9 Year's Later and Assassin's Creed Unity Still Sucks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2023
- 9 Year's Later and Assassin's Creed Unity Still Sucks
The first game in the series I gave up on at launch, and I still don't get the hype people sing about this one. It tries to do right, but for every success is just as much of a failure. Find out where I rank it in the series, and subscribe to see the rest of my rankings of the entire Assassin's Creed series.
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Assassin's Creed Unity is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released in November 2014 for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, and in December 2020 for Stadia. It is the eighth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and the successor to 2013's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. It also has ties to Assassin's Creed Rogue, which was released for the previous generation consoles on the same day as Unity.
The plot is set in a fictional history of real-world events and follows the millennia-old struggle between the Assassins, who fight to preserve peace and free will, and the Templars, who desire peace through control. The framing story is set in the 21st century and features an unidentified and unseen protagonist, who joins the Assassins as an initiate to help them locate the corpse of an 18th-century Templar Grand Master. The main story is set in Paris during the French Revolution from 1789 to 1794, and follows Assassin Arno Dorian and his efforts to expose the true powers behind the Revolution, while seeking revenge against those responsible for his adoptive father's murder. Unity retains the series' third-person open world exploration as well as introducing a revamped combat, parkour, and stealth systems. The game also introduces cooperative multiplayer to the Assassin's Creed series, letting up to four players engage in narrative-driven missions and explore the open world map.
Assassin's Creed Unity received mixed reviews upon release. It was praised for its visuals, customization options, setting, and characterization. Critics were polarized on its narrative, mission design, multiplayer-oriented format, and gameplay, with the latter complimented for its improvements, but criticized for feeling unrefined. The game was also widely panned for its numerous graphical issues and bugs, prompting Ubisoft to issue an apology and offer compensation in the form of a free expansion, Dead Kings, which acts as an epilogue to the base game's story. Players who had bought the game's season pass (which was later made unavailable for purchase in response to the controversy) additionally received a free copy of another Ubisoft title of their choice. Despite the initial critical reception, Unity was a commercial success, selling over 10 million units by March 2020, and has received more positive reviews after most of its technical issues were fixed, leading some to retroactively label it as an underrated entry in the series. It was followed in October 2015 by Assassin's Creed Syndicate, which continues the modern-day narrative, but has its main plot set in Victorian era London. - เกม
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I remember how it was impossible to praise this game back then...Now you can't say it's bad without having its fanboys attack you
It's funny what a few TikTok videos of perfect parkour runs can do to public opinion 😅
@@borangedunn the ac fanbase does this to every old game, they even hated 4 (the greatest game ever) back then and now they even love Unity and Syndicate....
@@kalb390 no one praises syndicate, only thing they did well is the stealth
@@brunixpro I've literally had a fanboy talk trash to me for saying the game was bad a few hours ago
@@kalb390 naaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
I bought into the recent hype this game got. People saying it was good because the bugs were patched or whatever. Absolutely fucking not. This games stealth sucks, enemies see you from 80 miles away and have eyes in the back of their heads. You get noticed once and they all immediately know your location. The combat is impossible because all they do is shoot you and kill you in 2 hits. The story is boring and uninteresting. What a letdown this game was. I honestly enjoyed Rogue more.
Based Rogue Enjoyer 💪
Parkour also sucks. One of the most fluid parkour in ac game they said. It feels like running in water.
I thought it's gonna be great experience as well. In the end all it did was tire me. I'm exhausted. Definitely not underrated and definitely not one of the best ac's.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 Rogue is better than Unity in my opinion.
@@Rengokuo4o6 I can agree.
i have played the game recently and yes this system pretty suck - everything good otherwise only related to graphic and animation - nothing more nothing less.
This game is very heavily animation based and others things always got involved with AI hand - no freedom at all.
Peoples only praised the game for graphic and animation only but never notice the base system. Thats why after syndicate they have to (sadly) abandoned the animation system and replace with more controlled of freedom from Origin and later
The game that set at French revolution focusing on Romeo and Juliet storyline.
The developers totally fumbled away a wonderful opportunity at creating an epic setting for Unity. Even back in the 18th century, Paris had numerous distinct neighborhoods; each having their own feel. But by adding protests, riots, and other chaos to practically every square inch of the map, the game takes away much of the distinctive character of the different districts of Paris... making the city feel repetitive and monotonous.
I know Revolutionary Paris was a time of great chaos and upheaval, but I'm also pretty sure that mobs didn't protest/riot 24 hours a day and 7 days a week at the exact same landmarks non-stop for 5 years straight.
“it’s fixed after the patches” is the biggest lie the AC fandom has ever said. the patches didn’t do shit, the game is still broken
I personally kinda appreciated the gameplay, it was pretty fun for a couple of hours.... but it tired me out immediately, and the problems out-shined the good things, also the story is just.... too bad, it literally sucks, also lag and bug issues all the time even on my ps4 pro, what a let down.
It's actually impressive how bad this game is. So many bugs, glitches, bad or broken mechanics, performance issues, etc. It's actually quite a remarkable degree of incompetence
Bugs, glitches are bad but actual game is even worse. Parkour, stealth never really works.
I still don’t know what magic code they glued together for unity when it came out everyone had broken games but mine played fine but when I reinstall years later it’s suddenly glitchy now
To this day your right. It’s pathetic
It will never not be funny that the French studio botched the French Revolution game 😆.
Using English voice actors/accents too to add insult to inuury.
@@Necrophadez i have a french friend and he said the french accents were legit
@Rez_U_Rekt Okay. Well, I love the game regardless. It has its charm.
@@Rez_U_Rektmost of it sucks dude, I can confirm you that, and the French dub? Ugh, it’s meh. Even a minor game like Rogue had a better French dub.
@@NecrophadezAt least the french accent feels great in the french audio version 😂
Nah I can say that the way they speak is very good in terms of words and expressions, I really enjoyed going around in the streets and listening. The rest of the game isn't fun.
Bro be brave, most Unity fans are gonna hate you for that. Also loved the video and understand on why you don't like it as much as the others. Even I, who once considered Unity a masterpiece and the best ac game of all time, is now feeling that it's a mixed bag, because I actually looked through the negatives of Unity and not just the positives, even now after the patch it is still a very poorly executed game, mainly in gameplay, Unity for me is a game that has great concept but just a terrible execution.
Edit: I still do like some aspects of Unity, like it's a very unique game and their's no other game like it, also loved the story rather than the gameplay, in which is the opposite in most people's opinions on Unity.
I see this one as the one started to get far of what you expect of AC, I mean it looks great, but feels bad, and fans are dumb and love it for all the wrong reasons, realistic parkour is boring, the enemies are literally sponges of damage, god I hate the fact somehow the most justified hated game in series somehow turned to be the best, to point they want it back...
I hate him for that!
How does bro have a couple hundred views with great videos. I know this has barely been out for a day but still man is vastly underated channel. Blame TH-cam algorithm for not enough attention.
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words!
exactly mate not fibbing i love these videos its like one of those video channels where u see one vid and its rlly good then just disappears into the yt aether for the next 2 months
I got into the AC series quite recently and AC unity was my first AC game. I personally really like it. For me the stealth system is really good and does require some more skill than in black flag for example. But I understand when people say they don't like it
Crouch button does absolutely nothing, the older games were not designed for crouch style stealth
I don't hate the game, the patch only fixed so much and a lot of visual and performance glitches are still impossible to overlook, never mind the fact that it crashes occasionally
There is a lot to like about it, but unfortunately the rushed development time still shows after fixes
That being said it is most definitely not at the bottom of my list, I will replay this game over Revelations or the original any day of the week. I can't decide whether I like it better than syndicate or not, syndicate is more polished but I have my share of issues just with that game's overall design
There aren't too many games in this franchise that I downright dislike, Revelations is really the only one I can think of unless we want to count liberation but I don't know that I can fairly stick a handheld in with the rest of them and try and compare the quality
I mentioned the original not cuz I necessarily bad but it was a flawed gem to begin with, the open world is really empty with nothing to do, and the mission structure to get to assassinations begins to get really tedious by the end of the game, however the story kept me hooked in that one then ultimately led me to decide to give the sequel the shot which made me a huge fan of the franchise
The interesting thing with Syndicate is that I feel they improved the issues with the parkour but then gave us a grappling hook so we never needed to do any free running!
To be fair to Unity I wouldn't say I dislike it, but out of the AC series this is my least favourite because of the issues I talk about. Other games certainly have their jank but not to this level. Revelations is an interesting one because apparently we were never supposed to get it, it was a cancelled Nintendo DS release that they repurposed into a full home-console game.
And I think we're on the same page with the original. It feels like a prototype or proof of concept. In many ways it has my favourite combat system of the series, in that smaller weapons have smaller parry windows, so fighting with your hidden blade require extreme precision.
@@borangedunn syndicate both fixed the inconsistency of the parkour but also oversimplified it in my opinion. You literally can't even fall off of a ledge. And yeah as far as actually climbing anything, the grappling hook negates that. However for the structure of London it works well, I can't say it wasn't fun to use it or that it didn't make sense for assassins to have them. It's always a bit annoying however as it clearly takes inspiration from the Arkham grappling hook system but it's a bit jankier there too
Best way to play this game is NOT upgrading Arno or his gear imo
@@Joeyplaysguitar1082 I've not heard that suggestion before. Is that like a challenge run or something?
bro how are you..can i play assassain creed unity .with core i 5 3rd gen..
Ubisoft list the minimum spec as requiring an i5 2nd gen, so a 3rd gen should be fine I reckon!
I worked as an Ubisoft QA employee at this title back in 2014.
Trust me when I say that Unity was known even before launch to be a let-down due to the massive optimization issues. The devs themselves weren't optimistic with the title in the slightest, being also the first title to be released on the newer generation consoles of that time, XB1 and PS4.
The game is still seen as the black sheep of the AC series at Ubisoft, regardless of whatever kids spew on Tik Tok.
That's really interesting! Did you do any QA work on any other AC titles?
@@borangedunn A bit on AC Syndicate and AC Rogue, but those were side projects, not my main one. Other than AC Unity, I worked on WD2 and R6 Siege.
AC Rogue was seen as the last AC of the golden era(the era from AC1 all the way to AC4), while AC Syndicate was seen as the AC that made Unity playable: the navigation was way smoother, the FPS was drastically improved and the combat system was also a step in the right direction. Even the story was pretty nice, especially the Jack the Ripper DLC.
Unfortunately, it was also the last AC game to bear the classic formula of an action stealth game.
It took me longer than I care to admit to figure out what WD2 is haha!
I'm interested about the internal perception of Rogue. Was it treated like a full release or was it seen as sort of spin-off, side project sort of thing?
@@borangedunn AC Rogue was a full release, but development for it was planned on the basis of AC4, hence why intially was only scheduled for the old-gen consoles and PC wasn't included.
Still, my colleagues were way more optimistic about this release than Unity's release. At least, they were going on an established formula. The phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" actually meant something that time.
Hey man ur definitely an underrated TH-camr. Keep up the good work my guy
To be fair you can literally collect like hundreds of thousand of currency from lockpicking chests and looting guards, also just repeat the painting heist a few times and your maxed out in a few hours maybe even a hour if your lucky.(yes I know unlocking master locksmith is tedious but trust me it’s a big help 👍)
Lockpicking chests is boring. It's boring to do, boring to collect, just boring.
"also just repeat the painting heist a few times and your maxed out"
No this is grinding. Sorry your solution is not a solution.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 bro you literally just do the heist it is the easiest thing ever, spawn in get over to the window search if it isn’t there restart and repeat. Takes like 3 minutes max for one run there’s nothing even slightly hard or grindy about it ?
You're also meant to do the raids in order to make money quick. It was a big feature launched when coop when it was a thing back then
I bought the game fot PC few days ago, dec 1th 2023. I got pretty good pc now, 4070ti i5 13600k 32gb ddr5 ram NVME ...... and gues what, the game doesnt run properly, i cant load textures and i have some wierd black dots when loading textures. I tried all graphic settings, tried mods also nothing worked. Soo even 10 years afther release this game has shit ton of bugs that makes it unplayable. I just wanted to play some old AC game that i never played but i guess i wont be able even with stong PC
The orthodoxy among AC freaks is that it's the best game ever. It's mass delusion. Well done for talking sense.
The idea of there being Orthodox Assassin's Creed fans is beautiful, and thank you for conjuring that image. I imagine sweaty people congregating in their AC hoodies and labeling Black Flag fans as posers while praying for a Unity remaster.
@@borangedunnThe twist is that they're actually Templars.
This game is the clearest example of UBISOFT's wasted ideas. It has everything a gamer wants from an Assassin's Creed game, from the setting, to the characters, to the stealth design concept, but it all stops at the idea. I really wanted to love this game, but I couldn't, and it hurts me the most that UBISOFT then decided to take the series in a different direction instead of trying to complete those unfinished ideas.
thank you man, the revisionist history on some of these games is wild, unity still has broken af stealth...and i see you have a vid on syndicate, which is a better game in all regards, maybe not story, they re both ass in that departement, but at least that game bothered to fix all of unity s gameplay issues but gets none of the recognition....gotta imagine the reason all of the unity highlight reels are getting so much traction is because it s much harder to get it right than in syndicate where everything works well( other than the carriages) there are people out there putting in 800 attempts to make their vids as good as they look for unity
I played the games both syndicate and unity for the first time last month and I couldn’t disagree more. Playing on PS5 I experienced practically zero bugs and felt the free running, assassinations, mission design, open world and story are significantly better in unity compared to syndicate. It’s actually my favorite AC story (I started with AC III)
@@kmc4816 i honestly don t know how could you reach that conclussion honestly, ac 3 and 4 are both way better stories, higher stakes, better villains, better mc's. there s no way unity has better free running since you get stuck on all the small clutter, can t drop when you want, leading to you getting stuck on buildings and having to fast travel out of there etc the main mission design ain t better in any way than syndicate, which actually gives you multiple ways of assassinating and maybe a special cutscene, unity has broken stealth, maybe best encapsulated by that ball infiltration where the target lady will instantly spot you from kilometers away, or guards 3 stories bellow getting alerted by a fight( no bell triggered, like the guards are in some sort of hive mind), syndicate has a simpler and actually functional cover system etc. Open world kinda depends on your preference, i do like revolutionary france better than industrial london so there s that, the stories are both bad but the difference is marginal
@@wisecontragio172 idk what you’re talking about I had none of the issues you described free running like at all I never used fast travel because I loved free running so much. As well as the “broken stealth” I never had a problem that would leave me feeling like the stealth was broken again I JUST beat the game like a month ago so it’s still fresh in my mind.
I like Arno way more than Connor and I like Edward a lot as well but favor Arno. I liked Elise’s character more than any other side character in an AC game though I did also enjoy black beard and Mary.
I prefer more grounded stories so unity was perfect for me but you are right about the villains. In 4 Edward is not an assassin for the majority of the game and assassin contracts are available well before they are ever introduced which breaks immersion. Still black flag is my #1 AC game unity is #2 for me
@@wisecontragio172 I'm just hearing "mad cuz bad".
Also, AC3 was hella bloated and bored me fast. I actually never played 4, so I can't comment. I played through AC2 back in the hayday, and I never really got the hype for the story. I'm gonna go ahead and say that none of the AC stories ever gripped me in any real way. I play AC for the gameplay and the atmosphere and that's about it. Saying that, Revelations was hella fun. I also enjoyed Valhalla to an extent, but only because I liked playing as a viking and the world was beautiful.
This is the best review that I've heard of Unity. I quit the game after 10hrs 🤷🏾♂️ I had all the same sentiment of the game it's very overrated.
Unity is solid in my opinion but it's stealth sucks like crowds are cool but the actual stealth is terrible. The parkour is the best ever though
It feels like it should work but it doesn't.
We are aware of all the issues with Unity. The lack of polish, the abundance of bugs, etc. Just open any 2014 review.
What fans recognize in this game is a concept and the hope that Ubisoft looks at it and tries to execute it again, giving it the time and dedication it deserves.
No people legit defend this game bud and the funny thing is these people where completely silent until years later you dont come late to the party after years of patches and updates and defend something that was basically unplayable I hate those types of fans because they come off as the most uneducated and stupid morons I have ever had a debate with on something 😂 no game should ever release in that state ever period 😂
perfectly stated ragnarth.
No fan out there. It’s gonna say this game was perfect when it first launch and fact no fans gonna say this game is 100% good I even stated this game had some issues it still has issues but it was fun to play once you got around it, I had at least 30 friends on this game at once to where they all would ask me to hop on the game like every day so I’m not exactly sure where this guys coming from here because even to this day, I even get at least five friends who got this game recently just a replay it because it has multiplayer and they have fun so what does that really say about this guy’s opinion it doesn’t really matter does it it’s one dude and like half the people the comment section opinion doesn’t matter either again all that really matters is did you play? Did you have fun playing it? would you play it again?
Unity is a fun game, and if you have friends, that's even better. The problem is people are so hateful towards the newer games, they don't even see the glaring issues with Unity. Bloated world, ok side content, pointless collectibles, subpar combat that is a significant downgrade from the Colonial games, and parkour seemingly being the only thing that could even qualify to be praised as the best and even then, the parkour isn't perfect and doesn't work flawlessly. All the issues I just stated are attributed to the RPG games that quite honestly are great games and even great AC games. They might be different but AC had so many releases, people were getting tired of the same system over and over again. Talk about copy paste, RPG games are hated for it, older games did the same thing. The newer games have no soul some people say, yet the game, and all the work put into crafting the world clearly shows. The world's are empty some constantly argue, yet it seems they are only talking about walking in the forest and not even attempting to play the game. The simple fact is Unity, a mid game compared to its predecessors that failed on many fronts, is now praised as a masterpiece by many because the new games don't play the same. Each game has good and bad, but the unrealistic praise Unity gets shows.
@@ac_nerd9794 exactly summed it up pretty well
this is a very well put together video, but you did miss one thing that might have made your gear grind a little less tedious
doing the Cafe Theatre missions along with purchasing other social clubs around the city increases your income to somewhere in the 40ks every hour or so
There's also the heists which do seem a little insurmountable at first, given you have to get 4 players together in a dead game, but the one Heist titled "It Belongs in a Museum" has a really easy solo method and can net you 70k if you don't get detected
The Heists can be done solo, actually. The Coop missions require at least 2 players, though.
This game freezes constantly and gets stuck on the loading screen for years. I wanted to like this game, but that crap makes it hard to
Unity is still good gameplay wise, but yeah the story isn't very good
Well, gameplay is one of the most important things for, you know, a game. I always enjoyed Unity, and I started playing it again after like 7 year or so. I never did many of the co-op missions before, but am doing them with my cousin now.
the gameplay isn't even good though
Gameplay is not good. Stealth doesn't work, parkour is clunky, game is grindy, too much collectibles and quests.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 I haven't had those issues, except the grindy stuff
At this point, i literally can't play a Ubisoft game without a trainer to a void grinding
5:59, perfect parries open up enemies to being hit when thet would have otherwise deflected your attack.
Non-perfect parries do this too though. Maybe perfect parries leave them open for a bit longer?
@@borangedunnnon-perfect parries don’t actually help unless they are a normal guard
This game had so much potential. It's a shame how it fell so far short of it. I still find this game hard to play and think without mods its terrible.
Honestly as someone who has FINALLY been giving it a fair shake this is just bad (glitches aside) the French revolution has almost NO IMPACT on the story and even a few missions in I don't care what is happening or how it effects Arno because aside from avenging his step father Arno dosen't seem to really care and the assassin leaders don't either......
I was looking for an assassin's creed to play since i didn't play any game of the series since black flag if I remember well (I think I played rogue at some point too but not at the release) and I got caught by the insane hype this game seems to have since a few years on the internet. I'm only a few hours into the game so my opinion can (and will probably) change but god the first impression is really not good for me. All these "Unity is better looking then some recent games" are straight up lies, parkour feels quite clunky to me (although I assume I'll get better at it while playing) one of the things that tickles me the most is the way Arno kinda glides through the air on certain jumps, combat animations feel heavy and slow, plus the finishing moves are often not alligned with the ennemy wich looks terrible. I hate the fact that you have that menu to buy stuff instead of going to an actual shop plus you're drowned in potential pieces of gear to buy right after the intro instead of unlocking things progressively through the game and being excited to discover what rewards comes next.
As I said I'm only a few hours in, I want to play this game and the city is incredible but reading all those hype comments was a mistake.
That's interesting, as I've wondered about this specific scenario before. I think the hype this game gets is partially fueled by the negative press the game received on release, as many of the problems the game had have now been fixed, making the game better than the one being described in the release reviews. You then get people posting parkour runs on TikTok, many of which use mods to improve the graphics, and people assume that the curated 60 second snap-shot they just watched is representative of the whole game in it's current state.
As I said in the video, I still enjoyed the game because it does regularly come together to shine, but it is my least favourite in the series, even after playing Valhalla, the OTHER AC games people get very angry about one way or the other.
Unity is far from perfect, but the series would have benefited from building on its systems and ideas rather than going the RPG direction they did. IMO the most immersive AC game since the first one.
Pretty sure you could whisle in AC3 before blackflag came out
You can get out of cover while still crouching by holding the crouch button down the entire time brother
In my opinion I think this game is great. But the only think I think is kinda wonky is the parkour, it’s not like the other games. But this game overall is a 10/10
I just got into the franchise early 2023 with Origins which is in my top games ever. Ive play Odyssey which i didnt expect to like but actually did. Not something i would want to play again but im glad i did get to put it on my little gaming resume lol. Im now playing mirage...1 thing ive heard people say is "The new rpg games have no stealth" which loses me b/c i went thru the majority of the games in stealth....I did try Unity & it was kool but i think i stopped b/c of some dumb ass puzzle. I used to hear people say "The newer games have no stealth", but the majority of my kills in every AC game I've played has been stealth kills 🤷🏾♂️ In this video u talked about the combat & being that Parris is a crowed city, do u have to do alot of fighting? B/c even in Mirage I rarely even think about my weapon b/c im rarely in combat,l
If your perspective is based on newer rpg games vs ac unity, then you are wrong, because ac unity is the best example of what an assassin creed game should have been aside from the fact that you ignore its execution (and story) because almost every ac after brotherhood was rushed by damned ubisoft who wanted to release ac game every year....and unity just had become the staple of that failure and their rushing pattern... And after origins assassin creed lost its identity and now you can't tell the difference between witcher and assassin creed.
But if your perspective is based on the fact that assassin creed unity is rather poorly executed and could have been pinnacle of AC, then you are 110% right, because as I said unity got trapped in the ubisoft faulty model of bad marketing.
Exactly my point, the game was rushed and as such we got a sub-par product. They should have just have Rogue come out and leave Unity for the next year to give them time to finish it properly.
@@borangedunn everybody seems to forget this but unity was not made within a year, it was in development even during AC3.
Dude it lost the identity after AC 3, black flag was bad with a fun gameplay, Unity is already the franchise as a zombie with non existing story non soul gameplay trying to compensate with hyperrealism... You are kinda the reason why developer kill their IPs souls you think the game is good cause the graphics, the realistic parkour, nothing of that is fun, no mention the combat is bad the RPG element is bad implemented, they changed the actually fun combat from the first games for sponges of damage enemies than take too long to kill or too short depending your level... God awful game.
@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr I never said that I like the game did I?
And changing the Parkour was a necessity because of the verticality and scale of the game... You never expect to traverse the big map of the game with old slow paced Parkour..also they didn't have horses. So they had to make it fast paced... also I mentioned the story was shit.. didn't I?
and about combat it was still challenging but I agree it could've been better...
And if you are worried about Ac lost its identity, then aren't we the ones who were crying to ubisoft to change the same gameplay formulae from the Ezio trilogy......
Also I said, if ubisoft could have given more time to unity it could have been so much better...
Apart from that as I said it... if ubisoft hadn't been obsessed with releasing ac every year..... Then we could still have had the same old formulae of AC mechanics running the franchise... And people could have still liked the old ac formulae...it was not fans but ubisoft themselves ruined the franchise....
AC rev had 11 months
I liked the game back then and still like it now, I felt like the setting resonated really well with the assassin aesthetic and my personal preferences. Animations are great, graphics aren't that bad, and the story is a bit lackluster. I wish we had more games on that era, the only other I can think of is Syd Meier's Pirates lol. Greedfall too, but that was a load of shite
I think unity is a good game robbed of the opportunity to be a great game. Ubi showed they could fix the jank of the movement with syndicate, the visual bugs were semi-fixed with a patch, but any improvement that could've been made to the game fell as victim to the corporate machine; and this applies to everything Ubi have put out recently. Developers trying their best to make a functioning work while the execs are underpaying them and stealing their sleep in tow.
You're right, and it's important to keep that in mind. Most of the time games are rushed due to pressure from the publisher. Unfortunately with Ubisoft they are both developer and publisher so it can get confusing 😅
Very small.... simple.... question.... here guys
WHY DOES THIS GUY NOT HAVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS!!
People say that only thing good in Unity was parkour, but it's not true
side missions, Arno's arsenal and historical setting with huge amount of real people were amazing too
I like the video because the gameplay aspects you mentioned were true (to an extent) but, I just feel that they were super nit picky
I'm still not sure why they haven't done assassins creed ANCIENT Rome. They have the assets from Odyssey that could be used, plus the map! Imagine Templar for The republic and Assassins for Julius Caeser or vice versa.
Yet the assassins were part of the death of Caesar in origins.
I know there are redeemable elements in Unity and it's always good to see people finally appreciate the dev's hard work. However, I still think Unity is mediocre at best. Controls in this game is too janky that you can't move your character wherever you want. This is a huge minus especially in this kind of a game.
Looking back on this game, the parkour looks great, however I feel like the game doesn't give you enough control and it just feels sluggish, I guess the same can be said for the combat and the use of gadgets. Story was meh, wouldn't say it's terrible, it's just meh. Should've focused more on the French revolution and how it effects the conflict between the Assassin's and Templars to be honest. I'd go back to the game like once in a while, but I wouldn't really enjoy it as much. Although, I'd rather play this over the newer games.
The cool stealth videos made made think the game is much better than I remember
It certainly isn't
Master the mechanics and voila it is just as good as it looks
@@Noir-c9k not really because both the parkour and the stealth are really inconsistent
@@RobertEdwinHouse9 you gotta plan your routes man, pay attention to your inputs and be aware of the paths your enemy’s take. Smoke bombs and phantom blade are your best friend.
If you really wanna see what inconsistency is like play Ac Valhalla… that game is quite literally the definition of “inconsistency”
@@Noir-c9kyou do know those stealth clips are done with multiple takes and they remember all enemy placements are are you just slow
@@Skyrim_Thalia This comment is funny because you’re trying to call me slow but you typed are twice, And I like how you completely missed the point I was trying to make. I had a stealth channel once I know how hard it is to pull something like this off, it’s not completely necessary to remember exactly where all the enemies are (although it helps) just having a plan before you make your next move can lead to consistent stealth experience, people that complain just aren’t using their brains
Exactly , i don't get how some people praise this game as one of the best ( some even calling it the best in the whole series ) mediocre story , bland characters with the exception of élise , mediocre voice acting except élise ( again lol ) the writing in general doesn't feel cohesive and the gameplay is janky and clunky like it's from the ps2 era ( even some ps2 era games have better controls ) .
no hate to the voice actors but whoevers idea it was for them to have british accents is an idiot
How does it feel to be so wrong?
Obviously this is my opinion but I feel like you didn’t say a ton of critical things that can’t be attributed to lack of skill. Maybe I’ve spent too much time playing this game but idk
yeh maybe u should go outside every once in awhile
syndicates fuckin trash too lmao
And people call this shit the best Assassin's creed game. 30GB of patches and the game still sucks. Pop in all over the game, really low quality LOD models right across the street, although sometimes nice looking buggy parkour mechanics, COOP mode that doesn't even work for most of the time, putting an object between you and someone who's shooting at you doesn't change the fact that you're gonna get shot. The game is awful. Yet praised as one of the best in the series. People need to wake tf up.
I love the game but there are still insanely messed up elements to it. The worst part of the game is the weapon balance. There seriously wasn't ever discussion during development that weapon classes should have different stats????? Why do the two handed class and the heavy weapon class share the exact same damage stats???? Lmao. So they made a game where only one weapon class is viable.
Xbox: Can't beat the Mission where you Kill the guy calling you PissPot (Bellec).
PS4: Just breaks, and doesn't let you Play anymore Until it Restarts your whole game.
Tbh it’s not my favourite but I do like it a lot. Respect it’s not everyone’s thing. I guess I got lucky cause the games mechanics never really worked against me and I like Arno and Elise
Unity is the BEST of AC. Period.
It's the best after you watch 100s of videos insisting that it's a masterpiece. It's not when you actually finally play the game. 🤮
@@fasteddyukI agree with you so much stealth is ass parkour they weren’t lying about it but STEALTH now that’s bullshit
i love ac unity
I agree with everything you said in this game unity is ass didn’t even finish it because how bad it was when it came out
The map and parkour is awesome. But the story and missions suck. Crowds work like in no other game
But of course we must reduce things to this is the best ot the worse game in series
I mean this video is part of a series where I'm ranking each game as I play through them all in order of my preference. Quite hard to do that without labelling something as the worst or the best.
I feel I explained my thoughts on the map, the parkour, story, missions and the crowds fairly thoroughly in this video.
But of course, we must just comment in a reactionary manner after looking at a thumbnail and headline.
@@borangedunnexactly. my opinion is not changed by watching the video, it is hard and unmovable so might as well comment immediately
I'm going back and playing the AC games I haven't played. I'm on this one now and I'm literally just playing the story missions because I can't stand it. The story is bland and boring. I feel like I'm constantly yelling at my TV because the controls aren't doing what I want them to do. The cover button is absolute crap. I preferred the old system of just automatically taking cover at a wall when close to it. And the combat is just annoying and unsatisfying. Smoke bombs are your best friend in this game bc it's the only way to kill a large group of enemies without getting shot and stabbed at the same time while parrying one person.
Beside the glitches from then, it still isn't perfect but playable. The graphics and the living city is amazing. The parkour is nice, especially climbing down. Combat has its pros and cons. I love the way that it offers a bit of a challenge. But I do dislike the weapon wheel and the way you use certain items.
I dislike being forced to buy or steal medicine. And i dislike the skill points for things that used to be just part of the other assassin games. I do love the special skills.
Overall, the game isn't bad but not perfect. The worst is the story. I also dislike the notre dam stuff for unlockinging the assassin costume.
I also dislike helix.
The game starts of great with the small story about the sword and the templars being burned by the king. To arno's dead being killed. All the to escape prison. After that the story focuses to much on revenge for Siera death.. and love for Elise....
Was it fun though? That's all I care about.
I actually enjoy this game i mean yeah it has so many flaws idk i just enjoy it, once u get ur cafe levelled up witch is very responsive w how u upgrade throughout the story the money comes in and u dont need to pay so much money. Its got so mamy flaws but is also so fun so i enjoy it
I saw people praising this game. They call it underrated. They call it one of the best ac's. Best stealth, best parkour etc etc.
And it looked cool ngl. But after playing it I see it only looks cool from the outside.
Character control feels like how that reddit user described: running in water. It feels heavy and not fluid enough. You feel like you are carrying a rock.
Parkour; which is said to be of the strongest part of this game isn't that good. I criticized previous ac's for it's parkour but after playing this Idk anymore. It isn't that different actually. Arno goes all over the place when climbing, hard to enter from the windows, and it only and only looks cool, not practical, not fluid, not fast.
Story starts cool and goes downhill really fast. You make a game set in French revolution but focus on some love story. French revolution takes a backseat. Wow just wow. Characters are meh, story is meh. It just drags on for too long. It should've ended after k1Ll1ng Bellec.
Too many collectibles, too many quests. Map is full of them. I can't even see main objective. It's overwhelming. And barely any of them worth doing.
Stealth doesn't work properly. You get detected too easily. You k1LL this guy, and the guard that is far away somehow sees you and then say goodbye to stealth. Nothing ever really works, nothing works in this game!
This game bores me. This game tires me. After that Marie mission I can easily put it at one of my most hated ac's ever. Congratulations unity you are just facade. I hope syndicate is better.
In all honesty the game has a great parkour system and stealth mechanics but the story is so stupid and lifeless I had to force myself to finish it
Im trying to play Unity now in 2024 and black flag. I already beat black flag once and Im not even in the half of Unity's storymissions. It has a really good fighting mechanics and stealth and parkour but its open world is dead and boring
Its side missions are pointless and repetitive, like, I get paid 1500 for killing an normal enemy NPC i find on the streets. Arno's lore is so uninteresting that you cant get engaged on it if youre playing a better game. Black flag is full of flaws, has worst sword combat than unity but oh boy this game ia WAY MORE FUN to explore
THANK GOD. I Finally found a youtuber who thinks the same as me. Assassin's Creed Unity is the WORST game in the series and it seems like an unpopular opinion these days😭. It's so trendy on YT for its parkour aesthetic that I've even seen streamers say it's THE BEST ASSASSIN'S CREED! You've got yourself a new suscriber from Argentina. Hope the channel grows much bigger 🙌
I see some ppl crying abt their own bad experiences ( prolly bcuz of their system problem and not the game's) while completely ignoring this youtuber's points. They were like, yeah finally found a video showing untiy's badside now ill talk some shit and ignore the fact that those things existed when the game actually came out. Well according to me if u wanna just have fun and never played unity before, u should prolly not buy it.
We getting buried 6ft under by Unity kids. RPG, Chronicles, Syndicate, Kenway Saga DLC and Mirage fans, its time to stand our grounds ✊
Hey now chronicles isn't that bad.
I just finished unity and it does suck so does black flag
Played it for the first time a month ago and it is my 3rd favorite game ever, just my opinion tho
Uh no I think it's probably the best one in the series honestly.
Unity is a good AC game, but so many people are so biased towards the newer games, they praise quite literally one of the worst traditional AC games. I love Unity and love all of the games, but people, let's not have bias when arguing for the best game pre-RPG. Every game thay came put before Unity is quite literally better in almost every way.
True, unity is a masterpiece. I have played AC III before playing unity. I was playing it on the console. After that, during my high school I got my own laptop and played Unity. I started playing it in 2020 and until now it is still the best AC ever. When the ACUfixes came out I tried to play with it and the result is much more classy and cool parkour.
@@emanuelldavid607 Its not a masterpiece. It's great, but far from a masterpiece.
@@ac_nerd9794 the story sucked ass. The only thing i kinda liked was the gameplay mechanics, even that has to be fixed but not the way syndicate did it. Arno has to be the worst protagonist i have ever played. I liked him earlier but as the game progressed, he just fell off.
@@Rengokuo4o6 I respect your opinion but I'm gonna have to disagree. Arno was decent, and the story was decent.
@@ac_nerd9794 if Arno being decent equals being a simplord then okay. Like i was praying for Elise to die so we can finally get Arno talk about something else, maybe the revolution?
I can't believe they didn't include the french revolution at all in the main story
For those of you who are saying this game sucks y’all clearly don’t know a good game. If it smacked you in the face and I’m spin back here. I have plenty of friends who can back me up on that assassin‘s creed unity was fun to play. In fact, I recently got back on the game maybe like a month ago just to play around with a friend who hasn’t played the game at all and we were having fun with it so 🤣🤔
A good game that nearly ten years after its release still has clunky mechanics and a fair share of bugs? Sure...
Why was the creed so lame in this game. Just some old geezers who sit in a cave the whole game complaining. I felt nothing when they expelled arno because they hadn't been useful or interesting anyway.
I was super disappointed when playing Unity for the first time. It's not only the worst AC game for me, but probably one of the worst games of all time. I hate the clunkyness of this game, the terrible story, the unbalanced RPG elements that basically force you to grind or pay, the nonexistent pseudo-ambient music, the long and tedious missions, the awful parkour that may look cool, but keeps misbehaving or downgraded stealth and combat compared to Black Flag. And the worst thing about this game are its fanboys, who will call anyone disliking Unity a Valhalla or Odyssey fan. Just like with GTA IV fanboys calling anybody who doesn't like their beloved game a GTA Online kid.
Fanboys are an issue with most games though to be fair, but yeah it is kind of annoying when people don't understand the difference between someone saying they don't like something and saying others shouldn't like it.
Also, GTA IV is my favourite, but I wouldn't argue with people for preferring the one with three characters and over-the-top heists over the one with a depressed chap and his horny cousin.
The AC: U story isn't terrible, not by any stretch, its mid, boring, but not bad, I have no clue how you came to that conclusion, and what grind? first time I played unity I just did main quests... that's it, never had to grind at all, what are you talking about? music is a non issue, isn't a objective criticism. long and tedious missions? would have to play again but they were pretty in line with previous games mission length from memory. The parkour has its issue for sure, but AC 3,4, rogue, Syndicate, Origins, odyssey and Valhalla 100% have way worse parkour with more issues than unity. Did we play the same game? combat in black flag looks flashy sure, buts its dogshit lol, press counter to win, 0 difficulty, and stealth was perfected in Unity, 2 tools at once, crouching, knowing where an enemy last saw you, great stuff that the old or new games cant even hold a candle to. And there it is, the "fanboys" thing, i will agree, fanboys of anything are annoying. But, after reading your comment and others like it, I'm starting to think maybe you're opinions are skewed by you're hate for the fanboys, happened to me many times.
@@icarus8284 TLDR
@@COURIER169 he thinking unity is the worst AC and I gave my reasons for why he’s wrong
@@icarus8284Unity really isn't that good. Way more credit than it deserves. Syndicate, Odyssey, III, Black Flag, and Origins all have better stories. From a gameplay perspective, the parkour in Unity is ok. It works a good bit but it just doesn't want to work all the time. On console, it's a nightmare to move around in Unity sometimes compared to the games that came after. People talk about spongey enemies in Odyssey, my God did Unity have them too and boy they weren't fun either. Unity is subpar in combat, where I can actually attack in the Colonial games without feeling the need to counter every moment and the RPG games give more control on how you play the game too. I missed parkour, but the RPG games do not hold back in options. As for stealth, Unity is too easy. I'll glady give best stealth gameplay to Mirage that pretty much perfected tools, and how to use them. Don't take this like I hate Unity because it is a good game and even better when you have someone to play with, but it has many issues and people simply overlook them to hate on the newer games. Bloated map with too many things on it, ok combat, lackluster story, and most of the game, Arno might as well not even be the person I'm playing as. The game has flaws but people make it out to be the ultimate AC experience. If I were recommending games from this franchise, The Ezio Collection, Origins, and Black Flag are without a doubt the highest quality games in the series. Other games may pull you to them for the setting, but the quality of the Ezio games, especially the story is peak, and Origins is probably the closest AC has gotten back to peak storytelling.
I can be your friend and play unity... you don't need to die alone.
I've accepted my lonely fate, it's too late for me.
LoL Fine. Guess I'll jerk off with broken glass... meaning, playing unity alone.
@@borangedunnBro you don't gotta be so hard on yourself. The fact that you're able to make these videos with thousands of views proves that you're charismatic and interesting to listen too.
This game was and still is a mess. Time to throw away your rose tainted glasses guys, and see Unity for what it is (aka letdown).
Idk how ppl find this game good. The story sucks so bad, its a love story between a girl that is blinded by revenge and pet arno who keeps following her around. Weapons and skills are so boring. And add to that all the bugs. Ppl who say this game is playable are just delusional.
I think that you can’t move well in the parkour is just a skill issue
Haa facts 😂
For the first time yes it is hard. It took me about 4 years to memorize and familiarize myself with the parkour system. 👍🏻
@@emanuelldavid6074 years!? Damn you really suck then, cause that’s not a normal learning curve here, and this game isn’t a dark souls, there’s no difficulty and the parkour stays inconsistent and broken despite learning it.
So far unity story is pretty bad.
Imagine making a game set in French revolution and focusing on some love story instead.
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 bro facts. Arno was unlikeable as f***. He was a complete simp. The whole story sucked ass.
@@Rengokuo4o6 He's too bland.
AC unity is as good as it could have been yeah the mistakes were giant but they took a copy of black flag to a new era of assassins creed in my opinion syndicate was the problem unity was a dodgy step in the right direction but syndicate undid all of unity and more
There's businesses you can build in order to gain money to buy all sets even the most costly armor or weapons. You can just do side quest while waiting for the cafes to gain money or open up other cafes
I've played this and it's straight TRASH game
i like it with mods everybody doesnt its cool to me
I agree all the way, but I never had money trouble really. A fully upgraded cafe and the social missions made ur hourly income through the roof
I can’t believe I wasted money on this trash worst $10 I have ever spent
Cap
Worst game I’ve ever played.
Let's be real here, Unity is undoubtedly has the best parkour in the entire series. But this toxic AC community is so biased that they think this game is the perfect game and then proceeds to using ACU fixes mod (because they actually know that the bugs still exist yet make a fool of themselves with their bias), to me a good game doesn't need any mod to be played with. The story of Unity is just really bad, the character is the worst in the series. Stealth isn't the best either as Syndicate has much more refined stealth, black box missions, and overall is a more polished game. In this garbage community if you have different opinion on Unity, means you're wrong and stupid. Thanks for your bravery to make this video man.
L take (Jk I didn't watch the video but I respect your opinion ❤)
finally someone has an actual brain
sucks?? It s one of the best episode! Oo A la Bastille! La guillotine pour ce traitre de royaliste BorangeDunn!!!
Err...zut alors! L'haleine de mon chat sent la nourriture pour chat!
Running Infront of gurds,
This games stealth sucks.😶
What? Whistling was first introduced in AC 3 although you can't do it in bushes. No offense but your credibility is starting to go down the drain, like do you even play the games 😭
And we already had parkour down in AC 3, hell there was even parkour down all the way back in the first AC game 😭
I also think AC Unity is overrated but your experience feels more like something a beginner would voice out, and I do not like the reasoning behind your criticisms, you don't really explain them in a proper way and can be completely different from what someone else experienced when playing the game.
Its the same as 95% of all videos criticizing AC games, the idea is there but the reasoning and care put into the criticisms is nowhere to be found. A bit more critical thinking would do these commentary videos good.
Just because you can share your opinion, doesn't mean you should.
The fact that you sre not only just absolutely horrendus at these types of games, but you are unwilling to paticipate in the game's mechanics makes your opinion invalid. A majority of your issues can be solved by learning from your mistakes and improving upon them. Unity doesn't have those issues, you do
Id rather play and enjoy 1 hour of ac unity then 10 of ac odyssey