Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is VASTLY OVERRATED (2023 Review)
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- In this video, I’m going to review Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood - highlighting the gameplay features it improved upon but also going hard against some of the things it does VERY POORLY.
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0:00 Introduction
0:51 Gameplay Improvements
4:42 TERRIBLE Missions
10:02 Lackluster Side Content
11:23 Story
15:30 Conclusion
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Gotta say that as a history enthousiast I always really liked this game. Some of the structures you can visit/climb are wonderfully remade and give a great sense of immersion. AC:B actually inspired me to visit Rome irl, which I’ll always be very grateful for. Besides that, the in-game encyclopedia is fun to read through and fairly historically accurate beside all the Assassin-Templar stuff. I also remember enjoying the story, but I agree it’s definitely a lot less interesting than AC:II. Cesare is definitely an annoying villain, but portrayed fairly well for what he’s supposed to be: a spoiled, narrow-minded POS on a power trip. He also looks a lot like the painting that he’s based on, so I gotta give Ubisoft credit for using the source material so well.
In the end, I have to agree that Brotherhood was a step down from AC:II in terms of scope and grandeur. After Beotherhood, the AC games became increasingly more formulaic until Ubi tried a different approach with Origins. Revelations offers even more of the same gameplay as Brotherhood, though with some combat improvements, so I’m curious if you might like it.
Thats the games appeal. The game is basically annoying gameplay and mediocre story wrapped up with god tier atmosphere and presentation, wich is what braniwashes people into liking the game so much
Brotherhood by far is still my favorite one besides AC2. I played it again recently and I feel like it really holds up too 🤷
Don't listen to this guy it sounds like he set his expectations way too high you should never do that with a game. And honestly I liked the story of this game so I don't know what he was talking about plus there is literally a remastered version of this game so you don't encounter all of the bugs for this but I am guessing he didn't know that at all
Really? What did you think about Revelations, I quite like what the game was doing.
@@OakBuzzard22 It's overrated just finished it this week and alot of the missions were just annoying. Replaying sections from failing cheaply
Never had this problem in the other games.
@@MistahJay7 I haven't played this game in a long time so I honestly don't remember it being annoying but if you found it as an annoying game I'm sorry to hear that
@@MistahJay7playing it again for the first time since release. Just beat AC2 last week. Sorry if this sounds harsh but it’s entirely a “you” issue if you’re needing to replay sections due to falling. AC1-Revelations had a very tight parkour system. If something messed up, like you wanna jump diagonally but went straight left, that’s 9/10 a player issue.
I used to think it was janky when I was a kid. Playing it today, it’s so damn precise it’s quite impressive.
As a huge lover of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood I have to say I do not disagree at all with the points u made in this video especially concerning missions and the map. Despite its numerous issues tho I can’t help but love the game and I hope one day Ubisoft will give this game as well as the original assassins creed and the other Ezio games the proper remaster/remake they all deserve.
I think with brotherhood there's 2 reasons why everyone loves it
1. It was the game most people played - AC1 was pretty dead and AC2 was a hit so everyone was exited for the followup to one of the most popular game in the world. I know tloads of people who only ever owned brotherhood as they bought it after hear8ng how good ac 2 was. So because so many people played it its easy to reference and has lasted longer in pop culture relevance
2. It was revolutionary for its time - It was the first "Ubisoft game". The staple of a huge open world with so much to do, so many side activities and missions and a huge city to explore.. at the time this was crazy and everyone loved it but sadly it became the staple copy and paste template for every single videogame that ubisoft has made to this day.... so now when we go back and play it it's just the exact same as every single other ubisoft game we've played dozens of times and if anything it s a it more bare bones than modern examples
ac1 was dead? it sold 8 million copies lol
Have to admit I did feel a bit let down playing Brotherhood after ACII. I liked it, but it just felt off. Got the feeling Ubisoft wanted to push out the multiplayer aspect more so than a complete, quality single player campaign. And, Rome definitely got bland early on. By the way, you're right about Ubisoft not planning anything for Ezio after ACII. It was originally meant to be a trilogy with three different assassins and time periods.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I *LOVED* the combat in AC: Syndicate. Im still sad the community complained so much that it got changed 😩
For me it wasn’t bad but it had a weird rag doll physics to the bodies and enemies would go flying after a combo. I liked the unity combat the best
Of the entire series, Black Flag and Syndicate are my favorites.
I totally agree with you. Syndicate is my favorite AC game. I enjoyed it so much. The parkour was great with the grappling hook, combat was smooth and even all the side content was fun and didn't feel like the typical AC bloat. 👍
And i fucking hate that system caused its fucking impossible to get a fucking 4man animation finisher when syndicate your ass gets stormed by shit ton of people but even their 1% enemies will attack you and if you try to block it they die you lose people for multi finisher then you have to let yourself get hit instead and also random enemy try to shoot you is not fun at all
@@shadownight9956 I understand that you are trying to make a point, but I read your comment 3 times and I still have no idea what you are talking about.
EDIT is your friend.
No it’s not bro not imo that game is great
Okay guys, bring up torches and forks, we have another one xd.
Yo Big Dan! I grew up playing this game and have really fond memories of it, but that’s probably the rose-tinted glasses talking. I still love the story, setting and Brotherhood-building aspect, but on the technical side/shitty missions you are so true. Great analysis.
Brotherhood also introduced Combo end finishers. Rather than striking 3 times with a handheld weapon, or 4 times with the Hidden Blades, you strike 1 time less and the next hit is a kill on most enemies. The Hidden blades being the only reliable 1-shot counter weapon in AC2, coupled with low damage per hit, it literally was a turn based system. Slap your enemy with a weak weapon 4 times, then they retaliate. Or let them attack and then retailiate.
I prefer Revelations for how it mostly keeps the finishers of Brotherhood, but adds the Janissaries, who you can't 1 shot even with the hidden blade. The reason I still hold Brotherhood in high regards is because much of the good that it adds is a demo of what Revelations perfected: the weapon pairing system where holding the attack button with the sword would let you use the hidden gun, and the dagger would let you throw knifes, was a pretty good system. Revelations improved on it by letting you pair any melee weapon with any ranged weapon, and tying their inputs to different buttons to make it pess janky.
In Revelations, the Assassin system is so much better.
The upgrade system sees several improvements.
Where in Brotherhood you'd simply give them better armor or different weapons, in Revelations each assassin has a prefered weapon indicated by an icon. Hidden blade, sword, dagger, heavy weapon. This adds a little individuality to the Assassins, and a layer of complexity to assassination missions, as now you sometimes need an assassin with specific equipment specialisations (such as favoring the hidden blade over handheld melee weapons) to even send them on contracts. The weapon upgrade system is replaced with abilities. Letting your assassins do more in combat, such as counter kills.
There are several unique Assassins who have recruitments more complex than just running across a random fight between guards and a civilian.
The tower defence minigame is an okay addition (also annoying since you need to succeed in several of them to unlock the best sword in the game, and will be locked out of doing so if each den is controlled by a max level Assassin.
Speaking of dens, each den has 2 unique missions involving a problematic person that needs to be assassinated. The first mission unlocks once you assign an Assassin to the den at rank 10, the next once they hit max level.
The den system is just an improvement of the Borgia towers.
Ezio is also much wiser and more likeable, though everyone else is a completely new character besides Desmond. It's kind of disappointing to not be able to interact with old friends from the previous 2 games. Besides meeting and beating up Duccio again. Missions have a lot mote variety and there's a few more assassinations if my memory is correct.
No horse this time around, but most of the city is much better for parkour.
I think a big part of why people loved brotherhood was that it introduced assassins creed multiplayer, which was really fun (when it worked)
Brotherhood was my first AC game(have since played them all). Really enjoyed it.
ACs 2 - Revelations *are* good games, but I think people only praise them so highly because of nostalgia.
Dude what, the Armor of Brutus is some of the coolest armor in the series!
Nostalgia??? Ac 2 's story is much better than ac brotherhood, compared to ac 2, brotherhood's only shine at Graphics and combat
I'm really torn. At the moment of this, both the dlc for bloodborne and assassin's creed black flag are on sale. Which should I get first?
Well i will say black flag and its dlc freedom cry are good but the tailing missions will have you raging big time.
The most disappointing thing about AC Brotherhood is that the main story feels so short. And the most fun aspect of it is recruiting new assassins and using them to finally kill these annoying archers on the rooftops. Also Borgia towers a quite fun, I like the fact that Brotherhood introduced this system of gradually liberating Rome from their influence, even though they could have done much more interesting with Borgia captains, revealing their backstory and letting us gradually know our enemy. A lot of Brotherhood's flaws come from a rushed development, but it is still a fun game to play.
Yeah exactly, I had fond memories of the game as a kid and it still fun but damn after the prologue and until you get the apple, there's not much happening with the story compared to 2 (and Revelations, even if the story in Revelations is forgettable aside from the Altair stuff) it was a huge letdown but Rome was still one hell of a city to explore and take back (even if there's a bit too many empty, flat fields for my liking sometimes)
I don't think I've ever had a SINGLE in-game bug besides the typical "Guard running/clipping into object" bug. Not a problematic cutscene or fubar fight to speak of. Just... wall-loving guards.
I've always enjoyed the atmosphere of this game. Something about Jesper Kyd's music combined with the Renaissance aesthetic was really memorable for me.
I wonder how you'll feel about AC 3. It was my 2nd favorite after Black Flag, but it suffers from not having any tall architecture to climb on
The armor you get from the Shop Quest is the same in stats but looks better. I just use that one instead lol but atleast Brutus Armor come with the best Dagger in the game. Dagger are always the most fun to use in these
I was disappointed for the same reasons. I didn't finish the game because I was trying to do a mission, and suddenly, I was prompted to do more work/grinding before going forward.
Brotherhood has to less dense city enviroments to parkour in if 2/3 of the map was city it would had been better.
I guess Rodrigo didn't know that an apple a day doesn't keep the Ezio away.
you have brought upon yourself a death sentence
The biggest letdown is the ending, the story made me expect an epic siege of rome similar to the opening siege of monteriggioni but bigger. And in the end its just a small fight in the streets with some guards except now you have the piece of eden so its not even a fight. Then without much explanation you get teleported to the "real final mission" which is also really bad. It really does feel like they wanted that epic siege but in the end they did the final sequence in last couple of weeks of crunch. They released brotherhood just 1 year after ac2 and it shows.
It perfected AC 2, then let you manage an assassin guild and the villain was much cooler than AC 2 and revelations. The best game in the franchise up until units sorted its shit out and became the assassin experience.
wait this isn't april fool's
I used to love AC brotherhood. But played 2 and brotherhood again and I prefer 2.
Brotherhood story seems short. And game more fleshed out with side missions, buying and assassin recruits 🤦
I mean I completed the story and I didn't unlock all the gadgets. Especially the parachute. Shouldn't that be apart of the storyline. Also Leonardo war machine missions should have also been apart of the main story. It all seemed very strange
It's honestly funny Dan, cause I legit had MY first run through of the Ezio trilogy about a month before you started, and I had the EXACT same feeling that you've had with Brotherhood. I've only played 1,2, brotherhood, revelations, and black flag to completion, and Brotherhood was easily the most frustrating and miserable experience I had. Yes, even collecting all 500+ flags in AC1 was more enjoyable than playing through Brotherhood.
I remember playing the Multiplayer and not playing the single player much
For me at least, Assassin Creed Brotherhood and Black Flag are both the Best Assassin Creed Ever made. I can say this, I agreed with the Synchronization Aspect, I always hate it, I hated be obligated to play the mission how Ubisoft thinks I need to play and don't let me do it on my own way, but the rest for me at least, is it okay, I don´t mind.
meanwhile i totally respect this opinion, it is important to point out that playing the game for the first time in 2023 will not take into account the monumental impact this game had on so many people. theres definetely something different about waiting for the new ac release in 2009s with anticipation and hoping it to be better than the last one, than having the luxury to sit back and nitpick in 2023
But it only applies to brotherhood? Ac 2 and revelations still hold up today
Well maybe in 2023 there is no nostaligia factor, which really shows the game for what it is rather than what it was.
For me, gameplay and missions PEAK is Brotherhood. The refinement and style of the combat, the side activities, and the setting are the best. Story I prefer AC2 and Revelations I prefer the new setting, Assassin intrigue and connections between Altair, Ezio, and Desmond. Story of Brotherhood when I last replayed did feel like autopilot, things would just...happen and other than freeing city districts from Borgia control, I didn't feel like I was moving the plot forward much. Caesare only appears 3 or 4 times total in the story and thus, isn't given a lot of development
I'm actually in full agreement here, then again i've played the Ezio games several times throughout the years so i always have a clear memory of the games pros and cons.
I remember dropping the AC series after this game, loved the first game, felt the second was even better in every way, then I read that the next game they were making was going to be about Enzio again and I was a bit sad about that as i would have liked to explore a new setting but brought the game anyway. The game felt like recycled AC2, but mostly worse in most ways, when I read then that the next game planned was about Enzio again i went fuck this series and never pay attention to any of the following games until odyssey came out.
Felt similar about brotherhood. It wasn't bad or anything, just... a bit more polished AC2, but also a lot more lackluster. I'm always surprised to see so many ppl praising it hah
Honestly if i remember correctly people loved this game because of its Multiplayer addition. For some reason I skipped this game but played Revelation which is my favorite AC to this day. Granted I stopped playing after 3.
I bet you skipped this back when it came out for the same reason I did....
Red Dead Redemption!
AC Brotherhood is an amazing game, if not from a historical point or about it's combat, which yes is very easy since you can bypass enemies like the heavy armored juggernauts that are suppose to block attacks or the scout which dodge.
But besides that, the atmosphere, the characters you meet, the interesting story, the brotherhood mechanic (Which I feel is good, but definitely could have been better), everything culminated into a great game.
Right now I'm just happy I got the hardware to run Mass Effect Andromeda 😎!!!! Playing old games on Ultra is a dream!!!
First thing I did when I saw the title was loudly gasp NOOOO.. as I have always loved AC. But.. you are right.. dammit i said it.
comparing with first one and the 3 and 4? its the best at that time
I think you'll have a lot to say about ac 3
Dan, but there is an option to toggle the map markers.
make sure you also play the original copy next time as people played it when the game came out, there sure is options to toggle the map :)
Brotherhood is essentially more Assassin's Creed II, and that's good. The "brotherhood" bit of the game was a lot of fun and I enjoyed getting to know some of the side characters from Creed II a bit better, particularly Machiavelli and Bartolomeo. Personally I enjoyed the side content, particularly the armour key platforming puzzles that people responded to very well in II. The criticisms of the game's mission design are valid, but they're far from unique to Brotherhood and persist well into the series. I prefer Brotherhood over Revelations and Creed III.
One cool thing that's no longer accessible is the multiplayer mode, wanted, in which you'd play games of cat and mouse with fellow assassins using a variety of fun tools.
AC don't have bugs, these are just Animus glitches :D. And Dan, you do not get the full scope of Ezio's journey yet, there is still AC Revelations ahead.
As a kid who was nostalgic I liked brotherhood but as I got older and became and adult I dislike the game for the same reason's you do big Dan, its to the point I uninstall the game everytime I think about the Tank mission Brotherhood is honestly the weakest in the series and it needs a remake now that you emphasized all its flaws.
Story and new features were meh, but the chain combat really add fluidity.
Wait Dan u didn't play the Da Vinci disappearance?? It's literally the best DLC in all of AC franchise
For the longest time I used to think Assassin's Creed 2 was the best game in the Ezio Trilogy. but i replayed the Ezio Trilogy more recently. and I changed my mind on that i without a doubt think that Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is the best one in the trilogy.
tl;dr: Your perspective and our perspective differ when it's about the game genre.
Dan, you are an rpg fan, not an AC fan, so the Ezio trilogy won't be as good for you as the AC RPG trilogy was. It's overrated for new players, but for the people who liked the series when it was actually about Assassins, and not about an outsider who happens to help them, they might be overrated yes, but they are still very superior.
It's like putting a FIFA player to play NFS
They're not superior just because the protagonist is a "real assassin". It doesn't make the story any better just because the character is directly a part of the fictional in-game group depicted in the series. AC4 was the best game in the series despite the main character being an "outsider".
Restricting the plot elements to "every protagonist must be part of the assassin brotherhood and every protagonist must use the hidden blade" only stifles creativity. Them branching out and exploring different ways of conveying their stories was a great decision and it led to what I would argue is one of the greatest games ever made in Black Flag.
AC fans always want such a narrow and shallow depiction of this storyline. The same types of characters using the same tools and doing the same things in every game. This is why Unity was such a collosal failure, because most fans were tired of that same boring formula.
@@Zack-vi7is then don't call it assassin's creed.
@@AdachiSimp can call it whatever they want, it's their IP. And it all ties directly into the same storyline so obviously they're still going to call it Assassin's Creed. How about fans stop boxing the series into a niche genre and embrace the devs expanding it into more so the series doesn't completely die? It's not like you can't be stealthy in the newer ones. You can absolutely still have an Assassin playstyle. You're just not forced into spoonfed stealth gameplay. It's a lot like MGS5. Stealth is optimal and encouraged but if you want to go in guns blazing on your mission you're free to do it.
I don't see an issue with any of it. The gameplay is fine and the "outsider who aids the Assassins" plot element is fine. The stories themselves suck in general tho imo, but that's not limited to just new AC games or the ones where you don't play as a member of the Assassin Brotherhood. I think most of the stories in the entire series were pretty mediocre stories.
@@AdachiSimp also only one of the new AC games is about an outsider who happens to help. The other two are about the origins of the Assassin Brotherhood. Odyssey+Legacy of the Blade explains where it all started, Origins explains the establishment of the first official brotherhood (Hidden Ones). Only Black Flag and Valhalla are really about outsiders helping the Brotherhood.
Two things I totally agree with.
1: armor of Brutus is 🤮
2: Rome is not very parkour friendly.
I like hitman blood money. I played it recently and it's pretty fun, except for the last mission imo
I just started my very first playing ac, game odyssey, I don't know how old it is but it was free and I like it so far.
Them are fighting words. Albeit I still don't think Ezio needed three games. Really only 2 and Revalations should be his games.
You can 100% toggle things in the map in the legend lol without it I would have been lost.
Just recently played through the entire Ezio trilogy this past couple of weeks and something about this game really pissed me off alot. I used to think Brotherhood was the best but nah it's worst one in the trilogy. I think it was just the shitty mission design on some of the levels that annoyed me like you mentioned. Never in any of the other AC games have I had to replay sections over and over again. Fuck this game honestly lol never will play it again. Even tho I did enjoy most of my time playing through it. Thanks to the cool characters, combat and the Leonardo missions were fun as hell easily the highlight of the game.
Feels like an expansion and I’ll never think otherwise.
Revelations is one my favorites for sure.
You say Kei-Lang? I’ll raise you, Detlaff
My first and favorite ac game, thank you Big Dan
I ran with the dagger and the hidden blades
I know you probably get tons of comments recommending games to you Dan, but the game Baulders Gate 3 seems right up your ally. lots of player freedom but in the story.
why am i like the only person who loves the armor of brutus but hey to each thier own i guess
and theres not only three leonardo missions in total, theres 4 or 5
My AC ranking: AC 2, AC 4 Black Flag, AC Brotherhood, AC Rogue, AC 3, then everything else.
Brotherhood was fantastic, your crazy. Everyone is entitled to a wrong opinion
That sounds like your nostalgia talking. Brotherhood was a poorly paced mess
Brotherhood is not a bad game, but AC2 is much better. Nice review!
0:40 Ezio "oddy tory"
It had Ezio Auditore in it. That was enough for me. 🤣🤣🤣❤️
NOT THE DRIP I SAW SWEAR😂😂😂😂😂
Nah
Except for tailing mission
Other mission u mentioned sounds like Skill issue.
I agree with this review but I also, for whatever reason, enjoyed and 100%ed this game on release. I'm sure I wouldn't find it fun nowadays though.
I still never finished it
Thought i was crazy tbh, AC brotherhood, and I guess the Ezio trilogy in general, never really gripped me story-wise; specifically AC brotherhood.
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood had awesome multiplayer that I moss.
Yep disagree
I remember beating brotherhood in a day lmfaoo good times
He’s right…
Ac2 & revelation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Brotherhood
Brotherhood only have better gameplay mechanics, but story is mediocre
Still my favorite AC. I know it’s not the best but I played it at a time in my life where a lot was going wrong so it’s like a comfort game for me. Replaying it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling that most games just don’t
I played all assassin's creed games except Valhalla, but I don't understand AC fans and I often disagree with them.
my first AC was revelations. I loved the setting and character, but I hated many of its missions especially the artifact hunt missions. I still liked its story and I found it to have its charms.
Then I played AC3. I hated Connor and all the tail and eavesdrop missions. the traversal and lack of parkour. I loved the sword fighting. It was very fluid and the best till this day.
AC Brotherhood was the 3rd game I played. I couldn't finish it. I loved it's missions till the point I stopped playing. I just hated how difficult and tedious the process of navigating Rome to get to mission locations.
AC1 was overly repetitive and overrated.
AC4 black-flag. I loved the side characters and the rope assassination missions, but I hated everything related to the sea and the ship. I understand why many fans loved it, but it was not for me.
I played AC 2 after all these games, but it surprised me. it's the only game prior to AC unity that I loved even way more then expected.
I feel the old assassin's creed games were just overrated and they aged worse. I would only re-play AC2.
AC unity. was underrated. I loved new skills. Paris was fantastic. shooting targets from rooftops was very impactful and satisfying. different approaches to mission objectives. I loved the interior missions because they made me feel like a hitman. the combat was fun but not very responsive. The online missions was the best side missions in the series till this day
AC Rogue. I enjoyed which is strange since I didn't like Black-flag. It felt more refined. Havana was Gorgeous and Playing as a Templar was an amazing twist.
AC Syndicate was one of my favorite. I didn't like London that much. It took me a while to get used to London, but boy oh boy. I loved riding carriages and the rope launcher made traversal more fun and air assassinations quicker It had the best missions variety till this day. I loved Jacob. The train hideout was creative.
AC Origins is probably my favorite in the serious. I just feel that It didn't excel in many areas, but was the most balanced. I love how different each cities felt in Egypt. Bayak was great. the skill tree was a mess, but I loved the skills. I enjoyed the bow and fire bombs more than in any other AC game. the side missions told me more about the side characters. The combat was great.
AC Odyssey was fun but very long for no reason. good for a one time play, but so much grind and bad stealth. I hated the dialogue options. The combat was fun, but the levelgating made it less effective.
AC Valhalla never tempted me to get it, so I skipped it, but I will play upcoming AC games.
*right now AC Origins, Syndicate and AC 2 are my favorites. I also like Unity. but I never understood way Syndicate got so much hate
Insta fail = insta uninstall for me
Yep, just quit halfway and saw this video right after...
I don't disagree with everything you said, that disguise mussion was painful, but a deeper analysis would let you see this game subtly did pretty much everything ac2 did
Ohh dizanggg 😭💜
Controversially think revelations is the best ezio game (without the stupid tower defense missions!)
Ok, so I’m not the only one who doesn’t get what the hype is about! After Odyssey I wanted to see what is the best game that people, who don’t like Odyssey, claim to be the best, and it seemed to be Brotherhood, but for me it is boring and clunky, controls are annoying, jumping puzzles - I hate them, they were fun on Nintendo playing Mario but nowadays it is just annoyance.
That's so true
I dont know why people complain about tailing missions, an assassin would do a lot of tailing, the game is about being an assassin. Therefore the inclusion of tailing missions is logical and necessary. This video sounds a lot like "I didn't like the gameplay so the game is bad". Also it is peppered with holding an 2000's game to the standards of 2010 and beyond. Hard disagreement on this one.
You can make a game about being an assassin without forcing people to follow NPCs and hide in bushes listening to dialogue with the possibility they could fail and have to start over if they get seen or aren't in range of the conversation (in some tailing missions). If you insist on having the character tail someone then making the tailing part a cutscene so the player doesn't have to go through the tedium of slowly following an NPC around the map.
AC brotherhood wasn't made in the 2000s. Regardless, plenty of games made around that time and before didn't age this poorly. Batman Arkham Asylum for example is still great to play. When Ubisoft made the Ezio collection they really should've did what BioWare did with the Mass Effect Legendary Edition remasters and give them some polish.
This is just another excuse to talk nonsense about AC series. When other developers do the exact same type of missions they don't even dare mentioning them.
AC1 through AC3 all aged poorly. Even the writing seems lackluster for most of them in hindsight. AC4, Syndicate, and the newer RPG style ACs are all far more playable than the first 5 games of the series.
Maybe, but those games had the "inmersive" element, from the ambience to the music, in a time when those companies tried to work bit harder on their products. Think that the worst gamevffom the Ezio trilogy was Revelations tho🤷♂️
@@Hellion73 that's the problem, they were trying to be "immersive" but everything about it was unimmersive. Constantly ripping you out of the Animus mid-story to introduce another plot element and having two stories running simultaneously made it hard to be immersed. Everything about the Isu and the pieces of Eden were unimmersive especially since the magic stuff is non-existent for most of the game then suddenly there's a staff that blasts lasers or an apple that controls minds.
The lack of focus or real direction hurts the older games. They were too afraid to embrace the mythological/sci-fi parts and too afraid to abandon them entirely which led to a weird mash-up of them trying to do immersive stealth/assassin themes with unimmersive sci-fi/fantasy action elements.
I don't see any of that as "trying harder" in any way. Especially with how shallow the gameplay was. My thoughts throughout most of the pre-RPG games was that they should embrace the mythology or the more "realistic" and immersive elements and stick to it to refine that aspect. So when they finally started to do that with Origins and Odyssey, I felt it was a massive improvement. The writing still isn't good, but at least theres more to the gameplay than just spoonfed, linear stealth missions where they make it incredibly obvious where you're supposed to hide to "be stealthy".
a assasian should be stealthy... and the guards are killed but by whom it wasn't discoverd...
you're criticizing brotherhood for lack of targets while they're more fleshed out and have more fun assassination missions than any single target in odyssey (your peak ac game btw) with that game having more nameless characters to kill than any game released before
youre also criticizing this game for having an actual stealth system (apparently??)
the baron de Valois part you also conveniently didn't mention has a second part where the mission allows you to complete any way you want once inside the fort
there definitely are options to change map icons idk what ur smoking
leonardo missions have 2 parts if you had half a brain you could've figured it out
@@capsule2323 this game has a horrible stealth system 😂😂
Only good thing in this stealth system is blending with crowd, other than that it has ass detection system, outdated and dumb AI guards, lack of hiding spots, and somehow has no crouch option, especially considering its a STEALTH game💀
Brotherhood was my least favorite of the Ezio trilogy. It's still fun, but I really felt that Revelations was much better.
I agree that it is an extremely overrated game. Im only halfway through my second ever playthrough and Im shocked at how disengaged I am during most of it.
True, i played the game it's boring and glitchy and bad
A lot of people think a lot of things are "masterpieces", when they really aren't.
A lot of stuff that's hyped or bestselling is just mediocre or has issues (morally, ethically, historically etc.). There are of cause different tastes and people just have different priorities.
Nevertheless, the hyping of mediocre storytelling, for example, makes it really difficult to find the good stuff - stories with structure, plot twists, conflict, convincing characters etc.
Literally me with Persona. Hate the game with a passion but everyone I've ever heard that's played it loves it a ton
Also that mission with the disguises is one of my least favorite missions in the game. The other one being toward the end when you can only hold the apple and the bonus objective is to take no damage but those sprinter dudes run faster than Ezio so it's kinda hard lol
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Brotherhood is my favourite. But i will agree it doesn't exceed in mission variety. I'm curious to see how you get on with Revelations as that's the weakest in the trilogy, imo.
0:13 Heh... Borderlands 2 was terrible, and it ruined the franchise by taking the first game and executing it in an alleyway.
Agree. Ubisoft did capitalise on AC II realising this game a year later. Although I still enjoyed it.
The story isn't good. But the best part is the side content. And that's what this game really is just a pile of a bunch of solid random content. If you ever replay it I think you'd enjoyed more if you had a more completionist approach while playing it. Specially the Leonardo missions and the tombs.
Nailed it. I've been saying the same things you have in this video since I first played ACB ages ago. People looked at me like I was crazy so many times I almost started to believe them. Thanks for helping me not feel alone on my views of ACB 👍
Still are crazy.
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@@SilverFang95 Nah yall just delusional. I used to think Brotherhood was the best in the trilogy until recent playthrough. it's lowkey kinda ass the missions. Only thing holding the game together are the amazing cast of characters.
Lol! I only liked that unique multiplayer mode in Brotherhood. The main story felt like filler content.