Bro really did Bayek dirty with this bathhouse towel outfit 😭 Assassin's Creed series has had a lot of amazing locations, but my favorite world overall has got to be Egypt from AC Origins. It's unbelievably well designed and it deserves way more praise then it gets. The regions are distinct, but also blend into each other quite naturally. There are big cities like Alexandria, Memphis and Cyrene. Big deserts that make you feel like an ancient wanderer. Lush oases and green swamps. Huge mountains and rocky hills. Massive fields split by water canals. Little villages and bandit camps. It's awesome! I also love the structure of the game. Origins is basically a huge journey. Odyssey, if you will. When Bayek is tasked with assassinations by Cleopatra, he is free to go and explore. However, the game very subtly tells you what is the right order, which makes the progression from one region to another extremely seamless and natural. Despire the huge size of the world, I never felt overwhelmed with content, because it was very easy to plan out the journey in an optimal way. And I just love the idea of a wandering Medjay who travels Egypt and helps the civilians on his way. It just feels RIGHT. Basically all side quests in Origins feel IN CHARACTER for Bayek. After all, he's the PROTECTOR. It makes sense that he takes time to help smallfolk with hippos, rescues the rebels, assassinates evil Ptolemy commanders and protects the weak from the bandits. For example, Valhalla has this problem that a lot of these little side encounters are kinda absurd and at odds with the Viking persona of Eivor. Side quests in Origins (despite no cutscenes and worse lip sync) feel more natural and immersive. Origins has one of the most memorable and immersive open world games I've ever seen (and I played RDR2, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk and all the other heavy hitters). It's extremely underrated IMO.
@@jbcatz5 Yeah I remember that riddle solution stumping me to the point where I had to look at a guide for it since I didn't know going underwater in that Bay was an option. I had walked all around the lake but didn't consider that.
Beauty is subjective, of course, but I think what wasn't mentioned in both of the videos is from AC Valhalla Wrath of the Druids DLC. I loved the bright green hills and how the sun and clouds were leaving shadows on the larger hills in the northern area of the map near Lough.
@@TheHiddenOne690 really just normal assassinations while in stealth or roaming around places, you could add air assassination, double assassinations, chain assassinations too and just rank which game has the best animations and you could add anything else too, if you'd like.
Idea for a video: 1) ranking all the assassination animations in all the AC games. Ranking the animation quality, variety, flow, types of animations, etc..
At least in Lisbon we could explore Convento do Carmo during the mission, something we can't do in real life since it was destroyed during the earthquake. You can still visit its ruins at least.
17:14 ah yes my favorite area LIBSON. jokes aside I like the mountains area in AC2, and going back there to calmly look out across the valley after that intense carriage chase.
I loved many vistas and real world iconic counterparts etc... And as much as I did love those epic moments or explorations, they don't quite live up to the feelings or memories of personal experiences I have had throughout the years where I was lost in the game for a brief time, and multiple elements came together at the perfect moment. I was in the right (or wrong) place to experience them. I feel this could happen anywhere, and they live on much more vividly in the memory than maybe designed architectural or geographical spectacles. Some personal examples... - AC Revelations: On a high exploring and I drop down onto a low wooden pole and stop. It's fast approaching night, and there is a stream of water running off through a poor looking district. The way the camera settled when I hit that pole was so perfect. I was loving the visual, yet the local environmental audio added so much. The ASMR with the folks going by.... I sat back and sipped my red wine for a solid four or five minutes. Just to soak in the changing light and what was going on with the SCENE. - AC Black Flag: Stumbling upon the biggest type of ship in the game (early on) landlocked on the sands of a very small isle. So desperate to experience everything, but it was early morning, and I remember, again, simply leaving the controls alone and having a moment. - AC Origins: The perfection of having zero icon clutter on a part of the lower map that yielded some of the best memories. Just desert, but specifically placed and sculpted sandstone rock formations and other very minor details, and one of those ancient things that I had personally was done with, at that time. Many more "stunning locations" that are probably only stunning to me at that time and in a specific frame of mind. But I'm sure everyone understands what I'm speaking of.
Cyrene is still memorable to me, see it as a mini Alexandria. Remember going there on my first play through having to passing through the Green Mountains. Another highlight due to how lush and green the area is compared to the rest of Egypt.
It’s so memorable to me because you go there at the end of the game and idk about you but too me it’s like you are leaving Egypt and approaching flavius’s rome
@@TheHiddenOne690 i also loved paris in valhalla, i think it was north paris area, where it has tall houses, a lot of npc and very colorful and i loved those streets very much
@@TheHiddenOne690 im very disappointed that there were no iceland, greenland, more norway or even sweden those played bigger role than vinland in viking history
Curse of the Pharaohs and Fate of Atlantis gave us a lot in terms of exploration. By the way, I would say I like Atlantis more. Lots of buildings and more people around plus not as much of a pain with climbing but yeah they are pretty close to one another.
I do want someone to look at city sizes like work out the size of Athens and Alexandria and comparing them to Damascus and Florence because the rpg cities are probably the same size but with their worlds it make them seem smaller
Paris during the French revolution probably had the best artistic expression compared to other AC locations. I don’t think another AC game will be as detail unless they pick like Moscow or Dubai or any city that’s not known for its artistic design. If they did a remake of the ezio trilogy we get something better than unity.
I can't believe you put Elysium on here, the worst of them all. It's literally a CHEAP ASS DLC, made for Immortals Fenyx Rising game. It's literally the same map.
