Hi there, so as I mentioned at the start of this video. It's all my own opinion and is completely subjective. Ranking combat in video games is the hardest thing to do out of all of the stuff to rank as it factors based on you as a player, your own preferences, your own style of fighting, and also how enjoyable it is to you. There will be people that will say ACSyndicate has the best combat, whereas I have it dead last in this video. So yeah, have a great day, stay safe!💜
I haven't played odyssey so I can't rank it, but there's a lot of people that love it. I was upset they didn't really do much in ac Valhalla for sneaky builds like going prone and other stuff with so many skills that said I think the combats more fun and better than origins. To me Valhalla origins and because of opinions of a lot of friends that playing odyssey you feel the most like a bada** those 3 belong in top 3 in my opinion. I haven't played mirage yet.
Have you played these on MAX difficulty? I haven't completed most of them. I'm wondering if AC3 would be even better if you had max difficulty and limited HUD? with Ubisoft games I like to clear out the HUD, it gets very immersive and you are playing in a seek, analyze and react FLOW other than the see heavy guy ICON, dodge, kick, slash slash. I don't enjoy the Batman games as much because I was just reacting to the ICONS and not my positioning and weapons. I think I like AC UNITY the most.
Very true and like he said they could have very easily picked a time period and culture of people that would better support an assassins creed game so it’s hard for me to give them a pass for that cause even before both of those games came out i and a bunch of others already knew😭how tf you gonna fit assassins in this time period😭😭😭
I agree but also completely understand why they did it. I would probably not buy "not AC" Valhalla. TBH I was done with the series when AC Unity crashed for me and i lost like 50h save. To that point i played all the games and were buying they when they came out but with all those bugs in Unity i was done and didnt play syndicate until 2022 when i got huge promotion on all games (for about 100$ i had all from AC to AC odyssey) and my GF said that origins is really good and they fixed a lot of stuff in Unity/syndicate. So we bough together with her Valhalla but only as next AC game and not as "Viking game" and i guess that huge part of their sales were similar to me. TL;DR I dont like the fact that Eivor is label as Assassin but i understand it because i myself would probably not pick that game without AC branding
You didn't mention the "shock and awe" system in AC1, the best part in my opinion. When you kill an enemy brutally, another will get scared and become unable to defend themselves for a short time. When this happens you can obviously hit them but, less obvious, you can unlock and switch to the hidden blade to kill them. That will scare another so can keep doing it until you get hit or fail to get to the right guard. Could be explained better but it is a lot of fun and takes a bit more skill than the kill chains in Brotherhood to Rogue.
@user-zp3nn1ix4s it's toned down to just lower ranked guards running away. They also changed it to a points system where killing one would give an amount of points based on rank and it took more points to scare higher ranks. AC1 is the only AC we can do this sort of chain kill.
i think the worst part about syndicate was how the rpg elements were integrated. specifically how headshots didn’t instantly kill, and how you mentioned with damage sponges.
@@halohead5581 you’re missing the point. That isn’t something me or a lot of people enjoyed. If shooting someone in the head with a gun doesn’t instantly kill them because “the number wasn’t bigger than their number”, that takes a lot of people out of the experience.
@@cameronphares2482I honestly don’t get why ppl find it so difficult to find a gun with higher stats and click the upgrade button. I get it requires more work than just choosing a gun from its appearance, but it adds more complexity to a series that was in no way perfect.
@@H1tler510 Yeah the weapons are different but mechanically they always felt the exact same. Lien AC1 and AC2 both use the same counter kill system but AC2 includes more stuff to diversify combat. I have never noticed anything different between the mechanics of the combat in 3 vs Black Flag
i agree, the fact that 3 is at the top makes literally no sense to me. its the exact same mechanics in all 3 games apart from animations. i don't know why people have some religious belief that makes them think ac3 was some next level shit in comparrion to black flag or rouge.
I really love AC1 combat it feels very brutal, every time you fight someone you get the impression that altair isnt mean to fight and that he want to end up fast with them
I’ve never had a problem with “lack of damage” in syndicate. However, Odyssey on the other hand, every enemy type was a damage sponge. It was annoying how long it took to take an enemy down
If you have the right build it feels really good, but you need like a min-maxed build for it. On nightmare difficulty I was killing enemies in like 3-5 seconds depending on the weapon type I used.
Agree, Syndicate wasn't a "dmg sponge warehouse", but it was lackluster and boring af because of how easy it was. The only challenge was taking on 5-8 enemies 2-3 lvls higher than you (that's why I loved early fight clubs)
@@wissam4920 No I killed them super easily too. But they also killed me super easily, so they were still pretty dangerous. It was always intimidating when more than 1 was after me.
Connor may not be the most well regarded protagonist, but nobody can deny that dude is fuckin scary in a fight No over protag makes me go "dude chill" during a fight, it's awesome
To me, AC Unity feels so smooth and realistic Getting outnumbered is definitely a nightmare in this game just like in real life. Compared to older games where you can just hold the Block button
I agree most of the things you said but Valhalla's combat is better than Origins, more refined + posture mechanic + weak points + more enemy types + dual wield weapon + more difference between weapons
@@irembrandtbrandt4596 i beleve its number 1 because it allows you to get new fighting styles as you progress the skill tree. for example: heavy dual weild, counter roll, advanced assasination, bow to melee link etc...
Glad to see that ac3 finally gets its due. Im so tired of people dismissing it as one of the worst in the series when in reality its actually top 3 imo
I feel like ac3 was only hated when it first came out because all the ezio toe suckers were mad to see another assassin besides ezio, but after time people actually realized just because it’s not an ezio game doesn’t mean it’s a bad game
It was that and the fact that generally they felt connor was a weak character with no development. And you played as haythem for too long. I feel you get to see Connor grow a lot, and realistically, he would have been naive and reckless during his first couple years. Hence why he was the strongest and most brutal of all the playable assassins. And playing as haythem is still one of the craziest surprises in video games to date.
Dear americans, take off that pink patriotic sunglasses and then you will see the correct place of that episode. You can love the story, thats ok. But look behind it, dont get blinded by the story. (Im talking about the remastered, never played the original, people say it was much better.)
Completely agree with your first choice! I felt the same way after replaying the gamer for the second time, it's just so brutal and efficient. And as you said, there was such variety in the animations depending on your weapon.
interesting pick for the number 1 spot especially since you "criticised" black flag and rogue for it but AC III is doing exactly the same (one button counter 1 button kill which makes you easily op) still it was an enjoyable video overall
The counter wasn't consistent. There were far too many that couldn't get countered in ac 3 .in black flag You just pressed 2 buttons X and ■ and you won
@@clubcardprice1054 i think the huge gap comes from a lack of weapon variety in black flag and with it also a lack of actual animations. AC 3 has more weapon variety with heavy weapons, blunt weapons, light weapons, and normal weapons like swords, that all had different animations and fighting styles. so the spectacle aspect of the fight became something noteworthy. and while i like black flag, it has like 3 different animations in the fights. There is no spectacle to heighten the boring combat system.
Assassins creed valhalla is not meant to be played on the normal difficulty to experience the combat, i played it on hard and it made me think because of the stamina bar, when to attack and when to not
I think ac 1 had a good combat with good animations and satisfying counter kill, although i feel like by the end of the game i had too much health so it was pretty much impossible to die and to make it worse health regenerates.
Templars where a little bit more challenging, if you ever decided (or were unable) to fight them instead of just killing them from behind with the hidden blade
I was very suprised when black flag was so low cuz honestly it was fun but he makes very good points tho. The enemy’s were VERY easy and dumb but honestly annihilating them was absolutely fun, 2 guns and 2 swords were rlly fun to use in combat
I like how Ubisoft added Vlad Tepes' sword to Revelations since Vlad Tepes was a cruel Romanian ruler and the actions in Revelations are in the same period as Vlad Tepes's actions in Romania (🇷🇴) here he was putting spikes in the people who were rich and were mogging and laughing about the poor ones, piercing the spike through their bodies, from their butt all the way up to their head
I feel like a health bar is not too bad. Games like DMC do it really good, they give you a health bar in the shape of the hard lock on, and it just helps you know how much health an enemy have.
Honestly? For me it's origins every time. It's built primarily around combat. and I like the weapon variety, perks and weight. You feel like you're swinging the weapons. Also the entire point of odyssey and origins is it's building the history of the assassins. It's a backstory, an ORIGIN point. Listening to an AC fan is like punching myself.
I agree on most spots but for me personally Sindycate combat style is fantastic, i really liked it mostly due to being able to use a punch weapon and i love punching but the cane also was incredibly cool and stylish to use and the kukri was honestly the one i liked the least but i loved that too. Anyway yeah great takes in my opinion, ac3 has the best power-fantasy combat possible in the ac games.
Just finished playing AC III. I really liked the combat but idk if it is worth the first spot, sometimes it's just too confusing on whether or not you should atack, parry or break the enemy's defense. Also, some weapons were really a let down gameplay wise, like daggers having the same animations as hatchets, not to mention that the arrows were too short ranged and everytime you'd aim at someone's head, the arrow would go really slowly into their torso, which was awfully ugly. Guns were kinda disapointing too, they didn't look powerful enough and some would sound like they had a silencer on. But overall AC III really has great combat mechanics, really deserving of top 3.
i just finished playing too! and yeah the combat is pretty good but definitely not perfect. it was pretty snappy tho which was very nice when you needed to change targets and block/parry
I agree with your statement but I wouldn’t say the combat was confusing imo. The trick is knowing the archetypes of enemies so you would know whether an enemy is more susceptible to counter kills or break defenses etc. That being said Ubisoft did a poor job at explaining this in game. It’s like trying to read a book with half the pages missing, so of course it can be confusing! In short, I wouldn’t say the combat is confusing but the way Ubisoft explains the combat in-game is lackluster therefore being confusing
@@T_Holmes Agreed, if they at least had made the clues clearer I think it would be perfect. I gotta replay ACIII too, I think a second playthrough would be really helpful for a better understanding of the gameplay
@@pedrot.9418 for sure. It’s one of those combat systems that’s easy to pick up but hard to master with all of the intricacies like the double executions, tool executions, etc.
that's interesting perspective. I just hate Syndycate's combat system and I always avoid it as much as I can (meaning - i'm trying to do it only by stealth and sometimes by shooting). I will try use more shooting and no hand to hand combat next time. Thanks for your idea
@thehiddenone black flag had a weapon called "pistol swords" you can unlock that sword by completing all the assassination contracts. That was the most powerful sword in the game. All it takes was a 3 hit combo system 1st strike breaks the defence, 2nd initiates a combo and 3rd is the killing blow. The counter kills with that sword is even more deadly
I'm not sure if I agree on how harsh you were on AC: Syndicate, I think it definitely held your hand but I think all games have done that up to Syndicate, what I didn't like was actually the Skill Points that allowed you to one-shot all the enemies, You're required to get it to level up to 10 but it really ruined the combat. I liked the combat in Syndicate until I got those perks. (I actually replayed this over the weekend because of your videos)
My favorite combat systems in this franchise are a toss up between AC: Brotherhood, AC: Revelations, and AC: Origins. All three had their unique charms and challenges. And I liked discovering them a lot. They were great. The rest I either like or just annoy me.
@@tbtnr9851 True. But in an odd way, it encouraged me to use stealth all the time. As the combat was kind of a "you failed, now you have to do it the easy way".
HOT TAKE: 1. Valhalla has the best animations (you can turn off disoreintative finishers) 2. Valhalla has the best parry/block system 3. Valhalla has the most diversity in enemies ( just look at its enemies in the codex) It should at least be top 5 (btw im not glazing but im just saying its underrated)
Opinions are exactly that, opinions so I don’t want to judge your list too much. I am very confused though. I remember black flag and AC3 being basically the same combat system.
They are the same mechanically but the "feel" is just so much nicer in III. Not sure if it's something to do with the movement, animations, design, or sound, but I've always noticed the difference.
I want an assassins creed game with The ambition of 1 The story of 2 The side missions of brotherhood The ending impact revelations The combat of 3 The naval combat of black flag The uniqueness of rouge The parkour of unity The assassinations of syndicate The main character of origins The multiple endings of odyssey The brutality of Valhalla The graphics of mirage The character swapping of shadows
Pretty good list, however, I completely disagree with Unity being above Origins. Unity's combat system is so terribly basic and uninteresting. You can equip different weapon types, but all of them basically play the same + realistically only the sword makes sense for an Assassin who needs to blend in. The combat is slow and floaty, enemies can shoot you with a gun and there's no way to reliably avoid damage, there are only a couple of enemy archetypes, and the finishers keep repeating over and over again. Furthermore, Unity lacks a lot of great features from previous games like: disarming enemies, fist fighting, using hidden blade in combat, throwing sand, throwing knives or doing any interesting special moves for that matter. It's just a boring vanilla system overall. I would also rank Valhalla's combat higher, much closer to Origins than to Odyssey. When you disable all intrusive HUD elements and set damage to 200% in the settings, it's actually really smooth and immersive. There are a lot of finishers, the combat is weighty and brutal, there are cool special skills but they don't feel like magic, and there are opportunities to be creative. For example, you can use the rope to yank enemies off cliffs, into walls, over railing or to pull them towards you. You can throw a barrage of axes at someone. You can poison your weapon, including an arrow to deal poison damage. You can set people on fire and watch them panic. Valhalla also did some stuff BETTER than Origins. You have more moves! There's a powerful sprint attack, a sprint kick (heavy attack) that can knock people to the ground, you can stomp people on the ground + there are cool finishers you can perform on stunned enemies. You can even grab a freaking arrow mid-flight and throw it back! How cool is that? The combat system in Valhalla doesn't feel as polished and smooth as the one in Origins, but it comes pretty close, it offers a lot of great features, and overall it's much better than people give it credit.
assassins creed 3 just made you feel like a brutal beast and it was amazing and unlike some of the other games that had easy enemies so you just ran through them effortlessly this game did that but made you feel badass and you were never bored
Syndicate is my favourite as I love the animations and the vibe it feels like there is actually a point to fight the blighters unlike the other games where sometimes you just fight random guards
I agree with this a lot, if this were my list I would switch Unity and Brotherhood, but barring that I completely agree with where everything else was placed!
The naval combat is where AC Black Flag really shines and it could get really challenging and exciting, but since this isn't the part of combat that is being copared between the games, I just point that out to say the game is awesome and worth playing.
I liked in AC1 the critical attacks when you hit the attack button as soon as you clash weapons or hit someone it caused an insta kill. It came back for 2 and I believe the Ezio games but they didn't feel as important as it was in the first game to take out enemies. In 2-4 I would try to get counter-kills but in 1 I was incentivized to attack and try to pull off these insta-kills to get rid of everyone faster.
Always loved the combat in AC1. Back in the day it looked so cool and it still does. I also like it how you don't really hit your enemy before the killing blow, outside of those rare few slices that could go through their guard and draw blood. It made the fighting look a bit more realistic. Visually very flashy. Never cared how easy or difficult the fighting was as long as it was fun and enjoyable to look at. Though the number one spot for myself would be either Unity or AC3. Unity just looks really nice while AC3 is just a lot of fun.
I agree with most things especially origins. It's amazing but people hate it since it's rpg. It is perfectly balanced between being a warrior and being challenging, fun animations, wide range of weapons, good music and reasonable boss fights. However I heavily disagree with unity. I can appreciate the ideas but literally everything was poorly implemented even after the bug fixes, they should have kept it in development for longer. It's still very glitchy, he has the slowest sword swing in the series and is slower than real life, parrying does nothing, enimies have infinite stamina, they recover impossibly fast and break your block easily while you can't do the same, waaaaay too many guards so you get swarmed, over reliance on smoke bombs, no free aim in combat, BS systems galore such as people dodging every quickshot no matter what and it's not even close to being realistic like many people think it is. He does very wide swings and reaching for more hits, he leaves himself wide open, does stupid spinning attacks and the animations were often choppy and wouldn't even hit them. It's easily the worst combat in the franchise, it's not even a fun challenge like origins it's just a pain.
I know a lot of you probably aren't British but the knife and canes knuckle dusters are also weapons used back then. yes you may not be stabbing the enemy your slashing them
Also don't listen to the community Assassin's creed Odyssey and Valhalla are assassin's creed games as Odyssey expanded the ISU lore and Valhalla also expanded the ISU and gave us the birth of the templars I won't say anything else as it's a huge spoiler
dude i remember when i was like in my early teens, i got my first ps3, it had ac revelations in it, i had no idea what that game is, and when i played it i got hooked, i stopped playing cuz of the janissaries, i got so frustrated i destroyed my controller from all the banging on the table and the walls i did.
I just replayed the original Assassin’s Creed and I gotta say the combat was refreshing as fuck. Timing your hits perfectly is way more engaging than just button mashing or leveling up high enough to just wipe people out.
Putting Odyssey second to last was some agenda stuff. Sure it deviates from the previous assassins creed games and have less counter moves but the actual combat ia smooth and crisp. Just becausr your overpowered does not mean the actual combat mechanics are bad. Its not the best but its definitely not bottom tier
Honestly, Syndicate's 'problems' can be solved by using a high-level weapon that's fully upgraded. It makes combat encounters a joke. You're also able to kill enemies quicker, meaning that all those flashy and perhaps overdone animations don't happen as often.
In my opinion unity is the most janky and bugged combat system, almost every fight has bugged audio and it cuts out, the enemies are floaty and move in slow motion. I would put it in the 9th place or 8th
3 & 4 are mechanically the same. I feel just as powerful in 3 as I do 4 and it's just as easy, counters and chain kills while occasionally breaking a guard. So I don't see how they are so far apart on the list. But I do appreciate seeing Unity high up, I always like that game's combat a lot.
@@CYB3R2K Fair points. But to have such a chasm between them on this list is still mind blowing. 3 is the same combat as 4 with slightly higher difficulty basically.
One thing about AC2 combat is how unbelievably frustrating fighting the larger spear-wielding opponents is. They frequently block your attacks, so you really can’t do damage by just attacking them. In addition, I could never get the timing of counter killing on them right. So the only consistent method of beating them was by disarming them, which was only possible when they attacked, meaning that you have to wait for them to attack, which they would sometimes take an enragingly long period of time to do during an encounter.
I know it's a hot take but to me Origins has the weakest combat of the RPG trilogy. Parrying just doesn't feel as good and you don't have ways around overleveld enemies like Odyssey and Valhalla's systems have.
I agree, Origins just felt boring, all I did was attack, dodge and wait to have enough energy to press shift+f. Valhalla is the best of the RPG for me.
My first AC game was AC3 and I expected the fight to be better in next gen games and all of this new ones disappointed me.I have origins with me now but I dont even play it cus its not that addictive or something
I do agree AC 3 in the series has the most smoothes and visually appealing combat system in the AC franchise. You feel like a fast hard hittjng tank in that game
I think your ranking of odyssey is a bit clouded. The combat in odyssey and origins can be pretty much the same. Origins already had poisonous/flaming weapons. The main difference is in origins I've read there are technically no unparryable attacks, but they were difficult to pull of. I think a fair ranking would place the combat in odyssey near the combat in origins, since it is so similar but with extra features you don't have to spec into. If you play a stealth/ranged ability only, you'll barely notice the difference in their combat. Story and justifications for the combat system shouldn't be taken into account unless youre reviewing the game as a whole.
I agree with Syndicate being last place But I'm a believer that improving upon it is actually the best way to go for Assassin's Creed. If it was less spongy and had a fixed multi-kill feature. It can actually fix AC's issues with being too easy while still maintaining its flashiness. It also runs at a frantic pace unlike the Ezio trilogy which is nice. Multi-kills are a good way to to make flashiness rewarding because there is the challenge to set things up unlike in the Ezio/Kenway Sage where you're just given free insta-kills
Seeing the combat system in origins have the attention it deserve in the rpg games make me happy I like the combats of origins wonder how they change it into fantasy bs in odyssey 😭
@@TheFirstCurse1 Nope, origins combat was way better and more challenging. In odyssey you just spamm dodge or block and win against EVERYTHING, and if you get damage you can just heal. Also you didnt have a shield so that sucks too. And i origins there were abilities.
So on the notes for unity, there is a way to flow consistently like in the old games. Using a smoke or flash bomb and consistently switching targets continues your usually limited chain. on top of this, if the enemies are under level compared to you, you can hold attack to immediately do a finisher instead, allowing that instakill chain to remain present. Idk if this affects your ranking, but those two things made combat let you get creative even when it wasn't the game's main focus. Hope this helps if you ever want to play it again!
I cannot believe how overrated AC3's fighting system is. Yeah, it has pretty visuals, but that doesn't make it fun at all. It's EXTREMELY easy, the sensation of reward is completely missing since 95% of the fight is parry and counter, and that's it, with just one counter you can kill all enemies, and if you chain the attack button you can just wipe out 300 soldiers with just one button. Once, the game glitched and started to send me infinite enemies, I swear I was like 40 minutes just killing enemies without having a single hit. Also I felt it like a massive downgrade from the previous games, where fighting was actually difficult and you couldn't just kill anybody with one parry. I would like to know why people love this so much being so easy
Why? Cause it didn't live up to your rose tinted glasses? Because you have to actually fight an opponent instead of counter than kill the whole time? Ya, I bet you were happy, old man 👴 😂
@CerealKY i love rpgs , skyrim , dark souls , the witcher , and hard games like sekiro or sifu , assassin's creed odyssey combat is just button mashing, valhalla is not bad but very simple , tge problem with valhalla is that it is way too long and repetitive, odyssey is just horrible , maybe you should just get a better taste in games kid
If I had a mod that removed the constant switching out of equipment and made all enemies(outside of bosses) have the ezio trilogy amount of health. While also heavily lowering the player health, then odyssey would be fun. Only after all those changes.
i actually really loved Syndicate's combat, i liked how you had to combo to kill. made it more interesting in my opinion. but then again Syndicate is my fave AC game so i'm biased lol. also i absolutely agree with you on that thing in the Unity part, i HATED the snipers they were so annoying. they had the eyes of Legolas i swear and were just as annoying as that one enemy that always blocked, i think it was the enemy at 28:24. legit hated that guy like: me: 'oh i'll just parry them' enemy: spams attack and doesn't let me parry me: 'ok i'll shoulder bash them to open up their defence' enemy: DODGES IT me: ):
8:00 Personally I liked the AC3/ACL/AC4/AC FC/ACRo combat system because it was so easy and the combos looked so cool. Flowing from one enemy to the other was so easy.
Correct me if im wrong, but one of the best swords in origins, is the legendary sword you get after the sundail puzzles it does crazy damage and has a really cool cut scene that goes with it.
I'm boutta get violated for this but I like syndicates combat. I like the fact that I can wipe out herds of people looking cool af. If u don't think it looks cool, u prolly don't know how to get the animation. What I do is get all enemies 1 hit away then attack which looks really cool
If only they took the combat system from ac 3 and the parkour variation from unity and made the game with that it’d be a better game honestly but I don’t think it’s too bad of a game I just think we’re gonna have to hope for a better ac game next time around
I find Black Flag's combat fun and realistic, though It was the first assassin's creed I played, I still feel it's combat is better than the modern ones
AC 1- Revelations, almost same combat system with minor differences in Brotherhood and Revelations AC 3 - Rogue, literally same system Unity - Unique Syndicate - Unique Origins - Mirage, same with specific mechanics in each game... So is pretty dumb putting like Valhalla so low while putting Origins so high.. the combat is samething, you may like the unique features it has compared to Valhalla, like the lack of abilities.
Unpopular opinion: I think that Assassins Creed 1 has the best combat out of all the games. I just replayed it and finished it at 100% and I feel that it had a lot of depth. There were multiple choices to use during a fight. Grabbing an enemy an tossing him away. Using a throwing knife to weaken him. Dodging and attacking. Weakening a strong enemy, so then you can grab him, throw him away and execute him with the hidden blade while he is on the ground. I just feel that it was very well done. Now im playing Ac2, which for years I thought it was a vast improvement over the first one. But... it just feels like a big downgrade :( they just removed everything from the combat and only left the counter attack and the dodge.
Black Flag is often considered too easy because the difficulty was tweaked in order to provide a better experience on the Wii U. And considering Rogue is a copy-paste of Black Flag animations/AI, the difficulty tweak crosses over.
I love syndicate combat mainly I played sleeping dogs before and is similar I picked it up fast and also is a really fun and test of your reaction time
maybe an unrealistic opinion, but I didn't like Unity's combat. yes, you were more tactical and less powerful than before, but it just felt annoying. like, the delayed inputs and combat requirements just didn't feel fun to play
Hi there, so as I mentioned at the start of this video. It's all my own opinion and is completely subjective. Ranking combat in video games is the hardest thing to do out of all of the stuff to rank as it factors based on you as a player, your own preferences, your own style of fighting, and also how enjoyable it is to you. There will be people that will say ACSyndicate has the best combat, whereas I have it dead last in this video. So yeah, have a great day, stay safe!💜
I love playing with the short fast blades in AC Origins! Especially when you parry arrows! Cool af 🔥
I haven't played odyssey so I can't rank it, but there's a lot of people that love it. I was upset they didn't really do much in ac Valhalla for sneaky builds like going prone and other stuff with so many skills that said I think the combats more fun and better than origins. To me Valhalla origins and because of opinions of a lot of friends that playing odyssey you feel the most like a bada** those 3 belong in top 3 in my opinion. I haven't played mirage yet.
Have you played these on MAX difficulty? I haven't completed most of them. I'm wondering if AC3 would be even better if you had max difficulty and limited HUD? with Ubisoft games I like to clear out the HUD, it gets very immersive and you are playing in a seek, analyze and react FLOW other than the see heavy guy ICON, dodge, kick, slash slash.
I don't enjoy the Batman games as much because I was just reacting to the ICONS and not my positioning and weapons. I think I like AC UNITY the most.
By me, Odyssey and Valhalla are some solid games. The only problem is that they slapped "assassin's creed" on it.
Very true and like he said they could have very easily picked a time period and culture of people that would better support an assassins creed game so it’s hard for me to give them a pass for that cause even before both of those games came out i and a bunch of others already knew😭how tf you gonna fit assassins in this time period😭😭😭
Completion agree.
My favorite games cant wait to see the Japan game this year
@@anubis4032 you know, I can't say I disagree
I agree but also completely understand why they did it. I would probably not buy "not AC" Valhalla. TBH I was done with the series when AC Unity crashed for me and i lost like 50h save. To that point i played all the games and were buying they when they came out but with all those bugs in Unity i was done and didnt play syndicate until 2022 when i got huge promotion on all games (for about 100$ i had all from AC to AC odyssey) and my GF said that origins is really good and they fixed a lot of stuff in Unity/syndicate. So we bough together with her Valhalla but only as next AC game and not as "Viking game" and i guess that huge part of their sales were similar to me.
TL;DR I dont like the fact that Eivor is label as Assassin but i understand it because i myself would probably not pick that game without AC branding
For me its the Kenway Saga (AC3, AC black flag, Rogue, Liberation). It makes you feel like an powerhouse and Animations are pretty good too.
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Hard agree
But that makes them so boring and unsatisfying, they're so easy it's just not fun. Especially AC3
Thank you
You didn't mention the "shock and awe" system in AC1, the best part in my opinion. When you kill an enemy brutally, another will get scared and become unable to defend themselves for a short time. When this happens you can obviously hit them but, less obvious, you can unlock and switch to the hidden blade to kill them. That will scare another so can keep doing it until you get hit or fail to get to the right guard.
Could be explained better but it is a lot of fun and takes a bit more skill than the kill chains in Brotherhood to Rogue.
@user-zp3nn1ix4s it's toned down to just lower ranked guards running away. They also changed it to a points system where killing one would give an amount of points based on rank and it took more points to scare higher ranks.
AC1 is the only AC we can do this sort of chain kill.
i think the worst part about syndicate was how the rpg elements were integrated.
specifically how headshots didn’t instantly kill, and how you mentioned with damage sponges.
Headshots do insta kill, you just have to upgrade your equipment
Yeah too slappy/flashy. But gotta admit the different assassination options were dope.
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you’re missing the point. That isn’t something me or a lot of people enjoyed.
If shooting someone in the head with a gun doesn’t instantly kill them because “the number wasn’t bigger than their number”, that takes a lot of people out of the experience.
@@Growmetheus
i agree there was creativity there
@@cameronphares2482I honestly don’t get why ppl find it so difficult to find a gun with higher stats and click the upgrade button. I get it requires more work than just choosing a gun from its appearance, but it adds more complexity to a series that was in no way perfect.
I never noticed a difference between the combat from AC3 and that in Black Flag/Rogue. Always felt the exact same to me
Ac black flag doesn't have the tomahawk and whatever that weapon was called clubber lang was it and that big ass axe with the bow and also the traps
@@H1tler510 Yeah the weapons are different but mechanically they always felt the exact same. Lien AC1 and AC2 both use the same counter kill system but AC2 includes more stuff to diversify combat. I have never noticed anything different between the mechanics of the combat in 3 vs Black Flag
@@r520jr8same, the mechanics and throwables are the same, and the guns.
@@r520jr83 was more challenging if u don’t know they go back and play them both it’s clear 3 was better than black flag/rouge
i agree, the fact that 3 is at the top makes literally no sense to me. its the exact same mechanics in all 3 games apart from animations. i don't know why people have some religious belief that makes them think ac3 was some next level shit in comparrion to black flag or rouge.
I really love AC1 combat it feels very brutal, every time you fight someone you get the impression that altair isnt mean to fight and that he want to end up fast with them
Ac3 was brutal
I know they're by far the easiest AC games, but the Kenway saga are so satisfying. I love how you can legitimately have an unarmed style of fighting.
I’ve never had a problem with “lack of damage” in syndicate. However, Odyssey on the other hand, every enemy type was a damage sponge. It was annoying how long it took to take an enemy down
If you have the right build it feels really good, but you need like a min-maxed build for it. On nightmare difficulty I was killing enemies in like 3-5 seconds depending on the weapon type I used.
Agree, Syndicate wasn't a "dmg sponge warehouse", but it was lackluster and boring af because of how easy it was. The only challenge was taking on 5-8 enemies 2-3 lvls higher than you (that's why I loved early fight clubs)
@@TheFirstCurse1except when a bounty hunter faces you😂
@@wissam4920 No I killed them super easily too. But they also killed me super easily, so they were still pretty dangerous. It was always intimidating when more than 1 was after me.
They have on amour and are spartans it makes sense
Connor may not be the most well regarded protagonist, but nobody can deny that dude is fuckin scary in a fight
No over protag makes me go "dude chill" during a fight, it's awesome
Unpopular opinion: assassins creed 1 had the best combat because the skill threshold was the highest and it felt the most realistic in my opinion
To me, AC Unity feels so smooth and realistic
Getting outnumbered is definitely a nightmare in this game just like in real life. Compared to older games where you can just hold the Block button
I agree most of the things you said but Valhalla's combat is better than Origins, more refined + posture mechanic + weak points + more enemy types + dual wield weapon + more difference between weapons
Yeah, easily top 3, if not the best, I never get tired of combat in Valhalla
@@irembrandtbrandt4596 i beleve its number 1 because it allows you to get new fighting styles as you progress the skill tree. for example: heavy dual weild, counter roll, advanced assasination, bow to melee link etc...
Glad to see that ac3 finally gets its due. Im so tired of people dismissing it as one of the worst in the series when in reality its actually top 3 imo
Absolutely. The diversity of the animations in battle are insane! Pick up a new weapon and you have at least 10 different kinds of kills with it.
@@Growmetheusbut the dagger animation
I feel like ac3 was only hated when it first came out because all the ezio toe suckers were mad to see another assassin besides ezio, but after time people actually realized just because it’s not an ezio game doesn’t mean it’s a bad game
It was that and the fact that generally they felt connor was a weak character with no development. And you played as haythem for too long. I feel you get to see Connor grow a lot, and realistically, he would have been naive and reckless during his first couple years. Hence why he was the strongest and most brutal of all the playable assassins. And playing as haythem is still one of the craziest surprises in video games to date.
Dear americans, take off that pink patriotic sunglasses and then you will see the correct place of that episode. You can love the story, thats ok. But look behind it, dont get blinded by the story. (Im talking about the remastered, never played the original, people say it was much better.)
Completely agree with your first choice! I felt the same way after replaying the gamer for the second time, it's just so brutal and efficient. And as you said, there was such variety in the animations depending on your weapon.
interesting pick for the number 1 spot especially since you "criticised" black flag and rogue for it but AC III is doing exactly the same (one button counter 1 button kill which makes you easily op)
still it was an enjoyable video overall
The counter wasn't consistent. There were far too many that couldn't get countered in ac 3 .in black flag You just pressed 2 buttons X and ■ and you won
@@UzairAli-iy5jh that's fair but they are still very similar and the huge gap doesn't make amazing sense
@@clubcardprice1054 i think the huge gap comes from a lack of weapon variety in black flag and with it also a lack of actual animations. AC 3 has more weapon variety with heavy weapons, blunt weapons, light weapons, and normal weapons like swords, that all had different animations and fighting styles. so the spectacle aspect of the fight became something noteworthy. and while i like black flag, it has like 3 different animations in the fights. There is no spectacle to heighten the boring combat system.
@@UzairAli-iy5jhCan you list them down? Because in my experience they are both literally the same in general combat
@@kiddzy2308 expect the weapons you use and some enemies and you taking more damage in ac 3
Assassins creed valhalla is not meant to be played on the normal difficulty to experience the combat, i played it on hard and it made me think because of the stamina bar, when to attack and when to not
I think ac 1 had a good combat with good animations and satisfying counter kill, although i feel like by the end of the game i had too much health so it was pretty much impossible to die and to make it worse health regenerates.
Templars where a little bit more challenging, if you ever decided (or were unable) to fight them instead of just killing them from behind with the hidden blade
Assassin's creed black flag and rouge combat was easy but extremely satisfying with beautiful animations
I was very suprised when black flag was so low cuz honestly it was fun but he makes very good points tho. The enemy’s were VERY easy and dumb but honestly annihilating them was absolutely fun, 2 guns and 2 swords were rlly fun to use in combat
I like how Ubisoft added Vlad Tepes' sword to Revelations since Vlad Tepes was a cruel Romanian ruler and the actions in Revelations are in the same period as Vlad Tepes's actions in Romania (🇷🇴) here he was putting spikes in the people who were rich and were mogging and laughing about the poor ones, piercing the spike through their bodies, from their butt all the way up to their head
I feel like a health bar is not too bad. Games like DMC do it really good, they give you a health bar in the shape of the hard lock on, and it just helps you know how much health an enemy have.
To be fair to Valhalla the disorientating finisher camera can be turned off in the menu
Honestly? For me it's origins every time. It's built primarily around combat. and I like the weapon variety, perks and weight. You feel like you're swinging the weapons.
Also the entire point of odyssey and origins is it's building the history of the assassins. It's a backstory, an ORIGIN point. Listening to an AC fan is like punching myself.
personally, Odyssey is in a grey area, but Origin is an assassins creed game, but take down the stealth
@@CYB3R2K how is it? Explain to me how the story is bad, I Wana hear your side.
I don't get the last argument?
The video is talking about combat so I don't get the point of them being the origin point
I agree on most spots but for me personally Sindycate combat style is fantastic, i really liked it mostly due to being able to use a punch weapon and i love punching but the cane also was incredibly cool and stylish to use and the kukri was honestly the one i liked the least but i loved that too.
Anyway yeah great takes in my opinion, ac3 has the best power-fantasy combat possible in the ac games.
The animations look so cartoonish .
@@pitbullthedog668 Not to me, but still even if they look cartoonish they look good so i don't really care.
@@Atlan3 it just opinion in the end . But the fact a enemy can take like 6 kukuri slashes and still stand doesn’t sit right with me
@@pitbullthedog668it’s objectively cartoonish idk wtf bro talking about
Just finished playing AC III. I really liked the combat but idk if it is worth the first spot, sometimes it's just too confusing on whether or not you should atack, parry or break the enemy's defense. Also, some weapons were really a let down gameplay wise, like daggers having the same animations as hatchets, not to mention that the arrows were too short ranged and everytime you'd aim at someone's head, the arrow would go really slowly into their torso, which was awfully ugly. Guns were kinda disapointing too, they didn't look powerful enough and some would sound like they had a silencer on. But overall AC III really has great combat mechanics, really deserving of top 3.
i just finished playing too! and yeah the combat is pretty good but definitely not perfect. it was pretty snappy tho which was very nice when you needed to change targets and block/parry
I agree with your statement but I wouldn’t say the combat was confusing imo. The trick is knowing the archetypes of enemies so you would know whether an enemy is more susceptible to counter kills or break defenses etc. That being said Ubisoft did a poor job at explaining this in game. It’s like trying to read a book with half the pages missing, so of course it can be confusing!
In short, I wouldn’t say the combat is confusing but the way Ubisoft explains the combat in-game is lackluster therefore being confusing
@@T_Holmes Agreed, if they at least had made the clues clearer I think it would be perfect. I gotta replay ACIII too, I think a second playthrough would be really helpful for a better understanding of the gameplay
@@pedrot.9418 for sure. It’s one of those combat systems that’s easy to pick up but hard to master with all of the intricacies like the double executions, tool executions, etc.
Tbh I've found that Syndicate's combat gets way more fun when you use just the gun and treat it like a 3rd person shooter
that's interesting perspective. I just hate Syndycate's combat system and I always avoid it as much as I can (meaning - i'm trying to do it only by stealth and sometimes by shooting). I will try use more shooting and no hand to hand combat next time. Thanks for your idea
I know, its your own oppinion, but how can Black Flag be so low and AC 3 be 1st?
yeah lol, 3 and 4 have the exact combat, the only difference is ac3 weapon have much more variety and 4 only has dual swords
lmaooo
@thehiddenone black flag had a weapon called "pistol swords" you can unlock that sword by completing all the assassination contracts. That was the most powerful sword in the game. All it takes was a 3 hit combo system 1st strike breaks the defence, 2nd initiates a combo and 3rd is the killing blow. The counter kills with that sword is even more deadly
I'm not sure if I agree on how harsh you were on AC: Syndicate, I think it definitely held your hand but I think all games have done that up to Syndicate, what I didn't like was actually the Skill Points that allowed you to one-shot all the enemies, You're required to get it to level up to 10 but it really ruined the combat. I liked the combat in Syndicate until I got those perks. (I actually replayed this over the weekend because of your videos)
My favorite combat systems in this franchise are a toss up between AC: Brotherhood, AC: Revelations, and AC: Origins. All three had their unique charms and challenges. And I liked discovering them a lot. They were great. The rest I either like or just annoy me.
I love the combat system in Black Flag and Rogue. It makes you feel, like you are better then your opponent
But is Extreme easy,its just parry and slaughter everyone
On the other hand it’s not really the fun when there isn’t a challenge and you don’t feel pressure
@@tbtnr9851 True. But in an odd way, it encouraged me to use stealth all the time. As the combat was kind of a "you failed, now you have to do it the easy way".
@@ProfessorCat-lf1tm that’s true, being detected no matter what feels like a fail
HOT TAKE:
1. Valhalla has the best animations (you can turn off disoreintative finishers)
2. Valhalla has the best parry/block system
3. Valhalla has the most diversity in enemies ( just look at its enemies in the codex)
It should at least be top 5
(btw im not glazing but im just saying its underrated)
Opinions are exactly that, opinions so I don’t want to judge your list too much. I am very confused though. I remember black flag and AC3 being basically the same combat system.
They are the same mechanically but the "feel" is just so much nicer in III. Not sure if it's something to do with the movement, animations, design, or sound, but I've always noticed the difference.
I want an assassins creed game with
The ambition of 1
The story of 2
The side missions of brotherhood
The ending impact revelations
The combat of 3
The naval combat of black flag
The uniqueness of rouge
The parkour of unity
The assassinations of syndicate
The main character of origins
The multiple endings of odyssey
The brutality of Valhalla
The graphics of mirage
The character swapping of shadows
In Valhalla you could get a skill that would use your hidden blade in certain parry’s
no way that black flag combat is better than odyssey
Pretty good list, however, I completely disagree with Unity being above Origins. Unity's combat system is so terribly basic and uninteresting. You can equip different weapon types, but all of them basically play the same + realistically only the sword makes sense for an Assassin who needs to blend in. The combat is slow and floaty, enemies can shoot you with a gun and there's no way to reliably avoid damage, there are only a couple of enemy archetypes, and the finishers keep repeating over and over again. Furthermore, Unity lacks a lot of great features from previous games like: disarming enemies, fist fighting, using hidden blade in combat, throwing sand, throwing knives or doing any interesting special moves for that matter. It's just a boring vanilla system overall.
I would also rank Valhalla's combat higher, much closer to Origins than to Odyssey. When you disable all intrusive HUD elements and set damage to 200% in the settings, it's actually really smooth and immersive. There are a lot of finishers, the combat is weighty and brutal, there are cool special skills but they don't feel like magic, and there are opportunities to be creative. For example, you can use the rope to yank enemies off cliffs, into walls, over railing or to pull them towards you. You can throw a barrage of axes at someone. You can poison your weapon, including an arrow to deal poison damage. You can set people on fire and watch them panic. Valhalla also did some stuff BETTER than Origins. You have more moves! There's a powerful sprint attack, a sprint kick (heavy attack) that can knock people to the ground, you can stomp people on the ground + there are cool finishers you can perform on stunned enemies. You can even grab a freaking arrow mid-flight and throw it back! How cool is that? The combat system in Valhalla doesn't feel as polished and smooth as the one in Origins, but it comes pretty close, it offers a lot of great features, and overall it's much better than people give it credit.
assassins creed 3 just made you feel like a brutal beast and it was amazing and unlike some of the other games that had easy enemies so you just ran through them effortlessly this game did that but made you feel badass and you were never bored
Syndicate is my favourite as I love the animations and the vibe it feels like there is actually a point to fight the blighters unlike the other games where sometimes you just fight random guards
I agree with this a lot, if this were my list I would switch Unity and Brotherhood, but barring that I completely agree with where everything else was placed!
The naval combat is where AC Black Flag really shines and it could get really challenging and exciting, but since this isn't the part of combat that is being copared between the games, I just point that out to say the game is awesome and worth playing.
I liked in AC1 the critical attacks when you hit the attack button as soon as you clash weapons or hit someone it caused an insta kill. It came back for 2 and I believe the Ezio games but they didn't feel as important as it was in the first game to take out enemies. In 2-4 I would try to get counter-kills but in 1 I was incentivized to attack and try to pull off these insta-kills to get rid of everyone faster.
Definitely!!!!! That and the amount of moves and responses you could perform, that is the best system for me
Always loved the combat in AC1. Back in the day it looked so cool and it still does. I also like it how you don't really hit your enemy before the killing blow, outside of those rare few slices that could go through their guard and draw blood. It made the fighting look a bit more realistic. Visually very flashy. Never cared how easy or difficult the fighting was as long as it was fun and enjoyable to look at. Though the number one spot for myself would be either Unity or AC3. Unity just looks really nice while AC3 is just a lot of fun.
In terms of Combat i love the RPG trio
I agree with most things especially origins. It's amazing but people hate it since it's rpg. It is perfectly balanced between being a warrior and being challenging, fun animations, wide range of weapons, good music and reasonable boss fights.
However I heavily disagree with unity. I can appreciate the ideas but literally everything was poorly implemented even after the bug fixes, they should have kept it in development for longer. It's still very glitchy, he has the slowest sword swing in the series and is slower than real life, parrying does nothing, enimies have infinite stamina, they recover impossibly fast and break your block easily while you can't do the same, waaaaay too many guards so you get swarmed, over reliance on smoke bombs, no free aim in combat, BS systems galore such as people dodging every quickshot no matter what and it's not even close to being realistic like many people think it is. He does very wide swings and reaching for more hits, he leaves himself wide open, does stupid spinning attacks and the animations were often choppy and wouldn't even hit them. It's easily the worst combat in the franchise, it's not even a fun challenge like origins it's just a pain.
Hidden one you hide in plain sight and it kind of reminded me of the voices in my house hiding from me when i go to investigate
i hate those voices
I know a lot of you probably aren't British but the knife and canes knuckle dusters are also weapons used back then. yes you may not be stabbing the enemy your slashing them
Odyssey is my first AC game and I'm loving it. So I can't wait to see what else is out there.
It's my favorite RPG but my favorite game is Valhalla I hope you enjoy these games
Also don't listen to the community Assassin's creed Odyssey and Valhalla are assassin's creed games as Odyssey expanded the ISU lore and Valhalla also expanded the ISU and gave us the birth of the templars I won't say anything else as it's a huge spoiler
@@CYB3R2K care to explain why then because your logic is vague and just not good
Also proving my point lol
Odyssey is a great game. Check out Origins too.
Brotherhoods combat was pretty broken with the hidden blade lol. Which is why its fun though!
Hello! Great video so far, you are coming a long way, and one of my inspirations, keep up the great work!!!!
dude i remember when i was like in my early teens, i got my first ps3, it had ac revelations in it, i had no idea what that game is, and when i played it i got hooked, i stopped playing cuz of the janissaries, i got so frustrated i destroyed my controller from all the banging on the table and the walls i did.
I just replayed the original Assassin’s Creed and I gotta say the combat was refreshing as fuck. Timing your hits perfectly is way more engaging than just button mashing or leveling up high enough to just wipe people out.
Putting Odyssey second to last was some agenda stuff. Sure it deviates from the previous assassins creed games and have less counter moves but the actual combat ia smooth and crisp. Just becausr your overpowered does not mean the actual combat mechanics are bad. Its not the best but its definitely not bottom tier
Honestly, Syndicate's 'problems' can be solved by using a high-level weapon that's fully upgraded. It makes combat encounters a joke. You're also able to kill enemies quicker, meaning that all those flashy and perhaps overdone animations don't happen as often.
I love the fact that you can grab people in the Ezio games and slice them
Origins war elephants were one of my favourite parts of the game
In my opinion unity is the most janky and bugged combat system, almost every fight has bugged audio and it cuts out, the enemies are floaty and move in slow motion. I would put it in the 9th place or 8th
Unity had the best potential. If only its finishers were not buggy it would have been de facto best combat in AC series
Unfortunately many have “parkour animations” tinted glasses - which ironically look pretty floaty especially when hopping on platforms.
Because the game was not finished. A better story + one more year of developement could've transformed Unity into GOTY
Love your videos, some day u gonna be more famus💯
3 & 4 are mechanically the same. I feel just as powerful in 3 as I do 4 and it's just as easy, counters and chain kills while occasionally breaking a guard. So I don't see how they are so far apart on the list. But I do appreciate seeing Unity high up, I always like that game's combat a lot.
@@CYB3R2K Fair points. But to have such a chasm between them on this list is still mind blowing. 3 is the same combat as 4 with slightly higher difficulty basically.
One thing about AC2 combat is how unbelievably frustrating fighting the larger spear-wielding opponents is.
They frequently block your attacks, so you really can’t do damage by just attacking them. In addition, I could never get the timing of counter killing on them right.
So the only consistent method of beating them was by disarming them, which was only possible when they attacked, meaning that you have to wait for them to attack, which they would sometimes take an enragingly long period of time to do during an encounter.
32:31 If that’s the case then technically Connor was also untouched and unharmed in combat and exploration for the most part.
I know it's a hot take but to me Origins has the weakest combat of the RPG trilogy. Parrying just doesn't feel as good and you don't have ways around overleveld enemies like Odyssey and Valhalla's systems have.
I agree, Origins just felt boring, all I did was attack, dodge and wait to have enough energy to press shift+f.
Valhalla is the best of the RPG for me.
Yeah, hot take, where most people including me disagree
My first AC game was AC3 and I expected the fight to be better in next gen games and all of this new ones disappointed me.I have origins with me now but I dont even play it cus its not that addictive or something
I do agree AC 3 in the series has the most smoothes and visually appealing combat system in the AC franchise. You feel like a fast hard hittjng tank in that game
So Origins and Origins basically has the same combat. But one is 2nd worst and one is 3rd on his list??
@@JFVideos960 No there is an entire skill tree. Odyssey only has 5 more on the skill tree (excluding DLC)
tf are you talking about? origins combat was WAY better then odyssey
I think your ranking of odyssey is a bit clouded. The combat in odyssey and origins can be pretty much the same. Origins already had poisonous/flaming weapons. The main difference is in origins I've read there are technically no unparryable attacks, but they were difficult to pull of. I think a fair ranking would place the combat in odyssey near the combat in origins, since it is so similar but with extra features you don't have to spec into. If you play a stealth/ranged ability only, you'll barely notice the difference in their combat. Story and justifications for the combat system shouldn't be taken into account unless youre reviewing the game as a whole.
My favourite is syndicate 😢
Same
it's ok to have different opinions.
I just don’t get why the berserker darts in Unity are contagious, it makes them insanely overpowered 😂
I absolutely love your videos I watch them all the time and enjoy everything about them
Origin's combat wasnt bad but the extreme lack of finisher moves in favor of characters falling down dead makes it go at the bottom of my list.
Isnt AC 3 just the same as Black Flag and Rogue tho?
I agree with Syndicate being last place
But I'm a believer that improving upon it is actually the best way to go for Assassin's Creed. If it was less spongy and had a fixed multi-kill feature. It can actually fix AC's issues with being too easy while still maintaining its flashiness. It also runs at a frantic pace unlike the Ezio trilogy which is nice.
Multi-kills are a good way to to make flashiness rewarding because there is the challenge to set things up unlike in the Ezio/Kenway Sage where you're just given free insta-kills
Ac2 has the best combat. Easy to learn, hard to master. It has so much depth that nobody knows about
man, piss off on berating syndicate, you're honestly gonna tell me with a straight face AC1 has better combat than syndicate?
Seeing the combat system in origins have the attention it deserve in the rpg games make me happy
I like the combats of origins wonder how they change it into fantasy bs in odyssey 😭
I know right
Origins has fantasy elements too, and Odyssey's abilities are what made the combat so much fun. It's a total improvement over Origins' combat.
@@TheFirstCurse1 oft someone was on the devils grass when playing shityssey
@@TheFirstCurse1 Nope, origins combat was way better and more challenging. In odyssey you just spamm dodge or block and win against EVERYTHING, and if you get damage you can just heal. Also you didnt have a shield so that sucks too. And i origins there were abilities.
So on the notes for unity, there is a way to flow consistently like in the old games. Using a smoke or flash bomb and consistently switching targets continues your usually limited chain. on top of this, if the enemies are under level compared to you, you can hold attack to immediately do a finisher instead, allowing that instakill chain to remain present. Idk if this affects your ranking, but those two things made combat let you get creative even when it wasn't the game's main focus. Hope this helps if you ever want to play it again!
I cannot believe how overrated AC3's fighting system is. Yeah, it has pretty visuals, but that doesn't make it fun at all. It's EXTREMELY easy, the sensation of reward is completely missing since 95% of the fight is parry and counter, and that's it, with just one counter you can kill all enemies, and if you chain the attack button you can just wipe out 300 soldiers with just one button. Once, the game glitched and started to send me infinite enemies, I swear I was like 40 minutes just killing enemies without having a single hit. Also I felt it like a massive downgrade from the previous games, where fighting was actually difficult and you couldn't just kill anybody with one parry. I would like to know why people love this so much being so easy
Press one button and now you are watching a movie of Doomguy killing 30 soldiers in a row. It´s so bad.
Seeing Odyssey or Valhalla in the bottom of the list always makes me happy
Me dont, i find both of them very nice despite the Rest and bloat but thats another topic
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Why? Cause it didn't live up to your rose tinted glasses? Because you have to actually fight an opponent instead of counter than kill the whole time? Ya, I bet you were happy, old man 👴 😂
@CerealKY i love rpgs , skyrim , dark souls , the witcher , and hard games like sekiro or sifu , assassin's creed odyssey combat is just button mashing, valhalla is not bad but very simple , tge problem with valhalla is that it is way too long and repetitive, odyssey is just horrible , maybe you should just get a better taste in games kid
@@sozzem8869 valhalla still underrated tho
out of interest why did you place black flag so low and 3 so high? They have nearly the same system, being the counter instant kill
Honestly Valhalla feels perfect in combat bc you can feel the hits
i love it too
its so underrated
If I had a mod that removed the constant switching out of equipment and made all enemies(outside of bosses) have the ezio trilogy amount of health. While also heavily lowering the player health, then odyssey would be fun. Only after all those changes.
I remember one time in AC3 my game bugged, and enemies just didn't stop spawning. I basically won the war for the crown
😂
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i actually really loved Syndicate's combat, i liked how you had to combo to kill. made it more interesting in my opinion. but then again Syndicate is my fave AC game so i'm biased lol.
also i absolutely agree with you on that thing in the Unity part, i HATED the snipers they were so annoying. they had the eyes of Legolas i swear and were just as annoying as that one enemy that always blocked, i think it was the enemy at 28:24. legit hated that guy like:
me: 'oh i'll just parry them'
enemy: spams attack and doesn't let me parry
me: 'ok i'll shoulder bash them to open up their defence'
enemy: DODGES IT
me: ):
So where is the Hidden one from I mean I see he has subtitles in vids but dudes English is really on point
8:00 Personally I liked the AC3/ACL/AC4/AC FC/ACRo combat system because it was so easy and the combos looked so cool. Flowing from one enemy to the other was so easy.
Correct me if im wrong, but one of the best swords in origins, is the legendary sword you get after the sundail puzzles it does crazy damage and has a really cool cut scene that goes with it.
I'm boutta get violated for this but I like syndicates combat. I like the fact that I can wipe out herds of people looking cool af. If u don't think it looks cool, u prolly don't know how to get the animation. What I do is get all enemies 1 hit away then attack which looks really cool
I mean, that's part of the pro arguments for the Kenway saga, which allowed for some sweet looking connections as well.
If only they took the combat system from ac 3 and the parkour variation from unity and made the game with that it’d be a better game honestly but I don’t think it’s too bad of a game I just think we’re gonna have to hope for a better ac game next time around
I find Black Flag's combat fun and realistic, though It was the first assassin's creed I played, I still feel it's combat is better than the modern ones
I miss the counter kills button 😢
AC 1- Revelations, almost same combat system with minor differences in Brotherhood and Revelations
AC 3 - Rogue, literally same system
Unity - Unique
Syndicate - Unique
Origins - Mirage, same with specific mechanics in each game...
So is pretty dumb putting like Valhalla so low while putting Origins so high.. the combat is samething, you may like the unique features it has compared to Valhalla, like the lack of abilities.
Valhalla and AC2 have my two favorite combat systems. Loved this video btw 😄
Disarm and hand to hand combat needs to be in every AC. III was almost perfect for me, just need that crouching sneaking vibe.
I always see being too strong as a flaw. Dark souls ruined me. I can't be OP till I earn it and even then I want my enemy to be just as OP
Unpopular opinion: I think that Assassins Creed 1 has the best combat out of all the games.
I just replayed it and finished it at 100% and I feel that it had a lot of depth. There were multiple choices to use during a fight. Grabbing an enemy an tossing him away. Using a throwing knife to weaken him. Dodging and attacking.
Weakening a strong enemy, so then you can grab him, throw him away and execute him with the hidden blade while he is on the ground.
I just feel that it was very well done. Now im playing Ac2, which for years I thought it was a vast improvement over the first one. But... it just feels like a big downgrade :( they just removed everything from the combat and only left the counter attack and the dodge.
Come on, you can just say Assassin's Creed III is your favorite.
Black Flag is often considered too easy because the difficulty was tweaked in order to provide a better experience on the Wii U. And considering Rogue is a copy-paste of Black Flag animations/AI, the difficulty tweak crosses over.
I love syndicate combat mainly I played sleeping dogs before and is similar I picked it up fast and also is a really fun and test of your reaction time
oh man sleeping dogs had a great combat system
maybe an unrealistic opinion, but I didn't like Unity's combat. yes, you were more tactical and less powerful than before, but it just felt annoying. like, the delayed inputs and combat requirements just didn't feel fun to play