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Haven't played the original, but why does this game need remade?
Try it and you'll tell. Peak AC to me
Rogue was better.
That’s 3
Black Flag is a pirate game that they slapped the name on and loosely tied some gameplay into
They didn't take a pirate game and slap the AC name on it. They took an AC game with ship mechanics, dialed down the assassin, and dialed up the ships.
It's a direct iteration on AC3 in every way.
If you liked AC, then Black Flag wasn't it. I personally loved 3, but wasn't the biggest fan of the boats and pirate stuff. Black Flag only made all of that worse.
Everyone's got their own opinions, but to say AC Black Flag isn't just a pirate game with AC slapped on it isn't being very honest.
To me it's more of an AC than the rpgs that came after
AC3 is literally the worst mainline AC game, and I've played them all. And all you ubi haters don't worry, I only paid for the very first one.
It's so diluted, the pacing sucks. The whole character switcheroo is dumb since all the promotionnal stuff had Connor on it.
AC3 is literally one of the best.
3 is definitely not peak.
For money, they already remastered the ones before it
One of the best of the series and will probably look massively improved visually with updating lighting, physics and 4k textures (not that it looked bad in 2013, far from it)
Gotta milk the cash cow.
It needs a remake because Ubisoft spent 10 years developing a mega expensive AAAA pirate game ... with the gameplay and monetization and time wasting of a mobile gacha game... and this (and other things) nearly bankrupted Ubisoft when it utterly flopped.
Basically every prominent game reviewer either indirectly or directly said 'wtf, this is nothing like an actual pirate game, how is this possible, you idiots made black flag, just do that again with some tweaks and/or new content.'
... So Ubisoft is now in ultra conservative 'make only winning bets' mode, now that they've... kind of functionally split into two different Ubisofts, following a shareholder and board member revolt...
So they're just remaking the pirate game they already made, because they know people did actually like that one.
tl:dr, it needs to be remade because Ubisoft has no concept of how to do anything new that works, they've realized that, and are now trying to stop hemmoraghing money.
Because the original doesn't really have a lot of predatory monetisation. They are having GTAO wet dreams thinking about how to monetise their most popular game of the franchise with the excuse of doing it as a remake.