IMO a lot of people are here are hating on Unisoft and rightly so in regards to the SH stuff but IMO they have been taking the series in a pretty decent direction since Unity and Syndicate. The two year gap between games for example. The reimagining with Oddessey and Origins though Valhalla was a miss IMO.
Making the combat less mash click to win was great too. Like if you go back to Syndicate or even older, you can literally close your eyes in a fight or simply just press counterattack to one shot literally everything. Honestly this was something that annoyed me since Altair’s Chronicles on the PSP. People forget how guns and bows used to not even require aiming and always locked on.
People complained about the lack of stealth but I want to remind people that Syndicate literally had invisibility. You could brute force your way through every level if you wanted to in literally all the games if you wanted to. Making not stealth more fun in Origins was barely the departure from status quo that people made it out to be.
I played Oddessey in full stealth mode and it was more fun than Evi in syndicate since one shorting literally everyone from a bush was not possible for the higher level grunts (who I usually set animals on or kick them off high places) and there was more strategy since the grunts were a tad smarter with them one of a group always running off to light an alarm beacon.
They could also just rework the pc version. Its undtable as hell and one of the solution you need is running it in windows 98 compatibility mode. Even then its an unstable hell.
I just started playing AC Unity this week on a rtx3080 and the game still struggles. It’s ridiculous
Turn of physx or something. Idk if it is the same for unity but that was my problem in black flag. Still unacceptable.
Henry Rollins must be stoked.
Pirate’s Creed back for some "Yo-ho-ho"ing
That was my favorite one. Though I’m currently playing Odyssey and it’s just fantastic as well.
Isn’t the same team behind Skull & Bones supposedly the one doing this? I’m not so sure about how much faith I have in them lol
Ubisoft seem to be running out of ideas if their best bet is remaking a relatively recent game. They should leave the Assassin’s Creed franchise resting for a bit if they lack innovative ideas for it.
Maybe doing a feudal Japan AssCreed is still valid as there’s fan demand for it, but if they do they better nail it because they’ll be inevitably compared to Ghost of Tsushima.
I mean if there is one company that took risks with their largest franchises it’s Unisoft. Origins literally changed massive parts of the game, arguably even changing the genre. IMO as someone who tried to go back to some of the older games like Syndicate and Black Flag they are really dated in a lot of ways.
They changed the overall game design in Assassin’s Creed Origins, but not out of goodness of their hearts. The game’s new direction was more compatible with microtransactions.
Genuine question: how did everyone feel about Black Flag? I know I am not the only one but for one main reason, the game just did not click with me.
I personally feel Ubisoft went all in on ship based stuff and it was extremely annoying. I didn’t like one of the final missions of AC3 due to its boat combat and I just never could remove my disdain of it when I got to 4
I was actually really into it. Was the first time I saw them doing something new with the franchise that hadn’t been done before and the ship gameplay was really fun. Building up your ship was a good side goal to have to the main game.
Takes me back to a time when companies tried to make interesting games and not maximize profits.
I genuinely think it’s a masterpiece of semi-casual gaming, it’s so easy to get into doing something you feel like doing and to waste as much time as you feel like, yet it always feels like you’re making some form of progress
