Woah I'm so glad you took up ghosting. No one playsss like a ghost. And I am still waiting for a reward system from ubisoft to leave guards alive like splinter cell. And like you said, it fits perfectly with the assassin fantasy. I can't really ghost odyssey, because you get a lot of xp from stealth streak killing guards. I ghosted most of Mirage, because killing guards really didn't give me anything.
3:33 AMEN. That's why Unity and Syndicate are the best ......... I usually take the Phantom (or Thomas) outfit in Unity and I prefer no ranged weapons, killing as few guards as possible ........... the last play option suits me best.
Fr. The only time I've ever changed my outfit was in AC Revelations when I was younger. All I did was change Ezio's robes from dark blue to white. Now I don't change it at all.
People aren’t gonna like this one but also try to wear NON hooded clothing as much as possible. For the games where that’s not possible, try to wear the most casual looking robes. The hooded robes should only be worn for some assassinations (preferably at night) and ceremonies/meetings in game with the other Assassins.
In Unity I always "role-play" wearing the raider outfit since it's the most inconspicuous looking one out of the bunch, it's plain brown and just makes Arno look like your dime a dozen peasant with the tattered hood (equip the skinner axe or pickaxe for extra immersion). Though since the recent explosion of mods, model swapping Arno with NPC models offers even more option. For AC4, whaler outfit is unbeatable for both style and believability.
In ac origins, when I am travelling accross the dessert. If I am in the cities and towns I only wear the hood when entering restricted areas. Also just like what he said in tge video, I only kill targets, if possible
Canon-friendly playing I think is among one of the most fun ways to play an AC game. Flashy stealth like Arno, combat-focused approaches like Connor, precision stealth like Altaïr, all of that. And yes, it will indeed make it feel like you’re roleplaying the characters in question. More immersion indeed. And then we have Jacob Frye, all stabby stabby
How would you go about playing a canon-friendly Ezio? Off the top of my head, he doesn't have as many obvious distinguishing features gameplay-wise; most of his character seems to be more reliant on the writing than in gameplay (vs the Kenways for instance). Using the recruits a lot in Brotherhood and Revelations, I guess?
@@bluespiritrecords1709honestly itd be up to you to decide that. In my opiniok ezio would do anything and everythijg to get to his target whether that meant fighting or taking a steathy approach. Its in his character. His will to kill to get vengeance for his family makes his a jack in all trades. Js my opinion thi so yk
When I grew up, I never cared for Assassins Creed because the combat was super easy. But I got more invested in the philosophy and history of the games, and picked them up. It’s now one of my favorite series because the stealth gameplay is pretty unique and engaging.
Wearing a HOOD with flashy cloths which makes you stand out in the crowd full of normal people is the most lore-inaccurate thing (I am pointing at you Ezio😂), JACOB's base varient is the best modern day assassin look which helps in social sealth.
i think hoodies get a pass for our suspension of disbelief as we, the players, acknowledge the hood is only visible to use and in terms of the lore they are just wearing something regular
It's accurate for Altair in the first game even from real life history perspective, just as for anything else. It's also accurate for him and Basim in Baghdad from setting perspective. For everyone it's just game lore shananigans, it makes no sense for everyone else, even for Bayek in hot Egypt (funnily enough, vikings wore cloacks occasionally) in terms of social stealth if you try and think how that went IRL. But hey, we love our hooded guys and these games in the end of the day!
Imagine if there was an AC game where you have to uphold the tenants of the creed. Like let's say, you can choose to kill an innocent scribe to get a key and get to the target easier, but the creed will distrust you more and more. I know it would not happen since the story would be dumb, but just a thought.
One thing i always try to imagine when being stealthy is looking at it from a birds eye view or a guard’s perspective. Imagine guarding a base and one by one everyone starts to randomly disappear and not knowing whos doing this, this makes u feel even more cool or deadly. And from a birds eye view, you just see a hooded killer silently clearing out guards. I’m glad you made this video, since AC is a such a huge franchise many casuals wouldn’t know the lore behind being an assassin and how you can tackle missions. For us hardcore AC fans, true immersion and FEELING like an assassin is extremely important. So thank you for your content, your content is truly unique and amazing. ❤
I like to use the camera mode to see, “am I REALLY that hidden?” Hiding in sugar cane is such a laugh. Especially if you hide a body in them. It’s like, “how can you not see it?”
Minimal / Zero armour in the Ezio trilogy is a must. I use The Revelations hack to remove all armour after you're forced to buy some in-mission too (by replaying sequence 1 and collecting your equipment from Masyaf) Dying your clothes to blend with the region helps with immersion too.
I love playing AC in the most stealthy and lore accurate way possible. That's why I loved the Merchant and Eunuch tunics in Mirage, I wore them pretty much every time I would make use of social stealth since they blend so well with the environment. In Unity I used to do the same, trying to wear the set that would fit the enviroment the most. For example, wearing the initial Sans Cullotes sets on the Court of Miracles or the military sets in the Robespierre missions with the army men as enemies. Doing stuff like this or wearing the Merchant's Tunic during the grand auction from Mirage really boosts the immersion for me.
Canon friendly is the way I play every game in general. I love roleplaying, since I've played TTRPGs my whole life. Assassin's Creed and Cyberpunk are my main confort games, everytime I want to relax and just have fun I play one or the other. And I've played most ACs more times I can remember and the feeling don't get old if I play like that, it's just so immersive.
Interesting you mentionned TTRPGs, as I created an Assassin one for my friends a few months ago. None of them has any Assassin's Creed knowledge let alone historical one about Assassins, but they are loving it so far and are deeply invested. I made my own lore, using real ismaili history as a foundation and setting it in 1192. The system is taking inspiration from Hitman missions structucture and AC1 investigations of targets, to prioritise expression, immersion and social stealth. Best AC related experience I have ever had.
Map markers and Animus GPS systems are a video game contrivance we use to get around these worlds, but consider how your ancestor actually found their next mission. Did someone give them detailed instructions like the rafiqs did for Altair? Did they follow the sun and stars to sail there like Edward? Did Eagle Vision light the way like it did for Ezio in Revelations or their connection to a companion animal like the recent protagonists? For this playstyle you'll disable any and all HUD assists for navigation and avoid checking the map as much as possible. You'll have to internalize the map layout, pay attention to context clues, take notes on verbal instructions, or check the database for information on where you're going. You will also get lost a lot. AC1 and Origins-Mirage are the best for this, but Revelations, Black Flag, and Rogue are sort of playable
Oh my god 😂 right, well, let me ask you this....what if you are so sure the "castle where he is being held" is directly to the north of where you currently are, you head there, and it turns out the castle was actually to the south? 😂 There's immersion of being lost, then there's stupidly lost 😂 I mean no disrespect whatsoever but with no HUD I'd probably make no progress
@@dazzaboy04 This happens a lot in Revelations. The database helps, but names of landmarks have often been mangled through multiple transliterations. I'd say if you fail to follow your planned route then rely on a secondary strategy like following a map marker beacon in Eagle Vision
My playstyle has two rules: stealthy infiltration, chaotic exfiltration So, every open-ended mission ends up having stealth, combat, and Parkour. Before killing the target, I aim to kill minimal guards and hide all bodies. After killing the target with a high profile execution, I thin the hoard of guards immediately upon me using tools and quick melee combat before I make the escape as flashy as possible which is why I always plan the exit route. The Kenway games have gunpowder you can place at key points that you can quickshot on your way out, and you can also end your chase with a Leap of Faith most of the times which is satisfying beyond measure. The idea is to make the assassination public and strike fear into the enemies left standing before you vanish like a ghost
The hardest thing about these is deciding "who should I kill?" For example, the intel gathering missions of Mirage feature you breaking into places with just regular guards doing their jobs or just protecting someone's home, so to me it's 10x more difficult doing those than infiltrating a bandit hideout since I don't believe Basim would kill regular guards during his inteligence missions considering that it'd be both morally wrong and it would alert his main targets. Another great example of this is in Origins. Bayek wouldn't kill people just minding their business on an outpost he's about to steal, but if it's a Roman outpost then he would go full reaper mode since he is actively attempting to liberate his people from the empire as seem in The Hidden Ones. Playing this way not only increases your immersion but also keeps the game fresh since you'll never be repeating the same gameplay loop for too long.
What this video perfectly shows is that to truly _enjoy_ something, not only the object of enjoyment has to be of good quality, but also the way you‘re consuming it. Once a franchise has reeled you in and you start to actively consume, it becomes so much better! Thank you for the three practical ways of getting that enjoyment out of Assassin‘s Creed :)
That idea about making you own assassin with their own play style is such a cool one I would never of thought about that especially with the games where the hood covers most of their face and replayable missions I might just do that
I always go for the canon friendly option because a lot of of the characters in the different games have a ton of growth so it mean your play style will change as you play, going from brutal open combat to stealth most of the time , and it's a progression that I love
Even though it wasn't in an Assassin's Creed game, I tried the ''role play'' style of play in Ghost of Tsushima, in which at the beginning of the game I just use open combat like a samurai would, and as I progressed through the game I started changing the style of play and I only used stealth until the end, to pretend that I was really making the change from samurai to ghost. And I must say that it was a completely different experience from the first time I played (a better experience)
I'll tell you a really great way to immerse yourself in these games......walk. Don't run. Bustling towns and villages, a cave you've never ever been in before...are you really gonna just sprint in there in real life? No. You're gonna walk slowly inside and get a feel for the surroundings while your eyes adapt to the darkness. And who sprints through a market for no reason? Now if you're trying to get away from people, I can understand
Ezio justifies killing the guards in a flashback in AC Brotherhood by saying that they are guilty by working for guilty people and doing their bidding.
No kidding, don't think too much about it. In the real world, the entire justice system exists to separate innocents from guilties. Being an assassin is basically being a judge jury executioner. Which makes assassins just a bunch of trigger happy cult anarchists. I play AC for the historical tourism. Going to Ancient Greece at the comfort of my home is awesome. Even if I go to Greece right now, it wouldnt be the Golden Age greece
I ghost when it feels right. In AC Rev yesterday I helped Sofia retrieve some maps that that she ordered but the ship refused to give them up. I had been fighting everything for guild challenges and den defense. Things were just too bloody in this playthrough, so I decided to ghost this mission because nobody needed to parish over a simple withheld package.
That's a good middle ground between ghosting and playing normally (a.k.a. using all tools and killing guards that stand in your way). That mission specifically is one of the few I'd ghost as you really just need to grab the map and swim away to do it. Otherwise, unless it's a requirement for 100% Synch or something like the contracts in Mirage, I rarely see the appeal of ghosting through levels. At best, I may want to simply kill the guards directly in my line of sight and complete the objective before the remaining ones notice. Some missions, like Al-Ghul's, are also better to be ghosted because alerting civilians is worse than alerting guards in Mirage for some reason.
For first playthroughs, I tend to do a combination of these. I set 'ghosting' as like my character foundation. Then depending on the narrative and what the character is feeling, I might deviate during some missions. One memorable time was when I was attempting to ghost black flag. I ended up destroying a bunch of ships and probably took out hundreds of enemies after Blackbeard and Mary's death. That was a bad day in the Caribbean lol
I'm replaying Black Flag and I'm trying to play the early game the way I think an ambitious self serving pirate would if he just accidentally stumbled upon a war between 2 secret societies. So far, he thinks the templars are just a bunch noble bastard schemers who ripped him off. He has no clue who these "Assassin" guys are or what their deal is but he keeps finding there messages in pigeon coops so he helps them out with assassinations because it makes him some decent money and also out of spite for the templars who, again, he thinks are just a bunch mizer assholes who screwed him over. Outside of that, his ambitions are solely selfish, only caring to do what makes him money or fund his goals. My favorite moment so far is what I will remember as "The Battle for the Humpback". Edward was sailing to a humpback whale sighting so he could improve his gear. It was in a red enemy zone, though, so it was flooded with enemy ships. Instead of whaling in the middle of a bloodthirsty audience, Edward proceded to assault, plunder, and sink around 15 spanish brigs and frigates until the waters were finally clear enough to safely hunt his true prey. He not only left with his humpback prize but also a small fortune in rum and sugar that would fund the upgrades to make his ship even more deadly with all the materials he stole. Black Flag is truly one of the greatest games ever made.
The playstyle will most likely evolve as the story progresses and he learns more about the secret world he suddenly finds himself in but until then, the early game concept has been super fun.
Another way to increase immersion is to play the dub for whatever language the assassin would speak/hear. So French in Unity, Arabic in Mirage etc. Also don't use the maps for a place the character wouldn't need them. Like Ezio wouldn't need a map to traverse Florence but he would need one to get around Venice
Playing Black flag i noticed that Edward rarely if ever took his swords out, in cutscenes he only draws a single sword, so for a lot of my multiple playthroughs I went with only hidden blades/unarmed, choosing Ghosting for a few missions, mainly those that I tough dead bodirs could be a problem (either for infiltration or canon stealth) The fact 100% scync is canon you can guide yourself throughout a way things might played out Also Edward was a menace, if he was found, there would be no witnesses...concious, I always felt Edward was not that fond of unnecesary bloodshed, if they didn't get on his way
Lore accurate edward would sneak onto the ship and manage to kill a target guns blazing yet still have half the guards not know hes there. Shay would make really risky moves because well, he makes his own luck.
More of this please! This is fantastic to help us enjoy these games as much as you do. I played the original Assassin's Creed roleplaying as a Ḥashshāshīyīn and it became my favourite one. I'm getting ready to play Unity for the first time and I know it's a game you have to work hard in order to love it.
I love how the moment you started talking about ghosting in ac unity, in the background gameplay; you went out of your way to kill every single guard and incapacitate only your main target.
I think this is a big problem that so many AAA games suffer from: They do not have a clear focus on encouraging the player to play in the most fun way. AC I think has always struggled with this, as it gives you so many tools and lee-way to just fight your way through everything, how it doesn't really make/force the player to use stealth unless restricting them with an instant fail-state (boo!). It really reminds me of Watch Dogs, how vast majority of people probably never saw the cool John Wick takedowns because they just shot everyone from a far and spammed grenades: The game simply never asked you to play in the more fun way. The design was too loose.
I always laugh when people say you can't play stealthily in the RPG trilogy, I crawled though the whole trilogy like a ninja and had a lot of fun doing it
2:16 I think it would be cool if camps had a guard quarters in the middle and when you kill someone another guard will take his place in 2 minutes. This would add some pressure and would also mean you can’t just clear an area, you have too sneak in. And maybe if you reach the barracks you can bar the door so they stop respawning
Whenever I start a new save, if the main character isn’t an assassin yet, I don’t free run or do “assassin things.” I also stick to the base outfits and weapons that they would realistically use.
I always try to build my playstyle around the first game. Though the increased variety of tools you get in future games is nice, there's nothing quite like being that "blade in the crowd" they emphasized so much in the first game. Whenever I'm forced to go loud, I normally just do it how that given assassin would. So really, I just sort of mix the first two options in a sense. A good assassin knows when to be showy and when to be subtle. We also play without the HUD in this household.
@@TheSpaniardAssassin Are you some sort of gunslinger or something? Because that's the fastest response I've ever had on a UA-cam comment, so fast it failed to load the reply at first. 😅
You should make of video of how to play each character in your opinion, im curious to hear your take on it. Plus another video where you react to hot takes, that video was pure gold!
I try to play like an actual assassin but I’m just not very good at stealth because I’m pretty new to ac but when I complete a mission without getting detected it’s so satisfying
The issue with this is alot of people don’t seem to care about playstyles anymore. In 2010, when you went over to your friends house to play ac 3 or Skyrim the experience was the same with or without them, it was awesome. The graphics seemed hyper realistic and YOUR IMAGINATION built the world. But now I don’t see kids doing that it’s just online. They don’t care about single player story they’ve been brainwashed to avoid that.
In my full sync black flag playthrough, i imagined ‘chapters’ in edwards life after the main story. So i did the assassin contracts and templat hunts with the stealth outfit, the viewing points with the whaler outfit and the naval contracts, warehouses etc. With the edward the legend outfit. I really enjoyed and ofc also did the playstyle with the fitting outfit with the pirate being reckless, the assassin stealth focused, and the whaler outfit never killing. It may not be completely canon but it doesn’t matter that much to me. I really liked this way of playing. It was a way to keep me playing because most of the time i dont have the patience to complete all the side missions
A great way to summarize your point that I’ve used for years is: walk, don’t run. Take your time, soak in the game world when & where you can, if you want to go faster use your mount/ride sometimes or in Assassins creed stick to the rooftops like the floor is lava. Plus it lets you take in the detailed world of some really great games.
AC had the 2nd option you discussed in game but they removed it in future installments for no good reason. Full Synch was the game's way of telling you : hay you are replaying a person's memory you can live it the way you like but if you want to live it like it was then you can try and complete this mission in this specific way. Not only was it a way to include challenge and reason to keep playing and replaying the game but it also made you peak into the life of the assassin you're playing as... huuuuhh.. miss the old games so much and I miss the potential of what they could've been
Something I do is try to mimic the novelization of the games. For example in the Black Flag Novel Edward sneaks into the fort in Havana using dancers so that’s how I would sneak in. This method doesn’t work for everything because there are some things you can’t mimic but overall I find it to be a fun challenge that makes me feel more immersed.
@@TheSpaniardAssassin Thanks! It’s also super satisfying when you play one of the games after reading it’s book and realizing you can do something exactly how it was described.
When playing AC Origins i never have the hood up until almost the very end of the game when Cleopatra betrays them. Bayek doesnt have that much of a reason to keep himself hidden before that point. So i keep his hood down
I’m playing through AC2 right now and one of the simple things I like to do is change an outfit after each assassination target. My canon is that Ezio changes clothes to disguise himself after each kill.
The easiest thing to do by far that gives kind of immersion in playing is trying to do a "full synchronization" in every mission. It kinda makes you feel that you are playing it the way the "memory" is supposed to be played but also giving you a sense of freedom on how you will approach the missions while doing the optional objectives.
My favorite playstyle is ghost (with accidental deaths) so only allowing deaths can could be claimed as "accidents". Crates falling is just happenstance, someone falling into a river and drowing is just bad luck. People dont "end up" in haystacks. My favorite canon playstyle is edward kenway. He has a very care free style to start out but then eventually becomes responsible. The second person is ezio. His play style changes based on the game. In the first game he is reckless because he is young and inexperienced. The second game he becomes ruthless because of his previous mercy coming back to bite him in the ass. Finally he slows down and become methodical because of his age and experience in his third game
I usually go about playing the games as a lone «Green Beret» from the game series Commandos. And I love taking out guards one by one, carrying them away into hiding spots, so that the other guards never find out. And if I get detected I usually go into a brawl with several guards. I also do some missions in the manner you talk mostly about in this video “Ghosting”, but not an entire play-through. I especially love this way, the way I said in the beginning of my comment, in AC3, BF and Rogue. But this is my go-to playstyle, and I’ve not gotten bored of it yet.
Basim is fun as hell to play canonically as. Since he’s the “quickest assassin” we’ve seen so far due to the animus glitching when we use the warp move, you’ve gotta move fast, throw knives and jump around. And also be sneaky at times
A cool tip for Mirage, DONT overlook the costumes, in the contract missions or main missions use costumes you think are appropriate, the assassin robes are cool and all but like the real-life assassins, disguise was everything, and from a lore pov it makes hiding in plain sight even cooler.
I always loved creating my own characters and placing them in these games, sometimes replacing the main character, sometimes just as a companion, because i really like these games and want to imagine a part of myself in them, one character was in ghost of tsushima where i acted like jin was a blind samurai and learnt how to "see" his opponents, i used a bandage in the game which covered your eyes and i absolutely loved it. Have also done it with a few AC games. It is always so much fun. I really like your vids, keep up the good work👍
While it would technically fall under 2nd option, AC1 perfect synchronization. The synchronization bar ("health bar") in AC1 acts as a sort of canon filter in a way. If it drops, something non-canon happened. The order to kill the targets especially in the act with 3 targets is important as well (as that act it's easy to do them out of order).
I love fluidity in gameplay in all games but especially Assassin’s Creed, immersing myself in characters who have distinct habits, moods, and skillsets is for sure a must but at the same time- we all know they didn’t tackle the mission the exact same way every time and that they fucked up too otherwise we wouldn’t have it come up in the plot. My playstyle varies based on my mood, split between stealthy and loud approaches. I prefer the dynamic chaos of being a hitman or gun-for-hire over sneaking in the shadows. Stealth isn't my forte, but on long days working for the brotherhood, I try to avoid tedious confrontations and remain undetected for as long as possible. I pick off enemies silently from rooftops, manipulate them to move the crowd, and escape in a cloud of smoke. I aim for cool kills, often leaving no survivors-or at least one to tell the tale. When I want my badass moment, channeling Jet Li, Jackie Chan, or Tony Jaa, my character becomes loud, flashy, and reckless. I storm in, guns blazing, bombs flying, taking down everyone in sight. It's a one-man army approach, ensuring efficiency by eliminating everything that moves, not just the target. Outside missions, I go on justified and unprovoked killing sprees against enemies and oppressors, forwarding the mission of shaping the world in our image. I abuse smoke bombs, leaving a trail during escapes or using them to avoid being overrun in battles, cleaving through adversaries in the haze. I aim to be a silent and efficient killer, but my lack of skill often turns missions into chaotic successes. For instance, in Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Jack the Ripper DLC, the mission to kill Lady O’s ending cutscene shows "the ripper" sneaking in to kill everyone inside after Evie leaves. In my gameplay, I have video proof of Evie slaughtering the entire building already in open combat because I got discovered so easily. 😂 & for me- how i play IS THE CANON, so its a funny thought they he ran in the building with murder on his mind to frame me only to fan everyone already dead lmao
I recently replayed Black Flag with a mod that changes the combat to the style of AC3 and gives the standard soliders muskets. I decided to see could I beat the entire campaign wihout dying and it was incredibly fun, having to fully rely on stealth as I could be easily overwhelmed in combat, having to prioritise every use of an item to ensure I could complete each encounter and having to use parkour to escape large amounts of guards, it was great. As you were saying, playing as an actual Assassin will always be the best way to play the series besides being an unstopable killing machine.
When playing black flag, i use the officer's outfit in british teritiory, and the merchant outfit in spanish territory, because i believe it would make me harder to detect, so therefore it increases imersion
Normally content creators yes, but I feel real players like myself role play/have a playstyle in mind. Especially with the rpg games having different skill trees and abilities.
The 60 seconds of the video, captivated me to subscribe. Im also methodical and like the details of things. I try to be creative to elevate my experience in any game especially the Batman Arkham & Marvel Spiderman games. Emersion is a big factor for not feeling that your time is wasted playing a video game.
I can recommend a full assassin play Stile in the RPG games. It make it way more like a “Assassins Creed” (if you want that). And it’s always nice to play Ac without pistols or knifes, darts, etc, so you can relate to the “real” job as an assassin. Not history accurate.
In one of the Codex pages you find in Assassin's Creed II that Altair had written, he speaks about poison being something that he feels the Assassins should start to use.
Hear me out, an AC with a red dead honor system, with combat like Arkham (maybe a little more fleshed out) but yeah, I’ve started ghosting cuz of this and it really does make a world of a difference, I wish the ai were a little smarter though
I have been a diehard fan of AC since the first game. I was 17 when AC1 released and the franchise developed as I grew into a man. I always tried to play as stealthily as possible, killing every enemy in the room and get out undetected. My version of the Creed was slow and methodical, but with time and as games went on my style didn't change and that turned into a stale playstyle that made me abandon the franchise. I skipped most of the American saga, abandoned Unity and Syndicate halfway and never clicked with the RPG saga. I thought it was over for me until I watched this video of yours and the one on Arno as a character. Suddenly it all made sense and I played some of the old games again, this time going out of my comfort zone (which had gone stale) and started "roleplaying" as my character. Suddenly everything clicked again and I felt really happy about being able to enjoy this franchise again. I will surely try again with the newer games like Unity, Syndicate and Mirage with this new mindset, and for that I have to thank you and these videos. Gracias y un saludo de parte de otro español.
Playing as if you were truly trying to uphold the brotherhood, never be seen, never compromise the brotherhood, thats how I find it most fun to play, only fighting when being forced to. Most important of all, if something can be climbed, climb it, I find myself taking the longer ways to places just because I want to parkour my way there just because its cooler, more fun and makes me feel more like an assassin.
I have only been recently able to play ac games and decided to 100% all of them by the order they came out (ac1 in 2024 is still incredible) . One thing I have really liked so far in ac1 and 2 was using the collectible as a way to just improve parkour. It was really fun going from flag to flag in ac1 always trying to improve and get faster. Its not really combat related but a nice play style that removes the usual boredom of collectibles and really trains the parkour. Currently on brotherhood.
I tend to favor dark colors (dark blue, blacks, grays, etc.) and try to stay away from flashy clothing, except during the day when I'm exploring a city and not trying to hide from anyone. One thing I wish all the games had that would, in my opinion, make the games super immersive, is the ability to lift and remove the hood at will. That's one thing I do love about Valhalla - I explore without the hood but right before a stealth segment, I always lift it. I feel like I'm turning into a demon. Like an anti-hero suiting up. I also make it nighttime before a stealth segment whenever possible. Assassins would feel at home in the shadows. Nighttime, dark clothes, the hood = maximum immersion. Like an angel of death.
The last games i played that rewarded you with ghost play style were dishonored and thief. I've done them and they truly gave me headache, but i really enjoyed it
When I heard about roleplay, I imagined going from the first AC to the last one I can play, creating a lineage of assassins specializing in sword fighting hahahahah, this idea of roleplay scares me but it looks fun.
Lore accurate way to play most AC games besides 1, 2, Mirage and Unity is guns blazing approach imo. If we are going to take their first cinematic reveal trailers into account. Ever since Brotherhood trailers were about one man army against 10-20 guards with the exception of Unity and Mirage showing actual stealth.
At least Brotherhood provides a proper explanation for this approach, since you do actually run a paramilitary group and has a squad watching your back for the whole game.
@@odd-eyes6363 Well, yeah. But real reason is showing action excites people. Ezio fighting against a small army in Revelations trailer or Connor fighting against musketeers in an open battlefield excited more people than Ezio stalking a masked man and assassinating him from the crowds in AC2 trailer.
@@Merty1388 I'm aware, I wasn't complaining. Just liked pointing out the fact that with Brotherhood it wasn't just action for it's own sake, it was a great way to showcase the new game mechanics and status quo of the order in that game
honestly I play through the entire game so I can get all of the outfits before just creating my own assassin, normally I ghost with main targets who are essential to the plot while being more open ended with standard targets like on co-op missions or side quests, I like the idea of an assassin who treats low level targets like play things while giving they'er full attention and skill to the primary targets
My favorite way to play is to kill every single guard, but in stealth. Imagine how terrifying it would be for the templars to come across entire bases of people killed and not hearing about it. Imagine stumbling o to that. Or I leave one or two guards so they can spread the news to the higher ups.
Im usually trying to kill every single guard i can find before i kill my actual target, while remaining completely stealth. So everyone is dying, but nobody knows how, why and by whom.
I loved AC: Origins for that exact canon-friendly reason, because Bayek is just an absolute BEAST, I would argue even more so than Connor. A fierce, cunning and brutal warrior driven by revenge for his son's death... man, I should replay it again sometime
AC Valhalla has beautiful Stealth too. It's sad how people won't notice that, all you have to do is turn the stealth difficulty to very easy since the game detection mechanism is broken! In very easy difficulty the guard detection meter is bearable and I was never insta-detected while playing the stealth on very easy, I instantly fell in love with the game's stealth, it looks like that's the actual way developers wanted you all to experience the game but probably due to time constraint they didn't fix the detection mechanism.
@@cvprasad9620 nah, valhalla is a viking simulator with a hidden blade for the fans to not get mad, stealth is NOT the way it was supposed to be played. We play as Odin reincarnated, Odin would not use stealth...
@@cvprasad9620 chill bro, all i said is what it looks like for me, the game literally forces you to engage in combat in multiple missions, even if you disagree, i never disrespected you or anything so you doing that to me just invalidates your whole argument
I’ve played AC since I read about the first one in Gameinformer before it came out. I’ve always tried to play it stealthy, either keeping kills to a minimum or hiding whatever bodies I’ve dispatched
So the way I have always played the Assassin's Creed games is I view the environment around me, make my character blend into it as much as possible, and then tackle the mission with the weapons that will be the most effective. Full stealth missions, I use the hidden blade and the environment to my advantage. Missions that require combat, engage when needed, stealth kills when I can, and try to remain undetected as much as possible. Missions where stealth is a no go, I use guns and swords.
I kinda do the second and last one quite a bit and I thought I was the only one. I almost do a combination of them both sometimes. I play through roleplaying as the protagonist but even outside of cutscenes I tend to act like they would and create their own dialogues in my head and have their own moments. For example in Assassins Creed 3 I played as Connor in my head (obviously) but as the story went along he would become more disgruntled and angry and it would change his outfits correspondingly. Until at the very end he would end up with the Red and Black outfit as a completely different man and he would end up with a completely different personality in my head with a new outfit to boot.
i feel like AC would be benefit greatly with the same systems that the new hitman has where it is the black box mission but way more fleshed out and more items to interact with.
I'm currently recording walkthroughs to create cinematic game-movies of the AC series...you've just convinced me that I need to restart from scratch to make sure I'm using different playstyles as to play as the Assassins would. One question I have though is are we taking the "full synchronization" bonus objectives into consideration as canon when crafting the "personal style" of each Assassin?
An interesting case is presented in AC origins the cannon way you initially go through with combat filled with revenge and blood lust but when the main story ends you become this stealth guy in hidden ones dlc who thinks if it is right to assassinate a target in the open. (FYI ghosting would be hard in origins have to see that once done with the dlcs)
The last one I used to do so often in game in general legit free roaming and act as a character for hours basically doing nothing were the most fun I had gotta start doing it again
Id go for the, rid enemies completely in the entire area then complete the objective. Nowadays i minimize that, and try moving past guards without being detected while progressing.
I suck at stealth, but I always try to play ghosting as best I can because I also think it's what a real assassin would do, and it feels great to be able to run away undetected. Although I have to have some flexibility because otherwise I will never beat the game haha
In my first AC:U encounter I was just slashing through everything I saw in my way and got bored very quickly. In my second encounter I played as a shadow and tried not to kill anyone except for the target. And boy oh boy did it paid off. For this reason I still like the series, even if it shifted into RPG-like thingy. Didn't play Odyssey, Valhalla or Mirage yet tho.
I like this vibe cuz its not like your trying to be competitive or anythimg. Its all for "you" and how you engage with a game to get the most fun out of it. Im tired of metas and just wanna love a game.
My favorite game to canonically play is ac mirage. Specifically because I like to imagine that basim and loki are constantly interchanging consciousness, and that loki is more high action and cruel, whereas basim himself is more subtle and discreet.
I wish ubisoft could add an optional ranking system and punish you for killing non targets enemies forcing you to be a ghost like the Hitman games..same with the challenges
Have you ever tried any of these playstyles?
i have tried ghosting through unity but found it a bit too hard for me so i only did it for the assassination missions, it was very fun :)
After a certain point of time I ve tried 1st and 2nd and LEMME TELL YA...it was AMAAZING , especially in AC Unity
Woah I'm so glad you took up ghosting. No one playsss like a ghost. And I am still waiting for a reward system from ubisoft to leave guards alive like splinter cell. And like you said, it fits perfectly with the assassin fantasy.
I can't really ghost odyssey, because you get a lot of xp from stealth streak killing guards.
I ghosted most of Mirage, because killing guards really didn't give me anything.
3:33 AMEN. That's why Unity and Syndicate are the best ......... I usually take the Phantom (or Thomas) outfit in Unity and I prefer no ranged weapons, killing as few guards as possible ........... the last play option suits me best.
Not yet. But this wonderful video surely has inspired me to make my next playthrough more immersive!
A moment of silence for all those who restarted from checkpoint 1587 times to stealth through ac3
Pain
They deserve a award
I did, thank you xD
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That's me rn...
I typically like to wear the canon outfits and weapons in all the games when playing as lore accurate as possible
Chad
Fr. The only time I've ever changed my outfit was in AC Revelations when I was younger. All I did was change Ezio's robes from dark blue to white. Now I don't change it at all.
@@TheSpaniardAssassin I ghosted through AC Origins
me too, was so much more fun in unity because it forced me to stealth
@@assassinationspartan_ Only time i change colors is when doing side quests cuz watching the same outfit gets bland at times lol
People aren’t gonna like this one but also try to wear NON hooded clothing as much as possible. For the games where that’s not possible, try to wear the most casual looking robes. The hooded robes should only be worn for some assassinations (preferably at night) and ceremonies/meetings in game with the other Assassins.
In Unity I always "role-play" wearing the raider outfit since it's the most inconspicuous looking one out of the bunch, it's plain brown and just makes Arno look like your dime a dozen peasant with the tattered hood (equip the skinner axe or pickaxe for extra immersion). Though since the recent explosion of mods, model swapping Arno with NPC models offers even more option.
For AC4, whaler outfit is unbeatable for both style and believability.
In ac origins, when I am travelling accross the dessert. If I am in the cities and towns I only wear the hood when entering restricted areas. Also just like what he said in tge video, I only kill targets, if possible
@@1anfinity08 impossible in origins
@@shira_yone Brotherhood had that casual outfit for Ezio that I loved even as a kid, I would wear it in freeroam a lot exactly as described here haha
@@vladtheimaplertepeswhy is it impossible ?
Canon-friendly playing I think is among one of the most fun ways to play an AC game.
Flashy stealth like Arno, combat-focused approaches like Connor, precision stealth like Altaïr, all of that. And yes, it will indeed make it feel like you’re roleplaying the characters in question. More immersion indeed.
And then we have Jacob Frye, all stabby stabby
Fr, Evie is so slay and quiet, but Jacob just beats the shit out of everyone lmao
How would you go about playing a canon-friendly Ezio? Off the top of my head, he doesn't have as many obvious distinguishing features gameplay-wise; most of his character seems to be more reliant on the writing than in gameplay (vs the Kenways for instance). Using the recruits a lot in Brotherhood and Revelations, I guess?
@@bluespiritrecords1709honestly itd be up to you to decide that. In my opiniok ezio would do anything and everythijg to get to his target whether that meant fighting or taking a steathy approach. Its in his character. His will to kill to get vengeance for his family makes his a jack in all trades. Js my opinion thi so yk
When I grew up, I never cared for Assassins Creed because the combat was super easy. But I got more invested in the philosophy and history of the games, and picked them up. It’s now one of my favorite series because the stealth gameplay is pretty unique and engaging.
Its amazing
Wearing a HOOD with flashy cloths which makes you stand out in the crowd full of normal people is the most lore-inaccurate thing (I am pointing at you Ezio😂), JACOB's base varient is the best modern day assassin look which helps in social sealth.
Thats a fair point😂
Syndicate is my favorite AC man : I been tryna tell ppl it’s the most accurate to being assassin hiding in plain sight 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
i think hoodies get a pass for our suspension of disbelief as we, the players, acknowledge the hood is only visible to use and in terms of the lore they are just wearing something regular
The best assassin with inaccurate outfit : ezio [love this assassin]
It's accurate for Altair in the first game even from real life history perspective, just as for anything else. It's also accurate for him and Basim in Baghdad from setting perspective. For everyone it's just game lore shananigans, it makes no sense for everyone else, even for Bayek in hot Egypt (funnily enough, vikings wore cloacks occasionally) in terms of social stealth if you try and think how that went IRL. But hey, we love our hooded guys and these games in the end of the day!
playing with tenets of creed in mind.. that's a game
Exactly
AC 1 is the Purest AC game imo
Imagine if there was an AC game where you have to uphold the tenants of the creed. Like let's say, you can choose to kill an innocent scribe to get a key and get to the target easier, but the creed will distrust you more and more. I know it would not happen since the story would be dumb, but just a thought.
One thing i always try to imagine when being stealthy is looking at it from a birds eye view or a guard’s perspective. Imagine guarding a base and one by one everyone starts to randomly disappear and not knowing whos doing this, this makes u feel even more cool or deadly. And from a birds eye view, you just see a hooded killer silently clearing out guards.
I’m glad you made this video, since AC is a such a huge franchise many casuals wouldn’t know the lore behind being an assassin and how you can tackle missions. For us hardcore AC fans, true immersion and FEELING like an assassin is extremely important. So thank you for your content, your content is truly unique and amazing. ❤
thank you dude it really means a lot!
I like to use the camera mode to see, “am I REALLY that hidden?” Hiding in sugar cane is such a laugh. Especially if you hide a body in them. It’s like, “how can you not see it?”
Minimal / Zero armour in the Ezio trilogy is a must. I use The Revelations hack to remove all armour after you're forced to buy some in-mission too (by replaying sequence 1 and collecting your equipment from Masyaf)
Dying your clothes to blend with the region helps with immersion too.
I agree
I love playing AC in the most stealthy and lore accurate way possible.
That's why I loved the Merchant and Eunuch tunics in Mirage, I wore them pretty much every time I would make use of social stealth since they blend so well with the environment. In Unity I used to do the same, trying to wear the set that would fit the enviroment the most. For example, wearing the initial Sans Cullotes sets on the Court of Miracles or the military sets in the Robespierre missions with the army men as enemies. Doing stuff like this or wearing the Merchant's Tunic during the grand auction from Mirage really boosts the immersion for me.
Mirage is fantastic for that
Canon friendly is the way I play every game in general. I love roleplaying, since I've played TTRPGs my whole life.
Assassin's Creed and Cyberpunk are my main confort games, everytime I want to relax and just have fun I play one or the other. And I've played most ACs more times I can remember and the feeling don't get old if I play like that, it's just so immersive.
Same here actually love those two
try rdr2, peak immersion
Interesting you mentionned TTRPGs, as I created an Assassin one for my friends a few months ago.
None of them has any Assassin's Creed knowledge let alone historical one about Assassins, but they are loving it so far and are deeply invested.
I made my own lore, using real ismaili history as a foundation and setting it in 1192. The system is taking inspiration from Hitman missions structucture and AC1 investigations of targets, to prioritise expression, immersion and social stealth.
Best AC related experience I have ever had.
Map markers and Animus GPS systems are a video game contrivance we use to get around these worlds, but consider how your ancestor actually found their next mission. Did someone give them detailed instructions like the rafiqs did for Altair? Did they follow the sun and stars to sail there like Edward? Did Eagle Vision light the way like it did for Ezio in Revelations or their connection to a companion animal like the recent protagonists? For this playstyle you'll disable any and all HUD assists for navigation and avoid checking the map as much as possible. You'll have to internalize the map layout, pay attention to context clues, take notes on verbal instructions, or check the database for information on where you're going. You will also get lost a lot. AC1 and Origins-Mirage are the best for this, but Revelations, Black Flag, and Rogue are sort of playable
no HUD is key
I love this, I've been moving towards playing RPG games with little to no HUD. It can be so hard but fun if you're into it haha
Oh my god 😂 right, well, let me ask you this....what if you are so sure the "castle where he is being held" is directly to the north of where you currently are, you head there, and it turns out the castle was actually to the south? 😂 There's immersion of being lost, then there's stupidly lost 😂 I mean no disrespect whatsoever but with no HUD I'd probably make no progress
@@dazzaboy04 This happens a lot in Revelations. The database helps, but names of landmarks have often been mangled through multiple transliterations. I'd say if you fail to follow your planned route then rely on a secondary strategy like following a map marker beacon in Eagle Vision
@@icarusgaming6269I tend to dabble in explorer mode to see if I can map read 😂
My playstyle has two rules: stealthy infiltration, chaotic exfiltration
So, every open-ended mission ends up having stealth, combat, and Parkour.
Before killing the target, I aim to kill minimal guards and hide all bodies. After killing the target with a high profile execution, I thin the hoard of guards immediately upon me using tools and quick melee combat before I make the escape as flashy as possible which is why I always plan the exit route. The Kenway games have gunpowder you can place at key points that you can quickshot on your way out, and you can also end your chase with a Leap of Faith most of the times which is satisfying beyond measure.
The idea is to make the assassination public and strike fear into the enemies left standing before you vanish like a ghost
Love this, like ac 1
The hardest thing about these is deciding "who should I kill?"
For example, the intel gathering missions of Mirage feature you breaking into places with just regular guards doing their jobs or just protecting someone's home, so to me it's 10x more difficult doing those than infiltrating a bandit hideout since I don't believe Basim would kill regular guards during his inteligence missions considering that it'd be both morally wrong and it would alert his main targets. Another great example of this is in Origins. Bayek wouldn't kill people just minding their business on an outpost he's about to steal, but if it's a Roman outpost then he would go full reaper mode since he is actively attempting to liberate his people from the empire as seem in The Hidden Ones.
Playing this way not only increases your immersion but also keeps the game fresh since you'll never be repeating the same gameplay loop for too long.
What this video perfectly shows is that to truly _enjoy_ something, not only the object of enjoyment has to be of good quality, but also the way you‘re consuming it. Once a franchise has reeled you in and you start to actively consume, it becomes so much better! Thank you for the three practical ways of getting that enjoyment out of Assassin‘s Creed :)
Wow, thank you!
That idea about making you own assassin with their own play style is such a cool one I would never of thought about that especially with the games where the hood covers most of their face and replayable missions I might just do that
i hope you have fun doing it
I always go for the canon friendly option because a lot of of the characters in the different games have a ton of growth so it mean your play style will change as you play, going from brutal open combat to stealth most of the time , and it's a progression that I love
Even though it wasn't in an Assassin's Creed game, I tried the ''role play'' style of play in Ghost of Tsushima, in which at the beginning of the game I just use open combat like a samurai would, and as I progressed through the game I started changing the style of play and I only used stealth until the end, to pretend that I was really making the change from samurai to ghost. And I must say that it was a completely different experience from the first time I played (a better experience)
I'll tell you a really great way to immerse yourself in these games......walk. Don't run. Bustling towns and villages, a cave you've never ever been in before...are you really gonna just sprint in there in real life? No. You're gonna walk slowly inside and get a feel for the surroundings while your eyes adapt to the darkness. And who sprints through a market for no reason?
Now if you're trying to get away from people, I can understand
I'm a walker in all games. Nice to meet a fellow rare species 🤝
@@HaykInWonderlandit's why RDR2 took me so long to complete. I made Arthur walk through all the towns I was in
@@dazzaboy04 hell yeah, pard
Tbf, “the flesh of the innocent” can be very subjective. Are the revolutionaries guarding Rouille “innocent?” Would Arno consider them that way?
Ezio justifies killing the guards in a flashback in AC Brotherhood by saying that they are guilty by working for guilty people and doing their bidding.
No kidding, don't think too much about it. In the real world, the entire justice system exists to separate innocents from guilties. Being an assassin is basically being a judge jury executioner. Which makes assassins just a bunch of trigger happy cult anarchists. I play AC for the historical tourism. Going to Ancient Greece at the comfort of my home is awesome. Even if I go to Greece right now, it wouldnt be the Golden Age greece
@@eldrickzero4885we got a templar sympathiser here. Be careful or you’ll get killed by the hidden blade
I ghost when it feels right.
In AC Rev yesterday I helped Sofia retrieve some maps that that she ordered but the ship refused to give them up. I had been fighting everything for guild challenges and den defense. Things were just too bloody in this playthrough, so I decided to ghost this mission because nobody needed to parish over a simple withheld package.
That's a good middle ground between ghosting and playing normally (a.k.a. using all tools and killing guards that stand in your way). That mission specifically is one of the few I'd ghost as you really just need to grab the map and swim away to do it. Otherwise, unless it's a requirement for 100% Synch or something like the contracts in Mirage, I rarely see the appeal of ghosting through levels. At best, I may want to simply kill the guards directly in my line of sight and complete the objective before the remaining ones notice.
Some missions, like Al-Ghul's, are also better to be ghosted because alerting civilians is worse than alerting guards in Mirage for some reason.
For first playthroughs, I tend to do a combination of these. I set 'ghosting' as like my character foundation. Then depending on the narrative and what the character is feeling, I might deviate during some missions. One memorable time was when I was attempting to ghost black flag. I ended up destroying a bunch of ships and probably took out hundreds of enemies after Blackbeard and Mary's death. That was a bad day in the Caribbean lol
love this!
I'm replaying Black Flag and I'm trying to play the early game the way I think an ambitious self serving pirate would if he just accidentally stumbled upon a war between 2 secret societies. So far, he thinks the templars are just a bunch noble bastard schemers who ripped him off. He has no clue who these "Assassin" guys are or what their deal is but he keeps finding there messages in pigeon coops so he helps them out with assassinations because it makes him some decent money and also out of spite for the templars who, again, he thinks are just a bunch mizer assholes who screwed him over.
Outside of that, his ambitions are solely selfish, only caring to do what makes him money or fund his goals. My favorite moment so far is what I will remember as "The Battle for the Humpback". Edward was sailing to a humpback whale sighting so he could improve his gear. It was in a red enemy zone, though, so it was flooded with enemy ships. Instead of whaling in the middle of a bloodthirsty audience, Edward proceded to assault, plunder, and sink around 15 spanish brigs and frigates until the waters were finally clear enough to safely hunt his true prey. He not only left with his humpback prize but also a small fortune in rum and sugar that would fund the upgrades to make his ship even more deadly with all the materials he stole.
Black Flag is truly one of the greatest games ever made.
The playstyle will most likely evolve as the story progresses and he learns more about the secret world he suddenly finds himself in but until then, the early game concept has been super fun.
Another way to increase immersion is to play the dub for whatever language the assassin would speak/hear. So French in Unity, Arabic in Mirage etc. Also don't use the maps for a place the character wouldn't need them. Like Ezio wouldn't need a map to traverse Florence but he would need one to get around Venice
good catch
Playing Black flag i noticed that Edward rarely if ever took his swords out, in cutscenes he only draws a single sword, so for a lot of my multiple playthroughs I went with only hidden blades/unarmed, choosing Ghosting for a few missions, mainly those that I tough dead bodirs could be a problem (either for infiltration or canon stealth)
The fact 100% scync is canon you can guide yourself throughout a way things might played out
Also Edward was a menace, if he was found, there would be no witnesses...concious, I always felt Edward was not that fond of unnecesary bloodshed, if they didn't get on his way
Lore accurate edward would sneak onto the ship and manage to kill a target guns blazing yet still have half the guards not know hes there. Shay would make really risky moves because well, he makes his own luck.
More of this please! This is fantastic to help us enjoy these games as much as you do.
I played the original Assassin's Creed roleplaying as a Ḥashshāshīyīn and it became my favourite one.
I'm getting ready to play Unity for the first time and I know it's a game you have to work hard in order to love it.
thank you!
I love how the moment you started talking about ghosting in ac unity, in the background gameplay; you went out of your way to kill every single guard and incapacitate only your main target.
I think this is a big problem that so many AAA games suffer from: They do not have a clear focus on encouraging the player to play in the most fun way. AC I think has always struggled with this, as it gives you so many tools and lee-way to just fight your way through everything, how it doesn't really make/force the player to use stealth unless restricting them with an instant fail-state (boo!). It really reminds me of Watch Dogs, how vast majority of people probably never saw the cool John Wick takedowns because they just shot everyone from a far and spammed grenades: The game simply never asked you to play in the more fun way. The design was too loose.
I always laugh when people say you can't play stealthily in the RPG trilogy, I crawled though the whole trilogy like a ninja and had a lot of fun doing it
yeah taking out fortresses in odyssey stealthily were so much fun
2:16 I think it would be cool if camps had a guard quarters in the middle and when you kill someone another guard will take his place in 2 minutes. This would add some pressure and would also mean you can’t just clear an area, you have too sneak in. And maybe if you reach the barracks you can bar the door so they stop respawning
Whenever I start a new save, if the main character isn’t an assassin yet, I don’t free run or do “assassin things.” I also stick to the base outfits and weapons that they would realistically use.
I did that too!
I always try to build my playstyle around the first game. Though the increased variety of tools you get in future games is nice, there's nothing quite like being that "blade in the crowd" they emphasized so much in the first game. Whenever I'm forced to go loud, I normally just do it how that given assassin would. So really, I just sort of mix the first two options in a sense. A good assassin knows when to be showy and when to be subtle. We also play without the HUD in this household.
Chad same here
I never thought of a canon playstyle before, in Assassin's Creed at least.
Its very fun
@@TheSpaniardAssassin Are you some sort of gunslinger or something? Because that's the fastest response I've ever had on a UA-cam comment, so fast it failed to load the reply at first. 😅
@@Omar-Asimhe’s is an Hidden One from Spain
You should make of video of how to play each character in your opinion, im curious to hear your take on it.
Plus another video where you react to hot takes, that video was pure gold!
I try to play like an actual assassin but I’m just not very good at stealth because I’m pretty new to ac but when I complete a mission without getting detected it’s so satisfying
The issue with this is alot of people don’t seem to care about playstyles anymore. In 2010, when you went over to your friends house to play ac 3 or Skyrim the experience was the same with or without them, it was awesome. The graphics seemed hyper realistic and YOUR IMAGINATION built the world. But now I don’t see kids doing that it’s just online. They don’t care about single player story they’ve been brainwashed to avoid that.
yeah thats all gone
In my full sync black flag playthrough, i imagined ‘chapters’ in edwards life after the main story. So i did the assassin contracts and templat hunts with the stealth outfit, the viewing points with the whaler outfit and the naval contracts, warehouses etc. With the edward the legend outfit. I really enjoyed and ofc also did the playstyle with the fitting outfit with the pirate being reckless, the assassin stealth focused, and the whaler outfit never killing. It may not be completely canon but it doesn’t matter that much to me. I really liked this way of playing. It was a way to keep me playing because most of the time i dont have the patience to complete all the side missions
A great way to summarize your point that I’ve used for years is: walk, don’t run. Take your time, soak in the game world when & where you can, if you want to go faster use your mount/ride sometimes or in Assassins creed stick to the rooftops like the floor is lava. Plus it lets you take in the detailed world of some really great games.
Exactly
I've been experimenting with the Canon friendly way. Example I'm playing ac syndicate so evie is clean and stealthy while Jakob is loud and brash
Love this
AC had the 2nd option you discussed in game but they removed it in future installments for no good reason. Full Synch was the game's way of telling you : hay you are replaying a person's memory you can live it the way you like but if you want to live it like it was then you can try and complete this mission in this specific way. Not only was it a way to include challenge and reason to keep playing and replaying the game but it also made you peak into the life of the assassin you're playing as... huuuuhh.. miss the old games so much and I miss the potential of what they could've been
I play the style where you create your own character with your own backstory.
Something I do is try to mimic the novelization of the games. For example in the Black Flag Novel Edward sneaks into the fort in Havana using dancers so that’s how I would sneak in. This method doesn’t work for everything because there are some things you can’t mimic but overall I find it to be a fun challenge that makes me feel more immersed.
Bro this is fire
@@TheSpaniardAssassin Thanks! It’s also super satisfying when you play one of the games after reading it’s book and realizing you can do something exactly how it was described.
When playing AC Origins i never have the hood up until almost the very end of the game when Cleopatra betrays them.
Bayek doesnt have that much of a reason to keep himself hidden before that point. So i keep his hood down
I’m playing through AC2 right now and one of the simple things I like to do is change an outfit after each assassination target. My canon is that Ezio changes clothes to disguise himself after each kill.
Thats cool head canon
The easiest thing to do by far that gives kind of immersion in playing is trying to do a "full synchronization" in every mission. It kinda makes you feel that you are playing it the way the "memory" is supposed to be played but also giving you a sense of freedom on how you will approach the missions while doing the optional objectives.
The only right answer to all of this. The full synchronization is giving you the canon.
My favorite playstyle is ghost (with accidental deaths) so only allowing deaths can could be claimed as "accidents". Crates falling is just happenstance, someone falling into a river and drowing is just bad luck. People dont "end up" in haystacks.
My favorite canon playstyle is edward kenway. He has a very care free style to start out but then eventually becomes responsible. The second person is ezio. His play style changes based on the game. In the first game he is reckless because he is young and inexperienced. The second game he becomes ruthless because of his previous mercy coming back to bite him in the ass. Finally he slows down and become methodical because of his age and experience in his third game
I usually go about playing the games as a lone «Green Beret» from the game series Commandos.
And I love taking out guards one by one, carrying them away into hiding spots, so that the other guards never find out.
And if I get detected I usually go into a brawl with several guards.
I also do some missions in the manner you talk mostly about in this video “Ghosting”, but not an entire play-through.
I especially love this way, the way I said in the beginning of my comment, in AC3, BF and Rogue.
But this is my go-to playstyle, and I’ve not gotten bored of it yet.
It is addictive tbf
Yoo have you played Shadow Tactics?
@@Omar-Asim No, but now I know about it! Thanks!
Basim is fun as hell to play canonically as. Since he’s the “quickest assassin” we’ve seen so far due to the animus glitching when we use the warp move, you’ve gotta move fast, throw knives and jump around. And also be sneaky at times
Hes so damn dun
I'm so happy to see another fellow assassin brothern feel the same passion of assassin creed's lore!
So glad you agree!
A cool tip for Mirage, DONT overlook the costumes, in the contract missions or main missions use costumes you think are appropriate, the assassin robes are cool and all but like the real-life assassins, disguise was everything, and from a lore pov it makes hiding in plain sight even cooler.
costumes are great
I always loved creating my own characters and placing them in these games, sometimes replacing the main character, sometimes just as a companion, because i really like these games and want to imagine a part of myself in them, one character was in ghost of tsushima where i acted like jin was a blind samurai and learnt how to "see" his opponents, i used a bandage in the game which covered your eyes and i absolutely loved it. Have also done it with a few AC games. It is always so much fun. I really like your vids, keep up the good work👍
While it would technically fall under 2nd option, AC1 perfect synchronization. The synchronization bar ("health bar") in AC1 acts as a sort of canon filter in a way. If it drops, something non-canon happened. The order to kill the targets especially in the act with 3 targets is important as well (as that act it's easy to do them out of order).
So you can't ever get hit in AC 1.
I love fluidity in gameplay in all games but especially Assassin’s Creed, immersing myself in characters who have distinct habits, moods, and skillsets is for sure a must but at the same time- we all know they didn’t tackle the mission the exact same way every time and that they fucked up too otherwise we wouldn’t have it come up in the plot. My playstyle varies based on my mood, split between stealthy and loud approaches. I prefer the dynamic chaos of being a hitman or gun-for-hire over sneaking in the shadows.
Stealth isn't my forte, but on long days working for the brotherhood, I try to avoid tedious confrontations and remain undetected for as long as possible. I pick off enemies silently from rooftops, manipulate them to move the crowd, and escape in a cloud of smoke. I aim for cool kills, often leaving no survivors-or at least one to tell the tale.
When I want my badass moment, channeling Jet Li, Jackie Chan, or Tony Jaa, my character becomes loud, flashy, and reckless. I storm in, guns blazing, bombs flying, taking down everyone in sight. It's a one-man army approach, ensuring efficiency by eliminating everything that moves, not just the target.
Outside missions, I go on justified and unprovoked killing sprees against enemies and oppressors, forwarding the mission of shaping the world in our image. I abuse smoke bombs, leaving a trail during escapes or using them to avoid being overrun in battles, cleaving through adversaries in the haze. I aim to be a silent and efficient killer, but my lack of skill often turns missions into chaotic successes.
For instance, in Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Jack the Ripper DLC, the mission to kill Lady O’s ending cutscene shows "the ripper" sneaking in to kill everyone inside after Evie leaves. In my gameplay, I have video proof of Evie slaughtering the entire building already in open combat because I got discovered so easily. 😂
& for me- how i play IS THE CANON, so its a funny thought they he ran in the building with murder on his mind to frame me only to fan everyone already dead lmao
I recently replayed Black Flag with a mod that changes the combat to the style of AC3 and gives the standard soliders muskets. I decided to see could I beat the entire campaign wihout dying and it was incredibly fun, having to fully rely on stealth as I could be easily overwhelmed in combat, having to prioritise every use of an item to ensure I could complete each encounter and having to use parkour to escape large amounts of guards, it was great. As you were saying, playing as an actual Assassin will always be the best way to play the series besides being an unstopable killing machine.
I need to try that
Can't agree more
When playing black flag, i use the officer's outfit in british teritiory, and the merchant outfit in spanish territory, because i believe it would make me harder to detect, so therefore it increases imersion
Normally content creators yes, but I feel real players like myself role play/have a playstyle in mind. Especially with the rpg games having different skill trees and abilities.
The 60 seconds of the video, captivated me to subscribe. Im also methodical and like the details of things. I try to be creative to elevate my experience in any game especially the Batman Arkham & Marvel Spiderman games. Emersion is a big factor for not feeling that your time is wasted playing a video game.
I just realized I always do the third playstyle without thinking about it lol. I definitely wanna try the canonical playstyles next tho
let me know how it goes!
I can recommend a full assassin play Stile in the RPG games. It make it way more like a “Assassins Creed” (if you want that). And it’s always nice to play Ac without pistols or knifes, darts, etc, so you can relate to the “real” job as an assassin. Not history accurate.
I remember playing watch dogs 2 like this, fully non lethal only with the taser and hacking.
Chad
For years I didn't like using poison because I was certain Altair didn't approve, even after it had been widely accepted by later brotherhoods.
Chad same
In one of the Codex pages you find in Assassin's Creed II that Altair had written, he speaks about poison being something that he feels the Assassins should start to use.
Hear me out, an AC with a red dead honor system, with combat like Arkham (maybe a little more fleshed out) but yeah, I’ve started ghosting cuz of this and it really does make a world of a difference, I wish the ai were a little smarter though
They need an assassin game or ac1 remake where you play as historically accurate fidhai or assassin during the crusades
I have been a diehard fan of AC since the first game. I was 17 when AC1 released and the franchise developed as I grew into a man. I always tried to play as stealthily as possible, killing every enemy in the room and get out undetected. My version of the Creed was slow and methodical, but with time and as games went on my style didn't change and that turned into a stale playstyle that made me abandon the franchise. I skipped most of the American saga, abandoned Unity and Syndicate halfway and never clicked with the RPG saga.
I thought it was over for me until I watched this video of yours and the one on Arno as a character. Suddenly it all made sense and I played some of the old games again, this time going out of my comfort zone (which had gone stale) and started "roleplaying" as my character. Suddenly everything clicked again and I felt really happy about being able to enjoy this franchise again. I will surely try again with the newer games like Unity, Syndicate and Mirage with this new mindset, and for that I have to thank you and these videos.
Gracias y un saludo de parte de otro español.
Playing as if you were truly trying to uphold the brotherhood, never be seen, never compromise the brotherhood, thats how I find it most fun to play, only fighting when being forced to.
Most important of all, if something can be climbed, climb it, I find myself taking the longer ways to places just because I want to parkour my way there just because its cooler, more fun and makes me feel more like an assassin.
Its so rewarding
I do the 3rd style all the time ! My style is using the tools to trick, dodge and counter.
I have only been recently able to play ac games and decided to 100% all of them by the order they came out (ac1 in 2024 is still incredible) . One thing I have really liked so far in ac1 and 2 was using the collectible as a way to just improve parkour. It was really fun going from flag to flag in ac1 always trying to improve and get faster. Its not really combat related but a nice play style that removes the usual boredom of collectibles and really trains the parkour. Currently on brotherhood.
Collectible hunting can be so relaxing
I tend to favor dark colors (dark blue, blacks, grays, etc.) and try to stay away from flashy clothing, except during the day when I'm exploring a city and not trying to hide from anyone. One thing I wish all the games had that would, in my opinion, make the games super immersive, is the ability to lift and remove the hood at will. That's one thing I do love about Valhalla - I explore without the hood but right before a stealth segment, I always lift it. I feel like I'm turning into a demon. Like an anti-hero suiting up.
I also make it nighttime before a stealth segment whenever possible. Assassins would feel at home in the shadows. Nighttime, dark clothes, the hood = maximum immersion. Like an angel of death.
The last games i played that rewarded you with ghost play style were dishonored and thief. I've done them and they truly gave me headache, but i really enjoyed it
When I heard about roleplay, I imagined going from the first AC to the last one I can play, creating a lineage of assassins specializing in sword fighting hahahahah, this idea of roleplay scares me but it looks fun.
Lore accurate way to play most AC games besides 1, 2, Mirage and Unity is guns blazing approach imo. If we are going to take their first cinematic reveal trailers into account. Ever since Brotherhood trailers were about one man army against 10-20 guards with the exception of Unity and Mirage showing actual stealth.
At least Brotherhood provides a proper explanation for this approach, since you do actually run a paramilitary group and has a squad watching your back for the whole game.
@@odd-eyes6363 Well, yeah. But real reason is showing action excites people. Ezio fighting against a small army in Revelations trailer or Connor fighting against musketeers in an open battlefield excited more people than Ezio stalking a masked man and assassinating him from the crowds in AC2 trailer.
@@Merty1388 I'm aware, I wasn't complaining. Just liked pointing out the fact that with Brotherhood it wasn't just action for it's own sake, it was a great way to showcase the new game mechanics and status quo of the order in that game
The only characters who would canonically go on a blood thirsty killing spree are Bayek, early Ezio, Edward, and occasionally Arno.
honestly I play through the entire game so I can get all of the outfits before just creating my own assassin, normally I ghost with main targets who are essential to the plot while being more open ended with standard targets like on co-op missions or side quests, I like the idea of an assassin who treats low level targets like play things while giving they'er full attention and skill to the primary targets
Awesome
My favorite way to play is to kill every single guard, but in stealth. Imagine how terrifying it would be for the templars to come across entire bases of people killed and not hearing about it. Imagine stumbling o to that. Or I leave one or two guards so they can spread the news to the higher ups.
Im usually trying to kill every single guard i can find before i kill my actual target, while remaining completely stealth. So everyone is dying, but nobody knows how, why and by whom.
I loved AC: Origins for that exact canon-friendly reason, because Bayek is just an absolute BEAST, I would argue even more so than Connor.
A fierce, cunning and brutal warrior driven by revenge for his son's death... man, I should replay it again sometime
Hes a chad
Pro tip: don’t try this in assasins Creed Viking Simulator
Actually you can unless its raiding or a forced boss battle
AC Valhalla has beautiful Stealth too. It's sad how people won't notice that, all you have to do is turn the stealth difficulty to very easy since the game detection mechanism is broken! In very easy difficulty the guard detection meter is bearable and I was never insta-detected while playing the stealth on very easy, I instantly fell in love with the game's stealth, it looks like that's the actual way developers wanted you all to experience the game but probably due to time constraint they didn't fix the detection mechanism.
@@cvprasad9620 nah, valhalla is a viking simulator with a hidden blade for the fans to not get mad, stealth is NOT the way it was supposed to be played. We play as Odin reincarnated, Odin would not use stealth...
@@desprometido Stfu and try playing Stealth with Very Easy difficulty. Then judge the game
@@cvprasad9620 chill bro, all i said is what it looks like for me, the game literally forces you to engage in combat in multiple missions, even if you disagree, i never disrespected you or anything so you doing that to me just invalidates your whole argument
I’ve played AC since I read about the first one in Gameinformer before it came out. I’ve always tried to play it stealthy, either keeping kills to a minimum or hiding whatever bodies I’ve dispatched
chad
So the way I have always played the Assassin's Creed games is I view the environment around me, make my character blend into it as much as possible, and then tackle the mission with the weapons that will be the most effective. Full stealth missions, I use the hidden blade and the environment to my advantage. Missions that require combat, engage when needed, stealth kills when I can, and try to remain undetected as much as possible. Missions where stealth is a no go, I use guns and swords.
The right way to play
I kinda do the second and last one quite a bit and I thought I was the only one. I almost do a combination of them both sometimes. I play through roleplaying as the protagonist but even outside of cutscenes I tend to act like they would and create their own dialogues in my head and have their own moments.
For example in Assassins Creed 3 I played as Connor in my head (obviously) but as the story went along he would become more disgruntled and angry and it would change his outfits correspondingly. Until at the very end he would end up with the Red and Black outfit as a completely different man and he would end up with a completely different personality in my head with a new outfit to boot.
the thumbnail really rocks
Thank you!
i feel like AC would be benefit greatly with the same systems that the new hitman has where it is the black box mission but way more fleshed out and more items to interact with.
I'm currently recording walkthroughs to create cinematic game-movies of the AC series...you've just convinced me that I need to restart from scratch to make sure I'm using different playstyles as to play as the Assassins would. One question I have though is are we taking the "full synchronization" bonus objectives into consideration as canon when crafting the "personal style" of each Assassin?
So cool
In the earlier games yes
An interesting case is presented in AC origins the cannon way you initially go through with combat filled with revenge and blood lust but when the main story ends you become this stealth guy in hidden ones dlc who thinks if it is right to assassinate a target in the open.
(FYI ghosting would be hard in origins have to see that once done with the dlcs)
Thats one of my fave things about it
1:52 That Transition is fire🔥🔥🔥
The last one I used to do so often in game in general legit free roaming and act as a character for hours basically doing nothing were the most fun I had gotta start doing it again
Its so fun
Id go for the, rid enemies completely in the entire area then complete the objective. Nowadays i minimize that, and try moving past guards without being detected while progressing.
so much fun
Yeah, in like every CGI trailer we see them killing the main target and running away from the Guards that spot them.
I suck at stealth, but I always try to play ghosting as best I can because I also think it's what a real assassin would do, and it feels great to be able to run away undetected. Although I have to have some flexibility because otherwise I will never beat the game haha
Assassins creed, and most ubisoft games, are much more fun when you try to play well and immersively
I try relentlessly to stealth whatever i can in the AC RPGs
4:48 I wanted to cry from the sumptuous elegance of Unity
I like assassins creed and I got faith that red will be good
Lets hope
My Evie Frye never kills.👍👑🔥 & Jacob issa Rebel with his Rebellious Rooks
In my first AC:U encounter I was just slashing through everything I saw in my way and got bored very quickly. In my second encounter I played as a shadow and tried not to kill anyone except for the target. And boy oh boy did it paid off. For this reason I still like the series, even if it shifted into RPG-like thingy. Didn't play Odyssey, Valhalla or Mirage yet tho.
Its so rewarding
I like this vibe cuz its not like your trying to be competitive or anythimg. Its all for "you" and how you engage with a game to get the most fun out of it. Im tired of metas and just wanna love a game.
That last sentence is the one
My favorite game to canonically play is ac mirage. Specifically because I like to imagine that basim and loki are constantly interchanging consciousness, and that loki is more high action and cruel, whereas basim himself is more subtle and discreet.
I think best game for ghosting is ac1. Many quest with information about target, and good level design
Yeah love it so much
First few seconds and i was like yessss
a real one
I wish ubisoft could add an optional ranking system and punish you for killing non targets enemies forcing you to be a ghost like the Hitman games..same with the challenges