i liked how wholesome the homestead missions was it was cosy everyone knew everyone and it was so chill i loved doing them and adding people to the small village was so nice
I was genuinely shocked when people said they disliked AC3 so much especially when they said that Connor was such a dull person. Then they’d say they never did the homestead missions and it would make sense.
@@arifsalahudin6673 My favorite part is that the easiest way to highlight targets is by aiming a weapon, so the homesteaders are just trying to work and out of the corner of their eye they see Connor standing in a bush staring at them with his pistol pointed at their head.
The syndicate train felt very lived in, which is quite nice in my opinion. Also the fact that it moves around and you can wait to get to other stations is a fun gimmick.
what i love about the cafe in unity is that if you decide to chill in the actual cafe section, there are many different people that will go on stage and tell stories/or read relevant news for the time! and you can drink a coffee too
It is literally hiding in plain sight. And there is nothing on its exterior that connects it to the Assassins. Also, Nigel, the conductor and Agnes barely know what Assassins are.
The Homestead from Assassins Creed 3 had the most unique hideout upgrade system. Pretty much the other hideouts can be upgraded with money but the Homestead can be upgraded through playing missions where you meet and interact with civilians. Really gave that community feel the best of the hideouts. Though that one encyclopedia achievement where you have to scan the civilians each 3 times in different places and times of the day was painful.
Exactly, upgrades released after secondary missions that were part of a context for upgrade, to improve the mine you had to do a mission to help the miner explode the mine more, so hunter help her how to hunt new animals, I remember q had a mission that a man needed the carpite's help to improve something. I found it incredible was all fluid and real, not just pay and that and it was improved
The Davenport Homestead feels most like a community where people live their lives, doing things for their own and each other’s survival and pleasure, and having interpersonal connections. Through the homestead missions you come to know them more richly than the average NPC because of the stories you see them go through and help them with.
I liked Monteriggioni's historical elegance and mysterious nature, while with the Homestead, I liked the rustic feel and building the community and getting to know the other residents.
Honestly the people who dont like Connor and AC3 havent done the homestead missions they really open his characters personality up more and more with each new building and neighbor thats brought into him plus the funeral scene is so much better with a full homestead.
The entire game gets better if you do the homestead missions (apart from the one that makes you shove pigs into their pen, f that one). The double holster is only available through the homestead, for example.
@@blarfroer8066 yeah im with you on the pig one and it really does show a better side to Connor but ive been gaming since the Nes games and my fave genre has always been rpg so side quests, doing and talking to everyone is annoyingly ingrained into me
I can't for the life of me imagine the funeral with just Connor. What the heck? I never even thought of the possibility of skipping Homestead missions because to me they are as mandatory as the main story.
I think a big factor you missed about Maysaf is the context. Its bustling with other Assassins and you are just another recruit which is awesome and unique. You are no-one special. It feels very alive and like it will go on with or without you. Yes there is nothing to interact with or upgrade due to it being the first game, but thematically thats because you are not in control of anything because you are just a recruit. Great video 😊
An with that factor that's why no other AC game can really compete with AC1, Being a normal ass assassin nobody special it makes it overall more immersive, seeing the other assassin's train, patrol, an tryna climb the ranks is honestly astounding an really gives off the feel of togetherness because they're literally your family...Enough of my irrelevant rambling i just hope AC Mirage can pull it off like the OG, Hate to say it but So far Valhalla unfortunately had the ac1 formula an just wasted all of it.
Agree. Another reason why AC1 is the only one that feels like an actual Assassins. The sequels made them Vigilante's like some kind of Medieval Batman.
@@Abel_Unstabledid any of you ever play AC1?!? That who Alt’air was. A renegade who went against the creed. He WAS someone special. He WAS that guy. Until he overstepped what was completely demoted. Then everyone *acts* like the golden boy quarterback from last week is on the bad jobs now… while he grinds his honor back. He was always special from the moment we knew him.
@@Abel_Unstable In ac2 altair write in a codex. That assasins must go to shadow and avoid public display of execution. Their base is also in plain site raided by templars and mongols.
I would flip Cafe Theatre and Great Inagua personally. Yeah Great Inagua is pretty, but it’s all surface detail. There’s nothing you do there other than unlock the Templar armor that you can’t do elsewhere. Cafe Theatre was a genuinely unique place with lots of stuff to do and interact with.
@@Idk-cy2sb You can buy a couple upgrades such as a harbor master or general store, but they are the same shops you can find everywhere in the game. There are also a couple cosmetic upgrades which are just money sinks, they don’t do anything other than look nice and contribute to an achievement. Contrast that with upgrading the Cafe Theatre which not only unlocks missions but also new parts of the hideout unlock with some fun easter eggs like a report from a sexist assassin who gets their ass beat by a female swordsman they were hoping to recruit.
Masyaf has a great lore reason to not like it. It shows the decadence of the assassins. It’s a huge compound plastered with assassin flags and banners. They compromise themselves and the very nature of it rejects the creed.
Assassins Creed 3 was the best IMO gameplay and story wise. So many different things to do, Sailing, fighting, hunting, assassinating, delivering, fort clearing, naval battling, crafting, running a settlement, exploring, puzzle solving, bad ass missions, I was never bored. I even grew to like Connor even though he made it really hard to. But the homestead missions where just *chefs kiss*.
I always felt an affinity towards Connor. Other than that I agree with your comment. I've lost count of how many times I've played AC3 in comparison to the rest of the games. I only own from AC1 to Rogue though. I've played Rogue twice, Black Flag once, and the rest all more than 5 times. But definitely I've replayed AC3 the most. After I'm done with my playthrough of the whole greek saga of God of War games, I plan on playing all my AC games.
I loved the steam train. The idea of running the Assassin's operations entirely out of a train that circles London was so cool. I also liked how practical it was in terms of the game. The Templars own all of London. Nowhere is safe for an Assassin to be. So it makes sense that their hideout would not be stationary, but constantly roaming around to keep the Assassins' plans safe.
Tiber and galata will always have a place in my heart. Not only because they were my favorite games but I actually enjoyed the lead role to the assassin’s brotherhood and seeing my recruits as I upgraded them and progressed them to be better assassins. Truly gave the feel of ezio being the mentor of the brotherhood
Why the hell did Ubisoft forget about the whole brotherhood thing. It was so cool clearing the way with your assassin's. Ubi failed to deliver so many times.
I mean, with how Inagua was designed, there's just not much to do overall. The only thing they could truly change, is that the Cosmetic Upgrades to the Mansion will now improve your income (because in the original AC4, they do nothing). But other than that, there isn't much to change, solely becauss of how AC4's "Renovation" system was made.
@@erso_returned2530 A lot of Remakes that came out lately have actually been great releases, some of which made more than their original versions, "kid"...
I would say that the AC syndicate one should be ranked higher because of the convenience of the train always moving, and making it much easier to access different parts of the city, the fact that it is probably the most hidden hideout (you are literally hiding in plain sight under starricks nose). And it makes more sense for the assasins to have a small well hidden hideout than a massive mansion, or huge manor.
Davenport Homestead is one of my favorite parts of Assassin's Creed III. I really enjoy building it up from just Achilles' run down house into a thriving community.
The train is actually my favourite. It serves little in game purpose, but it's such a cool concept that I can fully believe the London Assassins would come up with.
I really loved Unity's Cafè, 'cause it's so detailed and you can discover new rooms and secrets proceeding with the story. I'd love this kind of hideout in other games
Couldn’t agree more with Davenport Homestead for being number one! Fitting to the Colonial American setting, completed with a an entire community that you can build up by helping the residents with Homestead Missions. Each particular homesteader provides your hideout with both economic and crafting resources, and the more you help them, the more their residence and services will grow. The Homesteaders are actual characters with unique personalities and developing stories/characters and you can see why Connor deeply cares for them and is always willing to help them out. As much as Connor is a brooding protagonist, his interactions with his fellow homesteaders actually allow us to see him actually be at peace and happy. You feel the bond he built with these people, as if they were his family and they really bring your hideout to life. They’re not just NPCs that stand about, they actually have routines. Chores and tasks that show off their trade and craft that they provide to your homestead community. You actually bond with them and help them through hardship. Celebrate their happiness with them, from a child being born to two of them getting married. In a way, you feel so accomplished, you help band together these colonists who felt abused, lost, stricken with hardship. And gave them a home and a family that would provide for and protect one another.
The Brotherhood and Revelation hideouts are some of my favorites. The train is probably in my top 3 favorite hideouts along with the cafe. The Homestead is in my top 5 for how homely and cozy it is. It was so satisfying playing theough missions and the Homestead missions and seeing both the area and house itself become decorated. On so many occasions i just walked around the house and looked at the decorations and momentos.
My ideal hideout in this franchise has the Homestead Missions and interactions from AC: III, the Vendors from AC: II, and the money n supplies needed to upgrade it from AC: Valhalla. Along with the ability to control Assassin Recruits and your own finances would be nice. I the hideout had all those features it would be praised to high heaven.
With Ravensthorpe there are a lot of buildings to construct and cosmetic items to decorate the settlement with but I do think it's lacking in defenses. There are no guard towers except maybe if you put the lookout tower in the spot in front of the longhouse where a big tree can go (which I did for my settlement), no walls surrounding Ravensthorpe, and a lot of the buildings are for trading like growing crops and raising livestock while the only military buildings are the armory, the jomsviking hall, and the barracks. The cities in England, settlements like Soma's fort, the bandit camps, and the forts along the rivers have walls and guard towers yet Ravensthorpe doesn't. Not to mention the hills behind the longhouse offer an opportunity for enemies to observe the settlement and attack from behind. I'm surprised Ravensthorpe only gets attacked once in the whole game.
The treasure room in great inaqua in AC4 actually represents how much money you have in game. It’ll change depending on how much you have on you. Idk the exact amounts but >5000 is the lowest I believe and 100,000+ is the max (I think there are 2 other sizes of the treasure between).
Love the homestead got respect it deserved Always hated people saying it was bad as it had this community vibe with how you found every member and helped them in important moments. It made me quite sad they've never returned to this idea as it was one of AC 3. Hell Valhalla could of been the homestead 2.0, imagine that, would've been amazing
Exactly, I loathed how much you had to grind to fully build up your Viking settlement. Unlocking buildings and upgrading through completions of side missions is far more fulfilling and pleasant way to build up your hideout. So much potential, just wasted on such a grinding resource economy.
"Well she's dead." Lol Good luck in University mate! I think the Syndicate train was such a cool idea and was very unique. I think it coulda been better but I really like that they tried to do something new.
My favorite is definitely Davenport Homestead. I not only like the building and the region. The people are great, I adore the Homestead community and helping all of them through the side missions. I think part of why AC3 is one of my favorite games and the AC game I've played more times than I can count is because of the Homestead people. I just love how they live, how they help each other, I like helping them. It really makes me feel part of a working and supportive community and I love it.
I totally agree on your number 1, building that homestead into a full thriving town is my favourite part of the game. In a game of hits and misses this was definitely one of the hits
I ABSOLUTLY loved Davenport. How the growing of the village was carried over the years and time-jumps... over several missions where you get to know the settlers, help them and feel like they realy develop alongside you... loved this little village. :3
Achilles Manor where the Homestead took place was a break from the Revolution of the time, but my personal favorite hideout remains the Great Inagua compound for the Caribbean setting.
My favorites are the Cafe, Villa Auditore and Great Inagua. Honorable mention would be the train in syndicate. I do love the fact it was always moving and it was very helpful as I would use it to get to my next location if it was nearby.
I beat assassins creed 3 multiple times but I’ve been seeing so much about it that I HAVE TO replay it as in adult as I am currently on an assassins creed binge
A lot of people loved the moving train, I have to admit it’s very creative. Auditors villa is goat but I see where your coming from with the homestead there’s just so much to it and the trading mini game heavily depending on your level of homestead is just brilliant 👌🏻
What I like about the cafe theatre is that its a hideout where you can really see arno just chilling. He can interact with the coffee table and drink coffee while listening to politics.
Well.. You have a Hideout in Liberations too, but it will be probably somewhere in the last 3 spots anyway, because there isn't much. Just a single room in a trading warehouse. Personally, I would put AC4's hideout over AC3's. but only because I like the setting way more. A simple reason, I know, but my personal biggest reason. :D
I love Ravensthorpe with every fiber of my being, but I definitely see where it could have been improved. I tend to love most games, worlds, stories, and characters I play and experience in the AC franchise despite some of their faults though
the train hideout in syndicate was not only fun to just wander around in and interact with things but also some days id just look out of the train and just look around the city as it moved on, perfect.
Wtf the Steam Train in Syndicate was awesome. You could literally be doing something random just to see the hideout passing by, and jump on it like that untill you were ready to step out at your next destination
What I like the most about Davenport homestead is that you know the people there and that makes the homestead so alive... at least if you do the homestead missions. 1st time around I got stuck and didn't find the homestead missions anymore. Turns out it was Morris that I missed the first time around. Kinda hidden away at the north of Boston.
There’s 2 I sorta disagree with. 1. Personally I would place Ravensthorpe higher, yes it’s not perfect for what it could’ve been, but it is by far the most customizable hideout and is the most story driven hideout in the series as the driving force of the game is building up Ravensthorpe and your clan. As for missions and npc behavior, it could’ve been done better, especially with the fact that Randvi perpetually stares at the map or that you can’t really talk to Sigurd again if he returns, he just kinda wanders around aimlessly. Makes me kinda sad tbh, like at least have him say hi when you walk by or something. But there is a lot of character development that happens in Ravensthorpe between Eivor and the supporting cast, mainly between Valka and Randvi. Petra as well does have her own quest line and pretty much all of Dag’s story goes down there. 2. I don’t think all the love for Masyaf is nostalgia, but rather vibes if that makes sense. Masyaf is the assassins at the peak of their power and most out in the open. There’s something just really cool about seeing this looming fortress manned by a literal army of assassins decked in the robes and all. It’s really not something we ever get at that scale again. I don’t disagree with the placement tho, just the wording. You aren’t wrong it’s an old game and there’s not really much to it in comparison to the later games.
You also forgot that below Monteriggioni is the Auditore crypt, a nice detail as the crypt is officially designated in the game with an assassin’s tomb mark, usually reserved for one of the six assassin tomb’s necessary to unlock Alt’air’s legendary armor.
In syndicate, as you upgrade and win thug wars, the number of members on the train increases, and you see more diverse member types. Plus, all the mwechants you need are on the last car, on your way out.
Masyaf will always be special for me. One of the historic original headquarters of the Assassins, full of knowledge and the coolest dressed trained killers fighting to keep the world from actual Templar knights.
What I like about fort arsenal is that it's very reactive. I've only really played the kenway games, and no other of them had guns and swords on a rack that actually change depending on what weapons you pick up. Plus, I like just hanging out around because it's also near your Templar HQ.
I guess I'm biased because I prefer Ezio's story over the other assassins. And Villa Auditore is to me the best because it feels closer to the family. Being also Mario's state and all that. And there is the fact that you could decorate it by buying the art in the game. That was a very nice touch.
Mine is 1. Homestead from ac3 2. Cafe from ac unity 3. Train from ac syndicate My favorite is actually the cafe teatre but homestead just have that cozy vibe that it just have to be at number 1 in my list
I agree with this list ac3 hideout was my favorite, I like assassins creed mirage’s hideout but I’m in the middle of the game and not even sure you can go back to that hideout
I really missed the AC mechanics where you can train your recruits to become full-fledged Master Assassins, anyway my number 1 HO is also the DAVENPORT. it just feels like home when you return from the main cities missions.
0:22 - 1:25 I received AC Rogue as a Christmas gift in 2014 just over month after it launched. I didn't progress very far, completing only the first sequence before abandoning the game. A year ago in September 2022 across the span of only three days (the 15th, 16th, and 17th), I went achievement hunting and ground out the game, getting every achievement except for those that were i.e. "do X amount of this". I travelled the entire map, 100% sequences, collected all collectibles, and I do not remember the building of Fort Arsenal. A fort, yes, a mansion, no.
My thing about masyaf castle is that it's a giant castle, you're not hiding you're just showboating and the architecture is strangely like the English buildings in acre, and with the knowledge gone it makes it clear that al Mualim is scared of altïar or anyone really knowing who he really is I still love it as it's giant symbolism of how the brotherhood in 1 is just, Templars with hoods
10:45 So imagine you've been captured. And they string you up in a closet. You need to watch the blacksmith make a ludicrously complicated set of locks and keys, then you watched helplessly as your captor orders the 5 keys to distant islands. "So, when's feeding time?"
My Top 5 favorite Hideouts in the AC: Franchise. 1: Great Inagua 2: The Steam Train 3: The Galata Hideout 4: Ravensthorpe 5: The Warehouse from AC: Liberation All of these hideouts make sense to me in one manner or another. Which hideout made sense to you?
I feel like the one bad thing about how badly reviewed AC3 was is the loss of Hideout Upgrade stuffs. In AC4 I'd loved to have seen a combination of the systems of AC2 and 3, as most of the island isn't considered that important, and I always miss how much you could do in AC2. Beyond things in the mansion there were new places to explore as you upgraded the town, Statues to find in the town, the Wall of Assassin's Scrolls, and Ezio's sister to interact with. It feels like they tried to go too far with the crafting system in AC3, but I'd have liked to have more secrets on the island, and have more distant parts play a bigger role. Like I'd have loved to see stuffs done with the Forts done from the other side. Instead of assaulting a Fort you defend one instead. Or you could get ahold if other ships, have them docked, and even take them out for yourself, but they maybe don't get upgrades, but have different abilities.
have you tried watching what the people in the homestead does? bro the details makes it feel real and alive everyone has something to do from carpenting and watching it finish carpenting and the butchery of a pig carcass
I 100% agree with this poll thank you for not picking 2s area as number 1 based on nostalgia alone I agree after really getting into 3s homestead 2s looks 2nd best by comparison but its no doubt a very close runner up so I agree with the placement
Things a hideout needs to be perfect: - Upgrades, or customization. - Life - feeling of safety - size Hideouts are very important to me in AC games. Ravensthorpe would be perfect, if it only had some sort of a wall around it, because sone characters could easily be snatched by someone or something, and no one would notice. Great Inagua is pretty close to perfection, even if it doesn't have any fortifications, but it still feels safe, because of men and pirates living there. Homestead is probably my favorite. It of course has the same issue as Ravensthorpe, but it still feels safer somehow.
