Ranking The Combat In Every Assassin's Creed Game...
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- From the earlier titles like Assassin's Creed 1 to Assassin's Creed Rogue, to the combat in Assassin's Creed Unity and Syndicate, and even the RPG games with the latest combat mechanics, each iteration has its unique approach. But which assassin’s creed game actually has the best combat system? Please do remember that this entire video is purely my opinion and is completely subjective. It’s fine to disagree and have your own thoughts.
0:00 - Intro
0:32 - 11th
3:29 - 10th
6:29 - 9th
9:36 - 8th
12:56 - 7th
15:18 - 6th
18:16 - 5th
20:38 - 4th
23:26 - 3rd
27:29 - 2nd
30:38 - 1st
33:39 - Outro
Assassin's Creed is an open-world, action-adventure, and stealth game franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil and its more advanced derivatives. Created by Patrice Désilets, Jade Raymond, and Corey May, the Assassin's Creed video game series depicts a fictional millennia-old struggle between the Order of Assassins, who fight for peace and free will, and the Knights Templar, who desire peace through order and control. The series features historical fiction, science fiction, and fictional characters intertwined with real-world historical events and historical figures. In most games, players control a historical Assassin while also playing as an Assassin Initiate or someone caught in the Assassin-Templar conflict in the present-day framing story. Considered a spiritual successor to the Prince of Persia series, Assassin's Creed took inspiration from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, based on the historical Hashashin sect of the medieval Middle East.
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Hi there, so as I mentioned at the start of this video. It's all my own opinion and is completely subjective. Ranking combat in video games is the hardest thing to do out of all of the stuff to rank as it factors based on you as a player, your own preferences, your own style of fighting, and also how enjoyable it is to you. There will be people that will say ACSyndicate has the best combat, whereas I have it dead last in this video. So yeah, have a great day, stay safe!💜
I love playing with the short fast blades in AC Origins! Especially when you parry arrows! Cool af 🔥
I haven't played odyssey so I can't rank it, but there's a lot of people that love it. I was upset they didn't really do much in ac Valhalla for sneaky builds like going prone and other stuff with so many skills that said I think the combats more fun and better than origins. To me Valhalla origins and because of opinions of a lot of friends that playing odyssey you feel the most like a bada** those 3 belong in top 3 in my opinion. I haven't played mirage yet.
By me, Odyssey and Valhalla are some solid games. The only problem is that they slapped "assassin's creed" on it.
Very true and like he said they could have very easily picked a time period and culture of people that would better support an assassins creed game so it’s hard for me to give them a pass for that cause even before both of those games came out i and a bunch of others already knew😭how tf you gonna fit assassins in this time period😭😭😭
Completion agree.
My favorite games cant wait to see the Japan game this year
@@anubis4032 you know, I can't say I disagree
I agree but also completely understand why they did it. I would probably not buy "not AC" Valhalla. TBH I was done with the series when AC Unity crashed for me and i lost like 50h save. To that point i played all the games and were buying they when they came out but with all those bugs in Unity i was done and didnt play syndicate until 2022 when i got huge promotion on all games (for about 100$ i had all from AC to AC odyssey) and my GF said that origins is really good and they fixed a lot of stuff in Unity/syndicate. So we bough together with her Valhalla but only as next AC game and not as "Viking game" and i guess that huge part of their sales were similar to me.
TL;DR I dont like the fact that Eivor is label as Assassin but i understand it because i myself would probably not pick that game without AC branding
For me its the Kenway Saga (AC3, AC black flag, Rogue, Liberation). It makes you feel like an powerhouse and Animations are pretty good too.
Same
Same
Hard agree
But that makes them so boring and unsatisfying, they're so easy it's just not fun. Especially AC3
Thank you
i think the worst part about syndicate was how the rpg elements were integrated.
specifically how headshots didn’t instantly kill, and how you mentioned with damage sponges.
Headshots do insta kill, you just have to upgrade your equipment
Yeah too slappy/flashy. But gotta admit the different assassination options were dope.
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you’re missing the point. That isn’t something me or a lot of people enjoyed.
If shooting someone in the head with a gun doesn’t instantly kill them because “the number wasn’t bigger than their number”, that takes a lot of people out of the experience.
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i agree there was creativity there
@@cameronphares2482I honestly don’t get why ppl find it so difficult to find a gun with higher stats and click the upgrade button. I get it requires more work than just choosing a gun from its appearance, but it adds more complexity to a series that was in no way perfect.
You didn't mention the "shock and awe" system in AC1, the best part in my opinion. When you kill an enemy brutally, another will get scared and become unable to defend themselves for a short time. When this happens you can obviously hit them but, less obvious, you can unlock and switch to the hidden blade to kill them. That will scare another so can keep doing it until you get hit or fail to get to the right guard.
Could be explained better but it is a lot of fun and takes a bit more skill than the kill chains in Brotherhood to Rogue.
isnt the shock and awe in like 4 games? ac1, ac2, acb, acrev?
@@user-zp3nn1ix4s it's toned down to just lower ranked guards running away. They also changed it to a points system where killing one would give an amount of points based on rank and it took more points to scare higher ranks.
AC1 is the only AC we can do this sort of chain kill.
I really love AC1 combat it feels very brutal, every time you fight someone you get the impression that altair isnt mean to fight and that he want to end up fast with them
Ac3 was brutal
I never noticed a difference between the combat from AC3 and that in Black Flag/Rogue. Always felt the exact same to me
Ac black flag doesn't have the tomahawk and whatever that weapon was called clubber lang was it and that big ass axe with the bow and also the traps
@@H1tler510 Yeah the weapons are different but mechanically they always felt the exact same. Lien AC1 and AC2 both use the same counter kill system but AC2 includes more stuff to diversify combat. I have never noticed anything different between the mechanics of the combat in 3 vs Black Flag
@@r520jr8same, the mechanics and throwables are the same, and the guns.
@@r520jr83 was more challenging if u don’t know they go back and play them both it’s clear 3 was better than black flag/rouge
i agree, the fact that 3 is at the top makes literally no sense to me. its the exact same mechanics in all 3 games apart from animations. i don't know why people have some religious belief that makes them think ac3 was some next level shit in comparrion to black flag or rouge.
Connor may not be the most well regarded protagonist, but nobody can deny that dude is fuckin scary in a fight
No over protag makes me go "dude chill" during a fight, it's awesome
I know they're by far the easiest AC games, but the Kenway saga are so satisfying. I love how you can legitimately have an unarmed style of fighting.
I’ve never had a problem with “lack of damage” in syndicate. However, Odyssey on the other hand, every enemy type was a damage sponge. It was annoying how long it took to take an enemy down
If you have the right build it feels really good, but you need like a min-maxed build for it. On nightmare difficulty I was killing enemies in like 3-5 seconds depending on the weapon type I used.
Agree, Syndicate wasn't a "dmg sponge warehouse", but it was lackluster and boring af because of how easy it was. The only challenge was taking on 5-8 enemies 2-3 lvls higher than you (that's why I loved early fight clubs)
@@TheFirstCurse1except when a bounty hunter faces you😂
@@wissgamer4818 No I killed them super easily too. But they also killed me super easily, so they were still pretty dangerous. It was always intimidating when more than 1 was after me.
They have on amour and are spartans it makes sense
interesting pick for the number 1 spot especially since you "criticised" black flag and rogue for it but AC III is doing exactly the same (one button counter 1 button kill which makes you easily op)
still it was an enjoyable video overall
The counter wasn't consistent. There were far too many that couldn't get countered in ac 3 .in black flag You just pressed 2 buttons X and ■ and you won
@@UzairAli-iy5jh that's fair but they are still very similar and the huge gap doesn't make amazing sense
Assassin's creed black flag and rouge combat was easy but extremely satisfying with beautiful animations
I just replayed the original Assassin’s Creed and I gotta say the combat was refreshing as fuck. Timing your hits perfectly is way more engaging than just button mashing or leveling up high enough to just wipe people out.
I agree most of the things you said but Valhalla's combat is better than Origins, more refined + posture mechanic + weak points + more enemy types + dual wield weapon + more difference between weapons
Glad to see that ac3 finally gets its due. Im so tired of people dismissing it as one of the worst in the series when in reality its actually top 3 imo
Absolutely. The diversity of the animations in battle are insane! Pick up a new weapon and you have at least 10 different kinds of kills with it.
@@Growmetheusbut the dagger animation
I feel like ac3 was only hated when it first came out because all the ezio toe suckers were mad to see another assassin besides ezio, but after time people actually realized just because it’s not an ezio game doesn’t mean it’s a bad game
It was that and the fact that generally they felt connor was a weak character with no development. And you played as haythem for too long. I feel you get to see Connor grow a lot, and realistically, he would have been naive and reckless during his first couple years. Hence why he was the strongest and most brutal of all the playable assassins. And playing as haythem is still one of the craziest surprises in video games to date.
Dear americans, take off that pink patriotic sunglasses and then you will see the correct place of that episode. You can love the story, thats ok. But look behind it, dont get blinded by the story. (Im talking about the remastered, never played the original, people say it was much better.)
I think ac 1 had a good combat with good animations and satisfying counter kill, although i feel like by the end of the game i had too much health so it was pretty much impossible to die and to make it worse health regenerates.
Templars where a little bit more challenging, if you ever decided (or were unable) to fight them instead of just killing them from behind with the hidden blade
Completely agree with your first choice! I felt the same way after replaying the gamer for the second time, it's just so brutal and efficient. And as you said, there was such variety in the animations depending on your weapon.
Unpopular opinion: assassins creed 1 had the best combat because the skill threshold was the highest and it felt the most realistic in my opinion
Just finished playing AC III. I really liked the combat but idk if it is worth the first spot, sometimes it's just too confusing on whether or not you should atack, parry or break the enemy's defense. Also, some weapons were really a let down gameplay wise, like daggers having the same animations as hatchets, not to mention that the arrows were too short ranged and everytime you'd aim at someone's head, the arrow would go really slowly into their torso, which was awfully ugly. Guns were kinda disapointing too, they didn't look powerful enough and some would sound like they had a silencer on. But overall AC III really has great combat mechanics, really deserving of top 3.
i just finished playing too! and yeah the combat is pretty good but definitely not perfect. it was pretty snappy tho which was very nice when you needed to change targets and block/parry
I agree with your statement but I wouldn’t say the combat was confusing imo. The trick is knowing the archetypes of enemies so you would know whether an enemy is more susceptible to counter kills or break defenses etc. That being said Ubisoft did a poor job at explaining this in game. It’s like trying to read a book with half the pages missing, so of course it can be confusing!
In short, I wouldn’t say the combat is confusing but the way Ubisoft explains the combat in-game is lackluster therefore being confusing
@@T_Holmes Agreed, if they at least had made the clues clearer I think it would be perfect. I gotta replay ACIII too, I think a second playthrough would be really helpful for a better understanding of the gameplay
@@pedrot.9418 for sure. It’s one of those combat systems that’s easy to pick up but hard to master with all of the intricacies like the double executions, tool executions, etc.
People like you is why they dumbed down the combat in 4... That game is like 3 but just even easier 😒 the enemies can't counter you anymore in that game
I love the combat system in Black Flag and Rogue. It makes you feel, like you are better then your opponent
But is Extreme easy,its just parry and slaughter everyone
On the other hand it’s not really the fun when there isn’t a challenge and you don’t feel pressure
@@tbtnr9851 True. But in an odd way, it encouraged me to use stealth all the time. As the combat was kind of a "you failed, now you have to do it the easy way".
@@ProfessorCat-lf1tm that’s true, being detected no matter what feels like a fail
I agree on most spots but for me personally Sindycate combat style is fantastic, i really liked it mostly due to being able to use a punch weapon and i love punching but the cane also was incredibly cool and stylish to use and the kukri was honestly the one i liked the least but i loved that too.
Anyway yeah great takes in my opinion, ac3 has the best power-fantasy combat possible in the ac games.
The animations look so cartoonish .
@@pitbullthedog668 Not to me, but still even if they look cartoonish they look good so i don't really care.
@@Atlan73 it just opinion in the end . But the fact a enemy can take like 6 kukuri slashes and still stand doesn’t sit right with me
@@pitbullthedog668it’s objectively cartoonish idk wtf bro talking about
Opinions are exactly that, opinions so I don’t want to judge your list too much. I am very confused though. I remember black flag and AC3 being basically the same combat system.
They are the same mechanically but the "feel" is just so much nicer in III. Not sure if it's something to do with the movement, animations, design, or sound, but I've always noticed the difference.
My favorite combat systems in this franchise are a toss up between AC: Brotherhood, AC: Revelations, and AC: Origins. All three had their unique charms and challenges. And I liked discovering them a lot. They were great. The rest I either like or just annoy me.
Seeing Odyssey or Valhalla in the bottom of the list always makes me happy
Me dont, i find both of them very nice despite the Rest and bloat but thats another topic
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In my opinion unity is the most janky and bugged combat system, almost every fight has bugged audio and it cuts out, the enemies are floaty and move in slow motion. I would put it in the 9th place or 8th
Unity had the best potential. If only its finishers were not buggy it would have been de facto best combat in AC series
Unfortunately many have “parkour animations” tinted glasses - which ironically look pretty floaty especially when hopping on platforms.
Because the game was not finished. A better story + one more year of developement could've transformed Unity into GOTY
I'm not sure if I agree on how harsh you were on AC: Syndicate, I think it definitely held your hand but I think all games have done that up to Syndicate, what I didn't like was actually the Skill Points that allowed you to one-shot all the enemies, You're required to get it to level up to 10 but it really ruined the combat. I liked the combat in Syndicate until I got those perks. (I actually replayed this over the weekend because of your videos)
Assassins creed valhalla is not meant to be played on the normal difficulty to experience the combat, i played it on hard and it made me think because of the stamina bar, when to attack and when to not
To be fair to Valhalla the disorientating finisher camera can be turned off in the menu
Hello! Great video so far, you are coming a long way, and one of my inspirations, keep up the great work!!!!
I agree with this a lot, if this were my list I would switch Unity and Brotherhood, but barring that I completely agree with where everything else was placed!
I feel like a health bar is not too bad. Games like DMC do it really good, they give you a health bar in the shape of the hard lock on, and it just helps you know how much health an enemy have.
One thing about AC2 combat is how unbelievably frustrating fighting the larger spear-wielding opponents is.
They frequently block your attacks, so you really can’t do damage by just attacking them. In addition, I could never get the timing of counter killing on them right.
So the only consistent method of beating them was by disarming them, which was only possible when they attacked, meaning that you have to wait for them to attack, which they would sometimes take an enragingly long period of time to do during an encounter.
I liked in AC1 the critical attacks when you hit the attack button as soon as you clash weapons or hit someone it caused an insta kill. It came back for 2 and I believe the Ezio games but they didn't feel as important as it was in the first game to take out enemies. In 2-4 I would try to get counter-kills but in 1 I was incentivized to attack and try to pull off these insta-kills to get rid of everyone faster.
Definitely!!!!! That and the amount of moves and responses you could perform, that is the best system for me
I know, its your own oppinion, but how can Black Flag be so low and AC 3 be 1st?
yeah lol, 3 and 4 have the exact combat, the only difference is ac3 weapon have much more variety and 4 only has dual swords
4 is 3 but dumbed down, now the enemies can't counter you and removed the tomahawk
@thehiddenone black flag had a weapon called "pistol swords" you can unlock that sword by completing all the assassination contracts. That was the most powerful sword in the game. All it takes was a 3 hit combo system 1st strike breaks the defence, 2nd initiates a combo and 3rd is the killing blow. The counter kills with that sword is even more deadly
So on the notes for unity, there is a way to flow consistently like in the old games. Using a smoke or flash bomb and consistently switching targets continues your usually limited chain. on top of this, if the enemies are under level compared to you, you can hold attack to immediately do a finisher instead, allowing that instakill chain to remain present. Idk if this affects your ranking, but those two things made combat let you get creative even when it wasn't the game's main focus. Hope this helps if you ever want to play it again!
I absolutely love your videos I watch them all the time and enjoy everything about them
Origin's combat wasnt bad but the extreme lack of finisher moves in favor of characters falling down dead makes it go at the bottom of my list.
Immediately liked when i saw you put AC Syndicate in last place. Hopefully if Ubisoft doesn't go bankrupt if Mirage isn't a failure i hope they will ether truly remake syndicate (and fix the annoying and boring protagonists) or just do another assassin's Creed in Victorian London.
Brotherhoods combat was pretty broken with the hidden blade lol. Which is why its fun though!
no way that black flag combat is better than odyssey
Syndicate is my favourite as I love the animations and the vibe it feels like there is actually a point to fight the blighters unlike the other games where sometimes you just fight random guards
I just don’t get why the berserker darts in Unity are contagious, it makes them insanely overpowered 😂
i want a game with 3’s combat, unitys parkour and origins stealth engine and enemy ai shit would be absolutely bonkers
In my opinion syndicate's stealth engine would be better
Origins war elephants were one of my favourite parts of the game
Hidden one you hide in plain sight and it kind of reminded me of the voices in my house hiding from me when i go to investigate
i hate those voices
Love your videos, some day u gonna be more famus💯
I do agree AC 3 in the series has the most smoothes and visually appealing combat system in the AC franchise. You feel like a fast hard hittjng tank in that game
Disarm and hand to hand combat needs to be in every AC. III was almost perfect for me, just need that crouching sneaking vibe.
AC 1- Revelations, almost same combat system with minor differences in Brotherhood and Revelations
AC 3 - Rogue, literally same system
Unity - Unique
Syndicate - Unique
Origins - Mirage, same with specific mechanics in each game...
So is pretty dumb putting like Valhalla so low while putting Origins so high.. the combat is samething, you may like the unique features it has compared to Valhalla, like the lack of abilities.
Balancing and gear makes a huge difference dude. Is not all the same.
Seeing the combat system in origins have the attention it deserve in the rpg games make me happy
I like the combats of origins wonder how they change it into fantasy bs in odyssey 😭
I know right
Origins has fantasy elements too, and Odyssey's abilities are what made the combat so much fun. It's a total improvement over Origins' combat.
@@TheFirstCurse1 oft someone was on the devils grass when playing shityssey
@@TheFirstCurse1 Nope, origins combat was way better and more challenging. In odyssey you just spamm dodge or block and win against EVERYTHING, and if you get damage you can just heal. Also you didnt have a shield so that sucks too. And i origins there were abilities.
I Liked as soon as you put BF towards the bottom. That game's combat receives more praise than it deserves.
I like Origins, but for me what's makes good combat in an AC game is the complexity or choice - in AC2 you could disarm, be disarmed, counter, parry and sidestep, grab and throw in any direction. Origins was a fun difference with it's hack 'n slash style, but that's about it. I really did like the bows and they were viable to pull out mid battle. Good fun.
8:00 Personally I liked the AC3/ACL/AC4/AC FC/ACRo combat system because it was so easy and the combos looked so cool. Flowing from one enemy to the other was so easy.
I like how Ubisoft added Vlad Tepes' sword to Revelations since Vlad Tepes was a cruel Romanian ruler and the actions in Revelations are in the same period as Vlad Tepes's actions in Romania (🇷🇴) here he was putting spikes in the people who were rich and were mogging and laughing about the poor ones, piercing the spike through their bodies, from their butt all the way up to their head
If only they took the combat system from ac 3 and the parkour variation from unity and made the game with that it’d be a better game honestly but I don’t think it’s too bad of a game I just think we’re gonna have to hope for a better ac game next time around
I know it's a hot take but to me Origins has the weakest combat of the RPG trilogy. Parrying just doesn't feel as good and you don't have ways around overleveld enemies like Odyssey and Valhalla's systems have.
I agree, Origins just felt boring, all I did was attack, dodge and wait to have enough energy to press shift+f.
Valhalla is the best of the RPG for me.
Yeah, hot take, where most people including me disagree
My first AC game was AC3 and I expected the fight to be better in next gen games and all of this new ones disappointed me.I have origins with me now but I dont even play it cus its not that addictive or something
Thank you for saying that about Odyssey. This video was well done and raised great points. Not mad at it. Origin’s definitely was one of my favorite of the recent games. But the biggest W was putting AC3 up there! I know people at that game but AC3 had GREAT Combat if not the best for one of the original OG AC games. To say otherwise is just pure hate. Connor was one of the most brutal assassins and takes out whole red coat camps.
For me it’s between Origins, Unity, and Ezio trilogy. If I had to pick just one though, probably Unity since it feels uniquely AC, but also smooth and still challenging. Otherwise it would be Origins because I love Witcher, and I love how brutal Bayek is. Ezio is probably mostly there from nostalgia because while I liked AC1, 2 was where I became a fan.
I completely agree with the top 4 of this list. These are my favorite games in terms of fighting as well. Also, you say that the only criticism AC Unity got was the buggy launch. Is really nobody talking about the fact that every character in the English version has a heavy "Bri'ish" accent and they put no effort in giving any of the characters a French accent making every dialogue/interaction feel very off in a French revolution setting?
I just go for FRENCH language spoken and english subtitles in Unity, immersion fixed 100% 👌
Totally agree about Syndicate being last. The combat felt tedious. Hence I always stuck to playing with Evie , as the stealth is awesome in Syndicate
Tbh I've found that Syndicate's combat gets way more fun when you use just the gun and treat it like a 3rd person shooter
that's interesting perspective. I just hate Syndycate's combat system and I always avoid it as much as I can (meaning - i'm trying to do it only by stealth and sometimes by shooting). I will try use more shooting and no hand to hand combat next time. Thanks for your idea
Out of the ac games i played1,2, black flag, rogue, syndicate. I love the combat in ac1 and 2 the most, taunting is funny, the different techniques like the grab counter requiered you to time them correctly.
The Kenway saga had the most overpowered fight
Ezio had the most balance
Altaïr the most drafty
RPG the most unrealistic like
Unity the most victim protagonist ever
And I would say surprisingly syndicate had the most cartoonish but fast if you are maxed out. But only if you are maxed out.
Anyway my favorite is the Kenway saga because I love being capable of cleaning a man-o-war bear fist alone.
With Odysseyi thought once u fully repaired the spear it would become a hidden blade obvs it didnt but I honestly didnt care too much I really enjoyed the stealth of the game rest I fully agree with.
In ac Valhalla I have become unstoppable from 100+ hours of grinding and now I have this badass version of eivor
Honestly? For me it's origins every time. It's built primarily around combat. and I like the weapon variety, perks and weight. You feel like you're swinging the weapons.
Also the entire point of odyssey and origins is it's building the history of the assassins. It's a backstory, an ORIGIN point. Listening to an AC fan is like punching myself.
personally, Odyssey is in a grey area, but Origin is an assassins creed game, but take down the stealth
Dude we know that, the problem is that is a STUPID ASS origin story.
@@CYB3R2K how is it? Explain to me how the story is bad, I Wana hear your side.
Considering your video upload rate, we can hope to get worst to best eagle vision soon?
I think that revelations is over brotherhood only because of the janissaries, they were a challenge compared to the rest of enemies, but i agree that 3 is number 1 and unity number 2
I know a lot of you probably aren't British but the knife and canes knuckle dusters are also weapons used back then. yes you may not be stabbing the enemy your slashing them
dude i remember when i was like in my early teens, i got my first ps3, it had ac revelations in it, i had no idea what that game is, and when i played it i got hooked, i stopped playing cuz of the janissaries, i got so frustrated i destroyed my controller from all the banging on the table and the walls i did.
i actually really loved Syndicate's combat, i liked how you had to combo to kill. made it more interesting in my opinion. but then again Syndicate is my fave AC game so i'm biased lol.
also i absolutely agree with you on that thing in the Unity part, i HATED the snipers they were so annoying. they had the eyes of Legolas i swear and were just as annoying as that one enemy that always blocked, i think it was the enemy at 28:24. legit hated that guy like:
me: 'oh i'll just parry them'
enemy: spams attack and doesn't let me parry
me: 'ok i'll shoulder bash them to open up their defence'
enemy: DODGES IT
me: ):
Odyssey is my first AC game and I'm loving it. So I can't wait to see what else is out there.
It's my favorite RPG but my favorite game is Valhalla I hope you enjoy these games
Also don't listen to the community Assassin's creed Odyssey and Valhalla are assassin's creed games as Odyssey expanded the ISU lore and Valhalla also expanded the ISU and gave us the birth of the templars I won't say anything else as it's a huge spoiler
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@@CYB3R2K care to explain why then because your logic is vague and just not good
Also proving my point lol
Beating people with Mjolnir in Valhalla was really satisfying. Such a mindless brawl style combat, it was stupid and fun at once. Probably the best thing about that game, even though I do like that game, but it tries so hard to not be.
I love syndicate combat mainly I played sleeping dogs before and is similar I picked it up fast and also is a really fun and test of your reaction time
oh man sleeping dogs had a great combat system
I agree with most things especially origins. It's amazing but people hate it since it's rpg. It is perfectly balanced between being a warrior and being challenging, fun animations, wide range of weapons, good music and reasonable boss fights.
However I heavily disagree with unity. I can appreciate the ideas but literally everything was poorly implemented even after the bug fixes, they should have kept it in development for longer. It's still very glitchy, he has the slowest sword swing in the series and is slower than real life, parrying does nothing, enimies have infinite stamina, they recover impossibly fast and break your block easily while you can't do the same, waaaaay too many guards so you get swarmed, over reliance on smoke bombs, no free aim in combat, BS systems galore such as people dodging every quickshot no matter what and it's not even close to being realistic like many people think it is. He does very wide swings and reaching for more hits, he leaves himself wide open, does stupid spinning attacks and the animations were often choppy and wouldn't even hit them. It's easily the worst combat in the franchise, it's not even a fun challenge like origins it's just a pain.
I know many people think brotherhood was easy with the chain kills and takes away from the game, but ezio trained for this. Hes in his prime in this game. Revelations helped alot with the hook blade. I wont say its perfect but... It was perfect lol
Watched your stealth ranked video and agreed but the fact that the RPG games aren’t the top three in combat is crazy. Outside of AC1 and maybe Unity combat in AC games has always been waiting for the exclamation point or and pressing B to counter and X to kill. In the old games I would face loads of enemies and just sit and spam those two buttons and it was so boring and dull. Maybe you would have defense breaking or pulling enemies in front of gunfire but it was all so basic and bland. So to say that those combat systems were better than the RPG ones is insane
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Fair enough. Here's my list then, worst to best.
Unity - sorry I can't agree with you on this one, just like everything else in the game, the combat too was janky, unimpactful and boring
AC1 - Very simple combat, relying a lot on parries, gets pretty boring after a while
Syndicate - Sure it has a few weapon type, same as AC1, but the combat is more fluid.
Black Flag/Rogue - Very easy combat, that's not necessarily bad, but the audio desyncing just ruins the whole feel for it. Having 4 pistols is cool tho
Origins - The new combat style felt very weird at first, being used to the locked on combat for years. But after you get used to it it's pretty neat. However after a while it will become boring seeing the same finishers and moves for all game.
AC2 - A lot like AC1, but adds a lot of variety with the weapons you can use.
Odyssey - Pretty good combat overall, with many variety, and your abilities add a ton more variety. Hard to feel bored in this game. Especially the later added saved gear setups, you can switch around a lot. As you said it during your BF/rogue segment: if you feel the enemies are damage sponges, that's skill issue. Get better gear.
AC3 - Good variety of weapons, the impact of the moves feels good, the double finishers are cool. Connor's aggressive moves feel very good.
Brotherhood/Revelation - Sure it's not hard, but a combat system doesn't need to be hard to be enjoyed. Ezio is in his prime in BH, and it shows. What he has over Connor is style. His moves are just a joy to watch. I paired these two up because they are almost the same, however I'd say BH is better because it is Ezio in his prime. And I didn't like the slowmo finishers in Rev.
No opinion on Valhalla at this time, since I got bored of the game after playing for like 3 hours. I guess it's at the level of Origins.
Syndicates combat overall was so weird. You play as a trained killer, so I would expect you to be able to kill a regular enemy in 2 or three hits once you break their defense. Having these long combo streaks felt really weird. Additionally, while they did look great overall, you could hardly appreciate that, because all the animations were way too fast. However, fighting in the arena felt incredibly good as fast as far as I remember.
i liked all of them except syndicate i liked odyssy even considering how tanky the enemies are and i like the ability in black flag to chain 80 kills together and ac1 cause it felt like a duel
I think your ranking of odyssey is a bit clouded. The combat in odyssey and origins can be pretty much the same. Origins already had poisonous/flaming weapons. The main difference is in origins I've read there are technically no unparryable attacks, but they were difficult to pull of. I think a fair ranking would place the combat in odyssey near the combat in origins, since it is so similar but with extra features you don't have to spec into. If you play a stealth/ranged ability only, you'll barely notice the difference in their combat. Story and justifications for the combat system shouldn't be taken into account unless youre reviewing the game as a whole.
Is it a coincidence that the top 3 in this list are games that changed the series and took a huge risk bringing something new and fresh to the list and being in development quite a while?
Darius was there during the time of odyssey the way he got the blade is because he is one of elder blood for assassin's creed lore so the blade was existent at the time i mean its known ac 2 js. From his statue . I do agree on the combat though just like how bad mirage and odyssey and syndicate seem the same
I remember just killing guards for hours and hourd and not getting bored at all in ac3
Assassin's Creed Black Flag had the EASIEST combat out of all the other games
The one combat system from this franchise I despise the most was from AC: 1. I didn't like how my enemies seemed stronger than me and in order to survive the worse battles I have to run around the battlefield until my health regenerated. I was annoying and tedious. But TBH I only played that game once.
Diablos skills is crazier than Valhalla skills
"In the previous games, you could only parry with a sword, which gave you much more control of Bayek."
*Shows footage of the very next game*
Black flag and 3 were the best. So simple but so fun
I always stood still and just used counter attacking in AC1. Anyone else unintentionally counter attacked al Mualim with the hidden blade and killed him straight away?
Did not expect my top 3 to completely match yours. Although AC Valhalla's combat was so bad to me. I wouldn't have put it over oddysey or black flag.
I always see being too strong as a flaw. Dark souls ruined me. I can't be OP till I earn it and even then I want my enemy to be just as OP
Puttin AC3 at number one im not mad at at all👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
When i think of Parkour i think of Unity and when i think of Combat i think of 3
i first thought that AC Unity combat system was bad because only AC game i have played is Black Flag but now i think i like it
Brotherhood hands down. I would spend hours in the training mode setting kill chain records
I definitely agree that 4s weapons all felt exactly the same
Assasins Creed 2, Assasins 3 and AC Valhalla have THE MOST FUN combat in all of the Games
from what i remember about the swords in Ac BF the diference what that some made more atack animations before killing an anemy
So where is the Hidden one from I mean I see he has subtitles in vids but dudes English is really on point