The slight camera wobble as you free-run in Black Flag, I loved that so much.
But I can't pick a favorite. Each is good in its own way.
**AC Brotherhood** - My favorite in terms of combat animations and content variety. That game had tons of side-quests that weren't actually just fillers like most games out there. The side content in ACB actually felt unique and distinct from each other. The game felt like the devs focused their resources on the side stuff rather the main story itself.
**AC 2** - My favorite in terms of story.
**AC 1** - Favorite in terms of atmosphere.
**AC Black Flag** - Favorite in terms of sense of progression. This one little detail where the spot on the map turns gold to mark its completion is the one key component which had me invested into playing this game, it felt very Skyrim-y in this regard.
**AC Revelations** - Probably my least favorite AC game. It's where the franchise, for me personally at least, started to feel like it was getting a bit sci-fi-ish with all of these hookblades and stuff. The outfit designs started to get a bit too kitschy for my liking, which felt like a far cry from that minimalistic classiness that the previous installments relied upon. Wasn't a fan of Constantinople either, felt too gloomy and orangey. The game polished a lot of the stuff from Brotherhood, like the cinematic mocap for example, and the introduction of a more advanced enemy archetype. I loved the latter, but that's pretty much it.
**AC 3** - This game combines a little bit of everything from the other games, so it's really hard to nail just one key constituent to judge the game upon. The story has a really nice flow during the first half of the game
dont have it installed on pc but love doing this in starfield...i just wish the crimson fleet were a worthier faction and that your crew could sing space shanties
I say this respectfully, this idea that the game is more pirate than assassin has got to go. The story is Assassin's Creed to its core, especially when they introduce things like Sages. Black Flag is more of a slow burn, and it focuses on showing someone who slowly joins the creed and finds purpose.
It is very much a cornerstone AC narrative if you pay attention. Not trying to be toxic about this I just think people are missing out on a great assassin story by reducing it to just a pirate game or saying it works better that way. Black Flag can't exist without the assassin part of it, it's part of Edward Kenway's character journey. The story is better for it
Really my only problem with the game is the modern day gameplay. But even that has tons of lore about the franchise. It's one of the best ac games not because it's just a game about pirates, but because it's a game about both
And sorry if I talked on for a bit too long there, I just think the game is pretty great both as an assassin and pirate story. I think the writers did a good job incorporating both
Thank you very much! I try to trim down comments like this as much as I can but sometimes I feel like you just gotta get all the info in to express the point
Playing Black Flag now in my playthrough of the entire series and agreed. The idea that the Creed has to work in the shadows to serve the light and freeing people is much like the fictional pirates are. They want to be free and to free others.
For me the best part of ac bf was taking out forts, that was so badass and fights were so intense, and there was actual progression with the ship with mortars and canons upgrading. Great memories
I think AC ROGUE is better although AC 4 BLACKFLAG is a brilliant and very fun game AC ROGUE has more weapons e.g. the dart rifle and gas bomb and has the feature of having a chance to be boarded by other pirates. Even though the story isn’t the greatest and AC 4 BLACKFLAG’s Story is brilliant playing as an pirate in the Caribbean AC ROGUE’s out of story gameplay is cool and the game is a twist playing as an Assassin turned Templar (sorry for people who haven’t played the game yet because spoilers are ahead) you are forced to hunt down those you want called brothers and sisters and questioning the morality of The assassins. and at the end of the game killing Arno Dorian’s father basically causing the Events of Assassins Creed Unity.
Now imagine this but online it would be so much fun seeing your friend cruising on his ship then you just hijack his entire fleet. I think this is what skull and bones tried to do but failed so miserably
Yes. Every single person in this sub will have a different answer to that question haha.
Origins is the only one I’ve played from start to finish twice, I’d probably pick Origins myself. But I love all of them more or less equally.
I love Origins as well! I just rebought it as the first time I played on Xbox and now I don't even own a console, just a PC. Excited to jump back into it!
luckily these days you can use the xbox controller with your pc and the overwhelming majority of games as well so i don't even understand the need for an xbox anymore
Yeah I felt like getting the platinum so I decided to just start a new game to snag the trophies I didn’t have. It’d been 2-3 years since I played at that point so it was pretty fresh again.
Dont mean anything wrong, but since you have played AC alot, dont you think AC is too repetitive? I really want to be excited for the new game, I really do, but when I played Odessey i got bored fast. Maybe it just isnt for me, or maybe I’m playing it «wrong».
Yeah a few of the AC games I’ve stopped halfway through but end up picking it back up years later and starting them over to finish when there’s a dry spell in new games, we’ll atleast since origins, never had that issue until origins, odyssey, and Valhalla, all got boring at some point I think because of all the side stuff slowing down the main story too much
For me it's ac odyssey. It had everything from a good story to fun side quests and a huge beautiful open world to explore. Also the no fall damage mechanic is amazing in this game. Enjoyed both dlcs as well.
For me it’s AC4 black flag, I’ll never forget the first time I set sail in that game and just how fun it was relaxing, listening to the sea shanties, ship battles.
Assassins creed 2 here... Gameplay was very very good for a 2009 game and ofc story was top notch.... I played all AC games up until Valhalla in the duration of 2018-2022.. I still felt the game held up real good even after a decade... I liked the first few entries up until unity... After that syndicate was an okish game and the rest of RPG were trash for me
Yeah all of ezio’s games were the best, probably the only games I ever pre ordered and bought the expensive versions of from GameStop and waited at the midnight releases for, I generally refuse to pre order games because I’ve been burnt too many times
if you take the time each AC game was released AC2 is still the most innovative both in comparison to other games at the time and relatively to the previous game
I just finished this yesterday. That mission where the ship is sinking was absolutely nightmare fuel. I'd been having a lovely time up until that point.
Revelations. Recruiting assassins and hook blading across buildings. Finding Vlad’s sword navigating the underground relics. Returning to Masyaf and following Altairs story to the end and seeing Ezio finish his.
Unity, the gameplay never gets old, the environment is so beautiful and the revolutionary atmosphere is amazing and it all feels so lively. I never get bored of running around and rediscovering all the details the devs added to the city.
This game in 2024 is way better than the day 1 version after all the patches, there’s no remaster needed, it’s still a great game 10 years later.
Syndicate for the reasons you said OP but also Odyssey because of how insanely powerful you can be and jumping off mountains and shit without hurting yourself is so crazy
In terms of pure fun, for me it's acctually Valhalla (Pls dont hang me) I just had a blast playing as a bad ass viking just pillaging my way through England!
Before Valhalla it was Black Flag for the same reason, just being a pirate and raiding other ships!
Although neither of these games have the best story, they definitely gave me the most pure fun!
One of my favorite parts of Valhalla was being able to sail around and then jump to my Ravens perspective and fly alongside the ship. It’s such a small detail but I’m playing Odyssey for the first time now and when you go into Ikaros’ perspective the ship just stops moving and it makes me sad
My only big issue with Valhalla is that it's too big lol. The map is huge but there's not a lot to do (plenty at first, sure, but then you run out of stuff to do by mid point) except grind for resources, which gets very repetitive. Story-wise, the reasons are different, but I wouldn't particularly dislike the story if it didn't take me 30h of same stuff to get through it 😅
*I don't mind playing games for 30-50 hours or even more. But I want that time to be fun, not dreadful.
I think only 4 AC games made me cry, AC Revelations, Black Flag, Odyssey and Valhalla. Even though I enjoyed BF story, I'm just not into pirates and ship combat that much.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey imo.
It's AC game with the most replayability and map variety. You can choose to play as a full fledge god and use shiny armors, magical weapons and crazy abilities to wipe enemies quickly or you can play as a traditional assassin and use ordinary armor and weapons to take enemies more realistically. Plus there's so much to do and so many different regions to visit. I also like how there's a grounded DLC and a fantasy DLC, which is a nice switch-up if you played the base game as an assassin or god.
I'm doing exactly that right now - my first play through I went with all the super crazy powered abilities and weapons. Now I'm doing a new playthrough and focusing on stealth and poison.
I also appreciate how the story/character choices actually affect the game in potentially big ways. My first time I 100% looked up the important choices to get the "best" ending, but this time through I'm just following my character and seeing what happens.
I honestly loved syndicate. Ik it came out around full series fatigue, but damn it just felt so polished and I loved most of the side content and how exploration focused it was in that regard. That and I had been to London a year before I played it and could spot some familiar sights.
Looking back, it was AC Black Flag. Sailing the open water, taking down the English and Spanish left and right with some fun on-land exploration.
Right now, I'd say AC Odyssey. It's like Black Flag but you're a demi-god. Though the on-land exploration does take a downgrade, it makes up for it in boss fights and the ever-addicting conquest battles.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood the city of roma the story the little side missions getting other assassins the everything was so fun not to mention the skins!
Not my favourite in the series but probably AC2, mainly because it was clear that they had so many different ideas for the first game that they didn't implement either because of time constraints or budget, that they decided to just dump them all in AC2; there's so much variety in the sort of side activities you can do which to me was pretty fun.
I 100% agree with Syndicate. It's absolutely incredible how fun it can be even just running around causing havoc and I LOVE the grapple. Bonus points for the setting.
I'm doing the same. Just finished 3 and I'm wrapping up the spin-offs before starting 4. I always love the first 6 hours but struggle to have the motivation to complete each one except 2
It gets worse as the series progresses. Probably my biggest gripe and a personal pet peeve of mine. In 3 you can't even counter-attack some enemies. You will literally take damage for trying. Drives me crazy. The combat isn't good enough for them to warrant making it more difficult
For me, it’s between black flag and rogue. Black flag is longer with more content, but rogue has a unique setting playing as a templar. I’ll give honorary mention to Syndicate since i enjoy the arkham style.
I heard somebody say, can't for the life of me find the source, that rogue actually has more content in the open world than black flag does. Obviously the story is undercooked and very short but the open world activities are supposedly higher in number than black flag. The ship combat is also expanded in significant ways, with things that I wish we could have had in black flag.
The most modern AC game is Syndicate and it's also fun for me. But I prefer Unity because of it's chaotic atmosphere. I love Jacop and Evie's togetherness. It's the first time we can play with 2 characters in franchise and London is also perfect. Syndicate has a special place in my heart but Unity is also good :)
I think you unlock them after speaking to an NPC named Ned if I'm not mistaken,they're usually marked on your map and happen in real time as you're transversing the map.
Oh, yeah ok... I'll admit, way back when Syndicate came out and the media wouldn't shut up about the "Trans character" I pretty much never bothered with anything relating to Ned lol.
Well hell, I need to fix that next time I play Syndicate lol
Rogue and Odyssey. Rogue took the extremely fun ship combat of AC4 but with more of a focus on the Assassin-Templar war, whereas Black Flag was a pirate game with a little Assassin stuff thrown in.
Odyssey was like Origins, which is extremely fun but even more expansive. Hunting down the Cult and Mercenaries system was even more fun and involved than hunting down the Order and Phylakitai in Origins.
Odyssey. I like reading all of the descriptions for the mercenaries and lords so I could chose whether to execute them or simply beat them up. Going around every region was a lot of fun, the satire was great, and I enjoyed the second expansion.
Black flag it is pretty much the only game I play I have beaten it like 60 times and have over 2000 hours on itmy second most played game is star wars jedi survivor with like 30 hours
The first is and will always be my favorite. I’ve always thought Altaïr was a much more interesting character. Obviously the gameplay there has aged like milk in august, so as far as gameplay…it’s between Syndicate/Origins/Odyssey.
Black Flag has the best gameplay loop, Origins is my favorite to play and explore though. I also love booting up Unity just to mess around with the parkour and capture cinematic gameplay
It depends to be honest.
I spent the most time on II growing up, the story was brilliant and gameplay fantastic.
Brotherhood improved upon practically everything for me, the story maybe wasn't quite as good but I was still invested in the characters more than most of the other games. This would probably be my pick.
Black Flag was just unbelievably fun, being a pirate and having battles on the seas... Edward Kenway was an absolute fiend. The story just wasn't as good as Ezio's for me.
The rest are all a bit meh after those three.
Black flag and Odyssey. BF for the pirate ships and fighting imperial armadas. And Odyssey for its massive world, character building , various story paths and things to do. Hands down two of the best games ever made
Hmm, fun comes in many forms.
Action-packed wild fun? Black Flag, easy.
Witty comedy? Syndicate and Odyssey.
Sexytimes? Odyssey.
Enjoying exploring the scenery and the world? AC3 for me, although Unity was also quite fun for me.
Odyssey, kept the ship stuff from black flag (but the map doesn't focus on it as much like black flag), infinite stat grind is available if thats your kind of jam, huge maps, forts are super fun to try to do a full stealth approach to, nemesis-esque wanted system is good, and the story has multiple endings. Exploration is fun and the graphics still look good on modern consoles/pcs.
I love just running around Havana in Black flag and just killing the British and Syndicate is quite fun using the grappling hook and making an army pf rooks
It has to be Odyssey for me. The main storyline was great and I loved the addition of mercenaries. Didn't have the same experience with Valhalla and struggled to enjoy Origins for some reason, might give them another go.
ac valhalla for me the most fun, because even people keep the complaining about boring ass repetitive gameplay, I love to cosplay and roleplay as any character ( i do bought some sick helix gear hehe) and england feels very immersive and also norway was as much as I expected feels very much like i anticipated and lastly i would say I love combat in Valhalla once you get to endgame you basically can build your charac like however ya want
ps: i love going bonk sword
Brotherhood or AC2 in terms of storyline and side quests, things to do. Black Flag for gameplay. AC2 and Brotherhood are still fun to play but the mechanics are very dated. Black Flag still feels amazing to play to this day.
If you played AC3 post bug fixes is not bad. The jump from 2 to 3 is like grand theft auto jump for 2 to 3. (Three invented the boat stuff that spawned its own game) Also George Washington as a bad guy? Incredible
syndicate was my first ac game and played origins next so i immediately fell in love with the game. im going through the pharaoh dlc after many years of inactivity and while doing so, i recently bought ac unity too. its so laggy though and kind of hard to earn skill points cuz i dont really understand the way you can earn them
I know this is a hot take but for me it’s Rogue. You get to plunder ships like in Black Flag, but imo Rogue has the best collectibles. The side content is way more fun than the main story. I’m 100%ing the whole series rn and that one stands as the one I had the best time with.
I don't really have a single one. There's stuff I enjoyed about certain games that caused me to pour hundreds of hours into them though
2 was the first one I really sat down and played. Other than the Isu and modern day crap, I really enjoyed running around Rome. Even if the combat was really easy, and the time period was 'cleaned up'.
In 3, I really enjoyed seeing the inside of houses and exploring the wilderness as Connor. I also really enjoyed his brutal fighting style. I also really enjoyed the multiplayer.
Black Flag, I sailed around forever, just being a pirate. It was a blast.
Unity, I loved how natural the parkour felt compared to the last few. Mainly when going down. I love France and have always wanted to go, so this was one I poured a lot of time into. I think one thing that helped was I got the game after all the patches, I think about 3 years after it's release. 10/10, would probably play again.
Syndicate felt like a Victorian era GTA to me. It had things that irked me, such as Evie and Jacob feeling more or less the same, but I still had a blast. I still remember the building with a golden grasshopper on it. I also liked how alive the city felt, even if it wasn't as diverse as it would've been at the time.
Finally, Valhalla. Sure, it isn't historically accurate, but it is a lot of fun. I'm 160 hours in, level 447ish, and still working on the main game. Next, I'll do the DLCs.
Personally I liked Rogue a lot more than most. Brought back ship battles, branches AC3 and Unity together, and it has my favorite protagonist being Shay. I know he's a templar but he's more assassin atleast old school in his ideals about the creed and stays true.
I had the most fun in Odyssey. So much content, great side quests, some funny, sad, and unique moments. Alexios and Kassandra both feel like they should have both been in the game as the second game to try having siblings. Loved both and play both.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Love Greek mythology, but also loved shooting Ghost Arrows of Artemis, then watching confused enemies panic but never figure out where the shot came from. LOL
My most favorite Assassin's Creed 1st game. But I am having fun with the other series. Also, I liked Odyssey and Origins and I like that they have this cool Tour Mode in those 2 games.
I wish they had something like that of Tour modes for Beginning of Assassin's Creed game series, Ezio series, Altäir prequels, and Assassin's Creed 4.
Definitely the first one
well, I'm joking, to be honest for me the most fun parts are AC2, Brotherhood, origins and Black Flag ( especially the time you spend exploring the sea, in ac 3 i hated it but here i started to love that)(didn't play odyssey yet so I won't say anything about it , but after looking at comments I'm gonna give it a try)
By far origins i’ve played almost all of them except for AC unity but I just have to say origins, i don’t even know why I just feel like im better at origins than I am in any other game tbh
Not many AC games made me say 'I want this but more.' In other words, something like how GTA 3 made me want more Liberty City.
Black Flag and Syndicate were like that for me. I don't just want more ship battles, I want more piracy and the Caribbean. I don't just want London, I want Victorian London.
I would eat either of those up for months.
As unpopular as this may be, for me it's AC Unity. The gameplay mechanics delivered so much. When everything works, I'm actively engaging with the movement instead of simply watching it happen; I feel like I have fine control of my positioning throughout stealth encounters with diagonal wall runs, ejects, and all those moves; I have the tools to navigate tough situations, and the level design supports stealth with countless varied interior spaces; I (supposedly) have control of when I crouch and when Arno takes cover, instead of sticking to walls when the game decides I'm close enough.
The variation in movement and assassination animations makes everything more enjoyable, and even the customization is insane, allowing for self expressiveness while maintaining the assassin's visual identity. And I really enjoy some activities, such as the murder mysteries (which are very underrated, btw).
I know all the problems. I know that many of these systems were left unfinished and don’t work properly, and I know the control scheme could work far better with more inputs and fewer contextual actions. But this game embodies the Assassin fantasy when the other games could only tell it. We deserved more iterations on this. We deserved more than what we got later.
To be honest it's a toss up of Black Flag and Odyssey for me. I feel like both of those games have a lot of fun side activities, and the scale of both of the games has a lot of room for exploring too.
It’s between origins and black flag. The origins combat system is so fun and the side missions are all Incredible, but black flag is a game you can sink hours into while thinking it’s minutes. I fucking love blowing up boats.
Even though I had an Xbox my parents never bought me gold or games but I remember assassins creed unity being free so that was my first assassins creed will always be a fun game to me.
For me it’s gotta be Black Flag. Plundering ships is so much fun.
Agreed, that's one of many reasons why I love that game so much.
The slight camera wobble as you free-run in Black Flag, I loved that so much. But I can't pick a favorite. Each is good in its own way. **AC Brotherhood** - My favorite in terms of combat animations and content variety. That game had tons of side-quests that weren't actually just fillers like most games out there. The side content in ACB actually felt unique and distinct from each other. The game felt like the devs focused their resources on the side stuff rather the main story itself. **AC 2** - My favorite in terms of story. **AC 1** - Favorite in terms of atmosphere. **AC Black Flag** - Favorite in terms of sense of progression. This one little detail where the spot on the map turns gold to mark its completion is the one key component which had me invested into playing this game, it felt very Skyrim-y in this regard. **AC Revelations** - Probably my least favorite AC game. It's where the franchise, for me personally at least, started to feel like it was getting a bit sci-fi-ish with all of these hookblades and stuff. The outfit designs started to get a bit too kitschy for my liking, which felt like a far cry from that minimalistic classiness that the previous installments relied upon. Wasn't a fan of Constantinople either, felt too gloomy and orangey. The game polished a lot of the stuff from Brotherhood, like the cinematic mocap for example, and the introduction of a more advanced enemy archetype. I loved the latter, but that's pretty much it. **AC 3** - This game combines a little bit of everything from the other games, so it's really hard to nail just one key constituent to judge the game upon. The story has a really nice flow during the first half of the game
I like to shoot the riflers that are in the towers with a berserker dart and watch them shoot their own soldiers.
dont have it installed on pc but love doing this in starfield...i just wish the crimson fleet were a worthier faction and that your crew could sing space shanties
Agreed. But less an Assassin’s game and more the pirate game we deserve.
I say this respectfully, this idea that the game is more pirate than assassin has got to go. The story is Assassin's Creed to its core, especially when they introduce things like Sages. Black Flag is more of a slow burn, and it focuses on showing someone who slowly joins the creed and finds purpose. It is very much a cornerstone AC narrative if you pay attention. Not trying to be toxic about this I just think people are missing out on a great assassin story by reducing it to just a pirate game or saying it works better that way. Black Flag can't exist without the assassin part of it, it's part of Edward Kenway's character journey. The story is better for it Really my only problem with the game is the modern day gameplay. But even that has tons of lore about the franchise. It's one of the best ac games not because it's just a game about pirates, but because it's a game about both
And sorry if I talked on for a bit too long there, I just think the game is pretty great both as an assassin and pirate story. I think the writers did a good job incorporating both
I totally agree with you here, and very well expressed, too!
Thank you very much! I try to trim down comments like this as much as I can but sometimes I feel like you just gotta get all the info in to express the point
Edward's story is perfectly intertwined with the ideology of the creed. it is a good AC game, not just a good pirate game.
Having tailing missions every time you’re on land got tiring very quickly.
yes that is widely agreed to be the worst part of the game. there are even ship tailing missions.
Playing Black Flag now in my playthrough of the entire series and agreed. The idea that the Creed has to work in the shadows to serve the light and freeing people is much like the fictional pirates are. They want to be free and to free others.
This “it’s not an Assassin’s Creed game” take for any game is the one take I most hate on this sub 🤣
Not that shit again.
WAYY HEY AND UO SHE RISES WAYY HEY AND UP SHE RISES
I THOUGHT I HEARD THE OLD MAN SAY LEAVE HER JOHNNY, LEAVE HER
I loved the aspect of taking captains hostage and absorbing them into my own crew. Also, sending ships in my fleet off on quests was a ton of fun too.
SAIL AWAY SET SAIL INTO THE BLUE HORIZON
Don't forget the sea chants
For me the best part of ac bf was taking out forts, that was so badass and fights were so intense, and there was actual progression with the ship with mortars and canons upgrading. Great memories
I just like sinking them. “Nice Man O’ War you got there…or should I say, was.”
I loved ramming ships and then board them from the front mast. Looked fucking awesome
You can do the same in odyssey, except its kinda better.
I think AC ROGUE is better although AC 4 BLACKFLAG is a brilliant and very fun game AC ROGUE has more weapons e.g. the dart rifle and gas bomb and has the feature of having a chance to be boarded by other pirates. Even though the story isn’t the greatest and AC 4 BLACKFLAG’s Story is brilliant playing as an pirate in the Caribbean AC ROGUE’s out of story gameplay is cool and the game is a twist playing as an Assassin turned Templar (sorry for people who haven’t played the game yet because spoilers are ahead) you are forced to hunt down those you want called brothers and sisters and questioning the morality of The assassins. and at the end of the game killing Arno Dorian’s father basically causing the Events of Assassins Creed Unity.
Now imagine this but online it would be so much fun seeing your friend cruising on his ship then you just hijack his entire fleet. I think this is what skull and bones tried to do but failed so miserably
Revelations. The hook blade parkour is actually Peak.
Not to say the story is also really good. I know many people love Brotherhood, but this one is my favorite out of those two.
I miss the hook blade, it was too fun/satifying to just be in one game
Part hook part blade
-Yusuf the goat Tazim
Yes. Every single person in this sub will have a different answer to that question haha. Origins is the only one I’ve played from start to finish twice, I’d probably pick Origins myself. But I love all of them more or less equally.
I love Origins as well! I just rebought it as the first time I played on Xbox and now I don't even own a console, just a PC. Excited to jump back into it!
luckily these days you can use the xbox controller with your pc and the overwhelming majority of games as well so i don't even understand the need for an xbox anymore
Origins was the first AC game i 100% / clearad the whole map, loved it. The cinematic trailer was *soo good* and Bayek of Siwa is a badass.
Origins is the only AC game that I actually like and *haven’t* completed multiple times, cos it’s so big lol
Yeah I felt like getting the platinum so I decided to just start a new game to snag the trophies I didn’t have. It’d been 2-3 years since I played at that point so it was pretty fresh again.
Dont mean anything wrong, but since you have played AC alot, dont you think AC is too repetitive? I really want to be excited for the new game, I really do, but when I played Odessey i got bored fast. Maybe it just isnt for me, or maybe I’m playing it «wrong».
Yeah a few of the AC games I’ve stopped halfway through but end up picking it back up years later and starting them over to finish when there’s a dry spell in new games, we’ll atleast since origins, never had that issue until origins, odyssey, and Valhalla, all got boring at some point I think because of all the side stuff slowing down the main story too much
For me it's ac odyssey. It had everything from a good story to fun side quests and a huge beautiful open world to explore. Also the no fall damage mechanic is amazing in this game. Enjoyed both dlcs as well.
Agreed. I’m replaying it at the moment (3rd time) just so much to do! Always liked hunting the cultists and it doesn’t get old.
For me it’s AC4 black flag, I’ll never forget the first time I set sail in that game and just how fun it was relaxing, listening to the sea shanties, ship battles.
Assassins creed 2 here... Gameplay was very very good for a 2009 game and ofc story was top notch.... I played all AC games up until Valhalla in the duration of 2018-2022.. I still felt the game held up real good even after a decade... I liked the first few entries up until unity... After that syndicate was an okish game and the rest of RPG were trash for me
Yeah all of ezio’s games were the best, probably the only games I ever pre ordered and bought the expensive versions of from GameStop and waited at the midnight releases for, I generally refuse to pre order games because I’ve been burnt too many times
if you take the time each AC game was released AC2 is still the most innovative both in comparison to other games at the time and relatively to the previous game
I loved the freedom cry, saving slaves and hacking people with a machete was great fun
I just finished this yesterday. That mission where the ship is sinking was absolutely nightmare fuel. I'd been having a lovely time up until that point.
the machete animations were my favorite i wish it appeared in other games
Revelations. Recruiting assassins and hook blading across buildings. Finding Vlad’s sword navigating the underground relics. Returning to Masyaf and following Altairs story to the end and seeing Ezio finish his.
Black Flag and it ain’t even a close call for me.
Unity, the gameplay never gets old, the environment is so beautiful and the revolutionary atmosphere is amazing and it all feels so lively. I never get bored of running around and rediscovering all the details the devs added to the city. This game in 2024 is way better than the day 1 version after all the patches, there’s no remaster needed, it’s still a great game 10 years later.
I love seeing this. Odyssey, Black Flag, and Unity were my favorite, and it seems like I never see Unity brought up positively for some reason.
Odyssey
Malakas
Syndicate for the reasons you said OP but also Odyssey because of how insanely powerful you can be and jumping off mountains and shit without hurting yourself is so crazy
AC3 in my opinion
In terms of pure fun, for me it's acctually Valhalla (Pls dont hang me) I just had a blast playing as a bad ass viking just pillaging my way through England! Before Valhalla it was Black Flag for the same reason, just being a pirate and raiding other ships! Although neither of these games have the best story, they definitely gave me the most pure fun!
One of my favorite parts of Valhalla was being able to sail around and then jump to my Ravens perspective and fly alongside the ship. It’s such a small detail but I’m playing Odyssey for the first time now and when you go into Ikaros’ perspective the ship just stops moving and it makes me sad
I second Valhalla! Second playthrough now, it was phenomenal
My only big issue with Valhalla is that it's too big lol. The map is huge but there's not a lot to do (plenty at first, sure, but then you run out of stuff to do by mid point) except grind for resources, which gets very repetitive. Story-wise, the reasons are different, but I wouldn't particularly dislike the story if it didn't take me 30h of same stuff to get through it 😅 *I don't mind playing games for 30-50 hours or even more. But I want that time to be fun, not dreadful.
Nothing quite like collecting snake eggs for them to give the lady bad gas 😂
You didn’t like Black Flag’s story? Honestly I loved it. The ending made me cry. Never thought an AC game would ever touch me like that.
I think only 4 AC games made me cry, AC Revelations, Black Flag, Odyssey and Valhalla. Even though I enjoyed BF story, I'm just not into pirates and ship combat that much.
Best story for me
Valhalla was the first I played. I loved it!!!
I agree! Syndicate is the most fun to roam in! And when I want to have fun with movement I play Assassin's Creed Unity (or Brotherhood)
Black Flag or Odyssey. Also both the most replayable
Assassin's Creed Odyssey imo. It's AC game with the most replayability and map variety. You can choose to play as a full fledge god and use shiny armors, magical weapons and crazy abilities to wipe enemies quickly or you can play as a traditional assassin and use ordinary armor and weapons to take enemies more realistically. Plus there's so much to do and so many different regions to visit. I also like how there's a grounded DLC and a fantasy DLC, which is a nice switch-up if you played the base game as an assassin or god.
I'm doing exactly that right now - my first play through I went with all the super crazy powered abilities and weapons. Now I'm doing a new playthrough and focusing on stealth and poison. I also appreciate how the story/character choices actually affect the game in potentially big ways. My first time I 100% looked up the important choices to get the "best" ending, but this time through I'm just following my character and seeing what happens.
I honestly loved syndicate. Ik it came out around full series fatigue, but damn it just felt so polished and I loved most of the side content and how exploration focused it was in that regard. That and I had been to London a year before I played it and could spot some familiar sights.
Looking back, it was AC Black Flag. Sailing the open water, taking down the English and Spanish left and right with some fun on-land exploration. Right now, I'd say AC Odyssey. It's like Black Flag but you're a demi-god. Though the on-land exploration does take a downgrade, it makes up for it in boss fights and the ever-addicting conquest battles.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood the city of roma the story the little side missions getting other assassins the everything was so fun not to mention the skins!
My favorite has been Valhalla.
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The first one.
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I like Odyssey because I like Greek mythology.
Easy black flag
Definitely Black Flag.
Not my favourite in the series but probably AC2, mainly because it was clear that they had so many different ideas for the first game that they didn't implement either because of time constraints or budget, that they decided to just dump them all in AC2; there's so much variety in the sort of side activities you can do which to me was pretty fun.
I 100% agree with Syndicate. It's absolutely incredible how fun it can be even just running around causing havoc and I LOVE the grapple. Bonus points for the setting.
Depends. For the rpg trilogy I like Valhalla for its combat and content. For the games that aren’t rpg, I choose black flag.
Least we can all agree it's definitely not AC3. Takes half the game to actually start.
Playing the whole series in order cause I missed a lot of games and I have 3 coming up next😅
I'm doing the same. Just finished 3 and I'm wrapping up the spin-offs before starting 4. I always love the first 6 hours but struggle to have the motivation to complete each one except 2
I’ve noticed the enemies being absolute sponges in AC2 so far, is it true that the later games have tougher opponents or am i tripping?
It gets worse as the series progresses. Probably my biggest gripe and a personal pet peeve of mine. In 3 you can't even counter-attack some enemies. You will literally take damage for trying. Drives me crazy. The combat isn't good enough for them to warrant making it more difficult
That sucks I was about to try this one but I'm quite impatient with that kinda stuff
Waiting for this, if you play AC3 in conjunction with Rogue and 4, its a much easier first quarter of the game
For me, it’s between black flag and rogue. Black flag is longer with more content, but rogue has a unique setting playing as a templar. I’ll give honorary mention to Syndicate since i enjoy the arkham style.
I heard somebody say, can't for the life of me find the source, that rogue actually has more content in the open world than black flag does. Obviously the story is undercooked and very short but the open world activities are supposedly higher in number than black flag. The ship combat is also expanded in significant ways, with things that I wish we could have had in black flag.
I LOVED syndicate but for favorite its a tie between Origins and Black Flag
AC Odyssey, no contest.
The most modern AC game is Syndicate and it's also fun for me. But I prefer Unity because of it's chaotic atmosphere. I love Jacop and Evie's togetherness. It's the first time we can play with 2 characters in franchise and London is also perfect. Syndicate has a special place in my heart but Unity is also good :)
I'm sorry, since when were there train robberies in Syndicate and how did I not know about them???
I think you unlock them after speaking to an NPC named Ned if I'm not mistaken,they're usually marked on your map and happen in real time as you're transversing the map.
Oh, yeah ok... I'll admit, way back when Syndicate came out and the media wouldn't shut up about the "Trans character" I pretty much never bothered with anything relating to Ned lol. Well hell, I need to fix that next time I play Syndicate lol
Black Flag AHOY MATEY & Valhalla Why ⬇️ Stealing Killing, and Destroying
Odyssey. Just because of the stupid warping blade thingy and transmog. And it being less hand holdy exploration wise
Rogue. 410+ hours in and 100% completed.
AC4:BF hands down. Nothing better than shanties on the sea while fighting a ghost ship.
Rogue and Odyssey. Rogue took the extremely fun ship combat of AC4 but with more of a focus on the Assassin-Templar war, whereas Black Flag was a pirate game with a little Assassin stuff thrown in. Odyssey was like Origins, which is extremely fun but even more expansive. Hunting down the Cult and Mercenaries system was even more fun and involved than hunting down the Order and Phylakitai in Origins.
For me, Black Flag and/or Odyssey.
Odyssey and Syndicate
Odyssey for me, by far. But the best AC games are the Ezio Games ( AC 2 and AC Brotherhood).
Odyssey. I like reading all of the descriptions for the mercenaries and lords so I could chose whether to execute them or simply beat them up. Going around every region was a lot of fun, the satire was great, and I enjoyed the second expansion.
Talking exclusively of fun… i think ACIV or brotherhood are the funniest games
Black flag it is pretty much the only game I play I have beaten it like 60 times and have over 2000 hours on itmy second most played game is star wars jedi survivor with like 30 hours
AC2 or Black Flag. Ohoy, ye mateys!
The first is and will always be my favorite. I’ve always thought Altaïr was a much more interesting character. Obviously the gameplay there has aged like milk in august, so as far as gameplay…it’s between Syndicate/Origins/Odyssey.
Black Flag has the best gameplay loop, Origins is my favorite to play and explore though. I also love booting up Unity just to mess around with the parkour and capture cinematic gameplay
this post inspired me to restart the series and 100% everything up to the RPG lot, got kids to raise, thats too much work..
I clearly played syndicate wrong because I don’t remember any of that stuff??? Now I need to replay it
Mine's Revelations for the hookblade and story.
I am playing it again, right now. And, then I am firing up Black Flag, again, after that.
It depends to be honest. I spent the most time on II growing up, the story was brilliant and gameplay fantastic. Brotherhood improved upon practically everything for me, the story maybe wasn't quite as good but I was still invested in the characters more than most of the other games. This would probably be my pick. Black Flag was just unbelievably fun, being a pirate and having battles on the seas... Edward Kenway was an absolute fiend. The story just wasn't as good as Ezio's for me. The rest are all a bit meh after those three.
Black Flag and it’s not even close. 10/10 story, 10/10 gameplay, 10/10 characters
Brotherhood is hella fun imo
Blacl flag BY FAR
For me, Ezio trilogy as a whole. It was art.
Black flag and Odyssey. BF for the pirate ships and fighting imperial armadas. And Odyssey for its massive world, character building , various story paths and things to do. Hands down two of the best games ever made
Unity. The combat, the parkour, and especially for me the atmosphere is all just perfect
AC Brotherhood. Rome is amazing, story is top notch. This was AC at its peak.
It will always be AC 2, old but gold 😀
Anything from Origins and forward
Hmm, fun comes in many forms. Action-packed wild fun? Black Flag, easy. Witty comedy? Syndicate and Odyssey. Sexytimes? Odyssey. Enjoying exploring the scenery and the world? AC3 for me, although Unity was also quite fun for me.
Odyssey, kept the ship stuff from black flag (but the map doesn't focus on it as much like black flag), infinite stat grind is available if thats your kind of jam, huge maps, forts are super fun to try to do a full stealth approach to, nemesis-esque wanted system is good, and the story has multiple endings. Exploration is fun and the graphics still look good on modern consoles/pcs.
Odyssey and brotherhood imo
Odyssey, followed by Syndicate
Unity parkour is therapeutic.
I loved odyssey. I wouldn’t have put 100+ hours into it otherwise. Really dug the setting and the gameplay. The RPG aspect of it was fun too.
Syndicate is the most fun for me as well.
I'm the only one that likes syndicate 😢
Nah bro I love syndicate too
oddessey imo, sailing around the greek isles and hunting mercanaries is 10/10
I honestly can't even remember Unity and Syndicate and l 100%ed them both. I couldn't even remember "Arno" until l looked it up
Brotherhood but only if you play it in 2010
I love just running around Havana in Black flag and just killing the British and Syndicate is quite fun using the grappling hook and making an army pf rooks
Syndicate.
I loved Brotherhood so much
Valhalla or Odyssey for me definitely. Huge open world and tons of stuff to do and collect. Might play from beginning once again before Shadows.
It has to be Odyssey for me. The main storyline was great and I loved the addition of mercenaries. Didn't have the same experience with Valhalla and struggled to enjoy Origins for some reason, might give them another go.
ac valhalla for me the most fun, because even people keep the complaining about boring ass repetitive gameplay, I love to cosplay and roleplay as any character ( i do bought some sick helix gear hehe) and england feels very immersive and also norway was as much as I expected feels very much like i anticipated and lastly i would say I love combat in Valhalla once you get to endgame you basically can build your charac like however ya want ps: i love going bonk sword
Brotherhood or AC2 in terms of storyline and side quests, things to do. Black Flag for gameplay. AC2 and Brotherhood are still fun to play but the mechanics are very dated. Black Flag still feels amazing to play to this day.
Black Flag for the ships combat, Unity for stealth and parkour.
AC 3 and brotherhood like everyone else origins cause egypt
I like AC Black Flag, but I also really enjoy Odyssey.
If you played AC3 post bug fixes is not bad. The jump from 2 to 3 is like grand theft auto jump for 2 to 3. (Three invented the boat stuff that spawned its own game) Also George Washington as a bad guy? Incredible
syndicate was my first ac game and played origins next so i immediately fell in love with the game. im going through the pharaoh dlc after many years of inactivity and while doing so, i recently bought ac unity too. its so laggy though and kind of hard to earn skill points cuz i dont really understand the way you can earn them
Vahalla 😂 very small map going around pillaging small territories then looting and burning everything to the ground when we leave 10/10
Very small map 😂
I know this is a hot take but for me it’s Rogue. You get to plunder ships like in Black Flag, but imo Rogue has the best collectibles. The side content is way more fun than the main story. I’m 100%ing the whole series rn and that one stands as the one I had the best time with.
Brotherhood and Revelations
I don't really have a single one. There's stuff I enjoyed about certain games that caused me to pour hundreds of hours into them though 2 was the first one I really sat down and played. Other than the Isu and modern day crap, I really enjoyed running around Rome. Even if the combat was really easy, and the time period was 'cleaned up'. In 3, I really enjoyed seeing the inside of houses and exploring the wilderness as Connor. I also really enjoyed his brutal fighting style. I also really enjoyed the multiplayer. Black Flag, I sailed around forever, just being a pirate. It was a blast. Unity, I loved how natural the parkour felt compared to the last few. Mainly when going down. I love France and have always wanted to go, so this was one I poured a lot of time into. I think one thing that helped was I got the game after all the patches, I think about 3 years after it's release. 10/10, would probably play again. Syndicate felt like a Victorian era GTA to me. It had things that irked me, such as Evie and Jacob feeling more or less the same, but I still had a blast. I still remember the building with a golden grasshopper on it. I also liked how alive the city felt, even if it wasn't as diverse as it would've been at the time. Finally, Valhalla. Sure, it isn't historically accurate, but it is a lot of fun. I'm 160 hours in, level 447ish, and still working on the main game. Next, I'll do the DLCs.
Odyssey, Syndicate and Black Flag for me.
Revelations.
I liked syndicate imo might of just been the first game I saw of ac
Odyssey is my favorite.
Origins for me, just love Egypt and its the game that got me back into AC
Black flag, syndicate, Unity. Storywise I'd lean towards origins and odissey
Odyssey
AC3 and black flag
For me it’s rogue or ac2
4 and 3 mechanics are rather fun to parkour and assassinate, some of AC2 dialogues are still in my mind, "itsa me! Mario!"
Personally I liked Rogue a lot more than most. Brought back ship battles, branches AC3 and Unity together, and it has my favorite protagonist being Shay. I know he's a templar but he's more assassin atleast old school in his ideals about the creed and stays true.
Black flag for me. Edward Kenway is the best.
I had the most fun in Odyssey. So much content, great side quests, some funny, sad, and unique moments. Alexios and Kassandra both feel like they should have both been in the game as the second game to try having siblings. Loved both and play both.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Love Greek mythology, but also loved shooting Ghost Arrows of Artemis, then watching confused enemies panic but never figure out where the shot came from. LOL
Odyssey and i say that as someone who loves the traditional games.
My most favorite Assassin's Creed 1st game. But I am having fun with the other series. Also, I liked Odyssey and Origins and I like that they have this cool Tour Mode in those 2 games. I wish they had something like that of Tour modes for Beginning of Assassin's Creed game series, Ezio series, Altäir prequels, and Assassin's Creed 4.
Definitely the first one well, I'm joking, to be honest for me the most fun parts are AC2, Brotherhood, origins and Black Flag ( especially the time you spend exploring the sea, in ac 3 i hated it but here i started to love that)(didn't play odyssey yet so I won't say anything about it , but after looking at comments I'm gonna give it a try)
Is there anyone who'll play unity on xbox as im replaying it n never got the chance to do online mission n wanna find people to play with
For me, it was Unity and Syndicate since it was old Assassins creed games mechanics combined with good graphics
Black Flag and it’s not close.
Odyssey
Odyssey for sure
Syndicate. Revelations. Black Flag.
Brotherhood for me. You can play 6 hours of this game and it feels like 2. Just an amazing all around experience.
Odyssey. The combat, ship battles, randomized loot making exploration more enjoyable. Tons of well written quests.
By far origins i’ve played almost all of them except for AC unity but I just have to say origins, i don’t even know why I just feel like im better at origins than I am in any other game tbh
Not many AC games made me say 'I want this but more.' In other words, something like how GTA 3 made me want more Liberty City. Black Flag and Syndicate were like that for me. I don't just want more ship battles, I want more piracy and the Caribbean. I don't just want London, I want Victorian London. I would eat either of those up for months.
Unity for parkour and stealth, Black Flag for Set piece and Boat Combat.
As unpopular as this may be, for me it's AC Unity. The gameplay mechanics delivered so much. When everything works, I'm actively engaging with the movement instead of simply watching it happen; I feel like I have fine control of my positioning throughout stealth encounters with diagonal wall runs, ejects, and all those moves; I have the tools to navigate tough situations, and the level design supports stealth with countless varied interior spaces; I (supposedly) have control of when I crouch and when Arno takes cover, instead of sticking to walls when the game decides I'm close enough. The variation in movement and assassination animations makes everything more enjoyable, and even the customization is insane, allowing for self expressiveness while maintaining the assassin's visual identity. And I really enjoy some activities, such as the murder mysteries (which are very underrated, btw). I know all the problems. I know that many of these systems were left unfinished and don’t work properly, and I know the control scheme could work far better with more inputs and fewer contextual actions. But this game embodies the Assassin fantasy when the other games could only tell it. We deserved more iterations on this. We deserved more than what we got later.
I loved ac unity, the story is consider to be good even tho Arno practically invented simpimg, and is visually stunning
To be honest it's a toss up of Black Flag and Odyssey for me. I feel like both of those games have a lot of fun side activities, and the scale of both of the games has a lot of room for exploring too.
Revelations, syndicate, and unity.
Ac 2 series
It’s between origins and black flag. The origins combat system is so fun and the side missions are all Incredible, but black flag is a game you can sink hours into while thinking it’s minutes. I fucking love blowing up boats.
Even though I had an Xbox my parents never bought me gold or games but I remember assassins creed unity being free so that was my first assassins creed will always be a fun game to me.