It definitely is very basic by today's standards but back in 2007 there was nothing like it. I remember being impressed by the fact that you could climb any building you wanted to.
That's the point though. People compare games relative to the year they were released which is bs because you are playing it now. I miss the tone of these games though. And as good as a world can look, if the tone is off and the gameplay is poor then it sucks which is the case for Odyssey and Valhalla.
The games story is so boring ro do you literally go to several different places to do the fucking same thing all the time 2 is way way better at the storyline and everything else i played this and died from being bored till i finished it
@@cryptus1283 You confuse the story missions with the story. The story of AC1 is incredible and probably the best in the series. The story missions tho, not so much.
@@octavianmihu7861 you mean the plot twist that doesnt make it good all you do is get a mission go and try to get the kill and all nearly im the same way there is nothing that seoerates this missions they are too similar and that makes it boring
@@cryptus1283 No, I mean if you actually pay attention to the dialogue and the memory logs and see Altair change and grow, that's the story.
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I remember the absolute *fear* of being attacked by a Templar Knight in the early game. An enemy that knew how to counter all my attacks and could easily break my defense really gave me the feeling of being outmatched in every way.
nope.... wrong... the games combat is genuinely hard and even hard to master... the games combat also has a secret mechanic that isn't explained to the player at all but it essentially the prototype of kill-chaining that was properly presented in Brotherhood but anyways enemies have the fear mechanic in which they would be intimidated and look like they were going to vomit and so you can easily switch to your (you can get a free hit on enemies with sword/dagger) hidden blade and insta kill them if they do that animation and after you hidden blade kill them, you can then chain it.... this can happen to any enemy type but those with higher rank would be more resisted to it. This helps especially if you're going to do a no-hit/canon playthrough of the game since altair during his redemption never got hit in battle.... all of this was explained by Leo K rogue and someone before him but if you want proper presentation then you should go watch his video
It was basic but carefully crafted. Something they improved upon until they gave up and like Kev said. Just made it "new assassin's creed" easy prompts, lots of extra fluff with no finesse and some weird RPG element.
I would say that AC1 is only basic in mission structure. Mechanically, everything has a pretty solid amount of depth, especially when considering how short the game is.
16 years???? Jesus, I was 15 on 2009 when I first grabbed AC2. Yet it feels like yesterday. Such an amazing experience getting into this franchise regardless of its flaws
I love AC1, it’s right behind Revelations for me. I loved the setting, I enjoyed the story, and Altair is a really cool and interesting character that I think a lot of people sleep on. And to be honest, I don’t really see why people dislike the gameplay. I love the combat and upgrading over the story makes you feel like Altair and how he has to regain his equipment and relearn to be an assassin. I didn’t even find the missions that repetitive, in hindsight they are but the game is so short I didn’t really even notice. I do understand that it’s by far the most basic AC game, but I don’t think that means it’s upsides should be overlooked.
I'll say this, Altair felt like he had real weight to him when he moved - when you did climbing and parkour, it felt like the movement of a real human being. I feel like Ezio moved like 25-30% faster and just felt like a video game character, felt like he shot up the face of buildings rather than methodically climbed them
I loved that in order to find the target you should find an informants, steal some documents, secure some heavily guarded area, and your target locations. Repetitive but make sense, its slower and methodical. Crazy because AC 1 now sounds like Hitman game.
@@Abel_Unstable I know right, so cool and a shame they stopped doing that. But I hear that Mirage is supposed to bring back and updated version of that so let’s hope!
I like The earlier AC games wayyyy more. It was basic but the story was better and you could keep up. Now AC has endgame content yea but it’s just so much that it deviates from the original story. Like in origins you start fighting ancient gods and stuff lol
The thing about the first assassins creed is you would do side quests which would give you information on your target like for example a completely unguarded path through which you could just walk in, kill, walk out. This is what made the game feel like a real assassin, roaming around and gathering information before making a plan and executing it.
I just sat there with my dagger in hand waiting for some brave chump to swing on me and bam Id strike like a cobra and drop him then proceed to wait for the next brave soul...ac Valhalla: whooooooo stab stab stab!!!
I'm confused are you arguing the parkour didn't give you freedom versus the Mario Brothers simulator of the newer ones? With stuff magically bolted to buildings that you can superman fly between?
@@11202 it gave you more freedom while still requiring at least some skill, when the newer games don’t even have any semblance of any. There’s videos of people playing odyssey free roaming going in a straight line not even thinking or worried about fall damage. It’s super trivial and not fun. In older games there was risk/reward and more fun to be had because parkour was like a mini game itself. The magic is also just terrible and not fun
The later games I was kinda indifferent to targets other than the borgias, but the first game really let you hate some of them like the one who murders that guy with a knife in public, or the other who has a guy's legs broken. That scene got me shook as a kid, lol
You can play the game without interface, they give ways to get all information without it. Where are the targets, where are needed towns, how much knives do you have, and etc. It has really good parkour manually controlled of the directions greatly And lots of not told mechanics of the combat. Follow-up insta kill on sword? Yes. Btw, did anyone find out that if you crouch archers would shoot so lower that you can jump above the arrow of you want to.
Oh man I remember playing this game like crazy when I was 15. I never get tired of the sword fights(mainly in the training arena) and the beautiful locations. in my opinion the best area is Jerusalem 🕎. The peaceful music, the clear skies, the beautiful green fields, and the detail of the entire city. It’s really cool when you’re on your horse and you stop at the cliff. Then you see the entire city of Jerusalem in the distance. So cool. Also this game has an amazing final boss fight and the final battle music is just awesome.
@@Ig_fuckcesar Yeah! I just wish there’s a few more detailed Side quests in each city and I wish you could re-enter the temple of Solomon. I just love the detail on the underground ruins. Every time I look there is something new to find. Same with the other cities.
'amazing final boss fight'..? uh did you play a patched version or something? I remember the guy who you're lead to believe to be the final boss being utterly 1/10 lame (he's lit. just a standard enemy that you beat by pressing one button like the rest of them) then the 'twist' final boss that could have surprised NO ONE also being completely and utterly lame
its really funny the comment about the horses feet all being in the air at the same time because that is really what happens when a horse runs its actually more of a hop or a skip than running
I mean even a human sprint is honestly more of a consecutive one-legged jump sequence. A human walk to a lesser extent; low gravity walking is bouncy for a reason.
The remember the first Assassin's Creed was painful. tedious and and very restrictive in where you could go. That being said I collected every one of those damn flags and still played it to death. Good times.
Something about the original assassins creed actually looks visually better than the new ones. More grounded/believable maybe. My favorite game from the series! Also the parkour not being as ridiculous was really nice back then haha
I think one of the reasons is the mouths matching with what the people are saying. Idk why, but I've had more trouble with that in the rpgs than anything before. I also think that some of the newer games go for a stylized world to make it look cool, whereas old AC made it look realistic
You're insane if you actually think this. Odyssey is by far the best looking game in the series. This game looks dated. It's clear that it's an early PS3 era game.
I was having breakfast while watching this and nearly died choking on a biscuit when you rolled that acetate sheet overhead projector thing out. GOD WHAT A TIME THAT WAS.
Man, you paint your passions so much differently than anyone else on youtube, something I've found to appreciate in your videos is that you talk on genuine thoughts and reasonable processes. Keep up the good work!!!
I replayed the Ezio trilogy recently and had such a great time. Still even more fun than a lot of recent games. The story and gameplay were so nice. Where did we go wrong?
I would say things went wrong once Unity hit the market. The best AC games were 1, the Ezio trilogy and the Kenway Trilogy. Each of those games offered something brand new to the table and it was very addicting. Actually my favorite is the Kenway trilogy. mainly because the ship battles are so glorious. Ezio is Zorro lol 😂. Perfect 👍🏼
@@Steel-101 played through unity over the past two days and it is really sad how unfinished the combat feels. i swear most of the time the parry flash never popped up and the way you can't dodge any gunshots at all besides running (and even then they still hit you from over 100 feet away) the gameplay really brings down what is IMO a story just as great as AC 2
@@sleeplessbard2519 yeah I agree and what really hurt unity was the whole multiplayer idea for the main story. Also the story itself was pretty good but at the same time it was very infuriating because of that character Elise. I’m sorry but I think she’s a fool. Lol 😂
This game makes you take it seriously. Respect the creed as an Assassin does as this is the only way to success. I always followed and respected the creed to the last letter and that made this game such a wonderful experience for me. This game makes you work for each and everything, even basic walking without bumping into anyone. Now Assassins creed doesnt take itself even a little bit seriously. Only the hardcore know the main three tenets of the creed. I bet the new players dont even know what the heck this creed even is. Whenever I broke the creed I got into serious trouble. No handholding and no help with serious restrictions. Man, I miss this game.
Once we started getting into gay vikings and Egyptian magic gods and making the Assassins Proto-Marxists, that's when I think Assassin's Creed stopped actually being about the Assassins. I'd dare say that the last game that was actually about the Assassins was Rogue, with Black Flag being more of a pirate game that happened to be set in the Assassin's Creed universe.
@@VortexKiller2 This game was fire, especially in co-op. Two Towers was solid too, but damn some missions were absurdly difficult, especially at Helm's Deep.
@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 two towers was hard as nails, Third Age is good too especially with open world exploration and rpg elements but no button mashing gameplay so its a hit or miss for most people.
@@VortexKiller2 I liked it, but there were many ways to make your party OP very early. It was also great that you could play as Nazguls, Mumakils, orks etc.
yh it was a more like a proof of concept for the series tbh. the second and third games were pretty great tho one of the few thing it has over the new games is the out of animus story. It was just so much more investing and the stakes seemed so much higher
Oh and the music after you assassinate the target was epic. It would scare me so much my feet would turn cold. The game makes you feel that this isnt a regular guy you killed, hes a very powerful man and now the entire city has gone into alert. Vanish as fast as you can, youre not safe in this city now. Run , run or youll get captured.
My oldest memory of playing ac1 is jumping off a tower and not landing in a haystack, i loved playing through the ac games with the same glitch throughout all the games. Last time it happened playing the modern games would be in umm... the one where you play the fry twins (i forgot the name 💀)
People always say it doesn’t hold up. But it was a lot better than I’d remembered. Super underrated AC, I could go on about it all day. It’s THE Assassin’s Creed game
Dam I remember playing it on and off back in 2008-2014. I was 8 when my dad bought the ps3. I actually never really understood the game fully, I was just running around alot and riding the horse was almost my whole game experience with this game
I think people write it off as inferior today because the later ones were focused on the action for a later generation with shorter attention spans. The first one was about the preparation missions, learning everything about your target, your environment, making allies to aid you in your escape, and deciding from several options how to get in make your kill and get away.
I love this game and its music. I still listen to "flight through jerusalem" regularly as it is one of my favourite tracks of all time. Jesper kyd is amazing.
This is my favorite franchise and I went back and played every game one right after the other. I will say playing the older games was really nice but, when I got to AC Unity it was stale and when I got to Origins it was nice to see something different. I will say the new formula is almost starting to be like the old one where it's getting a little stale.
@@Type1Speed in my opinion it also had amazing location and setting also the combat wasn't that bad. Also the graphics held up extremely well considering it's gonna be 10 years old next year.
As someone who owned AC: Black Flag but started with Valhalla(put too many hours into that, over 150), I love both styles, recently bought the Ezio collection and beat all of those, and beat Origins yesterday. The RPG games and the older games have their own charm to them, and i think anybody should be able to enjoy either one, as I have. In the future, I hope to be able to play the rest of the series i haven't played yet
I tried playing the old ones (my first AC game was Origins) and it was so hard to get into after the open world more responsive newer ones. I've played plenty of old games in my day too (I'm 38) and I do like them, but these first ones were so hard to get into. I'll try it again one day maybe lol
Wow, I didn’t think anyone could be that bad at AC, I miss the combat and the fact you didn’t need to grind levels to play the whole game, being able to do actual counters made you feel so cool and it wasn’t just a numbers game and bashing the opponent, classic game from a more elegant age
They need to make ac like this again. The main bosses to side bosses all has depth. Guy was cutting up a civilian in the square and the classic hidden blade noise and afterlife or limbo talk just great. Graphics are still good too and I can’t wait for mirage
They definitely should've killed Desmond. I don't believe he had really much of a personality to be with. What I wish they did was take the lore from the comics and extra materials and meaningfully put them into the games. Because they're canon and do affect the plot but you'd never know unless you read them.
@@PkmnLovar i know that desmund didn’t have a personality, but if they kept him alive he would have become exactly like ezio, but they didn’t put enough effort into making him a main character for long enough
@@calebfulton4207 hope you like the new games. Not letting them bake these features and iterate them to fruition is the reason they pivoted to RPG brain-dead elements. We get it you like dumb games that are linear and you just wanna run around snacking things while ignoring half the plot. Tada you have them now
I remember watching my brother play this on his 360 in 07 and we were literally shocked at how amazing this game looked 🤯 this is a great game and still holds up today. If u haven't played it I definitely reccomend it. Far better than the recent AC's
As an adult I now look at the mechanics different. Such as a man stopping a full grown horse, at galloping speeds. Bruv should be a goner not fighting after doing that 😂
man i really miss this game it brought such amazing things to the gaming world exploration, story, gaming mechanics that would be used for years this game is still good till this day!
So i started playing assassins creed series on late 2021, i played every game and here id my opinion, wothout any nostalgia or anything. Ac1 - Broing, repetative, tidious combat, nice parkour. Ac2 - This one was really good, but in mamy ways it was too similiar to ac1, also combat was sometimes just boring and the fights wete too long. AcB- ma fovourite game kn the franchise, i loved ac2, and Brotherhood was just a better version of it AcR - Borotherhood 2, great story. Ac3 - Great parkour, even better combat but the stealth was often iritating. Ac4 - Prepare your nostalgic ass to blow up: The naval combat was ok... for the first couple of hours, after like 30h it was so fucking boring i just turned on cheats to skipp these missions. Meele combat was too easy, stealh was good, story was awsome (best of all imo) Ac Rouge - Same ass black flag, also a great story. AcU - Better aproach to combat, it was harder, and fighitng larger gropus of enemies was imposibble, what i loved, coz it forced you to play stealthy. AcS - Great city, memorable main charachters, kinda repetetive, but still fun. Ac Origins - Bad parkour, good story, good combat, nice setting. Ac Oddysey - Its not even assassins creed, but still a ok. game. Ac valhalla - Even worse parkour, most of the game felt like standart rpg game, wirh assassins creed crossover, still a fun expieriwnce. I actually had more fun with valhalla than with ac1. And thats the truth. You dont like ac1 just becouse of good memories from childhood, which makes any review usless. Prove me if im wrong.
26:26 in Assassin's Creed (all of ezio collection) 3 and I'm pretty Shure ever other one if you just push up and let go of R2 and X (playstation) you can slow climb every individual pole. Love u my Canadian Gamer Xaddy
The only bad thing about this game was the mission structure. The graphics, story, atmosphere, world building, characters, gameplay(Combat and parkour) were amazing for it's time and it still holds up today, it might seem a little basic or barebones compared to today's games but it's still great
The beginning third and ending third is what sells this game the middle is what really pulls any momentum and the feeling of going on an adventure out of the game and trust me as someone who played it for over 18 hours I can say it really drags on and on. The best thing in the middle third is the story otherwise it's very, very, VERY repetitive and long for my taste
I dunno, recently we lost God of War as it turned into walkie talkie with combat that just feels weird (where old Kratos taking on dozens of enemies at once?) but at the same time we had Devil May Cry 5 and Elden Ring.
@@Deadspace1996 GTA Online is also succesful but it's total trash. I just don't like changes they made in terms of gameplay, open world, tons of useless loot, slower combat on smaller scale, even though story is solid I preferred OG trilogy + PSP games. They fixed some issues like repetetive boss fights and little variety of enemies with Rangarok but still - it ain't for me.
@Ryo Cascade I still play F3 and NV (with mods) almost every day, those games are immortal even tho F3 has shitty story that doesn't really make sense.
As someone who played through the Games In Release Order I can say... I love all AC Games and I´m just having Fun playing them. The Old Ones as well as the New RPG Ones. Some People just dislike Change.(And yes the Story-Quality decrease is noted on my Part but i´m still having Fun)
One thing every Assassins Creed player has said at least once: “welp there was not a haystack there”
Or, “Why’d you jump that way? I was clearly aiming at the Haystack!”
Follow that with a broken controller
@@Saroma-hq4vu "I DIDN'T MEAN JUMP OFF THE TOWER EZIO I MEANT JUMP UP"
I feel attacked
We all know the pain of thinking there was a haystack there but not seeing the right animation and experiencing every stage of grief.
It definitely is very basic by today's standards but back in 2007 there was nothing like it. I remember being impressed by the fact that you could climb any building you wanted to.
That's the point though. People compare games relative to the year they were released which is bs because you are playing it now. I miss the tone of these games though. And as good as a world can look, if the tone is off and the gameplay is poor then it sucks which is the case for Odyssey and Valhalla.
The games story is so boring ro do you literally go to several different places to do the fucking same thing all the time 2 is way way better at the storyline and everything else i played this and died from being bored till i finished it
@@cryptus1283 You confuse the story missions with the story. The story of AC1 is incredible and probably the best in the series. The story missions tho, not so much.
@@octavianmihu7861 you mean the plot twist that doesnt make it good all you do is get a mission go and try to get the kill and all nearly im the same way there is nothing that seoerates this missions they are too similar and that makes it boring
@@cryptus1283 No, I mean if you actually pay attention to the dialogue and the memory logs and see Altair change and grow, that's the story.
I remember the absolute *fear* of being attacked by a Templar Knight in the early game. An enemy that knew how to counter all my attacks and could easily break my defense really gave me the feeling of being outmatched in every way.
the templars are ez asf to deal with what are you talking about
nope.... wrong... the games combat is genuinely hard and even hard to master... the games combat also has a secret mechanic that isn't explained to the player at all but it essentially the prototype of kill-chaining that was properly presented in Brotherhood but anyways enemies have the fear mechanic in which they would be intimidated and look like they were going to vomit and so you can easily switch to your (you can get a free hit on enemies with sword/dagger) hidden blade and insta kill them if they do that animation and after you hidden blade kill them, you can then chain it.... this can happen to any enemy type but those with higher rank would be more resisted to it. This helps especially if you're going to do a no-hit/canon playthrough of the game since altair during his redemption never got hit in battle.... all of this was explained by Leo K rogue and someone before him but if you want proper presentation then you should go watch his video
@@yuurrrrrrrr1 one thing to note is that... if an enemy taunts you then you can insta-kill with hidden blade or get a free hit in with a sword/dagger
@@godzillazfriction bro i when i was 100%ing it templars was a breze i got hit like once every fight sometimes 0
At first Templars were scary till I realized jumping on them was op
As basic as this game may seem now, it still holds up in my eyes as an absolute classic and is endlessly nostalgic to this day.
Yeah this was one of the games that got me into gaming
This game holds up compared to a lot of recent games, i still play it from time to time
It was basic but carefully crafted. Something they improved upon until they gave up and like Kev said. Just made it "new assassin's creed" easy prompts, lots of extra fluff with no finesse and some weird RPG element.
I would say that AC1 is only basic in mission structure. Mechanically, everything has a pretty solid amount of depth, especially when considering how short the game is.
I think it’s sophisticated too with all of the philosophical dialogue and historical backdrop.
It's an even more special Kevduit video when he plays a game you have played.
way to make me feel old AF XD
Ironically, this might be the most underappreciated entry in the franchise when you think about it.
THE most Assassin - Assassin's creed game 🛐
16 years???? Jesus, I was 15 on 2009 when I first grabbed AC2. Yet it feels like yesterday. Such an amazing experience getting into this franchise regardless of its flaws
I was 10 when I first played it, very much enjoyed it still at that age lol
I was 8 and wasnt allowed to play it
Lmao i remember buying the first ac game and thinkin it was a prince of persia rip off
I was 19
2009 was yesterday. I'm from 86 even that feels like yesterday.
I love AC1, it’s right behind Revelations for me. I loved the setting, I enjoyed the story, and Altair is a really cool and interesting character that I think a lot of people sleep on. And to be honest, I don’t really see why people dislike the gameplay. I love the combat and upgrading over the story makes you feel like Altair and how he has to regain his equipment and relearn to be an assassin. I didn’t even find the missions that repetitive, in hindsight they are but the game is so short I didn’t really even notice. I do understand that it’s by far the most basic AC game, but I don’t think that means it’s upsides should be overlooked.
I'll say this, Altair felt like he had real weight to him when he moved - when you did climbing and parkour, it felt like the movement of a real human being. I feel like Ezio moved like 25-30% faster and just felt like a video game character, felt like he shot up the face of buildings rather than methodically climbed them
TBH for me Altair will always be the best assassin.
I loved that in order to find the target you should find an informants, steal some documents, secure some heavily guarded area, and your target locations. Repetitive but make sense, its slower and methodical. Crazy because AC 1 now sounds like Hitman game.
@@Abel_Unstable I know right, so cool and a shame they stopped doing that. But I hear that Mirage is supposed to bring back and updated version of that so let’s hope!
I like The earlier AC games wayyyy more. It was basic but the story was better and you could keep up. Now AC has endgame content yea but it’s just so much that it deviates from the original story. Like in origins you start fighting ancient gods and stuff lol
The thing about the first assassins creed is you would do side quests which would give you information on your target like for example a completely unguarded path through which you could just walk in, kill, walk out. This is what made the game feel like a real assassin, roaming around and gathering information before making a plan and executing it.
The sword play of the first game is second to none. The hits felt REAL. They had weight and fantastic sound!
Ikr!
I just sat there with my dagger in hand waiting for some brave chump to swing on me and bam Id strike like a cobra and drop him then proceed to wait for the next brave soul...ac Valhalla: whooooooo stab stab stab!!!
You described Unity's combat
@Chad Hellgrado AC Unity’s combat feels like trying to do fencing underwater
@@ChadHellgado Unity's felt much more lighter and more flashy. with more bugs too ofcourse.
AC1 was very much a test, creating something new, which, wow, a Ubisoft game doing something new. AC2 worked on a lot of kinks that AC1 had.
I feel like people usually think it’s way more advanced in some ways than they remember. Like how parkour functioned and the freedom it gave.
I'm confused are you arguing the parkour didn't give you freedom versus the Mario Brothers simulator of the newer ones? With stuff magically bolted to buildings that you can superman fly between?
@@11202 it gave you more freedom while still requiring at least some skill, when the newer games don’t even have any semblance of any. There’s videos of people playing odyssey free roaming going in a straight line not even thinking or worried about fall damage. It’s super trivial and not fun. In older games there was risk/reward and more fun to be had because parkour was like a mini game itself. The magic is also just terrible and not fun
The later games I was kinda indifferent to targets other than the borgias, but the first game really let you hate some of them like the one who murders that guy with a knife in public, or the other who has a guy's legs broken. That scene got me shook as a kid, lol
22:35 Thank you for absolutely making my day with this reference/joke. I did not see it coming and laughed so hard
‘28 stab wounds. You didn’t wanna leave him a chance huh’
dude i laughed so many times at this video
I love AC1 for its combat system, my favourite of the whole series
You can play the game without interface, they give ways to get all information without it.
Where are the targets, where are needed towns, how much knives do you have, and etc.
It has really good parkour manually controlled of the directions greatly
And lots of not told mechanics of the combat. Follow-up insta kill on sword? Yes.
Btw, did anyone find out that if you crouch archers would shoot so lower that you can jump above the arrow of you want to.
Oh man I remember playing this game like crazy when I was 15. I never get tired of the sword fights(mainly in the training arena) and the beautiful locations. in my opinion the best area is Jerusalem 🕎. The peaceful music, the clear skies, the beautiful green fields, and the detail of the entire city. It’s really cool when you’re on your horse and you stop at the cliff. Then you see the entire city of Jerusalem in the distance. So cool. Also this game has an amazing final boss fight and the final battle music is just awesome.
Jerusalam is definitely one of the best places in AC1
@@Ig_fuckcesar Yeah! I just wish there’s a few more detailed Side quests in each city and I wish you could re-enter the temple of Solomon. I just love the detail on the underground ruins. Every time I look there is something new to find. Same with the other cities.
'amazing final boss fight'..? uh did you play a patched version or something? I remember the guy who you're lead to believe to be the final boss being utterly 1/10 lame (he's lit. just a standard enemy that you beat by pressing one button like the rest of them) then the 'twist' final boss that could have surprised NO ONE also being completely and utterly lame
Jerusalem ☪️✝️✡️
@@Steel-101 temple of solomon doesn’t exist, that was Al Aqsa.
I remember playing this while my parents were having a heated argument downstairs
Yes. It would not be the same otherwise.
The Senate will decide your fate
real
Shit, at least your parents were together
@@psychotropictraveler514 true
its really funny the comment about the horses feet all being in the air at the same time because that is really what happens when a horse runs its actually more of a hop or a skip than running
I mean even a human sprint is honestly more of a consecutive one-legged jump sequence. A human walk to a lesser extent; low gravity walking is bouncy for a reason.
Man, I am actually surprised how well it holds up graphically. I swore it looked worse than i thought it would.
A very pretty game. Like Mirror's Edge
The remember the first Assassin's Creed was painful. tedious and and very restrictive in where you could go. That being said I collected every one of those damn flags and still played it to death. Good times.
Part 2 soon, pretty please. This brought back so many memories of playing this game. I remember back then just how astonishing the zoom out views were
Memories are like that we remember the good things more that the bad that’s where the illusion of “the good old days” comes from
Something about the original assassins creed actually looks visually better than the new ones. More grounded/believable maybe. My favorite game from the series! Also the parkour not being as ridiculous was really nice back then haha
I think one of the reasons is the mouths matching with what the people are saying. Idk why, but I've had more trouble with that in the rpgs than anything before. I also think that some of the newer games go for a stylized world to make it look cool, whereas old AC made it look realistic
You're insane if you actually think this. Odyssey is by far the best looking game in the series. This game looks dated. It's clear that it's an early PS3 era game.
@@TheFirstCurse1 he specifically said to stupid and blind people like you:
"More grounded/believable maybe"
And he's right
This OG is a masterpiece. Just good ol, classic fun.
Love this game
Same here bro.
S TIER Game
Ikr played it on day one release
Get out of my life.
I was having breakfast while watching this and nearly died choking on a biscuit when you rolled that acetate sheet overhead projector thing out. GOD WHAT A TIME THAT WAS.
Man, you paint your passions so much differently than anyone else on youtube, something I've found to appreciate in your videos is that you talk on genuine thoughts and reasonable processes. Keep up the good work!!!
Back then this became people's personalities I missed out being a persona kid
I replayed the Ezio trilogy recently and had such a great time. Still even more fun than a lot of recent games.
The story and gameplay were so nice. Where did we go wrong?
I would say things went wrong once Unity hit the market. The best AC games were 1, the Ezio trilogy and the Kenway Trilogy. Each of those games offered something brand new to the table and it was very addicting. Actually my favorite is the Kenway trilogy. mainly because the ship battles are so glorious. Ezio is Zorro lol 😂. Perfect 👍🏼
The Templar’s took over Ubisoft
@@Steel-101 played through unity over the past two days and it is really sad how unfinished the combat feels. i swear most of the time the parry flash never popped up and the way you can't dodge any gunshots at all besides running (and even then they still hit you from over 100 feet away) the gameplay really brings down what is IMO a story just as great as AC 2
For me it went down when AC wanted to be Witcher 3
@@sleeplessbard2519 yeah I agree and what really hurt unity was the whole multiplayer idea for the main story. Also the story itself was pretty good but at the same time it was very infuriating because of that character Elise. I’m sorry but I think she’s a fool. Lol 😂
I love that the enemy in AC1 is writhing in pain once you defeat them it makes the battle more brutal
They do that if you didn’t time your attacks correctly
The story, dialogue and ideology from Assassins Creed displayed is fucking fire 🔥
Did u find the sword fighting physics compare to modern assassins creed games
The dialogue is shit
This game makes you take it seriously. Respect the creed as an Assassin does as this is the only way to success. I always followed and respected the creed to the last letter and that made this game such a wonderful experience for me. This game makes you work for each and everything, even basic walking without bumping into anyone. Now Assassins creed doesnt take itself even a little bit seriously. Only the hardcore know the main three tenets of the creed. I bet the new players dont even know what the heck this creed even is. Whenever I broke the creed I got into serious trouble. No handholding and no help with serious restrictions. Man, I miss this game.
Once we started getting into gay vikings and Egyptian magic gods and making the Assassins Proto-Marxists, that's when I think Assassin's Creed stopped actually being about the Assassins. I'd dare say that the last game that was actually about the Assassins was Rogue, with Black Flag being more of a pirate game that happened to be set in the Assassin's Creed universe.
My first was Brotherhood so I never felt like going back to this one
I watch these when im sick and its so good, your great at making us laugh, keep up the great work!
“Thanks for the ride guys, sorry I killed your plus one” 😂
I revisited an old childhood nostalgia game of mine a couple days ago...
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Over 20 years old yet still holds up!
@Anon Lahey its about old games though, just a comparison
@@VortexKiller2 This game was fire, especially in co-op. Two Towers was solid too, but damn some missions were absurdly difficult, especially at Helm's Deep.
@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 two towers was hard as nails, Third Age is good too especially with open world exploration and rpg elements but no button mashing gameplay so its a hit or miss for most people.
@@VortexKiller2 I liked it, but there were many ways to make your party OP very early. It was also great that you could play as Nazguls, Mumakils, orks etc.
@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 evil mode is the sole reason why I love the Easterlings design, idk they are just cool to me
I would love to see u play through all the ac games
yh it was a more like a proof of concept for the series tbh. the second and third games were pretty great tho
one of the few thing it has over the new games is the out of animus story. It was just so much more investing and the stakes seemed so much higher
Oh and the music after you assassinate the target was epic. It would scare me so much my feet would turn cold. The game makes you feel that this isnt a regular guy you killed, hes a very powerful man and now the entire city has gone into alert. Vanish as fast as you can, youre not safe in this city now. Run , run or youll get captured.
This is where my journey started loved this game
Kev u should do a whole series of retro replays like this. had a blast watching this one
I remember the timed hidden blade counter…it was difficult back then..
Seriously how is 12:46 not the most replayed part of the video? It's clearly the funniest thing in the whole vid 😂
Bro got hit to next week
It's not basic. It's a trend setter.
When it was about parkour, stealth and no RPG copy paste.. best one 👍
Even better than stealth. SOCIAL STEALTH.
hilarious intro! my dad just passed away due to dementia! good times.
My oldest memory of playing ac1 is jumping off a tower and not landing in a haystack, i loved playing through the ac games with the same glitch throughout all the games. Last time it happened playing the modern games would be in umm... the one where you play the fry twins (i forgot the name 💀)
People always say it doesn’t hold up. But it was a lot better than I’d remembered. Super underrated AC, I could go on about it all day. It’s THE Assassin’s Creed game
I remember playing the tutorial as a kid and getting frustrated at the tutorial because I kept making the pot ladies break.
12:45 I completely lost my shit here. God, I loved this video so much.
Dam I remember playing it on and off back in 2008-2014. I was 8 when my dad bought the ps3. I actually never really understood the game fully, I was just running around alot and riding the horse was almost my whole game experience with this game
I think people write it off as inferior today because the later ones were focused on the action for a later generation with shorter attention spans. The first one was about the preparation missions, learning everything about your target, your environment, making allies to aid you in your escape, and deciding from several options how to get in make your kill and get away.
Repeat 100000x
I love this game and its music. I still listen to "flight through jerusalem" regularly as it is one of my favourite tracks of all time. Jesper kyd is amazing.
This is my favorite franchise and I went back and played every game one right after the other. I will say playing the older games was really nice but, when I got to AC Unity it was stale and when I got to Origins it was nice to see something different. I will say the new formula is almost starting to be like the old one where it's getting a little stale.
It's funny, since Unity literally had the best parkour mechanics.
@@2551987ezio that's about the only thing it had.
@@Type1Speed in my opinion it also had amazing location and setting also the combat wasn't that bad. Also the graphics held up extremely well considering it's gonna be 10 years old next year.
@@Type1Speed too negative, 'it will destroy you child' - the first target of AC1
Although i havent played 1, 3, Syndicate, and Odyssey, i agree with this, very good point
The 25:37 the beautiful sounds of civilians getting ran over by a horse😂
I loved the tone of this game and the way it played. It was a lot more grounded than the rest of the series.
As someone who owned AC: Black Flag but started with Valhalla(put too many hours into that, over 150), I love both styles, recently bought the Ezio collection and beat all of those, and beat Origins yesterday. The RPG games and the older games have their own charm to them, and i think anybody should be able to enjoy either one, as I have. In the future, I hope to be able to play the rest of the series i haven't played yet
I am 4 months older than this game Jesus Christ
"Let that synchronize in" Was delivered so casually I almost missed it😂
As far as atmosphere and immersion goes its still best in the series imo
Damn, I remember playing AC1 at my 8 in 2010. Those gameplay felt super cool back then. Now it looks aged well.
I love your content Kev, keep it up
23:49 didn't knew leonardo was in first one too..
I always remembered the climbing working better
So refreshing to see someone enjoying this, I'm 26 but played it for the first time only last year and really enjoyed it
I tried playing the old ones (my first AC game was Origins) and it was so hard to get into after the open world more responsive newer ones. I've played plenty of old games in my day too (I'm 38) and I do like them, but these first ones were so hard to get into. I'll try it again one day maybe lol
Have you tried Unity?
@@obsidianwarrior5580 yeah, unity is probably a good way to get into the older ones, maybe Black Flag though
Man I miss that old chase music, so good
I'm gonna need a second part of this😂
And Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, Black Flag
15:16 "thought you could have a livelihood ? That's so embarrassing" Kevduit ATE!
Wow, I didn’t think anyone could be that bad at AC, I miss the combat and the fact you didn’t need to grind levels to play the whole game, being able to do actual counters made you feel so cool and it wasn’t just a numbers game and bashing the opponent, classic game from a more elegant age
You don't have to grind levels in the new games either, they are so damn easy
@@WCRyder but it’s a slog to do so, and it still lacks finesse and not to mention the story died after Desmond died, it’s just not AC anymore
They need to make ac like this again. The main bosses to side bosses all has depth. Guy was cutting up a civilian in the square and the classic hidden blade noise and afterlife or limbo talk just great. Graphics are still good too and I can’t wait for mirage
AC1’s theme > all
Fr. Never heard anything like it since
I loved altaiir's american swagger with that accent in this game lol
the second one is very good. and it is ranked as the best game in the series. very fun game, but it is very sad and they shouldn’t have killed Desmond
Should’ve never had modern day aspects. Worst parts of the series
They definitely should've killed Desmond. I don't believe he had really much of a personality to be with.
What I wish they did was take the lore from the comics and extra materials and meaningfully put them into the games. Because they're canon and do affect the plot but you'd never know unless you read them.
@@PkmnLovar i know that desmund didn’t have a personality, but if they kept him alive he would have become exactly like ezio, but they didn’t put enough effort into making him a main character for long enough
@@calebfulton4207 ok whatever man. i’m just saying that you can climb plenty of talk buildings in the future 😂
@@calebfulton4207 hope you like the new games. Not letting them bake these features and iterate them to fruition is the reason they pivoted to RPG brain-dead elements.
We get it you like dumb games that are linear and you just wanna run around snacking things while ignoring half the plot.
Tada you have them now
I remember watching my brother play this on his 360 in 07 and we were literally shocked at how amazing this game looked 🤯 this is a great game and still holds up today. If u haven't played it I definitely reccomend it. Far better than the recent AC's
Prototype and Assassin's Creed Both can be described as:
Haha Funny hoodie man go shank
22:36 didn't know that u can also end up as assassin in Detroit:become humans
As an adult I now look at the mechanics different. Such as a man stopping a full grown horse, at galloping speeds.
Bruv should be a goner not fighting after doing that 😂
I swear Kevduit has the same speech patterns and "accent" as Grunkle Stan.
😂😂
I replayed and completed the game a month ago and have to say, even tho other games are better they just don't give me the vibe.😌
man i really miss this game it brought such amazing things to the gaming world exploration, story, gaming mechanics that would be used for years this game is still good till this day!
So i started playing assassins creed series on late 2021, i played every game and here id my opinion, wothout any nostalgia or anything.
Ac1 - Broing, repetative, tidious combat, nice parkour.
Ac2 - This one was really good, but in mamy ways it was too similiar to ac1, also combat was sometimes just boring and the fights wete too long.
AcB- ma fovourite game kn the franchise, i loved ac2, and Brotherhood was just a better version of it
AcR - Borotherhood 2, great story.
Ac3 - Great parkour, even better combat but the stealth was often iritating.
Ac4 - Prepare your nostalgic ass to blow up: The naval combat was ok... for the first couple of hours, after like 30h it was so fucking boring i just turned on cheats to skipp these missions. Meele combat was too easy, stealh was good, story was awsome (best of all imo)
Ac Rouge - Same ass black flag, also a great story.
AcU - Better aproach to combat, it was harder, and fighitng larger gropus of enemies was imposibble, what i loved, coz it forced you to play stealthy.
AcS - Great city, memorable main charachters, kinda repetetive, but still fun.
Ac Origins - Bad parkour, good story, good combat, nice setting.
Ac Oddysey - Its not even assassins creed, but still a ok. game.
Ac valhalla - Even worse parkour, most of the game felt like standart rpg game, wirh assassins creed crossover, still a fun expieriwnce. I actually had more fun with valhalla than with ac1.
And thats the truth. You dont like ac1 just becouse of good memories from childhood, which makes any review usless. Prove me if im wrong.
I just now realized that Nolan North voices Desmond... wow
It should have been remade by now.
when it comes to the intro, you can actually see Altair slipped out of the crowd, it happens on the left, and it takes the careful eye
"I almost had to give this man my knowledge" had me laughing for 5 minutes!
26:26 in Assassin's Creed (all of ezio collection) 3 and I'm pretty Shure ever other one if you just push up and let go of R2 and X (playstation) you can slow climb every individual pole. Love u my Canadian Gamer Xaddy
Basic, yes, but man, It was fun!
As a 32 year old person who had only played AC oddessy and then played AC 1 very recently, this was incredibly relatable
Doubt anyone will see this, but yes, play AC 1 if you can. Had no idea what was going on before I played AC 1
The only bad thing about this game was the mission structure. The graphics, story, atmosphere, world building, characters, gameplay(Combat and parkour) were amazing for it's time and it still holds up today, it might seem a little basic or barebones compared to today's games but it's still great
Love that you added RDR music when horse riding lol, i always think of that game when riding
The beginning third and ending third is what sells this game the middle is what really pulls any momentum and the feeling of going on an adventure out of the game and trust me as someone who played it for over 18 hours I can say it really drags on and on.
The best thing in the middle third is the story otherwise it's very, very, VERY repetitive and long for my taste
You mean the 3rd act?😂
The way you write is atrocious. “DA BEGINNING AND ENDING THIRD!!”
11:49 Ah yes, what a MARVELOUS mystery; Who let the templars in? The basket weaver, who SERVES THE TEMPLARS
That moment when you realize that good games went extinct years ago
I dunno, recently we lost God of War as it turned into walkie talkie with combat that just feels weird (where old Kratos taking on dozens of enemies at once?) but at the same time we had Devil May Cry 5 and Elden Ring.
@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 I don't know how you think GOW is bad now? It's one of the most succesful games recently.
AC 1 was Not a good game
@@Deadspace1996 GTA Online is also succesful but it's total trash. I just don't like changes they made in terms of gameplay, open world, tons of useless loot, slower combat on smaller scale, even though story is solid I preferred OG trilogy + PSP games. They fixed some issues like repetetive boss fights and little variety of enemies with Rangarok but still - it ain't for me.
@Ryo Cascade I still play F3 and NV (with mods) almost every day, those games are immortal even tho F3 has shitty story that doesn't really make sense.
Exhibit D is like seriously, an unhealthy amount of people🤦♂️
As someone who played through the Games In Release Order I can say... I love all AC Games and I´m just having Fun playing them. The Old Ones as well as the New RPG Ones. Some People just dislike Change.(And yes the Story-Quality decrease is noted on my Part but i´m still having Fun)
let that synchronize in....this quick wit is why I watch ON PURPOSE
This game has really good graphics for 2007. I'm impressed every time i replay it.
Think you'd ever do a update video on how Franklin is doing in eso being left alone by himself for years lol.