@@KABLAMMATS Elden ring is RPG, AC is ACTION STEALTH GAME, learn the difference. RPGs had health bars since 2000s for obvious reasons because they are number games.
At this point it legitimately doesn't even matter anymore in what country and time period modern AC games are set; they always display the same ridiculously diverse population and sanitized culture.
Baghdad was actually a melting pot of culture back in the day due to it being a trade hub. Also, they put in a lot of historically accurate info into the game.
yep and there is always going to be trans people and other races mixing when it was not historically accurate and suddenly all women have rights and are girl bosses who can fight just as good as men if not better somehow.
@@5226-p1eIf they wanted a female-centered story they should have made them be from that legendary amazonian women tribe. I have no idea if they ever really existed but since when is historical accuracy important to the w0ak cultists?
They don't care. They want to literally rewrite human history to match their worldview. Why do you think they made Anne Boleyn black? They want to disown Europeans of hour history and cultural products, and give it away to everyone else.
How about a check list - story ✅ - stealth ✅ - parkour ✅ ( mid at best but it does have some flow after all ) - level design ✅ - short and condensed ✅ - combat ❌ - RPG ❌ It was indeed a return to root, a decent job at it. They not even try to overhype or bluffing about anything the game play exactly how it's marketed. Bordeaux been very honest and straightforward with us the entire development progress. Though the game still mid, atleast it was not your usual Ubisoft marketing
i'm a part of the fanbase and i can assure you there is only a small minority that supports the game, almost everything online went to hate on it, look at Lazerzz, one that give this game a chance is Leo K, and the other dude with 150k subscribers, the thing is. if you want to make a game make a return to roots, or try to do a new take, you need to slowly accept small changes after small changes, if AC fans hates on Mirage, then Ubisoft will NOT make any Stealth + Parkour + Social Stealth AC game anymore, same for NFS Unbound, if NFS fans hated the game just for a little cartoony effects, we will not receive any unique racing game. (current racing games all look the same, and almost all of them are sims, the arcade genre is dead, i wonder why)
assassins creed was intended by the orginal writers to be a cut and dry trilogy. set out to complete desmonds arc to relive the past and uncover the truths about the ones who came before. taking down abstergo from using the pieces of eden. and bringing the assassins order back from death. and as good as Brotherhood was for a game made in a year. brotherhood was the first attempt from ubisoft higher ups to try and serialize assassins creed. instead of seeing the game series as a brief but sweet story it could tell. they saw it at a statistic and here we are like every others corporate product. its a convoluted mess of ideas, lacks any creative vision or entegrity. but Still people will continue to buy the slop. it appeals to the lowest common demoninator of gamer. i think the funniest thing is desmond died for this future. he sacrificed himself and stopped the solar flare just for this crap. should of let it all burn
honestly ur so right i only played ac 2 and 3 but like wasn't the point of even being a assassin back in time was to find stuff for the future? tf is the overall story now are the assassins and templars even modern enemies anymore
Honestly, continuing the franchise wasn’t an awful idea. The modern day story just been suffering horribly from it as they kept bailing on narratives for it. And then the gameplay started to struggle as they decided that instead of improving upon the series staples they’d just abandon them in favor of making Witcher clones.
Patrice Desilets was planning to do AC3 (except with him still there so it would have been much better), and then he was going to do a fourth ancestor during the Incan Empire, and either at that point or the next game after, Desmond and Lucy were supposed to find an Isu spaceship that had everything they needed to restart the human race on another planet, and either the Templar Order was going to be defeated or they were going to cook with the Earth, but either way that was supposed to be the story. But we saw that the original story deviated all the way back in Brotherhood when they killed off the future Eve, and lo and behold Patrice left during Brotherhood's production, so this was very intentional. I think Patrice had a serious disagreement with the board in how things were to go, there was a fight, people got pissed and he was ousted. So this franchise has been incoherent and aimless for a long time, but the hype stands on the shoulders of the first three games that Desilets did.
@@yoyogangsta6696 at the end of 3 Junos digitized mind was set up to be the big bad. She did some stuff in 4. Then she was killed off in a book. The modern day has been stagnant. But I think Basim being Lokis reincarnation may finally be a setup to them actually doing something with modern day. They’re probably just kill him off too tho.
we always seem to believe "more" is better, but cant be satisfied with "enough". when a story knows what it wants to be and when to end it, we crave more, without understanding that future content in a series will have markedly lower quality.
Unfortunately it's not the real Sargon. It seems Ubisoft has completely abandoned inserting actual historical figures into their Assassin's Creed games.
@@Mr_MistahThey could've had a corrupt Caliph as the main antagonist or could've made the game be set in Yezid bin Muawiyah's time with him as the main antagonist.
@@Mr_Mistah the joke is about the political youtuber and mocking him for not being right wing enough. read the comment you are replying i did not reply to you and leftists got ptsd flashbacks from him being in the game.
Who would've guessed >Be Ubisoft >Make good successful stealth game about assassins, conspiracy and genetic memory >Turn it into bad RPG with latest installments, drive away all the original fans >Return to roots to save face >All the original fans that would've cared are long gone
Actually the OG fans have been praising this game. It has its issues, but it has brought the OG fans back for at least this game. Now all Ubisoft has to do is not screw up Project Red and maybe they can actually keep us around.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035as an OG fan myself, I disagree and have no plan to ever touch this game. Just as I can’t speak for everyone - neither can you. Let’s see what the numbers tell us before we start making broad assumptions that can’t be supported
@@frenchfriedbagel7035OG fan here, I'm not touching this stuff. I still have the original trilogy and Black Flag, and I'll rather play those and imagine better ending.
Honestly, I would agree if it was any other franchise or universe than Assassin's Creed. A franchise that built its mythology and history on the corner-stone of lies. The whole idea is that what we know, what is taught in schools and universities, is not true. That either information was lost and retold to fit a different narrative, or covered up by organizations like the Templars to better suit their narrative. After all, anyone can write a book, and they can put whatever they want in it.
Abbasid caliphate was generally cool, but it had serious issues like every empire in that era : 1- Slavery 2- Racism 3- Sexism 4- Corruption 5- Crushing opposition 6- Zealotry
Now that you mentioned marvel writing, some times old videos pop up from the old assasin creed games and people are amazed at how good the writing and facial expressions were in those games compared to new ones, you play these modern games and you are like "why did i like this series to begin with?" Then you see the old games and you remember why, my god the quality of entertainment media has declined so much and hit rock bottom and dug underground to go even deeper. I saw this video motivating video called "humanity first" two to be precise the first one was about avatar and the other about warhammer and that speech was so epic, it reminded me the old days where videogames were made for young men and not sexually confused latinx lesbians who watch marvel movies and laugh at the dorky jokes. We need to go back. Also i am mad that in the new far cry game, sorry i meant avatar game, you cant play as the good guys meaning the humans ,you instead play as blue catfaced female furry with a bow, because of course, i dont want to play as a furry lesbian damn it, i want to play as humans who are the good guys, this "resistance" setting in every ubisoft game and many other modern games is so tiring. Its like with starfield that you MUST play with the good guys and do good guy boring things but not be a hero just do what you are told and laugh at the stupid cringe woke jokes and preorder more games and get excited for the next product, i want this industry to collapse so much. Everything sucks now. Also does ubisoft realize that women loved Ezio? Same with yakuza, they like manly charming men, not some lesbian d y ke girlboss.
I also wanted to play as humans in Avatar, they simply made the bad guys way cooler with their mechs and big guns. Why would I want to play as a blue tree hugger? Lol
If you are reading this, you are the last line of defense for your hobbies. Do not buy modern games Do not support modern remakes and remasters Do not pre-order modern products that force you to engage with macrotransactions or live services. close the gate on the tourist that continue to ruin all aspects of hobbies, they don't deserve to entertain any hobby if all they want is to force their own headcannon and ideals on hobbies that were just fine as they were. the lie of modern audiences and global audiences must be ended for eternity. you can't please everyone, nor should you try.
Bruh cringe. You’re not changing shit. Gaming is mainstream. You need to look for better games. There are plenty of smaller developers creating great games with great value. If you think you not spending money is going to outweigh every Tom Dick and Harry spending thousands on BS then you’re delusional. And you sound goofy.
here's an easier idea, buy games that you like, don't follow what the internet said. play games for fun, not for clout, or shouting "woke games bad" like 2015, AC1 was woke, it had always been, Watch_Dogs was woke ( you're the fighting the evil organizations waa waa), Fallout had always been woke.
@@dAiMYoBeAr in another world. Apocalypto would seriously be the gold-standard. Last of the Mohicans? Pocahontas? Dances with Wolves? Revenant? Lots of “options” they could play with. Instead of any of those, Ubisoft will give us Pocahontas II, and I can’t say it with more clarity: it’s one of the worst movies ever created
Yes, Imagine an NPC would hurt in the leg and it would make him slower, or if he would be hurt in the right hand and he would have to use his left hand. How much variety could have been. Coughing from blood or just slowly spreading blood mark on his clothes...
What about dark souls & elden ring, etc??? I personally think ER is trash, but not because of these health bars. I do agree for this type of game it's a dumb idea
In Arabic History, there was never a woman leading an organisation or creed followed by Men and especially their people but according to Woke Western Ubisoft it isn't 😂😂😂
Hey, I'm against woke shit as much as the next guy but this is an assassin sect separated from normal customs. Their creed has no place for bullshit middle east sexism lol
Seeing the 14th assassins creed game be the same assassins creed game with incremental improvements almost makes me believe that ac2 and brotherhood were probably lightning caught in a bottle . Its painful to see how big of a nosedive the series took after those 2 games .
@@Flyon86 Yes, as someone who didn't like AC1 and AC2, I really liked Black Flag. The only thing I didn't like were the modern-day story parts, which were boring and broke the immersion.
From the first sentence it was obvious this review was biased. Assassins Creed has tried innovating the formula. At the cost of pissing off the fan base. So him saying that every AC game is the exact same is extremely ignorant and just shows that he’s approaching Mirage with malice and distain.
Arabian men might look like mashed potatoes, but somehow the women are often incredible beauties. I dated this Moroccan girl a few years ago that was just smoking hot, and I later met her mother and saw where she got that from. They could've been sisters. Arab women can be gorgeous. I know it's a sin to say that on Synth's channel, but it's the truth.
@@TheStraightestWhitestit’s a major dice roll on whether Middle Eastern woman can be hot, those jokes about not knowing what kinda goods you’re gonna get until you lift off the hood weren’t really jokes just actual life advice
Assassin's creed is the action/adventure series equivalent to COD, FIFA, madden, nba, etc. Only the most checked-out clueless and braindead consoomers lap it up. They're why the industry is like this. Blame them.
Earlier this week i went back and beat AC1 and i was so taken aback how they managed to go so backwards with this series. Depsite the Modern AC parkour being so dumbed down it somehow gets more difficult, because due to how automated it is the game has to assume what you want to do and performs an action almost opposite to what you want. They somehow *almost* mastered it nearly 20 years ago, a little less, including the quality of life changes the Ezio trilogy brought. As well as having an interesting story of these ancient groups constantly battling through the centuries and leading up to Desmond being forced to throw himself into the fray for the greater good. And now we're here. The series hit the downward spiral the moment he died.
Unity actually had pretty good parkour from what I remember and you couldn't just shimmy up a building in 2 seconds like in 3 or 4. It had plenty of flaws but that part was good.
@@Flyon86 Unity is one of my top 5 AC games, and i love its gameplay. Even though enemies did have "levels" (ranks) they weren't ridiculously OP because if you played it smart, you could be level 1 out of 5 and still be killing level 5/5 enemies (through both stealth and through hitless combat). I just didn't mention it for the sake of not making my comment longer than it already was. Syndicate ran with it and both emhanced it in some ways and limited it in others. The combat was a turn off, though because it can get a little repetitive.
It’s funny cos the Desmond parts were always considered the worst part of the game, but as soon as that plot was gone something was different with ac , and they’ve never been able to pick up the out of animus plot since
@@CharlieWhite101 Regardless if you liked it or hated it, it was that one thread keeping it all together in terms of narrative (i never had a problem with the modern day segments. In fact i wanted a completely modern day AC game after i played the desmond "levels" in 3) i didn't hate what they did in Black Flag through Syndicate, but it served little purpose and could've been completely cut out and we wouldn't be missing anything
It's crazy because judging from "big", or rather paid, reviews this game is really good and Ubisoft just tweeted how this was a big success in terms of sales. Why be creative when they can rehash assets from old games and sell it at full price?
Because the RPG games got backlash for not being Assassins Creed. If you don’t like the series that’s fine. But it was comfort food for me to have this fun gameplay loop within a well crafted historical location. That’s not for everyone. And that’s ok.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 As someone that loved Origins but hated the two games that came after I can say the problem wasn't the RPG aspect, it was the bloated filler content, weak sidequests and overall forgettable plot. Egypt was well crafted and memorable proving that you don't need a big map for the game to be fun.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035so you just want to consoom slop, awesome, people like you are what's killing the industry, you'll hungrily spread your cheeks for ubicock and LOVE it. Huff helium.
You know, for years I lamented and commiserated the death of the Splinter Cell series. After seeing what has become of Assassin’s Creed under Ubisoft, I’m seriously now convinced it was a mercy killing and we are ALL MUCH BETTER OFF with it ended with the memory of that once beloved series left largely intact.
All big game studios can do now is rehash old IP's to milk the name for all its worth, and when they do attempt to create a new IP, it's so much of a risk that it has to be the most bland, inoffensive and uninspired snooze-fest to try to appeal to the lowest common denominator, i.e. Starfield. The parallels between the biggest names in gaming and the biggest names in Hollywood are striking. Diverse, inclusive, money-grabbing remakes, reboots and corporate approved grey sludge.
@invictusinteractive9755 I tried rewatching Dune again, and I just couldn’t get through it. The forever androgynous Timothy Chalamet, whom looks as though he weighs 100lbs soaking wet with rocks in his pockets, as the hero protagonist is about as believable as a hen with teeth.
@invictusinteractive9755 Meh. Pretty pictures clishé solutions just like every other of his movies. I'm happy you liked it but I think his movies are equivalent of modern games with good graphics and bad mechanics.
Mirage is "back to the roots" in the same way Resident Evil 7 was "back to the roots," basically not at all. Its all just a marketing buzzword designed to pander to people with short memories and low standards, and zoomers who never even played the original games to begin with.
RE7 was “back to roots” in terms of returning back to the horror focus the series started with. “Back to roots” does not mean just making the new game play exactly 100% like the old game.
For me RE7 is kinda different back to roots if you compared it to AC Mirage back to its origin AC1, they both even have different kind of gameplay RE classic (From 1 to 3) are fixed camera tank control survival horror game while RE7 is first person horror game, i know RE4 to RE6 are kinda more action survival horror game because how succeed the RE4 was, and AC mirage is trying so hard to back to its root, but still the element from AC Valhalla is 50% still there.
@@rezaruki3912 Yeah, Mirages biggest fault is having to use Valhallas engine. But the team did a great job evoking the feeling of OG AC with what they had.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Yeah too bad, because this game mirage was intent to be Valhalla expansion as Basim back story, but nah Ubisoft released it as new game lol. We will have new AC game in Japan, but guess what the protagonist wont be a Japanese Shinobi.
@frenchfriedbagel7035 Resident evil was a survival horror series, not a horror one. There is a distinct difference. Re7 didn't return to anything. It took it in a completely different direction
The original Assassins Creed was like a tech-demo, but still had the soul of the Prince of Persia games on it. All that was lost over the time, and Ubisoft its incompetent enough to even callback right. Great review, man! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It actually makes sense to have diversity in race in Baghdad during the 9th century because at that time that city was the NYC of the world. People from all over the world went there for knowledge and wealth, it was literally the biggest city at that time. However yeah, too many females and women in power. It would make sense if they were wives of the ruler who had power and did the controlling in the shadows which is historically accurate but nope they made them full-on independent women with power.
Thanks for playing AC1 before this. Even if the mechanics were choppy the absolute contrast in wokeness between the first and mirage is shocking. Almost all women in the first have head coverings and guards actually react to getting hit unlike the sponge enemies in mirage. Mirage has a female leader of an order that’s supposed to be patriarchal in nature. Just look at Al-Mualim leading vs the smoking Khajiit voiced feminist in the new one. It’s evident they took the new games and their woke shit and painted a middle eastern veneer over it to trick old fans. A literal mirage if you will.
Not only that, but Altair and Malik were in shock when they found out Robert De Sable's double was a woman. Meaning women fighters/assassins/whatever was not even uncommon, it was rare at best.
@@SpectreStatusas they day... something rare that appears can be something special or leaves an impression... Now they make it blatant or even intention to trick you for just shock or spite
Remember in AC1 when you walked around the Assassin's base. Don't remember seeing any female Assassins walking around. Funny that. Ubisoft have been going down this path for a while, retconning AC Odyssey and Valhalla to say the female characters are the canon characters, why even let us fucking choose if that's the case? Of course we all know it's because they want to appeal to the mostly male demographic of gaming AND virtue signal at the same time. Maybe don't put the male characters on the fucking box art next time then. This is something that CDPR does as well, when Cyberpunk first came out it was male V in the big reveal trailers, male V on the box art and male V on the game icon. Now any time I see anything to do with that game it's always female V. In regards to Mirage of course the head of the assassin order is a woman in the middle east set over a thousand years ago. They just can't fucking help themselves, they HAVE to do it. Good luck to all the female Assassins trying to sneak around and getting executed for showing too much ankle. Just a side note, the advert for Mirage was fucking hilarious because nothing gets me immersed in ancient history like shitty modern rap music.
What do you mean? Female Assassins have been integrated in the Brotherhood ways before the AC1 timeline, Amunet and Iltani for instance, who had a statues in AC2, and many more of them in later games, such as Shao Jun, Aveline and Evie, etc. The concept of female Assassins has been around for a long time, before the retcon triology in AC series. So I don't know what this outrage is about? Also, did you even know Maria Thorpe, the future wife of Altair, featured as Templar Order member in AC1? Even Templar has one, why not for Assassin? There are things to upset about such as the lore changes, but female Assassin is not that, dude.
@@lastest_debteenator I think he’s trying to point out the ridiculousness of “girl bosses in the Middle East”, I’m more concerned about the historically inaccurate diversity that they portrait in Baghdad during the 8th-9th Century, they were governed under Sharia law. There also wasn’t sub-Saharan Africans or Asians, not unless they were slaves or traveling merchants. They made that shit look like LA, the only time there was diversity like that in medieval Baghdad was when the Mongols torched it..
Bayek Is honestly the last truly great AC protagonist, he was a vengenful and at times terrifying man but he also has a heart of gold. Basim just feels like their going backwards again, same with Odyssey and Valhalla, just generic main characters.
With Valhalla and Odyssey case they just shouldn't make two characters because writing the dialogues for 2 sexes hurts the personality of that character. No matter if you play as male or female Eivor, they all will behave exactly the same and speak the same dialogues in the same manner. Ubisoft should never introduce 2 characters. Not only this kinda breaks the Animus mechanic established long ago in the series (Why Layla's Animus doesn't know what sex a specific assassin was if the older Animus could do it with no problem) but also they give a middle finger to those who play as a male character. While Kassandra and Alexios are still exisiting characters but their roles in the story are different, Eivor exists only as a female canonically so playing a male Eivor feels completely pointless on a larger scale. Basim is the only character though so they could've do something more with him.
I LOVE how the part of the world that STILL has a problem with women DRIVING was SOOOOOO ahead of it's time in terms of progressive politics by letting women lead!!! XDXDXDXDXDXD
@@AlquimistEd It is fiction, but it uses real world events to tell its story. Assassins creed used to pride itself on having realism in its historical moments. Now that's thrown out the window for "modern audiences"
Agreed its bs but iraq isnt a arab country . Its a middleastern a populations cacasian and asians persians. And yes some Arabs come from the arabian desert regions. But yes very haram 😅
Man, remember when enemy types didn't just ignore attacks but instead denied very specific kill moves thus making you use more of your toolkit? AC3 stans remember. My favorite enemy type was the grenadier since it wasn't as restrictive as the uber officer nor as rare, but just restrictive enough that you couldn't just chain kill the man as he'd just headbutt you back. Add in the grenade which would mess you up if you just sat on one when it exploded, and the basic troop squad which came with what, 1 officer 1 drummer 4 riflemen and 2 grenadiers was a very fun combat encounter.
AC 3 combat was real brutal, looked really good. It seems like the "best" ac combat systems were only somewhat challenging, but always looked great. Look at AC Brotherhood combat. It was easy, but had great animations and flow, and you could get somewhat creative with it. Disarming guards, killing them with their own weapons, throwing spears and big swords, etc.
That was the premise of Shadow of Mordor and War right? Made the game perpetually fresh and challenging. Then you add the nemesis system... chefs kiss.
Spoilers for Valhalla if he reads this: Basically you are a Norse God, every important character is a Norse God you as Eivor is Odin and Basim is Loki. You learn this from a psycho who chopped off your "brother's" arm. None of the other Assassins were Gods only the shitty spin offs, which I'm glad cause I would drop Assassin Creed all together if Ezio was a Roman God. Lol
He's only teleporting because of the Animus. William Miles is just fast forwarding the memory. This ability has nothing to do with the actual time period, but outside of it.
He is so raw, that is why i fuck with syntheticman. No bullshit here, just pure truthful legit gamer feedback. Something we don’t get from anybody these days let alone youtubers. i think that’s why people don’t appreciate him. but i’m glad we have somebody to properly review these games for us, like the good old days on IGN before they fired all the honest people.
Slavery is only a little background window dressing and hardly mentioned, even thought the Middle Eastern slave trade was orders of magnitude larger than the Trans Atlantic slave trade. But you just know that if this same game was set in 1800's US, slavery would be THE central theme.
I am really amazed by this game. Those devs at ubisoft impressed me with their ability to somehow make the combat progressively worse with every new AC. They went above and beyond to ignore all the game code from previous titles and stitch together something worthy of Unity slop.
This is the only review I've seen that points out how female characters in positions of power is incongruous to the time period. Sure, it's a fantasy game, but it's also a *historical* setting, and with all Ubisoft's attention to detail on other things being accurate, stuff like this stands out. Yes, for me it can be immersion breaking, and if critics can slam 'Days Gone' because of its protagonist, then something like this should be worth mentioning, too. We all know why media outlets choose not to bring it up, so thank you for call this out.
Yeah, it's quite funny how Ubi removed a crossbow from AC1 because they thought it would be historically inaccurate. Today they give us superpowers, afterlife worlds and make the settings as inclusive as they can get even if it doesn't fit the time. Ubisoft, what has happened to you?
Ubisoft had to omit the part where the Middle East participated in the African “trade,” for fear of activist backlash so they made the subsaharan NPC’s into tradesmen, and traders. I mean, it’s well known how enlightened, and progressive 9th century IsIam was. /s
One thing really put me off the AC games was how literally the bad guys in all the games are the Christians, and just like in AC:R, Muslims are peaceful and progressive which I knew would be the case in this game. Can you even imagine the other way around? I can't believe there hasn't been an uproar. I wasnt even a Christian at the time of Valhalla but slaughtering Christians while they die saying things about Jesus was just so uncomfortable. Once again, can you imagine the equivalent for Muslims? Can't even show a drawing of Muhammad without them thinking murder is the appropriate response. Ubisoft cucked cowardly western developers with no knowledge and no dignity.
The reason basic combat felt so good in old assassins creed was that it was fluid. Even if it was easy there was amazing animations and momentum to one hit kills. It was fun and made you feel like you were actually a skilled fighter despite being birdeline braindead fighting. This just looks like a chore.
You have to respect Ubisoft Synth, they are one of the most consistent publishers/developers in the industry, for you to consistently make mediocre brain dead games for more than a decade, this is a incredible feat
So glad to have found someone who finally calls out the woke cringe in games. There's not nearly enough of that in gaming content. Keep up the good work.
As a certain youtube pimplord had said in his mock stream of the game: "Assassin Creed is going back to the roots, baby! Only we are confused on which roots ubisoft meant it to be..."
@@frenchfriedbagel7035have you even seen the video? Or livesteam of the game? This game has nothing alike with original assassin creed except for the fact that it was set in middle east. It's a blatant lie
@@Ozzystrayroo it has a greater stealth focus, it focuses on the assassins, it brings back black box missions (tho they aren’t great as black box missions), it gives you the assassins tools, has improved parkour and a world design built for it. It is a return to form. You’re just mad it’s not a 1:1 match to how the Ezio trilogy played. And look. I’m upset that the series has gone so far backwards with things like stealth and parkour. But the team behind this game genuinely tried with what they had. And that’s worth praise even if the game isn’t the absolute best AC to ever release. It feels like an AC game, which is a greater achievement than anything Odyssey or Valhalla did.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 i am not even mentioning ezio. When she meant roots with arabic setting, longtime fans would have assume the very first AC with Altair. And that game still has better stealth, a more realistic combat, a better city design and atmosphere, better character. If what she meant return to roots as in Origins, or Odyssey then yeah, she is correct. She returned to that roots but not the Altair Roots
Ikr? Yea GoT's combat is a bit simple, but its actually fun and didnt bored me from beginning to end. Man, fk you for making me hyped for a ghost of tsushima 2, which will never be released. 😡
I genuinely find it unbelievable how people expect any new ubishit games to be better than 6/10 at most. Soulless big maps with soulless fetch quests. I'm still waiting for a new rayman but I have a feeling it will never happend and if it will I don't think ubishit will be able to at least make it a little bit enjoyable.
Rayman is dead no matter how you view it, the guy who made the music also passed away and the original devs left the company. Rayman is just an IP that they pretend still exists
@@FlamespeedyAMV I didn't knew that all the original devs left but I did knew about Remi's passing. Unironically Rayman 1's soundtrack it's one of the if not my favorite game soundtrack ever, not long after Remi passed away someone pressed around 300 vinyl records with the whole Rayman 1 soundtrack + a few bonus tracks. Still one of the most unique records I have in the collection.
I miss rayman too, but i dont wanna touch new rayman knowning that its father Michel Ancel left the company and wont make any new rayman ever again. I mean, when was the last time when ubisoft made a good linear AAA game without open world and shit? In 2013 when they released Splinter Cell Blacklist? Although the game was too easy it's till far better than any ubisoft openworld jank. Same goes for rockstar
System specs keep getting more and more powerful, yet somehow, we now manage to have worse performance, worse gameplay and worse AI when compared to over an entire decade ago.
Blame triple AAA studios wanting to make a new game every 1-2 years, instead of making a good game and taking longer to do it. As long as that's the standard, we're just going to keep getting copy/paste slop.
Sometimes, you achieve more with less. Although, in AC and Ubisoft case that seems to be the result of shareholders and diversity hires pushing talented higher IQ original developers away.
I wish they could've pivoted more towards realism, I hate the faux-RPG combat and quirky enemies, but I suppose the trouble with being historically realistic is it's rarely going to be politically correct.
I feel like being too realistic can hurt a game, as well. There’s always gonna be some input delay because the game needs to play always play a specific animation or else it’s “immersion breaking”. I think one of the worst examples of this is Max Payne 3, it has all the trademarks of Rockstar realism but it’s applied to a game whose DNA is based on John Woo movies and The Matrix. It’s so annoying having your crosshair be pointed right at an enemy, but you can’t shoot because Max hasn’t played his “turning around” animation, so now you’re just dead. Going full-on realistic can have it’s own set of clunk.
@@dajokahbaby1506 If a game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance can be as focused on realism as it was and still deliver great gameplay, any game can focus on realism a lot more than they currently do. I agree that realism doesn't equal quality by itself, but this insanely immersion breaking slop we get nowadays is just an endless borefest.
@@TheStraightestWhitest I loved Kingdom Come: Deliverance but I don't know about great gameplay dude. The combat fell apart the moment it's anything more than a 1v1 duel. Mods (such as a more loose camera, and less chance of enemies perfect blocking you) improved it slightly, but it's still clunky.
@@dantecurry207 PunPun pfp >>> Eva pfp. But eva's a good show still just not a masterpiece especially the rebuilds, Eva was pretty good when Anno was depressed and the rebuilds were when Anno got happier and was in the process of recovering after all those Freud and or Jung therapy sessions apparently.
@@dasuero7489 Even with its flaws I liked nge quite a bit, but I absolutely despise the rebuilds. People will suck the skin off of them just because it’s Evangelion.
@@dantecurry207 Preach brother. The Rebuilds only got praise because Eva fanboys will like anything even if its a piece of shit. I bet you if the Eva license wasn't attached to it, people would've been more critical.
This was my favorite setting, so I am very sad they wasted it in this game. I hoped it was unity in the Middle East, but nope it was just Valhalla in the Middle East.
AC1 isn't a sandbox, it's a linear game with very wide corridors, everything you do prepares you for the assassination and escape, which is the entire concept of the game. you climb towers to familiarize yourself with the area, finding and climbing the towers teach you about the different paths you can take in the city, as you climb the towers you discover the activities, which set up the story and personality of your target, as well as guide you to their setpiece, once you get to that setpiece you now have to use everything you've learned through exploring the city and figuring out about their weaknesses to kill them and escape, this is also why climbing is "slow", so you can't just climb straight up but have to actually use parkour, every other AC game messes this up by letting you just climb straight up very fast, or even have those dumbass cranes that lift you up instantly or some grappling hook some other bullshit that lets you avoid using parkour. The game is an absolute masterpiece, it only does one thing but it does that one thing extremely well, and it's really not too long that it outstays its welcome.
So, I'm one of those people, if you ever seen the beginning of Assassin's Creed game, in which they say this game was worked with with various faiths and different beliefs blah blah blah. Yeah, that was me. I knew about Assassin's Creed Valhalla years before it was released. Sadly, they brought in a bunch of female gamers and all they really cared about was unreal boob armor. Because, you know, feminism. Honestly, years later, when I finally got to play Valhalla... I really didn't finish it. I just feel it was too bloated, and to be honest with you, I just became tired of the series. Assassin's Creed Odyssey took so much out of me to complete. The game literally was an odyssey. I'll bet you this. They purposely released this game this way. Because they want to say the old way does not work to their shareholders. And they never went back to their roots. All they did was add some old mechanics. But kept the ones people really don't like. So they purposely made this game bland. That's just my feeling with this game and from what I've seen.
While there were powerful women in the Medieval Middle East, they were so rare compared to the powerful men it's like having a white slave in a colonial America game. And its weird how there weren’t any white people despite the diversity of Baghad in the game. Trade from all over the Eastern hemisphere was common in the Middle East at the time, so it's weird to exclude Europeans but include everyone else.
I love how all enemies have a posture bar above their heads, but it's completely pointless since basic enemies can be killed after a single parry and armored enemies mainly use unblockable attacks which can't be parried, meaning the system is only effective against the assassin enemies. Even then, you'll probably kill the assassin with regular attacks before the posture comes into place. EDIT: I stand corrected, the spear-wielding enemies can be killed after two parries. Also, another problem with the combat system in Mirage is that when enemies block an attack from Basim, he just recoils back stupidly like he just hit a rubber wall, and the animation for that takes way too long.
Still using the same UI since origins. Imagine if Ac1, brotherhood and ac 3 all used the same engine and UI. Why are people still making excuses for this mind numbing mediocrity. And it's not just assassin's Creed, resident evil games started to feel like DLC as well, using the same UI since RE7.
Feels like the only reason AAA developers copied Destiny’s UI is because that is way lower effort to do for both controllers and KB+M compared to having a intuitive menu that can be navigated with either input method.
This I'd honestly say is your best 30 or half of an hour video to date and I can say that with confidence. Even within a shorter run time than your Slopfield video, you were still able to go pretty in depth with the mechanics and the story for Mirage. Not just telling us why we shouldn't play this game. Double points for explaining why the story is forgettable and woke but taking the time to explain why. You actually gave justification and didn't just say oh this is woke and complain only like so many of your previous videos which I don't mind but those Stoggaf did. If you can do this a little bit more often or consistently (doesn't need to be always), that would be a great addition to your content and freeform human nonrobotic stream of consciousness freeform style. It's such a fucking REFRESHING thing to hear why something is woke which you didn't do much in the past especially when people and detractors were giving you flak for your gender neutral bathrooms take in the Escapism is Dead video. It's certainly at least better than Drinker and G+G and all those other crappy right wing anti woke grifter channels using the same generic reason for why something is bad by virtue of the fact it's woke meaning and them saying it just means "muh bad writing". No shit, something's bad and lazy writing but that's far from the reason why it's woke and bad; it goes much deeper than that. But they can't help themselves because they want the money and clout, it's easy because much like sex negativity and outrage sells no matter how fake and put-on it is maybe even doubly so because of that. With all that said, I hope Ubisoft is purged. That or someone from somewhere somehow emerges and steps in and reworks their studio and structure into something less sludge filled and more gameR friendly. Oh and someone needs to fire the Roshan/Expanse actor she's had one too many.
One of the biggest Problems who got Overlooked many Times is, how obvious the Story of modern Media Products is these days. Its always the same, the Dude is weak & emotional unstable, the strong diversity dark sk1n c0lour fem4le on the other Hand saves the Day. And, surprise, Mirage do all of it in the first Section of the Game. I fall asleep every Time because we all know this is happening before we even start the Game. They Ruined everything with their polit1cs. (Sorry for Bad English). Lets hope they not ruin Avatar...
Last AC game I played was Black Flag, which I mostly enjoyed for the non-combat, non-AC, non-Ubisoft gameplay, so basically everything around the Ship. That was dope. After hours sailing the seas I continued with the main story and dropped the game soon after. It's weird to me that every game since then has been bland and overall worse. Yet people spend money on this shit, buy the microtransaction op weapons and armor . I don't even get it. They wouldn't be making these if they flopped. Yet I haven't had the urge to play one in over a decade. But we're not getting those games anymore from these studios. LIke AC1, where a passionate team gives a shit about making a "historically inspired" game. Wokeness is such a cancer, only spreading by infecting other properties, unable to create something of note itself. So now we get "classic middle east, but haram edition" setting. I used to want an AC game set in feudal japan. I don't anymore. They would fuck it up and make some of the Daimyoo female probably as well.
You hit the nail on the head, sir. Black flag was the last one I cared to play. I recently bought a ps4 copy AC Unity at a thrift store for four bucks. I'll eventually get to it once I do my replay of the earlier titles. I feel like Syndicate or Origins seems like the last place I'll stop. Agreed. I used to be excited for a Japan entry 10 years ago, but now, I just can't be bothered. Just like how I used to be hyped for the idea of a prince of persia, sands of time remake. Then they released that trailer in 2020 and I was like "Nope. I'll keep playing my ps3 version."
Its mid because it doesnt reach the feeling of fluidity of 3s combat or the parkour of Unity, but its a step in the right direction and is more an assassins creed game than what we have had in over 8 years. So im happy with it.
My favorite ac game was black flag even though it was less of an ac game and more of a pirate simulation I think the naval combat was very fun and story was pretty good.
"fake Witcher 3 clone entries" - finally I hear someone else acknowledge that fact. Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla are nothing more than a Wither 3 clone with ancient civilization skins. I played Origins first and was amazed by the design of the open world, played Wither 3 after and couldn't believe how Ubisoft basically stole everything from CDProjekt Red. The only reason I'm interested in this game is because it's short.... and the Prince of Persia weapons
The only time for me that it didn't feel cheap was against the enemies that you couldn't block, that could counter everything you had and also had pistols. Those enemies were so infuriating that I'd pop smoke just to be rid of them. Don't know if they were in any of the games after revelations though.
I read about it lol instead of picking between a Japanese male or female, we pick between a Japanese female, and a black refugee 🤣🤣 they just HAD to ruin a good AC setting with some bullshit.
@@jayare2583 What's funny it's it's ONLY because of the extremely forgettable "Yasuke" anime about a African samurai (who wasn't even historically a samurai) that came out on Netflix two years ago. So not even an original idea by woke standards.
Damn bro I was really hoping this game would revive the franchise I once loved, too bad it's just another generic Ubisoft trash. Thanks for the review Synth
It’s a good return to form for the series. You listen to Synths opening bit and it’s clear that he doesn’t even know what he wants from this series. He criticized the game for not being AC1, and then that it’s just like the old games, and then that it’s too much like the new games.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 He never said that it was like the old games. He expressly said it wasn't. Maybe you should rewatch it. It is in no, way, shape or form similar to assassin's creed 1, stop spreading lies.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... when you showed the clips of AC1 vs ACM, AC1 actually looked more detailed and appeared to have better lighting and animations?!?! LOLOLOL They are literally making games worse.
Pretty much what I was expecting really. I don't know why a lot of AC fans, even old ones really thought this will be the rebirth of the series. I knew better than to trust Ubisoft.
I get your complaints when it comes to wokeness. It's annoying I know. But Baghdad, like many major cities in the Middle East at the time, was quite multicultural. So that specific part isn't necessarily wrong.
I’ve never studied ancient Islamic history so I don’t know how true to life that the games rendition of Baghdad and the Middle East is from the time, but from what I can gather, Baghdad was at the time a trade city, and merchants from across the world would gather, as for how the women are portrayed, that I can’t say if it’s true to how the time period is back then since I’ve never studied this history period, but I will say I know the Middle East back then most likely wasn’t the Middle East of today
Multicultural in the sense that it had Sunni/Shia Arabs, Kurds, Persians, and Turks but not Sub-Saharan Africans or Asians unless they were enslaved or merchants but not permanent residents of the city. The only time Baghdad had that kind of outside diversity was when the Mongols torched it! Baghdad was specifically a trade hub for the Muslim world, not the “world” abroad. They had a slave trade, and silk trade which is really the only way you could justify it. Baghdad is also known for creating Sharia law into a legal code outside religious texts so we’re talking peak xenophobia, misogyny, and religious intolerance… No the brown people of the world did not hold hands and sing kumbaiya in fact this was a period of Islamic conquests into India and against the Christian Ethiopians, they didn’t really integrate new populations into the Middle East, they just exported Islam to conquered territories and established new caliphates.
Glad to see Synth finally review mobile games.
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Still waiting on that Angry Birds: Star Wars II review we were promised 😡😤😡😤
not ironically AC Mirage will be released for iPhone 15
Healthbars for enemies and its consequences have been a disaster for AAA studios
That, amongst other reasons is why Wolfenstein Youngblood is the the worst one. Messed with the game formula.
Is that you Ted Kaczynski ? ;)
Elden ring has health bar
@@KABLAMMATS Elden ring is RPG, AC is ACTION STEALTH GAME, learn the difference. RPGs had health bars since 2000s for obvious reasons because they are number games.
And damage numbers and floating icons on the he screenin every game telling you exactly where to go modern gaming sucks
At this point it legitimately doesn't even matter anymore in what country and time period modern AC games are set; they always display the same ridiculously diverse population and sanitized culture.
Baghdad was actually a melting pot of culture back in the day due to it being a trade hub.
Also, they put in a lot of historically accurate info into the game.
When everywhere is diverse no where is
yep and there is always going to be trans people and other races mixing when it was not historically accurate and suddenly all women have rights and are girl bosses who can fight just as good as men if not better somehow.
@@5226-p1eIf they wanted a female-centered story they should have made them be from that legendary amazonian women tribe. I have no idea if they ever really existed but since when is historical accuracy important to the w0ak cultists?
@@WorldWalker128
right lol.
I don't know why more people don't realize that all this forced inclusion makes the setting feel deeply inauthentic.
White people are now having to educate people on the fact The Middle East had Arabs and not women in these positions of power
Authenticity is a reminder of reality. These people don't want to even acknowledge real life.
Get ready for Witch 4 when Ciri becomes boss girl stereotype after CDPR just announced diversity and inclusion this week.
Ok fr. How is having a Female assassin forced inclusion?
They don't care. They want to literally rewrite human history to match their worldview. Why do you think they made Anne Boleyn black? They want to disown Europeans of hour history and cultural products, and give it away to everyone else.
Ubisoft's marketing team is genius, just claim this basic game is "a return to classic AC games" and half the fanbase will dickride it online.
How about a check list
- story ✅
- stealth ✅
- parkour ✅ ( mid at best but it does have some flow after all )
- level design ✅
- short and condensed ✅
- combat ❌
- RPG ❌
It was indeed a return to root, a decent job at it. They not even try to overhype or bluffing about anything the game play exactly how it's marketed. Bordeaux been very honest and straightforward with us the entire development progress. Though the game still mid, atleast it was not your usual Ubisoft marketing
i'm a part of the fanbase and i can assure you there is only a small minority that supports the game, almost everything online went to hate on it, look at Lazerzz, one that give this game a chance is Leo K, and the other dude with 150k subscribers, the thing is. if you want to make a game make a return to roots, or try to do a new take, you need to slowly accept small changes after small changes, if AC fans hates on Mirage, then Ubisoft will NOT make any Stealth + Parkour + Social Stealth AC game anymore, same for NFS Unbound, if NFS fans hated the game just for a little cartoony effects, we will not receive any unique racing game. (current racing games all look the same, and almost all of them are sims, the arcade genre is dead, i wonder why)
@@JayB_GBlevel design and story were mid
R/assassinscreed down votes everyone who says anything negative about the game, the coping is so bad
They don't have to be genius, the average gamer is dumb and spineless.
assassins creed was intended by the orginal writers to be a cut and dry trilogy. set out to complete desmonds arc to relive the past and uncover the truths about the ones who came before. taking down abstergo from using the pieces of eden. and bringing the assassins order back from death. and as good as Brotherhood was for a game made in a year. brotherhood was the first attempt from ubisoft higher ups to try and serialize assassins creed. instead of seeing the game series as a brief but sweet story it could tell. they saw it at a statistic and here we are like every others corporate product. its a convoluted mess of ideas, lacks any creative vision or entegrity. but Still people will continue to buy the slop. it appeals to the lowest common demoninator of gamer. i think the funniest thing is desmond died for this future. he sacrificed himself and stopped the solar flare just for this crap. should of let it all burn
honestly ur so right i only played ac 2 and 3 but like wasn't the point of even being a assassin back in time was to find stuff for the future? tf is the overall story now are the assassins and templars even modern enemies anymore
Honestly, continuing the franchise wasn’t an awful idea. The modern day story just been suffering horribly from it as they kept bailing on narratives for it.
And then the gameplay started to struggle as they decided that instead of improving upon the series staples they’d just abandon them in favor of making Witcher clones.
Patrice Desilets was planning to do AC3 (except with him still there so it would have been much better), and then he was going to do a fourth ancestor during the Incan Empire, and either at that point or the next game after, Desmond and Lucy were supposed to find an Isu spaceship that had everything they needed to restart the human race on another planet, and either the Templar Order was going to be defeated or they were going to cook with the Earth, but either way that was supposed to be the story. But we saw that the original story deviated all the way back in Brotherhood when they killed off the future Eve, and lo and behold Patrice left during Brotherhood's production, so this was very intentional. I think Patrice had a serious disagreement with the board in how things were to go, there was a fight, people got pissed and he was ousted. So this franchise has been incoherent and aimless for a long time, but the hype stands on the shoulders of the first three games that Desilets did.
@@yoyogangsta6696 at the end of 3 Junos digitized mind was set up to be the big bad. She did some stuff in 4. Then she was killed off in a book.
The modern day has been stagnant. But I think Basim being Lokis reincarnation may finally be a setup to them actually doing something with modern day.
They’re probably just kill him off too tho.
we always seem to believe "more" is better, but cant be satisfied with "enough". when a story knows what it wants to be and when to end it, we crave more, without understanding that future content in a series will have markedly lower quality.
Unbelievable how many times they can make this game over and over and people still buy it.
I think the same with fifa lol
@@CaseyDavies-od7ir pokemon too
COD, Need for Speed, Battlefield, FIFA, NFL, NBA2k, I mean thats just what people like man. I like AC. So i buy AC
He copies all of his shit opinions from 4chan you retard. Lmao
>dude woke bad I browse pol in le speshal awoken high iq schizo
They did a bait n switch on this one to capitalize on ac1-ac2 nostalgics
"The bad guys are Sargon & the skeptic community" 🤣🤣🤣
Unfortunately it's not the real Sargon.
It seems Ubisoft has completely abandoned inserting actual historical figures into their Assassin's Creed games.
@@Mr_MistahThey could've had a corrupt Caliph as the main antagonist or could've made the game be set in Yezid bin Muawiyah's time with him as the main antagonist.
to be fair sargon is very right wing these days he has improved.
@@arkgaharandan5881 We're referring to the Mesopotamia "Sargon of Akkad" not the political youtuber lol
@@Mr_Mistah the joke is about the political youtuber and mocking him for not being right wing enough. read the comment you are replying i did not reply to you and leftists got ptsd flashbacks from him being in the game.
Who would've guessed
>Be Ubisoft
>Make good successful stealth game about assassins, conspiracy and genetic memory
>Turn it into bad RPG with latest installments, drive away all the original fans
>Return to roots to save face
>All the original fans that would've cared are long gone
Actually the OG fans have been praising this game. It has its issues, but it has brought the OG fans back for at least this game.
Now all Ubisoft has to do is not screw up Project Red and maybe they can actually keep us around.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035as an OG fan myself, I disagree and have no plan to ever touch this game.
Just as I can’t speak for everyone - neither can you.
Let’s see what the numbers tell us before we start making broad assumptions that can’t be supported
@@frenchfriedbagel7035OG fan here, I'm not touching this stuff. I still have the original trilogy and Black Flag, and I'll rather play those and imagine better ending.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035og fan I fuck with the game it’s good
It wasn't really that good of a stealth game
as an Iraqi from Baghdad; seeing a female blacksmith is more unrealistic to me than Basim moving faster than sound
I think you'll survive, until you start killing each other over religion...again.
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That job is so hard I doubt most women could even physically stand it.
@@G-Mastah-Fash yeah, wokeism is as bad as Templars😮💨
Honestly, I would agree if it was any other franchise or universe than Assassin's Creed. A franchise that built its mythology and history on the corner-stone of lies. The whole idea is that what we know, what is taught in schools and universities, is not true. That either information was lost and retold to fit a different narrative, or covered up by organizations like the Templars to better suit their narrative. After all, anyone can write a book, and they can put whatever they want in it.
The only mirage happening is the mirage that a medieval, Middle Eastern Islamic society would be this progressive.
Jewslamic progressive society isn't new
They were still more progressive compared to christian realms at the time.
@@microwaveenthusiast7410?
Abbasid caliphate was generally cool, but it had serious issues like every empire in that era :
1- Slavery
2- Racism
3- Sexism
4- Corruption
5- Crushing opposition
6- Zealotry
@@EritSanguine ?
Now that you mentioned marvel writing, some times old videos pop up from the old assasin creed games and people are amazed at how good the writing and facial expressions were in those games compared to new ones, you play these modern games and you are like "why did i like this series to begin with?" Then you see the old games and you remember why, my god the quality of entertainment media has declined so much and hit rock bottom and dug underground to go even deeper. I saw this video motivating video called "humanity first" two to be precise the first one was about avatar and the other about warhammer and that speech was so epic, it reminded me the old days where videogames were made for young men and not sexually confused latinx lesbians who watch marvel movies and laugh at the dorky jokes. We need to go back. Also i am mad that in the new far cry game, sorry i meant avatar game, you cant play as the good guys meaning the humans ,you instead play as blue catfaced female furry with a bow, because of course, i dont want to play as a furry lesbian damn it, i want to play as humans who are the good guys, this "resistance" setting in every ubisoft game and many other modern games is so tiring. Its like with starfield that you MUST play with the good guys and do good guy boring things but not be a hero just do what you are told and laugh at the stupid cringe woke jokes and preorder more games and get excited for the next product, i want this industry to collapse so much. Everything sucks now.
Also does ubisoft realize that women loved Ezio? Same with yakuza, they like manly charming men, not some lesbian d y ke girlboss.
I also wanted to play as humans in Avatar, they simply made the bad guys way cooler with their mechs and big guns. Why would I want to play as a blue tree hugger? Lol
@@SammEater your choices are
-cat faced blue furry with a bow
-duke nuke in a mech.
ubisoft be like "nah you gotta play as the resistance."
Fr, the Ezio games were GOATED. So far ahead of their time.
@ZoomerStasi Your comment got shadowbanned due to the gem word, I saw the notification but your comment disappeared.
I always wanted to play The Enclave but the games just wouldn't let me.
Wow Ubisoft made a boring shit game no way I’m shocked 😮
Well, there's always ONE black sheep in the family 😂
"I am shocked, SHOCKED. Weeell not that shocked."
Add it the pile of Ubislop releases post Unity
@@BoleDaPolesyndicate was good
u know that movie with the dog enever ending story , thats EA , are u jokeing?
If you are reading this, you are the last line of defense for your hobbies.
Do not buy modern games
Do not support modern remakes and remasters
Do not pre-order modern products that force you to engage with macrotransactions or live services.
close the gate on the tourist that continue to ruin all aspects of hobbies, they don't deserve to entertain any hobby if all they want is to force their own headcannon and ideals on hobbies that were just fine as they were. the lie of modern audiences and global audiences must be ended for eternity.
you can't please everyone, nor should you try.
I'm the other side of the coin. I pirate all games
@@believer431you should consider suicide sir
Bruh cringe. You’re not changing shit. Gaming is mainstream.
You need to look for better games. There are plenty of smaller developers creating great games with great value.
If you think you not spending money is going to outweigh every Tom Dick and Harry spending thousands on BS then you’re delusional.
And you sound goofy.
here's an easier idea, buy games that you like, don't follow what the internet said. play games for fun, not for clout, or shouting "woke games bad" like 2015, AC1 was woke, it had always been, Watch_Dogs was woke ( you're the fighting the evil organizations waa waa), Fallout had always been woke.
@@believer431nah support indie and good aaa studios pirate ubisoft and ea
You know I keep hoping for an Aztec AC, but with Ubisoft today, I think I'd rather just not ever see it happen.
Everything interesting about the setting would just be filed away and the game would be the same old shit with a different coat of paint
I imagine it would be a lot like the movie “Prey”.
@@drawmelikeafrenchgirlapocalypto
@@dAiMYoBeAr in another world.
Apocalypto would seriously be the gold-standard. Last of the Mohicans? Pocahontas? Dances with Wolves? Revenant?
Lots of “options” they could play with.
Instead of any of those, Ubisoft will give us Pocahontas II, and I can’t say it with more clarity: it’s one of the worst movies ever created
Even one set in the Nubian empire or Mali would be so cool
Health bars are just a cheap way to avoid enemies being coded to show them taking visible damage.
not really, no
@@Noob-yx1cu??
Yes, Imagine an NPC would hurt in the leg and it would make him slower, or if he would be hurt in the right hand and he would have to use his left hand. How much variety could have been.
Coughing from blood or just slowly spreading blood mark on his clothes...
What about dark souls & elden ring, etc??? I personally think ER is trash, but not because of these health bars. I do agree for this type of game it's a dumb idea
Health bars aren't bad it's just the game that uses them is bad
In Arabic History, there was never a woman leading an organisation or creed followed by Men and especially their people but according to Woke Western Ubisoft it isn't 😂😂😂
you are a bigot!
Did you know that, acording to AC lore, Al Gore is an Assassin and W. Bush is a templar?
@@amadeusagripino6862😂
@@markdurham7918Ottomans aren’t Arabs
Hey, I'm against woke shit as much as the next guy but this is an assassin sect separated from normal customs. Their creed has no place for bullshit middle east sexism lol
So According to Ubisoft, every country in the world along the history was California at some point
Ubisoft has been clueless what to do with this series since they killed Desmond off at the end of 3.
They should've re-vamped gameplay and release AC codename Red thats the game everyone wants!
Desmond sucked though
Seeing the 14th assassins creed game be the same assassins creed game with incremental improvements almost makes me believe that ac2 and brotherhood were probably lightning caught in a bottle . Its painful to see how big of a nosedive the series took after those 2 games .
Black flag was good, it wasn't much of an assassin creed game but it was a fun pirate game.
@@Flyon86 Yes, as someone who didn't like AC1 and AC2, I really liked Black Flag. The only thing I didn't like were the modern-day story parts, which were boring and broke the immersion.
@@Flyon86 honestly its the game that made me give up on the series but i agree ac 2 and brotherhood were the best.
The series was good until Odyssey.
@@Extreme96PLSame, I think it’s probably because Black Flag felt more like a game to me lol
Thank you Synthetic for all the unfiltered reviews, it's nice to see someone giving unbiased opinions for a change, we love your vids
Good too that he stuck with it after all the bs
"Unbiased" Yeah sure lol
From the first sentence it was obvious this review was biased.
Assassins Creed has tried innovating the formula. At the cost of pissing off the fan base.
So him saying that every AC game is the exact same is extremely ignorant and just shows that he’s approaching Mirage with malice and distain.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 To say Synthetic Man is unbiased is like saying Donald Trump is a good Christian.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 >Assassins Creed has tried innovating the formula
Everything you say afterwards should be discredited.
Of course that’s a woman, in fact she’s probably considered the fairest sand lady in all of the Middle East.
Shes a Desert Princess
@@sebastianprimomija8375The most beautiful Desert Princess, with her rejected suitors even committing suicide perhaps.
She’s actually kind of a jerk and makes a bad decision that comes back around to bite her.
Arabian men might look like mashed potatoes, but somehow the women are often incredible beauties. I dated this Moroccan girl a few years ago that was just smoking hot, and I later met her mother and saw where she got that from. They could've been sisters. Arab women can be gorgeous. I know it's a sin to say that on Synth's channel, but it's the truth.
@@TheStraightestWhitestit’s a major dice roll on whether Middle Eastern woman can be hot, those jokes about not knowing what kinda goods you’re gonna get until you lift off the hood weren’t really jokes just actual life advice
Assassin's creed is the action/adventure series equivalent to COD, FIFA, madden, nba, etc. Only the most checked-out clueless and braindead consoomers lap it up. They're why the industry is like this. Blame them.
Ubislop and EA need to go.
Earlier this week i went back and beat AC1 and i was so taken aback how they managed to go so backwards with this series. Depsite the Modern AC parkour being so dumbed down it somehow gets more difficult, because due to how automated it is the game has to assume what you want to do and performs an action almost opposite to what you want. They somehow *almost* mastered it nearly 20 years ago, a little less, including the quality of life changes the Ezio trilogy brought. As well as having an interesting story of these ancient groups constantly battling through the centuries and leading up to Desmond being forced to throw himself into the fray for the greater good. And now we're here. The series hit the downward spiral the moment he died.
Unity actually had pretty good parkour from what I remember and you couldn't just shimmy up a building in 2 seconds like in 3 or 4. It had plenty of flaws but that part was good.
@@Flyon86 Unity is one of my top 5 AC games, and i love its gameplay. Even though enemies did have "levels" (ranks) they weren't ridiculously OP because if you played it smart, you could be level 1 out of 5 and still be killing level 5/5 enemies (through both stealth and through hitless combat). I just didn't mention it for the sake of not making my comment longer than it already was. Syndicate ran with it and both emhanced it in some ways and limited it in others. The combat was a turn off, though because it can get a little repetitive.
AC1 was the goat. The fact you could choose how to infiltrate the target yourself (with one exception, the bowman guy) was really great.
It’s funny cos the Desmond parts were always considered the worst part of the game, but as soon as that plot was gone something was different with ac , and they’ve never been able to pick up the out of animus plot since
@@CharlieWhite101 Regardless if you liked it or hated it, it was that one thread keeping it all together in terms of narrative (i never had a problem with the modern day segments. In fact i wanted a completely modern day AC game after i played the desmond "levels" in 3) i didn't hate what they did in Black Flag through Syndicate, but it served little purpose and could've been completely cut out and we wouldn't be missing anything
It's crazy because judging from "big", or rather paid, reviews this game is really good and Ubisoft just tweeted how this was a big success in terms of sales. Why be creative when they can rehash assets from old games and sell it at full price?
Just like COD
Because the RPG games got backlash for not being Assassins Creed.
If you don’t like the series that’s fine. But it was comfort food for me to have this fun gameplay loop within a well crafted historical location.
That’s not for everyone. And that’s ok.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Except this game wasn’t even trying to be historical. Women leading every organization in 9th century Baghdad? Give me a break.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 As someone that loved Origins but hated the two games that came after I can say the problem wasn't the RPG aspect, it was the bloated filler content, weak sidequests and overall forgettable plot. Egypt was well crafted and memorable proving that you don't need a big map for the game to be fun.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035so you just want to consoom slop, awesome, people like you are what's killing the industry, you'll hungrily spread your cheeks for ubicock and LOVE it. Huff helium.
17:13 Watching Basim zipline down a rope with his bare hands actually made my hands hurt. How does Basim still have skin on his palms?
He galvanized his palms with callouses from years of masturbating.
Has literally been a criticism since Origins.
The zip line is cool, but if they’re going to do it they need to bring back the hook blade.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035How many parts does a hook blade have?
@@godfatherezio two, a hook and a blade XD
He’s built up callouses on his hands over the years, and it wasn’t from playing the guitar…
Ubisoft is allergic to creative ideas and interesting games
You know Ubisoft sucks when even normies notice this. How soulless can a company get?
to such a point they will buy the studio the ac creator went and fire him.
@@arkgaharandan5881Seriously? Is that real?
The game was literally meant to be a one time throwback to the OG style.
Everything capitalism touches, withers and dies. Especially creativity.
I stopped at Black Flag and thought that was enough AC for me
Same.
@@tucanloucasso Perhaps. I might play gta 6 though.
You know, for years I lamented and commiserated the death of the Splinter Cell series. After seeing what has become of Assassin’s Creed under Ubisoft, I’m seriously now convinced it was a mercy killing and we are ALL MUCH BETTER OFF with it ended with the memory of that once beloved series left largely intact.
Well I have some bad news ubisoft greenlit a remake of splinter cell last year
@@sumstuff6956didn't they say it will be for a "Modern Audience"?
Imagine having female terrorists in a splinter cell game 😂.
All big game studios can do now is rehash old IP's to milk the name for all its worth, and when they do attempt to create a new IP, it's so much of a risk that it has to be the most bland, inoffensive and uninspired snooze-fest to try to appeal to the lowest common denominator, i.e. Starfield.
The parallels between the biggest names in gaming and the biggest names in Hollywood are striking. Diverse, inclusive, money-grabbing remakes, reboots and corporate approved grey sludge.
@invictusinteractive9755 I tried rewatching Dune again, and I just couldn’t get through it. The forever androgynous Timothy Chalamet, whom looks as though he weighs 100lbs soaking wet with rocks in his pockets, as the hero protagonist is about as believable as a hen with teeth.
@invictusinteractive9755 Meh. Pretty pictures clishé solutions just like every other of his movies. I'm happy you liked it but I think his movies are equivalent of modern games with good graphics and bad mechanics.
Here's my question. Why were there blacks in Assassin's Creed Valhalla but there are no whites in Mirage?
Gotcha!)
Mirage is "back to the roots" in the same way Resident Evil 7 was "back to the roots," basically not at all. Its all just a marketing buzzword designed to pander to people with short memories and low standards, and zoomers who never even played the original games to begin with.
RE7 was “back to roots” in terms of returning back to the horror focus the series started with.
“Back to roots” does not mean just making the new game play exactly 100% like the old game.
For me RE7 is kinda different back to roots if you compared it to AC Mirage back to its origin AC1, they both even have different kind of gameplay RE classic (From 1 to 3) are fixed camera tank control survival horror game while RE7 is first person horror game, i know RE4 to RE6 are kinda more action survival horror game because how succeed the RE4 was, and AC mirage is trying so hard to back to its root, but still the element from AC Valhalla is 50% still there.
@@rezaruki3912 Yeah, Mirages biggest fault is having to use Valhallas engine. But the team did a great job evoking the feeling of OG AC with what they had.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Yeah too bad, because this game mirage was intent to be Valhalla expansion as Basim back story, but nah Ubisoft released it as new game lol.
We will have new AC game in Japan, but guess what the protagonist wont be a Japanese Shinobi.
@frenchfriedbagel7035
Resident evil was a survival horror series, not a horror one. There is a distinct difference. Re7 didn't return to anything. It took it in a completely different direction
The original Assassins Creed was like a tech-demo, but still had the soul of the Prince of Persia games on it.
All that was lost over the time, and Ubisoft its incompetent enough to even callback right.
Great review, man! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I played all Prince of Persia and only AC1 . Great games
I’m still hoping for Prince of Persia Assassins lol
It actually makes sense to have diversity in race in Baghdad during the 9th century because at that time that city was the NYC of the world. People from all over the world went there for knowledge and wealth, it was literally the biggest city at that time. However yeah, too many females and women in power. It would make sense if they were wives of the ruler who had power and did the controlling in the shadows which is historically accurate but nope they made them full-on independent women with power.
Thanks for playing AC1 before this. Even if the mechanics were choppy the absolute contrast in wokeness between the first and mirage is shocking. Almost all women in the first have head coverings and guards actually react to getting hit unlike the sponge enemies in mirage. Mirage has a female leader of an order that’s supposed to be patriarchal in nature. Just look at Al-Mualim leading vs the smoking Khajiit voiced feminist in the new one. It’s evident they took the new games and their woke shit and painted a middle eastern veneer over it to trick old fans. A literal mirage if you will.
Khajiit like to sneek
Not only that, but Altair and Malik were in shock when they found out Robert De Sable's double was a woman. Meaning women fighters/assassins/whatever was not even uncommon, it was rare at best.
oh look another angry incel. Omg a female in charge!
@@SpectreStatusas they day... something rare that appears can be something special or leaves an impression...
Now they make it blatant or even intention to trick you for just shock or spite
It's just so weird seeing it... like even to this day most of the middle east is highly oppressive towards women
Been some weeks and still mock my friend for pre-ordering it, even if it isn't bad, trusting Ubisoft is a no no
I don't understand why people pre order games 😂 it's just giving these shit companies the justification to keep making these tarts is funny tho
calling this game mid is a crime because it kind of represents the real problem of modern gaming, normiefication
normiefication lol😂
Hate to break it to you, but you probably are a normie, gaming is a normie hobby now.
@@Naijirono I'm not
Executivification. The kind of game that sounds good in press conferences and board meetings, but which even normies are starting to find too normie
projection@@Naijiro
Remember in AC1 when you walked around the Assassin's base. Don't remember seeing any female Assassins walking around. Funny that.
Ubisoft have been going down this path for a while, retconning AC Odyssey and Valhalla to say the female characters are the canon characters, why even let us fucking choose if that's the case?
Of course we all know it's because they want to appeal to the mostly male demographic of gaming AND virtue signal at the same time. Maybe don't put the male characters on the fucking box art next time then.
This is something that CDPR does as well, when Cyberpunk first came out it was male V in the big reveal trailers, male V on the box art and male V on the game icon. Now any time I see anything to do with that game it's always female V.
In regards to Mirage of course the head of the assassin order is a woman in the middle east set over a thousand years ago. They just can't fucking help themselves, they HAVE to do it. Good luck to all the female Assassins trying to sneak around and getting executed for showing too much ankle.
Just a side note, the advert for Mirage was fucking hilarious because nothing gets me immersed in ancient history like shitty modern rap music.
This comment in a nutshell: I'm scared of women 😢
True.
What do you mean? Female Assassins have been integrated in the Brotherhood ways before the AC1 timeline, Amunet and Iltani for instance, who had a statues in AC2, and many more of them in later games, such as Shao Jun, Aveline and Evie, etc. The concept of female Assassins has been around for a long time, before the retcon triology in AC series.
So I don't know what this outrage is about?
Also, did you even know Maria Thorpe, the future wife of Altair, featured as Templar Order member in AC1? Even Templar has one, why not for Assassin?
There are things to upset about such as the lore changes, but female Assassin is not that, dude.
@@lastest_debteenator I think he’s trying to point out the ridiculousness of “girl bosses in the Middle East”, I’m more concerned about the historically inaccurate diversity that they portrait in Baghdad during the 8th-9th Century, they were governed under Sharia law. There also wasn’t sub-Saharan Africans or Asians, not unless they were slaves or traveling merchants. They made that shit look like LA, the only time there was diversity like that in medieval Baghdad was when the Mongols torched it..
Being a girlboss in middle east is just having a death wish lol
Bayek Is honestly the last truly great AC protagonist, he was a vengenful and at times terrifying man but he also has a heart of gold.
Basim just feels like their going backwards again, same with Odyssey and Valhalla, just generic main characters.
With Valhalla and Odyssey case they just shouldn't make two characters because writing the dialogues for 2 sexes hurts the personality of that character. No matter if you play as male or female Eivor, they all will behave exactly the same and speak the same dialogues in the same manner. Ubisoft should never introduce 2 characters. Not only this kinda breaks the Animus mechanic established long ago in the series (Why Layla's Animus doesn't know what sex a specific assassin was if the older Animus could do it with no problem) but also they give a middle finger to those who play as a male character. While Kassandra and Alexios are still exisiting characters but their roles in the story are different, Eivor exists only as a female canonically so playing a male Eivor feels completely pointless on a larger scale. Basim is the only character though so they could've do something more with him.
I have to disagre. I think Alexios was great. But mostly because of the voice actor, he did a really good job.
I LOVE how the part of the world that STILL has a problem with women DRIVING was SOOOOOO ahead of it's time in terms of progressive politics by letting women lead!!! XDXDXDXDXDXD
Nobody has a problem with women driving ,I live in Iraq and my mother drives without problems.
18:25 aaah yes, a "girl boss" who talks shit to a man. In the 9th century. In an Arab country. You can feel the realism here.
These people are delusional, you know it's bad when now we also have to defend Arabs too lol
Isn't this a fictional world though, just based on a real place? Or is it supposed to take place in actual real world?
@@AlquimistEd It is fiction, but it uses real world events to tell its story. Assassins creed used to pride itself on having realism in its historical moments. Now that's thrown out the window for "modern audiences"
Tbf, I don't totally disagree but in AC 2 you literally engage in a fist fight with the pope to see God@@bilbobaggins9451
Agreed its bs but iraq isnt a arab country . Its a middleastern a populations cacasian and asians persians. And yes some Arabs come from the arabian desert regions. But yes very haram 😅
Man, remember when enemy types didn't just ignore attacks but instead denied very specific kill moves thus making you use more of your toolkit? AC3 stans remember. My favorite enemy type was the grenadier since it wasn't as restrictive as the uber officer nor as rare, but just restrictive enough that you couldn't just chain kill the man as he'd just headbutt you back. Add in the grenade which would mess you up if you just sat on one when it exploded, and the basic troop squad which came with what, 1 officer 1 drummer 4 riflemen and 2 grenadiers was a very fun combat encounter.
AC 3 combat was real brutal, looked really good. It seems like the "best" ac combat systems were only somewhat challenging, but always looked great.
Look at AC Brotherhood combat. It was easy, but had great animations and flow, and you could get somewhat creative with it. Disarming guards, killing them with their own weapons, throwing spears and big swords, etc.
That was the premise of Shadow of Mordor and War right? Made the game perpetually fresh and challenging. Then you add the nemesis system... chefs kiss.
It was like rock paper scissors.
And it gave good variety for each encounter.
I'd take AC3 combat over this any day, but I still think AC1 combat was the most balanced.
@@johnhenry15too bad it suffered from the same unnecessary RPG lite mechanics and microtransactions later Assassins Creed games did.
AC Developers: "We are going back to our Assassin Creed roots!"
Also them: "Heheh...Mirage man can fucking teleport!"
Spoilers for Valhalla if he reads this:
Basically you are a Norse God, every important character is a Norse God you as Eivor is Odin and Basim is Loki. You learn this from a psycho who chopped off your "brother's" arm. None of the other Assassins were Gods only the shitty spin offs, which I'm glad cause I would drop Assassin Creed all together if Ezio was a Roman God. Lol
He's only teleporting because of the Animus. William Miles is just fast forwarding the memory. This ability has nothing to do with the actual time period, but outside of it.
He is so raw, that is why i fuck with syntheticman. No bullshit here, just pure truthful legit gamer feedback. Something we don’t get from anybody these days let alone youtubers. i think that’s why people don’t appreciate him. but i’m glad we have somebody to properly review these games for us, like the good old days on IGN before they fired all the honest people.
Slavery is only a little background window dressing and hardly mentioned, even thought the Middle Eastern slave trade was orders of magnitude larger than the Trans Atlantic slave trade. But you just know that if this same game was set in 1800's US, slavery would be THE central theme.
Brazil
I am really amazed by this game. Those devs at ubisoft impressed me with their ability to somehow make the combat progressively worse with every new AC. They went above and beyond to ignore all the game code from previous titles and stitch together something worthy of Unity slop.
“The big bad guys are Sargon and the skeptic community” hahaha
This is the only review I've seen that points out how female characters in positions of power is incongruous to the time period. Sure, it's a fantasy game, but it's also a *historical* setting, and with all Ubisoft's attention to detail on other things being accurate, stuff like this stands out. Yes, for me it can be immersion breaking, and if critics can slam 'Days Gone' because of its protagonist, then something like this should be worth mentioning, too. We all know why media outlets choose not to bring it up, so thank you for call this out.
Yeah, it's quite funny how Ubi removed a crossbow from AC1 because they thought it would be historically inaccurate. Today they give us superpowers, afterlife worlds and make the settings as inclusive as they can get even if it doesn't fit the time. Ubisoft, what has happened to you?
Ubisoft had to omit the part where the Middle East participated in the African “trade,” for fear of activist backlash so they made the subsaharan NPC’s into tradesmen, and traders.
I mean, it’s well known how enlightened, and progressive 9th century IsIam was. /s
One thing really put me off the AC games was how literally the bad guys in all the games are the Christians, and just like in AC:R, Muslims are peaceful and progressive which I knew would be the case in this game. Can you even imagine the other way around? I can't believe there hasn't been an uproar.
I wasnt even a Christian at the time of Valhalla but slaughtering Christians while they die saying things about Jesus was just so uncomfortable. Once again, can you imagine the equivalent for Muslims? Can't even show a drawing of Muhammad without them thinking murder is the appropriate response. Ubisoft cucked cowardly western developers with no knowledge and no dignity.
So basically, religion bad
The main AC villains are the Templars. I wouldn't equate them as Christian since they basically worship Baphomet.
The reason basic combat felt so good in old assassins creed was that it was fluid. Even if it was easy there was amazing animations and momentum to one hit kills. It was fun and made you feel like you were actually a skilled fighter despite being birdeline braindead fighting. This just looks like a chore.
23:48 Funny nobody looked greek in Assassin's Creed Odyssey either except the main characters. I thought I was playing Assassin's Creed Pakistan xD
You have to respect Ubisoft Synth, they are one of the most consistent publishers/developers in the industry, for you to consistently make mediocre brain dead games for more than a decade, this is a incredible feat
The incredible part is that people keep giving them money.
@@J.B.1982Just like with every other AAA franchise that should of been dead.
@@J.B.1982there are idiots that pre-order these fucking games. Chew on that for a minute
@@KratostheThirdthere are plenty that should never die
Ubisoft truly is the Disney Marvel of videogames.
Naughty Dog
Been playing rdr1 just an absolute masterpiece, the dialogue story characters, the missions are so good, older games are just so much better
They used to hire actual writers and directors, now they only hire diversity hires straight out of woke colleges.
What about RDR2?
@@KratostheThird masterpiece too
Same
thats nostalgia speaking, that very attitude is why the racing genre is dead.
So glad to have found someone who finally calls out the woke cringe in games. There's not nearly enough of that in gaming content. Keep up the good work.
As a certain youtube pimplord had said in his mock stream of the game: "Assassin Creed is going back to the roots, baby! Only we are confused on which roots ubisoft meant it to be..."
YESSIR!
It’s the older games. It’s not that confusing.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035have you even seen the video? Or livesteam of the game? This game has nothing alike with original assassin creed except for the fact that it was set in middle east. It's a blatant lie
@@Ozzystrayroo it has a greater stealth focus, it focuses on the assassins, it brings back black box missions (tho they aren’t great as black box missions), it gives you the assassins tools, has improved parkour and a world design built for it.
It is a return to form. You’re just mad it’s not a 1:1 match to how the Ezio trilogy played. And look. I’m upset that the series has gone so far backwards with things like stealth and parkour. But the team behind this game genuinely tried with what they had. And that’s worth praise even if the game isn’t the absolute best AC to ever release. It feels like an AC game, which is a greater achievement than anything Odyssey or Valhalla did.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 i am not even mentioning ezio. When she meant roots with arabic setting, longtime fans would have assume the very first AC with Altair.
And that game still has better stealth, a more realistic combat, a better city design and atmosphere, better character.
If what she meant return to roots as in Origins, or Odyssey then yeah, she is correct. She returned to that roots but not the Altair Roots
that combat is actually embarrassing. Truly awful. Specially after playing Ghost of Tsushima.
Ikr? Yea GoT's combat is a bit simple, but its actually fun and didnt bored me from beginning to end. Man, fk you for making me hyped for a ghost of tsushima 2, which will never be released. 😡
They did ass creed better than ass creed
I genuinely find it unbelievable how people expect any new ubishit games to be better than 6/10 at most.
Soulless big maps with soulless fetch quests. I'm still waiting for a new rayman but I have a feeling it will never happend and if it will I don't think ubishit will be able to at least make it a little bit enjoyable.
I genuinely don’t understand why the fuck not it’s not illegal
Rayman is dead no matter how you view it, the guy who made the music also passed away and the original devs left the company.
Rayman is just an IP that they pretend still exists
@@FlamespeedyAMV I didn't knew that all the original devs left but I did knew about Remi's passing. Unironically Rayman 1's soundtrack it's one of the if not my favorite game soundtrack ever, not long after Remi passed away someone pressed around 300 vinyl records with the whole Rayman 1 soundtrack + a few bonus tracks. Still one of the most unique records I have in the collection.
I miss rayman too, but i dont wanna touch new rayman knowning that its father Michel Ancel left the company and wont make any new rayman ever again. I mean, when was the last time when ubisoft made a good linear AAA game without open world and shit? In 2013 when they released Splinter Cell Blacklist? Although the game was too easy it's till far better than any ubisoft openworld jank. Same goes for rockstar
The maps actually fairly small compared to Valhalla.
There’s very few fetch quests where you’re tasked to just steal some info or a trinket.
System specs keep getting more and more powerful, yet somehow, we now manage to have worse performance, worse gameplay and worse AI when compared to over an entire decade ago.
Blame triple AAA studios wanting to make a new game every 1-2 years, instead of making a good game and taking longer to do it.
As long as that's the standard, we're just going to keep getting copy/paste slop.
Sometimes, you achieve more with less. Although, in AC and Ubisoft case that seems to be the result of shareholders and diversity hires pushing talented higher IQ original developers away.
Ubisoft games have been trash for over a decade, why people still support this company is beyond me.
I wish they could've pivoted more towards realism, I hate the faux-RPG combat and quirky enemies, but I suppose the trouble with being historically realistic is it's rarely going to be politically correct.
I feel like being too realistic can hurt a game, as well. There’s always gonna be some input delay because the game needs to play always play a specific animation or else it’s “immersion breaking”.
I think one of the worst examples of this is Max Payne 3, it has all the trademarks of Rockstar realism but it’s applied to a game whose DNA is based on John Woo movies and The Matrix. It’s so annoying having your crosshair be pointed right at an enemy, but you can’t shoot because Max hasn’t played his “turning around” animation, so now you’re just dead. Going full-on realistic can have it’s own set of clunk.
@@dajokahbaby1506 If a game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance can be as focused on realism as it was and still deliver great gameplay, any game can focus on realism a lot more than they currently do. I agree that realism doesn't equal quality by itself, but this insanely immersion breaking slop we get nowadays is just an endless borefest.
@@TheStraightestWhitest I loved Kingdom Come: Deliverance but I don't know about great gameplay dude. The combat fell apart the moment it's anything more than a 1v1 duel. Mods (such as a more loose camera, and less chance of enemies perfect blocking you) improved it slightly, but it's still clunky.
@@trisbane4086It can be easily improved and was in its original condition way better than anything Ubisoft has put out after Unity.
Ah yes, I definitely remember chainsmoker female Assassins and bullet spongy enemies in the old games. You really do know your audience Ubisoft
Nice pfp. Used to have an Eva 01 pfp for years.
@@dantecurry207 PunPun pfp >>> Eva pfp. But eva's a good show still just not a masterpiece especially the rebuilds, Eva was pretty good when Anno was depressed and the rebuilds were when Anno got happier and was in the process of recovering after all those Freud and or Jung therapy sessions apparently.
@@dasuero7489 Even with its flaws I liked nge quite a bit, but I absolutely despise the rebuilds. People will suck the skin off of them just because it’s Evangelion.
Logically, there would've been female assassins because women can make for good infiltrators.
@@dantecurry207 Preach brother. The Rebuilds only got praise because Eva fanboys will like anything even if its a piece of shit. I bet you if the Eva license wasn't attached to it, people would've been more critical.
This was my favorite setting, so I am very sad they wasted it in this game. I hoped it was unity in the Middle East, but nope it was just Valhalla in the Middle East.
AC1 isn't a sandbox, it's a linear game with very wide corridors, everything you do prepares you for the assassination and escape, which is the entire concept of the game. you climb towers to familiarize yourself with the area, finding and climbing the towers teach you about the different paths you can take in the city, as you climb the towers you discover the activities, which set up the story and personality of your target, as well as guide you to their setpiece, once you get to that setpiece you now have to use everything you've learned through exploring the city and figuring out about their weaknesses to kill them and escape, this is also why climbing is "slow", so you can't just climb straight up but have to actually use parkour, every other AC game messes this up by letting you just climb straight up very fast, or even have those dumbass cranes that lift you up instantly or some grappling hook some other bullshit that lets you avoid using parkour.
The game is an absolute masterpiece, it only does one thing but it does that one thing extremely well, and it's really not too long that it outstays its welcome.
It was also made in 2007. This is not the same Ubisoft today.
So, I'm one of those people, if you ever seen the beginning of Assassin's Creed game, in which they say this game was worked with with various faiths and different beliefs blah blah blah. Yeah, that was me. I knew about Assassin's Creed Valhalla years before it was released. Sadly, they brought in a bunch of female gamers and all they really cared about was unreal boob armor. Because, you know, feminism.
Honestly, years later, when I finally got to play Valhalla... I really didn't finish it.
I just feel it was too bloated, and to be honest with you, I just became tired of the series. Assassin's Creed Odyssey took so much out of me to complete. The game literally was an odyssey.
I'll bet you this. They purposely released this game this way. Because they want to say the old way does not work to their shareholders. And they never went back to their roots. All they did was add some old mechanics. But kept the ones people really don't like. So they purposely made this game bland. That's just my feeling with this game and from what I've seen.
Me when i saw the thumbnail:
"Look at this creature! Thats a creature!"
~ Synthetic Man 2022
My favorite thing about diverse culture and time periods is that everyone acts exactly like modern day California.
While there were powerful women in the Medieval Middle East, they were so rare compared to the powerful men it's like having a white slave in a colonial America game. And its weird how there weren’t any white people despite the diversity of Baghad in the game. Trade from all over the Eastern hemisphere was common in the Middle East at the time, so it's weird to exclude Europeans but include everyone else.
Those powerful ones were wives to powerful men or had blood connection to religious
icons.girlboss would be killed
instantly
@@shahryarfunplay8186 You see history is bigoted and needs to be "updated" for "modern audiences"
I love how all enemies have a posture bar above their heads, but it's completely pointless since basic enemies can be killed after a single parry and armored enemies mainly use unblockable attacks which can't be parried, meaning the system is only effective against the assassin enemies. Even then, you'll probably kill the assassin with regular attacks before the posture comes into place.
EDIT: I stand corrected, the spear-wielding enemies can be killed after two parries. Also, another problem with the combat system in Mirage is that when enemies block an attack from Basim, he just recoils back stupidly like he just hit a rubber wall, and the animation for that takes way too long.
Still using the same UI since origins. Imagine if Ac1, brotherhood and ac 3 all used the same engine and UI. Why are people still making excuses for this mind numbing mediocrity. And it's not just assassin's Creed, resident evil games started to feel like DLC as well, using the same UI since RE7.
Imagine still playing Assassin's Creed after Ezio's first game. The pinnacle of that franchise. Never surpassed and continually, poorly immitated.
Feels like the only reason AAA developers copied Destiny’s UI is because that is way lower effort to do for both controllers and KB+M compared to having a intuitive menu that can be navigated with either input method.
Every single thing about modern gaming is doing the bare minimum
@@FlamespeedyAMV well why bother doing more, they know people will buy it anyway.
You forgot to mention all the female blacksmiths 😄
I loved almost every games in the Assassins Creed series, but Syndicate, Valhalla and Mirage. And I just started Mirage.
The way to measure intelligence is to see who is still buying new Assassin’s Creed games.
“…what… is a woman?”
Confused UBI Soft devs.
This I'd honestly say is your best 30 or half of an hour video to date and I can say that with confidence. Even within a shorter run time than your Slopfield video, you were still able to go pretty in depth with the mechanics and the story for Mirage. Not just telling us why we shouldn't play this game. Double points for explaining why the story is forgettable and woke but taking the time to explain why. You actually gave justification and didn't just say oh this is woke and complain only like so many of your previous videos which I don't mind but those Stoggaf did. If you can do this a little bit more often or consistently (doesn't need to be always), that would be a great addition to your content and freeform human nonrobotic stream of consciousness freeform style. It's such a fucking REFRESHING thing to hear why something is woke which you didn't do much in the past especially when people and detractors were giving you flak for your gender neutral bathrooms take in the Escapism is Dead video. It's certainly at least better than Drinker and G+G and all those other crappy right wing anti woke grifter channels using the same generic reason for why something is bad by virtue of the fact it's woke meaning and them saying it just means "muh bad writing". No shit, something's bad and lazy writing but that's far from the reason why it's woke and bad; it goes much deeper than that. But they can't help themselves because they want the money and clout, it's easy because much like sex negativity and outrage sells no matter how fake and put-on it is maybe even doubly so because of that.
With all that said, I hope Ubisoft is purged. That or someone from somewhere somehow emerges and steps in and reworks their studio and structure into something less sludge filled and more gameR friendly. Oh and someone needs to fire the Roshan/Expanse actor she's had one too many.
Ending spoilers:
I already knew Basim wouldn't kill Roshan since she actually makes an appearance in valhalla
One of the biggest Problems who got Overlooked many Times is, how obvious the Story of modern Media Products is these days. Its always the same, the Dude is weak & emotional unstable, the strong diversity dark sk1n c0lour fem4le on the other Hand saves the Day.
And, surprise, Mirage do all of it in the first Section of the Game. I fall asleep every Time because we all know this is happening before we even start the Game. They Ruined everything with their polit1cs. (Sorry for Bad English).
Lets hope they not ruin Avatar...
Ubisoft is the Blumhouse of videogames, just pumping out shlock after slop down the pipeline of the same genre
Last AC game I played was Black Flag, which I mostly enjoyed for the non-combat, non-AC, non-Ubisoft gameplay, so basically everything around the Ship. That was dope. After hours sailing the seas I continued with the main story and dropped the game soon after.
It's weird to me that every game since then has been bland and overall worse. Yet people spend money on this shit, buy the microtransaction op weapons and armor . I don't even get it. They wouldn't be making these if they flopped. Yet I haven't had the urge to play one in over a decade.
But we're not getting those games anymore from these studios. LIke AC1, where a passionate team gives a shit about making a "historically inspired" game.
Wokeness is such a cancer, only spreading by infecting other properties, unable to create something of note itself. So now we get "classic middle east, but haram edition" setting.
I used to want an AC game set in feudal japan. I don't anymore. They would fuck it up and make some of the Daimyoo female probably as well.
You hit the nail on the head, sir. Black flag was the last one I cared to play. I recently bought a ps4 copy AC Unity at a thrift store for four bucks. I'll eventually get to it once I do my replay of the earlier titles. I feel like Syndicate or Origins seems like the last place I'll stop.
Agreed. I used to be excited for a Japan entry 10 years ago, but now, I just can't be bothered. Just like how I used to be hyped for the idea of a prince of persia, sands of time remake. Then they released that trailer in 2020 and I was like "Nope. I'll keep playing my ps3 version."
Synthetic Man, you save me a lot of money. Thanks.
It was a Mirage of returning to the roots. 💀
Its mid because it doesnt reach the feeling of fluidity of 3s combat or the parkour of Unity, but its a step in the right direction and is more an assassins creed game than what we have had in over 8 years. So im happy with it.
This is a great example of milk it until you drop...by Ubish't.
My favorite ac game was black flag even though it was less of an ac game and more of a pirate simulation I think the naval combat was very fun and story was pretty good.
This was worst than the previous two assassin creed games. I'm officially done with assassin creed games.
ODYSSEY best game eveeer made...😂😂😂
"fake Witcher 3 clone entries" - finally I hear someone else acknowledge that fact.
Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla are nothing more than a Wither 3 clone with ancient civilization skins.
I played Origins first and was amazed by the design of the open world, played Wither 3 after and couldn't believe how Ubisoft basically stole everything from CDProjekt Red.
The only reason I'm interested in this game is because it's short.... and the Prince of Persia weapons
I havent bothered since Black Flag.
Im cool with that
I’ve been playing through AC Black Flag and I definitely noticed that the smoke bomb is op and feels like cheating when i pop it.
It was the same in AC3 too
Smoke bomb being OP has always been a series staple.
The only time for me that it didn't feel cheap was against the enemies that you couldn't block, that could counter everything you had and also had pistols. Those enemies were so infuriating that I'd pop smoke just to be rid of them.
Don't know if they were in any of the games after revelations though.
Wait until you see what Ubisoft has in store for the AC game set in Japan💀
I read about it lol instead of picking between a Japanese male or female, we pick between a Japanese female, and a black refugee 🤣🤣 they just HAD to ruin a good AC setting with some bullshit.
@@jayare2583 What's funny it's it's ONLY because of the extremely forgettable "Yasuke" anime about a African samurai (who wasn't even historically a samurai) that came out on Netflix two years ago. So not even an original idea by woke standards.
@@jayare2583i want to be neither
Trans Samurai named Steve leads the order of the offended donkey.
Damn bro I was really hoping this game would revive the franchise I once loved, too bad it's just another generic Ubisoft trash. Thanks for the review Synth
It’s a good return to form for the series.
You listen to Synths opening bit and it’s clear that he doesn’t even know what he wants from this series. He criticized the game for not being AC1, and then that it’s just like the old games, and then that it’s too much like the new games.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 He never said that it was like the old games. He expressly said it wasn't. Maybe you should rewatch it.
It is in no, way, shape or form similar to assassin's creed 1, stop spreading lies.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... when you showed the clips of AC1 vs ACM, AC1 actually looked more detailed and appeared to have better lighting and animations?!?! LOLOLOL They are literally making games worse.
Calling Mirage mid is giving it way too much praise.
Altair has always been the best Assassin's Creed protagonist.
Pretty much what I was expecting really. I don't know why a lot of AC fans, even old ones really thought this will be the rebirth of the series. I knew better than to trust Ubisoft.
I get your complaints when it comes to wokeness. It's annoying I know.
But Baghdad, like many major cities in the Middle East at the time, was quite multicultural. So that specific part isn't necessarily wrong.
I’ve never studied ancient Islamic history so I don’t know how true to life that the games rendition of Baghdad and the Middle East is from the time, but from what I can gather, Baghdad was at the time a trade city, and merchants from across the world would gather, as for how the women are portrayed, that I can’t say if it’s true to how the time period is back then since I’ve never studied this history period, but I will say I know the Middle East back then most likely wasn’t the Middle East of today
@@alexmear5096 yep great point. It's hard to believe that some aspects of society 800 years ago were more progressive than now.
@@AverageTESEnjoyer5783 like I said I don’t know for sure since I haven’t studied Islamic history from this time period
Multicultural in the sense that it had Sunni/Shia Arabs, Kurds, Persians, and Turks but not Sub-Saharan Africans or Asians unless they were enslaved or merchants but not permanent residents of the city. The only time Baghdad had that kind of outside diversity was when the Mongols torched it! Baghdad was specifically a trade hub for the Muslim world, not the “world” abroad. They had a slave trade, and silk trade which is really the only way you could justify it. Baghdad is also known for creating Sharia law into a legal code outside religious texts so we’re talking peak xenophobia, misogyny, and religious intolerance…
No the brown people of the world did not hold hands and sing kumbaiya in fact this was a period of Islamic conquests into India and against the Christian Ethiopians, they didn’t really integrate new populations into the Middle East, they just exported Islam to conquered territories and established new caliphates.
@@sercravenmohead3631 I mean if these merchants were staying in Baghdad for awhile I could find it easy they temporarily stay in the city
The name of the game is fitting, since it's a Mirage that this is a good game.
Don’t you GET IT?!?! It’s called MIRAGE because HIS FRIEND WAS JUST A MIRAGE!
ITS CLEVER!!!!! CLAP NOW!!!
Ubisoft hasn't made a decent game in years. Black Flag was the last one I can remember and that was nearly a decade ago. Now I feel old...
Based content and review man, almost the only non woke youtuber out here.