I haven’t used BLAEO in a while since I wasn’t playing enough games + being lazy. Anyway, I hope to get back to it since I miss this site.
I’ve been playing a lot of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and damn, it’s such a good game. I haven’t binged a game, since The Witcher 3 a couple years ago (which reminds me, I need to buy the expansions) I just reached lvl 43 (max is 50) after ~40h of gameplay and finished the main story, which was surprisingly good.
Pros:
- The game has something called exploration mode. In this mode, quests are not marked on your map (you may remove it as well), you have to actually talk and listen to the NPCs to know where to go and what to do. Combined with the huge map, I had forgotten that I could get lost playing a game, but more importantly I also forgot the sense of pride and accomplishment when you finally finish a quest. It’s amazing.
- Good story (not another vengeance story, thank god)
- Amazing graphics (seriously, look at the pictures. It’s not even Ultra. I had to reduce some settings to achieve 60fps)
- Naval combat is always fun.It was improved since Blackflag
- Kassandra’s voice actor is 11/10. Perfect for the character
- Mythical creatures to fight Medusa, Minotaur, Cyclops and the Sphinx, iirc and ride (You can ride unicorns, hell horses and even pegasus)
- Legendary items feel legendary. Not because of their stats, but because each one of them has a unique ability that change your playstyle. I loved using both Herakles Mace (+40% from bows if you’re above the target) and Falx of Olympus (+100% dmg, but health is capped to 25%) together. This glass-cannon build is SO. MUCH. FUN. You hit like a truck with a good bow from a elevated spot, but you die to pretty much anything.
- Huge wars between Athens and Sparta. First time a huge battle is well-represented in a game, tbh.
Cons:
- The game was clearly balanced with people who use microtransactions in mind. It’s literally impossible to progress in the story if you’re not doing side-missions. You can’t get enought XP just from story missions. The only way to play the game exclusively for the main story is by purchasing Helix Credits and using it to get XP boosters. It’s the same thing if you wanna upgrade your armor/weapons. You need to grind a lot for components if you don’t wanna buy them from the ubistore.
- You get sooooooo much loot that gold is meaningless. I was already rich when I got to lvl 20.
- I wish the game had more mythical creatures. Greek Mythology is full of them. Minotaur fight isn’t that special. The sphinx you don’t even fight. Just solve riddles. I haven’t reached Medusa yet
- Too many “?” on the map. Well, it’s still a ubisoft game full of camps and caves filled with the same bandits. What was I expecting?!
- I hated Alexios (the male protagonist) voice over. Thankfully, you can just pick Kassandra and enjoy the game.
Edit: I forgot to ask. I bought Grim Dawn this sale. Anyone wanna play coop?
You can choose to between exploration and guided mode. In fact, you may change the whole UI. I removed everything except for the minimap and the compass. Some of the camps/caves are part of quests, but there are still a lot of camps/caves/ just to fill the map. Overall, it’s a improve from the maps full of collectables like previous ACs, but they still need to learn that sometimes less is more.
Not at all. It takes place 400 years before Origins. You’re not even an assassin, but a misthios, some kind of mercenary. The game is a huge improvement from Origins, which was in its on a huge improvement from Syndicate.
Nice. I guess I’ll have to try out Origins first to see if I like the combat changes and stuff. Can the game stand among other RPGs now that Ubisoft has branded it as such?
Origins is a nice game. You can’t choose what your character says and you don’t have any decisions to make. For those reasons I wouldn’t call it a rpg. It’s an open world action game with quests. Some of them are very well wrtiten, but most of them are just fecth quests. If you like Egypt and its culture, architecture and mythology, I’m sure you’ll like it. If you want an RPG with choices and all, Odyssey is a better AC for you.
Yeah, I worded it poorly. I was referring to how Odyssey stacks up to modern RPGs.
I really liked. It was second only to Witcher 3, which is probably the best modern rpg I’ve played.
Oh my god when you ride the unicorn the trails it leaves are rainbow colored? With Kassandra’s… everything, Alexandros’s… everything, and the all-female naval vessel crew you can get with their own sea shanties (esp this one this makes this one of the gayest AAA games I’ve ever seen.
I’ve been checked out of Assassin’s Creed for a while but where Origins piqued my interest, this one secured it. I hope to get it… soon… someday… at some point.
How HUGE the game is just saps my energy just thinking about it. I’m handling Yakuza 0 because the map isn’t all that big, and there’s only a couple of locations. I just can’t do huge open worlds like I used to.
But for Kassandra? I’ll try.
The game is big, but between my legs, my horse and the boat, I never felt tired of exploring nor felt like some place too far away from me. The hell horse leaves a trail of fire. You can ride Pegasus as well. At least, I saw it in a video.
Kassandra is the best female character I’ve played in a long time. I got the Amazon set because the voice actor sounds a lot like Gal Gadot and Kassandra’s appearance was clearly inspired by her as well. At the end I was just pretending it was a Wonder Woman game xD
Ohhhh that all sounds so appealing.
I think I’ll probably have a couple of shorter games I play during it - I just get overall fatigued with playing huge games like that. You’ve convinced me!
Its been ages since I’ve seen you post here!
can’t say anything other than that I’ve never played a single assassins creed game haven’t figured out how to get into it or been motivated enough to buy any of them…
Yeah, I’ve been busy with a lot of real life stuff lately. I hope to start posting here regularly again. :)
Since Origins, Ubisoft tried to distantiate the “new” ACs from the older ones. Origins was clearly inspired by Witcher 3, but it still had a couple things from older ACs, like hidden blade and its story was about the creation of the group, hence the name. Odyssey, on the other hand, has absolutely nothing in common with older AC, you don’t even play as an assassin. I guess, they decided to keep the name just for marketing reasons, since you need more money to market new IPs.
It’s not assassin’s creed anymore. Just a decent rpg. It plays like TW3 or Horizon Zero Dawn. It has quests, dialog/story choices, skilltrees, etc etc.
Oh. I played AC: Black Flag last month, and decided to never again play in this copy-pasted Ubisoft games.
I may pick Odyssey at some point, when they decide to get rid of microtransactions and re-balance game. Just like they did with Shadow of War.
I am actually amazed series known for exploring the map and finding stuff finally has this. It’s almost like collecting is pointless if you literally mark everything on the map for me so I know half the game area is pointless filler just by glancing at the map. Then again
Yeah. Ubisoft gonna Ubisoft. Does that at least still have a story the way, for example, Witcher 3 gives ? bandit camps a note or something that gives them some background?
But the most important question - is it Origins’ version of Rogue?