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Edited by Rameez the Elite:
9/6/2013 11:42:39 AM
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AC IV: The Downfall of Assassin's Creed
I'll be honest here.
I don't like the fact that the majority of the game takes place at sea...
I really wanted some land in this game where i could explore on foot rather than swimming or sailing on the 7 seas. It seems that i can only parkour in some certain areas that look very miniscule in scale compared to Assassin's creed 2. Most of the Major cities seem very tiny and generally unlikable compared to AC 2 in my opinion. AC2 had the largest areas, with perfect rooftops for Parkour and amazing historical landmarks. I felt like the Rooftop epicness only returned in Revelations.
Sorry guys, but AC4 seems more like a pirate game than an Assassins Creed game. I have not even once seen gameplay of the classic Hidden blade yet, which is really sad because that unique weapon was the driving force and the selling point of the game, as well as the parkour which seems to be lacking due to the majority of the entire world being an Ocean with little Caribbean Islands...
Furthermore, I really can't tell how Templars play a vital role in this game. Edward seems to take over forts and ships, but he does not face his true opponent, the Templars. They played a crucial part of Altair and Ezio's story, and how history was shaped due to these fictional events; However i don't know how much history is involved in the Caribbean. Everything we've seen so far in Assassin's Creed 4 is gameplay on how to assassinate and swim, but there has been nothing concerning the overall story, and how Templars play a role that completely mess with your brain.
TL;DR: Assassin's Creed 4 is more of a Pirate game rather than an Assassin game, and You now sail ships rather than parkour around vast cities. Templars are no longer the focus and raiding forts and ships is now the main goal of the game.
Is there anyone else out there who agrees?
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1 ReplyWhoa whoa whoa, slow down. I think, disregarding the yearly release, this is a step in the right direction. Recently, I finished my second playthrough of AC2, which is, IMO, the best of the series. And I noticed two things. One, Ezio is a wicked-cool character, and two, that the gameplay and the combat from AC3 was ridiculously downgraded, and boring compared to AC2's, despite it being a later installment. You'd have thought they would've improved upon gameplay, but it's a huge downgrade at heart. They replaced Medicine, Doctors, and a proper Health bar with Recharging health. They replaced somewhat challenging, deep, combat where you had to time counter-kills and make full use of all your equipment, with a simple Batman-Style "Counter and Attack" easy-as-all-hell system. I won't get into how Connor wasn't that great, I'll just say that it seemed they were trying to make him "flawed" as a character, but slipped and made him too unlikable. It would have been awesome if they just made him a sort of antihero as opposed to "flawed". From what I've seen of AC4, which isn't much, it seems like they seem to have the right idea.
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Yea, I see your points. But all Ubisoft cares about like all others, is money. They can make more by appealing to casuals, which care about just shooting and killing everybody.
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I can see Ubisoft hitting a gold mine and by the next assassins creed I bet they would of made it so people can then have online battles between each other on their boats. Thats just the direction and opinion I think as for the overall series the pirating brought something nice and you can bet on ubisoft to make the most out of it whilst they continue to forget why exactly people liked this gaming series.
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7 RepliesClearly you haven't kept up-to-date on Black Flag. Saying that most of the game is at sea is blatantly [u]FALSE.[/u] There are over 50 locations in ACIV, ranging from Caribbean Islands to Sprawling cities. Verticality has returned after the lack of rooftops to parkour across in ACIII. Taking over ships and forts is completely optional. We hardly know anything about the game yet to judge it. They have never released details of the story for any AC game, so I don't see why they would now. And regarding the hidden blade complaint in your OP; just watch the videos that they have released showing the combat and stealth gameplay, and you will clearly see that the hidden blade is as prominent as ever.
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So please, tell me how you know the main goal of the game without playing it?
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AGREED
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I stopped caring about this series after Brotherhood.
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The downfall of assassins creed was the very first game
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1 ReplyAssassin's Creed went to shit when it became a yearly release. (for me)
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2 RepliesNo, the downfall of Assassin's Creed was AC3.
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3 RepliesI disagree because it's blatantly false to say most of it takes place at sea. It seems like the ship will be replacing the goal of buying up every property a la the Fable series, but there's a good mix of isolated, parkour-focused adventuring areas and sprawling territories. You seem to be judging this game pretty severely when it's not even out yet. No hidden blade gameplay? Watch any of a dozen gameplay clips and you'll see him stealthily killing people with it. We know very little about the story, and we've never really known much from the trailers, so I'm not sure where this complaint is coming form.
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You haven't even played the game yet so shaddup
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You're a few games to late to start the whole, " Downfall of," thing now.
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you complain about there being no mention of templars or the story in general... isn't this a good thing? ubisoft aren't spoiling anything, not even the tiniest details, and i much prefer it this way. i enjoyed the ship combat in ac3, so i don't mind that it's returning as somewhat of a focal point, but traditional land missions still outnumber those at sea, as antonyx1000 said. so you liked the rooftop element of the cities in AC2? havana in AC4 seems to bring those elements back. it looks like what AC3 should have been, and i still enjoyed AC3.
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The game is supposed to have a 60/40 gameplay split in the favour of land missions over sea missions, so free running will still be very relevant. I think they are mainly showing naval gameplay to show the open world, and the seamless transitions from land to sea. Honestly your main reason for disliking the game seems to be that it isn't AC2, which isn't really a good reason. If the series stayed the same as AC2 with differing locations I guarantee people would complain just as much, if not more than they do now.
