Honest thoughts?
Once I realised it was about the storyline instead of gameplay I dropped.
i genuinely wish it didn't have rpg elements. I thought i'd like them, but really i just liked dress up, the numbers sucked everything out of me because the numbers made it so i couldn't fucking stealth kill people after i left town, or crossed a river.
An interesting story cut apart and dragged to make a 60 hour game. I never finished it because it just felt never ending. I enjoyed Eivor (male) as a protagonist though.
>ubisofts shitty ass connect shit loses connection for .01 seconds>your game just closes>no save no backup nothing>you are now instantly a filthy pirate after 4 hours of not being one and your game just yeets itself>this is on top of being a crashy fucking mess nah fuck off
tried playing it 3 times never passed the 10 hours mark
>>723453631game world is beautiful, combat is annoyingly sluggish and not responsive, ai is braindead, lots of bugssadly a game can't survive on visual alone so i dropped it i didn't finish it, so i can't comment on the story
retcons a lot of shit
>>723453631Only good thing in that game was cutting out RNG loot.
>>723453631>One of the worst main characters in the series.>Story is so unbelievably dull and boring outside of Basim and can be boiled down to either-Visit an area, speak to one or two people, they tell you of their issue, you go kill some people, there's a big fight, someone dies or leaves acting like the hour you were together was enough to endear you to them, you talk about how Angleland will become better, and you leave.-Visit an area, mean people are doing mean things, you talk to someone who tells you a couple people doing these things, surprise it's random Order of the Ancients fodder with only some development, you hunt down three of them to find the leader, kill the leader, then hallucinate Odin.>Combat is braindead easy and only gets easier as you play even when starting on Draugr because the buffs you get to your character are astronomically broken let alone the weapons.>If you don't play with Guaranteed Assassinations turned on you are heavily limited where you can even run around.>Norway is a mostly empty map, Angleland is nothing to write home about but it's alright particularly when you reach Roman-inspired locations, the Isu maps are all boring and lame and boring, and outside of the DLC there's nothing much else that's interesting.>Castle and fort designs are solid and are designed around encouraging stealth even if you can just run in and murder everyone because combat is so braindead.>Wrath of the Druids is solid and grants you the best weapon in the entire game.>Siege of Paris is structured like a mix of older AC games and these newer AC games and it's pretty fun, but 100%in it is a chore due to the reputation system requiring so much grinding.>Dawn of Ragnarok is just more Isu fever dreaming with awful enemies, a boring map, a terrible story, and basically just makes you even more overpowered while simultaneously having the arena not balanced for the highest difficulty.>River Raids are garbage grinds and I despise them.
>>723453631IDKi but i really liked Odyssey everyone should play that game
>>723453631Same problem as Black Fag: no big buildings to climb.
>>723453631Never played it, not interested to play it, but currently I'm playing the last asscreed ever that is ac syndicate
>>723458049I hate that I like Odyssey but despise it as AC. Spent like 100 hours for the whole game (didn't 100%ing it), DLC included. The game just clicked when I tried to ignore its piss poor attempt to create an antagonist in the proto templar (something Origins already did) but actually about family.
I think it had an interesting story and relatively surprising twists for the sci-fi lore behind the series, also the soundtrack is real good. The game can look really pretty at times and if it wasn't a bloated mess of an RPG and more focused and shorter it would've been a better game. Unfortunately the game is about 5 times bigger than it needs to be and that is a huge detriment to the game as the sluggish gameplay isn't fun enough to carry it for that length. Side content is completely forgettable and audio mixing is shit. The viking fantasy isn't really strong in this and it all feels toned down. Stealth is completely broken and climbing/parkour is even worse than in the previous RPG entries.It's a 7 at best if you are really generous. I still enjoyed it much more than the piece of shit that Shadows is.
>>723458354>if it wasn't a bloated mess of an RPGThe RPG aspects don't even matter in Valhalla, they're basically irrelevant outside of gatekeeping you from areas due to your Power Level. You gain PL so quickly thanks to gaining two levels per level up that you can explore huge swathes of the map in just a few hours. Guaranteed Assassination means you can freely run around since random wolf spawns are very rare allowing you to run around assassinating people just fine and exploring high level areas as long as you sneak around. Weapon stats are so similar they don't matter so you only need to care about the passives, and because every weapon is viable you can just find two solid weapons and massacre everything without really caring as long as the passives aren't terrible.It's not like Origins where you need to keep up with the Hidden Blade and glove upgrades, or Odyssey where you need to care about what actual part of your stats is getting buffed via your equips. Shadows goes even further and anything that's not Legendary functionally doesn't matter due to having lower stats while also having worse engravings. Shadows can even let you run around with gear half your level and do fine unless you're Yasuke who kind of needs equipment kept up to snuff simply because he fights 10+ enemy encounters constantly and you get two-tapped with underleveled gear on Nightmare.
>>723453631Mediocre game made significantly worse than mediocre by insufferable microtransactions and shitty gear systems.
>>723453631boring and long as fuck...i like the king alfred twist but this rpg ubislog is just not worth sitting through
I uninstalled it after a minute of play. Even at the lowest in-game sensitivity, it was far, far too fast.
>>723453631I really liked origins and odyssey so this should have been my favourite because of the setting and it had a bunch of fun mechanics like being able to dual wield shields and two handers but for some reason it just didn't do it for me.
>>723458354>>723458596Oh, and I missed that last bit>I still enjoyed it much more than the piece of shit that Shadows is.Shadows is significantly better than Valhalla, you have no idea what you're talking about. In every single way it's better. Better stealth, better map, better variety, better combat, combat actually has difficulty to it and you can die compared to Valhalla, the characters actually feel like they matter with Yasuke somehow coming out the best written out of them all (Despite still being a character that should not have been playable), castle/fort design is easily the best in the series by far, and there's tons of variety.It's not as good as Origins in terms of the whole but it's easily better than Valhalla and especially Odyssey.
>>723459397Does Yasuke get better? Because I played 25 hours and he was hilariously bad. Within 10 seconds of meeting him Nobunaga says he has a spirit that could inspire armies, then when he's learning swordsmanship he interrupts a pledging ceremony to demand a duel, then insists on using real swords so he fucking kills 3 people. He's like a bad parody, foreigner comes in and is instantly better at everything than the locals, has no respect for their culture, and is physically superior to all of them. Oh and a ton of his kills involve decapitation which is just hilarious.It's especially funny because the rest of the game they're trying super hard to be respectful, like the fucking prompt to not climb on torii gates, but then with Yasuke its like they hired some black autist to write everything for him and he just used it as an embarrassing power fantasy and ubisoft were too scared to tell him to change anything because then that'd just cause more controversy.As for gameplay its alright but Yotei made me go back and try it and it'd be so much better if you were just one character that could do everything. Having half the shit locked to a different character sucks. Yotei has the exact same weapons as shadows except you get them all at once and it feels so much better.
>>723460090>Does Yasuke get better?You're farther along than me but the entire end of act 1 is already more character exhibited than Eivor had in the entire game.>He's like a bad parody, foreigner comes in and is instantly better at everything than the locals, has no respect for their culture, and is physically superior to all of them. Oh and a ton of his kills involve decapitation which is just hilarious.Yeah, I completely agree. Him opening his mouth at the start and instantly being fluent in Japanese made me burst out laughing. Not to mention he's genuinely a master archer, swordsman, naginata user, and club user. It's insane to me that he can't climb for anything because Naoe is like a leapfrog while Yasuke is walking like he has 100 pound weights on his legs at all times including when running.>but then with Yasuke its like they hired some black autist to write everything for him and he just used it as an embarrassing power fantasy and ubisoft were too scared to tell him to change anything because then that'd just cause more controversy.From what I've experienced when he's not speaking I agree, but when he's speaking I disagree because the dude is genuinely a great guy who is willing to own up to his mistakes and make it right while yearning for purpose.>Having half the shit locked to a different character sucks.I'm with you. I also can't fathom why Yasuke doesn't have a ranged slot since the game already differentiates between you using a ranged or melee weapon just by holding LT and choosing to fire your bow/teppo or not. It functionally means you only use the naginata as it's the only weapon that can deal with crowds in any manner and the bow to shoot down bells or kill enemies you don't want to deal with with Silent Arrows.
>>723460317I dropped Shadows moose it’s beautiful but such an empty game. The story doesn’t even exist.
