Poll of the Day > It's funny the lengths people go to claim Assassin's Creed is bad.

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THEGODDAMNBATMA
10/01/18 5:52:00 PM
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Origins came out last year and it is by far one of the best entries in the series, yet people still act like the series (and ubisoft) is bad. They can't even talk about the gameplay because they know it's good, so they nitpick the small things like "omg why isn't there a distinct animation for going up stairs" and "wtf, I set the music volume too high and can't hear the dialogue".

Assassin's Creed is one of the best franchises in gaming, babyyyy!
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Aculo
10/01/18 5:52:45 PM
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cue helly in 5...4...3...
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DPsx7
10/01/18 5:58:02 PM
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I don't hate AC but do wish they slowed down a little. I don't play their games annually which is why several of them are on my backlog at once. I'm sure this is why I'm not burned out on it yet. Can't say whether the changes they've been making will appeal to me.

I dunno, Ubi has a better quality to their games despite some of them being annual. Act and EA shovel the same shit year after year, they're not even trying.
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Rad_Chad
10/01/18 6:07:42 PM
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some of them are hella lame, bro... like AC1 and 3 and unity. absolutely trash. black flag, syndicate, and origins def increase stoke tho
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GanglyKhan
10/01/18 10:51:52 PM
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It had a really bad dip from like 2014-ish to 2017, but it seems like its hitting its stride again
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VeeVees
10/01/18 10:54:03 PM
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Play 2, black flag, origins and you have experienced everything the franchise has to offer.
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SkynyrdRocker
10/01/18 10:54:48 PM
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It might be good. It's been going for too long, I've been burned out for years. I haven't played one in forever.
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MICHALECOLE
10/01/18 11:41:09 PM
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Brotherhood was the best one I ever played, but I never played another one after 3 because 3 was absolute fucking garbage
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mooreandrew58
10/01/18 11:44:51 PM
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Rad_Chad posted...
some of them are hella lame, bro... like AC1 and 3 and unity. absolutely trash. black flag, syndicate, and origins def increase stoke tho


I liked 1 then again when I played it, it was the only one.
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MICHALECOLE
10/01/18 11:49:06 PM
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People always talk shit about the first one but when it came out it looked amazing and was revolutionary as fuck
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mooreandrew58
10/01/18 11:53:39 PM
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MICHALECOLE posted...
People always talk shit about the first one but when it came out it looked amazing and was revolutionary as fuck


Yeah I'd probably be down to play it again if I had it. Some how the ezio trilogy didn't wow me as much as the first. Guess cause it was more of the same with some improvements, what you'd expect of a sequel where as the first was just completely new to me.
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wwinterj25
10/02/18 12:42:52 AM
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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...
Origins came out last year and it is by far one of the best entries in the series, yet people still act like the series (and ubisoft) is bad.


Agreed. I'm buying Odyssey too because Greece. I will admit though it looks very much like Origins. Apparently they share the same assets so that's probably why.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...
Assassin's Creed is one of the best franchises in gaming, babyyyy!


One of the best modern franchises sure.

MICHALECOLE posted...
Brotherhood was the best one I ever played, but I never played another one after 3 because 3 was absolute fucking garbage


Black Flag, Syndicate and Origins are great entries. Perhaps you should give them a try. 3 however is indeed one of the worse entries.
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rogerskg1979
10/02/18 8:31:23 AM
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MICHALECOLE posted...
People always talk shit about the first one but when it came out it looked amazing and was revolutionary as fuck


It wasn't that revolutionary at all. It was basically Hitman meets Prince of Persia, and both Hitman and Prince of Persia are better.

I really really really really really wish they would make a new Prince of Persia game. I loved the Sands of Time trilogy.
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Kyuubi4269
10/02/18 8:37:01 AM
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I played a PSP version and it was 100% counter spam, literally no reason to fight any other way.
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kangolcone
10/02/18 8:37:13 AM
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I played 1. It was boring, repetitive, and had a terrible ending.

I also tried to play the pirate one and the revolutionary war one but was so bored I never bothered playing them through.
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Dikitain
10/02/18 9:24:33 AM
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Out of all of the annual franchises, I do think Assassin's Creed is the best quality. That said, I do wish they would make it an every other year thing rather then every year. You get the feeling the devs are getting burned out.

Origins was great because they took a year off to recharge before releasing it. Unity was a bug riddled mess (and even after they fixed that still a horrible game in my eyes) because they tried to do two games that year and failed miserably.

Also, I am kind of wondering what the "annoyingly repetitive" achievement is going to be for this game. 3 had "watch a bunch of people on your homestead do boring things", Syndicate had "Run around the city in a horse and carriage plowing over things for 5 hours straight", Origins had "Wander around the desert until you get a certain completely random hallucination"(which I still haven't gotten yet). What is this year going to be, "Swim in the river Styx for one complete day of game time"?
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Dikitain
10/02/18 9:26:36 AM
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Zangulus posted...
I liked 1, and I really liked all 3 2s.

I could never get through 3. I should some day.

You aren't missing much, unless you want to see the end of Desmond's story I would just go straight to Syndicate or Origins. The rest in-between aren't worth the trouble.
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Krazy_Kirby
10/02/18 10:02:49 AM
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origins is bad.

combat is assassins creed combat.
stealth is poor.
bad combat.
stealth kills are nerfed.
no eagle vision.
bad combat.
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THEGODDAMNBATMA
10/02/18 10:11:17 AM
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Dikitain posted...
Zangulus posted...
I liked 1, and I really liked all 3 2s.

I could never get through 3. I should some day.

You aren't missing much, unless you want to see the end of Desmond's story I would just go straight to Syndicate or Origins. The rest in-between aren't worth the trouble.

Hell no! Black Flag is one of the best games in the series. Don't skip that one!
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Keebs05
10/02/18 10:11:38 AM
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The yearly releases are a little ridiculous. The best thing they did for the franchise was take a year in between Syndicate and Origins.
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DPsx7
10/02/18 10:46:26 AM
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What's so bad about 3? I thought that was good too. BF was probably the best of the ones I've played so far. After my time with Wind Waker I assumed sailing was going to suck.
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Blighboy
10/02/18 10:53:50 AM
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DPsx7 posted...
What's so bad about 3? I thought that was good too. BF was probably the best of the ones I've played so far. After my time with Wind Waker I assumed sailing was going to suck.

My problem with 3 is that it took ages to open up (you have like, two separate extremely long prologues) and it's probably around the point where I started to feel absolutely overwhelmed with pointless side shit. I don't think I've played an Ubisoft title since but I'm under the impression they've just gotten worse in that department.
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Dikitain
10/02/18 10:57:27 AM
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DPsx7 posted...
What's so bad about 3? I thought that was good too. BF was probably the best of the ones I've played so far. After my time with Wind Waker I assumed sailing was going to suck.

In my eyes the story kind of sucked, and it was way too long and complicated. It almost feels like they heard the complaints that the story in Revelations was too short and over-corrected far too much. And I am a huge fan of colonial era history so I am probably the target audience for it, but it just fell flat and was completely boring.

BF was only really good if you liked the the ship segments. The actual assassinations were almost non-existent. Would have probably worked better as a separate series.
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TheFalseDeity
10/02/18 11:07:16 AM
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Eh its not my favorite series but 1-BH were good. Got Origins but havent played yet. Wish my more liked series would put out entries at the rate AC does though.
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Pus_N_Pecans
10/02/18 3:51:15 PM
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Ive only played 2, but it was god awful. No interest in the rest of the series.
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DPsx7
10/02/18 3:57:14 PM
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Blighboy posted...
DPsx7 posted...
What's so bad about 3? I thought that was good too. BF was probably the best of the ones I've played so far. After my time with Wind Waker I assumed sailing was going to suck.

My problem with 3 is that it took ages to open up (you have like, two separate extremely long prologues) and it's probably around the point where I started to feel absolutely overwhelmed with pointless side shit. I don't think I've played an Ubisoft title since but I'm under the impression they've just gotten worse in that department.


Ok, now that you mention it that would be my complaint for the series. There is SO much side content. Rebuilding towns, collecting tons of crap like chests, feathers, music, etc, naval missions, hidden dungeons, those puzzles scattered on the walls, you get my point. I can't fault them for trying to give you plenty of content but for someone like me who has too much on the backlog I like it when games aren't padded with 30 hours of stuff.
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DPsx7
10/02/18 4:03:26 PM
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Dikitain posted...
DPsx7 posted...
What's so bad about 3? I thought that was good too. BF was probably the best of the ones I've played so far. After my time with Wind Waker I assumed sailing was going to suck.

In my eyes the story kind of sucked, and it was way too long and complicated. It almost feels like they heard the complaints that the story in Revelations was too short and over-corrected far too much. And I am a huge fan of colonial era history so I am probably the target audience for it, but it just fell flat and was completely boring.

BF was only really good if you liked the the ship segments. The actual assassinations were almost non-existent. Would have probably worked better as a separate series.


I guess I don't place a lot of emphasis on stories. Sure they're sorta important but I'm not going to hate a whole game just because of a weak character or some holes in the story, ya know? I do recall playing the first part with one character before getting sent over to the actual main character. (I forget the names.) Same thing happened with MGS2. So whatever.

Maybe. Didn't think I'd be a fan of the sailing but it was tolerable. Wasn't constantly forced on me and quick travel reduced a lot of the pain. The game itself was standard for the series so I had no complaints other than the collecting.
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Cruddy_horse
10/02/18 4:15:24 PM
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This series used to be my favorite until Ezio was the protagonist, and it's funny how badly they tried to make other protagonists imitate him in future installments.

VeeVees posted...
Play 2, black flag, origins and you have experienced everything the franchise has to offer.


Dunno about Origins but this, Unity, Syndicate, 3 and some other one I'm probably forgetting are some of the most dismally boring games I've ever played and it irritates me that Ubisoft is intent on running the series into the ground, imagine if every game got a year wide gap minimum this series would be so much better.
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