User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 10-07-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag pirate gameplay naval exploration/@comment-5180558-20130712233327/@comment-4829046-20130713064155

ACR is just a bunch of talking, talking, talking and more talking. Worst part is that its part of gameplay and you can't skip some of it. You try playing all the missions several times again and get back to me. In this way, AC3 was better. Despite the annoying constraints, at least you have checkpoints(even if they are as glitchy as hell)

I can play AC3 any amount of times. In fact I use it to relieve some stress and get away from my usual thing. ACR? Don't touch that shit anymore. Why? Can't be bothered to reinstall the game and play from scratch and even if I did, I hate the travelling. That was one AC game that I only play for the story missions and not for anything else. Its just so goddamn boring and not as vibrant as the previous games. Not to mention you don't get the same satisfaction since the guards are all so plain.