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IGN: The Best 6 Assassin's Creed Games

Nice to see some AC1 love. Yeah, it was incomplete but there was a gameplay heart there that was lost in subsequent games.

You could plot and plan and prepare, and execute those plans near perfectly. The overworld exploration had potential too.
 
Buckethead said:
Granted I've only played 1, 2, and BH, but I liked AC1 the best.

AC2 definitely has more game to it but AC1 was more grounded.
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I completely agree, having played the same three. I might put Brotherhood above 1, but gut instinct puts the list as

1. AC
1a/2: AC Brotherhood
3: AC2
Who gives a damn: The rest
 
*dumb list because people have different opinions than me*

I swore I would never enter another neogaf 'top list' thread, and I fell for it.
 
I can't even force myself to finish Assassins Creed 2. If that's the best of the series then I might as well quit now.
 
I thought AC1 was alright for what it was even if the side missions were repetitive. Never finished AC2 though, I don't see what's so great about it.
 
Cohiba said:
I can't even force myself to finish Assassins Creed 2. If that's the best of the series then I might as well quit now.
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If you are not enjoying 2 I would absolutely suggest you stop now. You will not warm up to this series down the line. Brotherhood is basically just a refinement of 2 and then it's all downhill from there.
 
Just curious, but AC: R seems to get a lot of hate. It is because people think the game is bad, or is it they mostly think the game was just unnecessary for the story?
 
List should go something like this:


  1. Assassins Creed 2
  2. Assassins Creed Brotherhood
  3. Assassins Creed Revelations
  4. Assassins Creed 1
  5. Assassins Creed 3

Haven't played AC 4 yet so can't really comment.
 
squall211 said:
Just curious, but AC: R seems to get a lot of hate. It is because people think the game is bad, or is it they mostly think the game was just unnecessary for the story?
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Its fine but it doesn't evolve the main storyline and had some silly mechanics (like the tower defense nonsense) but its a good sendoff for Ezio and a lot of cool stuff with Altair.
 
This ad brought to you by Ubisoft. Sort of reminds me of that PA comic: "So how awesome are your games?" "So awesome!!"

I somehow managed to avoid this series completely. LOL.
 
What if I tell you all that AC1 had the best assassination missions? the music, the tension when you finally got to the good part of the game, evaluating the surroundings, the guards patterns and possible escape routes.

We got better AC games after that, but we got worse assassination missions less grandiose and much much more scripted game by game.
 
Lol this is totally a "Fuck it's friday, I need to have 1 more article written. I'll just make a list. Wait, that's still too much work."
 
ChapaNDJ said:
Yes, i do. I don't need to play that game to know how bad it is.
Like i said in my previous post, it feels like nothing but an expansion of AC3.
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You don't need to play a game to know how bad it is or how it it feels? You get all that from a YouTube video? Wow.
 
Assassin's Creed 1 has the best assassination missions in the entire series. 2 was better in every regard, I love the PoP esque trials to get the armor, but the stronger emphasis on story left the actual assassinations boring. The first game felt like a prototype for a historical, open-world Hitman game, which was fucking awesome! Just give me a list of targets and make them have unique daily cycles and whatnot and it would be sooooooo much better.
 
How can anyone think Brotherhood isn't better than ACII? It improves upon it almost as much as II improved upon the first.
 
Revelations is my favorite though. Nothing like throwing a bomb full of sheep blood in the middle of a procession of citizens. And they can't even de-sync you because Ezio totally did that.

Anyway, I like Revelations because it has my favorite versions of Ezio and Altair, adds a lot of convenience mechanics (the hookblade, part hook, part blade), freed up the primary/secondary weapon pairing system, gave the series a heavy graphics upgrade from Brotherhood (which looked the same as 2, and tended to be kind of gross during close-ups), made it so I didn't have to interact with most of Desmond's annoying friends, and got rid of a lot of Brotherhood's jank (shop missions, bland recruits, ridiculous 100% sync objectives which I suffered through earning, etc.)

Only thing I don't like is the lack of horses (no place to ride) and Janissaries being a pain to fight at all times. Oh, and the stupid Desmond's Journey sidegame. Can't believe they made a paid DLC expansion for that.
 
Frumix said:
Frontier? Seriously? The one thing that was completely counter-productive to AC base gameplay? Hunting and running through that oversized excuse for padding was so boring it was amazing.
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It was pretty. :P I didn't care for Constantinople on any level whatsoever.
 
Saving Black Flag for PS4/PC. Also, Brotherhood is objectively the best, I think. Assassin's Creed 2 being such a pleasant surprise probably keeps it higher in my favourites though.

I actually still had a good time with even Assassin's Creed 3. But to paraphrase what Sterling once said about Sonic Unleashed. "It's like someone baked a beautiful cake, but accidentally threw some nails in too". When Assassin's Creed 3 was good, I really liked it. But there's just as much to despise about it too.

Glad to hear Black Flag is a step in the right direction again, prioritising fun gameplay and a likeable protagonist. I was getting series fatigue, but now I'm looking forward to giving the new one a shot.

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Wait, Black Flag is out already? I'm legitimately shocked. I could have sworn 3 was just released a few months ago, and BF was just announced weeks ago. Ubisoft's release schedule is insane, I can't keep track of all these games.
 
jett said:
The only instafail is AssRev's tower garbage. Tower defense garbage + worst setting in the series = rightfully at the bottom.
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I only ever had to do the Tower Defense stuff once. I'm not even sure what prompts it but I completed the game without it ever giving me a notification. Loved Constantinople as a setting. Haven't played Black Flag yet, but so far the only ones I've liked were the Ezio games.
 
I don't care about subjective ordered lists, but my takeaway from this one is that IV is pretty damned good for an AC game, and that suits me just fine.
 
I still think the first AC had its merits, basically because of what Patrice Désilets said. I agree that, mechanic-wise, the first one was too repetitive and lacking, but I think that if they improved that in the sequels while staying in that secret-stealth assassin story, it would have been better.

As a whole package, AC II is my favorite.
 
so the only one i played, beat (and consequently didn't like) is considered to be the best.....yeah, fuck this series
 
Eh, surprised ACIII is so high on that list.

ACII>AC>ACB>ACR>ACIII

I haven't played Bloodlines and Liberation is actually sitting on the table ready to be played. I want to be excited for Black Flag because the setting seems interesting but ACIII burned me out pretty bad. Playing it sometimes felt like a chore and most of the fun I had was during the naval side missions or exploring the underground passages.

The first Assassin's Creed game did it best, if I remember correctly. I miss the information gathering and the freedom of how you'd like to approach your assassinations. I never found that sort of stuff tedious. ACIII literally had two assassinations where the best approach was to climb something and air assassinate. I just want more options for the assassinations. Be a bit more creative with those Full Sync Challenges instead of flashing on the screen on what the best/only approach is worth doing.
 
Seriously. If there are people here who have not played Black Flag yet do not put it behind Revelations, AC or AC3. It is by far the most enjoyable game of the franchise since Brotherhood and the gameplay videos hardly do it any justice. Play the game. Hear the atmosphere and sound through your speakers. It is quite a lovely game and makes AC3 feel like an immensely rushed one.
 
squall211 said:
Just curious, but AC: R seems to get a lot of hate. It is because people think the game is bad, or is it they mostly think the game was just unnecessary for the story?
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It's where they started throwing in a ton of useless shit just to pad out the game. Then Assassin's Creed III took that example and multiplied it by 100, so I have no fucking clue what the IGN writer was thinking.

My list:
Assassin's Creed 2
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed
Watching paint dry
Assassin's Creed III
 
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