Assassin's Creed, Getting Back Into It?

[2HF]

So today youtube did a thing it's never done before. It made me voluntarily watch an ad. Ass Creed Syndicate looks to be ballin!

I'm not the type to be swayed by a game trailer, with one exception. That exception was Borderlands 2. I don't regret it. Syndicate is drawing me in.

Now then! Ass Creed Unity is currently on sale at Gamefly for $13 I haven't played one of these since Revelations I think. Is Unity worth the $13 and the time investment on the off chance that Syndicate is actually as awesome as the trailer makes it look?

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

No, no, no, no and another no.
If you want to play a good Ass game, go either #1 or BlackFlag. All the others are complete shit and a waste of time.

 

[Captain Marvelous_v1legacy]

Assassin's Creed. I promise myself I wont be pulled in again and then I see the trailer and the gameplay and I'm pulled right back in. I... I think I may have a problem.

I'm still not buying until I get a Zero Punctuation on it. No amount of hype will change that.

Now then! Ass Creed Unity is currently on sale at Gamefly for $13 I haven't played one of these since Revelations I think. Is Unity worth the $13 and the time investment on the off chance that Syndicate is actually as awesome as the trailer makes it look?

No. Unity only has three positives IMHO.
1. Harder combat
2. A pretty nice looking Paris
3. Free running is fun.
Nothing that actually makes it worth buying. I hope Syndicate is better, like Black Flag was an improved III

 

[SweetShark]

Assassin's Creed. I promise myself I wont be pulled in again and then I see the trailer and the gameplay and I'm pulled right back in. I... I think I may have a problem.

I'm still not buying until I get a Zero Punctuation on it. No amount of hype will change that.

Now then! Ass Creed Unity is currently on sale at Gamefly for $13 I haven't played one of these since Revelations I think. Is Unity worth the $13 and the time investment on the off chance that Syndicate is actually as awesome as the trailer makes it look?

No. Unity only has three positives IMHO.
1. Harder combat
2. A pretty nice looking Paris
3. Free running is fun.
Nothing that actually makes it worth buying. I hope Syndicate is better, like Black Flag was an improved III

Do you really think is wise to let Yahtzee to make you buy or hate the game?
I only watch him because he is hilarious. Not because he is a "fair" reviewer.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The spider-manning looks kinda cool, but ultimately I foresee the same bloated affair, endless busy work, and convoluted story I'm used to with this series by now.

Also, how are there so many if any women working as guards and coachmen in Victorian times, unless my view of this era is totally skewed? Yeah, I know, I know, equality in games, but it's a bit immersion breaking when you're going for a realistic depiction.

 

[rpck1990]

I'm one of those people that kind of hated ACIV. Not sure why, so maybe hate it too strong a word, but I stopped playing after putting in about 20 hours (which was hard and I didn't enjoy). I put part of that down to the lack of stealth mode getting a bit old, and the amount of annoying follow and listen type missions. This addresses the former issue, and potentially the latter, so I'm excited to jump back in after skipping Unity.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Eh. It would take a pretty special trailer to get me hyped for a game these days.
I don't even get hype while playing most games these days without friends unless it has some seriously good edge-of-my-seat-in-excitement gameplay. Doing the second Destiny raid as it came out when nobody knew what to do being the most recent example.
Point is, no trailer is likely to make much on an impact.

No, no, no, no and another no.
If you want to play a good Ass game, go either #1 or BlackFlag. All the others are complete shit and a waste of time.

Brotherhood was my favorite. I never finished Black Flag. It felt too much like I was forbidden to play Ass Creed until I'd made enough progress in an unrelated pirate game between missions.
One was pretty good but not as polished as Bhood.

 

[Danny Dowling]

pretty sure a thread like this for AC comes up every year (literally). I had AC and AC2, I hated AC 2 so haven't bought one since but have AC3 through PS+ and still wasn't a fan. Black Flag I hear was good but... yeah. No.

Although, in honesty, the new one does look a bit interesting.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

If anything, get Black Flag, which is a great game on its own right. Unity I haven't played but I hear it's the absolute low point.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Now then! Ass Creed Unity is currently on sale at Gamefly for $13 I haven't played one of these since Revelations I think.

Black Flag (Assasins Creed IV) is an awesome game, all the other ones since Revelations are debatable at best. I quite liked 3 and felt Unity was naff, but most people can agree that Black Flag was great, if you're only buying of them make it that one.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

The spider-manning looks kinda cool, but ultimately I foresee the same bloated affair, endless busy work, and convoluted story I'm used to with this series by now.

Also, how are there so many if any women working as guards and coachmen in Victorian times, unless my view of this era is totally skewed? Yeah, I know, I know, equality in games, but it's a bit immersion breaking when you're going for a realistic depiction.

Yeah, it's like they were so embarrassed about the controversy with Unity's co-op they went a little too far. In my opinion, it makes the game look weird. In all the recent Creed games, it was pretty much just a dude in armor, so you never really noticed how samey they are, you could just throw on a new coat of paint and no one would notice. Now that there are women, just from watching gameplay, the sameness of enemies is really, really, evident. I think it's because they look so out of place, dainty little ladies amongst dirty roided up bald dudes who are seven feet tall. It doesn't help that all the women have one character model.

EDIT: Heh, forgot about the OT: Same as everyone else, Black Flag instead of Unity. The closest in gameplay quality (but necessarily overall quality) would be AC III. The combat was somehow more polished and fun, and also had the beloved ship combat. It's just that everything else was so goddamn boring!

 

[Captain Marvelous_v1legacy]

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Do you really think is wise to let Yahtzee to make you buy or hate the game?
I only watch him because he is hilarious. Not because he is a "fair" reviewer.

I'm only waiting for Yahtzee because he does his Zero Punctuation 2+ weeks after the game comes out. Once Yahtzee releases his punctuation-less psuedo review I'll know I've waited long enough.

 

[Deathmageddon]

The gameplay looks awesome, and I can't wait to see what Ubisoft does with the industrial setting, but the narration for the trailer and the description I read (I think it was here on the Escapist) makes it sound like a propaganda game full of classist bullshit. Hate the top hat.

 

[L. Declis]

If anything, get Black Flag, which is a great game on its own right. Unity I haven't played but I hear it's the absolute low point.

Wait a second, Unity only had bad glitches, Ass Creed III managed to be fully functioning and yet far worse.

 

[laggyteabag]

Unity requires a pretty damn beefy computer to run, and even then, it still runs pretty badly. Other than a very pretty city to run around in, there isn't really all that much to keep you playing, as most of the content is very samey. If you were planning on playing a new Assassin's Creed game, I can only really find myself recommending Black Flag, which should be quite cheap now.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

If anything, get Black Flag, which is a great game on its own right. Unity I haven't played but I hear it's the absolute low point.

Wait a second, Unity only had bad glitches, Ass Creed III managed to be fully functioning and yet far worse.

Can't work much enthusiasm for either historical setting, but have they fixed Unity by now?

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Can't work much enthusiasm for either historical setting, but have they fixed Unity by now?

I finished it a couple of weeks ago and in my run, I only had maybe three or four crashes. That's about how many I had with the Fallout games, which I also waited to play until they were patched multiple times. Unfortunately, the first glitch/crash happened within the first hour of the game. While pathetic, all of the crashes were easily fixed by just reloaded to the PS4 menu and restarting (goddamn those initial load times, though).

Other than a very pretty city to run around in, there isn't really all that much to keep you playing, as most of the content is very samey.

Very true. Seemed like a ton of content at first, but it all boiled down to going from point A to point B, killing a guy, and running away. The assassination story missions were quite enjoyable and the graphics were truly stunning at times. It's just a series whose game mechanics are not a solid enough foundation to make so many games that are so massive in length.

 

[Batou667]

There are officially too many Ass Creed games at this point. It's no longer an original concept; it's devolved into shoehorning anachronistic hoods and wrist weapons into every historic setting available.

I'm basing my first impression of this new Ass Creed on just a single publicity picture, mind, but perhaps it's the British setting that underlines just how butchered the suspension of disbelief is at this point. Those Assassin hoods would have stuck out like a sore thumb in Victorian times. Likewise Victorian women didn't wear bowler hats. And pubs certainly didn't have big sheet glass windows like that, although I suppose they had to get Big Ben in the shot somehow.

Meh, I say. MEH.

 

[Zeraki]

The only way I can get interested in the series again is if they make a game set in feudal Japan. Even then I would wait for it to be at a deep discount before picking it up.

That is if it's not a broken mess like the last one.