Better play Unity/Syndicate

[MGE King]

This game is one of the kind that doing much better in your memories than its actually is. Game feels so clunky and unappealing. Parkour and stealth mechanics are as good as in first two games, they are good for mid-late 00s. It's just impossible to enjoy these games bcs it has absolutely different, more "patient" type of stealth than in revolution duology (syndicate/unity) which had much more complex parkour combined with improved detection system makes game looks much more faster and much more enjoyable with controls when Edward doesnt jumps off the ledge in random direction when you just wanted to turn around the corner while hanging on the wall and this stuff~. Its really hard to control the character and you rarely can pull off chain kills opn a run without always hiding in piles of hay or in bushes.
Don't look at bad reviews on unity and syndicate, these games made a big step further in their gameplay mechanics. Their start was miserable though and i dont deny it~ many many bugs, but if you want to play good and enjoyable for 2023 ac game without rpg, try out revolution duology~
I leave it here and not in reviews bcs a)this game is good for 2013 b)this is more of an advice to give a try to the games that people dont want to try bcs of their bad review score but they are not bad actually and alot of htings people hated it for is now fixed

[Basan™]

Tbh, I think that AC IV: Black Flag is way better than the following titles that you've mentioned above by comparison. A more interesting and compelling story and side quests/memories near flawless parkour control mechanics and instant cover when getting the hang upon Edward Kenway's character sensitivity.

While in those are two it's merely poor main memory's and "fetch the stick" until kingdom come side quests coupled with a far worse mechanics control system that it's clunkyier than this predecessor and furthermore complicated because many times the characters in both those games doesn't obey your Cover command or, for another instance, the window's entrance ones.
Both AC: Unity's and AC: Syndicate's main stories are way more bland, less compelling and way less intertiwned and thus showing the lack of any actual development than any of their previous titles ones.
And if you couple that with the current Helix monetization "pay to progress faster" system being implemented way harsher by Ubi$oft upon all those Assassin's Creed games after this one, being that one extremelly more notorious upon AC: Oddyssey's debackle then I'm way happier with a far better product that was developed with care instead of those fastened production "game products" that those 2 games are and to whom you're vanelly trying to compare.

Sort of summing it all up: Your comparison, coupled with it's poorly written display pretty much becomes a choosing pick between the apple that AC IV: Black Flag was with the onions that are AC: Unity and AC: Syndicate.

[MGE King]

when i can agree on Black flag having a much richer story and far better side missions/collectibles arguing about it having better parkour mechanics is ridiculous, ac 4 bf doesnt even has such complicated freerun layouts that ac unity has and use its new low-run high-run mechanics, while in ac bf you have much more blatant, simple parkour and limited amounts of animations. And for your knowledge, ac bf had monetization at this point already~ you could buy maps of collectibles to not spend time on exploring pretty boring islands, towns. Mostly im talking for Unity game bcs i have like less than 10hrs in syndicate~ im just assuming about its gameplay mostly bcs it reuses same engine as Unity game so im not so deep into details about Syndicate game.
Can you please stop refering to your arguments as it is if youre clashing my point, telling me "its good bcs i say so" doesnt work bcs i played both games for around 100hrs and have strong opinions about both games. Both has own pros and cons i cant argue with, i agree with some of your points about story and boring side missions, but others are just strange bcs they've been directly improved both by design of environment or by directly expanding existing features. U just decided to silence my point on stealth bcs in earlier games stealth mechanics are like not working as in other stealth action games. You didn't agree nor agree, just ignored it which is strange bcs assassin's creed is not action rpg like in later trilogy but stealth action from first game, so its pretty important mechanic. Sadly in bf combat is boring and op bcs of chain kills and stealth is impossible to do bcs game basically lacks basic stealth mechanics. (If you think jerking off in bushes is stealth that you deserve in stealth action game i would laugh in your face)

[MGE King]

and soon you just start to wiping out every location and it becomes your worst chore in entire game~ every time i had to take step on the land and do missions i was crying for help bcs it meant that i have to spend another 20 minutes pressing e+m1 and then just spamming m1 click until i kill everyone
wowzies such an apple!!