Assassin's Creed Odyssey

[Usher]

Did you stop reading after that ?? Further down, well, last paragraph actually, it says this:



I highlighted the part to make it easier to see, but you can basically skip those part by the sound of it. I know you said you still be buying it, but thought I point out the above incase you did miss it !

I didn't read that bit I must admit but it depends on what their version of 'largely optional' ends up as and I doubt you can skip it altogether. Also they mention expanding the modern day stuff which presumably means more trigger points throughout the game.

 

[Name]

Having a female warrior protagonist from that era seems innacurate.

Unless the games are still based on the animus, which I'm sure I read this one isn't.

 

[hyperseven]

Having a female warrior protagonist from that era seems inaccurate.

Unless the games are still based on the animus, which I'm sure I read this one isn't.

What about Xena warrior princess, wasn't that ancient Greece?

 

[Evian]

Glad they've dropped the modern day stuff as well...it's the feeling of dropping into a detailed historical world that makes AC, especially Origins.

Looking forward to spending a good chunk of time in Greece....time to finish up the Origins DLC.

Same the modern parts were horrible.

 

[Random Guy Esq.]

Having a female warrior protagonist from that era seems innacurate.

Unless the games are still based on the animus, which I'm sure I read this one isn't.

Can't remember her name, but Halicarnassus had a warrior queen at one time.

Edit: Artemisia

 

[mid_gen]

Having a female warrior protagonist from that era seems innacurate.

Unless the games are still based on the animus, which I'm sure I read this one isn't.

I've heard it suggested that Final Fantasy Chocobos weren't actually a thing in Ptolemaic Egypt. Or horses that run around literally on fire, or that people couldn't jump 100m off a building and land perfectly safely in a couple of feet of hay...etc.

 

[Tombstone]

Having a female warrior protagonist from that era seems innacurate.

Unless the games are still based on the animus, which I'm sure I read this one isn't.

Seeing as she is a Spartan it actually works. Indeed its almost the only nation that it would work for from the era. You have to remember that Spartan women were taught how to fight and trained in physical combat from an exceptionally young age (along with the men), as Spartan men were often away, the women needed to be fully capable of fighting too. Plus it was believed that by being at the peak of physical fitness they would bear strong children (as well as looking pretty darned good, supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen (famously Helen of Troy) was Spartan).

It wasnt unknown for Spartan women to be so well trained that they were capable of besting Spartan men, in the tales of the Argonauts, they have a Spartan woman fighting with them. I guess the modern pop culture equivalent to Sparta would be Klingons, a people who are very much about battle and who are bred to be physically adept and strong and are taught the ways of combat from a very young age but whose females are every bit as skilled and equal as the males. Combat, politics and power (most lands in Sparta would actually be owned by women not men) were all possibilities for Spartan women. Fairly unusual for the era and for many many hundreds of years to come.

 

[SS-89]

I've heard it suggested that Final Fantasy Chocobos weren't actually a thing in Ptolemaic Egypt. Or horses that run around literally on fire, or that people couldn't jump 100m off a building and land perfectly safely in a couple of feet of hay...etc.

My thought exactly who the hell cares at least the game gives you the option of a male character for the alpha males to play as...

 

[Glanza]

Looks more like DLC for Origins than a new game, from the trailers they've added nothing new that I could see.

 

[Tombstone]

Looks more like DLC for Origins than a new game, from the trailers they've added nothing new that I could see.

I see it mostly as a continuation of the "lore" rather than anything with lots of new features, sort of like Borderlands 2, Bioshock 2 or Dishonoured 2. I'm not really expecting revolution or evolution, just more of the same but in a different, and seemingly equally gorgeous, world. (Bit like Borderlands2, Bioshock2 and Dishonoured2, although perhaps the gorgeous world bit isnt as applicable in the case of Borderlands 2 as it is in Dishonoured 2 and Bioshock 2)

 

[Glanza]

I see it mostly as a continuation of the "lore" rather than anything with lots of new features, sort of like Borderlands 2, Bioshock 2 or Dishonoured 2. I'm not really expecting revolution or evolution, just more of the same but in a different, and seemingly equally gorgeous, world. (Bit like Borderlands2, Bioshock2 and Dishonoured2, although perhaps the gorgeous world bit isnt as applicable in the case of Borderlands 2 as it is in Dishonoured 2 and Bioshock 2)

It would have been nicer if we'd got a new area we've never been to, this feels too close to Origins as we travelled to parts of Greece and had loads of Greek style buildings throughout the map. I'm still waiting for Feudal Japan

 

[Tombstone]

It would have been nicer if we'd got a new area we've never been to, this feels too close to Origins as we travelled to parts of Greece and had loads of Greek style buildings throughout the map. I'm still waiting for Feudal Japan

I suppose if the trilogy is about the origins of the Assassins and Templars then they were fairly hand-tied into it being in a similar area. Feudal Japan would have meant jumping forward over 1000 years, which could have been awkward if they're trying to cover how everything began.

 

[faheemrazzaq]

Looks more like DLC for Origins than a new game, from the trailers they've added nothing new that I could see.

exactly that's what I am thinking.

 

[lee32uk]

I enjoyed Origins, so more of the same is fine by me.

 

[Punt]

I'm 72 hours (and counting) into Origins so yeah, looking forward to this!

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Having a female warrior protagonist from that era seems innacurate.

In a game where the premise is that your DNA holds a second-by-second account of your ancestry, I think a female protagonist is a minor problem (plus we all know why this change has been made).

 

[Kainz]

I'm 72 hours (and counting) into Origins so yeah, looking forward to this!

Oh god, I'm 55hrs into Origins and the repetitive nature of the game is driving to despair now, not to mention the poor combat. I love playing the game but I wish there were more variation other than go here, check out and clear this fort/building etc. Too much riding around and the map (I'm in Faiyum) is gigantic! Having said that I'll possibly buy Odyssey but not at their release prices.

 

[ace-rimmer]

they just need to add more depth to the gameplay, origins didnt even require stealth like they used to, to much effort i guess. typical of ubisoft to creat a great looking game but put no effort into actual gameplay or characters

 

[CaptainRAVE]

they just need to add more depth to the gameplay, origins didnt even require stealth like they used to, to much effort i guess. typical of ubisoft to creat a great looking game but put no effort into actual gameplay or characters

The environment and attention to detail was seriously impressive though.

They need to bring back some of the mechanics from Unity/Syndicate. Those assassination missions were brilliant.

 

[Kainz]

they just need to add more depth to the gameplay, origins didnt even require stealth like they used to, to much effort i guess. typical of ubisoft to creat a great looking game but put no effort into actual gameplay or characters

It's just not an assassins game anymore I agree. Most of my kills have been via bloomin homing arrow! In previous AC titles there were a solid cast of characters. Thus far its just By'eck and his missus.

Given you're a Spartan soldier in Odyssey, I can see it just being a straight forward hack and slash button masher.