All the criticisms on the combat system are valid, but on the other hand strangling guards with a Rabbit Trap 15 times in a row is one of the most satisfying experiences I'd had in a game, ever.
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
That is very fair
@emilymschoener91934 ай бұрын
Agreed. I went on to this game for five minutes to show a friend the swords and I ended up doing some crazy maneuver killing 3 ppl in a row from clicking a few buttons. I didn’t even understand wha happened 😂😂
@SamayGhosh4 ай бұрын
you can do that?????? i thought snares were pretty much useless
@frenchynoob4 ай бұрын
@@SamayGhosh they are useless as hunting equipment, but are arguably the quickest way to deal with Jagers, making them one of the best weapons in combat. That, and it looks sick af
@onlyenzoYTАй бұрын
@@sosaysjayaccept Jesus Christ 🙏🏽❤️
@BraveInstance4 ай бұрын
I blame this game for starting the Forrest Gump style storytelling where the main character is involved in every historical event in the period the game is set in, and is friends with every notable person during that time.
@Calypso6944 ай бұрын
Huh? Umm AC2 my guy. The issue is it doesn’t feel that organic. You Gump around all of 2 but I think because of the Italian setting, the charming character and the solid writing the Gump feels more natural. 3 isn’t terrible imo but because it’s the civil war and everyone knows that part of history it was inevitable Connor would have to do all the big important things.
@Vaguer_Weevil4 ай бұрын
If I recall don't you literally bump into George Washington in the street? That's when he drops all his Pagies and the game expects you to find them all. I remember that being an.. interesting way to meet a historical figure, to say the least.
@unorthodoxhavi4 ай бұрын
@@Vaguer_Weevil That was Ben Franklin, where you met him as Haytham
@thomasbardoux16924 ай бұрын
@@Calypso694 in ac2 you indeed bump into many historical figures and become their bestie or enemy, but outside of the assassination of the medici, you don't see much historical event. Ac3 crank that concept to 11 by having Connor participating in basically every single event of the indépendance war
@shira_yone4 ай бұрын
@@thomasbardoux1692 it's actually fun for someone like me who's not from the US and had zero knowledge of American history, seen plenty of similar sentiment from others. It's probably only annoying for Americans. I do prefer seeing more historical events rather than just seeing real historical figures.
@colinothebambino4 ай бұрын
But Mr. Jay, Tomahawk chop is my death blow, I rest my case, your argument is invalid, now give me lee
@Kiner-ug1mw3 ай бұрын
Well said, now I return to watching videos on how great Black Flag is 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️⚔️⚔️⚔️🤺🤺🤺🛶🛶🛶🏝🏝🏝
@Gonger023 ай бұрын
Evil Connor be like: I don't want to know where Charles Lee is.
@Kiner-ug1mw3 ай бұрын
A terrifying timeline. Worse than the tyranny of Washington.
@C117-02 ай бұрын
DON'T BRING ME LEE
@Gonger022 ай бұрын
@@C117-0 I wont rebuild the homestead!
@Jameswebbtelescope74842 ай бұрын
@@Gonger02I won’t kill Charles Lee
@peteriter4 ай бұрын
You know, it's funny that you mentioned that the developers assumed that you already knew these historical figures because I, not being from the United States, had no idea who these people were or how important these events are, with the exception of the declaration of independence, and I even only know some details of that. I had no idea that the part about the horse and the guy telling you where to go was so important, or that X and Y characters did X and Y thing.
@despar1a4 ай бұрын
Ditto!!!
@glibchubik40904 ай бұрын
Same, I actively started opening Wiki and checking myself after some time because the game didn't care about explaining that stuff to me
@jakel28374 ай бұрын
It's even weirder since Ubsoft is a French company. I grew up learning this stuff, but why would you know it unless you're American or a historian?
@BasicWorldbuilder3 ай бұрын
That's a fair point, however I think that's also kind of par for the course with these titles they might give you some loose context at best. The only character I knew in Odyssey was Socrates and that's just because we learned the Socratic method in university 😂
@oklywright88863 ай бұрын
Wait, you don’t know who Benjamin Franklin is? Dude was the most interesting fascinating human to ever live. Where are you from?
@PauloVitorHMK3 ай бұрын
The homestead missions were a highlight for me. Watching Connor as he built a small community of hard-workin' honest folk was one of the most heartwarming experiences I had playing a videogame.
@JackMicTube3 ай бұрын
Shame their wasnt more people to join the homestead. They were all amazing and fun to watch, except for Norris... I did not ship him with myriam, and Connor did way too much to help him court her
@markobibin45603 ай бұрын
Norris slander will not be tolerated 😤
@PauloVitorHMK3 ай бұрын
@@markobibin4560 Yeah!🍁
@JackMicTube3 ай бұрын
Fair enough, his personality was fine, and he looked unique, but the missions were something else
@jmal3 ай бұрын
It's basically America as a concept: a place where everyone of every race and creed do as they please to help their fellow man. Out of many, one.
@derekhogan96854 ай бұрын
One reason I dropped the series was because this game killed Desmond off then had the nerve to drop the Juno plot entirely a few games later. All that build up for nothing. Now the series is a zombified corpse thanks to Ubisoft.
@Willzb-xk4ew2 ай бұрын
Didnt they bring Juno back?
@maxpepelotas2059Ай бұрын
@@Willzb-xk4ew and they killed her on a comic that, i think, released between syndicate and origins
@cuppedcup5048Ай бұрын
honestly not too sad about it myself wasn’t invested at all in the modern day. suppose it’s worse now though
@jasonashley9853Ай бұрын
@@cuppedcup5048brotherhood modern day was everything. I never understood the people that complained about it.
@frostyfilmwatcher214821 күн бұрын
They could use the staff to bring desmond back. Bring him from the grey back to the real world.
@dumdubbs24274 ай бұрын
Can content creators please talk about how Ubisoft RUINED THIS GAME?! Back to 2019: they tried forcing their botched Remaster on people by REMOVING the Deluxe Edition from all official stores. I bought it on Steam and they invalidated my CD keys, and I can't get a refund either. Their custom support has been ignoring my messages for 1 month.
@libre54864 ай бұрын
A true The Crew moment
@ssjbargainsale4 ай бұрын
Is this true? I dont want to install it right now just to check, but it still shows both at my steam library and Ubisoft connect. Havent played in many years but I may want to some time and I'm not buying the remaster ever
@white65054 ай бұрын
Ubisoft is scum for this.
@theslx79114 ай бұрын
@@ssjbargainsale From my recent experience, downloading the game on Ubisoft connect (the original release that I bought years ago before the remaster was a thing) results in a dead end and you can't boot the game, but after removing it and trying a few days later on steam instead, it works fine. (Steam Deck, Proton 9.1, 900p with FSR, Max settings except for shadows and antialiasing (both on Normal), 60 fps. 1080p you get an avg of 45-55 fps.
@Vaguer_Weevil4 ай бұрын
Where have you been? This sort of behavior is normal now, it's the usual biz. Modern AAA gaming, wonderful isn't it?
@boo58603 ай бұрын
Haytham's voice actor felt like the saving grace for this entire game, his performance is just so good and tbh I had a crush on haytham because of it lmao
@BrandonsBrain2 ай бұрын
Haytham is great. Even in rogue… kinda wish we got a solo game for him.
@fabiomcmuffin4 ай бұрын
Between this game and Hamilton, Charles Lee was really getting dragged through the mud in the 2010s
@white65054 ай бұрын
im south american, so im not that well versed in american history. AC3 tries shoving these people in the story as if i knew who most of them are. the problem is making that the central point of the narrative.
@brotbrotsen11003 ай бұрын
It tends to feel like some Americans think everyone knows their history.
@white65053 ай бұрын
@@brotbrotsen1100 even if you knew nothing about italian history, you would still be invested in Ezio. i think that is the major difference. i learned a great deal about Italy and also Arno's paris just by reading the database and soaking it all in. that doesnt happen with AC3.
@brotbrotsen11003 ай бұрын
@@white6505 I know it was handled better in most other AC games
@JJJBunney0012 ай бұрын
To be fair every ac is like that, I didn't know half of the characters from ac2 were rreal life figures until I looked it up
@ThatBoyAqua4 ай бұрын
Oh we’re eating good today
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Really enjoyed the Last of Us videos you made recently
@onlyenzoYT2 ай бұрын
Accept Jesus Christ he loves u died n rose again for ur forgiveness 🙏🏽❤️❤️
@santos-pink-8674 ай бұрын
MOM SO SAYS JAY JUST DROPPED A CERTIFIED 1H BANGER
@unicorntomboy97364 ай бұрын
To me, regarding the narrative, it feels like they were trying to write a novel, rather than a video game, as the game's narrative is written in a very literary fashion, like you would write an epic historical fiction novel. This was pointed out by Darby McDebbit, which is why AC 4 Black Flag begins the way it does, as a response to this, coming up with the term 'Time to Fantasy'. I actually recommend you instead go read the novel adaptation of this game, AC 3 Forsaken, which is told through the pov of Haythem Kenway. It is a fantastic book that is far better than the game that spawned it, in my view. The book addresses Haythem's internal thoughts and feelings on the events, including why he becomes so ruthless and kills his interrogation captives without a second thought later on in the narrative, which the game fails to do.
@glibchubik40904 ай бұрын
"Fantastic" is a strong word honestly, I've found it insightful and adding to the character, but written in kind of a dry manner, not that engaging. It's a decent supplementary material, there are much worse out there (looking at you Mass Effect books), but doesn't stand on it's own
@unicorntomboy97364 ай бұрын
@@glibchubik4090 I disagree somewhat, I think it can stand by itself Out of all the novelizations, I think it is the best one, and the only one to surpass their source material in my opinion. None of the other ones, aside from the 2011 Altiar one and this one, can do that. The book features entire sections of Haythem's life not seen in the game, such as his childhood years in London - including a tease into Edward Kenway as a father - as well as him rescuing his sister Jenny in the Ottoman Empire and a few more scenes with Zio, among others.
@glibchubik40904 ай бұрын
@@unicorntomboy9736 If we were about to analyze the value it has adding to the story of AC3, it expands of backstory of Haytham and his mixed feelings towards Connor. Those are good aspects, but otherwise the book follows the events of the actual game to a T, with all it's faults in writing, but without fantastic performances of voice actors to at least have entertainment value. AC3's story is not a good book material, and without external factors of high budget and presentation covering it, I don't think many people would want to finish it
@unicorntomboy97364 ай бұрын
@@glibchubik4090 If that is your feelings about it, good for you
@Vadim_SlastihinКүн бұрын
@@glibchubik4090what's wrong with mass effect books? I've only read "Revelations" and it was great prequel to mass effect 1. I know that the last book is terrible with Kai Lang being edgy and all but other books are great.
@killer1one13 ай бұрын
As one of the few modern-day story enjoyers, I am still absolutely *dumbfounded* at how they chose to end this story arc. I was upset back then, and I still am now. It's just incomprehensible to me that it not only got out of the writers' room, but it was fully acted, scripted, had entire levels and cinematics made for it... and for what, exactly? "Main character saves the day and kills bad guys but then has to Jesus himself too, wooooaahhhhh!" It's pretty obvious this game was rushed overall but the lack of care for the modern-day story is staggering.
@KingRumar3 ай бұрын
AC3 was the only game where I didn’t want to go back into the animus. Playing through with Conner was just so boring and felt unrewarding which forced me to enjoy Desmond’s story 10x more. I cared much more for Altair and Ezio, was hyped for Conner, loved how they handled Haytham, questionable at times like if a British man in the colonies is wearing a red coat, knew the right people, strolled in like he owned the place, why would red coats be suspicious of him walking around their command?? Then it went downhill from there. Desmond just outright dying was bad but it was criminal how they closed out Juno’s story. In a graphic novel and they just stabbed her. Done like a random guard, not even joking!
@Jak2-tj3xl2 ай бұрын
Liking the modern day for the first few games is what separates patricians from the rabble.
@awsome1826 күн бұрын
I also enjoyed the Modern Day story a lot. I even enjoyed it in Black Flag. I had quite some fun walking around Abstergo and finding out all the secrets. The main story about Edward was obviously better, but while many criticised the Modern Day story in Black Flag, I had fun with it. Regarding AC III, I actually enjoyed the Modern Day story more than the Connor plotline. Except for the ending. I still cannot comprehend how they ended the Desmond Story Arc...
@inviz8354 ай бұрын
Im not saying I hate Ac3 because I started playing Ac3 almost a month ago, and im a trophy hunter, so im currently platinuming it. I got through the main game, and im now doing the dlc, but my god, was this a pain to play. (And im not talking about the grind. im well aware of the grind. I've platinumed both origins and odyssey, for gods sake) First, the remaster is so bad that there were so many times that my game glitched out, and I wasn't able to get an achievement, so I had to restart my game by closing it multiple times. Even in the dlc after I killed a hoard of enemies, a cutscene played, and one of my enemies that were dead on the ground stood up and was t posing in the cutscene. Like WHAT!!! The point is, I agree with a lot of the things Jay said, but I did love the story, plus the homestead missions made me love Connor.
@thevacuumofcomments29464 ай бұрын
I don't have a problem with Connor having a fixation with Lee to a point (even tho it gets odd post the Washington reveal). Anyone can see that he's easily the worst. But Connor seems to think he's a bad influence on Haytham and... I don't know where he got that idea. Listened to the Forsaken audiobook a while back and unlike the game it confirms that Haytham is aware of the fact that he's not properly vetted the monster he plans to put in charge of the country. Lee was loyal to the Order but that's the only nice thing Haytham can say about him when pushed. Loved the detail that after his experience with Burch he starts to see all his life's work in a different light but feels it's too late to go back. But that doesn't gel with what we get in the game one bit.
@ozairchishti12642 ай бұрын
I read Connor's insistence on blaming Lee's influence for Haytham's choices as him just desperately wanting to give his father an out by believing he can save him if he gets rid of his Templar buddies. It's naive but people forget Connor is only like 24-26 years old by the end of AC3. I think any child, especially one that grew up as lonely and bereft of family as Connor, would want to hope they can have a happy ending with their only surviving relative even if it is far fetched. Huge part of AC3's story is how much Connor is just flat out used and abused by the people around him because he's a simple guy in a complicated world.
@adonisvillain4 ай бұрын
13:14 yeah. And developed Jonathan cooper he lived ubisoft and then worked on Uncharted 4 and the last of us part 2. Best character animation on industry with motion matching 🔥🔥🔥
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
This is good to know, thank you!
@animusdrifter4 ай бұрын
Currently in the middle of watching this video and I love it already! But I wanted to note a few additional problems that AC3 introduces to movement, that the Kenways later keep, before I forget. On top of High Profile being the climb button, it also needlessly replaces many of your normal, prescriptive jumps, while still retaining the button that's analogous to the Legs button from previous games. This means that for a slightly safer jump set, mostly constrained to prescriptive (calculated) landing targets and positions being more accessible, you pay with stupid amounts of volatility when you don't wish to instantly perform a prescriptive jump when in the middle of running and changing your directional input into the desired direction. This means the only way of mitigating it is having to point your directional input precisely where you need it needlessly quickly, or stopping and breaking all of your momentum to adjust it. - All while a jump/legs button still exists!! An even greater offender is the fact that Ledge Grabs aren't only simplified to require the directional input only, but they're made to be ONLY ACCESSIBLE IN FREEFORM STATES. This means that ANY jump, eject, or swing that prescriptively calculated a landing target of ANY TYPE will not let you freely grab anything during that airtime - Half of the potential of Ledge Grabs is therefore completely gone and arbitrarily depends on your context and geometry. And lastly, the greatest offender of them all - the Parkour Down. Considering that AC3 is actually the first AC to add a full on parkour down bias to the franchise, you'd think this would make for a revolutionary, very much needed feature in vanilla movement. (The definitive parkour mod for the old schools now absolutely blows this out of the water to insane extents, at least) So what's the catch, beyond the fact the game doesn't even bother tutorializing this? It lies in it's keybind, through idiotic context dependence and action priority. The way to induce this parkour down bias to jumps, either prescriptive or freeform, is by holding Empty Hand while executing a given jump, problem is that this is the SAME BIND AS AIR TACKLE. This is made even worse by air tackle still not requiring any lock on, and worst of all - taking FULL PRIORITY on the positive edge of your Parkour Down input, if a tackleable target is in range. This means that every single time you wish to enable it in the heat of the moment, you have to hope there is no guard around you that's going to steal priority on that positive input edge, therefore triggering a combat and escape sequence.
@Hefferr4 ай бұрын
@sosaysjay this drifter is writing script for you. ❤
@LW17734 ай бұрын
I remember as a kid me and my brother spending hours just free running through the trees in the frontier because it felt so new and fun. Good times.
@antonioabreu57364 ай бұрын
I agree with pretty much everything Jay said. I have only played the games and I was an kid when I played ACIII. At that age I was easily impressed by pretty much any story and was also really into history, so ACIII was right by my alley. Man, I was so dissapointed. I didn't really care for most characters. The history side lacked substance, it felt like a checklist of historical events, bery cheesy. Even though I enjoyed some missions. One thing that always bugs me is that AC games never actually focus on the Templar x Assassins conflict, ideologies etc. It never feels like writers sat down and tried to make a compelling narrative, like in so many other games. I felt the same in ACIII. I remember being one of the weirdos that really enjoyed the Desmond storyline, because it felt so wild to have a current day assassins VS templar conflict, even though the story itself was all over the place. Yet when ACIII ended I was legitmaly pissed. The ending was lame and lacks even a single drop of creativity.
@ag27314 ай бұрын
It wasn't weird to enjoy the modern day plot as it was important like the historical plot, as i like to call the AC1-AC3 games the 'anthology collection"
4 ай бұрын
"One thing that always bugs me is that AC games never actually focus on the Templar x Assassins conflict, ideologies etc" That's the beauty of AC1, 4 and to some extent revelations (and bloodlines but that's pretty obscure). They actually do it.
4 ай бұрын
@@ag2731 If I remember correctly you could get them on ps3 as the "heritage collection".
@charlieni6454 ай бұрын
I'm halfway through the video and boy did I go through a similar arc as you did with this game lol. Hyped pre-release, cope post- release, and rediscover and reevaluate many years after. It's the first full priced game I ever bought in college so it holds a special spot in my heart. Playing this game really feels like peeling an onion. It has so much content and mechanics that are so uneven in quality, many of them also hidden behind layers of unintuitive menus and out of the way map icons. I only found out how fun the Captain Kidd missions are, and how narratively fulfilling the homestead missions are, so much so they improve how I see the main story and Ratonhnhaké:ton as a protagonist, half a decade after the game's release. I do like how the game ended up though. Ratonhnhaké:ton managed to find his place in the newborn nation he helped founding, but his effort is futile in finding security for his people, let alone making a dent on changing the many other backward and hypocritical internal policies of the country such as slavery. All he could do was sitting on the empty land that used to be his village, wordless for the first time in the entire game for a hot headed man as he was, presumably like Ezio and Altair did before him, hoping for his work wasn't in vain and someone in the future will pass along his torch. edit: Almost forgot how bad the modern day ending is though lol. Awesome analysis as always.
@midrovar58114 ай бұрын
i am surprised you were able to call him by name, connor is alot better xD
@charlieni6454 ай бұрын
@@midrovar5811 Jay made the effort to learn pronouncing it properly. Felt only appropriate to use the indigenous name in my comment.
@NostalgicGamerRickOShay2 ай бұрын
I got motivated to try out assassin's Creed for the first time by looking at the trailer for AC3, and so I found the first game and the three ezio games on a sale and so I bought them all and AC3 in one fell swoop. I was initially upset by the unexpected flashback mode of the story because I didn't see it in any of the advertisements and so I felt cheated out of enjoying a game set only in the past and being historical fiction because I love history. But I eventually learn to start liking the Desmond story set in a weird blend of science fiction and fantasy which makes me think of a blend of national treasure and Indiana Jones. However it all died with Lucy Stillman. She and Desmond were clearly meant to have children together and continue that special bloodline and have their own video game set in the present day. But Ubisoft dropped the ball by refusing to give her a pay raise or whatever that caused them to fall out and so they had to kill off her character because they could no longer legally keep her. But instead of a simple tragedy of a death that would have included abstergo finding them and shooting at them and one bullet tragically having her name on it, they killed Lucy off in a way that felt like a gigantic middle finger towards her character. Ubisoft browndozers justify killing her off by thinking her as nothing more than a traitorous bitch you deserved being killed for being a triple agent. One of my first clues that people are stupid in general by their lack of critical thinking skills. A critical finger would have realized that it's painfully obvious that making her a triple agent was a last minute cop out of an excuse that was thrown together in a matter of seconds. I apologize for my mistakes and run on sentences but that is because I'm using my microphone to do all the talking.
@thac0twenty3773 ай бұрын
Character wise Connor was stoic and honorable. He needed a really colorful set of NPCs to make him compelling.
@QuestMarker3 ай бұрын
Hey I'm that dude at the end! @1:05:13 Thanks so much for the shoutout, really appreciate it. This was super awesome and incredibly comprehensive. Your whole section on the American Revolution was top tier and I enjoyed it immensely. I definitely agree with you re: all the narrative problems. I always thought a big part of them stemmed from Charles Lee (i.e., one too many villains, diluted Templar position, poor integration with the American Revolution, etc.). I would've enjoyed seeing Ratonhnhake:ton's story begin with the death of his mother, and then end with the death of his father. Not Lee.
@sosaysjay3 ай бұрын
I appreciate you watching, thank you! I enjoyed your video a lot and I thought it was a great example of the value these characters can still have even if I don’t believe the overall story hit the mark
@edhero45154 ай бұрын
Man, this is a great video! I highly appreciate that you can simultaneously appreciate what's great about this (and other) AC games, while recognising and naming the glaring weaknesses crystal clear. I just want to mention my peculiar perspective on the prologue: By a strange coincidence, I came to the game completely without any spoilers at the time. I wondered how this British guy I was playing was going to become a native American I knew from the cover. Then my brain was blown away twice in a row. I'll never forget that experience. After that, exactly as you describe, everything went down the drain. Media scholars in the future may look at this work and will see very clearly how fundamentally incompatible it is to deal with a certain subject (e.g. the American Revolution), and pursue the endeavour to create an entertainment product at the same time. With major productions now focusing on dopamine addiction and rejecting any narrative or thematic work in favour of online service models, it may well be that this game will occupy a rather unique place in art history: Here they have, maybe for the first and last time, somehow tried.
@xsubzerox34124 ай бұрын
The pain of getting 93% completetion only for a damn bugged mail quest to waste it all. Didnt stop me from doing it all over again tho a year later
@jasonashley9853Ай бұрын
I don't feel like the game is good enough for 100% to be worth it. 🤷
@cpnrackham4 ай бұрын
An hour long video from Jay? Not long enough I say.
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
That’s very kind of you to say
@adonisvillain4 ай бұрын
Not agree it was difficult to watch. 30 mins and less of optimal. Like vid about illusion of assassin's creed, about syndicate, about crouching in stealth genre
@jeffinson54174 ай бұрын
@@adonisvillaintiktok brain
@FutureExitsMedia4 ай бұрын
Great content and analysis as always, I can totally understand your take on this. As someone who came to it years later having played Syndicate as my first AC game, then gone back to some of the older games, then played Origins and Odyssey and pretty much loved all of them old and new, I was hesitant to play AC3 because of the intense hate it seemed/seems to get from so many people, but I wanted to see the resolution of the story set up in AC2, so I took the plunge and was pleasantly surprised - I really enjoyed it. I found Ratonhnhaké:ton to be a compelling, interesting character and actually a nice contrast to the flamboyance of Ezio. The story was interesting, the combat was fun, and the opening with Haytham and the reveal of the true nature of his character was fantastic. I can absolutely see the flaws, but I still like it a lot. Is it the best AC game? Far from it, but it's also definitely not the worst (cough)Valhalla(cough).
@LarryTheTugaGamer15114 ай бұрын
*cough* Odyssey *cough*
@Denokri3 ай бұрын
I may not agree with many of your opinions butt I found myself enjoying the content either way, it is refreshing to se someone talk about problems with AC whilst at the same time being respectful and fair. commenting on this vid only case latest at the time.
@JuliusCaesar1034 ай бұрын
I remember the trailers before the game came out already calling the game a masterpiece, before reviews and the game were even out, that was such a red flag.
@dustinvanwinkle50784 ай бұрын
Yet people still fall for the same bs to this day with new games lol. AAA at it's finest nothing new
@lewissharpe46953 ай бұрын
I just want to know why they decided to not play any ambient music when exploring the world. The OST is absolutely fantastic and outside from cutscenes, combat and the main menu you never hear it. It’s doubly strange when you consider just how frequent ambient music played in previous entries (and future entries).
@despar1a4 ай бұрын
47:03 "How do you make an antagonist seem justified if you don't give them a compelling argument.:" This sentence lives rent free in my head, in Jays voice. How many times have we heard it now?
@JL325064 ай бұрын
AC3 was really THE framework for narrative depth during AC's (arguably) best games, even though it was rather underwhelming, no... ANNOYING on its own. It would go on to innovate the entire Assassin/Templar dichotomy, and that would reverberate throughout the future of the franchise; for good or ill. That said, it was just a really annoying game to play for many reasons. There was this sense of ancient *human* history in the earlier AC games that isn't really there for the colonies. Around the American Revolution is when we really became "worldy" as people, and the world got a whole lot smaller than we thought it was. I think the narrative depth is where AC3 thrives, but a lot of its gameplay systems have immense issues.
@radhinkabagaskara55954 ай бұрын
It didn't innovated anything. The whole "Maybe Assassins vs Templars has always been in grey area" is the stuff that the first game already had.
@JL325064 ай бұрын
@@radhinkabagaskara5595 Yeah, but honestly... the Templars in the first few games had a goofy "oh we're the evil people" vibe to them. They were always seen as conniving/sinister pricks, even if that wasn't how they were meant to be taken. AC3 would lay the groundwork for Templars closer to Torres and Shay; respectable men doing what they felt was right, and not solely focused on the pursuit of power.
4 ай бұрын
@@JL32506 No, that's only true in the Ezio games. AC1 actually does portrait the assassin/templar dichotomy with far more deepness than a game like Rogue (who *should* be about this dichotomy, but it just simplifies it to the point of saying "well those bad templars you met before were a few bad apples, the 'real' templars are actually good and caring!").
@JL325064 ай бұрын
@ You had *some* moments of gray in AC1, but they were more lip service than actual calls to thought. The book does a far better job of that, but all the books do a great job because of their nature as books, and because they were mostly written after the fact.
@kaseywahl2 ай бұрын
I think my biggest narrative grievance with this game was how Connor was not just the protagonist of his story but the whole American Revolution. So much of the charm of Ezio's story was how he was woven in and out of historical events, which both made the stories feel so much more believable, but also seemed like they were how the narrative of an Assassin would fail to make it into the history books. But Connor is just conveniently left out of history, even as he's the centerpiece to it, and that just makes it so much harder to suspend my disbelief.
@TheFrogEnjoyer4 ай бұрын
I love these longer form analysis videos I could listen to these for hours
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
I am glad to hear that
@despar1a4 ай бұрын
@@sosaysjay I/We *do* listen to them for hours! :p
@PoeticWeasel3 ай бұрын
its better than any Ezio game because it actually takes a nuanced look at templar and assassin ideology and doesn't just paint templars as cartoonish villains
@JustJayGaming3 ай бұрын
My biggest disappointment was Unity. I was so excited after how good Black Flag was and the French Revolution was always my dream setting and it looked so good in the prerelease footage. And then release day hit, and it was broken and the story didn't care enough about it's setting. I'm still not over it. But I played 3 with the expectation that it sucked, because a friend of mine told me so. The game is far from the best in the series, but I still had a good time.
@Argacyan4 ай бұрын
3:30 I once made a thread on Twitter back like 3 years ago or whatever, looking at goats in every Assassin's Creed game. Kinda fits in with talking about the simulation of ecosystems & one of the interesting things was that AC3 wasn't just the first game to feature goats at all, but it took until AC Origins for goats to be as high in quality (in design, animation, modelling, interactivity etc) as they were in AC3.
@Argacyan4 ай бұрын
also talking about glitches in AC3 while I never encountered any, I did repeatedly run into a soft-lock condition during the estate colony tutorials where you're introduced to how goods & trading is supposed to work.
@despar1a4 ай бұрын
You're reminding me of LADDER GOAT and I love it!!!!
@Satellaview18893 ай бұрын
I've always felt like Connor (I don't know how to spell his other name) was wasted on one game. Personally, I was deeply interested in his blind devotion to the revolutionaries, and I've always felt like a follow up which displays him trying to cope with his idealism conflicting with the very real mess he made with the revolution would have been very interesting. We so rarely get to see plots that focus on indigenous characters, and Connor has so much missed potential because of how messy AC3 was. He deserves more time in the spotlight, preferably with a better story to tell.
@capulet55802 ай бұрын
I’m gonna be honest, most people really didn’t like Connor much. People liked Haytham and then quickly grew tired of Connor due to his lack of a personality and humor and/or charm equal to that of a dying tree xD If you liked him, then more power to you, but the reason AC3 only lasted for a single game (unlike how AC2 lasted for three) is because: 1. People wanted new protagonists for each story to avoid it getting repetitive 2. People just didn’t like Connor much, if at all
@JJJBunney0012 ай бұрын
I mean the end of the game did go through that. He also disobeyed Washington a few times for revenge so it wasn't exactly blind devotion
@maboilaurence82272 ай бұрын
We need more game analysis like this, I'm seeing WAY too many people being blinded by nostalgia and pretending every single game from their childhood is a "hidden gem". This game was the beginning of the end of Assassin's Creed, with Black Flag being a final high note and goodbye.
@arkadiuszrenc14984 ай бұрын
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@chefrowlet4 ай бұрын
AC3 was my intro to the franchise, heck it was one of the first M-rated games I ever bought for my ol 360... needless to say I was completely lost in the modern day plot, and I didn't even know what a Templar was when Haytham delivered that twist at the end of his sequence. And yet I was completely hooked. In hindsight, yes as a game it fell short, but that was my first time seeing any of the mechanics on display and I've been chasing that high ever since. The bayonet animations infected me with an itch for "melee fight with a gun" that nothing other than Black Flag and Unity have been able to scratch. I came to genuinely admire Connor when I did my 100% run and found all of his hidden character moments, I was captivated by this fundamental struggle between Freedom and Order (even though the franchise has never really delivered on the potential), the hidden blade cool factor, the power fantasy of carving through a squad of redcoats, the thunder and fury of a war I learned about in school (and it honestly helped me with my AP US History studies because it let my ADD-ass put a visual to all the boring names and numbers in the textbook). When people called it bad I never really saw where they were coming from. I still haven't played the Ezio trilogy which is a glaring hole, since I have played every other main installment of the franchise, but I can still definitely see how it was kind of... transitional I guess.
@fardeen80044 ай бұрын
Everytime when jay posts a new video, its always a treat Love the analysis vods man.
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
I appreciate that, thank you!
@darthfiascoclips4 ай бұрын
I recently replayed this game, and it’s just so frustrating and tedious to get through. There are many things I like about this game, and even more things I don’t like. When it’s at its best, it’s incredible, and I recognize its ambition. But for the most, it just falls flat and is not a cohesive game overall. Great video for expressing a lot of my grips with it, and praising what does deserve it.
@daylen5774 ай бұрын
The more often I replay all the games, the more I appreciate AC3 for what it is, and the more I get annoyed by Black Flag for its scale and lack of coherent story. AC3 wasn't great writing, but it didn't drag it out either, you can play through the entire game in a day. The atmosphere is honestly great, the town building was a very fun addition with lots of neat little side missions that most people probably never have experienced, and the only thing that truly ruins the immersion (other than the average-at-best writing) is the absolutely disgustingly poor voice acting on the native language.
@jojocasimir11184 ай бұрын
Main reason I love it is cause if haytham an wish he was the main character
@klavassassini8 күн бұрын
To be fair, there aren't a great pool of professional actors to pull from that speak fluent Kanien'keha. It is an endangered language.
@TheTrollerGamer4 ай бұрын
I agree with most of the gameplay complaints, but the story is something I will always stand by. The Templars in AC1 were morally grey, but still felt over the top evil. We watch them do the most horrific things ever and then in the Animus Room they are like "You see, I did this for the good of mankind". I love the complexity of AC1, but the comparision with AC3 feels unfair. In AC3 I actually felt like those Templars had a fair argument most of the time.
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
I did feel the opposite, personally. That is of course not to say that I think AC1 is the peak of morally ambiguous storytelling, because it is still very simple in that regard. But at the end of the day, the villains had arguments, things they tried to justify and reasons to believe they were right. In AC3, you kill two Templars at the start who have a plan: Johnson wants to protect land, Pitcairn wants to prevent war. But even if you don’t critique the shallowness of their dialogue, that is the end of the Templars even having real plans. The only Templar plan at all after the first two targets is to promote Charles Lee; both Haytham and Hickey have that as their only goal, and Church doesn’t have a goal to impact the Templar-Assassin conflict at all since he commits to the loyalists as a traitor. They barely have an argument for most of the game, we never see them trying to do anything positive. Haytham tells you the colonists won’t protect your people, democracy in the colonies is a sham. Is this a good point? Yeah, sure it is. But in what world does that mean promoting the bigot who choked a child out in the forest and admitted to wanting to kill everyone who believes differently from him is the cure? They are rarely arguing that THEY are doing anything good, only that’s OTHERS are doing something bad. And even if you do take Johnson and Pitcairn, we see next to nothing that shows they could have benefited the world. At least Pitcairn says he wanted peace and you could take him at his word, but the only things we know about Johnson are that he is willing to murder people to buy the land and that he has a history of exploiting the land he takes. We see zero positive impact from him or any other Templar. Terrible as the AC1 Templars are, they saved lives. Some did, others are generic evil, others are in the middle. It was a cool mix and the dialogue was intelligent. In AC3, every single conversation is basically a moral lecture on why there are two sides to every story and you are naive if you think the colonists will help you, and I wish it was as varied as AC1 at least. Of course none of this is to say you are wrong, but I was radically disappointed from my perspective at how little any character had to say in AC3.
@QPint4 ай бұрын
Such a perfect representation of my thoughts on this game. I'm still so baffled at the praise the rooftop scene gets. Not to get it twisted, I do really like it. Haytham is always a joy to listen to, the templar ideology being touched on at all since the first game is great, and it is one of the few cutscenes portrayed well production-wise. Unfortunately, it is a perfect encapsulation of Ratonhnhaké:ton's stupidity during the main game. He stands there and listens to Haytham give his speech on the faults of the creed and then can't think of anything better to say than the 18th-century equivalent of "nuh uh, democracy stupid". I get so annoyed because we have seen better than this and both characters end up coming out worse for it.
@despar1a4 ай бұрын
Wow you are so right!!! :'( Kinda hit a nerve. Ouch!
@TheTrollerGamer4 ай бұрын
I love the rooftop scene, because it shows their respective flaws. While Haytham does seem less smart and more like an edgy teenager the older I get, I still think it's one of the most well written scenes in the franchise. Let's be real, when it was the last time we saw two characters interact like that? The closest we ever got was Arno and Bellec on top of the church before the boss fight and before AC3 the closest we got was Altair and Al Mualim discussing their Creed.
@Yodalemos4 ай бұрын
Are you kidding me? That's what makes it good writing. Connor is a hot-headed naive young man, that is exactly how he's supposed to react.
@despar1a4 ай бұрын
Jay... I gotta say, just looking at this without starting the video, i'm a little nervous... But you've always had such a solid and reputable viewpoint that i'm engaged, at 0:01 seconds. That's your reputation, man!! Without being creepy, I totally dig you, Jay!!!
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
I do appreciate that! Even if there’s stuff you disagree with I’d be happy to chat about it, that’s what the platform’s for after all
@FreedomFTW4 ай бұрын
AC3 was one of the best games I've ever played.
@eIIemenopee4 ай бұрын
8:40 this exact same thing happened to me on my first playthrough of AC III, I got stuck on 99% completion too! I was so frustrated I haven't picked up the game since for a replay, despite replaying most of the other pre-origins AC games several times.
@tanmayrajeshkota45182 ай бұрын
To be honest RDR2 had a better representation of the American and the indigenous people's conflict than AC3 ever had. Whereas AC3 has an indigenous person as the main character.
@iamthenati4 ай бұрын
I get Ubisoft wanted Connor to feel like an unstoppable killing machine, but it's pathetic that you don't even have to think during combat.
@JJJBunney0012 ай бұрын
Until origins, you never did
@BananaBlooD95172 ай бұрын
@@JJJBunney001And it was perfectly fine too. Open combat was never hard.
@fashionkiller114 ай бұрын
As always, your video delivers on all fronts. As with your Unity video this will serve me as a highly valuable ressource to point to when i talk with others about my gripes with each respective game in the series. I am specifially glad that you went into the downgrade of combat. It always frustrated me how barebones the combat was in AC3 compared to Brotherhood, especially with the messy animations, change from clashing swords to repeatedly deadly wounding enemies without consequences ( you described that very well in th segment) and the overall lack of variety. This actually set the precedent for combat in all later games. We will never see proper blade to blade combat after Revelations. The paired animation system of the first 4 games allowed for very clean feel and look of the combat. And im sad that we lost sad. A low point in that regard is probably Syndicate, with it's endless combos of weightless slashing and non-existent rythm. The only thing where i differ from your take is the cities of AC3. I just didn't find them interesting, be it visually, aesthetically or gameplay wise. Like all of AC3 they felt very bare bones, and the drab and muddy look, albeit realistic, was certainly a tough pill to swallow after the heights of Venice, Florence, Jerusalem or even San Gimignano. Oh, and big props for also mentioning the downgraded cinematography. People rarely talk about how especially the Ezio trilogie was very strong in it's presentation. Just the hanging scene from AC2 alone is leagues above anything in AC3.
@KevelianKing3 ай бұрын
Great video Jay. I shared much of the same excitement for AC3 back in the day (even went so as to be one of the first games I preordered). A few years later after finishing the story, I returned to “collect all the achievements”, only to find what felt like 60 long hours of exhaustive content-and came to realise just why, unlike the previous games in the series up till then-why I had rolled the credits and left it behind. This game was the moment that the series just stepped down a peg for me, it had been building for years, inside and outside the animus: and the fact it tried to “end” Desmond’s storyline made me feel like that magic had suddenly concluded, meanwhile these new evolving combat systems and fairly dramatic shift in setting/characters felt like a rushed beginning. But then your video reminded me of those homestead missions, and while they were tedious at times, they ended up being some of the games more wholesome and worthwhile treasures. Keep up the AC vids!
@awsome1826 күн бұрын
As an AC fan from day one, I've played all main titles immediately when they got released. While I'm not a fan of the new AC games and Valhalla is one of the worst AC games in my opinion, my least favourite AC game has always been AC III. I never was able to get comfortable with it. I didn't like the story (which was very weird), I didn't like Connor, and the historical context was the least interesting to me personally.
@jmal4 ай бұрын
While I agree with a lot of your points, Jay (and they are beautifully laid out, mind you), I still love the game, faults and all. It's the first AC game that really grabbed my attention, I'm a sucker for hero's journeys (ElderGeek has mentioned that _AC3_ is the story of the _Star Wars_ Prequel & Original Trilogies set in the American Revolution), and I truly see myself in Connor. We're both outcasts and naïve idiots with anger issues trying to make the world a better place in our own way, doing the right thing at the cost of losing friends... and are too stupid to learn when to quit lol. This game has such an impact on me that the collectibles I have for it, like the figurine, flags, medallion and whatnot, are the only ones remaining in my small AC collection. Everything else I have sold a long time ago (a notable exception is the Edward Kenway paintings). The remastered version of the game is permanently installed on every PC I have that has sufficient power to run it at max settings with high FPS. I love this game for the same reason other AC fans have a fondness for _Unity:_ there's a certain _je ne sais quoi_ to both games that seemingly only makes sense and appeals to a select few.
@sosaysjay4 ай бұрын
There is never any shame in getting enjoyment from something you care about and that resonates with you
@jmal4 ай бұрын
@@sosaysjay Hear hear!
@BrandonsBrain2 ай бұрын
Connor Kenway is my favorite assassin hands down. 😢
@Kiner-ug1mw4 ай бұрын
The game jumped for a haystack, but squashed on the ground.
@glibchubik40904 ай бұрын
Witcher 2 Easter Egg moment
@aerrae56082 ай бұрын
No way people are playing that remaster. Even without comparison it looks terrible... Just like the AC2 remaster. Ubisoft sucks at remastering, AC3RM literally has the AO removed from the grass and for some reason they slapped this warm yellow filter over everything. Oh and the plastic faces are definitely remaster only, the original looked a lot better. Oh and btw, Altair killed civilians he interrogated, Haytham strikes me as more traditional in that sense.
@grandmofftarkin69614 ай бұрын
At least this game gave me Haytham. I'll give it that much. Great points raised in this video. It was a game that was hard to get into especially since it came after our time with Ezio, and the historical setting of Rennaissance Italy, that was honestly more interesting to me. Still enjoyed the historical setting, but not nearly as much. And the less said about Ratonhnhaké:ton as a character, the better, in my opinion.
@atticlion76483 ай бұрын
I think I played AC3 for less than 7 hours in total and I all remember about it these days are: the controls were worse, the cities were worse, the forest was boring, the combat was annoying, and Conner was a shithead that was actively less likeable than the bad guy whom I would have rather kept playing as. I recall the straw that broke the camels back for me was when tried to have some fun in the same way I would have in AC2/Brotherhood; start as big a street fight as possible and keep stabbing until everything stopped moving. But then I found out that unlike AC2, guards in AC3 will never throw down their weapons and run away in terror because you just killed their 6 buddies in 4 seconds. And that at max wanted level the guards will spawn INFINITELY. The fact that I could just stand there in town with a 50 man pile of corpses on the ground and fuckers just kept spawning in to attack me until I got bored and ran off to find a way to lower my wanted level was so disappointing to me.
@TheHiddenOne6904 ай бұрын
Spicy title. Can't wait to watch!
@jqyhlmnp4 ай бұрын
-You’re just saying that cause Marcus is black- oh wait wrong video
@ungodlybeast84364 ай бұрын
What
@Vaguer_Weevil4 ай бұрын
You hit your head or something man?
@felman874 ай бұрын
3 was disappointing. Definitely a victim of feature creep. But a lot of the stuff that worked in AC4, one of everyone's favorites, started here in 3 and were fleshed out, given polish.
@PadreMaronnolo4 ай бұрын
Excellent video, well argued and on point, keep up the good work
@enman0094 ай бұрын
Boy do AC3 represents this franchise really well: overall mixed with good intentions and weak execution. But hey, we're getting closer to a positive AC review, right? ...Right?
@ViciousDeliciousIV3 ай бұрын
I may be looking at this game with rose tinted glasses but I really thought it shined back in the day. Not the narrative, mind you, but the gameplay was great for me. All the the animations for running, climbing, and fighting were the best I think Ubisoft ever did.
@Calvin_Coolage2 ай бұрын
The historical paradox of Connor being a Mohawk could have been handled really well if they did it right. Framed as a sort of greater good argument he makes to Haytham, he could have much more easily flipped it back on him. And his conflict with his childhood friend would have been more interesting that way too. They should have just leaned more into him being a Pariah to the people of his village at the very least
@sethstewart97043 ай бұрын
13:40. THISSSSS. The final mission where you chase the dude was the only time I truly raged at a game, and I am not a rage gamer at all. Connor running as fast as he can only to come to a dead halt as he reaches out and grabs a merchant's tent or hugs against a wall. I felt absolutely no agency over my character. It was a game of hold forward and avoid all of the things Connor might want to glue himself to.
@sickloverx4 ай бұрын
I will say that i actually like AC3's combat
@Dan_Jado4 ай бұрын
I don't know, as a Mexican, with only parcial knowledge of USA history, the story feels the most natural and fun in all assassins creed. Altair doesn't have personality, Ezio has the same problems as Tony Stark, but Connor actually feels real, with flaws. AC3 will always be my favourite assassins.
@jopaslona13 ай бұрын
Bull's eye
@ivanov49993 ай бұрын
Assassins are not meant to feel real. Most main-line assassins are Übermenschen by way of genetics. Their personalities are founded on a conflict between their 'god'given potential and matters of virtue, their creed. Altair is a mindless zealot who turns into the most influential leader the Brotherhood has ever known. He is the alpha and the omega. His stoicism, as in supression of feelings, lends itself beautifully to the aesthetics of the first game, its cold and bleak atmosphere. There is such clarity in the artistic vision felt only playing the first games, and it has been missing dearly. Odyssey is the prime example of the mess Ubi is in. Just look at the bloat: the side-content, all those lines of text, all those meaningless markers and options. Kassandra can be almost anything the player wants her to be - thus she is nothing.
@tyrannicfool25033 ай бұрын
As another mexican I got to disagree, Altair was stoic but his moral questions throught the game were a really interesting introspection into his character, ezio as well got more philosophical as the games went on, he still had his charm but he knew when to be serious. Connor was interesting but the writing was really clunky as showing off his personality
@Ronam04512 ай бұрын
Imagine saying Altair had no personality 🤡
@adammoynihan25894 ай бұрын
Only recently played AC3 for the first time as i always skipped it due to its reviews and it was a total mess. I thought the Haytham section was wonderful but then it immediately fell off a cliff and never recovered and the ending was so poorly baked and anticlimactic that i had to laugh at it. I somehow consider Rogue to be better in just about every way and that was basically a cheap asset flip
@dxk65Ай бұрын
During lockdown I replayed every single AC while I was waiting for Valhalla to come out. One thing I learned is that out of the "colonial games" let's call them (3, Black Flag, Rogue, Liberation) this one is the one that actually ended up aging the best.
@XardionZ4 ай бұрын
While it's not the most disappointing game for myself personally, it definitely is one of them because AC3 was when the series was hitting its peak. After how incredible AC2 was and the spinoffs were just as fun, my hype was SKY HIGH for AC3, especially since it was going to take place during the Revolutionary War. I finished it in a week or two, and then I remember feeling very hollow. It just felt like Ubisoft bit off way more than they could chew and put too much and also not enough in the game at the same time.
@DanQZ2 ай бұрын
Lee really did just get lost in the forest, get racist, and leave
@gammaphonic3 ай бұрын
I remember seeing the trailers and the ship combat and thinking “wow, I need to catch up on the series before this comes out”. So I borrowed a friend’s copy of Revelations. I got about an hour into it before I realised if already played this game three times before, got bored and have never touched the series since.
@willgilhespy3 ай бұрын
I WILL DEFEND THIS GAME TO THE GRAVE
@onlyenzoYT2 ай бұрын
😂😂if someone don’t like this game idk what to say the storyline and setting was amazing
@samgarcia92233 ай бұрын
I'm in the minority, but AC 3 and Rogue are my favorites til this day.
@SohbekКүн бұрын
The default walk to me always made me feel like Connor was looking way down the road ahead of him, or down the street. Like there's this feeling of him scanning what's ahead, an awareness of what's ahead. The thing is, as an animation, it looks good...once in awhile. But he does it on loop. That makes it pretty annoying actually. So I came to resent it. I found myself constantly holding fast walk less because I wanted to fast walk, and more because the animation was getting on my nerves. Because it made me feel like Connor was never focused on his immediate surroundings.
@catpurrito558615 күн бұрын
rip Desmond, he died touching a ball
@derpy_j3 ай бұрын
I'm just here to state I'm on of the few that actually adore this game, and Connor as a character. Call him bland, sure, but did you really expect the man to be skipping through a field of butterflies after watching his mother burn alive and then later find out that the man you're aiding in a war was also the man that wanted to get rid of your people? Let's face it, anyone who came after Ezio was gonna get disliked. I agree the gameplay had its fault, and I actually REALLY dislike how damn long the opening is with Haytham, but I still ended up loving the game and it made me cry at the end when we see Connor look out to ( what looked like an empty Homestead ) an then pull his hatchet out of the post, despite the fact his people still ended up having to leave the Frontier after all his efforts.
@nogoodhandlesavailable2 ай бұрын
Hytham's story arc is one of my favorites in the series
@ma1ist3 ай бұрын
This game was the peak of the AC franchise in terms of public interest.
@erhiueQWEF2 ай бұрын
It really was. My father was a cuban refugee and he saw the trailer for AC3 and he turned from his chair and asked me "is this a movie? this looks cool, I want to watch it"
@nobrakes4253 ай бұрын
Black flag is my favorite I think they did the ship combat well. I got it for free from Xbox back in the day from the free game of the month for 360 live. Probably the best legitimately free game I ever got. Sleeping dogs is the second. That is a great game too. I got it the same way.
@TitanCole7222 ай бұрын
Playing through this game on pc rn. Having my monitor’s refresh rate set to 165hz caused all the coaches you can hide in to just… not exist. It also cased a bunch of random barrels and boxes to pop in and out of existence, and corpses to stretch and bounce around. Had to set it to 60hz for the game to stop freaking tf out. Great video btw
@wolfgangluhrs821Ай бұрын
This was the last AC game I've played. These pirate Sidequest were awful.
@shaggy16284 ай бұрын
GIVE ME LEE!
@adonisvillain4 ай бұрын
22:26 intrinsically ezio combat system variety 21:20 camera lock strategies
@slice187-Ай бұрын
It's so nice to hear someone share pretty much the exact same thoughts and opinions as myself. I just replayed ac3, and these same thoughts raced around my mind, and i wanted to see if people shared the same opinion. This was also just a really good video, well formatted.
@generalmaddi6310Ай бұрын
When i switched from haytham to Connor my intrest dwindled and as I played it farther with connor it was fully extinguished.
@louie365officialАй бұрын
Love your videos! As the first AC game I played, 3 it is still my favourite to this time, from the music to the story, the graphics and the gameplay, it feels as if it was the most "balanced" of all. I am not a fan of the pirate theme, that put together with the fact that for me assassins and pirates don't quite mix together. And that they removed some of the stealth and the double blades was a big turnoff, never played it trough fully. From there on I think Unity wasn't that bad after the patches, that is the way I experienced it and never saw the before patch mess first hand. And Sindicate was like a bit more polished Unity but with less relevance to the main AC storyline(artifacts, precursors and so on were barely relevant/mentioned in the plot) as far as I remember. And from there onward Ubisoft just used the AC IP for open world exploration rpg's, that with each instance got further away from the main plot/essence of the previous games. To the point where valhalla could just be a game called Vikings, and only the one DLC from Oddissey had some major relevance to the main plot of the old AC games. Can´t say much about Origins, I just tried it off but it didn´t grab me. Maybe I am the weird one, for me the main plot was the precursors and their link with the present/future timelines. With that gone after Desmond's death, I feel like there is just no more AC universe, and it's just Ubisoft milking more money from the golden IP.
@ManiacalflameYT4 ай бұрын
honestly, this game grew on me A LOT. I too was super disappointed, but over time it's managed to become one of my favourites in the franchise. it fell short from a lot of it's potential, but it also laid the groundwork for some of the best game mechanics in some of the future titles, and I adore it for that
@hidefreek69054 ай бұрын
As someone who plays the game on day one. The game is mild. But managed to gain a lot of hype because it is very super good prequel. The game simply focuses too much on the story's progress as the novel. So it has a lot of flaws as the proper game. The good thing is this game gave Ubisoft a major opener to other possible games. Ubisoft nearly tarnishes all of these.
@Argacyan4 ай бұрын
39:50 Okay it is a bit funny that it says "Temple University" right there, in the context of Assassin's Creed
@Diggi5562 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this game so i stopped watching this video to prevent you from ruining it for me
@TheUltraKekster3 ай бұрын
This game has the best combat animations 🗿
@armandsoulliard3296Ай бұрын
I always hoped that we finally get a GOOD modern day assassination mission with Desmond in Abstergo... and I was so profoundly disappointed with what we got. And the end of Miles' story gave us almost nothing. It even felt anticlimactic, despite the "stakes" it presented.
@AVhq11Ай бұрын
That was genuinely a really great, thoughtful, well-reasoned and brilliantly articulated video. Well done. I'm looking forward to hear more of your thoughts on other (ac) games.