great video, amigo. maturity definitely describes altairs journey perfectly. from being arrogant to be able to apologize and seek Maliks forgiveness was what struck me the most about his story. The overall interaction with Malik at the bureau is something you rarely see these days in gaming. I began working on a tribute to Altair solely off of that dialouge if youre interested.
Absolutely brilliant. I was woefully ignorant to the depth and philosophy of the game. I've only played pieces of it, but now I definitely have to play it in full. Thanks Dutch!
Overall a very thorough analysis that raises many good points! I didn't even realize how surface-level my understanding of AC1's story was until now, you've made it a lot more clear and deep for me! The one piece of feedback I have for you is that in the beginning of your video essay you mentioned how video games have always usually been about power trips and centered around men and what they do with power, but you never really circled back to it. It feels like you could have had another half-chapter at the end bringing it back around to draw conclusions on what it means to gain wisdom and power and wield it in terms of men's enjoyment of videogames and how protagonists act in games - or, if not, I feel like you shouldn't have included that concept in your introduction at all. It feels like you need a 'conclusion paragraph' either circling it back around to male violence in gaming if you want to include that topic or if not just making/reiterating a final statement on what it meant for Altair to gain knowledge and power. That said, I didn't notice until I started writing this comment that this video didn't have thousands of views! You've done a very good job here and I think you have a lot of success ahead of you if you want to keep with it!
I appreciate the feedback. I guess I was just trying to pre-frame Altair's characterization, but that's true. I didn't have much of a statement about the larger medium at the end. Ultimately my goal was to focus on the singular game and it's protagonist. So I guess going into the writing process I wasn't thinking much about making a statement about the gaming industry in general more than using it as a way to set up the video. It might be a good topic to make into its own video though. The algorithms been weird for me the last year. I started to gain a lot of traction in my early essays and then RUclips kind of destroyed it a few months later. For some reason though, the BioShock 2 video that I did several months ago is now picking up traction. Hopefully as I make more essay content, the snowball effect will happen.
This game is criminally underrated both in gameplay and character and story wise. Ezio had three games but honestly he didn't have to find his answers or to learn. He was just told things or everything magically came to him. His development in 2 felt like it was way too rushed. He just immediately learns his lessons but Altair didn't have it so easy. He had to dig for it and he even had doubts whether or not he was doing the right thing. The rest of the series paints the Assassin's as always right and the Templars as always wrong. In the first game it wasn't nearly as cut and dried or as boring. The complexity between the two factions was immediately lost.
I agree that the first game has the most nuanced characters, I do however think Ezio has a lot of good character building and growth. Assassin's Creed 2 is probably my favorite. This game is extremely underrated though.
Good video. Is that a forced deep voice I hear? Genuinely made content will get more views, especially in this era of forced content causing a lot of fatigue with it. Now do Desmond.
great video, amigo.
maturity definitely describes altairs journey perfectly. from being arrogant to be able to apologize and seek Maliks forgiveness was what struck me the most about his story.
The overall interaction with Malik at the bureau is something you rarely see these days in gaming. I began working on a tribute to Altair solely off of that dialouge if youre interested.
Totally, would love to see
Absolutely brilliant. I was woefully ignorant to the depth and philosophy of the game. I've only played pieces of it, but now I definitely have to play it in full. Thanks Dutch!
This was top tier work. Especially the opening monologue, very concise!
Thank you! Always like to make the introductions tight.
Overall a very thorough analysis that raises many good points! I didn't even realize how surface-level my understanding of AC1's story was until now, you've made it a lot more clear and deep for me! The one piece of feedback I have for you is that in the beginning of your video essay you mentioned how video games have always usually been about power trips and centered around men and what they do with power, but you never really circled back to it. It feels like you could have had another half-chapter at the end bringing it back around to draw conclusions on what it means to gain wisdom and power and wield it in terms of men's enjoyment of videogames and how protagonists act in games - or, if not, I feel like you shouldn't have included that concept in your introduction at all. It feels like you need a 'conclusion paragraph' either circling it back around to male violence in gaming if you want to include that topic or if not just making/reiterating a final statement on what it meant for Altair to gain knowledge and power. That said, I didn't notice until I started writing this comment that this video didn't have thousands of views! You've done a very good job here and I think you have a lot of success ahead of you if you want to keep with it!
I appreciate the feedback. I guess I was just trying to pre-frame Altair's characterization, but that's true. I didn't have much of a statement about the larger medium at the end. Ultimately my goal was to focus on the singular game and it's protagonist. So I guess going into the writing process I wasn't thinking much about making a statement about the gaming industry in general more than using it as a way to set up the video. It might be a good topic to make into its own video though. The algorithms been weird for me the last year. I started to gain a lot of traction in my early essays and then RUclips kind of destroyed it a few months later. For some reason though, the BioShock 2 video that I did several months ago is now picking up traction. Hopefully as I make more essay content, the snowball effect will happen.
This game is criminally underrated both in gameplay and character and story wise. Ezio had three games but honestly he didn't have to find his answers or to learn. He was just told things or everything magically came to him. His development in 2 felt like it was way too rushed. He just immediately learns his lessons but Altair didn't have it so easy. He had to dig for it and he even had doubts whether or not he was doing the right thing. The rest of the series paints the Assassin's as always right and the Templars as always wrong. In the first game it wasn't nearly as cut and dried or as boring. The complexity between the two factions was immediately lost.
I agree that the first game has the most nuanced characters, I do however think Ezio has a lot of good character building and growth. Assassin's Creed 2 is probably my favorite. This game is extremely underrated though.
so, so, so, SO good. I was surprised to see this video was only 200 views and not 200 thousand. hope this gets the attention it deserves
I appreciate the love! Feel free to share it around to fellow Assassin's Creed fans.
Good Video mate great watch 👍
Thank you!
Good video.
Is that a forced deep voice I hear? Genuinely made content will get more views, especially in this era of forced content causing a lot of fatigue with it.
Now do Desmond.
Not really forced... More of a lower part of my inflection range?