cash in on it

Agreed. Valhalla imo is the worst game of the series and I've been playing since AC1 back in 2007

Watch a Templar roll in with the Howitzer of Eden

It is nostalgia that blinds most ppl and some will argue that it's not

I loved odyssey and unity nothing is wrong with them+ no one said odyssey is sh#t but games like black flag are better

They should’ve kept improving the gameplay formula after revelations

​@@wissgamer4818 There are people that call Odyssey shit though, you see them a lot on comments sections of AC related videos

@@jonasjojofalco9896 ac 3 and later games gameplay is really good too

Odyssey is objectively one of the best. Valhalla and Mirage shouldn't exist.

@Codemeister1105 as it's own game sure but as an AC game noooope...odyssey should've never exist as an Ac game

@@Codemeister1105if it was called “random fantasy rpg in Ancient Greece “ for sure, but that’s not assassin creed. Like Amazon rings of power and real Tolkien world

@@feldmarescialloduda I understand and have practically just given up all care I had about the entire IP, now that I've seen Assassin's Creed Shadows trailer... "Play as a black man in the Shogun period Nippon"

I definitely consider it the last AC game before Mirage. Sure it was different, but fundamentally it felt like a natural evolution of Assassin’s Creed. On the other hand, Odyssey and Valhalla felt like they wanted to make a sister IP, but we’re afraid to commit to it.

The game litterary named as assassin creed origins. so there nothing to prove.

@@RG-xl7qlthose two games felt like they just slapped assassins creed on it to boost sales.

They kinda disappeared in Europe after the Romans and didn't become regular equipment in armies again til the 1100's, and there's not many signs they were used in the middle east until the Ottomans took over Anatolia iirc

I am not your bro, normie

No wonder this is the same people who listen to ugly "music", you just have bad taste "bro"

People constantly shrug off how atrocious the mission design can be in old AC.

​@@imurderragdollsskill issue

ISU lore and storyline are incredibly underrated. The writers offer in video game form an almost complete metaphysical system as it were, drawing from quite vast philosophical, mythological and even occult knowledge, although as you said at times enigmatic. I do however get that people may not have the minds nor hundreds of hours for this, but that should not justify for them a lack of understanding of why the games have been like this lately and how they connect on a fundamental level to the first ones. I found profound meaning, wisdom and charm in all that Assassin's Creed has to offer, especially Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla. Fate of Atlantis and Dawn of Ragnarok are amazing, if given the proper time and attention. One might even learn from them a thing or two about some hidden aspects of reality, but of course all of this is nonsense and it's just 'greed'. Well, I can tell you that the average Marvel fan is most likely incapable of understanding even a quarter of this lore.

​@@Tsukuyomi137 agreed 🙌 haven't played dawn of ragnarok yet (i only watched the access the animus' story analysis videos) but, for example, in fate of atlantis we have these very interesting and underrated secret "hidden truth" journals all around atlantis city that talk about project anthropos, aita, the human isu war, the predictions of the toba catastrophe and general sister realm politics (persephone+hades+poseidon) that also mentions mount olympus and zeus, which im 100% sure that it's equivilant to utgard, jotunheim, the place we visit in valhalla because zeus=jupiter=suttungr (maybe also aegir=poseidon??)

@@MPR0930 Yes, the notes/journals scattered throughout the world are very rich if you give them time and thought and if you can keep track of all of them across the many games and hundreds of hours. Honestly I can only think of about 4 or 5 games/series that made me so interested in their world as far as lore is concerned, those being the Mass Effect trilogy back in the days, together with God of War, The Witcher and most FromSoftware games. Assassin's Creed ISU/Precursor storyline is particularly fascinating because it draws from so many sources which in itself is astonishing. And this is coming from someone who is quite knowledgeable in many of these subjects. There seems to be a forgotten or hidden part of human history and I think the writers are trying to fill the gap in a way that is really reasonable if properly perceived (that is having the previous knowledge of various kinds necessary to understand what is being told). Video games have been such a powerful medium through which to disclose knowledge through stories and I believe this is what is happening here. Humankind has not its origin in some accidental multi-billion year old bio-chemical process for sure, so then what remains is that human beings have been created either by someone or something in some fashion or the other. The game delves deeply into this by referencing various metaphysics such as that of Neoplatonism and Gnosticism and here I will give an interesting example of a note from the endgame of Valhalla (bear in mind the Christian perspective): "I have lately confirmed that there exists a group of men and women within our Church who belong to a parasitic order of heathens, men and women who wish for nothing less than the perversion of our God's word. As lice upon a loyal hound, they scurry about unseen, using our resources fur purposes in opposition to our Savior's plan. In the past year, I have gleaned what I could about the beliefs of these vile usurpers, who call themselves The Order of the Ancients [precursors of the Templars]. Here are but a few of their disturbing ideas: They believe that mankind was created not by the Lord God, but by lesser and imperfect gods, variously called Isu, Archons or Nephilim in their various unholy texts. In this way, they follow the unholy heresies of the gnostic sects that flourished in the years before the Nicene Creed. They refuse the message of the Christ and his redemptive act of sacrifice. They disbelieve in sin and salvation, and seek only knowledge and power, which they believe will free their spirit in the final days. They believe mankind is a lesser form of life, imperfect in the shadow of these lesser gods, and that it is mankind's sole duty to aspire to the example of these lesser gods. Their obsession with these ancient ones has led them to make a fetish of diabolical artifacts, which they believe will give them power and righteous cause over their fellow men. These devil's tools I have not seen for myself, but I have observed their effect on a few. Most blasphemous of their beliefs is perhaps this: they believe many of these lesser gods still walk the earth or may return one day in resurrected forms. Some they believe are continually reborn. These they call sages. Others seem to appear once only and never again. Whether they believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be such a one, I have yet to determine, but their literature is full of references to such beings. All this I know to be true. In light of this gathering darkness, I urge swift and violent action, my lord, for the reach of this order is vast and their power insidious. Be thou a soldier for our Christ. Only a sustained campaign of eradication will end their advance. Heed my words with care and wisdom, Noble Charlemagne, and may the Lord God guard thee, exalt thee, and make thee enter the glory of his blessed and everlasting vision." Now, as for the various realms in the game, I do not think that they are the same. For example, while Zeus is Jupiter that is only because of the proximity of those mythologies (Greco-Roman) but you cannot take Zeus to be Suttungr for they are very different and come from different creationist stories of different cultures. Layla's notes tell us this about the ISU culture: "But wait, it gets even better! I immediately saw some suspicious similarities with ancient languages. So not that I could decipher the glyphs, I dug into our Precursor archives for more sources. I had to sort through the many different types of writings we found on Precursor sites to find some similar to that inscription. It's quite puzzling how many seemingly unrelated writing systems they had! Maybe the Precursors were not a monolithic a civilization as we think? Anyway, after more in-depth comparative work, the conclusion is unequivocal: this language is related to ancient languages from the Indo-European family, maybe even others. In fact, given the corpus I have studied, I would say that is is probable an ancestor to them. Or at least had a significant influence on them. This is truly fascinating!" In particular, "It's quite puzzling how many seemingly unrelated writing systems they had! Maybe the Precursors were not a monolithic a civilization as we think?" tells us that these ancestors were indeed very diverse, so one would have to preserve some difference when talking about the various subraces within the precursor species. It is quite clear that they all had their particularities and some were better at some things than others and vice versa.

@@MPR0930 This is interesting, I gave an in-depth reply to your comment a few days ago but youtube seems to have hidden it. Can you see anything other than our initial replies?

@@Tsukuyomi137 i only saw one comment bro :(

Lmao according to who really ??? An assassin in middle of a colonial gunpowder age would be the worst setting in my opinion

@@vatsal7640 Like WHY ??

@@DebshankarPathak-hb8tf probably because it makes zero sense

@@vatsal7640 I dont think so, a setting like that has a lot of wiggle room , perfect for an AC game.

@@vatsal7640 Ubisoft thought the same about Egypt as a setting but Origins turned out pretty good.

I think they should lean towards the RPG style of gameplay with larger scale settings like Egypt, Greece, Japan and whatnot, while games based off settings like Paris, London, other industrial cities should be the old style. That way they can make both types of fans happy instead of making a game that strips the RPG elements in favor of classic features that aren't even fleshed out properly like Valhalla. This is exactly what happened with the Saints Row Reboot as well, though I suppose the series can be considered dead by now sadly

If someone thought the old style games were bad, then they were never that big of a fan to begin with. And the rpgs are a devolution of what came before. They’re just generic and only care about the beautiful settings rather than anything else. Almost everything that made ac unique was watered down in those games.

@@yodaddyrc1220 I think there's many AC fans that have thick rose colored glasses on regarding the OldCreed games. In terms of gameplay, AC Unity is utterly unplayable, with AC2 very nearly unplayable. They constantly glitch. They're loaded with jank. Parkour sequences are filled with little stalls and hitches that wreak havoc on the frustratingly bad chase sequences. Compare to Odyssey, where the gameplay always works, never glitches, you're (almost) never restricted on climbing, combat is actually engaging, the skill tree makes sense while allowing the player to play their style. The only metric that one could accurately call downgraded would be the main story. And how much of that is simply perception? Does Odyssey's story come off as boring because its actually boring? Or is it because its stretch out between long sections of (usually good) side quests? I thought Valhalla's main story was pretty good . . . but since Valhalla has no side quests, you're able to go directly from one main sequence to the next, without anything inbetween to dilute or distract you. Does that make Valhalla's story better, or simply structured better? Crafting an main story for an open world game while still trying to maintain a sandbox and appearance of a living world is a notoriously difficult task to pull off. It wasn't until Witcher 3 that developers seemed to crack the code.

@@Bateluer Oh so you’re one of those fools who says “hUR Der yoU wEarINg yoUr NERstALGia gERRgles”. Many people in the gaming community have caught on to how dumb and overused that argument has become and people like you just say it so u can invalidate someones opinion that you disagree with. But ultimately, I just can’t take u seriously cuz of that. So let me tell u this. It’s an opinion to think that something old is “unplayable” and something new is better. Most of what you said is opinion based like odyssey’s side quests being “good” and stuff like that. Let’s not forget that odyssey also has damage sponge enemies and has one of the most simplified parkour systems in the franchises entire history with absolutely no depth or expression unlike the classic games. And the ability to climb anything takes away all thought about how to ascend a building unlike older games where the player was engaged in actually having to find pieces of geometry on buildings. Let’s also not forget that RU-vidrs have made great videos on how to effectively use Ac2’s gameplay, yet many people like you either have never seen it or choose to dismiss it. You’re basically acting like your opinion is correct and others aren’t. And what you said about “the franchise needing to evolve and it needs to change and the old formula is outdated” is really idiotic considering that the franchise has lost so much of what made it unique and it’s obvious that Ubisoft diluted it into a generic rpg in order to appeal to masses, which is a problem with AAA gaming as a whole.

@@yodaddyrc1220 "But ultimately, I just can’t take u seriously cuz of that." Guess I touched a nerve. Thats OK, but the facts won't change. "So let me tell u this. It’s an opinion to think that something old is “unplayable” and something new is better." It has nothing to do with them being simply old. It has to do with them simply being unplayable. There's more jank in Unity than in launch Cyberpunk 2077, and thats before you get into the low 20fps frame rate and blurry resolution. These are not issues you encounter in Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla. "Most of what you said is opinion based like odyssey’s side quests being “good” and stuff like that." Thats not opinion. Its objective fact, simply because Odyssey actually has them while the OldCreed games do not. The OldCreed games have filler activities, not side quests. "Let’s not forget that odyssey also has damage sponge enemies" Non issue because the game actually gives you the tools to deal with them. In contract, the 'boss battles' of the OldCreed games are almost 100% scripted. "and has one of the most simplified parkour systems in the franchises entire history with absolutely no depth or expression unlike the classic games. And the ability to climb anything takes away all thought about how to ascend a building unlike older games where the player was engaged in actually having to find pieces of geometry on buildings." Simple and function, or janky and broken. Whats better? Take the nostalgia glasses off. The OldCreed games didn't task the player with finding the right geometry or such nonsense. You just had to let off the controller stick for a second before you could climb again. Odyssey doesn't have that, you can actually climb in a straight line. I'll take the simple and functional any day of the week. "Let’s also not forget that RU-vidrs have made great videos on how to effectively use Ac2’s gameplay, yet many people like you either have never seen it or choose to dismiss it. " Oh, I'm well aware of those highlight videos. Remember, these are put together by people with often hundreds of hours into the game, who've cut and edited the Shorts to show the best possible sequences. The average player will be clipping through ropes, teleporting to ledges, and screaming in anger at all the little stalls, hitches, and stops in the parkour. "And what you said about “the franchise needing to evolve and it needs to change and the old formula is outdated” is really idiotic ." I'm going to cut that off right there. The AC franchise was the epitome, textbook definition of franchise fatigue after AC4. The sales collapsed particularly hard after the train wreck of Unity. Due to their annual release schedule, Syndicate was already too far along to cancel, but the subsequent break before Origins was essential to restore the series. You can't simply release the same game in a different setting every year and expect players to react to more than a yawn. They should be leaning into the RPG angle far more than they have been. With the AC lore, combined with the historical settings, they have essentially no competition. Its an open market, theirs for the taking.

What no 😂

All comparisons I've seen show that Mirage has objectively worst parkour, animations, even the graphics. Unity is a decade old game too...

I think he went that way

@@deepflare1028 which way

Charles Lee was a wuss and he manhandled you! Altair or Ezio would have make quick work of him in seconds!

These are actually great ideas. I’d love that in an Assassin game. As long we don’t get another Black Flag or Syndicate

@@ldope3904 A suggestion I have for games like that would be to launch them as "Legends of the Past", made by "Abstergo Entertainment". That way, we keep the "real" Assassin's Creed games their own thing, but also give a way to have 1-off ideas flourish. Pirates, Vikings, Samurai, and other ideas that don't really fit in with Assassin's Creed's lore and setting could all be made under the "Legends of the Past" banner. And the only way they'd be connected would be by the "Abstergo Entertainment" developers, running these games on the same underlying technology as the Animus. But since the Animus itself would almost certainly be a top secret thing, maybe have another (small) connection be referenced in an AC game by throwing out a line like "This is how the Templars got farther ahead, they used these games running in consumer-grade VR rigs to collect data on how simulations could be run better in the Animus". Therefore, the AC games would be the "real world", and the Legends of the Past games would also be fictional entertainment in AC.

Nah no one care about the usa

Honestly I lost interest in the franchise after AC Rouge. What really Drew me in was the ship combat and they used some of Desmond‘s bloodline. However after that I just stopped. It feels like it’s going over the place. Also AC3 is a fun game but I felt a little bit disappointed on how they handled the founding fathers. I wish we had a lot more cool emotional dialogue moments with those characters(like in other games). Maybe some deep memorable Conversations between Connor & Washington but nope they just throw that out the window. Connor just says “you don’t deserve peace” and that’s it. Nothing. Just lame writing there. Not even a moment similar to the trailer where we can team up with Washington on the battlefield. The game is cool but it was full of false advertising. Rant over, sorry lol 😂

@@Steel-101 oh I agree with you onc AC's 3 false advertising and lame writing moments but the good writing prevails, although it could have more depth to it

@@SPexHoS2137 I fully agree despite the scenes with poor writing the majority of the game has fantastic character moments. Like for example: the homestead missions are just pure perfection. I always look forward to the interaction with those characters. The Davenport Homestead is the best hide out in my opinion.

Nah, they’re more like your local am pm, gross and low quality

Yeah people expect the next game to be exactly as their favorite, but not exactly same. And when devs decide to do a different thing, thats it, it becomes a tragic downfall. Personally i playd Unity and Odyssey and i really enjoyed both.

Bad take. From 1 to revelations I was in heaven at each launch.