Been saying this same thing for years. Such a miss by Ubisoft, right next to letting another company successfully do a proper “assassin” game in Japan first. 🤦♂️
I cringed hard when I saw Skull and Bones was being developed by Ubisoft Singapore. Here in Singapore, we're never known for game development. People here have little to no idea about the gaming industry. Most of them are usually mobile or casino game developers. Video gaming to Singaporeans are considered "childish" but yet these are the same people who play a rip off League of Legends game called Mobile Legends Bang Bang. Over here its all about trends and money, never about fun.
for anyone curious about the subtitles, all of the subtitles in the game are written with every noun capitalised because that's how english used to be written during the 17th and 18th century
To be fair, that is your crew's stamina. Though I still think the wind mechanic in skull and bones is lame, nothing but an unnecessary inconvenience. The game is already super arcadey anyway, so why bother.
Facial animations in Assassin's Creed peaked with Black Flag. Sure it's graphically dated (even then the textures still look good) but you can really see the expressiveness when characters interact.
@@jayveeeee cutscene animation in general was better. I get why. A bigger scale and making the series an rpg needs a system to automate some animations. Though I'd rather have the team go to a smaller scale. Mirage is a good start, but they took the worst parts of the rpg games for a much cheaper product
Not really Unity is the peak of facial animations and parkour animations.Just compare this to that you will notice the difference.But blackflag is still decent.
This game did hit hard, marys death, blackbeard shouting in a world without gold, we might have been heroes, bonnets hanging, just blows after blows, broke my teenage heart. I absolutely love the gameplay, but cant bear to play the storyline again.
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let's not pretend like people weren't over trilogy games after Ezio's story arch, was it cool to see him grow as a character? yeah but I also remember feeling like following Ezio around for so long held the games back in a bunch of different areas. plus after revelations, people were practically begging Ubisoft to never do another trilogy series with AC ever again. honestly, I think I prefer that Edward got one exceptionally good game rather than a trilogy, but that is just me.
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000That’s a fair point. Although I consider AC3 and Black Flag to be the Kenway Duology. It’s a shame they never continued the Kenway bloodline, it would have been interesting to see an Kenway sailing the seas in a pre-WWI era with steamboats.
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@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 Maybe do a trilogy with each game being one Kenway: 1st Black Flag, 2nd Edward in London and the transition to Haytham, 3rd game AC III
whilst I agree to the extent that I LOVED Kenway and wanted more, there is an issue as Black Flag and Kenway's story neatly documents the end of the Golden Age of piracy. 1 of the things I truly loved about Black Flag was how historically accurate a lot of the storytelling was. Basically, all these pirate 'characters' (most of them anyway) were real historical figures and their ultimate fates in the game are more or less in line with their real life fates. Bartholomew Roberts, in real life, was the 1 pirate who really held out and caused havoc and, once he was done for, there were just not so many great stories nor characters left - his death is usually used to describe the end of piracy in the Caribbean (even though he died in Africa). So I don't really know where a Kenway sequel would go after Black Flag, not unless it wasn't a pirate game and focused on his return to London but that would defeat the point a bit. They could've maybe done some sort of prequel, as Black Flag hints at his origin story but then just picks up with him already in the Caribbean. Thing is, a prequel couldn't be an Assassin's game because he only discovers the creed at the start of Black Flag. Basically, unless they just invented an entirely fictional cast of characters and history, a Kenway pirate sequel just wouldn't make sense unfortunately. Maybe they could've weaved another story with Kenway that took place in the same timeline as Black Flag, with many of the same characters returning but perhaps focusing on other pirates such as Ned Lowe who didn't really feature in Black Flag, or maybe they could've done Black Flag prequels set in other time periods, such as that of the Buccaneers or the Pirate Round, and used a new main character with Kenway as a rough template. Maybe his father or his uncle or something.
we are unironically in a dark age of game dev, early to late 90s, up to about 2015 were truly great era after that we started going downhill, getting progressively worse and games got more expensive ironically
This game made such a profound impact on me when I first played it that for the last 5 years I've wanted to write an essay about it, just for fun. And no joke, two days ago I randomly decided to start replaying black flag so that I can take notes to write that essay.
The writing for this game is very very good. They didn’t equip the characters with modern day language and context. Rather they crafted dialouge that’s believable for the culture and their time period.
Well, maybe a little modern day context with Edward being automatically very not racist. Prefer him that way mind you, but it's still very much implied in the game that such views are not uncommon.
@@fluidthought42 It’s not really a stretch that Edward specifically isn’t very racist. Not everyone is the same firstly. Some white peoples racism varies. Some still value the skills of someone regardless of their color, while some just don’t care. Historically, there have been plenty of black pirates and black seamen that have had lots of success, even among white men. Apparently, life for a lot of black men as pirates was much better than life in the colonies.
@@diiii_mond Oh yes, abolishinists have existed for as long as slavery itself has. But we've never really gotten an exploration or answer as to why Edward doesn't have any particular racist tendencies.
The failure even brought new players to Black Flag and Assassin's Creed in general! I'd never played an Assassin's Creed game before Skull and Bones was released, and now I've played and enjoyed Black Flag, and I'm currently playing the original Assassin's Creed, and wondering where these games have been for all my life!
@@MatthewJarvis-zw2sz guess skull and bones was a marketing campaign to get you to play assassins creed instead, if that is the case then its one heck of an expensive advertisement!
@@darthkaliath4014no people just judge a book by its cover and think because a game is older that they won’t like it. I remember seeing kingdom hearts in the gameinformer magazines thinking that it was some dumb disney child game while i was playing spiderman 2 midnight club and gta. Boy was i wrong played the games during covid and loved them.
I love the gun swords you get after completing all the assassin contracts. The finishing move you get blows them off of your blade after you run them through. One of my favorite AC games
Dont know if fast travel even exists in this game as sailing in your ship is so immersive and you always want to hear the new sea shantys you collect in the cities
It does. You can fast travel to any harbor (where you'll still be at the helm) or any sync point (where you'll be on foot). Short of completionism in the post-game though, it is indeed rarely used by most.
A wise man once said that open world is only as good as the methods of it's traversal. Cruising around in your ship listening to the sea and shanties was as good as it can get, never used fast travel either.
@@Klovaneer Cruisin' down the sea in my 'Jackdaw Jockin' the harlets, slappin' the hoes Went to the port to get the scoop Pirates out there cold shootin' some cannons.
Edward is in my top three protagonists because of his charisma and ego playing into the power fantasy that era of Assassin's Creed was like. He was almost an embodiment of the player base at the time and explored an "Assassin" playing by his own rules. The world of AC4 also feels like the largest because of how far it spans and all the different environments, even more than Odyssey.
i finished this game like 14 times and all i'm gonna say is: Pick up weapons like daggers muskets and axes they're really cool and spice up the gameplay that might get boring after a while with just swords, also pressing the firing key with your axe equipped instakills enemies, so does the dagger
I just beat black flag yesterday after not playing it again for years. This game is one of my favourite assassin creed games of all time and that ending will always make me cry
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I was never big on Assassin's Creed games. But when this game came out, I instantly fell in love. The only parts I didn't like was the stuff outside the Animus, and the deep diving sections. The same day I picked this up was the day I picked up a new 2.1 speaker system for my PC with some serious bass. Made the ship battles absolutely epic, with the thunder of cannonballs, the music hitting hard, storms on the horizon...man, just incredible! All I bloody well wanted was a dedicated pirate game in the same vein. 10 years later and they give us Skull & Bones.... To say I'm not pleased is an understatement.
I miss those days when you could pick something up and have new anticipation from it on how much better things would get years later. Now if I find a good game I just clutch onto it as hard as I can without even hoping I'll someday get a better version of it
Black Flag was such a journey to complete, a real adventure, like the ones i used to want when games were 2D and you really had to use your imagination
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They literally just had to make black flag again but without the assassin parts. That would've done it. Instead they did a game where as a "pirate" you can't explore land, can't swim, can't board ships, etc. What a shame 🤦
Quartermaster, in the time of Pirates, was just as powerful as the Captain, if not more. While the Captain was the authority during combat the Quartermaster was the.. Speaker of the House you could say. Both were dang near equal and were at the whim of their crew. Obviously there are pirates and ships that didn't follow this exactly to a T.
I completely agree with you, there is so much to love about Black Flag, I also hold this game dearly. No other game has scratched that open-world pirate itch quite like this one, and the story and characters are all an amazing take on the classic legends of the seas.
this game was so ahead of its time, from facial animations to the world building to the setting and side activities, even the story is in my opinion in that upper echelon of video game storytelling with the RDR2s and TLoUs.
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Not every game needs a next gen update... that's just an opportunity for things to be revised and ruined. You don't take the Mona Lisa and update it for modern audiences. Just go buy a ps3.
Also if you get into combat with the soldiers who are at the rooftops, after defeating them you can use their knives as throwing knives which is extremely fun and makes alot of the missions easier
Still to this day IMO the best pirate themed game and one of the best AC games ever made, and it still holds up really well. And for me, the story is probably the best out of any AC game, you get to meet all these famous historical pirate figures and it really helps it sell that pirate life feeling. Im legit baffled how they managed to screw up a perfectly good pirate formula with Skull and Bones. They had the blueprint right in front of them.
One of my favorite things about this game is Parry + Throw. I love getting a mass of soldiers to chase me up and building or the side of a cliff and throw them off it. It’s so hilarious to hear them scream as they fall.
The most insane part of black flag is exactly 1 thing that makes Edward a very unbelievable character. He’s an 18th century pirate, who was born to farmers, can read.
He was in a relationship with a wealthy and smart women and became a privateer, its not crazy to think he would learn to read from either of those experiences. Plus a lot of pirates are a lot smarter than you probably think. Pirates of the Caribbean isn't a good representation of real pirates
@@ZGh0st1422 To be able to navigate the open sea and trade. Pirate captain can at least read, basic math skill, and knowledge of the seas and sky. They are smarter than we give them credit for.
It’s fantastic how in BF you can commandeer harboured boats, take out all the guards and then head back to your vessel and just instantly take the boat, they could have so easily made it so the enemies just respawn, the continuity itself is just a great bit of gameplay x
Everything about this game brings a tear to my eye :')! 123.8 hours played on Steam myself. I 100%'d it, replayed using different strategies, and honestly replayed for the naval combat especially the naval fort fights they were SO GOOD I still have it downloaded because like you I sometimes just get the urge to hop on it every once in a while.
We all did that with the elder scrolls, go back and see if you cant do it again. Take a week off if you get frustrated, but don’t let that go any longer than a week.
This game was the first game I introduced to my sister for the AC franchise (yes I know that's probably sinful but I digress). She loved it. This game still sits high on my praise/faves list all these years later. I don't know what they put in the formula for this game, but between it's pirate story, music, game mechanics, etc, it still stands out all these years later.
I think that the acting and dialogues are brilliant for a video game. It competes with great movies. It's an alternative inspiration for voice acting compared to most being inspired from movies and tv shows etc.
This is probably my favorite game from the series. I always keep coming back to this game after all these years, with a smile on my face. I remember when this game was first coming out, remember watching a demo of exploration on Mysteriosa. I was fascinated, it looked so good and it still does. The nostalgia is insane. I would love to have that same pleasant feeling of playing a game like that again.
I will forever love the name “Stede Bonnet”. Makes me think of Patrick McNee as John Steed in the old Avengers spy series. If you know, you know (and you’re old like me 😉)
@@stevengreco2075 Stede stands out, because he was already a wealthy married man. He became a pirate essentially because he wanted to. That is what the "Gentlemen Pirate" moniker is referring to. If you read into him some more, you'll find he was pretty hated by those that dealt with him.
When I was a kid, I played the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's chest game for Game Boy Advance. The game has two gameplay scenarios: One is an open archipielago you can sail absolutely free with a top down view of the Black pearl. You can encounter other ships, which will either flee or chase you, you can enter in combat with them and, when weakened, you can aboard and pillage all the goods. The other scenarios are the islands, some linked to the game story, some totally optional. Each one has its own map with different phases which work like a 2D Prince of persia, platforms, hidden areas, a combat system based on basic combos with a decent variety of enemies... You can find gold and treasures which will either grant you more gold or special abillities, and with that gold you are able to upgrade the character (Jack) or the ship with new cannons or sails which affects its stats. It was (and still is) one of my favourite GBA games, and here I am now, many years later, playing AC4 on Nintendo Switch. And I feel like an 11 yo again ❤
It's so crazy how awesome the sailing is in Black Flag, and how it's nothing even remotely close to that in Skull and Bones. Hell, your ship can even become airborn in S&B. The ship actually feel "heavy" and not on roller skates. Fun fact about the Jackdaw in history. The Spanish Treasure headed for Spain fleet did sink in a storm, just like in the game. Most of the gold washed ashore in Florida. However, it is said that one ship in the treasure fleet was not accounted for. In the game, that ship is the Jackdaw.
This is my favorite AC because it's still an Assaassin game like AC1 and Ezio trilogy, but it's also much more. Plus, who doesn't like being a pirate?!
Me I got bored quite quickly after about my 20th ship boarded.... it just became a boring grind.....even today replaying it it's very repetitive..... sorry but it is
If Ubisoft had any brains left, they would make a Black Flag re-master with modern graphics (though, they're hardly necessary; that game was mint on release), new DLC/missions, and maybe pack in a Freedom Cry re-master for good measure. That was peak Ubisoft, and I'd pay GOOD money for that again... Black Flag, the uncontested, BEST pirate game that exists, and it's OCEANS away from the runner-up (whatever that is...who cares).
Awesome video. I agree that Black Flag isn't just a good AC game or a good pirate game. it's a good video game period. It's not perfect, but everything about it (for me anyway) just works.
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Its crazy to think how few pirate games there are, we need a new open world pirate game that lets us travel on land and sea, customise our own ship and name it. Skull and Bones doesn't deliver it misses features that were available in this game.
@@pascalstrijker3985 Sea of Thieves is a goofy little meme game for streamers. It's fine for what it is, but it's not a real game, and certainly it does nothing for people who want actual story and atmosphere.
Man you're legit a fan of Assassin's Creed when I heard you enjoyed the tailing missions. I've always heard from other creators and such that people hate those missions but I never minded them at all. I wish Assassin's Creed went back to what made these games special.
Black Flag is my favorite AC game for pretty much all of the reasons you mentioned in his video. Definitely going to revisit this once I find time to (curse of being a teacher is the limited amount of time I have to game these days)
Playing the series from the start, having played only Black Flag before. Right now on Brotherhood and having a blast but can’t wait to sail the seas again! Love these kinds of videos when a person is having genuine fun and likes to talk about it.
i just love the History aspect of all the assassins creed games, seeing and interacting prominent people of the time makes the game even more awesome, same as AC3 and unity.
I love Black Flag. For me the taking of forts and building my fleet was great fun. I thought the app you could have on tablet to send your fleet on missions was a brilliant addition.
Ngl this game has some parts of an OP rpg, the combat felt so insanely fluid and you felt unbeatable and although sometimes that had it’s bad sides, it still felt epic
Ironically, the AC game that best replicates Black Flag´s freedom of movement and ocean voyaging is Odyssey. You can swim from island to island in it, you can sink a ship and then dive to get its coffers from the wreckage, sharks will flock to spots where bodies and blood have been spilt, and they are an added hazard... Odyssey´s sandbox is as underrated as Black Flag´s was back then, and I can foresee it getting this treatment in the future.
1:25 I think it could be true that the succes of this game contributed somewhat to ubi making games less assassin-y, but there are some things it does that feel so deeply AC that even other older highly praised AC's dont do that much, that make me love it even more, on top of it already being a great pirate game with AC elements. Edward's journey really reminds me of Altair, but also the villains and the confessions and how philosophical it is adds to it even more.
I think AC3 and Black Flag do a great job of how having tunnel vision for some vague "freedom" can make everything worse and cause you to lose sight of what's really important to you. Unlike Rogue which was just hilariously shallow about the conflict, and the Ezio trilogy which played "tenplars bad" completely straight. AC1 kinda touches the issue of the two sides not being so different, but that's a rather different story from watching a guy hit rock bottom on one extreme.
I couldn’t play Black Flag when I was younger because naval warfare was not it for me, but my hunt for platinums for every AC game brought me back and this game really holds up 11 years later. The naval warfare is actually vastly more tolerable than the following games 😅
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We've known since the game was announced that it was going to be strictly ship based. I don't know why everyone is so up in arms about not being able to do much off the ship.
Honestly if they had just copy pasted black flag into a multiplayer open world environment system like Sea of Thieves it would've been the best game for this year. Ubi swung and literally threw the bat
Making Skull and Bones must have been crushing the devs, knowing it was going straight in the bin. We pretty much know it was the higher ups that did the damage.
4:30 i worked on formula one 2000 (i think it was, around 1999 anyway) at electronic arts. they had a big purpose built building overlooking a lake with a big glass front designed by fosters, it had a cinema, it's own restaurant, cafe and bar, in the foyer we had couthard's and kimi raikonnens mclaren's, mclaren were our next door neighbours, and the stairway in the foyer was used in the film inception for the ames stairs sequence. but, the offices were what you'd expect to find in an insurance company, none of this "google colourful open spaces" crap, grey boxes, we worked in gray boxes.
As much as I loved this game, I did think that it was a "Bad" assassin's creed game. It was a beautiful pirate game though. Also I feel that Rogue doesn't get enough attention, as it added a bit of a twist to the black flag formula, with a smaller, less powerful ship, totally different setting that actually felt pretty different and a LOT of AC3 tie in. So in terms of Assassin's creed story, I think Rogue was better, but for pirating, Black flag is so much better. I kinda hope that when they remake Black flag, that they also do something with Rogue, though I understand they probably won't do anything with it...I do love Edward Kenway though, he was such a great character, I wish we saw more of tribute in Syndicate, since they did have a reference to him, but I kinda wish they talked a bit more about what happened after the events of the game.
Thank you. 4 was an awesome pirate game, but an awful AC game, both in gameplay and story. And Rogue indeed doesn't get the attention it deserves, with a vastly improved story, much more adjacent (alongside gameplay) to AC. It's so sad it was super rushed and so didn't get the chance for some further polish to everything, and much more content than the ~6 to ~8 hours story we got.
@@FunnyStripes agreed. I was so underwhelmed by everything in IV besides the naval missions...at least Rogue felt like a coherent story. The open world content was terrible though.
My jaw dropped when he was a Welshman and from Swansea no less. Never thought my humble town would be mentioned in a massive game like this back in the day.
I can't even quantify the amount of hours I've spent EXPLORING the seas in ACBF. A real role play game also if the character is just one. S&B can simply not achieve such thing
The only thing i missed that Black Flag didn't have, is the choice to buy or upgrade ships. And by upgrading i mean, have multiple layers on the ship and not just 1.
Besides the ezio trillogy black flag and rouge are probably my favourites to play. The controls are simplified enough that they're easy and intuitive to use without limiting too much of the experience. Just perfect storys
I remember sailing a storm in Black Flag and MAN! It felt cinematic and it was a struggle. When I got out of it I felt like I really braved the seas. This is the best assassin's creed for me and none of Ubisofts recent games come close.
Black flag is seriously one of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard in my opinion. A constantly listen to that soundtrack when I go running, and it makes me feel like a pirate lol
Proof that a game doesn't need fancy graphics to be good. Game devs these days should be embarrassed that a decade old game is still beating modern games.
It does make you wonder just what kind of internal thought process they must have gone through in order to take the idea of making a game that builds on the popularity of AC4 and its sailing/Pirate gameplay and creating the Skull and Bone live service game that they ended up releasing.
It's incredible that Ubisoft created this game, but completely misunderstood why it was so great and I would put Far Cry 3 in the same boat. What made these games stand out so much was the narrative experience, good writing and characters and immersion, by which I mean character immersion and relatability more so than "realism" (which is a big part of why I don't like the modern day sections). Early 2010s ubisoft was the king of character driven story and the fact that anyone at any point thought about isolating the mediocre ship combat as it's own game is upsetting.
BF is in top ten games ever!! The one and only downfall is the fact you can't crouch in stealth..unless your in a weed! You have to get into a brush to crouch!This was always annoying!
Black flag has always been one of AC's best games of all time. It's not my favourite, but when someone else tells you it is, it's hard to mock them. Black flag had awesome ship mechanics, it hit the right spot of not having too overpowered guns and cannons. You are put to the sword when facing those legendary ships (those waves as well). Naval warfare is always fun when you get to mess with man o war's. There is always a ton of treasure maps, secret locations and you can upgrade your hideout. Fishing has always been my favourite part of the game for me, looking for that white whale 😂. WHALE WARS! The story in the first half felt a bit boring, but brought a lot of context into second half. When Edward finally loses a special someone, man i was really captivated and finish the story. And that ending tho... Especially playing AC3 before it, felt rewarding. Felt like the devs knew what the fans were playing and what they were playing it for. My only cons is the combat lacks a bit of finesse, it's decent, maybe that's just me tho. Black flag is the best pirate game, nothing comes close.
It's kind of weird that with all that in-fighting literally all Ubisoft ever had to do was make a direct follow-up to Black Flag and they would've made millions of dollars, even if they took out all references to Assassin's Creed.
And they had all the tools to do so bc they refined the game engine with ac rogue, like they LITERALLY already had a well made game engine they could have built on top of and they just… didn’t 💀
Gotta love it. People used to hate on this game when it first came out, saying it wasnt a real Assassins Creed game. I swear gamers have a short attention span. They hate everything for a few years, then when the franchise has gone on long enough, they think back to all the games they hated as being "the last good one".
My favourite pirate game was monkey island 1. I bought it when it first came out and played so much that I memorized exactly how to play through it. Great game
the characters are soo good because more than half of them are based off true people in history and events they just stretch the truth on a lot of it but they start with a good foundation from history
they legit could have repackaged black flag and it would've been better
Been saying this same thing for years. Such a miss by Ubisoft, right next to letting another company successfully do a proper “assassin” game in Japan first. 🤦♂️
Wasn't that Assassin's Creed: Rogue?
@@smartalec2001 Indeed, and that was a good release too, all things considered.
I wonder what you think of AC Rouge.
Edit: Never mind you already played it.
I cringed hard when I saw Skull and Bones was being developed by Ubisoft Singapore. Here in Singapore, we're never known for game development. People here have little to no idea about the gaming industry. Most of them are usually mobile or casino game developers. Video gaming to Singaporeans are considered "childish" but yet these are the same people who play a rip off League of Legends game called Mobile Legends Bang Bang. Over here its all about trends and money, never about fun.
for anyone curious about the subtitles, all of the subtitles in the game are written with every noun capitalised because that's how english used to be written during the 17th and 18th century
In German that's still done, looks kinda cool
I played this game over 3 times and never noticed the capitalised nouns.
Never even noticed that till now. What's the reasoning behind it?
@@Goofiest-Goober0h that's how english used to be written during the 17th and 18th century, as the comment states
@@Goofiest-Goober0h There is no reasoning to how any language works.
i love how in black flag wind actually matters in a way while in skull and bones you have a stamina for your damn boat
Haven’t seen skull and bones gameplay but that is hilarious
There’s no wind system in black flag you still go the same speed when against the wind
@@nathan2194 no, there actually is... wind makes you go slower when facing it and makes you go a bit faster when going in the same direction
To be fair, that is your crew's stamina. Though I still think the wind mechanic in skull and bones is lame, nothing but an unnecessary inconvenience. The game is already super arcadey anyway, so why bother.
@@elgallokriki2105 it can also push you off course
Facial animations in Assassin's Creed peaked with Black Flag. Sure it's graphically dated (even then the textures still look good) but you can really see the expressiveness when characters interact.
oh a hundred percent. there are maybe a handful of prerendered scenes in valhalla that look excellent. everything else is robotic... a real shame
@@jayveeeee cutscene animation in general was better. I get why. A bigger scale and making the series an rpg needs a system to automate some animations.
Though I'd rather have the team go to a smaller scale. Mirage is a good start, but they took the worst parts of the rpg games for a much cheaper product
hot take because I think Unitiy has the best graphics and animations, but IV is amazing
@@ViktorRadoslavov not that controversial. That's just a general fact. Cause man animation took a real dive after Oddysee. Especially cutscenes
Not really Unity is the peak of facial animations and parkour animations.Just compare this to that you will notice the difference.But blackflag is still decent.
This game's ending is gut wrenching, when Edward sees his fallen comrades drinking at the table...I never really recovered from that scene. 😢
same
Very clever strategic marketing from ubisoft, making AC4 black flag sells spikes up.
This game did hit hard, marys death, blackbeard shouting in a world without gold, we might have been heroes, bonnets hanging, just blows after blows, broke my teenage heart. I absolutely love the gameplay, but cant bear to play the storyline again.
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wtf are you talking about. isn't the ending with his daughter ?
This should have been the first game of a trilogy for Edward Kenway, this was the perfect origin story just like AC2
let's not pretend like people weren't over trilogy games after Ezio's story arch, was it cool to see him grow as a character? yeah but I also remember feeling like following Ezio around for so long held the games back in a bunch of different areas.
plus after revelations, people were practically begging Ubisoft to never do another trilogy series with AC ever again.
honestly, I think I prefer that Edward got one exceptionally good game rather than a trilogy, but that is just me.
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000That’s a fair point. Although I consider AC3 and Black Flag to be the Kenway Duology. It’s a shame they never continued the Kenway bloodline, it would have been interesting to see an Kenway sailing the seas in a pre-WWI era with steamboats.
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@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 Maybe do a trilogy with each game being one Kenway: 1st Black Flag, 2nd Edward in London and the transition to Haytham, 3rd game AC III
whilst I agree to the extent that I LOVED Kenway and wanted more, there is an issue as Black Flag and Kenway's story neatly documents the end of the Golden Age of piracy. 1 of the things I truly loved about Black Flag was how historically accurate a lot of the storytelling was. Basically, all these pirate 'characters' (most of them anyway) were real historical figures and their ultimate fates in the game are more or less in line with their real life fates. Bartholomew Roberts, in real life, was the 1 pirate who really held out and caused havoc and, once he was done for, there were just not so many great stories nor characters left - his death is usually used to describe the end of piracy in the Caribbean (even though he died in Africa). So I don't really know where a Kenway sequel would go after Black Flag, not unless it wasn't a pirate game and focused on his return to London but that would defeat the point a bit. They could've maybe done some sort of prequel, as Black Flag hints at his origin story but then just picks up with him already in the Caribbean. Thing is, a prequel couldn't be an Assassin's game because he only discovers the creed at the start of Black Flag. Basically, unless they just invented an entirely fictional cast of characters and history, a Kenway pirate sequel just wouldn't make sense unfortunately. Maybe they could've weaved another story with Kenway that took place in the same timeline as Black Flag, with many of the same characters returning but perhaps focusing on other pirates such as Ned Lowe who didn't really feature in Black Flag, or maybe they could've done Black Flag prequels set in other time periods, such as that of the Buccaneers or the Pirate Round, and used a new main character with Kenway as a rough template. Maybe his father or his uncle or something.
Crazy to think a game made in 2013 is far superior than a game made in 2024
Especially for this series it really isn't.
To be fair you can say that to a lot of games made nowadays.
That’s 2024 for you
we are unironically in a dark age of game dev, early to late 90s, up to about 2015 were truly great era after that we started going downhill, getting progressively worse and games got more expensive ironically
What’s crazier is that a game made in 1994 (Super Metroid) is superior to 99.9% of Metroidvanias that come out these days
This game made such a profound impact on me when I first played it that for the last 5 years I've wanted to write an essay about it, just for fun. And no joke, two days ago I randomly decided to start replaying black flag so that I can take notes to write that essay.
hell yeah! send me a link when you do :)
@@jayveeeeeThanks! I really appreciate that. Will do :)
@@calebmurphy9406 I want one too😥😅
Bro I'm sorry but no one cares about your AC Essay
NERD! Seriously though that’s cool.
The writing for this game is very very good. They didn’t equip the characters with modern day language and context. Rather they crafted dialouge that’s believable for the culture and their time period.
Facts
Well, maybe a little modern day context with Edward being automatically very not racist. Prefer him that way mind you, but it's still very much implied in the game that such views are not uncommon.
@@fluidthought42 It’s not really a stretch that Edward specifically isn’t very racist. Not everyone is the same firstly. Some white peoples racism varies. Some still value the skills of someone regardless of their color, while some just don’t care.
Historically, there have been plenty of black pirates and black seamen that have had lots of success, even among white men. Apparently, life for a lot of black men as pirates was much better than life in the colonies.
@@fluidthought42his best friend is black 😂 born in Barbados as a slave 😂😂😂😂
@@diiii_mond
Oh yes, abolishinists have existed for as long as slavery itself has. But we've never really gotten an exploration or answer as to why Edward doesn't have any particular racist tendencies.
I love how the failure of Skull & Bones brought so many gamers back to appreciate Black Flag
The failure even brought new players to Black Flag and Assassin's Creed in general!
I'd never played an Assassin's Creed game before Skull and Bones was released, and now I've played and enjoyed Black Flag, and I'm currently playing the original Assassin's Creed, and wondering where these games have been for all my life!
@@MatthewJarvis-zw2sz guess skull and bones was a marketing campaign to get you to play assassins creed instead, if that is the case then its one heck of an expensive advertisement!
@@darthkaliath4014no people just judge a book by its cover and think because a game is older that they won’t like it. I remember seeing kingdom hearts in the gameinformer magazines thinking that it was some dumb disney child game while i was playing spiderman 2 midnight club and gta. Boy was i wrong played the games during covid and loved them.
I love the gun swords you get after completing all the assassin contracts. The finishing move you get blows them off of your blade after you run them through. One of my favorite AC games
seriously so good, power fantasy
Today's Ubisoft would have charged 5$ for these swords
Yup! Also the way you could pistol counterattack to kill pretty much any enemy in the game
@@lynx2 On the topic of counterattacks, you could steal a weapon when countering and see some single weapon executions you won't see that often.
its a unique animation specifically for that weapon no?
I loved the music on board when sailing. You just made me want to go replay it. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Aye! Them Sea shanties!
The music is sick everywhere in this game.
the legendary ship track lives in my head rent free
Just got a physical copy to replay for my ps4
The game maim ost is also goated
Dont know if fast travel even exists in this game as sailing in your ship is so immersive and you always want to hear the new sea shantys you collect in the cities
It does. You can fast travel to any harbor (where you'll still be at the helm) or any sync point (where you'll be on foot). Short of completionism in the post-game though, it is indeed rarely used by most.
i didn't know it had a fast travel feature, and i finished it twice. Lol it says a lot about the game.
A wise man once said that open world is only as good as the methods of it's traversal. Cruising around in your ship listening to the sea and shanties was as good as it can get, never used fast travel either.
@@Klovaneer
Cruisin' down the sea in my 'Jackdaw
Jockin' the harlets, slappin' the hoes
Went to the port to get the scoop
Pirates out there cold shootin' some cannons.
Edward is in my top three protagonists because of his charisma and ego playing into the power fantasy that era of Assassin's Creed was like. He was almost an embodiment of the player base at the time and explored an "Assassin" playing by his own rules.
The world of AC4 also feels like the largest because of how far it spans and all the different environments, even more than Odyssey.
Odyssey feels so cloistered. You get on your own boat in Athens and a bounty hunter is waiting for you already when you get off at Crete.
I too enjoy when an AC protagonist is like James Bond of that time.
I just started playing this game. Using a few cosmetic mods to make it less "assassiney" and more "piraty" for a peak pirate experience.
i finished this game like 14 times and all i'm gonna say is:
Pick up weapons like daggers muskets and axes they're really cool and spice up the gameplay that might get boring after a while with just swords, also pressing the firing key with your axe equipped instakills enemies, so does the dagger
Having a pistol equipped and pressing triangle/Y when counterattacking also makes an instakill at the cost of a single bullet
I just beat black flag yesterday after not playing it again for years. This game is one of my favourite assassin creed games of all time and that ending will always make me cry
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@TheBatman19 cry baby
I was never big on Assassin's Creed games. But when this game came out, I instantly fell in love. The only parts I didn't like was the stuff outside the Animus, and the deep diving sections.
The same day I picked this up was the day I picked up a new 2.1 speaker system for my PC with some serious bass. Made the ship battles absolutely epic, with the thunder of cannonballs, the music hitting hard, storms on the horizon...man, just incredible!
All I bloody well wanted was a dedicated pirate game in the same vein. 10 years later and they give us Skull & Bones.... To say I'm not pleased is an understatement.
I miss those days when you could pick something up and have new anticipation from it on how much better things would get years later.
Now if I find a good game I just clutch onto it as hard as I can without even hoping I'll someday get a better version of it
Black Flag was such a journey to complete, a real adventure, like the ones i used to want when games were 2D and you really had to use your imagination
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what 9am? new york time?@@Chickensea10
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They literally just had to make black flag again but without the assassin parts. That would've done it. Instead they did a game where as a "pirate" you can't explore land, can't swim, can't board ships, etc. What a shame 🤦
Raven cry PS3 was planned to be replacement of black flag, but that was complete failure either, with tons of bugs unfix
It's a pirate game first and an assassin's creed game second, I always tell people
Love this game to bits, even after all these years
I saw an ad for Skull and Bones just before this video, all it did was make me want to go back and replay Black Flag.
Quartermaster, in the time of Pirates, was just as powerful as the Captain, if not more.
While the Captain was the authority during combat the Quartermaster was the.. Speaker of the House you could say.
Both were dang near equal and were at the whim of their crew. Obviously there are pirates and ships that didn't follow this exactly to a T.
what about the first mate?
@@moonlord9294Vice President.
I completely agree with you, there is so much to love about Black Flag, I also hold this game dearly. No other game has scratched that open-world pirate itch quite like this one, and the story and characters are all an amazing take on the classic legends of the seas.
this game was so ahead of its time, from facial animations to the world building to the setting and side activities, even the story is in my opinion in that upper echelon of video game storytelling with the RDR2s and TLoUs.
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the multiplayer is pretty fun thats for true@@Chickensea10
Black Flag deserves a next gen update and a sequel.
Freedom cry (dlc) and rouge (full sequal) are made
Its just rouge was released on ps3 days befofe the ps4 was a thing and immediately forgotten
Not every game needs a next gen update... that's just an opportunity for things to be revised and ruined. You don't take the Mona Lisa and update it for modern audiences. Just go buy a ps3.
@@CranialExtractor theres already a remaster of both black flag and rouge for ps4 so i really dont think we need a Re-Remaster
@@CranialExtractor Nah this game deserves a remaster or a remake
@@bruh4628 Why because today's generation can't come up with their own new ideas?
Also if you get into combat with the soldiers who are at the rooftops, after defeating them you can use their knives as throwing knives which is extremely fun and makes alot of the missions easier
Still to this day IMO the best pirate themed game and one of the best AC games ever made, and it still holds up really well. And for me, the story is probably the best out of any AC game, you get to meet all these famous historical pirate figures and it really helps it sell that pirate life feeling. Im legit baffled how they managed to screw up a perfectly good pirate formula with Skull and Bones. They had the blueprint right in front of them.
One of my favorite things about this game is Parry + Throw. I love getting a mass of soldiers to chase me up and building or the side of a cliff and throw them off it. It’s so hilarious to hear them scream as they fall.
10 years later and I’m *STILL* waiting for a movie with Charlie Hunnam as Edward Kenway. They’re literally identical
The most insane part of black flag is exactly 1 thing that makes Edward a very unbelievable character. He’s an 18th century pirate, who was born to farmers, can read.
He was in a relationship with a wealthy and smart women and became a privateer, its not crazy to think he would learn to read from either of those experiences. Plus a lot of pirates are a lot smarter than you probably think. Pirates of the Caribbean isn't a good representation of real pirates
@@ZGh0st1422 To be able to navigate the open sea and trade. Pirate captain can at least read, basic math skill, and knowledge of the seas and sky. They are smarter than we give them credit for.
@@mr.q337 idk why you're saying that to me, that was my point
To add to your point@@ZGh0st1422
It’s fantastic how in BF you can commandeer harboured boats, take out all the guards and then head back to your vessel and just instantly take the boat, they could have so easily made it so the enemies just respawn, the continuity itself is just a great bit of gameplay x
Somebody should make a mod of Black Flag that just takes out all the modern day office building stuff.
Everything about this game brings a tear to my eye :')! 123.8 hours played on Steam myself. I 100%'d it, replayed using different strategies, and honestly replayed for the naval combat especially the naval fort fights they were SO GOOD I still have it downloaded because like you I sometimes just get the urge to hop on it every once in a while.
I have started this game 4 times and never finished it, I need to go back and finally finish this game.
We all did that with the elder scrolls, go back and see if you cant do it again. Take a week off if you get frustrated, but don’t let that go any longer than a week.
This game was the first game I introduced to my sister for the AC franchise (yes I know that's probably sinful but I digress). She loved it. This game still sits high on my praise/faves list all these years later. I don't know what they put in the formula for this game, but between it's pirate story, music, game mechanics, etc, it still stands out all these years later.
Btw you can go through rouge waves without bracing when facing it straight on
I think that the acting and dialogues are brilliant for a video game. It competes with great movies. It's an alternative inspiration for voice acting compared to most being inspired from movies and tv shows etc.
This is probably my favorite game from the series. I always keep coming back to this game after all these years, with a smile on my face.
I remember when this game was first coming out, remember watching a demo of exploration on Mysteriosa. I was fascinated, it looked so good and it still does. The nostalgia is insane.
I would love to have that same pleasant feeling of playing a game like that again.
I will forever love the name “Stede Bonnet”. Makes me think of Patrick McNee as John Steed in the old Avengers spy series. If you know, you know (and you’re old like me 😉)
i believe stede bonnet was an actual person in history, i forgot his pirate name
Stede Bonnett was a real pirate. Known as the Gentleman Pirate. Also played by Rhys Darby in Our Flag Means Death
@@stevengreco2075 Stede stands out, because he was already a wealthy married man. He became a pirate essentially because he wanted to. That is what the "Gentlemen Pirate" moniker is referring to. If you read into him some more, you'll find he was pretty hated by those that dealt with him.
When I was a kid, I played the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's chest game for Game Boy Advance. The game has two gameplay scenarios: One is an open archipielago you can sail absolutely free with a top down view of the Black pearl. You can encounter other ships, which will either flee or chase you, you can enter in combat with them and, when weakened, you can aboard and pillage all the goods.
The other scenarios are the islands, some linked to the game story, some totally optional. Each one has its own map with different phases which work like a 2D Prince of persia, platforms, hidden areas, a combat system based on basic combos with a decent variety of enemies...
You can find gold and treasures which will either grant you more gold or special abillities, and with that gold you are able to upgrade the character (Jack) or the ship with new cannons or sails which affects its stats.
It was (and still is) one of my favourite GBA games, and here I am now, many years later, playing AC4 on Nintendo Switch. And I feel like an 11 yo again ❤
Black Flag continues to age very well
It's so crazy how awesome the sailing is in Black Flag, and how it's nothing even remotely close to that in Skull and Bones. Hell, your ship can even become airborn in S&B. The ship actually feel "heavy" and not on roller skates. Fun fact about the Jackdaw in history. The Spanish Treasure headed for Spain fleet did sink in a storm, just like in the game. Most of the gold washed ashore in Florida. However, it is said that one ship in the treasure fleet was not accounted for. In the game, that ship is the Jackdaw.
This is my favorite AC because it's still an Assaassin game like AC1 and Ezio trilogy, but it's also much more. Plus, who doesn't like being a pirate?!
Me I got bored quite quickly after about my 20th ship boarded.... it just became a boring grind.....even today replaying it it's very repetitive..... sorry but it is
Ac Black flag definetly need a remake or some way to expand that gameplay.
If Ubisoft had any brains left, they would make a Black Flag re-master with modern graphics (though, they're hardly necessary; that game was mint on release), new DLC/missions, and maybe pack in a Freedom Cry re-master for good measure. That was peak Ubisoft, and I'd pay GOOD money for that again... Black Flag, the uncontested, BEST pirate game that exists, and it's OCEANS away from the runner-up (whatever that is...who cares).
Awesome video. I agree that Black Flag isn't just a good AC game or a good pirate game. it's a good video game period. It's not perfect, but everything about it (for me anyway) just works.
Well this just made me wanna replay Black Flag. That final scene though.
One thing i like about Black Flag is the lore connections with Watch Dogs. We learn in this game and in origins that Aiden kills the CCO/CEO
Dull and Barebones.
Game should be called skin and bones
Skull & Fraud
@@joehanz9217 💀 I like this one
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Which one, bro? I have almost all of them@@Chickensea10
Its crazy to think how few pirate games there are, we need a new open world pirate game that lets us travel on land and sea, customise our own ship and name it. Skull and Bones doesn't deliver it misses features that were available in this game.
seems like skull and bones is missing most of what's in this game, and if it does have it, it's worse lol
so sea of thieves open world pirate game that lets you go on land and sea customize your ship and give it a name
Sea of Thieves but PvE basically?
@@pascalstrijker3985 Sea of Thieves is a goofy little meme game for streamers. It's fine for what it is, but it's not a real game, and certainly it does nothing for people who want actual story and atmosphere.
I love how the whole video Jayvee makes subtle passive aggressive digs about Skull & Bones with regards to its missing features 💀
Reject modern cashgrabs, return to Black Flag.
Man you're legit a fan of Assassin's Creed when I heard you enjoyed the tailing missions. I've always heard from other creators and such that people hate those missions but I never minded them at all. I wish Assassin's Creed went back to what made these games special.
Black Flag is my favorite AC game for pretty much all of the reasons you mentioned in his video. Definitely going to revisit this once I find time to (curse of being a teacher is the limited amount of time I have to game these days)
Playing the series from the start, having played only Black Flag before. Right now on Brotherhood and having a blast but can’t wait to sail the seas again!
Love these kinds of videos when a person is having genuine fun and likes to talk about it.
i just love the History aspect of all the assassins creed games, seeing and interacting prominent people of the time makes the game even more awesome, same as AC3 and unity.
I love Black Flag. For me the taking of forts and building my fleet was great fun. I thought the app you could have on tablet to send your fleet on missions was a brilliant addition.
Ngl this game has some parts of an OP rpg, the combat felt so insanely fluid and you felt unbeatable and although sometimes that had it’s bad sides, it still felt epic
Ironically, the AC game that best replicates Black Flag´s freedom of movement and ocean voyaging is Odyssey. You can swim from island to island in it, you can sink a ship and then dive to get its coffers from the wreckage, sharks will flock to spots where bodies and blood have been spilt, and they are an added hazard... Odyssey´s sandbox is as underrated as Black Flag´s was back then, and I can foresee it getting this treatment in the future.
Nope it isn't. That is called AC Rogue. Very much like Black Flag, just you played in northern oceans instead.
@@Dex4Sure "Hur dur the parallel development game is actually way more similar"
1:25 I think it could be true that the succes of this game contributed somewhat to ubi making games less assassin-y, but there are some things it does that feel so deeply AC that even other older highly praised AC's dont do that much, that make me love it even more, on top of it already being a great pirate game with AC elements. Edward's journey really reminds me of Altair, but also the villains and the confessions and how philosophical it is adds to it even more.
I think AC3 and Black Flag do a great job of how having tunnel vision for some vague "freedom" can make everything worse and cause you to lose sight of what's really important to you.
Unlike Rogue which was just hilariously shallow about the conflict, and the Ezio trilogy which played "tenplars bad" completely straight. AC1 kinda touches the issue of the two sides not being so different, but that's a rather different story from watching a guy hit rock bottom on one extreme.
I’ve played through this entire game so many times I love it so much, Everything is just perfect for a pirate
I couldn’t play Black Flag when I was younger because naval warfare was not it for me, but my hunt for platinums for every AC game brought me back and this game really holds up 11 years later. The naval warfare is actually vastly more tolerable than the following games 😅
Charlie Hunnan would be a perfect fit for a live action black flag.
1000%
This game is what got me back into gaming. Amazing game from start to finish and one of the best games I’ve ever played.
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The skull and bones ad before this is crazy
6:11 the ac2 callback😂😂
Black flag is just too fun . I’ve replayed it a bunch and I will be playing it again soon
Ac 4 is still one of the best ac games and I was surprised to know u can’t even swim in skull and bones. Some game huh
We've known since the game was announced that it was going to be strictly ship based. I don't know why everyone is so up in arms about not being able to do much off the ship.
@@dailydiemer8765 Because Skull and Bones is far worse for it. Simple.
Because that's what players didn't want lmao. We wanted Black Flag without the assassin stuff, not Skewered&Barebones@@dailydiemer8765
You left out one of the more enjoyable quests, running after shanties so your crew can sing while sailing!
That feeling of raw humanity is hard to find in modern video games
This was my first assassin's creed game and i really gotta say: still my favorite of the bunch
Honestly if they had just copy pasted black flag into a multiplayer open world environment system like Sea of Thieves it would've been the best game for this year. Ubi swung and literally threw the bat
The intro to this game is so awesome I love every aspect to this so much
Making Skull and Bones must have been crushing the devs, knowing it was going straight in the bin.
We pretty much know it was the higher ups that did the damage.
4:30 i worked on formula one 2000 (i think it was, around 1999 anyway) at electronic arts. they had a big purpose built building overlooking a lake with a big glass front designed by fosters, it had a cinema, it's own restaurant, cafe and bar, in the foyer we had couthard's and kimi raikonnens mclaren's, mclaren were our next door neighbours, and the stairway in the foyer was used in the film inception for the ames stairs sequence. but, the offices were what you'd expect to find in an insurance company, none of this "google colourful open spaces" crap, grey boxes, we worked in gray boxes.
Skull and bones is just a big advertisement for black flag
True 😂
oh shit, you're gonna make me replay Black Flag again
As much as I loved this game, I did think that it was a "Bad" assassin's creed game. It was a beautiful pirate game though. Also I feel that Rogue doesn't get enough attention, as it added a bit of a twist to the black flag formula, with a smaller, less powerful ship, totally different setting that actually felt pretty different and a LOT of AC3 tie in. So in terms of Assassin's creed story, I think Rogue was better, but for pirating, Black flag is so much better. I kinda hope that when they remake Black flag, that they also do something with Rogue, though I understand they probably won't do anything with it...I do love Edward Kenway though, he was such a great character, I wish we saw more of tribute in Syndicate, since they did have a reference to him, but I kinda wish they talked a bit more about what happened after the events of the game.
Thank you. 4 was an awesome pirate game, but an awful AC game, both in gameplay and story.
And Rogue indeed doesn't get the attention it deserves, with a vastly improved story, much more adjacent (alongside gameplay) to AC. It's so sad it was super rushed and so didn't get the chance for some further polish to everything, and much more content than the ~6 to ~8 hours story we got.
@@FunnyStripes agreed. I was so underwhelmed by everything in IV besides the naval missions...at least Rogue felt like a coherent story. The open world content was terrible though.
My jaw dropped when he was a Welshman and from Swansea no less. Never thought my humble town would be mentioned in a massive game like this back in the day.
Leave it to ubisoft to spend 10 years and 100s of millions of dollars to make a worse version of a game they already made 🤣
I can't even quantify the amount of hours I've spent EXPLORING the seas in ACBF. A real role play game also if the character is just one.
S&B can simply not achieve such thing
the real pirate game! a masterpiece
The only thing i missed that Black Flag didn't have, is the choice to buy or upgrade ships. And by upgrading i mean, have multiple layers on the ship and not just 1.
Also i like the modern day 'story'. I like that u can access data about 'subject 17' and the other 'lore' of past games.
Besides the ezio trillogy black flag and rouge are probably my favourites to play. The controls are simplified enough that they're easy and intuitive to use without limiting too much of the experience. Just perfect storys
I remember sailing a storm in Black Flag and MAN! It felt cinematic and it was a struggle. When I got out of it I felt like I really braved the seas. This is the best assassin's creed for me and none of Ubisofts recent games come close.
Black flag is seriously one of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard in my opinion. A constantly listen to that soundtrack when I go running, and it makes me feel like a pirate lol
Proof that a game doesn't need fancy graphics to be good. Game devs these days should be embarrassed that a decade old game is still beating modern games.
It does make you wonder just what kind of internal thought process they must have gone through in order to take the idea of making a game that builds on the popularity of AC4 and its sailing/Pirate gameplay and creating the Skull and Bone live service game that they ended up releasing.
It's incredible that Ubisoft created this game, but completely misunderstood why it was so great and I would put Far Cry 3 in the same boat. What made these games stand out so much was the narrative experience, good writing and characters and immersion, by which I mean character immersion and relatability more so than "realism" (which is a big part of why I don't like the modern day sections). Early 2010s ubisoft was the king of character driven story and the fact that anyone at any point thought about isolating the mediocre ship combat as it's own game is upsetting.
BF is in top ten games ever!! The one and only downfall is the fact you can't crouch in stealth..unless your in a weed! You have to get into a brush to crouch!This was always annoying!
We need a black flag 2 or just an open world pirate game bassed off black flag
True but i believe there is a remake of black flag coming not sure tho
Black flag has always been one of AC's best games of all time. It's not my favourite, but when someone else tells you it is, it's hard to mock them. Black flag had awesome ship mechanics, it hit the right spot of not having too overpowered guns and cannons. You are put to the sword when facing those legendary ships (those waves as well). Naval warfare is always fun when you get to mess with man o war's. There is always a ton of treasure maps, secret locations and you can upgrade your hideout. Fishing has always been my favourite part of the game for me, looking for that white whale 😂. WHALE WARS!
The story in the first half felt a bit boring, but brought a lot of context into second half. When Edward finally loses a special someone, man i was really captivated and finish the story. And that ending tho... Especially playing AC3 before it, felt rewarding. Felt like the devs knew what the fans were playing and what they were playing it for.
My only cons is the combat lacks a bit of finesse, it's decent, maybe that's just me tho.
Black flag is the best pirate game, nothing comes close.
It's kind of weird that with all that in-fighting literally all Ubisoft ever had to do was make a direct follow-up to Black Flag and they would've made millions of dollars, even if they took out all references to Assassin's Creed.
And they had all the tools to do so bc they refined the game engine with ac rogue, like they LITERALLY already had a well made game engine they could have built on top of and they just… didn’t 💀
Black Flag was my first AC game and I’m glad people are finally talking about it again after a decade later
Gotta love it. People used to hate on this game when it first came out, saying it wasnt a real Assassins Creed game. I swear gamers have a short attention span. They hate everything for a few years, then when the franchise has gone on long enough, they think back to all the games they hated as being "the last good one".
6:50 just perfectly pictures the swagger of an average Scottish man 😂
My favourite pirate game was monkey island 1. I bought it when it first came out and played so much that I memorized exactly how to play through it. Great game
the characters are soo good because more than half of them are based off true people in history and events they just stretch the truth on a lot of it but they start with a good foundation from history