I would love to play a really old assassin who is now insanely good at what he does but too old to parkour, climb buildings or fight armies. Going back to having to strategically plan the killing of a target instead of being an unstoppable juggernaut.
Playing an assassin who can't parkour, climb high buildings, or fight the enemy head on, and has to strategically figure out how to kill the target without causing a fuss? Have you ever heard of Hitman?
I think I'm one of about 3 people who liked ACR. I loved the fact Ezio had grown as a character to a older man who was much wiser. The game also had his love interest be someone older too rather than just pair him up with a 20-something. The game was becoming more mature along with its protagonist. Also the bomb crafting was fun and added a personal touch to your weapons. The culture of Constantinople as it was known was a brilliant idea and exploring little known arabic culture rather than the colonies or feudal Japan that everyone is so desperate to see (not that it wouldn't be a sweet idea mind). And the hook blade was a interesting little toy with a level of satisfaction that you could catch that ledge before you fell or hand from a beam. The plot was not as high-stakes but it felt like it was Ezio's final act as an Assassin putting him to rest gracefully. And that made the story itself much less of a rush around and a more enjoyable open-world experience that truly felt at your pace. Finally Constantinople was beautiful, designed very well and it looked cohesive in its feel, people, sky and general atmosphere. I enjoyed it. I can understand why people might not. But I feel it is worth a try from people new to the series. Especially at its now much reduced price.
There goes Yahtzee again. A special hook blade to make you climb an extra foot higher, instead of 2 feet, wait for the next sequel. Assassin's Creed Syndicate comes along...
i thought the hookblade was useless but when i played through the game again and did the whole tap hold maneuver and stuff with it it actually becomes super badass
I just finished AC: Revelations, and I admit, I'm kind of conflicted. I thought the plot was serviceable, but rather weak and quite short. But on the other hand, I've been playing AC games for literally the last 4 months (from AC1 to Revelations), so the story being short was actually kind of merciful. BUT Istanbul is probably the best city I've been in so far (it's beautiful and diverse), and the gameplay mechanics and side missions are way more fun than they've ever been so far. I mean yeah, the plot is kind of meh, but I had more fun actually playing and exploring this game than I did playing Brotherhood, even though Brotherhood had stronger writing. Idk, I guess it puts Brotherhood and Revelations almost on the same level. If only Brotherhood and Revelations were combined together somehow, it might've made a game superior to AC2, which still has the best overall plot/writing imo. Well, I'm totally done with Assassin's Creed games for now. I'll pick up AC3 and Black Flag eventually, but probably not until next year. I need some distance from the AC games after playing one after the other for a few months straight. I probably won't ever touch Rogue and Unity though, and I'm on the fence about Syndicate.
+tpfang56 Black Flag and Revelations are tied as my favorite worlds in the series. Rogue is supposed to be as good as AC4, so if you like 4 don't skip on it. Unity is pretty good gameplay wise, but the modern day story is literally 5 minutes long. Syndicate is great both gameplay and story wise, definitely don't skip it.
I admit I was on the train back when this game was new, the best part was where he killed that guy who was secretly a good guy, and his final words were 'i was on your side'. They didn't do anything with it though, its the kind of thing that could have livened up AC2 and ACB, but they were ideas locked away and used at this latch ditch effort of a game for profit.
Rogue was great. It was basically AC4 minus those awful tailing and eavesdropping missions. Unity can be skipped, since nothing happens in the modern day story and it's not that good. Syndicate is worth picking up cheap.
Ah... thank you for your input, but it's too late. I bought Assassin's Creed: Americas Collection cheap for my PS3, so I'll be playing up to Rogue eventually. Well, I'll try not to bother with the side quests and get through the story missions as quick as possible so that I can at least experience the game.
I really love watching all of the zero punctuation videos for a series in order because you can see the annoyance grow with the AssCreed games and the Stockholm Syndrome kick in with the soulsbourne series.
SurvivalSlayers X Well, seeing as how French Canadians don't like being compared to France, it makes complete sense that it would take so long for them to finally make a game set in France
DakotaScott42 but still there part french so it makes sense in my mind XD also going by this its a even further disgrace because they still haven't made an AC game based in Canada.
People are gonna call me bullshit for saying this but I love Black Flag the most. No not because better graphics, it's because the machanics of combat are more fun, you can freely battle with other ships, you can actually counter by BLOCKING rather than dodging thanks to good sword mechanics and I never feel like I'm frantically pushing a button hoping Edward will do as I say, I simply smirk at an attacking group of guards as I hit the counter button then the attack button and watch the blood fly, which is what I like about Assassin's Creed, the kills. They're satisfying as fuck.
I'm starting memory sequence 4 in this game... and I'm bored as hell. I was obsessed with the previous games, and played them for far too many hours a day for days on end. But this is a chore to get through. I hope the later games get better. Assassin's Creed II is best so far. Absolute perfection. Except the fucking minstrels.
***** This. I've binge played every AC game, so I guess I'm kind of a fanboy, and I cannot fucking stand 3. It's a mixture of a very boring time piece and the less charismatic protagonist in the series. Plus, they pull a MGS2 at the start giving us a badass, and then swap us to that twat to make the contrast even more fucking clear. Seriously. Fuck Connor.
nerdatheart94 Well Revelations would be ... better if it focused on desmond's past only in third person not abstractly... that might have saved the fans desires to grate him a cheese shredder.
well one thing revelations has given to me is every time im formatting my pc im humming the scheduled for deletion music from revelations and picturing all the souls in my pc being purged in horrific ways
I'd like to see an Assassin's Creed game taking place in a future Blade Runner-esq setting, and the twist is that the person who's memories is being scanned was actually the person in the animus all along, having been sent back in time and gotten a face-change as part of a scifi assassination mission to prevent the end of the world hundreds of years before it happens.
This is one of the only AAA-ish Games that are at the forefront mostly that i'v noticed Yahtzee like. The lore is fantastic too learn about and all the Assassins across the world and all that's really fucking interesting, mostly why it's my favorite series but it's getting slowly bogged down by small things that could easily be corrected with an engine revamp. Ubisofts a great company and they make very different games but they sometimes just choose very odd things too add in that are pretty interesting but kinda end up being sticks in the mud.
I believe we have found the exact moment Yahtzee began to dislike the Assassin's Creed games, which is incidentally when a lot of people (myself included) started to get a bit put off by the yearly copy-pasted sequels.
Honestly, it upset me playing Revelations when I realised I missed a ton of interesting-sounding quests because the assassin recruitment and training (and the UI in general) were just..super uninviting. I loved that part of Brotherhood, I thought it was a lovely gameplay element, what have you done?
I love this game. I got bored of the plot really early on but I just powered through to the bit where the sandbox opens up and I never looked back. I've logged maybe 500 hours into this game and literally I've done is run around the sandbox as Ezio, buying weapons, killing people and managing my assassin's and businesses. It's so much fun
Also sometimes I feel like the whole future plot thing kinda bogs the game down. I just think the series could've been better if it had just been about a secret order of assassins running around the steets and rooftops of a exotic city. Also they kill a lot of people in between parkour sessions
@@Vic2point0 yeah agreed, it's my favourite, even though I know it's got too much extraneous stuff. I love it for the setting. Renaissance Constantinople was brilliant
if you have facebook, you can follow zero punctuation on the escapist and get updates just from zero punctuation. you could also read his weekly column, extra punctuation on the escapist, it's quite good though.
He has a contract with the escapist. I doubt they would let him do it on his own channel (These videos are on the escapists website anyway so just go there every Wednesday for the new episodes).
I agree that the Tower Defense element was only really worth playing once to experience it, then going back to the side-missions that ALREADY existed, but if there's one thing I'll give Revelations, instead of going from 'loud gun to silent crossbow to untraceable dart' in one game, it's that the bombs make everything SO much more FUN, and CYOA-esque. Like GTA, but with less futuristic lasers and rapid-fire rocket launchers. And FUCK that one tank mission, I can't imagine ANY way to get the bonus objective WITHOUT blind luck.
Whule that is a fine idea you do know you can just go to the escapist website for about 6 1/2 months of reviews and new episodes around noon every sunday.
He's right about the tower defense. I beat the game without having to ever do it again since the tutorial. But I want to know how he really felt about the ending, because I feel like it really did tie everything together perfectly before AC3 hits in a couple months.
4:20 - "Not having to do it is considered a reward." I wonder if at the time Yahtzee knew he was predicting the exact model that microtransactions would later come to embody. (Only it's not so much a reward as something you're expected to pay for. Either way, "not playing the game" is considered a bonus.)
Wasn't there one where you played as a Japanese member of the brotherhood? I think that was 73, and I can't say I remember too much about it to be honest. Some sort of thing where the Yakuza were working with the Templars is about all I really recall.
AC1: Fun new game and franchise. AC2: The same as above but with some cool new gadgets and a character that's vaguely interesting. ACB: What? Ezio again? OK, fine! ACR: I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS MUTHAFUCKIN' ASSASSIN IN MY MUTHAFUCKIN' GAMES! (But at least they've made Altair vaguely interesting now). AC3: At least it's not Ezio. (And hey I'm actually enjoying the Desmond sections now! But then they kill him...). AC4BF: Took the best part of AC3 and expanded it? Check. New (to the series) way of aiming ranged weapons? Check. No Ezio? Check. No Altair? Check. A more interesting open world than AC3? Check. ... Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner.
Jason Brody Not played it. My little brother has. He seemed to enjoy it and I have to say that an Assassin that joins the Templars is a refreshing change (seeing as I sympathise with the Templars more than the Assassins).
Alteonify Ezio was a refreshing change from Altair's blandness but as a character he was the archetype of the "Dashing Rogue" (at least to begin with, but he was just a slightly more relateable Altair by ACB). I sympathise with the Templars because (honestly) I agree with them wholeheartedly. The Assassins are too naive and just trust that people are good at heart. You just have to look at history and the modern world to know that that kind of belief isn't just a mistake it's downright stupid. I was convinced by the Templars back in AC1. Still my opinion of who the real good guys of AC are doesn't really matter as it's just a story anyway.
For all it's problems, this game does have the most powerful moment I've seen in them so far. Mind you, I haven't finished Black Flag yet, or played any after that, but still.
I loved the athmosphere, though. There was a distinct... I dunno... warm and eastern feel about it. All the music and the guys saying the same fucking voiceline in Turkish really make you feel like you're in a unique place. It's like Ass Creed 4's sea shanties. When they start singing for the first time, you get this awesome feeling of adventure and stuff. Let's be fair, the one thing Uberdriversoft can do extremely well is athmosphere and ambience
Haha, man... I kept getting told "no way", "you're seeing that wrong", and "no he doesn't" everytime I said Desmond looked like a hispanic Adam Sandler in Rev. Yahtzee is the first and only other person I've seen who agreed with that Adam Sandler comparison! At least he doesn't look like that in AC3. I wish I had seen this review earlier. Maybe then I wouldn't have felt so alone (*sad violin music plays*).
I liked how they tied the feudal Japan into modern Japan in 76. MUCH better than the shit they pulled in 22 where they just kinda went to Japan sometimes.
Ever since the first game, I hoped for a different gameplay format for AC, that expands and goes more in depth on the original. Instead of being a killing machine, the assassin should be more strategic and plan his kills, gathering information and making preparations for them. Just like the first game, but with the player actually deciding his course of action on the assassination, not only doing sidequests to make it easier to follow what the game tells you to do. I just started playing this game in specific. By the starting levels, I could tell this was trying to be a darker installment in the franchise. I mean, Ezio is old, the assassin's lair thing has been destroyed. And being back to an arabic town just makes the original AC feeling hit harder. When the bomb crafting system was introduced, I was sure this was the perfect oportunity to make the game like I said earlier. There's even room to make the plot darker, with Ezio being weak and tempted to work with the templars. You know, actually showing us both sides of the conflict. But I'm not quite sure that would be a good idea. It feels like they tried to make you be more stealthy at times (on the level where you get the first key, so far), but it just made me realize that this game about assassins doesn't have a proper stealth system. I mean, there's not even a crouch button, for fuck's sake. Just a thought that I had and wanted to share. Any opinions?
Played the first Assassin's Creed a year or so ago, and not only was I bored out of my mind by the second mission, I too kept going, "Is that Adam f*cking Sandler?"
Hey at least I haven't given up the ending that involves fighting a giant tentacle monster that's rampaging through Edo (That's old Tokyo for those of you unfamiliar with the finer points of Japanese history) and beating it by using a piece of Eden to make it rape itself to death. I think the developers got a bit crazy with that one.
Yeah, I sadly seemed to care more abut the story with Sophia than I did the main story. Actually, I also liked Altair's story in the past... Even Desmond's odd puzzle missions seemed to have a better story than the Ezio missions. That said, I did like how many of the late game memories (and the first one) had a more cinematic feel to them.
Ah, well I apologize for the misunderstanding. And, speaking as a fan of the franchise, I think that AC 1, 2, & 3 are the only full games in the series. Brotherhood and Revelations, while still being one good game and one half-decent game, felt more like expansion packs for ACII.
The first ac game I got was he ezio trilogy which had 2 brotherhood and revelations but I gotta say of the three revelations is the best. Only bc of how ezio is able to relate to Altair after reliving his memories. Only other thing that gives revelations the proverbial cake is the poison bombs. I just like seing people react while having Romanies give me impromptu cover on the go. The way guards react to poison is hilarious. Only thing they did wrong in my opinion is give enemies a smarter ai ( janissaries bein able to fight back) and makin ur notoriety go up every time u purchase sumthin ( like renovation or buying landmarks) I find at annoying.
Portal 2 as well. Also; Minecraft, Assassin's Creed 2, Call of Duty 4 and some argue he mildly like Halo:Reach but he didn't really make it clear. There's others i'm forgetting.
I was eating a mouthful of pasta when I heard "Surgically strike like a thumbtack in a McChicken sandwich." I kid you the fuck not, I was pulling a fifth of the angel hair pasta in my mouth out of my nose because it sure as fuck wasn't going down my throat. Imagine taking a rubber barbecue baster and violently jamming it into the grill of your car. The baster was the noodles, the jamming was my laughter, and the grill was my fucking nose flaps.
My biggest problem with AC2 R is who is Desmond's great great great grandmother? Other games prevent me from finding out if it is in the game, but shouldn't Ezio's gene left him the moment he ejaculate it into Desmond's great great great grandmother? So Ezio fathered a son at his 50s?
I remember when the idea of seeing Desmond become the greatest assassin was actually there until the series went full crazy
MrGameadd1ct ah those were the days lmao
Hey they could go 180 crazy and bring him back lol
I would love to play a really old assassin who is now insanely good at what he does but too old to parkour, climb buildings or fight armies. Going back to having to strategically plan the killing of a target instead of being an unstoppable juggernaut.
codafett that sounds like thief
No parkour and you have an objective somewhere while being stealthy
Sounds doable
That almost sounds like the setup to a new AC where Ubisoft also gives you a partner
Sounds a bit like some of the Altair missions in Revelations tbh
Playing an assassin who can't parkour, climb high buildings, or fight the enemy head on, and has to strategically figure out how to kill the target without causing a fuss?
Have you ever heard of Hitman?
@@ahmednasser8214 Agent 47 can definitely fight the enemy head on: the game just rewards you less for it
"Ezio Audacity da Refrigerator"
you get a star
And a crayon.
And a sticker.
And maybe a cookie.
And my axe!
And some cake.
And Belgium.
I think I'm one of about 3 people who liked ACR. I loved the fact Ezio had grown as a character to a older man who was much wiser. The game also had his love interest be someone older too rather than just pair him up with a 20-something. The game was becoming more mature along with its protagonist. Also the bomb crafting was fun and added a personal touch to your weapons. The culture of Constantinople as it was known was a brilliant idea and exploring little known arabic culture rather than the colonies or feudal Japan that everyone is so desperate to see (not that it wouldn't be a sweet idea mind). And the hook blade was a interesting little toy with a level of satisfaction that you could catch that ledge before you fell or hand from a beam. The plot was not as high-stakes but it felt like it was Ezio's final act as an Assassin putting him to rest gracefully. And that made the story itself much less of a rush around and a more enjoyable open-world experience that truly felt at your pace. Finally Constantinople was beautiful, designed very well and it looked cohesive in its feel, people, sky and general atmosphere.
I enjoyed it. I can understand why people might not. But I feel it is worth a try from people new to the series. Especially at its now much reduced price.
There goes Yahtzee again. A special hook blade to make you climb an extra foot higher, instead of 2 feet, wait for the next sequel.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate comes along...
i thought the hookblade was useless but when i played through the game again and did the whole tap hold maneuver and stuff with it it actually becomes super badass
Oh my god! Finally, somebody says it! Desmond looks just like Adam Sandler!
Ezio Audacity da Refrigerator. Now I can't stop calling Ezio that! 😂😂😂😂
For some reason the first person sections were my favourite parts of the game, as were the present day parts of the last two games.
I liked them
I just finished AC: Revelations, and I admit, I'm kind of conflicted. I thought the plot was serviceable, but rather weak and quite short. But on the other hand, I've been playing AC games for literally the last 4 months (from AC1 to Revelations), so the story being short was actually kind of merciful. BUT Istanbul is probably the best city I've been in so far (it's beautiful and diverse), and the gameplay mechanics and side missions are way more fun than they've ever been so far.
I mean yeah, the plot is kind of meh, but I had more fun actually playing and exploring this game than I did playing Brotherhood, even though Brotherhood had stronger writing. Idk, I guess it puts Brotherhood and Revelations almost on the same level. If only Brotherhood and Revelations were combined together somehow, it might've made a game superior to AC2, which still has the best overall plot/writing imo.
Well, I'm totally done with Assassin's Creed games for now. I'll pick up AC3 and Black Flag eventually, but probably not until next year. I need some distance from the AC games after playing one after the other for a few months straight. I probably won't ever touch Rogue and Unity though, and I'm on the fence about Syndicate.
+tpfang56 Black Flag and Revelations are tied as my favorite worlds in the series. Rogue is supposed to be as good as AC4, so if you like 4 don't skip on it. Unity is pretty good gameplay wise, but the modern day story is literally 5 minutes long. Syndicate is great both gameplay and story wise, definitely don't skip it.
I admit I was on the train back when this game was new, the best part was where he killed that guy who was secretly a good guy, and his final words were 'i was on your side'. They didn't do anything with it though, its the kind of thing that could have livened up AC2 and ACB, but they were ideas locked away and used at this latch ditch effort of a game for profit.
Rogue was great. It was basically AC4 minus those awful tailing and eavesdropping missions. Unity can be skipped, since nothing happens in the modern day story and it's not that good. Syndicate is worth picking up cheap.
Ah... thank you for your input, but it's too late. I bought Assassin's Creed: Americas Collection cheap for my PS3, so I'll be playing up to Rogue eventually. Well, I'll try not to bother with the side quests and get through the story missions as quick as possible so that I can at least experience the game.
Thank god someone else pointed out the Adam Sandler thing. Was driving me up the damn wall.
You watch these in a playlist, you'll hear Yahtzee progressively get madder, have a happy moment with Black Flag, and then get madder and madder.
Because Black Flag is not an AC game
I really love watching all of the zero punctuation videos for a series in order because you can see the annoyance grow with the AssCreed games and the Stockholm Syndrome kick in with the soulsbourne series.
4:52
My favorite Yahtzee quote of all time.
The only reason people do the den defense is 1) the game forces you at least once, 2) you want altair's sword, maybe
i like how it took a French company till 2014 too make a assassins creed set in France XD
Actually, French Canadian.
Gordonkris still makes too much sense to me...but I don't make sense anyway XD
SurvivalSlayers X
Well, seeing as how French Canadians don't like being compared to France, it makes complete sense that it would take so long for them to finally make a game set in France
DakotaScott42 but still there part french so it makes sense in my mind XD also going by this its a even further disgrace because they still haven't made an AC game based in Canada.
DakotaScott42 I don't we, people from Québec, mind french people because of that. Well, for me at least. Maybe other people see things differently.
04:23 *"The cynic is an isolationist beast, but can always recognize one of their own."*
Years later, and we're still not at that party.
People are gonna call me bullshit for saying this but I love Black Flag the most. No not because better graphics, it's because the machanics of combat are more fun, you can freely battle with other ships, you can actually counter by BLOCKING rather than dodging thanks to good sword mechanics and I never feel like I'm frantically pushing a button hoping Edward will do as I say, I simply smirk at an attacking group of guards as I hit the counter button then the attack button and watch the blood fly, which is what I like about Assassin's Creed, the kills. They're satisfying as fuck.
Yes, but that is not an ASSASSIN game, but a naval warframe game.
HAHAHAHAHA just died at 'Ezio audacity the refrigerator'
I'm starting memory sequence 4 in this game... and I'm bored as hell. I was obsessed with the previous games, and played them for far too many hours a day for days on end. But this is a chore to get through. I hope the later games get better.
Assassin's Creed II is best so far. Absolute perfection. Except the fucking minstrels.
***** Aw... why do they ruin the best series? This series, the Kingdom Hearts series.... all my favorites get destroyed by their creators.
***** This. I've binge played every AC game, so I guess I'm kind of a fanboy, and I cannot fucking stand 3. It's a mixture of a very boring time piece and the less charismatic protagonist in the series. Plus, they pull a MGS2 at the start giving us a badass, and then swap us to that twat to make the contrast even more fucking clear. Seriously. Fuck Connor.
nerdatheart94 The stupid thing to do is to play revelations before AC2.. I did that and had no idea what is going on.
Oh, yeah. Don't do that.
I'm playing Assassin's Creed 3 now, and I'm really enjoying it.
nerdatheart94 Well Revelations would be ... better if it focused on desmond's past only in third person not abstractly... that might have saved the fans desires to grate him a cheese shredder.
well one thing revelations has given to me is every time im formatting my pc im humming the scheduled for deletion music from revelations and picturing all the souls in my pc being purged in horrific ways
I'd like to see an Assassin's Creed game taking place in a future Blade Runner-esq setting, and the twist is that the person who's memories is being scanned was actually the person in the animus all along, having been sent back in time and gotten a face-change as part of a scifi assassination mission to prevent the end of the world hundreds of years before it happens.
I lost it at "fucking Christmas has come early"
i finally get the faff and the world faff's with you joke, god that took a while
Whenever I see that "I Seeeee Yooooou" thing I can't help but thing of The Hidden calling out taunting an Assassin. Crossover! :P
This is one of the only AAA-ish Games that are at the forefront mostly that i'v noticed Yahtzee like. The lore is fantastic too learn about and all the Assassins across the world and all that's really fucking interesting, mostly why it's my favorite series but it's getting slowly bogged down by small things that could easily be corrected with an engine revamp. Ubisofts a great company and they make very different games but they sometimes just choose very odd things too add in that are pretty interesting but kinda end up being sticks in the mud.
Ezio Audacity the Refridgirator
I believe we have found the exact moment Yahtzee began to dislike the Assassin's Creed games, which is incidentally when a lot of people (myself included) started to get a bit put off by the yearly copy-pasted sequels.
Ezio Audacity the Refrigerator kills me every time
2:40 That is exactly what I had to a very large number of times while playing AC 1
Honestly, it upset me playing Revelations when I realised I missed a ton of interesting-sounding quests because the assassin recruitment and training (and the UI in general) were just..super uninviting. I loved that part of Brotherhood, I thought it was a lovely gameplay element, what have you done?
I love this game. I got bored of the plot really early on but I just powered through to the bit where the sandbox opens up and I never looked back. I've logged maybe 500 hours into this game and literally I've done is run around the sandbox as Ezio, buying weapons, killing people and managing my assassin's and businesses. It's so much fun
Also sometimes I feel like the whole future plot thing kinda bogs the game down. I just think the series could've been better if it had just been about a secret order of assassins running around the steets and rooftops of a exotic city. Also they kill a lot of people in between parkour sessions
@@Vic2point0 yeah agreed, it's my favourite, even though I know it's got too much extraneous stuff. I love it for the setting. Renaissance Constantinople was brilliant
Ezio audacity the refrigerator, hahahaha I lost it there
if you have facebook, you can follow zero punctuation on the escapist and get updates just from zero punctuation. you could also read his weekly column, extra punctuation on the escapist, it's quite good though.
Shouldn't it be zom-plars and plant-sassins?
theres nothing stopping him from making his own channel. lots of machinima directors have their own youtube channel aswell as giving it to machinima
He has a contract with the escapist. I doubt they would let him do it on his own channel (These videos are on the escapists website anyway so just go there every Wednesday for the new episodes).
He does have his own channel. Its "yahtzee something or other" is his name and he does LP's of point and click adventures!
Yes he does. he uploaded a new video yesterday
there's this website called The Escapist where Yahtzees videos can be found. I have already seen future videos there
Assassin's Creed Embers IS Assassin's Creed 2.875, since Ezio's an old goat in that one.
I agree that the Tower Defense element was only really worth playing once to experience it, then going back to the side-missions that ALREADY existed, but if there's one thing I'll give Revelations, instead of going from 'loud gun to silent crossbow to untraceable dart' in one game, it's that the bombs make everything SO much more FUN, and CYOA-esque. Like GTA, but with less futuristic lasers and rapid-fire rocket launchers. And FUCK that one tank mission, I can't imagine ANY way to get the bonus objective WITHOUT blind luck.
Whule that is a fine idea you do know you can just go to the escapist website for about 6 1/2 months of reviews and new episodes around noon every sunday.
He's right about the tower defense. I beat the game without having to ever do it again since the tutorial. But I want to know how he really felt about the ending, because I feel like it really did tie everything together perfectly before AC3 hits in a couple months.
Realy would be good to see a top 5 or 10 of your all time favourate stealth games, as your always talking about things such as the theif series
I fucking lost it when he went on that rant "Back in my day! we used strippers to distract guards!"
My friends and I have decreed that the intro of ZP is to be called the epic rock intro
I swear that's the only replay everyone's giving me these days.
Can't unsee this...
The Beginning is perfect if your watching this before Assassins Creed: Syndicate comes out!.
4:20 - "Not having to do it is considered a reward."
I wonder if at the time Yahtzee knew he was predicting the exact model that microtransactions would later come to embody. (Only it's not so much a reward as something you're expected to pay for. Either way, "not playing the game" is considered a bonus.)
Just for the record the scene at 5:06 made me laugh so hard that I passed out for like 20 seconds.
Wasn't there one where you played as a Japanese member of the brotherhood? I think that was 73, and I can't say I remember too much about it to be honest. Some sort of thing where the Yakuza were working with the Templars is about all I really recall.
Thumbtack in a mcchicken sandwich i just died laughing at that part
I knew I should've completed Brotherhood before watching this...but damn it, the temptation was too great!
Worth it, though.
it's uploaded on the website
AC 2.875: If at first you dont succeed, Faff, Faff and Faff again
AC1: Fun new game and franchise.
AC2: The same as above but with some cool new gadgets and a character that's vaguely interesting.
ACB: What? Ezio again? OK, fine!
ACR: I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS MUTHAFUCKIN' ASSASSIN IN MY MUTHAFUCKIN' GAMES! (But at least they've made Altair vaguely interesting now).
AC3: At least it's not Ezio. (And hey I'm actually enjoying the Desmond sections now! But then they kill him...).
AC4BF: Took the best part of AC3 and expanded it? Check. New (to the series) way of aiming ranged weapons? Check. No Ezio? Check. No Altair? Check. A more interesting open world than AC3? Check. ... Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner.
and Liberation?
Jason Brody
Not played it. My little brother has. He seemed to enjoy it and I have to say that an Assassin that joins the Templars is a refreshing change (seeing as I sympathise with the Templars more than the Assassins).
But Ezio is a great character. And why do you sympathize with the people who want to eat your free will?
Alteonify
Ezio was a refreshing change from Altair's blandness but as a character he was the archetype of the "Dashing Rogue" (at least to begin with, but he was just a slightly more relateable Altair by ACB). I sympathise with the Templars because (honestly) I agree with them wholeheartedly. The Assassins are too naive and just trust that people are good at heart. You just have to look at history and the modern world to know that that kind of belief isn't just a mistake it's downright stupid. I was convinced by the Templars back in AC1. Still my opinion of who the real good guys of AC are doesn't really matter as it's just a story anyway.
kingkong381 If man is evil, then man shouldn't control man.
I liked 47, especially the change of pace and assassination styles. Love the break from parkour.
0:47 forever alone
"Fucking Christmas has come early" lmao
For all it's problems, this game does have the most powerful moment I've seen in them so far. Mind you, I haven't finished Black Flag yet, or played any after that, but still.
the mcChicken part had me cracking up, good one
I love the They Might Be Giants references. I hope I die before I get old, I see what you did there
This is my generation baby♪
I fucking lost it at "Ezio Audacity the Refridgerator"
"Ezio Audacity the Refrigerator"
Was future Desmond reliving the memories of an ancester through a Visual Boy at 1:18?
I loved the athmosphere, though. There was a distinct... I dunno... warm and eastern feel about it. All the music and the guys saying the same fucking voiceline in Turkish really make you feel like you're in a unique place. It's like Ass Creed 4's sea shanties. When they start singing for the first time, you get this awesome feeling of adventure and stuff. Let's be fair, the one thing Uberdriversoft can do extremely well is athmosphere and ambience
Haha, man... I kept getting told "no way", "you're seeing that wrong", and "no he doesn't" everytime I said Desmond looked like a hispanic Adam Sandler in Rev. Yahtzee is the first and only other person I've seen who agreed with that Adam Sandler comparison!
At least he doesn't look like that in AC3. I wish I had seen this review earlier. Maybe then I wouldn't have felt so alone (*sad violin music plays*).
The AC series has one thing that I'm positive of: they always make Desmond's ancestors' full names as hard to pronounce as physically possible.
He works for escapist and has done for years. He writes as well as these videos.
3:38 Yahtzee predicted the slingshot in AC: Syndicate, fuck me.
Holy hot damn.
They make most of their money from their website, which is were i watch most of the new episodes cause they come out earlier than on youtube.
Faff and the world faffs with you.... That kills me every time....
1:18 Hey! A virtual boy!
after he mentioned the thumbtack in the McChicken, I've become more cautious of my food.
I liked how they tied the feudal Japan into modern Japan in 76. MUCH better than the shit they pulled in 22 where they just kinda went to Japan sometimes.
cracked up at "local crumpet" haha :P
Ever since the first game, I hoped for a different gameplay format for AC, that expands and goes more in depth on the original. Instead of being a killing machine, the assassin should be more strategic and plan his kills, gathering information and making preparations for them. Just like the first game, but with the player actually deciding his course of action on the assassination, not only doing sidequests to make it easier to follow what the game tells you to do.
I just started playing this game in specific. By the starting levels, I could tell this was trying to be a darker installment in the franchise. I mean, Ezio is old, the assassin's lair thing has been destroyed. And being back to an arabic town just makes the original AC feeling hit harder. When the bomb crafting system was introduced, I was sure this was the perfect oportunity to make the game like I said earlier. There's even room to make the plot darker, with Ezio being weak and tempted to work with the templars. You know, actually showing us both sides of the conflict. But I'm not quite sure that would be a good idea.
It feels like they tried to make you be more stealthy at times (on the level where you get the first key, so far), but it just made me realize that this game about assassins doesn't have a proper stealth system. I mean, there's not even a crouch button, for fuck's sake.
Just a thought that I had and wanted to share. Any opinions?
I never used the bombs except when it made me as part of a story mission.
Played the first Assassin's Creed a year or so ago, and not only was I bored out of my mind by the second mission, I too kept going, "Is that Adam f*cking Sandler?"
Hey at least I haven't given up the ending that involves fighting a giant tentacle monster that's rampaging through Edo (That's old Tokyo for those of you unfamiliar with the finer points of Japanese history) and beating it by using a piece of Eden to make it rape itself to death. I think the developers got a bit crazy with that one.
Ezio Audacity the Refrigerator LOL
I would totally pay for a game where you play as Lieutenant Columbo.
You can play as Altair in Revelations but I think they're side missions, like the assassin tombs in the previous games.
Yeah, I sadly seemed to care more abut the story with Sophia than I did the main story.
Actually, I also liked Altair's story in the past... Even Desmond's odd puzzle missions seemed to have a better story than the Ezio missions. That said, I did like how many of the late game memories (and the first one) had a more cinematic feel to them.
Ah, well I apologize for the misunderstanding.
And, speaking as a fan of the franchise, I think that AC 1, 2, & 3 are the only full games in the series. Brotherhood and Revelations, while still being one good game and one half-decent game, felt more like expansion packs for ACII.
Holy shit it's Rules Boss at 2:19
The first ac game I got was he ezio trilogy which had 2 brotherhood and revelations but I gotta say of the three revelations is the best. Only bc of how ezio is able to relate to Altair after reliving his memories. Only other thing that gives revelations the proverbial cake is the poison bombs. I just like seing people react while having Romanies give me impromptu cover on the go. The way guards react to poison is hilarious. Only thing they did wrong in my opinion is give enemies a smarter ai ( janissaries bein able to fight back) and makin ur notoriety go up every time u purchase sumthin ( like renovation or buying landmarks) I find at annoying.
I didn't forget about it, I just preferred the Feudal Japan setting. Hence my bringing that one up.
Portal 2 as well. Also; Minecraft, Assassin's Creed 2, Call of Duty 4 and some argue he mildly like Halo:Reach but he didn't really make it clear. There's others i'm forgetting.
Only complain is to upgrade the resolution of the videos. Please!!
1:29 is that a they might be giants reference?!
It's Desmond
I was eating a mouthful of pasta when I heard "Surgically strike like a thumbtack in a McChicken sandwich." I kid you the fuck not, I was pulling a fifth of the angel hair pasta in my mouth out of my nose because it sure as fuck wasn't going down my throat. Imagine taking a rubber barbecue baster and violently jamming it into the grill of your car. The baster was the noodles, the jamming was my laughter, and the grill was my fucking nose flaps.
That Thumbtack joke made me literally never want to eat A chicken sandwich again. xD
My biggest problem with AC2 R is who is Desmond's great great great grandmother? Other games prevent me from finding out if it is in the game, but shouldn't Ezio's gene left him the moment he ejaculate it into Desmond's great great great grandmother? So Ezio fathered a son at his 50s?
Um he works for the escapist, but all of his videos are on the website and you can watch them until you pass out due to lack of sleep :D
I eventually just bookmarked Zero Punctuation on the Escapist site :D