Trigger block with timed parries was the pinnacle? Look at how crowds of enemies just stand there and wait to attack one at a time in the early games. It was horribly boring after you saw the kill animations more than a few times.
@@josephschaffer2716 you know what else is boring, striking your enemy millions of times just waiting for him to die. Thank god Valhalla slightly improved that after odyssey.
@@josephschaffer2716 Some people find that fun. Like me It’s entertaining to just slaughter enemies consecutively and it’s more realistic than fighting an enemy that takes years to kill because they’re a higher level than you. The only thing I kind of agree on is the enemies attacking one by one, not so realistic and smart of the ai, but that is more or less the melee combat behavior in a lot of games such as Jedi fallen order and shadow of Mordor. If the ai all started to attack at once, then that would make the experience to frustrating for the player. And countering isn’t the only way to kill enemies, you can strike them for a few times consecutively and you will execute them in a brutal fashion or break their defense and attack them for four times, especially in ac3-rogue (which might have the best combat system right up their with brotherhood.
As much as I like the combat of the new games I'll always prefer the old mechanics and animations. I always loved how Ezio and Altaiir's counter-moves weren't always all fatal, they were just quick and efficient like they were trying to take as many people out of the fight as quickly as possible. I feel like the combat has gone a little over to the flashy side since AC3 where it leans really heavily into the dramatic kill moves with lots of spins and jumps and other flairs. I prefer my assassins to fight efficiently with no frills like an actual professional. As far as animation wise your guy actually looking like a trained swordsman when he fights I'd say Unity probably had the best animations out of all the games. They were just the right amount of efficient but with a little flair that made them feel unique to Arno.
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Nothing drives me nuts like watching people only perform counter attacks in the first 2 AC games. It’s not engaging. Why don’t more people go on the offensive and utilize all of Altair’s combat skills? When you mix it all up, it’s significantly more fun than standing around waiting for someone to attack you. Not necessarily criticizing your actions, it’s just something I see so much in these types of videos.
@@numbron803 right! It’s way more engaging when you play aggressively, but keep your eye out for enemy attacks. Only counter when they attack, and doge iff necessary. Dodging and following up with a few quick attacks is more effective against the tougher enemies than waiting to counter, and visually it’s more appealing, because it looks like a dance of swords.
@@ethanlee2835 exactly, and with the variation of weapons, grabs, taunts, dodges etc. it makes for my favorite combat in the series. IMO it's much better than the attack, parry, attack, dodge bullet, parry, attack that was Unity's combat that a lot of people say is the best one.
@@numbron803 I don’t mind Unity’s actually. I preferred it to Syndicate. I thought the RPG shift in Origins benefitted the combat for the game, and perhaps Odyssey a bit too, but I got bored with it in Valhalla. My favorite games for combat in the series are AC1, Brotherhood, and AC3
@@ethanlee2835 the RPG combat just isn't AC to me. They are just fantasy RPGs with forced AC lore. And Unity had potential but it's extremely unfinished, clunky, slow and has no variety.
They were not enjoyable, they were easy, so easy that it was more viable to go directly into combat than to explore stealth, not to mention its simplistic control scheme and its extensive counterattack timing. in the unty at least they made it difficult, in the syndicate they made it faster and with better kinesthetics, already in the rpg triology it could be called a "combat system" with weapons with their own abilities, the ability to dodge, block, parris and bosses who were not lazy
Agree, Since origins the combat the combat has been getting worse, AC3 best combat no doubt! animations, chain kills, and everithing fells more realistic not like a hack and slash. no.2 Black Flag/rouge.
@@reynaldotorres4349 almost like ya read my mind Despite Blackflag polishing the issues AC3 had, i still prefer and love AC3's combat. It had more animations and randomness than Rogue and Blackflag. I honestly dunno why Ubisoft decided to down the rpg route with AC games. I played Unity but only coz twaz an Assassin's Creed game. Don't like the combat at all but hey, an AC fan is an AC fan in the end.
The later ACs are mostly just speed hack 'n slash, which you can tell from this vid started with Syndicate. Still fun yes but way simpler and less realistic. Unity I will confidently say did it the best - was slower in movement and Arno put the most emphasis into his strikes. And the NPCs in older ACs don't really attack one at a time as many say - I'm playing AC2 now and fairly regularly I have to break away from attacking one enemy to block or counter another one coming at me. And as others have said, striking the same enermy a dozen times to kill them is not that great as with the new ACs, compared to timing a counter kill just right. And killing an enemy with one strike makes sense - that's how swords work in real life, not this constant hack 'n slash stuff of the newer ACs.
I’m here bcz I absolutely HATE combat in Valhalla. It looks like an arcade game. The first 3 AC games had better combat. It looked realistic and the animations were spectacular and rewarding to watch. Now it’s like an arcade game. I just swing at a hit bar and the baddies bleed and then bounce back 20 ft. So unrealistic looking.
The combats in the American saga are boring and easy, you can kill entire waves with just two buttons. and it doesn't even feel as satisfying as the arkham saga (and I'm talking about asylum), since there are no penalties for having bad timing since this in counterattacks is absurd, the enemies die instantly, the turns they take to attacking are ridiculous, and they don't leave you a wide range of mobility since the character moves slowly when he is in combat mode. In 2012, The Witcher 2 also came out, which is a game that had much more to offer in its combat.
I agree. Whenever I saw a new three or four-takedown animation from that game, I'd start bursting out of laughter. Those moves were like a choreography and all the characters including the enemies were part of it.
In mirage they tried to do a hybrid of the rpg and the not rpg combat, and ended up with one of the worst comat sistems of all ac in my opinion. Also the animations are not very good.
Ppl like the nostalgia and how easy everything was cause its so heavily automated but at the same time with games like origins it shows the game in a new light u feel like your in more control which creates a learning curb not seen in games like Ac2, Ac3 and games in between. I dont say Ac1 because me personally i did enjoy the parry system, which i gotta say is a lost staple in assasin creeds games. Aside from those points i feel ppl get upset because you dont get the assasin feel no more u get the feelin ur playn an rpg wich in itself is cool but i personally feel that assasins creed shpuld rebrand. No more an assasin game but rather a hybrid of to a mix netween the new rpg excperience and assasin stuff.
Yes...AC should rebrand as how older ac games were... Assassin's Creed should return to its core... We got lot of rpg games... If we need to play rpg we will play rpg ..let ac alone
@@didacromero3892 nah I apologise because in the Last 2 months ive 100% Black Flag , Unity , Rogue and Origins and I can say that the old Assassin’s Creed’s are 10x better
I actually enjoyed the combat in origins, although the old combat system was satisfying. I feel like origins combat did rely a lot on skill, timing and distance. The newer ac games have terrible combat system tho
@@wafflboixYeah, like origins is more of an RPG, so it's combat is good for what it is, you can't compare Unity and Origins combat because they are two different combat systems in different genres
@@kaloskid4733 unity tried to be better than the older games at combat, and it failed. The combat was satisfying when it worked, but sometimes arno would just not read your input, and even if you did everything perfectly, they would still just pull out a gun and break the entire fight sequence. Unity could've done a lot of things better if it got given time, but it tried to do everything better in a short period of time.
Unity is where it all went to shit. The combat looked so good then they started adding colors behind where you swung, it looks so stupid and ruined it for me. 3 was amazing unity and up look like ass. I didn’t play black flag or rogue but they don’t have that stupid shit so I might give them a try.
AC1: very basic AC2: a bit better but not so much ACB: too easy with terrible ai ACR: same of revelation AC3: nice combat (except for chain kills wich make some parts too easy) ACBF: same of AC3 ACU: basically free flow, best combat in the series. ACS: bit worse than ACU due to more firearms. ACO, ACOd, ACV: terribile, one of the worst combat in action games
Na questão do parkour e assassinatos os antigos são bem melhores. Porem na questão de mecanicas de combate o Odissey e principalmente o Valhalla são muito melhores.
it's a lot more boring slashing at the same enemy one hundred times until he dies, and then doing the same in the next 10 enemies. It's just spamming attack for 15 minutes until the combat ends lol. At least older games had a lot of variety of animations and were fast and smooth. Go see a proper combat video instead of ones that just wait around and do counters all the time.
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The old combat is just perfect, the Ezio moves looks soo professionaly coordinated
AC 3 best combat system
agreed
baised
Yes Exactly 🔥
Ac3 just looks cool
@Akiroh why?
The graphics change between II and Brotherhood is crazy
For me the combat style of AC revelation and AC iii is the best. Brutal, diverse!!!
5:55 the dude that ran away...💀😂
AC 1, AC 2, brotherhood, revelations, AC 3, syndicate, unity.
i will never understand how the developers managed to just make it worse and worse
Trigger block with timed parries was the pinnacle? Look at how crowds of enemies just stand there and wait to attack one at a time in the early games. It was horribly boring after you saw the kill animations more than a few times.
Tbh I hated the combat in ac2 and the parkour wasn’t that good. They made it better when ac3 came out
@@josephschaffer2716 you know what else is boring, striking your enemy millions of times just waiting for him to die. Thank god Valhalla slightly improved that after odyssey.
@@yodaddyrc1220 As opposed to one-hit killing everything with trigger blocks and timed counters? ZZZZZZZ
@@josephschaffer2716 Some people find that fun. Like me It’s entertaining to just slaughter enemies consecutively and it’s more realistic than fighting an enemy that takes years to kill because they’re a higher level than you. The only thing I kind of agree on is the enemies attacking one by one, not so realistic and smart of the ai, but that is more or less the melee combat behavior in a lot of games such as Jedi fallen order and shadow of Mordor. If the ai all started to attack at once, then that would make the experience to frustrating for the player. And countering isn’t the only way to kill enemies, you can strike them for a few times consecutively and you will execute them in a brutal fashion or break their defense and attack them for four times, especially in ac3-rogue (which might have the best combat system right up their with brotherhood.
Assassin's Creed Unity, Assassin's Creed 4 Black flag, Assassin's Creed 3 the best combat system.
Are we watching the same video
@zahid2072unlike after syndicate ones, in unity you could make a critical in any moments, at least it still shorter
AC3 best combat then Black Flag No doubt
As much as I like the combat of the new games I'll always prefer the old mechanics and animations. I always loved how Ezio and Altaiir's counter-moves weren't always all fatal, they were just quick and efficient like they were trying to take as many people out of the fight as quickly as possible.
I feel like the combat has gone a little over to the flashy side since AC3 where it leans really heavily into the dramatic kill moves with lots of spins and jumps and other flairs. I prefer my assassins to fight efficiently with no frills like an actual professional.
As far as animation wise your guy actually looking like a trained swordsman when he fights I'd say Unity probably had the best animations out of all the games. They were just the right amount of efficient but with a little flair that made them feel unique to Arno.
AC Revelations, AC Rogue and Syndicate. I know AC Rogue underrated but Shay looks combat look like a hunter.
Connor, Edward combat animations and chain kills looks crazy
Wow super video brro❤
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Idk why people complaining about rpg assasins♥️.. Orgins was best for me. He looked badass countless tailing missions is noty cup of tea
Nothing drives me nuts like watching people only perform counter attacks in the first 2 AC games. It’s not engaging. Why don’t more people go on the offensive and utilize all of Altair’s combat skills? When you mix it all up, it’s significantly more fun than standing around waiting for someone to attack you. Not necessarily criticizing your actions, it’s just something I see so much in these types of videos.
and then those people say the combat is boring cause it's only counter, wait and counter again lol.
@@numbron803 right! It’s way more engaging when you play aggressively, but keep your eye out for enemy attacks. Only counter when they attack, and doge iff necessary. Dodging and following up with a few quick attacks is more effective against the tougher enemies than waiting to counter, and visually it’s more appealing, because it looks like a dance of swords.
@@ethanlee2835 exactly, and with the variation of weapons, grabs, taunts, dodges etc. it makes for my favorite combat in the series.
IMO it's much better than the attack, parry, attack, dodge bullet, parry, attack that was Unity's combat that a lot of people say is the best one.
@@numbron803 I don’t mind Unity’s actually. I preferred it to Syndicate. I thought the RPG shift in Origins benefitted the combat for the game, and perhaps Odyssey a bit too, but I got bored with it in Valhalla. My favorite games for combat in the series are AC1, Brotherhood, and AC3
@@ethanlee2835 the RPG combat just isn't AC to me. They are just fantasy RPGs with forced AC lore.
And Unity had potential but it's extremely unfinished, clunky, slow and has no variety.
Enjoyable combat ended in Rogue. Fight me if you disagree. It's almost as if the new AC games trade mechanics, story and everything else for graphics.
And the graphics in the rpg games are not even that good
They were not enjoyable, they were easy, so easy that it was more viable to go directly into combat than to explore stealth, not to mention its simplistic control scheme and its extensive counterattack timing. in the unty at least they made it difficult, in the syndicate they made it faster and with better kinesthetics, already in the rpg triology it could be called a "combat system" with weapons with their own abilities, the ability to dodge, block, parris and bosses who were not lazy
Agree, Since origins the combat the combat has been getting worse, AC3 best combat no doubt! animations, chain kills, and everithing fells more realistic not like a hack and slash. no.2 Black Flag/rouge.
@@pabloarredondo6711 if you feel that way i guess
Ain't no stopping ya
@@reynaldotorres4349 almost like ya read my mind
Despite Blackflag polishing the issues AC3 had, i still prefer and love AC3's combat.
It had more animations and randomness than Rogue and Blackflag. I honestly dunno why Ubisoft decided to down the rpg route with AC games. I played Unity but only coz twaz an Assassin's Creed game. Don't like the combat at all but hey, an AC fan is an AC fan in the end.
Damm revelation guy got brute strenght
That's still Ezio. But old and tired.
i remember there was one ac where you didnt even need to time your counter you could just hold the button.
AC1, Revelations, AC3 and Black Flag are the only good ones.
Its a good thing I didnt wasted my time on the rest
Brotherhood is awesome
Unitys combat is amazing
@@Prozacslushy97 Every Ezio Auditorre game was and still is awesome
@@codyjensenleague agreed!
Say whatever about recent AC games, but i believe AC valhalla has the most brutal combat. Dismemberment, decapitations and other stuff.
The later ACs are mostly just speed hack 'n slash, which you can tell from this vid started with Syndicate. Still fun yes but way simpler and less realistic. Unity I will confidently say did it the best - was slower in movement and Arno put the most emphasis into his strikes.
And the NPCs in older ACs don't really attack one at a time as many say - I'm playing AC2 now and fairly regularly I have to break away from attacking one enemy to block or counter another one coming at me.
And as others have said, striking the same enermy a dozen times to kill them is not that great as with the new ACs, compared to timing a counter kill just right. And killing an enemy with one strike makes sense - that's how swords work in real life, not this constant hack 'n slash stuff of the newer ACs.
Altair movement was heavy and brutal
Ac1 have detail like sword from scabbard. Other ac look like sword on hip without scabbard or sheath.
Ac 3 combat system with Ac Unity's movement and u have a great game
Yes
There was a concerning amount of guards in AC Unity
what was the song when the assassin creed revelation fighting showed?
AC syndicate combat Is very special
9:23 You want to catch these hands blud
Played odyssey for the 1st time today ive never deleted a game so fast 😂
😂😂
Fr this shit plays like elder scrolls online 😂😭
If you take odyssey as an ac game you will find it garbage. If you forget the assassins creed part its a preety decent rpg.
@@didacromero3892 it’s probably cz I’m not really a fan of rpg the numbers piss me off lol
Is this powerdirector❔
I’m here bcz I absolutely HATE combat in Valhalla. It looks like an arcade game. The first 3 AC games had better combat. It looked realistic and the animations were spectacular and rewarding to watch. Now it’s like an arcade game. I just swing at a hit bar and the baddies bleed and then bounce back 20 ft. So unrealistic looking.
Realistic? Lmfao
The combats in the American saga are boring and easy, you can kill entire waves with just two buttons. and it doesn't even feel as satisfying as the arkham saga (and I'm talking about asylum), since there are no penalties for having bad timing since this in counterattacks is absurd, the enemies die instantly, the turns they take to attacking are ridiculous, and they don't leave you a wide range of mobility since the character moves slowly when he is in combat mode. In 2012, The Witcher 2 also came out, which is a game that had much more to offer in its combat.
Ac brotherhood and ac 3 was the best
After ac Syndicate it just became blander and duller Ac3 system was so satysfing but ofc they gotta cut corners to put one of these out every year
Is it just me or did all of syndicates animations feel really goofy?
Syndicate was a very goofy AC
But I still love it
I agree. Whenever I saw a new three or four-takedown animation from that game, I'd start bursting out of laughter. Those moves were like a choreography and all the characters including the enemies were part of it.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage made me come here just because of how bad the combat has become.
In mirage they tried to do a hybrid of the rpg and the not rpg combat, and ended up with one of the worst comat sistems of all ac in my opinion. Also the animations are not very good.
Ppl like the nostalgia and how easy everything was cause its so heavily automated but at the same time with games like origins it shows the game in a new light u feel like your in more control which creates a learning curb not seen in games like Ac2, Ac3 and games in between. I dont say Ac1 because me personally i did enjoy the parry system, which i gotta say is a lost staple in assasin creeds games. Aside from those points i feel ppl get upset because you dont get the assasin feel no more u get the feelin ur playn an rpg wich in itself is cool but i personally feel that assasins creed shpuld rebrand. No more an assasin game but rather a hybrid of to a mix netween the new rpg excperience and assasin stuff.
Yes...AC should rebrand as how older ac games were... Assassin's Creed should return to its core... We got lot of rpg games... If we need to play rpg we will play rpg ..let ac alone
All are best but brother is really good in its own way
The combat system is just so much better now imo
Its fun for an rpg game, but it does not fit in an ac. New ACs are not bad games at all, they are just bad ACs
@@didacromero3892 nah I apologise because in the Last 2 months ive 100% Black Flag , Unity , Rogue and Origins and I can say that the old Assassin’s Creed’s are 10x better
An thing i think is that the AC1 combat for the PC is straigth up horrible,its hard to figth,the controls are too far from each other,it is just hard
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New assassins are awful
Valhalla's best IMO
Ezio chokeslamed in ac2
The last ac game to have good combat was ac unity
I actually enjoyed the combat in origins, although the old combat system was satisfying. I feel like origins combat did rely a lot on skill, timing and distance. The newer ac games have terrible combat system tho
@@wafflboixYeah, like origins is more of an RPG, so it's combat is good for what it is, you can't compare Unity and Origins combat because they are two different combat systems in different genres
@@kaloskid4733 unity tried to be better than the older games at combat, and it failed. The combat was satisfying when it worked, but sometimes arno would just not read your input, and even if you did everything perfectly, they would still just pull out a gun and break the entire fight sequence. Unity could've done a lot of things better if it got given time, but it tried to do everything better in a short period of time.
que le hicieron a mi muchacho :'c
Unity is where it all went to shit. The combat looked so good then they started adding colors behind where you swung, it looks so stupid and ruined it for me. 3 was amazing unity and up look like ass. I didn’t play black flag or rogue but they don’t have that stupid shit so I might give them a try.
They massacred such a beloved game series 😪
Although mirage was a mid game. Valhalla Origins and Odessey are all great games
@@EIroyy Thats true, but they just dont feel like an ac.
Assasings creed 3 is the best💯❤️
Valhalla tem o melhor combate da Saga RPG.
AC1: very basic
AC2: a bit better but not so much
ACB: too easy with terrible ai
ACR: same of revelation
AC3: nice combat (except for chain kills wich make some parts too easy)
ACBF: same of AC3
ACU: basically free flow, best combat in the series.
ACS: bit worse than ACU due to more firearms.
ACO, ACOd, ACV: terribile, one of the worst combat in action games
Ill be honest the new games have ugly combat. Just doesn't look right
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Dislike for that u did not show all Ac games
Na questão do parkour e assassinatos os antigos são bem melhores. Porem na questão de mecanicas de combate o Odissey e principalmente o Valhalla são muito melhores.
Odyssey trash
Man combat was boring in the early games
I disagree I had loads of fun obliterating large groups of enemies.
it's a lot more boring slashing at the same enemy one hundred times until he dies, and then doing the same in the next 10 enemies. It's just spamming attack for 15 minutes until the combat ends lol.
At least older games had a lot of variety of animations and were fast and smooth. Go see a proper combat video instead of ones that just wait around and do counters all the time.
@@numbron803you describe syndicate combat pretty much
In the new games too.
Maybe you didn't play the early games
It just got stupid from syndicate forward
Idk tbh Origins and Odyssey was fun imo but wasnt as smooth and very different.
AC always didnt had very engaging combat to me.
They've gotten worse and worse
5:55 the dude that ran away...💀😂