AC Rogue or Unity?

[FuriousJK]

Today I finished assassin's creed black flag and after 4-5 months (I always keep a gap of atleast 4 months between every assassin's creed series) I was planning to start a next part but I found out that rogue and unity were released on the same time so which one should I go for first. And why did ubisoft release two assassin's game at the same time :/

[Kunzy]

I higly recommend that you get rogue first. Unity has been known to be glitchy to the point that you can't even complete the story line. Also, rogue is better than unity.

[OCHOA LITANO]

first rogue

unity

[theonewhoknocks]

Well, careful that you do not find it boring... After all, you've just finished BF and it and Rogue share a huge chunk of the same skeleton.

Perhaps Unity for a change of pace and then Rogue?

[FuriousJK]

Originally posted by theonewhoknocks:

Well, careful that you do not find it boring... After all, you've just finished BF and it and Rogue share a huge chunk of the same skeleton.

Perhaps Unity for a change of pace and then Rogue?

I don't think I will find it boring as long as the game has a good story. Even brotherhood and revelations were same like AC2 but I didn't find it boring, story kept me going so I hope rogue has a good story.

[theonewhoknocks]

It has a good story which, sadly, is not as long as most would like it to have been.
Try it out, then!

[HiTmAn]

rogue is better... i dont like unity..dont have that feel of this game.... its kinda off...

[Peep]

I definitely would say Rogue. It's more like Black Flag, plus Shay's voice is mpf. 10/10

[FuriousJK]

Okay, thanks guys but I wanna know why people hate unity so much. Is it story or gameplay mechanism?

[theonewhoknocks]

Originally posted by FuriousJK:

Okay, thanks guys but I wanna know why people hate unity so much. Is it story or gameplay mechanism?

There are plenty of reasons.

a) Unity was a mess when it came out and, in good bandwagon internet fashion, many people never gave it a chance;

b) Unity is an extremely demanding game (much more so that Syndicate) that a lot of rigs can't run with the framerate players would like it to run at. It is also not the best PC port out there - but most people don't have a clue and just say "durr, badly optimized" if it doesn't run like other games do.

c) Unity has a love story at the center of the wider story and Arno is always thinking about his loved one. Many just decided to call it "boring" or an "Ezio-wannabee";

d) Unity still has bugs and design flaws (some will experience them more than others). I have experienced some frustrating ones but, usually, you just have to restart from the last checkpoint - that's it;

e) Combat was deemed the worst in the series by a lot of people - in no small part because you can't kill 40 guys in a row like in previous games. There are stupid things about it (as with any AC game), like enemies dodging bullets lol - but that is just one aspect;

f) It is, overall, a very slow game. Actions take much longer than they did in all other titles, there is quite a bit of input lag and the cover system is a mess: you will often find yourself pressing the button to hug an obastacle, repeatedly, and just praying Arno does what you want him to do. Syndicate corrected all of this.
But the lack of fast and clear controls is what makes Unity a poor stealth game (IMO);

g) You lost useful mechanics. Whistling, for an instance, is nowhere to be found which, in turn, means that taking out enemies from cover will require another kind of lure: the cherry bomb. Unfortunately, enemies will not always come to investigate it as you'd expect and it can lure more than one enemy. Again, couple that will the overall slow nature of the controls and the faster detection times in Unity and the most trivial things become unecessarily difficult.

This small list encompasses some of the reasons. I'm sure other people will have other complaints. Honestly, I love Unity - despite all its flaws.

[FuriousJK]

Originally posted by theonewhoknocks:

Originally posted by FuriousJK:

Okay, thanks guys but I wanna know why people hate unity so much. Is it story or gameplay mechanism?

There are plenty of reasons.

a) Unity was a mess when it came out and, in good bandwagon internet fashion, many people never gave it a chance;

b) Unity is an extremely demanding game (much more so that Syndicate) that a lot of rigs can't run with the framerate players would like it to run at. It is also not the best PC port out there - but most people don't have a clue and just say "durr, badly optimized" if it doesn't run like other games do.

c) Unity has a love story at the center of the wider story and Arno is always thinking about his loved one. Many just decided to call it "boring" or an "Ezio-wannabee";

d) Unity still has bugs and design flaws (some will experience them more than others). I have experienced some frustrating ones but, usually, you just have to restart from the last checkpoint - that's it;

e) Combat was deemed the worst in the series by a lot of people - in no small part because you can't kill 40 guys in a row like in previous games. There are stupid things about it (as with any AC game), like enemies dodging bullets lol - but that is just one aspect;

f) It is, overall, a very slow game. Actions take much longer than they did in all other titles, there is quite a bit of input lag and the cover system is a mess: you will often find yourself pressing the button to hug an obastacle, repeatedly, and just praying Arno does what you want him to do. Syndicate corrected all of this.
But the lack of fast and clear controls is what makes Unity a poor stealth game (IMO);

g) You lost useful mechanics. Whistling, for an instance, is nowhere to be found which, in turn, means that taking out enemies from cover will require another kind of lure: the cherry bomb. Unfortunately, enemies will not always come to investigate it as you'd expect and it can lure more than one enemy. Again, couple that will the overall slow nature of the controls and the faster detection times in Unity and the most trivial things become unecessarily difficult.

This small list encompasses some of the reasons. I'm sure other people will have other complaints. Honestly, I love Unity - despite all its flaws.

Thanks for the good explanation, cleared all my doubts. I will surely check out unity after I finish rogue. I hope it doesn't turn out bad because I really don't want to hate unity. I enjoyed every assassin games till black flag, even AC3 even though people were complaining about that game too but I loved that game so much. I hope same happens with unity too and thing that I am most excited about unity is its co-op feature, I can't wait to try it out :)

[Ebon Wolf]

Only thing better in Unity was graphics and having a crouch button.

[Yhwach]

Unity has some of the best parkour mechanics in any assassins creed game and is one of the most visually appealing of the games, where as Syndicate is on top.
Rogue has better gameplay, Isn't reptitive, bug filled, and doesn't have a mediocre story; just know that if you're in it for the lore, you're right to be playing Rogue first.

[Steven Cojo]

Originally posted by Lord Beerus ビルス:

Unity has some of the best parkour mechanics in any assassins creed game and is one of the most visually appealing of the games, where as Syndicate is on top.
Rogue has better gameplay, Isn't reptitive, bug filled, and doesn't have a mediocre story; just know that if you're in it for the lore, you're right to be playing Rogue first.

Talking about story, if I got Rouge, what other AC creed game I should have played prior to have the required knowledge to play and understand the story properly, as well as not get in any way majorly spoiled from the previous games? I've played AC1 and most of AC2(+expansions), I have AC3 on uplay from that promotion, does it tie with 3 or with 4?

[neutrino]

Well, if you want to play it by timeline, it would be the following:

AC --> AC2 --> AC:BF --> AC:Rogue --> AC3 --> AC:Unity --> AC:S


http://www.techtimes.com/articles/123237/20160111/the-complete-assassins-creed-chronology-for-now.htm

[theonewhoknocks]

Originally posted by Steven Cojo:

does it tie with 3 or with 4?

Yes. In 3, you play as two characters: father (Haytham) and son (Connor) Kenway. You start off with Haytham and then there's a jump in time and you continue to play but as the son.

In Black Flag, you play as Edward Kenway (Haytham's father).

In Rogue, you play as an Assassin who joins the Templar Order in the time period that you don't see in AC3 (ie, after you've played with Haytham but before Connor).