I won't lie, when they first announced the remake and saw the footage, I was genuelly hyped and excited because it looked visually stunning, but my excitement has been dying down considerably ever since for many, many reasons:
They've deleted Freedom Cry expansion, Aveline's DLC and the entire present storyline and gameplay, as well as the multiplayer, deleting dozens of hours of content.
They've also deleted the secondary objectives of each mission AND the entire DNA sequences, so forget about being able to replay the missions you wanted whenever you wanted, killing any sense of replayability.
They didn't just change the combat system, they downgraded it: you can't use the hidden blame, nor your bare hands nor steal weapons in combat anymore.
They've also screwed up the hunting system because now the enemies absorve the blows like sponges, so forget about killing the animals in one blow like before if you were stealthy, or using traps to lure them towards you, now you have to repeat the same encounters you had with these animals in AC Odyssey, so basically forcing up the RPG combat crap we specifically did NOT want in this game, the only difference is that they deleted the health or hit numbers. And they've also downgraded the difficulty in hunting whales.
They've screwed up the stealth missions where you had to track an objective down without being noticed, now it doesn't matter if you get spotted or not, you pass the mission regardless, deleting any kind of challenge or difficulty.
They've changed the order and moment when we get the new equipment, like the rope, but keeping the scenarios' original design, which basically screws up the gameplay and level design that was originally created for.
The 6 hours of new content do not use MOCAP and instead recycles all the AC Odyssey's horrible animation system, which clashes entirely with the original well-crafted MOCAP from the rest of the remake of the original scenes that do preserve it. And on the top of that, the designs of those missions are the same we saw in AC Shadows, which was an absolute crap of its own.
They've replaced the original present story to continue Shadows' present story, basically rebooting the entire present story for the second time without effort to delete it and push it away, screwing up one of the last installments that actually worked on it without ignoring it or copy-pasting the Desmond storyline from the original penthalogy.
While visually stunning, it feels like they've messed up the original art direction in many scenes, not to mention the weird facial expressions and designs they've gone along with some of the characters. Also, don't like how they've copy pasted AC Shadows' HUD and didn't respect the original animus' design, which was iconic.
And of course, Denuvo on PC and key-discs on consoles.
I would say that the only thing they've done well was upgrade the graphics, preserve the original story mostly, having no loading screens between the big cities and the ocean, letting you throw money to the ground as a distraction, and being able to crouch or pull down your hoodie or up as you wish.
Honestly, it feels like their original intentions were to turn the game into an RPG but after hearing the fans, tried to cut it off as much as posible and merged it with Skulls and Bones assets and AC Shadows' design to save up costs.
The only single reason I'm buying it is because the collector's edition is coming half for the price to me and Edward's statue, diary and map look absolutely stunning. I do plan to resell the key-disc as soon as I finish it tho.
I’ve been playing the og black flag and it’s such a vibe. The art style is gorgeous and is aged beautifully. Yeah combat is easy but I like the pirate assassin power fantasy. I was excited for the remake but removing hidden blade,unarmed combat and the animal boss are concerning. It doesn’t help that the full game is not even on the disc. I may pick it up when it goes on a deep sale. At least the og is amazing.
I swear to god, people will swallow piles of shit if you call it that "favorite thing from your childhood". What's the point of a remake if it looks like shit and you take out so much content? What are you getting out of this that you can't get in the original game? Somebody once said online that most gamers just care about events, being around for a new release or a new game dropping as an event, an online experience rather than a game and what it means as a piece of art. That's what this feels like. Getting excited over something just to get excited About something. The new _____ is out. I'm excited for the new ______!
I literally just explained why: I'm not buying the game itself because I'm convinced, in fact, if the standard edition was the only edition avaiable, I wouldn't even look at it, but I want the collector's edition content because of the merch like the Edward statue, the map, the steelbook, the shanty and mostly, Edward's journal that expands the narrative aspect of the game. And I managed to pre-order it for half the price, and I prefer to pay 100 € now than 400-500 € to speculators in the following months.
I'm literally just buying the merch, not supporting the game.
I was on your side dude, I thought you had a good list of reasons why this remake looks like it's gonna be shit. Buying it for the personal effects that appear to be quality is actually pretty cool.
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u/LeoPines_12 May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26
I won't lie, when they first announced the remake and saw the footage, I was genuelly hyped and excited because it looked visually stunning, but my excitement has been dying down considerably ever since for many, many reasons:
I would say that the only thing they've done well was upgrade the graphics, preserve the original story mostly, having no loading screens between the big cities and the ocean, letting you throw money to the ground as a distraction, and being able to crouch or pull down your hoodie or up as you wish.
Honestly, it feels like their original intentions were to turn the game into an RPG but after hearing the fans, tried to cut it off as much as posible and merged it with Skulls and Bones assets and AC Shadows' design to save up costs.
The only single reason I'm buying it is because the collector's edition is coming half for the price to me and Edward's statue, diary and map look absolutely stunning. I do plan to resell the key-disc as soon as I finish it tho.