@No_Doe
This is the company which after Black Flag's release had the blueprints to make the best pirate game in history to then proceed to spend a decade making a live service boat combat game
@Ozzystrayroo
Maybe the real roots was the big budgets we lost along the way □
@lolplzde5037
it is truly baffling how this game managed to take the worst out of both the "original" games and the three new ones. Ubisoft has some very strange people working there.
@memey822
The only roots this game is going back to is the roots of where it went wrong.
@tonybippitykaye
Remember when previous Assassins Creed games made the combat easy to learn but when you mastered it, it looked like a badass work of art with the variety in takedowns and counters? Ubisoft apparently doesn’t… Edit: Yes I’m aware that it wasn’t the deepest system in the previous games either. My point was that they did a good job in making the fights a spectacle instead of whatever Mirage tried to do with the spongey combat.
@joemarx7495
What really made me love the old Assassin's Creed series, despite its inaccuracies, was that it had a genuine love for history and for telling mostly authentic stories within their perspective time periods. Learning about the Third Crusade, Renaissance Italy, Ottoman Constantinople, Colonial America, the Golden Age of Pirates, Revolutionary Paris, and Industrial Age London made me not just love the earlier games, but made me love history in general. Now, I love mythology as much as the next guy, and the idea of fighting Greek, Egyptian, and Norse Gods sounds awesome when it's God of War, but not when it comes to Assassin's Creed for me. Yes, the series definitely has supernatural elements with the Precursors, and the conflict with the Assassins and Templars are basically just a constant race for Precursor McGuffins, but the history behind these games' figures and events were at the forefront of the franchise. It wasn't "Pay Ubisoft a bunch of money to use ridiculous looking gear that are either awful or stupidly op, while fighting the whole pantheon of the region's Gods." It was "See a possible glimpse of what life was like during the 1100s, 1400s, 1700s, and so on." I know I'm ranting and this is quite a read, but I just wanted to express how much I love this franchise and how I feel the series sort of sucks now.
@LeDuckFH
People have to understand that the people that made the games that were good no longer work for the studios. I feel as though games will never be the same now as it's just been filled with corporate greed.
@floomuscw6628
So tired of seeing games with enemies that have health bars instead of dynamic health.
@Simoss13
Return to roots: Kept the clunky combat, bugs and fiddly climbing mechanics Just the way it is: DLC, Cash shop with the OP weapons and cosmetics that are about the 1/3 of the games price per item
@SuperShadowGuard
"Don't worry, it's not a full-price AAA title, so we can TOTALLY get away with a pay-to-win cash shop!"
@Etherman7
The funniest thing is their reason for taking away Altair's crossbow was flawed. Richard the Lionheart (who featured prominently in the game) was killed in Normandy by a child with a crossbow. Weapons so prevalent they gave them to kids when under siege. So a fictionalized version of the assassins could easily have heard of "put trigger on bow." But I'd rather have that degree of devotion to "NOOOO MUH REALISM" than this modern AC trend of just not caring at all
@blvalverde
The historically accurate teleportation powers of the assassins are welcomez but the true return to roots can only be achieved with the fucking dragon/horse creature straight from World of Warcraft. That really sends me back to the good old days.
@reidsimpson4213
Friends don't let friends play Ubisoft games.
@RaveRaptor7
This was such a return to roots, my roots uprooted and returned to their roots. Truly return to roots/10
@VeryDisgruntled
If I see an Assassin’s Creed game with enemy healthbars, it’s an automatic “0/10, pre-order cancelled”
@kaizerlock8287
That was a fun stream. Can't believe Fleek manage to maintain the mannerism and the same energy level through the whole stream. Can't wait for the Black Flag stream soon
@joesomebody3365
Loved AC brotherhood for the combat mechanics, the pirate ones had amazing ship mechanics but they probably should have been a separate game. Haven't played any of the "nu AC" and everything I've seen hasn't convinced me to ever start. Keep up the great reviews.
@Clown_Shingles
I can agree. The combat wasn't as good as the older games. Perrty mid
@civilprotection3114
Make 100% sense that to be an assassin you need to sacrifice your finger to join. You know, one of the most vital things to a human being by being able to hold onto something like a ledge or a knife or any other basic things. That’s like having to cut off your foot to join the army. Edit: If they cut off the finger to make it the wrist blade work why not just mount it to the end of the wrist so you just move your hand up to stab and thrust into someone. Knives don’t go through people like butter, you still need to thrust into them.
@FLEEKAZOID