Best setting

Currently playing Unity I got for free and its fucking janky as fuck and the plot's retarded. The city they built is pretty damn impressive tho.

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I liked the idea of searching the city for information on your target. It made you feel like an actual assassin doing field work. It's extra immersive if you turn off the GPS and waypoint markers so you have to memorize landmarks to know where your target is.

>black flag

I sure do love trailing missions and repetitive ship combat!

For me it definitely has the strongest intro. 2 and brotherhood are the best imo, and that's me really fighting to say black flag isn't the best but if I'm being honest with myself, the "assassin" and "plot" parts of black flag are fucking trash. I'm still astonished that they never made a fully fleshed out naval combat game maybe with the whale hunting and including all kinds of cool Leviathan Easter eggs and ship upgrading and mechanics that aren't ankle deep.

>race somewhere
>grab flags
>race somewhere grabbing flags

>best parkour
all the games aside from unity and sydicate had garbage parkour systems
youtube.com/watch?v=HHoJwrwNiNE

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Can you really call Black Flag the best Assassin's Creed game when it was only fun as a pirate simulator?

This. It speaks volumes about black flag being a good game but not a good x game when the only time you're having fun is when you are actively going against the grain of the game

>"Hey, do we have to kill these guys?"
>"Yeah, they die because they're trying to subjugate humanity, don't ask about it anymore."
>Now let's have the French Assassin constantly shittalk Shay for no reason and act like a complete asshole so he starts questioning why he's an Assassin.
>Introduce several Assassins who have the personality of a block of wood or literally only speak to Shay once, and Achilles is there too.
>"I'm going to go on a trip for several months to find this PoE."
>Oh shit, something really really bad happened that scars Shay.
>Spend a year or so sailing back.
>No one there to greet you after not seeing you for several years.
>Barge into Achilles' room.
>Immediately start shouting about how the PoE's are actually dangerous and could kill everyone if removed.
>Achilles and your "friends" shout back at you.
>Go back to your room and pout instead of spending five minutes to calm down and explain things to Achilles or even make any sort of argument.
>Betray the Assassins a couple of minutes later because apparently your "friends" don't even want to speak to you or ask you about your journey when clearly something bad happened to you.
>Immediately fall into the Templar's hands and become best buddies with a guy.
>Kill all your "personality of a block of wood" friends without discussing anything with them, asking them questions, or doing literally anything at all but murder.
>Achilles and "best friend" only just start to ask questions right after everyone else has died and they're in front of a PoE.
>Haytham acts nothing like he does in AC3, not even close.
>Even at the end Shay isn't even sure if the Templar Order is in the right.
I don't understand why everyone puts Rogue on a pedestal. It literally just reversed the typical formula and made the Assassins act like raving lunatics while the Templars were pure angels who could do no wrong. Except Haytham and Gist, they were still the whole "Morally gray" Templars.

I waited for years to pay this game. When it was finally released I was so disappointed because every town was basically the same and there was nothing else to do. I sold my PS3 and never played another game of this piece of shit series.

The whole system is retarded. I know "like dude chill let's talk this out" is some faggot shit. But all through the series there's moments of people saying shit in the heat of passion and then running off like some edgy faggot teen instead of explaining what you mean and how what you're doing is going to help. This problem is especially noticeable in AC3 where Connor fucking pouts about everything but still fucking does the mission, and then pouts again to whoever saying "AND THIS TIME IM NEVER HELPING YOU AGAIN!" before picking up yet another mission from the same fucking guy.

Connor drove me nuts, specifically with this line. He acted as if Achilles did nothing for him whatsoever when Achilles told him years ago that they're playing the long game and explained the long game to him. Achilles essentially put his life on the line again for the Assassin Order and spent years of his life training Connor, feeding him, and housing him yet Connor is like "When have you done anything for me old man?".

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Idk why I expected the game to be more grown up. I expected a well communicated native American growing up among colonists with an understandable deep hatred, maybe even a moment of understanding that while colonists ruined his family and the life of his people he is finding that his own father and thus his own existence is predicated on colonists, through this he learns that nothing he does will undo the shit hand he was dealt, and all he can do is move forward, but through the entire game ALL THE WAY TO THE END he's an ungrateful faggot. And yeah the fact that he's basically raised by a black guy and still is like "YOUVE DONE NOTHING FOR ME, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SUFFERING, YOURE JUST A BLACK GUY" I can't tell if it's expert tier social commentary, or just the most tone deaf shit I've ever experienced

>best plot
>kill these three guys
>now kill these three other guys
>now kill these three other guys
>now kill me
>the end

Don't forget he also kills Charles Lee with some sort of ridiculous furor of revenge when Haytham already explained to him that Washington was the one who burned down Connor's village and that Haytham and Charles Lee were going there to warn them about Washington's plan. That one still boggles my mind because Connor is pretty much close to death and still hunts him down for who knows how long.

why did they have to get rid of taunts and unarmed in unity
i can definitely see arno taunting his enemies

I enjoyed it more in my 2nd playthrough, but it hasn't aged all that well. And I don't get the challenging combat meme. It's not so much bamham, but you either break their defense or counter attack. And Altaïr is kind of a dick.

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Assassin's Shit shouldn't have left the middle east. The atmosphere from the first game was never surpassed by any of the following ones.
First one took place in Israel and Syria.
There should be games set in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Persia(Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Takijistan).

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So you're playing as a bad guy neat

Unity is far and away the best Ass Creed that's true to the originals. After patches and with the french audio of course.

Black Flag if you don't give a shit about the series.

>when will Yea Forums admit that this was the best assassin's creed?
it was

i had no idea that years later they would milk its corpse, and that an aberration known as "ass creed community" would come to exist, but i am glad it was made, it is definitely one of my favourites, and it also improved on everything prince of persia related without a finger of the retarded faggot cuck creator of that series

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unity looked good until i played it

god what a mess, and they made it effortless, it requires zero thought to climb anything

It really isn't, besides the modern day story being really interesting and fun cities to explore it was the most repetitive asscreed game and that's saying a lot.

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>it requires zero thought to climb anything
You're kidding, right? You have full control over up/down, you still have to reorient yourself constantly, and in general you have much more control compared to any of the older games. Hell, they still have buildings in-game where you go inside and have to figure out the correct way to climb stuff and the proper way to jump. Do you honestly want to stay at AC1 level speed of climbing and your character constantly ignoring certain things they can grab onto or having to go back down just so you grab the correct ledge to keep bringing you up instead of your character dynamically figuring it out? The challenge is in making a clean climb and plotting out your path or climbing on the fly, it shouldn't be just trying to climb a simple ledge.
Also, yes, I understand this does ultimately make it easier compared to the older games, but at the same time they change up their guard rotations and so forth to account for it.

And it has the best combat of any of them, and the most freedom to take out targets how you want.

>your character dynamically figuring it out
LOL there are actual people out there who think this shit is actually good, devs keep implementing hollywood mechanics because of this, so chimpanzees can press 1 button and be done with it

****i**** want to have control over my character, not have some shitty script figuring out what is the best route among infinite points, and then fling my character all over the screen because it doesn't know what it is doing, that's not challenging, *i* want to play the game, not watch a scripted movie. climbing in AC1 wasn't in any way perfect but at least he wouldn't jump over the buildings as if they were an extension of the sidewalk edge

>guard rotations
i have no idea of what this is and how it accounts for anything

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literally who setting
best plot was 4 because it actually followed the events of nassau closely with character deaths and betrayals being somehat accurate, right down to trappy
if with best parkour you mean clunkiest, sure
most focus on copy pasted generic shit
no challenge whatsoever.

2&4 are the only games worth playing in this franchise. Unity if you like historical immersion, because they actually put effort into it with literal crowds of hundreds of people and pretty much every sidequest in the game having unique dialogue and a set up, even the co-op missions have little voiced movie introductions.
shame that the b-team went right back to copy pasted trash a la "clear the hideout" or "save the children from the factory" with syndicate. well not a shame really, because as said 2&4 are the only ones worth playing in this shit franchise anyway.

2 because its the most AC game to date that actually nails the formula and is a legitimately interesting game. And 4 because its the least AC game out there, while not stretching it out too much like Odyssey which has 10hrs of content stretched out over a hundred.

>inane gratification
>most mature
So it's a better game because it's less fun? Explain yourself, user.

Does this game have ansel or photo mode?

Unity has better combat as well. It’s more realistic and it’s challenging to take on several people at once unlike the previous games.

>****i**** want to have control over my character
You literally do, Unity straight up gives you the most control over climbing the series has ever had. Do you want Mirror's Edge levels of complexity just to climb a simple wall? Well that's great, now you lower the amount of stuff you can do combat-wise because now all the buttons are tied to flipping around, climbing up a wall, rolling, and a whole host of other commands to facilitate this complexity.
>but at least he wouldn't jump over the buildings as if they were an extension of the sidewalk edge
You still have complete control over jumping if you want to. You can still manually jump, there's just no reason not to have him leap over a small gap if he can make it without effort, you can even specify if you want to go down said gap instead of leaping over it by holding run down and you still need to manually make the jump if it's too far for him to simply do a small leap. This is like complaining your character takes a step up a slightly higher ledge if he can instead of you needing to push up against it and press jump to have your guy put his foot on top of it.

>i have no idea of what this is and how it accounts for anything
They take into account the fact that you have so much control and speed by having multiple guards also have that speed to climb, they have guard rotations and placement specifically to stop you from taking advantage of it, and the guards that can't parkour do everything in their power to shoot at you or throw rocks to get you down. Hell, rock throwing is in 1 to get you off of a ledge but not to the extent of Unity where everyone will try to get you down.

This.
Unity was the only game I found challenging.
The combat had actual weight and pacing to it, and gunners could fuck your shit up royally. Plus people would lunge at you from all sides.

I always play without hud though, so that may have a different impact.

Not him but you're a retard mate.
>not have some shitty script figuring out what is the best route among
Thats literally what Unity does best with its 3-way system. You're either too stupid to figure it out or just shitposting.

It still uses that press button to counter. The only AC game where it was casualized beyond belief was AC3, Liberation and Syndicate. The rest of them were just not *as* casualized.

murdering isnt fun. assassination is a meticulous process and ac nails that feel perfectly

>doesnt try to fool you with inane gratification.
thats literally what the first game does worst user.
because it only has one type of content that is literally just "oh man mom did you see me killing this guy?"

>actually challening

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>It still uses that press button to counter.
Which doesn't kill, disorients only for a second or two, does next to no damage, and doesn't cause other enemies to stop attacking. You can even get knocked out of performing a counter if another guy is attacking at the same time. Enemies are constantly on your ass in Unity, there's always some asshole in back shooting at you, and you are always having to break guards or counter and juggle like five enemies at a time. You can always take the easy way out and Smoke Bomb each person individually but that means finding a shop which is a pain and then buying them every time you get into a fight.

It's not perfect and it's still easy enough once you get the higher tier gear, but they made an effort with Unity.

Black flag >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trash >>> any ass creed

is unity actually worth playing now then?

its that without any mod?
im running it on max settings and doesnt look close to that.

The story and characters are still quite disappointing, it still does have a lot of bloat problems (By this I mean just the sheer amount of time wasting collectibles when there's no good reason to have like 700+), and the glitches are still present even after all the patches, but from a gameplay perspective it's the same leap AC did going from AC1 to AC2, it's great.
You can still get it free I think, just make sure you play it in French, you'll probably get confused on Rebecca and Shaun's VAs in the modern day segments but other than that it's superior to English accents on French people for some reason. French Arno and Elise have some pretty great VAs and hearing them say "Mirabeau" is always nice for your ears.

Sort of. It’s still a buggy mess.

yeah. currently free on pc and less than a buck on xbox

asscreed 1 and 2 were good, you may want to slip in all Ezio games, because he is the best character of the franchise.

>It’s still a buggy mess.
this, fucking floating NPCs is a common thing and game glitched on the prison escape part where you are supposed to jump into a hay cart.

>all the beggars are women
What did Ubisoft mean by this?

Clipping through walls still happens as well. I even fell through the ground because of it several times. Picture related happened to me not 10 or 20 minutes into gaining control of Arno (Doesn't top AC3 though, had an invincible soldier kill me on a ladder after I got Haytham less than five minutes into the city).

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that is a contrarian as fuck opinion

>another AC thread
Why the sudden resurgance?
>tfw I like the new games (odyssey and origins)

Unity would probably be the best AC game if it weren’t for the bugs and the hundreds of NPC’s on screen at once.

t. fan of ezio the capeshit superhero

2 (best game) came out 10 years ago, so people are replaying it.

Asscreed games are fun that's why.Also the new dlc is out and it's fucking great.

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wew what a reach

Black flag is the only ass creed where I finished the story and kept playing.
Cant say the same for the rest

>finish ac
>hyped for the sequel because of the cliffhanger ending
>sequel revealed
>no payoff, new protagonist, fuck the old storyline
and this is regarded as the best game of the series for some fucking reason.

Unity was given away for free due to the Notre Dame fire, there was (Or might still be) a massive sale of the entire series on the uPlay store, and Odyssey got new DLC I think.

How big are the DLCs? I'm still playing base Odyssey but I really like the game. Do the DLCs add any new mechanics, or is it just more story content?

I finished 1, 2, and BF. I hear there are a couple of other good games like Origins but I'm worn out.

turn off the HUD and its a masterpiece
though Unity gets close with the stealth sistem and the fashion/weapon choices

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I felt the same way, but got Origins cheap as fuck and was pleasantly surprised to say the least. Its different enough to warrant playing and combat has been fully reworked.
Odyssey is the better game though, of the two new ones.

First DLC was mediocre in every sense of the way.Each episode was 3 hours at most, it didn't introduce new explorable areas and the story was meh.Only good parts are the new weapons and armors which are really powerful, the new "cult" targets, new skills and flamethrower for Adrestia.

This Atlantis DLC however is really good.First episode has a good 8-10 hours of content, new explorable world, new items, new enemies, new mount.. new everything.I'm enjoying it much more than the first DLC.

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AC1=AC3>the rest
Ezio a shit.

Best: Odyssey/Black Flag
Worst: All others

That's not how that pic was supposed to look like RREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>Playing any AC game after the Kenway saga

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why do people hate ezio

Based

>Best: Odyssey

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They should have added co-op to the previous games.

>retrieve the heads
>0/3
missing a fourth one, don't you think?

If by people you mean zoomers who started AC games with unity or something then who cares what they think, everyone liked ezio back in ac2 days, still hasn't been surpassed character wise.

The best will always be Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

Only a retarded nigger would prefer any other alternative.

>actually challenging
Every pre Origins ACs were easy as fuck.

you played unity?

Why exactly is it the best?

>>best setting
>>best plot
Only these. And ACII will forever be king in other areas. It simply cannot be topped. Although ironically, their obsession with their best protagonist, Ezio, ended up killing the franchise.

Dunno if it's nostalgia, but 2 is still my favorite to replay. The setting, story, and music are the best.

Yeah.

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only call of duty faggots who started with 2 like ezio. dude ac was booooring the sequel looks so cool you get a friggin gun!

Origins is the best game, only because it has real combat and decent stealth.
Unity (played it recently with all the patches and runs perfectly with almost no bugs) is the best asassasins creed, meaning it does the things that define AC in the best way.
2 has the best story.

anyone in here wants to go for some multiplayer, doesnt matter which game

cod faggots are still better than zoomers lmao

>Origins
But Odyssey is Origins but better?

Revelations is still my favourite. Mainly due to its oneiric vibes.

youtu.be/5x4bbLcVO6Y?t=99

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>best
>grindfest
>enemy levels
>shitty RPG shit
>loot

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>Unity
>runs perfectly with almost no bugs
that’s hard to believe

He was good in 2, but dragging him on for 2 more games was a bit much.

I still haven't played it but for all the things I have seen and heard about it, looks like it's just an origins clone that does a lot of things worse. Will play it soon.

loved it too, especially the ending

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Rogue is literally the only good Assassin's Creed game.

>anons unironically liking ubishit like AssCreed

Have the shills won?

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>trial by combat
>oh btw 10 other dudes can also jump you I don't care
Why is it so unintentionally hilarious.

It's the truth, I was surprised myself.

>me dont have opinions :) me just do what my reddit friends say :D

>Connor is pretty much close to death and still hunts him down for who knows how long.

It got pretty comical, really. It was starting to look like they'd limp around the world wheezing like that.

Jeeze I got AC3 for free and now Unity for free. What are the odds I won't ever have to pay for any ass creed games in the future?

not that I really want to play any of them, but still

>waaah I entered a thread about something I dont like
face it AC threads are unironically the most civil and comfy threads on Yea Forums

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>REEEEEEEEEEEE DON'T LIKE THINGS I DON'T

Whatever happened to the apocalypse that was about to happen?
I made it about a quarter/third through 3 and had to stop.

My man.

as opposed to the shitty combat and tailing missions of the previous games?

>best setting
Yeah
>best plot
no
>best parkour
no
>most focus on assassination with no fluff bullshit
yeah
>actually challenging
no
Also filled with repetitive bullshit, dissonance in gamplay (shit you do to learn about the target never actually matters when killing him) is easy as all sin, and has the worst collectable system I've ever witnessed in a videogame. If you actually went through the trouble of finding all the flags and killing all the templar knights, I I have profound pity for you

The Mercenary system that replaces the bounty hunter fags from Origins
It also has armor, loadouts and transmog for fashions creed
Oh and it has skills and actual abilities you can use in combat, and a better ability tree.

>shit you do to learn about the target never actually matters when killing him
that shit was the best dude
>have the location where the guards will be and their patrol routes
>know where the guy will run to when spooked, and giving you a path to beat him there instead of just running straight after him
>knowing that shit like gates will get closed when trouble starts

Fuck off.

It was really good. It's a shame that in the next game Minerva basically says "no, all that Ezio did to deliver the information to desmond was for nothing, we actually don't want you to do anything!"

>best setting
Depends on what you prefer, I loved the AC3 setting for example
>best plot
The story was lackluster compared to what came after. It may set the first steps but thats about it.
>best parkour
Straight up bullshit.
>most focus in assassination with no fluff bullshit
I can agree on that.
>actually challenging
It's really not. I remember everytime I passed by that huge Templar camp I would kill the whole of it just for fun and it was pretty easy.
Assassins Creed 2 and ACR are probably the hardest but ACR only because of those annoying Jannisary enemies that shot you every 2 seconds.

>CHARLES LEE gets on a boat bleeding to death.
>Connor limps along.
>Also gets on a boat bleeding to death to chase him on the open seas.
Laughed my ass off when they got to the tavern because you can just imagine them both rowing while nearly dying with each paddle and Connor just filled with pure rage for no reason chasing him with his own limps.

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Why the fuck are you tripfagging on fucking Yea Forums of all places?

No spoilers, but which game is Desmond's last?

>The story was lackluster
maybe thats because mostly everything that the first game set up was abandoned in the sequels for whatever resason

It probably was, but it was still dogshit

That was one of the best things of AC 1, and it was inmediatly discarded from AC2 onwards. They tried to do something similar with Unity and Syndicate, but it was just streamlined bullshit with icons and shit, instead of giving you the information and letting you do what you want with It. A shame.

God, those reflections really are gorgeous.

3. You do get to play as him several times in the modern day as an actual assassin so there is that silver lining.

3

Wtf did they do to Desmond after 3?

they wrote themselves into a dead end so they just dropped

>not knowing moose

go back

I love beating the fuck out of women and taking their money in 2.

Rebecca, Shaun, and his dad escaped after the activation that saved the Earth. Abstergo finds the temple quickly after the fact and they take blood samples and recover his body. They use said blood to find a bunch more PoEs, Liberation, Black Flag, and Rogue exist because of this, I can't remember if Unity did as well. Either BF or Unity show a list of all the games Abstergo Games could make from the blood, I just can't find a screenshot of it quickly.

FUCK BLACK FLAG
FUCK THE OCEAN AND FUCK SHIPS

I loved him when I played the games in high school but after replaying the trilogy last year I found him to be pretty dumb and kind of annoying. Also tryhard. The game makes a huge deal out of the scenes where he is implied to have gotten laid with Ezio making an whole thing of it as if that convinces you that he's a badass of some sort instead of him doing the actual badass thing of simply taking it as a matter of course, for example.
There's some other retarded things. After he kills Uberto he doesn't really give a shit about the Assassins even though he just learned that his dad secretly was one for his entire life, I mean fuck man you don't even have any questions for Mario?
Also he retardedly spares Borgia for no reason whatsoever which still makes my head spin with how dumb, out of character, and out of nowhere it is. In Revelations he comes off as a skeevy old man, the whole time I was wishing the game was about Yusuf and not this rackety excuse for an Italian I was limping around as.
I don't really hate him but I've cooled down on him a lot and I prefer Altair a hell of a lot more, who at least goes so far down the dickish arrogant route that it becomes amusing to watch. I think Ezio is designed to appeal to young teens.

There we go, found a screenshot.

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2's story is fairly garbage, these people are just shit writers

>best parkour

Unity can be shitty, but come on

Probably not the best but by far the most promising. Prince of Persia with stealth was (and remains) a cool idea no matter the setting. The original game has a lot of rough edges (and I haven't played it in over ten years, before ACII came out) but it had a clarity in its focus. I know a lot of people jerk off Black Flag but it's a wildly different game in emphasis.

It's a series that's easy to revile but the series could have gone in a more interesting direction than it did. It didn't have to be this way. I haven't even paid attention to the series since Revelations.

I don't recall it ever making much of a difference. I wish the game chose to let you pursue a few objectives like that and punished you with lack of needed information if you just went for the kill. Of course that would require making a game where you couldn't get out of any situation by tapping the counter button.
Also they should have exerted an ounce of creativity and created different sidequests for finding information. Why not one where you capture an interrogate someone close to the target before killing them, or one where you paid someone off for info or did a favor for them to get it, you know make this thing an actual game with unique sidequests to get info on a target. I still like it for its redeeming qualities but goddamn AC1 feels like a game made by people who don't understand why people play videogames

>Assassin's Creed Crusade
Yeah, I'd buy it. They should do the first crusade or some shit.

I've been cruising this place off and on for seven years and I don't think I've ever encountered him

That list was on Black Flag. And if I remember correctly, the last protagonist that was a Desmond's ancestor was Edward Kenway. For arno they used the dna of some Abstergo employee I think, and the Fryes are from the cloud of DNA information Abstergo is creating.

>>actually challenging
*breathes in*
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ass Creed 1920/1930s when?

kek, same thought

Black Flag had the best setting

>AC1 feels like a game made by people who don't understand why people play videogames
It's Assassin Simulator 1191. even the metaplot regarding the animus played into this simulation focus. how hard is it to understand the game was made for autistic germans?

>tfw 2 still looks good to me

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what's with the image people post saying I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD DO THIS

It's not even that great of a simulator. This will seem like a retarded comment due to the time difference but something like RDR2 plays much more like the devs sat down and were like "lets make a simulator". AC1 like all early ACs plays like a historical tourism game first and foremost and a videogame second. All the phoned in sidequests, the cheesy combat which is so easy and simple my mom could probably play it, and the lack of variety or engaging side content give it this impression. If it was a simulator you'd think there'd be more shit to do at least lmao

running through Rome > running all over Italy

Nah, Venice is too much fun and Florence was really beautiful. Walking through Florence listening to the music and reflecting on Ezio's childhood spots = kino.
>Running over Venetian rooftops at night while that violin track plays
>watching the water below
>leap over a rooftop where a group of thieves are hanging out, one looks up
>"Where did you learn to move like that!?"
kino

The combat sucks so much in Origins.

The animations are unrealistic. The leveled enemies are unrealistic. The ‘powers’ and skills are unrealistic. The first game got it right. The 2nd made it look uglier and annoying. Brotherhood did it a little bit better, revelations made it way easier. In three the animations were amazing but way to easy. Black flag dumbed it down from three, the unity was way to buggy, syndicate dumbed it down. Origins pissed on everything and destroyed the combat and Oddysey made it a little better but still sucks

>kind of a dick
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Word, Altair being a dick was one of the best parts of his character.

It's this. He should've been a one and done character, and each game (or trilogy) should've been a different modern protag in different settings. The combinations are limitless. 1970s dude going to the 1800s. 1990s otaku in the animus going to Ancient Japan. That's why this series blows now. Best potential, worst execution.

What people admire about the first AC isn't so much the stuff surrounding assassinations as it is the overall sense of focus. Everything you do revolves around assassination. The build-up to any given assassination might be thin and repetitive, but the core of finding information, infiltration, assassination, and exfiltration is a sturdy foundation even if these things could have been used more organically. Even the boring checklist prereq stuff ultimately serves this theme. It very much was Prince of Assassination, and the setting and environments were in service of that rather than the inverse, no matter how much the game felt like a tech demo or proof of concept more than a finished game (a common complaint even at the time).

The series, of course, did not maintain that going forward.

It's a fetish thing

I begrudginly see your point and what you just named is the reason I even like AC1. It is frustrating that all they had to do was improve on this concept going forward but even in AC2 you see them getting away from assassination as a focus and all of a sudden Ezio seems more like a super soldier than a legitimate assassin, a sense that only grows in following games. AC is so similar to Pokemon in many ways to me. Both have near infinite potential but are governed by clueless developers.