There's something poetically beautiful about a temple dedicated to the god of blacksmith and craftsmanship being one of a few intacted buildings since ancient times.
If only architecture was still this beautiful alongside the white cities visions of the future for advanced civilizations type 2. The grandest in the apex of our glory. A lot better than just living in what can be compared to boxes.
Born and raised in Athens, when young the school bus would pass through a ring road that gave you direct view of the Acropolis hill. We liked it but, as you do, took the view for granted and got on with our lives. When 18 I visited the actual hill for the first time in my life. Yes I know right? Well, what I didn’t know was that just the scale of things (when passing through the Propylaia to get to the Parthenon) would make my jaw drop. Lesson of that day: never underestimate the beauty of things you would, otherwise, take for granted in your everyday life. I was blessed to have been born as a native to this city and I didn’t even know it.
You might be interested in the Discovery Tour mode of this game: ruclips.net/video/uh4Iy-p943M/видео.html No combat, no story, no quests, just the entire game world to explore with short narrated tours covering landmarks, history and daily life. It's also available in video form, which is perhaps more suitable for the classroom: ruclips.net/video/y8rcx4yuqOQ/видео.html The previous game, set in Ancient Egypt, also has this mode (even as a standalone game). It's absolutely delightful. It not only touches on historical aspects, but also mentions where real-life and game differ.
Unfortunately the ancient history taught in schools is utter horseshit. Its political history, not actual history. Its laughable that they teach that Rome and Greece are the foundations of European civilisation, when in fact the greeks and romans just inherited slavic cultures. Greeks only been in "Greece" since 800BC. Serbia,the Serbian language and culture is where all the answers lie.
@@borisfrlic Huh? That's a joke right? Or some alternate history by u? Slavs did not exist in ancient times the only arrived in Europe in Mediaval times around 5th century and later on 9th century they adopted Roman Catholicism and Byzantium Orthodoxy from Greeks. This is history, what you say about Romans and Greeks inherited slavic cultures they did not even exist at the time and when they did it was the other way around. Read real history.
When I was really young, my dad had to travel to Italy for work purposes. At some point, even I spent a few months living with my parents there (although I don't really remember anything). Because of this, we have a lot of photography albums with pictures from famous cities of Italy like Rome, Venice, Florence, etc. When playing Assassin's Creed 2, my father looked at the TV and quickly said "Hey, I've been there before!" We spent an entire morning comparing places from Florence with the pictures we took there. I'm always really impressed with what Assassin's Creed does with reimagining those cities, it's incredible. Love the video!
This was amazing. Really shows how much I underestimate the crazy amount of hard work and research that goes into making a game like this. So much media coverage of game companies acting sleazy makes you lose sight of the heart and soul developers put into their work. Also a fantastic piece by George who put a lot of care into this video, as he does most of his work.
I feel like there's two sides to the AC series. 1 side is a dev team that is clearly passionate about history and recreating it in video game form. The other is a publisher who wants to push out yearly releases and monetise them as much as possible. I remember thinking it was ridiculous when I first read they were gonna make it annual back in 09. "How can you make such a detailed open world game in a year? AC isn't CoD." But they found a way by making the games as cookie cutter and formulaic as possible. Makes me wonder what would happen if Ubi just let the devs put out a high quality AC a couple times a generation, instead of forcing the annual schedule. Still though, as repetitive as these games can get I'll buy one every few years when one piques my interest and it's always a solid 6-7/10 experience. I really don't get the hate these games get, they're mediocre, but the use of historical settings makes them a little more interesting than other annual releases. As much controversy as the microtransactions caused in the recent games, they're really a minor issue at best.
@@domantasl Yeah, I know they have a couple of teams working on them that they cycle between like CoD. Still though, the annual pace leads to alot of stagnation.
I've been watching your work for over six years, and it's a joy to see both your audience massively grow and your work expand in scope and variety. Thank you for making the field of video game journalism all the better. Cheers.
I went too Athens, the locations of the Battle of Marathon and Thermopylae, the Oracle of Delphi and Mycene in 2018, when i get back home I immediately went and bought Odyssey to go back to Greece and time. Such an immersive game, can't wait for Valhalla
Check the book "The Art of Assassin's Creed Odyssey". No matter what the rest of the game is, the architecture, design and art side of the game was studied through and through with historians and specialists using ancient maps and everything available
incredible video! as a Greek and a big fan of yours i must admit this video really touched me.your knowledge of ancient Greece is mindblowing and very admirable. keep up the excellent work!
AC Odyssey has done a brilliant job with ancient greece , including how it presents ancient personalities such as Sokrates and Perikles. However , the surroundings are indeed totally off , Delphi being the most obvious since it ruins the atmosphere , which in reality is breathtaking. The fact ancient greeks decided to set the oracle there was not by accident. Having visited all those sites , i totally recommened visiting Delphi for its amazing energy ( you have to go there to understand it ) and the Chariot racer statue. The second best imo is the tomb of Philip in Vergina , because it never got vandalised and you can see literally everything our ancestors placed inside. Makes you wonder how many more stories and wonderful sites lie hidden beneath the soil , maybe 1 day !
they nailed the feeling of living in that world and even though not 100% accurate, the feeling and seeing those places in game was absolute bliss i mean, they went for the detail and i believed that im in greece at that time in history, fantastic thing, i hope that the next game whatever place it might be, will be as great as this was
Exactly what I felt when playing the game. I was constantly daydreaming about how it might have been like that. Like, imagining the people building those places, and they wouldn't ever think that in 2000 years from then, people would be making interactive journeys/adventures based on their daily surroundings.
@@jorgechavezcolmenares1790 ohhh finally people who enjoyed playing like i did and i still do. especially as a greek, it was for me like beeing home, just 2500 years earlier :) i love this game so much
@@g.samaras2371 In fact I'm always crossing fingers to the day they make something in ancient Mexico😅. When I play these games, I wonder how would native people would feel to see ancient buildings from their country recreated. For example, It must have feel awesome for a french to explore Notre Dame on 1700's while he/she walks by the cathedral on their daily life. For you as a greek, I can imagine how it is about the mithology from ancient times, the ruins, the philosophers that have been studied for centuries. I can't describe it. But I hope you understand me. Cheers!
@@jorgechavezcolmenares1790 im hoping for Rome at its peak time, that's my favourite historic time period. It was also rumoured before the Valhalla announcement that either Roman Empire or Vikings would come
Having just finished AC: Odyssey and being thoroughly enthralled by its world, this video was just fantastic. Makes me wanna plan another vacation to Greece.
Beautiful camera work both in game and out. Greece is amazing and whether it's from one guy with a camera or from 36 ubisoft studios, it's worth seeing.
I've been playing this game since the debut of quarantine, I find it to be beautiful and was really impressed with how it looked to be set in Ancient Greece. This video blows my mind! Great work, thanks for making this! :)
Excellent video, just unbelievably informative and beautiful! I took a trip to Greece with my family several years ago and got to visit all of these sites. It really brought back some great memories seeing them presented like this. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this! I recently visited Athens, a few months after playing Odyssey and when I was there I was thinking of comparisons of the game's environments to its real life counterparts. The effort put into the architecture and to match it up closely to how it would've been in those times are incredible.
I've clocked 138 hours in this game, and I just finished the main story. I'm *almost* done completing every little objective in the whole map, and I've walked most of it. At one point I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things I felt I needed to do in the game and quit. Eventually I came back to it because I felt bad for giving up and my completionist side yelled inside me to finish it. And so I took Kassandra in and adventure again. And what helped me this time was to take my time and enjoy the view, and damn if the view wasn't amazing! Everywhere you look the game feels alive, from the cities crowded with people that mind their own business (the kids playing on one side, the group of people discussing between them, someone painting, another one working with stone, etc) to the fields brimming with flora and fauna, travelers who stop to mourn their friend, who was just killed by a bear... Breathtaking. Even with the obvious differences compared to the real thing, the astounding work these people put in the game shows everywhere. Thanks for doing this video, helped my wife and me to appreciate more such labor. Kudos to you.
shit, it took me 215 hours (main game, all the dlcs) and I still have 3 little regions left on the main map to complete. Probably because I play on the max difficulty, which can be a horrible nightmare for most parts of the game :D I still remember the Minotaur fight... I wasnt ready...
Same! I rushed through as Alexios, And now as Kassandra I’m really going slow, taking my time, and choosing where i want my story to go, while really stopping to look at everyplace I’m at. Trying to learn all of Athens so I can walk it like a normal street, etc. So much good about this game. And this video just makes it even more mind blowing
After playing the game I thought to myself “ wow does greece actually looks like this?” I found out it did and now I decided to move there when I retire
This is amazing! You seriously have no idea how much I nerded out through this. I was able go go to Greece on a study abroad this summer and I definitely was geeking out and comparing things in my head. I didn’t see Delphi or any part of Crete, but we spent most of our time on Lesbos (with a quick mainland tour, where we did get to see the Acropolis). Things definitely were shifted around (the petrified forest is waaaaay further west and not as far north in real life), but overall it was faithful enough to even this little island. Unfortunately the main city, Mytilene, has drastically changed since then, so there weren’t really many ways to compare the area. Thermopylae is another area that is sized down significantly in the game, and there’s no massive water along the area, but it might be that geographical shifts over a couple thousand years caused the waters to recede, as it did in maaaany places in the region. Despite that, I still could imagine myself standing in the game when I stood there. I kept nerding out to the other students comparing things that I recognized from the game, and I’m soooo glad to see someone go in depth like this!
What a incredible work that Ubisoft did with this game. Amazing!!! I am playing it now and I'm speechless how accurate and realistic the world building is! How could they do this so perfectly? Can't say how much work of research and talent to re-imagine and rebuild this in therms of digital techniques.... Fascinating!!!
As a Greek who has visited a lot of ancient sites in the country, I was impressed to see the work done by Ubisoft! Not only that, but the landscape and the language made me feel like I was actually in my home country!
One of the things I love most about Assassin's Creed was how we could wander through the past civilization and learn how they lived at that time. It was as like we have a time machine, amazing team of developers who made this game real
There's a really nice podcast run by an University history PhD and professor who talks about history and video games, The History Respawned. One of the latest episodes talks about Odyssey, it really is interesting and let's you understand the amount of resources big developers put on setting visual accuracy and environment coherence, something that dwarfs most movies.
13:30 That was absolutely the best part of going to Greece! You can immediately understand why it became a sacred location when you get that amazing view.
Hey a slight note on the Parthenon, the explosion you talked about was due to the fact that the ottomans used the building as a storehouse for gunpowder at the time
Love this video game appreciation thing thats going on. You could never make enough videos that truly recognises the amount of work that goes into making a video game, let alone a triple A one. Good work.
Gameplay is repetitive but having a really large bright 4k TV and surround sound made this game into a legit experience for me. Seeing all the little torches light up during the night over the Greek islands with the music softly playing is so emotive. Having the meat of the real history to dive into makes it a great piece of edutainment as well.
AC Odyssey might not what I would considered a good RPG game or a good "Assassin's Creed" game for that matter, but there is no denying that it has an amazing historical environment & lanscape locations, just like AC Origins.
Yeah but just the environment, the rest is so historically inaccurate that really makes me cringe like the warrior women(particularly funny are the Athenian ones) or the ridiculous armors and weapons.
Living in a country next to Greece (Albania) I really love this country, especially its history due to a fact that I am a History freak. I love every ancient building there is. I still haven't had the chance to visit Greece, but I do have many relatives that live there.
I can't believe they actually turned AC Odyssey into a real country. It goes to show the length these developers will go to make their games truly immersive.
I love this video's subject matter and execution. People really have no idea how much work it took to make it. You almost have to be a professional surveyor. First, you have to pay out of pocket to travel there. Then find the places on interest. Then you have to set up the cam in the right location. At the exact correct angle. At the exact right height. Constantly going back and forth between the game and real location till you get the shot just right. Then after all that and more you have to come back home and line up the pans and edit it seamlessly. Incredible work Super (and crew most likely). Great stuff. Thanks so much for doing and sharing it.
I don't know if somebody has already mentioned it in the comments but here you go: Athenians built The Long Walls (Makra Teixi) which were 6km long in order to connect the city of Athens with the harbour of Peiraus. Of course in the game they are not that "long" but I didn't expect them to include them in the game. Fun fact: When Spartans invaded Athens, Athenians that lived in the city were able to hear the screams and pain of their brothers and sisters while they were being slaughtered by the Spartans in the harbour. Just imagine...
I'm presently in Athens this week and it's the second time I visit a location where the games I've played take places. The first time it was in Venice, after playing AC II and now it's Athens. Same as Venice, when I'm walking on some places, especially with the San Marco Square for Venice and the Acropolis for Athens, I'm telling myself: "Shit it's just like the game was! Like I've been here before." Sometimes you just recognize a type of wall or statut, or column for example, but sometimes I don't know how to describe that, but it's just like if you recognize the vibration and a peculiar ambiance. Very strange feeling, but amazing to live!
Assassin's creed has definitely lost its touch, but I do think people are too hard on it, sure the new ones aren't as good the old ones but the amount of effort ubisoft put to make these places thrive is absolutely great, love exploring assassin's creed just to take in the sights haha
Massive respect for you making this amazing video and for ubisoft, there was a looooot of work to make this game, that's why i am playing it for the 4th time. The only sad thing is that there is not much left of ancient Greece in 2023.
I lived in Greece for four years and spent a lot of time at different places there. When the game came out going round them was the first thing I did. You should have gone to Cape Sounion and the temple of Poseidon too.
This is genuinely the best comparison video that I've seen on this game. Not only do you show damned glorious angles from both reality and the game, but the fact that you discuss the history and the scenery. Honestly, you should do all of their games - based on your ability to travel. Hell, I'd totally donate a 'Send Super Bunnyhop On A World-Game/Present-History Assassin's Creed Comparison Tour.' Incredible footage, also! Subscribed!
George, i'm finally watching this video as I am nearing the end of my journey in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I gotta say, you called the shot you have gotten "breathtaking" and I wholeheartedly agree. This was an amazing extension of my journey through the game, and I sincerely thank you for making this video.
Andrew Mowbray I’m also watching this as I am near the end of the journey in game! I would actually like to visit Greece in a few years time and have a look at some of these locations. Pretty cool
Athens is one of the best cities I ever visited. Great food for the stomach, great knowledge for the mind, great walks for the body. I might have to play this game for a holiday in 2020.
17:57 Woah, hold on a minute there. You're just gonna do Agamemnon like that? I'm not saying he's right to call the Greek armies to war, but it also wasn't him that eloped with another man's wife...
I feep even the architecture couldbe been better tbh. The parthenon doesnt even have it's frieze! Odyssey was one of the most poor historical Assassin's Creeds. Crete barely feels like the real crete too and the palace of Knossos was exagerated
@@justmike-yt yes but greece wasn't like that. Spartan people wasn't like that. Women should stay at home. They could go outside without a man. Also spartans were drinking blood. They were training their children 5o make them strong when they grow up. That didn't happen with Alexios
My God! Did I just stumble on the greatest video in RUclips or what? Incredible comparisons. I mean I imagined AC Odyssey was shrunk, but I didn't imagine someone can accurately describe by how much and where exactly, I am absolutely mind blown. Amazing work, thank you very much for this video!
Greek history isnt even Greek, its slavic, the Austro-Hungary just re-wrote it and handed it to the greeks because they needed to have the slavic people's regarded as "not native" to the balkans so they would have a historical right to colonise us and germanise us. Greeks took on slavic culture to a tee. Even their alphabet comes from ours.
@@borisfrlic The slavs didn't even exists during the Mycenaean period mate, you don't make sense. Slavs date around 500 AD where Greek civilazation dates back to 3.500 BC. Thats 4.000 years earlier slavs even existed.
As someone who STUDIED ARCHEOLOGY in university and also loved this game (I spent a few hundreds hours in the game) I have to say: I LOVE YOU, GEORGE! Thanks for this video
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George slowly realizing he actually wanted to be a historian instead of a games journalist
He did actually mention something like that on the dad and sons
Which coincides with another channel I like: KnowledgeHub realized they wanted to be a games journalist instead of a historian.
Thats what happens to most e-celebs, they usually get burned out doing the thing they are passionate about.
It's great how he uses video games to contextualize history lessons though adding to the games his talking about while actually educating you
That’s just being a journalist but with hindsight
Alternate video title: George gets to write off his greece vacation as a business expense.
lol
Greek* vacation
3m4n either works smooth brain
@@lolmom3590 No they don't. English must not be your first language.
3m4n you understood what he meant, did you not, smooth brain?
There's something poetically beautiful about a temple dedicated to the god of blacksmith and craftsmanship being one of a few intacted buildings since ancient times.
true craftsmanship
Nothing is intact. Everything goes through layers of history, habits, visions, destruction, editing...
Actually this is the dna of Heritage.
If only architecture was still this beautiful alongside the white cities visions of the future for advanced civilizations type 2. The grandest in the apex of our glory. A lot better than just living in what can be compared to boxes.
Thats exactly what i thought when i stood in front of it.. by far in the best shape than any other ancient greek temple in athens
I know right. That's all I thought about when he mentioned it was still standing
I'm sure lining up all these shots were equally satisfying and irritating.
Haha
The easiest thing to do.
Yes
I'm your 1k like.
@@DNH17
Easy but tedious.
Born and raised in Athens, when young the school bus would pass through a ring road that gave you direct view of the Acropolis hill. We liked it but, as you do, took the view for granted and got on with our lives. When 18 I visited the actual hill for the first time in my life. Yes I know right? Well, what I didn’t know was that just the scale of things (when passing through the Propylaia to get to the Parthenon) would make my jaw drop. Lesson of that day: never underestimate the beauty of things you would, otherwise, take for granted in your everyday life. I was blessed to have been born as a native to this city and I didn’t even know it.
+1
Wish i was born like you but sadly i was born in a small island surrounded by woods and mostly inhabitant.
Abdul Azmeer being born on a small island sounds awesome
I moved here. The history isnt lost on me. Every day I stand in amazement of exactly where I am.
I was in Athens 3 weeks ago, it was great. We had a view to the Acropolis from our balcony, beautiful....
Well this was just fantastic.
Inspiring work, George!
Hey, hope you’re working on something interesting to come.
Game recognize game
Duke nukem himself.
omg hi legend
As a teacher of ancient history, I'm very, very grateful for this video.
You might be interested in the Discovery Tour mode of this game:
ruclips.net/video/uh4Iy-p943M/видео.html
No combat, no story, no quests, just the entire game world to explore with short narrated tours covering landmarks, history and daily life.
It's also available in video form, which is perhaps more suitable for the classroom:
ruclips.net/video/y8rcx4yuqOQ/видео.html
The previous game, set in Ancient Egypt, also has this mode (even as a standalone game). It's absolutely delightful. It not only touches on historical aspects, but also mentions where real-life and game differ.
If you haven't seen the last video George did on History Games, I highly recommend it.
What time periods exactly do you teach?
Unfortunately the ancient history taught in schools is utter horseshit. Its political history, not actual history.
Its laughable that they teach that Rome and Greece are the foundations of European civilisation, when in fact the greeks and romans just inherited slavic cultures. Greeks only been in "Greece" since 800BC.
Serbia,the Serbian language and culture is where all the answers lie.
@@borisfrlic Huh? That's a joke right? Or some alternate history by u? Slavs did not exist in ancient times the only arrived in Europe in Mediaval times around 5th century and later on 9th century they adopted Roman Catholicism and Byzantium Orthodoxy from Greeks.
This is history, what you say about Romans and Greeks inherited slavic cultures they did not even exist at the time and when they did it was the other way around.
Read real history.
The editing in this is immaculate
When I was really young, my dad had to travel to Italy for work purposes. At some point, even I spent a few months living with my parents there (although I don't really remember anything). Because of this, we have a lot of photography albums with pictures from famous cities of Italy like Rome, Venice, Florence, etc. When playing Assassin's Creed 2, my father looked at the TV and quickly said "Hey, I've been there before!" We spent an entire morning comparing places from Florence with the pictures we took there. I'm always really impressed with what Assassin's Creed does with reimagining those cities, it's incredible. Love the video!
As a Greek, I'm thoroughly impressed by the amount of work you put into this. Excellent job!
@jorgan Kharn Yes after our revolution what's your point here? Oh you're one of those who claims Greek history without evidence haha bye
@@apostolis07 Don’t all Europeans claim Greek history? We wuz Greeks and shiet brih.
As a Turkish I love so much ancient greek histoey
Why do you have to be Greek to be impressed by the creators' work? Nobody cares if you're Greek or not. Just appreciate the video and move on.
You must reclaim Constantinople
This was amazing. Really shows how much I underestimate the crazy amount of hard work and research that goes into making a game like this.
So much media coverage of game companies acting sleazy makes you lose sight of the heart and soul developers put into their work.
Also a fantastic piece by George who put a lot of care into this video, as he does most of his work.
ASSASSINS CREED ODYESSEY IS MY FAVORITE 🤣😀
So much hard work they put in to destroy the lore and built the entire game around microtransactions
I feel like there's two sides to the AC series. 1 side is a dev team that is clearly passionate about history and recreating it in video game form. The other is a publisher who wants to push out yearly releases and monetise them as much as possible. I remember thinking it was ridiculous when I first read they were gonna make it annual back in 09. "How can you make such a detailed open world game in a year? AC isn't CoD." But they found a way by making the games as cookie cutter and formulaic as possible. Makes me wonder what would happen if Ubi just let the devs put out a high quality AC a couple times a generation, instead of forcing the annual schedule.
Still though, as repetitive as these games can get I'll buy one every few years when one piques my interest and it's always a solid 6-7/10 experience. I really don't get the hate these games get, they're mediocre, but the use of historical settings makes them a little more interesting than other annual releases. As much controversy as the microtransactions caused in the recent games, they're really a minor issue at best.
@@bigdawg9743 Just as a note - you know that different studios work on each game, so they actually do spend more than a year making them?
@@domantasl Yeah, I know they have a couple of teams working on them that they cycle between like CoD. Still though, the annual pace leads to alot of stagnation.
I've been watching your work for over six years, and it's a joy to see both your audience massively grow and your work expand in scope and variety. Thank you for making the field of video game journalism all the better. Cheers.
I went too Athens, the locations of the Battle of Marathon and Thermopylae, the Oracle of Delphi and Mycene in 2018, when i get back home I immediately went and bought Odyssey to go back to Greece and time. Such an immersive game, can't wait for Valhalla
You ever just see a Bunnyhop video and think "I guess you CAN do that, George"
As an architect, you can't imagine how happy I was playing AC odyssey. Wish there was a video like these show in my uni days. Great work!!
Assassin's Creed Odyssey feels like i was time traveling to a live, breathing, beautiful Greece. Great game!
Best ac game
@@vworldvfx3157 yeah best ac game
played it yesterday, and as the day before....i love exploring greece
As an ancient and classical history nerd, I very much appreciate this
10:57 i can see my house lol
Is it the one with the red roof?
@@JRV4606 Yeah...xD
Πού είναι
@@lightbright7762 den ksero
Be grateful your house is in historical landmark. 😆
Check the book "The Art of Assassin's Creed Odyssey". No matter what the rest of the game is, the architecture, design and art side of the game was studied through and through with historians and specialists using ancient maps and everything available
incredible video! as a Greek and a big fan of yours i must admit this video really touched me.your knowledge of ancient Greece is mindblowing and very admirable. keep up the excellent work!
This is by far one of your best work this year George.
Always nice to learn more about Greece, thank you.
AC Odyssey has done a brilliant job with ancient greece , including how it presents ancient personalities such as Sokrates and Perikles.
However , the surroundings are indeed totally off , Delphi being the most obvious since it ruins the atmosphere , which in reality is breathtaking.
The fact ancient greeks decided to set the oracle there was not by accident.
Having visited all those sites , i totally recommened visiting Delphi for its amazing energy ( you have to go there to understand it ) and the Chariot racer statue.
The second best imo is the tomb of Philip in Vergina , because it never got vandalised and you can see literally everything our ancestors placed inside.
Makes you wonder how many more stories and wonderful sites lie hidden beneath the soil , maybe 1 day !
they nailed the feeling of living in that world and even though not 100% accurate, the feeling and seeing those places in game was absolute bliss i mean, they went for the detail and i believed that im in greece at that time in history, fantastic thing, i hope that the next game whatever place it might be, will be as great as this was
Exactly what I felt when playing the game. I was constantly daydreaming about how it might have been like that.
Like, imagining the people building those places, and they wouldn't ever think that in 2000 years from then, people would be making interactive journeys/adventures based on their daily surroundings.
@@jorgechavezcolmenares1790 ohhh finally people who enjoyed playing like i did and i still do.
especially as a greek, it was for me like beeing home, just 2500 years earlier :)
i love this game so much
@@g.samaras2371 In fact I'm always crossing fingers to the day they make something in ancient Mexico😅.
When I play these games, I wonder how would native people would feel to see ancient buildings from their country recreated.
For example, It must have feel awesome for a french to explore Notre Dame on 1700's while he/she walks by the cathedral on their daily life.
For you as a greek, I can imagine how it is about the mithology from ancient times, the ruins, the philosophers that have been studied for centuries. I can't describe it. But I hope you understand me. Cheers!
@@jorgechavezcolmenares1790 im hoping for Rome at its peak time, that's my favourite historic time period. It was also rumoured before the Valhalla announcement that either Roman Empire or Vikings would come
It'll be with Vikings next :)
Having just finished AC: Odyssey and being thoroughly enthralled by its world, this video was just fantastic. Makes me wanna plan another vacation to Greece.
Beautiful camera work both in game and out. Greece is amazing and whether it's from one guy with a camera or from 36 ubisoft studios, it's worth seeing.
I've been playing this game since the debut of quarantine, I find it to be beautiful and was really impressed with how it looked to be set in Ancient Greece. This video blows my mind! Great work, thanks for making this! :)
Excellent video, just unbelievably informative and beautiful!
I took a trip to Greece with my family several years ago and got to visit all of these sites. It really brought back some great memories seeing them presented like this. Thank you so much!
Can we all just sit back and truly appreciate the time it must have taken to get these shots to match up??
Verrrrrrry niiiiiiiice.
Thank you for this! I recently visited Athens, a few months after playing Odyssey and when I was there I was thinking of comparisons of the game's environments to its real life counterparts. The effort put into the architecture and to match it up closely to how it would've been in those times are incredible.
I am obsessed with the Greek buildings and I absolutely love videos like this!
I've clocked 138 hours in this game, and I just finished the main story. I'm *almost* done completing every little objective in the whole map, and I've walked most of it.
At one point I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things I felt I needed to do in the game and quit.
Eventually I came back to it because I felt bad for giving up and my completionist side yelled inside me to finish it. And so I took Kassandra in and adventure again. And what helped me this time was to take my time and enjoy the view, and damn if the view wasn't amazing! Everywhere you look the game feels alive, from the cities crowded with people that mind their own business (the kids playing on one side, the group of people discussing between them, someone painting, another one working with stone, etc) to the fields brimming with flora and fauna, travelers who stop to mourn their friend, who was just killed by a bear... Breathtaking.
Even with the obvious differences compared to the real thing, the astounding work these people put in the game shows everywhere. Thanks for doing this video, helped my wife and me to appreciate more such labor. Kudos to you.
shit, it took me 215 hours (main game, all the dlcs) and I still have 3 little regions left on the main map to complete.
Probably because I play on the max difficulty, which can be a horrible nightmare for most parts of the game :D I still remember the Minotaur fight... I wasnt ready...
A lovely comment and I couldn't agree more!
Antonio Francisco Magaña Gómez the entire game is copied and pasted
@@Sevren_ you're stupid.
Same! I rushed through as Alexios, And now as Kassandra I’m really going slow, taking my time, and choosing where i want my story to go, while really stopping to look at everyplace I’m at. Trying to learn all of Athens so I can walk it like a normal street, etc. So much good about this game. And this video just makes it even more mind blowing
The whole time I was playing Odyssey I didn't realize how much I wanted this video.
After playing the game I thought to myself “ wow does greece actually looks like this?” I found out it did and now I decided to move there when I retire
Fantastic job, greetings from Greece my friend 🇬🇷❤
@jorgan Kharn Ah the region Macedonia 🇬🇷 or this 🇲🇰? Bulgaria who thinks it's Macedonia
@@apostolis07Η Μακεδονία είναι μια και αυτό είναι γεγονός
this was a relaxing watch. no ranting. the music and editing helped. thanks for this video.
Love how most of these amazing buildings still have at least some of their old glory, and their restoring some!
This is amazing! You seriously have no idea how much I nerded out through this. I was able go go to Greece on a study abroad this summer and I definitely was geeking out and comparing things in my head. I didn’t see Delphi or any part of Crete, but we spent most of our time on Lesbos (with a quick mainland tour, where we did get to see the Acropolis). Things definitely were shifted around (the petrified forest is waaaaay further west and not as far north in real life), but overall it was faithful enough to even this little island. Unfortunately the main city, Mytilene, has drastically changed since then, so there weren’t really many ways to compare the area. Thermopylae is another area that is sized down significantly in the game, and there’s no massive water along the area, but it might be that geographical shifts over a couple thousand years caused the waters to recede, as it did in maaaany places in the region. Despite that, I still could imagine myself standing in the game when I stood there. I kept nerding out to the other students comparing things that I recognized from the game, and I’m soooo glad to see someone go in depth like this!
What a incredible work that Ubisoft did with this game. Amazing!!!
I am playing it now and I'm speechless how accurate and realistic the world building is!
How could they do this so perfectly? Can't say how much work of research and talent to re-imagine and rebuild this in therms of digital techniques....
Fascinating!!!
As a Greek who has visited a lot of ancient sites in the country, I was impressed to see the work done by Ubisoft! Not only that, but the landscape and the language made me feel like I was actually in my home country!
One of the things I love most about Assassin's Creed was how we could wander through the past civilization and learn how they lived at that time. It was as like we have a time machine, amazing team of developers who made this game real
There's a really nice podcast run by an University history PhD and professor who talks about history and video games, The History Respawned. One of the latest episodes talks about Odyssey, it really is interesting and let's you understand the amount of resources big developers put on setting visual accuracy and environment coherence, something that dwarfs most movies.
History Respawned is great. They're also on YT: ruclips.net/video/DgZdCX3MAJY/видео.html
I studied ancient Greece in grade 11 this year, and I'm getting ac Odyssey before the year ends so when I play it stuff is gonna be so familiar
"Why yes, i am a Dionysian, how could you tell?"
what kind of person do you imagine?
Smelly, slightly obnoxious, doesn't take much seriously outside their reputation I suppose.
Mark Anthony
If Chad were cosplaying as Hedonismbot
So nice seeing my history loved and researched with such respect, amazing work George!
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13:30 That was absolutely the best part of going to Greece! You can immediately understand why it became a sacred location when you get that amazing view.
Hey a slight note on the Parthenon, the explosion you talked about was due to the fact that the ottomans used the building as a storehouse for gunpowder at the time
Some Ottoman quartermaster: "WOOPSIE!"
Broreale Pretty much😂
It was also due to the Venetians finding out the Ottomans were storing gunpowder inside of it and specifically targeting it to blow it up.
This is one of my favorite videos in the whole RUclips. Thank you.
I love this because ive been to the parthenon in Athens many times and the temple of posidon further South.
Stunning work! Thank you!
Wow. I don’t know why it took me so long to watch this one, given I know your stuff is consistently great, but wow. I was missing the hell out.
Well I'm greek and I can defentely confirm that both Ubisoft and Super Bunnyhop did a GReat work !!
George is going through hardcore history phase, and I'm really digging it.
Love this video game appreciation thing thats going on. You could never make enough videos that truly recognises the amount of work that goes into making a video game, let alone a triple A one. Good work.
Gameplay is repetitive but having a really large bright 4k TV and surround sound made this game into a legit experience for me. Seeing all the little torches light up during the night over the Greek islands with the music softly playing is so emotive. Having the meat of the real history to dive into makes it a great piece of edutainment as well.
The stadium of Delphi, in the game, has a new temple construction ocurring by the Cult.
I can relate, when I went to Greece after playing Assassins Creed Odyssey. It was so surreal.
Beleave me I live in Greece!! It is reaaaly surreal 🇬🇷😂😂 they made a huge job man
Here I am studying for my Greek exam and then I see George upload this, thank you for the unintended review session.
AC Odyssey might not what I would considered a good RPG game or a good "Assassin's Creed" game for that matter, but there is no denying that it has an amazing historical environment & lanscape locations, just like AC Origins.
Tbh I wouldn't consider assassin's creed odyssey a good game but the sheer labour and effort put into the world is awe inspiring
AC Odyssey is the best of the franchise.
1- Odyssey
2 - Origins
3 - AC II
Yeah but just the environment, the rest is so historically inaccurate that really makes me cringe like the warrior women(particularly funny are the Athenian ones) or the ridiculous armors and weapons.
The Loner Odyssey has the weakest and has the most cringy dialogue
Splendid work; it is apparent the amount of effort and thought went into your project. And as your audience, I greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Chill, historical and informitive.
I was able to find my way around Shibuya from having played The World Ends with You too many times...
Living in a country next to Greece (Albania) I really love this country, especially its history due to a fact that I am a History freak. I love every ancient building there is. I still haven't had the chance to visit Greece, but I do have many relatives that live there.
I have a albanian friend in rhodos
Good people albanian 👍
I can't believe they actually turned AC Odyssey into a real country. It goes to show the length these developers will go to make their games truly immersive.
I love this video's subject matter and execution. People really have no idea how much work it took to make it. You almost have to be a professional surveyor. First, you have to pay out of pocket to travel there. Then find the places on interest. Then you have to set up the cam in the right location. At the exact correct angle. At the exact right height. Constantly going back and forth between the game and real location till you get the shot just right. Then after all that and more you have to come back home and line up the pans and edit it seamlessly. Incredible work Super (and crew most likely). Great stuff. Thanks so much for doing and sharing it.
I haven't played too many games, but visually this was one of my favorite open worlds to explore.
I don't know if somebody has already mentioned it in the comments but here you go: Athenians built The Long Walls (Makra Teixi) which were 6km long in order to connect the city of Athens with the harbour of Peiraus.
Of course in the game they are not that "long" but I didn't expect them to include them in the game.
Fun fact:
When Spartans invaded Athens, Athenians that lived in the city were able to hear the screams and pain of their brothers and sisters while they were being slaughtered by the Spartans in the harbour. Just imagine...
Yes George! We love you
Big respect from London
I'm presently in Athens this week and it's the second time I visit a location where the games I've played take places.
The first time it was in Venice, after playing AC II and now it's Athens. Same as Venice, when I'm walking on some places, especially with the San Marco Square for Venice and the Acropolis for Athens, I'm telling myself:
"Shit it's just like the game was! Like I've been here before."
Sometimes you just recognize a type of wall or statut, or column for example, but sometimes I don't know how to describe that, but it's just like if you recognize the vibration and a peculiar ambiance.
Very strange feeling, but amazing to live!
Thats awesome Brother! 🇬🇷
Now that's its been a while, do you feel often people are too hard on the Assassin's Creed franchise?
Assassin's creed has definitely lost its touch, but I do think people are too hard on it, sure the new ones aren't as good the old ones but the amount of effort ubisoft put to make these places thrive is absolutely great, love exploring assassin's creed just to take in the sights haha
Massive respect for you making this amazing video and for ubisoft, there was a looooot of work to make this game, that's why i am playing it for the 4th time. The only sad thing is that there is not much left of ancient Greece in 2023.
I lived in Greece for four years and spent a lot of time at different places there. When the game came out going round them was the first thing I did. You should have gone to Cape Sounion and the temple of Poseidon too.
also there is a hill next to acropolis called vrahakia where everyone drinks and smokes, you can find that place in the game
I'm waiting on that in depth Death Stranding video, George!
This is genuinely the best comparison video that I've seen on this game. Not only do you show damned glorious angles from both reality and the game, but the fact that you discuss the history and the scenery. Honestly, you should do all of their games - based on your ability to travel. Hell, I'd totally donate a 'Send Super Bunnyhop On A World-Game/Present-History Assassin's Creed Comparison Tour.' Incredible footage, also! Subscribed!
Hmmm, seems like a clever way to travel to different countries. Nice
George, i'm finally watching this video as I am nearing the end of my journey in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I gotta say, you called the shot you have gotten "breathtaking" and I wholeheartedly agree. This was an amazing extension of my journey through the game, and I sincerely thank you for making this video.
Andrew Mowbray I’m also watching this as I am near the end of the journey in game! I would actually like to visit Greece in a few years time and have a look at some of these locations. Pretty cool
Athens is one of the best cities I ever visited. Great food for the stomach, great knowledge for the mind, great walks for the body. I might have to play this game for a holiday in 2020.
This aged badly
Want to know something interesting. While studying for my MBA, I had a prof who was named Alexios, he is Greek, and he is from Lakonia.
George is out here going to the literal ends of the earth in the name of video games. What a legend.
Travelling in the place where my house stands today is awesome. That's why I like AC odyssey
17:57 Woah, hold on a minute there. You're just gonna do Agamemnon like that? I'm not saying he's right to call the Greek armies to war, but it also wasn't him that eloped with another man's wife...
He was right to call the greeks to war
Fantastic work! I feel like I never really have the time to watch your videos but they're always interesting.
Did you go to Greece this year, SuperBunnyHop? We might have been in Greece at the same time. Don’t think i saw you though.
He just went a few weeks ago.
This is a fantastic program, thank you for making and sharing this
Im starting to think he's actually going insane....
*I like this*
Awesome. I really enjoyed your explanations.
Most of the terrain and architecture is right, but the culture is 300 levels of wrong
Well it does kinda have to fit the game’s story
Can you expand on that?
I feep even the architecture couldbe been better tbh. The parthenon doesnt even have it's frieze! Odyssey was one of the most poor historical Assassin's Creeds. Crete barely feels like the real crete too and the palace of Knossos was exagerated
@@justmike-yt yes but greece wasn't like that. Spartan people wasn't like that. Women should stay at home. They could go outside without a man. Also spartans were drinking blood. They were training their children 5o make them strong when they grow up. That didn't happen with Alexios
@@johnpantag472 Spartans drinking blood where is your source ?
This was fantastic. Bravo for the camera work and transitions.
“Its gay to breathe air because that air was probably breathed by other men” Emperor Julius Ceasar, 1337 AD
Makes perfect sense.
It's not gay if you don't make eye contact
Well that was about 1400 years after Ceaser died but sure lmao
Gay?
Julio cesar no era gay
My God! Did I just stumble on the greatest video in RUclips or what? Incredible comparisons. I mean I imagined AC Odyssey was shrunk, but I didn't imagine someone can accurately describe by how much and where exactly, I am absolutely mind blown. Amazing work, thank you very much for this video!
This isn't MGS content. Are you okay george?
Im surprised he didnt touch dat much about death stranding...
Bro this is a 1:1 comparison. The camera angling too is spot on. Great job!
I love Greek history, loved Greece when I visited it, love AC Odyssey.
Greek history isnt even Greek, its slavic, the Austro-Hungary just re-wrote it and handed it to the greeks because they needed to have the slavic people's regarded as "not native" to the balkans so they would have a historical right to colonise us and germanise us.
Greeks took on slavic culture to a tee. Even their alphabet comes from ours.
Care to explain how the Battle of Marathon, the Pelopenisan War, Periclean democracy are all really Slavic history?
@@borisfrlic The slavs didn't even exists during the Mycenaean period mate, you don't make sense. Slavs date around 500 AD where Greek civilazation dates back to 3.500 BC. Thats 4.000 years earlier slavs even existed.
@@borisfrlic τ' αρχίδια μου κουνιούνται slave.
@@borisfrlic BWHAAHAHAAA Poor Boris with ZERO History 🤡🤣
As someone who STUDIED ARCHEOLOGY in university and also loved this game (I spent a few hundreds hours in the game) I have to say: I LOVE YOU, GEORGE! Thanks for this video
A B S O L U T E
M A D M A N
Sub to your channel might be my best decision ever.
This seriously took effort and time, job very well done sir!
Please do a visit of Dark Souls inspired IRL locations, hehe
George this is awesome. Well done dude and hope you enjoyed the trip
The statue actually is located in camp half blood now.
lmao percy jackson reference