ASSASSINS CREED UNITY has Become OVERHYPED
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Assassins Creed Unity is a really solid entry in the franchise. When it was released it hampered by it's abysmal technical state. Over the years people have gone back to this game and praise it constantly. Is it worthy of that praise or are people over hyping it?
You said it. AC Unity is not a bad game, but neither is it good and it has kind of become overrated in the last years because of nostalgia and the overall resentment to Ubisoft as a company and AC as a franchise.
Idk when its definitely the worst story and glitch wise the gameplay was really good in my opinion. Exploring was a lot of fun and the missions were fun asf
Nah mate, ur just black
People act like unity has no bugs just because it’s not as bad as launch, it’s still very buggy
Assassins creed Valhalla’s stealth detection system and AI is just as buggy if not more than people claim unity to be, but nobody seems to wanna make that comparison.
@@Noir-c9k I wouldn’t know I haven’t played Valhalla
@@Noir-c9kbut no body is praising Valhalla as the best game in the series either, lmao
It's not for me i haven't seen any bug for three years of playing the game
@@byrdguy001 I’ve actually seen a ton of people praising it as the best in the series lol.
"Acu has became overhyped" with that I entirely agree. If back then it was overhated, now it's way too overhyped. Been seing comments say that "objectively" Acu has the best parkour system and to that I just DO NOT AGREE AT ALL. I can even say that Ac3 to Rogue has better parkour simply because it's more consistent, and offers more freedom of movement. Sometimes animations jusr ain't everything. 😑
I can almost say the same for combat and enemy detection. Combat is inconsistent, lacks depth, and of course the almost unavoidable gunshots. Enemy Detection in stealth is kind of like Valhalla where they can somehow see you through walls from time to time.
Overall all I can say is that Acu IS NOT PERFECT. It's definitely not the "definitive" Ac game and it's almost hard to choose one because Ubisoft is afraid of its own potential.
Fr, I totally agree. I love playing Unity, but I cannot ignore its many problems. But there are many people who just ignore everything bad and say it's good based on its potential rather than what it is
from what i experienced the combat is pretty decent and smooth, and you can avoid the gunshots, the parkour is quite good and the stealth aswell but its just that taking cover and getting out of cover is really weird but using ''ACUfixes'' it helps a bit with that
@@stormtastic7083 Combat being decent... Okay I'm fine with that, but it being smooth? Uhh from my experience and every vid of it on yt, it ain't smooth. Parkour is carried by exaggerated animations is all I can say.
Edit: Oh and on stealth my only nitpick is that Arno feels heavy which is important for him to follow my orders but since you have to wait for Arno to move cause of heavy animations it kind of sucks when you fail a mission because of it. And for the cover system, rip to those who don't have acu fixes but even with that it can still fuck you up if Arno somehow goes in the wall while in cover at least in my experience.
@@Kaino-wo3vc the animations definetly are smooth and imo it plays pretty well, but i do agree with arno feeling a bit heavy
when was the last time you played unity and when was the last time you played ac3/4 or rouge?
The older games parkour systems weren't nearly as janky as Unity's, there is just not a lot of tutorial help given in the first 4 games that tell you the ins and the outs of it. There are a lot of secret mechanics.
Not really it may be different animation but it literally says hold the button to parkour up or down u can press this button for like a spring jump unity ain't perfect by far but it is as close to an assassin Creed game as it gets
I dont get how people say unity has the best movment it dosent, arno feels and looks like he levitates towards objects its really immersion breaking i honestly cant take it seriously when the dude is literally floating towards shit
Its true and many of the animations don't look cool, they look silly
Are you holding parkour up the entire time
@@MioKnight4k quite sure he's talking about floaty animations and they can't be altered with button inpur
@@WideOldDan Well, sometimes people will hold parkour up rather than only sprinting, which can lead to the floaty animations being more common. Not saying the animations aren't floaty, just that button discipline can make them less common
So which game has better movement?
In the first couple years after launch some AC fans, including myself, championed Unity for being a good game with some pretty heavy flaws, but as time has gone on people have started to treat this game like it was the peak of the franchise, I've kind of soured on it.
I still think it's good, but i find the discussion around this game frustrating since people have become blinded by nostalgia and parkour clips.
The parkour is pretty to look at, but the input delay makes it feel sluggish. The story is boring, Arno is a bland protagonist, the romance doesn't work, and while the game runs better than it used to, it still has some pretty bad technical issues.
Im glad people have come to appreciate the game, but it isn't, and has never been, the peak of the franchise. It is, more than any other game in the franchise, an example of wasted potential.
Something that always bugged me about assassin’s creed was that the combat in any game was never as good as it was in Prince of Persia Warrior Within. I don’t know why they ditched that combat. They could have just adapted the animations to be more realistic.
Stealth was never nearly as good as splinter cell
It is a good game, a good AC game but not the best AC game ... and yes, parkour is "only good" nothing more than that. Infact, Syndicate is better than unity in terms of gameplay
Not really overrated though, most people praise the graphics and in all truth it does definitely still look great. I am more surprised by how good Syndicate looks, I think that's the actual underrated game in the series!
Unity parkour sucks ass. You literally can’t control Arno
Arno feels heavy for sure.
U suck
That's the thing, people like Unity but they can't say that it is good. They don't know the difference between liking a game and saying the game is good. So when people start talking about how Unity's parkour was the "best" and how Unity was one of the last true AC games, it gives off a wrong message that convinces people they like Unity because it is good
The upgraded version of AC Unity is the perfect AC game (which we never got of course cus it's ubisoft) not Unity itself
"Parkour falls into some of the pitfalls that previous games did"
Nope. It falls into some of the pitfalls that the following games did. AC parkour has only gotten worse over time. More automation, less freedom, Fewer moves, less opertunity to use.
It's just the next lesser version of a once great movement system
I have to disagree. Parkour has never been perfect imo. While it did get progressively worse as the series continued, there were always issues with your character jumping in a direction you didn’t intend or not being able to climb in a direction they seemingly should. With Unity they sacrificed finer controlled parkour for smoothness which in some cases is better and other cases is worse. It really comes down to how you are interacting with the level design moment to moment. Fluid motion as im running across the open world id prefer Unity. Carefully scaling a building for specific missions trying to be stealthy I’d go classic parkour.
Sorry for the long reply! Preciate the comment!!! It made me think!
@@solidvick nothing's perfect.
In 9/10 cases the character not doing want we want is due to our input being off in classic.
Unity feels less smooth because of input delay and drawn-out animations.
Classic feels smoother and faster, to me, and climbing isn't something that's needed much in classic, it's more often the slower way to get higher and always more boring than ejects and such.
14:33 that is something I find people constantly forget, they have been light RPG elements in basically all ac games starting in two maybe brotherhood. Everyone seems to think it started in unity. Also, I still have to play the Ezio collection.
I said it too, RPG were implemented from AC 2 tho way lighter and unnoticeable in recent games but unity still took it further and in our faces and I did not like that and it wasn't even outright polished like the games after that
AC Unity feels janky, if that's the right term. My character flying around, sometimes animations during combat don't play out, it's a bit weird. Combat is unnaturally slow. Characters literally gender and clothes swapping right around me LMAO, idk how they messed up the crowds. They could've just reduced the sizes of the crowds a bit... BUUUUUT everything else is good. I definitely do enjoy it but it feels like a very standard story. I was actually playing it yesterday.
I think its great but to bloated with pointless crap on the map and co op crap. I was upset when it ended so early and i had nothing else to do. Such a good game with great characters and they ruin it.ubisoft should have put more dev time into the single player not co op and bloated crap
I agree completely, as I've said in my own gameplay videos, Unity used to be Underatted, but the community changed their minds too fast when they did, and the phrase I used is that it stopped being an opinion and started being a trend
this game is still buggy and still feels an unfinished game, but I think being overhyped is not a bad thing for this game, even though the original game isn't so different but people know this game have a lot of potential. that's why there is so many mods out there to improve the experience of this game. some improve the visual, some improve the physics, and one of the best mod so far is ACUfixes. this mod is fixed soo many problem the original game have often times, and I can say this makes the game waaaay better for sure.
Rouge should of released first then maybe a year or however long needed to polish UC they should of released UC and not on the same day as Rouge. It could of been a good game from the start and possibly more scenes and missions on the important characters. I didn't care for the love story as such and wanted Arno to care more about who killed his father and who killed his adopted father first then have the love story as a sub plot possibly. More interactions could of made me care for her death maybe?
I think that would have been better for both games. I liked rogue (plan on making a vid on at some point) but it’s a bit short. I think making it the main entry for a year and then Unity like you mentioned would have been great!
I recently started playing it again. It hold up well. Main problem is the co-op literally just doesn’t work. The servers are still up, I’ve disconnected my Ubisoft account. Still nothing. Im on PC if anyone knows how to get it up and running. My buddies and I would like to play together again.
Totally! I actually really like the co op missions I just wish there was either more of an active community playing it or they scaled difficulty based on how many people are in the mission together.
@@solidvick it just doesn’t work for me, my friends can’t join in and I can’t join them. Something’s broken with it and it’s so old at this point I doubt they’ll spend the effort and money to fix it.
I’ll still stand by the fact that unity is the worse game in the series but is overhyped because you can tell if handled differently and given more time could have been one of the best. People love the idea of unity not it’s reality
I played Unity for the first time this year, and although its beautiful and it is a good game, it was probably one of my least favorite AC experiences. In my opinion, Syndicate was a better game than Unity
Syndicate indeed was. It was always fun to play, however it lacked a good villain.
Finally someone who understands the game and not just praising it for its parkour the game really have some broken things as you said the story is boring it's all about the dumb Elise and the simp arno not like ac2 or ac3 and what actually made care about the Templars in ac2 isn't just that they killed or helped killing ezio's father but the briefing videos where Shaun talks about them and tells the story of them I really liked those it made me know who am I dealing with and sad It wasn't made in any other ac game
Now let's get back to ac unity while it has a good parkour animations but like you said it doesn't really work most of the time the ai can't tell what you want and the kenway games had a very good animations just like unity especially black flag and i think the parkour in that game is the best because it combined the pretty animations and the freedom of the older games now about the combat I think it's pretty good it not the perfect but it's by far the best for me it is challenging and fun not so easy like the kenway games and not so hard to master now about the stealth it's good but the problem with it that it has a broken detection system like enemies detecting you through walls or from far distances some things like that and for the soundtrack I won't talk about it because the game barely had a soundtrack in fact the themes that I heard in this game can counted on fingers they are so few of the not like the older games or even the games after it like syndicate that has a pretty good soundtrack by the way so the problem of the game isn't just the bugs it had some other problems as well the people are saying it's underrated because of the bugs but I say no actually syndicate is the underrated game people should really Try it and if someone wonder I consider assassin's creed brotherhood to be the best in the series good combat good parkour good story and good stealth and modern day
"it's overrated, it's underrated, now it's overrated again blah blah blah"
Man, let people enjoy or not enjoy things
Actual bug person behavior. Make sure you don't insult the slop, ubisoft might get mad and get hurt feelings.
I've seen many haters complain about story of a game but seriously who tf cares about story , if the game is pretty af like unity and Parkour is fun who tf cares about story.
it is not overhyped, it just find its niche among the crowd after having multiple witcher clone Ac
I want Ubisoft to remake these games for next gen. Also the AC syndicate and specially the Ezio trilogy
OVERHYPED? I would interpret it more like this: "Unity & Syndicate" are the weakest games in the series in terms of sales figures. Both had 5 million sales up to 2018. In 2019, when the fire broke out in "Notre Dame de Paris", Ubisoft offered "Unity" for free and today it has a total of 10 million players (PS4/ PS5/ XOne/ XSeries/ PC). If you consider that AC Valhalla sold 15 million copies since release in 2021, then "Unity" is definitely not OVERHYPED. More like overlooked. I think a lot of people just skipped it back then because of the reviews and technical problems and are now enjoying what they missed back then. Because one thing is for sure, neither "Unity" nor "Syndicate" is a bad game. On the contrary, they are good games that deserve just as much love as the other AC games. what i'm wondering is, what games would we have gotten if "Unity & Syndicate" had been very successful games. maybe in the future, through strong sales, these two titles can prompt ubisoft to make the games more in the direction of "Unity & Syndicate" instead of "Origins/ Odyssey & Valhalla"
I think they aren't overlooked. Back then people just getting fatigue over the yearly AC releases.
You kidding? I’m enjoying unity more than the recent rpg creed games by a mile…. This is the only game I don’t use fast travel and love transversing….i might have probably completed the game more than 10 times till now
I agree with it being overrated, yet its still my favorite game out of the franchise. I do think people need to stop glazing assassins creed because it basically has the same concept with a few minor adjustments every title. I really isn’t as good as people think. Games like ghost of tsushima stole the concept and improved majorly on it and you can see how well it did. It feels like Ubisoft really doesn’t try with their games.
It's a game, the NPC can't be unique my man
Because Unity is the closest to the assassin fantasy we all want. Also Paris feels very alive and organic, very detailed city.
Too bad they released it in that state, and moreover, they abandoned this style completely..
The parkour in this game wasnt perfect. But it was a lot better and the handholds will always be a problem. They’re just out of reach so the game can do nothing about it. What the devs should do is simply extend those handholds distance between each other more more so we simply dont think we can get to ir.
This is the truth i was trying to but either acu or ac Odyssey and all my friends said to buy unity but the story for this game is just so boring i enjoy running around going amock but after getting odyssey i prefer it way much more
I've always liked Unity; perhaps it was because I didn't use the internet much and started playing Unity back in 2017 for the first time. It's fun stealth-wise, lighting-wise, and parkour-wise. It has missed potential.
I have never gotten a chance to play unity, but I honestly feel like this game was so close to perfect assassin's creed game if it had the Old games hidden blade combat and a bit better story and it would of been known as the best game in the franchise.
well actually you can do all of your co op mission by yourself
It's a fun game, but just ok. It was still buggy on PC when I last played it about 2 years ago.
Use unity fixes mod, helps a lot
@@Bruno-fw6nwIf anybody is on console then just RIP
@@Kaino-wo3vc ps4 version is gross, looks gross, feels gross
Super buggy. There's this game breaking one in particular (at least on the PC version), where Arno will sometimes fall through the map if you use one of those quick lifts.
@@reloadedspade176 Not just lifts, but back ejects as well. I swear if you're the type of player to use back ejects a lot Arno would just sometimes telepeort and hang mid air till eventually he falls through the map.
Completely different experience on PC with mods. But still.. story is lacking
This game is definitely weird, ppl praising it are just high on nostalgia and while it does look good on PC ultra 4k that's it.... nothing else is good. The gameplay is boring and more inferior against syndicate even older basic AC games, the floating parkour that's really bad but some like being a magical spiderman and don't start with the story and the obvious RPG mechanics in the stupid game but fans won't even read comments like mine and just jump straight to defending this slop of a game
Yes it was buggy, yes it could have been a lot better, but this should have been the AC game that all future games were based off, instead we got Syndicate (went backwards), origins (which i don't hate!), odyssey then valhalla (that I do!), it was a great formula that didn't get expanded on, as it shoukd, instead ubisoft went gor big bucks and open worlds, which I get brings in new fans, but also kicks the old in the teeth! Hopefully Shadows gives us all a gamexwe can finally get our teeth into 🤞 all internet trolling aside 🤔
I think that’s a fair assessment. I feel Unity is a step in the right direction but definitely not the perfect representation of the series. Honestly a lot of it comes down to how much I feel the story is a letdown. I’m super excited for shadows for some of the stealth roots they seem to be going back to.
Shadows literally has a black, gay samurai from the ghetto.
Syndicate is the good version of this game. Basically fixes all or most of the problems that this one had.
Replaying it now on PC and i was a hater at first. Now i really enjoy it. It still has its faults but its in the (True AC experience)
In Gameplay, maybe. But there is little freedom in parkour. But I really liked the combat. It was more realistic than the Kenway saga, where they had one fucking guy killing the whole army and walk off like its nothing.
imo unity is a fine game but it still fails in comparison to everything before it (except maybe rogue cause i feel like the story in that game is half baked)
but honestly its still a better "Classic" Assassin's Creed game to everything after it
Ubisoft's fault for making every game after unity worse and worse. All they had to do was take unity and improve it. instead they regressed in so many aspects that unity seems better than recent games and that shouldn't be the case not only cause unity wasn't the best game ever to begin with but it's a decade old and even if it was that good it still shouldn't be better than newer assassin's creed games in any significant way.
Syndicate is better than unity.
@@razumijinatreides4691 Only in a few aspects. It has almost the same parkour but you can't use it properly cause of the way the map is designed with large roads that force you to use the grappler most of the time which just isn't fun tbh. Graphics wer also a downgrade imo. But yeah the decline from a gameplay perspective is much more obvious in origins with the awful movement and animations.
7:28 Double kill But he Has one hidden Blade
He broke the neck of the second guy
"I think it is very good but not perfect"☝🏻🤓
Also why the hell do you guys like complaining I get it sometime game devs give us bad games so we must complain, but you said unity buildings was repetitive,, then origns is not an ac game .seriously if we were given origins with the same linear ac game like brotherhood a lot of people would have complained that we were not exploring egypt perfectly and then you said valhalla was long, seriously who the hell gives a weak excuse like that,( Or maybe I'm salty since valhalla is m best ac game to date since it reminded me of black flag but in a more interactive way)
100% we need to make sure Ubisoft doesn't try, shut down any criticism. You are a bug person.
AC Unity is the best AC gameplay wise, but AC 2 clears story wise
This happens every decade
It was my first AC. Gameplay nice, Story... dont care.
IMO arguably the most forgettable story in the series
The story was mid but the gameplay is the best in the series i played it more than 5 time, its truely a wasted potential imagine if shay was the main villain
I’ve always thought that would have been a more interesting story, but they were so determined to make the sage character a “thing” and they just did not succeed.
To put it in the basic terms. CoD fanbase hype circle.
I started playing unity again after 10 years just for the fuc of it and now everyone is making videos about the subject. MATRIX
I wouldn’t try jumping off any buildings and flying, you probably aren’t “the one”……. maybe try bending a spoon with your mind first, let me know how it goes
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
Thanks.
I mean, i like the game to be honest, is the best "assassin" experience we have
I would love for them to go back to stealth of this game. Like I said, wish they would go back and emulate the stealth from this game. That’s one of the reasons I’m looking forward to shadows is the dedicated stealth mechanics.
@@solidvick yup, game has so fantastic ideas poorly executed
Obviously opinions are different
For me Unity has still the best graphics in ac history the fighting is good an challenging for the first time movement is easy to understand hard to master (really hard) und the story is the best after the ezio games
I can’t lie I do love the physics of all the fabrics in this game more than any other AC. The way the sway as you walk around is very satisfying.
Movement is easy to understand but mastering it requires knowing how it doesn't work and squeezing out the stuff the game doesn't want us to do.
The classic movement is hard to understand and hard to master. It's not explained well and the best way to do it isn't obvious.
Keyways are a decent middle ground
Ac Mirage is better ngl
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Thank god someone said something about it. The game was fine, it was a new gameplay experience but it was far from a masterpiece that people now have resorted to calling it. The story was dogshit but now people act like it was the Romeo and Juliet. People really are NPCs believing everything that tries to influence them.
YOU ARE SO UNDERATED
NO YOU ARE UNDERRATED KIMBERLY
AC unity isn’t overhyped and overrated, it’s really a fantastic game
GFUS
AC Unity will always be that special game because it was the last time Ubi had a real AC game + the graphics still look unreal even today and this was in 2014????
Ac unity has not been overhyped at all. It's people underrated it so much I went back and the graphics can hold up to this day. And if you start saying about the story mario has been rescuing peach for years and nobody says it's bad
Oh yeah? And mario isn't meant to be a story that is deep. AC has always been about philosophy.
I agree it is overhyped now days, the combat and soundtrack are bad
Ac unity is not overrated I believe it's where it deserves to be now this was the first ac game I played but if you think I'm looking back on this game with nostalgia then your wrong I am looking at this game with how good it's graphics were at the time how good the stealth was and how much of a challenge the combat added now if you despise this game you despise all the old ac games and your an ac rpg fan which the only good one in this case is origins
Well I definitely don’t dispose the game. In the whole video there are multiple aspect I give it praise such as the stealth and combat like you mentioned. I just think as a total package the game never goes above a 7/10, and there are other games I would look to inspiration for in the franchise for a new entry.
So I'm an RPG fan if I don't think Unity is the best. Its not, it's overrated by most of the supposed AC fans and literally any game that came put before it is a better game. It's not bad, as parkour and stealth is good, just a downgrade from previous games in combat, story, and even actually working. It's sad people act like videos on CZcams show what the game is when most are heavily modded versions of the game that run much smoother than what you get in the actual version. It's a fun game, but it's not the best.
Unity is heavily overrated to be fair. Cool animations, still decent graphics, co-op, level design and customisation aside it's painfully average at best.
If you totally meant graphics then I dare you to look at every npc's models and you'll see how low quality they are even at max. If you meant art style then to that I agree.
Combat is challenging BUT NOT for a good reason. It's challenging because of unavoidable gunshots and that's it. You can literally spam smoke bombs or the "God Combo" and with that it just became easy that heavily relies on unploished animations. Stealth in this game is good because of the tools and level design BUT IT'S NOT PERFECT because of its enemy detection system that's like Valhalla which sometimes allows the enemies to see you through walls. And worst of all is it's heavy movement. Movement is the most important thing in stealth and with Arno being so heavy and him just not liking walls very much, it really just sucks. At BEST Acu is an ac game that had the potential to be a great game but did not just deliver in its poor execution.
@@ac_nerd9794 Agreed. Is it beautiful? Yes. Is parkour stylish? Yes.
But the story is factually bad for an AC game. Focus loses it's way. Practically no point of you being an Assassin towards the end of the game. Parkour is only beautiful, but worse than any AC1/ACR game mechanics wise.
It’s the best ac ever 🤷🏽♂️AND it has online
I've always said this AC game was MID but it visually looks good for 2018 standards and I really liked the black altair outfit tho