you know when i was a kid playing these games all i wanted was to be in the animus and when i left i would get annoyed. fast forward to today where im replaying them all and damn the modern day store is so cool. i think a lot of people took it for granted until black flag
Hot take: the chronicles games should have been full on open world traditional ac games instead of the side scrollers that we got. I want to play a game in those settings but in open world form
Hot take: a lot of what people hate about conner can EASILY be solved with a sequel to the game, like what the ezio trilogy got. The main complaints I see are: Lack of character development, conner is very stoic, desmond got killed off in ac3. Literally ALL of these issues could be fixed if there was a sequel to AC3.
no need to fix problems that dont exist, connor is a deep character and AC3 plot is one of the best. he may deserved a sequel back in time, but now, too late
Hot take: Imagine an Assassin's Creed game set in Communist Romania. Hunting Ceausescu's Templar agents, surviving on the streets with many Securitate officers looking at you (Security agents or Securisti as they were called by many, which were agents tasked in hunting down people who spoke ill of the regime, beating them, killing them, taking them to jail stuff like that) and killing Ceausescu during his failed speech in 89, when the people were fighting the army, many dying, many arrested. This could be a great Ac game.
It was great to be in a video for once. Kassandra/Alexios are better protagonists than Arno, Greece is visually more stunning and a better world, side content is mostly better, and Odyssey has much better combat. Maybe I should have clarified that. Great video, as always, Hidden One! I also need to say that Shadows better have the Ezio's Family theme we were teased in the trailer. The one they dropped stinks while the other songs were amazing.
@JamesSmith-ny2gb I don't even hate Arno. He just doesn't connect to me as much as Alexios or other protagonists. He does beat Shay, though. Dead Kings was peak Assassin's Creed DLC.
Hot take : watch dogs was supposed to be how the modern day assassin's brotherhood operated they just took the best ideas for it and made it a separate game
The tragedy of Assassin's Creed is that it's made my Ubisoft. Just imagine what companies like Naughty Dog, Rockstar or From Software would had done with this idea.
@berkian wasted potential all around, but I agree these games are so rich in story and character, settings it's a storytellers dream to have every tool layed out infront of you but ubi being ubi just let's these idea's waste away
I put those in the community post way too late lol and i also may get a lot of flak for these takes if they eventually go in a video, but here goes nothing. 1. Stealth wasn't truly introduced to the franchise as a full fledged mechanic until Unity's release. Before this game, it was an unoptimized sub-mechaninc, at best. 2. The RPG trilogy is made of amazing games that 100% deserve their spot as part of the main franchise. 3. Ezio's story ( specially AC 2 ) was the ultimate responsible for turning what was once a multilayered philosophical conflict between Assassins and Templars that was introduced in AC 1 into the generic " comically evil guys vs good guys " that would be a staple of the following games. I'll add more if i remember more.
I don't know about the black guy part. Speaking as an East Asian, I'm not really a fan of Yasuke. Like this is the second game in the franchise that set entirely in East Asia (and hell the first was not even a mainline game), and there is no male protagonist? Like using Shao Jun costume for Evie in Syndicate is fun, and Naoe (based on her gameplay footage) would probably be fun to play as too, but no male protag? I thought Western media nowaday is all about representation and then Ubisoft just put a black guy into a game with Japanese setting? There are already 2 African male protags iirc in the franchise (does Freedom Cry count?), why put another one in Shadows instead of an Asian? Also, a black guy playing an important role (well-known or not, would still be important in the story) in Japanese's history, I don't know. It's not like the Mongolian in Ghost of Tsushima because they are clearly the invaders, the enemies. But Yasuke's role would probably be closer to a hero, a savior of some sort, is that a right move from Ubisoft? And don't even talk about the in-game lore, if you want stealth, wouldn't Yasuke stand out like a sore thumb?
@spectator492 I get it, yes people want a Asian man as representation in an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan. But saying that an Assassin's Creed Game set in a certain area requires a character that is from that region is purely subjective depending on the context. It's up to the writers whether they want to or not because they can select from real people or make up their own. For example a Turkish game was made and Ezio was the main character or Assassin's Creed in Caribbean having a white guy as the MC rather than a black or mayan man born there (Adewale was in DLC not the main game so doesn't count unless you want Ubisoft to do the same here too) or a native that was born there. AC Origins came years after black flag. Mainline Black representation for the series took until Origins to actually be front and centre if you ignore DLC despite black flag making more sense because of the slave trade but it wasn't which nobody cared about. It almost feels kinda strange that people only cared about this now as suppose to the past with other ethnics. The "representation" that these games offer I just take as just being the setting rather than the actual characters you play as considering how for example Yasuke is one character out of a majority Japanese who actually do important things (you see the culture of Japan as it is celebrated not where ever Yasuke is from and he gives his impression of the place as an outsider Juxtaposed with Naoe's as her being a male wouldn't change how she feels about the place given her backstory). More so than Yasuke in the grand scheme of things characters like Oda Nobunaga, Naoe (if you play as her only) or her father and others will likely play a more impactful role as Yasuke likely leaves after credits roll also Ubisoft Quebec might want to tie Yasuke to the Templar side of the narrative given his association with the Jesuits. It makes sense why they would choose him from a writing perspective but "representation" wasn't their point or they would just slap on any famous samurai like Musashi and call it a day and it would be less effort to make given how popular he is in Japan as suppose to Yasuke or Fujibiyashi which is the target audience (I am actually surprised Ubisoft execs let creatives do this rather than a more popular figure). Also most samurai or ninja are Japanese I would of rather prefer an Ainu individual rather than a Japanese person as a fresh perspective for this type of storyline. Asian representation in Western Media has grown a lot look at Star Wars Acolyte, Yakuza series, Shang Chi, Mulan, One Piece Live Action, Shogun, and so on and notice how only one is a samurai associated property because East Asia isn't just Samurai and Ninjas. I would like another sleeping dogs game or something to do with Korean History or Chinese history rather than another Samurai or ninja movie which has been done to death. In that sense you can see why Ubisoft choose Yasuke to make it feel different despite the "Samurai" archetype Yasuke is given his story obviously won't be the same like a typical samurai story.
@@triton5336 Well for a franchise with 10+ games, this is the first mainline game that set in East Asia (and could be the last, with what going on at Ubisoft), and that for immersion purposes, I would like to be able to play as an Asian male. Ubisoft can always leave the Yasuke stuffs to be a side plot (like Henry Green in Syndicate) or a DLC something. If that the case, I don’t think I would be as annoyed. And also, with Shadows being a Quebec game that has 2 protags with 2 different play-style (like Syndicate, again), I don’t think only playing as Naoe from start to end is possible. I know this is kind of just bitching but is it that hard to have 2 main characters from the same region as the setting? Syndicate had that, Odyssey had that, Valhalla had that. So why is Shadows the odd one out? You can say Yasuke acts as a view for outsiders, but then where are those for all the other game? Apologized for wasting your time but I just can’t stand their decision to make Yasuke a main character.
This is a common occurrence in ac games. And if your identity is entirely based on race, go get some therapy. You don’t need to be playing video games.
Yasuke sounds like a cool story and really unique, but they could have just given people more options. A Japanese male option. The funny thing is I wouldn't really care for the story that much. I would have rather play Ghost of Tsushima, which is basically what people seem to want.
@@spectator492 Again this is just an opinion, I could have said the same thing with black flag as Adewale was just DLC even though there was plenty of white characters before he was sidelined also Ubisoft was in a dire situation when Unity launched as they also nearly got bought up due to low stocks which are about the same as they are now. I just saw the series as a game that doesn't do representation in that way. People could also just argue they want an actually American Settler as a main character over Connor as it makes more sense in gameplay and other things versus a character wouldn't realistically be treated the same way leading to historical authenticity or accuracy talks which would happen if AC 3 happened now versus back then. Again at least you have a playable character who is from the place, I don't think their gender should mean anything. If it's a representation of culture rather than gender you want the game does have it on the actual game not as DLC like black flag. Its just a surface level preference thing as Nobody would be mad if AC Origins was headlined by Aya and a Roman character or someone like Apollodorus (who is basically like Yasuke in terms of roles). Aya is Egyptian and people would have been fine with that rather than saying they want an actual male lead in Africa as if gender means less representation somehow as women don't complain there is no female Italian representation and so on which I always find guys like you miss. This is a male dominated series until only recently as Ubisoft states "women don't sell games" which they had to make up for hence why the first AC game in Germany will have a female character only. You point is fine in the sense you want an Asia guy also in the series but saying that should be the case while ignoring Naoe when other native groups were completely ignored in the past till later is a little short sighted and pointless if you ask me but your are still entitled to your own opinion when there is a series like AC completely dedicated to Japanese history and culture Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yōtei and likely the eventual Ghost 3 which might go to the Meiji restoration period but I guess Yasuke being a playable character in a AC game ruins all that for you. I can't tell you how to feel so won't try to.
I said it once. I'll say it again. -Yusuf deserves his own game. -Connor should get a new game re-constructing the american brotherhood. - We need to bring back the grey morality and have games from the Templars perspective. - And Odyssey would've been better recieved if at the end it was the origin story of Kassandra taking over the cult and reshaping it into what we know now as the Templar Order. Having her as the modern day antagonist.
Yeah you can tell that Desilets had a personal grudge on Kristen Bell because she started to ask for money for licensing her likeliness (since lucy is based on her looks and voice) to get a cut of the profits in future AC games. Desilets then killed her off in AC Brotherhood and they agreed that she gets no more mention or whatsoever moving forward except Revelations but there she gets only mentioned if you play the whack puzzles and in a sequence at the beginning abiut her funeral. Though I kinda get it. Ubisoft was betting on themselves rather to bet on a known actor. Thats absolutely understandable
Loyal and true fans who catapulted Ubisoft into Fortune 500 were taken for granted or abandoned. People who once called us 'losers' cuz we were gamers or loved comic books - now smelled a chance for a quick buck and stole our platforms. I recently made a John Wick style action montage using SC Blacklist stylish takedowns. Viewers really dig it. If only we got a JW game from Ubi. They had the right tools from SC and Watch Dogs. Too late now..
hot take: ezio is just good becuase he got 3 games if any AND I MEAN ANY PROTAGANIST GOT 3 GAMES EVEN JACOB HE WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE SAME IF NOT BETTER THAN EZIO
To be fair you could apply that to any character if they got that chance but better then Jacob nah maybe if syndicate got three games maybe but cuz of the time spent you can’t blame people to have him as a favorite
Agreed 100% bayek is already a better charzcter and he only had 1 game also male eivor hit differe t for me bit i live in Yorkshire so it pretty much looks like england on Valhalla😂😂
I really gotta agree with the Syndicate guy. I started my replay/play through this series recently, after having quit after AC3 (other games interested me more, and I was too young to keep buying them myself every year). I replayed AC1 through 3, and am currently on Syndicate. Aside from the combat and kinda parkour being an obvious downgrade to Unity, the world, the customization, and even the characters are really great. However, I do still find the combat and parkour to be good! I love exploring London, and while it may not be *as* in depth with the parkour, I really love the rope launcher, as it makes parkouring London feel faster and enjoyable (even though the pathing to the tops of buildings can be WILD sometimes). Overall, I really like Syndicate a lot more than I thought I would, and am very excited to reach its end.
I can't believe I didn't add the tower defence to my comment. It is genuinely fun, I loved it and would go around killing templars to gain notoriety just so I could do it again.
I wonder if it would be cool if we got an Assassin's creed game where you could choose the select any of the protagonists from the past and go on missions to infiltrate Abstergo or any of the other evil organizations in the past while you can choose 5 or more of the past Assassin's creed protagonists as support characters in missions. If done well, i think it could be fun. 🤔
The guy who said that Ghost of Tsushima has better stealth than any AC game has no idea what he's talking about. Even AC Origins, a game you wouldn't necessarily categorize as a "stealth game", has better stealth mechanics than Ghost. You can carry bodies, throw sleeping darts, attack from hiding spots, kill from ledges, create poison clouds, the guards have their routines, and there's a full day/night cycle for the AI. Enemies also have more interesting behaviors. Ghost is a good game, but mechanically, the stealth system is extremely basic. All you do is walk behind people and press square. Enemies are dumb, they quickly forget you, they don't search for you... You have some gadgets like the smoke bomb, 2 different bows, a blowdart, bell lures etc., but they trivialize the stealth gameplay instead of making it deeper.
are you fr? ac has terrible AI almost robotic. In AC origins if the enemies sees body they'll just lift the body, in ghost enemies will sound a horn and alert the entire camps. The vision of enemies is also better then ghost, templars in AC are blind asf
isn't AC games also the same? walk behind the enemy then stab? And what I like bout ghost is your tools while many but limited in numbers while in ac like unity you can just spam smoke or in origins you can just spam bow with almost unlimited ammo
@@ChonkyBoi_yt Ubisoft ai is shit ghosts ai is even worse it makes their detection is so generous and smoke bombs are limited while also they are fun to use and in other games their are trap mines, poison darts, sleep darts beserk darts and a bunch of other tools that differ from game to game
@@kura6184 did we play the same game fr? Ghost has way more advanced AI than anything AC ever produced, when the enemy spots a dead body they alert the camp with horns and a group of guards actually roams the camp to check for any enemies + they also have better peripheral vision. In AC, if the guards sees a body they'll just look at it then just lift it or ignores it without actively searching for intruders and they have poor peripheral vision like they cannot spot enemies that is above them or at their side
I still think Yasuke is a way more interesting character than just another Japanese one. It’s a new, interesting story. We‘ve already seen Japanese Samurai before. Its mostly about revenge or honor. This one has the potential to be something else.
I like the idea of Yasuke but do not think he should have been a protagonist. We have actually never had an Asian man as a protagonist and have had 3 Black ones (Aveline, Adewale, and Bayek) so from representation it doesn't make sense. We also have never had a protagonist that was not a native to the culture. More importantly though there is a good reason no previous protagonist has been a historical figure and all were entirely fictional. It would have made more sense and been a lot less controversial if Yasuke was a figure like Barolomeo in AC2 and Brotherhood. He could be a main ally of the main characters and have his own questline. Hopefully they make a good game and make Yasuke an interesting well written character though.
We have had a few games where the protagonist wasn’t a native, ezio wasn’t native to turkey, eivor wasn’t native to England and you might as well throw in Edward being not native to the Caribbean or Adewale not being Haitian I’m more annoyed yasuke isn’t an assassin, as for not having an Asian man, men are so overly represented in AC, everytime we had a female protagonist they are either got a side game like aveline and Shao jun, share the role of protagonist with a man like naoe or Evie or have a option to be male like Kassandra and Eivor. If anything naoe would have been better as a stand alone protagonist considering she looks like an assassin unlike yasuke. But Yasuke does have some narrative potential, but it is Ubisoft Quebec so I don’t have high hopes
@@JamesSmith-ny2gbFlorentine Merchants were common in Constantinople so it is realistic. Pirates were often from the British isles so Edward makes sense. Carribbean slaves have been African, so adewale makes sense. Vikings attacked England so eivor makes sense. It's not just about being a native but about historically making sense. Yasuke on the other hand was probably one of the only black people in Japan. It just feels forced and it clearly is. They are trying to represent one ethnicity on the cost of another which is even more underrepresented. Talking about male lead, the games have a majority male audience so it does make sense. Historically, men have always been the fighters and mane comsumers of fighting games are male. Just like in the AC franchise. Also most men prefer a male lead, it's just how it is. Don't push for diversity where it is not needed. But I agree with you, a Naoe standalone game would have been better than an artificially diverse game.
@@lejs1974 and there was a black retainer in nobunaga’s court and black slaves were common among Portuguese traders and Jesuits in Japan Adewale is from Trinidad, not Haiti, yeah both were slave colonies but both had distinct histories and culture and language, it would be like saying England and France are the same Don’t know about about forced, he is an interesting choice, I kind of like fish out of water stories, the whole “artificially diverse argument” kind of sounds like thinly veiled racism to me, not the first time in media that we had a non Japanese protagonist in Japan. As for males often being the fighters, assassins in the series often always had women among them, would make sense if they were anything else but considering she is an assassin I don’t mind, kind of like how kassandra and eivor don’t really make sense as warriors from the time and not assassins, Ancient Greece was extremely sexist so a literate warrior woman in Greece would turn some heads and the Vikings despite being more liberal with gender equality they were still very much patriarchal and there is very few cases of female Vikings in history but it’s mostly just speculation while one becoming a clan leader is even more ridiculous. While there has been plenty of female assassins throughout the game’s lore
@@JamesSmith-ny2gb Saying that it is racist to not want a black samurai is pretty stupid. It's more racist to put a black guy as a samurai for diversity reasons instead of using the real samurai ethnicity. Just because someone doesn't like the choice, doesn't make the person a racist. Most people loved bayek and many also liked adewale, both of darker complexion. So we already have dark skinned individuals in the series but no Asian in the main games as a protagonist. They could easily had made a game in West Africa or South Africa if they REALLY wanted to include different people. But putting him in a mostly unlikely setting is just plain stupid and racist to Asians tbh. Calling Greece racist because they didn't allow the women to fight is also pretty stupid. Who says they wanted to be fighters? Why should they compete in something where men have the advantage (stronger, faster, bigger)? While Naoe does make sense, since she is a kunoichi, and stealth kills do have an advantage for females
@@lejs1974 the problem is is it’s not a unlikely location again there were Black people in Japan around this time because they were slaves, so yeah, saying that they are not likely to be in Japan is blatantly wrong. I’m so tired of hearing this word diversity or forced diversity where is your evidence that Ubisoft got the writing team together for shadows and they all said in unison we should put a black guy in this game because of diversity ? Please show me the evidence where that is proven and don’t say some stupid shit like “ well they put them in this game didn’t they”because that doesn’t really prove that they just did it for diversity
Hot take: I love being able to play as two different characters like Jacob and Evie as well as Bayek and Aya. But in the RPG saga we've had to choose missing out on the character's story. It doesn't even matter since people like Kassandra and Eivor are the canon versions.
Hot take: Shadows will still probably be a fun game and i don't get the issue with historical inaccuracy since the whole point is that its alternate history or hidden history as its been altered by the modern day Templars you literally fight the pope at the end of AC 2 and the guy has a magic staff. If we go by the pattern of the recent AC games they've all been pretty good only issue being Valhallas bloated story but during the key story missions it's great and mirage was short and sweet.
But the probleme is that now Ubisoft is trying to sell it like an historical accurate game for the first time putting a real life character into their game but not only that the probleme is that yasuke has literally only 15 lines about him not the fake 400 pages (btw the author of that fake book has deleted his social media accounts and Japanese historians where debunking the game in a historical way)
@@ssofa11 the majority of black flag is fiction half of the pirates we know very little about the majority of it being from propaganda at the time and every AC game opens explaining that it's historical fiction if anyone I think the pricing of the other editions is very scummy for what you get with them.
The big part of the outrage is culture war or politically fueled. but big doesnt mean all, AC protagonists have always been a fictional character that interacts with NPCs that are historical figures. Yasuke by all meam should have been a NPC, or rival, or trusted bodyguard of the big bad guy aka a boss fight obstacke to go through etc. if the didnt wanna turn the only POC as a bad guy then they could have just do a plot twist where afger we duke it out with him as a cool b0ss fight we learn he was actually secretly on our side all along and honor as a martyr(ACRevelations did this same thing). etc. Or give him his own DLC like MGRR did with their cool morally grey NPC guy/Sam. Ezio an italian man in italy. Arnor a fremch man in france. Connor a natove of america. Eivor a viking from sacandinavi. Bayek an egyptian of Egypt. All of them fictional locales, same goes for Altair bayek jacob Kassandra etc all fictional MCs interacting with NPC historical figures in the story. meanwhile the only playable samurai in the franchise is not a fictional MC but a literal historical figure who was historically indeed not a samurai(wtf) now turned into MC for some reason. just why? It has no creative or artistic vision behind its reasoning. And i as someone who is s&ck of culture war seeping into every pop culture media regarsless of genre it is just pure ann0yance to see the studio picking a side in this w&r going waaay outta its way just to skirmish with the portion of fanbase that is politically biased in the studio's opposite direction. it had absolitely zero positive effect on the franchise or marketing but just divided the already divided franchise in an unnecessary p0litical division. most asians, south-east asians, indian/inidan-adjacents were already tired of this westerners obsession with identity p0litics in our games, and this was in no way a good idea
@@ssofa11 if you’re actually going to quote Ubisoft, make sure you get the quote right they said this game is historically accurate because of all the historical characters we’re going to be meeting and they’re trying their best to make a accurate representation of the land of Japan. Do you know the same thing they’ve been saying about every assassin’s Creed game since before this game was even conceived
Hot take, Aspasia is the best leader of the Order/Cult in a base game of the RPG trilogy. She has a massive lead based entirely on the fact she appears in the story in her civilian identity long before the game officially identifies her as the Ghost of the Cult of Kosmos, where Flavius is only unmasked right before the climax where he’s the final boss of Bayek’s story and Alfred only appears in a cutscene where he’s thrown in the towel already and is burning the cakes.
Hey I'm a huge fan and I really hope you read this. It is pretty long honestly. I'm a black guy, and to be honest, I did not mind the fact that Yasuke was a protagonist of AC shadows simply becayse he existed in real life. But I thought to myself how i would feel if an AC game was set in Uganda(my country) and the main character was instead a white guy during colonial times. I probably would not be thrilled. And a seeing a black guy be a better fighter than all the Japanese he faces at what they were trained to do for years, when he was in Japan for like a year, is kind of harsh. Truth is Ubisoft did make one protagonist black because they are woke. And they don't really care about anything else. We can see this in little details such as a possibility to make Yasuke have a gay romance in the game(probably rumors, idk). For Naoe its not issue who she dates because she was'nt real but for Yasuke, even if its optional, I don't think it would be right to play a character who was most likely straight, as a gay man. Especially considering the time period and the fact that he was from Africa, where such was unheard of, seen as disgusting and could even get you killed in some African cultures. Most games they release now is either having a black or female protagonist. I have no problem with that, because I don't know why being a female all of a sudden makes something woke to most of these gamer fans. But devs these days assume black/female protagonists have never existed in games before so they place them in every game they release. I'm sure you've seen the influence companies like sweet baby inc. has had on the industry which I think is far from positive. Inclusivity is a good thing when done right and respectfully, and not forced. Cyberpunk has literally every kind of person and race that exists and yet i did not even notice because it was done right and made sense for the location and time period. Of course the anti-woke people are taking things far with their points, lies and hate comments on AC shadows, but I do understand why a lot of people, including Japanese, are not happy. We waited for an AC game for years, I think it would have been more respectful to make both characters Japanese. Yasuke could have maybe been made an important and prominent character, but not the protagonist. That way he could still be included while not causing as much chaos on the internet. I hope you understand the point I'm trying to make here. Love your content and i look forward to more
I really wish they make a three kingdom period AC game. Imagine all the target you can assassinate. Dong Zhou, Liu Chong, Sun Ce,... It going to sell like hot cake. This making me want to have another campaign in TW 3K
It’s the only game I actually chose NOT to spoil the story for myself, and sat through almost the whole credit roll with my jaw dropped. That really through me for a loop 🤣🤣
Ezio is popular because he had his character developed smoothly if you compare him to other playable assassins. He had few games telling about his stories, his path and struggles. While other assassins had their stories finished quickly or various parts of their stories were developed by different Ubisoft teams without understand who they actually are. For first I'd give an example of Arno. He acts a bit like young Ezio. Carefree, I'd say. He could be as good as AC2 Ezio, but the story developed so quickly and, in my opinion, pretty silly way with his love interest always reminding that her dad died on her eyes (and somehow she forgets that Arno's dad died on his eyes back when he was a child). For the second I'd choose Connor. Boy got his moral code. He wants to be good. Sees good in people. He didn't wanted to kill Charles Lee in Boston because it's not how Connor wants to see the world. Yet right after that he proceeds to kill all his pawns. I love Connor for his brave idealist character, yet in my recent first AC3 playthrough I felt like I'm playing as someone who changes his personality on flow
Hot take: AC should reboot asap. (remaking the older games from AC1 to AC3, changing some bad aspects about modern day for example lucy's death for the start)
I'll admit The Fate of Atlantis is one of my favorite DLCs in the series and I like The Battle of Forli more than The Bonfire of the Vanities. Also I think it's wild to rank AC 2 not only as the weakest of The Ezio Trilogy but also below AC 1.
I love AC Unity despite the lack of character development for Arno which is a shame, really. I find myself more drawn to the DLC AC Unity Dead Kings which almost seems like the detached ending of AC Unity and provides more expansion of Arno’s character.
Hot take: Series dying I don’t see the series dieing anytime soon there’s so many stories they could still tell. But the story I want to see is a 1861-65 American Civil War AC. Set it as a slave running away and running into the assassins (like maybe Harriet Tubman is an assassin or is an ally of theirs) could definitely pick up on the story of AC 3/Liberation be Conners grandkid (if he had kids, or atleast the Assassins guild he starteds ancestors)
I heavily agree with the take on Lucy. It stinks she was only in three games. I do wonder if her character model would have looked different with a new voice actor.
My hot take: I say the AC franchise should at somepoint later on after the release of other scheduled codenamed AC games should heavily invest in creating a new franchise that can coincide with the AC games and in my opinion should be inspired by AC Rogue except you play as a Templar 100% from beginning and end. And it should even change it's title and call this new Franchise: Templar's Order. (and i hope fans and if by rare chance even Ubisoft Employees and developers alike in the narrative department see this comment)
It doesn’t help Altaïr’s reputation in the fanbase that his focus game is the one newer players are least likely to have played, and the follow up to that is stuck on the PSP! I wouldn’t be surprised if many had their introduction to the character be the Bleeding Effect scene in II or the Masyaf disc sequences in Revelations.
Lol i wrote the same, as one of the comments... My fav mission was the Lisbon mission as well, remember the sweaty hands the first time i played it 😍♥️
Not sure if this is a hot take I’m pretty new to the franchise, hot take: origins should have taken place further back maybe between the early old kingdom and mid Middle Kingdom but certainly not 1 AD, by setting it so recently in Egyptian history leaves out so much interesting historical events sure they figured it out with Odyssey which I’m not going to comment on because I haven’t played but still you leave out so much such as Persia, Israel, Polynesia, China, a real Greek assassin, just to name a few
Biggest problem with Syndicate for me is how buggy it is. I started a new game yesterday and the first time you climb to do the viewpoint as Jacob when you meet Green, I glitched through the beam and fell onto a carriage and took no damage, the carriage keeps driving so during the get up animation he started on the carriage then teleported to the ground and then glitched to standing. Game is full of stuff like that so without the grapple hook it would be awful to play.
Hot take: I do not care about the modern day storyline in the slightest, not even with Desmond. I just want 1 AC game that doesn't bring up the modern day at all.
What people don't understand about Connor is that he is a lost boy in incredibly unknown land. He knows little to nothing of american or British society and cares little for them. He is a boy who's only know death and tragedy, a boy who demands freedom for all and doesn't understand the greater repercussions of his actions. Connor also doesn't understand much in terms of social interaction, acting very alien and stiff as he's in an environment where the people around him have left his kind in the past and would rather kill them then aid them. A big part of his failings are on achilles though as he didn't adequately prepare him for society outside of his tribe. He raised a boy to become a killer, not to become a man.
Hot take: If the story was better for AC origins, Bayek should have gotten a second game he had a certain charisma to him that we haven't seen since Ezio
Idk about you but I played odyssey for 2 hours and got bored so easily whereas I couldn’t stop playing unity and finished its main story in just two days
@@georgerak9294 well i loved odyssey but never beat imo its way to big like overstaturated big i love ancient greece but its the one rpg i couldnt stick with
@@daleRoss-Sayers i mean the newest AC are almost bringing nothing about Assassin's Order, except Mirage maybe. but odyssey or Valhalla isnt even about the Assassin's, ofc there is time difference but still they meh
Nah Ghost of Tsushima has way better stealth than any ac games I've played. The enemy AI is more realistic and all the stealth tools of Jin like bows Kunai chimes crackers smokebomb etc. are all used appropriately whereas lot of tools in ac like arno cherry bomb is useless. The multi kill assassination is also so good in ghost. Both stealth and combat are good in ghost while AC games are only good on stealth and combat is meh.
Here's my own hot take. I found out that the real reason for Desmond being killed off at the end of AC3 was actually just because they didn't want to pay more money for another character model from him in the next game because each game was apparently using a different gaming engine. Do you think each of the earlier games should've just updated the 7th gen engine they had at the time to make it better over the years and make it easier to reuse and update the character models like many game companies before and during would do like Sonic Team reusing the Sonic Heroes models for Shadow the Hedgehog rather than just using a different but better engine with each and every game released which made it difficult to port and update the old character models for the new engine and thus leading them to make the decision to end Desmond's story at the 5th game?
Hot Take: The parkour in Unity is broken as it doesn't allow you to make dangerous jumps. The Ezio Trilogy has the best parkour other than the fact that you can't climb just about everything like in the rpg games.
Hot take all assassins creed games are assassins creed the only one you can semi say is not an assassins creed game is odyssey you don’t get the hidden blade until a damn DLC if you can’t like all the games and enjoy them for what they are so what if there’s stealth or not or if your a Viking that Aline’s with the Ac cause or a mech in the Roman times
Who tf is talking about soloing the universe? 😂 what is this Dragonball? Pretty much anyone can be one shot by a hidden blade it is pretty grounded. Like technically in our world a random human could go around individually stabbing all 8 billion people one at a time which is basically the same thing. It is so dumb.
Hot Take: Assassin's Creed IV ending was rushed, especially the last 2 sequences/the ending. By this, i mean, they could at least have made another game expanding his story.
Look ezio being the reason assassins creed is so good now is not a reason to make him one of the vest characters he was just the start of good characters but hes not the best
Hot take: Hot takes simply do not exist they are opinions. They are only called hot takes because most people don't agree with that opinion. So it's an unpopular opinion. I mean what would a popular opinion even be? A cold take?
But my actual hot take here is that Connor has a better character arc than Ezio. Going from a revenge fueled templar hunter to a wise assassin filled mostly with hope for the future and regret for the past is a great character arc. Ezio did have a great character arc i'm not saying he had a bad one. But Connor had a better one in my opinion.
I'm so glad you learned about hot takes and cold takes for everyone to see. Yes, you're correct, a hot take is just a different phrase for an unpopular opinion. A cold take is a popular opinion. Opinions exist. Therefore, so do hot/cold takes. Thank you for clarifying this conundrum.
Hot take: If the Origins trilogy was designed as the Ezio trilogy, gamers would be hating the games saying "It's always the same formula." The Rpg elements of the Origins Trilogy felt like fresh air after the Ezio, America and Europeans games.
Hot take: the recent depiction of the isu is not as good as in the past, back in the old games the isu were depicted in a way where they weren't based on any one deity but you could see how they would spin off into every major religion, whereas now you got odin or the greek pantheon and they are for the most pat exactly like their mythological counterparts just replace magic and godly power with ancient super technology and you have a modern assassins creed isu, it feels more like they're awkwardly sacrificing the nuance to explore the culture and myths around the setting (unrelated but takes like "ezio is bad actually!" are not hot takes and whenever people are prompted to state an ac hot take this comes up almost every single time
Fuedal Japan is probably the most generic choice for the series first mainline entry in Eastern Asia. Joseon Korea, colonial south East Asia, China are all more interesting choice for an AC game than the most normie choice of setting. If you do have it in Japan, Meiji restoration period would have been a better setting
@@alyaasultan2172 same when I first got into the series. Wasn’t till after 2 and brotherhood that I started to understand why he was beloved. Ima soon get into revelations, but now like I said in the comment: He is my second favorite assassin behind Connor.
@@alyaasultan2172 also, when people say that Ezio is overated. There are some Ezio fanboys that deny it. And that’s what build the anger for me more. Is ezio the goat? HECK YEAH! But we have to make scense with it rather then blindlessly choosing Ezio in the polls.
@@Jameswebbtelescope7484 the Ezio trilogy games weren't my cup of tea tbh I'm more of a Syndicate, Unity, and Rogue typa gal (gameplay wise) I'd also choose Connor over Ezio.
Hot take: You should press like on this video and subscribe.
I have pressed the like button
hot take: my take is hot!
@@potatogmv that is a hot take indeed
Hot take : Cold take
@@-Beliver-Edits- naw taking do the opposite of your enemy to the next level
Hot take: the modern day story of the first five games is just as engaging and memorable as their animus storylines
I would say more. Brotherhood's modern story is GOATed
That’s not a hot take, that’s a fact
Is that a hot take?
This might be one of the worst takes I've ever heard.
you know when i was a kid playing these games all i wanted was to be in the animus and when i left i would get annoyed. fast forward to today where im replaying them all and damn the modern day store is so cool. i think a lot of people took it for granted until black flag
5:30 tge cut off had me rolling 💀
Yea for real 😂😂
Same i wish he would not becuse i realy was looking for it that he would blast him for this bullshit comment 😂😂
@@skyfighter311 i love how he gave him half a sentence to shut him up 😂😂
@@sozzem8869 fr 🤣🤣
Hot take: the chronicles games should have been full on open world traditional ac games instead of the side scrollers that we got. I want to play a game in those settings but in open world form
Hot take: a lot of what people hate about conner can EASILY be solved with a sequel to the game, like what the ezio trilogy got. The main complaints I see are: Lack of character development, conner is very stoic, desmond got killed off in ac3. Literally ALL of these issues could be fixed if there was a sequel to AC3.
*conner* hehe
no need to fix problems that dont exist, connor is a deep character and AC3 plot is one of the best. he may deserved a sequel back in time, but now, too late
@@pnk2370how’s it too late?
@@pnk2370They already made a VR game with him alongside Ezio and Kassandra as the protagonist, it's never too late if you ask me.
6:10 what the hell is happening to Desmond lol
Animus glitch.
@@TheHiddenOne690i think i had that glitch before
I thought desmond was gooning bru
The Bleeding Effect causes you to clip into the furniture sometimes 😅
Animus built-in massage chair
Hot take: Imagine an Assassin's Creed game set in Communist Romania. Hunting Ceausescu's Templar agents, surviving on the streets with many Securitate officers looking at you (Security agents or Securisti as they were called by many, which were agents tasked in hunting down people who spoke ill of the regime, beating them, killing them, taking them to jail stuff like that) and killing Ceausescu during his failed speech in 89, when the people were fighting the army, many dying, many arrested. This could be a great Ac game.
That Sounds cool
It was great to be in a video for once. Kassandra/Alexios are better protagonists than Arno, Greece is visually more stunning and a better world, side content is mostly better, and Odyssey has much better combat. Maybe I should have clarified that. Great video, as always, Hidden One! I also need to say that Shadows better have the Ezio's Family theme we were teased in the trailer. The one they dropped stinks while the other songs were amazing.
Seriously underrated game. I would say if I was a gamer in general I would want to play black flag the most and Odyssey 2nd or 3rd
@King_Leonidas723 I'm currently replaying Black Flag, and I honestly like some of the things it did better but Odyssey overall plays better.
I normally rank odyssey or unity as my least favourites in the series, but you’re right, Arno was a terrible protagonist
@JamesSmith-ny2gb I don't even hate Arno. He just doesn't connect to me as much as Alexios or other protagonists. He does beat Shay, though. Dead Kings was peak Assassin's Creed DLC.
I disagree I think unity has the best world in terms graphics and atmosphere
On a completely unrelated note,that thumbnail is unhinged😂
Hot take : watch dogs was supposed to be how the modern day assassin's brotherhood operated they just took the best ideas for it and made it a separate game
The tragedy of Assassin's Creed is that it's made my Ubisoft.
Just imagine what companies like Naughty Dog, Rockstar or From Software would had done with this idea.
@berkian wasted potential all around, but I agree these games are so rich in story and character, settings it's a storytellers dream to have every tool layed out infront of you but ubi being ubi just let's these idea's waste away
@@berkian same as Rayman’s huh?
Assassin Creed Rogue deserves a remake more than Black Flag
This is just a wrong take not a hot take but , I respect your opinion
I want to play the older AC games but they are two old, they should do Black Flag then go in order
Isn't rogue like super short? Plus black flag is a fan favorite. Who doesn't like playing as a pirate.
@@aersla1731 it’s already one of the best open world games ever, top 5 atleast
@@aersla1731 it’s would be nice for younger people to experience it
I put those in the community post way too late lol and i also may get a lot of flak for these takes if they eventually go in a video, but here goes nothing.
1. Stealth wasn't truly introduced to the franchise as a full fledged mechanic until Unity's release. Before this game, it was an unoptimized sub-mechaninc, at best.
2. The RPG trilogy is made of amazing games that 100% deserve their spot as part of the main franchise.
3. Ezio's story ( specially AC 2 ) was the ultimate responsible for turning what was once a multilayered philosophical conflict between Assassins and Templars that was introduced in AC 1 into the generic " comically evil guys vs good guys " that would be a staple of the following games.
I'll add more if i remember more.
I don't know about the black guy part. Speaking as an East Asian, I'm not really a fan of Yasuke. Like this is the second game in the franchise that set entirely in East Asia (and hell the first was not even a mainline game), and there is no male protagonist? Like using Shao Jun costume for Evie in Syndicate is fun, and Naoe (based on her gameplay footage) would probably be fun to play as too, but no male protag? I thought Western media nowaday is all about representation and then Ubisoft just put a black guy into a game with Japanese setting? There are already 2 African male protags iirc in the franchise (does Freedom Cry count?), why put another one in Shadows instead of an Asian? Also, a black guy playing an important role (well-known or not, would still be important in the story) in Japanese's history, I don't know. It's not like the Mongolian in Ghost of Tsushima because they are clearly the invaders, the enemies. But Yasuke's role would probably be closer to a hero, a savior of some sort, is that a right move from Ubisoft? And don't even talk about the in-game lore, if you want stealth, wouldn't Yasuke stand out like a sore thumb?
@spectator492 I get it, yes people want a Asian man as representation in an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan. But saying that an Assassin's Creed Game set in a certain area requires a character that is from that region is purely subjective depending on the context. It's up to the writers whether they want to or not because they can select from real people or make up their own.
For example a Turkish game was made and Ezio was the main character or Assassin's Creed in Caribbean having a white guy as the MC rather than a black or mayan man born there (Adewale was in DLC not the main game so doesn't count unless you want Ubisoft to do the same here too) or a native that was born there. AC Origins came years after black flag.
Mainline Black representation for the series took until Origins to actually be front and centre if you ignore DLC despite black flag making more sense because of the slave trade but it wasn't which nobody cared about. It almost feels kinda strange that people only cared about this now as suppose to the past with other ethnics. The "representation" that these games offer I just take as just being the setting rather than the actual characters you play as considering how for example Yasuke is one character out of a majority Japanese who actually do important things (you see the culture of Japan as it is celebrated not where ever Yasuke is from and he gives his impression of the place as an outsider Juxtaposed with Naoe's as her being a male wouldn't change how she feels about the place given her backstory). More so than Yasuke in the grand scheme of things characters like Oda Nobunaga, Naoe (if you play as her only) or her father and others will likely play a more impactful role as Yasuke likely leaves after credits roll also Ubisoft Quebec might want to tie Yasuke to the Templar side of the narrative given his association with the Jesuits. It makes sense why they would choose him from a writing perspective but "representation" wasn't their point or they would just slap on any famous samurai like Musashi and call it a day and it would be less effort to make given how popular he is in Japan as suppose to Yasuke or Fujibiyashi which is the target audience (I am actually surprised Ubisoft execs let creatives do this rather than a more popular figure). Also most samurai or ninja are Japanese I would of rather prefer an Ainu individual rather than a Japanese person as a fresh perspective for this type of storyline. Asian representation in Western Media has grown a lot look at Star Wars Acolyte, Yakuza series, Shang Chi, Mulan, One Piece Live Action, Shogun, and so on and notice how only one is a samurai associated property because East Asia isn't just Samurai and Ninjas. I would like another sleeping dogs game or something to do with Korean History or Chinese history rather than another Samurai or ninja movie which has been done to death. In that sense you can see why Ubisoft choose Yasuke to make it feel different despite the "Samurai" archetype Yasuke is given his story obviously won't be the same like a typical samurai story.
@@triton5336 Well for a franchise with 10+ games, this is the first mainline game that set in East Asia (and could be the last, with what going on at Ubisoft), and that for immersion purposes, I would like to be able to play as an Asian male.
Ubisoft can always leave the Yasuke stuffs to be a side plot (like Henry Green in Syndicate) or a DLC something. If that the case, I don’t think I would be as annoyed. And also, with Shadows being a Quebec game that has 2 protags with 2 different play-style (like Syndicate, again), I don’t think only playing as Naoe from start to end is possible.
I know this is kind of just bitching but is it that hard to have 2 main characters from the same region as the setting? Syndicate had that, Odyssey had that, Valhalla had that. So why is Shadows the odd one out? You can say Yasuke acts as a view for outsiders, but then where are those for all the other game?
Apologized for wasting your time but I just can’t stand their decision to make Yasuke a main character.
This is a common occurrence in ac games. And if your identity is entirely based on race, go get some therapy. You don’t need to be playing video games.
Yasuke sounds like a cool story and really unique, but they could have just given people more options. A Japanese male option. The funny thing is I wouldn't really care for the story that much. I would have rather play Ghost of Tsushima, which is basically what people seem to want.
@@spectator492 Again this is just an opinion, I could have said the same thing with black flag as Adewale was just DLC even though there was plenty of white characters before he was sidelined also Ubisoft was in a dire situation when Unity launched as they also nearly got bought up due to low stocks which are about the same as they are now.
I just saw the series as a game that doesn't do representation in that way. People could also just argue they want an actually American Settler as a main character over Connor as it makes more sense in gameplay and other things versus a character wouldn't realistically be treated the same way leading to historical authenticity or accuracy talks which would happen if AC 3 happened now versus back then. Again at least you have a playable character who is from the place, I don't think their gender should mean anything. If it's a representation of culture rather than gender you want the game does have it on the actual game not as DLC like black flag. Its just a surface level preference thing as Nobody would be mad if AC Origins was headlined by Aya and a Roman character or someone like Apollodorus (who is basically like Yasuke in terms of roles). Aya is Egyptian and people would have been fine with that rather than saying they want an actual male lead in Africa as if gender means less representation somehow as women don't complain there is no female Italian representation and so on which I always find guys like you miss. This is a male dominated series until only recently as Ubisoft states "women don't sell games" which they had to make up for hence why the first AC game in Germany will have a female character only. You point is fine in the sense you want an Asia guy also in the series but saying that should be the case while ignoring Naoe when other native groups were completely ignored in the past till later is a little short sighted and pointless if you ask me but your are still entitled to your own opinion when there is a series like AC completely dedicated to Japanese history and culture Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yōtei and likely the eventual Ghost 3 which might go to the Meiji restoration period but I guess Yasuke being a playable character in a AC game ruins all that for you. I can't tell you how to feel so won't try to.
I love odyssey
I said it once. I'll say it again.
-Yusuf deserves his own game.
-Connor should get a new game re-constructing the american brotherhood.
- We need to bring back the grey morality and have games from the Templars perspective.
- And Odyssey would've been better recieved if at the end it was the origin story of Kassandra taking over the cult and reshaping it into what we know now as the Templar Order. Having her as the modern day antagonist.
The cult did convert to the templar order, in valhalla
@@vpwavv That was Order of the ancients. The cult of Kosmos was wiped out in Odyssey.
Your third point is 100% right. That's why i love the first AC and AC3. They both addressed that grey area the best.
Yeah you can tell that Desilets had a personal grudge on Kristen Bell because she started to ask for money for licensing her likeliness (since lucy is based on her looks and voice) to get a cut of the profits in future AC games.
Desilets then killed her off in AC Brotherhood and they agreed that she gets no more mention or whatsoever moving forward except Revelations but there she gets only mentioned if you play the whack puzzles and in a sequence at the beginning abiut her funeral.
Though I kinda get it. Ubisoft was betting on themselves rather to bet on a known actor. Thats absolutely understandable
Loyal and true fans who catapulted Ubisoft into Fortune 500 were taken for granted or abandoned. People who once called us 'losers' cuz we were gamers or loved comic books - now smelled a chance for a quick buck and stole our platforms. I recently made a John Wick style action montage using SC Blacklist stylish takedowns. Viewers really dig it. If only we got a JW game from Ubi. They had the right tools from SC and Watch Dogs. Too late now..
hot take: ezio is just good becuase he got 3 games if any AND I MEAN ANY PROTAGANIST GOT 3 GAMES EVEN JACOB HE WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE SAME IF NOT BETTER THAN EZIO
yeah, I feel like even Jacob would've been good with 3 games lol
To be fair you could apply that to any character if they got that chance but better then Jacob nah maybe if syndicate got three games maybe but cuz of the time spent you can’t blame people to have him as a favorite
He got 3 games because he was great. Try doing the same with Connor, for example.
Agreed 100% bayek is already a better charzcter and he only had 1 game also male eivor hit differe t for me bit i live in Yorkshire so it pretty much looks like england on Valhalla😂😂
@@RapidClipX you're poop
I love your videos and how respectful you are to everyone. Something that is not common throughtout the fans of AC
I really gotta agree with the Syndicate guy.
I started my replay/play through this series recently, after having quit after AC3 (other games interested me more, and I was too young to keep buying them myself every year).
I replayed AC1 through 3, and am currently on Syndicate. Aside from the combat and kinda parkour being an obvious downgrade to Unity, the world, the customization, and even the characters are really great. However, I do still find the combat and parkour to be good!
I love exploring London, and while it may not be *as* in depth with the parkour, I really love the rope launcher, as it makes parkouring London feel faster and enjoyable (even though the pathing to the tops of buildings can be WILD sometimes).
Overall, I really like Syndicate a lot more than I thought I would, and am very excited to reach its end.
I can't believe I didn't add the tower defence to my comment. It is genuinely fun, I loved it and would go around killing templars to gain notoriety just so I could do it again.
I wonder if it would be cool if we got an Assassin's creed game where you could choose the select any of the protagonists from the past and go on missions to infiltrate Abstergo or any of the other evil organizations in the past while you can choose 5 or more of the past Assassin's creed protagonists as support characters in missions. If done well, i think it could be fun. 🤔
The guy who said that Ghost of Tsushima has better stealth than any AC game has no idea what he's talking about. Even AC Origins, a game you wouldn't necessarily categorize as a "stealth game", has better stealth mechanics than Ghost. You can carry bodies, throw sleeping darts, attack from hiding spots, kill from ledges, create poison clouds, the guards have their routines, and there's a full day/night cycle for the AI. Enemies also have more interesting behaviors.
Ghost is a good game, but mechanically, the stealth system is extremely basic. All you do is walk behind people and press square. Enemies are dumb, they quickly forget you, they don't search for you... You have some gadgets like the smoke bomb, 2 different bows, a blowdart, bell lures etc., but they trivialize the stealth gameplay instead of making it deeper.
The AI is so dumb it kills stealth in GOT luckily it has good mechanically rewarding combat
are you fr? ac has terrible AI almost robotic. In AC origins if the enemies sees body they'll just lift the body, in ghost enemies will sound a horn and alert the entire camps. The vision of enemies is also better then ghost, templars in AC are blind asf
isn't AC games also the same? walk behind the enemy then stab? And what I like bout ghost is your tools while many but limited in numbers while in ac like unity you can just spam smoke or in origins you can just spam bow with almost unlimited ammo
@@ChonkyBoi_yt Ubisoft ai is shit ghosts ai is even worse it makes their detection is so generous and smoke bombs are limited while also they are fun to use and in other games their are trap mines, poison darts, sleep darts beserk darts and a bunch of other tools that differ from game to game
@@kura6184 did we play the same game fr? Ghost has way more advanced AI than anything AC ever produced, when the enemy spots a dead body they alert the camp with horns and a group of guards actually roams the camp to check for any enemies + they also have better peripheral vision. In AC, if the guards sees a body they'll just look at it then just lift it or ignores it without actively searching for intruders and they have poor peripheral vision like they cannot spot enemies that is above them or at their side
I still think Yasuke is a way more interesting character than just another Japanese one. It’s a new, interesting story. We‘ve already seen Japanese Samurai before. Its mostly about revenge or honor. This one has the potential to be something else.
I like the idea of Yasuke but do not think he should have been a protagonist. We have actually never had an Asian man as a protagonist and have had 3 Black ones (Aveline, Adewale, and Bayek) so from representation it doesn't make sense. We also have never had a protagonist that was not a native to the culture. More importantly though there is a good reason no previous protagonist has been a historical figure and all were entirely fictional. It would have made more sense and been a lot less controversial if Yasuke was a figure like Barolomeo in AC2 and Brotherhood. He could be a main ally of the main characters and have his own questline. Hopefully they make a good game and make Yasuke an interesting well written character though.
We have had a few games where the protagonist wasn’t a native, ezio wasn’t native to turkey, eivor wasn’t native to England and you might as well throw in Edward being not native to the Caribbean or Adewale not being Haitian
I’m more annoyed yasuke isn’t an assassin, as for not having an Asian man, men are so overly represented in AC, everytime we had a female protagonist they are either got a side game like aveline and Shao jun, share the role of protagonist with a man like naoe or Evie or have a option to be male like Kassandra and Eivor.
If anything naoe would have been better as a stand alone protagonist considering she looks like an assassin unlike yasuke. But Yasuke does have some narrative potential, but it is Ubisoft Quebec so I don’t have high hopes
@@JamesSmith-ny2gbFlorentine Merchants were common in Constantinople so it is realistic.
Pirates were often from the British isles so Edward makes sense. Carribbean slaves have been African, so adewale makes sense. Vikings attacked England so eivor makes sense. It's not just about being a native but about historically making sense. Yasuke on the other hand was probably one of the only black people in Japan. It just feels forced and it clearly is. They are trying to represent one ethnicity on the cost of another which is even more underrepresented.
Talking about male lead, the games have a majority male audience so it does make sense. Historically, men have always been the fighters and mane comsumers of fighting games are male. Just like in the AC franchise. Also most men prefer a male lead, it's just how it is. Don't push for diversity where it is not needed.
But I agree with you, a Naoe standalone game would have been better than an artificially diverse game.
@@lejs1974 and there was a black retainer in nobunaga’s court and black slaves were common among Portuguese traders and Jesuits in Japan
Adewale is from Trinidad, not Haiti, yeah both were slave colonies but both had distinct histories and culture and language, it would be like saying England and France are the same
Don’t know about about forced, he is an interesting choice, I kind of like fish out of water stories, the whole “artificially diverse argument” kind of sounds like thinly veiled racism to me, not the first time in media that we had a non Japanese protagonist in Japan.
As for males often being the fighters, assassins in the series often always had women among them, would make sense if they were anything else but considering she is an assassin I don’t mind, kind of like how kassandra and eivor don’t really make sense as warriors from the time and not assassins, Ancient Greece was extremely sexist so a literate warrior woman in Greece would turn some heads and the Vikings despite being more liberal with gender equality they were still very much patriarchal and there is very few cases of female Vikings in history but it’s mostly just speculation while one becoming a clan leader is even more ridiculous.
While there has been plenty of female assassins throughout the game’s lore
@@JamesSmith-ny2gb Saying that it is racist to not want a black samurai is pretty stupid. It's more racist to put a black guy as a samurai for diversity reasons instead of using the real samurai ethnicity. Just because someone doesn't like the choice, doesn't make the person a racist. Most people loved bayek and many also liked adewale, both of darker complexion. So we already have dark skinned individuals in the series but no Asian in the main games as a protagonist. They could easily had made a game in West Africa or South Africa if they REALLY wanted to include different people. But putting him in a mostly unlikely setting is just plain stupid and racist to Asians tbh.
Calling Greece racist because they didn't allow the women to fight is also pretty stupid. Who says they wanted to be fighters? Why should they compete in something where men have the advantage (stronger, faster, bigger)?
While Naoe does make sense, since she is a kunoichi, and stealth kills do have an advantage for females
@@lejs1974 the problem is is it’s not a unlikely location again there were Black people in Japan around this time because they were slaves, so yeah, saying that they are not likely to be in Japan is blatantly wrong.
I’m so tired of hearing this word diversity or forced diversity where is your evidence that Ubisoft got the writing team together for shadows and they all said in unison we should put a black guy in this game because of diversity ? Please show me the evidence where that is proven and don’t say some stupid shit like “ well they put them in this game didn’t they”because that doesn’t really prove that they just did it for diversity
Hot take: I love being able to play as two different characters like Jacob and Evie as well as Bayek and Aya. But in the RPG saga we've had to choose missing out on the character's story. It doesn't even matter since people like Kassandra and Eivor are the canon versions.
Bayek is overrated and Altaïr is underrated
Hot take: Shadows will still probably be a fun game and i don't get the issue with historical inaccuracy since the whole point is that its alternate history or hidden history as its been altered by the modern day Templars you literally fight the pope at the end of AC 2 and the guy has a magic staff. If we go by the pattern of the recent AC games they've all been pretty good only issue being Valhallas bloated story but during the key story missions it's great and mirage was short and sweet.
But the probleme is that now Ubisoft is trying to sell it like an historical accurate game for the first time putting a real life character into their game but not only that the probleme is that yasuke has literally only 15 lines about him not the fake 400 pages (btw the author of that fake book has deleted his social media accounts and Japanese historians where debunking the game in a historical way)
@@ssofa11 the majority of black flag is fiction half of the pirates we know very little about the majority of it being from propaganda at the time and every AC game opens explaining that it's historical fiction if anyone I think the pricing of the other editions is very scummy for what you get with them.
The big part of the outrage is culture war or politically fueled. but big doesnt mean all,
AC protagonists have always been a fictional character that interacts with NPCs that are historical figures.
Yasuke by all meam should have been a NPC, or rival, or trusted bodyguard of the big bad guy aka a boss fight obstacke to go through etc. if the didnt wanna turn the only POC as a bad guy then they could have just do a plot twist where afger we duke it out with him as a cool b0ss fight we learn he was actually secretly on our side all along and honor as a martyr(ACRevelations did this same thing). etc. Or give him his own DLC like MGRR did with their cool morally grey NPC guy/Sam.
Ezio an italian man in italy.
Arnor a fremch man in france.
Connor a natove of america.
Eivor a viking from sacandinavi.
Bayek an egyptian of Egypt.
All of them fictional locales, same goes for Altair bayek jacob Kassandra etc all fictional MCs interacting with NPC historical figures in the story.
meanwhile the only playable samurai in the franchise is not a fictional MC but a literal historical figure who was historically indeed not a samurai(wtf) now turned into MC for some reason. just why?
It has no creative or artistic vision behind its reasoning. And i as someone who is s&ck of culture war seeping into every pop culture media regarsless of genre it is just pure ann0yance to see the studio picking a side in this w&r going waaay outta its way just to skirmish with the portion of fanbase that is politically biased in the studio's opposite direction. it had absolitely zero positive effect on the franchise or marketing but just divided the already divided franchise in an unnecessary p0litical division. most asians, south-east asians, indian/inidan-adjacents were already tired of this westerners obsession with identity p0litics in our games, and this was in no way a good idea
i am honestly hyped for an AC game first time in more than a decade. The combat and stealth both looks interesting. a shame that it has the worst PR.
@@ssofa11 if you’re actually going to quote Ubisoft, make sure you get the quote right they said this game is historically accurate because of all the historical characters we’re going to be meeting and they’re trying their best to make a accurate representation of the land of Japan. Do you know the same thing they’ve been saying about every assassin’s Creed game since before this game was even conceived
Hot take, Aspasia is the best leader of the Order/Cult in a base game of the RPG trilogy. She has a massive lead based entirely on the fact she appears in the story in her civilian identity long before the game officially identifies her as the Ghost of the Cult of Kosmos, where Flavius is only unmasked right before the climax where he’s the final boss of Bayek’s story and Alfred only appears in a cutscene where he’s thrown in the towel already and is burning the cakes.
Bro I’m so stupid I was about to finish the cult but I read this 😢
Hey I'm a huge fan and I really hope you read this. It is pretty long honestly. I'm a black guy, and to be honest, I did not mind the fact that Yasuke was a protagonist of AC shadows simply becayse he existed in real life. But I thought to myself how i would feel if an AC game was set in Uganda(my country) and the main character was instead a white guy during colonial times.
I probably would not be thrilled. And a seeing a black guy be a better fighter than all the Japanese he faces at what they were trained to do for years, when he was in Japan for like a year, is kind of harsh. Truth is Ubisoft did make one protagonist black because they are woke. And they don't really care about anything else. We can see this in little details such as a possibility to make Yasuke have a gay romance in the game(probably rumors, idk). For Naoe its not issue who she dates because she was'nt real but for Yasuke, even if its optional, I don't think it would be right to play a character who was most likely straight, as a gay man. Especially considering the time period and the fact that he was from Africa, where such was unheard of, seen as disgusting and could even get you killed in some African cultures.
Most games they release now is either having a black or female protagonist. I have no problem with that, because I don't know why being a female all of a sudden makes something woke to most of these gamer fans. But devs these days assume black/female protagonists have never existed in games before so they place them in every game they release.
I'm sure you've seen the influence companies like sweet baby inc. has had on the industry which I think is far from positive. Inclusivity is a good thing when done right and respectfully, and not forced. Cyberpunk has literally every kind of person and race that exists and yet i did not even notice because it was done right and made sense for the location and time period. Of course the anti-woke people are taking things far with their points, lies and hate comments on AC shadows, but I do understand why a lot of people, including Japanese, are not happy.
We waited for an AC game for years, I think it would have been more respectful to make both characters Japanese. Yasuke could have maybe been made an important and prominent character, but not the protagonist. That way he could still be included while not causing as much chaos on the internet. I hope you understand the point I'm trying to make here. Love your content and i look forward to more
I really wish they make a three kingdom period AC game. Imagine all the target you can assassinate. Dong Zhou, Liu Chong, Sun Ce,... It going to sell like hot cake. This making me want to have another campaign in TW 3K
Lucy’s death in brotherhood had me absolutely baffled.
It’s the only game I actually chose NOT to spoil the story for myself, and sat through almost the whole credit roll with my jaw dropped. That really through me for a loop 🤣🤣
@@1surfpesca_ I was absolutely flabbergasted.
ac shadow will be the first new ac game I've played and I really hope that it's good
Ezio is popular because he had his character developed smoothly if you compare him to other playable assassins. He had few games telling about his stories, his path and struggles. While other assassins had their stories finished quickly or various parts of their stories were developed by different Ubisoft teams without understand who they actually are.
For first I'd give an example of Arno. He acts a bit like young Ezio. Carefree, I'd say. He could be as good as AC2 Ezio, but the story developed so quickly and, in my opinion, pretty silly way with his love interest always reminding that her dad died on her eyes (and somehow she forgets that Arno's dad died on his eyes back when he was a child).
For the second I'd choose Connor. Boy got his moral code. He wants to be good. Sees good in people. He didn't wanted to kill Charles Lee in Boston because it's not how Connor wants to see the world. Yet right after that he proceeds to kill all his pawns. I love Connor for his brave idealist character, yet in my recent first AC3 playthrough I felt like I'm playing as someone who changes his personality on flow
Never a bad time for AC hot takes
Hot take: AC should reboot asap. (remaking the older games from AC1 to AC3, changing some bad aspects about modern day for example lucy's death for the start)
Pleaaase add the black box notre dame mission from unity in your best set pieces video because it was so good.
I'll admit The Fate of Atlantis is one of my favorite DLCs in the series and I like The Battle of Forli more than The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Also I think it's wild to rank AC 2 not only as the weakest of The Ezio Trilogy but also below AC 1.
I love AC Unity despite the lack of character development for Arno which is a shame, really. I find myself more drawn to the DLC AC Unity Dead Kings which almost seems like the detached ending of AC Unity and provides more expansion of Arno’s character.
Hot take: Series dying
I don’t see the series dieing anytime soon there’s so many stories they could still tell.
But the story I want to see is a 1861-65 American Civil War AC. Set it as a slave running away and running into the assassins (like maybe Harriet Tubman is an assassin or is an ally of theirs) could definitely pick up on the story of AC 3/Liberation be Conners grandkid (if he had kids, or atleast the Assassins guild he starteds ancestors)
I heavily agree with the take on Lucy. It stinks she was only in three games. I do wonder if her character model would have looked different with a new voice actor.
My hot take: I say the AC franchise should at somepoint later on after the release of other scheduled codenamed AC games should heavily invest in creating a new franchise that can coincide with the AC games and in my opinion should be inspired by AC Rogue except you play as a Templar 100% from beginning and end. And it should even change it's title and call this new Franchise: Templar's Order. (and i hope fans and if by rare chance even Ubisoft Employees and developers alike in the narrative department see this comment)
Hot take: I didn't really like the ezio games but liked the mechanics
GIVE ME LEEMONS is how i heard it the first time it played PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT ALONE 😢
It doesn’t help Altaïr’s reputation in the fanbase that his focus game is the one newer players are least likely to have played, and the follow up to that is stuck on the PSP! I wouldn’t be surprised if many had their introduction to the character be the Bleeding Effect scene in II or the Masyaf disc sequences in Revelations.
Lol i wrote the same, as one of the comments... My fav mission was the Lisbon mission as well, remember the sweaty hands the first time i played it 😍♥️
In regards to AC Black flag, I actually agree that it’s a good pirate game but not a good assassin game. I mean… remember the tailing missions?
Edward Kenway should get another game when he joins the brotherhood and ends with his death like in the novel
Not sure if this is a hot take I’m pretty new to the franchise, hot take: origins should have taken place further back maybe between the early old kingdom and mid Middle Kingdom but certainly not 1 AD, by setting it so recently in Egyptian history leaves out so much interesting historical events sure they figured it out with Odyssey which I’m not going to comment on because I haven’t played but still you leave out so much such as Persia, Israel, Polynesia, China, a real Greek assassin, just to name a few
Biggest problem with Syndicate for me is how buggy it is. I started a new game yesterday and the first time you climb to do the viewpoint as Jacob when you meet Green, I glitched through the beam and fell onto a carriage and took no damage, the carriage keeps driving so during the get up animation he started on the carriage then teleported to the ground and then glitched to standing. Game is full of stuff like that so without the grapple hook it would be awful to play.
Hot take: I do not care about the modern day storyline in the slightest, not even with Desmond. I just want 1 AC game that doesn't bring up the modern day at all.
There’s actually a lot of people who agree with you, but they were suppressed over the years
5:25 this got me 😂
GIVE ME LEE!
Connor, how many times do I have to tell you, I don't have a lee. They're out of stock, you killed them all.
I'm the fan of this game series franchise back in 2016 that year I was find assassins creed❤
Hottake: AC Odyssey is an incredible game, and it's extremely underated
CHARLES LEE! Nuff said 😂
Hot Take (maybe): AC liberation is an underrated entry in the series and the persona system is criminally underutilized.
@@Ash-Winchester next hot take video you should say that 👍
ye when i heard that shadows got delayed i was flabbergasted it ruined my day bc that meant no Thehiddenone690 hot take video for our takes😢😢
Hot take: there arent enough memes on you discord channel
I'm still laughing from stfu 😂❤
6:10 tf that boy Desmond having a seizure?
@@elusivent 💀💀💀
why would anyone think that Ezio can solo the entire ac universe? That feat belongs to Shay Cormac.
6:11 Desmond got no damn shame doing that infront of Lucy 😅🤣
Nah he just having a seizure he’ll be ight
my hot take: AC Revelations Desmond was handsoms
What people don't understand about Connor is that he is a lost boy in incredibly unknown land. He knows little to nothing of american or British society and cares little for them. He is a boy who's only know death and tragedy, a boy who demands freedom for all and doesn't understand the greater repercussions of his actions.
Connor also doesn't understand much in terms of social interaction, acting very alien and stiff as he's in an environment where the people around him have left his kind in the past and would rather kill them then aid them.
A big part of his failings are on achilles though as he didn't adequately prepare him for society outside of his tribe. He raised a boy to become a killer, not to become a man.
Hot take: If the story was better for AC origins, Bayek should have gotten a second game he had a certain charisma to him that we haven't seen since Ezio
My hot take is that it’s a game like whatever you want don’t attack people because they like something that you don’t
Thanks!
Idk about you but I played odyssey for 2 hours and got bored so easily whereas I couldn’t stop playing unity and finished its main story in just two days
And no it’s not because it’s an rpg game. The first ac I played was ac origins and that was an amazing game that I couldn’t get enough of!
@@georgerak9294 well i loved odyssey but never beat imo its way to big like overstaturated big i love ancient greece but its the one rpg i couldnt stick with
For me Altair and Ezio are the best characters, also Kenway is very nice. RPG AC is not AC anymore cuz its not even about the Brotherhood.
Can you explain how it isn’t about the brotherhood?
@@daleRoss-Sayers i mean the newest AC are almost bringing nothing about Assassin's Order, except Mirage maybe. but odyssey or Valhalla isnt even about the Assassin's, ofc there is time difference but still they meh
Nah Ghost of Tsushima has way better stealth than any ac games I've played. The enemy AI is more realistic and all the stealth tools of Jin like bows Kunai chimes crackers smokebomb etc. are all used appropriately whereas lot of tools in ac like arno cherry bomb is useless. The multi kill assassination is also so good in ghost. Both stealth and combat are good in ghost while AC games are only good on stealth and combat is meh.
Here's my own hot take. I found out that the real reason for Desmond being killed off at the end of AC3 was actually just because they didn't want to pay more money for another character model from him in the next game because each game was apparently using a different gaming engine. Do you think each of the earlier games should've just updated the 7th gen engine they had at the time to make it better over the years and make it easier to reuse and update the character models like many game companies before and during would do like Sonic Team reusing the Sonic Heroes models for Shadow the Hedgehog rather than just using a different but better engine with each and every game released which made it difficult to port and update the old character models for the new engine and thus leading them to make the decision to end Desmond's story at the 5th game?
Hot take:
I hate the naval parts in Black Flag, even though I like the game and Edward
Hot take: AC valhalla is THE Best modern day story.
@@Atsuday08 next hot topic video you my friend can use that :p
We need an assassin's creed in ancient iran
I think my biggest hot take is that Rebecca Crane is the most likeable modern character.
Shawn? The message in the computer on brotherhood about yogurt cracked me up.
Hot take: Rebecca is hotter than Lucy
@@newhybrid101 hot fact.
Hot Take: The parkour in Unity is broken as it doesn't allow you to make dangerous jumps. The Ezio Trilogy has the best parkour other than the fact that you can't climb just about everything like in the rpg games.
Gaww my favourite youtube channel that im watching ❤ that's my hot take 😂
Hot take all assassins creed games are assassins creed the only one you can semi say is not an assassins creed game is odyssey you don’t get the hidden blade until a damn DLC if you can’t like all the games and enjoy them for what they are so what if there’s stealth or not or if your a Viking that Aline’s with the Ac cause or a mech in the Roman times
“Okay first of all shut the fu-“😂
Odyssey has far more interesting side content than Origins.
AC1 is overrated
Who tf is talking about soloing the universe? 😂 what is this Dragonball? Pretty much anyone can be one shot by a hidden blade it is pretty grounded. Like technically in our world a random human could go around individually stabbing all 8 billion people one at a time which is basically the same thing. It is so dumb.
Cold take: Yasuke should at most be an npc that sends u on a fetch quest or smth. Or a mini game where u do QTEs for dancing lol
Shait i missed the community post and my hot takes can end me up in jail. Lost oportunity
Hot Take: Assassin's Creed IV ending was rushed, especially the last 2 sequences/the ending.
By this, i mean, they could at least have made another game expanding his story.
Hope you do the next hot take video soon.
5:25 the man is speaking facts bro
Look ezio being the reason assassins creed is so good now is not a reason to make him one of the vest characters he was just the start of good characters but hes not the best
Hot take:
Hot takes simply do not exist they are opinions. They are only called hot takes because most people don't agree with that opinion. So it's an unpopular opinion. I mean what would a popular opinion even be? A cold take?
But my actual hot take here is that Connor has a better character arc than Ezio.
Going from a revenge fueled templar hunter to a wise assassin filled mostly with hope for the future and regret for the past is a great character arc. Ezio did have a great character arc i'm not saying he had a bad one. But Connor had a better one in my opinion.
I'm so glad you learned about hot takes and cold takes for everyone to see. Yes, you're correct, a hot take is just a different phrase for an unpopular opinion. A cold take is a popular opinion. Opinions exist. Therefore, so do hot/cold takes. Thank you for clarifying this conundrum.
Ok I got one for you the fact Ubisoft had the nerve to put rap music on when they showed off gameplay for shadows was just plan wrong
Why are u giving us the definition of what a hot take is lol
@@MasterTemplar781 next hot take video ye do you need to add that
Hot take:
If the Origins trilogy was designed as the Ezio trilogy, gamers would be hating the games saying "It's always the same formula."
The Rpg elements of the Origins Trilogy felt like fresh air after the Ezio, America and Europeans games.
Origins trilogy? It’s one game
@whitezombie10 ancient times trilogy, rpg trilogy, mythological trilogy, call it whatever u want.
For me, easier, Origins trilogy.
AC Shadows seems like a game that is being marketed to people who don't play AC. That's why I believe it won't be successful.
Don’t know, one of the protagonists is an assassin, makes it more AC than odyssey or Valhalla
Hot Take: Odyssey is the best Assassin's Creed Game.
The best game for me is AC 3 the best game in the series. I dont like AC 4 because of the so much trailing missions.
Hot take: the recent depiction of the isu is not as good as in the past, back in the old games the isu were depicted in a way where they weren't based on any one deity but you could see how they would spin off into every major religion, whereas now you got odin or the greek pantheon and they are for the most pat exactly like their mythological counterparts just replace magic and godly power with ancient super technology and you have a modern assassins creed isu, it feels more like they're awkwardly sacrificing the nuance to explore the culture and myths around the setting
(unrelated but takes like "ezio is bad actually!" are not hot takes and whenever people are prompted to state an ac hot take this comes up almost every single time
Hot take: TheHiddenOne Deserves 100K Subs
that's a spicy hot take
@@TheHiddenOne690 ;D
Naw. A nuclear take. TheHiddenOne deserves 1 million subs. 100k not generous enough.
@@Jameswebbtelescope7484 of course ,but going trough faces is way more fun than instantly 1 Mil
@@Bigfootzm true true lol
Fuedal Japan is probably the most generic choice for the series first mainline entry in Eastern Asia. Joseon Korea, colonial south East Asia, China are all more interesting choice for an AC game than the most normie choice of setting. If you do have it in Japan, Meiji restoration period would have been a better setting
5:25😂😭
First: I like AC II and revelations more than brotherhood, so totally agreed. Rome was really bland of a city. Second: Shut the fuc... was good😂😂
I agree that Ezio is overrated.
Give a forgotten/underrated assassin like Arno or Evie 3 games and watch them be as loved as Ezio
@@alyaasultan2172 I admit. I was building up all my anger from the polls that I been seeing on RUclips for it Iol💀
@@Jameswebbtelescope7484 Honestly, the Ezio glaze is diabolical💀
Never liked or hated Ezio, but the overhype made me dislike him.
@@alyaasultan2172 same when I first got into the series. Wasn’t till after 2 and brotherhood that I started to understand why he was beloved. Ima soon get into revelations, but now like I said in the comment:
He is my second favorite assassin behind Connor.
@@alyaasultan2172 also, when people say that Ezio is overated. There are some Ezio fanboys that deny it. And that’s what build the anger for me more. Is ezio the goat? HECK YEAH! But we have to make scense with it rather then blindlessly choosing Ezio in the polls.
@@Jameswebbtelescope7484 the Ezio trilogy games weren't my cup of tea tbh
I'm more of a Syndicate, Unity, and Rogue typa gal (gameplay wise)
I'd also choose Connor over Ezio.
Hot take : people hating RPG trilogy just because it's RPG are dumb
@@domiiinik4320 use that in his next hot take video