Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is one of the greatest pirate games of all time. Why does it still hold up? Let's talk. Subscribe for more: www.youtube.co...
And it had one of the best stories in all of the AC games (that I've played), with probably the best redemption arc in any game I've ever played. Black Flag is a fucking classic.
The first AC game I played was AC3. I liked it. I loved the naval combat, though. When Black Flag came along, I was hooked. I've played the living hell out of that game just because of the naval combat and pirate theme. It's still the best pirate game out there.
Black Flag was mind blowing on release and I think its still impressive 10 years later. It really just goes crazy on the Pirate fantasy. Sailing ships, ship battles, boarding ships, taking out forts, looking for burined treasure, whaling, exploring underwater ship wrecks and more. It's hard to imagine a game doing the Pirate Fantasy even better.
That's what made Skull and Bones so upsetting to people, myself included. It was supposed to take all of that and amp it up to ten. Instead they reduced it down by ten. Glad I saw it in the cards and avoided it. I think had they not made that promise and never associated it with Black Flag, it probably would've been a lot more accepted, with a lot less negativity. It would've just been a mediocre live service pirate game, rather than a massive broken promise of a Black Flag successor. Honestly, in that context, I could even see a world where it became mildly successful.
Black Flag was and is one of my favorite video games of all time. The story was a mix between Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure, which were two of my favorite movies growing up, and the game had so many perfect little details. I absolutely love that your ship looked visually better for every upgrade you bought for it: cannon upgrades made the cannons look shinier and larger, hull upgrades added more ornate trim and coloring to the ship itself, sail upgrades made the sails look fresher and more sturdy, etc. And the fact that the sea shanties essentially functioned as the radio from GTA games was a stroke of genius. This video made me so nostalgic and now I think I need to go back to it this summer haha
@@pyner0s496 Exactly. I honestly don't even remember if there are "Fast Travel" in this game cause I always use the ship just to hear the crew singing. lol
Same! Performance was just terrible on PC tho but then we found a hero that provided us with DXVK so kindly, allowing us to get more fps by changing the game's API to Vulkan :)
🎵I thought I heard the Old Man say: "Leave her, Johnny, leave her." Tomorrow you will get your pay, and it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her. Oh, the wind was foul and the sea ran high. "Leave her, Johnny, leave her!" She shipped it green and none went by. And it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her. I hate to sail on this rotten tub. "Leave her, Johnny, leave her!" No grog allowed and rotten grub. And it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her. We swear by rote for want of more. "Leave her, Johnny, leave her!" But now we're through so we'll go on shore. And it's time for us to leave her. Leave her, Johnny, leave her! Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her! For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow And it's time for us to leave her.🎶
I've always considered AC Odyssey to be a pirate game cause of it's ship combat. I know it's not technically but I still like to RP as one in the game.
@@ThwipThwipBoom I love Odysseys Naval combat, also you can be a Pirate in it tbh, all you have to do is Attack and Loot Ships which is exactly what Pirates do
The amount of ways u can board an enemy ship is crazy, those details alone fuelled my pirate fantasy, swingin from a rope, jumping off the railing, leaping from the crows nest etc
Black Flag isn’t an Assassins Creed game. It’s a pirate simulator with assassinations IN IT. For what it is, it is perfection. The shanties alone are beautiful…
What kind of assassin creed game has you play as someone isn't an assassin. This is where assassin creed started to suck. These games started becoming more of grind fest rpgs and not a story driven assassin experience. And the order of assassin the entire thing that all the games are based off of. You only see them for less than 5 minutes of this game.
I don't get the trend where newer pirate games are getting made for multiplayer only. Sad. Not many deny that Black Flag is the best pirate game ever made, and that is single player. Yet game companies keep moving to multiplayer.
@@mcahtme2977 Sure as a teenager or a school kid, this would make sense but as an adult not really, you can't expect everyone to have friends with the correct concole or pc and to have free time at the same time on the same day? that's just not realistic.
Most of the best games ever made are single-player. Or in cases like Stardew Valley and Portal 2, can be played either solo or with friends. @@mcahtme2977
Ubisoft had 90% of Skull and Bones in Black Flag. People wanted that, but more. They wanted to make land on an island and explore caves and ruins for treasure. They wanted to battle other ships and board them. Also, Black Flag needs a remake/remaster with smoother animations and controls, also give it an expansion.
By the way watch Black Sails show ...locations and atmosphere are exactly as per the game. I bet after watching the series you'd jump back to this game.
who didn't just have a smile here sailing at a sunset on foamy waters while your crew singing "lowland away", and on top that seeing a whale doing a flip and crashing into the water.... i swear, it felt so magical and fulfilling. it was really an experience no one would forget.
There was a moment when I was at sea in Valhalla, and my crew starting singing a Viking “shanty.” I thought to myself, “Man, Black Flag was awesome.” It’s like Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla just wanted to tease us with ships to remind us how awesome Black Flag was…is.
I'm sorry, but when I remember how great Black Flag was... I can't help but to think was Skull & Bones could've been. They literally had everything in order, all they had to do was remove the hidden blades. But nope, what we got was "Black Flag at home" because they removed all non-naval combat. I would've loved to have been able to board enemy ships and fight. I would've loved to have been able to explore sunken ships and underwater ruins. It's sad when I enjoy AC: Odyssey more than Skull & Bones.
I’ll never forget the assassination missions where instead of sneaking around and taking out the target with the hidden blade I always just ran up and shot them in true pirate fashion. The cutscene would always show him using the hidden blade, which I found amusing as I went out of my way to use it as little as possible, and each mission counted as a success.
I’m replaying right now and it’s downright comical to assassinate people with the guns. The best was the traitor brother on Nassau and his Chinese Templar wife. Killed the brother and after the cutscene his wife appeared and I one tapped her before she could even run away and got another cutscene.
my best experiences were when we were allowed to commandeer a galleon and black beard's ship....I don't remember it accurately, but those naval combat parts with the pirate music were awesome!
Remember that Port comes before Starboard alphabetically (P before S). The same can be said about Left and Right (L and R). Just remember that this applies to orientation. You have to face the front or bow. Stern is the back. I remember bow is the front because bowing is bending your head forward.
When I saw the title of this video I thought "Oh man, please let there be a pirate game on the level of Black Flag". Then I watched the video...should've known. It truly is a masterpiece in the pirate game genre.
Played again recently after the Skull & Bones debacle. It holds up big time. Your comment on the sea shanties is also spot on. I collected them all just to hear my crew sing them.
Playing sid meiers pirates as a kid and actually being able to marry and escape prison with the help of your crew was such an iconic feeing. Gotta love it
@@justinlast2lastharder749 I would take out some of the silly mechanics like the courting, maybe make the solo combat a little more like an actual fighting game, or remove it, but I'd keep the mechanics of the raids, just make them work like AC4. There are all kinds of ways you could play with it, and remember, even the mini games that you didn't enjoy could be avoided if you wanted to. So, perhaps, keep them in and just update them for the people who want them, but don't make them necessary, so people who want to ignore them can.
Yeah there may have been pirate games made before that ( i don't know) but that's really where it all started. Like LOTR is said to have defined its genre and inspired almost every story that has followed, Sid Meier's Pirates is very much the same for me. Not really that surprising though as Sid Meier basically did the same for civilization and tycoon type games as well. Are there better games out there now? well ok yeah, but that was because of the limitations of hte technology of the time.
I actually just started it as well, for the first time... its certainly one of the best.. to me its really hard to choose though cause I like all of them a lot... even the recent massive ones they have made that everyone seems to hate.
They're remaking this game? that's ...weird, because it doesn't seem like the remake will accomplish much - except maybe change the feel of the game, which is top notch as far as Assassin's Creed goes.
The AC game series blew me away so many times with what they achieved. Black Flag was epic for all the reasons you mentioned, but even AC 3 is hands down one of the best ever games I've played. No other character has ever felt more lithe and flowing and powerful. It had so many aspects that were amazing, including the ship combat and the village building.
I am always impressed by Falcon's ability to remain fresh and actually provide good quality commentary and observations. Hope he and the team is getting the appreciation they rightly deserve.
You mentioned sea shanties as a by the way but for me it was one of the main things I actually did in the game. Hours spent in the open sea just listening to the shanties. Also upgrading your ship to face the legendary ships. The first time I met one by accident I was decimated in less than a minute
Did anyone here actually defeat a legendary ship alone? I thought I was pretty close a few times, but it felt like the encounter was rigged in so many ways that I eventually stopped trying.
@@tubensalat1453 It is possible but you have to upgrade your ship closer to the max and good strategies It's a bit like how to approach dark souls bosses The twin legendary ships are the ones that gave me a marathon for my money
@@stevenochieng960 Yeah, I had my ship maxed out, still... They zoom in, so I can't fully take advantage of my mortars, they handle like a shopping cart: zero turn radius & no delay whatsoever for their maneuvers, so I can't out-maneuver them, they accelerate like a jet fighter if they want to disengage... Then again, I failed against regular dark soul enemies, so I guess I'm just too casual.
Played through on PS4 a couple years back. It was still fantastic. Returned a couple months ago to clean up the platinum. Geez it was demanding, but such a great return to play it again. Finally got the plat after beating the Twin Elite Warships, such a sweet moment
The ending of Ac4 as well as the story of Mary Read were fantastic have always held them in my top 5 games 12 years later I’m 23 and still waiting for Ubisoft capture this feeling again
I like it. Probably 3. I've played like 5 of them. But for me it's Ac origins, ac syndicate, and then black flag. Or switch it with ac rogue. But don't remember much of rogue now. Hell you can switch syndicate with origins. Odyssey was good. And I stopped at valhalla. My attention went away from that game with in hours.
@@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825 noice, never played syndicate but I’ve played 1,2,Brotherhood,Revelations,3,Black Flag, & Origins. Origins, Black Flag, & AC2 are my favs.
@@AngieCarr something about origins is beautiful. Even being desert. I like that the arrow was great in that game but for odyssey it was weak I think. You should try syndicate. It's awesome. Nice setting. Fun things to do. Imo.
I still have it installed on my PS5 , not only the best pirates game, the best Assassin's Creed, I've sunk hundreds of hours in it, the soundtrack during the legendary Ships is just...mindblowing
After watching the pirates of the caribbean movies I always wanted to play a pirate game and when this came out it was a dream come true. Bought this game on four different platforms, worth the purchase every time.
Missed opportunity to not mention Sea Dogs 2! It's basically everything piratey about Black Glag, but with so much more options. You can fight as a pirate, or for the French, English, Portuguese, French, Spainish and more. We need a remaster of that. One of my all time favourites
A true hidden gem, I remember it had the Pirates of the Caribbean Logo for the old Xbox, but it had nothing to do with the PofC plot Lol, the fact you could make your own fleet,Visit City's enter buildings, it was ahead of its time, man you could fight and Invade Forts, for me it's still the best Pirate/SailShip Simulator I experienced , and way ahead of it's time, still Don understand how it didn't get the love it (for me) deserved
Open world with Pirates and Assassins. Black Flag is and always will be my favorite AC game. Hands down one of my favorite games of all time. Up there with RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, Witcher 3, Skyrim. Hopefully a lot of people think so too.
Black Flag is the best Assassin's Creed game, period. I'm a YUGE fan of the Ezio collection, but Black Flag was the one I had the absolute best time playing and I still play it, albeit on the Switch, but I love that game. First one I ever got a 100% on.
Kingdom hearts 3 carribean part was so beautifully made, I'm not a fan of how they portrayed the story, but just walking port royal, finding treasures underwater, and trying to go to each island there is to discover lucky emblems and hidden items was so satisfying
It's not a worse game, it's a completely different game. Black Flag is a single player game, Skull and Bones is a multiplayer to play with other people and against other people. And it's a lot of fun being that game. Some people just criticize it so much because it didn't correspond to their expectations for a single player game, which it is not.
You say that like it is a bad thing. Out of all the microtransactions companies shove into their games ubisoft ass creed, well at least since origins is one of the "best" (least worse) They allow you to earn and find digital currencies in game and in their meta points system and actually get the cosmetics in game. Yes they are timed base so you cant just get exactly what you want at any time but they allow you to earn stuff in game by playing. That way people like me who never give them a penny for cosmetic "on disc DLC" still get to earn them in game, and the idiots who enable this crap because of FOMO can just buy whatever they want. Only other company I have seen do microtransactions better than ubisoft is blizzards overwatch 1...which they then did a complete 180 and ruined any good faith by shitting the game down and going super greedy with the next game. Damn ass creed valhallah they released the free isle of skye DLC and so much of the opal currency you use for the MTX cosmetics in that game was everywhere on the island, its all free too.
I'm still waiting for a proper actual fighting game for One Piece. The last one we got was Burning Blood, which is sucks. I want a FighterZ treatment for One Piece. Or at least if they want to make another arena fighting game, make it like Naruto Storm/Demon Slayer HC
"I think there is one game that beats it: Pirates of the Caribbean. It was on Xbox. You could buy different ships, hire a crew from the tavern, sleep in the tavern, and it was both at sea and on land. It was such a good pirate game back in 2003."
I want From Software to make a pirate themed game. Just imagine how grand it would be. Having naval boss battles against the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd or against legendary creatures like the Kraken, and/or Davy Jones. It would be sheer epic.
I haven't even watched the video, i just recognized the thumbnail and saw the title, and I'm just gonna say "Yes". This is what Sid Meier's Pirates would look like in my imagination if it ever was remade. AC4 Black Flag is by far one of my most pleasurable playthroughs. So that's one big Yes from me.
Skull and Bones had all the chances to be the best one, but somehow Ubisoft decided to not to turn it into an open world experience as it needed to be. But turned Ghost Recon into an open world experience when it never needed to.
@@RolandHazoto yep. In a few segments of this one he just seemed to be just saying shit, making it up as he goes yk? It almost looks like he didn’t play some of those assassins creed he talked about. At least it reignited my desire to replay this game, wanted to make a video on it for so long
@@Igones I will forever miss the PvP multiplayer; 4 was the last one to have it. Also, I have no idea if you can still get it to run, but look into a mod for Disney's first PotC game called New Horizons. Nobody knows about it, but in a lot of ways it was better than AC4 in the pirate sim aspects.
If it wasn't for those Online Only achievements, I would have platinum trophied this game. I did it ALL and could not get enough. Every sea shanty, upgrade, creature hunt, everything. I even played that Ubisoft mobile game. This era was probably the last time games were good good before the downturn crossed a gross threshold.
Black Flag naval part is based on Sid Meier's Pirates and Sea Dogs series. I really loved Sea Dogs games, but Black Flag made it almost complete pirate game so much, that I have hard time going back to Sea Dogs.
I remember my older brother buying this and COD ghost when they dropped, he spent the whole day finishing the campaign while I watched and I stayed up all night playing Black Flag. Such an amazing game
I still remember the developers geeking out how the boarding worked. Not just that you can do it but how you seamlessly go from an open sea combat scenario to a hand to hand combat scenario complete with parkourable mast, sails, and rigging. No load time or cutscene.
Sly Cooper had so many mini-game mechanics that were damn near good enough to be full games themselves. I loved the ship battles, and I spent way too much time on the Black Baron level with the plane combat mechanics lol
never took the time to play AC4. untill a week ago. Played alot of the Ezio series, AC origins and AC odyssey. and i must say, AC4 is a banger! Back to the old style of AC, and somehow also very different. more of a pirate game than an AC game if you ask me. but man does the game hold up to this day. Funny that you made video about it whilst i'm playing it for the first time.
Thank you for this! One thing: In the timeline of pirate games' presentation, I think you forgot a gem for its era: Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), which was way ahead of its time.
Did you know about Atlas ? not exactly the "Pirate Life" but more into the OPEN world where the devs kinda wanted to go for that but u know they didnt really help themselves, you choose into wherever u want to do, whether ship building and sailing ( Focus in Ocean ) or Do other stuff like base building ( in the Islands ). It is Amazing how vast the Ocean is moreover there is underwater Islands for extra Challenge. Forget the official sever... any other community servers with good mods(to ease with the grind) you will FEEEL the OCEAN. Spend hundreds of hours in the Ocean... It will make you FEEL how amazing are the Boats.
Black Flag changed my mind on AC games, and was the first one I gave a good bash. I totally love pirate stuff. Not only an 80’s memory of Goonies but swashbuckling seemed to always be on my nan’s TV during summer holidays by the coast. And a family over generations in HMR navy. The oldies would sing sea shanties to us kids. So totally hooked. Black flag wasn’t boring for once. And I do think a game with Pirates gets a little slack from me.
I was a late starter on the franchise and I ended up playing AC 3, then the Ezio Trilogy, and then Black Flag, in a roughly year long period back in 2013-2014 and I was just living in Assassin's Creed and loving it. Black flag seemed to cap my AC experience with something I knew very well that also felt totally different because of the ship combat and such.
Even though this game is over 10 years old I vividly remember playing this and as you progress through the video I remember everything about the game this game just like assassin's Creed 2 are masterpieces in my opinion
One of the best details in the game that goes unnoticed but would make the game feel way worse without it…. Edward giving orders during naval combat according to what you’re doing and how the fight is going
Black flags entire naval gameplay system is phenomenal, the ocean, the weather, the wildlife, the combat... I can just sail around for hours doing nothing and love it.
The pirate genre is one of the most underutilised genres in gaming imo. I'd love developers like Rockstar to make a pirate themed game.
omg that would be insane. we all saw what they could with the wild west.
we should start a petition. 😂
Yes the pirate part of rdr2 was so fun
GTA 7: Rogue Waves 🗿
@@Damakos what pirate part? Rdr2 takes place about 150 years after the age of pirates.
Rockstar yes Take 2 NO they can feck off.
Black Flag is more than an AC game.
Bruh 50th like
And also more than a pirate game
Clearly you guys haven’t experienced the Pirates of the Caribbean level on Kingdom Hearts 2.
And it had one of the best stories in all of the AC games (that I've played), with probably the best redemption arc in any game I've ever played. Black Flag is a fucking classic.
The first AC game I played was AC3. I liked it. I loved the naval combat, though.
When Black Flag came along, I was hooked. I've played the living hell out of that game just because of the naval combat and pirate theme. It's still the best pirate game out there.
Black Flag was mind blowing on release and I think its still impressive 10 years later. It really just goes crazy on the Pirate fantasy. Sailing ships, ship battles, boarding ships, taking out forts, looking for burined treasure, whaling, exploring underwater ship wrecks and more. It's hard to imagine a game doing the Pirate Fantasy even better.
You said it best!
That's what made Skull and Bones so upsetting to people, myself included. It was supposed to take all of that and amp it up to ten. Instead they reduced it down by ten. Glad I saw it in the cards and avoided it.
I think had they not made that promise and never associated it with Black Flag, it probably would've been a lot more accepted, with a lot less negativity. It would've just been a mediocre live service pirate game, rather than a massive broken promise of a Black Flag successor. Honestly, in that context, I could even see a world where it became mildly successful.
I remember being awestruck by the water animation and texture. Just staring at it things “wow. So pretty” lol
Yeah and then 10 years later the same publisher screws up Skull & Bones, the game specifically about being a pirate on the open sea
What i would give for a modern remake of blag flag.
Black Flag should have been its own franchise instead of an AC.
Could have changed a lot and not for the better I think skulls and bones is similar
No. It’s a great AC thanks to the writing of Darby McDevitt.
Kinda was. Rogue was slept on
Pirate’s Creed
It actually kind of started as an independent game, most "pirate mechanics" was well developed before it became an AC game
Black Flag was and is one of my favorite video games of all time. The story was a mix between Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure, which were two of my favorite movies growing up, and the game had so many perfect little details. I absolutely love that your ship looked visually better for every upgrade you bought for it: cannon upgrades made the cannons look shinier and larger, hull upgrades added more ornate trim and coloring to the ship itself, sail upgrades made the sails look fresher and more sturdy, etc. And the fact that the sea shanties essentially functioned as the radio from GTA games was a stroke of genius. This video made me so nostalgic and now I think I need to go back to it this summer haha
I'm proud to say I was once addicted to Black Flag!
The sea shanty sung by the crew was so epic
@@pyner0s496 Exactly. I honestly don't even remember if there are "Fast Travel" in this game cause I always use the ship just to hear the crew singing. lol
Same! Performance was just terrible on PC tho but then we found a hero that provided us with DXVK so kindly, allowing us to get more fps by changing the game's API to Vulkan :)
@@JustJustKen this was actually the first in the series to make the synchronize points be fast travel! I adore this game!! ❤️
mee too
🎵I thought I heard the Old Man say:
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her."
Tomorrow you will get your pay,
and it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.
Oh, the wind was foul and the sea ran high.
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her!"
She shipped it green and none went by.
And it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.
I hate to sail on this rotten tub.
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her!"
No grog allowed and rotten grub.
And it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.
We swear by rote for want of more.
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her!"
But now we're through so we'll go on shore.
And it's time for us to leave her.
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her!
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her.🎶
My kid was playing black flag today on my old PS3 and I was singing that shanty when they sang it. Tis my favorite !! 😄
Yeah. Amber Turd really is a turd.
Black Flag is something else, those shanties are so nice.
That's the best shanty
Love that one! Home Free included it in their Sea Shanty Medley. (Their video is great, too.)
short answer: yes
long answer: yes. yes it is
I've always considered AC Odyssey to be a pirate game cause of it's ship combat. I know it's not technically but I still like to RP as one in the game.
@@ThwipThwipBoom I love Odysseys Naval combat, also you can be a Pirate in it tbh, all you have to do is Attack and Loot Ships which is exactly what Pirates do
@@ThwipThwipBoomwind waker
@@lostinpictures509No character and no atmosphere? Get your eyes and ears checked.
@@johnlawful2272 WIndwaker was a badass game too. Far better than it's goofy ass appearance would lead one to believe.
The amount of ways u can board an enemy ship is crazy, those details alone fuelled my pirate fantasy, swingin from a rope, jumping off the railing, leaping from the crows nest etc
AC Black Flag is the first game I played when I get back to gaming! I had a lot of fun in this game.
Black Flag isn’t an Assassins Creed game. It’s a pirate simulator with assassinations IN IT.
For what it is, it is perfection. The shanties alone are beautiful…
What is "assassinations"? 😂
Just say 'Its pirate game with an assassins creed lore'
Even call of duty has "assassinations" 😂
What kind of assassin creed game has you play as someone isn't an assassin. This is where assassin creed started to suck. These games started becoming more of grind fest rpgs and not a story driven assassin experience. And the order of assassin the entire thing that all the games are based off of. You only see them for less than 5 minutes of this game.
@@tony-zw1ej yes cuz it's more focused on pirate themes. 🎉 Tadaa
@@tony-zw1ejAlso, all of the repetitive, monotonous tailing missions in that game
@@letsgetitback Then it's shouldn't be an assassin creed game. Just make a pirate game. Which they have done now.
I don't get the trend where newer pirate games are getting made for multiplayer only. Sad. Not many deny that Black Flag is the best pirate game ever made, and that is single player. Yet game companies keep moving to multiplayer.
Because who wants to play by themselves, go make some friends.
@@mcahtme2977 i do
@@mcahtme2977 Sure as a teenager or a school kid, this would make sense but as an adult not really, you can't expect everyone to have friends with the correct concole or pc and to have free time at the same time on the same day? that's just not realistic.
@@mcahtme2977 I have a tons of friends and I love singleplayer, ferociously hate multiplayer games.
Most of the best games ever made are single-player. Or in cases like Stardew Valley and Portal 2, can be played either solo or with friends. @@mcahtme2977
Ubisoft had 90% of Skull and Bones in Black Flag. People wanted that, but more. They wanted to make land on an island and explore caves and ruins for treasure. They wanted to battle other ships and board them.
Also, Black Flag needs a remake/remaster with smoother animations and controls, also give it an expansion.
I’d buy that up!!
Didn't Ubisoft come out with that AC: Rebel Collection for Black Flag and Rogue with a lot of the DLC included a few years ago?
@@Penguinmanereikel All DLC actually, but only for switch.
Skull and bones would be good if there was more to it than ship combat.
They’re remastering black flag in case you didn’t know
Imagine rockstar making a pirate game....
Like for an Assassin creed black flag 2
Black flag is my favorite game of all time. The story and the setting were perfect.
Black Flag, not Black flag
By the way watch Black Sails show ...locations and atmosphere are exactly as per the game. I bet after watching the series you'd jump back to this game.
Black Sails was legendary @@pasullica
who didn't just have a smile here sailing at a sunset on foamy waters while your crew singing "lowland away", and on top that seeing a whale doing a flip and crashing into the water.... i swear, it felt so magical and fulfilling. it was really an experience no one would forget.
Absolutely some of the most atmospheric moments in gaming, in this game.
It happens that I'm not a great fan of AC games but i played this one to the core and i loved it
If you enjoyed this game, I recommend trying Odyssey, it has ship combat and beautiful sailing locale.
B/c it's not really an AC game. It's more like Pirate's Creed, TBH.
@@believeinmatterodyssey is trash worst in the series after valhalla
@sherKhan-qq7cy Nah odyssey is a very good game, just as many have said a lot of times not the best ASSASSINS creed game.
Same
The pirates of the Caribbean online game has to be an honorable mention
I loved that game as a kid.
There was a moment when I was at sea in Valhalla, and my crew starting singing a Viking “shanty.” I thought to myself, “Man, Black Flag was awesome.” It’s like Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla just wanted to tease us with ships to remind us how awesome Black Flag was…is.
I'm sorry, but when I remember how great Black Flag was... I can't help but to think was Skull & Bones could've been. They literally had everything in order, all they had to do was remove the hidden blades. But nope, what we got was "Black Flag at home" because they removed all non-naval combat. I would've loved to have been able to board enemy ships and fight. I would've loved to have been able to explore sunken ships and underwater ruins. It's sad when I enjoy AC: Odyssey more than Skull & Bones.
Yeah, Odyssey still holds up, on land and sea.
@@landonewts odyssey never held up
I’ll never forget the assassination missions where instead of sneaking around and taking out the target with the hidden blade I always just ran up and shot them in true pirate fashion. The cutscene would always show him using the hidden blade, which I found amusing as I went out of my way to use it as little as possible, and each mission counted as a success.
I’m replaying right now and it’s downright comical to assassinate people with the guns.
The best was the traitor brother on Nassau and his Chinese Templar wife. Killed the brother and after the cutscene his wife appeared and I one tapped her before she could even run away and got another cutscene.
my best experiences were when we were allowed to commandeer a galleon and black beard's ship....I don't remember it accurately, but those naval combat parts with the pirate music were awesome!
Blackbeard's ship was something else, I loved that mission
@@ashishchoudhary6982 yeahh...i think his broadside cannons fire 3 rounds at a time if I remember correct, that was so awesome!
Remember that Port comes before Starboard alphabetically (P before S). The same can be said about Left and Right (L and R). Just remember that this applies to orientation. You have to face the front or bow. Stern is the back. I remember bow is the front because bowing is bending your head forward.
I always remember because “port” and “left” have the same amount of letters. 😉
This is actually very helpful and easy to remember. Thanks!
Say Starboard like sta-R-board…”R” is in RIGHT so….. Port is short like Left, Star says “R” like Right😊
When I saw the title of this video I thought "Oh man, please let there be a pirate game on the level of Black Flag". Then I watched the video...should've known. It truly is a masterpiece in the pirate game genre.
For pirate fans, recommend watching Black Sails. Really great show.
One of the best I watched.
@@vaazon one of the best written shows of the 2010s
I second this recommendation!
Fck yea
Wats it on ?
I remember accidentally sailing into one of the legendary ships at low level and getting absolutely destroyed.
Lol. Same here. I feel you 😂
Unfortunately, it's the reason why I never finished the game 😂.
Yep I accidentally sailed into the area with the 2 legendary ships I got creamed without firing a single shot 😅😅
Skull and Bones is obviously the best, its a Quadruple A experience!!!
Ubisoft created such a masterpiece that no one will pirate this game 🔥🔥
how the fuck this got 16 likes. ?supposed get dislike bcuz that skull n bones is QUARDUPLE A SHITTY EXPERIENCE n EXPENSIVE MOBILE GAME. .
Genuinely game of the year IMO!
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Played again recently after the Skull & Bones debacle. It holds up big time.
Your comment on the sea shanties is also spot on. I collected them all just to hear my crew sing them.
Black Flag is one of the few games I’ve triple-dipped on. Over the years I have bought and played it on WiiU, switch, and current Xbox.
Playing sid meiers pirates as a kid and actually being able to marry and escape prison with the help of your crew was such an iconic feeing. Gotta love it
Now imagine all of that with the actual free roam mechanics of AC4 when you're on land.
Yeah, but it was a mini game slog. I hated those damn mini games.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 I would take out some of the silly mechanics like the courting, maybe make the solo combat a little more like an actual fighting game, or remove it, but I'd keep the mechanics of the raids, just make them work like AC4. There are all kinds of ways you could play with it, and remember, even the mini games that you didn't enjoy could be avoided if you wanted to. So, perhaps, keep them in and just update them for the people who want them, but don't make them necessary, so people who want to ignore them can.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Same. I stopped playing because of those damn mini games.
Yeah there may have been pirate games made before that ( i don't know) but that's really where it all started.
Like LOTR is said to have defined its genre and inspired almost every story that has followed, Sid Meier's Pirates is very much the same for me.
Not really that surprising though as Sid Meier basically did the same for civilization and tycoon type games as well.
Are there better games out there now? well ok yeah, but that was because of the limitations of hte technology of the time.
I just started playing Black Flag a day ago. I have 5 hours on it and I absolutely love it. Best AC by a mile
I actually just started it as well, for the first time... its certainly one of the best.. to me its really hard to choose though cause I like all of them a lot... even the recent massive ones they have made that everyone seems to hate.
Just started playing black flag for the first time 2 days ago. Really enjoying it. Hope the remake ubisoft is working on keep to the roots.
Same, dude!!
Are they actually remaking this??
They're remaking this game? that's ...weird, because it doesn't seem like the remake will accomplish much - except maybe change the feel of the game, which is top notch as far as Assassin's Creed goes.
Remake lmao. People asking for remakes are part of the problem.
I own it on 360 and Xbox One... Want that a remake?
The AC game series blew me away so many times with what they achieved. Black Flag was epic for all the reasons you mentioned, but even AC 3 is hands down one of the best ever games I've played. No other character has ever felt more lithe and flowing and powerful. It had so many aspects that were amazing, including the ship combat and the village building.
I am always impressed by Falcon's ability to remain fresh and actually provide good quality commentary and observations. Hope he and the team is getting the appreciation they rightly deserve.
Black flag is so good one of the greats of entertainment in general not just games, also it aged like fine wine 🍷🏴☠️
Disney infinity Pirates of the Caribbean had some really good Ship combat
You mentioned sea shanties as a by the way but for me it was one of the main things I actually did in the game.
Hours spent in the open sea just listening to the shanties.
Also upgrading your ship to face the legendary ships. The first time I met one by accident I was decimated in less than a minute
Did anyone here actually defeat a legendary ship alone? I thought I was pretty close a few times, but it felt like the encounter was rigged in so many ways that I eventually stopped trying.
@@tubensalat1453 It is possible but you have to upgrade your ship closer to the max and good strategies
It's a bit like how to approach dark souls bosses
The twin legendary ships are the ones that gave me a marathon for my money
🤝No side quest has ever moved me as much as sea shanty collection
@@stevenochieng960 Yeah, I had my ship maxed out, still... They zoom in, so I can't fully take advantage of my mortars, they handle like a shopping cart: zero turn radius & no delay whatsoever for their maneuvers, so I can't out-maneuver them, they accelerate like a jet fighter if they want to disengage...
Then again, I failed against regular dark soul enemies, so I guess I'm just too casual.
Played through on PS4 a couple years back. It was still fantastic. Returned a couple months ago to clean up the platinum. Geez it was demanding, but such a great return to play it again. Finally got the plat after beating the Twin Elite Warships, such a sweet moment
The ending of Ac4 as well as the story of Mary Read were fantastic have always held them in my top 5 games 12 years later I’m 23 and still waiting for Ubisoft capture this feeling again
I still hold firm that AC4: Black Flag is one of the BEST ACs entries. It’s in my top 3.
I like it. Probably 3. I've played like 5 of them. But for me it's
Ac origins, ac syndicate, and then black flag. Or switch it with ac rogue. But don't remember much of rogue now. Hell you can switch syndicate with origins. Odyssey was good. And I stopped at valhalla. My attention went away from that game with in hours.
@@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825 noice, never played syndicate but I’ve played 1,2,Brotherhood,Revelations,3,Black Flag, & Origins.
Origins, Black Flag, & AC2 are my favs.
@@AngieCarr something about origins is beautiful. Even being desert. I like that the arrow was great in that game but for odyssey it was weak I think. You should try syndicate. It's awesome. Nice setting. Fun things to do. Imo.
Black Flag is a phenomenal game and, for my money, THE best depiction of being a pirate in gaming.
I still have my OG boxed copy but, for anyone who wants to play this masterpiece, it’s under $10 on PlayStation Store. 🏴☠️
It’s included with PlayStation Premium subscription.
It's free with PS Essential
I still have it installed on my PS5 , not only the best pirates game, the best Assassin's Creed, I've sunk hundreds of hours in it, the soundtrack during the legendary Ships is just...mindblowing
After watching the pirates of the caribbean movies I always wanted to play a pirate game and when this came out it was a dream come true. Bought this game on four different platforms, worth the purchase every time.
Imagine if rockstar made a pirate game.
They should
I played this 7 months ago and i had a blast playing it. Still in 2024 this game has great graphics.
Missed opportunity to not mention Sea Dogs 2! It's basically everything piratey about Black Glag, but with so much more options. You can fight as a pirate, or for the French, English, Portuguese, French, Spainish and more. We need a remaster of that. One of my all time favourites
A true hidden gem, I remember it had the Pirates of the Caribbean Logo for the old Xbox, but it had nothing to do with the PofC plot Lol, the fact you could make your own fleet,Visit City's enter buildings, it was ahead of its time, man you could fight and Invade Forts, for me it's still the best Pirate/SailShip Simulator I experienced , and way ahead of it's time, still Don understand how it didn't get the love it (for me) deserved
There is an awesome mod pack for the game on pc called new horizons
Black Flag is legendary for me. No other game has ever come close its vibe, gameplay and even graphics when it comes to pirate games.
Open world with Pirates and Assassins. Black Flag is and always will be my favorite AC game. Hands down one of my favorite games of all time. Up there with RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, Witcher 3, Skyrim. Hopefully a lot of people think so too.
The Pirates of the Caribbean MMO had some great stuff as well.
Available for pc?
@619jc9 It was about 15 years ago, I don't think it's available anymore.
@@willbearheart7919It's still live, there's a fan run server going that's still getting updates
Yeah this game was a big part of my childhood, nothing has come close pirate related
Black Flag is my favorite game of all time
SAME 😭🙏🏴☠️
The pirate genre is one of the most underutilized genres in gaming in my opinion. I'd love a developer like Rockstar Games to make a pirate game.
Black Flag is the best Assassin's Creed game, period. I'm a YUGE fan of the Ezio collection, but Black Flag was the one I had the absolute best time playing and I still play it, albeit on the Switch, but I love that game. First one I ever got a 100% on.
I have 6 AC games, yet Black Flag is the only one I played through, and even played to 100% and enjoyed every minute of it.
Sid Meier's Pirates + Sea of Thieves + Black Flag = the best
lego pirates of the Caribbean
I've been wanting a remake of SMP forever
i would include Monkey Island. Most realistic, hardcore Pirategame ever...
Nope. Sea of Thieves is online and multiplayer only.
@@christianbethel Sea of thieves for the multiplayer and ac4 for the singleplayer and immersion.
The intro soundtrack gave me goosebumps
Always loved the naval combat in AC Odyssey - One of the most fun open world games I have ever played
Kingdom hearts 3 carribean part was so beautifully made, I'm not a fan of how they portrayed the story, but just walking port royal, finding treasures underwater, and trying to go to each island there is to discover lucky emblems and hidden items was so satisfying
the DLC was incredible too. when I swam past the ship's wreck my heart literally sank.
How someone could make a worse game when all they had to do was lore swap an existing game they made 7 years ago will always boggle me.
It's not a worse game, it's a completely different game. Black Flag is a single player game, Skull and Bones is a multiplayer to play with other people and against other people. And it's a lot of fun being that game. Some people just criticize it so much because it didn't correspond to their expectations for a single player game, which it is not.
Don't worry I'm sure Ubisoft will release a remake....and monetize everything in this game.
And they will make side missions unlockable by purchasing deluxe edition
I have high hopes for the remake, I hope they don’t change too much.. i dont know I’m scared but excited
@@mattbettcher7439 I'll bet you my life savings it's just a graphical update with a season pass
@@madnessman1520 I hope they make every island fully explorable and make it so don’t load into big areas.. maybe I’m being naive but hey I’m excited
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Out of all the microtransactions companies shove into their games ubisoft ass creed, well at least since origins is one of the "best" (least worse)
They allow you to earn and find digital currencies in game and in their meta points system and actually get the cosmetics in game. Yes they are timed base so you cant just get exactly what you want at any time but they allow you to earn stuff in game by playing.
That way people like me who never give them a penny for cosmetic "on disc DLC" still get to earn them in game, and the idiots who enable this crap because of FOMO can just buy whatever they want.
Only other company I have seen do microtransactions better than ubisoft is blizzards overwatch 1...which they then did a complete 180 and ruined any good faith by shitting the game down and going super greedy with the next game.
Damn ass creed valhallah they released the free isle of skye DLC and so much of the opal currency you use for the MTX cosmetics in that game was everywhere on the island, its all free too.
Crazy how there hasn't been a proper open world rpg one piece game
🎉 was just thinking this too 💯
I'm still waiting for a proper actual fighting game for One Piece. The last one we got was Burning Blood, which is sucks. I want a FighterZ treatment for One Piece. Or at least if they want to make another arena fighting game, make it like Naruto Storm/Demon Slayer HC
😂😂not too many good anime games period. DBZ holds that crown.
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There's plenty of anime fighting games.
Need a proper open world rpg.
One piece is perfect for that.
DBZ Kakarot but for one piece would be sick
"I think there is one game that beats it: Pirates of the Caribbean. It was on Xbox. You could buy different ships, hire a crew from the tavern, sleep in the tavern, and it was both at sea and on land. It was such a good pirate game back in 2003."
I also love the fact you can capture and collect the enemy ships, I wonder why they stopped it and didn't bring it back in future titles
Yup. Without a doubt 🔥🔥🎉🎉
Yes. Absolutely. Nothing compares to Black flag.
I want From Software to make a pirate themed game. Just imagine how grand it would be. Having naval boss battles against the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd or against legendary creatures like the Kraken, and/or Davy Jones. It would be sheer epic.
Black Flag was the last physical copy of AC games that I had actually bought and I've never regretted it
I haven't even watched the video, i just recognized the thumbnail and saw the title, and I'm just gonna say "Yes".
This is what Sid Meier's Pirates would look like in my imagination if it ever was remade. AC4 Black Flag is by far one of my most pleasurable playthroughs.
So that's one big Yes from me.
Skull and Bones had all the chances to be the best one, but somehow Ubisoft decided to not to turn it into an open world experience as it needed to be. But turned Ghost Recon into an open world experience when it never needed to.
Assassins creed 3, a miss?????
Welcome to Falcon's contentious takes. It's rare he does a vid where there isn't something he says that I disagree with.
@@RolandHazoto yep. In a few segments of this one he just seemed to be just saying shit, making it up as he goes yk?
It almost looks like he didn’t play some of those assassins creed he talked about.
At least it reignited my desire to replay this game, wanted to make a video on it for so long
I think he meant the naval aspect of it
@@Igones I will forever miss the PvP multiplayer; 4 was the last one to have it.
Also, I have no idea if you can still get it to run, but look into a mod for Disney's first PotC game called New Horizons. Nobody knows about it, but in a lot of ways it was better than AC4 in the pirate sim aspects.
@@RolandHazoto wow really? That’s really interesting! I’ll look into it
Clearly you guys haven’t experienced the Pirates of the Caribbean level on Kingdom Hearts 2.
Probably because as adults we generally dont play childrens disney games
Kingdom Hearts 2? Kingdom Hearts 3 did it even better. You had an exploreable sea with naval battles.
If it wasn't for those Online Only achievements, I would have platinum trophied this game. I did it ALL and could not get enough. Every sea shanty, upgrade, creature hunt, everything. I even played that Ubisoft mobile game. This era was probably the last time games were good good before the downturn crossed a gross threshold.
Black Flag naval part is based on Sid Meier's Pirates and Sea Dogs series. I really loved Sea Dogs games, but Black Flag made it almost complete pirate game so much, that I have hard time going back to Sea Dogs.
I remember my older brother buying this and COD ghost when they dropped, he spent the whole day finishing the campaign while I watched and I stayed up all night playing Black Flag. Such an amazing game
i tried playing Black Flag again a few times, getting past the fisrt part wherre you are stuck in Havana is a nightmare
Black Flag is by far the most underrated AC game (imo) the combat and stealth was good, the story was great, and the ship combat still holds up.
So glad you mentioned Sly Cooper 3, such a good game!
I still remember the developers geeking out how the boarding worked. Not just that you can do it but how you seamlessly go from an open sea combat scenario to a hand to hand combat scenario complete with parkourable mast, sails, and rigging. No load time or cutscene.
Sly Cooper had so many mini-game mechanics that were damn near good enough to be full games themselves. I loved the ship battles, and I spent way too much time on the Black Baron level with the plane combat mechanics lol
never took the time to play AC4. untill a week ago. Played alot of the Ezio series, AC origins and AC odyssey. and i must say, AC4 is a banger! Back to the old style of AC, and somehow also very different. more of a pirate game than an AC game if you ask me. but man does the game hold up to this day. Funny that you made video about it whilst i'm playing it for the first time.
Thank you for this! One thing: In the timeline of pirate games' presentation, I think you forgot a gem for its era: Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), which was way ahead of its time.
It's funny how I started replaying this game a week ago, and then this video is made lol. We need a remastered!
"In a world without gold we might have been heroes" -Edward Thatch.
Potco was a big part of my childhood, I don’t think anything else has scratched my pirate game itch lol
Plus the combat was good too. I really like upgrading the amount of pistols Edward could take on his person.
Did you know about Atlas ? not exactly the "Pirate Life" but more into the OPEN world where the devs kinda wanted to go for that but u know they didnt really help themselves, you choose into wherever u want to do, whether ship building and sailing ( Focus in Ocean ) or Do other stuff like base building ( in the Islands ). It is Amazing how vast the Ocean is moreover there is underwater Islands for extra Challenge. Forget the official sever... any other community servers with good mods(to ease with the grind) you will FEEEL the OCEAN. Spend hundreds of hours in the Ocean... It will make you FEEL how amazing are the Boats.
Black flag is my absolute favorite AC game from purely a gameplay perspective. As for being a pirate simulator, there is truly NOTHING better!
Black Flag changed my mind on AC games, and was the first one I gave a good bash.
I totally love pirate stuff. Not only an 80’s memory of Goonies but swashbuckling seemed to always be on my nan’s TV during summer holidays by the coast. And a family over generations in HMR navy. The oldies would sing sea shanties to us kids.
So totally hooked.
Black flag wasn’t boring for once. And I do think a game with Pirates gets a little slack from me.
You forgot the boss ship fights. They were actually hard and you felt accomplished when you finally beat them.
I was a late starter on the franchise and I ended up playing AC 3, then the Ezio Trilogy, and then Black Flag, in a roughly year long period back in 2013-2014 and I was just living in Assassin's Creed and loving it. Black flag seemed to cap my AC experience with something I knew very well that also felt totally different because of the ship combat and such.
Even though this game is over 10 years old I vividly remember playing this and as you progress through the video I remember everything about the game this game just like assassin's Creed 2 are masterpieces in my opinion
First game I've played on the PS4 back in the day. Still holds up, and I'm soo happy we'll finally get remake of this masterpiece.
Black flag is my favorite AC game, first game I ever 100%’d and I loved every second, even the trailing missions
Black Flag was just a great game, period. With or without the AC name.
I’m making my way through the ezio trilogy for the first time since high school. This will definitely be my next stop.
I seriously need to play this game again. Definitely my favorite AC game since the first one
One of the best details in the game that goes unnoticed but would make the game feel way worse without it…. Edward giving orders during naval combat according to what you’re doing and how the fight is going
Black flags entire naval gameplay system is phenomenal, the ocean, the weather, the wildlife, the combat... I can just sail around for hours doing nothing and love it.