"Hold L3 to interact" is just psychotic game design.

You think Origins is repetitive.. you’re simply not prepared for the utter repetition of Valhalla specifically. It’s the very definition of a “junk food video game.” It throws an insane amount of bloated content at you that provides very little sustenance. It’s really Ubisoft at their absolute worst imho. The only thing that kept me playing was the Norse Mythology elements. Other than that it’s just a soulless piece of crap.

Comprehensive review as always For me though, this was easily my favorite game of 2017 and might just be my favorite in the franchise. Level gating story progression definitely sucked but I was happy enough to do all the side missions in just about every area I was in. A little bit of bias helps that I have always been fascinated with ancient Egypt ever since I was a kid. So it was just a dream come true exploring this world for me For me it felt like if you mixed together The Witcher 3 with Metal gear solid 5. Sneaking around all of those different encampments and scouting overhead with the eagle give me a lot of vibes of sneaking around all the fortresses in Afghanistan and MGS. Otherwise the RPG set up all the way down to the map and the little boats that you push around on felt ripped directly from Witcher 3. I must have put a good 60 hours or so clearing the main story, and when I was done there were still areas of that map I hadn't even touched yet Each one that has followed I've liked less. Odyssey to me had way too much of a slow tedious start. I had to get to like level 15 or 20 before I started to like that game, and as much as I did indeed end up liking the rest of it, it's too big for its own good and no games should feel like it takes a dozen hours for it to "get good" Valhalla I barely played. I'll give it another shot at some point but I just don't find the setting very interesting. Playing out the Viking fantasy is cool but England is just basically one big grassy field with some small villages and wooded areas tossed in I have been enjoying Mirage but it's despite the game's best attempts to make me dislike it. There is some really poorly done voice work and animations, this long awkward unskippable portion of it every time you want to talk to a merchant In the controls are just atrocious at times. The button lay out makes no sense compared to prior titles, and the parkour and stealth can be super janky. Main character is constantly getting stuck on objects that I'm not trying to get on in the first place. But I like the setting in the atmosphere, and it's been fun for me to just kind of run around the city and collect stuff and cause trouble. It doesn't feel like a return to the roots, but it does feel like a tribute to it. Only recommend getting that one on sale for sure

Alexandria area runs like shit even on 6/12 core/thread modern cpus. However its nearly not as bad as with the hardware people had in 2017.

I can't say I disagree with what's said in the review. I was someone who digged to world and setting enough to be willing to complete quite a lot of DLC content. The "RPG" mechanics really cripple the beautifal and vast open world, I found myself enoying thigns a bunch more after I basically had an OP caracter who can actually use stealth to sneak around. I remember ditching the hidden blade and using my fists to basically knock out guards toward the end, simply because I got tired of all the killing I had to do to level up. After struggling through Origins and Odyssey, if I ever get around to playing Valhalla, I'm definately going to find a 100% save and use New Game Plus to play through the missions. You really do have to grind your way to a fun gameplay loop in the Ancient Trilogy, and likely Shadow in the future.

last time i was this early, the sumerians were still a thing...

I found Odyssey to be slightly better than Origins, but that's not saying much.

if you have the dlc you can boost your character to lvl 45 and all your tools are upgraded almost completely for free. And since enemies scale up, youll be able to do all story and side quests and forts and freely explore at your own leasure.

I remember when Assassins Creed Origins came out a couple of years after Syndicate and thought it looked like a breath of fresh air. And it was, sometimes, and well, to be quite frank, Ubisoft did push this game a little too much by adding way too many missions to the point of becoming increasingly repetitive than fun, then making enemies damage sponge-y than previous titles, and finally, the inclusion of looting mechanics that are downright excessive, which affected future Assassin's Creed titles more negatively than positively in the long run.

Mirage looks interesting.

"they should have kept AC as stealth adventure , and made a new franchise as hacknslash adventure" they did ... have you seen "Immortals Fenyx Rising" ?

Setting was great but the changes to the fantastical looter shooter were too much. Keep Diablo out of my ninja games. 😅

When Origins first came out, I played it for 20 minutes and stopped because I couldn’t understand how to fight. I put it away for a year and then tried it again and I have to say that I really did enjoy the game. I cleared 100% of the main and DLCs maps. That was it. I won’t go back and do a new game. I did a similar thing for Odyssey as well. I couldn’t even stand to play Unity or syndicate. I made it through about 30 minutes of each. I finished the Valhalla main story and some of the DLCs. Don’t get me started on the woke agenda at the beginning of that one. Won’t play that again either. Uninstalled it. Shadows….hell no!! I just keep replaying all the original ones up to Rogue.

while i enjoyed most of AC Origins. It just became a chore fatigue in Act III and drop of quality of quests in that Act. the grind and tediousness level goes way up as the series progresses starting Origins. when i completed Odyssey's required assassination targets in the main story. I swear I will never touch AC again. the lore become so convoluted. this franchise should've end in Revelation

1.01.47 So basically Assassin's creed was trying to be like Thief?