That's probably because landmarks can usually change bit by bit over time. To the point where it looks a little different than what we all see in the AC games.
This might be a hot take, but I’ve played every mainline ac game, and surprisingly, valhalla is the one I enjoyed the most. It exceeded my expectations. Love Eivor's character, the flyting and orlog mini-games, the settlement building, the raids, and the combat, which is definitely better than all of its predecessors.
I am replaying Valhalla on PS5 now. Odyssey is my favorite but Valhalla is super good too. these 2 remade what gaming means to me. not many games come close. maybe Ghost of Tsushima or Lies of P
I'd have to disagree with Odyssey's cities not feeling unique or different. Athens is a standout, and most of the islands have some amazing looking cities. Some showcase the breathtaking work the Greeks performed with marble, while others have mud and dirt all over. I agree with pretty much everything you said. The Cult of Kosmos is easily one of the most terrifying groups in the franchise. Their hold on Greece was quite literally in every aspect of the world.
the fact that we have not gotten a reverse rouge is criminal, to see a templar join the assassins would be such a cool game imo, as long as they make it smilar to pre origins whit a more heavy stealth and arkham combat
Yoooo love that idea!! Would love to see a Templar reformed trying to atone for their sins by rising up the Assassin Ranks. Maybe there could be an option near the finale of the game where you can choose to once more betray your order and rejoin the Templars, playing it like you’ve been acting as a double-agent the whole time, or you choose to stay loyal to the Assassins? I don’t know if that would work, but just an idea :) Edit to add: I know that wouldn’t work because of the rules (the Animus is always strictly historically accurate to what happened with each Assassin), but since you can choose whether to play as Alexios or Kassandra in Odyssey, or make Eivor male or female in Valhalla, and each game has a canonical option, it could be made like that?
I mean Edward Kenway is technically a former Templar who outright killed a bunch of Assassins in Havana before he got ousted as an imposter. Bro is literally a Templar- turned Assassin, running around in the robes of an Assassin- turned Templar.
I was honestly so suprised at how engaging and deep the homestead was. When i first played it, i expected it to just be a gimmick that gives you passive benefits but it was so dynamic and engaging that i found myself actually caring about everyone in that place and managing/growing it. I always kept going back to it in between every mission just to check up on people and i always had something i could do to actually impact the place and people in game. It wasn't just a menu managemnet system that is disguised as a hideout.
@@Kimkong2 Yeah. Many fans give crap to Connor saying that he's boring or inexpressive but most of them didn't played the homestead missions where he and Achilles get so much character development by simply doing what The Creed was created for: helping people and forming a community. If more people did these missions then Connor would've been more respected as a character.
Nice list but im really surprised that nothing from this list matches mine :D (still I understand why you picked those things) AC1 Different cities AC2 Assassin training (we spend over half of the game learning from zero what it means to be an assassin and only after all of this we joins them) ACB side characters like Machiavelli and main antagonist ACR Altair and Ezio endings AC3 Something different and new (also running on trees :D ) AC4 Edward not joining assassins till the very end (stayed true to his character and good development) Rouge Lizbon (this is my favorite mission from whole series) Unity Betrayal and fight with your master Syndicate black box missions Origins hard one to pick one but I will go with how invested in the revenge Bayak is Odyssey cult of the Kosmos being everywhere from mercenaries, to kings of Sparta, they were controling everything Valhalla Viking raids Mirage didnt played yet
Thank you for mentioning AC3's modern day! I loved the fact that after waiting for 4 games, Desmond finally took the fight to the Templars. I wish future AC games/media show the modern day Assassins actually fighting against the Templars.
AC3's modern day was really terribly executed. The Abstergo guards have guns, and they rarely use them to attack Desmond, and in the few instances they do, they very slowly line up a shot, and then fire one single shot. This worked fine in the animus when the enemies had single shot muskets where aiming is important and there's time to reload another round, but in the modern day with modern guns, they should be firing quicker and more often.
For me, my favorite thing about the first Assassin’s Creed has to be the dark and realistic atmosphere of the game. Even the animus had a cold and unnerving feel to it which just made it so fascinating.
I really like how the Cult system makes you engage with multiple optional parts of the game as well as having you explore Greece. Hints like a silver mine in Attika, or needing to engage territory battles to draw them out, if you want to eliminate them all, or at least completely disband the Cult if you take the no kill options, then you do get to experience more of the gameplay varieties. Also for Origins and Odyssey, world depth in the riddles you can find and have to solve by examining the landscapes. There’s no objective marker for where the solution is referring to, if you don’t want to use an online guide you are solving these by engaging with Egypt and Greece.
My guy. I've been around since forever and usually don't comment on your videos. But I have to say you are by far THE best Assassin's Creed UA-cam channel out there. I hope You will never stop doing these videos you truly are a blessing to the fans. Thank you
Love how humble and down to earth this guy is man. So few people on the internet are willing to admit they’re uneducated on a certain topic. Love that he speaks to what he knows and leaves the rest alone
I always found it funny that Ezio stronghold was Monteriggioni, cause it's technically in the province of Siena (my hometown) and Siena and Firenze had historically a big, big rivalry - and Monteriggioni was constantly fought between them
It's so cool to see how we all get so many different things from this series. Basically all your choices are different from mine and I think thats pretty cool. Love the content as always mate. Keep it up.
I hate combat with swords, knives, fists etc, close combat to say so so I never beat any of AC games, can you please tell me, is there a AC game you can fully beat with bows and arrows?
@@Guinness-mgorigins, oddessy, and Valhalla put a strong emphasis on the bows. Origins especially probably could be mostly beaten with a bow. There are some staged boss fights though
Finally a video talking about the positives, everyone always wants to poke at the bad shit, I'm glad to see your not one of them. You're a cautious admirer of the series
What I absolutely adore in AC II - aside from the obvious, that is Ezio himself - is the feel of mistery. Here I think about the brotherhood, Templars (and their plots), Abstergo, these weird symbols and the riddles connected to it. All of that created a grand mistery and I love it! That one part is unmatched! Granted I was basically a kid back then and it prolly helped my imagination but it was very cool anyway.
Ac1- never played Ac2- parkour Ac brotherhood- combat Ac revelations- ezios robes Ac3- frontier Ac4- everything Ac rouge- Shay Ac unity- parkour Ac syndicate- river thames Ac origins- graphics Ac odyssey- Greece Ac Valhalla- finishers Ac mirage- stealth
Little bit more realistic, that if you alert, one guard it lets everybody know because that one guard is gonna report to everybody else that something is happening
Monteriggione is fun to visit if you are a fan of ac but there is not much to do. It is a very pretty place though and it has a little museum about the place.
Dude the setting in AC1 is the BEST! Hanging around the Holy Land is such a vibe. I hope for a remake with modern controls and mechanics. I am just starting AC2 and so far Italy is less interesting to me. I think Constaninople will be more my cup of tea 🤞🏻
It's nice to see that they used kinda same "sign" for templars in newer AC. I can see on Shay's belt something like a "coin" representing tree, that is introduced in Vallhala like tree of Yiggdrasi'l, "braches" of the templars
Nothing in AC has ever managed to beat that sense I wonder I felt as a kid when you first reach Jerusalem in AC1. Mind you, it was either in the same year or a year after I visited the city with my parents and was utterly stunned by it. To see the golden dome of the Al-Aqsa mosque on my own screen felt magical.
"Maybe one day we see a templar turned assassin. Has that ever been done?" Immediately goes onto the game where the protagonist was raised by Templars but becomes an Assassin
The whole persona thing from liberation sorta came back in mirage, where there are 2 missions where you have to use a disguise and play as different people, not really the same as liberation but it’s similar
I have visited Monteriggioni and it is actually quite a nice quaint little walled town. Very different from the game, which expanded it drastically. But still a very beautiful town worth the visit.
AC: For the time, it was really well done in recreating the cities as historically accurate as possible AC II: Besides Ezio, I would go with Venice AC: Brotherhood: Recruiting Assassins, sending them on missions and let them help you kill enemies AC: Revelations: Yusuf AC III: The variety of landscapes AC Liberation: The bayou AC IV: Black Flag: Yeah, I could say being a pirate as a whole but that's pretty much a given, so I will just say shanties AC Freedom Cry: Freeing the slaves and trying to do it as stealthy as possible AC Rogue: Well, uh, you can play as a Templar (not a bad game though) AC Unity: Really nice progression of Arno. Feels very weak early on but by progressing you actually feel getting stronger and at the end nobody can stop Arno AC Syndicate: Yeah, WW I AC Origins: Also has Ancient/Classical-era Rome in it AC Odyssey: Greek mythology AC Valhallla: The fighting AC Mirage: Baghdad is stunning! Anyways, I'm surprised you didn't know that Monteriggioni is a real life location, even though you visit modern day Monteriggioni in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
I was done with AC around thirty hours into Valhalla. I don't think I have the time or inclination for more, unless some major switch up happens; but I always like your videos, and thoughts. My personal engagement with the series is currently having fun revisiting Revelations, and actually exploring creative options with the bombs... something that I think was pushed heavy, but gave no real impetus to pursue due to basic mission design, and the waste of time concocting the things in the first place.
Just for a few ganes but: Revelations - the bomb customisations and the parkour with the ziplines and parachutes felt really cool Syndicate - even if they played similarly I really liked having a story with two main characters, and their relationship felt really well done, also the jack the ripper dlc was really cool to me Odyssey - really the only ac that made me want to explore the world so much, the world and music were so beautiful Valhalla - orlog
I'm at level 37 on my first playthrough of Origins. My only other AC game has been Valhalla. I agree with what you said about the combat. But having played a significant amount of both, the thing Valhalla does so much better than Origins is the dialogue with NPC. Origins is one dimensional. Valhalla gives you choices, and those choices will come back to you in the later game and determine how you end the game. It's freaking brilliant
I have to say in regards to Valhalla England is the most beautiful setting in any game of the franchise, the emerald green hills, the vibrant colours of the leaves it's all so picturesque and screenshot worthy.
YESS, FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS IT!!! The Tower Defense in Revelations is great! Edit: oh... But, nvm, I still agree with the Revelations, the one about Ezio's meeting with Altair, and their closure.
Visited Monteriggioni a few years ago when I did my own Ezio tour to Florence and Venice. You can catch a bus there from Florence bus station if you don't have your own transport, takes about 90 minutes. There is no villa, but you can definitely recognise the layout from the game, though the real place isn't as big. They even have a small shop where you can buy AC memorabilia such as coffee mugs. I aim at some point to visit all the major locations featured in the series, excluding probably Baghdad and the places in the middle east... Which game has the best soundtrack should be your next vid
Yep absolutely agree about AC Revelations. That was an astounding experiance and even after so many years it sill hit me in the feels, just now - when I see and HEAR this game and the scenes.
Origins' open world is the most alive of any AC yet. Every NPC including animals had schedules and was also dynamic in how they react to eachother and the environment. Even enemy convoys actually transport loot throughout the open world and aren't just static and the fact that there's a dynamic predator and prey mechanic for animals. Guards also recated to dead bodies by carrying them away, had guard schedules and just seemed like they live in the world. The only issue was that the player character had no dynamic way to interact with these systems besides traverse and attack. It felt like im watching a livining/breathing world but was limited when it comes to how i can interact with it, mostly because UBI are so afraid of grounding mechanics in their games, they never want to make you feel like you exist in the world, but on it. This game would have benefited so much from light survival and interaction mechanics that had you need to actually engage with all the systems in the open world.
I have many opinions on Liberation but the persona system was definitely a feature I wish they used more often. Because let's be honest, it added a much more realistic aspect to gameplay for a female protagonist. A woman would use things like disguises in order to do her job as an assassin. It also just generally gives a whole new approach to things. But also the subtle things like the Assassin always being notorious, the slave gaining notoriety quicker and the lady gaining it slower. It was such a fantastic and well thought out feature
Saying that Valhalla has an empty world is such a ridiculous take. It literally has the best world in the entire series both graphically and content-wise.
9:17. To be honest, I actually like liberation because it takes place just a couple years after the colonial purge 1760 is when the purge was completed. lib 1765-1777 In which crazy is that you can see how much affect the Templars had on the American colonies and how fearful the assassins were like Aveline s master he went into hiding because of the purge. And then, of course, that guy that we assassinate missing the one arm, he was an assassin, but feared the Templars so much that he decided to ally with them for fear of being killed. And then they bring him up again and rogue about how he idolize the Templars out of fear. Even years later after Connor destroys the Templars Arno’s master bellec. Develops a huge hatred towards the Templar because of the colonial purge cause he was a French soldier and witnessed how brutal the Templars were when it came to killing just one assassin crazy I love the details
He impersonated a Templar, he didn’t actually join them and he was caught out impersonating Duncan before long (although not before unknowingly doing some damage to the Assassins).
The real Monteriggioni is so tiny, the AC version might actually be larger. There is a place you can walk from the gardens to the walls but other than that it is so small only a handful of shops are there and about 5 houses max. Really tiny.
In regards to Templars turned to Assassin's there was Maria Thorpe (Altair's wife), Fiore Cavassa, a courtesan who betrayed Cesare Borgia's templars, joined the Assassins and help Ezio, and Victoria Bibeau, an Abstergo scientist who defected to the Assassin's (who was unalived by a mind-controlled Layla Hassan). No playable characters though
2:16 this line this makes me happy especially when hearing for someone who is from a western country 🥲I’m a Muslim btw so that there isn’t any confusion
Maybe not absolute favorites list but highlights about each one I like to mention! (Not going to do every game cuz its not my video haha) AC1: Overall presentation (blending of all the elements:dialogue, theme, music, gameplay, city design, etc!) AC2: Soundtrack! (Maybe because i was 14 when it came out, they say the music you like at 13-15 becomes to most nostalgic lol) Valhalla: Stealth variety (specifically how the variation shows itself if you invest some time into it: Could be lethal or ghosting) Mirage: Agreed that its the stealth! Not just solid mechanically but FUN! So much that it got me from just playing AC to content creation lol
I would love to play an Assassin creed game where the main petagonus would be Darius the slayer of king of kings and learn more about his Origin.. That would be like a prequel before Odyssey..
I'd say for AC1, the ambition of the world was so new to gaming. The Ezio trilogy, I'd pick the cities and vast expanses of the renaissance world. The advances they made to the combat and movement were great. In AC3, I loved the setting and the frontier with its added ability of hunting and then the beginning of the sailing missions. Black Flag, would have to be the pirate life in the Carribean. Freedom Cry- Adawale, 'nuff said. Dude was absolutely awesome. Unity, the co-op experience and improved parkour made the game interesting, as well as the outfits and dyes. Syndicate had Victorian London in a dense world and while the grappling hook was a bit of a cheat for moving about, it made traversing the city more palatable. Origins was an amazing rendition of the Egyptian world during its most notable time (Cleopatra and Caesar). Odyssey had a beautiful world in one of the most notable settings in history- classical Greece. The land and sea were beautiful and vibrant. Valhalla had beautiful landscapes and a great depth to the viking culture. I never played Mirage, but I've heard its portrayal of Bagdad was incredible.
I personally love the dart gun in rogue because its such a cool feature, unlike in ac 4 and freedom cry where it is loud. In rogue it is like a mix of the blunderbuss and the darts from the previous games
Here is my list: - AC: History and for me, it's the closest AC game where I feel like an assassin. - AC II: The architecture. - ACB (one of my least favorite AC games): ability to train and recruit assassins. If that feature wasn't in the game, then it would be F- tier game for me. - ACRev: it's a toss between hook blade and bomb-making. Previous games only had smoke bombs, but this game expanded that mechanic to different bombs and traps. - AC III: Unpopural opinion, but it's Connor. He is just pure good, too naive for his sake, he just wants everyone to get along. He trusts too much but is willing to fight anyone. - ACL: For me, it's also the persona system. I wish more AC games would have used it. - ACBF: The ending cinematics. How Edward looks across the bar and sees everyone who he lost on the journey. How he finally meets his daughter. The only game where I shed a tear. (Not even the good ending in RDR2 made me shed a tear) - ACRo: Don't know if the best thing, but I liked how swimming in cold water made you freeze. So there was definitely strategy or at least a little bit of thinking you had to do when trying to get to an island. Also, I like the outfits that you can unlock. In previous and subsequent games, while I tried to unlock as much as I could, I mainly used the main outfit for most of the game (minus AC II with Altair outfit and ACU and ACS since those didn't have a default outfit). - ACU: While I dislike how from this point on the games started to feel like "It's 40% story and 60% side activities", I have to say the best part was the murder mysteries. - ACS: HQ train. - ACOri: Yeah, I can't go other than the setting. I have always been fascinated by myths and legends. I love Ancient Egypt. Even though Origins made me quit the AC series for a while since it's 10% game and 90% exploration with so many side quests which felt all the same. The atmosphere of the era is still the best thing in that game. - ACV: After being disappointed in Origins and seeing the critiques of Odyssy and Valhalla, I was hesitant to come back to AC. But IMO Valhalla fixed almost all the problems that I had with Origins. I quit Origins partly because of combat mechanics, but Valhalla's while needed to get used to was so much better. I quit Origins after 33 h in. Came back more than a year later and put in another 30 h to finish the story and do some collecting. But I put almost 200 h in Valhalla without ever taking even a day off.
AC - Mystical atmosphere AC II - Story AC Brotherhood - Side missions AC Revelations - Hookblade AC III - Templars AC Liberation - outfits system AC IV Black Flag - Pirates AC Freedom Cry (it's just a DLC, not a spinoff like Liberation, but whatever) - Slaves portrayal AC Rogue - Playing as templar AC Unity - Cinematic experience AC Syndicate - Stealth AC Origins - Egypt exploration AC Odyssey - nothing AC Valhalla - Soundtrack AC Mirage - Baghdad
Ac 1 is underrated af, if you ignore the repetitiveness of the missions and how short the game is, the gameplay is fun, good setting, good story, Altair is a badass character, has my favorite soundtrack and the game had a darker midevil tone compared to most of them. Obviously the game is a little outdated so if they do a remake hopefully they do it right and don’t ruin it
I was in Monteriggioni long time ago. I would describe it as a small toscani village with nothing interesting to see IF you're not a AC fan. In my case, I visisted place totally by accident, because I was in a region to see Florence and my dad (who knew I am a big AC fan) saw on GPS screen in car that we pass near by small village with familiar name, but he didn't know why it sound so familiar so he asked me. (I was a family tour guide in Italy thanks to Ezio trilogy). So I told him it's a ciity from ACII, we stoped by to see what's inside. It was already a late evening so much of buildings where closed and place was empty. I saw maybe couple of Italians there. The only things that caught my attention were small museum of Marco Polo and winery. But still a beatiful rural place.
Been to Monterggioni last year - it's underwhelming. Place is really small, you will find no familiar landmark there. Only the architecture is familiar (obviously) but so it is in almost entire Italy. Rome, Florence and San Gimignano on the other hand - breathtaking.
The only reason I played and continue playing ac is because of how cool its to climb every structure you see in game. Ac2 acb and acR were the best especially acr with the hook. And yes unity the best parkour. With small maps which we could traverse just with parkour. I hated the long distance travel starting from ACorigin.
Been to Monteriggioni two or three years ago. I really liked it but there aren't a lot of things to do there except going on the medieval walls and enjoying the view.
One other piece of Jewish tradition regarding the Dome of the Rock- the compound as a whole is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. It is here where both the First and Second Temples are believed to have stood. That’s why Jews pray at the Western Wall outside of the compound to this day.
Ubisoft would save itself with a full remake of the first gamea in the new engine so that the landmarks can look breathtaking especially AC 1 to AC Rogue
I would say that the best Thing About Odyssey are the Bosses & Wild Animals ( bosses again ) like the pig and the minotaur or the cyclops! Best thing about Valhalla is the Excalibur and the Gear of Thor for me!
As a Arabian Muslim i loved how you talked about Dimashq and (the capital of Palestine) Respect 9999999999+one of the best assassin's creed content creators
While I do almost agree that one of the best things is the stealth and it’s amazing but there’s one thing that I really loved about ac mirage and that was the tool system it is really diverse and does let you kind of choose your gameplay. But that’s just my opinion.
Think you could come up with the best and worst thing for each of the Chronicles games? Sorry I talk about these games a lot but it's interesting hearing others' opinions and these games are different with being 2D games.
If you can guess the exact date I made this video. I will give you a copy of AC Shadows. This ends in a week.
clue: it's not 2025
Why i can't feel ac like old days
14th December.
December 6th 2024
May 1st 2024
@Thehiddenone690 20th of may 2024 😅
Thanks for the shout out dude! Fantastic content as always, although I think I’m even more intrigued to hear what your “worst” parts of AC are! 🤙
Who are you? I’m not in the loop?😮
As an italian who visited it, yes, Monteriggioni is beautiful as in the game but very VERY different from ACII.
That's probably because landmarks can usually change bit by bit over time. To the point where it looks a little different than what we all see in the AC games.
Yeah, irl it’s a village compared to the more sizeable town in the game.
This might be a hot take, but I’ve played every mainline ac game, and surprisingly, valhalla is the one I enjoyed the most. It exceeded my expectations.
Love Eivor's character, the flyting and orlog mini-games, the settlement building, the raids, and the combat, which is definitely better than all of its predecessors.
Shame it takes 60hs to finish
Valhalla is overhated. I love this game.
I love Eivor’s story as well!
@@trenaceandblackmetal5621 60 hrs is not enough time.
I spent 600 hrs on Valhalla
I am replaying Valhalla on PS5 now.
Odyssey is my favorite but Valhalla is super good too.
these 2 remade what gaming means to me.
not many games come close.
maybe Ghost of Tsushima or Lies of P
I just finished ac Valhalla yesterday and only good thing I can say about it is that, that one music track goes hard
I'd have to disagree with Odyssey's cities not feeling unique or different. Athens is a standout, and most of the islands have some amazing looking cities. Some showcase the breathtaking work the Greeks performed with marble, while others have mud and dirt all over. I agree with pretty much everything you said. The Cult of Kosmos is easily one of the most terrifying groups in the franchise. Their hold on Greece was quite literally in every aspect of the world.
the fact that we have not gotten a reverse rouge is criminal, to see a templar join the assassins would be such a cool game imo, as long as they make it smilar to pre origins whit a more heavy stealth and arkham combat
Yoooo love that idea!! Would love to see a Templar reformed trying to atone for their sins by rising up the Assassin Ranks. Maybe there could be an option near the finale of the game where you can choose to once more betray your order and rejoin the Templars, playing it like you’ve been acting as a double-agent the whole time, or you choose to stay loyal to the Assassins? I don’t know if that would work, but just an idea :)
Edit to add: I know that wouldn’t work because of the rules (the Animus is always strictly historically accurate to what happened with each Assassin), but since you can choose whether to play as Alexios or Kassandra in Odyssey, or make Eivor male or female in Valhalla, and each game has a canonical option, it could be made like that?
Worse is that we saw multiple Assasins joining templars but i dont recall anything in reverse. This is weird to me
@@DinoAngelDragon isnt Yasuke a Templar turned assassin (joined assassins) kinda ?
@@iq-_-scorpionno he is Nobunaga samurai
I mean Edward Kenway is technically a former Templar who outright killed a bunch of Assassins in Havana before he got ousted as an imposter.
Bro is literally a Templar- turned Assassin, running around in the robes of an Assassin- turned Templar.
i was born and raised in Damascus, It's magical ✨️
Last time I was this early lisbon was still shaking (thanks shay😍)
AC3 - The Homestead Missions.
I would have loved the game more if its entirety was focused on the Homestead.
I was honestly so suprised at how engaging and deep the homestead was. When i first played it, i expected it to just be a gimmick that gives you passive benefits but it was so dynamic and engaging that i found myself actually caring about everyone in that place and managing/growing it. I always kept going back to it in between every mission just to check up on people and i always had something i could do to actually impact the place and people in game. It wasn't just a menu managemnet system that is disguised as a hideout.
@@Kimkong2 Yeah. Many fans give crap to Connor saying that he's boring or inexpressive but most of them didn't played the homestead missions where he and Achilles get so much character development by simply doing what The Creed was created for: helping people and forming a community. If more people did these missions then Connor would've been more respected as a character.
AC1 - Mysterious Story
AC2 - Peak Action
Brotherhood - Leonardo Missions
Revelations - Parkour Missions
AC3 - Attention to Detail
AC4 - The Soundtrack
Rogue - Slightly Improved Naval Combat
Unity - The Assassin Council
Syndicate - Portrayal of Victorian London
Origins - "Bosses" (Phylakes, Elephants, etc.)
Odyssey - Battles
Valhalla - Eivor looks like Ragnar
Mirage - Stealth Sequences
Nice list but im really surprised that nothing from this list matches mine :D (still I understand why you picked those things)
AC1 Different cities
AC2 Assassin training (we spend over half of the game learning from zero what it means to be an assassin and only after all of this we joins them)
ACB side characters like Machiavelli and main antagonist
ACR Altair and Ezio endings
AC3 Something different and new (also running on trees :D )
AC4 Edward not joining assassins till the very end (stayed true to his character and good development)
Rouge Lizbon (this is my favorite mission from whole series)
Unity Betrayal and fight with your master
Syndicate black box missions
Origins hard one to pick one but I will go with how invested in the revenge Bayak is
Odyssey cult of the Kosmos being everywhere from mercenaries, to kings of Sparta, they were controling everything
Valhalla Viking raids
Mirage didnt played yet
Also I wrote this comment before watching whole video so some of the stuff I might have same as main guy up there :D
you know a game is bad if the best thing about it is that the main character looks like a cooler character from a completely different story.
@@Just_a-guyraids is fun origins going inside the pyramids
@@Just_a-guy I also considered some of these
Thank you for mentioning AC3's modern day! I loved the fact that after waiting for 4 games, Desmond finally took the fight to the Templars. I wish future AC games/media show the modern day Assassins actually fighting against the Templars.
AC3's modern day was really terribly executed. The Abstergo guards have guns, and they rarely use them to attack Desmond, and in the few instances they do, they very slowly line up a shot, and then fire one single shot. This worked fine in the animus when the enemies had single shot muskets where aiming is important and there's time to reload another round, but in the modern day with modern guns, they should be firing quicker and more often.
To me Ac 1 had an atmosphere that none of the other games captured and it’s why I still find myself replaying it every couple of years
For me, my favorite thing about the first Assassin’s Creed has to be the dark and realistic atmosphere of the game. Even the animus had a cold and unnerving feel to it which just made it so fascinating.
the best thing about ac Valhalla is how beautiful the game is I'm always in the photo mode
13:50 I know she wasn’t a protagonist, but Altair’s wife Maria went from Templar to assassin
I really like how the Cult system makes you engage with multiple optional parts of the game as well as having you explore Greece. Hints like a silver mine in Attika, or needing to engage territory battles to draw them out, if you want to eliminate them all, or at least completely disband the Cult if you take the no kill options, then you do get to experience more of the gameplay varieties.
Also for Origins and Odyssey, world depth in the riddles you can find and have to solve by examining the landscapes. There’s no objective marker for where the solution is referring to, if you don’t want to use an online guide you are solving these by engaging with Egypt and Greece.
My guy. I've been around since forever and usually don't comment on your videos. But I have to say you are by far THE best Assassin's Creed UA-cam channel out there. I hope You will never stop doing these videos you truly are a blessing to the fans.
Thank you
I always loved the Venice rooftops soundtrack in AC2 during one of the carnival missions. Great video as always, keep up the good work!👍
I love a gaming channel run by a fan, not just a critic! Great video!
Love how humble and down to earth this guy is man. So few people on the internet are willing to admit they’re uneducated on a certain topic. Love that he speaks to what he knows and leaves the rest alone
I always found it funny that Ezio stronghold was Monteriggioni, cause it's technically in the province of Siena (my hometown) and Siena and Firenze had historically a big, big rivalry - and Monteriggioni was constantly fought between them
Well, yeah...Mario told exactly this in the game, no news here...
It's so cool to see how we all get so many different things from this series. Basically all your choices are different from mine and I think thats pretty cool. Love the content as always mate. Keep it up.
I love syndicate, origns, odyssey, and vahalla
I hate combat with swords, knives, fists etc, close combat to say so so I never beat any of AC games, can you please tell me, is there a AC game you can fully beat with bows and arrows?
@GuINES-mG probably not
@@Guinness-mgorigins, oddessy, and Valhalla put a strong emphasis on the bows. Origins especially probably could be mostly beaten with a bow. There are some staged boss fights though
@ Okay, thank you bro :)
Finally a video talking about the positives, everyone always wants to poke at the bad shit, I'm glad to see your not one of them. You're a cautious admirer of the series
Whenever Leonardo appeared in AC II or Brotherhood, I always felt a sense of relief and joy.
my favorite part of ac ii was the missions for altairs armor. i’ve loved them since i was a kid
Always a banger when you upload thanks 😅
Man, you got me at the tower defense... 😅
What I absolutely adore in AC II - aside from the obvious, that is Ezio himself - is the feel of mistery. Here I think about the brotherhood, Templars (and their plots), Abstergo, these weird symbols and the riddles connected to it. All of that created a grand mistery and I love it! That one part is unmatched!
Granted I was basically a kid back then and it prolly helped my imagination but it was very cool anyway.
Ac1- never played
Ac2- parkour
Ac brotherhood- combat
Ac revelations- ezios robes
Ac3- frontier
Ac4- everything
Ac rouge- Shay
Ac unity- parkour
Ac syndicate- river thames
Ac origins- graphics
Ac odyssey- Greece
Ac Valhalla- finishers
Ac mirage- stealth
Little bit more realistic, that if you alert, one guard it lets everybody know because that one guard is gonna report to everybody else that something is happening
Monteriggione is fun to visit if you are a fan of ac but there is not much to do. It is a very pretty place though and it has a little museum about the place.
Syndicate - Evie.
I wish she was more involved in the main story
Evie 😩
Dude the setting in AC1 is the BEST! Hanging around the Holy Land is such a vibe. I hope for a remake with modern controls and mechanics.
I am just starting AC2 and so far Italy is less interesting to me. I think Constaninople will be more my cup of tea 🤞🏻
It's nice to see that they used kinda same "sign" for templars in newer AC. I can see on Shay's belt something like a "coin" representing tree, that is introduced in Vallhala like tree of Yiggdrasi'l, "braches" of the templars
Nothing in AC has ever managed to beat that sense I wonder I felt as a kid when you first reach Jerusalem in AC1. Mind you, it was either in the same year or a year after I visited the city with my parents and was utterly stunned by it. To see the golden dome of the Al-Aqsa mosque on my own screen felt magical.
"Maybe one day we see a templar turned assassin. Has that ever been done?"
Immediately goes onto the game where the protagonist was raised by Templars but becomes an Assassin
Jack the Ripper DLC for Syndicate was peak content.
Fantastic video👌🏻
The whole persona thing from liberation sorta came back in mirage, where there are 2 missions where you have to use a disguise and play as different people, not really the same as liberation but it’s similar
As always amazing video
8:02 this is the first time i agree with something you said 10/10 it's very underrated and barely anybody talks about it
I have visited Monteriggioni and it is actually quite a nice quaint little walled town. Very different from the game, which expanded it drastically. But still a very beautiful town worth the visit.
AC: For the time, it was really well done in recreating the cities as historically accurate as possible
AC II: Besides Ezio, I would go with Venice
AC: Brotherhood: Recruiting Assassins, sending them on missions and let them help you kill enemies
AC: Revelations: Yusuf
AC III: The variety of landscapes
AC Liberation: The bayou
AC IV: Black Flag: Yeah, I could say being a pirate as a whole but that's pretty much a given, so I will just say shanties
AC Freedom Cry: Freeing the slaves and trying to do it as stealthy as possible
AC Rogue: Well, uh, you can play as a Templar (not a bad game though)
AC Unity: Really nice progression of Arno. Feels very weak early on but by progressing you actually feel getting stronger and at the end nobody can stop Arno
AC Syndicate: Yeah, WW I
AC Origins: Also has Ancient/Classical-era Rome in it
AC Odyssey: Greek mythology
AC Valhallla: The fighting
AC Mirage: Baghdad is stunning!
Anyways, I'm surprised you didn't know that Monteriggioni is a real life location, even though you visit modern day Monteriggioni in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
I was done with AC around thirty hours into Valhalla. I don't think I have the time or inclination for more, unless some major switch up happens; but I always like your videos, and thoughts. My personal engagement with the series is currently having fun revisiting Revelations, and actually exploring creative options with the bombs... something that I think was pushed heavy, but gave no real impetus to pursue due to basic mission design, and the waste of time concocting the things in the first place.
Just for a few ganes but:
Revelations - the bomb customisations and the parkour with the ziplines and parachutes felt really cool
Syndicate - even if they played similarly I really liked having a story with two main characters, and their relationship felt really well done, also the jack the ripper dlc was really cool to me
Odyssey - really the only ac that made me want to explore the world so much, the world and music were so beautiful
Valhalla - orlog
I'm at level 37 on my first playthrough of Origins. My only other AC game has been Valhalla.
I agree with what you said about the combat. But having played a significant amount of both, the thing Valhalla does so much better than Origins is the dialogue with NPC. Origins is one dimensional. Valhalla gives you choices, and those choices will come back to you in the later game and determine how you end the game. It's freaking brilliant
I have to say in regards to Valhalla England is the most beautiful setting in any game of the franchise, the emerald green hills, the vibrant colours of the leaves it's all so picturesque and screenshot worthy.
YESS, FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS IT!!!
The Tower Defense in Revelations is great!
Edit: oh...
But, nvm, I still agree with the Revelations, the one about Ezio's meeting with Altair, and their closure.
For me the best in Odyssey is entire map, because I love ancient Greece haha
Visited Monteriggioni a few years ago when I did my own Ezio tour to Florence and Venice. You can catch a bus there from Florence bus station if you don't have your own transport, takes about 90 minutes.
There is no villa, but you can definitely recognise the layout from the game, though the real place isn't as big. They even have a small shop where you can buy AC memorabilia such as coffee mugs.
I aim at some point to visit all the major locations featured in the series, excluding probably Baghdad and the places in the middle east...
Which game has the best soundtrack should be your next vid
Yep absolutely agree about AC Revelations. That was an astounding experiance and even after so many years it sill hit me in the feels, just now - when I see and HEAR this game and the scenes.
Origins' open world is the most alive of any AC yet. Every NPC including animals had schedules and was also dynamic in how they react to eachother and the environment. Even enemy convoys actually transport loot throughout the open world and aren't just static and the fact that there's a dynamic predator and prey mechanic for animals. Guards also recated to dead bodies by carrying them away, had guard schedules and just seemed like they live in the world. The only issue was that the player character had no dynamic way to interact with these systems besides traverse and attack. It felt like im watching a livining/breathing world but was limited when it comes to how i can interact with it, mostly because UBI are so afraid of grounding mechanics in their games, they never want to make you feel like you exist in the world, but on it. This game would have benefited so much from light survival and interaction mechanics that had you need to actually engage with all the systems in the open world.
I'm playing through Mirage and really enjoying the stealth. Spot on with that one. Feels much better than the earlier games for Stealth to me.
"Odyssey cities doesn't feel unique"
You can literally explore the Ancient Greece, wtf is wrong with you?
“The capital of palestine being jerusalem”
Youre a real one for that tbh
I think the best part of brotherhood, and revelations was the assassin recruitment system. I can’t wait for that to return in Shadows!
3 legends in the room considering Ezio spoke to Desmond
playing ac odyssey right now from ac black flag game, really enjoying a different style of AC
I have many opinions on Liberation but the persona system was definitely a feature I wish they used more often. Because let's be honest, it added a much more realistic aspect to gameplay for a female protagonist. A woman would use things like disguises in order to do her job as an assassin. It also just generally gives a whole new approach to things. But also the subtle things like the Assassin always being notorious, the slave gaining notoriety quicker and the lady gaining it slower. It was such a fantastic and well thought out feature
Saying that Valhalla has an empty world is such a ridiculous take. It literally has the best world in the entire series both graphically and content-wise.
9:17. To be honest, I actually like liberation because it takes place just a couple years after the colonial purge 1760 is when the purge was completed. lib 1765-1777 In which crazy is that you can see how much affect the Templars had on the American colonies and how fearful the assassins were like Aveline s master he went into hiding because of the purge. And then, of course, that guy that we assassinate missing the one arm, he was an assassin, but feared the Templars so much that he decided to ally with them for fear of being killed. And then they bring him up again and rogue about how he idolize the Templars out of fear.
Even years later after Connor destroys the Templars
Arno’s master bellec. Develops a huge hatred towards the Templar because of the colonial purge cause he was a French soldier and witnessed how brutal the Templars were when it came to killing just one assassin crazy I love the details
Edward Kenway did became a Templar and kicked out before returning to the Assassins to fix his mistakes.
He impersonated a Templar, he didn’t actually join them and he was caught out impersonating Duncan before long (although not before unknowingly doing some damage to the Assassins).
The real Monteriggioni is so tiny, the AC version might actually be larger. There is a place you can walk from the gardens to the walls but other than that it is so small only a handful of shops are there and about 5 houses max. Really tiny.
I must be the only person that likes the tower defense in ACR.
Lol I like it to
In regards to Templars turned to Assassin's there was Maria Thorpe (Altair's wife), Fiore Cavassa, a courtesan who betrayed Cesare Borgia's templars, joined the Assassins and help Ezio, and Victoria Bibeau, an Abstergo scientist who defected to the Assassin's (who was unalived by a mind-controlled Layla Hassan). No playable characters though
Ac1 - Modern day
Ac2 - The story
Brotherhood - Modern day
Revelations - Altair missions
Ac3 - Opening sequence
Rogue - Shay
Black Flag - ship combat
Unity - parkour
Syndicate - Evie
Origins - Alexandria
Oddesy - the scenery
Valhalla - Graphics
Mirage - Stealth
2:16 this line this makes me happy especially when hearing for someone who is from a western country 🥲I’m a Muslim btw so that there isn’t any confusion
Funny enough,Google lists Jerusalem as both the capital of Israel AND Palestine...somewhat humorous that.
@treywright1238 then it's wrong isn't the capital of isreal tel aviv
I mean there is a lot of muslims living in west and who knows he could be muslim.
@azim2709 it’s not that it’s the information that he gave
@oscarspokes9045Israel recognizes its own capital as Jerusalem. That said, many countries put their embassies in Tel-Aviv.
Maybe not absolute favorites list but highlights about each one I like to mention! (Not going to do every game cuz its not my video haha)
AC1: Overall presentation (blending of all the elements:dialogue, theme, music, gameplay, city design, etc!)
AC2: Soundtrack! (Maybe because i was 14 when it came out, they say the music you like at 13-15 becomes to most nostalgic lol)
Valhalla: Stealth variety (specifically how the variation shows itself if you invest some time into it: Could be lethal or ghosting)
Mirage: Agreed that its the stealth! Not just solid mechanically but FUN! So much that it got me from just playing AC to content creation lol
Im telling you modern day died with Desmond Miles.
I would love to play an Assassin creed game where the main petagonus would be Darius the slayer of king of kings and learn more about his Origin.. That would be like a prequel before Odyssey..
I'd say for AC1, the ambition of the world was so new to gaming.
The Ezio trilogy, I'd pick the cities and vast expanses of the renaissance world. The advances they made to the combat and movement were great.
In AC3, I loved the setting and the frontier with its added ability of hunting and then the beginning of the sailing missions.
Black Flag, would have to be the pirate life in the Carribean.
Freedom Cry- Adawale, 'nuff said. Dude was absolutely awesome.
Unity, the co-op experience and improved parkour made the game interesting, as well as the outfits and dyes.
Syndicate had Victorian London in a dense world and while the grappling hook was a bit of a cheat for moving about, it made traversing the city more palatable.
Origins was an amazing rendition of the Egyptian world during its most notable time (Cleopatra and Caesar).
Odyssey had a beautiful world in one of the most notable settings in history- classical Greece. The land and sea were beautiful and vibrant.
Valhalla had beautiful landscapes and a great depth to the viking culture.
I never played Mirage, but I've heard its portrayal of Bagdad was incredible.
I personally love the dart gun in rogue because its such a cool feature, unlike in ac 4 and freedom cry where it is loud. In rogue it is like a mix of the blunderbuss and the darts from the previous games
Hot take may by IDK
every one have a favourite Assassin's Creed game
No one have any Assassin's Creed as there favourite game
I this this is very true
It’s crazy that Kass/Alex lived longer than every other assassin🤣🤦🏾♂️
Here is my list:
- AC: History and for me, it's the closest AC game where I feel like an assassin.
- AC II: The architecture.
- ACB (one of my least favorite AC games): ability to train and recruit assassins. If that feature wasn't in the game, then it would be F- tier game for me.
- ACRev: it's a toss between hook blade and bomb-making. Previous games only had smoke bombs, but this game expanded that mechanic to different bombs and traps.
- AC III: Unpopural opinion, but it's Connor. He is just pure good, too naive for his sake, he just wants everyone to get along. He trusts too much but is willing to fight anyone.
- ACL: For me, it's also the persona system. I wish more AC games would have used it.
- ACBF: The ending cinematics. How Edward looks across the bar and sees everyone who he lost on the journey. How he finally meets his daughter. The only game where I shed a tear. (Not even the good ending in RDR2 made me shed a tear)
- ACRo: Don't know if the best thing, but I liked how swimming in cold water made you freeze. So there was definitely strategy or at least a little bit of thinking you had to do when trying to get to an island. Also, I like the outfits that you can unlock. In previous and subsequent games, while I tried to unlock as much as I could, I mainly used the main outfit for most of the game (minus AC II with Altair outfit and ACU and ACS since those didn't have a default outfit).
- ACU: While I dislike how from this point on the games started to feel like "It's 40% story and 60% side activities", I have to say the best part was the murder mysteries.
- ACS: HQ train.
- ACOri: Yeah, I can't go other than the setting. I have always been fascinated by myths and legends. I love Ancient Egypt. Even though Origins made me quit the AC series for a while since it's 10% game and 90% exploration with so many side quests which felt all the same. The atmosphere of the era is still the best thing in that game.
- ACV: After being disappointed in Origins and seeing the critiques of Odyssy and Valhalla, I was hesitant to come back to AC. But IMO Valhalla fixed almost all the problems that I had with Origins. I quit Origins partly because of combat mechanics, but Valhalla's while needed to get used to was so much better. I quit Origins after 33 h in. Came back more than a year later and put in another 30 h to finish the story and do some collecting. But I put almost 200 h in Valhalla without ever taking even a day off.
The soundtrack of ac freedom cry is also really good!
AC - Mystical atmosphere
AC II - Story
AC Brotherhood - Side missions
AC Revelations - Hookblade
AC III - Templars
AC Liberation - outfits system
AC IV Black Flag - Pirates
AC Freedom Cry (it's just a DLC, not a spinoff like Liberation, but whatever) - Slaves portrayal
AC Rogue - Playing as templar
AC Unity - Cinematic experience
AC Syndicate - Stealth
AC Origins - Egypt exploration
AC Odyssey - nothing
AC Valhalla - Soundtrack
AC Mirage - Baghdad
Ac 1 is underrated af, if you ignore the repetitiveness of the missions and how short the game is, the gameplay is fun, good setting, good story, Altair is a badass character, has my favorite soundtrack and the game had a darker midevil tone compared to most of them. Obviously the game is a little outdated so if they do a remake hopefully they do it right and don’t ruin it
I was in Monteriggioni long time ago. I would describe it as a small toscani village with nothing interesting to see IF you're not a AC fan. In my case, I visisted place totally by accident, because I was in a region to see Florence and my dad (who knew I am a big AC fan) saw on GPS screen in car that we pass near by small village with familiar name, but he didn't know why it sound so familiar so he asked me. (I was a family tour guide in Italy thanks to Ezio trilogy). So I told him it's a ciity from ACII, we stoped by to see what's inside. It was already a late evening so much of buildings where closed and place was empty. I saw maybe couple of Italians there. The only things that caught my attention were small museum of Marco Polo and winery. But still a beatiful rural place.
And a huge disappointment was to find out there is no Auditore villa, or substitue to see there.
Best part of odyssey and valhalla was never picking them up
Been to Monterggioni last year - it's underwhelming. Place is really small, you will find no familiar landmark there. Only the architecture is familiar (obviously) but so it is in almost entire Italy. Rome, Florence and San Gimignano on the other hand - breathtaking.
The hidden one says something positive about Valhalla? What did you do with the real hidden one?
The only reason I played and continue playing ac is because of how cool its to climb every structure you see in game. Ac2 acb and acR were the best especially acr with the hook. And yes unity the best parkour. With small maps which we could traverse just with parkour. I hated the long distance travel starting from ACorigin.
Been to Monteriggioni two or three years ago. I really liked it but there aren't a lot of things to do there except going on the medieval walls and enjoying the view.
One other piece of Jewish tradition regarding the Dome of the Rock- the compound as a whole is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. It is here where both the First and Second Temples are believed to have stood. That’s why Jews pray at the Western Wall outside of the compound to this day.
how dare youtube hide this from me for 3 hours
Bro has a degree in cyber security
Ubisoft would save itself with a full remake of the first gamea in the new engine so that the landmarks can look breathtaking especially AC 1 to AC Rogue
I would say that the best Thing About Odyssey are the Bosses & Wild Animals ( bosses again ) like the pig and the minotaur or the cyclops!
Best thing about Valhalla is the Excalibur and the Gear of Thor for me!
As a Arabian Muslim i loved how you talked about Dimashq and (the capital of Palestine)
Respect 9999999999+one of the best assassin's creed content creators
While I do almost agree that one of the best things is the stealth and it’s amazing but there’s one thing that I really loved about ac mirage and that was the tool system it is really diverse and does let you kind of choose your gameplay. But that’s just my opinion.
Imo interactions between Leonardo and Ezio were the best parts thus why i played the trilogy at the end of last by year again
Capital of Palestine W Truth thx buddy
Am i the only one who liked the tower defense 😅😂 and the assassin assist has been my favorite ability in the series
Tower defense was really fun
Think you could come up with the best and worst thing for each of the Chronicles games? Sorry I talk about these games a lot but it's interesting hearing others' opinions and these games are different with being 2D games.
Agree with almost everything❤️
Everything about Assassin's Creed 3 is Great, IMO. Even rdr2's environment is pretty much inspired from it.
tbh point about landmarks fits all games from ac i love instaling ac unity just to walk around notre dame or ac 2 to visit santa maria del fiore