"assassin's creed used to be so good," and other statements from the clinically deranged
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- sorry that this project took forever. I will never be playing an assassins creed game ever again after this project, probably. it made me like the series a lot more, but holy shit i never want to touch it ever again.
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vidiq autogenerated these descriptions, and they're so hilarious i'm including all of them:
Get ready to dive into the world of Assassin's Creed! In this video, we explore the incredible parkour mechanics of the game series that Ubisoft failed to teach us. From running up walls to utilizing jump ejects, the parkour system adds a whole new level of depth and fun to the gameplay. Join us as we uncover the hidden techniques that will make you a master assassin. Don't forget to subscribe for more gaming content!
Embark on an epic adventure through the Assassin's Creed series, where parkour is the real star of the show. Discover the secrets of Altier's (sic) incredible wall-running abilities and the exhilarating jump ejects that Ubisoft forgot to teach us. From Damascus to Black Flag, we'll show you how to master the art of parkour and make your Assassin's Creed experience truly unforgettable. Don't miss out on this exciting journey - hit that subscribe button now!
Assassin's Creed fans, get ready for a mind-blowing revelation! Join us as we delve into the hidden depths of the parkour mechanics in the series. From the awe-inspiring wall runs to the game-changing jump ejects, we uncover the techniques that Ubisoft failed to teach us. Prepare to experience Assassin's Creed like never before as we unlock the secrets of the parkour system. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more gaming insights and tutorials! - Hry
I fucking spit my water out at 1:16 when you said “drag like queens” top tier line
For the record, I like oatmeal and don't like Ubisoft games, so. Ubisoft must be the game design equivalent of something worse than oatmeal.
I think it's very telling that I can literally hear Woodkid performing in my head whenever I see any shot from the Revelations trailer but don't even remember the trailers for anything after AC3
I remember trailers up to unity
I remember ac4 tbh
Unsure if you already know or not, but in Origins it went into the ring finger thing. Bayek accidentally cut off his ring finger in a fight and that led to the tradition of the self-sacrifice. I think in AC2 when they brand Ezio's finger that's their way of carrying on the tradition without brutalizing themselves. Fantastic video btw.
i didn't! thank you for bringing it up and confirming for me that they couldn't bother making a reason half decent!
it's insane that it took them until origins to address this lmfao
Problem with that is that contradicts all earlier AC games.
The hidden blade did require a sacrifice to function. Removal of a finger wasn't a tradition but was how the blade worked.
It wasn't until centuries later that Altair modified the blade so it can be used without losing a finger.
It only became a tradition after that.
So Origins has it completely wrong. AC writers no longer cafe about the lore and you bought into their retcon.
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Maybe it’s because I only watched the live action movie that one time, but I’ve believed that Abstergo and the Templars were basically the same organization and that the story was using the Knight’s Templar as bankers to draw a through line between them and modern corrupt corporation. And this really helps with binding the modern day plot together with what you’re doing during the actual game.
Too bad the only thing they ever actually do is fight over the magic control everyone devices and no matter the result no one sees that specific macguffin again. To all stories that go the Illuminati angle - please, make it obvious that the current state of the world came out of some of the plans of the secret society partially working.
I can’t believe I need to say that.
Perfectly articulated why Assassin's Creed is so frustrating to me, it feels like a whole heap of wasted potential. Got the Ubisoft problem where every game is full of "ideas" and "mechanics" that are never fully developed, and the whole sci fi angle the series took is just infuriating in how poorly it's utilized. There is not enough historical action/adventure games, and I feel this franchise sucked up all the oxygen for any studio trying to make one, though this may change with how poorly Ubisoft is doing these days. Imagine if we got a game about the actual Hashshashin, in my head it would play a lot more like Hitman than whatever AC is supposed to be, but at this point it's just wishful thinking.
I wonder what could happen if assassin's creed had a competitor. There are lots of other stealth action open world games but there's noone really trying to pick up the pieces of the ideas that AC establishes and fails to live up to. Nobody is trying to make AC style parkour that I'm aware except arguably mirror's edge, and the three-dimensional city-oriented stealth gameplay created by AC style parkour is something nobody else at all is trying.
God damn, somebody should teach me to program, give me a billion dollars and a studio, and buy me the AC IP. The fact that this hasn't happened is the greatest injustice capitalism has ever wrought.
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@@cassius_scrungoman If I ever learn how to program and get a billion dollars and a studio and the AC IP, I promise I will hire both you and whitelight.
the saboteur is pretty much AC set in WWII france.
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I'm almost done with AC Brotherhood, I think its the best "complete package" in all series.
ACII feels unfinished before it. Even if both 2 and Brohood have lot of heart put into them honestly.
But I agree with rest of your video. Those AC Lore of real life figure readings had me wheezing too 22:24
7. Great video. The reading of the wiki actually made me laugh out loud. And, yeah. It’s a shame the games lost the focus it had on parkour and traversal to instead be more about combat and… grinding levels.
the fact that Buzz Aldrin is still alive in October 2023 makes him being in this series feel even weirder
this video is exceptionally funny to me, in that you mentioned Syndicate 0 times
The only Ubisoft open world (tm) that doesn't have two Kojima cutscenes as an intro, to my knowledge is Ghost Recon Wildlands. If you skip the cutscene you're just plopped into the starting region with three other dudes and two pickups, and have the first miniboss questline highlighted-- completely, optional, you can go for other targets. Naturally, in their infinite wisdom, Ubisoft brought back the long intro cutscenes for the sequel, Breakpoint.
Great vid btw. I should replay AC1.
The parkour, the environments and the assassin fantasy are why I keep returning to the originals. A big reason simply being just how much the traversal and parkour engages my brain (for a lack of a better phrase). Playing the games my eyes dart all around the screen looking for routes to take, ways to wall run and side eject my way to the fastest way up.
And I also play with the mini-map disabled, so I need to be up on the rooftops to be able to tell where I'm going.
I also play with the home-brew rule of avoiding unnecessary killing, meaning that the parkour gets to shine more and I have to once again use my environment to reorient myself after fleeing in whichever way was most convenient. Incidentally the no unnecessary killing forces me to do any combat as fast and efficiently as possible to avoid enemy backup showing up.
On the games factions having unclear ideologies I have to disagree with, as funny as representing them as each factions respective EULA was.
But the ideological conflict has clearly been "peace by absolute freedom" vs "peace by a strong guiding hand", "humans can achieve piece" vs "peace must be forced upon humans".
Anarchism vs Totalitarianism.
The phrase "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" is also more than just edgy pseudo intellectualism (though with it originating from Nietzsche allegedly quoting Hasan-i Sabbah it can easily fall the in the wrong hands).
At least I parse it as "Truth is only relative to our perception, often belief is the only limiting factor".
Funnily enough part of Edward's character arc had him take the creed as a free pass to do as he wishes and later taking it more as a springboard for wisdom.
A very similar line to the creed is that of "A wise man knows that he knows nothing" or "True wisdom is knowing what you don't know" attributed to Confucius.
That said, even as a big stinking AC nerd I can understand why the ideological conflict might have been lost on many.
One aspect I loved about the first game was how much philosophy it had in the limelight, which is why AC2 disappointed me with how much less complex its villains were. Some almost feeling like you could expect to see them twirl their mustache. Perhaps better for a grand audience captivating revenge plot, but less so for a plot about conflicting ideologies.
AC3 tried to correct that course and present more nuanced antagonists, which was one of my favorite parts of that game and Haytham is a fan favorite antagonist for a reason.
Laureano Torres from AC4 was also a fantastic antagonist for how much mutual respect there was between him and Edward in the end scene.
Now in regards to the past parkour systems of the games I don't think that a system similar to the once in Unity/Syndicate would make for the perfect system.
The flashiness of that system was one of the reasons why it was so clunky and if we want the same amount of moves we're gonna get a lot of the same problems.
But another reason I wouldn't want a similar system is that I really loved in AC1 all the way to AC: Rogue how the player character and all the NPC's had the same physics system for moving around. Not just because it made the player feel more grounded to the world, but also due to how it allowed the player to physically interact with all the NPC's.
Whereas in Unity NPC's felt like almost a completely visual element. Sure they might have had more animations, but you couldn't shove anyone gently or less gently.
And not just that, but also in the parkour the player often didn't feel like a physical entity in the game, probably because the system was now so animations based that the player character had no consistency to their moves anymore. The game would blatantly drag the player through the air to get the across jumps they shouldn't be able to perform.
I'll disagree with you on the Kenway/America's-saga parkour engine being the weakest. It had perfectly fluid and weighty looking animations/physics and it even had completely manual side ejects (albeit with a much shorter window than the Altaïr/Ezio engine when wall running).
However its greatest downfall was making sprinting and climbing share one button. It would've been incredible to use had sprint been on high profile and climbing been high profile plus "jump". Because the single button solution caused a lot of unwanted climbing.
The second downfall of the second iteration of the parkour engine was the cities. Havana being the only city perfectly suited for parkour, with its shorter buildings and narrower streets, similar to the cities of AC1.
I'm skeptical over that we'll ever see an AC game that lives up to the series potential with how blindly profit-driven Ubisoft can be and with Ubisoft's bad habit of gutting mechanics that don't see an immediate success (often due to the poor tutorialization addressed by the video).
My optimism lies in the hope that one day a smaller studio tries to replicate the mechanics from the first games and fully utilize them. Said optimism compounded by having played AC: Bloodlines on an emulator and realizing just how little would actually be needed to deliver a solid AC-like game.
P.S. AC2 funnily enough had a tutorial for side ejects, but it was optional side content redeemable from the Uplay rewards page as the "Auditore Family Crypt".
IIRC the last Assassin crypt in Venice also had a mandatory side eject, can't remember if it told the player how to perform it though. It even needed to be performed under time-pressure.
By the way, "Marionette system" is now literally the lost technology of the First Civilization, because Ubisoft has no developers who could make it left.
And plot suffered because original writers weren't given creative freedom they needed and then even completely removed from the development only to be replaced by people who learned the story from Wikipedia
The "nothing is true, everything is permitted" quote is actually from Vladimir Bartol's 1938 novel 'Alamut,' which is what the plot of AC1 is loosely based off of.
"A funny, larger than life Italian man is pretty much peak masculinity to a 14 year old."
Wario?
Edit: I paused the video, wrote this comment, and then the next line was about mario lmao
There’s also a hidden parkour trick in older games: hold A+B after jumping off a ledge and you’ll land on a person and take no fall damage
Your CZcams channel being deleted was part of a Templar plot, as revealed in Assassin's Creed: The Network.
You were already making great points, but the Just Cause 3 aside was so good I had to pause the video on my TV, find my phone, write this out, and subscribe.
I don't think I've ever encountered anyone else that correctly assesses the "3 steps forward 2 steps back"-ness of that game
I didn't really understand this point as I never really got this feeling when playing the third (although maybe that has something to do with me playing it before I played the second JC) and generally when I think of the 2 games JC3 seems better in almost every way
If there's one thing that Ubisoft absolutely loves, it's making systems simpler and more convenient until they're no longer interesting.
And more Ubisoft-bashing on the discord, you say? I just found the channel and that's a tempting offer.
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Binge watching these at work
I’ll be real I play assassins creed just for the gameplay loop, sometimes the story, but only if it’s as good as AC2 or ACO.
I happen to like the gameplay loop of ALL of the AC eras so I’m good.
18:54 This part got me
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So when you were talking about the templars tenants at 19:17... I got an ad for the police. 💀💀
A little on the nose there CZcams ads.
I completely agree with the plot and story. It's so weird to me why Ubisoft made the modern plot without doing anything with it. It's clear to everyone and them that the historical part of the game is far more engaging and fun. Yet they just keep coming back to the mordern plot. It honestly feels like they only included it because they thought it was cool way to explain why we are in the past. Which it is but they don't do anything with.
But I do disagree with the gameplay part. I don't think it is bad that the gameplay is simple. I think it is fine that way.
It was kinda a cool twist in the first game
@@slasher7991 I definitely is. I just wish they did more with it.
Fun Fact: Assasins Creed Rogue was the first game I ever beat, and IIRC I actually 100% it! I really liked my puckle guns, but im not gonna lie and say you arents pretty much right about everything in this video. Also, as someone who has played a bit of the newer games, they are rather different than the previous games. For example, stealth attacks having a damage number, and not being insta kills on high level tough enemies, which ive always felt conflicted as hell about!
Haven't gone through the video yet, but had a thought two minutes in:
-The pacing problem you're describing can probably be chalked up to a mixture of making the game's open world freedom feel earned, and allowing for the development that a lot of great slow-burn stories begin with. Note that I'm not implying that this works, just that this is most likely the intent. (It could also be the simple "this already worked so let's do this again" and/or the secret desire that all triple a studios have to make movies)
i bet a lot of people said it but there is a catch legde in unity, its was just discovered and mainstreamed around 8 years after the game's release
the ring finger thing was stupid to begin with
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Love myself a tf2 reference in my assassins creed video essay
I really hope the avatar game will be good, but i don't really have much faith in Ubisoft
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I love ac, they are so such fun game s
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good points and now I'm looking back on my 14 year old self and cringing. subscribbled.
you might like mirage combat then. I personally miss the old ezio combat...it was fun and cool.
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that is not a comparison I have heard before
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