Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (PS4/XB1/PS3/360) | (PC/PS5/XSX) - July 9, 2026

[Tyrath]

The fuck are you people going on about? It looks like AC3 with some new gameplay features added in. They took a good game and improved upon it. Where is this perception of "vastly different" coming from?

If you liked the gameplay you just watched, you liked AC3 lol.

AC3 had a terribly slow start. And Connor sucks.

I'm sure neither of those things will be around this time.

[Exoduso]

AC3 wasn't bad just because of Connor being the most boring character ever. I actually didn't mind the slow build up as Haytham, it made for a nice plot twist. But to me AC3 was bad because they took a perfectly good battle system and ran it to the ground, turning it into a pile of shit on the way. Yes, I realize fights in AC are not supposed to be hard and never were, but the gameplay in 2/ACB/ACR were just better. They also made it way too linear and for some reason I just didn't feel immersed in the storyline or the characters at all, whereas in the previous 3 installments we felt a connection even to the most random characters like La Volpe.

And yes, there's also the giant elephant in the room: Desmond's gone and it looks like they're going to run a non-consequential easy way out in the form of an abstergo employee experiencing all of this... just like they did in Liberation. I realize that many people don't give a rat's ass about the "present storyline", but I'm one of the (apparently few) people who treated it as a selling point. I was excited after Brotherhood to see how they take the story from there, and they did a rather terrible job by introducing Subject 16 only to take him away without too much dialogue or consequence after building him up for 3 games.

Tl;dr : I miss the early parts of the Ezio Trilogy.

[Mazmaz]

Because Connor was boring?

AC3 had a terribly slow start. And Connor sucks.

I'm sure neither of those things will be around this time.

How? How are you sure those things won't be around from watching that 13 minute gameplay video?
Let's overlook the fact that you people prefer a stock white dude as a character like a bunch of 14-year-olds. I asked what it was about that 13 minute gameplay video that made you say it's sooo much better than AC3.

AC3 wasn't bad just because of Connor being the most boring character ever. I actually didn't mind the slow build up as Haytham, it made for a nice plot twist. But to me AC3 was bad because they took a perfectly good battle system and ran it to the ground, turning it into a pile of shit on the way. Yes, I realize fights in AC are not supposed to be hard and never were, but the gameplay in 2/ACB/ACR were just better. They also made it way too linear and for some reason I just didn't feel immersed in the storyline or the characters at all, whereas in the previous 3 installments we felt a connection even to the most random characters like La Volpe.

If you thought battle system was a piece of shit in AC3, I have bad news. This looked almost identical. Here's the new stuff I saw in terms of gameplay and combat:

-blowdart
-free aim guns
-you can aim cannons up + front cannons
-boarding ships

Obviously I can't comment on how different AC2 was from AC3 since I didn't play AC2, but AC4 looks about the same as AC3 to me. I personally loved AC3 so that's good for me. But if you hated AC3, I would reserve judgement on how "this guy is so much better than Connor" or how "this gameplay blows AC3 out of the water", since we don't know much about either of those things to assume they're vastly different from AC3.

[Qalbert]

maz gonna maz

[Exoduso]

If you thought battle system was a piece of shit in AC3, I have bad news. This looked almost identical. Here's the new stuff I saw in terms of gameplay and combat:

-blowdart
-free aim guns
-you can aim cannons up + front cannons
-boarding ships

Obviously I can't comment on how different AC2 was from AC3 since I didn't play AC2, but AC4 looks about the same as AC3 to me. I personally loved AC3 so that's good for me. But if you hated AC3, I would reserve judgement on how "this guy is so much better than Connor" or how "this gameplay blows AC3 out of the water", since we don't know much about either of those things to assume they're vastly different from AC3.

And I respect your opinion, but I never said any of that stuff you just mentioned lol. I never said AC4 looked better or different than AC3. I also never said he looks better than Connor, for all we know Edward is just as boring.

I was simply making a statement that, in my eyes, AC2 was the pinnacle of this series, and it's been a slow and painful downhill roll since then. Hopefully they can repair this image. Honestly, it's not that the gameplay was total garbage, but combined with the actual story and Connor being dry as fuck to begin with, it didn't help and may have severely distorted my view of it.

That being said I'm an AC junkie since day one so I'll grab a copy once it gets released on PS4. I'm just not coming in with high expectations like I did for previous titles.

Oh and do yourself a favor and buy the Ezio Trilogy. You can thank me later.

[Mazmaz]

Guess I clumped you in with the rest, sorry.
Also PS3 YLOD so can't :/

[elison]

Connor was boring as fuck and the ending to AC3 was terrible. Other then that, despite a few retarded sequences and small annoying glitches, I really really enjoyed AC3. I really don't think it deserves the shit it gets but maybe I'm just a hardcore AC fanboy.

I do agree that AC2 was the peak of the series and easily the best iteration, though. Either way, I'm looking forward to Black Flag. Really enjoying what their trying to accomplish with this one and naval battles are fucking amazing.

[Qalbert]

[Anoat]

Connor might have been a boring as fuck character but his kill animations were down right GANGSTA.

[Tyrath]

Yeah, thats about the only thing he had going for him. Luckily badass kill animations can be moved on to newer, more interesting characters.

[Mazmaz]

like white dudes

[Tyrath]

Because race is the only way to make a character interesting.

[6souls]

Present Day
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Spoiler: show

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[Anoat]

Nice to know Abstergo has a video games division.

[Greedouw]

I forgot how brutal the Axe was in AC3

[Qalbert]

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-game-world/#

It will take around half an hour to sail across Assassin’s Creed IV‘s world, according to Ubisoft.

“We don’t talk about it in terms of size, that would be a little bit unfair – there is a lot of ocean in the Caribbean. But it is the biggest game we’ve ever made,” game director Ashraf Ismail told Eurogamer. ”The story and narrative itself will last 15-20 hours, but we’re hoping that people got lost in the Caribbean world, in the toybox we’ve created.

“It will take – [to sail] across the whole game world – maybe half an hour.

[Brill Weave]

That makes me happy. I personally loved the naval aspect of AC3. I thought it was remarkably well done considering they had never tried anything like that before.

[AoE]

FULL SAIL!

[Pharaun]

It will take around half an hour to sail across Assassin’s Creed IV‘s world, according to Ubisoft.

“We don’t talk about it in terms of size, that would be a little bit unfair – there is a lot of ocean in the Caribbean. But it is the biggest game we’ve ever made,” game director Ashraf Ismail told Eurogamer. ”The story and narrative itself will last 15-20 hours, but we’re hoping that people got lost in the Caribbean world, in the toybox we’ve created.

“It will take – [to sail] across the whole game world – maybe half an hour.

In b4 people bitching about this more than they did in Wind Waker.

[AoE]

I'm just waiting for the epic-assed ship glitches to appear. I hope there's a gravity glitch where your ship becomes an airship.