Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is one of the greatest pirate games of all time. Why does it still hold up? Let's talk. Subscribe for more: czcams.com/users/gameranxTV?su...
And it had one of the best stories in all of the AC games (that I've played), with probably the best redemption arc in any game I've ever played. Black Flag is a fucking classic.
The first AC game I played was AC3. I liked it. I loved the naval combat, though. When Black Flag came along, I was hooked. I've played the living hell out of that game just because of the naval combat and pirate theme. It's still the best pirate game out there.
Black Flag was and is one of my favorite video games of all time. The story was a mix between Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure, which were two of my favorite movies growing up, and the game had so many perfect little details. I absolutely love that your ship looked visually better for every upgrade you bought for it: cannon upgrades made the cannons look shinier and larger, hull upgrades added more ornate trim and coloring to the ship itself, sail upgrades made the sails look fresher and more sturdy, etc. And the fact that the sea shanties essentially functioned as the radio from GTA games was a stroke of genius. This video made me so nostalgic and now I think I need to go back to it this summer haha
@@pyner0s496 Exactly. I honestly don't even remember if there are "Fast Travel" in this game cause I always use the ship just to hear the crew singing. lol
Same! Performance was just terrible on PC tho but then we found a hero that provided us with DXVK so kindly, allowing us to get more fps by changing the game's API to Vulkan :)
Black Flag was mind blowing on release and I think its still impressive 10 years later. It really just goes crazy on the Pirate fantasy. Sailing ships, ship battles, boarding ships, taking out forts, looking for burined treasure, whaling, exploring underwater ship wrecks and more. It's hard to imagine a game doing the Pirate Fantasy even better.
That's what made Skull and Bones so upsetting to people, myself included. It was supposed to take all of that and amp it up to ten. Instead they reduced it down by ten. Glad I saw it in the cards and avoided it. I think had they not made that promise and never associated it with Black Flag, it probably would've been a lot more accepted, with a lot less negativity. It would've just been a mediocre live service pirate game, rather than a massive broken promise of a Black Flag successor. Honestly, in that context, I could even see a world where it became mildly successful.
I’ll never forget the assassination missions where instead of sneaking around and taking out the target with the hidden blade I always just ran up and shot them in true pirate fashion. The cutscene would always show him using the hidden blade, which I found amusing as I went out of my way to use it as little as possible, and each mission counted as a success.
I’m replaying right now and it’s downright comical to assassinate people with the guns. The best was the traitor brother on Nassau and his Chinese Templar wife. Killed the brother and after the cutscene his wife appeared and I one tapped her before she could even run away and got another cutscene.
🎵I thought I heard the Old Man say: "Leave her, Johnny, leave her." Tomorrow you will get your pay, and it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her. Oh, the wind was foul and the sea ran high. "Leave her, Johnny, leave her!" She shipped it green and none went by. And it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her. I hate to sail on this rotten tub. "Leave her, Johnny, leave her!" No grog allowed and rotten grub. And it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her. We swear by rote for want of more. "Leave her, Johnny, leave her!" But now we're through so we'll go on shore. And it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her.🎶
I've always considered AC Odyssey to be a pirate game cause of it's ship combat. I know it's not technically but I still like to RP as one in the game.
@@Karlach_ I love Odysseys Naval combat, also you can be a Pirate in it tbh, all you have to do is Attack and Loot Ships which is exactly what Pirates do
It has nothing on the original Monkey Island. It plays just like any other big game, just with a different lick of paint. No character, no atmosphere - a bland corporate exercise.
They're remaking this game? that's ...weird, because it doesn't seem like the remake will accomplish much - except maybe change the feel of the game, which is top notch as far as Assassin's Creed goes.
The amount of ways u can board an enemy ship is crazy, those details alone fuelled my pirate fantasy, swingin from a rope, jumping off the railing, leaping from the crows nest etc
I don't get the trend where newer pirate games are getting made for multiplayer only. Sad. Not many deny that Black Flag is the best pirate game ever made, and that is single player. Yet game companies keep moving to multiplayer.
@@mcahtme2977 Sure as a teenager or a school kid, this would make sense but as an adult not really, you can't expect everyone to have friends with the correct concole or pc and to have free time at the same time on the same day? that's just not realistic.
Most of the best games ever made are single-player. Or in cases like Stardew Valley and Portal 2, can be played either solo or with friends. @@mcahtme2977
Ubisoft had 90% of Skull and Bones in Black Flag. People wanted that, but more. They wanted to make land on an island and explore caves and ruins for treasure. They wanted to battle other ships and board them. Also, Black Flag needs a remake/remaster with smoother animations and controls, also give it an expansion.
Played again recently after the Skull & Bones debacle. It holds up big time. Your comment on the sea shanties is also spot on. I collected them all just to hear my crew sing them.
Black Flag isn’t an Assassins Creed game. It’s a pirate simulator with assassinations IN IT. For what it is, it is perfection. The shanties alone are beautiful…
What kind of assassin creed game has you play as someone isn't an assassin. This is where assassin creed started to suck. These games started becoming more of grind fest rpgs and not a story driven assassin experience. And the order of assassin the entire thing that all the games are based off of. You only see them for less than 5 minutes of this game.
By the way watch Black Sails show ...locations and atmosphere are exactly as per the game. I bet after watching the series you'd jump back to this game.
who didn't just have a smile here sailing at a sunset on foamy waters while your crew singing "lowland away", and on top that seeing a whale doing a flip and crashing into the water.... i swear, it felt so magical and fulfilling. it was really an experience no one would forget.
I'm sorry, but when I remember how great Black Flag was... I can't help but to think was Skull & Bones could've been. They literally had everything in order, all they had to do was remove the hidden blades. But nope, what we got was "Black Flag at home" because they removed all non-naval combat. I would've loved to have been able to board enemy ships and fight. I would've loved to have been able to explore sunken ships and underwater ruins. It's sad when I enjoy AC: Odyssey more than Skull & Bones.
my best experiences were when we were allowed to commandeer a galleon and black beard's ship....I don't remember it accurately, but those naval combat parts with the pirate music were awesome!
Played through on PS4 a couple years back. It was still fantastic. Returned a couple months ago to clean up the platinum. Geez it was demanding, but such a great return to play it again. Finally got the plat after beating the Twin Elite Warships, such a sweet moment
This was my first platinum trophy and first game a had for PS4. I loved this game. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the fleet system where you can take over ships and send on quests for supplies. It was a fun addition!
You got the platinum for this game? Nice. Every ac game that I've finished I've got the platinum. Except for this one. Some trophies were glitched and others well you have to do multiplayer I believe. Plus i played it when it wasnt new. Probably origins was coming out at the time. So obviously not easy getting the multiplayer trophies.But it was a good game.
@@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825 luckily you can grind out the level 55 multiplayer trophy in private lobbies. At least that’s what did. Also, the social events were a pain. It took me forever to find a white whale to spawn. That was my last trophy.
Don't forget the Fleet Management companion app for your phone! I replayed Black Flag recently and had a blast as usual, but man, I missed that app... wish it was still supported.
Was playing Black Flag again recently. It’s the one I’m mostly to jump back into of all the AC games. Currently on the hunt for level 70 Men o’ War to add to my fleet, which you can only get by being at the max wanted level. I am beyond 100% so just creating fun missions for myself because I enjoy being in this virtual world so much.
Remember that Port comes before Starboard alphabetically (P before S). The same can be said about Left and Right (L and R). Just remember that this applies to orientation. You have to face the front or bow. Stern is the back. I remember bow is the front because bowing is bending your head forward.
I actually just started it as well, for the first time... its certainly one of the best.. to me its really hard to choose though cause I like all of them a lot... even the recent massive ones they have made that everyone seems to hate.
Playing sid meiers pirates as a kid and actually being able to marry and escape prison with the help of your crew was such an iconic feeing. Gotta love it
@@justinlast2lastharder749 I would take out some of the silly mechanics like the courting, maybe make the solo combat a little more like an actual fighting game, or remove it, but I'd keep the mechanics of the raids, just make them work like AC4. There are all kinds of ways you could play with it, and remember, even the mini games that you didn't enjoy could be avoided if you wanted to. So, perhaps, keep them in and just update them for the people who want them, but don't make them necessary, so people who want to ignore them can.
Yeah there may have been pirate games made before that ( i don't know) but that's really where it all started. Like LOTR is said to have defined its genre and inspired almost every story that has followed, Sid Meier's Pirates is very much the same for me. Not really that surprising though as Sid Meier basically did the same for civilization and tycoon type games as well. Are there better games out there now? well ok yeah, but that was because of the limitations of hte technology of the time.
I was a late starter on the franchise and I ended up playing AC 3, then the Ezio Trilogy, and then Black Flag, in a roughly year long period back in 2013-2014 and I was just living in Assassin's Creed and loving it. Black flag seemed to cap my AC experience with something I knew very well that also felt totally different because of the ship combat and such.
Loved sea shanties when I was a kid. Fell in love w em again thanks to ACBF. Now half my playlist is The Longest Johns (a much recommended shanty & folk group)
You mentioned sea shanties as a by the way but for me it was one of the main things I actually did in the game. Hours spent in the open sea just listening to the shanties. Also upgrading your ship to face the legendary ships. The first time I met one by accident I was decimated in less than a minute
Did anyone here actually defeat a legendary ship alone? I thought I was pretty close a few times, but it felt like the encounter was rigged in so many ways that I eventually stopped trying.
@@tubensalat1453 It is possible but you have to upgrade your ship closer to the max and good strategies It's a bit like how to approach dark souls bosses The twin legendary ships are the ones that gave me a marathon for my money
@@stevenochieng960 Yeah, I had my ship maxed out, still... They zoom in, so I can't fully take advantage of my mortars, they handle like a shopping cart: zero turn radius & no delay whatsoever for their maneuvers, so I can't out-maneuver them, they accelerate like a jet fighter if they want to disengage... Then again, I failed against regular dark soul enemies, so I guess I'm just too casual.
On regards to the loading screen when docking on port. I remember sometimes just getting off the ship and jumping in the water to just swim over to that island and it was always great. No loading screens at all. Black Flag was such a great game,
I like it. Probably 3. I've played like 5 of them. But for me it's Ac origins, ac syndicate, and then black flag. Or switch it with ac rogue. But don't remember much of rogue now. Hell you can switch syndicate with origins. Odyssey was good. And I stopped at valhalla. My attention went away from that game with in hours.
@@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825 noice, never played syndicate but I’ve played 1,2,Brotherhood,Revelations,3,Black Flag, & Origins. Origins, Black Flag, & AC2 are my favs.
@@AngieCarr something about origins is beautiful. Even being desert. I like that the arrow was great in that game but for odyssey it was weak I think. You should try syndicate. It's awesome. Nice setting. Fun things to do. Imo.
never took the time to play AC4. untill a week ago. Played alot of the Ezio series, AC origins and AC odyssey. and i must say, AC4 is a banger! Back to the old style of AC, and somehow also very different. more of a pirate game than an AC game if you ask me. but man does the game hold up to this day. Funny that you made video about it whilst i'm playing it for the first time.
Missed opportunity to not mention Sea Dogs 2! It's basically everything piratey about Black Glag, but with so much more options. You can fight as a pirate, or for the French, English, Portuguese, French, Spainish and more. We need a remaster of that. One of my all time favourites
A true hidden gem, I remember it had the Pirates of the Caribbean Logo for the old Xbox, but it had nothing to do with the PofC plot Lol, the fact you could make your own fleet,Visit City's enter buildings, it was ahead of its time, man you could fight and Invade Forts, for me it's still the best Pirate/SailShip Simulator I experienced , and way ahead of it's time, still Don understand how it didn't get the love it (for me) deserved
As soon as he started mentioning cool pirate themed games and modes i knew the sly gameplay was coming. I would spend hours and hours just sailing around defeating other pirates and ships. It was so fun. Even the little missions where you had to find treasures by counting your steps and stuff was fun. Anyone who played the sly pirate mission will never forget the little pirate jingle that would play when it counted all the ships you sunk and acquired loot from
I never cared a shit for pirates and never watched Jhonny Depp's pirates movies. Last year, I played this game for the first time and it is mind blowing how the oceans works for a game from 2013. The rain is impressive too. But, the story, the characters, gameplay, soundtrack and shanties made me fall in love with this game. Imo, Brotherhood and Black Flag are by far the best ac games.
Personally I enjoyed the ship gameplay in AC Odyssey, also liked the protagonist and story better there. Still, running around as a pirate in AC4 was pretty fun.
I had this in ps4, I never beat it and never didn’t spend a lot of time on it, I just wasn’t gaming that hard back then, but I DO remember how freakin awesome every second of it was. It was so immersive and actually felt like I was a pirate haha. I always think about it and wish I could play it again…now that I’ve been reminded by it, I’m def gonna see about playing this again. In full this time
It's the various dynamic, weather effects during a battle, without the game appearing to slowing down or stuttering, that impresses me. When you spy a worthy target. Relentlessly bombarding that ship with cannon and mortar, filling the air with acrid, blinding cannon smoke. Leaving the wheel to 'climb' the rigging via the mast lift, in order to take out the snipers. Jumping over and climbing up to cut down their flag. Then sprinting down the rigging, leaping off for the double take down of the officers. Finally finishing off by clearing the decks in violent, bloody, CQC. All the while dealing with a lightening storm raging, gale force winds, waves the size of houses and violent water spouts. Also all this fun from a 10 yr old game and for just £8 from CEX. Peace All --There is a lot of interesting AC lore and info contained in the various staff computers in the real world sections, locked behind some 'fun', but mundane, hacking mini games. So would say it's worth doing these sections, just for that--
I have always loved black flag, coninuing to go back to it since its release even though I've never really played any others then the first 2. Its one of my favorite games of all time and would love for this game to get a remaster or whatever to modernize it
You say that like it is a bad thing. Out of all the microtransactions companies shove into their games ubisoft ass creed, well at least since origins is one of the "best" (least worse) They allow you to earn and find digital currencies in game and in their meta points system and actually get the cosmetics in game. Yes they are timed base so you cant just get exactly what you want at any time but they allow you to earn stuff in game by playing. That way people like me who never give them a penny for cosmetic "on disc DLC" still get to earn them in game, and the idiots who enable this crap because of FOMO can just buy whatever they want. Only other company I have seen do microtransactions better than ubisoft is blizzards overwatch 1...which they then did a complete 180 and ruined any good faith by shitting the game down and going super greedy with the next game. Damn ass creed valhallah they released the free isle of skye DLC and so much of the opal currency you use for the MTX cosmetics in that game was everywhere on the island, its all free too.
I'm still waiting for a proper actual fighting game for One Piece. The last one we got was Burning Blood, which is sucks. I want a FighterZ treatment for One Piece. Or at least if they want to make another arena fighting game, make it like Naruto Storm/Demon Slayer HC
I want From Software to make a pirate themed game. Just imagine how grand it would be. Having naval boss battles against the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd or against legendary creatures like the Kraken, and/or Davy Jones. It would be sheer epic.
I’m currently watching the show black sails on Netflix and was just thinking how bad we need a new pirate game like Black flag. This game was perfect imo. Need more open world pirate games.
I remember my older brother buying this and COD ghost when they dropped, he spent the whole day finishing the campaign while I watched and I stayed up all night playing Black Flag. Such an amazing game
Skull and Bones had all the chances to be the best one, but somehow Ubisoft decided to not to turn it into an open world experience as it needed to be. But turned Ghost Recon into an open world experience when it never needed to.
@@RolandHazoto yep. In a few segments of this one he just seemed to be just saying shit, making it up as he goes yk? It almost looks like he didn’t play some of those assassins creed he talked about. At least it reignited my desire to replay this game, wanted to make a video on it for so long
@@Igones I will forever miss the PvP multiplayer; 4 was the last one to have it. Also, I have no idea if you can still get it to run, but look into a mod for Disney's first PotC game called New Horizons. Nobody knows about it, but in a lot of ways it was better than AC4 in the pirate sim aspects.
I am always impressed by Falcon's ability to remain fresh and actually provide good quality commentary and observations. Hope he and the team is getting the appreciation they rightly deserve.
Black Flag is a fantastic pirate game, but a bad Assassins Creed game because it barely had anything to do with assassins 🤷. Ubisoft should have made it a stand alone or new series, and made more of them lol
Did you actually play the game? The main plot of the game is all about the Templar and assassins. The first thing Edward does is fight an assassin and put on his uniform lol
The ending of Ac4 as well as the story of Mary Read were fantastic have always held them in my top 5 games 12 years later I’m 23 and still waiting for Ubisoft capture this feeling again
I played Black Flag when it was released abut never finished it. Finally got round to it 2 months ago and finished it last week, still holds up tbh with those fort/legendary ship battles.
After watching the pirates of the caribbean movies I always wanted to play a pirate game and when this came out it was a dream come true. Bought this game on four different platforms, worth the purchase every time.
Black Flag is more than an AC game.
Bruh 50th like
And also more than a pirate game
Clearly you guys haven’t experienced the Pirates of the Caribbean level on Kingdom Hearts 2.
And it had one of the best stories in all of the AC games (that I've played), with probably the best redemption arc in any game I've ever played. Black Flag is a fucking classic.
The first AC game I played was AC3. I liked it. I loved the naval combat, though.
When Black Flag came along, I was hooked. I've played the living hell out of that game just because of the naval combat and pirate theme. It's still the best pirate game out there.
The pirate genre is one of the most underutilised genres in gaming imo. I'd love developers like Rockstar to make a pirate themed game.
omg that would be insane. we all saw what they could with the wild west.
we should start a petition. 😂
Yes the pirate part of rdr2 was so fun
GTA 7: Rogue Waves 🗿
@@Damakos what pirate part? Rdr2 takes place about 150 years after the age of pirates.
Rockstar yes Take 2 NO they can feck off.
Black Flag should have been its own franchise instead of an AC.
Could have changed a lot and not for the better I think skulls and bones is similar
No. It’s a great AC thanks to the writing of Darby McDevitt.
Kinda was. Rogue was slept on
Pirate’s Creed
It actually kind of started as an independent game, most "pirate mechanics" was well developed before it became an AC game
Black Flag was and is one of my favorite video games of all time. The story was a mix between Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure, which were two of my favorite movies growing up, and the game had so many perfect little details. I absolutely love that your ship looked visually better for every upgrade you bought for it: cannon upgrades made the cannons look shinier and larger, hull upgrades added more ornate trim and coloring to the ship itself, sail upgrades made the sails look fresher and more sturdy, etc. And the fact that the sea shanties essentially functioned as the radio from GTA games was a stroke of genius. This video made me so nostalgic and now I think I need to go back to it this summer haha
I'm proud to say I was once addicted to Black Flag!
The sea shanty sung by the crew was so epic
@@pyner0s496 Exactly. I honestly don't even remember if there are "Fast Travel" in this game cause I always use the ship just to hear the crew singing. lol
Same! Performance was just terrible on PC tho but then we found a hero that provided us with DXVK so kindly, allowing us to get more fps by changing the game's API to Vulkan :)
@@KenEvangelista this was actually the first in the series to make the synchronize points be fast travel! I adore this game!! ❤️
mee too
Black Flag was mind blowing on release and I think its still impressive 10 years later. It really just goes crazy on the Pirate fantasy. Sailing ships, ship battles, boarding ships, taking out forts, looking for burined treasure, whaling, exploring underwater ship wrecks and more. It's hard to imagine a game doing the Pirate Fantasy even better.
You said it best!
That's what made Skull and Bones so upsetting to people, myself included. It was supposed to take all of that and amp it up to ten. Instead they reduced it down by ten. Glad I saw it in the cards and avoided it.
I think had they not made that promise and never associated it with Black Flag, it probably would've been a lot more accepted, with a lot less negativity. It would've just been a mediocre live service pirate game, rather than a massive broken promise of a Black Flag successor. Honestly, in that context, I could even see a world where it became mildly successful.
I remember being awestruck by the water animation and texture. Just staring at it things “wow. So pretty” lol
Yeah and then 10 years later the same publisher screws up Skull & Bones, the game specifically about being a pirate on the open sea
What i would give for a modern remake of blag flag.
Imagine rockstar making a pirate game....
I’ll never forget the assassination missions where instead of sneaking around and taking out the target with the hidden blade I always just ran up and shot them in true pirate fashion. The cutscene would always show him using the hidden blade, which I found amusing as I went out of my way to use it as little as possible, and each mission counted as a success.
I’m replaying right now and it’s downright comical to assassinate people with the guns.
The best was the traitor brother on Nassau and his Chinese Templar wife. Killed the brother and after the cutscene his wife appeared and I one tapped her before she could even run away and got another cutscene.
🎵I thought I heard the Old Man say:
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her."
Tomorrow you will get your pay,
and it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.
Oh, the wind was foul and the sea ran high.
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her!"
She shipped it green and none went by.
And it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.
I hate to sail on this rotten tub.
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her!"
No grog allowed and rotten grub.
And it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.
We swear by rote for want of more.
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her!"
But now we're through so we'll go on shore.
And it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.🎶
My kid was playing black flag today on my old PS3 and I was singing that shanty when they sang it. Tis my favorite !! 😄
Yeah. Amber Turd really is a turd.
Black Flag is something else, those shanties are so nice.
That's the best shanty
Love that one! Home Free included it in their Sea Shanty Medley. (Their video is great, too.)
short answer: yes
long answer: yes. yes it is
I've always considered AC Odyssey to be a pirate game cause of it's ship combat. I know it's not technically but I still like to RP as one in the game.
@@Karlach_ I love Odysseys Naval combat, also you can be a Pirate in it tbh, all you have to do is Attack and Loot Ships which is exactly what Pirates do
@@Karlach_wind waker
It has nothing on the original Monkey Island. It plays just like any other big game, just with a different lick of paint. No character, no atmosphere - a bland corporate exercise.
@@lostinpictures509No character and no atmosphere? Get your eyes and ears checked.
Just started playing black flag for the first time 2 days ago. Really enjoying it. Hope the remake ubisoft is working on keep to the roots.
Same, dude!!
Are they actually remaking this??
They're remaking this game? that's ...weird, because it doesn't seem like the remake will accomplish much - except maybe change the feel of the game, which is top notch as far as Assassin's Creed goes.
Remake lmao. People asking for remakes are part of the problem.
I own it on 360 and Xbox One... Want that a remake?
The amount of ways u can board an enemy ship is crazy, those details alone fuelled my pirate fantasy, swingin from a rope, jumping off the railing, leaping from the crows nest etc
I don't get the trend where newer pirate games are getting made for multiplayer only. Sad. Not many deny that Black Flag is the best pirate game ever made, and that is single player. Yet game companies keep moving to multiplayer.
Because who wants to play by themselves, go make some friends.
@@mcahtme2977 i do
@@mcahtme2977 Sure as a teenager or a school kid, this would make sense but as an adult not really, you can't expect everyone to have friends with the correct concole or pc and to have free time at the same time on the same day? that's just not realistic.
@@mcahtme2977 I have a tons of friends and I love singleplayer, ferociously hate multiplayer games.
Most of the best games ever made are single-player. Or in cases like Stardew Valley and Portal 2, can be played either solo or with friends. @@mcahtme2977
Ubisoft had 90% of Skull and Bones in Black Flag. People wanted that, but more. They wanted to make land on an island and explore caves and ruins for treasure. They wanted to battle other ships and board them.
Also, Black Flag needs a remake/remaster with smoother animations and controls, also give it an expansion.
I wanted skull and bones to beat sea of thieves so badly but...
I’d buy that up!!
Didn't Ubisoft come out with that AC: Rebel Collection for Black Flag and Rogue with a lot of the DLC included a few years ago?
@@Penguinmanereikel All DLC actually, but only for switch.
Skull and bones would be good if there was more to it than ship combat.
Like for an Assassin creed black flag 2
Played again recently after the Skull & Bones debacle. It holds up big time.
Your comment on the sea shanties is also spot on. I collected them all just to hear my crew sing them.
Black Flag isn’t an Assassins Creed game. It’s a pirate simulator with assassinations IN IT.
For what it is, it is perfection. The shanties alone are beautiful…
What is "assassinations"? 😂
Just say 'Its pirate game with an assassins creed lore'
Even call of duty has "assassinations" 😂
What kind of assassin creed game has you play as someone isn't an assassin. This is where assassin creed started to suck. These games started becoming more of grind fest rpgs and not a story driven assassin experience. And the order of assassin the entire thing that all the games are based off of. You only see them for less than 5 minutes of this game.
@@tony-zw1ej yes cuz it's more focused on pirate themes. 🎉 Tadaa
@@tony-zw1ejAlso, all of the repetitive, monotonous tailing missions in that game
@@letsgetitback Then it's shouldn't be an assassin creed game. Just make a pirate game. Which they have done now.
Black flag is my favorite game of all time. The story and the setting were perfect.
Black Flag, not Black flag
By the way watch Black Sails show ...locations and atmosphere are exactly as per the game. I bet after watching the series you'd jump back to this game.
I love these videos where you gush about a single game, need more of these!
More videos like this! I love deep dive analyses of genres.
who didn't just have a smile here sailing at a sunset on foamy waters while your crew singing "lowland away", and on top that seeing a whale doing a flip and crashing into the water.... i swear, it felt so magical and fulfilling. it was really an experience no one would forget.
Absolutely some of the most atmospheric moments in gaming, in this game.
It happens that I'm not a great fan of AC games but i played this one to the core and i loved it
If you enjoyed this game, I recommend trying Odyssey, it has ship combat and beautiful sailing locale.
B/c it's not really an AC game. It's more like Pirate's Creed, TBH.
@@believeinmatterodyssey is trash worst in the series after valhalla
@sherKhan-qq7cy Nah odyssey is a very good game, just as many have said a lot of times not the best ASSASSINS creed game.
Same
Falcon, this is your best video I've seen. It felt unusually erduite; I watched the whole thing through. Keep it up.
I'm so glad they mentioned Sly 3... Such a classic Franchise I hope it comes back..
I'm sorry, but when I remember how great Black Flag was... I can't help but to think was Skull & Bones could've been. They literally had everything in order, all they had to do was remove the hidden blades. But nope, what we got was "Black Flag at home" because they removed all non-naval combat. I would've loved to have been able to board enemy ships and fight. I would've loved to have been able to explore sunken ships and underwater ruins. It's sad when I enjoy AC: Odyssey more than Skull & Bones.
Yeah, Odyssey still holds up, on land and sea.
@@landonewts odyssey never held up
my best experiences were when we were allowed to commandeer a galleon and black beard's ship....I don't remember it accurately, but those naval combat parts with the pirate music were awesome!
Blackbeard's ship was something else, I loved that mission
@@ashishchoudhary6982 yeahh...i think his broadside cannons fire 3 rounds at a time if I remember correct, that was so awesome!
Played through on PS4 a couple years back. It was still fantastic. Returned a couple months ago to clean up the platinum. Geez it was demanding, but such a great return to play it again. Finally got the plat after beating the Twin Elite Warships, such a sweet moment
AC Black Flag is the first game I played when I get back to gaming! I had a lot of fun in this game.
Black flag is so good one of the greats of entertainment in general not just games, also it aged like fine wine 🍷🏴☠️
For pirate fans, recommend watching Black Sails. Really great show.
One of the best I watched.
@@vaazon one of the best written shows of the 2010s
I second this recommendation!
Fck yea
Wats it on ?
This was my first platinum trophy and first game a had for PS4. I loved this game. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the fleet system where you can take over ships and send on quests for supplies. It was a fun addition!
You got the platinum for this game? Nice. Every ac game that I've finished I've got the platinum. Except for this one. Some trophies were glitched and others well you have to do multiplayer I believe. Plus i played it when it wasnt new. Probably origins was coming out at the time. So obviously not easy getting the multiplayer trophies.But it was a good game.
@@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825 luckily you can grind out the level 55 multiplayer trophy in private lobbies. At least that’s what did. Also, the social events were a pain. It took me forever to find a white whale to spawn. That was my last trophy.
Don't forget the Fleet Management companion app for your phone!
I replayed Black Flag recently and had a blast as usual, but man, I missed that app... wish it was still supported.
Was playing Black Flag again recently. It’s the one I’m mostly to jump back into of all the AC games. Currently on the hunt for level 70 Men o’ War to add to my fleet, which you can only get by being at the max wanted level. I am beyond 100% so just creating fun missions for myself because I enjoy being in this virtual world so much.
I remember accidentally sailing into one of the legendary ships at low level and getting absolutely destroyed.
Lol. Same here. I feel you 😂
Unfortunately, it's the reason why I never finished the game 😂.
Yep I accidentally sailed into the area with the 2 legendary ships I got creamed without firing a single shot 😅😅
Disney infinity Pirates of the Caribbean had some really good Ship combat
Remember that Port comes before Starboard alphabetically (P before S). The same can be said about Left and Right (L and R). Just remember that this applies to orientation. You have to face the front or bow. Stern is the back. I remember bow is the front because bowing is bending your head forward.
I always remember because “port” and “left” have the same amount of letters. 😉
This is actually very helpful and easy to remember. Thanks!
So glad you mentioned Sly Cooper 3, such a good game!
I just started playing Black Flag a day ago. I have 5 hours on it and I absolutely love it. Best AC by a mile
I actually just started it as well, for the first time... its certainly one of the best.. to me its really hard to choose though cause I like all of them a lot... even the recent massive ones they have made that everyone seems to hate.
Skull and Bones is obviously the best, its a Quadruple A experience!!!
Ubisoft created such a masterpiece that no one will pirate this game 🔥🔥
how the fuck this got 16 likes. ?supposed get dislike bcuz that skull n bones is QUARDUPLE A SHITTY EXPERIENCE n EXPENSIVE MOBILE GAME. .
Genuinely game of the year IMO!
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Thank you for bringing up Sid Myers Pirates. That was my favourite game on PSP. It needs a reboot.
Thank you for the shout-out to skies of arcadia, one of my favorite games ever
Playing sid meiers pirates as a kid and actually being able to marry and escape prison with the help of your crew was such an iconic feeing. Gotta love it
Now imagine all of that with the actual free roam mechanics of AC4 when you're on land.
Yeah, but it was a mini game slog. I hated those damn mini games.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 I would take out some of the silly mechanics like the courting, maybe make the solo combat a little more like an actual fighting game, or remove it, but I'd keep the mechanics of the raids, just make them work like AC4. There are all kinds of ways you could play with it, and remember, even the mini games that you didn't enjoy could be avoided if you wanted to. So, perhaps, keep them in and just update them for the people who want them, but don't make them necessary, so people who want to ignore them can.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Same. I stopped playing because of those damn mini games.
Yeah there may have been pirate games made before that ( i don't know) but that's really where it all started.
Like LOTR is said to have defined its genre and inspired almost every story that has followed, Sid Meier's Pirates is very much the same for me.
Not really that surprising though as Sid Meier basically did the same for civilization and tycoon type games as well.
Are there better games out there now? well ok yeah, but that was because of the limitations of hte technology of the time.
Imagine if rockstar made a pirate game.
They should
I was a late starter on the franchise and I ended up playing AC 3, then the Ezio Trilogy, and then Black Flag, in a roughly year long period back in 2013-2014 and I was just living in Assassin's Creed and loving it. Black flag seemed to cap my AC experience with something I knew very well that also felt totally different because of the ship combat and such.
Loved sea shanties when I was a kid. Fell in love w em again thanks to ACBF. Now half my playlist is The Longest Johns (a much recommended shanty & folk group)
You mentioned sea shanties as a by the way but for me it was one of the main things I actually did in the game.
Hours spent in the open sea just listening to the shanties.
Also upgrading your ship to face the legendary ships. The first time I met one by accident I was decimated in less than a minute
Did anyone here actually defeat a legendary ship alone? I thought I was pretty close a few times, but it felt like the encounter was rigged in so many ways that I eventually stopped trying.
@@tubensalat1453 It is possible but you have to upgrade your ship closer to the max and good strategies
It's a bit like how to approach dark souls bosses
The twin legendary ships are the ones that gave me a marathon for my money
🤝No side quest has ever moved me as much as sea shanty collection
@@stevenochieng960 Yeah, I had my ship maxed out, still... They zoom in, so I can't fully take advantage of my mortars, they handle like a shopping cart: zero turn radius & no delay whatsoever for their maneuvers, so I can't out-maneuver them, they accelerate like a jet fighter if they want to disengage...
Then again, I failed against regular dark soul enemies, so I guess I'm just too casual.
Black Flag is a phenomenal game and, for my money, THE best depiction of being a pirate in gaming.
This game right here man. Might get it tatted on me the Assassins Logo with the skull is so badass
On regards to the loading screen when docking on port. I remember sometimes just getting off the ship and jumping in the water to just swim over to that island and it was always great. No loading screens at all. Black Flag was such a great game,
I played this 7 months ago and i had a blast playing it. Still in 2024 this game has great graphics.
The Pirates of the Caribbean MMO had some great stuff as well.
Available for pc?
@619jc9 It was about 15 years ago, I don't think it's available anymore.
@@willbearheart7919It's still live, there's a fan run server going that's still getting updates
Yeah this game was a big part of my childhood, nothing has come close pirate related
You guys are undoubtedly the best gaming channel, bar none.
Glad you mentioned Skies of Arcadia that game was also phenomenal
I still hold firm that AC4: Black Flag is one of the BEST ACs entries. It’s in my top 3.
I like it. Probably 3. I've played like 5 of them. But for me it's
Ac origins, ac syndicate, and then black flag. Or switch it with ac rogue. But don't remember much of rogue now. Hell you can switch syndicate with origins. Odyssey was good. And I stopped at valhalla. My attention went away from that game with in hours.
@@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825 noice, never played syndicate but I’ve played 1,2,Brotherhood,Revelations,3,Black Flag, & Origins.
Origins, Black Flag, & AC2 are my favs.
@@AngieCarr something about origins is beautiful. Even being desert. I like that the arrow was great in that game but for odyssey it was weak I think. You should try syndicate. It's awesome. Nice setting. Fun things to do. Imo.
I still have my OG boxed copy but, for anyone who wants to play this masterpiece, it’s under $10 on PlayStation Store. 🏴☠️
It’s included with PlayStation Premium subscription.
It's free with PS Essential
never took the time to play AC4. untill a week ago. Played alot of the Ezio series, AC origins and AC odyssey. and i must say, AC4 is a banger! Back to the old style of AC, and somehow also very different. more of a pirate game than an AC game if you ask me. but man does the game hold up to this day. Funny that you made video about it whilst i'm playing it for the first time.
The soundtrack of this game was out of this world ....
Black Flag is my favorite game of all time
SAME 😭🙏🏴☠️
Missed opportunity to not mention Sea Dogs 2! It's basically everything piratey about Black Glag, but with so much more options. You can fight as a pirate, or for the French, English, Portuguese, French, Spainish and more. We need a remaster of that. One of my all time favourites
A true hidden gem, I remember it had the Pirates of the Caribbean Logo for the old Xbox, but it had nothing to do with the PofC plot Lol, the fact you could make your own fleet,Visit City's enter buildings, it was ahead of its time, man you could fight and Invade Forts, for me it's still the best Pirate/SailShip Simulator I experienced , and way ahead of it's time, still Don understand how it didn't get the love it (for me) deserved
There is an awesome mod pack for the game on pc called new horizons
Great review of AC IV: Black Flag. Thank You.
As soon as he started mentioning cool pirate themed games and modes i knew the sly gameplay was coming. I would spend hours and hours just sailing around defeating other pirates and ships. It was so fun. Even the little missions where you had to find treasures by counting your steps and stuff was fun. Anyone who played the sly pirate mission will never forget the little pirate jingle that would play when it counted all the ships you sunk and acquired loot from
The intro soundtrack gave me goosebumps
I never cared a shit for pirates and never watched Jhonny Depp's pirates movies. Last year, I played this game for the first time and it is mind blowing how the oceans works for a game from 2013. The rain is impressive too. But, the story, the characters, gameplay, soundtrack and shanties made me fall in love with this game. Imo, Brotherhood and Black Flag are by far the best ac games.
First game I've played on the PS4 back in the day. Still holds up, and I'm soo happy we'll finally get remake of this masterpiece.
It's funny how I started replaying this game a week ago, and then this video is made lol. We need a remastered!
The pirate genre is one of the most underutilized genres in gaming in my opinion. I'd love a developer like Rockstar Games to make a pirate game.
Personally I enjoyed the ship gameplay in AC Odyssey, also liked the protagonist and story better there. Still, running around as a pirate in AC4 was pretty fun.
I had this in ps4, I never beat it and never didn’t spend a lot of time on it, I just wasn’t gaming that hard back then, but I DO remember how freakin awesome every second of it was. It was so immersive and actually felt like I was a pirate haha. I always think about it and wish I could play it again…now that I’ve been reminded by it, I’m def gonna see about playing this again. In full this time
That's it, you've got me so hyped I'm re-downloading it right now!
Always loved the naval combat in AC Odyssey - One of the most fun open world games I have ever played
Sid Meier's Pirates + Sea of Thieves + Black Flag = the best
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I've been wanting a remake of SMP forever
i would include Monkey Island. Most realistic, hardcore Pirategame ever...
Nope. Sea of Thieves is online and multiplayer only.
@@christianbethel Sea of thieves for the multiplayer and ac4 for the singleplayer and immersion.
It's the various dynamic, weather effects during a battle, without the game appearing to slowing down or stuttering, that impresses me. When you spy a worthy target. Relentlessly bombarding that ship with cannon and mortar, filling the air with acrid, blinding cannon smoke. Leaving the wheel to 'climb' the rigging via the mast lift, in order to take out the snipers. Jumping over and climbing up to cut down their flag. Then sprinting down the rigging, leaping off for the double take down of the officers. Finally finishing off by clearing the decks in violent, bloody, CQC. All the while dealing with a lightening storm raging, gale force winds, waves the size of houses and violent water spouts. Also all this fun from a 10 yr old game and for just £8 from CEX. Peace All
--There is a lot of interesting AC lore and info contained in the various staff computers in the real world sections, locked behind some 'fun', but mundane, hacking mini games. So would say it's worth doing these sections, just for that--
I have always loved black flag, coninuing to go back to it since its release even though I've never really played any others then the first 2. Its one of my favorite games of all time and would love for this game to get a remaster or whatever to modernize it
Yup. Without a doubt 🔥🔥🎉🎉
Don't worry I'm sure Ubisoft will release a remake....and monetize everything in this game.
And they will make side missions unlockable by purchasing deluxe edition
I have high hopes for the remake, I hope they don’t change too much.. i dont know I’m scared but excited
@@mattbettcher7439 I'll bet you my life savings it's just a graphical update with a season pass
@@madnessman1520 I hope they make every island fully explorable and make it so don’t load into big areas.. maybe I’m being naive but hey I’m excited
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Out of all the microtransactions companies shove into their games ubisoft ass creed, well at least since origins is one of the "best" (least worse)
They allow you to earn and find digital currencies in game and in their meta points system and actually get the cosmetics in game. Yes they are timed base so you cant just get exactly what you want at any time but they allow you to earn stuff in game by playing.
That way people like me who never give them a penny for cosmetic "on disc DLC" still get to earn them in game, and the idiots who enable this crap because of FOMO can just buy whatever they want.
Only other company I have seen do microtransactions better than ubisoft is blizzards overwatch 1...which they then did a complete 180 and ruined any good faith by shitting the game down and going super greedy with the next game.
Damn ass creed valhallah they released the free isle of skye DLC and so much of the opal currency you use for the MTX cosmetics in that game was everywhere on the island, its all free too.
I even played the Pirates of the Carribbean MMO back then too.
Just thinking about playing Black Flag lifts my mood. Such fond memories.
Crazy how there hasn't been a proper open world rpg one piece game
🎉 was just thinking this too 💯
I'm still waiting for a proper actual fighting game for One Piece. The last one we got was Burning Blood, which is sucks. I want a FighterZ treatment for One Piece. Or at least if they want to make another arena fighting game, make it like Naruto Storm/Demon Slayer HC
😂😂not too many good anime games period. DBZ holds that crown.
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There's plenty of anime fighting games.
Need a proper open world rpg.
One piece is perfect for that.
DBZ Kakarot but for one piece would be sick
I want From Software to make a pirate themed game. Just imagine how grand it would be. Having naval boss battles against the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd or against legendary creatures like the Kraken, and/or Davy Jones. It would be sheer epic.
I’m currently watching the show black sails on Netflix and was just thinking how bad we need a new pirate game like Black flag. This game was perfect imo. Need more open world pirate games.
I remember my older brother buying this and COD ghost when they dropped, he spent the whole day finishing the campaign while I watched and I stayed up all night playing Black Flag. Such an amazing game
Skull and Bones had all the chances to be the best one, but somehow Ubisoft decided to not to turn it into an open world experience as it needed to be. But turned Ghost Recon into an open world experience when it never needed to.
Clearly you guys haven’t experienced the Pirates of the Caribbean level on Kingdom Hearts 2.
Probably because as adults we generally dont play childrens disney games
Kingdom Hearts 2? Kingdom Hearts 3 did it even better. You had an exploreable sea with naval battles.
My favourite AC game, it was great to hear Sean Pertwee on the ship too!
12:16 goosebumps and nostalgia throwing me off really hard bro, why u did this to me man??? I really wanna go back now dang it
Yes. Absolutely. Nothing compares to Black flag.
Assassins creed 3, a miss?????
Welcome to Falcon's contentious takes. It's rare he does a vid where there isn't something he says that I disagree with.
@@RolandHazoto yep. In a few segments of this one he just seemed to be just saying shit, making it up as he goes yk?
It almost looks like he didn’t play some of those assassins creed he talked about.
At least it reignited my desire to replay this game, wanted to make a video on it for so long
I think he meant the naval aspect of it
@@Igones I will forever miss the PvP multiplayer; 4 was the last one to have it.
Also, I have no idea if you can still get it to run, but look into a mod for Disney's first PotC game called New Horizons. Nobody knows about it, but in a lot of ways it was better than AC4 in the pirate sim aspects.
@@RolandHazoto wow really? That’s really interesting! I’ll look into it
I am always impressed by Falcon's ability to remain fresh and actually provide good quality commentary and observations. Hope he and the team is getting the appreciation they rightly deserve.
I really loved the live phone app (when it worked). I could see the map and manage my ships while playing. Was wonderful when it worked.
Black Flag is a fantastic pirate game, but a bad Assassins Creed game because it barely had anything to do with assassins 🤷. Ubisoft should have made it a stand alone or new series, and made more of them lol
Did you actually play the game? The main plot of the game is all about the Templar and assassins. The first thing Edward does is fight an assassin and put on his uniform lol
Idiot..?
Black Flag is one of the few games I’ve triple-dipped on. Over the years I have bought and played it on WiiU, switch, and current Xbox.
I still have the 4 action figure collectables from this game. Loved it!
The ending of Ac4 as well as the story of Mary Read were fantastic have always held them in my top 5 games 12 years later I’m 23 and still waiting for Ubisoft capture this feeling again
playing AC:Black flag around the time when Black Sails (starz series) came out was golden!
Love that you mentioned Skies of Arcadia, omg I loved that game but yes Black Flag is fantastic
I played Black Flag when it was released abut never finished it. Finally got round to it 2 months ago and finished it last week, still holds up tbh with those fort/legendary ship battles.
BIack FIag is the most goated game in existence. GTA5 and BIack FIag dropped around the same time and gaming wiII never top that era.
I remember watching Blackflag’s cinematic trailer to hype me up every time I was about to start playing it
I seriously need to play this game again. Definitely my favorite AC game since the first one
@gameranx did you play abandon ship? Ive been replaying it lately.
After watching the pirates of the caribbean movies I always wanted to play a pirate game and when this came out it was a dream come true. Bought this game on four different platforms, worth the purchase every time.