Assassins Creed Valhalla Review "Buy, Wait for Sale, Never Touch?" Viking Geek
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"dont worry its not a glitch in the game, its a glitch in the animus"
- probably some ubisoft dev
Bruh 🤣🤣🤣
It's a surprise feature
At point I honestly thought that was the point of the game. To be buggy af to show their tech can still be buggy in the future 🤣🤣
Such an original joke :|
that feeling of being the thousandth like
You should add a new rating, "wait for developer to fix"
It's Ubisoft, doesn't need to be said, it's expected.
He does it's called "never buy"
@TommieTech true-ish ... unity was a mess but it turned into one of my favorite assassins creeds after it was fixed
@@REALzackychan Unity has the best combat in the series. The launch permanently ruined it for some people though.
Unbelievable that this has become the norm
These AC games are always wait for a sale, because by then they're patched.
Yep no ubisoft games are worth $60 price tag
@@xiRePeNTx I gotta say I bought it and don't regret it lol, I'm on PS4 pro with the fee upgrade to ps5, runs really well. Have put 100 hours into it. I'm the biggest hypocrite on RUclips lol
@@AudioPhile Hell nah man if you having fun that's what counts. Btw is it better than Odyssey? I finished that game the story was amazing, but the missions were extremely grindy and felt like a chore, is it same in this one?
@@xiRePeNTx it's def a grind fest, lots of missions, but super short. It's my fave AC since the first couple and black flag. But I super dig Vikings..
@@AudioPhile Thanks for the heads up bro, I will probably pick this one when it's on sale plus physical copy price drops hella fast on ubisoft game, imma probably play origins then. Have a nice day :)
Everyone to Valhalla after the messy release of cyberpunk
"Perhaps I have judged you too harshly"
Rahul Vinod I loved this game right from the beginning, I am actually not too critical of Ubisoft in general, I give them credit for trying to please such a variety of gamers with different tastes. Their take over Ghost Recon brand is fantastic. And their general focus on changing linear game design to sandbox experience is very much welcomed.
Cyperpunk is an example of a studio trying to make something above their pay grade. They probably build the foundation in 2014, and spent 6 years just making mechanics and physics functional, that’s why Cyberpunk gameplay and AI feels pre 2010, like close to original AC games.
@@callisto537 nope game started late 2016, and the game was supposed to come out in 2022, yeah I'm surprised too
@@callisto537 They were rushed bro it isnt the Studios fault, its the darn executives who know nothing of games, only of money so they wanted to get the game out at what they believed to be a high point.
@@callisto537 cyberpunk is wayyyy better than ac Valhalla even with the bugs you have awful taste
@@PiOfficial your mother said I make good choices in life. She approves of everything I do, so......
I always wait a year for Ubisoft games so they’re half price and patched!
and you get the cut content since the season pass edition is cheaper.
watchdogs and this I'm putting in backlog
Half the price will be after 3-4 months not a year I guess
@@theworldismine7788 depends where you buy it
I managed to get AC Odyssey (Gold edition so includes Season Pass and AC3 remastered) for £17 the other day..! Bargain for so much content. I'll do the same for this
Once again ACG is first to the party. What a man what a legend.
not first, but the best :)
This game is amazing. ACG is just garbage at combat
@@nineflyerr3866 aww womp womp to you baby boy.
Pretty much every review dropped at the same time give or take a minute
Amazing review 👏 👌
I look forward to getting this in 6 months when it’s ready
@x33mmm being played without bugs 🙈😂
It’s already 40% percent off
@@TheMarmboy I just picked it up for $20
Yea I think now would be a good time to buy it given that it’s been 6 months
@@burritostorta3301 I'm waiting on it to drop below $30 (Xbox). I'm gonna pick up Like a Dragon in the meantime.
Quickly becoming my favorite reviewer. Never holds back and never pads the video with dumb intros, straight to the point. Love it.
Agreed. Too many RUclips publishers think their 30-60 second graphical intros with bombastic music actually do something positive for their videos. The intros only make the videos worse. If intros are included, they should be 8 seconds or shorter.
“You know this place is rough when this chicks the hottie of the village”😂
😂
no wonder they only want to crush skulls then
The fitties are in the courts and other places.
If your wondering why the music is soo good in this game. Jasper Kyd is back
This makes me more eager to listen to the soundtrack then to play the game!!!
Plus Einar Selvik of Wardruna and he also did music for the 'Vikings' series. - Obvious choice.
@@michaelmonstar4276 Are their Vikings show songs in Valhalla? I hope so
*Jesper
Absolutely love his work on the earlier Hitman Games.
Dude you've become a go to reviewed for me, GREAT JOB! even in cyberpunk case, as soon as I saw you passed it knew smthng was fishy there and did not get it - thanks for taking time and caring on these reviews, really helps save money :D
17:45 most of the “viking.” Feel in combat you are looking for is hidden behind the skill wall. When you get to gear score 80-90 you start becoming a complete power house in combat switching between abilities, weapon moves, and special skill types from the skill tree. One of my favorite would be duel wielding heavy weapons such as spears, two handed axes, or even great swords. ^
Ubisoft releasing two major games (watch dogs legion and Valhalla) at the same time is bonkers. Perfect example of cannibalisation
And neither one apparently being all that good
Lowkey choosing quantity over quality it feels like
I honestly don't understand why they would not wait and polish Valhalla more - typical corporation last quarter idiotic decision making...
syluxassassin I mean they both got good reviews, they just aren’t GOTY material
Think getting Ubisoft+ for the month is the best option rather than spending out on both titles. Just not worth the cost of buying both out right.
You know, I don’t think anyone would be pissed if Ubisoft delayed their games.
Who would notice? They release one every 4 months...
They need to delay the next assassins creed permanently
Yeah think AC is on the end of its life span. The need to focus on something new.
And stop delaying Cyberpunk 😅
@@thecrazyotter4873 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The enemies in odyssey were made of steel. That wasn't very fun. At least in Valhalla they die after a few hits. I prefer that a lot more to the super enemies in Odyssey.
5 bounty hunter with skull icon
@@JimJohn Yeah it's insanely irritating when you're doing a mission and 3-4 mercenaries come hunting you in AC Odyssey...
@@BillyTheBigKid82 they wouldn't just appear randomly. They come to you because your bounty gauge thing (can't remember what it's called) was high. It was a good system.
There was nothing good about AC Odyssey. So in that sense you're right, the mercenary system was one of its smallest problems.
@@BillyTheBigKid82 you misunderstood what I said
Good analogy: "Like putting a jet engine in a tricycle"
"Infection is scared to spread because it doesn't want to get sick." Karak is the master of satirising vocabulary.
I just about died when he said that hahahaha
Like really my guy pretty much blew my mind on what I thought was impressively funny sarcasm in this video.
Some very nice changes but also really hampered by other issues.
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Does the game jump from viking era and present day? Was not fun in ac4
I heard the series x patch wouldn’t release till tomorrow. Is that true? We’re you playing the series x version or the Xbox One version using back compat?
I'm definitely getting it, I just don't know when. I really like the recent AC games mainly for the exploration and the open world, so I don't think I'll be bothered by the shoddy combat too much.
I’m about 30 hours in, and 20% progress into the story. I have to say I’m really enjoying it!!
I haven’t played AC since AC 3, so I don’t have the fatigue issue. I think the TLDR is, if you’re a fan of the era, it’s VERY easy to forgive issues like combat not being great.
Also the game (graphics, story, music) is so immersive, I just love the feeling it gives me.
Go-to reviewer always
Never thought id see you here lol.
Didnt know you were a gamer
Not after TLOU 2 review
@@camacarzie12 I’m pretty sure John used to be a professional game journalist before going RUclips full time.
@@camacarzie12 that's always so crazy to hear. Started as a professional games journo in 2005!
Getting chills because of music during synchronization takes me back to AC2
oh hell yes
Jesper Kyd, nuff said
@@nanomachinesson8119 legend 🙏🏾
Im so gald they brought Jesper back 🥺
For real, that was my first thought.
I hope the day one patch fixes most of the bugs EXCEPT for the “enemy circles you at extremely high speeds” bug
Ubi does this mess every time. Poor optimization for their games and they want us to pay $70 for a buggy game. Screw that!
It’s $60...
@@longjawnsilva8877 for now, but Ubi will make their games $70 once 2021 hits.
@@longjawnsilva8877 and that makes it okay? Or are you just being a needlessly pedantic jackass?
@@Angels510 i am actually surprised prices didnt jump sooner considering an open world game today with todays standards takes a LOOOT more work than an open world game 10 years ago did but while the work to create a game increased the prices seemed to be more or less the same... also its kinda impossible to test every bug in the game so games will always come out with bugs... some more than others (usually devs have a set time window to remove as many bugs as possible rather than remove x amount of bugs)
@@longjawnsilva8877 you must be fun at parties. No one asked for you to spread false information, it comes in $60, $100, and $120 and that’s if we don’t include the collectors edition ($150), limited edition, and there’s one more.
I think we all knew the review was gonna say "repetitive"
Every game is
@@LonelyGamr Every game is yes but not every game FEELS repetitive. Ubisoft seem to be the Kings of repetitive gameplay.
every single open world game is repetitive. dont act like witcher 3 is somehow different from this. you either enjoy this kinda games or you dont.
@@LonelyGamr So instead of denying that Ubisoft’s repetitive games are repetitive fanboys are now just claiming all games are as mindlessly repetitive as (INSERT UBISOFT OPENWORLD TITLE HERE) 6?
@Creepy Hair Sniffer gotta agree that witcher 3 is repetitive, hack and slash, hack and slash, but the other elements such as story, visuals, animations, design, characters and mechanics are covering those repetitiveness, if you ignore all of those things then witcher 3 will be just your generic skyrim 3rd person copycat
I feel like “Assassins creed” and “stamina bar” should never have been used in the same sentence.
Agreed
I think its to make you pick stealth over combat
sounds like one of the few improvements to the game.
@@yeltseingeorge3125 I thought the whole point of this new system was to let people choose how to play?
@@DragonKnightX12 a stamina bar doesn't change that. Don't take that guys opinion so seriously. He hasn't played the game
After all these years you're still my go to reviewer. Thank you
These games just feel like a chore to play.
assasins oddisey felt like that ....i gave up on it
@@AmateurTroll69 same, far too annoying and long. Level gating destroyed it for me.
@@raymond-john-smith I didn’t play that one cause it looked like a lot of work to play. I got Valhalla with my processor and it actually is paced pretty well. I’ve been struggling to wanna play anything else cause the story is also really quite fantastic as well, best story/characters since Ezio IMO.
@@BourneSerenity I hope I like it when I get it
Never.. play.. RDR2 lol. Not true RDR2 was wasn't a cookie cutter RPG and it did have a pretty phenomenal story. I figure I played Origins so I've played all of these smh. Capitalism is rough man.. Kemco much 😆
Lol in the beginning two warrior npc playing rings rings Roses.
Kolkatta ko gaand bol diya yeh banda
@@afrofantom6631 ganda* not gaand. Similar words with very different meanings
@@tamoghnamaitra9901 kolkata ko butthole bola yeh, gaand hi hota hai .
New battle tactic :)
You mean Ring Around the Roses?
This is the first review of yours I watched and I loved it. You speak fast enough so I don't feel I'm wasting my time and it was super detailed in the most perfect way. Bravo my friend
That music at 7:30 is Sarah Schachner at her finest. Those instruments are in every single score she does, from AC Origins to Anthem. Those soundtracks are incredible. The other Jesper Kyd tracks are amazing too for more nostalgic reasons
BRUH, shoutout The 13th Warrior, that's such an epic movie that never got enough love! :D
Epic movie
The book it was based on was really good
The real Ibn Fadlan was interesting.
Movie had a viking, a 15th century knight, a gladiator and a conquistador fight a Slavic tribe which was known for being travelers and traders, NOT stone age cannibals.
The last time I washed the 13th Warrior was on VHS. Let that sink in
@@kevind1183 it is a Micheal Crichton book isn’t it?
I like acg because I have a trust he will say “look this part sucks” and that’s that.
0:12 love how the water rendering can't decide if it's meant to be still or flowing
Just like ubisoft can't decide if they wanna make a game or just a source of money
0:24
Ah, yes, the classic viking battle strategy that's one part ring around the rosie, two parts "you can't catch me, you can't catch me," all spitting in the face of physics.
this is such a thorough review. It's like a star example of what a game review should be.
Barber: " Something for the weekend, Sir?"
" Just a little off the top please "
Barber: 4:36
ahahah im dead lmao
I had my wife cut my hair. She pretty much did the same thing.
I love it 😂
@@emceeunderdogrising i would never do that. Well gotta learn somehow I guess.
I died 😂
The writing...I come for the reviews, and stay for the writing. Holy cow, I wish I had this kind of humor. Because ancient Egyptian curses...
Thanks for the review!
This confirms my "Wait for a future steam release with discount" that may or may not eventually happen
How do you not have over a million subs yet? That's a disservice to you. Your content is gold! Keep up the amazing work!
So glad when you mentioned 13th Warrior, this is exactly the feel I wanted from this game
i fucking loved that movie growing up, the final battle scene where they say 'Lo there do I see my Father' has always stuck with me
That’ll definitely be the vibe with the Ireland dlc you seem to be fighting crazed Druids
@@mclovinjr9086 When Buliwyf just sits down and dies after the battle and the dog howls - perfection!
@@slainemccool2875 Crazed Druids can kiss my Axe!
Such an underrated film
The combat was way more impactful than Odyssey imo, in Odyssey every enemy was a damage sponge. Here enemies don't take me hacking at them to die. Had way more fun with this than Odyssey.
So this game is still wait for sale.
@@nickywan123 All Ubisoft games are. They are the McDonalds of game studios to me: It tastes fine every now and then but it's nothing special and certainly not something I need or want all the time. I wish they would just stop with the annual or bi-annual releases and instead release an absolute banger every 5 years or so. They definitely have the talent, budget and workforce to make great games, they're just always rushing it.
That's good to know. I thought odyssey's combat was dreadful. No feeling of weight behind it and, like you say, health sponge enemies. Couldn't believe it when the review said this was WORSE than that.
@@amysteriousviewer3772 Good analogy. I respect Ubisoft admiration to try something new and creative but the problem is they have good idea or concept but poor execution. Take a look at watch dogs legions.
The Combat in this series was never that good anyway
From Bend Oregon, and i watch every one of your videos. You are simply the best at what you do, thanks for being such a reliable place to get game info.
Ugh. Imagine this setting with the Shadow of Mordor combat engine.
was that good combat?
@@joeyxl3456 Imagine Batman combat with swords
I think Ghost of Tsuhima has really set the bar for 3rd person open-world combat. I picked up Middle Earth: Shadow of War as one of the PS+ freebies this month, and man, I've been completely spoiled by Ghost of Tsushima's combat engine. ME:SoW feels so slow and unresponsive in comparison. That's why I'm going to wait a while on this one.
@@dtl918 Dude Ghost of Tsushima Legends is god tier. The multiplayer free dlc was amazing to play. I don't like playing multiplayer coops as much anymore and I could not stop playing it. Finally finished the raid which was fucking awesome and rivals the raids in destiny.
@@joeyxl3456 I found the entire game and its combat boring as hell. Odyssey was decent, not sure why they'd make it worse, but that's what these companies do just to differentiate the game from the previous.
Will definitely wait for a sale once the DLC is out as I did for Odyssey (got the gold edition for $25 instead of $100). Great review! Definitely my favorite reviewer out there.
@Carl Ward not for opened games, at least that’s my understanding.
Fucking same
I did that and still haven’t beat it or origins.
Same I always wait I’m still on syndicate tho. But I buy them when they go on major sale for Xbox. Gold edition for both games 20$ each and lower. I’ll play them one day
I haven't played odyssey yet is it worth it?
"dancing was a means of defense" 😂
😂
Well, it works for Yakuza 0.
Man, your reviews were always good, but you seem to be getting better and better. You leave all the major gaming outlets in the dust. Keep it up brother, bring on net gen i cant wait :)
Ubisoft is just mass producing "safe" games with the same animations and textures. They make boatloads of money though. But not very interesting..
stopped supporting ubiflop after fc4. which litterally was dlc for fc3. lol
@@deathrager2404
Ubiflop? But on track to sell more than Ghost of Shittshima.
@@deathrager2404 how can they be Ubiflop when they're one of the most profitable developers?
ahhh thanks for confirming you both are braindead. only way to ''prove me wrong'' is by mentioning sales. litterally every game of them has the same fuckin elements. aka copy and paste.
only reason why they re profitable is because braindeads, like the both of you, keep buying their games.
@@makokenji4350 your just mad you can't play it 😂😂
17:10 "But like putting a Jet Engine on a Tricycle, you end up with something cool that will also break something else"
Quote of the year.
Combat is something that got me worried too . Especially after playing Ghost of Tsushima.
Love the parts where you cant or try to hold the laughter and fail. You earned a subscriber
thanks for your work.. surprising how many reviews dont actually discuss the game... glad yours actually give us an a truthful, detailed account
2:37 i spat out my drink. love your vids
thanks man
@@ACGreviews you owe me a cup coffee after that lol
@@TrueAssassin86x stfu. u not even drinking anything lier fake
@@ACGreviews That really missed the mark for me, was meant to be funny cause vagina?
@@xJOHNYAPPLES you boring
I have noticed ACG has been laughing a lot more in his videos. I love it, and it’s a gift of spreading warmth and good vibes.
Cus he has a PS5.
👍
Yay 😁
He sounds high af.
Great review
Until he throws in some casual racism about brown people. But hey, who cares about that right? GR8 REVEWWWWW
@@muradkhan5378 go away lib
@@FullMetalYankee ok boomer. Peace out
@@muradkhan5378 how do you figure?
Yea ACG and Skillup are my go to game reviewers.
Watching this video I realised I've been looking forward to this review more than the game itself. Awesome review, as always, thanks man.
There are enough glitches, you could potentially call it Assassin's Creed: Odities.
Assassin's Creed: Oddities
You beat me to it :(
Ahh dang man 😂 guess we all picked that up haha
Always great reviews any time I need to look up reviews I come here!!
Wow, the music is absolutely beautiful. I could listen to this stuff all day -- love the atmosphere and yea, the mystery like you mentioned 👌
Wow, a Ubisoft game being repetitive - new gen, new Ubi!
To be fair, this is a cross-gen title. Let's hope the do some kind of soft-reboot for next-gen.
@@amysteriousviewer3772 BWAHAHAHA yea no. It's ubi.
@@amysteriousviewer3772 nahhh because if they were gonna do that, they would've done it to start off the new gen
I have played Origins and skipped the one after (forgot the name) because it's the same game with different setting and repeptive gameplay.
@@amysteriousviewer3772 You must not know Ubisoft?🤔
0:03 Glad to see how polished the game really is! Archers hit like a nuke!
I love this channel in the last 2 years u having saved me so much money with these great reviews
Great honest review ACG, music score is absolutely in point, loving it. The only thing I disagree with you on is when you said Odyssey is more impactful than this? Odyssey is so floaty to me, I can't reconcile how you think this is less impact than Odyssey. Btw, also really looking forward to you doing a Walking the Walk on this game. I feel like, in terms of environmental detail, this is Ubisofts best yet.
Would love to see the For Honor fighting system in an open world game like this one.
Stupidest is, For Honour is Ubi as well, so it would be possible. I can't believe they haven't done that yet...
At this point, I would be glad even for Witcher 3 combat.
@@francoisfouchet8066 I can't believe no other game has tried to replicate or even just compete with For Honor's combat yet. I have to keep coming back to that broken game because its the only one of its kind
That's where my mind went after watching this video. I'd have loved to see a heavy focus on the combat. Huge battles, people everywhere, mud in the camera and having to use your shield to block incoming attacks from different angles. You shouldn't even be able to see through the crowd.
Instead it's just a guy sliding around the floor with a wooden axe whilst his opponents throw random attacks while 15m away.
This would probably have been a great game 15 years ago.
It seems I'm a minority but I don't care how good my characters beard can look if I just have to button mash my way through the game.
@@Adam-zo7nz *I don't care how good my characters beard can look if I just have to button mash my way through the game.*
-Kratos frown
Excellent review as always! Appreciate all the effort. Can’t wait for the “walking the walk”? 🙏🏻
appreciate it
I was gonna post the same thought but I was like, somebody else probably already did ;)
I just got this on PS5 and am about 20 hours in. Haven’t really noticed any bugs or pop in. Framerate has been buttery smooth at 60fps the whole time. Really enjoying my time so far
@MortalGamerDC1 85 get a life dude.
As far as I’m concerned..this is my Vinland Saga simulator
Yeah I have never played an assassins creed game in my life but I got this because I love Vinland saga
Combat looks way more satisfying in this game than the past two. Decapitations, dismemberment, the enemies actually get flung off the weapons especially with the axes. You never saw that in the prior games.
It's just visual. Combat more or less just consists of mashing the heavy button.
@@johncrafton8319 Combat in the other games wasn't really that great either (Odyssey and Origins). Spam light and heavy attacks over and over and dodge infinitely with no stamina bar or risk of being over aggressive... Zzzzzzzzzz. This game has all that plus dual wielding, attack canceling, stamina management, different move sets depending on what weapon is in your off hand, not to mention it's more visceral in general. Come on now.
@@SolidGoldoni It has all that, but it needs none of it. Spam heavy and win in two strokes, then move on to the next.
Karak, I think you should include a “wait for patch(es)” rating lol
I second that lol
Patches are never guaranteed. Sometimes things don't get fixed.
Bro if this is what next Gen looks like, I need to start saving....looks great...and again you knocked this review out of the park! Man your word play and vocabulary usage is awesome 👌. Great work
The only honest man reviewing games... Really thank God there are still people like you out here 🙏
It looks like you didn't touch on the different abilities you unlock. To me they feel pretty impactful to combat for example when I throw both my axes at someone's torso or spear them then pummel them before gouging their eyes out. I've only unlocked a few.. I'm not speaking of the ones on the passive tree I mean the ones from the books you find.
I think the combat gets better when you get more major abilities and skills.
yep, major abilities and skills like "+2.8 stun"
My most favorite review to date. I truly laughed till I couldn't breath 😂 thank you for that.
Jasper Kyds music is always awesome I still even enjoy. His soundtrack from the classic Underrated game Freedom Fighters
Know which track is playing at 7:20? I can't seem to find it on the OST for some reason
AC Odyssey’s sequel: AC Oddity
Was looking for this💀
Odyssey combat felt more powerful than Valhalla's.
What do you think ?
@@arcticwind1368 Not him, but imo Valhalla does make one important improvement from Odyssey: enemies are no longer HP sponges. That's nice. But everything else is worse. I think ACG is right about the overall feeling though, it just isn't fun to do combat in Valhalla, and that's a big fucking problem when combat is what you spend most your time doing.
@@zeriel9148 valhalla is better than odyssey in every way. I enjoy this game so much more
@@gregorB92 yeah I agree, the combat in valhalla is so much more satisfying than odyssey imo
FINALLY! IVE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR YOUR OPINION ABOUT THIS GAME.
Scrolling facebook earlier saw a link for a kotaku review. First thing that crossed my mind was, hmm gotta go check for karaks review then.
"parry on left trigger is very odd"
*sad dark souls noises*
Honestly the dark souls control scheme is ideal to me. When I play games with a similar combat system that have the option to map controls I always change it to the dark souls control scheme. I also prefer the dodge button to be circle on Playstation or B on Xbox but other games map dodging to square or x which feels absolutely strange
8:53 I love how those two guys on the right dance together ^^
I don't that's a bug dude
Doubt*
Does it have any of that classic "assassins vs. Templar" aspect that the last few have been missing? I liked the last two, but I'm really starting to feel that hole.
Yes it has, see some of the reviews from ac youtubers
Yes assassin's and templars show up within the first 2 hours
It does but so have the last 2 tbf, origins title is a reference to the origins of the order after all
@@BeastscopesCL Origins sure, but Odyssey?
@@chicblick the order of the ancients that you hunt down are the early incarnation of the templars, it's the exact same in Valhalla and in Odyssey several of the main characters end up being members of the order as you go through the story
I always wait for a sale on Ubisoft games. They seems to make pretty mediocre games that end up on sale relatively quickly.
Yup I notice that too. Let's say next 2 months 25% percent off
For me usually getting the dlc for the regular price game seems good enough
Which sucks because now they did a mediocre Viking game, which means we won't get another open world viking game from a better developer for a long time. Fing Ubisoft had to steal it.
@@bostontowny4life744 God Of War Ragnarok will make this game irrelevant. lol
They go on sale so quickly because they’re gonna rush the sequel to market anyway. When was the last time they released a game that wasn’t a buggy mess at release?
you're seriously the best reviewer out there thank you i was already skeptical about this game but good to know I should wait to buy....still waiting on a hopeful japanese/ninja return to classics like ac2
One thing i didn't see you bring up in relation to the combat, is that the jank of it is also present in stealth gameplay. I dont know how but Ubisoft managed to make assassinations not fun and less polished than the original Assassins Creed.
0:24 those two came to a peace treaty and danced in the midst of battle.
The only reviewer I actually trust. Thank you for your content :D (Did not expect much from ubisoft :)) )
@Frankie Basile I did not say its the only one I watch, I said its the only one I trust.
I’ve never seen your videos, not even really interested in this game. But this review is such high effort and quality that I’ll be back for more. Well done. Subbed.
Lmaooo best intro ever " back in the 800 where men HA HA HA HA" literally laugh there
A morning review using "taint"? Thumbs up my man!!!!
Ughh after playing ghost I can't go back to AC combat system.
This is my issue, I stuck with oddessey because I love ancient greece.
I don't think I could stick with it for this one.
Ghost is a much better game but i hated the enemy types being tied to stances. The moment to moment combat is much better tho
I did like ghost but I think it was way more repetitive than A.C.
@Jan Rikardsen try playing it first 😒
@@lustrazor44 combat yes
Graphic almost same
Story not at all
Face animation same to same ,so all in all both are similar
I really hope that the glitches and graphical stuff get fixed, this feels like a game to buy in 6 months for half the price when this stuff has hopefully gotten sorted out
I'm still lookiing for AC2 magic to this day. Seems like I won't find it here either.
I can't wait to play this... In six months once I'm done with Cyberpunk and this is cheaper and has been finished with patches.
Ubisoft games are best played well after release.
1:20 skyrim feel IM IN!
better play skyrim my friend,better play skyrim...
You had me at the 13th Warrior reference. Love that movie!
Great review! I love that Ubisoft decided to bring back the settlement missions back in Valhallla. That was something I always remembered and enjoyed from ACIII.
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Absolutely loved Dragon Age: Inquisition...personally.
I didn’t, personally.
@Aaron Warrior I wouldn't say he's dumb, I think he's intelligent actually...but I don't agree with his opinion about Inquisition.
@BackdriftNightfall Yeah, I wouldn't call someone dumb and or insult them for not liking something that I do. ACG is one of the best videogame interviewers we have...and he's also witty.
Man I really do miss the assassins vs Templar aspect tbh it was such a cool aspect😭
ikr, ac worked as a franchise as long as it had some sort of conflict to connect the games into one another. Now its 15 minute segments of watch dogs easter eggs in a random(unexplored as a character) chick's laptop
@@niksig5449 man I think my favorite is probably unity the parkour was so cool and it felt refreshing to play co op with friends on missions
@@deathoftheoldme8645 Only thinking about the flow of Unity's entire gameplay loop makes me want to play it right now
Unity is by far the last real AC, exploring a city, the story of the Eden apple and it is and will ever be the last AC with crowd stealth Gameplay and it was the last who performed a crowd ki and it was the last AC with the original graphic engine, unity looked brutal gooood!
@MortalGamerDC1 85 Investigate a bit more on how far the ambition where in unity, not only the architecture, the amount of details in physics, eviromental story telling, and graphics, it was also the last game in the series with that engine cause they decided to move more away from crowd stealth system, yes gameplay as a mechanic was a bit weak but still, unity where on the right way if there weren't a huge change in the game series itself, it just got lost in becoming a repetitive series.
I think the next ac should go back to the ac 3 through rouge combat. Like Shadow of Morder or Ghost of Tsushima style where you're all over the place just slaying people with ease, but it's super badass so it's entertaining.
Great, fair, no bullshit review, and very informative, earned a sub from me! Thank you.