Never played any of the new ones. Is this good?

Never played any of the new ones. Is this good?

playing the inferior n*rse AC

We all know the MEDITERRANEAN QVEEN is superior

bump
ignore the shitpost

Is this good?

no

Is this good?

yes

all of them suck

ther last good one was Odyssey as Alexios

You're brown

don't listen to these homes op

none of these games are good

pure shit don't do it

It's exactly the same as the other ones, but the setting is shittier.

No. All AC games are bad, but then there are the ones that are unplayable. This is one of the latter.

it's bad *gives no explanation*

reeks of shitpost from someone who hasn't played it, sorry

it's okay for the first 5 to 10 hours until you realize there's not much to do and the story is a mess where you're cucking yourself helping others and experiencing other stories than the one you care about
Overstays its welcome and the world isn't just as interesting as the previous RPG Ac games

I ended up watching the rest of the story on youtube and my god these games have such dumb storylines with all the siu bullshit

All Assassins Creeds are pretty digital theme parks. The moment you engage with the gameplay and story you realize you're playing a game designed for third worlder monkeys

Well, Valhalla is the only one without RNG loot drops.

A few more points:
The skill system is a huge mess. There's genuinely TOO many and 90% are basically "do 1% more damage"
The actual fun skills that you use in combat aren't unlocked this way. You have to find them in the world and even then it's a RNG of what you'll find.
I found 10 and six of them were bow skills when I was a melee character.
The combat is pretty dumb. They obviously tried to make it harder by making the enemies deal more damage and restricting your heals

tl;dr just pirate it

there not good

I find it interesting that was the one decision they backtracked on for Shadows. Do people really like that skinner box shit?

You didn't play it.

Short answer is it depends. Do you like open world "box checking/collection/objective" games like AC? If not, then probably this isn't for you. If you liked earlier AC titles, the "modern" ones have more focus on different gear progression and a more active battle system akin to soulslikes rather than the "parry and kill each guy one by one" thing that became a bit too normal in the old days.

Do you care about the story?

You'll miss a bit and have some stuff spoiled for you given the 'real world story' (think Desmond back in the older AC days, startin with Valhalla. It goes

Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla

Each of these three AND THEIR EXPANSIONS have some important shit going on both in the mainline story and show a different historical part. I'd suggest playing them in order.

Mechanics

Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla also have different mechanics to gameplay - Each one's set of equipment drops, talent/ability unlocks, and whatnot is different. I suggest playing in order again. I personally think Valhalla had the best mechanics and Odyssey the worst (the looter shooter level of gear drop, the abilities/skill system that is very narrow and requires respecs ), but others have their own approaches. I enjoyed playing them all.

Setting

It really depends on what you enjoy the most. There' variation in all of them, but its very different times and places. Also keep in mind that the expansions of all games tend to branch way beyond what's in the main setting and tend to be split into "historical" and "mythological" focuses with the latter being WAY wilder.

Content

There's a lot of it in all games if you're like me and 100%-the-important-stuff. Valhalla has MASSIVE amounts of optional content though, but its set up more than the others for stuff like the whole River Raids campaigns or the Tombs (old school AC puzzles) or Mastery Challenges ( serious challenges that will overwrite your difficulty level); but OPTIONAL.

Mirage is unique in its own right, sort of a half-step between the old ACs and the modern ones. It was a literal Valhalla DLC expansion before it became its own standalone. Its quite a nice little "pallet cleanser" after Valhalla having so much content, as Mirage is relatively small by comparison, city focused , and takes you to Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age etc.

Note that Mirage should be played AFTER VALHALLA. to get the most out of it. It basically spoils part of a big reveal in the main Valhalla campaign, but once you've played it it provides more context for how that character became how they were.

I really liked it
Much better than odyssey imo.
Eivor is a Chad, you should play as the man obviously.
This is NOT an AC game. This is a Viking god simulator. Ignore the modern plot bullshit and you'll have fun. You are Odin reincarnated as a mortal man and you're here to conquer England.

Personally I find the combat to be a bit ass on higher difficulties. There's no reason to play anything other than story mode. The game will dump you with 20 enemies that are health sponges and it's more fun to play as a Norse God who can smite the shit out of everyone than to pretend eivor is a regular human. It's not a matter of git gud, it's just boring to play on hard. I exclusively used the claymore and I Felt like it was the best Berserk simulator.

As for voices, the French dub is superior. English VAs make men sound like bitches and bitches sound like men. French dub makes eivor sound cool and all the women sound sexy.
The Odin DLC is also fantastic, as being able to turn into a raven and fly around made playing open world's fun again.

I like this game solely because it tried to avoid being assassins creed. There's nothing AC about it. To me this is the best game Ubisoft has put out in a long time. It's ashame odyssey grabs all the attention, that shi was awful, I fucking hated Alexios and Alexandra.

There's no reason to min max. Just let the game auto level you and it'll be fine.
Also I just played on story mode, it's far more fun. "Hard" in this game means enemies one shot you while they take 50 sword hits to die.

Ghost of Tsushima had the best horse summoning to mount system. AC Valhalla copied it and did it worse lol.

FPBP

t. Over 600 hours in ACO

Ignore these fags OP.

AC Valhalla has nothing to do with assassin's creed. It's great because it actively ignores and avoids ass creed shit.
This is Viking god simulator first and foremost.

Actively avoid odyssey and origins. Those games are fucking dog shit and aren't worth your time. AC Valhalla stands on its own easily.

Troons

I'm still annoyed that Odyssey and Valhalla did not have a Mass Effect style

Pick YOUR Eagle Bearer, they will be imported into your future games canon/continuity. Also, we'll write certain bits of lore such as how Odyssey's "Family" story ended (ie did you save all 4, or less and who lived. A tip for anyone wanting to play - ALWAYS try to save anyone tangentially related to your (step)family if you want the best ending), etc.

Reworked the Valhalla story to allow either "choice" to be just as valid/canon.

It would have been easy to do but its annoying they didn't.

pallet cleanser

Why do americans have so much trouble differentiating between palate, palette, and pallet? Like holy shit they fuck it up EVERY Time

sounds french

Sounds fucking retarded and you sound like a faggot.

Probably because when we're randomly posting and the spell check corrects to what it thinks is the most commonplace usage. This isn't exactly the kind of site where you decide to post again just for

WAIT WAIT I MADE A TYPO HURRRR

Thirdies mad we living rent free in your minds

Play Origins. Better protag and less fat.

the spell check

fuck outta here phoneposting faggots
And no, the spellcheck does not change it to the wrong word, you're just EZLs (English Zeroth Language)

Shitposting samefag, do you know what the alternatives are?

BIG GIRLBOSS ENERGY

You're given choices, but then have them curtailed if you didn't play as the female playable character, in terms of the lore. Go fuck yourself.

Why are you so autistic

You'll never be thin, lard burger

I don't care faggot. I played as eivor and I don't care about lineage. I actively avoided all modern day plot bullshit.

And you'll always be poor third worlder.

but I want to climb old Christian churches

I thought it was thest best of the new ones, but it's still one of the new ones so not that great and really repetitive. These games always worked best when you were just parkouring around a a nicely fleshed out city. The new ones have way too many giant open spaces and lacking in architecture and the vertical exploration that made the old ones fun.

t. in debt that he'll die before paying fully

Origins > Mirage > Valhalla = Odyssey.
Don't have Shadows yet.

Origins is the best because the RPG system barely matters and is easy to ignore because all you need to do is half-assedly upgrade stuff and equip the highest tier equips every time.
Mirage is just a classic AC game with Valhalla physics and one really broken super move you can simply ignore using.
Valhalla starts out fine but the longer you play the more insanely padded it is and if you are a 100%er it's insanely padded to a ridiculous degree to the point that River Raids are literally a 60 hour minimum grind, more realistically 100 hours just to buy everything related to it.
Odyssey isn't an Assassin's Creed game, it's a generic Greek RPG. If you just want to run around it's fine, but it's the second most bloated game in the series and the Diablo Loot absolutely ruins the game if you are an AC fan. If you go into it expecting a generic RPG it's mostly fine from that viewpoint.

It's great because it actively ignores and avoids ass creed shit.

It literally has more focus on the Order of the Ancients and Hidden Ones than Odyssey did with the Cult and Order, what are you even on about?

I just want RDR if he viking

Don't have Shadows yet.

I would've bet money on you 100%-ing it already.

Assassin's Creed hasn't been good since Syndica...wait, Mirage was pretty solid, actually. Just too short.

Namefag nigger
Here's 1 reason why origins can be discarded

Leveled enemies

Imagine not being able to stab a guy in the neck because you're level 20 and he's level 22 lmao.

This is why Valhalla mogs odyssey and origins and mirage. It avoids all that shit.

why do tripfaggots do these samefags

I'm gonna fuck Bassim in the Assim!

I hated it. Everything about these new ones is completely soulless right down to the fifty million slightly different versions of the same thing getting dropped as loot

You could play any of them that way, but not everyone may want to stick their fingers in their ears or fast forward through everything story related, making up their own shit instead.

Played as Eivor

No, you just said you didn't. You played as "Havi" by a trick of the Animus and it would have been a better game if they would have updated shit to make it written equally consistently no matter which you chose.

I only buy the games when they're $40 or less. I didn't even get Mirage until like six months after release and Valhalla I only got because it was $40 and I had a $20 gift card. The lowest it's hit so far is either $50 or $55, I forgot which.

Except Mirage has instakills. If you're arguing Valhalla is better because of that then Mirage is the best game.

Nigga who the fuck cares about their gay ass modern plotline bullshit. That's been garbage since they killed off Desmond. The only thing that matters is exploring the historical setting which was pretty cool.

Do people really like that skinner box shit?

it's just much easier than hand placing everything. they went a bit too far with skills for that in valhalla, but needing to find your gear in sensible places was great. there's also less of it and you rely on upgrades more.

You are going to be doing the exact same thing over and over again. Your first 5 hours into the game you have seen everything there is to see. You will see a constant barrage of BADASS women warriors, constant homosexual flirting and degeneracy, sea of foreigners (non-Europeans) that are all heckin' awesome and interesting and super cool! It's one of the most boring pieces of shit I've ever played in my life.

That same thing literally happens in Valhalla. Enemies are leveled. The only difference is that Valhalla has both an actual

Assassination full damage attack skill, if you push the button again when its in the KILL HERE part of the meter, when you get to it on the skill tree

and a

Game setting "Assassination always works/instakill" for accessibility reasons

I can't remember if Odyssey had the same thing or not yet, but I know Mirage had it too.

I forgot to mention as soon as you get to England you can read a letter from some Arab who went to Ireland and now identifies as neither gender.

Odyssey had the idiotic "HOLD the assassination button for critical damage" instead of that just replacing basic assassination. Why the fuck would I ever want to do less damage?

Vikings>sandniggers.

God you assassins creed losers are the most insufferable fags alive.

This is an AC Valhalla thread not an assassin's creed thread. Every time you tell me about assassins creed lore it sound's like you're describing your anal cleansing routine for when your boyfriend fucks you in the ass. It's the gayest shit possible. Stop fucking talking about AC

Odyssey didn't have it. Being able to instakill was an advertising point for Valhalla due to how many people complained about it in Origins and especially Odyssey (Since it was massively worse in Odyssey). It's why them adding the notice that the game wasn't balanced around it when you go to turn it on makes no sense because that notice was added later as far as I recall and the entire EXP system is balanced around it being turned on.

Odyssey's "solution" of a workaround is dropping to the lowest difficulty because it lets you circumvent the defense mechanics or something to a much higher degree so you can kill gold-named enemies two levels higher than you without an Assassin build. Obviously that means you are invincible and kill everything in nanoseconds outside of stabbing them so it's functionally pointless but it technically exists to a degree.

I liked Valhalla but the intro was hard to push through with random black vikings in your crew.
Until you get the Viking house to replace them with white vikings. The game gets progressively less woke the liner you play.

and mirage. It avoids all that shit.

Ask me how I know you didn't play Mirage

Because I'll tell you: I don't play as an arab. Nothing about the middle east is cool. I don't like ass creed. I think ubishit is dead. I think you fags who play the games religiously when they come out are the cancer of gaming.

But Valhalla was the only exception and I find it great. I like playing as a Viking. I really liked playing as Odin. I enjoyed ignoring all modern day plots and anything to do with AC lore.

Miss me with your argument that mirage is better. I really don't care.

Gritty, violent combat

Good graphics

Unique setting where it borderline feels fantasy

Lots of fun little history bits.

Decent story with some good twists and characters.

Yeah, I think it's a good game, but it can definitely get repetitive after 70 hours or so.

frogposting tourist meltdown obsessed with gay sex

STOP TALKING ABOUT AC IN AN AC THREAD DEDICATED TO AN AC GAME

No matter how you choose to play, the story of the game is actually on topic. You can choose to ignore it, but your extended homosexual fantasy detailed above has no bearing on the fact that some people may not want to start a game that is effectively the third book of a trilogy. Those who don't care can got into it informed. You're the only one having a spergout that not everyone is playing entirely in autistic headcanon-only mode you are.

So if you haven't played it, why do you make statements about its gameplay?
Fucking idiot

Because it's shit. I don't have to play the fag dress up game to know it's for fags. I already know you suck cock like a bitch lol

AC fan arguing for his right to suck cock. What a surprise.

No you specifically said there's leveling crap in it, that's a very specific complaint about a game you've never played (it's also a completely wrong thing to say).
You've been outed as a retard, bud

Odyssey is better for the nemsiss system and naval combat

It's acktchually bretty fun. But the best part is of course the raiding and they stop adding anything to those after like 10 hours in and the story never goes anywhere so I'd say it's only fun for 20ish hours, maybe more if you really like the story or bog standard ubishit/asscreed combat. But that 20ish hours is ubisoft enjoyable

But the Mercenaries suck ass because they don't stop spawning with psychic powers causing your bounty to very quickly spiral out of control early in the game, and later on they're just super annoying because they spawn when you do anything and waste your time.

Ship battling is the worst in Odyssey with the only thing beating it out in awfulness is the Experto Crede in Freedom Cry thanks to the level scaling and just how tanky everything is. You can have the best commanders and the ship maxed out and still take an eternity to kill everything while you die in seconds with some of the weakest feeling attacks you ever felt.

for a lot of people odyssey was the breaking point for rpg creeds like syndicate was for the paired animation combat creeds. the only reason for you to play valhalla is if you enjoyed origins and odyssey or like the setting. if you dont enjoy the setting or dont enjoy the series then there is not much for you to discover. for history fans odyssey is better. valhalla's discovery tour is extremely dogshit in comparison to odysssey's.

origins, odyssey, and valhalla are all nice enough games. shadows is a snoozefest

Origin is the best, Valhalla is the close second, Odyssey despite the promise is so filled with mmo style grindwalls that its literally unplayable without cheats

I fucking hated the series, hated odyssey, hate Ac. And I really like the viking simulator.

it seems much of the dev time was lost on the technical aspects of the engine facelift and the seasons feature. i went back and played odyssey with the gamepass i had left and the 2 games are night and day in the amount of fleshing out the worlds got.

you can ignore the cultists and just do the family story and finish the game in 15ish hours while dabbling in a few side quests that you are forced to do to get levels. there's also some community created maps where you can just grind exp and that should take 10-20mins if you want to ignore the side quests alltogether, which i think you need to do maybe 10-15 of to stay on the xp curve. i agree its pretty gey.

1st DLC is decent since it focuses on the cool part (setting) and has you dealing with the persians and the 2nd DLC is like a purgatory in my case and i called it quits around 1/3 through. its especially bad because the dlc is like entirely focused on the isu/current day stuff which got abandoned altogether in the later entries

which got abandoned altogether in the later entries

No it didn't. Valhalla and Mirage both had it. Unless Shadows somehow got rid of it which I sincerely doubt they all had Isu stuff. Hell, Mirage is literally all about how Basim merged with Loki.

odyssey's current day story is about a bunch of character that got axed in some comic between games unless they bring that story back in hexe.

and shadows has no modern day story besides throwaway generic journal entries you have to unlock in the launcher game pass thing

I have a high tolerance for slop, I platinumed Origins and Odyssey but this one was the worst of the bunch.

I hated Origins and quit it shortly into the start of the 1st DLC, skipped Odyssey cause I figured it would be more of the same and I gave Valhalla 2 hours. It's shit.

Origins is the 2nd best asscreed after the first one.
You should definitely play that one. Then maybe Mirage. Odyssey and Valhalla are so fucking bloated I can't recommend them with good conscience to anyone.

odyssey's current day story is about a bunch of character that got axed in some comic between games

The start of Odyssey's story (So, the interim between William recruiting Layla) was done in a comic, yes. Every character there but Layla was either introduced in an interim comic, was introduced in prior lore drops (The Abstergo chick), or was introduced in older content (The Japanese guy they mention).
The middle of Odyssey's story is Layla physically going to Atlantis and setting up shop there.
The end and DLC of Odyssey's story is Layla literally being handed the Staff of Eden by Kassandra and watching her promptly die before proceeding to go through Kassandra's memories of what Aletheia taught her on how to wield the staff as she went insane because she has no Isu DNA in her leading to her killing her handler, all of Sigma team, and paralyzing Otso.
Valhalla's entire story revolves around Odin and a bunch of other Isu trying to overtake their human hosts because their way of surviving the solar flare was to copy Aita but in one single person instead of across all of human DNA. Loki realizes Eivor hosts Havi and tries to kill her. The game straight up ends with Loki being resurrected by Layla dying and him dropping on the Staff of Eden that has his wife's consciousness in it.
Valhalla's entire drug binge segments are Havi's memories mixing with Eivor's and involving tons of Isu members to the point that we literally see Minerva (Picture related) leaving messages via her Isu computer for Desmond and other people, Juno, Aletheia, and more. The entire drug binge stuff is literally just an abstract version of what happened.
Even the Dawn of Ragnarok DLC is about how the end of the Isu came about and how the solar flare was finally approaching.

here's a big open world feel free to go explore and play the game in your own way

joke all the areas are level gated and if you go to an area you're not strong enough for yet you're going to get raped hahahaha

All three RPG AC's are shit for the same reason.

You know, Syndicate has this and it doesn't feel bad, but I think it's the structure of it.

I like AC RPG and I'm not a hater for nothing, so :

I loved Odyssey (I love ancient Greece tho)

I liked Valhalla especially Paris DLC (I love the Carolingian tho, it was painful to kill them lol

Origins was meh to me. Landscapes are gorgeous but you feel it's the first game with the new gameplay.

Shadows has the best graphics, the best gameplay of the franchise, plenty new features but I don't know. It lacks something

Mirage was forgettable, I prefer full RPG

handed the Staff of Eden by Kassandra and watching her promptly die before proceeding to go through Kassandra's memories

Kass could have just told layla verbally lmao, what a dumb bitch

Syndicate feels bad for a million other reasons

Syndicate lets you instantly kill anyone with your Hidden Blade or throwing knives and fighting is never necessary which isn't possible in Origins or Odyssey. I went straight to Big Bong (Level 10 enemies) at level 2 and started exploring. Same deal with Valhalla, as soon as I reached Angle Land I pretty much beelined to the bottom-left of the map stabbing my way through it.

Syndicate also let you become very overpowered with the Rooks very quickly and even if you just expand them a very tiny bit you can call them in on enemy groups you have no business fighting at you level and watch them slaughter them. When I was on my way down there there was some level 4 or 6 sweatshop I had to clear without being seen and only just started buffing the Rooks. They cleared the entire sweatshop as I stood on the scaffolding watching through the walls thinking they're gonna die any second and I'll figure out what to do, I was beyond baffled. Needless to say they were never used for the rest of the game.

Black Flag > Revelations > Mirage

AC1 is outside the list. It doesn't even feel like an AC game. Very much recommend it though.

Rest are skippable

Not gonna lie I wanted to like Syndicate but holy FUCKING SHIT, it's like I'm in control of my character 50% of the time. Every action is way too contextual, my character uses a tool when I want to avoid being shot, he tool executes an enemy when I want to use a smoke bomb, he refuses to jump off ledges, he goes back to the driver seat when I want off my ride, a bunch of other shit that drove me crazy. London is beautiful, the target assassination missions were well done, but holy shit the controls needed like 5 more separate keys.

Did you play Unity? It's a lot smoother than that, it's more or less built off of Unity's systems. Not to say it's that smooth to begin with. I dunno, I liked Syndicate. Getting massive combos was fun. The zipline made traversal easy.

Not him but Unity's color filter killed the game for me

Shadows has the best graphics, the best gameplay of the franchise, plenty new features but I don't know. It lacks something

for me it's

1. Setting

sakoku/sengoku japan is just a pretty uninteresting period. i think a lot of history people would have preferred meiji if it HAD to be japan.

2. Protagonists

both are shit, enough said

3. Gameplay features

coming from odyssey and valhalla they scrapped a shitton. mercenaries, naval combat, big battles to name a few. they kept the shitty dungeon crawling which im not sure anyone liked. the replacement for side activities being all collectathons sucked. crowd NPCs are utterly pathetic even compared to odyssey. they removed meditation and also the "follow road" feature which is just bizarre.

4. Story

they basically made 2 stories. one that loosely follows the unification period of japan and a very half assed templar revenge story for yasuke and assassin origin story for naoe and instead of focusing on one they leave both unfinished and have you wait for DLC to see the conclusions to all the story beats.

Does anyone have any mods to remove the blacks from the game? Also holy shit this game is monetised out of the ass. I hate this shit. I got the game on sale but imagine preordering this just to have a bunch of content locked behind a paywall. Even if it's goofy. I want to have access to that shit yk.

Haven't got around to Unity, I have that one and 2 of the RPG's left. Didn't play them in order. Burnt out for now.
I noticed a decline in how deliberate and consistent the control scheme is throughout the series. The first big downgrade came with AC3 where they automated a bunch of parkour contextual actions but retained the need to hold down both space and rmb for high profile and sprint, the second with Black Flag, where they introduced needing only left shift for sprinting.and Edward / Adewale / Shay kept jumping on all sorts of places I never meant to, especially on ships. Syndicate is even worse than that, but in all areas and not just parkour.
The controls for the first 4 games (1 and the Ezio trilogy) haven't been topped so far. Everything the character did was consistently in line with what I wanted him to do.

Well, it wasn't just about telling her what Kass/Alexios went through, but her experience as a sort of training simulation in order to learn to make use of / bond with the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus. Note that Alethea did the same thing with the Eagle Bearer, as the part you play through is sort of a quasi-recording of what Alethea went through particularly when she was the Dikastes of Atlantis; the other parts with Elesium and Hades were also other Isu elements (ie you meet Isu Hermes and Hekate I think, in one of the few choices where you can decide which you want to back etc) juxtaposed with the Greek afterlife. So even the "demigod" Eagle Bearer needed to be VR-trained to use this particularly powerful Isu staff as well as revealing parts of Isu history and the like. Its worth mentioning that the Spear of Leonidas "full version" forge molds are seeen in Atlantis and certain abilities you get there can activate generating the full thing, not just the spear tip.

So Layla needed all that experience and she was much less powerful and genetically attuned to Isu stuff vs Kass/Alex. However, its worth mentioning because of something that's a big fucking spoiler later on with Valhalla, you have to wonder if she COULDNT or if she was purposefully NOT TOLD/NOT PROPERLY BOUND to the Staff even after all this stuff Its obvious Alethea orchestrated the whole 3 games long Heir of Memories bit with Layla + Kass/Alex's holding of it in order to get Basim/Loki back..at least in part. We see that Kass/Alex does not need to physically walk around all day with the giant goddamn staff on them to be immortal, yet the moment Layla drops it - stupidly, she should have known what Yggdrasil was gonna do - she dies because she';s not in touch with it? .[/spoiler

AC4's engine is pretty bad about sticky jump points for sure. It's a big problem in Rogue as well. Unity feels even clunkier than Syndicate but it has a lot of detail put into the animations. Climbing feels really good in it at least.

One thing that bothers me is that (apparently) they always made Yasuke feel superfluous. Putting aside the George Floyd shit or why Yasuke should be a playable vs a side character in the first place, he can't make it to the top of every viewport etc. WHY! It feels like he entire game is made for Naoe (which it sort of is) but Yasuke is there only to unga bunga combat and nothing else, yet they give you supposed equal choice between the two. Completely asinine.

After the release delay, I thought they'd fix this. I thought they'd make sure its a

Okay, Naoe grappling hooks up to the top of the thing. Yasuke bashes down a door only he can bash and just walks out onto the roof - they can both get there, different ways.

but no, apparently not. Fuck. What a waste. They KNEW people were saying this after the preview before the Feb supposed launch. Why fuck it up? Also

story, both unfinished have to wait for DLC

Uh.. do you mean the DLC that is supposed to have the Bo Staff added to it? Its a continuation of both stories? I heard they were apparently not going to make any other expansions/DLC except for this one, so I hope they sort it out

Why is syndicate such a piece of shit. I fucked around with the INI files to stop the freezing and it did for a couple of time but then back to the intro screen freeze. Can I report them to any governing body for selling a broken game? I live in the bongland

Unity's gonna be next once I get the AC urge again. Hearing this info about the controls is kinda disappointing. Hoped it to be a step in the right direction based on the footage I saw.
How are the servers on PC? There are 2 cheevos that I'm gonna need another nigga for if I remember correctly. I procrastinated playing it because of the coop aspect.

tfw mandatory motion blur during cart boosting and zipline swinging that you can't turn off even in ini files

They left the story for Naoe off at the point where she's going to discover the assassins and what their relation to the mcguffin box is. Yasuke's story was concluded in the main game but not Naoe's/the assassin branch's.

they always made Yasuke feel superfluous

They never put a single effort into Yasuke and you can tell his character was probably written into the story half way through because it's so disconnected from the whole Assassin part of the story. He's also not a real character that you for a second believe is meant to be a foreigner and instead he basically is just a japanese character in a story based off a western character. The foreigner aspect is not baked in like in other media depictions like the recent shogun adaptation where they make a huge effort to show how much a fish out of water William Adams' character in that show is initially.

bro jsut skip unity. The gameplay is ass besides the parkour vids show. The map is suprisingly boring despite all the praise it gets. Its one of the weakest AC stories just a bad game
t. played and 100 synced most of the games

When it comes to Layla's whole deal with the Staff you have to remember she's been going insane holding it because she has no Isu blood compared to Kass who is basically a step away from being a pure Isu. It's very likely it was just her not having proper control over it at all and at the start of Valhalla she started telling Shaun and Rebecca about how it's messing with her.

Regarding your Odyssey talk, Kass' specific lesson wasn't to wield the Staff itself, it was lessons to allow her to live for 2000 years holding it until she could pass it onto Layla because she was going to deal with seeing wars, death, loss, and more on top of being tasked to follow up on the Pieces of Eden scattered about to bring balance to the Force so neither side could get them. She was supposed to make decisions that could shape humanity due to her immortality and if she tipped the scales too much or pandered to a side too much she could end up destroying the world before Desmond or Layla ever existed.

Keep in mind that the Adonis stuff was supposed to be a lesson on how to settle disputes and make peace, the Hades stuff was supposed to be a lesson on loss and war, and the Poseidon stuff was supposed to be a lesson on the constant things happening in societies, how to address them, and how to deal with internal disputes in sides she does join.

Unity does this shit too. Along with skill points and economy tuned for premium currency in a single player game.

Unity does this shit too

Except in Unity you can stab anything or shoot it in the head which you can't do in those titles. Valhalla lets you turn on instant assassinations but you can't insta-kill with headshots.

AC thread? Hell yea.
Let me tell you how I much hate ubisoft for completely sabotaging the original AC3 in favor of the ugly as fuck demaster. It won't even launch anymore. You have to manually remove a certain file in the install folder to be able to launch it, and then you'll notice that uplay refused to download any dlc content you own, leaving you with the most barebones version of the game. It's cancer to fix and at this point it's easier to pirate the skidrow repack than trying to install your legal copy.

When i hit unity and couldn't pick up weapons and do the combat flow of 3 and 4 i felt deflated. Why go backwards so much?

Why go backwards so much?

Because people had spent the last eight or so years at that point complaining about the combat being too easy and chain kills making combat a bore. This led to them doing a full overhaul of the systems which is why you now have a new parkour system, they redid how Eagle Vision could work, and they redid how a bunch of general stuff in the world functioned, particularly social stealth.