Em meio a um universo, crença e linha cronológica "estabelecidos", AC Rogue veio para virar a chave e nos colocar sob uma nova perspectiva na pele de um Templário.

Lançado simultaneamente com AC Unity como uma forma de nos despedirmos da 7ª geração de consoles, Rogue tem seu principal motivo de ter ficado tão ofuscado. Toda a atenção, publicidade e críticas foram direcionadas para o Unity. Muito se deve em as pessoas estarem curiosas sobre tal game de nova geração, já outros fatores mais voltados com o desastre que foi o Unity e, por consequência, considerarem que o Rogue viria da farinha do mesmo saco.
Ainda bem que não foi assim.

Acompanhamos a estória de Shay Patrick Cormac com seus 21 anos (parece que tem 30) até um acontecimento relevante em um país no final do jogo. Quem jogou ou acompanhou alguma série do game sabe do que estou falando.
Ele é alguém complicado, muito arrogante e que consegue arranjar confusão/briga facilmente. Em uma dessas ele acabou encontrando um homem que mais tarde viria a ser seu melhor amigo, Liam O'Brien. O mesmo faz parte da Ordem dos Assassinos, e na esperança de tentar salvar Shay de uma vida sem propósito Liam o apresenta para Achilles. E, sem mais delongas, a jornada de Shay começa de fato.
Após alguns anos na Ordem, Shay se mostrou extremamente talentoso, um prodígio. Mesmo fazendo tais missões em nome dos Assassinos, o jovem acreditava que existiam outras maneiras de os problemas serem resolvidos que não envolvessem assassinatos e violência. Apesar de ser arrogante, como mencionei antes, o personagem porta muito carisma e um forte senso de liberdade.

Em uma certa missão somos enviados até Lisboa em busca de um artefato, mas o que o destino reservava para Shay o deixaria traumatizado. A verdadeira virada de chave e clímax do jogo ocorrem em Lisboa. E tal clímax é baseado em um trágico evento histórico. Após voltar e confrontar Achilles, Shay rouba um manuscrito que continha informações de outros artefatos e, consequentemente, trai a Ordem.
Talvez pareça um pouco besta o que vou comentar, mas ver um personagem traumatizado por conta de algo que ele não sabia que iria acontecer o deixa mais humanizado. Você simpatiza com ele. Ele simplesmente não deixa pra lá e fala "mais um dia normal".
Ele pra mim é o melhor protagonista de AC que já pude presenciar/jogar. O mesmo carrega consigo um forte senso de justiça, carisma e, acima de tudo, uma humanidade. Por mais que tenha traído a Ordem e ido para os Templários, ele não necessariamente luta por eles, e sim pelo povo da forma mais eficiente que Shay puder.

Mas bem, depois de tanto eventos no jogo e Shay demonstrando remorso pelo que estava fazendo, temos uma frase no final da estória que pode ter duas interpretações:
"Uma guerra e uma revolução terminaram, e outra... está prestes a começar".
Como foi o último jogo de AC lançado para a 7ª geração de consoles, imagino que seja uma despedida indireta da saga para aquela geração.
E na que mais se encaixa é sobre outro evento histórico que não posso dar detalhes.
Shay é um personagem sensacional (sim, estou bajulando um personagem 3D), ele começa como um jovem arrogante e brincalhão para mais tarde se tornar um homem com seus princípios mais do que estabelecidos. Ele fica mais sábio, seu caráter amadurece e seu humanidade evolui.

Agora com relação as mecânicas do jogo... cara, é igual ao AC Black Flag com mínimas mudanças. Que preguiça, hein, Ubisoft?
Não estou me referindo que seja ruim, só poderiam terem feito algo diferente. Não tem tanta inovação "NOSSA!" de um jogo pro outro. O que salvou mesmo foi sua estória. Aliás, parabéns ao roteirista.

Hoje em dia é possível notar mais fãs desse jogo surgindo ao longo do tempo, mesmo que em seu lançamento simultâneo com Unity (misericórdia Ubisoft) ele tenha sido MEGA desvalorizado, hoje ele conta com uma fan base muito enraizada com pessoas entendendo os valores morais de Shay e adorando.
Só mais uma coisa... Shay estava certo.
Flw!

I enjoyed this one more than Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, but I feel that was because I didn't enjoy Black Flag that much and this one was a shorter experience, with significantly less tailing missions. That was enough to prevent me from burning out as quickly.

I just played to finish the story as I wasn't engaged enough in the gameplay to want to force myself to collect the plethora of collectables.

Just like Black Flag, I am not a big fan of the ship combat, but I am aware that is just my opinion and an unpopular one at that. It's still a good looking game in 2024 with a decent enough story.

This game shows franchise fatigue better than most. This released the same day as Unity to give 360 and PS3 owners their own AC game. The biggest problem with that is that it excluded anyone who bought the new systems from playing this game, since they weren't backwards compatible at the time. Normally this wouldn't matter much but Rogue is the better game, so people with the better systems actually got a worse experience. By the time this remaster came out, the Xbox One was backwards compatible with 360 games and Rogue was on that list, which makes it feel redundant.

The game itself is still very fun. The story is better than Unity by far and Shay is one of my favorite protagonists in the series. Otherwise it's very similar to Black Flag.

Much of Rogue is a reskin of Black Flag, including the sailing gameplay, which is still good, but not as fun the 2nd time around. The main draw is tied to the protagonist, Shay Cormac, who finds himself alienated from the Assassins and defects to the Templar Order, becoming a ruthless Assassin hunter. This adds a new dynamic to gameplay as you can be ambushed by Assassins sent to kill Shay, or you can use your training to ambush them in turn. The story mainly serves to bridge the gap between Black Flag and III so some fun characters from both get to show up and have a last moment in the spotlight. Rather than a larger overworld like in Black Flag, the world is split into New York, the northern seas around North America and the inner Riverlands on the American coasts; the first is a traditional free-running city, and the 2nd is more akin to Black Flag's sailing, while the riverlands are an awkward blend of both - that is a fine descriptor of Rogue in general. It's without a doubt a good entry, but a bit of an awkward interstitial one.

i wont say that this game is overhated i just feel like its ignored. its the last true assassins creed imo (doesnt mean that its the last good game of the franchise, far from it). this game is a bit short, but it doesnt bother me. this game is basically a reskin of black flag, but it doesnt bother me. the only thing that bother me is for the length of the story there are too much modern day portions. other than that if you liked black flag youll probably like this game. the story is also one of the best of the franchise imo

Wanted to give Rogue another shot, as I only rushed through the story in the original version. I do remember why now. it is a very short story, and it is minuscule compared to the amount of side content in this game. it is not too bad of a story, really, and the ending is still cool/was half mind blowing having played Unity first.

the problem is this game just doesn't feel as fun to play, for some reason. you could make the case that the naval combat is better than in black flag but for some reason I just didn't want to do it. none of the side content feels good to play really. perhaps its just the sentiment that this would have made a great DLC if they had not bloated it with side content to make it a full game release. I think the parkour might be the worst in the series, as far as going where you want/should/expect to go. it almost feels as if they dumbed down the parkour to make the game "longer"-- which doesn't make any sense, but that's a thought I had while playing..

all that being said, halfway through the story and having done my usual AC quantity of side content by that point, I was thinking that I would just plow through the rest of the story and be done with it...but little did I know I would end up doing a lot of the side content..and not totally hating it.. part of it comes from the achievement hunter part of me (which I am trying to stamp out) and the other was just wanting to get the Morrigan upgraded, cause it looks fuckin awesome when its fully upgraded and with the templar sails.

Other positives:
- the treasure maps are more accurate than black flag; the coordinates take you directly to the dig site, not just the location on the map, where you then have to find the picture on the map. so that was nice.

- got some real good outfits, James Gunn being my favorite.

- James Cook and Hope favorite characters.

- Penguins.

And with that, the proverbial, dumb, self-imposed weight of my assassins creed backlog is off my proverbial shoulders. No longer will I look upon my backlog and see remnants of an assassins creed fire sale, full of games I’ve played before. No longer will I see an Assman creed game releasing and say no I cannot purchase you, for I still have assman creed games in my backlog. I have played all the assman creeds prior to Valhalla, and if they were released twice, I’ve played them twice (and how). But those days are over, all the old titles are now laid to rest. I now have only Valhalla and Mirage on the horizon. Though they may be fended off by my overall backlog, it will no longer be assman on assman crime.

The story started off pretty slow and at first I was not a fan at all...even put the game down for a bit. Eventually when I picked it back up the story got much better and I started to enjoy the other side of the Assassin's. All that said, the story was only about 10 hours and I got super burnt out with the exploration and side quests, etc. Mostly because a lot of it resulted it me just sailing from location to location, and I hate the boat sequences in these games. But necessary as I make my way through the series.

For the most I hate this game, so let's get the good out of the way. The story is nice and brief, characters are nice and plot is kinda interesting. They also nerfed the eagle vision in a better way than Unity. Now the bad, most of this game is asset reuse from black flag, some locations are even the exact same. Even the mechanics are identical, there is close to 0 unique gameplay. The real world plot is still stupid and basically the same as 4, unity, and syndicate. The economy is garbage, I bought everything the game had to offer and still had an absurd amount of funds left by the time I finished all platinum related activities. The world in this game is all padding, most of the activities aren't fun and there is so many locations that are irrelevant. I had a better view of this game when I finished the plot but the completion grind just broke me. This is the type of game that makes you hate being a completionist.