Assassin's Creed is Much Better Than You Remember

[@chrisfortner5545]

Finally someone gets it. My ex used to say gaming has no value of any kind and I am wasting my time playing the games. She never understood what you just described. I love history because of ac. Excellent video man. You have earned yourself a sub.

[@nickohhh]

... ... i'm glad she's your ex 😬

[@charlieni645]

It's shocking how fully formed AC1 was. Most of the mechanics that defined Ezio trilogy were all in place. It's a bare bones game but the bones were extremely solid and easily held up the fully fledged sequel that is AC2.

[@booms]

This is a nice video. I would like to see more things like this, someone talking about something they genuinely dig, on major outlets.

[@mattyjones_x]

Knowing this was a Jim Trinca video before even clicking on it...

[@TalLikesThat]

AC is a great gate to discovering how fascinating history is.

[@merissaj4518]

Ah saving up for a console in a reasonable amount of time. The good ol' days.

[@nickohhh]

i couldn't believe when i saw the ps5 has been out for 4 years now 😬 i still haven't got one! that says more about me than the price tho 🤫

[@mattball8622]

I've definitely got a soft spot for AC1. Yeah it's wonky and repetitive but it was fresh and fun. The later games refined the systems and people can argue about the stories until the world ends, but there were bones in that first one that were obviously solid. I'm a huge Horizon fan, and that maybe wouldn't have been the same game without it. It definitely deserves respect.

[@nickohhh]

"I wonder how that guy's doing actually... I mean he's from Dunfermline, he's probably dead" :D I love this intro 🍿

[@JoeDillingham]

"Assassin's Creed Oranges" clap clap clap clap

[@vvh1skers]

Brilliant stuff. Totally agree, AC is an incredible and important franchise.

[@krimzonknight]

I find Assassin's Creed connection to Tomb Raider actually very fascinating. Because AC1 was very much inspired by the Tomb Raider games of the era. Tomb Raider Legend had just come out the year before. Which means most of AC's TR influence was from the Classic games of Tomb Raider. But then Tomb Raider turns around in its 2013 reboot and uses that era AC as some of its inspiration as well. and i think its neat.

[@dan-crum]

AC1 is easily the best game in the franchise. No idea why people liked 2 and Ezio so much, both felt like a major downgrade.

[@sundalangur3250]

While I personally think AC1 is better than a lot of people remember, saying AC2 was a downgrade when it literally refined everything about AC1 is certainly an opinion. "To each his/her own" I always say.

[@dan-crum]

@@sundalangur3250 My main issue was how they smoothed out the parkour. It would often lead me to climbing or jumping in areas I didn't want it to because it thought I was trying to do something I wasn't. I'm used to it now, but it put a sour taste in my mouth back then. I also just think Ezio is kind of an asshole

[@ChiTwnKid96]

I do hope we get a AC1 remake

[@alankerrr]

The ending of Lost is perfect, it very much did not "shit the bed"

[@titanjakob1056]

I keep forgetting that in the original assassins creed that masyaf castle and an assassins guild existed in said castle the crusades though not as glamorous

[@vicarious7858]

AC was amazing from 1 to Revelations. After that you had the one-offs like Black Flag and, for me, Syndicate. Mainly because I thought the setting was perfect.

[@nickohhh]

brilliant video. brilliant delivery. nice.

[@samjamwich]

You probably hear this a lot, but bloody hell pal, you sure know how to make a compelling KZbin video. Eurogamer - DO NOT let this one escape like the others did, otherwise we’ll be left with nothing but Higton’s constant willy gags 😁

[@megacherv]

"Bumguffs"

[@Lorfarius]

He gets an upvote just for having DS9 in the background.

[@AmberFrmThVaultGaming]

I love this video. Your passion is obvious and as someone who feels this way about another game (bioshock for me) it's genuinely engaging to listen to! Didn't expect to tear up. Thank you for sharing! ♥️

[@sordrosthepalindrome]

love these segments by Jim. though I think you should follow it up with playing the game for an hour by bringing back late to the party streams.

[@demondownload]

AC1 is still my favourite of the series. ACII might have been more refined mechanically, but Ezio was a dick. Altair was much more my speed, as a character. After that, they kept bolting on minigames and activities like the Brotherhood management stuff (which was all the more disappointing for its use of an Animus interface rather than something diagetic), and by the time Odyssey rolled around I just didn't have the time to sink into something so utterly, overwhelmingly big.

[@vvevv88]

If you haven't gotten around to Odyssey, it's still one of the most memorable gaming experiences I've ever had. Aside from Dragon's Dogma it's the closest thing you can get to actually playing The Illiad.

[@MrTomFTW]

That first trailer with the futuristic glitches that made people go "hold on... is there more to this?" and yes there was, shame those bits weren't great and have since been pretty much dropped haha. That potential though... wew

[@GioMarron]

Another one of Jock Tamson’s Bairns… we get everywhere It was my cousin had the first AC. He was C64, PC and XBox whilst I was C64, Amiga and PSOne and as good as all those machines were, it was the look of AC that blew me away. Nothing that I was aware of looked that good. It was great to play a game that didn’t have you as a cartoon duck, a blue blob or a car made entirely of right angles I fell in love with Ezio’s adventures that totally hooked me and, what’s more, I could play them. I thought the story, though far fetched, had a story you were interested in. I’ve always loved Roman and Greek history so, when Odyssey dropped, I was on it like a car bonnet. I loved it though it was a game I felt was great as the adventures of a Spartan rather than an Assassin’s Creed story: the Animus storyline pulled me from the immersion. I love studying the Viking era too, especially as they were the first invaders to take Dumbarton Castle, so I was desperate for Valhalla but, again, the Animus stuff was unnecessary and the game was too disjointed, there was too much padding, very much in the way R* pad out their games, with long, unnecessary travel. I found Mirage a disappointment. I get what they were going for, but it was the wrong step back for me.

[@SuperRealhigh]

i miss games like that ! ac and pop and some other games have pulled me back to gaming after a long pause

[@michael8143]

I like the cut of your jib scottish man

[@ItsDeffoScott]

I loved AC1 and the modern story had me hooked.

[@ricardoms2072]

It's a game that's better to think about than actually play. I replayed it a couple of years ago and despite the amazing visuals and fun parkour mechanics, the pacing is awful lol

[@Nigel222]

The writing is significantly better in AC1 than the rest of the franchise.

[@AngelBeatYunara]

AC4 The Voyage Home cracked me up. It even has whales!

[@tomallen9804]

Ac1 is mint Ac1 to ac unity, are the best. Syndicate(London is cool tho), is more appealing to replay than being arsed to do a 1st Valhalla save😭😂 Origins and mirage are fine

[@NoWhereMan95]

Assassins Creed 3 is good actually. Yes I will die on this hill.

[@iseptimus]

No, it was much better than EG reviewed it. It was always a really good game.

[@RH1812]

AC really shouldn’t present itself as historically accurate. Painted themselves into a pointless corner there…it’s just a game franchise. Go and have fun in whatever time period or place they decide to stick it. Assassins Creed ORANGES! 😂

[@timotmon]

I don't think they ever claimed to be historically accurate. It's a science fiction game at it's core. Somewhere along the line people started demanding that it adhere to their standard of "historical accuracy" so when it didn't work out in their opinions they flip their lids.

[@mohammadashikurrahman7530]

Assassin's creed wouldn't be assassin's creed without being historical sci fi game. It was literally that from the very first AC game. So, wtf are you on about?

[@nickohhh]

that's literally what they do tho RH!

[@daystranger]

It never was. It has "ancient aliens" plot since the first game. You literally talk through time and space with alien race and fight the pope in the second game. Tourists who never played the games just got triggered by a black guy in the last one.

[@MrHazz111]

Is this a re-upload?

[@louiseblain8306]

Hey Jim ❤

[@DEEJAYWAL]

So, football team, liking Star Trek and being Welsh, of which only two apply to him. Looking at the shelf behind, I think I can guess what one of them is.

[@langdon7x]

Omg...Assassin's Creed Oranges...I see you Eurogamer. 😂

[@charliearblaster]

Hello there

[@sleepytime999998]

Been going through some old TotalBiscuit vids the last few days... You're almost his equal.

[@megacherv]

TB would have wished he was Jim

[@sleepytime999998]

@megacherv TB, Bratt, Larry Bundy, and Higton (sometimes? Ian puts in a lot of effort or zero effort, and I'm never sure which is better) are the best British Games Journalists of the last decade.

[@megacherv]

@@sleepytime999998 TB was all up in the PCMR stuff with no irony, and Larry wasn't really a journalist as such. Again, Jim has always been far better than either of them

[@sleepytime999998]

@@megacherv I am new to Jim as I only know his work since he joined Eurogamer. So, I only have a small fortune to judge. TB always said he was a critic, and not a journalist... Too late to disagree with the man, though I think that's a thin line that gets crossed too often. Like a comedian isn't reporting the news anymore.

[@samuxan]

I loved the game at first but gave up halfway through because it run poorly. It was on ps3 and I couldn't get it online for the patch. Later I play AC2(didn't love it) and brotherhood(better) and revelations(probably the best until odyssey), so after falling in love with revelation I went back to this first one and play it again appreciating it way more than the first time(no freezes, infinite loading screen or slowdowns after the patches). It had a certain charm that got lost in the sequels. My interest in playing it again rose after mirage but it's hard to access the game on current platforms

[@m4mes916]

Well, at least it used to be.

[@andrequintas6962]

The billion euros that Valhalla made says otherwise

[@jonathanmarcelthome]

No its not.