Ranking The Modern Day In Every Assassin's Creed Game...

It was so damn cool seeing Desmond use the Apple to shoot Vidic

Honestly I would put origins above odyssey because while the actual modern day story in odyssey is better the pacing of it was horrible (sprinkled in as an afterthought) compared to the quick breaks between targets in origins.

Finally someone gives ac3 modern day the credit it deserves imagine if we had not just an underground cave to freely explore or the whole cave being able to explore like the entrance included

Layla’s laptop contains some interesting stuff in terms of lore and personal character background, including that she used to be friends with Sophia Rikkin and helped design the Animus from the movie. If you don’t go looking through the computer in Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla then you’re missing out. Valhalla has new audio recordings with Desmond.

Shaun and Rebecca being downplayed in Black Flag makes sense because while we the player know their significance, the Abstergo staff and by extension the Newbie we’re playing as don’t. We know they’re present on Assassin business yet it’s not established within the narrative until the end of the game.

Modern segments honestly was AC1. There wasn’t anything like AC until AC first came out and as a kid it was ground shaking for me. I loved how clean Abstergo looked, the rooms were clean, the desk with the computer on it. There was a small window that let you kind of peak into the real world. It just felt nice and had aesthetic.

I like the modern-day overall as long as it's in 3rd person rather than in 1st person, it doesn't pull the player out of the animus too many times, and actually has a purpose for using the animus rather than just being there. It's a shame we won't see that much of the modern day in Mirage.

I agree that AC3 was the best modern day. I still remember the first time I finished the game and was sad that Desmond wouldn't be the protagonist anymore. I wish we could replay those modern day sequences.

Thanks! Great list! However, you omitted Liberation. Although it is not exactly a “modern story” as we were used to it, it has some very interesting ideas.

I love the modern day and I have hope for it in the future. Especially since it's apart of infinity now, we might even get dedicated modern day missions which will hopefully spice things up.

Unity does have the server bridges, which provide environments set after Revolutionary France you can explore after through the rift activities. But yeah, there’s no getting around that the closest it gets to advancing the modern day plot it that Abstergo want another sage and it turns out the one they’re tracking down was out of reach the whole time.

Robert was one of the Subjects reliving Arno's story. The animus screwed him up and with the help of Dr. Bibeau (the woman Layla kills in Odyssey) destroyed Abstergo's research on Arno. Hence in Syndicate, you're collecting Helix Glitches to put information together to see what Robert destroyed during Unity

I'd put AC1 second after AC3 because the dialogue is fantastic, much like the rest of the dialogue in AC1.

I actually enjoyed the modern segments. 3 is probably my favorite. Black Flag and Rogue were also really enjoyable modern segments to me

The Black Flag modern day teaches me subtle solarpunk scifi architecture, the office of Abstergo Industries Paris is my favourite interior space in a game and is still a core inspiration when I make scifi interiors to this day

great video bro, id love a video of your ranking of the AC spinoffs like bloodlines, altairs chronicles, liberation, discovery, chronicles, pirates, identity and maybe even give your opinion on where Jade may fall in your ranking. Cheers!

Desmond could have really turned the tide for the assassins in the modern day.

Love the video as always mate. Just chiming in for Unity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you said we don't find the sage. But isn't François-Thomas Germain the sage?

This rankings list perfectly matches my own, and you explained the reasoing behind each choice anazingly. In my opinion, an Assassin's Creed game NEEDS a good modern day in order to be a good game, and the Desmond Miles Era is what molded that opinion for me. Combat, stealth, historical setting, historical accuracy, and story for both historical and modern times are what make or break an AC game, and the top games on this list did a better job meeting as many of those criteria as possible. More modern games, however, seem to tunnel in a one or two of those criteria, and tyen leave the rest behind, which makes them extremely underwhelming.

Ac 2 and ac 1 have my favorite modern day