I know Cred Forums hates the Assassin's Creed series, but can we talk about this game?
I just finished it and the first DLC. I thought it was pretty fun. I haven't played Unity or the London one because they seemed to follow the old formula quite closely, which I think started to get boring after so many games. This one I played on Nightmare with the cursed weapons that reduce max health by 66% but add damage, it made the game challenging and realistic enough.
Pros: >huge beautiful well made world >set in a very nice historical time with Caesar and Cleopatra >controls feel much better >combat revamped for the better, holy fuck I actually enjoyed the combat this time around >weapon types are very varied and shields bring something new to the table >fuckton of stuff to do >side quests aren't mostly boring >I actually liked the protagonist
Cons: >character models that weren't main characters were shit >some main characters that died I did not care a shit about even though the story said I should care >open world, traveling can be tiresome but the game gives you tools to do it quickly enough >your wife leaves you at the end
What did you guys think?
Nathan Kelly
Cleopatra's voice made my peepee hard
Jack Watson
Assassin's Creed was never good, that's for sure. Not sure about this one though.
Tyler Harris
Only the first 3 were good. This one does a lot of things differently, so I enjoyed it. Definitely worth a pirate.
Jayden Hughes
By making the whole world so big, they lost the good city design with indepth buildings and assassinations some previous games had. Not a single building is at the same level as some of the main assassination buildings in Unity or Syndicate. Alexandria and Cyrene are shallow husks of a city. Not a single assassination in Origins is good.
Samuel Rogers
I agree with this. The cities and buildings were quite bland and lifeless. The assassinations all were to assassinate a guy that just wanders around an enemy base, and most of the time you can't even assassinate them in one hit and it turns into a bland boss fight.
Blake Bennett
I wish the combat would've been a bit more realistic. Meaning less flashy lines when you swing your weapon, no rapid fire bows, no loaded up attacks.
Justin Hall
this. Cleaopatra > Helen of Troy
Dylan Fisher
This. Going from Black Flag to this was such a fucking disappointment. Nothing about it feels like AC anymore.
Dylan Gonzalez
Imagine waking up to her perfect voice every morning.
Elijah Moore
I just finished it too, fitgirl special too OP? It was alright, I do agree the open world felt a little padded at times. Also I HATED the boat section and the combat got too easy even on hard difficulty.
Ryder Wilson
Fitgirl deluxe edition repack, yeah. The boat sequences felt kind of bland without proper cannons and I was disappointed there was no boarding action. Combat was way too easy on Nightmare, but cursed weapons made it somewhat harder still. It was very good for a game I didn't pay for.
Alexander Gonzalez
I didn't like Black Flag at all desu. The story and characters were dull, but I'll admit having your own pirate ship to control was pretty cool.
Eli Richardson
I also hated that the rage dart was pretty much your only lethal stealth ranged attack, and the Assassin order in the Carribean was a bunch of tibesmen.
Hunter Fisher
I don't agree with that. Moving around enemy zones is definitely like AC. You whistle, sit in bushes. I don't like Black Flag either. Some of the worst cities and assassinations in the franchise. Most overrated sailing/boat gameplay too. Sailing is fine, but the combat boiling down to shooting arcs left or right is just boring shit. No tactical aiming, slowly filling up with water and needing to unload water.
Kevin Williams
I miss the early AC games where the buildings were tall as fuck and fun to climb. AC:O had some of that vibe in it, but Black Flag had none. Buildings in Black Flag were random shacks, stick houses and sheds.
Carson Martin
Buildings were never tall as fuck, the only two games in the franchise with to-scale buildings are Unity and Syndicate. Syndicate was so ridiculous they had to add a grappling hook.
I think what is missing from ACO is very few missions stay and revolving entirely around cities. Most missions have the target in some villa or base outside of cities. Your never stalking people from rooftops, but in my opinion losing all the trailing/following missions was a good thing. I don't want to follow someone, who I will kill in like 2 more missions, for 5 minutes while he dumps exposition because the game fails at making an engaging story otherwise
Isaac Peterson
Huh, I remember them being huge and being disappointed in AC3 when everything was max 2 stories high. Guess I just have my nostalgia glasses on.
Rooftop stalking would've been much better than villas.
Gavin Wood
The pyramids were pretty cool, running around with just a torch is quite atmospheric. They're supposed to be based on the real life interiors I think.
Josiah Taylor
>>controls feel much better Stopped reading there. Not being able to jump backwards off of a ledge or wall automatically makes the controls worse.
Lucas Gutierrez
I didn't really miss that. Climbing is much faster and fluid, so is running.
Levi Bailey
I missed it in the first hour of the game >Clearing temple with lots of pillars early on >Can't climb to the top of the tallest pillar due to how they're shaped >Want to jump backwards onto a lower pillar so I can air assassinate one of the guards underneath it >Can't Fuck outta here with that dumb shit, removing genuinely useful movement abilities that can serve a purpose from a gameplay perspective is the definition of devolution.
Alexander Rogers
Would I like this game if I'm not a stealthfag? Basically I'm the type of player who would backstab the archers then jump in the pit to fight the normal enemies and bosses. Is the game alright for that playstyle?
Noah Gutierrez
It's nice simply hanging around and taking in the views it really does look gorgous. Perfect 420blaze it.
Jacob Adams
It's like Witcher 3 but with shit writing
Isaiah Walker
I was thinking about getting this game but I think it's a shame it doesn't have co op.