Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

davewhite04 · 13 Oct 2018 at 13:21

beachBOYken said:
Do want to get this at some point but will wait due to RDR2 a few weeks away. The user reviews on Metacritic average around 5.5 where as AC origins was around 7.5.
Anyone know why this may be the case, is it maybe because its very similar to Origins?

From what I've played so far, the gameplay like climbing and fighting is the worst in the series I've played. Lovely setting and general ambience, the main quest is boring so far and the side quests are too. It's also full of bugs(PS4 version).

All in all a mess. I hope that Red Dead Redemption 2 lives up to it's hype, because not one game has imo since Dark Souls 3, none of the triple A titles have impressed me at all.

McBain · 13 Oct 2018 at 19:17

CaptainRAVE said:
Apart from lots of whistles

Ha, true

Played a few hours of this earlier, enjoying it so far. The scale of the map looks outrageous :eek:

Kerplunk · 13 Oct 2018 at 19:37

Just completed Orgins! What a game. Is it worth doing the DLC too?

Not sure whether I will have time to complete Odyssey, as RDR2 is out in 2 weeks

MOOGLEYS · 14 Oct 2018 at 19:22

Just hit level 44 on part 7 of main quest. Some interesting quests later on with lots of filler fetch type side missions.

Still enjoying but think I might take a break and play through Vampyr as I can see this lasting at least another 40-50 hours tbh.....

CaptainRAVE · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:09

Finally 24 and nearly finished all of Athens. Not much left to upgrade on my ship.

Funniest moment of the day. Quest npc won’t get off horse. So I attack the horse. Somehow it catches on fire, runs into the ocean and drowns :eek:

- npc got off the horse though!

MOOGLEYS · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:39

I had to rescue someone from a camp. As soon as we got outside he turned round and ran back into the camp and got slaughtered. Luckily the mission had completed just before he went kamikaze.....

Wilko_Dog · 14 Oct 2018 at 21:03

MOOGLEYS said:
I had to rescue someone from a camp. As soon as we got outside he turned round and ran back into the camp and got slaughtered. Luckily the mission had completed just before he went kamikaze.....

haha sounds like he just wanted to show you his leroy jenkins impression

McPhee · 14 Oct 2018 at 22:18

I had a nightmare rescuing

Odessa, during one of the Cult quests. Pretty sure her level hadn't scaled, and I could damage her during the fight. Pretty much had to kill three enemies without letting her take more than 2 or 3 hits from anyone. And she kept charging at the enemy. Took me something like 12 attempts before I managed to pull it off.

Kerplunk · 15 Oct 2018 at 19:47

Picked myself up a copy, looking forward to getting stuck in - Will have to get in some serious sessions, with RDR2 out next Friday

Schizo · 15 Oct 2018 at 19:49

I'm stuck on the boar quest

McPhee · 15 Oct 2018 at 20:24

Schizo said:
I'm stuck on the boar quest

I lucked out with that one. Had a Mercinary hunting me; she showed up during the fight but attacked the board rather than me.

Not sure if you can replicate that or not? Always a chance the mercs will attack you instead.

Schizo · 15 Oct 2018 at 20:37

satchef1 said:
I lucked out with that one. Had a Mercinary hunting me; she showed up during the fight but attacked the board rather than me.

Not sure if you can replicate that or not? Always a chance the mercs will attack you instead.

I'll get one to follow me

MOOGLEYS · 15 Oct 2018 at 20:58

Just finished the main story line at level 47. Loads still too do but need to be level 50+ as it’s way to hard at moment......

Grind on the side quests..... lol

CaptainRAVE · 15 Oct 2018 at 21:02

Schizo said:
I'm stuck on the boar quest

Loads of people seem to be. I just dodged every attack, healed when it struck and attacked it from behind

(plus the occasional kick). Went down quickly.

MOOGLEYS · 15 Oct 2018 at 21:07

CaptainRAVE said:
Loads of people seem to be. I just dodged every attack, healed when it struck and attacked it from behind (plus the occasional kick). Went down quickly.

I just ran around shooting it with various arrows and using special attacks when it got close. Took a while but got the job done...

McPhee · 15 Oct 2018 at 22:54

Just had a "kill the bandits" side quest where I had to do sod all. I was just perched on a cliff above their camp watching them get mauled by wolves

One bandit survived. But the pack of wolves was immediately followed by a couple of boars, who finished him off.

Easiest XP ever (well, apart from the beggars).

Bazzards · 16 Oct 2018 at 07:23

CaptainRAVE said:
healed

You can heal?

MOOGLEYS · 16 Oct 2018 at 07:33

Bazzards said:
You can heal?

You can add it as an ability upgrade up to 3 upgrades for %50 health regen. I think you need to upgrade the spear to be able to upgrade fully.

Bazzards · 16 Oct 2018 at 08:06

Good stuff, will look into it. Not upgraded anything yet.

McBain · 16 Oct 2018 at 09:01

Yeah the heal is a must have, loving some of the assassin tree skills the one where you hurl the spear and transport to the location is very 'shadow strike' from Shadow of Mordor/War.

Loving this game though, the sheer scale is incredible. The combat feels nicer as well.