I have AC Black Flag and Watch_Dogs and even though they are practically the same game, just re-skinned, Black Flag is so much more fun! The main character is so much more interesting (Aiden Pearce from Watch_Dogs has such a dull monotone delivery of every line, it's a bona fide cure for insomnia) and Edward Kenway's a Welsh pirate, what more could you want?
Even though you end up repeating the same handful of side missions in each game doing it as drunk pirate is much more entertaining as opposed to a soulless mumbling bloke whose soul character trait seems to be that he wears a hat. Given the option between the two, I would definitely opt for Assassin's Creed.
Watch_Dogs is OK, it's functional, you can shoot stuff, or drive cars (that handle as if they were constructed from concrete), or use your wonder-phone to do everything from nick a car to intercept text messages to blackout half a city but playing through it often feels a drag. I don't even think I'm halfway done with the story missions yet and I keep choosing other games to play in it's stead, even games I have already finished and are going through for a second time. That's my two cents worth on the matter anyway.
And as people have stated above, you are in for a treat having not played The Last of Us before. I never got around to getting it on PS3, and waited for the Remastered version. It's pretty special (in the game-play, characterisation, design and narrative) and is pure eye-candy in places.
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