Gaming Altair You a New One: The Assassin's Creed Series

After watching more videos I can find all of three things that peak my interest in this game.

1. Interactive battles
2. The Return of large scale free roam ship to ship combat
3. The map is beautiful as always.

Sadly none of that makes up for my other concerns. This very much does not look or feel like Assassins Creed.
They're going to need one heck of a justification to explain all these choices.
Even then I will probably not preorder it.

 

I was hoping they'd stick with the every other year model, or if we did get one this year, that it'd be a continuation of Bayek and Aya's story. Since neither of those are the case, and since Origins is still fresh, I'll almost certainly pass on Odyssey. Absolutely nothing about it looks interesting to me.

 

So Ubisoft have shared there dlc plans for the game, I have to say I’m not surprised about the remaster.

 

Sorry for the double post but it’s also being reported that AC liberation remastered will come with AC 3. I’m pretty excited for this.

 

In addition both games come free with the Odyssey DLC season pass, which includes 2 episodic DLCs.

 

Pretty happy with the gold edition it will Launch 2 days after my birthday so a nice gift to myself

 

I preordered Odyssey the other day, looking forwards to it a lot

 

I’ve been playing for about 4 hours now, a few things. There’s a lot of funny dialogue, climbing Feels smoother and Ship to ship battles are better than ever!

 

My favorite moment well playing so far.

 

I think I will be jumping back into the series with the newest game as fast as I can.

 

Honestly all the Odyssey talk just makes me want to jump back into Origins and do some more stuff that I never got around to, maybe buy the DLC. That game still feels fresh to me.

 

Origins is a very good game, I only just finished it all (dlc also) two weeks ago after a slow burn though out the year and I enjoyed it all the more for it.

 

Caved and got the Ultimate Edition. I had a giftcard though so I dont feel too horrible about it . . .

Only just got my feet wet in the game. Playing as Kassandra, enjoying it so far! I never skipped out on an AC game except for Unity and Syndicate, but Origins really reinvigorated my love for the series.

Much more RPG-y this time around, but the movement is improved overall and I really liked the Exploration Mode that forces you to navigate by context a little more. I hope that they eventually do a guided "Discovery Tour" mode like they did for Origins.

 

The 'Ancient Greece' Discovery Tour has already been announced

 

Be honest, how many of you climbed the Zeus statue and dangled off his “anatomically correct” parts?

 

Oh yeah first thing I did.

 

So I've spent a good 8,9 hours with the game now and am enjoying it!

Good things I've enjoyed, so far:
+ Kassandra. Chose her on my first playthrough and the actress is great. Somehow she's snide, sarcastic, witty, compassionate, threatening, scary, etc. Great range and believability in both writing and delivery. Plus she looks great all the time and I'm jealous of her arms.

+ The graphics in the scenery and attention to detail for recreating daily Greek life is impressive as always. One small detail I noticed is just HOW GOOD distant settlements look like at night when sailing on the water. The scale of the game world can't be 1:1 with the real world but somehow they managed to recreate that fuzzy/distant light appearance with all the torches kind of blending together/remaining distinct and separate? I don't know how to explain it. It's a small, realistic thing but they really sold it.

+ Ship combat is fun. Faster-paced than previous titles but that's okay. A lot of opportunities to upgrade and customize but not too many opportunities.

Some criticism:
- Assassination. It doesn't feel as valuable, as too many regular enemies can't be killed outright. What usually happens is you can take a big chunk of their health off via assassination but then you still have to fight them anyway, and if you're sneaking around, everyone's going to get out and fight you - making combat skills more worth the investment, in my opinion. There are some assassination skills that increase the damage output, but in the early game, those are locked behind certain level milestones.

- I don't like the parry system during combat. It's just awkward to hit the right buttons and doesn't seem to give much payoff for doing so. Almost more worthwhile to dodge, as dodging certain attacks can add a time slowdown bonus.

- Too much loot. I appreciate the new RPG concepts but I hardly have an opportunity to stick with a weapon/armor that I really like because I'm constantly getting new stuff that's better. Since most sets are designed to aesthetically work with the other pieces of the set I often get a collection of mismatched armor. There's a way to upgrade armor pieces so that they scale with your level but it ends up being expensive and not really worth it so I usually opt in favor of just using equipment as I get it. But I wanna look good!! I feel they could have had the armor mechanics but still kept the outfit system from Origins to reduce some of the unnecessary complications.

Also, it's possible some of my negatives are solved by game mechanics that I'm just unaware of, or haven't progressed far enough to get the necessary ability. I'm only level 14 right now.

 

Really enjoying it went with Alexios first playthrough up to level 27 and just finished chapter 6

 

I've just reached Athens in my Kassandra run (Chapter 4 I think), having a lot of fun (still barely used the ship though).

Just a warning to anyone with the Blind King preorder DLC: Do not loot any chests in the Ruined Sanctuary of Ajax, it permanently makes the quest incompletable. Just encountered the temple today, and I'm glad I knew to stay away beforehand. You have to wait till the quest directs you there.

 

Just finished AC Odyssey!

According to my save file, it took me 104 hours, 23 minutes, and 43 seconds to beat all 3 endings (I got the best ending for the one of them determined by choices) I beat all side locations (that I could find), and all quests (except for 2 annoying 'collect all the Enemy General's Seals' missions [And no, sadly not Seals as in the animal ])

I kind of did the endings in a weird order, rounding up the most impactful ending 20 hours before the other two. So I kind of ended my playthrough in a bit of a damp squib. Still, at least I have a save file at that ending, so I can always replay it now I've done the other two.

 

Yes, in pretty much every hidden tomb. They hide in the shadows and strike when you get close, but die in one hit from any weapon. Get in a big group of snakes though, and you will get butchered.

The tombs are optional, but provide valuable skill points for completion.

Spoiler

Plus you fight the Gorgon Medusa at one point, though the snake aspect is relatively downplayed.

But hey, at least you don't fight a giant snake like in Origins

 

Yeah, the snake in Origins isn't too bad, but the game also shares the 'tomb snakes' with Odyssey.