r/assassinscreed

Personally on PC I have:

Assassin's Creed director's cut

Assassin's Creed 2 with dlcs

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Assassin's Creed Revelations

Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered including AC Liberations remastered

Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag

Assassin's Creed 4 Freedom Cry

Assassin's Creed Rogue

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China, India, Russia

Assassin's Creed Unity with dlc

Assassin's Creed Syndicate with Jack the ripper DLC

Assassin's Creed Origins with both major dlc

Assassin's Creed Odyssey with both major dlc

Assassin's Creed Valhalla with all major dlc except Dawn of Ragnarok

Assassin's Creed Mirage

Assassin's Creed Shadows with Claws of Awaji dlc

Would that be considered a terabyte of data?

Growing up, home wasn't a great place to be. My parents fought constantly and I ended up being my mother's punching bag for anger that was meant for my father. Metal objects, whatever was nearby. I was under 7. Nobody checked on me. Nobody cared.

Movies were the only relief I had, especially Pirates of the Caribbean. I'd watch them over and over imagining myself as a pirate somewhere far away. That's how I found AC games, and they became another escape.

Then Black Flag came along and had both things in one game.

Before Black Flag I was at the lowest point of my life. Bullying at school, no peace at home, a father who only had time for my older siblings, and constant pressure from relatives about studying. I was close to giving up on everything.

Black Flag gave me a reason to keep going. I can't put into words exactly how without breaking down, so I'll leave it at that.

Around that time the uncle at my local gaming corner told me Black Flag 2 was already in development. I had no internet back then so I believed him completely. I held on waiting for that sequel. It was a lie, but honestly it was the right one.

I've played many games since, some objectively better. But none of them filled the same space Black Flag did. I've replayed it over 10 times and never got bored.

When the Resync remake was announced I felt both excited and sad. My PC can't run it yet. But I'll get there someday.

I just wanted to get this off my chest.

It's crazy to me, but this is the most fun I have had in the "RPG" games. Yes, it has the fortress spam of the newer titles 100% and there is a grindiness to it, but it feels like there was so much attention paid to the path you take through the game. It reminds me of The Witcher III in a way, where it picks up heavily in the third act.

I've yet to play the DLCs, but Origins feels like a complete package of a world, with a mediocre RPG combat system, which is probably the biggest weakness. The world has so much diversity and things to discover, and I think that may be surprising to many who think that an Egypt map would just be desert. I was surprised!

There are of course a few puzzles (like the tombs, and the star sequences), but they are few and far between, being less annoying then the "puzzles" in Valhalla.

Anyway, take this as my very poorly constructed review of Origins. I cleared the entire map, and I can't wait to work on the DLCs!

What I mean by special outfit as in the outfit that you can only unlock after gathering a series of collectibles which is locked away somewhere such as the armour of Altair, Brutus, Thomas De Carnelion etc

Just had their earnings call and they said that resynced has been pre selling on par with their highest selling main line AC games. Pretty wild for a remake.

Some parts of this post will seem like ragebait, but I promise it's not.

Ezio is canonically one of the most important assassins (that's a debate to be had honestly, but when it comes to how influential they were to the brotherhood, Ezio is generally considered second only to Altaïr and maybe Bayek).

Anyhow, maybe this is just me misremembering stuff, it has been a while since I played the Ezio trilogy, but were the Borgia really that big of a threat in the first place? Compared to the likes of the British Empire and Abstergo, their concerns and plans seem a lot more local.

No doubt breaking the power of such a strong branch of the Templar Order was impressive, but it doesn't seem as important as some other feats from other assassins.

Thomas de Carneillon broke templar power in all of Europe for a century, Connor singlehandedly expelled the templars from the colonies after they had decades to consolidate their power, the Frye twins freed London from centuries of templar control in a single year.

Ezio and Altaïr are the 2 emblematic figures that made the brotherhood what it is, and again, I'm probably misremembering something, but compared to Altaïr, Ezio's impact seems a bit smaller.

Did the brotherhood become a global thing thanks to Altaïr, Ezio, or was it global before either of them? Honestly, the games after Syndicate made that aspect of the lore a bit confusing to me.

Using the AC1 version of hidden blade combat mechanics would actually be a fantastic idea to drop in Assassin's Creed going forward.

I know people do make points about the style of hidden blade combat, and they're not wrong, but it never felt quite right to me to use hidden blades in open combat in the same sense as you would, say, a sword.

Personally I would prefer it to be an assassination-only tool, like in Unity onwards, but using it as a finisher also works well too, especially if you can't spam it because the surprise of the hidden blade should be gone after the first couple of times you use it.

I like Syncbreaker's idea that it should be more like AC1, where it's a high risk, high reward instant kill tool, but I'd say it should have the added caveat that you can kill almost anyone with it, but can't use it more than, say, twice in one combat encounter, as all other enemies can be then prepared for it and counter you accordingly. Maybe the damage from that should be particularly harsh in order to make it immediately clear that you don't play the same trick too many times.

I dunno, guys. Unless the blade is specifically designed for combat support like Connor and Naoe's pivot blade or Ezio's hookblade, it shouldn't make sense to use them in open combat. Assassin's Creed Revelations especially drove the point home for me on why that shouldn't be a thing, and while I rarely used the hidden blades in combat before I saw that trailer, the trailer convinced me to never do it again.

>In an interview with PC Gamer, Ryan said he ended up loving the experience of acting for a game—even though when he auditioned for the role, it was actually masquerading as a show to keep the Assassin's Creed sequel a secret.

>"It was pitched to me via my agent as a pirate TV show," he remembered. "Amy Hubbard, a great casting director in the UK, got me into the room, and then they liked me. They asked me for a callback, and then they leveled with me. They were like, listen: this is a videogame. They said it was an Assassin's Creed, and I'd played the first one, so I was like 'great, that's a cool game.' But I didn't think it was mocap—so when it was mocap, I was over the moon. I get to be the character, in the body, you know?"

After playing Mirage for a couple of days and parkouring through Baghdad, playing the RPG AC games feels a little strange when it comes to stealth and parkour.

Mirage has an amazing stealth system compared to the other AC games (which is funny, considering it's a stealth franchise and only a few games actually have great stealth systems — though I still haven't played Unity, Syndicate, or Shadows yet).

Today I went back to Valhalla and felt kind of underwhelmed by how little stealth there is. I mean, Valhalla was clearly designed with a bigger focus on combat, so it makes sense... but in Mirage you actually feel rewarded for playing stealthily. Basim definitely wasn't made to fight head-on with swords lol.

Traversal feels different too. In Valhalla, everything is far apart, and there are only one or two ropes connecting the houses. Baghdad, on the other hand, feels perfectly designed for the classic AC parkour style.

My point is: after playing Mirage, it's hard to go back to Valhalla and not feel that something is missing (I came back mainly because I wanted to learn more about Basim.)

Am I the only one that felt that after playing Mirage? BTW I don't understand why people dislike Mirage, is one of the best IMO.

Lots of the time I see people complain about how despite the fluid cool animations in unity, the longstanding bugs mess with the control you have over Arno. Now I'm not saying this is wrong at all, its entirely true, sometimes Arno just seems to not be entirely aligned with what your controller is directing him to do. But I think people saying this hurts the parkour is a bit extreme, its definitely not ideal and I completely understand the argument that it isn't the best parkour in the series, however the problems aren't unsolvable pains. All of the jank and annoying movements are more results of inputs, I find the game works best when you kind of just go with the flow, some people dislike that but hey that's how it works.

But one thing I will admit is that I may not have the full picture, I was still a kid in 2014 and my parents were telling me to play minecraft instead of games about being a sneaky murderer. So that meant I didn't deal with any of the release bugs, I only played the game years after it released when I could get it on my own accord, and by then most the glitches had been patched. So all I really got was the cool, well animated, smooth parkour and not the abysmal game that dropped back in 2014.

I also wanna clarify that I'm not trying to argue Unity as the best parkour game in the series, I do think it is but there's no actual reason to care if other people think otherwise, we all have opinions. I'm finally playing the original AC at the moment and I really enjoy the puppeteer control over Altair and how he performs parkour and I definitely see how people prefer this type of parkour.

I really just think people overblow the issues with Unity's parkour, it's a lot of fun if you just stop fighting against it.

Every now and then I go on a full Assassin’s Creed replay marathon. I usually skip the absolute giants like Valhalla and Odyssey because they’re just too long, but this time I wanted to make it more interesting by 100% completing every game.

I’ve already fully completed a few of them in the past, so I’m starting with a bit of an advantage. Still, I’d love some advice from you guys.

Do you think it’s best to focus on the main story first and then go back for collectibles, side quests, and achievements? Or do you tackle everything region-by-region as you go?How do you usually approach a 100% run? Looking for tips and different strategies!

I have always wanted a game set in the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Nero. Playing as a templar agent in the Praetorian Guard would be amazing. I know not everyone likes the Templars as a playable faction. However we have only gotten one game with playing as a Templar protagonist and even then it wasn't part of the full story. The Praetorian guards were the only military unit allowed to have weapons within Rome's city limits(as far as I know) and playing as someone like that would make for an interesting scenario. I know it probably won't ever happen, but it's nice to dream about.

If the recent leak is true then we have early 17th century Wurzburg as a major location within Hexe's game world. While that's just one city, its probably not far fetched to assume other cities and locations will also appear in Hexe. What ones would you be most interested in appearing? I know some probable choices are the nearby city of Nuremberg, Cologne is mentioned in AC2 but that's a fair distance from Wurzburg and it is far too early to say how much of the Holy Roman Empire Ubisoft is depicting, and Munich was one of the capitals of the HRE and near-ish to Wurzburg.

What places within the HRE would you want to see in Hexe, and why?

I had this thought after randomly deciding to pick up Odyssey since not playing an AC title since about AC 3.

Really enjoying the game and Alexios' story but I have zero idea whats going on in the Modern Day timeline.

I think a lot of the appeal of AC is "oh you get to be a Assassin in Rome" or "..ninja in Japan" but the concept of jumping in and out of the Animus for some perpetual war between 2 factions is still interesting storytelling and worth keeping, but I don't see myself commiting to 2-3 sequels to go through the whole story anytime soon.

Each game could have its own modern day Assassin or templar, jumping in and out of the animus learning skills/lore from the past with the culmination being getting a one up in the eternal feud etc.

This also appeals to the fans who just want to be a cool ass Assassin in ***pick timeline and setting here*** and stops the disconnect when they jump out of the animus for the first time with no idea whats going on.