Discovery mode is all I care about these days. I feel like AC games have always had a ton of potential but rarely rise above even a mediocre game. There are some decent entries in the series (AC2, BF, Origins) but even the best of them could get repetitive. The recreation of historical cities is amazing, the gameplay and secret society story lines not so much. Discovery mode gets rid of all the distractions and focuses exclusively on what is, in my opinion, the best part.
I actually wrote my dissertation on AC Origins and used it's discovery mode to show how historically accurate (and how significant that is) it is! as a history nerd lol
Honestly I hope to see more titles focus on a smaller map with increased density. Open world is cool and all but I feel like most of the time it results in 80% procedural generation, repeated outpost/cave/dungeon whatever design. And then like 20% underwhelming cities/towns. I would rather see a smaller map with more hand designed elements that makes the world feel more immersive and alive. I think that sometimes it's good to give the writers and designers a box to fill, rather than a blank canvas. Because often times a blank canvas results in a bunch of good ideas but most of them end up half finished and unpolished. Constraint breeds creativity.
I think this is the right idea. I like the idea of a Hitman type game set in a historical city. There should be a number of high density areas and buildings where the main missions take place. They could still use an open world to make the place feel more alive and let you explore daily life in the ancient city.
@@ReikiMaulana Both Unity and Syndicate precisely suffer from those things too if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. Sure, smaller dense world... but what's the actual content like? It's the same generic icon-riddled map repetitive crap that Ubisoft are known for(like, how many useless collectibles were there in each game?). And the story and characters? Two great settings totally wasted with a very poor narrative all around. I still love Unity, and had my fair share of enjoyment with Syndicate, because at the end of the day those games still provide the power fantasy / mindless entertainment I look for in an action franchise like Assassin's Creed... But to put it in a weird way, there are more "M;eh" and wrongs than "Nice" and rights with those games.
Even if Mirage just ends up being a smaller, more focused version of Valhalla that would still be a huge improvement, since the bloated size and meandering plot were Valhalla's biggest flaws.
"Huge improvement" no, no it would not be an improvement at all. Ubisoft is a large company if they start making their games smaller yet demand almost the same $$$ as they would for Valhalla (60 hours+ up to 120hours of gameplay for 60€ compared to Mirage 50€ for 20 hours no upcoming dls) it wouldnt be an improvement, and far from it.
I think it really says something that one of the things I'm the most excited for in this game is a smaller map. Origins was fun, Odyssey started to be a bit much, didn't even come close to finishing Valhalla.
I guess this is an unpopular opinion but I loved the old combat system, fights felt way more convincing and I miss it so much, wish they’d add back at the very least as an option
@@bwhere45it at least looked good and could be a fun loop chaining kills together. Since origins combat has been clunky and weirdly floaty. They should’ve tried to get somewhere close to Ghost of Tsushima
"Not trying to please everyone." Been saying since Odyssey, please split the franchise. Have "Assassin's Creed" go back to the original style like Mirage is claiming to do. And create a new franchise called "Odyssey" that does the open world RPG stuff with only minor references to the assassins existing. Odyssey 2...Kassandra in Rome. She lives 2400 years, afterall. Let's follow her RPG adventures throughout history.
Frl. I think Origins and Odyssey are good games, but they are not AC games. They really just aren't. Narratively AND gameplay wise, they are almost completely separate from the rest of the series. I totally think everyone would be happy if it were split into two separate series. But that's also a big task for Ubisoft to undertake so that'll never happen
@@hannahw7023 it's not that big a task to undertake.... just change the titles and remove most of the connections to the Creed.... doing that could have very well made the origin, odyssey and valhalla a legit split off from the AC franchise.... as they never felt like AC games in the firstplace.
I wish companies were less afraid of making new IPs in general. A separate franchise where they can lean completely into fantasy elements, magic, open worlds, etc. sounds amazing to me. Fenyx Rising would have been a good attempt if they tried to make a new world instead of copying Odyssey so heavily. (I also wish it was more visually realistic, but that's a personal preference)
Also very very very sick of the level based enemies compared to different variation enemies that change the play style. The stupid number hanging above the enemies is the stupidest concept in modern games now.
I don’t know when this happened but the modern AC games have become my comfort games. They relax me after a long day. Maybe something about the simplicity, maybe the repetitiveness.
Some people only like to game on tryhard mode and i needed Powerwash Simulator to discover it can be fun to game with my brain switched off sometimes. Palia did the same and i can understand that AC is exactly that for a group of people.
One thing I always loved about AC was climbing around London, or the pyramids, and exploring historical cities, sometimes meeting historical figures to do silly missions for and stuff.. it was silly and fun, and the buildings and cities were so amazing to explore. I am excited to explore Baghdad and those beautiful buildings! I love to parkour on the rooftops!
Yep. Same here. Meeting Ben Franklin in AC III and Socrates in Odyssey and climbing up the Parthenon was fantastic… or is fantastic! I’m still playing them 😂
I really wish they don’t high light the NPCs the way they do (literally highlighting the whole body) I feel like I’m eliminating toys and not actual people. I wanna feel immersed, and the labels and health bars and the whole body highlighting ruin it.
One of the best ways to play is turning off all the HUD elements and going for a more cinematic experience. In Valhalla you could get rid of all of that junk, and it was much more immersive.
I agree, ruins a game for me. Usually you can turn it off and trust me, it’s the best way to play an Ubisoft game. Turn all hud off and navigate the map yourself, makes it so much more immersive (except when you get hopelessly lost and have to turn the quest marker back on 😂)
I live in the south of Iraq and a week ago I visited Baghdad and now I’m even more excited to to buy this game to be my first assassin creed game and explore the old Baghdad 😄
Ubisoft needs to pull a Rockstar, and spend a few years on a title. Something with fluent movement, incredible combat and captivating story. If they can take Unitys movement and polish it I think the fans would approve
@@SoySilent so that new AAA will rise. if the companies fall, you still have a bunch of players just waiting to buy a game and if a team is good enough an wins our support, they can become AAA
I miss the old AC games but I will never miss the tailing missions lol. I haven’t played AC4 in so long so when I went back, I forgot how many tailing missions that game has, they’re a chore to go through. That’s one thing that can go & never return
I highly doubt they will put it on sale for over 50% off after just 2 months. That’s a stretch bro. Lol I don’t remember them ever putting an AC game on sale for such a cut price after 2 months. Lol Especially considering that’s the Christmas season.
This channel has quickly become one of my new favorites! Keep making great content Luke and thanks for all the work you and your team puts into the channel!
He definitely is very good at giving a well-balanced non bias opinion depending on what kind of perspective you view his content. I also just stumbled on his channel and I really like his detailed process of breaking things down for what they really are and not being caught up by all the hype.
Well, but it wasn't. Luke himself had uploaded a video roughly 2 weeks ago as other TH-camrs did showing off the gameplay. So no the embargo was not lifted today, it was lifted 2 weeks ago.
Mirage sounds promising as a potentially decent game where you get to do some stealthy stuff and get to enjoy the atmosphere of a city (Baghdad) that doesn't get the credit it deserves for being a center of culture and a unique place in history. I'm happy to see signs that studios are open to the idea of building games that are more tightly aimed at a specific experience instead of trying to be the one game that absolutely everyone should play. I'd truly love to have more options to buy games that take more of a Sekiro-approach in terms of being willing to limit player options in order to make the options that are there extremely good.
I'm convinced no game wants to replicate the Batman Arkham series' AI in regards to the fear they demonstrate when you start picking them off.... I feel like a system like that would work great in AC games.
PEOPLE LISTEN.....READ THIS...........UBISOFT GAMES GO ON SALE VERY VERY EARLY. FARCRY 6 AND VALHALLA WENT ON SALE WITHIN 3 MONTHS. $24.99 IS WHAT IT DROPPED DOWN TO AFTER THE SALE. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME AT FULL PRICE!! ESPECIALLY SINCE BLACK FRIDAY AND XMAS ARE COMING UP. THE PRICE IS GOING TO DROP FAST.
@@andreeamociran2360 nope the 2014 was absolutely riddled with unfair bs, it was still a fun game but definitely wouldn't recommend for a first time souls-like player
I didn't hear about that price tag before. That's really exciting that they're going for a shorter length and reflecting that into the price. I was in the fence about buying it before but I think I'm definitely going to pick it up now as long as it can get 7 out of 10 scores on average.
@@DV-ou1yu i don't get hyped for games. Wait 6 months post release before even thinking about getting it. First few weeks or months will be the journalist shills giving huge scores for mediocre trash so their industry access, review copies and E3 passes aren't taken away
im not very excited. Assassins creed fans suffer from battered wife syndrome. they think that by supporting ubisoft they will change something. i think mirage will be a massive letdown.
Absolutely loving Mirage. As much as I like the idea of open world games, I just found myself getting too lost and overwhelmed by them. Keep it smaller and linear and I'll be happy. Mirage is perfect with one lively city and nice sorroundings.
I’m just worried that if this doesn’t sell well that Ubisoft can come back and be like, “see we told you gamers didn’t want this”. Then they go back to the Valhalla style of games.
Same here, and in Unity I went guns & grenade launcher from start to finish. Stealth has never been that big part of AC as some claims, you even got a frigate in a couple!
@@SuperAerieyou very much didn’t have too but the counter to kill made it very easy to not use stealth but having parkour and an actual assassins story and the option of stealth seems like something they could put in their RPG games and for some reason just don’t
@@Conway312 I disagree. The option of stealth was in the newer games too, lots of tool available for that if you really wanted too. Just had to spec that way for it to be really effective. Just like it always been minus some mission parameters that did show up in the earlier titles. Im just against the notion that AC used to be a stealth-game, hear that a lot and dont agree, it had the option of stealth.
@@SuperAerie my point was more towards recent games like odyssey and Valhalla not having the core pillars of original AC games mainly being an assassins story and parkour stealth is more subjective and was required in some games for certain missions such as AC3 fort mission as haytham kenway
This is why I feel like Mgs have the best stealth system. The reason I say this is because the A.I are actually smart. If they see a little bit of you they send people to search the room you are in and even if you are hidden they search around the room and look in lockers and door’s just to find you. There is so many ways to deal with them from placing a playboy magazine on the brown for them to read and get distracted or just pointing a gun to their head so they will surrender. I don’t like stealth games because I’m a very impatient person especially the stealth games we get now. But Mgs is one of the only ones I play and I actually like because how smart the Ai are and how they actually feel like real people.
I don’t really care much about the branching decisions on how to eliminate a target. If my objective is to kill x templar, even if I do it differently than another player the result is that I killed x templar. So usually this only matters when a game wants to have multiple choices to give you multiple endings, but in this case Basim is alive and we know what happened on Valhalla, so I would ditch the multiple endings and choices when the story is already going that direction.
I think Luke is pointing out that if there is only one way to kill x Ancient who is always locked behind a single cutscene, this hurts the replayability of smaller games like these which is one of their biggest selling points. It's just another testament that Ubisoft isn't too concerned about the success of Mirage. It hurts to say it but it's true. AC Red is where all the money is being thrown.
@@funkykrunc6857This Most likely was a Tutorial mission so later missions may be different. They did that before. Also of course Ubisoft isnt too concerned because this game was a dev idea not a ubi idea. Its a test. If it flops, ubisoft wont go back to the older style anytime soon. And Red will he an rpg game
I think the small scope of the Mirage quest that he is talking about can be chalked up to the fact that it was a closed event and Ubisoft didnt want to throw a huge quest at the participants. Plus, i assume this is an early game quest and it basically functions as a tutorial.
I played Mirage and loved it. It has it's issues but I'd much rather prefer ACs like this over RPG ones. I bought it as soon as I could. I hope other people do too, if they really want a proper AC next and not another Vallaha.
“The series became known for pretty intense stealth” I’m sorry dude AC has had some the worst stealth mechanics in the entire industry until like Unity and Origins. I’d barely call the preceding games stealth-oriented
Mirage should've been DLC for Valhalla. Doesn't really bring anything new to the table. "Going back to the roots" is a catchphrase for saying "we're adding nothing new"
i only have played unity but it kinda got me hooked to the franchise, am really excited about it, i literally enjoyed walking around paris so i was really excited to see all the diffrent cool features like pickpocketing, what i really missed in unity was npc interaction so i think this game will tickle my little monkey brain
Interestingly enough, I feel like this may be a way for Ubisoft to test the waters for reviving the Splinter Cell franchise. Maybe they're trying to both fix AC as well as gauge if there really is interest in the stealth genre.
I don’t think this will live up to people hopes in the way they’re expecting. I see a stripped down, reformulated version of Valhalla. I think the fact that this is just a beefed up DLC is Ubisoft once again not taking meaningful risks. I be you they caught wind of peoples frustrations with Valhalla and decided to spruce up an already in development DLC. If this underperforms, it probably wouldn’t cost them a whole lot in comparison anyways. Which could also leave AC Red in some sort of limbo until the numbers are in on Mirage. Just speculation, but I’ve been pretty underwhelmed with what’s been shown. I just see all the remnants of previous games rather than something new and exciting.
The Game was never wanted by Ubisoft but was an idea from.the devs working on it. They wanted to make the game more on par with the older style. This game is a test. If it flops... good bye old AC Style
I would never tell anyone what to do with their money, but for me personally, I see this as a teaching/learning opportunity for Ubisoft. Mirage (even though it’s essentially a slightly more traditional version of their last few RPG titles) is Ubisoft’s olive branch/Hail Mary for the original fanbase to prove that tradition really does sell. If Mirage tanks at launch, I don’t think they’ll ever return to tradition again… if it succeeds, I believe they’ll at the very least have an A and B team, one for the icky RPG games, and the other for traditional experiences. I won’t be touching any extra cosmetics/content for Mirage, because I want to make a statement to Ubisoft that tradition shouldn’t rely on modern add-on’s and micro transactions (even though that statement won’t matter in the grand scheme of things). I don’t want to sound like a lap dog for Ubisoft (which I in no way am, since I’ve trashed their last two games since their respective releases)… but with that being said… ultimately, Ubisoft didn’t have to take a step towards tradition. Even though the step may be small, it’s still a step forward, and in good faith. I’ll be purchasing Mirage, but if I don’t see any changes (the og fans have been asking for) going forward with at least SOME of their AC titles, than I’m backing back out. That’s just me though.
oh you are among the people who when you see a good review you say it's bribed and when you see a review that suits your conclusion you say that's a fact nice how old are you ? wait let me guess 17 ?
Yeah, the reason that “nothing really feels like an action-adventure RPG” is because developers have created what I would call the “Melting Pot” genre of video games. It’s where to take a bunch of individual, scattered pieces of all different types of games, and you just mash them together to create a blobby mass of stuff that you then stick into an open world setting. It doesn’t work because they don’t fully commit to any one thing. They’re trying to create the mythical game-for-everybody formula by shoving all of the mechanics and ideas into one package, much like if you were to try and cook a meal that would appeal to everyone by throwing every single spice and seasoning in your rack into the same pan of meat.
It doesn't work for you maybe. AC Odyssey tried to be a jack-of-many-trades & I loved it. Admittedly, the parkour was rather lame but it made up for in other ways. Similarly Starfield, space combat, open world, FPS, base & ship builder. Yes it's a blobby mass of stuff. Sure, they talk to the fucking wall a lot of the time. But it's a good game. Or at least so I'm told.
I've always thought sound should be much more important than vision, you would hear alot more things before you saw them, so the natural instinct is to be SILENT. They should implement an AOE for guards that is larger than their visibility that you can see when you use eagle vision. They would be able to hear "loud abilitys/ Objects " and they would react with suspicion and haste.
50 dollars is very reasonable for this game. If it's only a 7/10 it's still worth it. It's a decent size open world game. Plus it looks good. People pay more for way less like indie side strollers with 5 hour stories
it's not about the length, it never was. After playing Valhalla you should've demanded more from Ubisoft in terms of quality and if Mirage is identical to Valhalla with a few minor tweaks here and there it'll still not worth the asking price in my opinion not to mention it'll be even shorter.
I really did try to love/play Valhalla. 30hrs in, my main area was only level 2, and I reached a point where I have to level it up, do side missions and also hunt down the order to even continue the main story. I asked my buddy how long it took him to get back into the MAIN story missions after doing all the extra crap and he told me 50hrs. I just don't have another 20hrs in me to put towards grinding. I loved how they handled origins and the way they did missions. You didn't have to absolutely grind side content just to be able to do main quest missions, now if you wanted to do end game raids/boss battles then yeah you had to do the side content to max Bayek out. If you're not a big end game kind of person though, Origins gave us a straightforward campaign that was actually a lot of fun. Granted the parkour was subpar but just how much of Egypt you could explore, and all the hidden Easter eggs and lore were definitely worth it.
I just want a fun 20-30 hour complete game. It doesn't need to be a masterpiece, it just need to be fun. I dont have time for every game to be 70-100+ hours long
Cautiously optimistic for this game, but it looks like what I expected: A "Modern Ubisoft Style" take on the series I grew up with. I'm most excited for the tool customization and a narrative heavily focused on the Brotherhood. Hopefully we get more games like this in the future after Red and Hexe...
In the UK the price of the game is £44.99. Whether it's worth it remains to be seen but if it is a huge hit hopefully it will convince Ubisoft to split the IP into separate entities rather than trying to pass Assassins Creed: Valhalla type games as a game that has any relation to Assassins Creed. Also a real shame Ubisoft took the decision to tack the Tom Clancy IP onto The Division because that basically means we'll never see anything remotely interesting there.
Hard disagree on the historical accuracy stuff you were saying about recent AC releases. By far the most consistent aspect of every AC game is the very clear very obvious dedication to historical accuracy. It’s the series’s entire identity, and they’ve stuck hard to it all this time. I get it if people don’t like Valhalla for one reason or another, I don’t like it either, but pretending the problems with Valhalla stem from the one aspect of Valhalla that is objectively cool and easy to appreciate - participating in the countless and infamous Viking raids on England, which is indeed historically accurate - is very weak.
I started w AC3. Stroke recovery. It took me 400hrs to be competent on controller. Then I made astonishing improvements. More progress in stroke recovery vs any other modality. I absolutely love the new AC. Valhalla. Origins. Odyssey. It’s really the only games I play. Did try Elden’s Ring last year omg. So hard but excellent stroke recovery sensory input modulation gained. I know first players missed this style of AC. It’s funny that I struggled so much in AC3 to teach my brain to play. Now I want full builds, 99 levels of combat, endless exploration, giant worlds and yes those 700 hours you mentioned 🧠💪🏽😆😆
Man I know we will never get it but why couldn’t we get a sequel to unity?? The time period was awesome, the parkour was goated, and Arno was the last good assassin. Such a shame.
From what I've seen, full price wouldn't even be outrageous. This seems promising enough and 20 hours isn't THAT short. There's a lot of ass out there that is full price
Does anyone else miss the crunchy, weighty combat of the old games? Whenever i see the health bars and the feather weight knockbacks I long for the old one shot counter system.
Modern games mechanically are really no different nor have done much since PS3/360 era, now it just has ray tracing, more bugs and predatory monetisation practises
On your inflation argument, games, when adjusted for inflation, are actually cheaper than they were 20 years ago. PS2 titles used to get $50/$60 back then.
When you mentioned it being DLC for Valhalla originally it got me excited cause I was like Ohhh they took a small little thing and made it bigger and bigger it could be similar to like Freedom Cry but bigger scope. Then I also remember that most DLC for Assassins Creed sucks and they’ve been really slacking recently across the board and the excitement died.
Also, I'm afraid you have rose tinted glasses where the early AC games are concerned. 'Freedom of approach' in those was very theoretical, with the key targets always having a very particular way that you had to go about taking them down ... which you got penalized for not using, or outright barred for not pursuing depending on the game. It was really annoying and handholdy.
It'll be different, it'll be how it is in your bwain. Just give us the money. Unsure watch one of our trusted reviewers like shill I mean skill up Consume good, expectation of quality product bad.
It’s a bummer about the AI. I agree that can kill the whole idea of stealth. If it’s not challenging, it’s not worth it. I wouldn’t care about less variety as much if stealth was very challenging to pull off and AI was intuitive. Unity’s stealth and missions were fantastic. Not only do you have many options available but it was challenging to pull it all off without being see while also completing the extra objectives for 100% synchronization. The first mission I had to retry 3 times in order to steal the keys, kill the side dude, sneak into the cathedral without being seen, complete 2 hidden assassinations, and kill the guy in the confessional lol. It was frustrating and I cursed at my game several times but once I actually pulled it off, wow was it satisfying! I was really hoping Mirage would be a return to moments like this.
Yeah. I agree. The biggest let down of the PS4 and PS5 generation for me has been the AI. I suspect super smart AI makes games unfun but I would love it if stealth game AI had a longer memory and reacted more realistically when they find a downed comrade. While I’m at it some cool aspects such as the sound of enemies falling could also trigger suspicion. I guess it’s impossible because stealth has been pretty much unchanged since Tenchu and the Metal Gear games.
How hard is it to create an animation for when you hit an NPC sitting on a chair? Now its like 'ah you hit me good man. Let me slowely get up without looking at you, slowely dram my sword and then BAM! I'm taunted baby. Here we go'
What i want from these big worlds is more depth. To be a sandbox where the world feels alive, to have a real economy, to have factions that pass the mantle of power around. So you as a equalizer type can be a boon or a wrench ion their gears. To have deep diplomacy and politics too. But from what i have seen that will happen when pigs fly. Because this is like Valhalla but with a bigger focus on stealth i think it's kind of bad specially. Like they wanted you to get the feeling of old AC games but all within the systems of new AC games. Which is not that good. Like where are the double assassination moves? You know, the double hidden blade stuff. I didn't mind it that much in a game like Valhalla where i prefer to focus on noisy brute combat. But if it's about stealth then traps, poison, berserk, double assassinations and long chain assassinations are a must. Valhalla wasn't that good in this regard. Like to some extent you could take that road but the traps in general and booby traps are not that powerful, berserks as well too, specially when compared to going all in where you can deal more damage and is overall more fun. Also the environment combat is not that varied and commonly available either. So setting some trap domino chain to watch from afar unfold, kind of like in Hitman, is not really possible. How about stealth being also influenced by light and gear brightness too? Sound and actual vision, to make the sneaking more realistic and believable and of course more exciting. So overall it doesn't seem that this "DLC" for Valhalla can be something of a deserving and good come back to the roots tribute. If it's about assassin's, "hassasins", then it should be about making rulers and breaking empires through manipulation, politics and sneaky murder. And Valhalla definitely lacks the proper systems and mechanics for that, i said it already, it needs to be an alive world, a living and breathing sandbox. And way more believable sneaking and murdering, way better "police", social hacking and witness systems.
With the video gaming market so saturated, and only so many dollars to be spent in the market, they don't want you to be able to replay a game like AC2 over and over to see how much the game has to offer. They want you to play their game once through and then be ready to buy their next game next year. That's how it is now. They have a bottom line that they are beholden to stock holders to maximize, period.
I see they brought the drone bird back. To me Eagle vision in the old games represented a state of heightened awareness, your senses are honed, think Jason Bourne and how he can tell you about all the cars in the car park, or the people in the diner, that sort of thing, a more local awareness, limited to the people in a room or a courtyard, not the whole village. Instead he is somehow able to see what a bird sees, understand a bird's squawks and the ability to tag everyone in the village, more or less.
@@scr3verrrb70I'll wait and see how well it's implemented, in Origins the huge prompt to use the drone didn't go away until you used it, it was the one UI element that couldn't be hidden.
"You have access to basic strikes and parries" "They want you to sneak in, get to the vantage point and take out your target, just like in the old games" This is literally not the older games, except AC1. In every game past 1 you are an invincible god who can go 1 versus 10. What you might be talking about is how the older games had a ton of "can't get detected or game over" missions. The combat was literally never clunky, you were always allowed, enabled and encouraged to fight a bunch of people.
When Ubisoft did the very last update to AC Valhalla, and after your kill all of the targets, you get a couple of extra missions. I haven't even done have of those targets to get those extra missions.
I haven’t preordered a game in a long while. I wait til it releases and check to see if the game is worth spending money on immediately, wait, or not worth it to me at all. I got tired of getting burned by unfinished games. I didn’t even preorder Tears of the Kingdom, and I’m a major Zelda fan.
Am I the only one who finds it completely off putting and borderline stupid that Mr Assassin can just magically walk on suspended loose cloth and there's literally no reaction, either from the cloth having the weight of a whole ass person on it, or the people below who would very obviously notice someone's foot stepping on it directly above them?
Recently discovered you through JorRaptor and been going back and watching a lot of your content. Really like your take on games and your humor, and agree about not getting hyped about games until you see reviews... But I'm dumb and hyped for Mirage haha. I was hyped for Origins and was disappointed, was mid-mild for Odyssey which became my favorite AC game of all time, and was not looking forward to Valhalla and walked away mid-medium from that... So, what do I know haha. Who knows what I'll end up thinking about Mirage, but for now I'll continue to be hyped.
I don’t care if it’s stealth or agressive, I just want some kick-ass finishers; I’ve played enough Sifu and Absolver to be able to handle combat if I come across those bounty hunters. Hopefully get good enough, and it will feel like Assassins Creed 1 and 2, you were if not more unstoppable in those games than in Valhalla, granted much more calm and slick.
Assassin's Creed just hasn't had that same sense of style since about Unity, I'd say. It sounds vain, but I honestly feel llike the cooler, stylish animations were a big part of the series' identity back in the day (anyone remember Beautiful Lies?). Mirage seems to be a step in the right direction with some nice, albeit not amazing, combat animations, but running animations, parkour animations and even idle animations all just seem so...bland. Like you could slap them onto some random guy, as opposed to how Connor's animations and Ezio/Altair's seemed uniquely tailored to their playstyles and followed a specific theme.
@@eternalpain7762Facts bro. I loved playing as Connor and just effortlessly and smoothly carving up an entire platoon of redcoats. Makes me wanna replay the game just talking about it.
Several excellent historical cities in Valhalla fella (Paris, London and Dublin stand out), don't sacrifice accuracy for the sake of rhetoric. It'll be a mild remix of the formula, let's not kid ourselves.
Ubisoft had a non functioning game for a long time, I remember my friends and I all buying Uno on Xbox because we all thought it sounded like fun to just chill and play. Little did we know that it LITERALLY didn’t function, you couldn’t even play the game because as soon as you’d try to actually get past the start screen by pressing A it would just instantly crash. I reinstalled it about a year after I bought the game just to see it still never had been fixed, I get its Uno and doesn’t get much attention but pretty much anyone who paid for it dropped about $15 for a non functioning game developed by Ubisoft.
AYO that diagram showing the differences between missions in the two games.... that right example lookin like you are teaching something a lil different
The game kinda looks like what i was expecting. I knew it couldnt be an old school AC game like i really want since its based off Valhalla but it looks fun. Baghdad looks gorgeous and if i can at least RP in my head as an assassin like the old days ill be happy
i haven't seen anything i haven't already seen before. going back to its roots just means doing the same things you did 10 years ago mixed with what you've already done in the last 5 years mixed in.
I think it’s just very telling that Ubisoft just had a multi-year stretch where they didn’t follow their namesake: ASSASSIN’S CREED - hardly any assassinations that were cool, no stealth, no creeds that were feuding, etc. Stack that on abandoning most things that made them popular - dense worlds recreated from history, responsive parkour that funneled you to partake in it and not running in straight lines, telling an alternative history story that translated to current day, and had budding combat mechanics they tossed away for bare-bones RPG damage sponge enemies with bad AI - to begin with and you get a very divided fan base putting tons of pressure on this release.
This series just doesn't have an Identity anymore. It started off with as coherent dual narrative between Past and present about a conflict waged between two factions with differing ideologies on the human race and the principles of freedom. Now??? It's just a historical simulator about people with super-human abilities who take drugs and hallucinate full other worlds. You haven't been an assassin the last two games and the last 3 haven't even mentioned the word "Templar". The threads interweaving between each game are completely gone, and instead have been replaced with in game purchases for the benefit of Ubisoft and Ubisoft alone. Done with this franchise.
I’m probably just a history nerd but one of the best parts of the rpg ac’s was the discovery mode. Loved that shit.
Discovery mode is all I care about these days. I feel like AC games have always had a ton of potential but rarely rise above even a mediocre game. There are some decent entries in the series (AC2, BF, Origins) but even the best of them could get repetitive. The recreation of historical cities is amazing, the gameplay and secret society story lines not so much. Discovery mode gets rid of all the distractions and focuses exclusively on what is, in my opinion, the best part.
The game is fiction and a lot of buildings and events are made up so don’t get excited
Landmarks and architecture is the reason why I'm very into Unity and Syndicate.. I still have doubts for Mirage though
@@12gmkk29 You clearly don't know how much research actually goes into these games
I actually wrote my dissertation on AC Origins and used it's discovery mode to show how historically accurate (and how significant that is) it is! as a history nerd lol
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Honestly I hope to see more titles focus on a smaller map with increased density. Open world is cool and all but I feel like most of the time it results in 80% procedural generation, repeated outpost/cave/dungeon whatever design. And then like 20% underwhelming cities/towns. I would rather see a smaller map with more hand designed elements that makes the world feel more immersive and alive. I think that sometimes it's good to give the writers and designers a box to fill, rather than a blank canvas. Because often times a blank canvas results in a bunch of good ideas but most of them end up half finished and unpolished. Constraint breeds creativity.
I think this is the right idea. I like the idea of a Hitman type game set in a historical city. There should be a number of high density areas and buildings where the main missions take place. They could still use an open world to make the place feel more alive and let you explore daily life in the ancient city.
I believe that’s they’re goal have 2 types of games on a rotation basis
@@lakingsgeek literally Assassin's Creed Unity and Syndicate.. You guys have been sleeping on those games hard
Instead of all that empty space...give the structures interiors that we can go into...
@@ReikiMaulana Both Unity and Syndicate precisely suffer from those things too if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. Sure, smaller dense world... but what's the actual content like? It's the same generic icon-riddled map repetitive crap that Ubisoft are known for(like, how many useless collectibles were there in each game?). And the story and characters? Two great settings totally wasted with a very poor narrative all around.
I still love Unity, and had my fair share of enjoyment with Syndicate, because at the end of the day those games still provide the power fantasy / mindless entertainment I look for in an action franchise like Assassin's Creed... But to put it in a weird way, there are more "M;eh" and wrongs than "Nice" and rights with those games.
Even if Mirage just ends up being a smaller, more focused version of Valhalla that would still be a huge improvement, since the bloated size and meandering plot were Valhalla's biggest flaws.
Yea get excited for yet another same AC.
@@Diegoshadow85 I didn't say get excited, I said what I said
same with Odyssey, huge map side without much thing to do or just the long travel time.
"Huge improvement" no, no it would not be an improvement at all. Ubisoft is a large company if they start making their games smaller yet demand almost the same $$$ as they would for Valhalla (60 hours+ up to 120hours of gameplay for 60€ compared to Mirage 50€ for 20 hours no upcoming dls) it wouldnt be an improvement, and far from it.
@@jorgosgustavus3183you want a 30$ 20 hour game or what ? The price is good enough, stop saying nonsense
I think it really says something that one of the things I'm the most excited for in this game is a smaller map. Origins was fun, Odyssey started to be a bit much, didn't even come close to finishing Valhalla.
Valhalla even though the starting hours of the game were fun, later parts of the game were big mess. Didn't finish it either.
The beginning imo was definitely good, the mid section was definitely a mess then it comes back together towards the end.
@@DV-ou1yu yeah I quite enjoyed it as an rpg, just saw level 200 or whatever on the map and it just felt like too much.
@hockey66191 It was quite ridiculous. But thankfully, this was released around the pandemic lol
The Map Size in Valhalla was fine. The problem was the Plot felt like an essay written by 12 year olds for History class.
I guess this is an unpopular opinion but I loved the old combat system, fights felt way more convincing and I miss it so much, wish they’d add back at the very least as an option
@@bwhere45AC Brotherhood. Slaughtering 20 guards was satisfying because Ezio was that good of a fighter.
@@bwhere45 not having to spend 10 minutes killing one person
@@bwhere45it at least looked good and could be a fun loop chaining kills together. Since origins combat has been clunky and weirdly floaty. They should’ve tried to get somewhere close to Ghost of Tsushima
The closest one they have to that was Unity.. But for some reason they decided to change the formula once more after Syndicate instead of improving it
@@ReikiMaulana unity was great
"Not trying to please everyone."
Been saying since Odyssey, please split the franchise. Have "Assassin's Creed" go back to the original style like Mirage is claiming to do.
And create a new franchise called "Odyssey" that does the open world RPG stuff with only minor references to the assassins existing. Odyssey 2...Kassandra in Rome. She lives 2400 years, afterall. Let's follow her RPG adventures throughout history.
Frl. I think Origins and Odyssey are good games, but they are not AC games. They really just aren't. Narratively AND gameplay wise, they are almost completely separate from the rest of the series.
I totally think everyone would be happy if it were split into two separate series. But that's also a big task for Ubisoft to undertake so that'll never happen
I wish they would go that, but sadly it never would, because the Assassin's Creed IP sells like hotcakes
Odyssey was bland as hell. Origins was the best of the RPG ACs.
@@hannahw7023 it's not that big a task to undertake.... just change the titles and remove most of the connections to the Creed.... doing that could have very well made the origin, odyssey and valhalla a legit split off from the AC franchise.... as they never felt like AC games in the firstplace.
I wish companies were less afraid of making new IPs in general. A separate franchise where they can lean completely into fantasy elements, magic, open worlds, etc. sounds amazing to me.
Fenyx Rising would have been a good attempt if they tried to make a new world instead of copying Odyssey so heavily. (I also wish it was more visually realistic, but that's a personal preference)
Also very very very sick of the level based enemies compared to different variation enemies that change the play style. The stupid number hanging above the enemies is the stupidest concept in modern games now.
I don’t know when this happened but the modern AC games have become my comfort games. They relax me after a long day. Maybe something about the simplicity, maybe the repetitiveness.
Yeah you could do worse tbh
They're like pizza. Accessible, easy to consume and consistently mediocre. You'll basically never be surprised or disappointed.
It’s the brain dead nature of the games that helps your brain go on autopilot.
They're great. I have to open Odyssey all the time just so I can go kill a few people. Very satisfying. lol.
Some people only like to game on tryhard mode and i needed Powerwash Simulator to discover it can be fun to game with my brain switched off sometimes. Palia did the same and i can understand that AC is exactly that for a group of people.
The deluxe edition is $59 and the base game is $50. Safe to say Ubisoft knows how everyone feels about them
also there’s an interactive shirt for $600 OWO is the brand it works with more the ac mirage somehow translates to rocket league
One thing I always loved about AC was climbing around London, or the pyramids, and exploring historical cities, sometimes meeting historical figures to do silly missions for and stuff.. it was silly and fun, and the buildings and cities were so amazing to explore. I am excited to explore Baghdad and those beautiful buildings! I love to parkour on the rooftops!
Yep. Same here. Meeting Ben Franklin in AC III and Socrates in Odyssey and climbing up the Parthenon was fantastic… or is fantastic! I’m still playing them 😂
I really wish they don’t high light the NPCs the way they do (literally highlighting the whole body) I feel like I’m eliminating toys and not actual people.
I wanna feel immersed, and the labels and health bars and the whole body highlighting ruin it.
One of the best ways to play is turning off all the HUD elements and going for a more cinematic experience. In Valhalla you could get rid of all of that junk, and it was much more immersive.
I agree, ruins a game for me. Usually you can turn it off and trust me, it’s the best way to play an Ubisoft game. Turn all hud off and navigate the map yourself, makes it so much more immersive (except when you get hopelessly lost and have to turn the quest marker back on 😂)
I live in the south of Iraq and a week ago I visited Baghdad and now I’m even more excited to to buy this game to be my first assassin creed game and explore the old Baghdad 😄
Ubisoft needs to pull a Rockstar, and spend a few years on a title. Something with fluent movement, incredible combat and captivating story. If they can take
Unitys movement and polish it I think the fans would approve
I'm hoping the AAA companies collapse big time
@carpathianhermit7228 and then what? We play indies forever?
@@SoySilent so only our civilisation has existed and none prior ?
@@SoySilent so that new AAA will rise. if the companies fall, you still have a bunch of players just waiting to buy a game and if a team is good enough an wins our support, they can become AAA
Why? They make alot of money with mediocre games as well.
As a og AC fan I’m gonna stay optimistic but Ubisoft might let us down. God I never thought I’d be begging for trailing missions again lmao
Yeah same lmao, there's still some hope, but then again it's Ubisoft..
"might let us down" - bro it's going to be boring sht 100%
Yeah like what are your expectations at this point? This is a side studio taking a crack at the franchise. Most assets are reused also reduced price
I miss the old AC games but I will never miss the tailing missions lol. I haven’t played AC4 in so long so when I went back, I forgot how many tailing missions that game has, they’re a chore to go through. That’s one thing that can go & never return
Sry mate, but its still an rpg i just saw the char doing a huge dodge roll and i bet the attacks feel empty light ....
Knowing Ubisoft, this game will be on sale in like 2 months for $25. The AC games go on sale every 2 weeks or so
I highly doubt they will put it on sale for over 50% off after just 2 months. That’s a stretch bro. Lol I don’t remember them ever putting an AC game on sale for such a cut price after 2 months. Lol Especially considering that’s the Christmas season.
This channel has quickly become one of my new favorites! Keep making great content Luke and thanks for all the work you and your team puts into the channel!
He definitely is very good at giving a well-balanced non bias opinion depending on what kind of perspective you view his content. I also just stumbled on his channel and I really like his detailed process of breaking things down for what they really are and not being caught up by all the hype.
I always get nervous when the review/TH-cam embargo for a game is a day before release
Well, but it wasn't. Luke himself had uploaded a video roughly 2 weeks ago as other TH-camrs did showing off the gameplay. So no the embargo was not lifted today, it was lifted 2 weeks ago.
@@SouLP196 that’s a preview, the full release of videos and review scores are on the 4th
The only thing that worries me is eating some spoilers of the story... everything else is good enough for me
@@dreadedTanker3173westy and jack frags shill so hard
Mirage sounds promising as a potentially decent game where you get to do some stealthy stuff and get to enjoy the atmosphere of a city (Baghdad) that doesn't get the credit it deserves for being a center of culture and a unique place in history. I'm happy to see signs that studios are open to the idea of building games that are more tightly aimed at a specific experience instead of trying to be the one game that absolutely everyone should play. I'd truly love to have more options to buy games that take more of a Sekiro-approach in terms of being willing to limit player options in order to make the options that are there extremely good.
19:53 Luke casually explaining us where the G spot is
Man someone is not afraid of loosing their Ubisoft early acess codes haha. Thank you for the honest pre-review. I enjoy these.
Ubisoft have thiccc skin, respect 🫡
Meh, his grift is just to complain and contradict. Ubi doesn't care because they sell anyway.
Most companies literally don’t care what you say unless you tell the people to not buy the game.
I'm convinced no game wants to replicate the Batman Arkham series' AI in regards to the fear they demonstrate when you start picking them off.... I feel like a system like that would work great in AC games.
Agreed. They should try fear systems. But it would be weird to implement it in an AC game.
PEOPLE LISTEN.....READ THIS...........UBISOFT GAMES GO ON SALE VERY VERY EARLY. FARCRY 6 AND VALHALLA WENT ON SALE WITHIN 3 MONTHS. $24.99 IS WHAT IT DROPPED DOWN TO AFTER THE SALE. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME AT FULL PRICE!! ESPECIALLY SINCE BLACK FRIDAY AND XMAS ARE COMING UP. THE PRICE IS GOING TO DROP FAST.
The one I’m definitely hyped for is Lords of the Fallen. It looks way better than the 2014 original
Is it a souls game?
@@andreeamociran2360I hate to use the overused term "SoulsLike" but the 2014 one was very much so.
And would you recommend for a newb? Do you find it forgiving?
@@andreeamociran2360 nope the 2014 was absolutely riddled with unfair bs, it was still a fun game but definitely wouldn't recommend for a first time souls-like player
@@andreeamociran2360the new one looks amazing, you can play with friends, so it might be easier than a souls game if you play it co op.
I didn't hear about that price tag before. That's really exciting that they're going for a shorter length and reflecting that into the price. I was in the fence about buying it before but I think I'm definitely going to pick it up now as long as it can get 7 out of 10 scores on average.
So funny enough they should have taken a page from the Hitman games. Smart A.I and your choice of how to kill the target.
I would love if they did an ezio style trilogy in Japan/ Korea/China/ India. Those areas have so much potential
Fuedal japan would be so fucking awesome
Well next years game is in feudal Japan, so at least we'll get that
Chronicles China and Code Jade is Ubi's answer to that area as a game
@@David-nq8cvor Persia considering that's where the real life 'Order of the Assassins' originated from. That would be so freaking cool.
Woah I never considered India that is such a cool idea
Great preview mate. At $50 for a 20 hour campaign I think that's solid. Let's not forget AC1 & AC2 were 15 & 20 hours respectively.
Quality isn't quantity
@@carpathianhermit7228 Please be true
@@DV-ou1yu i don't get hyped for games. Wait 6 months post release before even thinking about getting it. First few weeks or months will be the journalist shills giving huge scores for mediocre trash so their industry access, review copies and E3 passes aren't taken away
im not very excited. Assassins creed fans suffer from battered wife syndrome. they think that by supporting ubisoft they will change something. i think mirage will be a massive letdown.
Absolutely loving Mirage. As much as I like the idea of open world games, I just found myself getting too lost and overwhelmed by them. Keep it smaller and linear and I'll be happy. Mirage is perfect with one lively city and nice sorroundings.
I’m just worried that if this doesn’t sell well that Ubisoft can come back and be like, “see we told you gamers didn’t want this”. Then they go back to the Valhalla style of games.
Yeah the rp hack-and-slash games are much more accessible for kids.
It should do fine
You many worry, but the numbers won't lie. I think there will be a lot of interest in mirage even if it is less of my thing.
Thats exactly what will happen. This game is a test
I always went swords blazing in every AC when stealth wasn’t required and did fine.
Same here, and in Unity I went guns & grenade launcher from start to finish. Stealth has never been that big part of AC as some claims, you even got a frigate in a couple!
@@SuperAerieyou very much didn’t have too but the counter to kill made it very easy to not use stealth but having parkour and an actual assassins story and the option of stealth seems like something they could put in their RPG games and for some reason just don’t
This is not true
@@Conway312 I disagree. The option of stealth was in the newer games too, lots of tool available for that if you really wanted too. Just had to spec that way for it to be really effective. Just like it always been minus some mission parameters that did show up in the earlier titles.
Im just against the notion that AC used to be a stealth-game, hear that a lot and dont agree, it had the option of stealth.
@@SuperAerie my point was more towards recent games like odyssey and Valhalla not having the core pillars of original AC games mainly being an assassins story and parkour stealth is more subjective and was required in some games for certain missions such as AC3 fort mission as haytham kenway
X-ray vision will never not ruin these games. “Don’t use it then” no, the game mechanics and levels have been designed from the ground up with it.
U mean the eagle eye?
This is why I feel like Mgs have the best stealth system. The reason I say this is because the A.I are actually smart. If they see a little bit of you they send people to search the room you are in and even if you are hidden they search around the room and look in lockers and door’s just to find you. There is so many ways to deal with them from placing a playboy magazine on the brown for them to read and get distracted or just pointing a gun to their head so they will surrender. I don’t like stealth games because I’m a very impatient person especially the stealth games we get now. But Mgs is one of the only ones I play and I actually like because how smart the Ai are and how they actually feel like real people.
I don’t really care much about the branching decisions on how to eliminate a target. If my objective is to kill x templar, even if I do it differently than another player the result is that I killed x templar. So usually this only matters when a game wants to have multiple choices to give you multiple endings, but in this case Basim is alive and we know what happened on Valhalla, so I would ditch the multiple endings and choices when the story is already going that direction.
I think Luke is pointing out that if there is only one way to kill x Ancient who is always locked behind a single cutscene, this hurts the replayability of smaller games like these which is one of their biggest selling points. It's just another testament that Ubisoft isn't too concerned about the success of Mirage. It hurts to say it but it's true. AC Red is where all the money is being thrown.
@@funkykrunc6857This Most likely was a Tutorial mission so later missions may be different. They did that before. Also of course Ubisoft isnt too concerned because this game was a dev idea not a ubi idea. Its a test. If it flops, ubisoft wont go back to the older style anytime soon. And Red will he an rpg game
I think the small scope of the Mirage quest that he is talking about can be chalked up to the fact that it was a closed event and Ubisoft didnt want to throw a huge quest at the participants. Plus, i assume this is an early game quest and it basically functions as a tutorial.
I thought so too.
Like: plays all the newest games giving incredibly informative and entertaining videos on them
Also Luke: doesn’t own an iron
I feel like they presenting something like is new and fresh, but in reality, is a formula that they already exhausted like 10 years ago.
A shot every time Luke says Valhalla
I played Mirage and loved it. It has it's issues but I'd much rather prefer ACs like this over RPG ones. I bought it as soon as I could. I hope other people do too, if they really want a proper AC next and not another Vallaha.
“The series became known for pretty intense stealth” I’m sorry dude AC has had some the worst stealth mechanics in the entire industry until like Unity and Origins. I’d barely call the preceding games stealth-oriented
Mirage should've been DLC for Valhalla. Doesn't really bring anything new to the table. "Going back to the roots" is a catchphrase for saying "we're adding nothing new"
Awesome don't buy it.
I feel genuinely offended that you keep calling Assassin's Creed V'laha wrong.
Assassin's Creed brotherhood and black flag multiplayer back then hit different man
i only have played unity but it kinda got me hooked to the franchise, am really excited about it, i literally enjoyed walking around paris so i was really excited to see all the diffrent cool features like pickpocketing, what i really missed in unity was npc interaction so i think this game will tickle my little monkey brain
Yeah unity was the last good one
If mirage had the combat and physics unity had it would be an amazing game
Interestingly enough, I feel like this may be a way for Ubisoft to test the waters for reviving the Splinter Cell franchise. Maybe they're trying to both fix AC as well as gauge if there really is interest in the stealth genre.
I don’t think this will live up to people hopes in the way they’re expecting. I see a stripped down, reformulated version of Valhalla. I think the fact that this is just a beefed up DLC is Ubisoft once again not taking meaningful risks.
I be you they caught wind of peoples frustrations with Valhalla and decided to spruce up an already in development DLC. If this underperforms, it probably wouldn’t cost them a whole lot in comparison anyways. Which could also leave AC Red in some sort of limbo until the numbers are in on Mirage.
Just speculation, but I’ve been pretty underwhelmed with what’s been shown. I just see all the remnants of previous games rather than something new and exciting.
I agree
The Game was never wanted by Ubisoft but was an idea from.the devs working on it. They wanted to make the game more on par with the older style. This game is a test. If it flops... good bye old AC Style
I would never tell anyone what to do with their money, but for me personally, I see this as a teaching/learning opportunity for Ubisoft.
Mirage (even though it’s essentially a slightly more traditional version of their last few RPG titles) is Ubisoft’s olive branch/Hail Mary for the original fanbase to prove that tradition really does sell. If Mirage tanks at launch, I don’t think they’ll ever return to tradition again… if it succeeds, I believe they’ll at the very least have an A and B team, one for the icky RPG games, and the other for traditional experiences.
I won’t be touching any extra cosmetics/content for Mirage, because I want to make a statement to Ubisoft that tradition shouldn’t rely on modern add-on’s and micro transactions (even though that statement won’t matter in the grand scheme of things). I don’t want to sound like a lap dog for Ubisoft (which I in no way am, since I’ve trashed their last two games since their respective releases)… but with that being said… ultimately, Ubisoft didn’t have to take a step towards tradition. Even though the step may be small, it’s still a step forward, and in good faith. I’ll be purchasing Mirage, but if I don’t see any changes (the og fans have been asking for) going forward with at least SOME of their AC titles, than I’m backing back out. That’s just me though.
Finally an unbiased review not just looking to keep Ubi happy
oh you are among the people who when you see a good review you say it's bribed and when you see a review that suits your conclusion you say that's a fact
nice
how old are you ?
wait let me guess
17 ?
@@mrenigma1564 lol
Ubisoft rlly needs to learn from the hitman franchise as they’ve really mastered stealth and mission variations
Yeah, the reason that “nothing really feels like an action-adventure RPG” is because developers have created what I would call the “Melting Pot” genre of video games.
It’s where to take a bunch of individual, scattered pieces of all different types of games, and you just mash them together to create a blobby mass of stuff that you then stick into an open world setting.
It doesn’t work because they don’t fully commit to any one thing. They’re trying to create the mythical game-for-everybody formula by shoving all of the mechanics and ideas into one package, much like if you were to try and cook a meal that would appeal to everyone by throwing every single spice and seasoning in your rack into the same pan of meat.
It doesn't work for you maybe. AC Odyssey tried to be a jack-of-many-trades & I loved it. Admittedly, the parkour was rather lame but it made up for in other ways.
Similarly Starfield, space combat, open world, FPS, base & ship builder. Yes it's a blobby mass of stuff. Sure, they talk to the fucking wall a lot of the time. But it's a good game. Or at least so I'm told.
The thing is that this game was from a smaller studio and also limited in resources. Ubisoft never wanted it
I've always thought sound should be much more important than vision, you would hear alot more things before you saw them, so the natural instinct is to be SILENT. They should implement an AOE for guards that is larger than their visibility that you can see when you use eagle vision. They would be able to hear "loud abilitys/ Objects " and they would react with suspicion and haste.
50 dollars is very reasonable for this game. If it's only a 7/10 it's still worth it. It's a decent size open world game. Plus it looks good. People pay more for way less like indie side strollers with 5 hour stories
can you NAME one of these 50 dollar 5 hour indie side scrollers?
it's not about the length, it never was. After playing Valhalla you should've demanded more from Ubisoft in terms of quality and if Mirage is identical to Valhalla with a few minor tweaks here and there it'll still not worth the asking price in my opinion not to mention it'll be even shorter.
@GRGCompletionist If you think this is an exact copy then you are not worth arguing with.
@@Lexpionage if you take everything literal you're gonna have a bad time
@@RangoSledge well you cant judge a game and say "its fair its priced like this because its better than this hypothetical game i made up"
I really did try to love/play Valhalla. 30hrs in, my main area was only level 2, and I reached a point where I have to level it up, do side missions and also hunt down the order to even continue the main story. I asked my buddy how long it took him to get back into the MAIN story missions after doing all the extra crap and he told me 50hrs. I just don't have another 20hrs in me to put towards grinding. I loved how they handled origins and the way they did missions. You didn't have to absolutely grind side content just to be able to do main quest missions, now if you wanted to do end game raids/boss battles then yeah you had to do the side content to max Bayek out. If you're not a big end game kind of person though, Origins gave us a straightforward campaign that was actually a lot of fun. Granted the parkour was subpar but just how much of Egypt you could explore, and all the hidden Easter eggs and lore were definitely worth it.
I just want a fun 20-30 hour complete game. It doesn't need to be a masterpiece, it just need to be fun. I dont have time for every game to be 70-100+ hours long
How many 20-30 hour games can you play? It isn't about time per se, but can a longer game be creative enough to enjoy that long.
I had more fun with Immortals: Fenix Rising then the last 4 ACs. So to hear that they cancelled a sequel to Immortals to focus on more ACs is a bummer
Cautiously optimistic for this game, but it looks like what I expected: A "Modern Ubisoft Style" take on the series I grew up with. I'm most excited for the tool customization and a narrative heavily focused on the Brotherhood. Hopefully we get more games like this in the future after Red and Hexe...
In the UK the price of the game is £44.99. Whether it's worth it remains to be seen but if it is a huge hit hopefully it will convince Ubisoft to split the IP into separate entities rather than trying to pass Assassins Creed: Valhalla type games as a game that has any relation to Assassins Creed. Also a real shame Ubisoft took the decision to tack the Tom Clancy IP onto The Division because that basically means we'll never see anything remotely interesting there.
Hard disagree on the historical accuracy stuff you were saying about recent AC releases. By far the most consistent aspect of every AC game is the very clear very obvious dedication to historical accuracy. It’s the series’s entire identity, and they’ve stuck hard to it all this time. I get it if people don’t like Valhalla for one reason or another, I don’t like it either, but pretending the problems with Valhalla stem from the one aspect of Valhalla that is objectively cool and easy to appreciate - participating in the countless and infamous Viking raids on England, which is indeed historically accurate - is very weak.
I started w AC3. Stroke recovery. It took me 400hrs to be competent on controller. Then I made astonishing improvements. More progress in stroke recovery vs any other modality.
I absolutely love the new AC. Valhalla. Origins. Odyssey. It’s really the only games I play. Did try Elden’s Ring last year omg. So hard but excellent stroke recovery sensory input modulation gained.
I know first players missed this style of AC. It’s funny that I struggled so much in AC3 to teach my brain to play. Now I want full builds, 99 levels of combat, endless exploration, giant worlds and yes those 700 hours you mentioned 🧠💪🏽😆😆
Man I know we will never get it but why couldn’t we get a sequel to unity?? The time period was awesome, the parkour was goated, and Arno was the last good assassin. Such a shame.
Unity is definitely a favorite in my list of AC games, especially after the update from bug fixes and stuff.
From what I've seen, full price wouldn't even be outrageous. This seems promising enough and 20 hours isn't THAT short. There's a lot of ass out there that is full price
I love your vidéos, keep it up
Odyssey was the Apex of this generation of AC games.
Does anyone else miss the crunchy, weighty combat of the old games? Whenever i see the health bars and the feather weight knockbacks I long for the old one shot counter system.
Modern games mechanically are really no different nor have done much since PS3/360 era, now it just has ray tracing, more bugs and predatory monetisation practises
@@carpathianhermit7228yeah, not the dif.
bro opened mfing MS Paint to explain such a high level of complexity in this game, you get my sub!
On your inflation argument, games, when adjusted for inflation, are actually cheaper than they were 20 years ago. PS2 titles used to get $50/$60 back then.
When you mentioned it being DLC for Valhalla originally it got me excited cause I was like Ohhh they took a small little thing and made it bigger and bigger it could be similar to like Freedom Cry but bigger scope.
Then I also remember that most DLC for Assassins Creed sucks and they’ve been really slacking recently across the board and the excitement died.
I was looking forward to it, until I saw the magic teliport ability. I'll probably just play and not use that ability
Yeah that ability sucks, it takes away AC playstyle that OG fans of the series love.
Yeah becuase there has not been magic crap in AC games before. Yup! First time.
@@junaidunar9148you don't speak for me as an OG fan
Also, I'm afraid you have rose tinted glasses where the early AC games are concerned. 'Freedom of approach' in those was very theoretical, with the key targets always having a very particular way that you had to go about taking them down ... which you got penalized for not using, or outright barred for not pursuing depending on the game. It was really annoying and handholdy.
Thank you so much for being honest and critical of these games but at the same time being fair
we all know what this game will be. its the cycle of insanity again and again over and over and it will make hundreds of millions of dollars
Give money now.
It'll be different, it'll be how it is in your bwain. Just give us the money. Unsure watch one of our trusted reviewers like shill I mean skill up
Consume good, expectation of quality product bad.
What is that pyramid in the back you have? And is it still available to get somewhere?
It’s a bummer about the AI. I agree that can kill the whole idea of stealth. If it’s not challenging, it’s not worth it. I wouldn’t care about less variety as much if stealth was very challenging to pull off and AI was intuitive. Unity’s stealth and missions were fantastic. Not only do you have many options available but it was challenging to pull it all off without being see while also completing the extra objectives for 100% synchronization. The first mission I had to retry 3 times in order to steal the keys, kill the side dude, sneak into the cathedral without being seen, complete 2 hidden assassinations, and kill the guy in the confessional lol. It was frustrating and I cursed at my game several times but once I actually pulled it off, wow was it satisfying! I was really hoping Mirage would be a return to moments like this.
Yeah. I agree. The biggest let down of the PS4 and PS5 generation for me has been the AI. I suspect super smart AI makes games unfun but I would love it if stealth game AI had a longer memory and reacted more realistically when they find a downed comrade.
While I’m at it some cool aspects such as the sound of enemies falling could also trigger suspicion.
I guess it’s impossible because stealth has been pretty much unchanged since Tenchu and the Metal Gear games.
How hard is it to create an animation for when you hit an NPC sitting on a chair? Now its like 'ah you hit me good man. Let me slowely get up without looking at you, slowely dram my sword and then BAM! I'm taunted baby. Here we go'
Idk maybe because it had limited resources and time
I already got my copy since October 2 and have played it since then 6 hours. From what I have seen it's a great game.
What i want from these big worlds is more depth. To be a sandbox where the world feels alive, to have a real economy, to have factions that pass the mantle of power around. So you as a equalizer type can be a boon or a wrench ion their gears. To have deep diplomacy and politics too. But from what i have seen that will happen when pigs fly.
Because this is like Valhalla but with a bigger focus on stealth i think it's kind of bad specially. Like they wanted you to get the feeling of old AC games but all within the systems of new AC games. Which is not that good. Like where are the double assassination moves? You know, the double hidden blade stuff.
I didn't mind it that much in a game like Valhalla where i prefer to focus on noisy brute combat. But if it's about stealth then traps, poison, berserk, double assassinations and long chain assassinations are a must. Valhalla wasn't that good in this regard.
Like to some extent you could take that road but the traps in general and booby traps are not that powerful, berserks as well too, specially when compared to going all in where you can deal more damage and is overall more fun. Also the environment combat is not that varied and commonly available either. So setting some trap domino chain to watch from afar unfold, kind of like in Hitman, is not really possible. How about stealth being also influenced by light and gear brightness too? Sound and actual vision, to make the sneaking more realistic and believable and of course more exciting.
So overall it doesn't seem that this "DLC" for Valhalla can be something of a deserving and good come back to the roots tribute. If it's about assassin's, "hassasins", then it should be about making rulers and breaking empires through manipulation, politics and sneaky murder. And Valhalla definitely lacks the proper systems and mechanics for that, i said it already, it needs to be an alive world, a living and breathing sandbox. And way more believable sneaking and murdering, way better "police", social hacking and witness systems.
With the video gaming market so saturated, and only so many dollars to be spent in the market, they don't want you to be able to replay a game like AC2 over and over to see how much the game has to offer. They want you to play their game once through and then be ready to buy their next game next year. That's how it is now. They have a bottom line that they are beholden to stock holders to maximize, period.
I see they brought the drone bird back. To me Eagle vision in the old games represented a state of heightened awareness, your senses are honed, think Jason Bourne and how he can tell you about all the cars in the car park, or the people in the diner, that sort of thing, a more local awareness, limited to the people in a room or a courtyard, not the whole village. Instead he is somehow able to see what a bird sees, understand a bird's squawks and the ability to tag everyone in the village, more or less.
eagle vision and eagle are both able to be used
@@scr3verrrb70I'll wait and see how well it's implemented, in Origins the huge prompt to use the drone didn't go away until you used it, it was the one UI element that couldn't be hidden.
@@Pillock25 watch some gameplay videos that are already released
The Notre Dame quest was the E3 demo for unity and it was the only quest that had that much variability in the end. That should bot be forgotten
Always love Ur content, critical, and bottomline.
"You have access to basic strikes and parries"
"They want you to sneak in, get to the vantage point and take out your target, just like in the old games"
This is literally not the older games, except AC1.
In every game past 1 you are an invincible god who can go 1 versus 10.
What you might be talking about is how the older games had a ton of "can't get detected or game over" missions.
The combat was literally never clunky, you were always allowed, enabled and encouraged to fight a bunch of people.
True but tbh i love this new direction. But as you said AC1 is an older game ;p
When Ubisoft did the very last update to AC Valhalla, and after your kill all of the targets, you get a couple of extra missions. I haven't even done have of those targets to get those extra missions.
Love your takes on these
I haven’t preordered a game in a long while. I wait til it releases and check to see if the game is worth spending money on immediately, wait, or not worth it to me at all. I got tired of getting burned by unfinished games. I didn’t even preorder Tears of the Kingdom, and I’m a major Zelda fan.
9:16 wth was that throw😂 the knife was like : not today brother
Am I the only one who finds it completely off putting and borderline stupid that Mr Assassin can just magically walk on suspended loose cloth and there's literally no reaction, either from the cloth having the weight of a whole ass person on it, or the people below who would very obviously notice someone's foot stepping on it directly above them?
As Geordie I was pissed when I saw Hadrian’s wall and no sign of the Tyne
Recently discovered you through JorRaptor and been going back and watching a lot of your content. Really like your take on games and your humor, and agree about not getting hyped about games until you see reviews... But I'm dumb and hyped for Mirage haha. I was hyped for Origins and was disappointed, was mid-mild for Odyssey which became my favorite AC game of all time, and was not looking forward to Valhalla and walked away mid-medium from that... So, what do I know haha. Who knows what I'll end up thinking about Mirage, but for now I'll continue to be hyped.
I don’t care if it’s stealth or agressive, I just want some kick-ass finishers; I’ve played enough Sifu and Absolver to be able to handle combat if I come across those bounty hunters. Hopefully get good enough, and it will feel like Assassins Creed 1 and 2, you were if not more unstoppable in those games than in Valhalla, granted much more calm and slick.
Assassin's Creed just hasn't had that same sense of style since about Unity, I'd say. It sounds vain, but I honestly feel llike the cooler, stylish animations were a big part of the series' identity back in the day (anyone remember Beautiful Lies?). Mirage seems to be a step in the right direction with some nice, albeit not amazing, combat animations, but running animations, parkour animations and even idle animations all just seem so...bland. Like you could slap them onto some random guy, as opposed to how Connor's animations and Ezio/Altair's seemed uniquely tailored to their playstyles and followed a specific theme.
@@eternalpain7762Facts bro. I loved playing as Connor and just effortlessly and smoothly carving up an entire platoon of redcoats. Makes me wanna replay the game just talking about it.
Several excellent historical cities in Valhalla fella (Paris, London and Dublin stand out), don't sacrifice accuracy for the sake of rhetoric. It'll be a mild remix of the formula, let's not kid ourselves.
Ubisoft had a non functioning game for a long time, I remember my friends and I all buying Uno on Xbox because we all thought it sounded like fun to just chill and play. Little did we know that it LITERALLY didn’t function, you couldn’t even play the game because as soon as you’d try to actually get past the start screen by pressing A it would just instantly crash. I reinstalled it about a year after I bought the game just to see it still never had been fixed, I get its Uno and doesn’t get much attention but pretty much anyone who paid for it dropped about $15 for a non functioning game developed by Ubisoft.
The AI will suck. "AAA" game developers care about graphics, not AI.
AYO that diagram showing the differences between missions in the two games.... that right example lookin like you are teaching something a lil different
The game kinda looks like what i was expecting. I knew it couldnt be an old school AC game like i really want since its based off Valhalla but it looks fun. Baghdad looks gorgeous and if i can at least RP in my head as an assassin like the old days ill be happy
i haven't seen anything i haven't already seen before. going back to its roots just means doing the same things you did 10 years ago mixed with what you've already done in the last 5 years mixed in.
I think it’s just very telling that Ubisoft just had a multi-year stretch where they didn’t follow their namesake: ASSASSIN’S CREED - hardly any assassinations that were cool, no stealth, no creeds that were feuding, etc.
Stack that on abandoning most things that made them popular - dense worlds recreated from history, responsive parkour that funneled you to partake in it and not running in straight lines, telling an alternative history story that translated to current day, and had budding combat mechanics they tossed away for bare-bones RPG damage sponge enemies with bad AI - to begin with and you get a very divided fan base putting tons of pressure on this release.
Roller champions still gets support and has a dedicated player base
This series just doesn't have an Identity anymore. It started off with as coherent dual narrative between Past and present about a conflict waged between two factions with differing ideologies on the human race and the principles of freedom. Now??? It's just a historical simulator about people with super-human abilities who take drugs and hallucinate full other worlds. You haven't been an assassin the last two games and the last 3 haven't even mentioned the word "Templar". The threads interweaving between each game are completely gone, and instead have been replaced with in game purchases for the benefit of Ubisoft and Ubisoft alone. Done with this franchise.
Completely off topic but where’d u get the display cases in the background, I have the same Lego pyramid and I’d like to put it in a case!