Why Assassins Are STILL So Good AT What They Do

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Who’s cooler, older assassins or newer ones

[@haroldgōdwinessunu]

Definitely the first games. Altaïr essentially redefined the Brotherhood, Ezio had an entire trilogy, & of course the Kenways were great. Most of the modern protagonists are pre-Assassin Assassins or aren't even in the Hidden Ones.

[@TheHansRP]

Edward clears

[@The-Bowery-King]

The older assassins

[@playere7866]

My personal top in this case Altair Connor Ezio Edward In other words the ones before the rpg era

[@yousseftarek9015]

@@playere7866what about Bayek?

[@shadow_crne1030]

Fighting for freedom against tyranny is what sets the brotherhood apart. "You would see all of mankind corralled into a neatly furnished prison, save and sober ....... yet dulled beyond reason and sapped of all spirit." Edward Kenway

[@badaskeng]

i’ve always thought that Assassins fought to keep humans as humans. I feel that humanity’s freedom of thought and expression is what keeps us unique and humans rather than just thoughtless and obedient robots. I feel a Templar utopia is not worth living if youre never able to fully experience life or be different

[@darkdog42]

I feel like Edward sells the brotherhood the most. Everyone has compelling points but it’s not until Edward says that like that you do realise okay maybe templars are really the bad guys.

[@shadow_crne1030]

@@darkdog42 I think Altair, Ezio and Connor before him became assassins more because of family reasons. Edward experiences true enlightenment after hitting rock bottom....

[@darkdog42]

@@shadow_crne1030 well Altair was born into the brotherhood Connor doesn’t accept the brotherhood as it is he changes it to fit with his morals and Ezio I feel is the next best who embodies every aspect of the creed especially in his later years. But for arguments sake on who’s right and wrong this argument by Edward is the best argument in the series like this. This is why rogues story shits me so much. I wanted actual templars not a templars who act like assassins

[@ted_mosby]

If you think in Syndicate ,Evie plays like an olden era assassin who wanted to go quietly about her like even If she assassinated a few in public she had a few mission to stay undetected things while Jacob wanted to create an influence, fear into the enemies. And politics is shown very well in AC revelations too the way ezio chooses to assassinate there is very fascinating.

[@Pleaseebterusername]

They become assassins Because if the drip

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Thats why i would join

[@nobleplayer6]

2:35 Your point about the trend line is SPOT ON! I think something that's really difficult about AC is everyone wants A. a new setting and B. to retain everything they liked about the old setting but could you imagine the rope launcher or something in the RPG series? It would just be silly! Or how about AC1's buildings in Unity? When you have a series that changes the way AC does from instalment to instalment you can't have a linear progression of EVERY mechanic and still fit thematically into the setting. As frustrating as it is I think it's the main aspect that keeps people talking about the series and curious to see what the next one will be like even though "they're all the same". Great vid! I'm curious if there are any other assassin's you'd be interested in talking about. Like, 'Is Third Echelon the modern day brotherhood or is Sam Fisher an unwitting Templar?'

[@unholymetaphor]

I think Yasuke will make an amazing hero. In the trailer he brought Nabunaga the most heads. Not everyone can survive to be an assassin. I can't wait for the future ones, though they are in great company.

[@marsaeternum1003]

he was shit

[@DrOmni]

I think the best depiction of what an assassin would be like comes from the movie Serenity. The Operative is a man who wholeheartedly believes what he does is evil, and that men like him have no place in the kind of world he wants to create. The kind of man who would commit suicide the minute he believes his work is done, because what he represents is the tyrannical means to an end he would never allow himself to be a part of. A future he doesnt deserve to be part of, but until that future comes he is all too willing to do whatever it takes to get there. The Operative obviously takes it further than the assassins, willing to slaughter women and children for the slightest benefit to his cause, but his keen moral awareness at the horror and suffering he brings in his wake without even a shred of regret is the epitome of the assassin in my mind. A monster whose actions may foster positive change, but a monster all the same.

[@RaNgErs_Rep]

Honestly sounds more like a templar with the end justify the means but still a very good observation

[@DrOmni]

@@RaNgErs_Rep I too had this thought, that maybe what I saw in the Operative is more like a Templar than Assassin, especially since he's an overt villain in the story in question. But let's not pretend there is much difference when it comes to their willingness to do evil for a perceived greater good. Assassins are, by definition, mass murderers, thieves and manipulators. Despite their rules about collateral damage, they are all too eager to put entire battalion of largely innocent soldiers to the sword because the end justify the means. Templars only differ in the scope of their ambition. Willing to put grand schemes at work, schemes that bring devastating short term collateral for long term gain on a political scale. So while I think your hesitation is valid, is it really accurate?

[@Kaijugan]

That aside, I know a pair of fanfic authors who actually use the principles lined out here to great effect so far. Like for example, in their first story Assassin’s Creed: Outlaw, in the Wild West era the Assassins have become etages of the American Government to keep the Templars from being too influential and many Assassins act as martials, while the Templars have wormed themselves into the congress and senate specifically in the south, which is supposed to lead to the Civil War. And in the story the Grand Master is Boss Tweed who in the lore pushed the south to secede for his own ends. And they apparently have a trilogy set up that follows this and a direct sequel that shows the protagonist’s two sons become the Mentor and Grand Master and work to establish peace between both factions. Then in their second story AC: Empire, the Protagonist is a Gladiator who joins the Hidden Ones and uses his influence as a public celebrity to get himself close to his targets and establish a foothold in Rome in ways that the regular Hidden Ones haven’t been able to. So I actually think you’re onto something

[@SeeYouNever23]

You get so deep into the lore, thank you for that dude 😊

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

My pleasure!

[@ladart5709]

Along with the politics of assassins there is also how finance subtly plays an increased role in the game, showcasing how the image of the assassins is often split not only with morals and politics, but with financial capabilities. Note how in some of the games money is needed and earned while in others raw materials and resources are needed for upgrades. In ac1 upgrades were given as rewards but in a few of the later games money became a key feature to acquiring upgrades. But in the prequel games while money is used, materials can also be gathered to upgrade equipment. Just something I’ve noticed

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Thats also a great point

[@AgentN-s5u]

I wish ubisoft actually explored all of this deep lore seriously. Instead they put a demigod that kicks around bad guys and has a magic spear in an assasins creed game

[@DuckLord9999]

Really off topic but unity is the only ac game that actually has a skill level. It’s so fun to watch a good unity player.

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Yeah that game is fantastic

[@ticket2space]

I think the majority of them do, but with unity, "good" almost means something else entirely. They're able to manipulate the buggy mess to their advantage. When you see a good unity player it means more than seeing someone good at brotherhood

[@joseortizreflects]

Very interesting the distinction that you make between the "older" Assassins and the "newer" ones. This constant change between time and setting, and thus the politics and weaponry of each era and region, is part of what makes Assassin's Creed so unique and interesting in contrast to other stealth, action game franchises. How many games like AC III or Unity exist, for example....?

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

exactly

[@youssefalemary1820]

Love your content broo

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Thank you dude❤️❤️

[@miomistic]

I've found your channel like a week ago and I love the content. Keep it up!!

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Thanks, will do!

[@skullsec]

long fun fact about real Assassin's 😊 they had that method when someone is trying to attack their castle (Alamut Castle) with a huge army, they send a messenger to talk to the leader of the army and gently ask him to withdraw, If the leader refuses, this means that his hours in the camp are very limited. They did this with Saladin. A messenger came out to him and asked him to speak with him alone. Saladin removed everyone from the tent except his two bodyguards. The Assassin messenger asked for these two to be brought out, but he refused and said, “I trust them with my life” The messenger turned to the two guards and said: If I order you to cut off his head and bring it to me, will you do it? They said, “Yes, my lord.” Then the messenger returned to Saladin and GENTLY said to him, “Get them out of here, Salah😊.” Saladin was shocked and ordered all his guards to be replaced. A few days later, when Saladin wanted to sleep, he called one of the guards and said, “How long have you been guarding the tent?” The guard said, “By God, my lord, we were guarding it all day and night, No one entered or left the tent.” Saladin said, “Then what is this thing on the pillow?” The guard was shocked and said “Knife, my lord.” Saladin snaps and said, “Fuck it, Gather the troops and let’s go back and leave these crazy people alone, What brought us here in the first place?” The methods of the Assassins were very effective until the Mongols came and fuck everything up. When the Mongols came the messenger came out and said with all respect, “I want to speak to the commander of the army...” He did not complete his sentence until an arrow hit his eye and came out of the back of his head. Then the Mongols ended the Assassin regime forever and destroyed Alamut Castle

[@palerider6267]

I can't help but feel like the bad guys when i play most AC Games.

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Assassins are pretty messed up

[@danielnowka7548]

We work in the dark to serve the light.

[@palerider6267]

Sometimes the dark will shroud what's righteous.

[@fazegix7016]

Well assassins creed is all about prespective Switch it around and youve got a villian Switch it back up and bam you got a hero But no doubt they are all trying to change the world to be a better place

[@xzxasxadxas]

Roshan might say to that, something like, "You mistake the dark that you work in for the light that you serve". I paraphrase.

[@MoGumbo_]

The thing is that I dont feel that in the games, I always feel like the assassins are being reactionary instead of proactive

[@Pencyo]

I think you can really see this when looking at AC Syndicate. Jacob literally almost broke the British economy because of his reckless actions and killing.

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Exactly

[@rebeccakeim5366]

I’ve played all the AC games and love them all. I like that they’re all different, and of course they’ll change as gaming and technology has changed so much in the last 15 years. Every game has bought something good and I’m looking forward to Shadows and beyond.

[@thelgndryD]

impatiently waited for this video! did the templars also went through something similar? a change in how they act, how they use their power?

[@AlanR8530]

I wonder how they would adapt this into an AC during WWII or a more current era compared to Syndicate, the stealth,parkour and combat plus of course which figures would side with the Assassins.

[@Krishthebrush]

I think more missions in ac games should have been full stealth and not just go in kill the templar and escape

[@playere7866]

Hey @TheSpaniardAssassin, what type of story would you like to see for a future assassins creed game?

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

a darker story

[@playere7866]

@@TheSpaniardAssassin I would like a rogue story but that a Templar in the crusades fights for Christianity amd learns the corrupt order of the Templar order which stands against his believes like alfred did to the order of ancients and becomes and assassin

[@midwestchief8968]

Another masterpiece of a video

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

❤️❤️

[@Ziyaad-pg9gq]

Off topic but I'd love to play an ac as hasan sabbah (1st assassin irl). Irl he had absurdly loyal assassins (to the point ppl called them hashashiyin(assassin)-basically meaning weed smokers and theyd do very brutal public assassinations to raise awareness and spread fear. He lived ab 50-100yrs b4 ac1 In the game u would start as a kid training and ur dad's saying ur basically the last assassin so u need to form a brotherhood. U spend the game building ur brotherhood and brutally killing like irl and ur 2 most loyal assassins r al Mualim and altairs dad who both see u as their father Last mission, altairs dad snakes u and u and mualim kill him then as he's dying he's saying ur not following the tenants of the creed and ur using the apple to make us loyal (explaining the hashashiyin thing) and killing innocents in ur public massacres. Ur quite old now and ponder over what he said and realise hes right so u hide the apple or sm and change the assassinations to be how we know the creed to act in other games to show how the creed got from irl to altair. Also al mualim decides to adopt altair and basically tell him ur dad was killed by templars so become an assassin which is how we get to that game.

[@Ziyaad-pg9gq]

Al mualim will still disagree tho and will become grand master in ur old age and sideline u in the brotherhood, finding the apple and ultimately power making ppl follow him blindly like u did

[@DarkBloodAssa]

As much as I would love a Hasan game, I'd rather have him as a mentor and play as a fictional Assassin. A bit of a digression but historical Hasan and Rashid (AC1 Almualim) were never warriors, they were scholars, spiritual leaders and politicians like Mirabeau in Unity. I think this should be respected and developped more in the games rather than make every Assassin a skilled warrior and murderer. The first game made clear "mentor" (historically da'i) never was a natural progression from "master Assassin" (fida'i), Almualim or any rafiq not missing their finger was definitely on purpose before it was later retconned. Now every one and their mother have their finger cut, like in Mirage, which is in my opinion stupid. Also, we already know everything about Altair's childhood and his father. Umar sacrificed himself after a failed assassination attempt on Salah ad-Din (a real event by the way). Then Abbas's father slit his throat out of guilt in front of Altair.

[@pumpkinduck5532]

im pretty sure they smoked weed to not feel bad about killing and murder and lose their morals through being high

[@Ziyaad-pg9gq]

​@@DarkBloodAssafair enough I didn't know about the suicide. Also ur definitely right about hasan not doing the dirty work but I think it would make a sick plot. U could play as one of his top students I guess

[@luccasalomone4063]

I really interested in seeing you do a tier list for the AC games. I like when AC content creators do this to gage their overall view on the franchise. I feel I'd disagree with your Syndicate placement judging on what you said about the game lol. Gotta say it is at least nice to have a AC game with the Unity systems and visuals bit that isn't utterly broken and that has a fully functional stealth system.

[@Ash-Winchester]

"He was almost a politician first and an assassin second." I like to think that I'm equal parts anarchist as well as assassin. After all horizontal power structures are what both of those things fight for.

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Interesting

[@alxaviir2956]

Man I want a modern AC game so bad, it could be really great if done right

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Same dude

[@divouboi]

There is a modern AC game its called Watch Dogs.

[@fazegix7016]

Fantastic as always You've touched upon something that i feel alone in That arno is one of the most skilled assassin (u didnt say that but you talked about arno)he is pure assassin material and nearly never failed to assassinate a target stealthily He might not be everyones favourite But the kids got potential no other assassin in the series has

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

arno is extremely skilled

[@ViperOnRR]

My favourite part is that despite being so skilled, the creed is essentially a means to an end for arno initially, ignoring all other orders the council give him to avenge de la serre

[@fazegix7016]

He simply does anything for elise but people actually think that that was the only reason he joined He did agree with the assassins ideolegies and he did want to change the world just not in the cost of elise

[@cinnamoon423]

Keep making kick ass thumbnails and more I'm gonna inevitably replicate that style. I swear smh

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

😂😂

[@blockayethe2nd220]

Do you think we’d ever get an AC game in the modern era ? Maybe it would be in the hitman style but I’d rly like to see how they do it

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Probably not any time soon

[@parsaamini984]

Great video, I would like to know what’s your opinion on the assassins creed movie I know some people have mixed feelings about it but I think there were some things that the film did right. Even though it was a colossal fuck up for Ubisoft I hope that they learned their lesson and I hope they deliver with their Netflix series Something that I love about assassins is that they are good at finding out what the Templars are doing for example Ezio snakes into the meeting quietly and then he reports them to the assassins. I noticed that the Borgia family members are sort of politicians they want Italy to be corrupt.

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Gotta make a video on that

[@CalebWelch-us7vj]

i want an assasins creed game in the cold war so every seceunce it would be a diffrent event like first secunce is late world war 2 then 2nd is space race then nam then the korean war and being a communist

[@connor-_7]

What’s ur opinion on Valhalla personally I loved it as game

[@skydeadlocker1677]

If only they didn't mess up with the Double Cross and losing 80% of their Brotherhood. I really want too see the modern Assassin's work in the modern times and not just into Hacking.

[@stealthynaxo]

Is it drugs? I bet its drugs.

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Wouldnt mind if it wss

[@Abreuzin-d3x]

hey man can you do a video with you dislike odyssey? it was my first ac game and i loved it and i wanna know why most people dont like it.

[@3omar351]

are you Altair stealth??

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

I am!

[@3omar351]

​@@TheSpaniardAssassin Love your videos man!!

[@Nlwalker487]

interesting. First time I ever thought of Assassins as socialist freedom fighters lmao I love it. I mean, if Abstergo went capitalist to control the masses it would make sense for the assassins to be the opposite. This is my own head canon of course. I had this thought because of what you said around the 2 minute mark lol

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Interesting view of it!

[@GnosisZX]

Belec in unity the opposite he cares little if anything for politics

[@pedrojesusfigueroacovagome6968]

Poltics? Nice video

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

Thank you!

[@DBcooper420]

What’s the outfit bro need that

[@DBcooper420]

The Valhalla one

[@NoahBerzerk]

its a helix pack i forgot the name doe

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

like a shinobi one

[@adrianalicea6704]

IMO assassins are objectively terrorists.

[@Sunrust]

Whats with the ai thumbnails

[@TheSpaniardAssassin]

theyre cool

[@Kaijugan]

Are Assassins terrorists? Dude, first of insanity video now this? You are reading way too much into this. Seriously