Assassin's Creed Odyssey
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Before you buy the older AC games, be aware that if you be buying the Season Pass for Odyssey, you also get the remastered versions of Assassin's Creed III and Liberation, as @CaptainRAVE mentioned as well. Unless you bought the version with the season pass already, then you get them once they are out anyway.
Rome would be a bit too much, IMO. Lots of Greek accents in Origins, then Greece itself...
Yeah, I reckon they might go back in time again but I hope they go for something really unique, I'd totally be up for China during the time of Confucius. However, I do think they're going back too far and leaving out some really great settings/periods like colonial Hong Kong I've mentioned or India, the Spanish conquest of Yucatán, the Mongol Empire etc. I'm getting a bit fed up with Europe.
The internet reviewers just talk nonsense. I've mentioned it a few times, they just want to blast through the titles in order to get their reviews out asap to get hits. Reviewers are also sheep, they set a trend of moaning or praising a certain thing about a game and then you'll see all the other reviewers jump onto that bandwagon and repeat it word for word. Sometimes I do wonder if some of these reviewers actually play the games at all, or just watch a few other reviews and then create a review parroting the same things to make it seem like they have.
Jimpressions review for example, goes on and on about the microtransactions and how you are forced to do side quests and buy boosters...
Well....point 1...you do side quests in a game? Shock horror ! Since when did gamers get so entitled and want everything on a plate? Of course you do side quests..good god man, I've done side quests in RPGs for 30 damned years, side quests are part and parcel of the genre ! You seriously telling me that every MMO should be marked down for making you do side quests, that Witcher should be marked down because of side quests, that Divinity Original Sin or Baldurs Gate should be marked down because of side quests. Pathetic excuse to moan about the title and entirely evidential of someone simply trying to blast through a game as quickly as possible.
Point 2..microtransactions. Again, fake news, utter bunkum and yet more proof of someone simply trying to blast through a game as quickly as possible. Lets see, where are we in this thread...page 34, several hundred posts...take a poll, see how many people in this thread who have played and enjoyed the game have bought boosters etc...whats that you say? Hardly anyone?? But how can that be possible !? When so many reviewers are telling us that you cant progress in the game without spending money? Or that microtransactions are an enforced necessity? However did we all manage to play?
Reviewer bunkum, total fake news, Ubisoft bashing because its cool to bash Ubisoft, or drama creating because drama sells. Whatever the reasons, its exceptionally poor and biased reviewing and simply factually wrong.
Rant over
My expectation is that they will go backward in time for the next title, maybe Rome, maybe Japan or China and then after that they will jump forward in time again, which could open the doorway to something more out of leftfield, like Mongolia or Spanish Colonisation of the West etc.
I wouldnt mind them going forward in time and doing something with Vikings, I think theres a lot of promise with something Norse. Vikings would allow for naval combat, land combat, covers archery, axes, swords, shields , armour crafting etc, lots of cosmetic options, has loads and loads of myths and legends, creatures and a lavish pantheon of Gods and lore surrounding them.
Simple explanation.
Which article do you think got more clicks and earned more money for Polygon?
The review article that said it was a good game?
Or the article that said the "best feature is hidden behind a paywall' or whatever clickbait headline they used?
Best bet is to just ignore outliers that are more than likely just being contrarian to get clicks, and listen to the general consensus.
Which article do you think got more clicks and earned more money for Polygon?
The review article that said it was a good game?
Or the article that said the "best feature is hidden behind a paywall' or whatever clickbait headline they used?
Best bet is to just ignore outliers that are more than likely just being contrarian to get clicks, and listen to the general consensus.
Yup, its a bit like those Rotten Tomatoes reviews where the critics give a film a certain mark and then you look at the viewers mark and its completely the opposite
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Great. I've got a ghost/bugged mission now because I've looted a chest like I first hit the Athens region a long time ago. I now have a quest is now pointing to on the Isle of Salamis, just west of Athens. If anyone is on this island - DO NOT loot the south section of the island where there is a Red Fort icon on the map. Hell don't even go there or you'll ruin a good mission you will encounter later on.
The Blind King - his reward to you lies in the above mentioned area.
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I would understand if it was a copy and paste job, but it isn’t.
ADHD generation.
Possible they ended up doing a bunch of mission board quests and / or radiant quests. Lots of copy and pasts elements with those IMO.
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I have been having a blast, and yes the game is huge, and so much stuff to do, brings the OCD out in you lol, for reference, I got 36 hours in so far, and main quest is 35% complete, and the map looks barely explored lol, loving it.
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Live events starting today. Shame I am only level 25 (30 needed). They should rotate though.
I'm still working abroad, wont be back home to carry on my Odyssey until the 26th October and even then its only for a few days before I head back abroad again !
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I go away next week too. Never been so sad to go on holiday
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I just boinked with someone who I really shouldn't have 