HUGO FILIPE RUELA SARGAÇO, are you fucking serious? The gameplay is the same throughout the whole game. It's fun at first but then it's just rinse and repeat. The sea battles are fun for the first 10 battles but they are all the same. Shoot the enemy ship a couple of times, then board them and shoot five guys from the swivel gun or get on deck and kill the captain. Once you get the grip it's not challenging nor interesting at all. But you have to grind those battles because you need wood and iron for upgrades. They should have just made the seabattles harder and the loot bigger. The combat is usual console stuff. I can fight 10 enemies at once with ease. I don't even feel in danger. Just watch for the flickering icon on top of the guy who is about to attack you. Then press "e" and mouse1 and watch a five second long kill animation while the other enemies wait politely. The AI is awful. Several times I killed a guy from a hiding spot in front of his mate who didn't even notice nor give a fuck. The stealth kills are all the same. Hide, whistle, wait till some braindead dude comes to chek, stab him in the guts and pull him in your hiding spot. Rinse and repeat. The controls are abysmal. Since AC3, I believe, there's a single button both for sprint and climb. Every time you have to chase someone your guy starts to randomly climb walls, boxes etc., instead of running after your target. And then you have the x-ray vision which Ubisoft has poorly disguised as Eagle (wink wink nudge nudge) vision. As soon as you look at enemies with Eagle vision, the game tags them and you can see them through the walls. And the game forces you to use x-ray... excuse me... Eagle vision. I'm not even ashamed for pirating this game. I played pirated Skyrim, and I bought it after that. I pirated Mount and Blade, and I bought it. Far Cry 3 too. Not this one. I finished 40% of the game, by the way. Am I allowed to give my opinion?
You wouldn't recognize sarcasm even if it were shagging you in the arse. Nice deflection, by the way. At least stand by your words, not dismiss them as jokes as soon as someone calls you out on it.
played it for my first play through last week in 4k. Looks incredible and i was so surprised with how much i enjoyed it. Spent probably 3 hours a day on it for about 7 days straight and didnt get bored.
going on 10 years later, that opening statement regarding the visuals and water, it still holds true. I'll never forget the first time rolling that ship out on my newly built pc (r9 280x, 2600k) .. the graphics were immense. Life was so much better as well
I can’t agree with you Mack. I know this is so long after the release but I had to say something about how insanely immersive it CAN be. When you’re just cruising through the ocean a orca jumps up next to your ship and your men begin to sing the song “lowlands away” I truly feel like a pirate. Like I can truly feel the salty air on my face and hear the waves crash on my ship. This comment was more for me than anything honestly.
"A console controller will never ever, ever, ever be as good as a mouse and keyboard." I guess you've never tried playing a racing game on the PC. Some genres of games work SO much better with an analog controller, especially third person games.
That was the main thing that irked me. I agree that AC4's controls are fairly bad, but to say that there's no game where a controller is better is just wrong. Console port or not.
Actually, racing games work best with an actual wheel and pedal, not with a controller. And third person games work beautifully with a kb and mouse, just like first person games.
Mack has never claimed to be unbiased. He is quite upfront about that. Everyone has there preferences and his is PC with M&K, or wheel and pedals where applicable. He stated right in this very video that if you are okay with the whole controls style and 3rd person, etc., that you would likely love it. He even gave it a thumbs up despite his frustrations with the controls and the very dumb AI. He gave it points where he felt it deserved them. So he was totally upfront and honest about how he felt and why. What more would one want from a reviewer? Every review I watch, I know I am getting that individuals OPINION, based on their experience and preferences. You always have to take that into account regardless of who it is. There is no such thing as a truly unbiased review, as that's not possible. All we can ask for is explanations for their opinions.
Tbh I just hope they make a pirate game. Screw assassin's creed at this point, just make a pirate game unrelated to it. The ship controls and mechanics were probably some of the best I've ever experienced and it's more of a pirate game than all of the pirate games that have tried to be pirate games (like Risen 2...) Controls have always been a huge problem for me in the assassin's creed games on PC. I tried to rebind them to be more efficient but one finger or another always ends up getting insanely sore. Last one I played on PC was AC2 though, after that never again.
Only reason they call it Assassin's creed today, is that alone the name makes costumers and money. They only need to make a decent trailer and they can earn alot of cash - who says the game needs to be good?
Have you got to the part where you can free roam around the seas on your own ship yet? I think the ship gameplay is probably the best thing about the game tbh
Someone buy this guy a controller so he'll stop bitching about how his keyboard and mouse doesnt work which whatever game he is playing. Peripheral devices in pc gaming are a wide assortment of devices which include game controllers, joysticks, touch pads, and mouse and keyboard and millions of other devices.
dan duerkop Aside from fanboys, AC series are pretty well known is extremely automatized to the point that the game plays itself more than you do. Good for fratboy-ish audience or people who doesn't value a good balanced and challenging game, otherwise, they are those series are the boyband equivalent in videogames.
I actually LOVED the fights in this game because it discourages button mashing. If you time all your moves right you go through some pretty entertaining choreography and kill everyone without getting a scratch. I always wished that there were more games that had that.
I lasted about 10 minutes with the keyboard and mouse before switching to a 360 controller, things got a little better then. I think this review is spot on, the game does have its issues but is great fun, especially when the world opens up.
also i'd like to say judging from the gameplay i've seen in this vid it looks like you havn't gotten to the part where you get your ship yet. i highly recommend playing it untill you get you're ship because that is the best part of the game.
Pretty funny, I'd never heard the phrase "tsk tsk" before. It means "make an exclamation expressing disapproval or annoyance" for others out of the loop.
Eh, I'm not sure the controls are your problem you just seem to be kinda inexperienced with AC's controls to begin with. I played them all on console but I made all the same mistakes when I first started. AC's movement controls allow you to do a lot maybe too much and they take some serious getting used to. As for combat its kinda simple on purpose as it is not in any way the main point of the game and the only reason that I can assume its included at all is so that you don't have to waste too much time getting back to what you came here for and just outright failing you every time you're caught would be stupid, frustrating and boring. Thats why auto failing is only done where the story requires it or in specific challenges.
Mate, please quit moaning about the controlls. You can overcome every single obstacle. It takes 2,5 secounds to figure out how. Furthermore there are NO(!) games, which have no drawbacks, bugs, errors.
I got the game as a gift on PS3. I also played AC2 on a Playstation, so I can say without a doubt that no matter what control configuration you would have used would have been exactly as 'sticky,' Mack. I was sent into many Rages due to the controls and they have not changed them in the slightest for several games now. That makes it a bit worse I suppose, but take heart! Most of this game revolves around doing things in the vastly superior Ship Battles! Plod through the story until you have free reign at the helm and you'll enjoy it a *lot* more than you did at the time of recording. It was kind of nice to have a long storyline in a game for once, and it actually shied away from the typical Assassin-centric plot, which somewhat doesn't make it a real AC game... but come on, ship battles and pirates. That was the only reason I wanted the game in the first place ^_^ Ha-har!
Control issues you're pointing are actually still here even with a controller. I actually found them worse on console (360) because of the lower FPS it can deliver and the horribly slow turning speed of the controller. With a good gaming mouse and 60fps+ PC gameplay, I enjoyed kb/m a hundred times more despite the bad controls.
Ah eya controls can be a little irritating. The safe spots to jump into are a trademark of ac games... but for instance, say you want to get into a facility. You can jump off that point into the palm fronds or hay, grab a guard, sneak out. Or you could climb down the other side of the building, shoot a big guy with a berserk dart, go and disable all alarms and sneak through while the guards fight eachother. Or you can sneak from cover to cover without alerting a single foe. Or you can use a rope dart, hang the first guard from a tree, and wait in a bush and kill each guard that runs in to investigate. Or you can wear heavier armor, and just walk right in and kill every single person you see in open combat. There are huuge variations to how you can do things. So while there are safe spots to jump into from vantage points, there's nothing saying you must. Then consider the sheer volume of activities you can undertake; taking fortified sea.. forts, whaling, investigating sunken ships with a diving bell, assassination, playing checkers, being an accomplished merchant establishing trade routes all over the earth. And you can be a pirate. You can sail around and fuck englishmen up in droves, keep their ships or sink em out of spite, or try to take legendary spanish galleons or ghost ships. This game is a cornucopia of sexy delightfulness, and if you don't finish it because you're butthurt over some palm fronds; you will be doing yourself a grave disservice my friend.
The 3rd person control is terrible no matter what you use. I played it with a 360 controller and it's as awful as the m&k. That unwanted climbing is one of the things that made me give up on the game.
for me i was sold when u start sailing the sea and your crew starts to sing these shantys, that is still awesome!, but u are right the reason i stoppe dplaying AC is when u run aroudn and bump into anythign, it just starts climbing, you show it off really good in your review!.
I've been playing this game since the release, and i haven't even beaten it yet... i set sail going in the general direction as the next part in the story line, but ad i look around i spy a ship to the east that has rum and sugar and just things to get rich off of and a tell the crew we have to stop singing cuz we are heading out to battle and plunder... after 50 more battles and plundering i find my self even further away from the next part of the story and set sail once again in that direction only to look to the north and see even more ships that are just begging to get plundered. Eventually i find my self next to the island i needed to get to and do that storyline but after that the next point is on the other side of the map... so i start the prosses again ^_^
This is awfully late but the controls in unity are much better and harder combat. And all the gilitches have been patched. There's more freedom. I think u would you like it.
Asides from updated graphics AC has been the same every time. It is rather annoying, I hate when you're trying to do something and it's like "Oh? You want to go up? We'll make you go sideways and down."
Isn't this the case for every Assassin's Creed though? You want to jump one way but your guy goes the other or you run into a wall expecting to scale it and end up jumping backwards from it instead, etc. And pretty much everything is staged with the hay carts and conveniently placed planks of wood sticking out of walls and stuff lol. I've played AC 1- AC3 so far over the years - just replayed Brotherhood and moving onto this one. Looks good. Thanks for the review.
I've had this game on PC for a while, and I haven't really encountered many of the problems you talk about, and I haven't really noticed the poor console controls, so i disagree with some of the thing you have to say, but I respect your opinion nevertheless.
Use a 360 controller,PS4 controller or whatever you like and it plays great,mouse and keyboard for first person shooters etc,steering wheels for driving games,whole point of owning a pc massive choice of control options.
Your dislike of the scripted scenarios contradicts what made Half Life 2 so great. It's a singleplayer game where the control is never taken from the character to play a cutscene - the game is always still the game itself.
The most important thing that got me into the immersion was the music. No good music and the game can be quite boring. I'm going to play at again soon.
I can understand the frustration during that chase scene. Would be very annoying to be chasing a guy and accidentally run into a building and it assumes you want to climb it.
I totally agree with you as far as the controls are concerned. I really find it very frustrating, and it seems like they have mouse acceleration turned on. I have found combat to be very clunky, and the camera made it things so unbearable that I came close to rage quitting.
@6:45 That group of 3 guards. You can literally kill them off one at a time, and none of them wonder where their friend went to. It's all waist high bushes on a flat beach. It's not just the scenery setup that bothers me. It's the way they make guards blind, deaf and dumb.
I played the ship-to-ship stuff as much as possible. I played the on-land as little as possible. I liked to be a pirate captain. I hated being a magic acrobat.
Not sure what's the big deal with the controller...some games like FPS (Overwatch for example), are much better with keyboard and mouse; but for a GTA5 or an AC or other 3rd person games, a controller is much easier to use. The issue with climbing is there since the first game sadly; loosing people during a chase is mostly a pain that we all share.
Good video. Do you need to play the prior games to understand the plot? I'm in the mood for an open-world pirate game and I'm curious to know if this would fit the bill, or if I'd just be too lost as far as overall plot.
This is the best pirate game on PC. It's more of a pirate than AC game. Especially, the story. The ship controls and combat is amazing in a very realistic environment. Agree that controls can be a bit annoying. Overall, definately the best AC game for years.
I always thought the AC games were over-polished. Too scripted, fights are too easy (guards take a back seat while their mate takes a pounding), the UI dominates the screen (constant white glow over target, press X!!!), everything's too convenient (Hay) and shallow.
*whispers* perhaps you should play AC4 since it uses a better combo fighting system, more similiar to batman than AC.. you know just speaking from someone with actual knowledge of all the AC games bad or good
I hate how they implemented artificial difficulty in legendary ships. Instead of just adding a special ability to these boss ships like one can do tons of ramming damage, one is really fast, another fights with a partner and if you get caught in the crossfire bad luck...but nooo. On top of that, these ships have no movement restrictions, the laws of physics don't apply to them, you'd expect that a big, heavy ship that gets most of it's damage out of ramming attacks would take some time to turn around and gather momentum. Nope, he rams you, goes past your ship then lifts it's front to 90 degrees does a 180 turn and proceeds to ram you...that's just shit.
I feel like the criticisms could be applied to all assassins creed games. It is sort of a given that they will use the same engine over and over since the franchise is a money factory.
I have this game for console and I remember doing the exact same thing at 1:13 it took me so long to realize you were just supposed to be hanging and then climb up the perch.
I'm a huge fan of your channel and I love watching all your videos, but I really think you failed as a viewer here. The controls and combat here are standard for the franchise but actually a little more improved than the earlier ones. I wished you came back to do another review of it after you played some more, this is really a pathetic video to throw out after an hour and a half. It's a slow burn and takes about 2 hours to get your own ship going, but it's easily the best pirate simulator ever when it comes to ship combat. You were so taken by sailing the ship out of the bay, but that is NOTHING compared to what this game has in store. There are 4 secret Legendary ships that most people don't even know about! I'm just disapointed because I've watched your videos on other pirate games and it seems like Black Flag copies a lot of mechanics from those games. So I wanted to hear you talk about the ship combat and how it rips off all these other games but puts it all together into something amazing. You were so entranced by just being in control of the ship in calm waters, but the tutorial area that makes you familiar with being on foot burnt you out on the AC mechanics... if you only keep going to get your own ship you would shit yourself at how good it looks. This is easily the best AC game available simply because it's an amazing pirate game, possibly the best ever, and best looking... and you literally never mentioned the ship exploration, side quests, or combat whatsoever. :/
Maybe PC Master Race and us lowly console players should just admit that PC games should be played on a PC and console games should be played on a console. Then stupid arguments like "keyboard controls don't work for a controller-based games" would fall into the 'No Shit, Stupid, Move On' category and everyone could be happier knowing that little tidbit of information that will never change. "The sky is blue." "In the mornings and evenings it's a different, better color." "No shit, stupid."
I bought the first Assassin Creed off Steam a few days ago and I agree that the mouse and keyboard controls are difficult at the start ( press button 0 on your mouse) 0_o but once you get used to the iffy controls that are sometimes damn right unresponsive and the repetitive game play the story is immersive and the visuals are beautiful.
Pretty much all PC games have xbox 360 controller support. They're like 25 bucks, there is no reason not to own one. The controller is pretty nice too.
this is a horrible review, almost the entire this is just him talking about a few problems only on one platform not going into detail about anything else like the world, story or combat
Not at all. It's a bad PC port if the control setup options are poor, but you have to make exceptions for genres like third person games and racing games where the degree of control on a keyboard suffers in comparison to a controller. Keyboard input is binary and controllers do have degrees of sensitivity which ultimately make them better for specific types of game.
CJbosh I agree, it feels easier for me on Racing sims with controller. Yet FPS feels great on a mouse. 3rd persons always suffered some degrees with keys and mouse. I was hoping high it wouldn't have been an issue for the AC IV :/
loved this game. now i dont play on PC i play on 360 so for me the controls were fine. it does have the problem of running into buildings when your free running or chasing some-one. still an amazing game.
The only thing i that i disagree with is when you said a controller will never be as good as a mouse and keyboard. really it depends what games you're playing. for FPS games a controller wont be as good as a mouse and keyboard but for say a racing game it would because you have control over how much you press the accelerator. a keyboard and mouse cant do that.
I love assassins creed got everyone and in my opinion the assassins creed black flag is the best one they have made, I didn't really notice the control system was bad it's just like any other assassins creed really
Mack this game is in sale for $10 or the gold edition for $16 on PS4, so Im gonna watch this review & see if I should buy it or not! Old video, but still has value!
So true about controls. I uninstalled it after trying to catch that thief in Havana. Played with the Xbox controler and just could not do it... Dude climbed and bumped all other the place. Sure you can practice a lot and become better at it, but why bother. I have better things to do with my life. For me controls alone make this game frustrating and not fun. Sadly this is true for almost all ported games, even worse - almost all games in general! Maybe i just grow too old for this...
Looking at this review now if I should get it for my switch ( as I am pc at heart) but the switch is something casual for and the fact it’s made for controller proves to me that there is a place for games like this. I like big immersive open world games. But I don’t always have the time or effort to play these hard core games. Having this kinda game on the go that can fill my imagination with the sheer spoke of the game.
Totally agree with your review, to me still one of the best in the old series, before Odyssey. I play on pc, controls porting is not Ubisoft strongest for sure, AC 2 is worse controls wise imo.
You must be on a pretty beefy Intel/Nvidia Computer because I can't even run AC3 smoothly enough to enjoy. I know that an FX-6300 @3.94GHz and an OC'd HD7950 aren't that amazing, but 25 frames is unacceptable with graphics turned down. Ubisoft doesn't give a 16th of a shit about PC gamers.
Your rant (minute 2) about the game's mechanics and climbing issues that you have experienced show that you're not accustomed to A.C. games. I never have any of those issues, because if you play 1 or 2 A.C. games you should learn the mechanics, it's not hard
Very polished entertainment....yeah, have to say I'd agree. I love the AC series, but none of them ever really stacked up there in my top 10 games list.
Mack i gotta hand it to you, you are the only youtuber that made me nearly shit myselfe twice from laughing, but i leaned from them and now i go to toilette befoe i watch your videos.
I dunno, unless i'm playing an online competitive game, then i would automatically revert to the Xbox controller support, especially campaign or single player mode. I would just go to my living room stick the controller on the Tele, and bam, I have a super computer as a console.
not that I disagree with him , but he didn't mention the sea combat . That was the thing that made this assassins creed stood out from the rest.
He probably hasn't played the game more than an hour. All of the gameplay that he has in this video is from the first hour of the game...
HUGO FILIPE RUELA SARGAÇO, are you fucking serious? The gameplay is the same throughout the whole game. It's fun at first but then it's just rinse and repeat. The sea battles are fun for the first 10 battles but they are all the same. Shoot the enemy ship a couple of times, then board them and shoot five guys from the swivel gun or get on deck and kill the captain. Once you get the grip it's not challenging nor interesting at all. But you have to grind those battles because you need wood and iron for upgrades. They should have just made the seabattles harder and the loot bigger.
The combat is usual console stuff. I can fight 10 enemies at once with ease. I don't even feel in danger. Just watch for the flickering icon on top of the guy who is about to attack you. Then press "e" and mouse1 and watch a five second long kill animation while the other enemies wait politely.
The AI is awful. Several times I killed a guy from a hiding spot in front of his mate who didn't even notice nor give a fuck.
The stealth kills are all the same. Hide, whistle, wait till some braindead dude comes to chek, stab him in the guts and pull him in your hiding spot. Rinse and repeat.
The controls are abysmal. Since AC3, I believe, there's a single button both for sprint and climb. Every time you have to chase someone your guy starts to randomly climb walls, boxes etc., instead of running after your target.
And then you have the x-ray vision which Ubisoft has poorly disguised as Eagle (wink wink nudge nudge) vision. As soon as you look at enemies with Eagle vision, the game tags them and you can see them through the walls. And the game forces you to use x-ray... excuse me... Eagle vision.
I'm not even ashamed for pirating this game. I played pirated Skyrim, and I bought it after that. I pirated Mount and Blade, and I bought it. Far Cry 3 too. Not this one.
I finished 40% of the game, by the way. Am I allowed to give my opinion?
April fools' in the middle of March... All right. Crawl back into your safe space then, fanboy.
You wouldn't recognize sarcasm even if it were shagging you in the arse. Nice deflection, by the way. At least stand by your words, not dismiss them as jokes as soon as someone calls you out on it.
I'm not "believing everything other says without questioning". I played this game. It's wank.
I played the whole game on PC with an Xbox Controller. I loved it.
Me too. And used 3 monitors on it.
Doing that now.
I've played this and for me, this is VERY immersive
Not sure how immersed you can get when people start teleporting to your coordinates, Star trek maybe but a Pirate game?
Worth A Buy But it didn't happen to me...
Worth A Buy I got immersed at moments but there are a few bits that pull you sharply back to reality.
I don't know how it is but nothing appears for me from thin air...
late reply here if someone makes a perfect First Person mod for this i will say it would truely be perfect.
personally, this was my most immersive AC game. just amazing to play
played it for my first play through last week in 4k. Looks incredible and i was so surprised with how much i enjoyed it. Spent probably 3 hours a day on it for about 7 days straight and didnt get bored.
I love aot!!!!!!!!!
Immersive.. really
going on 10 years later, that opening statement regarding the visuals and water, it still holds true. I'll never forget the first time rolling that ship out on my newly built pc (r9 280x, 2600k) .. the graphics were immense. Life was so much better as well
I can’t agree with you Mack. I know this is so long after the release but I had to say something about how insanely immersive it CAN be. When you’re just cruising through the ocean a orca jumps up next to your ship and your men begin to sing the song “lowlands away” I truly feel like a pirate. Like I can truly feel the salty air on my face and hear the waves crash on my ship. This comment was more for me than anything honestly.
chris smith I haven't played it yet but I think I'm going to buy it
itsyeboislavy 88 what mack says about the control are correct but I greatly recommend due to the sailing and decent story!!
"A console controller will never ever, ever, ever be as good as a mouse and keyboard."
I guess you've never tried playing a racing game on the PC. Some genres of games work SO much better with an analog controller, especially third person games.
That was the main thing that irked me. I agree that AC4's controls are fairly bad, but to say that there's no game where a controller is better is just wrong. Console port or not.
Actually, racing games work best with an actual wheel and pedal, not with a controller. And third person games work beautifully with a kb and mouse, just like first person games.
LVX156 Ya this is very true.
Mack has never claimed to be unbiased. He is quite upfront about that. Everyone has there preferences and his is PC with M&K, or wheel and pedals where applicable. He stated right in this very video that if you are okay with the whole controls style and 3rd person, etc., that you would likely love it. He even gave it a thumbs up despite his frustrations with the controls and the very dumb AI. He gave it points where he felt it deserved them. So he was totally upfront and honest about how he felt and why. What more would one want from a reviewer? Every review I watch, I know I am getting that individuals OPINION, based on their experience and preferences. You always have to take that into account regardless of who it is. There is no such thing as a truly unbiased review, as that's not possible. All we can ask for is explanations for their opinions.
Racing games should be played with wheel and pedals
Tbh I just hope they make a pirate game. Screw assassin's creed at this point, just make a pirate game unrelated to it.
The ship controls and mechanics were probably some of the best I've ever experienced and it's more of a pirate game than all of the pirate games that have tried to be pirate games (like Risen 2...)
Controls have always been a huge problem for me in the assassin's creed games on PC. I tried to rebind them to be more efficient but one finger or another always ends up getting insanely sore. Last one I played on PC was AC2 though, after that never again.
Indeed
Only reason they call it Assassin's creed today, is that alone the name makes costumers and money. They only need to make a decent trailer and they can earn alot of cash - who says the game needs to be good?
Did you play Bethesda's Pirates of the Caribbean? I honestly loved that game..
you see this yet www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/skull-and-bones/
@@Thaiax Yeah, just because you don't like a game, it's suddenly a cash grab isn't it?
WHY WOULD YOU PLAY A 3RD PERSON GAME LIKE ASSASSIN'S CREED ON A KEYBOARD AND MOUSE????????????
I actually play all of them on mouse and keyboard. It's actually a lot better imo
Because some people don’t want, only know how to play on a mouse and keyboard or just don’t have a console.
Have you got to the part where you can free roam around the seas on your own ship yet? I think the ship gameplay is probably the best thing about the game tbh
They should have skipped the "Assassin" part entirely and just made this into a pirate game. Because the "age of sail" part was a lot of fun!
👍👍
Someone buy this guy a controller so he'll stop bitching about how his keyboard and mouse doesnt work which whatever game he is playing. Peripheral devices in pc gaming are a wide assortment of devices which include game controllers, joysticks, touch pads, and mouse and keyboard and millions of other devices.
dan duerkop Aside from fanboys, AC series are pretty well known is extremely automatized to the point that the game plays itself more than you do. Good for fratboy-ish audience or people who doesn't value a good balanced and challenging game, otherwise, they are those series are the boyband equivalent in videogames.
I don't like ac games just annoyed when this guy says games with controllers are for consoles like it's a dirty word
Armitage he said nothing about ac what the fuck are you talking about
I actually LOVED the fights in this game because it discourages button mashing. If you time all your moves right you go through some pretty entertaining choreography and kill everyone without getting a scratch. I always wished that there were more games that had that.
I lasted about 10 minutes with the keyboard and mouse before switching to a 360 controller, things got a little better then. I think this review is spot on, the game does have its issues but is great fun, especially when the world opens up.
also i'd like to say judging from the gameplay i've seen in this vid it looks like you havn't gotten to the part where you get your ship yet. i highly recommend playing it untill you get you're ship because that is the best part of the game.
Games like this I play them with a gamepad
So. You didn't play the game long enough to review the most important feature of this game? Naval Combat. tsk tsk.
Pretty funny, I'd never heard the phrase "tsk tsk" before. It means "make an exclamation expressing disapproval or annoyance" for others out of the loop.
hes a shit reviewer
Eh, I'm not sure the controls are your problem you just seem to be kinda inexperienced with AC's controls to begin with. I played them all on console but I made all the same mistakes when I first started. AC's movement controls allow you to do a lot maybe too much and they take some serious getting used to. As for combat its kinda simple on purpose as it is not in any way the main point of the game and the only reason that I can assume its included at all is so that you don't have to waste too much time getting back to what you came here for and just outright failing you every time you're caught would be stupid, frustrating and boring. Thats why auto failing is only done where the story requires it or in specific challenges.
Mate, please quit moaning about the controlls. You can overcome every single obstacle. It takes 2,5 secounds to figure out how.
Furthermore there are NO(!) games, which have no drawbacks, bugs, errors.
Nope, if they put shitty controls in a game then I will be warning people about how terrible they are to play.
Worth A Buy
Yep the controls are shitty. Luckily the game is so much fun that i even forget about it though.
The controls are also pretty shit on consoles.
Sounds like a good pirate game, the only bad thing is all the assassin's creed stuff that is actually holding it back
Yep.
Robert Johannesson Blimey yes, how many people facepalmed at the end of the game I wonder ?
I personally had no issue playing this with a keyboard. But maybe that is just me.
I love watching videos of old game reviews and watching people in awe at old graphics
nothing has changed 5 years later
I like how the overall fact that you were still playing it saved it from a thumb down, despite the game play. GG on honesty Mack.
Even when i was a poor console player, i hated the Assassin Creed controls. All of those control issues happen with the gamepad too.
I got the game as a gift on PS3. I also played AC2 on a Playstation, so I can say without a doubt that no matter what control configuration you would have used would have been exactly as 'sticky,' Mack. I was sent into many Rages due to the controls and they have not changed them in the slightest for several games now.
That makes it a bit worse I suppose, but take heart! Most of this game revolves around doing things in the vastly superior Ship Battles! Plod through the story until you have free reign at the helm and you'll enjoy it a *lot* more than you did at the time of recording.
It was kind of nice to have a long storyline in a game for once, and it actually shied away from the typical Assassin-centric plot, which somewhat doesn't make it a real AC game... but come on, ship battles and pirates. That was the only reason I wanted the game in the first place ^_^ Ha-har!
Control issues you're pointing are actually still here even with a controller. I actually found them worse on console (360) because of the lower FPS it can deliver and the horribly slow turning speed of the controller. With a good gaming mouse and 60fps+ PC gameplay, I enjoyed kb/m a hundred times more despite the bad controls.
I don't mind simple combat as long as it looks cool like in the Batman Arkham series and Assassins Creed series.
Ah eya controls can be a little irritating. The safe spots to jump into are a trademark of ac games... but for instance, say you want to get into a facility. You can jump off that point into the palm fronds or hay, grab a guard, sneak out. Or you could climb down the other side of the building, shoot a big guy with a berserk dart, go and disable all alarms and sneak through while the guards fight eachother. Or you can sneak from cover to cover without alerting a single foe. Or you can use a rope dart, hang the first guard from a tree, and wait in a bush and kill each guard that runs in to investigate. Or you can wear heavier armor, and just walk right in and kill every single person you see in open combat.
There are huuge variations to how you can do things. So while there are safe spots to jump into from vantage points, there's nothing saying you must. Then consider the sheer volume of activities you can undertake; taking fortified sea.. forts, whaling, investigating sunken ships with a diving bell, assassination, playing checkers, being an accomplished merchant establishing trade routes all over the earth.
And you can be a pirate. You can sail around and fuck englishmen up in droves, keep their ships or sink em out of spite, or try to take legendary spanish galleons or ghost ships. This game is a cornucopia of sexy delightfulness, and if you don't finish it because you're butthurt over some palm fronds; you will be doing yourself a grave disservice my friend.
The 3rd person control is terrible no matter what you use. I played it with a 360 controller and it's as awful as the m&k. That unwanted climbing is one of the things that made me give up on the game.
Prince of Persia was just like that. Great game but it had some awful moments.
being a pirate on the open sea and not in a mission is the best part of this game, imo
Mac, how is it that I hardly ever agree with your opinions on games and yet I think your reviews are amazing?
Keep it up man, you're awesome!
for me i was sold when u start sailing the sea and your crew starts to sing these shantys, that is still awesome!,
but u are right the reason i stoppe dplaying AC is when u run aroudn and bump into anythign, it just starts climbing, you show it off really good in your review!.
You forgot about the Jackdaw mechanic! The naval combat was freaking phenomenal.
I've been playing this game since the release, and i haven't even beaten it yet... i set sail going in the general direction as the next part in the story line, but ad i look around i spy a ship to the east that has rum and sugar and just things to get rich off of and a tell the crew we have to stop singing cuz we are heading out to battle and plunder... after 50 more battles and plundering i find my self even further away from the next part of the story and set sail once again in that direction only to look to the north and see even more ships that are just begging to get plundered. Eventually i find my self next to the island i needed to get to and do that storyline but after that the next point is on the other side of the map... so i start the prosses again ^_^
This is awfully late but the controls in unity are much better and harder combat. And all the gilitches have been patched. There's more freedom. I think u would you like it.
I totally agree, here's to hoping Assassin's Creed: Syndicate isn't a buggy pile of shit because that actually looks pretty interesting...
Asides from updated graphics AC has been the same every time.
It is rather annoying, I hate when you're trying to do something and it's like "Oh? You want to go up? We'll make you go sideways and down."
Isn't this the case for every Assassin's Creed though? You want to jump one way but your guy goes the other or you run into a wall expecting to scale it and end up jumping backwards from it instead, etc. And pretty much everything is staged with the hay carts and conveniently placed planks of wood sticking out of walls and stuff lol. I've played AC 1- AC3 so far over the years - just replayed Brotherhood and moving onto this one. Looks good. Thanks for the review.
I've had this game on PC for a while, and I haven't really encountered many of the problems you talk about, and I haven't really noticed the poor console controls, so i disagree with some of the thing you have to say, but I respect your opinion nevertheless.
Use a 360 controller,PS4 controller or whatever you like and it plays great,mouse and keyboard for first person shooters etc,steering wheels for driving games,whole point of owning a pc massive choice of control options.
Your dislike of the scripted scenarios contradicts what made Half Life 2 so great. It's a singleplayer game where the control is never taken from the character to play a cutscene - the game is always still the game itself.
The most important thing that got me into the immersion was the music. No good music and the game can be quite boring. I'm going to play at again soon.
Assassins creed rogue was rebuilt for pc instead of being ported. That game ran and controlled perfectly and I hope they do that with empire
The guards don't spawn out of thin air. The Animus remembers there were guards. It's totally all about the lore...
"The graphics are just incredible"
Wish this aged well.
it is still a beast of a game on PC the graphics still hold up in 2020 especial in true 4K
It did, the game still looks great. You’re just spoiled.
I can understand the frustration during that chase scene. Would be very annoying to be chasing a guy and accidentally run into a building and it assumes you want to climb it.
I totally agree with you as far as the controls are concerned. I really find it very frustrating, and it seems like they have mouse acceleration turned on. I have found combat to be very clunky, and the camera made it things so unbearable that I came close to rage quitting.
Ah yes, Welfare games: because skill, competence and effort are just asking too much.
@6:45 That group of 3 guards. You can literally kill them off one at a time, and none of them wonder where their friend went to. It's all waist high bushes on a flat beach. It's not just the scenery setup that bothers me. It's the way they make guards blind, deaf and dumb.
Mack? What exactly is your problem with console games?
I was asking myself the same 😂😂😂😂
I think it's something to do with the fact they are on consoles
I played the ship-to-ship stuff as much as possible. I played the on-land as little as possible. I liked to be a pirate captain. I hated being a magic acrobat.
Not sure what's the big deal with the controller...some games like FPS (Overwatch for example), are much better with keyboard and mouse; but for a GTA5 or an AC or other 3rd person games, a controller is much easier to use.
The issue with climbing is there since the first game sadly; loosing people during a chase is mostly a pain that we all share.
Good video. Do you need to play the prior games to understand the plot? I'm in the mood for an open-world pirate game and I'm curious to know if this would fit the bill, or if I'd just be too lost as far as overall plot.
This is the best pirate game on PC. It's more of a pirate than AC game. Especially, the story. The ship controls and combat is amazing in a very realistic environment. Agree that controls can be a bit annoying. Overall, definately the best AC game for years.
Mack, have you played Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales??
Like a Mount and Blade but ships instead of horses..
Black Flag is a good game, the only thing that stops it from being great is the fact that it's an Assassin's Creed game.
Lol good one
if you would use a blody xbox controller you would absolutely love this game
I always thought the AC games were over-polished. Too scripted, fights are too easy (guards take a back seat while their mate takes a pounding), the UI dominates the screen (constant white glow over target, press X!!!), everything's too convenient (Hay) and shallow.
*whispers* perhaps you should play AC4 since it uses a better combo fighting system, more similiar to batman than AC.. you know just speaking from someone with actual knowledge of all the AC games bad or good
I hate how they implemented artificial difficulty in legendary ships. Instead of just adding a special ability to these boss ships like one can do tons of ramming damage, one is really fast, another fights with a partner and if you get caught in the crossfire bad luck...but nooo. On top of that, these ships have no movement restrictions, the laws of physics don't apply to them, you'd expect that a big, heavy ship that gets most of it's damage out of ramming attacks would take some time to turn around and gather momentum. Nope, he rams you, goes past your ship then lifts it's front to 90 degrees does a 180 turn and proceeds to ram you...that's just shit.
I feel like the criticisms could be applied to all assassins creed games. It is sort of a given that they will use the same engine over and over since the franchise is a money factory.
Don't review the game after 1.5 hours.
mack, you're pretty much right. But you didn't review the naval combat which is totally awesome
I have this game for console and I remember doing the exact same thing at 1:13 it took me so long to realize you were just supposed to be hanging and then climb up the perch.
I'm a huge fan of your channel and I love watching all your videos, but I really think you failed as a viewer here. The controls and combat here are standard for the franchise but actually a little more improved than the earlier ones. I wished you came back to do another review of it after you played some more, this is really a pathetic video to throw out after an hour and a half. It's a slow burn and takes about 2 hours to get your own ship going, but it's easily the best pirate simulator ever when it comes to ship combat. You were so taken by sailing the ship out of the bay, but that is NOTHING compared to what this game has in store. There are 4 secret Legendary ships that most people don't even know about! I'm just disapointed because I've watched your videos on other pirate games and it seems like Black Flag copies a lot of mechanics from those games. So I wanted to hear you talk about the ship combat and how it rips off all these other games but puts it all together into something amazing.
You were so entranced by just being in control of the ship in calm waters, but the tutorial area that makes you familiar with being on foot burnt you out on the AC mechanics... if you only keep going to get your own ship you would shit yourself at how good it looks. This is easily the best AC game available simply because it's an amazing pirate game, possibly the best ever, and best looking... and you literally never mentioned the ship exploration, side quests, or combat whatsoever. :/
I always enjoyed the AC games and yeah sometimes I wish it would let me do my own thing but end of the day still and enjoyable game :)
Mack just happened to review Black Flag.
Ed: This was the last AC game that had balls. Unity wasnt woke shit yet but it would get soon.
Maybe PC Master Race and us lowly console players should just admit that PC games should be played on a PC and console games should be played on a console. Then stupid arguments like "keyboard controls don't work for a controller-based games" would fall into the 'No Shit, Stupid, Move On' category and everyone could be happier knowing that little tidbit of information that will never change. "The sky is blue." "In the mornings and evenings it's a different, better color." "No shit, stupid."
The control is not the issue. A person claiming to be a pc gamer but doesn't own a controller to plug into said pc for console ports- IS NOT A GAMER
I bought the first Assassin Creed off Steam a few days ago and I agree that the mouse and keyboard controls are difficult at the start ( press button 0 on your mouse) 0_o but once you get used to the iffy controls that are sometimes damn right unresponsive and the repetitive game play the story is immersive and the visuals are beautiful.
Mack did you ever review Unity? Not sure you did as can't find it.
Pretty much all PC games have xbox 360 controller support. They're like 25 bucks, there is no reason not to own one. The controller is pretty nice too.
I agree that the controls are clunky and irritating at times but I’m still a big Assassin’s Creed fan. (Pc user)
this is a horrible review, almost the entire this is just him talking about a few problems only on one platform not going into detail about anything else like the world, story or combat
these are problems on all platforms...
The first one was completely the oposite. It all revolved around building a believable world and telling a story.
Is it bad as a PC user to immediately give up on bad keyboard controls and instantly switch to the controller?
Not at all. It's a bad PC port if the control setup options are poor, but you have to make exceptions for genres like third person games and racing games where the degree of control on a keyboard suffers in comparison to a controller. Keyboard input is binary and controllers do have degrees of sensitivity which ultimately make them better for specific types of game.
CJbosh I agree, it feels easier for me on Racing sims with controller.
Yet FPS feels great on a mouse. 3rd persons always suffered some degrees with keys and mouse. I was hoping high it wouldn't have been an issue for the AC IV :/
loved this game. now i dont play on PC i play on 360 so for me the controls were fine. it does have the problem of running into buildings when your free running or chasing some-one. still an amazing game.
The only thing i that i disagree with is when you said a controller will never be as good as a mouse and keyboard. really it depends what games you're playing. for FPS games a controller wont be as good as a mouse and keyboard but for say a racing game it would because you have control over how much you press the accelerator. a keyboard and mouse cant do that.
This game could have been a LOT better if it weren't for Ubishi- I mean, Ubisoft.
This game wouldn't exist without Ubisoft.
if Ubisoft sold the franchise
The MineCats
Yeah then you could have Call of Assassin, or maybe Assassin Watch, or maybe even Ride to Hell Assassination
koalabrownie Hahaha
Mack in all honesty... You sir are a boss...... Lmao "now im on a fucking roof"
Assassin's Creed Black Flag definitely makes Sea of Thieves "look" like trash.
I love assassins creed got everyone and in my opinion the assassins creed black flag is the best one they have made, I didn't really notice the control system was bad it's just like any other assassins creed really
they should add a auto climb option, that would fix it all
i had no problems with the controls
bro. when you are in a rooftop and want to get down without jumping way to far just sprint and hold E
thats it ;-;
Mack this game is in sale for $10 or the gold edition for $16 on PS4, so Im gonna watch this review & see if I should buy it or not! Old video, but still has value!
The best AC for me, loved it. Though i did not play they 2 newest ones.
So true about controls. I uninstalled it after trying to catch that thief in Havana. Played with the Xbox controler and just could not do it... Dude climbed and bumped all other the place. Sure you can practice a lot and become better at it, but why bother. I have better things to do with my life. For me controls alone make this game frustrating and not fun. Sadly this is true for almost all ported games, even worse - almost all games in general! Maybe i just grow too old for this...
The controls are rather sucky indeed, but as you said you get used to them after a while. Once i got used to them it got way better.
Looking at this review now if I should get it for my switch ( as I am pc at heart) but the switch is something casual for and the fact it’s made for controller proves to me that there is a place for games like this. I like big immersive open world games. But I don’t always have the time or effort to play these hard core games. Having this kinda game on the go that can fill my imagination with the sheer spoke of the game.
I just bought a switch and I got this game for it immediately. I’ve played on both pc and Xbox 360, but I absolutely can’t wait to play on switch.
Totally agree with your review, to me still one of the best in the old series, before Odyssey.
I play on pc, controls porting is not Ubisoft strongest for sure, AC 2 is worse controls wise imo.
I consider you a defender of PC gamers. Thank you for the review.
your pirate sounded more like a seagull :3
The best Assassins Creed game Ubirape has ever made. Now they are making lite mmorpg's out of Assassin's Creed... So sad...
You must be on a pretty beefy Intel/Nvidia Computer because I can't even run AC3 smoothly enough to enjoy. I know that an FX-6300 @3.94GHz and an OC'd HD7950 aren't that amazing, but 25 frames is unacceptable with graphics turned down. Ubisoft doesn't give a 16th of a shit about PC gamers.
Your rant (minute 2) about the game's mechanics and climbing issues that you have experienced show that you're not accustomed to A.C. games. I never have any of those issues, because if you play 1 or 2 A.C. games you should learn the mechanics, it's not hard
"It's like when you watch expendable's 2 you know it's gonna be bullshit" that had me on the floor man. that was funny.
Very polished entertainment....yeah, have to say I'd agree. I love the AC series, but none of them ever really stacked up there in my top 10 games list.
? where is the ship combat
Joe Angry
He played for an hour and thirty minutes. I don't think he even got to the naval combat.
Pretty poor "review" all in all.
The last AC game I ever bought or played. Says it all really
Mack i gotta hand it to you, you are the only youtuber that made me nearly shit myselfe twice from laughing, but i leaned from them and now i go to toilette befoe i watch your videos.
I dunno, unless i'm playing an online competitive game, then i would automatically revert to the Xbox controller support, especially campaign or single player mode. I would just go to my living room stick the controller on the Tele, and bam, I have a super computer as a console.
I cannot take a review seriously when the game has only been played a few hours. this isn't even a review, its a complaint about the games controls...
What this game needs a is mod community, only if Ubisoft would allow it.