Recent reviews by rickydooooo

I have played every game short of Syndicate. Sadly I can't review the best one since AC2 since I don't own steam keys for it(Unity).
On to Black Flag:
What made me fall in love with the series was interacting with the environment the way AC2 allowed you to. The setting was so rich and dense, that you could get lost in the city although you had traversed it many times throughout gameplay. Black Flag lacks this. It pushes you to quick travel the entire time because ship play is so annoying and takes soo long, that it is a waste of an afternoon floating around and getting into encounters on the way to completing the story. Now, I'm not the type to just power through story either, but that's all you want to do in this game to move on to the next title to get out of ship play.
If you want to make a pirate game, make a pirate game(Like they are now doing with skull and bones or whatever soon.) That way only people that sign up for that crap can enjoy it. Like world of warships people. I could not get over this, and still have not been able to complete this title do to the incessant ship and oceans. (Hated wind waker for this reason as well.) Which brings me to the next horrible part:
No cloud saving. It says saving.......It tries to fool you into believing it is cloud saving. Yet, when you uninstall to make space for another game after all the anger on all the boats, and you want to come back and rip off the bandaid to complete the story, you have "SYNC ERROR" and have to start all over. That intro gets really old and drawn out after the first time..........
That being said, the ships in AC Rouge were barable actually.
Moving away from boats and sync errors..... the environment...
There's only a few good towns that have the depth and enjoyment that brought most to this series, yet only a taste. You could probably run from city limit to city limit in the biggest "city" in 3 minutes. Most of the places are as simple as get the viewpoint and you've seen it all. No more wonder. If they were trying to have you do more nature stuff, they failed miserably due to the theme park style point A to point B areas, taking away any sensation of exploration. All of this separated by vast open water............ How is flat water and a horizon fun? it's like swimming in a pool alone, too small to do laps. You just stand in water and stare off into space.... AC3 was better, and it sucked too. At least in AC3, the wilderness was open enough to explore, but trees are trees and it started to feel a lot like AC1 did with repetativeness, and those cities were like getting lost in modern suburbia where all the homes look identical. Super glad they took way more time to work on Origins. ACUnity will make you feel like you did when first playing AC2, although one of those review people are right about the story missions being a bit lacking.... but they did get the environment completely correct. Dead kings DLC worth it.
Lastly on Black Flag.....The guns. All you have to do is shoot shoot shoot and you're good. .. ... Not why I buy stealth assassin games......

In conclusion, buy this game if you're like me and need to complete the story on the series because you love the universe this series has brought to us.

Hopefully no more stupid boats from here on out.

Sooo, I know the complaining about P2W has started pretty early, even before i was able to get on since the game wasn't letting me, buuuuuuuuuut:
In the 11 hours i've played straight with a few buddies, we managed to get 2 cars up and running, got some food, a dew catcher and were on a roll to lose it all to a guy with a gun. yeah don't bring arrows and axes to a gunfight. They are mostly for hunting and tools. We regained strength though, not paying a dime. We managed to jump on a air drop that someone else paid for quite easily, and got some good guns. not only that, but zombies were dropping ar15's and ammo for crying out loud. We got a few air drops actually that other people summoned and before we knew it, had 4 people running around with ar15's shotguns, military backpacks and improved bows. We started owning situations because we teamed up as 4 people, and only ran into groups maxing out at 2. Sooooo it was a numbers game. Well other than that 3v1 we lost to the guy with a gun. I'll add that using the guns(not including the shotgun) were actually challenging. I was funny though, when we raided one air drop, this guy was trying to take out the guy we think summoned the airship, then when we killed him after he killed the guy, he was complaining that we were pay to win as if we summoned the damn thing. lol. Play smarter not harder! Anyway, if you think air drops are game breaking, at 50 cents a pop, when it's that easy to intervine.... then maybe go play mario kart, where the person on lap 3 gets 3 stars...
Anyway, like most mmo's, this game is fun to play with your buddies, and working in a team, you should be able to do fine, no matter how many air drops someone orders. They lose it when they die too so, theres only so many air drops someone will buy before they start to think maybe they should be raiding not ordering. Game breaking, cating to cash cows would be 5 bucks a drop. something high where less people can afford it. 50 cents peeps, 50.....