Most OG AC fans want Mirage to succeed simply because Ubi Bordeaux and the dev team have demonstrated that not only do they _actually get it,_ but they're willing to learn more about what the fans want. The best case scenario would be Ubi Bordeaux has more time and a bigger budget to fully commit to making a classic AC game (preferably from the ground up, the leftovers from Valhalla in Mirage can be really off-putting)

The toxic side of the fanbase is always the loudest unfortunately. All the cool people are just chilling and enjoying the game for what it is.

Thank you for saying exactly what I've been thinking, people are being so negative yet this game is such a massive step forward for the franchise. Its honestly so GOOD.

Honestly everything you said was spot on. People needa understand that if the community shows Ubisoft that the approach of Mirage to stealth and parkour is what they truly want or would like Ubisoft to improve on or build on top of, we need to appreciate the risky step forward instead of complaining the moment we see one flaw in the game and ignoring the thousands of improvements they’ve made

Bro I 100% this game 2 days ago and I like it better than the last 3 in terms of what it offered. Everyone was complaining that Odyssey and Origins need to be about assassins again but I'm convinced that some people want it to be 2007 again rather than the franchise going back to roots. There are legit criticisms about this game but for the most part the hate seems super forced.

Some overly critical people have unresolved inner turmoil

I'm 12 hours in game. Mirage is game i've waited for 15 years. It has its flaws, but has everything I wanted since then: assassins, arabic setting, parkour, improved stealth. 9/10 because it lacks fluidity, interesting metaphysical story, music i can remember. But overall im really into it. It really is my assassins creed fantasy.

Jay is spitting nothing but facts. Mirage isn’t my fave AC for sure, but it is a breath of fresh air after odyssey and Valhalla. As for the dlc bit, I think Bordeaux could’ve pursued a spin-off as a passion project while corporate only gave it the ok as a cash grab. I think Jay is absolutely right about negative reactions to mirage justifying a doubling down on Valhalla-scale games, and I think Ubi prefers it that way. Mirage gets more money and engagement than it ever could’ve as a Valhalla dlc, and instead of investing further into the things it got right the c-suite points to the reaction to justify pushing micro-transaction laden titles that once again are used as the skeleton for other spin-off titles. My guess is that this is what the future of infinity looks like. instead of major releases like Red having 3+ dlc expansions they get one or two, then a spin-off title that’s just different enough to hold the community over until the next major release changes things up again…and if they’re feeling generous maybe our helix credits become transferable across titles 😆

Yeah there are a lot of people being ridiculous about this game.

That’s not even with Mirage. AC fans have been this way for well over a decade now I love this series, but it’s fandom is (understandably) the most embittered single player community I’ve ever seen. And misery loves company.

I dont understand why, "it was supposed to be a dlc, so its a cash grab" is an argument because wasnt brotherhood supposed to be a dlc originally?

Omg THANK YOU I'm so sick of people constantly complaining about "true AC games" yet not even making an effort to try Mirage. I had so much fun with the stealth and infiltration in this game, it felt like I was back playing Black Flag and Rogue ! Nobody said the game was perfect but it's definitely going in the right direction if you like the old AC game

I’ve been with this series since the very beginning. Grew up with the franchise and played every mainline entry (mirage is the first I’ve played on launch day) and I gotta say they nailed it with this game. Ironically enough my only complaint is that I want more of it! NG+ and the ability to replay missions and contracts would be great. If you’ve watched the dev diaries you can see that they didn’t lie about anything.

I really dont understand people who complain about name The Hidden Ones like Assassins are inspired by real life Assassins from 11-13th century and Order of Assassins was established in 1091 so i feel like its cool that they make them not carry the name Assassins until 1091 and same goes for Templars/Order of Ancients Templars was established in 1118

If we want Ubisoft to make better assassin's creed games, then we should support Mirage more rather than complaining about it

In terms of structure this felt like a lot of the first game in that a lot of the structure is doing investigations to identify, track down and assassinate a target before reporting it back. But this has more variety in how it’s done. As Basim works closer to finding out who the head of the order in Baghdad is he climbs the ranks as Altaïr did, getting an accessory for each rank achieved.

I think nostalgia is a huge component to this. You can never live up to it.

I was hesitate on buying it because of Valhalla, but I'm surprised on how enjoyable the game is. I really love just jumping around buildings and doing stealth kills rather than doing story.

Dude I feel ya on that! I'm a big assassin's creed fan, the old games, and I was one of the people who professed AC should go back to its roots, and for what they had to work with and what they're trying to accomplish, Ubisoft did a great job with mirage! Like it isn't perfect and not my fav ac but for what it is, a bridge between old and new AC, it's really good for the shit storm it went through with fans. This is a victory in my eyes honestly!

My biggest issues come from those that refuse to let people enjoy things. Obviously, you are allowed to have discussions about what you think a product does well or poorly, but I'm referring to the people who reply with vitriolic hate when you enjoy something. "You're just a *insert buzzword here* because you like X thing."

No one wanted the game to fail, even a lot of the skeptics were actually wondering if this is a return to a more stealth based assassin's creed. The problem is, it's not a return to a more stealth based assassin's creed, it's a return to their original formula from AC Origins just with areas crafted specifically for being stealth this time. Their action RPG games a lot of hardcore fans of the series didn't like, it's something Ubisoft isn't particularly good at (Odyssey was a slog to get through with the repetitive RPG elements) so I think people were more or less just hoping for anything that wasn't Altair but with health bars and terrible character models. Cool you like the game and will blindly suck it off but this isn't a good assassins creed game however you look at it and the fans knew from the jump.

Hearing that mirage is the best selling game and surpassing valhalla within a week gives me hope they'll look at mirage and improve of this style and give ubisoft Bordeaux more resources and a new engine to truly give us a return to roots one day. Mirage has its fair share of issues, but it's a step in the right direction comparative to the garbage we got with valhalla. I'm actually kinda liking it

I just don't know if this game is worth supporting. In the one hand I think it is worth supporting because it's a step in the correct direction. But in the other hand I think it's not really a return to roots at all, as in it's not enough of a step in the correct direction. Personally I'm not going to be excited for an AC game until it returns the more weighted, slower, realistic combat style of AC2. Those earlier ACs had the best combat style, not this hack 'n slash of modern ACs.

I appreciate your voice of reason. I worry the hate mobs around new game releases has gotten louder and louder over the last decade, and I think more videos speaking from a place of sensibility, such as your video here, are very important for developers and gamers alike.

I think it's even more bizarre that no one talks about Patrice Désilets, the original creator of the AC series. He was fired around the time of Brotherhood. You can tell the series started to go all over the place with its direction and slowly lose its identity shortly after his departure. I think it's really bizarre because if this was other creator such as Kojima to his Metal Gear series, no one would think that the series would be "OK" moving forward without him.

Personally, I’ve only played 1-4 and then i played this game. I had a great time. I believed the parkour was a little funky but i thought this game was very fun. It’s getting a little too much hate in my opinion.

Look i don’t play games often if at all but the reason i played AC was A. Because its a single player open world series, B. I like history and some of the accuracy (which has been used in some school classes) of the geography and the figures used in the game along with how i get attached to some characters like Ezio who imo is probably in the top 5 for me as far as I invest time with and emotionally attach with and id imagine if i get around to RDR 2 arthur would be up there too. But with the recent games adding all the alien-y ISU stuff it stripped away all what the games once were. I get the Apple of eden in the OG games was still that but at least it didn’t play a massive part as much as these later installments. I only really enjoyed Valhalla because i happen to enjoy Norse mythology. This one i just can’t get into watching gameplay knowing Basim is essentially Loki reborn. The gameplay itself looks a lot better and less Dark soul, Elder scrolls style. I played AC for the parkour and stealth not to ride horses across thousands of acres of land and magic, if i wanted to do that ill play the elder scroll games. However i wish nothing ill of this game because at least they sort of listened to the audience and brought back some of the reminiscences of the older games. I played Unity recently and that game seems underrated. I like Arno. He seemed charismatic and funny and also deadly. Wish they could go back entirely to keeping it like that with just people set in a certain time period without the whole basim suddenly now being in modern era. Would love to know more about Arno. Or another Game with Connor or another set in london. They created those games with such great characters yet we spent little time with them?

I love the stealth focus, the characters felt a bit stale, LOVED the density of the city, I would prefer if the investigation missions were more than just “go up to glowing object and press y” Big mixed bag, but definitely still fun to play

Great video. Parts of the fandom are really toxic. They just keep complaining despite Ubisoft giving them everything they wanted after Valhalla. Valhalla was their best seller of all time, yet Ubisoft did something different for those fans that didn’t like Valhalla, and wanted more stealth and an Assassin focused sorry. And they still complained.

this game is literally so good, ive beaten it and the only complaint i have right now is that i wish there was more after the game ends😭 begging for that new game plus update soon

Him saying they didn’t get the unity engine made me realize that they actually could have gotten it and built the game on that and it kinda hurts

As an assasins creed fan I love mirage so much. It’s the first game in years that feels like a legitimate assasins creed experience

Love the game, it was cheap, the cuty is so beutiful, the gamplay and story is fine. I love spending time in this game man, they did great with the big city

I think most people who started on Odyssey and Valhalla are not used to how Assassin’s Creed used to be and not patient with a full stealth game idk I could be wrong but I honestly love that they’re going back to full stealth because the game is called Assassin’s Creed for a reason. You’re supposed to be stealthy and plan your every move not just run in and swing at everything in sight

I personally enjoyed Mirage, I felt connected to the characters and was intrigued by the story and the directions it took. My only complaints would be some of the parkour elements were a little janky, and sometimes using equipment wouldn’t work. That stuff is easily fixable with a patch.

Everything you said is accurate! I have played every single AC title but feel like I’m in weird boat because I love the old school AND the newer huge open world titles. Mirage does have its flaws (as do all of them) but I had fun and enjoyed it. I’ve always looked at the parkour as continuously evolving. The store is so out of the way, one could easily avoid it completely. I did. But yeah I feel like most AC fans just love to complain…A lot! And those are the ones who will never be happy with anything Ubisoft puts out.

It is sad to see that Mirage didn't get high praise and I hope Ubisoft doesn't get rid of Ubisoft Bordeaux cause I feel like they really want to make a great AC game, but I feel like they didn't have enough resources to make it like I feel like they are being limited by the same game engine that has been used for AC Valhalla. Its probably about time that Ubisoft upgrades their engine to better limits or they create another engine entirely, but I wonder if Ubisoft will not let Ubisoft Bordeaux create a AC Game after this even though it was their first shot

The trouble with Mirage is that it's not half as good as the best pre-origins AC games. I feel no desire to play it. I'd rather play either ac4, unity, ac3, Syndicate or rogue (in that order) again. If half baked attempts is all Ubisoft can deliver I'm not spending money on that.

I think the hate for Mirage is from a vocal minority, possibly the audience that came into Assassin's Creed at the RPG Trilogy. Love AC: Mirage. The moment I opened the inventory and wasn't greeted with 10,000 stat values and damage values, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally someone says it, the fanbase is toxic man. If they made it identical to the older ones they would still complain and cry. They are drunk off nostalgia plain and simple. And they complain they want it to go back to stealth....meanwhile the older ones dont have the option to crouch 😂

Finally someone gets it, I hope this video trends more

Here is why many of us are disappointed: There are so many clips out there comparing Mirage with Unity. How the hell is it possible that the 10 years older predecessor is in many essential aspects (motion physics, parkour, movie scenes, facial expressions, etc.) actually FAR better than its 'successor' in 2023? Yes, there might be a development in the right direction BUT that should have been the standard more than 10 years ago. Ubisoft has evolved for sure...just backwards. Now to pretend that everything is going to be fine because of Mirage will undoubtedly induce Ubisoft to keep their lower standards. The AI e.g. has never changed and guards are still dumb as f***, hence stealth doesnt feel rewarding.

It's good but it's not great that's the problem. I've played since AC1 and yeah it's pretty close to the og games but it's not quite well rounded. As you said they addressed everybody's complaints but they didn't do it at least imo that great. To me the parkour was better than the last 3 but it was still mid, the hidden blade was mid because I couldn't use it as a main weapon, the story was really short, the story was ok, very little high quality cinematics, didnt really look next gen, etc. Don't gemme wrong I like the game and it is most certainly a step in thr right direction but it felt lackluster almost like it was supposed to be a dlc, oh wait.... Also to me the game is not worth 50 bucks...like I said earlier it's a ok story but it is really short...I've played about 16 hours and have already completed it. Imo the best route to go is get ubusoft plus for 15 and play it because this is not a 50 dollar game. Overall I think the game was kinda good but mostly mid. People will say that AC fans are never satisfied and they're right until Ubisoft takes a good couple of years to make a next gen amazing story ASSASSINS creed game then we will stop complaining but until then it ain't gonna happen. Imo they need to make a really good game maybe even one that can win goty or it's time to retire AC forever or reboot the series

Also you can see the same thing happening to Starfield. For whatever reason it’s popular to say the games dogshit, generic, a failure or whatever despite it being Bethesda’s biggest game launch *ever*. Yes, even bigger than skyrim. And the reviewers who dared to actually enjoy the game were accused of being shills. At this point I fully blame gamers for the direction gaming has taken

I had a blast playing this game. I love that it was stealth oriented because at the end of the day that’s what assassin‘s creed was born from. It’s a stealth game. You play as an assassin so I loved it. I just wish that you be Ubisoft Bordeaux could make more assassin Creed games.

I didn't expect too much but I appreciated the step back to the roots and bought it on release. We have to support the direction to create an opportunity of improvement. Overall I think mirage is solid and have potential. Of course it could be better but as mentioned Bordeaux was limited in all ways and tried their bests. They build Bagdad for parkour and tweaked the traversal speed which is an improvement but the engine just doesn't allow more. For me parkour is the weakest part of the game although it's very important in an AC game. Most annoying thing is that Basim glues to objects or randomly gets sticked to it even without going for parkour.

Honestly I feel like it’s either : .. 1- some part of the community have hated for a long time (probably deservedly so) that they just hate Ubisoft at this point and want to see it fail .. OR .. 2- the community doesn’t know exactly what they want so they keep saying “ it’s not what we wanted “ (the reason I say “they” not “we” in this case is that I didn’t expect much of this game after I found out it originally was supposed to be a dlc for Valhalla AND TO BE HONEST I got more than I expected but the bar wasn’t that high to begin with )

Well said. The criticisms being raised are not specific to this game, climbing has always been a bit buggy. It is built on Valhalla’s engine which was not the best if we are honest, the devs have worked miracles. The biggest bug I’ve had in any AC game was in Syndicate. I went to jump from one train to another, which was a mandatory part of a main story mission and ended up inside a carriage with no door to exit, and that was within the last year post any performance patches. I’ve not had anything like that in Mirage and I’ve been playing since day 1. I also clearly recall how buggy climbing was in AC 1 and 2, the amount of times I went to climb up the last bit at the top of a tower or after a lengthy climb and the player just jumped clear off the building to their death 😂

Welcome to the world of today where every whiner and complainer on the planet has the ability to post a comment. trust it's not just AC. It's not just gaming. It's everything.

This is the price you pay when u diverge an IP's mechanics away from its roots. You divide the fanbase. It's very similar to Creative Assembly's Total War series.

As a fan of old games who after Origins didn't even bought next two AC games, bc I saw it's just more of the same watered down rpg's, I wouldn't say I want mirage to fail. I just don't care. Who likes it let them have their fun, but for me it's not like old games. It's more like some hybrid between old and new games

I’m almost certain unless Ubisoft writes ezio back to life, makes him immortal and makes him the main protagonist for every single assassins creed moving forward they aren’t gonna be happy

Yes mirage is a step in the right direction but why should we be celebrating that? It doesn’t make sense to tell people to ignore all of it's flaws as a product and support the game just for the possibility that ubisoft give us what we want eventually. It's no suprise that fans are frustrated with a triple A company that hasn't met or exceeded expectations for years. They love the game with a passion and see so much potential in the franchise but ubisoft is incapable of actually delivering an experience that will blow you away.

I think the good news is that it seems like Ubi considers Mirage a success. That should hopefully mean that, in the future, they might be pushing further back into the AC roots that people seem to want, and further away from the RPGs that people seem to not want

I think it's less about the game, more about people wanting to go back to 2012. Where we (young adults) had an easier and more exciting life, or at least nostalgia makes us think so.

I’m enjoying the game, I wish double assassination and that Basim wasn’t so helpless in open combat, but that’s it.

Why should I stop complaining the moment I get a mediocre, uninspired stealth game? Wtf? Mirage feels worse to play moment to moment than Unity did, and that game's 9 years old. Also, I never personally minded the RPG trilogy or the direction the series went in, and judging by the sales, neither did most of the people, it was only the vocal minority that kept complaining, and after Valhalla's piss-poor state and overall bloat, that vocal minority got even louder. I like classic AC, but Mirage feels too safe and in result, boring as hell.

Even tho i liked valhalla, this game is amazing. I love everything it has to offer and it shows ubisoft can do it again.

last assassins creed game i played was syndicate, after that i just got tired of the franchise. I totally skipped all the assassins creed that had the rpg mechanics, is it recommended to jump right back in with mirage?

20:28 we’ve been addressing this franchise's flaws for over A DECADE. And we have been going downhill ever since, and somehow we don’t want it to do good. Le criticism bad guys!! Remember that! Be happy to eat badly cooked food instead of shit guys!

Just because Mirage does things folks ask for doesn't mean its good enough to please people. They have the right to not like it or be upset. Id like a return to form and sure Mirage is a nice "step" but its not worth it. The "was slated for Valhala dlc" stink is still there imo. Facial animations, story, combat etc sucks. Also maybe things dont complain about stuff in older games but do with newer games is because...its the newer game. Those bugs shouldnt be there now

People making exceptions for blemishes comes down to the overall experience working for them or not. It's the whole picture, not the details. What really throws me out of the experience and makes me take note of the blemishes in Mirage is the fetch quest-based storytelling and level design. Fetching tea or other trinkets doesn't make me feel like an assassin, especially when it's mandatory, and once the illusion is broken, the smaller details I'd overlook in a better game come to the surface more.

Granted a lot of that discontent is aimed towards Ubisoft and that is totally fair imo. Ubisoft has done nothing to warrant trust whatsoever.

Bagdad looks REALLY polished and gorgeous. Which has always been the main attraction of the series to me. I mean, to play around the whole ancient Greece!?

I grew up with this series an this is what i wanted assassin's creed to be again. I wanted it to be about stealth an the assassin's so while i agree it isn't perfect i enjoyed it i had 20 something hrs when i completed the game. This game actually made me feel like the old day's my excitement for assassin's creed started to come out while playing i hope they keep going with this style. while origins is absolutely the best of the rpg game's i don't mind them making those i just don't think it should be called an assassin's creed game just my opinion.

Real fans want it to succeed, it's the ones that have only played Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla that want it to fail.

I wanted it to succeed I preordered deluxe edition and I’m 20 hours in already And unfortunately It’s a very mediocre experience Basically a way more clunkier Unity Criticism should and will exist

Yea we miss a lot of the things from the Unity AC3,4 days but what we can appreciate and no one is saying is that Ubisoft has always been consistent with is historical accuracy and the scale of the settings. I mean Paris, London, Egypt, Greece the settings are gorgeous and jaw dropping even today

Assassin's Creed fans understands 10 years of mediocre and unfinished games with microtransactions. I don't understand why this game is considered an AC

Considering the team was given 2 years to make mirage, AND they never made full on games, mostly just DLCs is incredible. Was it a flawless execution? No but you can tell they wanted to make an AC game, not a bloated out RPG.

THANK YOU FOR FINALLY SAYING IT!!! I really enjoyed mirage for what it is and it quickly became my third favourite Assassin's Creed game. It really bothers me that whenever someone mentions this game, all they do is hate it. I really loved mirage and I hope they add new game plus or dlc

One thing I wanted to see Ubisoft do was innovate on Unity's Multiplayer. Make more missions, maybe allow for character customization or maybe just bring it back in general. I loved Unity's multiplayer and I wanted them to bring it back

It's very easy man. People want: Good story Good side quests Good characters Good combat system Good cutscenes Good villains Good and memorable story missions Good dialogues and philosophical debates People do not want: A valhalla DLC with some randomly put AC1 mechanics,that in some cases are even worse than in 2007(like stealing) Nothing that I listed above is in Mirage.That's why huge fans from AC1 are mad.This games proves Ubisoft are not simply not wanting to truly bring the series back to its roots, they don't know how to. They think this is enough, when in reality its a disaster and I'm very mad people are talking "yeah,that's what we wanted", like what did you want?This?No thank you,it's a disgrace of a game,complimenting it for beautiful Bagdad and better stealth,no sorry guys, but this is not enough

I dunno it still looks too Valhalla-ish. I think your idea of having releases that are more RPG and then other releases that are more classical may be the best approach.

I can understand calling any sort of excessive hostility toxic but also this is sort of just an issue that’s plain to see, the games aren’t getting remarkably or even marginally better, if anything it feels more hollow with each installment, this is a lesson in free market capitalism, if your business fails because the people don’t want your product then their failure is ultimately their own fault. Having opinions, standards, even expectations as consumers is our right, refusing to buy the product is the only way we can individually contribute to a change, Disney seems like they’re finally understanding that they need to do things differently or become history that’s because of people refusing to buy into things they don’t want. It’s like corporate Natural selection

Nothing will satisfy Assassin's Creed "fans".

Mirage gets the setting and story beats right in terms of returning to the old formula. In terms of gameplay, stealth and movement, it feels like a massive step back compared to what it used to be. Just running around in the last 4 games (mirage included) literally feels like you have no momentum and no weight at all. You can change direction almost instantly and when you move it feels more like your sliding across the ground combined with a running animation. This issue bleeds into all other aspects of movement. In a game series where movement WAS the foundation of what made it good, making it SUCK and then trying to fit everything else to what it used to be just feels like massive disrespect to old fans.

I haven't played mirage yet but so far it looks like Ubisoft have listened to the OG fans and tried to bring it back to the roots which I appreciate. Looking forward to playing it.

The fanbase is so split, so many fans of the series jumped on board "recently" in the grand scheme of things. Many haven't even played the originals. I think the perception around Black Flag being so beloved is because that was probably a lot of newer fans first game.

Don’t worry, Jay. Not all og fans are hating on this game. In fact, some really appreciate and maybe even love it. You got ac KZfaqrs (ie. Leo K Rogue, Altair Stealth, The Exile, MasterAssassin, Walshie, etc) who are in favor of og ac and are very thankful for the game. The same thing applies to many ac twitter profiles who want classic ac back. I myself am very appreciative of what mirage is doing, even in spite of it not being completely what I want out of an ac game. All in all, I hope the complainers don’t give og fans a bad image, cuz they really don’t represent all of us. P.S. I really hope mirage is well received, cuz I’ve been starving for a traditional ac experience for awhile now and I really want Ubisoft to continue pushing in this direction.

This is my first AC game and honestly I love it so far

This game should have been a 30$ dlc.

I wasn't a hater from day 1, but I was of the crowd that approaches games with caution, because of how many times we've been burned by the industry. A huge part of my gripe with Mirage is that, while it pays homage to old AC very well, and does everything it sets out accomplish... the old AC formula was never strong to begin with, and nobody seems to want to admit it. ESPECIALLY the fans. The gameplay loop and stealth mechanics was always mediocre, and many games since have raised the bar considerably. I can enjoy the game as it is, but it's nowhere near the level of MGS V, Dishonored, etc. And keep in mind this is coming from someone who loves AC, especially Unity. This franchise has never been the peak of stealth games, so it's release was very lukewarm for me.

Even if people hate on mirage too much, there are still valid points. Janky animations in combat that makes it look like none of your hits connect with opponents. The peak of combat was in Brotherhood - ACIV, sure it was easy but the way of you being able to fistfight, use hidden blade as weapon during combat made it enjoyable. I wanted to use Hidden blade in combat and parry with it, just like in AC B, but nope. You can't even do counter kills like AC1-2. Parkour is not good. Miles better than in AC odyssey and valhalla, but it ain't much of improvement. The other stuff is glowing effect. Why the fck enemies have to glow? Sure in past games it was animus thing(Locking onto enemies) but now they glow in red, yellow when they attack. This looks disgusting.

While I agree with your points, the fact that companies don't understand why their audiences avoid their product isn't the customers' fault. It's not like the community is mute or anything. They just interpret it the way they want to. I think Mirage is indeed an okay game, the best they could have delivered in this abysmal engine. That doesn't change the fact that it's a long way off of what we once had. I am only hoping that they get the chance to get a full budget and make the game they want.

Its an absolute functional and fun game, with good mechanics and more focused on a consistent experience. Not perfect, but its a good game. Plain and simple. People just want to complain because its the cool thing to do. Complain about everything and shove baldurs gate 3 in any conversation about gaming for no reason 😂

It isn't the best AC game, but it is the first time, in years, I've felt just a little bit like I did in the old games. Even if Mirage has it's problems - which every AC game has - it's feels better than any of the rpg heavy games. I'm happy they went back to a more oldschool style, and hope there's a lot more to come in the future.

Mirage is amazing. It was the first game in years that pulled me in so much that i platinumed it. It was a return the what the franchise used to be. Baghdad felt alive. I hope future AC games take on a similar approach

it s normal to want it to fail , because the game is mediocre at best . we are in 2023 and the gameplay is the same as 2010 . so dev need to wake up and understand that their games are lacking in quality. if the game is a success it will never became better for us . Games need to succeed when their are good and they need to fail when they are not.

Great video and I feel the same way I loved this game I think they did a great job with the limited resources they had and am worried all the negative attention its getting is going to prevent us from getting more of this from Ubisoft

Great video Jay and I agree with you it get annoying when people’s are just negative and complaining about everything and I can’t wait for you review on it Jay and everything AC related videos

Even on hard difficulty it’s still easy. The guards are stupid as hell

I love the game and just wish there was more of it. It’s not perfection but I want it to succeed. I want them to go so much deeper with a full fledged Creed game

I love it despite its flaws, in fact it’s in my top 3 of the entire serie (I platinumed every single episode) Can’t wait to see this formula applied to a proper bigger AAA

Why would you want a company that continually rips you off, and sold a DLC as a full game to fail?

Highest sale while reviewers and veteran AC's fans said "it less of step up, more of few step to the side". Meaning "going back to the root" of marketing which is "lying actually works".

I played assassin’s creed mirage and I enjoyed it. I had a way more fun time playing this game than spending an entire month to beat Valhalla. Sure I took me almost a week to beat the game, but after wasting my time on boring, pointless and filler side quests on Valhalla, Mirage was more of a breath of fresh air. There’s an old saying that sometimes, less is more.

I think Mirage is similar to Origins in the way that they were testing the waters for new systems to implement into later games and weren't fully formed ideas yet and I think that what people need to see is Mirage as a step to make a future game that only improves and adds new mechanics to the foundation that Mirage has made instead of scaring off the devs and men in suit from pushing these concept forward and making GOFTY material.

I just finished Mirage and I really enjoyed it. Is it perfect? No but it was still good and I like Basim as a character. It was also great to go back to the brotherhood again and to the Isu again. I just wish the main villain/order member was more prominent and we got to explore her character more. Also I wasn't a huge fan of the combat but as someone who loves the stealth aspect the most this wasn't a big deal for me.

I'm shocked they only want $50 for this title even with knowing it was originally supposed to be dlc for Vallaha and is also on the PS4 (people seems to often forget it even is on PS4). But the issue for some is they always got on insane sales soon after launch by Black Friday, I remember getting Odyssey and Origin for about $29 just a few months after their respective launches because of that. Likewise watch the game be $25 next month.