The Pirate Game We Deserve
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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After Ubisoft's Skull & Bones, it was time for me to return to my favorite pirate game: Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. Let's take a trip down memory lane.
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We grew up in prime time pirates of the carribean time frame that definitely made a mark on the soul
hell yes
@@JakeBaldinoI know I'm not tripping the chalistal protocol was the first AAAA game am I right 😅.
I used to wish I was a pirate. Was a great dream for an 8 year old kid
You made me feel old thank you. Pirates have been big with kids since they were roaming the high seas.
Its on hulu last ive seen@raider_reaper_4194
Being a massive physical media collector myself, I had already owned it on Xbox and Steam but I just had to have that Switch copy. I was pretty surprised at how well it plays on Nintendo’s almost ancient handheld hybrid now.
Been saying we need a pirate game that rivals RDR2 and Ghost of Tsushima
Tsushima isn’t even half of the game RDR2 is lmao can’t just lump them together
@@JAAnewboyHe’s not saying it’s as good of a game. He’s saying in terms of quality and the story. The way rdr2 is western and the way got is samurai. he wants a great pirate game
@atriz267 exactly! These dudes just don't get it.
@JAAnewboy @atriz267 They aren't the same game at all, Ghost is more style over detail,but we NEED A pirate game that is to pirates what RDR is to Cowboys and Ghost is to Samurai.
Let's hope they get the black flag remake right
I always will remember this as a weak AC entry but a GOAT Tier pirate game. I personally like the Ezio trilogy more for AC but Black Flag is a better overall experience.
Absolutely adored Black Flag - my first AC game and probably my favorite (that or Unity) I literally bought a PC just to play this game, then went back to AC1 and 2. Considering getting Rogue which is meant to be similar to Black Flag, wonder if anyone can recommend?
OMFG I thought i was the only soul preaching for a "Pirates Creed" franchise. Also, assassins creed should get back to assassin stuff.
Hi Jake,
You’re talking about a videogame with 11 years.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag was amazing but the story could had been better and Abstergo first person view it wasn’t great for me.
My favourite AC are Assassin’s Creed 2, brotherhood, enzio auditory final videogame entrance and black flag. I talked to Ubisoft RUclips channel and said to them that Assassin’s Creed Mirage it’s a Mirage of the past original videogames that some I already mentioned to you.
Have a nice day :)
Definitely one of my favorite ac games and for me it was great cause I just started one piece and my dad introduced me to the pirates of the Caribbean movie when I played this game. Definitely hits the nostalgia level for me 😂
I never really got into AC3, as i didn't enjoy it as much as 2 back in the day. I kinda stayed away from the whole Assassin's Creed thing since it was doing things that I didn't really want (Ezio fan here) and it wasn't until last year when i played the AC Freedom Cry that I got for free from PS + that I realized what I was missing out on. I haven't had so much fun in a stealth game in a while and the naval exploration/combat was super refreshing. I still have yet to play AC4, but since Freedom Cry was basically just a small taste of what AC4 was, boy am i excited to jump into it sometime in the future.
Appreciate the thoughts and things you say in these videos on your own channel and on gameranx. Much love
You absolutely gotta jump into black flag. If you liked freedom cry without playing BF you’ll love it after you do and watching Adewales story and character progression
@@isaacmclean6259 I definitely plan to. I want to revisit all the games i never got a chance to finish (the dreaded backlog) and it is definitely on there
@@ez_roma4026honestly if I were you (since you’ve already waited this long) I’d maybe give it like another year to see if the remake rumors may be true. Because if they are I’d wait until then. But that’s just my personal opinion. You’ll love it either way.
Ac black flag on steam deck oled 45fps 72hz is amazing
I really disliked Assassins Creed, but Black Flag was the only AC game i played, enjoyed and completed. It worked really well, broke up the gameplay so it didnt just feel like playing AC. The ship combat was amazing. Exploring was fun and it didnt feel over rated like every other AC game.
What? I couldn't get Assassins creed games to work on my steam deck. I bet that's a great game to play on it
Kind of ridiculous how a ten-plus year old game overshadows a new AAAA release.
How is that ridiculous? Something great will always be great, masterpieces are never overshadowed
quadruple A titles? What's ridiculous is the event of new standards.
Thanks man you’re now the 5000th person I’ve seen point that out. We know man. Literally every gaming channel on RUclips has made that point already but yep good job
@@cenciende9401ridiculous not that black flag is great but that a game that was so derivative of something great and from the studio that made the great work is so much worse
@ihateallthethings2683 and yet there's still no answers.
Black Flag is pure pirate escapism. That’s what I really love about great single player games. Their a portal into living a fantasy. Would you really want to live the life of a actual pirate? Probably not, they had a lot of STD’s
But the romance of it, the legend not the fact and a great immersive game like Black Flag makes you feel that, Red Dead 2 makes you feel like a cowboy.
It’s like living a storybook or movie
Well said!
I totally agree. I feel like the games that impact me the most are the games that feel like books. Red Dead 2 to me literally feels like when I'm engrossed in a book and I'm visualizing every page as I go
AC Black Flag is to DS9, as AC Syndicate is to TNG. Of the various iterations, Black Flag is the most bombastic and just fun entry
@@monkofbobI'm sorry but what the hell is DS9 and TNG?
@@monkofbobSyndicate is just fñat out generic though. Im not taking that back, because its true.
The rope launcher basically parkour useless, Jacob Frye is an overall useless character and Evie unfortunately only exists to fix every screw up Jacob made.
Its evident with how there are egregiously more Jacob missions than Evie ones.
AC4 IS FANTASTIC
PREACH
You can’t even tell this game is over 10 years old. This is a direct result of love and passion coming from the devs! I bet they had a blast making this masterpiece!
AC4 was so much fun, I bought it three times. On PS4, Switch, and last month on PS5
I bought it several times, too. Even back in like 2014 I remember my girlfriend complaining to me that I already have like 3 copies of it. Pretty sure I've bought it at least once more since then lmao
Same, have it on PlayStation, Switch and Xbox.
@@aloafofshoaf that’s the right way to do it brotha lmao
how did u buy it on ps5? it's the same ps4 game
@@bagdalaz had the physical copy of it for ps4 and bought the digital copy of it on my ps5.
I’ll die on the hill that Edward has the coolest base outfit as well as craft-able outfits. Almost all of them were awesome. Once you were fully upgraded with 4 guns, your swords, the blow gun on your back his main outfit just looked so badass.
Conner's is the coolest, but Edwards is close second, especially with the pirate cloak.
What hurts me is that pirate history is genuinely vast and there are so many awesome time periods and locations they could explore. My dream pirate game?
AC4 mechanics but set in the 16th century Mediterranean and you are a Corsair for hire and can work for either the Knights of St John, The Barbary Pirates, or the Ottoman Empire, and you can explore as far north as the southern half of Italy, all islands in the Mediterranean, North Africa, and as far east as the Levant. You get to be pirate knights with plate armor, swords but also guns and that is something that literally happened historically and NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT. Which is absolutely wild lol.
They even had James Kidd aka Mary Read
@@christmaslights9870 well what I was suggesting wasn’t necessarily another assassin’s creed game, it could be a whole new thing like skull and bones, which means the Knights of Saint John wouldn’t be “Templars”. Also, with what I was suggesting, your character would be a captain on a “ship for hire” so you could fight for whichever faction you wanted and even flip factions. Also, does that mean you skipped out on AC Rogue? Because that game was also really good.
Mediterranean Piracy especially 16-17 century is way more interesting than Caribbean piracy imo, would love to play as Part of Barbary Corsairs, especially under command of Heyreddin Barbarossa or Dragut Reis
@@BrokenlanceNah, Rogue unfortunately is a last minute last gen cash grab at the time. When people complained Unity needed more time, lets just say any resources to Rogue should have been diverted to the full development of Unity instead.
A typical Ubisoft game cluttered with map icons? Rogue arguably is that game with the most alongside Unity, Syndicate and Odyssey.
A melodramatic protagonist? Yep.
A shallow interpretation of perspectives? Yep.
@@memecliparchives2254 I mean all games are made for profit, so long as I enjoy it that’s what matters. Sucks you didn’t find it worth your time, but it was worth mine.
i just want more games released on GOG.
As if Ubisoft will ever release a game without their precious DRM bullshitery.
I would tackle the ship upgrades asap. I loved the Legendary Ship Battles. 🏴☠️
AC Black Flag was one of those games that was so beautiful when it released that I thought it was truly next gen when I played it on Xbox One. I also bought it for my Wii U. I haven't played it since then 11 years ago. I am playing Origin for the first time and loving it and I think I am going to go back and play Black Flag when I am done.
I feel like Odyssey was the true successor to this game. Arrows don't have the same impact as cannons, admittedly, but going in with your shipn in the place where ship combat and sailing were historically perfected, obliterating your enemies... combined with the 'evil' soundtrack that usually played during naval combat, and Kassandra felt like fυcking Darth Vader.
You really felt like the apex predator in this game, like someone your enemies truly fear.
And, when it comes to the rest of the gameplay, I feel like it was either a similar experience (with Kass hopping on her ship, ready to sail to the next adventure) or an outright better one.
Both games, however, I wouldn't dare start over. The first time, with the mystery and all, they're great! But I've been thinking of replaying Black Flag these days, and the reminder of the insane grinding just puts me off... Same with Odyssey, naturally. I think the NG+ feature is needed for every newer Ubisoft game. And by "newer", I mean everything that came out after ACIII.
Played Black Flag when it first came out and it's absolutely the best A.C. game in my opinion.
I too want a new modern pirate game that incorporates some of the mechanics from Black Flag. I think there's an opportunity to make a pirate game that tells the story of Benjamin Hornigold. He interacted with many famous pirates. Okay I'm rambling. I think I'm going to install Black Flag and play again. It's been a minute since I have.
Finally! The AC4 Before You Buy! Had this game in my cart for 10 years but I think today’s the day!
You guys Ubisoft are just geniuses. They’ve been playing 4d chess this whole time. Skull and bones was always just a ploy to get people to buy AC black flag again
Having never played Black Flag, I'm actually really curious about it after having heard so much praise for it recently.
I have been replying Black Flag for the past few days. One thing you can clearly tell is that the devs have poured so much passion into this game. Me personally, I’m blown away by the lvl design and how organic Edward’s moves are! 🏴☠️ Havana and Kingston, top notch cities! 🤌
AC Rogue has even better design for everything. My ultimate AC which I missed out but now playing remastered first time.
I have all the AC games and I haven't played them in a while. I have the collector's edition of Black Flag with the statue sitting on my desk. Thanks Jake, I'm going to fire it up and play it again!
Whoa - this is also one of my favorite games of all time! I feel like people look at me weird when I say that, but damn if I didnt get obsessed with finding everything in Black Flag
My only issue with this game is the amount of clothes he wears for being in the Caribbean 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
And the underwater diving bell dives! Face sharks head on and upgrade your bell to dive deeper for better treasure!
Funilly enough, I played AC4 SO MUCH, that nowadays I prefer Rogue when I feel like replaying that "period" of AC.
AC4 is awesome, but most of it is ships, and it does become repetitive after dozens of hours. And if you want classic assassin stuff, most of the 'on foot' gameplay is in islands with just trees.
There are cities, but very little assassin content on them, I feel like Rogue (even though it has lots of little places as well) has more buildings and stuff to... well, to do assassin stuff in (regardless of being a templar lol).
Oh, and the ship aspect seems less mandatory in Rogue as well. Honestly, kind of an underrated game.
Yeah AC: Rogue is the true sequel to AC4, and but got massively overshadowed by AC: Unity. Rigid was all right when I finally played through it a couple years ago.
I think it's fair to say we peeked with games in the 2010s era... all my favorite game studios have either sold out, lost true talent, or just don't understand gamers anymore.
One of the very best of AC games!! Shantis stuck on my head for weeks. The first legendary ship encounter gave me the chills!!
I remember how much I disliked the ship sections in AC3 and when 4 came out I thought, 'oh no, here we go again' and was more than positively surprised. I bought it on XB360, XBO, Steam and recently on Switch together with Rogue for only 15 bucks (it's still on sale at the eShop btw) and I am about to play through it for the 4th time. Definitely has become my favourite AC next to the Ezio trilogy and 1.
I know this is the most petty use of the 'I wish I could go back in time...' thing, but man I wish I could go back to the start of Skull and Bones' development and just tell the project manager "Hey, don't try to reinvent the wheel, literally just ctrl-c, ctrl-v Black Flag's ship combat and controls, rebuild a new open world that's similar to AC:BF's Carribbean, and expand the mission types and ship customisation." That's literally all S&B needed to really be, and I'm not sure why development ended up so rocky, unless execs really saw people's appreciation for Black Flag's mechanics and forced development direction on the Devs who didn't really want to make it.
Every year my gf and I rewatch all of the classic movie series. LOTR, HP, Star Wars etc. We're on Pirates of the Caribbean now and it made me get a serious itch to play a pirate game haha. Then I realized Skull and Bones is kind of doodoo, so I picked up Black Flag for 12 bucks and been loving it just as much as a decade ago. Crazy how it still holds up really well. That ship gameplay never gets old
I game for almost 40 years now and AC BF is the ONLY game I 100%'ed...twice! It also made me get back into gaming after a many year hiatus. Absolutely one of my top 3 games of all time.
Suicide squad releases, I play the batman Arkham series . Skull & Bones releases , I play Black flag. games companies are making me do the oppposite.....play the older games.
I wish Ubisoft would make a Zorro game, with the Assassins Creed mechanics and Formula! I think that would be an amazing experience!
Black Flag is perfect until the boat chase swamp level.
100% of AC games have a "maintain an exact distance from target" mission and I've beat 0% of them because of that kind of mission.
After the disappointment what skull and bones was... I'm fairly sure that they could've make a Black Flag remake in a quarter of that time and would've sold better 🤣
For me it's in the top 3 most ambitious and enjoyable AC games ever. Other two are Origins and Unity. All 3 would have made bank if they were given sequels 💯%
I can see where you’re coming from.
I wish Rockstar would make a pirate game, that would be so fun!
Been finally getting the Platinum for AC4 Black Flat over the last week after playing through years ago and it’s still as great to replay all of this as Jake says. It just works great, and Kenway rocks.
I always imagined Chris Hemsworth (Thor) would've made a good live action Edward Kenway😂
Black Flag remains one of the best Assassin's Creed that Ubisoft has put out. I love 3 and Rogue, just the same
I really loved the ship combat of this game. I tried replaying it and I remember feeling tired when I saw all the waypoints on my map. I had a serious flashback to Valhalla and I just couldn't do it again.
Black flag was good but the last time I was really blown away by an assassin’s creed game was AC Origin. Egypt was amazing.
Love the idea of a "Pirate's Creed." Only thing I would change is the name to "Pirate's Code."
I remember being like 13 or so and walking into walmart to buy the disk copy of ac4, honestly my favorite ac game
This video got me thinking. I think there needs to be a Rockstar pirate game. Should take over red dead redemption
I'd buy it.
Compared to Skull & Bones, Ubisoft would of today would call this a AAAAAAAAAAA game.
if only the ac fans would have spoken up doing development then mayb.... oh wait, we did, we screamed what we wanted at ubisoft and they chose to ignore us, for years.....
now that it bombed, we get blamed for a game we dont want.....
the combat is so boring...i also hate how you can't run past a bush without being sucked into it or when you accidentally jump off something.
I think AC Rouge is an underrated game imo. Not on the same level as Black flag but a worthy entry in the series
One thing i hope they fix in the remake, is i hope they make the cities seamless like in Odyssey. Its a bit immersion breaking having to enter a loading screen to dock. I hope they make it so you cab seamlessly sail up to the cities, and maybe even open up all the land for exploration like in odyssey.
And there's me with nearly 2000 hours of Sid Meier's Pirates
Can you imagine the gameplay and freedom of AC4: BF, with the trading, fleet control and the Nations Simulation (along with Privateering) of Sid Meier's Pirates all mixed together in one game.
One of my favorite games of all time.
Pirates and AC4 are by miles the best pirate experiences.
@@OZYMANDlUS That's the crazy thing about Skull AAAAnd Bones, they literally had 2-3 games that they could get the good stuff from and they even ignored their own game lol
It's just sad because of what it could have been and now who knows when the next pirate game will be developed..
This game definitely prepared me for Uncharted 4. I was a goddamn pirate expert by then 😂
We need Rockstar to make a pirate game. RDR but Pirates pretty much sells itself.
This is truly my favorite AC game followed by AC3!
I just bought Black Flag and Rouge bundle on Switch 💪
I want a new Pirates of the Caribbean game like assassins creed black flag
one can only hope
THEY WILL NEVER REMAKE THIS CLASSIC I HAVE IT ON MY DECK AND ITS BEAUTIFUL JUST MAD IT DOESNT HAVE CLOUD SAVES 😮😮😮
Black Flag is my fav AC
Anyone play the mp? Criminally underrated haven't seen anything else like it
Yep. It's definitely my favorite Assassin Creed.
Black Flag was one of my favorite AC entries. It comes just behind AC:Origins and Odyssey, for me.
I know a lot of people love to hate on them, but I really enjoyed them.
Yea, I enjoyed them too, don't like em, like at all, but I find enjoyment in all 3 of those entries
I would say AC4: BF, Then Odyssey for me. I haven't played origins yet. i like them both because, it is not the whole Assassin Creed story. That and wouldn't want to pop in the 300 in the background and Spartan kick your enemy off a cliff all the while in your head screaming: This is SPARTA!!, lol
Pirates Creed? That's fucking genius!
You're a Welsh pirate so it's a win for me being a born and bred Welshman
I honestly think the pirates/assassins was such a good combo, because if I ever got bored of being a pirate, I could go on land and be an assassin and vice versa.
The soundtrack in Black Flag is phenomenonal
Black flag had so much going on. Wanna five for treasure??? Hunt animals for dope ass gear??!! Fuck man it did it all. You can feel the love in this game and THATS why its so good. These games today AREN'T MADE WITH LOVE
Last ac game i played (yet) not the best story
But possibly the best gameplay
what gear?
Five for Treasure is a good DnD party name. Thanks!
@lordmegatron4789 the ancient Aztec/Mayan one was my favorite too date.
Yes its very noticeable how much love was put into the game the whole time and it makes a lot of sense because this was prime Ubisoft coming off of the release of Far Cry 3 and reiterating on what worked in AC3
AC4 was the Pirates of the Caribbean game I always wanted
I have all the ac games I could get on switch, they work so good, I hope they add ac 1 soon
Have to pour one out for Blackbeard every play through
We need some ambitious modder to make the work of his life and give us what we deserve
We need to make sure this game lives on, its a gem. One of my fav of the franchise. The customization of edward, ship was good. Story was great, the ship shanty's omg I miss them lol. The Ending cutscene makes me cry still lol
my first love in the gaming world⭐️
Skull and Bones is a good game to make you play Black Flag again😂
Agree 170% black flag is the best creed.
Thanks Jake got me playing Black flag again 🤗
Pirate's Creed would have been great.
AC4 just ticks all the right boxes. I actually enjoyed the hiding-in-bushes and whistling gameplay, even if a bit repetitive, but the rest of the game really shines - Upgrading your gear, customising your outfit AND ship, building your own personal port, and obviously the ship battles. Each town, the characters, and the world, feel bustling and alive! Man, I want to play it again now...
I remember getting this game free with the Xbox One. I barely broke through the intro because I was playing Unity at the time😭 and didnt wanna play 2 AC's at once.
I'll have to give this game another try, thanks!😇
I played it back when it came out and personally didn’t love it. I didn’t really like the focus on being a pirate over focusing on being an assassin
You said it best, this game really was a weird perfect storm. This is definitely my favorite Assassin’s Creed game, even tho I never bought a pirate being able to kill and become an Assassin, but whatever. In my head canon that assassin was without a doubt the worst assassin I’ve ever heard of.
oh yeah this game was easily the most fun in the AC series
Amazing how the last 2 big releases have made people go play black flag and the Arkham series again🤣
Sid Meier's Pirates supremacy!
Black flag was one of my favorite assassins creed game. I remember it launched with a companion app where u tied it with your account, and you can navigate the game in real time using your tablet as a map. Good times
Is there not a difficulty setting that helps with the easy part? I really want to play this but I don’t know if I can handle it being stupid easy to kill everyone.
Unfortunately no no difficulty setting. Maybe wait for the rumored remaster/remake
Not sure if they realized what they had when they put so much into the ship features. They made such a great game without realizing.
As a kid I stuck up posters of real life pirate illustrations. When Black Flag came out I was also really into AC, so it was such an exciting combination! They got so much right with this game - the jungle environments were cool too - that it makes me sad it’s 10+ years later and we’re awash with so many live service games or AAA singleplayer games that focus on being big maps rather than innovative or detail-focused.
It's my favorite of the series to replay, I liked two of the Ezio games - but they don't play quite as well these days. I have a soft spot for Syndicate, but that's more to do with it being set in my home town. The whole upgradeable base of operations mechanic appeals to me a lot, so having a ship which is central to the gameplay is something I really enjoy; Syndicate scratched that itch somewhat with the train.
This was my fav AC hands down and it hasnt missed a beat all these years later
Skull and Bones made me go back and finally finish Black Flag for the first time on my ROG Ally. It was an excellent journey.
Man I miss when AC was a must play game every year. I was so invested in the modern day storyline and loved the Ezio trilogy. Black Flag was the last one I really got into before the series took a nosedive. Origins was a flicker of hope and I enjoyed it but nothing since. Ubisoft in 2024 just isn’t the same as it was in 2014