It's Time To Admit That Syndicate Is Better Than Unity

[@shantanupatil8551]

The title alone made go “holy shit finALLY”

[@thehatman7638]

Finally someone who thinks like me that syndicate is fucking good

[@matteissler365]

I genuinely don’t get how so many of you think Unity had a good story. It STARTED off quite well story wise but by the end it’s just a shitty mess and a complete misfire with the French brotherhood. The assassin/templar love story was admittedly unique, but it had no great payoff and making the villain yet another sage was so meh.

[@Kevinlynxdabest]

This was my 1st ps4 Assassin's Creed game. I absolutely love it

[@arnold2614]

they could make the horse carriages crowded so you can jump over them instead of adding a grapple hook, but that would also make riding the carriage on the main street difficult (I guess they could also add social stealth to the carriages too)

[@kingofcheshire]

You can hide in carriages so they can be used as social stealth hiding spots

[@alatusedits]

The protagonist is insufferable

[@BloodandlatexFX]

ACU fixes has definitely given me rose colored glasses for unity. I really hope syndicate gets some more love so we can get an ACS fixes mod

[@wonderfulworld2475]

Personally, they are pretty much at the same level, Unity was more clunky but was more ambitious, tried new things. Syndicate was more refined, but returned to the old average cookie-cutter story and gameplay.

[@JustSomeKittenwithaGun]

If Syndicate is a return to the older games, and not Unity 2, I am gonna love the hell out of it. Unity deserves a special place in hell between Hitler and Barney.

[@ATLAS-cy4xi]

Syndicate is a fucking gem

[@StephenBates_IT]

Crossing the river using the boats just makes me think Assassin's Creed: Frogger. 😅

[@JustSomeKittenwithaGun]

AC IV hacking ptsd

[@DENO_da_GAMEZ]

Bruv the biggest thing holding this game back is NO DARN JUMP BUTTON!!! and the Goofy ahh combat

[@rickroll1141]

I played Syndicate and Unity. Unity's parkour which most people says is the best is all ac is a No-no for me + I think the main reason that Unity was buggy is because of the Parkour animations. The Story was better than Syndicate but i enjoyed Syndicate more.

[@Arenjaxon]

Edit: unity is best

[@Elknkam]

I love Syndicate for it's more modern times , guns , London setting . However, the combat is a bit janky in my opinion ,but Syndicate is definitely one of my favorite of the series . The first AC Games I ever played was BlackFlag, Rouge , then Syndicate, then Origins blew me away. BlackFlag & Orgins are mt favorite . Oddessy is just boring as all hell and bloated and then Valhalla crancked it up to 1000% and made even more bloated. I will say Unity is by far the most dense & Populated AC game. The amount of peope walking around outside / in house is very impressive. Syndicate they completely cut half the amount of NPCs walking around ,but at least Orgins increasesd it a bit.

[@cleon_cleon]

I totally agree. Nice video. Thanks!

[@BoniMayne]

I think unity is more infuriating but the parkour is slightly and I mean *slightly* more fun

[@MalcolmDoyle-e6x]

I love AC Syndicate.

[@fumioshwartz7114]

Ive gone back to both many times and i will always feel that syndacite is a more refined polished version of unity. I can never enjoy unity the way i do syndacite. Evertime I play unity im reminded of all the thinga i hate about it.

[@JustSomeKittenwithaGun]

*I can never enjoy unity Ftfy

[@Burrito1155]

No don’t disrespect my baby boy

[@azeem1072]

for some reason they decided that cutscenes had to be incredibly short, almost telling the player that the story in this is really not much to care about, just get on with the gameplay. that being said, this probably is the best 'assassin' gameplay in the series.

[@JustSomeKittenwithaGun]

I'm running through all the newer games for the first time. Even before I started Unity, I thought Syndicate would be better. It sounded way cooler to me. Now after playing most of Unity, I gotta say there's no way to make a worse game if they tried. It has more bugs than all the others I played combined, and most of the bugs have allegedly been fixed. When I'm not getting a headache over bugs and stupid mechanics, I'm sighing in boredom. The story feels shorter and emptier than the others. Then they took their collectible padding and went crazy with it this time. There's like 300 chests and most are stuck behind a minigame. It doesn't feel worth the $2 I paid.

[@tpmgaming999]

Still better than the newer games Mirage included they are all copy and paste cash cows

[@the40kboyz11]

you don't level up in unity by your gear, it's still an xp system.

[@madmannn9576]

thought this was obvious. Unity is awful

[@jazz8000]

L take, unless its personal opinion just for you then its fine

[@giancarlo5945]

Yea based syndicate is mucht better than unity

[@ivnjamion]

i heard this game was made with evie as the protagonist but had to be changed last minute due to some sexist reasons

[@chrismoore5333]

Hey! I wanted to highlight a matter in regards to a company called "sweet baby" that personally upsets me on multiple levels, and I believe the fans should know the truth and hypocrisy behind ubisoft's worst character, evie. This is a lesser known situation that bothers me as a huge assassin's creed fan. Essentially, assassin's creed syndicate was largely finished before the inclusion of evie as a playable character. As in, the game only featured Jacob frye. Here's where things get hypocritical. The games lead writer is a gay man called Jeffery Yohalem, and he lead AC brotherhood, and worked on many other AC games as well. He had always written about various demographics, but this time with syndicate, Jacob frye was a bisexual man, similar to how Jeffery is a gay man. Now, you'd think that this was "inclusive" enough for Kim belair, who herself got a writing role on the project "late into development" by her own words. But spoiler, it wasn't enough for her and her buddies. You see, syndicate was right before Kim belair left to head her own company "sweet baby." It didn't matter that a man of a minority group wanted to write atleast one game about his own minority demographic. To Belair, anything white and male is "privileged" and therefore, she and others such as Melissa, were behind undermining Jacob as a character, shoehorning evie into the game as a "twin protagonist" despite that not being the original plan at all. Kim belair got what she wanted, but of course it wasn't enough, and so she then joined the "AC sisterhood" where she voiced that she felt annoyed that people were telling her the games main character is Jacob, and she said "we can change what people think, and if people think evie was supposed to be the main character, then she'll become the main character." This is highly hypocritical as she talks about inclusion, yet she fights to remove and undermine a minority group simply because they are white and male as well. We see this trend continue as all of the gay/bisexual male playable characters are now "none canon" or in Jacob's case, forced to share their game with evie as she is constantly pushed to replace him as a soul protagonist. But this is also interesting, as all the claims that literally every single female character was "the original intended protagonist" have no evidence to back them up at all, and it fits right into Kim belair's claim that telling people evie was planned would make her popular, and to some level she was right, unfortunately. It appears the same tactics have been used for Aya, Kassandra and Eivor as well. Eivor is even a unisex name, and yet these people have everyone thinking it is a woman's name only. Kim belair also went on to admit she worked on the home base and certain notes in the game AC valhalla. This is significant because the only times Kassandra and female were "canon" at the games launch were due to in game notes, and an obvious head swap of a hidden optional cinimatic where Odin as an old man was supposed to appear, but in the final game he has female eivor's head. (Yes I'm serious, crazy right?) I don't want game devs to feel they have to force into their storylines lgbtq men, women, or ethnic minorities or anything. That said, as a gay man myself, I feel frustrated that my minority group has been victim of real gatekeeping by the very group sweet baby and their associates, while they tell the world that they are fighting for diversity!? They are hypocritical and they lie. I think the truth about the hypocrisy that created the 2D terrible character that is evie frye, should be exposed. And I think that it's time games just went back to being just that. Games, that are made to be fun and none political. I hope you took the time to read this all, and if you did, I'm thankful. I've been bullied and abused, and I even have an online stalker who has been gaslighting me for around 3 years now! All because I said it was wrong to remove the only representation a minority group has, in favour of the ever growing list of female representation.

[@jaughnekow]

the combat in syndicate was the best.

[@aport2]

Lmao

[@Adam-018]

It was 😂​@@aport2

[@HeavilyFought_19]

While I respect your opinion, I strongly disagree. The combat was the main thing that took the fun out of syndicate for me

[@fumioshwartz7114]

It felt a lot closer to batman than any other ac game

[@bigboydancannon4325]

It's a shame you can't kill Marx in the game, would've felt sweet

[@wagweez8356]

personally i found unity fun, just in the way u traverse alone, syndicates parkour is just pressing a button to get around with your grappling hook, because of this i found enjoying paris more than london, again saying what game is better is subjective and is just my opinion, but i think syndicate is just more boring, i will say it performs better but its less fun in my opinion

[@hemanthsunkara7539]

Syndicate was a disgrace to AC at the time it was released, compared to valhalla and odyssey it could be considered an awesome game if it came out today. But unity is much better. Syndicate was the downfall of AC parkour. The combat is just sloppy and boring too. Unity has wayy better combat mechanics, stealth, storyline tailoring (it had potential that was horribly managed by ubisoft) and parkour. Unity's got flaws but syndicate is just not fun, while i find unity VERY fun.

[@borangedunn]

I don't remember anyone having any strong feelings about it at all on release. In fact I seem to remember most people being very "meh" about it after Unity turned a lot of us away from the series. Just another entry, maybe wait for a sale. You're certainly not the only person who enjoys Unity, and I'm not here to tell anyone they shouldn't, just that I don't, and I made a whole video explaining why that is. But personally, I had more fun with Syndicate, despite it's many flaws.

[@Bobbybobberton21]

I’m sorry but I think you are completely wrong. While I think there was a good amount to love with Unity, it just wasn’t fun. The combat in syndicate isn’t amazing, but I vastly prefer it to the input delay and unresponsive mess of Unity’s combat. The stealth in Unity was just god awful compared to the much better system in Unity. While the parkour is much more in depth in Unity, it is so in depth that it became broken and hard to control. The stealth is much more basic and hindered by the rope launcher yes, but I got frustrated a lot less. Unity drove me away from the series and I didn’t play syndicate until recently but when I did I loved it. Never once during Unity did I have interest in completing a side mission because they are so boring and unrewarding. But I’m syndicate you actually gain something through the loyalty system. During my most recent play through of Unity, I found myself constantly frustrated and 3 hours in I was already burnt out and wondering when the game will end. Whereas with AC Syndicate I was sad to see the final mission completed. I’m not saying that you can’t love Unity or that syndicate is amazing, but I think that calling syndicate a disgrace is just not true. People stopped playing because of the buggy mess of unity, and while most of the bugs and glitches are patched out, I found the game mundane and frustrating. At it’s got, Unity is objectively worse than syndicate, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to love. Unity is amazing at its best, but annoying and boring at its worse. Whereas during syndicate, I never once wanted the game to end. Anime syndicate isn’t perfect, I think it is much more fun and enjoyable, I would play syndicate 5 times over before I play Unity again. Sorry for the rant, cheers!

[@alexandrugabriel3839]

Syndicate is the last AC game(old formula),Unity was a tech test for Ubisoft,nothing more. As much i like to like Unity,i hate it for what it was and is on PS4,an ugly game in 900p with graphic settings set on low while Synicate on PS5(backwards compatible) has full 4K medium-high graphic settings compared to PC,while Unity was forgotten,on PS5 is the same crap. I admit on PC Unity looks better than PS4,much i say,but Syndicate is the better AC. I've finished Unity on PC,first time once with Dead Kings dlc,then Syndicate on PC,and later as years gone,i owned a PS4Pro,Unity is garbage,Syndicate offers same experience but a little downgraded. 90h in Syndicate(from time to time i play syndicate when in the mood) Unity i forgot about it.

[@chrismoore5333]

Syndicate isn't that bad. Jacob and his story were created by all the greats who worked on Ezio and Connor's storylines. Sadly evie was shoehorned into the game, the tone changed to be lighter and much of Jacob's narrative cut out, by Kim belair. She now is the CEO of swee baby inc.....

[@Necrophadez]

​@@chrismoore5333Oh, that's why I loathed Syndicate. The characters bored me to death.

[@SussedRage]

Noooo seriously come on, the game is pretty good, and London looks great but the combat in Syndicate is truly awful. Melee is diabolically bad/silly and the entire game suffers for it.

[@nedargiordano7018]

Unity was a fun game to play, Syndicate was a bit too generic in my opinion

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Syndicate is much better than Unity. Much more fun

[@representelanation4463]

Its pretty obvious you haven’t played unity…. “The combat system is pretty similar to unity but much tighter” what type of meth have you been smoking wtf hahahah

[@backupschmliff1156]

Unity's combat was so much better it's crazy. It actually requires skill and deincentivized blindly rushing in because you'd get jumped by 20 guys. It's possible to fight that many, but super hard. However, that difficulty made it better than all the previous games.

[@Rengokuo4o6]

No bro, just no. Unity is not my favourite game trust me but syndicate is sincerely a downgrade.

[@ghosty2548]

Stealth is better, it doesn't have as much jank, combat is mostly different but both games just have an ok combat, while parkour is a "downgrade" traversal is so much better than Unity's both janky and annoyingly inresponsive parkour, London's atmosphere doesn't break constantly by npc's breaking and changing their models constantly and heck at least story is ok.

[@donnellfleming2696]

Unity garbage

[@WUxze]

@@donnellfleming2696syndicate is worst then garbage

[@Drunkpunch33]

never played syndicate but the game does look goofy just looking at it unity was an alright game the story just wasn’t executed well everything was very predictable and the plot fell apart after entertainment wise after the first 4 sequences

[@шешең]

ac unity has fun asf parkour, syndicate doesnt

[@borangedunn]

I disagree. For me, nice animations don't make up for a parkour system that works about 50% of the time. It isn't perfect in Syndicate, but I found it worked more often than it didn't. I can't say the same for Unity. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5-kY2lqlrF0Z5o

[@шешең]

@@borangedunn for me the unity parkour is on the same level as the first games, but i understand why some people wouldnt like it, it is still janky

[@шешең]

but yea i agree with most of your points, well made video, i prefer unity but im aware of all its flaws

[@Rengokuo4o6]

​@@borangedunn no bro syndicate doesn't have a dedicated jump button and the restraint from the ai is infuriating.

[@borangedunn]

@@Rengokuo4o6 What do you mean? No AC games have a dedicated jump button. What do you mean by ai restraint? If you mean enemies holding back in combat, this has been brought up for pretty much the entire series, and I didn't find it to be any more prevalent in Syndicate than any other game up to this point.

[@homecoversx]

no

[@TickeyWickey4u]

yup

[@donnellfleming2696]

Yes

[@aguyonyoutube4sure]

I agree with a lot of the points but I think that this game is a lot uglier than unity. The lighting is much duller, the ui is clunky, the combat looks very stilted, and there are less npcs and uglier thug npcs

[@ThousandairesClub]

*Unity is much better than Syndicate IMO and is quite possibly the BEST of the old school AC's 🕵 it has the most realistic combat in the franchise and the game looks like it was cutt straight out the 1800's. the environment, the buildings, the random chaos in the streets....it did many things well 👌 Syndicate's combat felt very fast and unnatural, I hated it...and overall, it felt like a cosplay of Unity 🕵 I can see why ppl like it though* 👍

[@backupschmliff1156]

AC Unity feels like the true AC5. Rogue felt more like a Miles Morales or Uncharted Lost Legacy esc expansion.

[@jimmylundblom9370]

I think you misspelled lying

[@nedargiordano7018]

DLC, Jack the Ripper was better, not the base game

[@chrismoore5333]

The dlc had terrible writing and a bad protagonist. It was made by Kim belair and her mates, before they became sweet baby inc. Base game syndicate is far better, but mainly just the Jacob stuff. Evie is awful.

[@drakethesnek6429]

I would rather play unity.

[@aport2]

Syndicate is what an AI would come up with

[@ak-nt2tr]

Sydicate is amazing... but it will never touch Unity. Oddessy, Valhalla, Unity, Black Flag. In that order.