The ending of Revelations is still one of the best endings in the entire series. I still get chills from the moment Ezio enters Altair's library to the very end when Ezio is speaking to Desmond. It was just such an emotional end for Ezio's story.
@@AdityaKumar69 Best Story...Gameplay and Setting and the Villains severely lacking. But it's Story is amazing anyone that shites on it doesn't understand or care about Assassin's Creed in any meaningful way.
I was like 6 when i first played it and my native language wasn't english so I couldn't understand any story or the side missions i didnt know you could do side missions so i just always looked for the big ! Icon, on some game i would think that the north sign was a mission and head there lol
I played rogue only knowing that shay would become a templar. Finding that Shay caused the lisbon earthquake and how the Brotherhood failed him after like 4 games of the Brotherhood being wise and good... That was a very good moment
@@Mithrandir523 that's why shay is a special case, he knows the faults of both templars and assassins as seen when he first met with colonel monroe, he only sided with them after knowing they (the templars) weren't really doing bad things
Let's not forget that Assassins Creed had a plot twist at the very beginning. People who bought the first Assassins Creed thought they were going to a historical fiction game. Turns out it's a historical sci fi. Because the initial trailer had nothing involving Desmond, Lucy, Dr Vidic or the Animus itself.
@@Wizard_Pikachu Nah, they only want it to be a mindless parkour game with no substance because apparently parkour is the only aspect that makes a game good.
@@Wizard_Pikachu They botched the scifi part by killing Desmond and resolved one of the biggest modern day plot points IN A COMIC BOOK. Really terrible on Ubisoft's part
The Colonial Assassins were a threat to millions of innocents here, and they refused to be persuaded. So Shay killed them all. This is the kind of work that the Hidden Ones/Assassins were _founded_ to do in the first place. The templars happened to be the lesser of two evils here, that's really all it was. If Shay's former colleagues had stopped to listen to him for even ten seconds history could've gone very differently.
@@natchu96 the ex assasins headquarters in america...became a new land for people who was understimated. Aquiles make ammends of his mistakes helping the people Connor trust and died peacefully legacing him is assasin costume. the britain priest organiced a pray for Aquiles funeral.
More than slept on. He's usually considered the worst VA in the series and I just... don't get it. Pretty sure people just hate him because his accent isn't accurate.
you know what's even creepier? "the messenger" in the Tomb Mechanisms in AC Origins is not speaking to Bayek... is not speaking to Layla... he's speaking to THE PLAYER!!! And revealed in AC Valhalla, he's "the reader" (same voice)
Well it turns out to be an initiation right of the Templars to make their own assassin's in this case Arno, let's be honest if Shay didn't kill Arno's old man it wouldn't led him to be coming an assassin now wouldn't it?
@@AnonymousEnigma19 though turning Arno into an Assassin was completely unintentional. He was recruited by Bellec in the Bastille after all, like 20 years later, and not even once in the game the Templars try to bring him to their side or something. Arno knew from the begginign that the Templars killed his dad, after all.
@@gustavfrye2736 that's what I'm saying and the only ones that the Templars were trying to recruit were ironically the assassins from assassin's Creed III such as Connor and Aveline (side note just in case you forgot she was the main character in Assassin's Creed III liberation), speaking of Arno, him and Élise his love came close to ending the feud between the assassins and the Templars, if it wasn't for Bellec and the sage who took over the Templars I forget his name, who knows maybe Desmond wouldn't have had to sacrifice himself to save humanity if they weren't interfere, back to what I'm saying back when the Templars were known as the order of the ancients they basically were the ones that created the assassins and it seems to again be an initiation.
There were hints about Haytham being a Templar but I just wrote them off initially as him being a more proactive and ruthless assassin but over time the plot twist was less a surprise but more something that veteran players got rewarded for noticing the subtleties.
How to know Haytham is a bad dude without knowing anything about Assassin's creed lore. You played as an Englishman during American Revolution I rest my case.
Well the point was to show how the Assasins can also be corrupted or misguided. Had it been on ezio or Altair 's time, probably they would have listened to Shay or try to understand the precursor sites first.
@@julianpradarodriguez7336 human nature hasn’t changed it would probably be the same result The relics are power and yes the assassins are power hungry so are the Templar’s And when there’s a race to a prize knowing that if someone else’s gets it the world is doomed you tend not to care about a few lives when the rest of humanity could be at stake
Minerva's reveal was what hooked me onto the series. I really enjoyed AC2, but I remember being absolutely blown away when she turned to the camera and said Desmond's name. While the modern day elements of Assassin's creed always presented issues with the flow of gameplay, that connective tissue made each game feel grander than they already were.
15:30 I remember the first time I played AC2. At this moment the fear in the eyes of Petruccio marked me. He's just a little boy who couldn't even enjoy his young years too much because he was sick. Really sad.
"You are a Templar" totally blew my mind. We had just been playing as this guy assuming he was an assassin for several hours only for THIS to be like "Excuse you, what???"
Shay did not betrayed the Assassins, they betrayed him, they were naive and arrogent. The Templars gave Shay a second chance and he did, he became a Knight that will save the world.
If Shay didn't betray the Assassins, why'd he join another group of bloodthirsty control freaks? 🤡 The prime directive of Assassins is the protection of free will. He threw all of that away when he joined the Templars, which makes absolutely no sense. There was no hint of Shay favoring authoritarianism. He's just another brainwashed templar/Assassin with a moral ground shakier than the earthquake he caused. This whole story is basically Anakin Skywalker's arc, except it's rushed and forced.
@Xbox One Arno's story discredits every point Shay's story tried to make. The Paris Brotherhood didn't listen to Arno either and exiled him, his girl left him, but he didn't switch sides, even though he has every reason to be. After all, he was raised by a Templar. Instead he went out of his way to uncover the conspiracy with barely any help. I'm sick of people saying Shay was right just because Assassins were wrong.
nothing hit harder than Haytham turning out to be a templar...just as you were getting adjusted to playing this awesome new protagonist, it turns out the tutorial section made you the villain all along
He's not actually a bad guy despite that. He cares for his son and, while not shown in-game, would betray the Templars temporarily to save him, and in case you were wondering, that's in a book, of which I can't remember the name, but it was covered on the True Masters & Morons channel
Ezio talking to Desmond sent chills down my spine when I first played it back then. When Ezio first discovered the name of Desmond, he was confused. After years of searching the library of Altair. When the Apple of Eden activated, Ezio now knew, he was talking to his descendent. Fucking love Ezio
By looking down to assassin's Creed history you can realize that shay was the trigger to every event in assassin's Creed after revolutions and before syndicate so he was one of the most important characters in assassin's Creed
I heard that Arno and Connor spent a long time trying to find Shay but they never could. Shay ended up living to have a son (or grandson) named Cudgel and he taught him the ways of an assassin hunter. Even giving him his air rifle.
When Bellec said "this isn't the first time the assassin's were forced to purge their leadership..." He mentioned Masyaf, Monterrigioni, and The American Colonies, citing Altair, Ezio and Connor's games for Masyaf, he was referring to Abbas kicking Altair out after returning from assassinating Ghengis khan. for Monterrigioni, the assassins' Leadership was a little scattered, and Ezio was able to piece them back together and for the American Colonies... since Rogue came out during the time of AC Unity, the context for this wasn't clear. Achilles was responsible for getting the colonial assassins rekt by shay for not listening to him. and Connor helped them back up Edit: I forgor about Al Mualim betraying Altair by seizing control of the apple at the end of AC1 (in this video ofc). then in Revelations, the events right after Al Mualim gets rekt by Altair, the Assassins were in chaos, which Abbas and Altair were at each others' necks from then on.
Actually it should be Altair purging Abbas and his followers...Given the latter was the Tyrannical Traitor while Altair is the real Leader and Mentor and Reformer of the Creed that establishes the foundation of every Brotherhood from then on. Also Altair taking out Al Mualim the Leader of the Assassins that perverted the Creed and actually was a Templar in mindset. Altair killed as many Assassins as Shay did...Like people keep forgetting how Ruthless Altair was if a fellow Assassin faltered or betrayed the Creed or simply slighted him. Unless Bellec is that damn fanatical that he thinks the Bad Guys were the Heroes and the Daddy of his Order was the Bad Guy.
Amazing to think the whole of Rogue’s plot could have been avoided if Shay and Achilles had swallowed their pride and anger and just sat down and had a proper debrief about what happened in Portugal.
but then someone pointed out if arno hadn't lost his father he might not of become an assassin and all the good he did as one never would of happened. kind of like if batman had never lost his parents he might not of become batman. if spiderman had never lost uncle ben etc etc etc.
The first time you play through the first 3 sequences of AC III, it's a huge twist. When you replay it, it becomes way more obvious, but we just weren't picking up the clues originally. That is how you write a plot twist, put everything write under the viewer's nose and reward the very perceptive and skeptical.
My Most WTF moment was not exactly plot twist, but the scene where James Kidd turned into an absolute baddie😂, I had to pause the game for 2 mins just to take in what happend
@primaltensei_3d her voice from the start made me suspicious of her, but then I said okay than maybe he's a girly voice man kind of guy, then no i was right, it's a woman
Tbf in rogue he just lost both his wife and son so he got consumed by grief and not thinking rationally, good thing he learn and redeem himself during ac 3
I couldn't believe after playing them that the same man voiced Achilles in both games. The range was fantastic, and the way he portrays Achilles in III, you get the feeling part of the direction he was given included the backstory that would later be canonized in Rogue. "In your haste to save the world, boy, take care you don't destroy it." I refuse to believe he gave that line with such gravity without knowing that Achilles speaks from experience.
About Syndicate - Pearl Attaway's betrayal was more of a plot twist that Roth's. Roth's "plot twist" was very highly telegraphed, whilst Pearl's relation to Starrick was kind of a huge reveal.
I still remember how everyone were discussing the final scene in AC2, how actually shocked I was when Minerva TURNED and started speaking to Desmond - that was insane. Those games are not the same anymore
@@mittensthehousecat4114 go play the game, but basically SPOILERS AHEAD OBVIOUSLY Minerva Odin runs into Minerva in the way distant past and catches her recording a message she wants to send into the future through some sort of portal device, after she's done recording she thinks she will get no reply (as she hasn't for years), but then a voice calls out and asks "who are you?", the same line Desmond asks Minerva in the vault...old school fans of the franchise who remember AC 2 lore literally shat themselves from excitement
@@CxerRy96 i loved the isu parts of odyssey and valhalla. finally connecting the early games lore. up until that point we all though ubisoft had abandoned that part of the story.
The haytham being realized as a Templar, was a shell shock let me tell ya, I was genuinely confused, then astonished and finally upset, because I like haytham
I know Origins wasn't the most critically acclaimed AC to come out, and the story of your son being assassinated was a little weak, but Abubakar Salim's acting was phenomenal and made me feel like I spent 30+ in game hours raising the kid
AC Revelations remains as my favorite ending/conclusion to a story/character arc in gaming history... Ezio speaking to Altair first then to Desmond was incredible...
I will forever die on the hill that AC3 was not great compared to the other early AC games, but the twist with Haytham and his group actually being Templars was so well done
game theory what would of happened had ezio kept the papers until the morning of the trial. probably uberto would take the papers and lie what's on them and tear them up. ezio would still trust him until that moment.
Fr! My 1st playthrough I literally said: "What now?" bcus I thought I would continue playing as Haythem, a villain just for more context in the series 😂
Caesar and Cleopatra didn't betray Bayek and Aya. They just spared Septimius for political reasons. Also, Cleopatra didn't know that Caesar was a Magaester of the Order of the Ancients (Flavius was the Grand Magaester of the Roman Rite and the Egyptian Rite. Flavius told Bayek he was Caeser's superior in the Order of the Ancients before his died).
They had an agreement to wipe the order and their puppet, Cleopatra's brother, in order to put her on the throne, this agreement included Septimus being dead. Cleopatra allied with the order twice, once through Caesar, once after he's been murdered by the hidden ones (which promptly made her the target of Amunet). So yeah, the fact that it's political doesn't make it any less betrayal.
@@onalith Amunet got over the betrayal and understood that not all leaders can be perfect despite the promises they make. She still valued her friendship with Cleopatra and helped Cleopatra commit suicide to avoid Egypt from being completely destroyed by Octavian and the Order of the Ancients. Amunet and Cleopatra didn't know the true extent of the Order's Plan (to bring all the world back under Isu rule). The Order of the Ancients is Isu supremacists who infiltrated every empire across the ancient world until their fall due to the rise of Christianity and Islam. Despite the rise of the Templars, Bayek and Aya still go revenge on the Order of the Ancients which led to the order's complete destruction from the face of the Earth during the Middle Ages.
I always felt like Rogue really dropped the ball with showing the bad side of the brotherhood. All the Assassins felt cartoonishly evil to me with how they quickly start exploiting the civilians and treating Shay as if they barely knew him.
I wouldn't classify (most) betrayals as plot twists. Plot twists are something you thought from the start turning out to be something completely else in an instant.
Shay becoming templar will forever be my fav moment from all assassin's creed, rogue showed us how assassin's are not always good as everyone thinks, and that templars are not bad at all, they just wanna protect the world and keep it save, sometimes it takes sacrifices but they're not bad, if templar order or order of the ancients existed to this day...i would join them, rogue is so underated
The Order of Ancients was seriously fucked. The Templars however was alot more tame and sensible in a way. Tbh, the Templar Order is no different than the American government, now that I think about it. A hidden superpower that wants to keep order, but has done and will do some seriously fucked things behind the scenes to achieve that.
@@ezioauditore6371 thats the was of the templars, order of the ancients wasnt exactly superfucked, they just wanted to destroy every religion, so after that King Aelfred created templar order to do the opposite
whats even more crazy about this is they tied a loose end by saying some of ezios books went to palos, but the rest would eventually succum to the great library fire in alexandra destroying all of its contents. what’s even more crazy is you get to later experience this event in origins
Nothing beats AC 3. They nailed it❤❤❤. That is the moment where i love Haytham more than Edward and conner in kenway family. The best templar i ever played ❤❤❤
Playing Rouge made me realize that Shay didn't have a choice to take the manuscript, the destruction of Haiti and Lisbon was because of the colonial assassins meddled with the Isu temples without knowing what they were doing but they should have known after the first temple, yet that killed innocents people and that's against one of the assassin's three tenets: Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent = Destroyed a city with tons of innocent people. So the best thing Shay could do was to steal the manuscript in the first place and had a goal to stop the assassins before something like that ever happens again.
I would have loved more gameplay with haythem his fighting style and the way he held himself, always made the player feel unstoppable and the to turn out he was a Templar was just so cool.
The only twist that properly hit me out of left field was Basim, because I was playing as Male Eivor and the fact that Loki didn't recognise him as Odin really confused me.
Minerva suddenly looking at the camera instead of Ezio always sends a shiver down my spine.
I was amazed
I thought the game was talking to me
Breaking the 4th wall.
I loved this scene too. It's the first time in the entire game someone looks into the camera, which is why it takes you so off guard
That's creepy
Bayek: Beating the hell out of Septimus.
The Cat: I am the storm that it's approaching!
XD
I didnt know aya had jiggle physics,i didnt notice it,btw i love this mission
@@gemagay dawg 💀
@@gemagay saying that with that profile picture is crazy
Vergil in his cat form
The ending of Revelations is still one of the best endings in the entire series. I still get chills from the moment Ezio enters Altair's library to the very end when Ezio is speaking to Desmond. It was just such an emotional end for Ezio's story.
the whole Altaïr sit a moment part reminds me of the ending to persona 3. both very emotional endings.
The legacy and legacy's end.
Ezio triology deserved that definite ending.
Can't Deny that Ezio speaking to Desmond was one of the best scenes in Assassins Creed History.
Fr made me so happy to see my boys finally being able to talk to each other
Everytime I ask someone about what they think about AC revelations, they all hate it, I don't even know why.
@@bensalemomar8001 imo revelations is the best ac game
@@AdityaKumar69 Best Story...Gameplay and Setting and the Villains severely lacking. But it's Story is amazing anyone that shites on it doesn't understand or care about Assassin's Creed in any meaningful way.
that whole damn ending was one of the best scenes in assassins creed history. especially the final fate of Altaïr scene.
When Haytham turned out to be a Templar that was crazy.
I was like 6 when i first played it and my native language wasn't english so I couldn't understand any story or the side missions i didnt know you could do side missions so i just always looked for the big ! Icon, on some game i would think that the north sign was a mission and head there lol
frfr bro i felt to betrayed
Looking back on it, it was super obvious.
Bro he literally had the Templar cross on his cape. I was just confused why he had hidden blades
@@CalebJoshuaGallaugher if you don’t know,he got them by killing an assassin i forgot the name
I played rogue only knowing that shay would become a templar.
Finding that Shay caused the lisbon earthquake and how the Brotherhood failed him after like 4 games of the Brotherhood being wise and good... That was a very good moment
For some reason I still sided with the assassins in that game. That damage would've happened when if the Templars tried the same
@@Mithrandir523 that's why shay is a special case, he knows the faults of both templars and assassins as seen when he first met with colonel monroe, he only sided with them after knowing they (the templars) weren't really doing bad things
@@Mithrandir523 And Shay still killed innocents as a Templar. Another reason Rogue isn't good as people make it out to be.
@@Der8814 yessss, and also that the assassins were taking over towns and bullying others
We need a Rogue 2
Let's not forget that Assassins Creed had a plot twist at the very beginning. People who bought the first Assassins Creed thought they were going to a historical fiction game.
Turns out it's a historical sci fi.
Because the initial trailer had nothing involving Desmond, Lucy, Dr Vidic or the Animus itself.
And people just want it to be historical fiction, not caring for the scifi mystery. Which is so sad.
None of the trailers do
@@Wizard_Pikachu Nah, they only want it to be a mindless parkour game with no substance because apparently parkour is the only aspect that makes a game good.
@@Wizard_Pikachu They botched the scifi part by killing Desmond and resolved one of the biggest modern day plot points IN A COMIC BOOK. Really terrible on Ubisoft's part
@@chomosuke0720 what was the plot point?!
Nobody asked Shay what he was talking about nor sided with his reasoning to investigate so I understand his betrayal. They really didn’t respect Shay
The game made me say Achilles was a shitty leader, no wonder the colonial brotherhood collaa
Technically. Shay didn't betray the Assassin's. The Assassin's betrayed him as they Betrayed the Creed.
Yeah. I wish Liam would be the last person to listen of all Assassins that listen or at least ask his experience in Lisbon.
The Colonial Assassins were a threat to millions of innocents here, and they refused to be persuaded. So Shay killed them all. This is the kind of work that the Hidden Ones/Assassins were _founded_ to do in the first place. The templars happened to be the lesser of two evils here, that's really all it was.
If Shay's former colleagues had stopped to listen to him for even ten seconds history could've gone very differently.
@@natchu96 the ex assasins headquarters in america...became a new land for people who was understimated. Aquiles make ammends of his mistakes helping the people Connor trust and died peacefully legacing him is assasin costume. the britain priest organiced a pray for Aquiles funeral.
Shay’s actor is so slept on
Could literally listen to him talk all day bruv
Ikr😩
More than slept on. He's usually considered the worst VA in the series and I just... don't get it. Pretty sure people just hate him because his accent isn't accurate.
He’s got the worst voice out of every protagonist, his accent is terrible. It’s slept on for good reason.
Man i love his accent @@CenoriaWoah
Haytham's reveal is, to this day, one of the most mind-blowing things I have ever seen in a videogame.
I kind of sensed it coming from the beginning to the way he was dressed and everything
Edward Surely wouldnt be Proud
I always found Minerva’s reveal to be creepy and eerie, made me uncomfortable as a kid and still does
Fr bro same when i was a kid on xbox 360
And funny enough, Minerva is the "good" one, compared to juno
@@cvrixtme you must be twins
you know what's even creepier?
"the messenger" in the Tomb Mechanisms in AC Origins is not speaking to Bayek...
is not speaking to Layla...
he's speaking to THE PLAYER!!!
And revealed in AC Valhalla, he's "the reader" (same voice)
@@cvrixt I’m
Man that rogue ending where he killed the dad of Arno was insane
Well it turns out to be an initiation right of the Templars to make their own assassin's in this case Arno, let's be honest if Shay didn't kill Arno's old man it wouldn't led him to be coming an assassin now wouldn't it?
@@AnonymousEnigma19 though turning Arno into an Assassin was completely unintentional. He was recruited by Bellec in the Bastille after all, like 20 years later, and not even once in the game the Templars try to bring him to their side or something.
Arno knew from the begginign that the Templars killed his dad, after all.
@@gustavfrye2736 that's what I'm saying and the only ones that the Templars were trying to recruit were ironically the assassins from assassin's Creed III such as Connor and Aveline (side note just in case you forgot she was the main character in Assassin's Creed III liberation), speaking of Arno, him and Élise his love came close to ending the feud between the assassins and the Templars, if it wasn't for Bellec and the sage who took over the Templars I forget his name, who knows maybe Desmond wouldn't have had to sacrifice himself to save humanity if they weren't interfere, back to what I'm saying back when the Templars were known as the order of the ancients they basically were the ones that created the assassins and it seems to again be an initiation.
@@AnonymousEnigma19 the dude probably would’ve been an assassin anyway only his father would bring him to the order instead of bellec
@@nathanhendrickson790 doubt it or you forgot the estranged relationship of Desmond miles and his father.
When Ezio says “Who Are You?” I still got the chills when his echos were heard during the Asgard missions in Valhalla
There were hints about Haytham being a Templar but I just wrote them off initially as him being a more proactive and ruthless assassin but over time the plot twist was less a surprise but more something that veteran players got rewarded for noticing the subtleties.
i was so glad to say the haytham part come to an end. i found the opening to assassins creed III to be so boring.
How to know Haytham is a bad dude without knowing anything about Assassin's creed lore. You played as an Englishman during American Revolution I rest my case.
@@theimortal1974 Wait so you found opening boring, but not the every second of Connor being on screen? wth
In much wisdom, is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow. That sentence right there just sums up the life journey of Altair.
If the assassins actually listens to shay and not treat him with hostile intentions, actually try to understand him then maybe he would of stayed
Well the point was to show how the Assasins can also be corrupted or misguided.
Had it been on ezio or Altair 's time, probably they would have listened to Shay or try to understand the precursor sites first.
@@julianpradarodriguez7336 human nature hasn’t changed it would probably be the same result The relics are power and yes the assassins are power hungry so are the Templar’s
And when there’s a race to a prize knowing that if someone else’s gets it the world is doomed you tend not to care about a few lives when the rest of humanity could be at stake
*maybe he would of *shayed*
@@BlackPrince24 bro...
@@josukehigashikata2248 JoJo with the funny hair
Minerva's reveal was what hooked me onto the series. I really enjoyed AC2, but I remember being absolutely blown away when she turned to the camera and said Desmond's name. While the modern day elements of Assassin's creed always presented issues with the flow of gameplay, that connective tissue made each game feel grander than they already were.
I love that the cat was watching Bayek fight the whole time 2:42
Anyone else think Shay’s assassin robes are some of the coolest in the series?
But his Templar robes are the coolest till now.
Rogue had some of the best drip of any AC.
Many thanks
no, his templar drip was immaculate though
Only shadowed by his templar fit
15:30 I remember the first time I played AC2. At this moment the fear in the eyes of Petruccio marked me. He's just a little boy who couldn't even enjoy his young years too much because he was sick. Really sad.
Same. Thought I was the only one who always noticed the SHEAR FEAR in his eyes
Yeah, he was sick
Doctor: I diagnose you with *FATASS*
"You are a Templar" totally blew my mind. We had just been playing as this guy assuming he was an assassin for several hours only for THIS to be like "Excuse you, what???"
Shay did not betrayed the Assassins, they betrayed him, they were naive and arrogent.
The Templars gave Shay a second chance and he did, he became a Knight that will save the world.
Neither saved the world.
@@memecliparchives2254 Oh he Did Save the world
If Shay didn't betray the Assassins, why'd he join another group of bloodthirsty control freaks? 🤡
The prime directive of Assassins is the protection of free will. He threw all of that away when he joined the Templars, which makes absolutely no sense. There was no hint of Shay favoring authoritarianism. He's just another brainwashed templar/Assassin with a moral ground shakier than the earthquake he caused.
This whole story is basically Anakin Skywalker's arc, except it's rushed and forced.
@Xbox One Arno's story discredits every point Shay's story tried to make. The Paris Brotherhood didn't listen to Arno either and exiled him, his girl left him, but he didn't switch sides, even though he has every reason to be. After all, he was raised by a Templar. Instead he went out of his way to uncover the conspiracy with barely any help. I'm sick of people saying Shay was right just because Assassins were wrong.
@@Pakilla64 They were both terrible stories and characters anyway.
nothing hit harder than Haytham turning out to be a templar...just as you were getting adjusted to playing this awesome new protagonist, it turns out the tutorial section made you the villain all along
hell wished we stayed as him,he's a charismatic mf, conor is a bland emotional fuck
i found him and his section of the game boring. i was so glad when it was over.
He's not actually a bad guy despite that. He cares for his son and, while not shown in-game, would betray the Templars temporarily to save him, and in case you were wondering, that's in a book, of which I can't remember the name, but it was covered on the True Masters & Morons channel
@@marcusblackwell2372 Asassins Creed Forsaken is the name of the book
@@theunknownuser9609 Thanks
Ezio talking to Desmond sent chills down my spine when I first played it back then. When Ezio first discovered the name of Desmond, he was confused. After years of searching the library of Altair. When the Apple of Eden activated, Ezio now knew, he was talking to his descendent. Fucking love Ezio
AC Origins is such an underrated game. It was a masterstroke.
do you mean masterpiece?
By looking down to assassin's Creed history you can realize that shay was the trigger to every event in assassin's Creed after revolutions and before syndicate so he was one of the most important characters in assassin's Creed
And we still don't know what happened to him or Conner
I heard that Arno and Connor spent a long time trying to find Shay but they never could. Shay ended up living to have a son (or grandson) named Cudgel and he taught him the ways of an assassin hunter. Even giving him his air rifle.
Great video, but imo the reveal of Tariq being loyal to the end after killing him is an underrated plot twist
Right. Coz people really started questioning Ezio's acts on this scene.
@@alamo134 I was more questioning the stubbornness of the Sultan
When Bellec said "this isn't the first time the assassin's were forced to purge their leadership..."
He mentioned Masyaf, Monterrigioni, and The American Colonies, citing Altair, Ezio and Connor's games
for Masyaf, he was referring to Abbas kicking Altair out after returning from assassinating Ghengis khan.
for Monterrigioni, the assassins' Leadership was a little scattered, and Ezio was able to piece them back together
and for the American Colonies...
since Rogue came out during the time of AC Unity, the context for this wasn't clear.
Achilles was responsible for getting the colonial assassins rekt by shay for not listening to him.
and Connor helped them back up
Edit: I forgor about Al Mualim betraying Altair by seizing control of the apple at the end of AC1 (in this video ofc). then in Revelations, the events right after Al Mualim gets rekt by Altair, the Assassins were in chaos, which Abbas and Altair were at each others' necks from then on.
Actually it should be Altair purging Abbas and his followers...Given the latter was the Tyrannical Traitor while Altair is the real Leader and Mentor and Reformer of the Creed that establishes the foundation of every Brotherhood from then on. Also Altair taking out Al Mualim the Leader of the Assassins that perverted the Creed and actually was a Templar in mindset. Altair killed as many Assassins as Shay did...Like people keep forgetting how Ruthless Altair was if a fellow Assassin faltered or betrayed the Creed or simply slighted him.
Unless Bellec is that damn fanatical that he thinks the Bad Guys were the Heroes and the Daddy of his Order was the Bad Guy.
AC Unity takes place after the events of AC3. Which is why he mentioned of americans colonies.
There will never be a series of games like assassins creed. All the game coexist within each other and tell a story to the players. A true masterpiece
Well, there is Mass Effect and Star Wars' Old Republic games from Bioware
*Halo has entered the chat*
Ezio is probably the smartest assassin, he literally found out by himself who was Desmond
Ezio speaking to Desmond. That was crazy.
Amazing to think the whole of Rogue’s plot could have been avoided if Shay and Achilles had swallowed their pride and anger and just sat down and had a proper debrief about what happened in Portugal.
but then someone pointed out if arno hadn't lost his father he might not of become an assassin and all the good he did as one never would of happened. kind of like if batman had never lost his parents he might not of become batman. if spiderman had never lost uncle ben etc etc etc.
@@theimortal1974 But the difference is that Shay turned into more of a playable jerk, with a bad guy cherry on top
AC Unity wouldn't have happened and AC3 would have played out completely different.
@@theimortal1974 we call that processus cannon event
I mean when your organisation makes you smite the whole ass City, I don't think you'd be reasoning with anyone
Yo Minerva really had Ezio pondering for the rest of his life wtf all of that meant 😅
The first time you play through the first 3 sequences of AC III, it's a huge twist. When you replay it, it becomes way more obvious, but we just weren't picking up the clues originally. That is how you write a plot twist, put everything write under the viewer's nose and reward the very perceptive and skeptical.
My Most WTF moment was not exactly plot twist, but the scene where James Kidd turned into an absolute baddie😂, I had to pause the game for 2 mins just to take in what happend
that shi had me mouth gaping
LMAO
@primaltensei_3d her voice from the start made me suspicious of her, but then I said okay than maybe he's a girly voice man kind of guy, then no i was right, it's a woman
When Ezio talked to Desmond, that’s one miracle not plot twist. I love it. A freaking lot.
I love how bayek is just beating the crap out of this Romen guy and cat is just chilling there
Assassin’s creed 3: “man achillies is such a good character”
Assassins creed rogue: “why is achillies such a dickhead”
I haven't played Rogue but I assume since he is younger and more brash, he believes he is right and is arrogant about it.
Tbf in rogue he just lost both his wife and son so he got consumed by grief and not thinking rationally, good thing he learn and redeem himself during ac 3
I couldn't believe after playing them that the same man voiced Achilles in both games. The range was fantastic, and the way he portrays Achilles in III, you get the feeling part of the direction he was given included the backstory that would later be canonized in Rogue. "In your haste to save the world, boy, take care you don't destroy it." I refuse to believe he gave that line with such gravity without knowing that Achilles speaks from experience.
"he killed my son " tha pain in his voice, definitely one of the best voice acting
About Syndicate - Pearl Attaway's betrayal was more of a plot twist that Roth's. Roth's "plot twist" was very highly telegraphed, whilst Pearl's relation to Starrick was kind of a huge reveal.
I still remember how everyone were discussing the final scene in AC2, how actually shocked I was when Minerva TURNED and started speaking to Desmond - that was insane. Those games are not the same anymore
Origins has one of the best stories, but the ezio games have some of the best written dialogue and voice acting
To be fair, Desmond betraying Lucy wasn't by choice. He didn't want to do it, he was forced against his will by Juno
Not gonna lie no matter how many times I've played Rogue, it's the best assassin's creed I have played.
The irony of it being an assassins creed game when he a a Templar.
My fav too
it's the only one i haven't finished, not counting the portable games. i really need to finish it finally while i'm still alive.
Crazy how in Valhalla and Minerva’s first appearance is connected.
Que?
@@mittensthehousecat4114 go play the game, but basically SPOILERS AHEAD OBVIOUSLY Minerva Odin runs into Minerva in the way distant past and catches her recording a message she wants to send into the future through some sort of portal device, after she's done recording she thinks she will get no reply (as she hasn't for years), but then a voice calls out and asks "who are you?", the same line Desmond asks Minerva in the vault...old school fans of the franchise who remember AC 2 lore literally shat themselves from excitement
@@CxerRy96 i loved the isu parts of odyssey and valhalla. finally connecting the early games lore. up until that point we all though ubisoft had abandoned that part of the story.
The haytham being realized as a Templar, was a shell shock let me tell ya, I was genuinely confused, then astonished and finally upset, because I like haytham
I know Origins wasn't the most critically acclaimed AC to come out, and the story of your son being assassinated was a little weak, but Abubakar Salim's acting was phenomenal and made me feel like I spent 30+ in game hours raising the kid
I remember so vividly my reaction to Minerva calling to Desmond back in 2009. Biggest plot twist of my gaming life back then
The Cleopatra and Caesar betrayal was easy to spot if you were familiar with the irl history between the two
AC Revelations remains as my favorite ending/conclusion to a story/character arc in gaming history... Ezio speaking to Altair first then to Desmond was incredible...
I will forever die on the hill that AC3 was not great compared to the other early AC games, but the twist with Haytham and his group actually being Templars was so well done
12:06 when the sacred voice says “Only she remains to be found” its a foresight of Layla & the reader(Desmond) going through the timelines.
The Uberto's betrayal was insane!
And it became the first journey of Ezio's trilogy.
game theory what would of happened had ezio kept the papers until the morning of the trial. probably uberto would take the papers and lie what's on them and tear them up. ezio would still trust him until that moment.
Assassin's Creed helped me pass history in high school. And made me as into history as I am. And that Templar reveal in 3 was crazy.
AC Rogue and 3 have some of the most impressive plot twists in the entire saga
I was shocked when I realized Haytham was a templar.
I literally jumped off my seat when haytham turned out to be a templar. I did not see that coming at all
Haythem kenways templar reveal was my favourite. I did not see that shit coming!
2:42 love the random cat just vibing in middle of the fight
The moment Shay went with rage to Achilles, i was like "HOW COULD THEY KNOW THIS COULD HAPPEN?!!!"
I thought Pearl Attaway being Starrick's cousin, and a templar was a plot twist.
I did thought about adding it since Jacob was played a fool by Pearl, but later forgot to add it 😑
Old ezio talking to Desmond blew my mind back when I first played this 🔥 Altair Ezio and Desmond story will always be the best!
It would've been awesome if Altair spoke to Ezio and Desmond at the same time
no one can match Shay betrayal, cz his betrayal was feel right
When Haytham was actually a Templar… wow that was crazy XD
Fr! My 1st playthrough I literally said: "What now?" bcus I thought I would continue playing as Haythem, a villain just for more context in the series 😂
@@loranelson8476 I didn’t know that until I played as Connor XD
2:43 LMAO that cat just chill 😂
Caesar and Cleopatra didn't betray Bayek and Aya. They just spared Septimius for political reasons. Also, Cleopatra didn't know that Caesar was a Magaester of the Order of the Ancients (Flavius was the Grand Magaester of the Roman Rite and the Egyptian Rite. Flavius told Bayek he was Caeser's superior in the Order of the Ancients before his died).
They had an agreement to wipe the order and their puppet, Cleopatra's brother, in order to put her on the throne, this agreement included Septimus being dead. Cleopatra allied with the order twice, once through Caesar, once after he's been murdered by the hidden ones (which promptly made her the target of Amunet).
So yeah, the fact that it's political doesn't make it any less betrayal.
@@onalith Amunet got over the betrayal and understood that not all leaders can be perfect despite the promises they make. She still valued her friendship with Cleopatra and helped Cleopatra commit suicide to avoid Egypt from being completely destroyed by Octavian and the Order of the Ancients. Amunet and Cleopatra didn't know the true extent of the Order's Plan (to bring all the world back under Isu rule). The Order of the Ancients is Isu supremacists who infiltrated every empire across the ancient world until their fall due to the rise of Christianity and Islam. Despite the rise of the Templars, Bayek and Aya still go revenge on the Order of the Ancients which led to the order's complete destruction from the face of the Earth during the Middle Ages.
Manerva looking at desmond when talking to ezio and subsequently looking at us the players still gets me.
2:43 The cat was the greatest Templar of them all
I always felt like Rogue really dropped the ball with showing the bad side of the brotherhood. All the Assassins felt cartoonishly evil to me with how they quickly start exploiting the civilians and treating Shay as if they barely knew him.
Yeah Rogue does have plenty of issues.
Haytham being a templar you could see coming from SEVERAL lightyears away. Dude's whole swag just had "I'm a templar" written ALL over it LOL
Haytham being a Templar is up there with "Would you kindly" as video game plot twists I wish I could relive for the first time again
I wouldn't classify (most) betrayals as plot twists. Plot twists are something you thought from the start turning out to be something completely else in an instant.
@kidnamedfinger101 What a creative response.
That scene of Assassin's Creed Rogue is AMAZING!
2:44 think everybody missed my boy sittin there chillin while bayek fighting for his life
Lol the cat 2:44
The cat can't help but watch
Just chillin
Meow
Shay: YOU MADE ME SLAUGHTER INNOCENTS!
Also Shay: casually killing civilians after becoming a Templar without consequences
lol
The Adam and Eve video should have been on this list. Working on those puzzles to find out that there was something bigger.
It doesn't serve anything in the storyline.
Shay becoming templar will forever be my fav moment from all assassin's creed, rogue showed us how assassin's are not always good as everyone thinks, and that templars are not bad at all, they just wanna protect the world and keep it save, sometimes it takes sacrifices but they're not bad, if templar order or order of the ancients existed to this day...i would join them, rogue is so underated
The Order of Ancients was seriously fucked. The Templars however was alot more tame and sensible in a way. Tbh, the Templar Order is no different than the American government, now that I think about it. A hidden superpower that wants to keep order, but has done and will do some seriously fucked things behind the scenes to achieve that.
@@ezioauditore6371 thats the was of the templars, order of the ancients wasnt exactly superfucked, they just wanted to destroy every religion, so after that King Aelfred created templar order to do the opposite
whats even more crazy about this is they tied a loose end by saying some of ezios books went to palos, but the rest would eventually succum to the great library fire in alexandra destroying all of its contents. what’s even more crazy is you get to later experience this event in origins
Ac 3 and Ac Rogue are the best games.
Good games
I haven't gotten past 2 so I'll just say that I love the betrayal in AC1. What a great story!
Roman Solidier: The Pharaoh is dead!
Cat: MEAOW!
That intro is fire.
6:42 Funny thing is that Shay was very delicate in handling the piece of Eden. The problem is that it is not meant to be touched by human hands.
Nothing beats AC 3. They nailed it❤❤❤. That is the moment where i love Haytham more than Edward and conner in kenway family. The best templar i ever played ❤❤❤
Basim waking up in the modern day is my favorite plot twist of the saga 😊
I completed assassin's creed 2 yesterday and now I know where ezio heard Desmond's name
when?
@@robertogutierrez602 when Minerva sends the message in the vault
@@robertogutierrez602 very end of II or beginning of brotherhood I don't remember
@@Huskies2308 its both actually. 2 was in great detail, and brotherhood was a brief summary.
@@X_X69 oh thanks
Rogue is such a criminally underrated game
In AC1 it should be: WOMAN!!!!! what sorcerrery is this?!?!
Bruh the cat just casually there to bear witness to Bayek getting knocked out like
Cat: Oh no! Bayek! OH NO!
Cat meowing in bayeks face was hilarious
Love the cat standing in the middle while Bayek gets beaten up.
22:18 goosebumps
made it even better in ac3 when the loud achievement of HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES popped up for the first time
Playing Rouge made me realize that Shay didn't have a choice to take the manuscript, the destruction of Haiti and Lisbon was because of the colonial assassins meddled with the Isu temples without knowing what they were doing but they should have known after the first temple, yet that killed innocents people and that's against one of the assassin's three tenets: Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent = Destroyed a city with tons of innocent people. So the best thing Shay could do was to steal the manuscript in the first place and had a goal to stop the assassins before something like that ever happens again.
I would have loved more gameplay with haythem his fighting style and the way he held himself, always made the player feel unstoppable and the to turn out he was a Templar was just so cool.
"All those souls lost... one more hardly matters." unbelievably hard
I know that the Septimius scene is supposed to be sad and frustrating, but the cat not giving a damn just makes me laugh.
The only twist that properly hit me out of left field was Basim, because I was playing as Male Eivor and the fact that Loki didn't recognise him as Odin really confused me.
My first game in the series was AC2. All of those glyphs and Precursor things still gives me shivers in a scary way.
Trying to solve the puzzles with that unsettling vibe made it difficult