By a strange coincidence I decided to pop back into this one yesterday. I bought the Gold Edition a couple of years back, and I hadn’t gotten off Kephallonia yet. So I play for a bit, finally secure a ship and get to see the Ubisoft Presents…Assassin’s Creed Odyssey screen. Jeez am I behind the times.
Also replaying the game - I started Saturday. Holding off on replaying Valhalla until it seems that they’re at least done updating it for the year.
I started replaying it last week and gave up and went back to play Valhalla. I just don’t get this game at all. Maybe it’s me, but it feels like there’s just 900 random forts to loot just to loot with like zero depth. The main story stuff is fine, but the side quests I didn’t dig a all.
I feel like I must be insane as I just love Origins and so far Valhalla after 20 hours seems just much more well grounded and fun. While there are certainly places to ransack I don’t feel like I’m running around chasing pointless question marks. Not trying to be negative btw I legit feel like I’m missing something. :)
Unlike you guys, though, I’m only now actually playing it the first time.
I just did the mission where you recruit the archer dude and find out about lieutenants. Except before that I’d already recruited a different guy because I found a different pirate isle before the quest-related one, go figure.
I’m with the impressed crowd. I had given up on Ubigames. Everybody kept telling me that “THIS one is different” and I was like “Yeah, yeah” but then it finally dropped to 15 bucks and I went for it.
My feeling is one of “I can’t believe this is an Assassins Creed game”. They really brought the thunder with the combat and the story this time around.
I also never thought I’d enjoy the cutscenes in a Ubisoft game, but here it is. I also agree with Tom that Kassandra is the way to go. What a badass!
I feel like I’ve seen enough of Valhalla to view it as a downgrade, so I don’t think I’ll be making a habit of Creed games, but I’m glad I finally gave Odyssey a shot.
Now I’m the guy telling my other friends “It’s totally different!” and they’re the ones going “Yeah, yeah”.
I believe it’s what Tom refers to as a “wipe shit off the map game” which is a brilliant name for it.
That’s practically every Ubigame though.
I can’t take credit for that one. But I’m pretty sure I should get credit for the term “Ubistuff” to refer to all the icons on the map!
-Tom
I absolutely loved Odyssey, and like Valhalla quite a bit, but I agree on the forts. After many hours into Odyssey my eye started to twitch when I came upon yet another large fort complex where I knew I’d have to stealth kill 30 dudes.
I also hated every other AC game I played up until Odyssey.
Quests (the story ones) give you reasons to go in forts. Those will be numerous enough for your fort fix.
So running around to ? marks sounds like a not so solid plan then. Perhaps I should have just stuck with the quests. I’ve yet to actually finish an AC game. And I’ve tried many many many times with many many AC games. I want to like them and then I burn out from the checklist feeling I get from them.
The main quest is long as it is and gives you a taste of all the activities. If you like something, by all means do more. But god there are infinite random dumb generated fetch quests. Doing those will ruin a fantastic game.
Feel curious but not obligated!
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So much this. Especially in AC Origins.
Random question about that game, was it possible to do well in the Hippodrome races? I tried once and failed so hard I was put off that activity entirely.
Ok I’m trying it again without wanderering like a moron. Let’s see how that works out for me. :)
Just out of curiosity, how many AC games have you tried to play? You really never finished even one of them? Not even AC 2, which was a) fairly straightforward and b) actually a game and not just a tech demo, with an amazing setting and a decent story? (Although in retrospect the movement controls were pretty janky.)
AC3, Syndicate, Black Flag, Origin, Valhalla and this one. I just burn out. Maybe I just need to accept the series is not for me as much as I want it to be lol.
Ah. I played AC1 and the Ezio Trilogy all to completion (the last two of that series after a hiatus). Bought but haven’t touched Unity and Rogue. Out of the ones you mentioned, I’ve played all but Valhalla, but only finished AC3 and Black Flag, the latter which I enjoyed tremendously. I really couldn’t grok the Homestead minigame in AC3, although some people swore by it. I enjoyed what I played of the rest and mean to go back to them at some point, and kinda want to pick up Valhalla but don’t know how it would run on my 4 year+ old machine.
Ya well so far tonight I’m sticking to the storyline and enjoying it. Wandering aimlessly just isn’t that fun even with how pretty the map is.
That’s generally what happens to me with these games. I see 900 spots and feel like I need to just run and visit them all get overwhelmed and do something else.
I suspect that what’s happened with this new generation of AC games (from Origins on) is that the publisher is doing the “pay to win through microtransactions (or worse, lootboxes)” thing, making it really hard to amass enough money and crafting resources by making a beeline through the main quest without grinding. I felt that way with AC Origins, anyway. Haven’t gotten far enough in Odyssey to tell whether I’m going to hit that wall.
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1-3 were on rails more or less right?
If you mean there wasn’t a lot of side content (or any in the case of 1) I guess you’re right. Still, the Ezio trilogy and III felt pretty open somehow. Brotherhood onward had the thing where you’d send people on missions for the guild, right, or am I misremembering?
One thing is for sure. The game is ridiculously pretty. Vallhalla feels like a downgrade visually even compared to Origins. Could also be that I’m playing Valhalla on a series s, but I don’t think so. I’m determined to find out why everyobe loves this so much.
