{"id":79717,"date":"2026-05-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79717"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:36:28","slug":"why-ubisoft-returned-to-black-flag-theres-great-value-with-the-classic-assassins-creed-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79717","title":{"rendered":"Why Ubisoft Returned to Black Flag: \u2018There\u2019s Great Value With the Classic Assassin\u2019s Creed Experience\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>From Feudal Japan to Ancient Greece to the Italian Renaissance, the Assassin&#8217;s Creed series has explored many eras over its nearly 20-year run. However, the golden age of piracy from 2013&#8217;s Assassin&#8217;s Creed 4: Black Flag remains an enduring favorite of the series, making it a compelling pick for an overhauled remake that aims to deliver notable upgrades that heighten the pirate adventure.<\/p>\n<p>For Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the developers at Ubisoft Singapore were given the freedom to modernize one of the games from the series&#8217; &#8220;classic&#8221; pre-RPG era with upgrades and flourishes, creating a more seamless open world to explore. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s still great value with the classic AC experience, personally, for me, I&#8217;m both a fan of the RPG side, but also the action-adventure side of the series,&#8221; Paul Fu, Black Flag Resynched&#8217;s creative director, told IGN at a recent preview event. &#8220;There are merits to both, but with Black Flag, there&#8217;s such a strong focus on story and character that&#8217;s more about the defined narrative. For us, we just wanted to make sure that we keep the spirit of the original game with this remake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"assassins-creed-black-flag-resynceds-creative-director-on-new-story-elements-and-potential-sequel\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Aside from its alluring setting, which married the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Feudal Japan to Ancient Greece to the Italian Renaissance, the Assassin&#8217;s Creed series has explored many eras over its nearly 20-year run. However, the golden age of piracy from 2013&#8217;s Assassin&#8217;s Creed 4: Black Flag remains an enduring favorite of the series, making it a compelling pick for an overhauled remake that aims to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":79719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79721,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79717\/revisions\/79721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}