Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. I picked this up when it was on sale recently since I was going to head to Black Flag anyways and I’ve been playing through it all day. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to play this or the original. Still aren’t.
They honestly feel like two different games sometimes, just with a shared story and naval combat.
One thing I don’t really care for is how Edward I always feels like has this god damn smirk on his face. And he feels way quippier and like he’s always gotta narrate things. On the one hand I could see it being an intentional choice for narrative reasons. On the other hand… I could totally see it just being Ubisoft.
After tinkering with the graphics though it looks pretty. Really pretty. Honestly if they had given it the oblivion remastered treatment I think I would be way happier. Still happy with it. Just I could be even happier.
That kind of brings me to the combat though, it’s the RPG combat. Which in my opinion if you like it, you like it. If you don’t you don’t. It’s not like this thing killed my family. I will complain though that for a game all about parkour, it just doesn’t feel right. Especially having the freerun be anything except a trigger. That’s just not right. I’m starting to think I should just accept that era is gone though, even if it does make me a little worried about the AC 1 remake.
I’m currently at the point where you’re hunting for medicine, so decently far. I just wanted to get my first impressions down today. I was kind of critical but I do really like it. I feel like it’s an alternative experience compared to the original. Both have their own merits.
I loved the original Black Flag especially when i finally got the gunswords and when the remake came out i was considering getting it but it looks like a downgrade in every aspect except graphics and after seeing some of the reviews i have decided i’d rather enjoy the original and skip this one.
I played the original Black Flag for the first time about two years before the remake came. I have been playing through all AC games in order (up to odyssey now).
At no point during my play through did I feel like the game needed a remake. Sure the graphics could be better on modern hardware, but they were beautiful as they were. The gameplay gripes that I had are all inherent to the AC franchise. There was, IMO, not nearly enough that could warrant a remake. And like I said this was my first time so it’s not nostalgia or rose tinted glasses.
AC1 on the other hand is lacking in a lot of areas - perhaps even too much for a remake, since it wouldn’t be “true to the original.”
The bad part is the remake removed all the current world story. Its just the animus movie reel play. I was a big fan of sneaking around and being in the boss’s office and seeing the lobby and all that modern day puzzle stuff too.
huh, different folks & different strokes, the modern day office stuff is the one thing that put me off on every AC game I’ve tried.
I was having way more fun doing yarharhar shenanigans than conversing at the watercooler
The up-to-date ones are no longer holding my interest but the modern line is what introduced the Isu in Revelations which was the best of all the modern day story. It has definitely gone downhill since that game. Something about the Abstergo lab in the first game burned into my child brain and lingered. Kind of felt like a 2nd game inside the game.
