Assassins Creed 3 Retrospective and Remaster Review
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- Assassins Creed 3 Retrospective and Remaster Review
0:00 - Intro
2:25 - Presentation
6:29 - Story
12:21 - Gameplay
18:39 - DLC
20:54 - Ubisoft
22:15 - Conclusion
22:49 - Outro
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That last drink with Charles Lee is still one of my favorite moments in the whole series.
Hell yeah
Hell yeah
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I appreciate you so much dude, I cant even begin to explain it. So many TH-camrs dont understand Connor at all as a character and because they don't understand him they say he lacks emotions and character. You are like one of the few who actually criticized the pacing and the endings of this game. That is the true issue here, I feel as if many shit on Connor because of what happens to Desmond. Connor's story isn't a happy one in the slightest, Ezio got a family in the end and his goals for the most part were accomplished. Connor's goals weren't all made a reality and he lost so many people in the process.
He was lied to, manipulated, and misguided. This story is also risky for it shows that Washington was not a good guy at all, sure he cared his people but in terms of the Natives and Africans. We see the truth. AC3 is a misunderstood masterpiece in terms of its story and characters. Maybe someone needs to break it down for these AC3 haters. Because they simply don't understand, talk to them and you'll see what I mean.
George Washington and John A Macdonald were evil people.
I greatly enjoyed AC3 at the time and revisiting it now on switch I'm still very much enjoying it. I've found a few bugs but overall it's a great game and I enjoy the story.
I know most people scream about AC4 being the best in the series and I agree it's great but I think I would rather revisit this game under most circumstances because while the ship combat and travel is fun I do find it quite tiresome.
@Hollow Skull not really and not that I care? I also have the game on PC (thanks to AC Odyssey)
Got it for a good deal on switch the portability alone makes it an upgrade and worth having on my shelf
Replayed AC 4 and Rouge on switch recently and I enjoyed it quite a bit more in handheld then on consoles back then. Even bothered to do all of rouges side stuff since it was very comfortable to play this way and made it easier to have small sessions.
Exactly
Exactly
I just finished this and honestly ACIII was pretty damn good if you did the Homestead and Assassin Recruit missions. The modern day sections were also probably the best they've ever been in the OG trilogy.
I'm right with you buddy
Thank you for making a more objective or balanced perspective video on this game. I had issues with this game, but I also had a blast overall. You point out the issues; however, you do not blow it out of proportion.
AC3 is what got me really interested in the franchise personally. The games before were good but I was more into this one.
AC3 was my first Assassin's Creed game and made me buy the others because of how awesome the game is
@@Agito4774 same
AC 3 is a trash game, AC 2 is better
Man I can’t believe people didn’t like this game it was awsome
It's shit
@@redhood7778 loool
@@redhood7778 So basically your saying that you also like Odyssey 😆
i didnt like how whiney the MC is, i would rather play his dad as a templar
@@redhood7778 yes
I thought Desmond and Connors endings were very satisfying. However, I will say that I feel as if Connor had more story to go. I understand why they moved away from doing multiple games with the same protagonist but Connors role in it all seems as if it’s way bigger considering he would go on to build the Brotherhood in his region
I've just finished my first playthrough ever of this game and returned to this video to watch it again. While I do agree with the flaws and the slow pace of the story and the first few sequences, I can't help but loving my experience, specially because of the Homestead missions and because of Connor over all. I find his story and motivations compelling, and he comes across as a realistic main protagonist for whom I can root for. The other aspect that I think many people gloss over is the fact that through Haytham we're able to understand and see the goals and motives behind the Templars' actions, making them believable antagonists, contrary to the black vs white spectrum I had the feeling the Ezio trilogy gave. It's a return to the philosophy of the first game which I can appreciate. Also, as a non-English native speaker, I love that Noah Watts delivered his lines the way he did, because Connor isn't speaking in his mother tongue - he's not emotionless, he's just trying to fix his speech to a new language. I loved that. Great video, as always
I beat all of them. Waiting to get my ps5 for Valhalla. Atm I decided to treat myself and bought the remaster of AC3. Havent played it since last gen. To me it was worth it just experience the dope time of America and just kicking ass compared to the new AC
I have the absolute best of memories and vivid memories of this game and my life at the time.
I remember so clearly going to Blockbuster do get it and playing it when Hurricane Sandy was going on. Such a special time I'll always wish I could relive.
One thing ac3 remaster does aswell that i really appreciate is that once you finish the game, connor keeps his hood up instead of permanently putting it down
Actually he put his hood down because nobody was hunting him and he didn't need to hide anymore.
That happened only when the game launched in 2012, and weeks later it was fixed. In Homestead he keeps it down because he is at HOME, and in the cities he keeps it up.
This was a good video, I subscribed. I agree with your ending score. I like Connor as a character he was a breath of fresh air when compared to his counterparts.
I'm always surprised when I hear people say that this is one of the worst games in the series. I really don't know how any fan of the series could come to that conclusion. I thought it introduced a lot of great new features that moved the franchise forward. I loved the setting, I loved the story, I really enjoyed the gameplay, and I enjoyed the characters. There were also a lot of very fun side missions such as Captain Kidds treasure hunt and the naval combat. It's my 2nd favourite game in the franchise after AC 2. I thought it was a really great game.
I loved the gameplay and everything but some of the abstergo missions really did make me stop playing when i get to those points except the apple of eden one where you blow their heads up or make them kill themselves but i loved connors story so much especially since im part navajo so i relate in a way but the coolest guy to me was Achilles he was such mentor but butted heads almost like a father and son but in the end he still did care for him and connor even gave him a burial. Though somehow so many people said the story was crap and personally im playing the remastered one right now not many bugs and such
Oh correction i was wrong just got clipped through a tree haha
@@allenpate4515 I recently just ordered the remastered version and will be playing it once I've finished Ghost of Tsushima. The combat in AC3 is probably my favourite in the whole series. Conor is such a badass. It's miles better than the new games because you feel like a proper assassin just wiping out your targets with a single deadly blow. The new games have lost that feeling imo. I also think the frontier and homestead are two of the best settings ever in an AC game. I'm looking forward to revisiting it all again.
@@timmurray2945 agreed
Agreed
Conner deserves a second game maybe one with arno to fight shay
Loved the video!
Thanks!
Great video man. Really enjoyed it. NIce analysis
I really loved Assassin's Creed 3. I think the remaster fixes the bad things well. Nothing spectacular.
Peace bro!
Yeah I liked the game.
No it bought new bugs, that synchronisation music continue to play even after leap of faith. And sound suddenly increase during combat. But gameplay graphic is improved,you can change every type of weapons in weapon wheel so no need to go to shops.
This was a nice, in-depth review. I'm surprised you haven't gained more traction! I'd like to share some of my thoughts as well, and maybe you can see where you stand on this. Upon playing through this game for the second time in, like, 7 years I wanted to say that I had some very mixed feelings about this game.
****The Good****
Combat system in this game was extremely fun to play. I thought it was such a breath of fresh air, coming out of the already nice execution kill system introduced in Brotherhood and further implemented in Revelations. The change in controller prompts for counter moves threw me off a bit (having to tap circle instead of previously having to hold R1 and then square), but as soon as I was able to get it down it felt so nice to see my character dominate most fights. I thought the free running animations were also really nice.
Despite being buggy at times, you were able to go from branch to branch to building to branch again and sometimes through the inside of homes. You could have the option of stealthily going through your missions and chase the thrill that way, or you could take advantage of the fighting system and mow down your enemies. Naval missions were also really fun to play. Just the suspense of those moments where you are at low health and managing to pull off sinking enemy vessels brings me to want more each time.
The story was adequate enough to play through to the end just to find out what happens. I liked the American Revolution as the main backdrop for this game. The environment is BEAUTIFUL! The Day/Night cycles, the seasonal cycles, the falling snow in the winter and the humid heat of the spring/summer make for a really fresh experience, sometimes forcing you to change your strategies when dealing with enemies or having to complete a mission. The feel of everyday life in the towns, the nice rural areas where the inhabitants mind their own business and go about their day. There are some reasons why this game feels more alive, environmentally.
****The Bad (I mean the critically bad)****
I REALLY REALLY wished that the idea of having to release the game before the "December 21st 2012 end of the world" deadline never came to fruition. I wished that it could have ended the "ones that came before" storyline right then and there, and then brought the focus back into Assassins vs. Templars. Some of the key components of the game felt so rushed as to be rendered incomplete because of the need to fulfill some arbitrary deadline.
What do I mean by this? Well, for one, the character of Connor has not been vocally fleshed out. And I want to get this clear -- he is not Ezio, and he shouldn't be. He should stand alone as his own character and hold himself with conviction despite all of this tragedy that befell him. For the most part, he definitely has. I just really wished that the voice actor spent much more time honing in Connor's expressions more colorfully. Personally I wanted Connor to have more warmth in his voice when he is in his calmer states and come from a place of pain and desperation when he is agitated. I mean, he is the centerpiece of this game! You would think that Connor's character would be treated with the utmost care and respect in terms of his character, his principles, and his expressions.
It pains me to say it because other characters in the game that he interacts with sound FANTASTIC, and so you are left with a really awkward dynamic when you come across cutscenes and will hear conversations between Conner and whomever he happened to talk to. It does take away from the emotional depth of the story. It does take away from the impact that he potentially could have left on the player.
I was also not really compelled to take on the side missions or take advantage of the market system in this game. I felt that there was not enough incentive for me to pursue them, as it felt like it was there for the purpose of adding ambience to the environment in those times. It's fine and all, but I wished it was more integrated into the main story. Or perhaps they could have implemented much tougher enemies (maybe up there with Janissaries?) late-game and that would have provided some incentive. Otherwise all I was left with was a massive plot of land and not much to do other than snare animals and play hide-and-seek with childhood friends.
Also, Desmond fucking dies and subsequent games have lackluster modern-day stories. Enough said.
Overall I thought this was a game with incredibly high potential, buried underneath some tacked on elements that, ignore it as you might, could not help but make me feel obligated to tend to them. I would love to see this game revisited someday (another thing that we have to wish from Ubisoft (they will not hear our pleas for a Sands of Time trilogy reboot))
Thanks for the comment! I would agree that Connor's voice acting wasn't as excellent as some of the other characters in the game, but I still thought it was good enough the majority of the time. I also definitely did not find the economic system to be compelling in the slightest. I enjoyed some of the side content a lot like the homestead and naval missions, but a lot of the stuff I just did because I enjoyed running around in the setting of the game. And yeah, the ending sucked.
Every ac game has a ideal path, best order to complete the stuff.
Main story with Assassin contracts. do those together, then return to the homestead and play that as your epilogue.
In this order the story is of a boy who sets off to defend his lands and village, gets mixed into a geopolitical quagmire. crawls out of the other side after loosing everything and settles down building a new village with newcomers he likes.
I play this as a kid and i enjoy that time, pretty fun
Damn, you must be very young.
Great review. Very in depth.
I feel like AC 3 is a diamond in the rough. I had a lot of problems with it(1. free running is frustrating and 2.combat is repetitive and rather boring. I prefer a stealthy approach to killing and halfway through it, I gave up and just fought enemies out in the open. I felt like I was way more of a "warrior" than an assassin). There's absolutely no reason to upgrade weapons or do side missions and the trade system is original but useless.
I mean... You can apply the same criticisms to AC2, Brotherhood and Revelations. It was always an issue with the older AC games where combat is so piss-easy that most people don't upgrade gear and seemingly forgo stealth entirely.
Dude you make great videos. I really think you have what it takes to make it in the critique community. Good luck!
Thanks!
Great vid dude. AC3 is still a huge favorite of mine despite all the flaws. It's a game I always seem to come back to every now and then.
Same
I’m gonna say something controversial: I think this is the best one of the series (narratively) , and that’s not saying a lot.
AC lll is still my favorite or second favorite. I can’t decide between lll and brotherhood
AC3 is honestly SO good. Can’t believe people didn’t like this one at first and I bet many never gave it a proper attempt just because it wasn’t Ezio. The timeline is amazing, the gameplay feels good & the story is solid. Definitely not a flawless game but no game is. This was the game that got me into the series of which I’ve now played the entire thing, and it’s still one of my favorite.
While I like this game, it has many MANY flaws in the original release. Some of them are still there and can never be fixed because they are narrative blunders. Especially the worst ending in the entire series. My point is while I think this is a GOOD game, it certainly does not deserve blind praise.
Nah I played it all the way through and even back then it was lacking. It didn't do enough to advance the overarching plot nor did they make many significant improvements to the gameplay.
I love this game going to get the platinum trophy tomorrow one of the best AC games
Great job on the review. I got the game with the gold version of odyssey and really enjoyed it overall even with all the issues you've noted. It helps this is my first asscreed so I was really impressed overall with the game's scope and breadth even though I also thought the ending was a let down but boy I had fun getting there.
This review is a 10 i honestly don’t understand why people hate this game so much.
anyone know the background music at the start?
I liked AC 3, but the remaster just don't look good and it's because of the lightning. It's looks so bright. Also yes, the new character models for Desmond and Rebecca looks kinda odd, especially after you played the other games. Also, the faces looks worse in the remaster
Great idea but not the greatest execution
Cool and deep video dude.
Plus..what's the background music at 12:40??
It's one of the royalty free songs that youtube provides in its audio library called Beach Walk
@@PioneerBread thank u dude.
Plus..could u do an AC Origins retrospective? Or some remedy games like Alan Wake or Quantumn Break? Really liked your style.
Good night!
@@MartinSucks95 I'm actually doing a retrospective series on the entire AC franchise so I definitely will get to Origins. And I also absolutely love Remedy games as Alan Wake happens to be my favourite game of all time, so I will also do videos for Remedy's games sometime in the future.
Wtf,Juno kinda looks like ghost version of Noore from FC4😂😂.
This was a game of moments. There were moments when it was amazing. There were moments when it was so engaging. There were moments when it was the most fun I've had in the entire franchise. There were moments when it threatened to be the best in the series.But sadly, it's just that, moments.
Behind these moments is several hours of padding, time-wasting, frustration, and rough edges. There are ridiculously ludicrous Synch challenges where the difficulty is an excuse to extend the length of the game, meaningless and pointless side objectives (See the homestead) and customization options which are dummed down from previous games and later ones. I feel like with another year or so of development this could so of development this could have been Origins levels of game changing, But even with the remaster it is unpolished, buggy and, to me the worst crime if all, just boring. I get it Connor is a tragic soul and is meant to show that the assassin lifestyle isn't jisy the glory of Altair, or the romanticisation of Ezio, its grit, its loss, its suffering etc. But that still doesn't excuse the lack of connection Connor builds with the player. I find he has no carisma and is just kind of annoying in places, intentional or not It's never a good sign if you find yourself disliking the person you rugby player it's liking the person you are playing as. Haytham though, wow, what a shining light. It really makes me wish that we got Haytham instead of Shea in Rogue.
To be honest though, I don't think 3 is overrated, just like I also don't think it's underrated. I think it falls to the lower end of everyone's lists, and I think that is accurate enough. It has a lot of great ideas and so many aspects where i was willing to get onboard but very poor execution jusy made it so much more difficult to do so. It has a very very dull open world which fails to pull you in past the first few hours, an boring main protagonist, a story which is more based around historical events rather than the events intertwining with this story being told, and side quests which fail to engage in any meaningful way (See again the fckn homestead missions).
Now, admittedly, a majority of my frustration with AC3, I would easily say 70% of it, came in the final few hours of my 100% completionist playthrough and by that stage I had grown very fatigued with what the game was offering. So many people who casually play through the game may find that they avoided the frustration I had experienced. I exhausted every feature, every option, every moment the game had and pretty much found every bug. So to those who played that way and disagree, that's ok too, and that's why I said I don't think it's overrated and those moments I spoke of earlier, they were real. When the game fires, oh does it fire on all cylinders, and being one if maybe 3 People that actually enjoyed their modern day story there is a very bittersweet feeling, because this game handled it excellent better than anything before or since and yet it was the last time we would get to do it. But there is too much I don't like about the game for me to even consider putting it in the top half of my rankings, everything it does has been done better either before or after. Rogue and ACIV are more refined iterations of the same mechanics with far more intriguing stories, AC1-ACR are the OGs and will always be near the top, and the way this game thought it was reinventing the wheel, well Origins actually did it.
Is it a bad game, Hell no. It is still a solid 6.5 or 7 to me, but is it overly hated? I would also say no. I Really and truly think this game is ranked just about right for what it is. A buggy, glitchy, bloated, unpolished treasure of a game which gave me some absolutely amazing moments of bliss and some really heartfelt moments in between, but which also ultimately, failed to live up to its own hype, and is exactly how we remember it.
Cant believe u have sub 250 subscribers. Here for the long run, ur content is fucking awesome
Ac3 will always be my favourite, it was the first one i played, it was the trailer that hooked me.
11 ac games later, ac3 is still my number 1!
The only thing i didn't like about it was the beginning my young Connor.
The precursor vault is The Grand Temple
what's The name of the song playing in the background at 6:15 ?
Darude - Sandstorm
2:35 loadin' and poppin'
3 interest me more than 4. And this remastered is beautiful.
I think my main issues with this story is how, while it chooses to be complex in its portrayal of America as a nation that was founded on hypocrisy with its own characters it fails to have that same complicated interrogation of actual historical figures Connor comes into contact with. Him being native necessitates this kind of perspective on history that requires some critical portrayals of people like George Washington or Ben Franklin with both having a pretty vocal history on the sub human nature each figure saw native Americans as. Hell Washington’s writing in the Declaration of Independence was the first time the term and rhetoric around natives as savages originated with and his later creation of the US’s first Indian policy written for the explicit purposes that any interaction, treaty, or policy done with the natives be done for securing as much land as possible for the country. Also having a native perspective and specifically a Mohawk perspective with references to and direct contact with the Iroquois confederacy and the talk about the creation of a nation in America with the Declaration of Independence it’s strange how little it’s talked about the influence the Iroquois confederacy had on the document that proceeded the Declaration of Independence, the articles of confederacy. It’s all very disappointing to me that they created such a great conflict for Connor and his character and all it really amounts to outside of the parental drama with Haythem is him being a catalyst for you to experience pivotal historical moments that helped build a nation with foundations of slavery upholding it and displacing and committing genocide on its previous inhabitants to secure expanding borders of it that are Connor’s people. It’s all just a little tone deaf I suppose is the best word for it given he’s being used as a vessel to tell an uncritical perspective of a history whose foundations required the genocide of his people and I just feel if they wanted to have the setting with an uncritical perspective just make Haythem the protag and avoid the Native American stuff entirely.
Maybe if they didn't clutter the game with all the goofy present day stuff. This is the only AC I've played and it was incredibly irritating to have to play all the goofy handholding levels in the modern day just to further some lame story about aliens and magic artifacts.
I agree to a certain degree with this review. Ac 3 isnt the worst game and it does better than some ac games. I like ac3 better than rogue, syndicate, oddessy, 1 , origins.
You can hate all you want but Assassin's Creed 3 is my favorite one even with all it's flaws.
The original one is my 2nd favorite
Ac3 has better land gameplay than 4
why the hell is that sub count at only 280, you need way more
Thank you!
Man IT is my favorite AC
AC3 is my favorite in the series
I dint get any bugs
This video was make 1 year ago, some bugs and problems are fixed now (more or less)
"you can now skip the end credits."
as someone who loves this game i never watched the end credits after my first playthrough. id get to the point where you play as desmond for the last time and quit to start a new game
Assassins creed 3 maybe the black sheep, but odyssey isnt even a sheep
Wait... how did you pronounce his Native name? Did you say Reb Doll Hikatonk?
Perhaps
@@PioneerBread Okay. Let's keep this between us. My wife is Native. lol
out of 11 acs, its my #1 most hated , #2 is part 1
hated it on ps3 when it was new, and beat it last night on xbox1 remastered, and hate it probably even more than before
gona make myself beat it on ps4 one day cus they came with my oddyssey season passes but 1 and done, cant think of 1 mission i enjoyed
AC3 had the best modern day in the entire series.. and this is from somebody that hates the modern day
Too be honest this is the first person I seen on TH-cam to actually like the game the author one are "yeah it's a good game but it be in my top five" then you have the people that hate it.
It’s a slow burn. Not a terrible game but not the best.
I wonder why they only remastered this one. I always liked 3 but they should remaster 1, Ezio Trilogy and 4 also. 4 is a garbage PC port.
The red bottom on the thumbnail made me think i Allready watched it.
"The naval combat is just so fun"
Me, playing through Black Flag and disliking the naval combat the most out of everything: ...oh
"The tailing missions are the least fun"
Me, who's still playing Black Flag and who genuinely enjoys the eavesdropping and tailing missions: ...oh
You and I have very different tastes in game it seems xD Oh well
the story felt drawn out at a point and weapon stats mean nothing. I personally didn't experience any form of bugs or glitches.
I experienced quite some bugs in the Switch version and it was hilarious af
Weapon stats actually matters.
Weapon stats mean nothing in Brotherhood and Revelations as well.
@@biofriikit has but it is very minimum, but you have to change fighting style.but most people in acb and revelation use counterattack. But ac2 used weapon stats really good.
the last good assassins creed imo
Nah ac Black flag was the last good one
Ac rougue*
@@chupchupman5859 ac rougeu was the worst
@@zoemaliya6408 That goes to Odyssey because at least Rogue was decent enough
@@Agito4774 odyssey isen't a assassin creed
The cutscenes are so gross and it hurts to play the remaster sometimes