r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • Apr 23 '26
Image / Video Assassin's Creed Black Flag ORIGINAL vs RESYNCED
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u/Imwaymoreflythanyou Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Did people think the original looked bad?
Edit: just wanna add I’ve watched the full 8 min or so trailer and it actually is very faithful to the original like colour/art style wise so I’m all for it.
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u/Financial-Brief-1038 Apr 23 '26
I like how the original looks
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u/LiftedRetina Apr 23 '26
I like the over exposure and harsh lighting in some spots. It feels appropriately tropical.
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u/Somnambulist815 Apr 23 '26
Considering how much media these days seem scared of blown out highlights and deep shadows, I welcome it
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u/raiin901 Apr 23 '26
It’s just a little over overexposed though especially on a hdr tv. It can be blinding but not in a good way lol
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u/Dangerous_Savings739 Apr 27 '26
Indeed! Living in some countries with a different climate, I can say that for the southern one, it was neatly captured in the original game - when the sunlight makes the surfaces overexposed until you put 3-4rd cat sunglasses. It literally blinds you - harsh, burning your skin and eyes SUN. That's it!
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u/mat477 Apr 23 '26
I was thinking the same. Ive never played the original (only ever played AC1) but the remake looks brighter and more alive but I like the dingy grungey look of the original.
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u/Financial-Brief-1038 Apr 23 '26
Then you have the inverse-- Warner Archive releases an old animated release saturated in color and people say they messed with it. Nope, that's how the 35mm master looks. Dark Turner color-grading and deteriorating station copies became the accepted standard. Lol.
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u/PCBuilderCat Apr 23 '26
Yeah honestly what this comparison did for me was make me think damn the original game looks pretty darn good for being 13 years old
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u/Roids-in-my-vains Apr 23 '26
Its 13 years old lol and was made for consoles that released 20 years ago
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u/Kafanska Apr 24 '26
Just because it is old, doesn't mean it looks bad. While obviously graphics have advanced, the advancement in the last 13 years is nowhere near the jump from 2000 to 2013. Many games from 13 years ago look more than good enough today except in the eyes of people who think anything without ray tracing is utter crap.
In short - Black Flag still looks great.
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u/EphemerallyViolent Apr 23 '26
Does that mean bad? Or old/dated? Because many games from 10-15 years ago were far enough along graphically that the differences are, even if noticeable, arguably minor.
Other games went for an actual art direction instead of photo realism and hold up even better.
With the amount of "Damn, can't believe x game released in 2015 and looks THIS good" posts on Reddit, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the people that think these games look "bad" are likely either a minority or are brain-rot AI chuds waiting to upscale their goonbait into Maralago faced aryan trad-wife bullshit while screaming SIX SEVENNNNN
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u/Imwaymoreflythanyou Apr 23 '26
You ain’t wrong, I guess I just don’t require more and more realism to think a game looks good. I mean Dark Souls 1 looks amazing to me so I’m probably not the norm lol.
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u/Tha_Sly_Fox Apr 23 '26
Might be generational but I actually don’t like the look of hyper crisp ultra realistic games. Idk if uncanny valley or what but I prefer less realistic or less super crisp graphics
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u/EphemerallyViolent Apr 23 '26
Having an art direction means your game is timeless. Going for hyper realism means that when you can spend another $2000 on one part in a rig strong enough to render two extra freckles with 5% more polygons and eight more Ray of Gods coming out of nowhere to lensflare your not-a-lens eyeballs for the CINEMATIC QUAALLLLITTTYY -
You know, it goes quite a ways. The having an artistic style, that is.
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u/MilleryCosima Apr 23 '26
I think most people want to be the kind of person who ignores graphics, but I think it has a bigger impact on most people than they think. Above a certain level, I can adjust to whatever, but there's no substitute for the wow factor of great art direction + shiniest graphics.
Ghost of Yotei still leaves me breathless every time I look at anything, which is something I don't get from older games.
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u/ForgotMyPreviousPass Apr 23 '26
I can live without top notch graphics, and without story if the gameplay/systems etc are top tier. Say, dwarf fortress, soulash 2, ostranauts, RimWorld, Stardew Valley, to name a few. Gameplay first, we have movies for graphics and books for stories.
Now, the wow factor in Crimson Desert, in Ghost of Tsushima (graphics are quite standardish there though, but art direction is great), in CP2077, that is undeniably there and I enjoy it a lot.
I'd say art direction is several orders of magnitude more important than the graphics themselves though.
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u/MilleryCosima Apr 23 '26
I agree with most of this (I disagree on stories as games enable some unique approaches to storytelling that you can't get in any other medium). Good graphics are a plus, not a requirement.
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u/boodabomb Apr 24 '26
Every time anyone even mentions graphics, the immediate wave of responses are unanimously about how it’s not as important as story and gameplay. And… maybe. But they’re still important and play a huge role in a game’s presentation and immersion. Everyone acts like graphics are some overhyped element, and that might have been true once but now they’re absolutely under-appreciated (from what I’ve witnessed).
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u/Imwaymoreflythanyou Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
That’s fair, I like how the Ghost games look too.
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Apr 23 '26
Yea agreed, at some point even games attempting realism become a time capsule for that generations graphical capabilities and aesthetic sensibilities
Those assassins creed games are like quintessential xb360/ps3 era games to me, there’s a lot of interesting design choices that serve to make those games look more realistic when they came out. Now with modern graphics those choices become more like the defining aesthetic of the game
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u/thissucksnuts Apr 23 '26
no but the game is so good it should be remade with updated graphics until the planet ends
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u/nalaloveslumpy Apr 23 '26
Don't worry, the will. And they'll charge you $70 every fucking time.
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u/Metalgsean Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
No, I go through it again every couple of years, but it'll be nice to go through it again with a bit of a fresher look.
As for those that think it's madness to pay for the same game with updated visuals, I agree but I'm so underwhelmed with the current gen of gaming I have plenty to spare in my gaming pot.
Edit: I've just watched the full video, there's a lot more than just how it looks. I'd suggest if you haven't watched it do so.
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u/CranEXE Apr 23 '26
looks impressivce still considering some of ubisoft recent decision i won't pay it full price i don't trust them anymore
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u/Davviewavvie Apr 23 '26
Its almost ironic the way I’ll be sailing the high seas for this game
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u/AdWise657 Apr 24 '26
That sub would be good if half of it’s complaints weren’t about “wokeness.”
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u/Dull_Caterpillar_642 Apr 24 '26
THEY PUT GIRL IN MY GAME
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u/Darth-Felanu-Hlaalu Apr 24 '26
Literally a post whining about Kay Vess being ugly and then they used the most unflattering, poorly timed, glitched out images possible. Could make Lara Croft ugly with the shots they used.
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u/kangasplat Apr 24 '26
Their biggest crime lately is making a ton of expensively produced, kinda lackluster, mediocre games.
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u/KingGorillaKong Apr 24 '26
Hiring multiple dev studios and teams to all work in pure competition with each other for 2 to 3 years and then axing 90% of the teams to go with the most "analytically friendly easy to monetize" option. Which often times ends up being a really sub-par or lackluster game.
Look at Skull & Bones dev history. And look at how many more recent teams were let go.
Ubisoft survives not because they're actually hitting sales targets. They're living on the Canadian and Quebecois government subsidies and bursaries. With Skull & Bones, they managed to live off other foreign government subsidies and bursaries as well.
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u/candianbastard Apr 23 '26
I bought AC shadow at $90. Biggest mistake of my life. I’ll wait this one out till it’s under $25
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u/eluhigehi Apr 23 '26
I mean I get it but if buying shadows was the BIGGEST mistake of your life you sure have a very nice life with very little problems.
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u/canehdian_guy Apr 23 '26
For real. I got an untreatable STI from eating out a hookers asshole in Portland.
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u/candianbastard Apr 23 '26
I guess you could say in one way. But I haven’t lived a long life either. I’m 21.
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u/FrankTheTnkk Apr 23 '26
This. That company is beyond redemption and while I love some of their older stuff, they'll never get a full price purchase from me again.
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u/Snekbites Apr 24 '26
I'm gonna be honest, this is exactly the reason why I trust them, or rather, can take a calculated guess that it's gonna turn out well.
obvi, I'm not gonna pay until I can witness it not being a fuckup, but the fact that they got Kenway's VA back, are remaking the "best" AC, instead of starting from the bottom, hell the fact that it was made from the ground up instead of just putting an HD remaster, fixing tailing missions, etc etc.
It just tells me that they've put this one into the DO NOT FUCK UP category, not because of respect like RE2R or RE4R, but because they can't afford to fuck up, they're on the ropes, they're desperate, they want you to like them again.
For the last 10 years they've been coasting on the name of AC while ruining it steadily, that goodwill has officially ran out it seems, they will not fuck up, because they CAN'T fuck this one up.
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u/JacktheWrap Apr 24 '26
I don't know. When blizzard showed in game footage of war craft 3 reforged it also looked like they were putting a lot of work into it. And that game was the scam of the century.
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u/650fosho Apr 23 '26
They aren't all bad, they made Prince of Persia Lost Crown, god damn that game owns.
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u/SnarkyRogue Apr 24 '26
If it's out in July it'll be on sale by Christmas, guaranteed.
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u/Krytan Apr 23 '26
Honestly this just shows how good the graphics were in Black Flag. What a game. Highpoint of the assassins series.
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u/danonck Apr 24 '26
Agreed, the last good one. Amazing one, actually.
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u/keni804 Apr 24 '26
Unity was spectacular just never got a chance from fans because of how buggy it was on release
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u/TheDeflatables Apr 25 '26
The world can never make me hate Origins and Odyssey. Loved those games, especially Odyssey
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u/eroyrotciv Apr 23 '26
For me, everything depends on performance. I almost exclusively play on the Steam Deck, so... It's gotta run well on that. But honestly, OG still looks fine, too.
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u/ohsinboi Apr 23 '26
It’s on the same engine as Shadows and should run similarly to that
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u/FuzzyCollie2000 Apr 23 '26
If the recommended specs on Steam are accurate, the Steam Deck should work just fine.
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u/Spyrofan22 Apr 23 '26
Oh my god I can almost see a noticeable difference on the 10 year old game! Take my 80 bucks boy
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u/Tackgnol Apr 23 '26
It's a Ubisoft game wait a month and it will be $35 max!
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u/Neekoy Apr 23 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
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u/Comprehensive_Sea_19 Apr 24 '26
First sales on Steam was like 25% off 5 months after launch and 50% after almost a year. Unless there were better deals on their own launcher?
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u/XyrenZin Apr 25 '26
No it wasn't. I dont like Ubisoft as well but no need to heavily exaggerate. The game was like 20% off a month later. Theres a huge difference between 20% and 50% off
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u/frostymugson Apr 23 '26
Picked the division up for like 20 bucks with the DLC, having a blast after being skeptical for years. I dunno, Ubi makes fun games, hasn’t made an amazing game for a long time, but I always have fun
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u/MerTheGamer Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Yeah, as much as people shit on them, I always have fun with their games. I never not have a good time by clearing enemy strong holds Far Cry, Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs games since the basic gameplay is fun as hell.
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u/Gaggleofgeese Apr 23 '26
Ghost Recon is very entertaining in this regard as well, and has online co-op
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u/ThinVast Apr 23 '26
maybe because they used baked gi in the old title. Now it's taken over 10 years for dynamic gi to catch up and look better than it.
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u/Jerry_from_Japan Apr 23 '26
Get your fucking vision checked then. I get the "cool thing" to do is dunk on Ubisoft but come on. Theres huge differences here.
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u/Thin-Ad-7328 Apr 23 '26
almost? am i the only one who sees a marked improvement?
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u/yomihasu Apr 23 '26
No it's pretty obviously improved, this sub just hates video games
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u/Successful-Smile-928 Apr 24 '26
It also adds quests, characters, revamp combat etc
People just follow the ubi hate echochamber
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u/ThrowawayForDesigns Apr 23 '26
because Black Flag hasn't aged at all in 13 years
This is stupid, who argues this? Of course Black Flag aged.
For me the problem isn't whether the original aged at all but rather whether it aged enough to justify buying the game again for a couple of tweaks and prettier graphics
My answer is "nah". Maybe I'd pick it up for like 10 bucks, which coincedentally is the price the original went for on a Steam Sale recently
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u/BipedClub684000 Apr 23 '26
If it was just a "couple of tweaks and prettier graphics" then I would agree with you, but from what I've seen, they're improving combat, stealth, and hunting while also adding roughly about 6 hours of extra content, some of which was cut from the original game due to hardware limitations and time constraints.
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u/Enlightened_Gardener Apr 24 '26
Someone in Ubisoft loves that damn game. I love it, it was my first AC title, and I was warned here that it was an excellent pirate game, but not really an AC game. It is an excellent game, and I wonder who in the C-suite is keeping it alive.
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u/FUTURE10S Apr 24 '26
If they fixed the foliage LODs not at all matching the high-fidelity models (as in entirely different bushes and trees popped up when you were close enough) then I'm down to buy this, I loved the setting
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u/StephenFish Apr 24 '26
I can't possibly know, but my assumption is that this resync isn't meant to be targeted to people who already own the game. It's possibly a way to breathe new life into an older game and convince people who've never played it to pick it up. They might not have done so otherwise because there's so many new games to choose from. But now, it "feels" new with reusing probably 95%+ of the original game.
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u/Glittering-Neck-2505 Apr 23 '26
I almost asked what the point of this comment was but then realized you are an absolutely miserable person :/ sorry
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u/lymeeater Apr 24 '26
No offence but if you can only 'almost' see a difference you need your eyes examined.
Anyone claiming that this is a small change is either blind, lying, or needs a brain scan.
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u/pepewasraped Apr 23 '26
Are you blind? They coudl've chosen something better to compare, but there's a lot of difference. The trees, the mountains, the lighting, everything looks so much shittier.
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u/CallMeCygnus Apr 24 '26
The video this clip is taken from is over 8 minutes long. It has way more comparisons, and it all looks amazing, frankly.
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u/Livid-Truck8558 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Damn that's actually, a great remake. Looks super faithful to the original art direction, which helps the original still hold up today.
Black Flag was the only assassin's creed game I've ever been actually interested in, I might buy this on sale.
Edit: to be clear, interested doesn't mean played. I played it for like 5 minutes at a friend's house like 7 years ago.
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u/_VeinyThanos Apr 23 '26
It's ubisoft so you know you can get it for $10 in a year's time.
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u/MyzMyz1995 Apr 23 '26
AC shadows biggest discount was 50% off on PC. It's crazy how people just repeat whatever they see online lol.
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u/Bottlez1266 Apr 23 '26
But i don't want to wait a year
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u/AntGood1704 Apr 23 '26
“Is it finally time to play super Mario 64. I found a good rom but still wary of supporting the industry”
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u/Dub_Coast Apr 23 '26
I just started playing Lords of the Realm 1 & 2 last year and the first game is 32 this year the second will be 30 this year. Both are some of my favorite games of all time now lol
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u/Tha_Sly_Fox Apr 23 '26
They deserve my money for actually making a great remake of a game I love
I don’t pay full price often for games these days but when it’s this good I’ll happily give them my money
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u/TheLostRanger0117 Apr 23 '26
Black Flag love led to Odyssey love! The ship combat wasn’t exactly the same, but I still very much enjoy battling 5 ships at a time, sometimes even going on lavish killing sprees to get a high bounty, then taking to the sea to fight the mercenaries on the waves
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u/jestering_1 Apr 23 '26
i feel like it’s not hard to be faithful to an “art direction” that is purely just realism pirate town lmao
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u/Livid-Truck8558 Apr 23 '26
I understand, and I hold that sentiment too. But it is deeper than that. The Last of Us still has art direction, if it were truly just pure realism, it would look boring.
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u/ChangingMonkfish Apr 23 '26
To be fair in surprised at how well the original holds up.
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u/chumbawumbathefirst Apr 23 '26
Yes, to me this comparison just told me "Hey! The original actually still looks good you can just play that"
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u/AlphaThe7 Apr 23 '26
Bro that’s what I thought till I saw that they’re smoothing out the combat and ADDING characters and elements to the story. At this point I’d much rather play this new one
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u/DarkyErinyes Apr 23 '26
Played through the AC2 trilogy, AC3 and Black Flag last year, definitely still holds up very well. Only had some slight issues due to newer drivers ( had to downgrade ) and change a setting in the "ini" file.
But from a playing experience with the pirating, dialogue and overall world traveling it's still superb. Graphics still look very good from a distance only close up obviously a little dated.
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u/nickblastfromthepast Apr 23 '26
Never played the original so I’m hyped
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u/Ronin_777 Apr 23 '26
You’re in for a great time if you’re a fan of pirates, this is THE best pirate game ever made.
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u/thewoodlayer Apr 23 '26
I never even beat this game despite putting a ton of hours into it because I was having too much fun just sailing around doing pirate shit with my crew.
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u/balugabe Apr 23 '26
The first 2 hours are mind numbingly boring, but then it opens up and gets great. Ubisoft used to be able to make awesome games
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u/Jazzlike_Sink_2705 Apr 23 '26
2 hours of trailing missions into some of the best pirate gameplay available
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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol Apr 23 '26
Black Flag remains the first and only game I've ever downloaded the "companion app" for, because it expanded on the pirate gameplay lol
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u/Spyrofan22 Apr 23 '26
Aw, I replayed it and dropped it under two hours, now I see why. I went from "hell yeah I'm down for a pirate adventure" to "damn these were linear and boring". Maybe if I stuck I would have enjoyed it, shame
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u/CirkuitBreaker Apr 23 '26
The first two hours of Black Flag are way less boring than the first two hours of Twilight Princess.
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u/HellPigeon1912 Apr 23 '26
I've been gaming for 30 years and played more video games than I can count.
Black Flag makes it into my top 5. You're in for an absolute treat
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u/UtkuOfficial Apr 23 '26
Fiirst hour is awesome. The next 3 is boring as shit. The rest of the game is phenomenal.
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u/GGuts Apr 24 '26
So from all I have seen I have a few points of criticism:
They seem to avoid showing the sun in the remake footage. In the original the water so nicely reflected the sun and waves refracted light in shades of green but they don't show that in the remake.
The foam on the water looks blurry especially bad on the big wave they showed. In general the water appears to be less sharp.
The color of the water is darker now. I'm not sure if I like that as the blue water brought that Caribbean feel.
I liked the brightness of the original. The remake looks like the player now has sunglasses on.
The shanty in the original really sounded like the people on the ship were singing, especially on the travel speed view. But in the remake it sounds like you are listening to a studio recording.
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u/Advent105 Apr 23 '26
Never did finish the original game and haven't played it for 5+ years, so definitely looking forward to this
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u/Tha_Sly_Fox Apr 23 '26
I didn’t see the point of finishing, the draw of the game was sailing the seas and attacking ships as a palpitate and then selling your boot in port while listening to sea shanties
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u/Equivalent_Ask_1416 Apr 23 '26
Yeah it looks much better and it's arguably the most-popular AC game, not sure what's so exciting here unless you've never played Black Flag before. Ubi cancels the Sands of Time Remake and we hate Ubi but they reveal this AC IV "RESYNCED" and all of a sudden they're back. Ubi makes us all fickle.
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u/Adavanter_MKI Apr 23 '26
They aren't back. It's one game. I plan to go right back to ignoring them. I just love Black Flag... and that's what this is. Only prettier with a little more content and the weakest parts toned down.
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u/Spaniardman40 Apr 23 '26
Yea they cancelled Sands of Time because that would not been nearly as profitable as this remake
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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 Apr 23 '26
Considering how long the game was in development he'll I think it was unfinished.
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u/T0asty514 Apr 23 '26
I chose the simple route.
I just don't use their service or buy any of their crap generic reskinned products anymore.
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u/Circle_Breaker Apr 23 '26
I choose a simple route.
Just buy things I'm interested in and ignore things I'm not.
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u/SluggishPrey Apr 23 '26
New creative ideas: Risky business decision, Nostalgia bait: Potent drug with plenty of addicts
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u/WriterV Apr 24 '26
Oh my god, it's a fun fucking game. For fuck's sake, not everything's a life or death situation. Just buy it if you like it, otherwise move the fuck on.
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u/Bookwyrmnidhogg Apr 23 '26
Ubisoft is a garbage company but i’m down to play pirate simulator again.
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u/No-Advantage-8556 Apr 23 '26
I haven’t touched an AC game since the OG black flag. I’m excited to revisit this.
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u/ewynn2019 Apr 23 '26
I've tried a couple, the vikings and Egypt, but they didn't feel right.
Go try Rogue. It hits the same as Black Flag. I haven't stopped the main missions for a bit and have just been exploring and fighting other ships.
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u/eulersidentity1 Apr 24 '26
It’s really weird we have reached a point with graphics and I have reached an age in years where 1/2 the time I can’t tell if a game was made 1 year ago or 10 years ago and 1/2 the time I play a game these days and in the 1st 10 mins my reaction is like “wow these graphics are amazing when I was a kid we dreamed of this level” and then 40hrs in Im like “actually these graphics kinda suck too”.
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u/renome Apr 23 '26
The original still looks great imo. The draw distance is the only thing that seems pretty bad by modern standards.
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u/Bunph8108 Apr 24 '26
I feel like I’m in a minority of people who is excited for this game. Apparently some genuinely new contents with side characters that might change the game or, hopefully, add on to it is in the remastered. In addition to the multitude of new weapons, combat mechanics and quality of life changes they seem to have added, I’m hopeful. There have been a lot of buckets of water being added to this tub and if it holds all of the weight I expect it to, I might buy it at full price if it works on launch for everybody else.
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u/yotam5434 Apr 24 '26
Why does og look better
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u/ever_11 Apr 24 '26
Because it doesn't. It looks great, but come on. I was so ready to bash on Ubisoft but give credit where credit is due
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u/WeAreGesalt Apr 23 '26
They are trying to sell a "deluxe" edition of a 10 year old game lmao, I'll wait for a $10 sale
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u/Diegolobox Apr 23 '26
No. It's a true remake. They connected the cities to the sea to have a huge, cohesive world, they added more story arcs, improved the weak points, improved the stealth and combat system as well as the graphics.
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u/Cursewtfownd Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
To me it’s like you’re just adding a whole bunch of visual depth that almost is overwhelming. Maybe it’s my adhd…
When are game studios going to come to terms that optimal graphics are somewhere in the middle between Lara crofts square tits and ultra real lifelike graphics.
Because a game that looks like real life is no longer a game. It’s a simulation. A game is different. It’s a world you escape to from reality where your imagination polishes what is not polished. Original content, original mechanics, original art work presented in a unique form differentiated from real life.
Last thing I want to do after spending all day in real life is play a game that looks like real life. Remember, games are an escape.
The most popular games over time have relatively low quality graphics - but amazing art.
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u/Smelly_Dingo Apr 24 '26
I mean, some of the most popular games of all time include racing games, sports games and some shooters, all of which are, at least graphically, as close as technologically possible to realism.
It's all a matter of taste.
It is true that, for ANY game, art direction > graphics, but that simply means that a super realistic game also needs very, very good art direction to really flourish, just look at the very VERY many titles who have use state of the art lighting systems or quixel megascans or whatever other crazy good textures and materials snd somehow manage to look incredibly flat and boring anyway.
Escapism doesn't inhetently have to do with how close to reality a game looks, obviously YMMV, to me for instance the graphics are irrelevant, I'm all for story driven experiences that allow me to take a step back or to the side and see another world through someone else's lenses, learn of it and their struggles, and when I'm back in my own bring something with me, some kind of lesson or takeaway, take Undertale for instance. Not exactly a graphical powerhouse, that. At the same time, something like RDR2 which is much closer to realism is also something I would sink (and have) a great many hours into.
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u/5--A--M Apr 24 '26
Looks great but at $60 for a 13 year old game with some touched up graphics nah
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u/AlbanianRozzers Apr 24 '26
I spent so many hours just sailing around listening to sea shanties! Love this game.
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u/trejohn23 Apr 24 '26
I can't believe how much I played this game when I was in college and a girlfriend in 2013 lol I wish I can play video games 200+ hours now
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u/cabezatuck Apr 24 '26
I will say after watching a lot of footage it appears to be a very faithful remake. I think Ubisoft knew they had to nail this one or it would blow up in their face. Need to see more at launch as far as performance goes, but at this point I’m very excited to be a pirate again!
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u/Rude_Sugar_6219 Apr 26 '26
It’s funny how you can put two images side by side, claim one is better, and everyone will believe it. The soul has completely been sucked out of this remake just like every other. Oblivion, RE4, all of them somehow go unnoticed just because some because of a list of specs says so.
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u/CaliKindalife Apr 26 '26
There's no way in hell I'm paying $70 for a 13 year old game thats been "resynced". I got Hell Divers 2, Arc Raiders, and Windrose all for $110.
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u/CyberpunkYakuza Apr 23 '26
Ubi being Ubi, I'm gonna have to wait for user reviews before I even think about getting this. And, even if I do decide to get it, I'll wait until it goes on sale after a year. Or with Ubi's current track record, a few months hahaha. Hell, even if it ends up being good, giving these clowns money stings, so who knows? I have the original on disk still sooooo.... guess we shall see.
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u/Vhett Apr 23 '26
Ubi being Ubi, I'm gonna have to wait for user reviews before I even think about getting this.
This shouldn't be particular to Ubisoft. For any game you should always wait for user reviews. A game can always have a poor launch riddled with technical issues despite how much they promise.
Never pre-order.
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u/Haunting_Abalone_398 Apr 23 '26
I'm calling it now, it's going to be a disaster for optimization.
I don't trust Ubisoft with a penny anymore.
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u/Haunting_Abalone_398 Apr 23 '26
Not with AC shadows, and that's using the same engine as this remake.
I have little hope.
Always stay skeptical, especially of scumbag companies like Ubisoft.
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u/MrNixxxoN Apr 23 '26
Lmao the hate Ubi gets is ridiculous
They have one of the most well refined and most optimized engines in the industry for open world games
Makes the games run at solid native 1440p (upscaled to 4k) 60 FPS in a base PS5. All their games with a next gen upgrade look fantastic on PS5
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u/hendrix320 Apr 23 '26
The first shot the reflection on the water of the bird is off. Idk what it is but somethings not right about it
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u/Westdrache Apr 23 '26
it's a screenspace (reflection) artifact.
The bird obscures what's behinde it on the screen and the reflection looks off, because the SSR is just reflecting the whole ass bird in full size onto the Ocean, when it doesn't make sense.
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u/Major_Dood Apr 23 '26
TL;DW: Instead of focusing on making new games, we remade this one because we love burning money and we were bored. Now pay us $100 for this game.
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u/LUNKLISTEN Apr 23 '26
Y’all are easily impressed man
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u/Weary-Wasabi1721 Apr 23 '26
I'm impressed by how the original looked. Couldn't give a fuck about the remake never in this life buying it
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u/freetotebag Apr 23 '26
Kinda neat how adding birds makes a difference in terms of making a world feel real