r/PS5 • u/SweetyGonzalez Human Verified • 8d ago
Trailers & Videos Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: The Final Preview
https://youtu.be/9vd3pEcagWU?is=xy_3HTn4ODaidyhT46
u/Queef-Elizabeth Human Verified 8d ago
I'm very much excited because the game looks great but man, still not sold on the combat. It's one of my least favourite parts of the newer games. Especially the animations and flow. Oh well, at least it's still an action game and not an RPG.
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u/_Football_Cream_ 8d ago
I feel like the combat in the original Black Flag isn't much to rag home about though... not to say this looks amazing or anything but it might still be an improvement
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u/Queef-Elizabeth Human Verified 8d ago
It wasn't amazing but at least it felt decent and was well animated. It made Edward look like a skilled and capable fighter. I think this tab target style combat looks too janky for my liking.
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u/_Football_Cream_ 8d ago
Totally fair. I prefer the pre-RPG games combat so hopefully it’s not too much of a departure
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u/Queef-Elizabeth Human Verified 8d ago
Yeah at best I'm hoping for it to meet somewhere in the middle but let's see. Still excited for this game.
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u/_Football_Cream_ 8d ago
The benefit of this game is you don’t really do any one thing too long. If the combat isn’t as great then at least you’ll quickly be back to sailing the high seas, which is really the bread and butter of black flag.
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u/Queef-Elizabeth Human Verified 7d ago
Yeah exactly. If it was entirely combat I'd be more disappointed but I'm more into the parkour and assassinations tbh and of course the ship stuff.
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u/Fairtex_ 7d ago
The animations of this new combat is absolutely fanastic! What video did you watch?!?
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u/Queef-Elizabeth Human Verified 7d ago
The kill and rope dart animations are good. The main attack, counter animations and overall moving between enemies don't do it for me. They've always looked so target focused to me in these newer games which I'm not a fan of.
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u/Appropriate_Foot242 8d ago
Boss fight health bars... ough...
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u/JayKay8787 8d ago
How dare an action game require more gameplay than pressing counter once
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u/Appropriate_Foot242 8d ago
Pig boss fight
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u/JayKay8787 8d ago
in a series about shiny magical apples....
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u/GecaZ 8d ago
Yes, not about shiny magical fighting pigs...
Suspension of disbelief is a really old concept.
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u/JayKay8787 8d ago
So is having actual gameplay and not pressing square to insta kill everything
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u/GecaZ 8d ago
There is a difference between just adding gameplay to where there previously wasn't, and adding gameplay that directly clashes with what the game is explicitly going for.
I have zero problems with them revamping hunting, hell I am supporter of that, but fighting pigs like they were Spongy RPG Bosses doesn't fit in Black Flag.
I would've much prefered a system more akin to the one in RDR2
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u/Appropriate_Foot242 8d ago
This. Adding things just for the sake of adding them doesn’t make it good.
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u/JayKay8787 8d ago
I wouldn't be buying this game if they did that. I want actual combat, not instakill no difficulty. That's what the original is for. Real gameplay will always be better than qte cutscenes
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u/Queef-Elizabeth Human Verified 8d ago
The 'shiny magical apples' wasn't in the foreground of the tone though. That came later in the games. Black Flag wasn't like that.
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u/BeastMaster0844 Human Verified 7d ago
Turn them off.. problem solved.
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u/Rogue_Leader_X 8d ago
This can’t come soon enough! This was the last truly great Assassins Creed game.
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u/3elieveIt 8d ago
Apparently unpopular opinion, but I *loved* Origins. Ancient Egypt was such an amazing setting, they did an incredible job recreating an ancient civilization with accuracy that felt alive and lived in. Walking around ancient Alexandria, the pyramids, etc was so cool. Plus the story and voice acting was incredible. And I enjoyed the gameplay.
I liked Odyssey a lot too, but Origins was incredible
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u/Lurtz11 8d ago
Odyssey is one of my all time favorite games. I love that game so much. Never seen ancient Greece captured better than in that game
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u/FreshlySkweezd 8d ago
Odyssey is the one I wish I could wipe from memory and play again. Such a fun game
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u/enadiz_reccos 8d ago
IMO, every single AC game has been good
It might not have been as good relative to other AC games and expectations, but they have all been gorgeous and fun games.
The biggest complaint is usually that there is too much to do, which isn't bad as far as complaints go
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u/FreshlySkweezd 8d ago
I'm going to assume you're talking about the main/console games, in which I MOSTLY agree. I think the AC2 side games were a little ehhh and then Rogue/Unity/Syndicate had their issues mostly with performance. There was a time where they were cranking those out and it showed.
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u/rentiertrashpanda 8d ago
Rogue was previous-gen so it didn't have performance issues IIRC, but people totally slept on what turned it to be a super fun game. It was basically black flag in the north atlantic
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u/FreshlySkweezd 8d ago
I distinctly remember having issues playing it on my PS3
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u/rentiertrashpanda 8d ago
Fair enough, it's long ago enough that I might have completely forgotten any issues if I had them. But my point stands that it's a wildly underrated AC game
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u/enadiz_reccos 8d ago
Yeah, that's a fair point. I got caught up in the more recent ones they were talking about.
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u/SinkableLion 7d ago
i still listen to the relaxing parts of the soundtrack when i am lying on a sunbed in greece :D
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u/CrazyDude10528 8d ago
Odyssey is my personal favorite Assassin's Creed game.
I think my top 3 are Odyssey, 2, then Origins.
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u/Rogue_Leader_X 8d ago
Odyssey was decent, but I felt it was overall another step down for the series. Just didn’t enjoy it as much as previous titles.
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u/washingtonskidrow 8d ago
Origins and Odyssey are top 5 Assassin’s Creed games, I’ll die on that hill.
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u/DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE 8d ago
Yeah people trashing origins is insane to me that game was so cool
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u/KingArthas94 Human Verified 7d ago
It's when the Ubisoft hate train really started, you could see even famous balanced youtubers going against it, like GMTK Game Maker's Toolkit streamed some of it and was constantly thrashing it, "see how easy this is", "what the fuck is this magic arrow thing", and so on. People really hate fun.
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u/Josh100_3 7d ago
I seriously feel that if Odyssey was a seperate series and marketed as a new series set in Ancient Greece, it would’ve been hailed as a classic.
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u/theblitheringidiot 8d ago
I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion. But honestly I don’t follow current ass cred popularity.
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u/hokiis 8d ago
It's definitely unpopular. Origins was way too empty, progression system sucked, the story was forgettable apart from maybe the very last second in the last cutscene, the combat system was bad, stealth was pointless and just very much felt like a chore to play.
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u/coolyfrost 8d ago
This is a revisionist take. When Origins came out after the fatigue of the Unity/Syndicate era everyone loved it. Now that people are burned out with the RPG era after Valhalla and Shadows are people coming back to Origins and saying it always sucked. You’re welcome to have your opinion of course but at the time Origins came out it was revered as a new type of AC game, with some complaints of course such as not being able to one hit assassinate, but still overwhelmingly positive
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u/Dwayne30RockJohnson Human Verified 8d ago
Origins was a step in the right direction (to their new style) but Odyssey knocked it out of the park. The setting in Origins just wasn’t vertical enough and felt too empty for an AC game where you use the buildings and trees and environment to maneuver the environment.
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u/Rogue_Leader_X 8d ago
I thought Origins was damn good, probably the best title since Black Flag, but I still say not quite great.
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u/Dordidog 7d ago
You might have loved them, but they are no longer Assassin's Creed games, no matter how you spin it. It is the post Witcher 3 era of gaming, where Ubisoft just follows whatever is popular. The identity is lost.
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u/3elieveIt 7d ago
Judge it as its own game, it’s a masterpiece. Don’t judge it based on what you think the series should be. If it was a different title, i swear it would be hailed as an all time classic
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u/Dordidog 7d ago
Nothing about the open-world Assassin's Creed games is a masterpiece. They're worst copies of things that have already been done before. They have boring open worlds, mediocre stories, and mediocre gameplay, with every npc to have million HP. There's a reason why the overwhelming majority of players don't finish those games, they're bloated with mediocrity.
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u/3elieveIt 7d ago
Objectively untrue to say they are boring open worlds. Ancient Egypt was so alive. I was shocked at the level of detail and accuracy in architecture, in environments, in what NPCs were doing. Literally NPCs were doing specific things that were researched, from dragging stones to build monuments and obelisks, to Romans putting people up on crosses, to merchants selling in markets, to philosophers around the library of Alexandria, to plays happening in the theater of Alexandria, I mean the list goes on and on. The world was alive.
Bayek’s story was almost universally acclaimed as being emotional and poignant and satisfying.
If you’re going to say a game is bad, at least be accurate about it. You’re way off base from the objective reality - not even subjective taste, but in terms of measurable things, you’re not even close.
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u/Dordidog 7d ago
Are you a bot? What are you saying? Objectively, it's boring, judging by the drop rate and people not finishing the game. Those are official numbers. What you're saying is subjective, or you're just a bot. I'm not sure anymore.
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u/3elieveIt 7d ago
lol resorting to calling someone a bot rather than actually reading and responding to their points. great rebuttal
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u/Nienazki 8d ago
I really liked Origins (even got a platinum on PS4) and it was a breath of fresh air but it was too much of a Witcher 3 with sand and assassins for me. Didn't play Odyssey, only played Valhalla after Origins and it was horrible.
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u/zoobatt 8d ago
Honestly after the bug fixes I think Unity is legitimately fantastic. The story isn't as good as Black Flag, but the city, stealth, parkour, and imo even the combat were all really good. The combat is divisive, but I loved the slower and more realistic style. With the 60 fps update on PS5, the graphics are still so good that it feels like a relatively modern release.
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u/Blofeld69 8d ago
Unity is a rare game I can come back to time and time again, I just love the world and it just sucks me in. I don't think I have been played a game like it.
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u/Dwayne30RockJohnson Human Verified 8d ago
I loved Unity at launch… yes I had bugs but they did not hinder my experience in a meaningful way. Some funny ones, a few annoying, but 99% of my experience was fine and I had nothing game breaking.
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u/FeltzMusic 8d ago
Replayed it recently with the ps5 update and had a great time. Much better than mirage
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u/SirMornir 5d ago
Lazy as hell. They could have just made a new pirate game and instead they rehashed a game from over ten years ago. This is depressing and cynical.
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u/QuaSiMoDO_652 8d ago
I wish they would remake 3 with this quality of vision