Improved skyboxes, global illumination, reflective surfaces, textures, shadows, bloom and volumetric effects. Also, it finally runs properly on PC (even though it is maxed at 60 fps) Not bad, but i still hoped for more. Changing the reflective surfaces from the eyes makes the characters look dead though, that is a shame.
@@Tom-sd2vi the facial model loss detail, some of the texture seems loss and just glossed out, from 1 minute mark you can see kenway and lees face have a shadow that seems too dark and their face detail becoming darket our and on the ship the color is kinda dull like someone turn hbao off
The characters look exactly the same, it's just that for such an old game, the new shadows and lighting that they created doesn't fit the characters models very well
it's not shadows or lighting that are the main problem in this case, it's that they slapped subsurface scattering onto everyone with what seems like no regard for the original art style.
Not crazy I don’t get it either, but opinions seem to be split pretty decisively. Although I am not the type to watch these kinds of videos, and yet I heard about how bad it was in other circles, so take that as you will
Actually the shadows look like crap in the original. Also some textures. Lighting as well in general. Indeed it seems like there's also some yellowish filter, but I can't say if it's bad or not yet from a youtube video.
Textures are smoothened out, probably to hide the weird shadow effect on the original. You mostly notice it on faces, but also on other environmental elements (especially the water is a huge downgrade). I prefer the detail and roughness on the original and think they could've done a better job preserving that in the remaster. They also changed the contrast, color and lighting effects for a higher dynamic range and a more natural looking environment, which I actually like apart from some cutscenes.
Eye-candier but not a big improvement. I wonder if the new lighting is realistic and anyway I prefer the gloomier look of the original. Also the remastered version can't be played at max settings on non-gaming PCs.
They added real time reflections on water surfaces wich were missing in the original, improved the draw distance and shadows, added volumetric lighting like recent AAA games, higher resolutiion up to 4K, stable frame rate, to naem few things. Maybe open your eyes?
This video just reminded me, what a masterpiece is story of this game. It even doesn´t matter if you play original or remaster. Everyone loves Ezio, but for me this is the pinnacle of storytelling in whole series. Yeah, missing old Ubisoft.
I actually felt like 3 kinda fumbled a little bit with its storytelling, particularly with the pacing in some areas and with Connor as a character. I started giving 3 another chance recently so I hope I like it this time.
Original: Shit environment, good character face design. Remastered: Good Environment, shit character face design. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
@@philip_bray Good thing Remaster was free for me, otherwise I would've lost my shit if I paid full price and got something that ran a little better but looked worse.
God ACIII takes me back. My grandfather got me a copy for PS3 the day it came out. The old days, god. I miss being thirteen, things didn't bother me then like they do now.
@@maskedman2210In the case of PC (Steam), the only way to get it now is through a product key. And because the original is de-listed, these will only go up in price and are currently slightly more expensive than the Remastered version. That, and, you'd have to figure out how to get DLC. I think keys for the Deluxe Edition hav3 completely run out...not sure.
It was such a disappointing purchase for me. I love this game and wanted to play it again for so long.. I'm usually not the one to get annoyed at graphics, but plastic faces and oversaturation constantly threw me off. I recently bought a pc and had to pirate the old version and man it looks so much nicer. They even removed clothes getting wet in remaster.
@@ace_skull1283 no,a fucking remaster it's the same game with no better graphics from ps3 to ps4/ps2 to ps3. The fact that they actually did is that they changed the textures(with better ones),and increased brightness. A remake it's like a new game,with new engine,new softwar etc.
I think the biggest change that’s gone mostly unnoticed is that all the interiors of shops, taverns, and the homestead no longer have functioning windows that allow you to see outside. It was a small detail, but I miss that level of immersion into the world. Instead, you get a flat white or dark backdrop like in black flag, making the game look unfinished and breaking the immersion.
I tend to find the improved lighting helps to improve the faces, though. Compare the way light falls on Haytham and Charles' faces when talking to Benjamin Franklin. The shadows make them look more natural, whereas the original shows off all the flaws.
when you actually play the game, remastered looks waay better in terms of gameplay and its actually quite satisfying playing the game with those graphics. Unfortunately the only problem in the entire game is quite a big one which is the cut scenes, where the characters and some of the surrounding has lost quite a lot of the detail. I still really like the remaster, i think its the best one out of all the AC games.
I like seeing Haytham with half of his face being shaded with such dark shadows in during the beginning of he video. It makes him looks badass and iconic. The guy spreading power and fear through his polite tone.
Main thing is enhanced lighting and colors. While lighting effects are pretty good, they can be horrendous at times against character faces. Speaking of faces.... what happened? They were much more detailed and full of life in the original version.
@@draytonjames81 its new York and boston tho its meant to be lively because its America the homestead I get but the older version doesn't present America as it should
I know this is maybe one of the most hated games in the series but for me it still holds a special place in my heart because it’s the first AC that I ever played. Are there better games? Yes. Is this still one of my favorites? Yes.
@@isadroce3437 Im trying to get into the assassins creed series. What game do you recommend in terms of gore and combat? I follow the story on youtube but only played the 3rd game way back in middle school.
@@kevinbishop1634 Ezios collection (so AC 2, Brotherhood and Revelations)are easily the best in every aspect,but there are some other nice AC games like Black Flag or Rogue(which is criminally underrated)but really for me there isn't a bad ac game but if you asked me what to play its definetly Ezios collection
The thing people are complaining about isn't the environment, which actually does look better. It's the faces. They clearly didn't update the faces for the new lighting, so everyone looks like they haven't seen the sun a day in their lives.
Takeaways: Lighting, atmosphere, and color grading are the major differences. Lighting is better overall from a technical perspective however I'm not a fan of the drastically warmer color tones. I also have feel like the were certain moments in the video where facial features actually benefited more from the original lighting system. Models appear to be prettied up removing any jagged edges but one issue i can't stand is the lack of skeletal structure and physics in character model hair. It's 2023, if you're gonna remaster a 10 year old game it would be nice to see some more attention to detail rather than just a simple light show. But it seems more like this is was released as a cash grab to fund bigger future projects.
You said its 2023 but realize this remaster is not from 2023 its a remaster from 2019. It looks ok definitely that PS4 Xbox One half ass remaster era. Not like the remakes and reimaginings of today
Things like textures and lightning are often designed in tandem. Upscaling textures or adding support for higher resolutions shouldn't really cause problems, but changing the lighting system or adding new forms of lighting will seriously fuck with a game's visual design. Either the people handling the remaster didn't know what they were doing or weren't given enough time to make the new lighting work.
I think the moment at 3:43 about sums this remaster up for me. I went back to look at the old one and, while it is rough as heck looking after almost a decade (especially on a 4k television), you can actually SEE the cityscape from a sync point. The remastered is covered in an endless Morrowind fog that obfuscates everything in the distance. It's awful. I appreciate the convenience of life updates, but I can't believe this passed quality control. It's depressingly sloppy. The remastered edition will be the one in all anthologies in the future. People twenty years from now won't see the city stretching off into the distance, tree lines in the horizon. No, they'll see an endless fog hiding any buildings more than a hundred yards out. BLEH! If they couldn't support high resolution textures while maintaining a solid 30 FPS, then they shouldn't have added them. They should have just stuck in the PC version's best texture pack, updated the lighting, improved the draw distance for foliage, and called it a day graphics-wise. A shame.
It's not the weather system. Every single sync point I've done in this game, city or frontier, has been so "foggy" that I couldn't see the horizon or the surrounding buildings. It's absolutely awful.
The character models look worse but I don't think they downgraded anything They just reduced the ambient occlusion that hides some of the models' lack of detail
The character models look far worse, the water is noticeably far worse, the shadows and lighting are worse (excessive bloom), the colors are overly saturated. They took a perfect game and made a pointless remaster that has objectively worse graphics, and now that's the only version Ubisoft sells. Brilliant.
@@UnchainedEruption the shadows definitely look better, and the bloom does make surfaces look like they're actually lit by the bright sunlight. Both make for a more believable daylight environment. And the lightning and colors, while not to everyone's liking, resembles that in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and I think that's fine. It does lack the cold color temperature that it needed to fit the story which is a bummer, but that's less of a technical side of thing. Really the biggest effort they needed to put in but they didn't, is remastering the character's skin texture and maybe even remaking the character face models.
I have to say, i totally agree with the majority of the comments here.Who thought that blurring out textures and turning up brightness would be worth another 40 bucks? Answer: Ubisoft. Game itself is one of my favourites in the AC series though.
This may not be the best AC in peoples eyes but it is my favorite. As someone who is half Native himself it is good to see someone like me and someone I can kinda relate to in a game! That's why it is my favorite! ♥
Was seriously considering forking out the money for this because of the small patches they've made to the game as well but honestly, the lighting in the remastered edition just looks harsh and overall worse?
@@naranciaghirga5711 when Connor is an adult, it's a lot easier to see how in the remaster his skintones completely changed. It's not super drastic but it's enough to notice
@@maia_beans He is a Kanien'ke:ha or tribe member. I remember Connor fought a group of guards and that one templar said "Kill that indian guy too!". I forgot what mission it is but someone said that.
@@kczorammuana1069 clearly indian if from India. It was a mistake made on the coloniser's behalf since they were too stupid to differentiate two completely different places
i noticed that when it's just gameplay the remaster looks really great. however it looks bad when in cutscenes where there would be close-up shots to the characters. the lighting of the remaster actually looks great when gameplay and running around in the open world, but in cutscenes it just looks to overexposed.
The original one was better because the remastered has a large file and the graphics were so changed, and I can't play it because it's gonna overheat my GPU. And right now, I'll give it 1.2/10
"ok. let us enhance the brightness and contrast, reduce the quality of the characters' graphics, aaaaand... here, the AC III remastered!" really genius...
The water splashing in front of the ship looks better in the original. The characters in the remastered version have less detail in the face. Remastered version does have enhanced details that move with the environment.
it is so hard to tell which one is better, the remaster certainly has better lighting, foliage and building textures, but the character skin texture seem too plastic. water seem different, but i cant tell if it got worse or better
You guys in the comments have all been fooled😂😂 he switched them - the original is really on the right - if you’ve played the remaster you can see this easily.
@@StarvingWolff And guess what? There's one fucking mission that prevents me from getting %100 sync...That one hunting mission where you have to get like 3 feathers, they're literally not there so basically I might have to restart the whole fucking game, I've seen people with this same problem SIX years ago.... I'm tired of these half assed games....
0:10 and 0:16 this "remaster" ultimately removed the fine details and made haytham (and benjamin franklin) look 10 years younger. removing the "stress" from his face, which is an important detail from a detail-narrative perspective. the "remaster" essentially smoothened out the fine details, making them look like more like action figures or wax figures the water also took such a massive hit. it's insane how it's such a drastic downgrade. another thing is the lighting. look at 0:32 okay, sure, maybe the remaster has more "realistic" lighting, in the sense that light gradually fades as you enter the cave... BUT the original had much more "drama" and visual storytelling because the light transition IS scripted and was done from an artistic and storytelling point of view. see, this is why artistic interpretation should be given equal or more importance than technical specifications. technology SHOULD be used as a tool to tell your story and experience.
i remember loving the original one on my xbox360. i didnt even now theyre remastering it untill it appeared in my steam library (because of odessy delux edition) and i was extremely exited. now it isnt a big remastered like i expected but running around truly was fun and still is i the new one. even more fun because of 60fps.
I think lower contrast or brightness for the texture details of skins to be dark and clear instead of being blurred out by to much white thats hiding skin texture details!
Thanks for saving me some money. I just saw that the remaster is on sale so I was considering it but I remembered AC3 to already be graphically well ahead of it’s time. No reason to dish out more money for such an insignificant graphical enhancement.
It's the lighting. They layered or enhanced the lighting effect. Darker environments pop with more detail and color. However, the character models are blasted by this light's bringing out all their imperfections
original looks better the lighter remastered version takes away the dark age effect which makes the games atmosphere feel good the games an upset in my opinion. its like undressing the game and showing the core was never good its the scenery that captured the eyes and hearts of the ac players and you've left it its not good release an update fix the lighting 🤔👌
Idk why other people hate ac 3 but personally I love the way it looks. I have seen the original one a lot but never played but still, as far as I have seen, I really like the remastered. It is probably pne of the few games that I have exclaimed so many times while running around the world that how beautiful it looks. Besides the glitches and some other flaws like face textures and shadows but personally, loved and enjoyed it a lot.
I definitely bought it with ac Odyssey, got it on black Friday....those two games and ac Liberations for 30 bucks and a couple dlcs and other miscellaneous stuff. Great deal? Hell yeah.... Improvement? Barely.... Can't get %100 sync cause of a glitched mission? Hell yeah :/
Improved lighting and textures along with better shadows and smoother animations. Of course the animations could be due to frame rate improvements. That's what I see. It's a matter of if you like the changes or not. The water doesn't really look as good though.
The lighting is so much better in the remaster. The problem is all the models weren't made with this lighting in mind so they can look a bit off. There are definitely a few areas that look more impressive in the original(the sea at 2:12 for example) at the same time the high contrast is pretty awful. Notice how you can barely see detail on the ship, the original has the same problem throughout, showing anything that's remotely dark as almost completely black, like an early ue3 game. I remember playing the original and being annoyed at Charles Lee's hair being a black hole. Good trade off so we can actually see the game.
I bought the remastered version of the game since it was my first time ever playing AC III, and considering the many positive comments the game received, I can say that I completely failed to grasp and enjoy the storyline. The textures were horrible to the point that it completely distracted me from the storyline, thus making it like a chore to play. I'm really saddened and disappointed that this edition made me dislike AC III that much
for me, AC 3 remastered is the best part of the series. It doesn't come across like that in the gameplay videos, but what I like best is actually the closeness of the camera to the character. The game character is much larger than in other parts, similarly detailed movements and physics as in Unity. the shipping from the intro, this short sequence, was much more adventurous and intense than the free ship gameplay in Black Flag. Ubisoft proves its narrative qualities similar to those in Last of Us. there are horses! Free riding! and it just doesn't feel as arcade as riding in valhalla or origins. there is still a classic combat system without trails, light effects and all these unnecessary, arcade-like effects. the fight is brutal with dynamic finishers, mak in between, sometimes at the end of the fight. free choice of weapons. you can't enter shops properly and then someone stands behind the counter and you don't just shop with a floating button. it reminds me of watchdogs with the richness of detail and the nearby char camera. watchdogs 2 and 3 was much more arcade-like and the camera further away, similar to the following AC parts. the snow, blood in the snow, wildlife and hunting, Indian storyline and bow and arrow - all refreshingly new and beautiful thanks to remastered. New functions such as attracting enemies from bushes or free aiming with firearms and bows round off the remastered experience. extremely satisfied !!!
The character models and shading of the original look better, however the background, environments and lighting look better on the remaster. Not to mention the gameplay mechanics are much more fluid on the remaster and they added some features that weren't in the original. This was and still is my favorite AC game and I have been playing like crazy since getting it. I would like to know what settings are you running both these games on to showcase? Because my Remaster doesn't look as awful this video.
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What do you guys think of the graphics?
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Improved skyboxes, global illumination, reflective surfaces, textures, shadows, bloom and volumetric effects. Also, it finally runs properly on PC (even though it is maxed at 60 fps)
Not bad, but i still hoped for more. Changing the reflective surfaces from the eyes makes the characters look dead though, that is a shame.
i think it looks worse overall.
@@albioncia I am curious, why? Can you elaborate?
@@Tom-sd2vi the facial model loss detail, some of the texture seems loss and just glossed out, from 1 minute mark you can see kenway and lees face have a shadow that seems too dark and their face detail becoming darket our and on the ship the color is kinda dull like someone turn hbao off
@@albioncia I understand what you mean. I think the "better" lighning system shows more how bad some of the old models and animations are.
the environment looks better but the characters look worse
Monika they’ll probably add new stuff to make them look better
Yeah remastered looks creepy af
The characters look exactly the same, it's just that for such an old game, the new shadows and lighting that they created doesn't fit the characters models very well
@@jonas-su5st agreed
it's not shadows or lighting that are the main problem in this case, it's that they slapped subsurface scattering onto everyone with what seems like no regard for the original art style.
AC3 Original: Morning
AC3 Remastered: Afternoon
yeahhh ubisoft use orange filter
Accurate af 😂
Remastered: Shadows don't exist.
😂😂
More like noon
Am I crazy or does the original look better
Ben Flores crazy
Not crazy
I don’t get it either, but opinions seem to be split pretty decisively. Although I am not the type to watch these kinds of videos, and yet I heard about how bad it was in other circles, so take that as you will
Me too, I'm not sane - the original is better though the graphics is old and all the soul into the game is there.
the descriptions r under the wrong videos, obviously
Ben Flores Crazy
Look how they've massacred my boy 😭
Actually the shadows look like crap in the original. Also some textures. Lighting as well in general. Indeed it seems like there's also some yellowish filter, but I can't say if it's bad or not yet from a youtube video.
The faces look like the people are wax figures come to life. It’s so sad
@@One.Zero.One101 I played it on xbox one x and i swear my game doesn't look '' ugly '' like that
dude's so white he's going to start a podcast
@@Dzifii White people are the only demographic that listens to podcasts?
Textures are smoothened out, probably to hide the weird shadow effect on the original. You mostly notice it on faces, but also on other environmental elements (especially the water is a huge downgrade). I prefer the detail and roughness on the original and think they could've done a better job preserving that in the remaster. They also changed the contrast, color and lighting effects for a higher dynamic range and a more natural looking environment, which I actually like apart from some cutscenes.
Eye-candier but not a big improvement. I wonder if the new lighting is realistic and anyway I prefer the gloomier look of the original. Also the remastered version can't be played at max settings on non-gaming PCs.
1:17 is a good example of some of the older cutscenes looking better,
@@whipwalkais an example…. You can compare one scene or few, but overall it’s better
@@jackmarlow4355 that’s what i said, an example.
@@whipwalka or 1:59 but as soon as he get out of the block, remaster is a little bit better with the blur smoky lighting
The remastered doesn't look much better. They mainly changed the lighting and color contrast
They added real time reflections on water surfaces wich were missing in the original, improved the draw distance and shadows, added volumetric lighting like recent AAA games, higher resolutiion up to 4K, stable frame rate, to naem few things. Maybe open your eyes?
And faces
gold light everywhere.
And increased the font size :D
@@ajsingh4545 nah still looks worse
I kinda prefer the old graphics
That's bcuz your a peasant.
the remasterd version is very dense it looks awful
@@ajsingh4545 nah old graphics are better
Original is better after all.
And I kinda prefer that blind people don’t comment on videos that require eyes mate
The ocean looks way better on the original
Yeah
Only thing that disappoint me
But the remastered water looks way better at like a stream or lake
Facts
Ac3 water looks like real life in some cutscenes but remastered version ruined it may be because of the lighting I think
4:40 them teeth on the remastered version tho
lmao im so glad u pointed that out
They’re still apart of the British empire so it makes sense
@@Lemonyora😂
Donkey!
This video just reminded me, what a masterpiece is story of this game. It even doesn´t matter if you play original or remaster. Everyone loves Ezio, but for me this is the pinnacle of storytelling in whole series. Yeah, missing old Ubisoft.
Completely agree. One of my favorite games ever.
I actually felt like 3 kinda fumbled a little bit with its storytelling, particularly with the pacing in some areas and with Connor as a character. I started giving 3 another chance recently so I hope I like it this time.
I couldn't stand ezio. But this is my 3rd favorite ac game just behind origins and 4
@@truecountry8915 worst opinion
@@babeatriple His opinion, or i could say your opinion about his opinion sucks. You could say the same for mine too though, it's the internet.
Original: Shit environment, good character face design.
Remastered: Good Environment, shit character face design.
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Lol putting Star wars quotes to good use
@@vitalyyy8811 *Infinity War
The environments aren’t even good in the remaster. Look at the sea
@@jhonatbuckle9363 So the sea makes up the environment?
@@jhonatbuckle9363 Agreed
Characters look better in the original. Environment looks better in remaster
Water looks shit in remaster and awkward shadows.
Exactly!
sdaftermath123 Out or topic question..isnt ac3 the best in physics out of all other ac games?
@@philip_bray Good thing Remaster was free for me, otherwise I would've lost my shit if I paid full price and got something that ran a little better but looked worse.
@@joshuvaantonio depends how you mean?
God ACIII takes me back. My grandfather got me a copy for PS3 the day it came out. The old days, god. I miss being thirteen, things didn't bother me then like they do now.
I feel that completely, AC3 was my shit back in the day too
Go for the original if you want your cutscenes to look good, and go for remastered if you want the gameplay to look good.
thank you brother. helped a lot
Is going for the original even an option anymore??? Or is this "remaster" forced on us???
@@maskedman2210 it's an option.
@@maskedman2210In the case of PC (Steam), the only way to get it now is through a product key.
And because the original is de-listed, these will only go up in price and are currently slightly more expensive than the Remastered version.
That, and, you'd have to figure out how to get DLC. I think keys for the Deluxe Edition hav3 completely run out...not sure.
@@maskedman2210 original is on epic store, remastered on steam
I've never seen a "remaster" look so inferior to the original, wtf how did they manage that.
because ubisoft
Ubisoft ...
Prince of Persia HD Collection... Silent Hill 2/3 HD Collection...
its called scam
It was such a disappointing purchase for me. I love this game and wanted to play it again for so long.. I'm usually not the one to get annoyed at graphics, but plastic faces and oversaturation constantly threw me off. I recently bought a pc and had to pirate the old version and man it looks so much nicer. They even removed clothes getting wet in remaster.
*Ubisoft* :
graphics≠graphics
graphics=brightness
*Literally everyone* : wHaT?
haha, good one XD
Yeah!!Good One Even Graphic Mods Works Better Than Remastered.
IT'S A FUCKING REMASTER,NOT A REMAKE😂
@@yanchaykovskyy2543 a remaster should look better than the original
@@ace_skull1283 no,a fucking remaster it's the same game with no better graphics from ps3 to ps4/ps2 to ps3.
The fact that they actually did is that they changed the textures(with better ones),and increased brightness.
A remake it's like a new game,with new engine,new softwar etc.
1:02 look at original's sea. 😲
A lot cooler than the original one
@@PerfectOxygen Original one is way way better. Do you see any detail on remaster?
@@ankurparihar no
@@PerfectOxygen nope man
@PureOxygen .. wicked bro... sarcasm at its best. Sea does look cold 😂
I think the biggest change that’s gone mostly unnoticed is that all the interiors of shops, taverns, and the homestead no longer have functioning windows that allow you to see outside. It was a small detail, but I miss that level of immersion into the world. Instead, you get a flat white or dark backdrop like in black flag, making the game look unfinished and breaking the immersion.
Soo you saying original is better or the remastered?
@@AkhilPulidindiit really just is
Remaster looks like half finished.
That's what happens when studios want to earn quick bucks from half finished products.
3:56 *they change that white guy into black!*
u racist
petar sebic u might be joking but if your not he isn’t being racist he is just noticing the change
@@the_lord_of_oranges1996 ofc im joking you dummy
@@codydonoghue5082 im not making fun of the race, im making fun of liberals who find everything offensive
@@petar932 yup
3:40 Assassins Hill 3 Remastered.
Jjajaja very good xdxdxd
Silent Creed 3: Ultra Fog Edition.
why does the original look better
Probably something with yours eyes
@@budlikycz2445 shit you are wrong mate
Only the faces
Rayyan Ali yeah only the faces look bad but everything els is way more detailed and more vibrant.
I tend to find the improved lighting helps to improve the faces, though. Compare the way light falls on Haytham and Charles' faces when talking to Benjamin Franklin. The shadows make them look more natural, whereas the original shows off all the flaws.
I love how the old one has more detail
in cutscenes yeah but not in the world
when you actually play the game, remastered looks waay better in terms of gameplay and its actually quite satisfying playing the game with those graphics. Unfortunately the only problem in the entire game is quite a big one which is the cut scenes, where the characters and some of the surrounding has lost quite a lot of the detail. I still really like the remaster, i think its the best one out of all the AC games.
Is it just me or does the original look way better then the remaster?
Harpreet Singh It depends on your individual tastes, personally I prefer the remaster but I could definitely see why some would prefer the original.
Original is gold. Remaster looks fake and the characters look like wax statues.
Original looks way better..
4:03 in some regards
Everything looks like clay in the remastered.
I like seeing Haytham with half of his face being shaded with such dark shadows in during the beginning of he video.
It makes him looks badass and iconic.
The guy spreading power and fear through his polite tone.
The environment looks so much warmer than it would be. The original made it feel chillier in game and I liked that
Ubisoft:
*turns knob for lighting*
okay we're done
*markets remaster for £40*
80%
7.99
Main thing is enhanced lighting and colors. While lighting effects are pretty good, they can be horrendous at times against character faces. Speaking of faces.... what happened? They were much more detailed and full of life in the original version.
No,the origina had a blury efect,this one doesent
It really wasnt in need of a remaster. The game was gorgeous before.
It looks depressing
It’s supposed to be a dark game.
@@draytonjames81 its new York and boston tho its meant to be lively because its America the homestead I get but the older version doesn't present America as it should
obisoft want money
@@Trachta10 well looks like they got my money because I bought the season pass for Odyssey and I don't regret it
I know this is maybe one of the most hated games in the series but for me it still holds a special place in my heart because it’s the first AC that I ever played. Are there better games? Yes. Is this still one of my favorites? Yes.
Same
Black Flag is #1
@@shanefowler9443 after brotherhood my man
@@isadroce3437 Im trying to get into the assassins creed series. What game do you recommend in terms of gore and combat? I follow the story on youtube but only played the 3rd game way back in middle school.
@@kevinbishop1634 Ezios collection (so AC 2, Brotherhood and Revelations)are easily the best in every aspect,but there are some other nice AC games like Black Flag or Rogue(which is criminally underrated)but really for me there isn't a bad ac game but if you asked me what to play its definetly Ezios collection
Contrary to most comments, I love the remastered graphics. The original looked like everything was made of metal.
The thing people are complaining about isn't the environment, which actually does look better. It's the faces. They clearly didn't update the faces for the new lighting, so everyone looks like they haven't seen the sun a day in their lives.
Takeaways:
Lighting, atmosphere, and color grading are the major differences.
Lighting is better overall from a technical perspective however I'm not a fan of the drastically warmer color tones.
I also have feel like the were certain moments in the video where facial features actually benefited more from the original lighting system.
Models appear to be prettied up removing any jagged edges but one issue i can't stand is the lack of skeletal structure and physics in character model hair.
It's 2023, if you're gonna remaster a 10 year old game it would be nice to see some more attention to detail rather than just a simple light show. But it seems more like this is was released as a cash grab to fund bigger future projects.
You said its 2023 but realize this remaster is not from 2023 its a remaster from 2019.
It looks ok definitely that PS4 Xbox One half ass remaster era. Not like the remakes and reimaginings of today
Things like textures and lightning are often designed in tandem. Upscaling textures or adding support for higher resolutions shouldn't really cause problems, but changing the lighting system or adding new forms of lighting will seriously fuck with a game's visual design. Either the people handling the remaster didn't know what they were doing or weren't given enough time to make the new lighting work.
I think the moment at 3:43 about sums this remaster up for me. I went back to look at the old one and, while it is rough as heck looking after almost a decade (especially on a 4k television), you can actually SEE the cityscape from a sync point. The remastered is covered in an endless Morrowind fog that obfuscates everything in the distance. It's awful. I appreciate the convenience of life updates, but I can't believe this passed quality control. It's depressingly sloppy. The remastered edition will be the one in all anthologies in the future. People twenty years from now won't see the city stretching off into the distance, tree lines in the horizon. No, they'll see an endless fog hiding any buildings more than a hundred yards out. BLEH!
If they couldn't support high resolution textures while maintaining a solid 30 FPS, then they shouldn't have added them. They should have just stuck in the PC version's best texture pack, updated the lighting, improved the draw distance for foliage, and called it a day graphics-wise. A shame.
Your comment is very underrated , that's a good point
You know that the weather changes right?
The weather happened to be foggy when he recorded it, mate. It isn't like that all the time from what I've seen while playing
Its the damn whether system. I hate it when it happens too.
It's not the weather system. Every single sync point I've done in this game, city or frontier, has been so "foggy" that I couldn't see the horizon or the surrounding buildings. It's absolutely awful.
I love how child Connor is mostly white instead of Native American apparently remastered means they change the ethnicity of characters 😂😂
Jarl Balgruuf sorry I’m a stromcloak😬
Connor is the first american lol half british and half native
Yeetus Confuctus facts hahaha
They also added way more black people if you didn’t notice lmao
Talk about awkward.
@@alexjv1370 prob free slaves
The character models look worse but I don't think they downgraded anything
They just reduced the ambient occlusion that hides some of the models' lack of detail
They went from good looking face textures to playdoh
The character models look far worse, the water is noticeably far worse, the shadows and lighting are worse (excessive bloom), the colors are overly saturated. They took a perfect game and made a pointless remaster that has objectively worse graphics, and now that's the only version Ubisoft sells. Brilliant.
@@UnchainedEruption the shadows definitely look better, and the bloom does make surfaces look like they're actually lit by the bright sunlight. Both make for a more believable daylight environment.
And the lightning and colors, while not to everyone's liking, resembles that in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and I think that's fine. It does lack the cold color temperature that it needed to fit the story which is a bummer, but that's less of a technical side of thing.
Really the biggest effort they needed to put in but they didn't, is remastering the character's skin texture and maybe even remaking the character face models.
I have to say, i totally agree with the majority of the comments here.Who thought that blurring out textures and turning up brightness would be worth another 40 bucks? Answer: Ubisoft. Game itself is one of my favourites in the AC series though.
This may not be the best AC in peoples eyes but it is my favorite. As someone who is half Native himself it is good to see someone like me and someone I can kinda relate to in a game! That's why it is my favorite! ♥
My first Assassin's Creed game
Was seriously considering forking out the money for this because of the small patches they've made to the game as well but honestly, the lighting in the remastered edition just looks harsh and overall worse?
I got the game for free on PSN. Is it not free anymore?
@@FreshBro8 well my man you got in quick :D
Matt Clark I bought the deluxe edition of ACO I tbink it came wth a free copy my mistake
@@FreshBro8 safe just got it black Friday it comes with the game free so might check it out in the future.
ubisoft is shit,they have given up on making great games
the original version of the game looks waaaay better than the remastered version at 2:06 (pause the video)
Dude he literally looks like play dough in the remaster
Bruhhhh wtffff
Devon Minnick They just changed the direction of the lighting and made him white. Not really an improvement in my opinion.
They don't have enough shadow on people's faces in the remaster
@@naranciaghirga5711 when Connor is an adult, it's a lot easier to see how in the remaster his skintones completely changed. It's not super drastic but it's enough to notice
An Indian Connor turns into a half Philippines half Chinese 🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
he was never "indian", he's native american geez, but yeah he looks weird in the remastered
@@maia_beans He is a Kanien'ke:ha or tribe member. I remember Connor fought a group of guards and that one templar said "Kill that indian guy too!". I forgot what mission it is but someone said that.
@@maia_beans is that not indian?
@@kczorammuana1069 clearly indian if from India. It was a mistake made on the coloniser's behalf since they were too stupid to differentiate two completely different places
In Japan we call native americans "Indian"
i noticed that when it's just gameplay the remaster looks really great. however it looks bad when in cutscenes where there would be close-up shots to the characters. the lighting of the remaster actually looks great when gameplay and running around in the open world, but in cutscenes it just looks to overexposed.
The original one was better because the remastered has a large file and the graphics were so changed, and I can't play it because it's gonna overheat my GPU. And right now, I'll give it 1.2/10
0:17 Remastered... Sure
"Remastered"
Water: *Looks worse than 360 and PS3*
Me: "I'll just Buy the PC version of Assassin's Creed 3."
"ok. let us enhance the brightness and contrast, reduce the quality of the characters' graphics, aaaaand... here, the AC III remastered!"
really genius...
The water splashing in front of the ship looks better in the original. The characters in the remastered version have less detail in the face. Remastered version does have enhanced details that move with the environment.
Looks like they added extra lighting, sunlight, etc for the remaster. The water and pretty much everything else looks much better in the original.
3:40 and this is what they call remastered.
ubisoft:Lets add some fog so people won't see the shitty details
The weather changes
Guys,I tell you how do "remaster"DIY,go to Nvidia or Amd settings and turn all graphics settings on max
Thats it😂
it is so hard to tell which one is better, the remaster certainly has better lighting, foliage and building textures, but the character skin texture seem too plastic. water seem different, but i cant tell if it got worse or better
The changes are so amazing that i would never notice them if not for a side by side comparison.
You guys in the comments have all been fooled😂😂 he switched them - the original is really on the right - if you’ve played the remaster you can see this easily.
4:24 look behind
LMFAO what a huge fail.
I don’t see anything wrong
what the heck XD there is no window
thats actually the ceiling
Did they even try I regret getting it now
1:44 dat woman at the right LOL
lol xD i am wondering which one should i download the remastered or the original after seeing thsese bugs i wont download the remastered
Lol
I see slight changes but not enough to be re-released as a remastered game.
its still good to have it on modern consoles
They just want easy money, while putting the minimum effort into their games.
@@StarvingWolff And guess what? There's one fucking mission that prevents me from getting %100 sync...That one hunting mission where you have to get like 3 feathers, they're literally not there so basically I might have to restart the whole fucking game, I've seen people with this same problem SIX years ago.... I'm tired of these half assed games....
0:10 and 0:16
this "remaster" ultimately removed the fine details and made haytham (and benjamin franklin) look 10 years younger. removing the "stress" from his face, which is an important detail from a detail-narrative perspective. the "remaster" essentially smoothened out the fine details, making them look like more like action figures or wax figures
the water also took such a massive hit. it's insane how it's such a drastic downgrade.
another thing is the lighting. look at 0:32
okay, sure, maybe the remaster has more "realistic" lighting, in the sense that light gradually fades as you enter the cave... BUT the original had much more "drama" and visual storytelling because the light transition IS scripted and was done from an artistic and storytelling point of view.
see, this is why artistic interpretation should be given equal or more importance than technical specifications. technology SHOULD be used as a tool to tell your story and experience.
Assassins Creed 3: Demastered
LOL
Fax nothing but cash grabbing people
Spitting facts I se
😂😂😂
For real
It didn't need a remaster! The game was already ahead of its time. All bad that happened that now you won't be able to find the original anywhere.
Remember running around in this game it was very enjoyable.
i remember loving the original one on my xbox360. i didnt even now theyre remastering it untill it appeared in my steam library (because of odessy delux edition) and i was extremely exited. now it isnt a big remastered like i expected but running around truly was fun and still is i the new one. even more fun because of 60fps.
I think lower contrast or brightness for the texture details of skins to be dark and clear instead of being blurred out by to much white thats hiding skin texture details!
Your pumping out videos like a factory
Thanks for saving me some money. I just saw that the remaster is on sale so I was considering it but I remembered AC3 to already be graphically well ahead of it’s time. No reason to dish out more money for such an insignificant graphical enhancement.
It's the lighting. They layered or enhanced the lighting effect. Darker environments pop with more detail and color. However, the character models are blasted by this light's bringing out all their imperfections
original looks better the lighter remastered version takes away the dark age effect which makes the games atmosphere feel good the games an upset in my opinion. its like undressing the game and showing the core was never good its the scenery that captured the eyes and hearts of the ac players and you've left it its not good release an update fix the lighting 🤔👌
4:42 what the fak is wrong with his mouth in the remastered version?
Heh
looks like a squirell
They wasted their time and money, AC 3 was perfectly fine.
Idk why other people hate ac 3 but personally I love the way it looks. I have seen the original one a lot but never played but still, as far as I have seen, I really like the remastered. It is probably pne of the few games that I have exclaimed so many times while running around the world that how beautiful it looks. Besides the glitches and some other flaws like face textures and shadows but personally, loved and enjoyed it a lot.
What annoys me the most about the remaster is that each musician in the taverns plays a different tune and the result is a total chaos.
LOL
The original looks much better with less Bugs.
Such cash grab. For everyone who didn't get this game included as Odyssey dlc, don't buy it
I definitely bought it with ac Odyssey, got it on black Friday....those two games and ac Liberations for 30 bucks and a couple dlcs and other miscellaneous stuff. Great deal? Hell yeah.... Improvement? Barely.... Can't get %100 sync cause of a glitched mission? Hell yeah :/
Just bought it a few days ago for the PS4.
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I feel like they got the original and remastered mixed up 😂
people who say remastered doesnt look better are crazy ac 4- rogue looks the same as ac 1 ac 3 is the best graphics until unity
Improved lighting and textures along with better shadows and smoother animations. Of course the animations could be due to frame rate improvements. That's what I see. It's a matter of if you like the changes or not. The water doesn't really look as good though.
The lighting is so much better in the remaster. The problem is all the models weren't made with this lighting in mind so they can look a bit off. There are definitely a few areas that look more impressive in the original(the sea at 2:12 for example) at the same time the high contrast is pretty awful. Notice how you can barely see detail on the ship, the original has the same problem throughout, showing anything that's remotely dark as almost completely black, like an early ue3 game. I remember playing the original and being annoyed at Charles Lee's hair being a black hole. Good trade off so we can actually see the game.
1:12 even* also, look at Charles Lee at 2:21 to see what I'm talking about.
some elements from the remastered version are great (lights at 0:44) but the original is a bit better...
but both versions cant write with a pen 1:16
Remastered was a waste of time
4:00 he is so swag with that walk
I have played both of them, original as a teen and remaster as an adult. My favourite game of all time.
I bought the remastered version of the game since it was my first time ever playing AC III, and considering the many positive comments the game received, I can say that I completely failed to grasp and enjoy the storyline. The textures were horrible to the point that it completely distracted me from the storyline, thus making it like a chore to play. I'm really saddened and disappointed that this edition made me dislike AC III that much
The new one isn't rough enough. Sometimes the older stuff looks better, see Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
So you like shitty anti-aliasing with lot of shimmering around the graphics, shitty draw distance, and flat lighting?
@@ajsingh4545 nah mate old graphics looks better
AJ Singh the og has better character models and better textures
Has anyone else noticed the glitched woman at 1:46? 😂
Ikr, ubisoft should be ashamed of calling this garbage remastered
@@Kyle-hf7ji The original ain't any better as the woman on 1:55 just popped out of nowhere. Terrible pop-in that's still never been fixed.
I'm I blind or are the original game graphics way more detailed? like the remastered version looks like sandblown.
The game didn't really need a remaster
The lighting and textures look a lot better in the remastered, I’m more interested in getting this now. Brings back a lot of memories
Assassin's Creed 3 : Brightness Remastered
is it just me or is Charles Lee the only character who looks better in remaster?
Where is Charles Lee?
@@chucknades_ somewhere looking more detailed than the main characters apparently
@@zorex. I was actually considering getting this but after watching I might just stick with my 360 copy of it.
@@chucknades_ I'll consider buying it once steam puts it at a massive discount. but for the time being, it's price ain't worth it
@@zorex. Agreed
Environment is good on remastered version, but they forget about the characters
for me, AC 3 remastered is the best part of the series. It doesn't come across like that in the gameplay videos, but what I like best is actually the closeness of the camera to the character. The game character is much larger than in other parts, similarly detailed movements and physics as in Unity. the shipping from the intro, this short sequence, was much more adventurous and intense than the free ship gameplay in Black Flag. Ubisoft proves its narrative qualities similar to those in Last of Us. there are horses! Free riding! and it just doesn't feel as arcade as riding in valhalla or origins. there is still a classic combat system without trails, light effects and all these unnecessary, arcade-like effects. the fight is brutal with dynamic finishers, mak in between, sometimes at the end of the fight. free choice of weapons. you can't enter shops properly and then someone stands behind the counter and you don't just shop with a floating button. it reminds me of watchdogs with the richness of detail and the nearby char camera. watchdogs 2 and 3 was much more arcade-like and the camera further away, similar to the following AC parts. the snow, blood in the snow, wildlife and hunting, Indian storyline and bow and arrow - all refreshingly new and beautiful thanks to remastered. New functions such as attracting enemies from bushes or free aiming with firearms and bows round off the remastered experience. extremely satisfied !!!
Original : Perfect shadows
Remastered : Lets make every cutscene have 0 shadows
1:20 what a downgrade in REMASTER? pause n see
Original character model and water animation is way better than remastered one
Especially 1:37
Also 2:05 Original looks alot better
Marmik Emp37 No
@@nickabbott319 no u
0:17. That's a botoxed Benjamin Franklin
lmfao
I don't know, everything looking so clean in the remaster, I feel like it loses some of that 18th century aesthetic.
I just noticed that the texture quality on characters is lower on the Remastered version.
The original had awesome graphics. I remember climbing a church and the graphics with the sun were insane
Remaster: a $30 lighting update
The character models and shading of the original look better, however the background, environments and lighting look better on the remaster. Not to mention the gameplay mechanics are much more fluid on the remaster and they added some features that weren't in the original. This was and still is my favorite AC game and I have been playing like crazy since getting it. I would like to know what settings are you running both these games on to showcase? Because my Remaster doesn't look as awful this video.
didn't realize how stunning the graphics are in the remastered
looks like there entire newer look since Assassins Creed unity was around
Ubisoft really remastered the game that doesn't require it.