/v/ - Video Games

>>15652850

You are not on reddit. Kill yourself.

It's not worth playing any of them

>>15652856

How does one not post like a redditor

>>15652866

By not asking stupid questions and lurking more

1 is kind of shit and only has the animus premise to support itself. Start with 2 and end with Brotherhood, as they are the only actually good games. If you want to visit Parisian palaces, you can also play Unity, but that's it.

>>15652871

>>15652872

>>15652876

I come from halfchan

>>15652850

1 is meh, 2 is pretty good, 2:B is good, 2:R is bad, 3 is terrible, 4 is fun when you're being a pirate -which is most of it-, Rogue is just 4.5. Everything after that is trash.

>>15652882

You are not on reddit. Kill yourself.

>>15652882

I hope you're just shitposting.

Lurk more.

>>15652910

Oh, and I didn't mention Odyssey for two reasons:

1. It's not cracked yet

2. At this point it's really not an asscreed game at all. Origins barely was, this just isn't.

AC2, Brotherhood are the only actually "good" ones, and AC4 is worth playing if you're into long winded grindfests with comfy boat shit but it's been a while since I've played it so idk, also none of them are worth playing on PC because of JEWplay

>>15652930

>writing and story in an ubishit game not being shit

What is this

>>15652877

Syndicate was also fun to look around Victorian London map. I don't really care, I'm not paying for them anyway.

>>15652850

AC2 is a pretty good game as far as AAA trash goes, but AC1 has better setting and story. Everything else is shit.

AC1 is pretty much the worst game of all. The story is good but the gameplay is so fucking repetitive. Also AC3 gets a lot of hate but it's actually good.

>>15652910

>Recommending anything past Brotherhood

How much did you get paid?

Or are you shilling for free?

consider your life choices, man

>>15653031

fuck off, 4 is the best pirate game out there.

>>15652910

>Cool mechanics

>Gameplay is hold forward to traverse everything

>Doesn't even use any sort of jump mechanic just runs for you

Yea. Came out right next to Mirror's edge. What a dumb fucking game that was, making you jump and duck to pass obstacles. I just want to hold forward. Fucking Crackdown and Infamous.

Maybe other games need to add some nice AC combat. Pushing triangle to instakill every enemy in the game is so much fun.

No. Just play 2 and Brotherhood as >>15652877 suggested. If you end up liking the series then you can start playing the rest of the AC shovelware.

>>15652887

>2:r is bad

the world is very boring but your ottoman bro was pretty cool until he gets killed

that hook weapon was shit too. it should of ended on Revelations though, with desmond dead there wasnt a reason to continue and ezio was the only assassin worth following because he was chad as fuck

also the stupidest thing was getting the auditore cape in 2 when you collect all feathers because then you just have everybody trying to murder you, like gee, thanks for giving me something that blows my identity as a completionist reward when im supposed to be a SNEAKY ANONYMOUS ASSASSIN

fucking retarded

none of them are worth playing

Don't bother playing past Revelations. Or ac3 if you really want to see how the story concludes. There isn't really any story left in the rest of the games.

In many respects the first game is the best the series gets, sadly. At least it's the closest the series gets to what the series was supposed to be. There are definite improvements in 2 mind, missions become GTA-style which reduces a lot of the tedium of the first game. But the overall shift in tone of the game shows that the developers are getting less and less interested in making a game where running from your foes is the focus and this just gets worse and worse as the series progresses.

I strongly suspect AssCreed is an massive example of a series suffering heavily from focus testing. I can already picture a lot of stupid twats who constantly complain about not being able to just kill everything the game throws at them.

>>15652850

The ones that have the best gameplay are Rogue and Unity, and they're also different enough so it doesn't feel so boring playing them back to back. Don't spend too long in them, however. Brotherhood also has some nice stuff I guess, as well as AC3 but that's too unfocused. Don't get involved in the story, because it just becomes a complete clusterfuck. If you do want a story that isn't complete bullshit, play AC2. These games are all easy to pirate as well.

>>15652910

>get Odyssey for "free" via graphics card promo

>get bored to tears with it after a few hours of murdering random nation leaders

Also it has more micro transactions than most fucking F2P games.

>>15653259

It's posted way too much, really lost its impact a long time ago.

Nope, Assassin's Creed 1 is the best one. Before they inserted all that stupid shit and made you into a counter-attack assassin murdering a whole town by doing counter attack.

>>15652866

Lurk moar.

>>15653278

I think one is better storywise but two is better mechanically.

One still has too much Prince of Persia in it.

>>15653320

Yes, probably. The level system fucks up the open world aspect of the game badly though, so if you go off the "beaten path" prepare to fight enemies with 10x your health that take no damage from you.

>>15652949

AC1 was released in 2007, just in the process of everything going to shit.

>>15652850

If you liked Prince of Persia, it may be worthwhile to play AC II and Brotherhood for the Assassin tombs, as they're designed like Prince of Persia's platforming levels. Aside from that, the games look nice and have some nice music, but they actual gameplay is sorely lacking. The combat is shit, the stealth is probably the worst in existence, the free-roam platforming is quite basic, and there is no challenge or forethought required to complete the assassinations. Also, the multiplayer, while novel, is shallow and not worth the time.

>>15653463

It's garbage, originally on the PSP so even the (((HD Remake))) is noticeably gimped.

How is AC3 the most mechanically complicated? Honestly curious.

>>15653463

It's a port of a portable game and it shows. Everything feels smaller and cheaper, mechanics are clunkier etc. Fairly unremarkable, only play if you really need AC fix and have played through everything else.

I played through it, I think I even got quite a few collectibles, but I can't remember anything other than some annoying swamp area with crocodiles and the lady outfit being utterly unfun because you cannot sprint or fight properly.

>>15653463

>liberation

What country is she supposed to be liberating?

So I'm probably in the minority, but I honestly found AC Black Flag to be the most boring in the series simply due to how unmemorable the cities were and how samey traveling was.

All the pirate towns looked the same, and the few larger cities were really really small.

Exploring the random islands and treasure hunting was a chore mainly because of how long it took to get off and back onto the ship.

Ship battles, as fun and neat-looking they were, got really stale and samey really fast, and besides, skill didn't really matter, only how powerful your ship was.

Also, I think Unity was actually a great return to form. It almost felt like playing AC2 again, aside from the lack of modern times story. The setting really appealed to me, it had some actual stealth, especially fun in the interiors, the rooftops were fun to traverse, just low and close enough for the parkour to feel like proper AC again, and the story kind of mirrored that of AC2, with young guy learning the assassin ways. I was actually hoping for an Arno trilogy, but welp.

As much as I don't care about the latest ones, is Syndicate worth a play? I always thought the city looked really dull, empty and boring to traverse, with no possibility of proper rooftop parkour. And also, how cucked is the story in that one? Is there some actual romance between girl/muslim dude?

>>15653535

I felt the same way about Unity, felt like they toned down a lot of the combat in favor of better control over stealth and parkour (parkour up/parkour down/enter window is fucking great), although I still can't believe they removed moving bodies.

Syndicate is boring, they went right back to stuffing the game full of irrelevant shit and upgrade grinding. Never got far enough in to determine whether the game was pozzed, but the answer is "probably," since I do know that Karl fucking Marx makes an appearance at one point.

>>15653031

>how much does he get paid

>for telling people to illegally download these games

You gotta read thoroughly unless you dont mind looking like an idiot

>>15653555

>>15653535

Oh, and coop was actually a lot of fun, even with randoms.

Still not as fun as the old versus, but oh well.

>>15653508

Freeing Haiti from the evil White devil Frenchmen

Based off what I've seen this series is about as bad of a meme as COD4, the first one was cinematic garbage and everything else tried to make a bad stealth and parkour game out of it. It's a bad joke that's just gone on longer than Far Cry at this point.

>>15653494

The actual gameplay itself isn't as complicated, that would probably go to Unity which I maintain is the best AssCreed, but it has a lot of management mechanics that are so poorly implemented that they haven't been seen sense. I haven't played Revelations, so I'm going to use the other Ezio games as reference.

In II and Brotherhood, you could renovate Monteriggioni and portions of Rome to generate income. This would be placed in a chest, and you could only collect after a certain amount of time. III introduced the Homestead, which is a hunting and base of operations for the Brotherhood, but you can collect people to produce goods by completing missions and raise the quality of life. Money is generated by a trading system now rather than a game timer, so you have to manage your fellow homesteaders into producing goods and purchase/collect others from around the colonies. There are also craftsmen you can recruit that can make more advanced things. To trade these goods, you have to contract a trader, who will take it either by boat or by caravan. If you trade by caravan, however, there's a risk that it'll get attacked, so you have to physically go out there to defend it to prevent getting robbed. I think it's the same for ship combat, but I've forgotten.

It also is the last game to feature the Brotherhood itself works by recruiting people like the previous game, but with each new addition, you're granted access to a new brotherhood ability. You can do things like set up ambushes and disguise yourself as a prisoner, but the guard AI is so bad most of the time that it's really pointless. There's also a hidden menu where you can send your assassin's to do missions to level them up and I had absolutely no idea about it until my second playthrough of the game. In Brotherhood, this was accessed by going to bird houses and introduced in a story mission.

>>15653535

Unity is, in many ways, a good game and the closest AssCreed has gotten to being good. Gameplay was great and sometimes even challenging, the parkour system was perfect, and the riddles were fun to solve. It was unfortunately crippled by its boring story and a horrible launch. The only change that need to be make the gameplay good is more enemy variety or more dynamic AI and, as >>15653555 said, reintroduce moving bodies. I'd also remove at least half of the collectibles. If I had more control than that, I would strip the story missions all together and make it like Hitman. All the targets exist and events happen naturally in the world rather than engaging in missions and you have to learn or control their schedule to get an opportunity to assassinate them.

>It also is the last game to feature the Brotherhood itself works by recruiting people like the previous game, but with each new addition, you're granted access to a new brotherhood ability. You can do things like set up ambushes and disguise yourself as a prisoner, but the guard AI is so bad most of the time that it's really pointless. There's also a hidden menu where you can send your assassin's to do missions to level them up and I had absolutely no idea about it until my second playthrough of the game.

I've played AC3 twice and I literally never knew this was a thing. Fuck me, Ubisoft is pretty much the king of "game design by committee at this point.

>>15653631

Also, a game with AC movement/crowd blending and Hitman disguises/target mechanics would be amazing. Unity at least had a strong emphasis on the assassination missions, with multiple approaches and at least one "signature" kill per target (which is a lot like the new Hitman, actually).

Now Odyssey comes along and proves Ubi has literally zero interest in ever making a stealth game again. You'd think that some other dev would step into the void left behind.

>>15653631

>>15653663

>couldn't find the assassin mission tab

I don't know what you did, but I easily found it in my first blind playthrough. Maybe it's because I played it years later, after most bugs were fixed, but AssCreed 3 isn't as bad as it's considered to be, and probably one of the most underdeveloped one as well(had some good ideas like trading, climbing trees and ship combat, but didn't have enough dev time to expand on it). I barely cared about Desmond's story, but I could see how it angered a lot of "fans" and I consider the ending to be MassEffect 3 tier, with Desmond without thinking or a shred of self doubt, betrays the major tenant of the assassins(freedom) and gives total control over the planet to some ancient mayan ghost lady. Holy shit, was that ending horrible.

>>15653694

The problem with AC3 is you spend a 6 hour tutorial playing as a superior character.

Only one worth playing was the first one because you didn't knew what to expect and brotherhood because the multiplayer mouse and cat game is fun.

1 is the best of all of them so…

>>15653715

>The 2 worst games in the franchise

>>15653702

AssCree 3 had lots of other problems, like the shitty sewer underground levels to unlock fast travel. They were so boring and slow that I preferred fucking running from one corner of the city to the other for the entire game, than to "play" the underground levels. You know what would have been fun, to incorporate them with trading, say the British aren't allowing you bring contraband in the city so you use the underground system to smuggle in stuff, or maybe add some mission where you ambush British/Templar spies or sabotage their trade routes.

Since we are talking about trading, I might as well talk about how shitty the crafting interface was, say I want to make 20 barrels, I can't select 20 on some slider, I have to click craft 20 times, but ohoh, after 7 barrels, I don't have enough nails, well nails and to make nails I need iron, and for that I need something else(it's just a random example, can't remember the recipes), so I craft a lot of those, then craft the nails, again each nail equals one press of the button, then I can continue crafting the barrels. Also I can't put all 20 in the wagon, I have to individually put one by one in the wagon to export.

But hey it still had some good things, like how it made the Templars more neutral like in 1, isntead of the chaotic evil like they were in 2.

>>15653730

>the 2 worst

All of them are shit you dumbass

>>15653694

>I don't know what you did, but I easily found it in my first blind playthrough.

I just never had to use the Brotherhood at all. The game was so easy, it never occurred to me.

>>15653752

Yeah, the sewers were completely underused like almost everything in that game. I wonder if they'll fix that in the remaster.

play unity if only to see how much Ubisoft were willing to push the ps4 and xbone to its limits.

>>15652850

The first one is bad until the end, you get a "twist" ending. Then the second one is a little better, but then they start getting shit.

>>15652942

>>15653086

This, 2 and Brotherhood are the only games in the series I'd say are really good from the ones I've played.

While not as good, I think Liberation HD is okay too.

AC4 Black Flag can be pretty good in the beginning but gets stale, boring and repetitive fast, just like AC1 but worse.

AC3 is a complete trainwreck and probably the worst game in the entire series

Don't know about others, never even tested them, these and AC1 are the only games in the series I've played.

All of them are crap except Black Flag.

>>15652850

the ending is really only thing good about ac1, its what got me into the series

>>15653858

Rogue was beter tbh. Still shit, but better

AC1 - Good but repetitive

AC2 - Best one in the franchise

ACB - Same as 2 with some upgrades

ACR - Same as 2 and B little to no upgrades

AC3 - Terrible

AC4 - Enjoyable and a bit unique from the other ones

ACU - I hated it but it changed a lot of the AC formula and a lot of fags on here seem to like it for some reason. The stealth is vastly improved and the combat is slightly stolen from Witcher/ Dark Souls. The movement system is also improved upon and is a lot more dynamic

ACS - Fun grappling hooks. The movement system was downgraded and reduced to a better classic AC movement system. Combat is just button mashing I never actually delved into it so it might just be me. It's basically a downplayed ACU with shitty level scaling and worse graphics.

ACO - Boring and tries to seem like its open world has life but that illusion quickly deteriorates as you progress through side quests. I'm a completionist retard so I never had this problem but apparently you're forced to grind in order to reach a certain level for specific quests. The combat system is reminiscent of Witcher again.

ACOD - I dont even know I havent played it.

>>15654062

Best thing about Unity was the map

>>15654080

Ignore the flag I was doing a thing

>>15653274

Dunno Anon there is something about an 8chan /v/ original. They are a higher quality of meme.

>>15652910

>Black Flag.

Was a good pirate game.

>>15654062

>ac unity

>good

Nigger, why lie?

1 and 2 are the good ones, the rest is bellow average quality.

Play 1, 2 and 3 to complete desmond questline.

Dont play unity, i did, it sucks.

Syndicate is commie and as boring as unity.

Did not play the rest, some people say 4 is good.

I'm curious, did the later games copy whatever the clones did to try and distinguish themselves from AC? As in, is there a clone of the Nemesis system in one of the later ACs?

>>15654224

No, but they should have. The Nemesis system is fucking perfect for AssCreed.

>>15654143

>>15654062

What do in particular do you two dislike about Unity? Is it related to the gameplay?

Assassins Creed 1 is boring. I persisted through mostly because I like the period. The story is shit on both sides. Assassins Creed 2 is a marked improvement and the formula peaks with Brotherhood. Everything since has been trash. I couldn't make my way through 3 because its boring and the only good thing from Black Flag are the sea shanties which exist superior form outside the game. Everything else is the same trash, which includes all the derivative forms the genre has taken. This includes the Arkham, Mad Max, and LOTR clones. You played one, you played them all at this point. The wax and wane depending of the strength of their gimmicks and stability/performance of the game. Open world games are now one of the forms of cancer killing the industry.

>>15654445

>Graphics are horrible

graphics are irrelevant no matter the game. Only normalfags care about graphics

>>15654528

I've played PS1 games that look better than asscreed.

>>15654458

> but ac4 pushed it to the next level.

It was subtle and subversive and I thought pure evil to do that to a pretty good game otherwise. Marxists really should be thought as treasonous to humanity.

>>15654556

No, you haven't

>>15654613

Asscreed is ugly french garbage, ugly trashy gameplay and ugly assfuck textures. It was an ugly pig that entertained you since it dressed up in marketing campaigns.

Here's mine:

AC1: The definition of mediocre.

AC2: Amazing, improved everything. Great characters, great story, much better gameplay.

ACB: Just as fun imo. You can now ride a horse into the city! Amazing multiplayer with a great roaster of characters.

ACR: Boring city. Meaningless new mechanics. Multiplayer still fun despite much shittier character roaster.

AC3: Alright gameplay, but dull story. Musket combat was cool. Diverse map with cities and forests. Best iteration of multiplayer, well balanced mechanics and neat characters.

ACLib: Why did I even play it.

AC4: Cool at first, but ship combat got repetitive fast, cities were small and boring. Multiplayer fucked, shit maps and shit mechanics.

ACU: A great return to form, reminded me of ACB. Great city, new control scheme, classy and extensive outfit customization. Fun co-op missions.

ACRog: Neat but unremarkable. AC4's ship combat is back with new weapons and upgrades. I barely remember the towns. You play as a bad guy, which is cool.

That's where I stopped playing the games.

ACS: Didn't play. City looked really boring and way too large for parkour.

ACO: Didn't play: Kangz; Too much pozzing for my taste.

ACOD: Didn't play: Even more pozzing. Gay and cuck romance options, really?

>>15654640

But it looks better than the PS1

>>15654528

>graphics are irrelevant no matter the game

No it isn't, the visuals are part of the experience and therefore matter. And ac is in the spot right now where it is neither iconic, nor good/realistic. Which makes it straight up bad.

>>15654654

I think the burnout is what hurts this franchise. I mean it's Assassin's Creed (in general) are pretty solid games overall with great game play and interesting settings. Thing is that Ubisoft milked it too much and jaded us.

1 2 revelations brotherhood and black flag. Then stop playing

>>15656973

I dropped black fag. If you cant get into 1 AssCreed games dont bother with the rest.

>>15652976

>Also AC3 gets a lot of hate but it's actually good.

ac3 definitely has its issues, but i remember a lot of the hate being butthurt britbongs

>>15656973

>3 above ezio trilogy

>3 not on the very bottom

Shit chart, delete it

>>15656973

>ACIV is god tier

>ACIII and ACRogue are the same fucking game but with a different coat of paint

<b-but muh naval exploration!

Yeah that shit was present in ACIII as well, it just wasn't the game's centerpiece.

>AC1 is mid tier

>ACII and Brotherhood are shit tier

This poster only wants a pirate game. That's fine, but that's no reason to overlook II and Brotherhood's strengths. These two titles have the best assassin tombs and the best puzzles to solve. All the games have shit combat, and being a privateer is fun but incredibly repetitive

>Find ship

>Attack ship enough to prompt a boarding

>Board ship and bitch slap all the enemies on board using the same shitty land combat

>Ship is yours, now either turn it into resources or add it to your fleet

>Repeat ad nauseam

<Play some shitty facebook teir Battleship game where you send your little fleet out to fight other fleets

When you get right down to it, none of these games are really worth playing unless you want to simply wander around their world. None of them provide interesting combat or stealth challenges, and every protagonist is a bullet proof mary sue who we're supposed to fawn over. I guess that explains why they added the "go on a virtual reality tour of our world" mode to one of the newer games.

>>15657042

>>15657031

>replying to obvious bait

delete yourself

>>15657045

If you assume that everything is bait, then it doesn't matter whether you reply or not. If everyone adopted the policy that it is never worthwhile to respond to bait, then this whole board would be a ghost town.

>>15657017

>>15657029

Here's a neat video I found recently.

>>15657054

So shitting up a thread and giving baiters more reasons to continue posting is the way to go? A slow board is better than a retarded one.

>>15657072

No, baiters will continue posting whether you like it or not, because you can't always discern what is and is not bait. Secondly, you don't have to respond to retardation with more retardation. It always benefits both yourself and the people who read your shit thread when you post something thoughtful.

Sage because this is meta bullshit.

>>15657054

No, it won't be a ghost town. But you won't know because you'll be one of the shit cows who leaves for gayer pastures.

>>15657077

>No, baiters will continue posting whether you like it or not

People fishing for (you)'s will leave if everyone stops giving them those. Either that or they will get banned.

>you can't always discern what is and is not bait

You can tell for sure that certain posts are bait. If someone praises games life is strange, borderlands or whatever those other games are that /v/ hates you can safely assume that it's bait. AC is one of those games. These games are borderline trash tier, only a few of them make it into okay tier. The newer ones are certainly not okay tier.

>>15657088

>People fishing for (you)'s will leave if everyone stops giving them those. Either that or they will get banned.

Alternatively, they might try to find new ways to get (you)s without being banned and without making it immediately obvious that they're baiting.

>You can tell for sure that certain posts are bait

>AC is one of those games

I disagree, because people tend to have varied opinions on which are best in this series. Some like the first game the most, some tout the Ezio trilogy as the the best, and some still think that AC:Unity is one of the best in the series. While I could understand why you might think that image is bait, it's not necessarily the case, and that poster could just have what some would consider to be really shitty opinions. Is it bait when people say they like DaSII despite its flaws? Is it bait when people defend DX:HR against the criticisms of people who only enjoy the first game?