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Yes. Miles better. Kenway was a badass and a bit of a shady guy with unclear motives. A pretty interesting character IMHO.
Shay is… well, how do you put this in politically correct terms… well, he might be attracted to specimen of the same sex more than the opposite sex . Just the way he looks and talks with that nasal voice… a pretty meh-ish main character.
Much better but I think it might depend a little on the order you play the games. Didn't you play Rogue first and BF later? I played BF first and Rogue afterwards so there was no novelty for me with the ship stuff etc.
I also liked BF's setting better. The Caribbean and the gameplay which felt like a modern 3D version of Pirates! sometimes was more appealing to me than Rogue's North Atlantic and River Valley setting.
No joke at all. I thought that BF had some genuinely interesting characters that fit in perfectly with the Caribbean pirate setting like Captain Kidd (nice surprise twist, too), Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Stede Bonnet, Adewale, Charles Vane and Aveline.
I also played all AC games in chronological order around xmas 2014 all the way up to Black Flag. AC3 was one of the weakest games in the series with whiny and annoying Connor. I only finished that game because I wanted to see the conclusion of the Desmond Miles storyline. Other than that I found it to be pretty horrible after the excellent AC2 and the decent Revelations and Brotherhood.
Yes, definitely different tastes . I believe I would like Rogue a lot more if I had not played Black Flag before it. Rogue feels like a downgrade in all aspects, also graphically, even though it came out later.
I will still finish it but I'm pretty burned out on AC games in general. There are way better open world action games these days (like the Batman series). It will be quite some time before I am going to continue with Unity and Syndicate.
This winter will be Witcher 3 GOTY time for me. I'm planning on picking up the GOTY first sale this fall on Steam, i.e. either Halloween, Black Friday or Xmas at the very latest. I have already purchased this awesome guide and I'm really looking forward to many epic long winter nights with that masterpiece!
Missed this, sorry. Have some health problems so cannot concentrate (seems it's not ulcer but something else - whatever it is, DLC scamware made me get it!).
Anyway…
Shay Cormac is not gay. Don't expect a gay protagonist in Ubisoft's games, they're not EA or Rockstar and are most probably incompetent of creating one. Sure some gay assassin was mentioned (was it in AC4?), but Ubi is scared to put one as a main character.
Speaking of attraction it's odd you didn't notice lack of "romance" as series progressed. Ezio chased skirts like crazy and then all other assassins were basically asexual. Until AC:Unity but let's stay away from that abomination.
Yes I played AC:Rogue before AC4. I had a feeling of dropping from a horse on a mule. Noticed how Rogue removed too many of collectable pokemon, ditched diving rubbish and allowed you to attack and be attacked!
I didn't care about carribean thing. Wanted an assassins creed game and Rogue was that. AC4 simply wasn't ac game. It's a game about a random pirate and that's it.
Cannot agree with your take on AC3. IMO the worst AC game with the worst character is AC:Unity. AC3 is miles better than AC4 and you can kill me, but I love AC3. Quality of port is alike though. Both AC3 and AC4 came with middlefinger from Ubisoft to PC audience. AC3 emulating mushrooms with WASD and AC4 hammering one CPU core and forcing you to overclock it to avoid microstutters.
Dunno why you went with Batman Arkham series as your next openworld (Arkham Knight to be precise). I did buy Asylum and City, but only because of Arkham Asylum masterpiece. The comic. Yes there is a comic. A comic everyone should have in their home "library". Paper version, not those digital rubbish on phone versions.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Batman-Arkham-Asylum-Anniversary-Deluxe/dp/1401251250/
Grab Tomb Raider reboot and after that Rise of the Tomb Raider. Assuming you want openworld environment puzzler. Feel free to skip their season pass.
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