ASSASSIN'S CREED IV BLACK FLAG (Zero Punctuation)
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Watching this review again years later and it’s clear that he was right to be worried about Ubisoft’s stapler.
Also, how every of the last three (yes, I'm already including Valhalla) AC games has had ship stuff, whether it fit or not.
@@rolfs2165 they stumbled upon a happy mixture of excellent gameplay mechanics inside a suitable time period. Now they're stuck trying to regain that high without pausing to consider whether or not other time periods might actually play into the premise equally well without needing the exact same format.
Well black flag was the last good assassins creed and syndicate was the last true assassins creed
Origins was ok but odyssey just isn't assassins creed anymore it's just generic alt history fiction
What we know now is the point where we got to the stapled graph, right at the point of Origins
He was wrong about sailing being a one off. Actually it's integration in Odyssey made all sorts of gameplay AND narrative sense, since the classical Greeks we're renowned for their nautical prowess. Plus, I get mad Ben-Hur vibes whenever the rowing motivator guy yells out "RAMMIIIIIIING SPEEEEEEED!"
Can we talk about how genius it was to make the "chase floating pieces of paper" sidequest into a hunt for sea shanties?
Oh hell yeah it insentivised going on land which made exploration more fun
it helped that the sea shanties are absolute 🔥
is there a playlist perchance?
edit: yes there is
Wait, pirates you might have taken some interest in recruiting? I was picking up guys out of the water on the way to my next objective just because the button prompt came up.
Lol yeah... I found that men on the verge of drowning don't really care about negotiating a paycheck first! XD
I wonder if AC is at some point going to reenact that scene from space balls:
"What we're seeing here is happening now."
"Now? What do you mean now?"
"What we're watching has caught up to the now. Everything is happening now."
"Now?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because it's over. Everything that happens now happens now."
"When will the then become the now?"
"... Soon."
"....... How soon?"
*****
I don't know how your quote exactly would fit, but I was talking about how AC is now nearing todays time, so that we will ultimately have catched up with the seperate plot happening now.
So there would be nothing left for Desmond to experience except his own memories.
I thought it was quite clever.
+Arphemius what you said was funny, don't listen to Juan.
"dont listen to Juan"
You got the quote wrong, too.
Assasins creed 5: vikings, now with 25% more sailing. meet harald bluetooth, gorm the old, find artifact related to valhalla, use axes instead of blades.
Well this aged somewhat nicely
Damn, 6 years of foresight
holy fucking shit, you should go to the casino more often
I asume you've won quite a bit of lotteries
Holy shit, how?
Unity definitely went down on the line graph
The gameplay isn't all that bad, but the story is very clichéd. So yes, it did go down the bar graph, just not as far as 3 did.
Jalen Berry Then it went down even further because of all the bugs.
ChunkNinja 3 had a pretty fair amount of bugs as well, just not as much as Unity.
Jalen Berry I'm having fun with it but I will agree
I liked Unity but I really enjoyed the Pirate aspects of Black flag
As a tall ship sailor I loved the sailing in AC4. It's one of my all time favorite games because of the mix of gameplay mechanics and how well the sailing was executed.
If Ubisoft likes sailing so much a viking themed assassins creed sounds like a cool idea
Well hello there. Have you won the lottery recently?
Oh they did that
They won't stop till they make Assassins Creed out of every culture ever existed
And when they're done they will make new ones
They will make fuckin cultures out of thin air
You probably should have given them some pointers then, because with that kind of vision you probably would do a better job directing the new Valhalla installment than they've done.
So About that
Nah, that's a silly idea
Ubisoft should just scrap the entire Assassin part of their title and make pirate games. The sailing's incredible, but the stealth doesn't work. It never has, and probably never will.
well, Assassins creed isn't really a stealth game, (unless they put some bloody sneaking in it), its more of a predator game and has more in common with the batman games, than a stealth game like Metal gear or Thief.
william Rogers
>Metal Gear
>stealth
>pick one
Minlie Baers Are you implying that there's no stealth in metal gear games, or are you stating the obvious fact that a giant walking nuclear tank is not very stealthy?
Minlie Is implying that you's a bitch, and your mammy is too. No but straight up. I've seen more stealth when I was sneaking to the fridge at 3 A.M. I love the games, but stealth isn't a word I would choose.
Minlie Baers Why are you talking in 3rd person? Were you hoping I would think that you're someone else? I agree, my mother is a bitch. We all sneak to the fridge at night, but we're only trying to avoid sqeaky parts in the stairs. MSG has much more stealth than most games, although that does depend on the style of the gamer.
hey i just realized, the viking era would be cool for sailing as well! sea battles, land raids, all the fun stuff. though no cannons.
Good for sailing maybe, might not fit as an AC game very easily though. Vikings tended to smash peoples faces in with an axe rather than sneak around and slit throats 'n stuff
The Scandinavians would probably see some use in some covert troops able to infiltrate a castle and lifting a gate so they can pillage and destroy another city, or just pillage a little, the pillaging was actually so they could jumpstart the trade empire that they eventually went into that made them much richer and happier than all the "conquering"
I think that's a great idea. Castles, forts, camps to infiltrate. Aggressive and strong enemies. Good variety in weapons. Yes sir vetle you are on to something
Comment aged rather well.
Feller was ahead of his time
I'd like to see an Assassin's Creed game set in WWI... just hear me out.
World War 1 began because of an assassination of an important dignitary, and the overreaction to said assassination... perhaps there was some whispering going on in the conference rooms...
Also, WWI isn't very well-documented on the fronts, apart from things like soldiers' journals (in which some guy in a menacing hood could easily prevent himself from being written about) and officer reports that could be summed up in "Took German Trench 123. Casualties: **,*** men lost." And they only got a chance to storm trenches if the enemy was either shelled into submission or distracted, by for example a hooded guy stabbing officers.
So maybe, the war started because the Arch Bishop who was assassinated was actually a Templar Grandmaster, and the Assassin sent to kill him took a newbie or something who just shot up the car, then Templars in European governmets started telling people to start a war, and so WWI begins. It's subtle, and if done right, there would be no record of Assassin or Templar involvement at all.
C'mon, it'd be awesome to charge a tank and storm trenches. Maybe even fly a plane (as combat aircraft started to become pretty major around the middle of the war).
C Johnson Why, thanks!
That would be fun, but guns might be an issue. Or maybe it could have more of a stealth approach than usual.
That sounds pretty cool, I'm just not sure how guns would figure into the gameplay. In AssCreed IV they were slow enough to reload that they weren't broken. If you had two M1911s it just might be end game for the swarms of enemies.
That's a great idea but they actually said during AC4 that they want to stay away from modern history in one of the data files that you hack. I can't remember exactly but it was something to do with the animus not yet being able to fully run large gun fights. Of course that's all in game because out of the animus you're working for a games company.
That is a beautiful idea, and i salute you for it. (no sarcasm)
soooooo.... he enjoyed it?
it can be hard to tell with his reviews but yeah.
The line went up quite a bit
he enjoyed half of it. its a good pirate game but a bad assassins creed game with trash story and repetitive side missions.
@@mekassah5288
What? The story is the best one
Yahtzee absolutely nailed this review it was so spot on and accurately captured my exact feelings on the game and the series in general.
I actually loved Black Flag. Yes, the eavesdropping and stalking missions were a pain, but it was a good challenge. Loved sailing and blowing enemy ships up to splinters.
Black Flag was actually the first AC game I played, and I loved it so much I went out and bought the PS3 pack that had AC1, the AC2 trilogy, and AC3. So far so good.
Killing Bandit you liked Unity more than Black Flag? What platform did you play Unity on, and what did you like most about it?
Killing Bandit True, Arno's involvement in the conflict closely mirrors Ezio's own, stemming from venegance and a sense of justice. Edward's just in it for the money most of the game :)
My issue with Unity (based on what I've seen, I haven't played it), is that it looks clumsy. That auto-scaffolding, the movesets, etc, they look like they aimed too high on the realism mark and gave up halfway.
That and the fact that everything is "this is super-hard to obtain in-game but super-easy to obtain with you credit card".
Assassin's Creed CXXIV: Penguins Assassins From Madagascar Sailing on Turtles.
and the main character partners up with Jack Sparrow and Monty Python
jayheich That'd be kind of cool.
Acexand Jack Sparrow: Look my friends! Camelot!!
Fictional ancestor to MP: Camelot!!!
Assassin: It's only a model.
Fictional ancestor to MP: let me right that down, my grandchildren will marvel at this story, and so will their grandchildren.
Assassin's Creed CXXV: Battle of the Giant Super Mega Death Space Chinchilla.
Prochors Raudh Assassin's Creed CXXVI: The Templar Chihuahua
Personally, I either want to see a feudal Japan setting, an absolute monarchy Russia (mid-1800s, about), France during the French Revolution (I mean, come on, assassins and the French Revolution go together like bread and butter), Ancient Rome, preferably during the Julio-Claudian Dynasty, or Ireland during the Troubles (that might be too soon though, too touchy of a time period). Oh, or China during the Mongol invasions.
I would also love to see one in Roman Empire age :D but Russian mid 1800 also sounds cool
they'll get around to all of those eventually, I can predict a time when they'll have done so many games that they'd have run out of ideas and make a cave man one.
Senarelle
I doubt that they will ever run out of ideas. Honestly if they really wanted to they could do the same timezone atleast 4 times before they run out of countries with interesting things to cover.
How about Victorian Europe and you set up an alias as Sherlock Holmes?
Matthew Frye Victorian England is kinda interesting, but it would be damn hard to try to fit an assassin as Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock didn't exactly go around killing people.
Although, meeting of with Sherlock and Watson would be very interesting indeed, even if they aren't real historical figures. I wouldn't complain.
I really, really hope Ubisoft will start to shy away from the annual release "thing" that they're doing. A year is simply not enough time to properly develop a game, but Ass Creed IV proved me (partially) wrong. The series should most likely take a break for at least a couple years before Ubisoft tasers it again with another sequel. I can almost guarantee that Assassin's Creed V will be announced at E3 2014, and if it is, I'll probably be a little pissed.
Not to mention give us college lads some time to finish the last game fully before rolling on to the next!
Although I'm beginning to suspect that I'm the only one who is having that problem :P
They have multiple teams working on the games. It's not same team every year. :)
I believe they've already stated that they'll continue to make games every year, but that each one gets 2-3 years of development, since they're using different teams.
They said they'd stop if a majority of the fans wanted them to. The only reason they're doing annual releases is because of the fans
This is the best AC since the 2nd one. But man those tailing missions. I hate tailing missions.
Tailing's cool, it's eavesdropping that's a pain.
>I'm reminded of that line from Heath Ledger's Joker: "I think you and I are destined to do this forever"
>A line that proved slightly ironic for Heath Ledger but a good summary of the weary resignation I have towards Assassin's Creed at this point
lmao I love you Yahtzee
"I think me and you are destined to do this forever " a line somewhat ironic for heath ledger .... savage !!
and I do not like the look of the stapler it holding
*There should be an Assassin's Creed Rio de Janeiro. Seriously, let me explain:*
As you can guess, I'm brazilian, I know my fair share of brazilian history. Shortly after the country aquired its independence, Brazil was run by the some corrupt republican assholes, who controlled the country because they held the only product profitable to the economy: coffee. Not only that, they had a complex system to manipulate elections, with rural militas and nepotism.
After the Great Depression, coffee wasn't worth shit, so the country spiraled into a crysis. Not only the general population was pissed, but the elite too. A coup d'état was orchestrated, and a dictator called Getúlio Vargas came to rule the country. He was really intelligent, managing to save the economy, industrializing it in the process, inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's management. He was also loved by the masses, having a lot of populist policies, even being called "father of the poor". The catch? He was even more of a corrupt fuck than his predecessors, dabling with fascism and nazis. Hitler was a close ally to him, Getúlio's sole reason of not joinning him in WW2 was fear of the US.
Eventually, he, in a very clever plan, abdicated his dictator role and declared Brazil a republic once again, being elected and ruling as a president for years to come. The part that gets really interesing: he commited "suicide". Everyone know he was murdered, but no one ever managed to prove it. There was actually a suicide note, probably not written by himself. It read "I leave life to enter history".
Tell me that doesn't sound like Assassin's Creed? A pseudo nazi dictator who controlled the masses? That's totally Templar business. A secret assassination? Sounds like Altair had a hand in it. The architecture of the favelas in Rio, contrasting the rich elite buildings would be pretty cool to climb too, not to mention the beautiful scenery behind it all.
This is not a bad idea, I shall pull some strings...
Fascism is quite often hard to do in Video games as lot's of the defining features (Nazis) have a stuff banned in a lot of countries.
Yes that would be rather cool. I still want my game in Egypt and China/Japan first, but that would definitely be an awesome settings, right with Mongolia.
Good idea, very good idea, but it might be a bit too close to the present. Also some people might complain that resorting to killing Nazis would mean that Ubisoft is running out of enemies.
Poseidon you probably wouldn't be kiling nazis in the hypothetical game. Getúlio sympathized with Hitller, being a dictator and all, but ultimately ended up striking up an agreement with the US to join the war with the Allies in exchange of investments. Tasty investments, US needed Brazil at its side in the war, believe it or not.
When will Ubisoft pull their fingers out of their collective arseholes and just make a AC game set in feudal Japan. Ninja Assassins vs Templar Samurais. That doesn't even have to make sense to be playable.
I don't know. Unity looks pretty badass
The concept alone is worth throwing money at :)
Actually I'd be all over that. But remember, the key character in the story is sadly still Desmond so they have to stick with his bloodline and can't just go weaving into other random cultures if they want to keep this main story bullshit plot going. Honestly I would really rather just play an Ass Creed game without the meta animus crap or at least without coming back to the real world. It'd be far more exciting that way
Are we forgeting Liberation? Desmond was never mentioned and 4 stated that Avaline was the ancestor of Subject 1.
When will Ubisoft pull their fingers out of their asses and plan for an end to the franchise before it ultimately and inevitability start becoming bland recycling of the last game
Awesome Pirate game brought down by the fact that it has to be an AssCreed.
Rogue is somehow far better
I don't understand how the normal on foot main story mission are great and actualy fun
The ship battles are twice better than AC 4's and far more harder
The lengendary ships are perfect and super hard
And it's pretty replayable than AC4's crippling trailing missions
the normal abstergo company missions are shit but gladly quick and straight forward so the pacing of the game doesn't die entirely
"I do not like the look of that stapler it's holding" One of Yahtzee's funniest lines!
Being halfway through the story-missions, I totaly agree with Yahtzee on this game.
Sailing around exploring stuff is fun, the story-missions are generaly not. Specialy when they are pretty much tutorials for side-missions that I have already done several times.
And the Asscreed freerunning mechanic is as inffuriating as he says. Either you jump off in a direction you didnt intend, or (when chasing someone) you end up doing a strange mating dance against an unclimbable object.
I always love how these reviews end! Can't believe it took me this long to find you.
I rarely agree with your opinion on the games in this series but I greatly enjoy watching them anyway due to the humorous nature of how its presented. Thank you for your had work.
Every word is true I just finished the first few missions and yea his description is accurate
Jump Roll Jazz Hands and a whistle instead of a TA-DA
i know the present day missions and story line add so called originality to the game, but i'd find myself much more immersed if i wasn't walking around with an electric piece of paper taking orders from some hacker i didn't even know the face of while spontaneously being the most quiet mother trucker that ever did live.
Well isn't this lovely. I've watched enough of Mr. Crosshaw's videos in a row that my brain now thinks in the same smug, obnoxious, pretentious voice I so love him for having. Heck, even my comments and speech style now work in tangent with his witty insult-creating mind.
and now I cant stop reading the comments in his voice, even as I type this out I hear him reading it (and now I question my sanity... )
I've gone as far as writing school papers in this voice.
new period French revolution
Same thing here dude. For the last three weeks I've been catching myself talking faster than I usually do while making absurd and hysterical analogies.
***** Fantastic! Slowly his armies will build and froth until they boil over the bounds of Earth like a mug of badly-made tea!
I KNEW he'd do a Windwaker sailing comparison.
Fucking tail missions There was that one mission where i had to tail a rowboat but there were fucking crocodiles everywhere
+Kai Smart That was the only tailing mission I liked
+Kai Smart that mission was just a ragefest fest for me.
I did that one by climbing above them and jumping around on the convenient architecture.
How to make Assassin's Creed great again.
1) Remove Animus and Desmond.
3) ???
4) Profit
Actually I think that the franchise would benefit if they went heads on with the "present" time. Like a modern city with modern assassins and near future weapons/blades.
DigGil3 Scraping and retconning completely the 2012 doomsday plot would be a favour to the franchise too...
5) Create a combat system wherein the player isn't invincible.
To be honest, Assassin's Creed _never_ needed the sci-fi, 2012 doomsday subplot, if anything it hindered the potential of the series, since they had to somehow make sense as to why Desmond kept reliving memories, to the point Connor in AC3 basically had no purpose in his life other than to finally wrap up things in the future.
5) Make it about assasins instead of random pirates.
That heath ledger joke was tasteless... i liked it.
With everyone giving Assassin's Creed suggestions for different eras and places, let me mix it up with this:
There should be a Sniper Elite game set in the Winter War, where you play as Simo Häyhä. I mean, it's like the game was made for that set up, you put up ambushes for the enemy tanks and such and then you snipe the shit out of them when they run around all confused as to how the enemy could possible know that they were going to use this road even though it is the only bloody road on this side of the bloody country.
That must be best idea I heard today. It could be called Sniper Elite: White Dead.
lenni marjomaa You mean White Death? White Dead sounds like the zombie expansion for the game :D
Jes. Damn you typos, damn you!
***** That wouldn't be so effective since Simo did not use a scope, he used Iron sights so imagine sniping with Iron sights...especially if you don't use the red marker in empty lung mode.But the idea sounds awesome.
If they want the new game to be more interesting they need to make the combat more challenging It gets boring pressing the counter button to defeat entire armies of soldiers.
Let's make it much more easily by give you an instant kill ability after you nuck one of them down, sure it doesn't work against some type of them but it work against 90% of them.
Well have I got a surprise for you :D.
I'd really like a graph of all the assassin's creed games tbh, I'm having a blast with 2and I come here for more recommendations for which ones are actually good and which ones to not bother with when the sales pop up
I just personally feel they are all good, I really enjoyed Unity.
But I guess everyone is allowed to have an opinion
Started playing rouge recently. Plays like black flag without the constant tailing so far. Unity sucked. Syndicate will be the first ac game I've not purchased. Ubisoft should really just give in and start a standalone pirate franchise.
+CoolCatInATopHat Syndicate is actually really good. Still a few small bugs, but overall it plays very well.
+CoolCatInATopHat I also started Rogue recently, and I love it. The seven years war may not be as exciting as the golden age of piracy, but playing as a Templar is incredibly refreshing, the story is better than almost every other AC game, and the land segments don't suck. I feel like it's the only AC game I've played since II that's kept me engaged the whole way through with only minor quibbles.
ever heard of shadow of mordor it's kind of like a except for the fact that you have god like powers
Dagda Mor I haven't played Rogue yet, but I didn't know you get to play as a Templar. I'm definitely getting that game now. Ever since AC III, I've found the Templars to be the anti-heroes of the AC series, and it sounds awesome to play from their perspective for once (although you kind of did that in AC III, but still, it sounds way cooler to be a Templar for a whole game).
Vic 2.0 It sounds amazing. I can't wait to go play it soon!!
Ahh, the last "good one". Running around muddy fields and overcast skies and one story hovels just doesn't compete with a goddamn pirate ship.
4:11 made me laugh so hard cause it's soooo true
It made me angry, because it's TOOO true!
Grr.
"Its easy to confuse batman for connor from assassin's creed 3 since they both jump on people from buildings and have the personality of a high backed leather armchair with a frowny face drawn on the cushion"
Too damn true and hilarious xD
4:53
God, that gives me a thought. Wonder what they could do with the battle of Jutland?
That jazz hands thing was gold I straight up did that when it happened. I was like hey hows the whether?
I've said it a thousand times and i'll say it again, make an assassins creed game in japan with samurai and ninjas and stuff. it would give ubisoft an opportunity to update the combat mechanics without making it feel out of place. nothing would be cooler than slicing up motherfuckers with dual katanas. maybe take a page out of the batman arkham games or shadow of mordor for the combat.
As much as I want that too, I actually hope they wait on that. Reason is, I want it to be one really good fucking game and not AC 3 with a new coat of paint. Let Ubisoft cover different time periods and make different stories so they can see what they should do and what they shouldn't do, and then release a Japan one. Think about it. As shitty as some of the recent AC games have been, do you really want that in the Japan setting that we all want?
DarkAbusis of course man. Ubisoft should definitely wait. Really they should stop releasing AC games for a few years just so they can take the time to create something truly special.
Batman of the Apocalypse
But then they won't get the feedback they need to perfect the game. But then again no game will ever be perfected. Close to perfect I guess.
They already made that game, and it was really awesome! It was called Tenchu: Stealth Assassins and you really had to use actual STEALTH.
Quit saying that so often, you nutter.
Replaying this game now and he touched on pretty much everything. This game is so frustratingly close to great
Not really no... It just has a really fun core gameplay loop that's so innovative and fun that it makes you forget how much of a chore literally everything else in the game is.
you missed the part where you have to chase ppl where a chair stops you cause you cant climb over it.
I don't know what they did but the freerunning is way clunkier than it was in 2. Also is it just me or are the controls REALLY unresponsive at times? Because I have been mashing the counter command only for Kenway to stand there and get his ass kicked.
ThatCanadianGamer the free running is horrendous in this one but the combat is too boring i press the counter button 15 seconds before anyone attacks and still manage to kill someone with a counter, back in teh first AC if you missed that counter button by like a nano second you were getting hit it was actually fun and challenging
Con Cahill I can't say there was much challenge in the first game either.
MrDustyMonk Yeah but it was a whole lot more challenging than this at least, it took way skill to counter people instead of presses the counter but a million years before anyone attacks then still successfully countering someone
mate i love you videos that is the third time i watch this one and still making me laughing.
You're the only reason I'm subscribed to this channel.
Oddly enough, this video only makes me want AC 4 even more...
play it it's awesome!
Actually, the Escapist basically said he likes it, so it's no wonder you would want it more from watching this.
4:10 is so true, happened so many times in just about every AC
My favorite part of the game was burrowing giant war axes into peoples craniums during combat. It made me laugh to no extent (it also made me come to terms with my blatant psychopathic tendencies)
+cucumberferret Oh, I loved that ability. I remember numerous instances of killing a brute, nicking his axe, and then running around whatever town I was in looking for guards to lobotomize.
Everyones saying make a Feudal Japan setting, I just want them to drop the fucking eavesdropping missions. They're boring, stupid, and unnecessarily hard at times
Eavesdropping and tailing missions need a major revamp. There were far too many of them in ac4 and the whole mechanic is just crap. Why you can't just pay the hookers to follow someone or better still have a crew member do it and then tell you what they said afterwards is beyond me. Oh right, because that would make them easier and probably drop the play time by a few hours from not failing every time one of the thousand random ass guards turns around and sees you.
I like the eavesdropping mission to be about actual information-gathering, but the game makes me so busy trying to go unnoticed that I've NEVER ONCE IN THE GAME been able to gather any goddamn information.
The jazz hands got me
I wish they did Assassins Creed industrial revolution London. That would have been pretty coo
You mean Dishonored?
DigdugDak908
Ahhhh! Exactly lol
Now to get it in 3rd person lol
So.....how did you like Syndicate?
Funny how this comes full circle lol
I really liked the rts fleet building system as well, not only because it made me alot of money also it made it feel like you were really trying to conquer the seas with you naval might. I remeber always looking for the best level for each ship type so my fleet was well rounded.
The stapler gag at the end made me subscribe.
Anyone come back after the disaster of Skull & Bones?
That "Bittersweet Symphony" joke? 👌
I have looked forward to this game since the end of the previous title. My expectations were met,A much needed breath of fresh air for the franchise.This definitely feels like the biggest step forward since AC1 to AC2 (I also really liked Brotherhood).The developers have created a game with a more adventurous , fun tone that has an almost Pirates of the Caribbean vibe to it,
i don't care how late this is, someone needs to make fanart of that Link and Kenway sailing scene from the video.
Where do I find these Boobisoft games?
Who else PIRATED this game?...
I haven't gone down to the comment section yet, so if this the billionth time this joke has been made, I apologize.
+AlexRed95 That joke was actually really good, and there is not any other person who did make it.
+AlexRed95 I did! Played it for about two hours and already it began to feel like some obnoxious collectible rally, so I stopped playing immediately after that.
+AlexRed95 The pirated version is actually better than the paid version, because the pirated version doesn't have that crappy DRM uPlay
Get out.
I didn't pirate it. I did stab a man in the back of his neck to steal his copy though.
That line graph/stapler end bit really cracked me up
You got me good at the Bittersweet Sympony Reference :D
That bitter sweet symphony joke had me dying
Wait, Escapist, why haven't you uploaded the newest video to your site yet? I'm feeling restless.
favourite review by far
spot on in 2021
Jesus this guy makes totalbiscuit look optimistic
Now we are ready to sail for the horn!
That stapler bit at the end was brilliant XD
That Heath Ledger comment was fucking brilliant.
Feudal Japan right around them breaking their isolationist period is too perfect. I mean TOO perfect. End of the era of samurai in favor of industrializing? Oh hell friggin' yes. Could even have the first main release with a female protagonist. Who wouldn't wanna be a kunoichi or whatever the word for female ninja is.
Either way, free running through a bamboo forest to throwing a friggin' shuriken into someone's brain stem? Yes please.
Holy shit, I never realized how much I wanted that until now. Very cool idea!
Don't you dare bring up ninjas in this pirate themed video
THANK YOU when will ubisoft realise this is the perfect setting, spend another 2 years on AC5 and make a trilogy out of it like Ezio's, The possibilities in an Asian fuedal setting are endless and the characters would be so awesome. The wide range of locations from jungle to mountains to dense cities would be mind-blowing and as long as there's a solid protagonist with a storyline that holds up it will be the game of the series (imo AC2 is the best by a long way, so far).
Semyon Galtsev
No less ridiculous than George Washington having an ancient artifact from the first civilization of Earth, that predated mankind.
The story was always ridiculous. Could have Japan as one of the areas that the Assassins were able to isolate and protect. Make Kublai Khan a Templar trying to invade, they used an Eden artifact to make the kamikaze winds blow.
This is workable, comrade.
Just some info about this. In Freedom Cry, Adewale was given firecrackers, this could be a hint for something like this. I highly doubt they added it for a couple-hour expansion. Also, at the end, let's just say that a box given to a character looks exactly like the one that was given to the Chinese assassin in Assassins Creed: Embers. Sounds like conspiracy theorist crap but that's kind of what the developers want to be honest :P.
Well, think to the past, AC2 did good so they gave it an extension, while AC3 did poorly and they moved on immediately. I haven't played this one yet, so I don't know the ending, but perhaps it's success will generate a second pirate themed game.
I'm a huge fan of Roman history, hopefully they go there sometime. There is an insane amount of material they could use.
WTF You spent Assasin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood in Rome although he pronounced it Roma.
Raheim Williams ahaha fair enough, should have been more specific on that one. Archaic Period Ancient Rome, rather than Renaissance.
I always wanted Ancient Rome! The shields from that time could bring an interesting twist to the combat, and if the writers play it right, you could be fighting both romans AND barbarians from the north. Plus, GLADIATORS. The density of cities from that time would be great for free running, and there is no end to the political situations AC: Roma could build upon.
latpasko Also with the addition of some formation combat even!? Ah there's just so much opportunity there.
I think traditional China would be pretty cool. They already have a Chinese assassin in the law, I'd like to see her story
the stapler bit at the end got me.
The free roam sailing in IV is infinitely better than the shitty sofa trading in III
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Am I a geek for recognizing the knife in bat-boxes hand to be the big-earner from Team Fortress two?
Y'know, I think I'm gonna get this one. If the sailing and Errol Flynn-ing is at the forefront then I think I would really like this game. After all, ever since Assassin's creed 2, these games seem to devote a lot of time into making the player hoard wealth, which is exactly what pirates are supposed to do! Besides, as far as games go, the ninjas and the cowboys have had their fun so it's about time we got a new pirate game.
The game is pretty good if you ignore the tired Assasin/Templar garbage and just focus primarily on pirating. What Yahtzee said about money (along with loot/supplies/hunting) really meaning something is spot on and drives the whole game. You can sail for hours exploring islands, hunting sharks/whales and attacking/looting/aquiring ships because besides being really fun and immersive, there's actually a POINT to it. The downside of the sailing pirating being so damn immersive is I catch myself saying "AARRRG" quite a bit. Needless to say the wife and kids think I've lost it. Tip: There's a "Captain Morgan" outfit you can get that is a classic pirate getup. Losing that ridiculously out of place (and tired) white hood is a nice cherry on top for the pirating.
The jazz hands and ta da part was hilarious
Taking over ships is awesome!
Everytime I see a new Zero Punctuation video I think whatever higher power that is out there for these videos always make my day!
Assassins creed 2 through revelations was the best few games, There'll never be a story like ezio
Agreed my friend, nothing like an italian playboy stabbing people in the throat. (no sarcasm)
I love the tailing missions even for the ships
Quite clever and simply amazing! Yahtzee you've done it again!
He's right. Ubisoft will never stop making Assassin's Creed as long as they continue to be as successful as they are. Assassin's Creed is the COD of 3rd person action games. And it's just as douchey and unbelievably popular
Assassin's Creed isn't as bad as COD at all. While COD can only show off graphical improvements and a dog, Assassin's Creed actually makes changes from one game to the next. From AC, to AC2, 3, and now 4 there have been some very clear improvements.
well, it has better singleplayer and more intresting one than COD
Vollification And of course, there's that token insult to Americans that can be found in just about every comment section on youtube. Seriously people, there are many respectable Americans who are rather tired of being called idiots because of a few nationalistic morons and rude tourists.
If you're saying it's the "cod of third person action games" I'm assuming you're referring to it's popularity. Yes it is a mainstream game at this point but there are not many games like it. There are countless modern shooter but not that many historical, open world assassin games that involve freerunning over buildings, sailing, amazing combat and generally good characters (except Ezio in AC2).
gtfomyeggs
...With similar gameplay seen in inFamous, [Prototype], and the Arkham Series. All of these games do have a secret conspiracy by a small group(Batman's just borrowed from the comics), running around on rooftop, having an enhanced sense(Radar pulse, Infected vision, and Detective Mode respectively), and the main character using various skills and gadgets he unlocks as the story progresses. While they don't all have the same description, they utilize the same elements. There are games that to a degree copy it, it just isn't as blatant as Battlefield 3 or more recent Medal of Honor games. Just my two cents worth.
As some our saying feudal japan would be great for the assassin side of gameplay.
So much yes.
All of the yes....
But horrible for the story side. How they would excuse assassins getting a presence in Japan at about the same time that they start taking their first steps in Europe is beyond me, seeing as they'd probably neither have the means nor the motive to get there.
Andreas Rockstroh Europe has just been done.
Craig Sloan That's not really relevant to the story side of things.
T cannot get enough of Yahtzee's humor (at least for the next little while) and I just have to say; thank you, for making these critiques.
Loving the big brother with laser eyes.
It took another plunge
Well, one. Syndicate was a straight line.
Yeah and that line was the heart moniter flat-lining
Since Rogue came out after it, it actually went straight for a bit, then Unity came out and caused the plunge. But so far, Syndicate is showing a noticeable bump up.
arne rijus I think that's the point
Next thing you know, Ubisoft will actually make a game called Ass' Creed, where you play as a Donkey Assassin...
That batman comment about destined to do this forever and the ubisoft people writing about what they know made this vid shine
man i loved your ending of this video
AC 1 was okay, AC 2 still the best AC game then comes AC 4 and Brotherhood while revelations and ac3 would't hurt even if they never existed tbh
i understand the hate for AC3 (did anything work well in that game other than the sailing), but why revelations, I personally enjoyed it more than brotherhood.
Am I the ONLY one that actually liked AC3?
yahman35 yes.
yahman35 AC3 would have worked fine if it wasn't for the multiple loading screens. Every game has it's flaws, but when the pacing is ruined so much by one particular thing it really makes all the other flaws stand out. I think many more people would have liked it if they had managed to do a better job reducing/eliminating loading screen time/occurrence
Well put.
I think you're awesome yahtzee, and your job (and rep) demand you to act like for want of a better word an arse, but nonetheless I don't get why people should go on about it "I'm sick off assassins creed making games blah blah blah" but to be honest there are many more fans (me included) that love the series and want more. It just feels like the gaming community nowadays feels the need to pick on certain games for making multiple ones, yet many people would gladly bleed through the anus for more of the games they like, maybe half life 3 for example :/ i just don't get why people just don't play or talk about the games they don't like :') still yahtzee your videos are awesome and I look forward to the next haha
fewer people would hate on Assassins Creed if the games didn't suck.
in your opinion.
Blame the spamming of sequels on the mainstream popularity of Assassin's Creed. The consumers, and thus the publishers, are kinda turning it into CoD if you ask me. Obligatory sequel after obligatory sequel.
I agree, there shouldn't be hate just because they are launching a series. The problem lies with the fact they are rushing them out every year so fast that they turn out to be shallow with boring content. Look at call of dooty, for that matter. It started out as a great franchise, but after modern warfare 3, it was milked to death with it now being shallow bullshit but with a catchy multiplayer. I'm just hoping that black flag isn't teh beacon that will never shine again, like black ops 2 was.
That's what people are doing with CoD: Ghosts; besides the utter racism, they fixed everything that was wrong with MW3, mainly the immense lag, but I've literally read comments from angry people, saying, "THIS CAMPAIGN HAD A CLIFFHANGER!!! SCREW CALL OF DUTY; THEY WANT TO MILK THIS SERIES!!!," with quite too many swears than necessary to try and point out any possible thing that could be wrong with it.
I like how Yahtzee is reminded of the line from The Joker: I think you and I are destined to do this forever.'
I am reminded of the quote from Harvey Dent in the same film 'You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.'
You just git yiurself a new subscriber...i can't belive that i never heared about this before.
you should do an episode with totalbiscit
Is Rogue worth playing? I hear its similar to this.
Mr Grumpyface It is if you simply want more polished Black Flag. It is not if you want modern day story or even decent main story. Rogues title should have been Assassins Creed: Failure to communicate since that is pretty much the only reason why Shay runs away and eventually joins templars. He is also a hypocrite and an unlikable character overall, he does have more personality than Connor though. But the writing seems to want to force you to like templars, by which I mean if the story would be a person and was talking to you it would say something like this "Here look at all these nice templar guys, they aren't nice just because they know you are an ex-assassin and probably want to recruit you Oh no! They are always this nice and you have no reason to doubt it and look all the shady things assassins do, they are so bad, okay nothing to see here anymore continue doing missions for this charismatic templar guy because he is nice ^_^" /runs off before you can ask any questions/
krish698 in assassins creed 3 they gave some depth to the templars
They were no longer grasping for control
They changed to leading
And all the assassins though was killing templars just because they're templars
krish698 Rogue showed how bad each faction can get, the assassins went out of their way, even nearly destroying a WHOLE FUCKIN' TOWN. To take over a fort, and get a fuckin' manuscript.
Shay left for a good reason.
I'm not saying Rogue is a Good game, it really in't, it's...ok.
The story is bad, but it shows how bad each faction can be.
I really like it. It's my favorite ass ass game.
+Mr Grumpyface It's just more of the same for better or worse. I still enjoy it but it's a mixed bag. For one thing they did get rid of the stupid tailing missions which is a plus. The game also feels less punishing for making slight mistakes. On the other hand, the counter-assassin thing wears out its welcome quickly. You won't be able to walk five steps down New York without having to kill some bitch hiding in almost plain sight; and my god the Assassin Interception missions are so frustratingly unforgiving and easily the worst part! Another funny thing is that it's piss easy to make money. You invest in renovations which somehow make contributions to your income. The only point to doing all of them is to unlock an item, but by then you'll have bought every singe item and still have a shit ton of money with nothing to spend it on. I just started throwing coins at strangers for fun. Oh for a charity to alleviate the ennui of excessive wealth!
I'm from the future.
Ubisoft now only make AC games (which are RPGs now) in settings where sailing is a core element. None of them are Feudal Japan for some cocking reason.
now there is gonna be one.
the last sentence - oh, you're making my subscription to the Escapist worthy, sir.