Black Flag was a masterpiece.

"In a world without gold, we might've been heroes."

I love the fact that even those of his friends who backstabbed him are sitting at that table, it really showed how alone Edward felt that even those who sould have seen him dead he still considers freinds

“The real pirate treasure were the friends he made along the way”

This is an ironic ending. You beat the game but by doing so the game beats you......with emotion.

"Will I see a whale?" "There's a good chance, yes" "What about a pirate?" "Heh... not much chance of that, no" Edward will always be my favourite Assassin.

"There's a treasure worth more than gold" Captain Jack

"Do you feel that too? All empty inside, like." "I do. Devil curse me, I do."

“For years I've been rushing around, taking whatever I fancied, not giving a tinker's curse for those I hurt. Yet here I am... with riches and reputation, feeling no wiser than when I left home. And when I turn around, and look at the course I've run... there's not a man or woman that I love left standing beside me” - Edward Kenway

The scene where Edwards dead friends at the table gets me

This hits different cause imagine telling your girl you’re leaving for a little bit to make some money, and then you get caught up in some crazy otherworldly war. Ultimately just to find out your girl had your child, then died, and you weren’t there to care for her or your child.

It really catches you off guard and in the feels when games that at first just seem like murder sims have one of the most investing and tragic plots in pop culture. AC4 and RDR2 were the pinnacles of my gaming career.

If there's one ac game that deserves it's own movie...

"Will I see a pirate?" "No... not much chance of that..." Crew: *whistles nervously*

I delayed the ending for a whole year my first play through, I wanted to get everything else done first. When I finally was done I continued to delay the ending not wanting it to end. I felt like Edward was my best friend (I didn't have many friends when I was thirteen.) like he was MY ancestor, the same way Ezio and Altair were Desmond's. I talked aloud to Edward as I controlled him in the game, telling him about school and my day and whatever came to mind it was weird to my family but I didn't care because I always felt that he would listen. (as weird as it sounds.) Eventually I decided to muster up the courage to play this ending and I wasn't prepared, I cried feeling like I was saying bye to a close friend who was going to a faraway land never coming back. Then I realized I got to sail on and let my best friend go. So I sailed Edward back to his family and said my Farewells. I'll never forget the countless nights I spent talking to my Assassin friend sailing those seas. Goodbye Edward, you were my best friend.

I cried at this ending. I can’t believe she died… and then seeing his dead friends at the table.. god I wouldn’t be able to feel that pain he feels…. The best ending I’ve ever seen.

And still they've killed him like a dog and sunk the Jackdaw like it was nothing. He deserved a trilogy.

Its good to see Edward was a good man after all :')

This is what players want from Assassins Creed. Stories that immerse you in the game and feel as if the character you play as you know as a friend in your personal life. Not RPG gaming with Gods and crap parkour

All these years later this ending still makes me cry

Me: Games cant make me cry Assassin creed 4 : hold my beer

Beginning of the game Me: I don't give a shit about the story I just want to kill people! Ending of the game me: I want to cry and die at the same time

In a world without tailing missions, this might've been best of the franchise

I remember that I was finishing the game. It was 5am, I spent all night playing and have to go to collage at 7, so I decided to cut it there, in the final cinematic, cuz I thought the game would continue, I didnt know it was THE final cutscene. I came back from collage ready for more AC and found myself looking at the credits with wet eyes and emptiness in my heart... now I got a tattoo in my arm, where the hidden blade go, with the skull and the ac symbol with the phrase that says "In a world without gold, we might been heroes". Farewell Edward Kenway...

I didn't sign the permission slip for this feels trip.

“Edward… your constant Friendship has been my most treasured Find on these Seas. Well above Gold and Silver and Rum, I… I prize the Courage you have inspired in me this Year. Thank You, Sir! A fair good Morrow to you!”

When he looks over at that table as the parting glass plays…my god…the greatest ending in the history of video games. It’s this, ocarina of time, and red dead redemption where you come back as his son….these 3 stand above all. Great endings move you emotionally. Black flag is the very best of all the assassins creed games….and it had the very best ending..of all games

This is by far the most heartfelt ending in any AC games... I especially felt the sadness in Edward when he sees his fallen comrades. Absent friends and empty glasses is painful. So painful that I wouldn’t even wish it on my worst enemy.

end of an era lads..

This is how you pull off emotions in a game, not "Press X to feel sad".

After Rouge the franchise fell hard. Now its "buy this exp boost to help you lvl up and oh , you assassinated a person from behind but you dont have a high enough lvl blade, so he lives". What happened to the good story telling and realistic kills. Out of all the newer Assassin creed games, none of the characters have a good memorable story throughout the game. I dont give a shit about them what so ever because most of the time, I am frustrated on how much exp will I get or what I need to do to get a better weapon, or do I have enough resources to craft or improve a weapon. All I can say about Assassin creed Black flag, Rouge and previous games is, this. Thank you for being there for me when I was a child and thank you for giving me many hours of enjoyment.

This game will forever hold a special place in my heart. I love it so much and i love edward so much

Jesus crist 6 years ago? It still feels like yesterday

0:29 the chair couldn't hold it's feels and had to leave

after soooo many years this scene still makes me emotioal.

Just played through this again for the second time, almost 9 years after my first. The ending hit me differently being older myself now. What a game and that song fits perfectly.

They coudnt have pulled it of beter than this. The part when Edward sees hes old friends... one of the few moments in my gaming career that i've acctually got touched by how they ended a game.

This...this is what Ubisoft needs to do with their AC games... Create these lasting relationships with the other characters...or specifically, the historical figures who become your comrades. Something that brings us all to this point where we find ourselves crying for figures who historically were the most heartless cutthroat pirates the world had ever seen.

Every year Kenway & the boys haunt my mind and I keep returning here. I miss them

I will never forget the feeling when i first finished ac4.. i was about 12 then and that ride to ths sunset still lingers in my memory

Who else came here just to get a dose of *The Feels* ?

When she started to sing I could feel that something emotional was going to happen, but then all of them at the table... man that hit hard

I remember completing the game and this song came on then I got a call saying my grandad was really Ill and died shortly after. This song will always remind me of him it's a great song. Also the Ed sheeran and original by Tom Clancy

This ending still makes me emotional no matter how many times I watch it.

Me: Games can't make me emotional Black Flag: But Aye lad, have some rum. Now let me tell ye a story...

Who the fuck would dislike this? The best game ending of all time..!

Coming back to this brings back good memories. When times were simpler.😔

Black Flag had one of the most beautiful endings to a game I've ever played. This made me cry like a girl.

I'm a gamer because of these kind of moments, you can't walk up to someone on the street and start a conversation about games because most people don't understand why I play them, it's not because I don't have a life, it's because I choose to live many.

Cool to see Hornigold and Vayne at the table. Even though they were traitors and tried to kill him, he still sees them as friends.

I never thought the pirate game can be so much emotional and deep ending Requiescat in pace Edward Kenway

Just went back through to play this again. It broke me to my core with all the memories it brought back and I can truly say it was just as fun as when I played it the first time. It is easy 1 of the greatest games to ever come out in my eyes and I will cherish it forever. I just wish this version was on spotify

Black Flag was an absolute masterpiece!

with that beautiful song playing, and then you see everyone sitting at the table: Bonnet, Vane, Read, Thatch, Rackham, Hornigold, it made me fully realise how far Edward has come and how much he has lost along the way.. A very powerful scene indeed.

One of the greatest video games of all time

This was a different era of gaming and you all know it

The ending is so bittersweet, this song with edward looking over and imagining seeing his dead friends there caught me right in the feels and i was holding back tears. So many great characters and one of the best stories in the AC series.

I think what's the most amazing about this is how Ubisoft is still able to manage to deliver us an amazing game with a satisfying emotional ending with an annual franchise. I tip my hat off to you, Ubisoft.

and even 10 yearsa later, I still cry

I finished this game 6 years ago, I still cry whenever I listen to this song. the best AC for me.

I loved the other assassins creeds before Blag Flag but by far this is the best one I've played. Most of my friends dislike it because of too much sailing... Pathetic reason to dislike such a beautiful game. The sailing was my favorite part.

*Ubisoft* : any ideas on what kind of story we're gonna make for our main character this time? *Random employee* : Let's give him lots of memorable friends that will be there for him and he would hold dear in his heart... *AND THEN WILL HAVE THEM ALL KILLED OFF SO THE PLAYER FEELS ALONE AND LEFT BEHIND FOREVER!!! hahahahahaha!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!* ... I mean character development. *Ubisoft* : You're promoted!

Best videogame, period. No debate. The story, songs. My tears run forever in this game...

Today is Edward's Birthday, perhaps it's time to play the game once more?

Finished this game today again. One of the saddest AC endings ever, in both a nice way and in a really depressing way, seeing his dead friends while the music plays always kills me, then seeing his daughter kicks you again. But what a lot of people forget is what happens to Edward after, how he dies keeping his family safe to a load of mercenaries, a final kick to the gut if you needed one.

im not going to lie but I started to cry I grew attached to black beard in a world without gold we could've been heros I love that quote

Where all men cried

I have never cried so much in a game before, direct memories of life. Be well all over the world and take care of your health

man it's been 7 years, feels like yesterday when i finished it around 2 AM and sobbed like crazy.

Masterpiece

after this ending, Assassins Creed Game Franchise is based on the book series of the same name, in one of those titles "Assassins Creed Black Flag" (book) it was mentioned that Edward after sailing for England, i.e Ending of Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag, begin his search for precursor sites and the artifacts left by those who came before i.e "Isus", in his search he found several precursor sites and wrote them on his journal named as "The Edward Kenway Journal". During his times in England, he purchased a house names as "Kenway's Mansion", which was also referred in Assassins Creed Syndicate, in his mansion there was an imposter working for a Templar named as "Reginald Birch". Birch somehow knew about this journal and tried taking it from Edward, at first he use a subtle approach i.e directly asking to Edward but got refused then later he chose the hard approach i.e assassinating the whole Kenway Family on which he succeed. Edward was betrayed by his worker and got killed in the incident alongwith his wife. His daughter Jennifer Scott was sold to a Turkish Merchant and Haytham was kept under the Observation of Birch himself. Haytham was completely unaware of all of this but he tried his best in searching of his sister Jennifer. When he became the Grandmaster of the Order he got the information on his sister and atlast he manage to save his sister who later told Haytham about the truth of their father. Haytham finally killed Birch in the Opera House, i.e Starting of Assassins Creed 3.

I can no longer hear this song without tearing up and my heart hurting

One of the best endings I have ever seen. Made me tear up = ' ) I love Assassin's Creed. So glad to have it tattooed.

Now this is how you end a video game, the song in the background. The fallen friends along his journey. Not to miss that he finally gets to meet his daughter. Not only a great ending but an emotional one. This is what Ubisoft needs to bring back.

Thank you, Edward, and farewell.

this always makes me cry

The way Kenway looks at the images of all his deceased friends who were part of his privateer family...tells more than just plain emotions...each died a tragic death, dwindling on his own mortality and his helplessness to save them....he is all alone

I never felt so empty after playing a game, this was a masterpiece. I hope they do a remastered version of this too.

I think was my first time crying for a videogame

0:10 This entire scene was one of the most emotional in the game. Oh how I love open world games! Assassin’s Creed... Red Dead Redemption... God Of War... they are all incredible.

What made this ending different from the other assassins creed endings was there was a sense of redemption for the protagonist. In addition, the message of the story of Black Flag is remarkable: do not pursue vanity, instead be content with what you have and who you are.

0:30 The chair couldn't handle the feels..

When Ubisoft was cherished...

I remember hearing this for the first time and absolutely started crying. And now I can't help but shed a tear anytime I hear it. I've been an Assassin's Creed fan since day 1 and have mad love for those who came before and after. But Edward's story will always hit me the hardest.

Every December 31st I come back to this song. And every time I listen, I reflect on the year and hope for a better one.

I was hoping Edward would finally meet Caroline at the end. So sad he never got to see her again :(

I remember when I ve played this one. This is what I want from new AC games, stories that make you laugh and cry, to feel emotions. I grew up with those games, and from those games I learned a lot of history.

its been years since and it still gives me goosebumps and the feels.

Everyone’s crying and experiencing the feels and I’m like is nobody gonna talk about the flying chair at 0:28

I didn't end the game, the game ended me.

This is one of the songs that I want at my funeral one day.

damn it the fking table of his friends scene still got me again even after 7 yrs fk cant get over this master piece of a game

here lies, the last greatest game of Assassin's Creed.

When I finished the story I felt... empty like there was nothing for me the friends caused a sad thought of wow I lost a lot. I just wish his family and his ending could have been better sadly that’s not the case

Not all treasure is silver or gold, mate. 🏴‍☠️

Just finished this game tonight. 8 years later and this game still holds up well. I miss these types of AC games. The new ones are fun but just aren't the same

I honestly NEVER expected such an incredibly touching ending for Edward. I mean, he was a pirate 'n stuff, but how Ubisoft managed to make a perfect ending for him is just simply amazing..... Good Job Ubi!

The moment when all the gamers cried.

I just completed AC Mirage and man i cant believe Ubisoft has yet to top this masterpiece of a game. They definitely cooked here but yet they cant do another AC game thats heavy like this.

It’s a goddamn shame this isn’t on iTunes.