Does Ubisoft get a pass for enforcing online in a singleplayer game? Not in my book! Playing on PS4. What is this shit? I need to connect to my ubisoft account? Why??
Also, when the game is loaded to the main menu, it checks for ages for DLC. I don’t care. Hide this shit in the shop menu. Why do they bother me with their garbage?
This game better be good. I have it on disc, I just want to throw it out of the window.
Yeah, Ubi has their own gameplay points system, with unlockable game doodads on their app. For that to happen, they demand online. On the bright side, you can get a nice batch of potion ingredients early on if you want to take the time to unlock them.
if you check for online components, you better do it in the background and don’t spoil the user experience. I will now wait until I get a new ubisoft game (until I forget), which could be 6 months at least.
That was a nice experience, the prolog. And the weapons don’t break! And the exploration is literally rewarding.
The precision/dexterity requirements are really starting to grate on me with this game. I love the narrative, the acting, the art style, the exploration, the progression, and the combat. Heck, I even enjoy some of the puzzles, when they actually make you think. But far too often “puzzle” is really code for “obstacle course” or “situation where the solution is obvious but hard to execute” and it’s just coming up more and more frequently as I play. I really don’t want to quite mid game but I notice my sessions are getting shorter and shorter and virtually always end with me frustrated about some precision bit of flying/jumping/box moving/whatever.
This is not a problem that ever comes up in Assassin’s Creed (completely different things make me quit those games in irritation).
Yeah, many shrines in Fenyx are actually platforming challenges instead of puzzles. And some can be pretty hard to pull off. I had my share of difficulties, but I like platformers, so they didn’t grate on me as much. That said, in a couple places I was nearly rage quitting, and I rarely do that. But those were the exceptions, not the rule.
Thank you, I don’t know why the proper term hadn’t fully crystallized for me but that’s exactly what it is and exactly why I’m not enjoying them. I stopped playing platformers a long time ago…
They have Mario level ambitions for their level design but they don’t have Mario level controls to go along with it. Very frustrating.
They also have a tendency to offer up shrines that can only be completed with a certain power without making it clear that that’s the case. There’s been at least 3 times where I’ve sat in a shrine for 10 min trying to figure it out only to google and be told I need a certain skill to progress. That’s not cool in an open world game.
This is true. In most cases, shrines that need a certain power to be completed will only be accessible if you have that power. But the same isn’t true of the optional parts of said shrines (extra chests, etc). Some of those can only be accessed if you have some other power (and in some cases you might not know there is such a power and just be left thinking it’s impossible), and that can be frustrating. I know it happened to me a few times, enough that I ended up leaving many shrines for later in the game, when I had most powers unlocked.
This may have been patched. I’ve gotten messages on several occasions explicitly telling me “the chest you’re trying to get can only be accessed with a power you don’t have.”
If you don’t enjoy platforming challenges, don’t even try to play the first DLC for Fenyx. The other two would probably be fine, but the first one is 80% platforming challenges that happen to be more challenging than nearly anything in the base game.
Got it. Honestly, I’m far from certain I’m going to play to the end, or even much further than where I am, so I don’t think DLC is going to be an issue anyway.
I’d say just skip the shrines you don’t want to play and go back to the main game or to a different shrine. There are plenty of those and most stuff in shrines is optional. The final section in the game is a long shrine-like maze, but it’s a lot more puzzle than platforming, and the platforming in the mandatory areas of the game is a lot more forgiving than many of the shrines.
This is at an historic low so I finally snagged it. Can’t wait to dive in.
Woo, I’ve had this on my list for a long time! Maybe this will convince me to put off playing Cyberpunk 2077 a little longer.
The standard edition is only $17 if you don’t want all the extras. As much as a game might be fun, I never wind up playing all the expansions.
I lost 90 minutes to this today in the blink of an eye. Wow it’s fun.
Yeah, i only put a few hours into it, but I was having more fun than I’ve had with an AC game since Syndicate.
I want to go back to the last 3 AC games which I have only put less than 10 hours into each, but in no rush to. I keep wanting to boot Fenyx Rising up, but have been distracted by Elden Ring and a few other newer releases.
I feel like Fenyx Rising allows more for exploration instead of looking at a million activity points on a map like on the AC games. But again, this from the point of view of about 2 to 3 hours.
I also purchased this - Its pretty great, but I also feel there is perhaps a tiny bit too much focus on puzzles along the way.
I must admit though, I hope they will make more like this - its very refreshing and its clear this is where they experiment like crazy - especially with the DLC’s.
I bought this at release and I don’t know why, I hate puzzles and it’s really heavily puzzled, in fact that felt like 90% of the game, I think this may be my least played ubi game
It is a great game. I’ll play the DLC one day. ;)