Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™

utter garbage

I had planned to finish this game, and write my review of this game before the remaster released, however clearly that’s not going to happen. As such, I’m just gonna kind of glue my thoughts together in a messy and directionless review. After months (maybe even years at this point) of on-again, off-again play, I am finally getting close to finishing the fan-favorite Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. And I must say: If this is the game considered by fandom as the “Best Game in the Franchise” I shudder to imagine how the worst one must be. Sure, naval combat is great, sea shanties are fun, the pirate plot is good, characters are good, and have great voice acting, and sailing is so therapeutic and the most fun I’ve had with the game. However, this game is a buggy mess with plenty of glitched animations and many more glitched audio. Additionally the modern day plot really throws a wrench into the pirate plot’s pacing, and if you are like me, where you are only interested in this one game and not the overall plot from the previous Assassin’s Creed games, you will likely know little about what is actually happening or the significance of it’s developments, or simply not care about them. If there were an option to skip the modern day plot entirely, I would absolutely use it, because on top the story being one I do not care for that only serves to hamper the pacing, it also introduces immersion breaking sci-fi elements into an otherwise ‘historical’ action-adventure game. But now, let me get into my biggest gripe with the game, it’s ground combat and stealth mechanics. For a game that advertises itself as a stealth game foremost, the stealth mechanics are surprisingly shallow, and lack any incentive/punishment for engaging with them or choosing to forgo them. Most stealth missions are simple trailing missions, and most assassination missions have stealth as optional, and will not punish you for just running in and cutting everyone down. The latter being very easy to do since this game has some of the easiest combat I’ve ever seen. Think Arkham, but every attack just kills instantly. That’s this game. I think the easiest way to incentivise stealth was simply carrying over the notoriety system already present in the game when sailing to also when you are walking. Add bounty hunter NPCs that gradually become either more powerful or numerous at higher notoriety levels, and maybe make it more difficult or expensive to clear your notoriety, and done. As is, the game does not punish you for not stealthing, and it doesn’t incentivise you either since typically it will take way longer to do so, and there are no rewards for it either. There are many other things I dislike with this game, such as it’s collect-a-thon elements, the underwater exploration, resources either being way too accessible or way to scarce, it’s bloated runtime, etc. but as I’ve stated in the forward of this review, this is supposed to be a clobbered together amalgamation of my thoughts rather than an actual thought out review. I still have yet to finish the game at the time of writing this, I just wanted to get a review out either before or alongside the release of the remake as I hope this review can point out the flaws with the original in hopes that the remake will/has addressed them. I do this since I believe at it’s core Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag has a good structure. The setting, characters, music, core gameplay (naval), and the like make up a strong foundation of a good game, and I am left disappointed with the end result. I give Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag 6.4 Johnnies that should Leave Her out of 10 As mentioned briefly earlier, sailing to sea shanties, hunting down whales/sharks, and digging up buried treasure with a map was the highlight of the game. If you don’t think you would appreciate these lull moments, I doubt you’d like this game as the action moments leave a lot to be desired.

эта самая лучшая часть ассасина. и попробуйте поспорить ешкин кошкин (не надо, пожалуйста) ей даже дали второй шанс жить, вы понимаете? типы сделали ремастер. так шо играйте и наслаждайтесь пиратством хуесосов, убийством пидорастов. и помните вы главный, а остальные биг боб орешки. ааааа ну и пж подарите мне ремастер пжпжпжпж ну пж ♥♥♥

Nie mogę aktywować gry na moim koncie. W tej sprawie STEAm "rżnie GŁUPA na maksa! żenua,

This version of ac4 black flag does not work anymore, will not even start loading. i wouldn't recommend buying this version.

[h3]Replaying in 2026[/h3] I wanted to finish AC4 again before buying the remake, so I could compare it with the original being fresh in memory. But I was also looking forward to getting all Steam achievements since they were added in 2024. [h3]The best AC game?[/h3] It's well known that this is one of the best AC games. It's a great pirate game and I still like it a lot but it's not my favorite AC game. It is fairly well written, has one of the best protagonist and I remember being absolutely in awe of the graphics when I played it the first time and they still hold up. It fixed the broken combat system from AC3 and is now really solid. I don't care too much for the fleet management minigame, the hunting is fine, the "fishing" is really cool for the first few times, the assassin missions are a bit lack luster. It's sadly yet another uninspired Ubisoft map marker collector game, but overall it still holds up very well as an AC game. [h3]However...[/h3] I'm going to not recommend this version of AC4. As with Brotherhood, it has very little to do with the actual game, but with Ubisoft's neglect of another classic. Ofcourse they want you to buy full price for the remaster and get all the exorbitant microtransactions... I'm hesitant but the experience is ruined for me to be frank. The main reason is multiplayer achievements... the bane of a completionist's existence... I'm not going to grind to level 55 in an AC MP game... And considering there's NO more matches available, it's basically impossible to 100% this game in 2026. Less than half a percent of players have this achievement... why do developers keep doing this. Keep in mind that this achievement would have unlocked retroactively if I had gotten it in previous playthroughs of the game. Who plays these? [h3]Conclusion...[/h3] Considering I can't 100% the game on Steam, for a completionist this makes it a moot point to even continue. I got 100% synchronization in AC4 multiple times before, both on PS and PC. I own 3 different copies of AC4, but this time, there's little point in me finishing the game.

Play this game again while the Resynced release.

Çok konuşmaya gerek yok bence en iyi AC oyunu 1. AC4BF 2. AC Valhalla 3. AC4BF Resynced olacak