Guess I need to get around to playing Odyssey.
Grifman
1804
Why not a new thread for a new game?
I guess I’ll start one :)
Bateau
1805
You should, it’s really good. Almost like Witcher 3, if I’m being honest.
I finally tried out the warrior spec yesterday after maining assassin for what must now be over 100h, and the game feels extremely fresh again (this is nothing against the game, it’s just MASSIVE and it does wear you down if you play nothing but it for dozens of hours in a row). Overpower attacks with a heavy blunt weapon are insane, I had no idea you could chain attacks with them because I previously only used daggers. Sending fools flying 15m away just never gets old.
I also absolutely love the semi ironman nature of exploration of dangerous areas, especially in early and mid game it can be a challenge to clear a big fort without getting reinforcements or mercs tangled up in a fight. Lots of fun all around.
Love the period, but it does lose some of its charm overtime - especially once you hits the 117th fort/dangerous area. I do feel the old games had better “designed” areas which (sometimes) required some thinking to solve. Never felt that in the new two; worst case, one can always run in, climb something, and then kill the enemies when they mill around helplessly (AI has never been good with heights, but it’s really bad now).
The game world also reminds me a lot of Fallout now, in the way that you’re constantly running around in the ruins of civilization. It’s a beautiful world, but it doesn’t feel like a “lived-in” world to me. Temple ruins and “abandoned” forts is one thing, but it just makes no sense when these are buildings in actual use. Why are soldiers camping out in this unmaintained fort? Why does Athens have a huge hole in the walls, during the middle of an active siege?
well guys, trailer in 3 hours. let’s see if I’ll have to eat that statement
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-05-10-freed-from-the-weight-of-itself-assassins-creed-odysseys-magic-is-its-sense-of-pure-fun
I need to check this game out sometime. I own it, but I am still planning to get to it in the correct order of the Assassin’s Creed games.
It’s difficult to articulate what a bad plan that is - there are so many utterly crap games in the series and it was functionally rebooted at Origins anyway.
I enjoyed them so far. Maybe they’re just designed with me personally in mind, and not most other people. My favorite is the original, for example, which other people dismiss as a trial run or a proof of concept. Brotherhood was almost as good. The first 50 hours of AC2 is the only stinker I’ve played. I did give up on AC: Revelation because it was too hard for me. It had some really stringent missions where I had to assassinate a commander quickly before he ran away, and he always managed to run away. I started AC3 a while ago, and was enjoying it, but then AC3 Remastered came out, and I was waiting on that. Now I have the Remaster, so I should get back to it.
Odyssey is great and fun and all but like any game it has a core loop you have to buy into or don’t. If, for some reason, you’re pushing or grinding through that core loop to get to the “real game” Odyssey in all probability isn’t going to be for you. If, otoh, you like that core loop, there’s so much core loop that you’re likely to burn out from playing too much Odyssey than finish it.
You haven’t gotten to the real bummers yet, though I didn’t personally enjoy AC3 at all. I’ve always had a soft spot for the first one and never really understood the hate.
AC3 really was something special if you focused on the Homestead region and ignored the rest of the game. :)
I’ve given up on this. They were releasing them with such frequency that it was impossible for me with my backlog to wait until finishing one before trying the new shiny. The games are too damn long (and repetitive to some degree) and the gameplay is mostly similar.
At this point the only game I’ve come closed to finishing is AC2. I’ve tried each game with the exception of Brotherhood, Revelations and Black Flag.
Syndicate and Odyssey are the only ones since AC2 that really hooked me and even those I haven’t finished. Syndicate I put aside to try Origins but that didn’t grab me and the map with a zillion things to do just overwhelmed me. Same issue with Odyssey, but Kassandra is awesome and the gameplay and quests were more enjoyable than in Origins.
I may never finish an AC game. I’m all excited about the next one knowing I still have 5 or 6 games in the series to play. That includes AC3 which I just got the remastered version of and only played briefly a few months ago.
I kind of feel about AC the same way I do about Zelda. I look forward to each new game, I put a couple of hours in, enjoy those first few hours, but then am never enthusiastic enough about the games to finish them. If I manage to finish any it will be Syndicate or Odyssey.
This game must be pretty user-friendly.
One of my brothers, over the years, has become very much a lazy gamer. He doesn’t want to learn new stuff, and he wants the game to hold his hand to teach him things, otherwise he gives up pretty easily in frustration. I’m slowly getting that way too as I get older too, btw, so I’m not making fun of him.
Anyway, he bought AC: Origins at launch, and gave up part-way in, because he found it too hard.
He bought AC: Odyssey at launch and gave up pretty fast, because he couldn’t figure out how to do something.
Recently with extra time on his hands because of Covid-19, he fired the game up again, and he says it had been updated several times since he last played, and it had very helpful tutorial messages throughout the game now to always help him out, and he actually finished it! And he finished 2 of the DLC as well. That just blows my mind. My brother never finishes games.
And he went back to AC: Origins, and he says now that he knows how to play, thanks to AC: Odyssey, he’s having fun even in AC: Origins now. Though he says he does miss the enhancements from Odyssey.
I recognise myself in that too. If you need me to work out a new way of doing things, or introduce new stuff to do, my middle-aged brain kind of wilts. The first Watch Dogs was like that for me I think. But once you grok it, you have a whole Ubiseries to play! Your brother now has about 1200 hours ahead of him to get all caught up :)
Obviously, starting The Last Kingdom series got me to track down the Valhalla trailer, which forced me to reinstall Odyssey to actually try and finish it prior to Valhalla dropping. I briefly tried Black Flag because, sailing, duh! But it felt super janky and unresponsive. So I went with Odyssey since it was newer and gets as good or better raves than BF. And I had all the DLC too. Already super enjoying it, but trying to go back to Xbox controller setup (on my PC) after finally getting the hang of Switch controller setup for Zelda and stuff it’s insanely hard to get my old fingers to remember where the A,B, X, Y buttons are. I save often just so if I steal from or kill some random citizen I don’t have many steps to retrace.
Clay
1818
I put 9 hours into this with great performance and suddenly, when I try to go into the first Athenian fort, it drops to 1 FPS and I have to quit. I previously have run into and around the fort with no problem. Maybe it’s a memory leak? Or a bad nvidia driver? Either way, it’s very frustrating.
Enidigm
1819
Why is the cover of Odyssey changed to a guy in a suit with a pig mask now in the Xbox menu?
They changed a lot of the images for various Ubisoft games when the latest Watch Dogs game came out. Apparently that game involves herding pigs or something.
Yeah, having played through Legion, I can say that there was no part of the game that involved herding pigs. There may have been pig masks (masks were a part of the game), although I don’t remember seeing one - caveat, I didn’t bother collecting all of them.
Thank you for clarifying. I mean to say it probably involves butchering pigs.
