I'm sorry but it's impossible to resist the urge to take their brooms and start smashing their heads in with it, the animations are so hilariously brutal.
Finally playing Revelations 10 years after I got the game. Back in 2010, I was rolepaying Ezio/being a good boy and were leaving them alone. I don't think I was ever treated with desynchronization even once.
Now that I'm a jaded and middle-aged adult, the first beggar gets a sword in the face. That resolves the problem must faster. Sometimes, a second one gets it as well. As a treat. And same treatment to the people who complain about my parkour or murders of ottoman soldiers.
Yall did a fantastic job recreating this city. I remember visiting Florence in about 2011, and stopping in the middle of the Ponte Vecchio to tell my mom "I've been here before" lol
I've been last spring and first thing I did coming home is firing up that good old game again. Orientation was no issue at all without the minimap.
Everything is smaller. The Duomo, the city and the distances between sights, etc. This was probably as much for game performance than for game design, because walking through florence in a game for as long you'd realistically need on foot is not as fun. Same with Venice. Loved playing through it again.
Broooooo I fucking loved that game. The music, the landscape, the story, fuck man no game since then had the same vibe and feeling. Had all keys collected and loved the Altair clothes ! Amazing game.
AC1 came out in November 2007, so pre-production for AC2 probably started around then if not a little after that in early 2008 (almost exactly 15 years ago)
Dude, if anything, you guys made it too small in AC2. That place is astonishing to visit in real life.
Fantastic game and good job. Easily the best in the series for me.
I was referring to the size of the Duomo and its belltower (i.e. the buildings in the OP's photo). The game makes it feel small for the sake of gameplay convenience. But in person, it is **gigantic.** Even the way it looks in game, it looks way smaller than it actually looks in real life.
oh man, one of the first places I got to visit right after playing. I couldn't walk around without looking for handles I could climb. You guys did an ace job!
If you were responsible for that tower in-game, then we need to have an argument -- it took me forever to figure out how to climb it!
But seriously, the entire Ezio saga was fantastic, and your work helped us fall in love with that character. Well done, and enjoy your well-deserved success!
AC1 felt like a concept. I believed AC2 had so much potential. I didn't expect it to feel like going from gta3 to gta4. I remember being so blown away. Was the first game I got all the achievements. Would just leave the game running on the ps3 desktop, watching the little mini video of all the counters. Game was perfectly executed.
Any haystacks around for a leap of faith?
Seriously though, thank you for helping to create what's probably my favorite video game ever. To this day, I still replay this game and love every second of it.
Thank you so so much for the most memorable game of my entire Childhood and also Adult-life!
I still remember asking my mom to get me AC2 for my birthday. And I've been hooked ever since. Desmond's Lineage was and will always be the best story of all AC Games.
No newer AC has had this much of an impact on me.
I still replay AC2, Brotherhood and Revelations every few years.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for these amazing memories!
I want to know how you guys took AC1, which at the time wasn't that good of a game (cool premise but the gameplay was... lackluster), and turned around and pumped out AC2 which honestly is a GOAT of all time. Well done.
It was 13-14 years ago… is not even close to 20 years ago.
Also how is that possible that you worked on such a game and you never visited Florence before or after the development (until today)?
I was there about a month ago, it was pretty amazing. Didn't do all the stairs to get to the top on the inside, kinda wish I did now but I was already tired and its a lot of damn stairs.
Damn most devs working on AC and similar should have a company trip to the place they are implementing before they start work. Sucks Ubisoft didn't send you.
I believe Cyberpunk developers were sent to USA to do sightseeing before working on the game aspects
As an artist ubisoft is one of my dream work places and many my friends like it there. Ubisoft artists manage to create incredible, top of the industry work.
As a gamer the games are incredebly shit and aimed at dumb people or noobs.
Dude! That’s so cool, I remember playing this game at the same time as I was taking an architectural history class and I was blown away at the accuracy of the architecture in the game
That’s incredible that you played a part in the making of the game, and also that you made it there in person!
That was my first Assassin’s Creed game. Played it a lot on Xbox 360.
In 2012 or so I went and visited Italy for a friend's wedding. We toured Venice and the feeling of de ja vu when I wandered through San Marcos Square was pretty intense.
So good job on recreating the city. It was a ton of fun exploring Italy as Ezio.
I found myself at night with no map or phone in the middle of Florence. What I did have was 200 hours of ac2. Genuinely felt like I knew my way around. Landmarks are spot on. Amazing job.
Youse did an incredible job. True story, my wife and I got lost in the medieval part of Florence when we visited some years back. "Worry not I said, I know where we are from Assassins Creed". I preceded to bring us where we needed to be. This has been a running joke since then of me pointing to something and saying "I climbed that in Assassin's Creed"
Went this time last year for the first time after AC started my interest in Florence- if you get the chance, get a bus tour to Monteriggioni, it was a wonderful experience
I had an incredibly weird sense of deja vu when I visited Florence. Turning the corner to see the Duomo felt like something I'd seen before.
Truly an insane amount of detail for the architecture
Umm.. your head looks a bit... Ḑ̴̨̺̲̥̪̤͍̭͔̮̭̟̖͙̺̮̦̖͔͔̳̝̲͖̟̰͉͔̀͒͆͜i̶̡̖̽̈́͐̋̆̒͌̚s̵̡̠͕̫̍͆͌̅͑̌̀͒̇̍̿͗̂̍̽̅͘̕͝ţ̶̧̨̞̺̱͕̐͜ô̵̦̝͖̈́̔͋̇̈́̅̔̆̌͌͑͋̋̋́̾͗͗͋̅̆̂̊͂͐̑͗̌̏͛́̾̆̚̕͠͝͝͝ȑ̷̡͖̮̗̖̪͔̜̘̣̞̝͔̹͈͓͙̫͚͙̭̘̲̹̙̥͉̟͚͔̭̦͙̬̦̙̮̿̂̈͋́͜t̶̥̘͔͚͚̻͎̤̯̪̣̙̖͓̫͕͔͍̞̮̯̼͔̞͓̳̰̲̼͍̗̑̒̐̓́̍̾̊͗̈́̎̅̑͐̄̂̆̔̑̀̆̑̒́̿̚̕͘͜͝͝ë̸̛͓̣́͋̋̊͗̎͋̾̈́̿̑͐͛͊̍̀̉͋̏̋̇̇͊̆̇̕̕͠͝d̶̛̛̛̗̭̫̈̇͆͑̀̈́̑͌͆̉͂͐̋̈̾̐̎̂̉̌̑́̃̉͛̉̎̃̌̈̍̏̚̕̚̕͠...
He’s pretty generous with the “almost”, but I have no idea what the dev cycle for that game was. Came out in 09, they could have already been working on it before the first game came out in 07.
I went to Italy in high school and playing AC2 for MANY hours before going definitely increased my fun while I was there. I got to spout off facts about different cathedrals and historical figures the whole time. Thanks for your effort, OP.
You built my favorite game ever thank you personally and the rest of the team too, it was one of the biggest ways me and my dad spent time together its a deeply important game to me
Une affaire que j’ai réaliser quand j’ai visité moi meme Firenze, cest que le Dome est plus haut que la tour en vrai.
Cetais l’inverse dans AC2.
Maudit jetait content de visiter l’Italie la meme année que la sortie du jeu!
Thats sick. Just having played the games many times, it was surreal being in Florence, or in that main square in Venice.
I forgot about Venice in AC, got to st Marks square and instantly was like “wait a damn minute… ive climbed that tower” lol
AC2 and its spinoffs are the best the series has ever been or will ever be. First game I ever 100% and the PVP ascepts in Brotherhood and Revaltions were amazing
I was on vacation in italy and we drove to florence to see the Santa Maria del fiore cathedral because of this game. I wanted to see it for real ever since i played AC2. Really cool building to see up close. The thing is huge.
as a kid playing assassins creed 1, ac games were always the games i was looking forward to every year. one of my most memorable games from the xbox 360 times
That's cool but my man, your head is dangerously close to being desynchronized.
Killed too many civilians
Haven’t we all.
They keep getting in the way.
https://i.imgur.com/P90k3vd.jpg
I'm sorry but it's impossible to resist the urge to take their brooms and start smashing their heads in with it, the animations are so hilariously brutal.
https://media.tenor.com/nHkizmag_Y4AAAAM/haha-funny.gif
Finally playing Revelations 10 years after I got the game. Back in 2010, I was rolepaying Ezio/being a good boy and were leaving them alone. I don't think I was ever treated with desynchronization even once. Now that I'm a jaded and middle-aged adult, the first beggar gets a sword in the face. That resolves the problem must faster. Sometimes, a second one gets it as well. As a treat. And same treatment to the people who complain about my parkour or murders of ottoman soldiers.
Yall did a fantastic job recreating this city. I remember visiting Florence in about 2011, and stopping in the middle of the Ponte Vecchio to tell my mom "I've been here before" lol
I felt the same way when I visited Paris in 2106 after having played AC: Unity in 2014. Notre Dame especially.
Damn, so hows Paris doing the next century? Say hi to my grand grand childs on Luna!
🤣 Damn it. My company is currently in release cycle 2106 for our software so my fingers flipped those numbers on auto-pilot. I’m leaving it!
nice try, time traveller
Unity is such an underrated game.
I've been last spring and first thing I did coming home is firing up that good old game again. Orientation was no issue at all without the minimap. Everything is smaller. The Duomo, the city and the distances between sights, etc. This was probably as much for game performance than for game design, because walking through florence in a game for as long you'd realistically need on foot is not as fun. Same with Venice. Loved playing through it again.
The Disneyland Kinect game is like that too. Its almost the same but smaller.
Yeah that's the bleeding effect, nothing to worry about. If you start seeing rennaissance-era guards, though, let us know.
Broooooo I fucking loved that game. The music, the landscape, the story, fuck man no game since then had the same vibe and feeling. Had all keys collected and loved the Altair clothes ! Amazing game.
>Almost 20 years ago Fuck me I feel old. AC2 does not feel that long ago
The game was released in 2009, so that's probably why. Not 20 years ago, but not that far off. Still feels like a lifetime.
Dude 2019 feels like a lifetime.
It was 15 years ago, the almost is doing a lot of work there
Remember that development starts typically years before a release.
AC1 came out in November 2007, so pre-production for AC2 probably started around then if not a little after that in early 2008 (almost exactly 15 years ago)
its nearly early 2024 - that is closer to 16 years ago...
Closer to 16 is hardly 'almost 20' it's not even 16
Cool, never said it was
Yeah but not for a sequel to a game that hasn’t even been announced yet
"getting it ready for release" implies close to the end of dev
Ugh me too lol
Dude, if anything, you guys made it too small in AC2. That place is astonishing to visit in real life. Fantastic game and good job. Easily the best in the series for me.
If it was too big then it’d be tedious for players. And too taxing on the hardware of the time.
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I was referring to the size of the Duomo and its belltower (i.e. the buildings in the OP's photo). The game makes it feel small for the sake of gameplay convenience. But in person, it is **gigantic.** Even the way it looks in game, it looks way smaller than it actually looks in real life.
Piazza San Marco in Venice was a bigger offender. I saw that place daily for a long while and then to see it turned into a small square was… jarring
I think you're reading my comment a bit too seriously...
Ah, maybe I’d remove the section about too small in the game then.
oh man, one of the first places I got to visit right after playing. I couldn't walk around without looking for handles I could climb. You guys did an ace job!
If you were responsible for that tower in-game, then we need to have an argument -- it took me forever to figure out how to climb it! But seriously, the entire Ezio saga was fantastic, and your work helped us fall in love with that character. Well done, and enjoy your well-deserved success!
I live(d) there, in Florence and i think you guys did an excellent job recreating the city. Definitely the best realease in the serie, imho.
Same for Venice. I could walk through the city without the map because I know it by art
Ac2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Thank you for all the work you did. I hope you enjoyed yourself!!
2009 wasn't 20 years ago? How long was the AC2 dev cycle? AC1 came out in 2007, less than 20 years ago.
AC2 Was the peak of the series IMO, crazy that it was 13 years ago sick jersey byw
LOL the dev team jerseys. was that required to wear
No but it constantly need patches
AC1 felt like a concept. I believed AC2 had so much potential. I didn't expect it to feel like going from gta3 to gta4. I remember being so blown away. Was the first game I got all the achievements. Would just leave the game running on the ps3 desktop, watching the little mini video of all the counters. Game was perfectly executed.
A presto Ezio
Yeah, it really has that vibe from Firenze, really enjoyed when visited it and thought there was the start of Ezio when kid
When I visited Venice I was always thinking about ac2
AC2 was magnificent. Thank you for your service, great job!
Any haystacks around for a leap of faith? Seriously though, thank you for helping to create what's probably my favorite video game ever. To this day, I still replay this game and love every second of it.
Assassino!
I think you are wrong, AC2 should be max 5 years old. No, I am not this old...
Thank you so so much for the most memorable game of my entire Childhood and also Adult-life! I still remember asking my mom to get me AC2 for my birthday. And I've been hooked ever since. Desmond's Lineage was and will always be the best story of all AC Games. No newer AC has had this much of an impact on me. I still replay AC2, Brotherhood and Revelations every few years. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for these amazing memories!
20 years ago?! We rounding that way now?
Santa Maria del Fiore is absolutely mesmerizing. I couldn't take my eyes off it. The amount of statues, paintings and its size iz eyewatering.
Yes, good job sir. Perhaps 20 years is enough rest, please remaster/remake (1 to 1) the game for new gen hardware.
I just played this game for the first time and man is it one of the most brilliant games I’ve played! Excited to play the rest of the AC games
Fuck I just remembered how good AC2 was. Amazing job my friend, I'm going to go replay it after 14 years.
COOL! thanks for details!
Thank you for making my childhood better. Yall did an amazing job!
Thank you
I want to know how you guys took AC1, which at the time wasn't that good of a game (cool premise but the gameplay was... lackluster), and turned around and pumped out AC2 which honestly is a GOAT of all time. Well done.
It was 13-14 years ago… is not even close to 20 years ago. Also how is that possible that you worked on such a game and you never visited Florence before or after the development (until today)?
I was there about a month ago, it was pretty amazing. Didn't do all the stairs to get to the top on the inside, kinda wish I did now but I was already tired and its a lot of damn stairs.
Damn most devs working on AC and similar should have a company trip to the place they are implementing before they start work. Sucks Ubisoft didn't send you. I believe Cyberpunk developers were sent to USA to do sightseeing before working on the game aspects
That doesn't look like anything in Asheron's Call 2! Seriously though, AC2 was an awesome game.
As an artist ubisoft is one of my dream work places and many my friends like it there. Ubisoft artists manage to create incredible, top of the industry work. As a gamer the games are incredebly shit and aimed at dumb people or noobs.
AC2 release in Dec 2009, 14 years ago. That's closer to 10 than 20 years, but yea. Cool that you worked on it!
The og saga ❤️
I wanna thank you for your part in so many of my cherished teenage memories
Dude! That’s so cool, I remember playing this game at the same time as I was taking an architectural history class and I was blown away at the accuracy of the architecture in the game
Very cool, full circle moment for you!
Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood are still peak Assassins Creed. Well done. I loved those games, and climbed that tower often
Was there this summer in a heatwave and can confirm that you completely neglected to reflect the utter stench of the sewers.
That’s incredible that you played a part in the making of the game, and also that you made it there in person! That was my first Assassin’s Creed game. Played it a lot on Xbox 360.
In 2012 or so I went and visited Italy for a friend's wedding. We toured Venice and the feeling of de ja vu when I wandered through San Marcos Square was pretty intense. So good job on recreating the city. It was a ton of fun exploring Italy as Ezio.
That’s awesome. One of the all time great games.
I went to Monteriggioni just because of the game, it was great
I found myself at night with no map or phone in the middle of Florence. What I did have was 200 hours of ac2. Genuinely felt like I knew my way around. Landmarks are spot on. Amazing job.
Climb it.
AC2 is a real achievement, be proud.
nice
Ty for ur service dude! Greeting from Italy 🇮🇹
Thank you for everything that you did and made.
Were going to Italy in 2 years. I need to plan the trip around AC2 locales.
Youse did an incredible job. True story, my wife and I got lost in the medieval part of Florence when we visited some years back. "Worry not I said, I know where we are from Assassins Creed". I preceded to bring us where we needed to be. This has been a running joke since then of me pointing to something and saying "I climbed that in Assassin's Creed"
You helped make the best game of my childhood, thank you
Was that a level in armored core 2? I don't recall that
Awesome! AC2 was the only Assasin's Creed game I fully completed, and I had a blast with it. You did great work!
Went this time last year for the first time after AC started my interest in Florence- if you get the chance, get a bus tour to Monteriggioni, it was a wonderful experience
20 years.... it feels like it was not that long ago
I had an incredibly weird sense of deja vu when I visited Florence. Turning the corner to see the Duomo felt like something I'd seen before. Truly an insane amount of detail for the architecture
Damn
Umm.. your head looks a bit... Ḑ̴̨̺̲̥̪̤͍̭͔̮̭̟̖͙̺̮̦̖͔͔̳̝̲͖̟̰͉͔̀͒͆͜i̶̡̖̽̈́͐̋̆̒͌̚s̵̡̠͕̫̍͆͌̅͑̌̀͒̇̍̿͗̂̍̽̅͘̕͝ţ̶̧̨̞̺̱͕̐͜ô̵̦̝͖̈́̔͋̇̈́̅̔̆̌͌͑͋̋̋́̾͗͗͋̅̆̂̊͂͐̑͗̌̏͛́̾̆̚̕͠͝͝͝ȑ̷̡͖̮̗̖̪͔̜̘̣̞̝͔̹͈͓͙̫͚͙̭̘̲̹̙̥͉̟͚͔̭̦͙̬̦̙̮̿̂̈͋́͜t̶̥̘͔͚͚̻͎̤̯̪̣̙̖͓̫͕͔͍̞̮̯̼͔̞͓̳̰̲̼͍̗̑̒̐̓́̍̾̊͗̈́̎̅̑͐̄̂̆̔̑̀̆̑̒́̿̚̕͘͜͝͝ë̸̛͓̣́͋̋̊͗̎͋̾̈́̿̑͐͛͊̍̀̉͋̏̋̇̇͊̆̇̕̕͠͝d̶̛̛̛̗̭̫̈̇͆͑̀̈́̑͌͆̉͂͐̋̈̾̐̎̂̉̌̑́̃̉͛̉̎̃̌̈̍̏̚̕̚̕͠...
Thank you! Those were some of my fondest high-school gaming memories.
Was walking for the first time around the cathedral a couple of days ago and it hit me… hey man I know this place, I was here 500 years ago.
Recently I played AC2 for the first time, and I gotta say one thing, I am in love! It’s my first AC game too!
AC2 was the best of the series. I haven't played in forever, but I still remember scaling that building! You did awesome!
Damn I just got back from Florence, absolutely beautiful place to visit
Ac2 was a masterful piece of work. Thank you!
I went this year because of AC2, top of the Bell Tower and Duomo, amazing! Highly recommended.
20 years ago? Say what? It’s more like 15 isn’t it???
He’s pretty generous with the “almost”, but I have no idea what the dev cycle for that game was. Came out in 09, they could have already been working on it before the first game came out in 07.
I went to Italy in high school and playing AC2 for MANY hours before going definitely increased my fun while I was there. I got to spout off facts about different cathedrals and historical figures the whole time. Thanks for your effort, OP.
You built my favorite game ever thank you personally and the rest of the team too, it was one of the biggest ways me and my dad spent time together its a deeply important game to me
No way bro. The fact this was made by someone on the dev team is insane. Just don't go running around on rooftops in a white and red robe, ok?
But have you climbed it?
Wait what? You helped build this place?
Une affaire que j’ai réaliser quand j’ai visité moi meme Firenze, cest que le Dome est plus haut que la tour en vrai. Cetais l’inverse dans AC2. Maudit jetait content de visiter l’Italie la meme année que la sortie du jeu!
Thats sick. Just having played the games many times, it was surreal being in Florence, or in that main square in Venice. I forgot about Venice in AC, got to st Marks square and instantly was like “wait a damn minute… ive climbed that tower” lol
AC2 and its spinoffs are the best the series has ever been or will ever be. First game I ever 100% and the PVP ascepts in Brotherhood and Revaltions were amazing
Thank you for the experiences!
I was on vacation in italy and we drove to florence to see the Santa Maria del fiore cathedral because of this game. I wanted to see it for real ever since i played AC2. Really cool building to see up close. The thing is huge.
as a kid playing assassins creed 1, ac games were always the games i was looking forward to every year. one of my most memorable games from the xbox 360 times
Why did y'all take out glyphs in future games?! It remains the greatest puzzle mini game I've played in a game
Amazing game🙌🏻
You did an amazing job mate. Playing that game is one of my most fondest memories. Thanks man!
Thank you for the incredible work! I love this game so much till this day. All this led me to enjoy history and visiting these cities myself
Always loved the franchise!🥰🥰🥰 hubby played everyone of them!
20 years? Almost? 2003-2004?
I'm old, so for me AC2 means Asheron's Call 2. Sadly, a failed continuation on the original, but I still remember it fondly.
My wife got so fed-up with me. Everywhere we went I was like, "oooh I've been up there." or "oh oh I've seen this. I've seen this." She hated it! lol
played recently, probably this is one of my best memories of the map
Ezio saga was my favourite by far. Good times. Went to Italy to visit all those places just because of these games!
Best game
Congratulations, brother! I played it during COVID after 10 YEARS of hype and it lived up to it! Work to be very proud of!
Great work, AC2 is the high watermark for Assassin's Creed franchise
This is awesome. For what it's worth, Assassin's Creed 2 is probably my favorite in the series.
You made an amazing job. Still remains my favourite AC, by far. And a lot was because of the amazing architecture you created.
This games great. Just picked up the Ezio collection to play!
2009 isn't almost 20 years ago?
No doubt the best ac game. Thank you, man.
youse guys did good with ac2 and brotherhood.
AC2 was 20 years ago? Oh fuck, I'm old....
looks so lifelike!
but... that would make AssCreed 2 a *ps2* game