That moment when he placed the ring on Charles Lee’s hand and declared him a Templar was literally the most wtf moment in all of Assassin’s Creed

Haytham Kenway is liked because he is charismatic, intelligent, ruthless and elegant and makes Templar cause and ideology mean something and his reasons are logical. In Assassin's Rogue he was under utilized, the game could have been more if it was extended lil long and made Haytham a payable character like AC3.

The templar twist is the best part because it shows how we can become enraptured by spectacle, because he literally has a templar cross on the top of his cloak I only saw after playing the remaster.

Haytham is actually one of my favourite characters in the Assassin's Creed franchise

Haytham is such a good character it was almost a mistake to made us players, play that much with him... because Connor is therefore overshadowed immediatly

Haytham seriously needed his own game.

Haytham, for being a villain, was super damn likeable and cool in his own way.

Haythem making is dad proud with those fighting skills. I can just see him and edward sharing a drink below deck while he criticizes his left hook.

It's wild to think that Ubisoft used to make good games at some point.

I love this game. Haytham is a great character and I would love a solo game for Haytham Kenway when he trained to become a templar. I'm sorry for Parroting and not saying how I actually felt. This game is legendary. Connor can seem boring to at some points but he does have his moments. Today I'm not finished with the story because I had to focus on school and I played other games. Let's not hate on this game even if its sometimes understandable.

The fact that any ship could stay afloat with Kenway's tungsten sack aboard is a miracle.

This is how you write Villain. The way they utilise his aggression whether passive or fully blown it never comes off as out of nowhere like it has with most of AC villains or even your average movie villain for that matter. You know why Haytham would harm, threaten or kill a man and we don't have a whole back story to explain it unless you read the novel if anything his entire character in this game is well explained in his performance through the acting and a good written script. The actor who played Judge Claude Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame said it best. 'A good Villain is where his actions are understandable but not excusable'

The Kenway sass never skips a generation

The fact he has the same animations as Connor who's super brutal while being infinitely calmer is so funny

Kinda wished AC Rogue was his game. I like Shay but Haytham was cooler. I'm also eager to play another "AC" game as a Templar.

Assassin's Creed lll is one of the most underrated games ever made. It gets so much hate. The Haytham is a templar twist at the beginning is insanely good The Colonies/frontier setting is fantastic and fits extremely well with AC Even though Connor is a bit of a bland character, I still enjoyed his story and killing Lee at the end was extremely satisfying. When they just sit down together at a table in a pub and he finishes him off. Overall the game is top notch.

This is why Haytham was best character.

His takedown animations. They're flashy, stylish and feel a little fencing oriented.

Haytham was both a blessing and a curse for AC 3, at least for me. I liked the character, since he was well written, but all the time the game took to build up Haytham was time the game didn't have to build up Connor, and for me, that meant that Connor was underdeveloped and not as interesting as Haytham.

Haytham and Connor were such good characters, I wish that each had their own game as opposed to both being crammed into one

Haytham was a step in the right direction for the AC franchise, he was the start of the Templars going from mustache twirling villains to something more grey. I like that for a while, the Templars and Assassins genuinely had good points for why they were doing what they were doing. Not shitting on the old mustache twirling Templars of yore. Rodrigo Borgia and the rest of his allies are genuinely great, I love them as villains, but allowing the player to connect and see Haytham for who he is, and what he stands for, allowed the Templars and Assassins to be less black and white. Hopefully Ubisoft can have the Templars return to their former glory in the future (note: I haven't played much of the RPG games, I've only played through a part of Origins and Odyssey, and haven't even touched their DLC, Valhalla, or Mirage, no spoilers if they come back please🙏)

damn i've been obsessed w haytham for like 2 years i'm so glad this random video with 120k views in a month popped up and is also making other people obsessed with him

2:25 I love how every Kenway can bounce between friendly and violent so quickly 😂

I liked the single sword fighting style that shit was so cool

Haytham and Shay are my favourite characters in the series. They humanized the templats and made me root for them, especially in AC3. Kenway saga is goated.

Shay and hytham 🗿 need to come back

Haytham is charismatic, likeable and well performed. A lot like Ezio in the AC2 trilogy. In comparison, Connor is flat. He has his moments, but he doesn't compare well at all. I think that comparison has something to do with why he's remembered fondly. A "what could have been" situation.

May the Father of Understanding guide us

People wasn't matured enough to experience this story correctly when it came out

Haythan is my favorite character thanks to the book, makes his templar ideology most understandable than his son

When I play AC 3 I also thought Haytham is an assassin because he does look like. But he wears more disguise outfit. But later it feels weird because his friend all seen as red highlight meaning they're enemies. And till the last cutscene show up like wtf this guy is a Templar

Soon as I heard Smythe talk, I wanted someone to say, "You know captain, there's only one of you and a whole lot of us. One day we might be at sea and you might just slip and fall out of the ship. Be a shame."

"British sport" oh yah the stabbin fight, very British

This was when Ubisoft still had some ambitions. So much content in this game, its mindboggling. Besides the already massive main story, theres the navy campaign, the homestead missions, the brotherhood recruiting, the complex hunting system and missions, the mysteries and I dunno what else. Insane when you compare it to Valhalla or Origins with their copy pasted shit.

Back when these games actually had mo-capped cutscenes

Haytham was so good, he made more sense than Connor did. Which was kind of the problem with this whole game.

Ironically he didn't threaten him he was just telling him the truth

He's the best antagonist of the whole franchise!

Ah, yes. I am indeed quite lovable.

He had drip

I forgot how everyone looks like a wax mannequin in the remastered version lmaoooo

When did Smythe threaten him? When did he insult him? Like damn son.

Honestly, this game was peak Assasin’s Creed. I loved every second of it!

Conor should have proposed that he and his father join up to create something new that rejected both the Templars and Assassins as organizations. Then created a new organization that blended the best of the two ideologies.

"Excellent, Good day" (proceeds to poor wine all over his desk and the floor because he's not paying any attention to it) 😅

After he placed that ring on lee's hand then the trophy "how do ya like dem apples"poped up i understood the the true meaning of the world

I enjoyed playing haytham more than konnor until i got close to the end of konnors game haytham is so cool

His drip insane. Way better then the mc

I love how his son is the complete opposite of him but still as ruthless as the father.

Ok hear me out Rogue should have just been a Haytham Kenway game. I know he’s in the game but it would have been cool to play as him during the rest of his time in the Americas.

Haytham literally got me thinking about the two ideolgies more deeply than just Assassin=good templar= bad A villain who actually has a point is a well written villain in my book

I love all these people pretending they saw the Templar twist "coming a mile away". No you didn't. Quit lying.

The man is just casually dropping DDT's and Dropkicks😂😂😂

When ac rogue first traler lauch it though it was a haythan game because of his hair and the edward templar robes ... Shay is amazing and actually one of the best protagonist losing only to edward and ezio but i would love a haythan game (but a assasins game not a rpg gods that the series turn out to be)

Haytham always was the best playable character of the franchise. Oh... Those good times...

Haytham > Connor.

The thing about Haytham is that what he's doing isn't helping the Templar at all. The thing is that if Charles Lee inform Haytham of Washington's attack on his wife's village he would have use his authority to send a contingent of soldiers to prevent the attack from happening as during the War for Independence the natives are allies with the English so them seeing Red Coats coming to help them is basically the English strengthening their relationship with the natives. If that were to happen then Connor would have no doubt follow in his father's footstep. An alternative scenario would be the natives of Connor's village receive warning from the hunters that the Blue Coats are coming which would give everyone time to flee. Connor would then be summoned by the elder to be shown an apple of Eden then the rest would play out the same except Achilles would lie to Connor that it was the English disguise as the Colonial soldiers that attack the village to make them look bad resulting in Connor just killing the Red Coats helping the soon to be American until he would meet his father who told him the truth which in term makes Connor lose his trust with Achilles, but his action has consequences. Currently the English well lose the war, America well be born, and the natives well be driven up North into Canada meaning Connor well lose his family due to his action until Haytham suggest that he work with him to insure the natives remain.

Took me and my brother 30 minutes to see the turtorial saying what to do, the man had a giant red blood stain on his chest from giving him delicate pats to the chest

That dropkick ☠

What he did to Connor’s mother is unforgivable

The best Templar-Assassin dustup: Haytham v. Connor. Both characters were interesting and Connor was a blast to play.

Haytham backstory makes me sad for him

They went from this to the god awful fist fights in Valhalla

why is the remaster just oversaturated deep fried version of the original

If I got to play the entire game as Kenway I think I would have liked AC 3 a lot more.

"but-" "I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR."

I liked him after rouge because I hated every assassin in that game lol

Because he is their favourite Assassin's dad

He's by far my favorite Templar.

I still think AC Rogue should have been he as protagonist, as someone who read his book, their are many aspects of his story that would have been cool to play, they miss a great opportunity

The Kenway saga is one of my favorite next to the ezio trilogy and this video is one of those “obvious”reasons

Gives off phantom pain vibes

Theres a reason why Haytham has a book written about him and not connor. Haytham is simply a better character and they should have had AC3 from the templars perspective

One of the best character

William knifeman, AHH

I literally just beat this game a couple hours ago

I never played rouge yet but when I played ac3 and I heard some soldiers during one mission talk about George Washington I kinda had a feeling we were on the enemy side and was proven right when it was revealed he was a Templar I wasn’t so surprised when I found that out

I liked haytham because all previous main characters were either reckless and careless or rightful warriors of light at different points of their games. Typical protagonists. But Haytham instantly showed himself as the "boss" of any situation he's in, he showed ruthlessness.

he was the best

There were a few clues to his true allegiance. One being the part at the end of the video. At the time, I thought for an "Assassin", his attitude is a little off lol

Best character of all AC in my opinion

Biggest pimp in the series, and he isn't even an assassin.

Because he has a personality

Its the hat

Why does the entire animation/voicing feels better than Valhalla?

How much does a Kenway? Slightly more than a Barbie

it's not that he was a bad character it's that we couldn't skip his part and play as Connor

2:05 Why does he twist his wrist like that when he pours the drink?

The nod at 2:38

Were did Kenway learn how too fight like That

kenway was right, the templars were right also.. kenway could had killed connor but his dad instinct kicked in and let it happened,

i'm liking a lot of III, but rogue should been his own game, instead putting his whole chapter here.

I still don't understand why people like him

everyone like him and he hate em!

to bad the grandmasters of the templarorder always had to deal with idiots that ruin everything robert de sable definetly an agreeable and very interesting character to bad some of his subordinants werent as wise and chose to be dumb assholes rodrigo de borgia definetly an amazing and interesting leader to bad the rest of his family were deranged idiots another interesting one i definetly would have wanted to see more about to bad his brother killed him haytham well dont really need to say much haytham was the smart one once again and lee was the moron i could continue but this coment is already long enough ( sorry if i might wrote some names wrong)

All the Kenways are bastards. Even at their best 😂

Why is the remaster's visuals so terrible wtf. I 100% the original not too long ago and the remaster no matter what I look at has the worst lightening and face models I've ever seen. Everything looks like Mr Clean came through to give the game a whitewash

Another character showing once again that the templars could have right choices and assassins could make wrong ones. Neither are the protagonist, just whoever you play as. Some are brutal but so are the assassins. I mean in syndicate they help save Karl Marx… bruh that dude rivals Hitler in ideology.

Did they even call it "America" back then?

Why is it so bright?