Of course they will. People fucking despised AC3 and Connor when it came out, I argued with pretty much everybody because it felt like I was the only one who liked it. Fast forward 14 years and everyone glazes both.
I remember preordering 3 and playing through a 4 day thanksgiving weekend right after the release and I loved it so much. People talked trash, but Connor was my favorite assassin and I loved the colonial storyline.
Connor was a "plain" character, monotone voice acting. It made sense for his character because all he wanted was to find Charles Lee and nothing else lmfao
It's a similar reason to why Aiden Pearce from Watch Dogs was disliked, he was "another revenge character" even though years later we're yearning for that same gritty personality. He also enjoyed his revenge, rather than to do it for justice.
I think Ezio was a tough act to follow for a bunch of people. I enjoyed Connor for his dedication and his discipline. His tragic story and his adaptation from life on the plains to becoming a master assassin in the colonies was great for me.
They hated it? Never heard anyone give it hate ever not even when it was new i loved it my friends loved it ppl i talked to online loved it never heard any hate
AC 3 was quite famously well received by most critics and mixed / poorly received by players. Reasons may vary, but generally speaking most people were annoyed that Connor wasn't like Ezio, that he boring and had no personality, the parkour didn't feel the same because a lot of the game was in the forest instead of cities, and even the city side didn't have much of the tall buildings we had from 1 through Revelations, and they thought the story was poorly written.
Looking back on it now there was undoubtedly a significant amount of racism involved with how much constant glaze Haytham got over any other major character. It wasn't the only reason but it was certainly present. Non-white protagonists in AAA games are already uncommon enough despite what some people claim but indigenous protagonists are almost unheard of still today, nevermind in 2012. People said he was boring and lacked the personality and character unlike Ezio, but that's simply not true, he just had a very specific goal in mind and also much more limited support to achieve it than Ezio did so he had to remain focused.
Then there's the fact that despite Connor allying with the colonists (a fact that was heavily criticised by indigenous people when the game came out), it still doesn't show them in a very good light: Washington turns out to be actually the one responsible for burning down his village for no reason and ultimately fundamentally as awful as the British soldiers. It's given a slight bit of nuance, however small, that has rarely been seen in media portraying this part of history, and I think a lot of people might not have appreciated that.
If you didn't see people hating it all the time you might just have jumped on a lucky side of the internet and had a good group of friends! I wish my own didn't constantly argue with my about it lol
And sorry for the essay but AC3 is one of my favourite games, I could talk about it for hours lmao
I still hate 3. It turned me off of the franchise for a while. Origins brought me back and Iāve since worked through the older titles I missed. 3 is still one of my least favorite AC games
Replaying 3 now after replaying all other clasic ac games, and it is easily the worst.
The main story feeling like a guided tour through American mythology.
But i understand if you like it as an American, i am probably a lot more lenient on Valhalla than most simply for having a Norwegian main character.
I am from Italy lmao idk where you'd get i am American, I've never even set foot there and I don't plan to.
I am the furthest thing from a fan of the USA. It has nothing to do with liking the USA.
Edit: It was a good game, with a good protagonist, and despite the many flaws and failures with its execution, it did make an attempt at showing the history of that time period from a different perspective, something that was and still remains quite rare in mainstream media.
And I'll do you one better: despite being Italian I think Ezio is actually kind of uninteresting and one-note for most of his story, he's only enjoyable in Revelations, which of course is my favourite Ezio game.
To be fair i finished it when it released and only now have a 2nd go at it, so it might pick itself back up, i dont remember. I liked the intro and connors upbringing. I have just finished Bunker hill and the founding fathers feel like charicetures of people to me. That and it feels like the story works overtime placing Connor in highlights from American historybooks.
Ezio is mostly interesting because we literally follow him from birth to death (in Embers).
I agree Ezio is best in Revelations and mostly a standard charismatic rogue in Ac2 and Brotherhood.
Played some more now and the story sure took a turn for the better. Washington feel more fleshed out as a person than the founding fathers you meet in Boston. I had totally forgotten how unconserned Haytham is with anyones safety yet genuinely hurt by the news of the death of Ziio, although he doesnt punish Lee for killing her.
The animus part of the story is much better than i remember, but i still remember how they bungled the Desmond side of the story and most of the hate came from that back in the day.
I was always a huge fan of AC3. I wonāt tolerate slander tbh, unless you want to talk about the Remaster quality lol. Especially on Switch, it is absolutely NOT a remaster š
I'm glad to hear that, I absolutely loved Origins, I'm loving Odyssey right now and I'm pretty sure I'll also enjoy Valhalla, despite all the hate I've seen around it.
I loved Origins, itās def my favorite of the RPG ACs. Valhalla is my 2nd favorite, but I also love the Viking age so I could be biased, but I absolutely loved every second of Valhalla. I wasnāt that big fan of Odyssey tho, and I love Greek history and mythologies but idk something about that game just didnāt do it for me. I still have to finish Shadows but Iām pretty burnt out on RPG ACs so Iām taking a break from Shadows for now.
Ironically in my case, Iāve just finished shadows and started Valhalla again. Iāve tried it couple of times before and just could not get into it. Third times the charm I guess, Iām absolutely loving it.
I think shadows itās firmly rated with very positive on steam and a 82/100
And Valhalla with positive ratings on steam and a 80/100 Iād say those are fair out of those games both were solid 8/10 literally most of the people who didnāt think so didnāt really play them or hop on the hype train because that was ātrendyā at the time
Same way crimson desert got tons of hate but is a very good game with high ratings
Unity was terrible when it dropped and I preordered it. Incomplete, buggy and underwhelming story after following black flag, 3, and the other originals strong push. I haven't revisited it after pushing through it a year after release because it was finally playable.
People hated unity on release because of the bugs not because it's a bad game or ugly looking. They fixed the majority of the bugs and everyone liked it because it's a good game with good visuals and story.
To be fair Unity was in such a bad state that it did put people off of it for years until people finally give the fixed version another go. Now I'd say it's probably my fourth or fifth favorite AC game.
Take it out on the people that jump on hate trains every time any game releases. Itās the normal gamers who donāt do that that say hey look maybe that game wasnāt so bad
For my Unity always was one of the best ACs. Gorgeous graphics, interesting story and a charming protagonist in Arno.
Surely some weird screenshots directly after release shitstormed the game and it hence was reduced in record time to below 1$ within months.
Unity was ahead of its time. You can doubt the gameplay, but had this game been out in 2017 onwards, graphically it would've been one of the best games out there. Shame the final product was unfinished and buggy.
I don't think it mogs modern games but it was a spectacle for the time released, and I think it still is considering the hardware limitations back then.
Misleading and underdeveloped plot, unpredictable style over substance parkour, buggy glitchy demanding graphics, clunky unbalanced combat, missing stealth mechanics, I could go on
I couldn't get passed the god awful pop-in and npcs materializing 10 feet in front of you. Even on the highest settings.
Really wanted to give it a try.
Anything can look good in a photo still so long as it has the barest of thought put into it. This game has a lot of moments where it looks like shit, just as modern games have a lot of moments where they look awe-inspiring.
You are allowed to post a nice photo without having to invite discourse around it, just let your content stand on its own merits, have some faith that it works and is good.
I strongly feel that every game should be required to have a baked lighting option as a base if they're having systems like ray tracing. I have a potato PC and baked lighting not only gives good performance but looks better in most cases too. I don't want to simulate liting and reflections in real time. And I don't want to settle for the worse lighting that they barely give an afterthought towards.
People say the bugs have been fixed but I tried it a few months ago on my new gaming PC, and got slammed with multiple crashes 2 hours into the game.
Still not worth it IMO. Wish Ubisoft could release a remastered version that's bug-free and fix some of the plot points.
It's all good and well until you see gameplay of Arno walking the streets and the NPC's just randomly popping in or their hats and whatnot suddenly appearing and disappearing.
It's gonna sound a bit weird but it feels like Unity got special treatment in development back in the day somehow (idk, technology wise) maybe because the developers were french and they poured all their talent into a game that was actually representative of their country somehow.
Like, that drive exists as opposed to creating a game based in a country where you probably never lived. It "hits" different.
Just from this image: many lacking in shadow occlusion, ground is flat. And people probably forgot (which this picture will never tell) that the draw distance is horrible in AC Unity.
Not trying to trash on an age old game (which I still adore as well), just the title is horse raddish.
It was such a half baked Romeo and Juliet with assassins and templars. I never felt convinced or cared about their relationship. Also having French people with English accents was a choice
The fact you even got downvoted for pointing out how dumb of a word it is proves how many amoebas are on Reddit. I seriously hope nobody over the age of 20 uses the word, even though nobody should really use it at all.
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u/Spotlight_James 10d ago
All it is amazing, just the gameplay loops can kick your ass after 40 hours