Assassin's Creed 2: Clouded In Nostalgia?
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- In 2009 one of the most infamous games to ever be made got released. Assassin’s Creed Two was the game that broke Assassin’s Creed from just one of game that has potential, to cementing its existence within the world of gaming. It was the game that revolutionised the open-world market. With many games to there detriment keeping elements that worked for this game still using them in today's day and age. It also brought us one of the best characters in this medium, Ezio Auditore. This game put Assassin's Creed on the map and allowed us to follow a character with emotional depth and an understanding that connected to many players to this day. Today I want to talk about Assassin’s creed two in depth. Not just about the Ezio collection. So let's sit down and talk about Assassin’s Creed Two from its development all the way through to the impact this game left on the world of Gaming and assassins Creed fans everywhere. So welcome to Assassin’s Creed 2 An Exiled Video Essay.
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Time Stamps
00:00-00:53 - Intro
00:54-03:44 - My First Memories Of This Game
03:47-09:51 - The Renaissance Inspired Every Ounce (Development)
09:52-34:34 - The Story
34:35-44:40 - Gameplay
44:41-51:00 - Open World
51:01-54:23 - Side Content
54:34-56:13 - The Impact it left
56:14-1:00:00 - Is it Brilliance or Nostalgia? - Hry
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After having just finished the game, I honestly feel like the motion capture might even provide a greater sense of emotion than the modern titles. It’s obviously due to the length of the RPGs games but these cutscenes are surprisingly expressive
I've replayed it more times than I can count. It's simple but beautiful. There's one other game I've done this with, LA Noire. I think there's something magic about the worlds in some games that make them endlessly revisitable. They feel like stepping into history. Nostalgia yes, but also magical immersion.
Copped this during a big steam sale and I’m absolutely loving it. The parkour alone is enough to keep me playing for several hour long sessions
I played the Ezio trilogy for the first time recently. AC2 felt very clunky at first but it turned into a very good game. My only real complaint was I was expecting his youth to be more fleshed out, like I wasn’t expecting the story to end when he was already 40 lol.
That part still confuses me in cutscenes he says 10 years but the game starts when he’s 17 so wouldn’t it be 20 no?
The first game takes place from his birth technically through to when he's 40. So its 40 years over all. The first sequence to the 13th is 20 years.
Woah a day ago i usually find these years later Ezio Auditore is my favorite heroes journey character of all time. Ive loved many others but Ezio just hits home. I remember when my now estranged father bought the game for me and playing the game for something close to 24 hours straight. I remember being so obsessed with AC that me and my friends pretended to make our own assassin order later finding others to make a templar order is was a fun time as a kid.
Still to this day the AC2 music gives me goosebumps and I get emotional these games were more than games for me they were my teenage years.
I in fact owe these games my love of secret orders, grimiores, ancient religion, etc to these games ive become a minor scholar and its because of these games.
I absolutely loved this game. The story was really entertaining and Ezio was a really strong and interesting character. I loved seeing him progress from a carefree teenager to a wise and noble man. Ezio initially looked for revenge but decided to leave that behind and he spared Rodrigo Borgia. I didn’t grow up playing this game but I still love it. The music is amazing and I think the game was very special.
I have a weird relationship with the game and with the whole Ezio trilogy. I never played the Ezio trilogy back then so there was no nostlagia for me, when I played it for the first time almost 2 years ago and thus I honestly have to say, that I was either bored or annoyed most of the time while playing. Annoyed by the clunky controls and outdated mechanics and bored by the endless tailing missions. HOWEVER I still kinda liked it and now that almost 2 years have passed, I developed some kind of nostalgia for it, which is really weird, considering that I wasn't the biggest fan of these games to begin with. But hearing the music, seeing the open world and the characters, it brings back some feelings, that I didn't know I had about these games and I catch myself more often thinking about these games and wanting to go back to them sometime in the future. So the Ezio games definetely have something about them, that sticks with people and I think that's the reason they get so much love and so many people have so much nostlagia about them.
Great video as always btw. 👍
I think it's something about Ezios story it's the hero's journey done IMHO the best its ever been done.
For me, the setting was so immersive. Having played it growing up my nostalgia is intense. I feel like I spent significant time in EVERY CORNER of these cities- eavesdropping in every little market and piazza and garden. Not even doing quests, not even side quests- just my “own quests,” roleplaying in the truest sense. I would climb towers in San Gimignano just to look over the horizon. The game had a very, very romantic hold on me. I think I read every codex entry on every building I climbed, remembering the streets and the layouts. Not for nothing, I am Italian-American, and less than a year after playing this game, my uncle, an Italian language & culture professor, brought me on a “coming-of-age” trip to Rome and Florence! He was so impressed at how much I knew already ;)
The only AC ive played multiple times. What I really like compared to other ACs games is that everything, even the collectible feathers had some sort of relevancy to the overall story.
The editing in this video is crazy, awesome vid!
I played the game this march, and I still love it to this day it holds up
I vote "brilliant". I got the game early in my gaming career, drawn to it by the setting in renaissance Florence. I saw a Gamestop TV ad for it. I still remember my original thoughts in some parts of this game. It is a creation that is bigger than the sum of it's parts. The story, the character of Ezio, the music and the sadness - it all came together to make it compelling from start to finish. And that finish - with it's hints about our distant past (and coming possible future) were just so compelling at the time. Glad to hear there is someone else who loves it like I do.
Great video, really enjoyed it!
I'm an AC veteran, or purist. I've been playing the games since 2008 and consider the Ezio Trilogy to be three of my all time favourite games ever, with Ezio being my absolute favourite fictional protagonist of any medium; games, books or movies.
Obviously for me, nostalgia is a huge point why I love the Ezio Trilogy so much, however, I've recently started playing AC II again (for the xth time, but after a longer hiatus) and the game is still gold, especially since the story telling is so very strong. My only complaint is the wonky controls, so parcours can kinda be annoying at times (I remember the situation when I was chasing Francesco de'Pazzi through Florence and "caught" him the moment he started climbing up a wall, so I kinda bumped into him and fell down to the floor and hence lost him for a moment and had to catch up to him again on the roofs).
But even with some wonky controls, the game is amazing. And AC's story telling never got as good again as it was in the Ezio Trilogy.
Who the heck edited this masterpiece of a video?
Hey man big fan of your videos
@masternoahtheassassin2386 💜💜💜
Great video, thanks for the hard work!
Just a small nitpick, I believe the usage of the word "infamous" in this video is misplaced. Infamous means famous in a negative way. Negative is the key, it means that the thing would have been better off without it. In this video, it is often used as if to mean "famous," "titular," "iconic," and other such positive adjectives.
For example in the beginning you present AC2 as the most "infamous" game in the series, but that would imply it's the most hated, deciding, or plain bad one. The most infamous game in the series could be something like ACU (no hate, just to give an example).
Later the same with "infamous robe," where you clearly describe it in a positive way, but the adjective counters that perception.
I really liked the video which spurred me to comment about this, only kind intentions.
Cheers!
Love your content bro. You deserve sooooo many more views and subs. I've watched all your videos. Hope one day you get the size and love you deserve.
Thank you!
AC2 and AC4 are GOATED ❤️
I think what puts this game in top tier for me was its story. It's in depth I found diffrent story beats as a kid than I did as an adult coming back to play it. It's story was a complex one that holds up to multiple replays.
amazing video
“One of the best characters in this medium - Ezio Auditore DA FIRENZE”
I played it half a year ago for the first time and it was awsome. I dont think it’s just nostalgia, the game is really brilliant.
I really enjoyed the music in AC2.
I get the feeling that you haven't played AC1, at least not recently enough.
Why?
There was two reasons but I can only remember one at the moment.
Combat. AC2 did add variety in aesthetics and tools but removed the best fighting mechanic in the series. The shock and awe mechanic allows us to use chain assassinations. Scared enemy, unlock and switch to hidden blade, low profile kill scared enemy, this scares another one, rinse and repeat.
You made a good argument for AC2 combat and brought my opinion regarding these two games closer. Great video
When the first Assassin’s Creed game came out, I genuinely hated it, because it was clear that Prince of Persia was truly dead and buried in the Sands of Time. But Assassin’s Creed 2 won me over so completely that I even played the first game, clunky and janky and boring as it may be. This is why I will never forgive Ubisoft for their betrayal. I will never forgive them for killing Desmond Miles, I will never forgive them for making a mockery of the franchise, that’s about anything, but the story it started. It’s either boats or a lacklustre retread of the revenge story, or about a grappling hook or RPG elements and microtransactions. It is downright tragic what Ubisoft has done to this series. This is why I don’t care how “misunderstood” AC Origins is or how Ubisoft tries to sucker us back in with AC Mirage, but they couldn’t even make a new character, they reused the one from Valhalla, because that’s what they want us to get into. Hearing Ezio’s Family bastardised in those garbage RPGs is… infuriating.
Things like these show us how everything has turned to shite. New generation will never know. They're just happy with the shite they got, but we know what they're missing
Why did you say infamous at the beginning? It was rather famous I'd say.
infamous doesn't mean it isn't famous. Infamous is another word for notorious.
Infamous means famous for the wrong reasons, which is the opposite of AC2.. I feel like you just wanted to use a fancy word for the sake of it. @Exiled7
@@user-zp3nn1ix4s That's also exactly how I interpret this word and why it didn't fit in the sentence for me.
@@user-zp3nn1ix4s Are we really obsessing over one word in an hour long video? Come on guys
it’s a synonym for famous and notorious.
Nostalgia, it’s good but not great. Kenway saga is superior in almost every way discounting parkour
Ehh I would disagree that the kenway saga is better as a narrative in comparison to the ezio collection.
@@Exiled7 fair enough but I would extend that to brotherhood as well as I don’t think it’s narratively as good as ac2
i love AC 1 to Black Flag. after that, the rest are meh.
Brilliant - no need to watch the video.
Have a nice day.