Will probably be buying COD tomorrow and getting you a SP review out by Saturday evening, multiplayer will be next week if I think it's different enough from previous COD MP games. Right now am off to bed. FYI for those wondering about my shingles + kidney stone issues am a bit better but still struggling to sleep due to the pain, Doc says another 2 weeks of it before it goes, keeping my chin up though and getting on with the reviews but they are a bit later than usual.
Todays Archers are weak compared to the "historical" ones. Back then, they could shoot arrows around corners with a Hunter Bow. Can't do that anymore today... so much was lost... not to mention the Birds that revealed the enemy presence. Today, we need Drones for that. How pathetic has humanity become....?
Assassin's Creed had magical artifacts and alien precursor beings with a messy sci fi plot to begin with, I doubt anyone should give a shit about historical accuracy.
This is how I've felt about Ubisoft games for years now. Tedious time wasting, bloated, filler stuffed garbage with a thinly trickled plot that may or may not be interesting running through the middle of it.
once when trying to explain what a certain open world game was like, I was trying to convey how it executed the open world concept. I thought for a minute and came up with "its a Ubisoft-type" open world game. He immediately got what I meant. Just an endless stream of busy work. copy pasted all around the map, that counted as "content". Unfortunately this has become the industry norm for this genre.
I couldn’t get into Odyssey... I completed every AC until that one and then gave up after 4 hours. Until they change their formula, I won’t be coming back. TW3 and RDR2 set the bar so high that I won’t entertain anything that tries to limbo under it.
They hope the average gamer will not complain. It's even kinda offensive that they underestimate the people and take them for granted... Fortunately I see that more and more people are against that shitty politic of the most big corp game "factories".
Ubisoft games all feel the same. It all started feeling the same ever since the end of Ezio in AC games. They haven't put out a very creative and enticing game in many many many years. Far Cry isn't Far Cry anymore, Assassins Creed isn't Assassins Creed anymore, Ghost Recon isn't Ghost Recon anymore, EVERYTHING they make is completely devoid of creativity and inspiration. They pioneer nothing and only create the same shit with a new name and a somewhat different story over and over again. Edit: I'll agree Black Flag was a good successor too the previous games and I enjoyed the ship combat and story but it just didn't feel quite right too me, just my opinion though. When it comes to contradicting myself, I will say I am torn when it comes to Ubisoft, they CAN make a good story, they can improve the graphics, they can lengthen the gameplay, but it still feels lazily done and tedious, repetitive and somewhat boring. They don't seem like $60 titles (and perhaps eventually $70).
Our only hope of a good game from ubishit is Beyond good and evil 2, but we haven't heard anything new about that in a long time. So I don't expect a good ubishit game to come out in the next 5 years. Maybe by 2030 they will have a new IP that does not suck. Their new gods kids game looks boring as hell.
Assassins Creed Valhalla* is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch. Free merch > free speech. Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation. Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent. As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves, and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician. All UBISOFT Games do the same. They exploit vulnerable people. Check out "The Corporation", "The century of the self", "Surveillance capitalism", "Stockholm syndrome"
WRONG. AC3 was better in terms of combat and story, (don't lie, you're biased about Ezio like all the other scum), Syndicate was great. Especially the combat.
@John Spartan I honestly have no idea why they haven't made an Feudal or Edo Japan, seems like a perfect fit. Are they saving it for something special? Or maybe they know they can't top Ghost of Tsushima
e.g. If people didn't need to pay Taxes most of us would be quite happy gardening instead of being forced to work for corporations. Government creates a problem for which the solution is dramatically beyond the means of anyone not participating in the industrial complex.
This is what all scam artists do. not just UBImafiAAA. Assassins Creed Valhalla* is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch. Free merch > free speech. Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation. Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent. As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves, and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician. All UBISOFT Games do the same. They exploit vulnerable people. Check out "The Corporation", "The century of the self", "Surveillance capitalism", "Stockholm syndrome"
Harald Hardråde died in 1066, this game takes place in the the late 9th century. The Harald in the game is Harald Fairhair, completely different person
Yeah, you can also earn the Microtransactions through normal gameplay via the Opal system. I think the game is better without buyng any, unlike Odyssey, where I bought the game on supersale, $20 for the Ultimate Edition, so then I only had to pay $20 more for the normal game experience. With Valhalla, theres no need for XP/currency boosts, infact they arent there. There is the ability to purchase materials and silver, but it's basically cheating. The stockholders are likely forcing the Microtransactions, so the compromise the developers found for Valhalla works in my opinion. Just dont buy the microtransactions.
There is no remote obligation to buy the micro stuff, it doesn't change anything and unlike Odyssey, there isn't a giant XP gap in the game either. There is a solid solo player game but whether people feel it's for them is a different story considering the over saturation of the genre
@@snbks4ever 'over saturation of the genre'. How many games are exactly like Valhalla or even Odyssey? What was generic about Odyssey? Modern graphical style, Diablo inspired loot system, skills and perk tree, leveled zones and grind and repetition. But the actual mission design, combat system, world design etc.etc aren't necessarily generic. The sheer scope of the game isn't generic either, only a handful of studios can make a game that big. Valhalla cast off most of those elements, it's even less generic than Odyssey was.
Why do they still call these games AC ? AC series died with the Ezio long ago. They should call these games something different. I mean, come on, she is riding a wolf. What is next, a unicorn ? A dragon ?
Think about what you just said too... "she's riding a wolf," just even more injecting women in places they don't belong whatsoever, even more purposeful deluding of history by a shitty AAA company to appease a microscopic sized minority 🤦
@@TheHelix123 There's accounts of 'warrior women' in the Viking sagas, but they're quite literally only legend. There's a seemingly endless amount of actual evidence to confirm the existence of male warriors in the Viking age via burials and grave goods, historical artifacts & accounts etc, however there's been virtually NO archaeological evidence to suggest that shieldmaidens ever even existed, let alone to suggest they were actually common and plenty in number as this ridiculous fucking game suggests.... So please, just don't lol..
After playing ghosts of Tsushima, it was hard to play this game. I like sucker punch combat way more, it just felt smoother. Honestly just feel like they did everything better, graphics, story, combat, etc..... ubi needs to step up their game, if sucker punch decides to do Vikings or medieval time period, ubi will be fucked.
The only game I regret buying was Kingdom Come: Deliverance, because for me it's set the bar very high for realism in historically-themed games. Watching this video, all I could do was imagine how good a viking, KCD-inspired version of this game would be.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance starts to get dull and boring after getting all the best gear and high stats. The story is average, not super engaging. The combat is shit. 1v1 combat is fine, but facing multiple enemies is never fun, only frustrating. It is a super immersive game though, i'll give it that.
@@tylerdurden7965 you're not meant to fight many enemies at once. Realistically no matter how good you are, they'd all just rush at the same time and kill you. You can abuse it with back peddling but then it's not a surprise that it's unfun.
@@tylerdurden7965 True, when after 50 hours you are level 20 in swordfighting, it gets a bit boring. Then you can try another weapon category, which you still suck in, makes it great again. I disagree on the combat, I love the combat system, best I ever played. Then there is the story, omg the story ... Never been more engaged. The small scale makes it so much more interesting to me. Plot twists, intrigues. The monastery mission, wow. Best I ever played.
Yeah my Norse history is not good, I just assumed it was the same Harald, I took no notice of the date which was a total giveaway. On the plus side I gace a good history less of the two most important battles of our history.
@@si_w8201 There was too many damm Haralds in those days. Harald Halfdan, Hardrada, Fairhair, Rehair. Like, Jesus christ. No wonder people mix them up.
And the Anglo-Saxons of the day had only been there since about the time the Romans left 300-400 years prior to when the game takes place. They came over from areas of present day Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands with tribes of Angles, Jutes, Frisians, Saxons - setting up the petty kingdoms that the Norse later invaded.
The king in Norway called Harald ingame is Harald Fairhair. Harald Hardrade is quite a bit later. This setting is the Danish Great Heathen Army establishing Danelaw in "England".
I actually enjoy the long playthroughs in assassin's creed games. I clocked over 150 hours with Odyssey and still haven't finished the Atlantis DLC. As a casual gamer, I enjoy spending my evenings being immersed in a world with interesting characters, humorous dialog, entertaining story, beautiful landscapes, even the carefully crafted sounds in nature, the river, trees swaying, distant wolves howling, it all adds up to be an immersive and satisfying experience. Combat is fun too, I'm usually coming up with new strategies on how to combo different abilities rather than button mash the same abilities. IMO it's only a grind if someone is focused on getting through the main story as fast as possible, the game rewards players for taking their time to stop and appreciate the details. The extent to which you enjoy the game depends on how you approach it and what type of gamer you are. For me, it's a great way to unwind in the evening and see what it could have been like living in ancient Egypt, Greece, etc. I'm looking forward to dive into Valhalla especially since one of my favorite bands, Wardruna, worked on the sound tracks!
Your comment, sir, is a breath of fresh air in this comment section. I'm right there with you. So tired of the chorus of caveman grunts: "Ubisoft bad...grunt...bad...Ubisoft...bad..."
I've watched every review on the web for this game and this was the first one that actually showed us what the game was really about and what to expect. This is the first review that showed the damn perk tree! Great job.
There was a mission where a woman commented on my hair and said she could help get the knots out. The only problem is is that I was completely bald. That’s when I shut the game off.
huh lol, in other games peoples dialogues change based on what youre wearing, for example the witcher 3. Im all about side missions and quests because those are the ones that really get you into the world of the game, if this game has bland quests there just to fill the world it is a a bad game.... beautiful environment though such a shame they are too greedy so they put timesavers and whatnot.
@@mountain6729this is definitely not the same caliber as the Witcher 3 or RDR 2, not by a long shot. It's a typical ubisoft game, it pulls you in for an hour and then your left with a boring story, and a boring open world. Like take this for example, you want to hunt right? Cause you need food to regen your health. So, you hunt deer. You think you could loot meat off it, but nope, you loot a single deer hoof every time. You can't eat the hoof. Oh, you can fish, can you eat the fish? Nope, you can bring it to the fish guy and have him upgrade your equipment. Stupid bull#$t mechanics like this in a game really is a deal breaker ESPECIALLY if we played the cream of the crop games. Save your money, mod Skyrim and you will be happy. Just don't use too many mods ;)
The new assassin’s creed just took the franchise in the wrong direction, the whole RPG thing and being able to see the enemies health bar is a why I stopped playing. I miss the feeling of AC brotherhood and 2; where you felt like a true assassin. Another thing I watched a video from another Englishmen and he said why are the British the enemies when they are the ones who are being invaded. Lastly I love the content and keep up the great work.
so its better to block an attack and kill a whole horde of enemies after that? i mean yeah its fun but i think the rpg system is really refreshing. tho im a into rpg style of games so i guess thats personal view
Honestly, I still don't get why they go with the whole 'themed' games anyway. They never made a truly great assassin's game in the ancient times. And vikings are about the least assassin-like you could get.... Then again, I hate the whole modern world mission aspect of the entire series anyway. I understand it's their way of changing up the general setting for each game and explore different eras and such. But I would have much rather preferred to see them do basically a truly good Prince of Persia style game with some proper combat depth and good AI. Not this been there, done that type of crap and endless grinding. Isn't it ironic how one of the best Assassin's Creed games actually was basically a pirate simulator with sailing boats and stuff????! That should tell you something about how far off the mark these games really are. I too liked AC: Brotherhood probably the best in terms of the original theme. But in no way was it truly good even then. It _always_ felt like a Prince of Persia-lite and a game that was more about the visuals. The story has been consistently garbage. And (obviously) not historic in any way, regardless of what some ignorant gamers claim. Not saying it should be historic, but the game series at times definitely pretends to.
I started and quit AC: Odyssey twice (with a good bit of time between tries) because I just could not get past the long, slow middle of that game! I guess the XP booster and crafting micro-transactions made enough money for Ubi that they had no choice but to COMPLETELY IGNORE the only major complaint most folks had about AC:O and screw up Valhalla the same way. Customer: "Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!" Waiter: "So sorry! I'll get you another! That soup was supposed to come with TWO flies!"
Don't forget, they now implemented a completely useless Stamina system no one asked for, and no one needed in the first place. Thats how retarded these $hithead Ubitrash developers really are! They simply have no clue what they are doing anymore. Its like playing the lottery with gameplay mechanics. And what they pick, they randomly throw into the game, even if it makes sense or not. What a bunch of wankers...
I hate odyssey, and where this franchise is at, but you're talking shit, they adressed a lot of the garbage systems in odyssey, the leveling is way way better here than the chore that odyssey was, the quests feel shorter and more compelling that having to go from X to Y and return to X. Combat feels a little better and unlike the dick head above me I think the stamina bar makes the combat less of a retarded button smasher and more like a wierd souls/sekiro type of deal with the deflect system. And for the first time exploring has a reward. I hate what ubisoft has done to this franchise but this feels like they tried, they failed but tried and it's really not that bad.
@@jorgeloredo100 I agree with the points you are making, except I am ok with the direction Ubisoft has taken. I'm not a hardcore ac fan. I didn't even play a single ac game until two or three years ago, and I played them all up to that point except for the first one and unity. I liked them all. Ac 3 holds a special place in my heart because that was the first ac game that got me interested, even though I was unable to play it till I was able to buy it myself. Black flag might be my favorite, but Valhalla is next on the list so far, although I still have yet to finish it. Games like Valhalla are the reason that I still defend assassins creed games and Ubisoft, because I genuinely believe that, if they take the time, and spend enough money, that can make something worthwhile. 46 hours into Valhalla and I'm still having a lot of fun playing it. Not getting bored at all and I'm impressed by the level of story telling. These are just my opinions, however unpopular they undoubtedly are.
@@-hasamastersdegreeinwumbol8565 I loved Black Flag and AC 2! And I really enjoyed Odyssey... until I got the sneaking suspicion I needed to pay extra $$ to skip the mid-game grind that seemed in the game for no other reason than to get me to buy an XP Booster and resource packs. I'll probably get AC:V as a 'time waster' when it's on sale, forewarned by reviews that I probably won't finish it. Edit: I should add that I got AC:O for free from Google after beta testing "Project Stream" - now known as "Stadia". And I still wouldn't give 'em $10 for an XP booster because the very idea of paying extra to NOT play a game made me want a refund! ;)
@@Bert2e I agree with what you said about Odyssey. I consider it to be one of the worst in the series, but that's only because of the absolutely horrific combat system and, like you said, the mid game grind that comes out of nowhere. I will not buy xp boosters either, or any microtransactions for that matter. People say vote with your wallet, and I feel as though I have by buying Valhalla because I want to support this direction Ubisoft has taken. The game doesn't really have a grind to it. If I wanted to I could just do the entire main story without doing any of the side stuff from beginning to end. And that's on the hardest difficulty. And its not because its super easy or anything but because it takes more skill than power level. So if you're skilled enough, you can easily progress through the story, which is really good so far.
One thing you didn't mention that puzzled me repeatedly in Odyssey....How are they just now adding decapitation and amputation? There were so many animations in Odyssey where I was like, "that would clearly take his head off."
Cause amputation is "brutal" and vikings are "brutal" so now they have it. But I feel ya half the executions with swords in odyssey should have severed at least one limb
@@nickstewart1202 dude, the animations in Odyssey are almost comical with heavy bladed weapons when you realize they don't sever limbs. I've seen my battle axe go through a dude's neck so that you can see the blade out the other side...yet his head stays put.
They added way more buttsecks too. Waaaay more. But yeah....... I always thought the kill animations in Odyssey were insanely brutal but then Ubi said, "Hold my mead..." and went all Clive Barker.
This is the 3rd review I've watched on this game and you were the only one to even mention microtransactions. Good review as always Mack, will wait for a sale then get! 👍
that's because they are mostly a non issue = not in your face.. you don't have to open the store to even see the microtransactions.. I'm 40 hours in and haven't seen them, and I don't plan to
@@theydisintegrate the way they insert them was so predatory, in the beggining of the game they reward you with 300 whatever they call it for the shop, but guess what most things cost 350... so you will have to purchase it with real money.
@@Flafi20 well if you want to get stuff from the store either way then deal with it. I don't use those credits. If it's not something I can get in the game I don't want it, because it's too immersion breaking. But the game is too good to let that bother me. Just ignore the store, period, and enjoy the game. I understand your pov, but they are all companies who want money, so the dumb will pay for dumb stuff... Is what it is. At least they make it easy to ignore
@@theydisintegrate The problem is that they artificially stretch the game for no reason in order to get people bored and buy it. It's just lazy and bad.
@@1PPPete that's your perspective only, it's not a fact. From my perspective these games are great because they are long. It's only a problem if you don't like playing the game, and if that's the case, just play something else
Compare this game to The Last of Us Part II, for example, the game mechanics, animations, core gameplay, enemy AI are quite outdated. Enemies aren't smart enough, so you can't really stealth properly without foregoing suspension of disbelief, removing immersion and suspense. Enemies feel like sponges, they don't react much when injured. An enemy is suppose to limp or drag themselves or run away and retreat based on where they get hit. The game also don't do dismemberment well, their dead bodies disappear quickly, their bodies don't leave wounds, not enough gore and blood to determine the actual damage of every strike or gunshot you deal in Ubisoft games.
@@wesam6385 non tedious bullshit? first 10-15 hours of this game is pretty good. then you do the same shit over and over again and you stop giving a fuck about the non interesting story. hey go destroy these supply lines before we attack the castle again eivor.
@@master123214 Did you really play the game? I actually enjoyy this game a lot(maybe bcs i don't rush it) and enjoy the exploration, the sometimes funny side quest, world event is actually memorable somehow, the history. It has its flaw, but i actually enjoy it
@@hopefulromantic. yes i played it, havent finished it and dont plan to. i disagree about the open world, itd be a great map i think if it was alot smaller in scale. cant speak for all the side content but i disagree there aswell most of what ive seen has been horribly voice acted and sometimes even animated. the only thing i looked forward to continue doing in this game was the raids.
It feels like I live in a bizarro world Am I the only human on this planet that manages to have fun with Valhalla? exploring the northen regions, raiding camps, taking screenshots of the aurora borealis and sneaking around enemy camps only to sound the horn so my mates invade it? I don't know, maybe it's because my last assassin's creed was AC III (which was actually boring and a shitfest, dropped it after haytham) so I don't feel the "fatigue" some people have, I wonder why people even play all AC games to begin with, I always saw them as historical fantasy games where you roleplayed as a citizen of the era, I loved the ezio trilogy because I'm italian myself so it was wonderful to see reinassance italy and play as an italian like me and then I skipped every other AC game because the setting wasn't interesting to me (pirates were cool, but 90% of AC4 is trailing missions and not piracy).
I agree with you people bash this game so much..yet they are still buying it. I loved odyssey and this game just continues to amaze me. I love what they did to change the game. Open world games are not for everyone. Some people would love a game telling you what to do and how to kill but I like the new formula for the assassins creed series because it’s gives you options and choices. It’s such a beautiful world, Asgard is so majestic. People are so stuck in that boring shitty style of the past. They are also to busy expecting it to be something like prince of Persia and also say it’s crappy witcher 3...I like the detail Ubisoft puts in this game. So beautiful
I'm enjoying it, but I would only rate it 7/10. I'm 10 hours in at the moment. The combat feels janky, sometimes you just glide along the floor to perform your finishers. There's bugs and my fucking god the parkour is absolutely dogshite. The amount of times I've had to fight the parkour system in this game is stupid as fuck.
@the next level Except I have played the first one. I played it on release night. They are two completely seperate games, working in two completely seperate directions. It was advertised as an open world RPG, which is what it is. Think you need to calm down boomer.
I listened to the same complaints about 'bloat' and 'microtransactions' in various reviews of Odyssey, which was why I put off playing it for so long. Those worries were all pure BS. Never once felt the need to boost my XP or buy mats thru the in-game store. Frankly I don't see the purpose of the store, other than to fleece morons. I leveled just fine and by 50 was drowning in mats. I just played the damn game. I'm pretty confident that I'll have a similar same experience with Valhalla - 30 hours in and absolutely loving it. Go figure. EDIT : Finished the Basim fight after 150 hours. I understand that I can go on and that there's actually more...... but I do not care. The game is gorgeous and as with Odyssey the story is damn good, but it definitely is a bit padded and should have been edited down a bit. I think I'm put off by the fact that I have more opportunities to bone other dudes than wenches. That ain't right. F*ck off, Ubisoft.
Thank you so much Mack for an actual review of this game. I'm sure you've noticed by now that none of the other reviewers have the balls to call out the microtransactions / needless bloating that pushed into you buying microtransactions. I had a feeling this would be the case but I had to wait for your review to confirm it :') thanks again man and get well soon.
I felt the same way about Origins. It was my first time playing an assasins creed game. I didn't even get close to 20 hours on that game and I was bored to tears.
Mack, quick question wasn’t Harold Godwinson and the battle of Stamford bridge taken place approx 200 years AFTER this game and was fought against Harald Fairhair not Hadrada?
1.Celts were conquered by Romans. 2.Romans fucked off. 3. Saxons conquered Celts. 4. Vikings conquered Saxons and Celts. 5. Saxons kicked Vikings out. 6. Celts died out. Conclusion: sucks to be a Celt.
This game isn't that era this game takes place in 872ad 200 years before the Norman conquest of England. Also the Harald in AC is king Harald fine hair the first king of all norway, while Harald hardrada died in 1066 just before the Norman invasion which marked then ending of the viking age. The timeline in the ac Valhalla, the Normans weren't even fully established yet Rollo the founder of the Normans became Duke of Normandy around 860ad so worthabuy is way off. Lol
So were the Anglo-Saxons. Most of them came from Denmark and the Denmark/Germany border and would have had the same religion as the Norse except for some language differences before they turned to Christianity.
"Goes on and on and on without an end in sight" This is the best phrase to describe AC Valhalla It's a shame, because there's a good game in there somewhere, and it shows its head occasionally But Ubisoft needs to learn to tone down the padding and in general scale back on this massive open world nonsense they've got going
Yeah, I agreed you with on that. I was absolutely loving this game at the start. But it doesn't end ever! WTF. I'm on like 70h of gameplay by now and I don't even know how much I need to go yet. If it ended 30 hours before, I would be praising the living hell out of this game. But now, it's boring. Its the same thing over and over and over again.
@@TheMordgan I actually went back after like a week's break, to see if I was ready to finish things off. And then I realized a part of the Order of the Ancients storyline is locked behind killing all the Zealots This game really does not understand the concept of respecting players' time.
@@Crusadio Ubisoft have really lost there way with this franchise and I think they should call it quits. Ac2 and Brotherhood will forever be legendary games.
Should have done something on Altair again, in the plot of the original story, he leaves for Mongolia to fight Genghis Khan. Could create an amazing game with that concept. The map can include all of Persia, Central Asia and the Levant. Maybe another good concept, would be playing as a conquistador and exploring South America.
I think it’s one the best Assassins Creed game out since Black Flag. I admit it takes time to get into it, but when your 20 hours into it and unlock abilities etc the games hell of fun!
@@WorthABuyreviews assassin’s creed hasn’t being the same since black flag! My god they changed it so much! To a pile of shit last few years !! Assassin’s creed was unbelievable but then they changed it to this . Makes me mad lol thanks for a honest and good review! Everyone seems to be saying this a amazing game It’s not! It’s easy borning!! So mush talking blah blah blah !!!cutscesns! I was a die hard assassin’s creed fan! I got all the collectors additions! Like why didn’t they make a assassin’s creed based on the race that came be4!! Some most Potential!! If they made assassin’s creed mixed with 1 to all of etizos storyline and black flag with the visuals of the assassin’s creed and make a Story about the race that came be4 ! Or actually give us a good sold assassin who you feel for and will like
I like them all. The only games I never completed was ac 1, because the steam version was virtually unplayable, ac revelations, for the same reason, unity, because of all the bugs, and odyssey, because of the grind. The other ones, from ac 2 to valhalla, have all been really enjoyable to me. Valhalla might actually be my favorite ac game at this point. I'm 80 hours in at the moment and I honestly think this game is a masterpiece. I haven't even started spiderman Miles Morales, because I want to finish this one first.
@@mattey456 Iam saying they`re better simply because theres less stuff to be repetitive with, even if you think they where more like that than the modern games. I guess I could of said that better though
@@gamerxt333 but if you think about it AC1 and AC2. The combat was repetitive you could just block and counter. Also you would just go to a city do then same mini objectives to get to the boss then try to assassinate him. Repeat 6-8 times. That’s how to games felt looking back on them.
Will you eventually play and review baldurs gate 3 or the early acces of this game? i have been waiting for that one. I know you liked devinity original sin 2.
Every new release makes Ezio trilogy look like masterpieces, ubi totally lost the magic, reboot and give us proper plot driven AC with stealth that gives 25 hours of quality and variety. Is this really that difficult?
to be fair the Creed nor the Templars existed yet in the last three games. They're doing what Black Flag did. Black Flag was a pirate game with a side of AC, the AC part being the 5 or so side missions of killing templars for keys to unlock the armor on your island
The Witcher 3 plagiarized Ubisoft's shitty checklist open-world design and everyone says it's the GOAT and cured their dog's cancer and other such crap. Not Ubisoft's fault they think gamers want shit open-world design, gamers have been holding shit game design upon a gold pedestal for years.
@Chris Mason I did! And bro I’m not talking about the story idiot I’m talking about the graphics and setting and this that LOOK like the Witcher/ God of War...smh
@@Astromamutit was Celtic tribes the romans invaded in what is now England The Anglo Saxons showed up much later in history The romans couldn’t control what is now Scotland/ the very north of England / Ireland and large swaths of wales
English Guy: The vikings killed and enslaved lot's of English People! Indian, Irish, Australian, Native American, Aghani, French, African, Pacific Islander Guys: Did they now?
Personally, love the exploration in the game so far, along with the mysteries and gritty atmosphere. I suspect I won’t be able to finish it though. As you said, it’s insanely long for the little variation in gameplay they have.
If you won't be able to finish the game why buy the game now? Why not wait for it to be $10/£10/€10 in 3 years time as its a Single Player game so it will be the same.
@@timmaes632 I bought AC Origins Gold Edition for £8 when they announced AC Valhalla, there's so many games that get released on a Monthly basis that you can choose from.
it's really annoying to keep doing that same bullshit again and again for hundreds of hours like solving environmental enigma every inch of the map or clean forts and camps. it's as if they had found an interesting idea and decided to put it everywhere, definitly not a fun game for me after more than 30h i was bored af of doing the same thing.
The game looks great, the bow is excellent, the story is good, the countryside of England is fantastic, and so are the cold mountains of Norway, esp the snow there was fantastic. The designs of the settlements are great, I mean a lot of work went into them esp the research, but NO PEOPLE. The fighting is ok, the new kill me glow part of the enemy is good and interesting. However the game has no people, I mean it is a desert of people. If you conquer a town there is no one working the field or melding fences et al. I know for a fact - England at the time did have a lot of people enough to get a town to work. No one travels the roads like in the other games. The game is a lovely tapestry of fauna but without civilization it is dead. The raids are a joke, you raid with 20 people and that is it lol. The so-called city battles and sieges are also pathetic. Again you raid with 20 people, that is it. For God's sake, the celebration in the long hall after the battle has more people at the party than the army who captured the town. Once captured you can see with your eagle (which is really useless) how badly underpopulated the world is. No men manning the watchtowers or gates, if an enemy came which is very unlikely as they too have no one to form a band with, they could take the city back in one sneak attack. Clearly, the random battles we saw in Oddessey are missing in this game. The gold and blue icons are interesting but nothing is said about them and how to use them. So the game compared to the other two is lackluster and underwhelming. You can clearly see a decline in Assassin creed once again. Nothing has changed except the developers did not work on it enough. Origins was a big world and alive. Oddessy was also even though the devs did not let use shields in a greek themed game. It seems to me the devs always miss out on a big thing in this game or series which in the end ruins it. They got it right in origins and it's downhill from there. People have complained this game is massive in content, I like big games that go on for hundreds of hours, but I like games that are alive and lived in. People may say this is great for a covid 19 game, they may say they could not have done more, rubbish. If the devs could not add people in a game then - it game over, and the devs should get out of the gaming industry. It would be a pathetic excuse if that was the case. As for gender roles, women fighting warbands, leading men into battles, become yarls. What rubbish is this? No women did this in the time period, why? Too weak, more prone to injury, too slow, and more useful and important in the settlements producing babies and tending the fields. In other words, women were too valuable to be wasted on war and ruling. If you had a difficult woman no guy would go near her, her reputation and her family would be mud. Putting women in men's roles cheapens women's roles in the development of settlements and civilization. Most women do not play these games it is men who play as a woman who loves to see a bit of sex with two girls. One comment for Assassins creed Vallahala- a lazy stagnant mess (though beautiful) - what a disappointment.
Got Ubisoft+ for Immortals Fenyx Rising (pretty cool game), after beating that one I've started Valhalla - how on earth most people say it's better than Odyssey? Odyssey was miles better than this in almost everything, it had better gameplay variety - like sea battles, actictive cultist hunting, interesting character from greek culture, etc.. Valhalla has only grind.
The one thing that I dislike about the skill tree is the fact that it is everywhere! A complete mess! There is no stealth-only branch. There is no ranged-only branch. No melee-only branch. It is why I love AC: Odyssey's skill tree! I wished that the devs took the time and care to have three separate branches on skill tree. Too late, though! They will have that second chance if they continue skill tree in AC: Mirage. Hope they don't screw it up!
Of course they'd bastardise the English. It's a French company. They're still salty that we beat them multiple times over and that they rolled over and surrendered in pretty much every fight 😂
well, if I recall correctly, Azincourt and Crécy didn't make it and the English lost all possessions in France, from Aquitaine up to Calais so I who won in the end... :D
I'm going to correct you on 1:48 that's not Harald Hardråde but Harald Fairhair, Harald Hardråde died in 1066 and this game is set 200 years before that ;)
3:56 It seems Ubi was inspired by Skyrim perk menu when they made their skills point one. There's even the constellation pictures too for each type of skill tree
Also, the Audio is really bad in this game for some reason. Sounds like it's coming from a tin can. Odyssey didn't have this problem and I'm pretty sure Origins didn't. Weapons feel and sound like they have little to no impact and it ruins the atmosphere. The loot is also disappointing. I know many didn't like the overabundance of gear in the last game which is a valid complaint but they went way too far in the other direction this time. Been playing for a week now and can count how many pieces of armour I've collected on one hand. Most loot is just supplies to build structures at your camp. I enjoyed hunting cultists and killing mercenaries in ACO for the gear they dropped but there doesn't seem to be any of that this time. I've killed 4 order members so far and only one piece of unique loot from one of them. Will have to see as time goes on. It does improve on Odyssey with the reintroduction of guaranteed assassinations with the hidden blade and social stealth so stealth is more viable in most situations. I say most because some places you have to get into for quest objectives like assassinations require you to break through the front door which immediately puts you into combat with those inside and there's no other way in. Some doors and bigger chests also require you to call a raid so it's pretty much impossible to 100% solo stealth. Also, in Odyssey you fought for Sparta or Athens and everybody had a shield yet you couldn't use shields. In this game you have shields but can't use a one handed sword despite most saxons using them, other danes using them and you using them in finishers. It has to be a troll. Combat somehow feels worse than Odyssey. I can't quite put my finger on it but it's way more arcadey with really weird animations ect. I don't remember it being that bad in the last two games. Then the bugs. Clipping issues on pretty much every armour, audio cutting out, ground texture flicker, flickering LOD on mountains, terrible bird flaps that look like slideshows, ludicrous animation speeds when doing spin attack with 2H axe, broken quests and other game-breaking bugs. I've played every AC and this has to be the most unpolished one since the infamous Unity launch of 2014. Then the raids. Cool concept but way too easy even on max difficulty and shit rewards. Mostly just consists of me shooting a few saxons in the head with a bow because they barely pose a threat and then getting some supplies from a chest. It could have been so much better. The conquest battles in ACO were way more fun and rewarding. Then the worst part: the length. Remember when you could just play through the story for 8 - 12 hours and then if you want to play more you could try and 100% it? Why is the main story now locked behind 10's of hours of what should be optional side content? The main story is probably average in length but is padded with about 40 - 50+ hours of sub-arcs and levels for each zone. It reminds me of the DA: Inquisition grind where you had to get tons of power to unlock a main quest in order to progress which slowed you down massively. I just want to enjoy the main Templar vs Brotherhood story and be done with it. Again, I'm about 6 days in and not even half way through. I've done about 3 zones out of, what, 10, 11? And that's just England. Game has some good things going for it like the open world which is really nice and the voice actor for Eivor is perfect and when you can actually stealth it is quite fun and reminds me of the older games but it just has way too much wrong with it. It's a better AC game than the last few but I still think Odyssey was the better and more complete package overall. Wait for it to go on sale or get a Uplay+ sub. And if you're on PC please just use cheat engine if you want the store gear. This game has editions going up to 100+ dollars with a season pass and DLC's. Those items should have been in the game as rewards since there's so little gear in the game. I'm pretty sure there's actually more armour sets on the Helix store than in the game. Don't bother giving them money for them. Disappointing overall. Really wanted to love this game since 9th Century England is one of my favourite periods of history. They need to step it up next year.
I am so happy that you and Skull-Up tell it how it is. We need more reviewers like you guys. Though seriously this should have been a massive thumbs down if you are already bored halfway in.
I'm a slut for assassin's creed. Don't care. It's the allure of the playgrounds in different historical settings they make that draws me in. Even if it's like an RPG lite now or the older ones like Black Flag were just push button action movie combat simulators I get a kick out of just being in the world. I still think they need another few years off though. They have the damn money. Time to fine tune the controls and AI etc. I booted up Odyssey to mess around and while I still enjoy it. Open worlds like this feel a lot more artificial after playing stuff like Red Dead 2. It's ok to wait to release games Ubisoft. It really is.
I agree with you completely. The only complaint some of these virgins have is that you can choose a female main character, even though they can just make the main character male to their preference.
@@adamdavis1737 If you had felt "hurt" because of that you would something worse than a consoomer. You can buy all the copies you want, your sheckels. it just makes you a higher lv consoomer though.
I dunno, I'm all for buying a game that gives you bang for your buck. But if it gets that samey for that long --- and I know every game and every person is different --- then all of that hard development work is going to waste
If you wait enough you can get the full thing, the ultimate edition for 50% off. AC games go on sale quite regularly in Uplay. AC Origins Ultimate was 80% off last sale.
@@m_ridae There this, Watch Dogs and Far Cry 6 at the end of December. Probably worth $30. 50 cents per day to rent isn't too bad since the holidays are coming up and certainly no sign of me getting a ps5 lol
Tbf the point you made in the beggining with Englands history and the vikings is what put me off rooting for these characters or getting interested with this game in the first place. They're marauders and mostly looted defenceless monastaries and towns, hard to be sympathetic with these characters when you're basically playing as bandits....
I think this game is actually pretty good, people just get bored way to easily. This, like odyssey, is great when playing multiple games because you’ll have something to play when you’re not feeling multiplayer.
The game feels pretty dumbed down to me compared to Odyssey. Limited gear, the combat feels easier (like I can take on 20 guys with no trouble). Just kinda blah really. It's not bad, it's not great.
@@daktaklakpak5059 I never tried Origins. I didn't like the earlier entries to the series as much so I hadn't played any for quite a while. I liked the theme of Odyssey though and some people had compared it to Witcher 3 gameplay (whether you agree with that comparison is another story). I ended up really enjoying it.
yeah its funny isn´t it.. both Mack and Gman gave quite favorable reviews, both are liking the game, both said its too long and no one is calling Mack a shill in the comments unlike Gman was called by almost everyone..
@@elitereptilian200 The only people who call me a shill are butt hurt fan boys of some game I disliked years ago. Ubisoft won't even give me press keys let alone pay me for reviews.
@@WorthABuyreviews yeah I know, been watching you for sometime.. was just making a point about the duality of man where two very similar reviews are viewed wholly different by the same people.. keep on trucking Mack!
"It's an Assassin's Creed Game." I haven't found any that were better than Assassin's Creed 2, because it improved on the first, and Black Flag, since it got rid of so much Assassin's Creed nonsense.
I'm stuck on III at the moment. I just blasted my way through the Ezio trilogy for the first time but they changed all the controls for III and my muscle memory can't handle it. FFS.
46 Hours and I've only completed 14% of the game. That includes a chunk of Norway and everything within Lesecestrescire's boundary. This game is awesome. Last night I couldn't go to bed until I caught ten small bullhead fish. Not medium size. Not large. Ten small bullhead fish.
I see Mack had huge frame dips in the benchmark as well. I'm running a 3080 and a 3700x and I have huge frame drops in this game's benchmark. No idea what the issue is.
The fuck is wrong with this franchise and historical inaccuracy. Does it cost less to make the characters look ridiculous? Is it that hard to hire an advisor to tell the 3D artists not to give every man, woman, and child a fur pelt? For god sake this is bad. And the weapons... Not even close... Immersion was dead on arrival with this one.
IMO of course but the progression is terrible you get only a handful of weapons and armor, the WHOLE game. I'm 40 hours into the game and power level 95 and only half way through the story, I;m so burnt on the button mashing "raid village" over and over and over to open up a BLIND / HIDDEN skill tree for lame 2 to light damage or 3 to melee damage, 2 to crit, I'm at the point I just cant do it anymore. This was a major step backwards from Odyssey...
I've stopped playing AC as they made it an RPG. When the assassinations weren't a one shot kill. Looting , hit box combat looks clunky, the dodging animations the melee animations, all look outdated. Assassins are all about precision not mashing your weapon at the enemy hoping for the best. I've always enjoyed the brutal finishers from the older games. So UBI is already thinkin' of the next AC witch is supposedly gonna be set in China during the mongol conquest, lets see how that turns out. I doubt its gonna beat Ghost of Tsushima.
Danes: "We could recruit saxons to hit the front gates as a distraction whilst we load a ship with oil and use it to burn down the timbers of the rear iron sea gate." Me: "Orrrrr.. I could just run in and kill everyone by myself?"
Will probably be buying COD tomorrow and getting you a SP review out by Saturday evening, multiplayer will be next week if I think it's different enough from previous COD MP games. Right now am off to bed. FYI for those wondering about my shingles + kidney stone issues am a bit better but still struggling to sleep due to the pain, Doc says another 2 weeks of it before it goes, keeping my chin up though and getting on with the reviews but they are a bit later than usual.
do godfall next please
cheers mac, hope you feel better and back to 100%
Get well soon Mac
thanks for the videos Mack, hoping that you feel better soon.
Proud of you brother. Absolutely love your reviews! Get well soon mate
I love how Assassin's Creed is about taking us back through historic times and events when people rode wolves and shot arrows through walls
Todays Archers are weak compared to the "historical" ones. Back then, they could shoot arrows around corners with a Hunter Bow. Can't do that anymore today... so much was lost... not to mention the Birds that revealed the enemy presence. Today, we need Drones for that. How pathetic has humanity become....?
@@daktaklakpak5059 I know right? .. like back then, the axes was on fire.. now its like gender racism or sumting 🤷♂️
40 hrs in 4 day.. and it still going..
@@campkira maybe you should study irony and humor instead.. and dont forget to get your vaccine asap
Assassin's Creed had magical artifacts and alien precursor beings with a messy sci fi plot to begin with, I doubt anyone should give a shit about historical accuracy.
This is how I've felt about Ubisoft games for years now. Tedious time wasting, bloated, filler stuffed garbage with a thinly trickled plot that may or may not be interesting running through the middle of it.
once when trying to explain what a certain open world game was like, I was trying to convey how it executed the open world concept. I thought for a minute and came up with "its a Ubisoft-type" open world game. He immediately got what I meant. Just an endless stream of busy work. copy pasted all around the map, that counted as "content". Unfortunately this has become the industry norm for this genre.
I couldn’t get into Odyssey... I completed every AC until that one and then gave up after 4 hours. Until they change their formula, I won’t be coming back. TW3 and RDR2 set the bar so high that I won’t entertain anything that tries to limbo under it.
We have to accept that Ubisoft is dead, let's mourn and move on, cause they aren't coming back
@@SuperTDSmith Yeah, me too! I shit you not!!!
They hope the average gamer will not complain. It's even kinda offensive that they underestimate the people and take them for granted... Fortunately I see that more and more people are against that shitty politic of the most big corp game "factories".
"I'm riding a wolf at the moment, which looks absolutely stupid". Brilliant.
Haha is this for real ? xD
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It’s called immersion. Would it be normal to play as a pineapple just because “it lets you”?
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Ubisoft games all feel the same.
It all started feeling the same ever since the end of Ezio in AC games. They haven't put out a very creative and enticing game in many many many years. Far Cry isn't Far Cry anymore, Assassins Creed isn't Assassins Creed anymore, Ghost Recon isn't Ghost Recon anymore, EVERYTHING they make is completely devoid of creativity and inspiration. They pioneer nothing and only create the same shit with a new name and a somewhat different story over and over again.
Edit: I'll agree Black Flag was a good successor too the previous games and I enjoyed the ship combat and story but it just didn't feel quite right too me, just my opinion though. When it comes to contradicting myself, I will say I am torn when it comes to Ubisoft, they CAN make a good story, they can improve the graphics, they can lengthen the gameplay, but it still feels lazily done and tedious, repetitive and somewhat boring. They don't seem like $60 titles (and perhaps eventually $70).
Our only hope of a good game from ubishit is Beyond good and evil 2, but we haven't heard anything new about that in a long time. So I don't expect a good ubishit game to come out in the next 5 years. Maybe by 2030 they will have a new IP that does not suck. Their new gods kids game looks boring as hell.
I'd argue they are too "creative". I just don't recognize these franchises anymore.
Assassins Creed Valhalla* is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch.
Free merch > free speech.
Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation.
Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent.
As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves,
and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician.
All UBISOFT Games do the same. They exploit vulnerable people.
Check out "The Corporation", "The century of the self", "Surveillance capitalism", "Stockholm syndrome"
Went downhill with AC2.
WRONG. AC3 was better in terms of combat and story, (don't lie, you're biased about Ezio like all the other scum), Syndicate was great. Especially the combat.
I still don't know who is an assassin in this Assassins Creed.
Two characters named Basim and Hythm who work with Eivor to take down the Templars. Eivor learns techniques from them.
@Chris Mason it could be a joke and there are issues with the games now the first one you got picked how you killed your target
@@lorddiethorn But it really only applies to Odyssey, for good reason mind you.
@John Spartan I honestly have no idea why they haven't made an Feudal or Edo Japan, seems like a perfect fit. Are they saving it for something special? Or maybe they know they can't top Ghost of Tsushima
Areál they good? Assassin's. Arál they evil? Templar
Create a problem and sell the solution - that's the Ubisoft way!
To be fair that's how all of modern civilization works.
e.g. If people didn't need to pay Taxes most of us would be quite happy gardening instead of being forced to work for corporations.
Government creates a problem for which the solution is dramatically beyond the means of anyone not participating in the industrial complex.
And apple take out the audio jack create wireless headphones to sell separately
This is what all scam artists do. not just UBImafiAAA.
Assassins Creed Valhalla* is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch.
Free merch > free speech.
Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation.
Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent.
As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves,
and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician.
All UBISOFT Games do the same. They exploit vulnerable people.
Check out "The Corporation", "The century of the self", "Surveillance capitalism", "Stockholm syndrome"
@@trishaantaneja369 wireless headphones are the shit
Harald Hardråde died in 1066, this game takes place in the the late 9th century. The Harald in the game is Harald Fairhair, completely different person
To be fair there were a lot of Harolds: Greycloak, Bluetooth, and Hadrada to name a few
@@AnishChari That's why you go after their last names,
Did both england and viking have the kings' names as Harald?
@@S.Tyrannosaurus yes, Harold Godwinson and Harald Hadrada.
@@S.Tyrannosaurus Yes, they both had Haralds/Harolds (Godwinson, for instance, was English).
"I'm riding a wolf"
I would expect nothing less from Ubisoft.
Any singleplayer game that has need for Microtransactions, is a badly designed one!
There's no need for it
Yeah, you can also earn the Microtransactions through normal gameplay via the Opal system.
I think the game is better without buyng any, unlike Odyssey, where I bought the game on supersale, $20 for the Ultimate Edition, so then I only had to pay $20 more for the normal game experience.
With Valhalla, theres no need for XP/currency boosts, infact they arent there.
There is the ability to purchase materials and silver, but it's basically cheating.
The stockholders are likely forcing the Microtransactions, so the compromise the developers found for Valhalla works in my opinion.
Just dont buy the microtransactions.
It's deliberate, how slow are you? It isn't a bandaid, it's fucking greed.
There is no remote obligation to buy the micro stuff, it doesn't change anything and unlike Odyssey, there isn't a giant XP gap in the game either. There is a solid solo player game but whether people feel it's for them is a different story considering the over saturation of the genre
@@snbks4ever 'over saturation of the genre'.
How many games are exactly like Valhalla or even Odyssey?
What was generic about Odyssey? Modern graphical style, Diablo inspired loot system, skills and perk tree, leveled zones and grind and repetition.
But the actual mission design, combat system, world design etc.etc aren't necessarily generic. The sheer scope of the game isn't generic either, only a handful of studios can make a game that big.
Valhalla cast off most of those elements, it's even less generic than Odyssey was.
Riding that huge wolf amongst a herd of horses looks stupid as hell.
No.
@@IAmAwesomeSoAreYou Yes it does.
@@IAmAwesomeSoAreYou YOU’RE WRONG. It does look stupid.
@@IAmAwesomeSoAreYou it is stupid
So ride a horse? They aren't forcing anyone to ride a wolf.
On the bright side, you can play through this and finish up right around when Cyberpunk comes out in the summer.
or then don't play this, and you've saved 60 buckaroos which is exactly the price of Cyberpunk!
How about that!
@@universeawesomeness9625 If by summer you haven't saved another 60, you have to rethink your life choices.
@@universeawesomeness9625 I have both
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Don't get your hopes up
Why do they still call these games AC ? AC series died with the Ezio long ago.
They should call these games something different. I mean, come on, she is riding a wolf. What is next, a unicorn ? A dragon ?
Think about what you just said too... "she's riding a wolf," just even more injecting women in places they don't belong whatsoever, even more purposeful deluding of history by a shitty AAA company to appease a microscopic sized minority 🤦
You called the dragon Riding. Get ready for Assassins creed : Skyrim
Viking's Quest.
@@CommanderLongJohn what?? Women were fierce fighters amongst the Vikings. They were called shield maiden.
@@TheHelix123 There's accounts of 'warrior women' in the Viking sagas, but they're quite literally only legend. There's a seemingly endless amount of actual evidence to confirm the existence of male warriors in the Viking age via burials and grave goods, historical artifacts & accounts etc, however there's been virtually NO archaeological evidence to suggest that shieldmaidens ever even existed, let alone to suggest they were actually common and plenty in number as this ridiculous fucking game suggests.... So please, just don't lol..
Kingdom Come: Valhalla would be a good game, probably.
I think a cross-over would be pretty cool, as well. Henry gets a hidden blade.
Legend says Henry's still hungry.
Atleast it could be modded.. unlike ubishite
"Odin be praised."
"Harald has come to see us!"
@@peterpede6601 Yeah, imagine if Assassin's Creed had a dedicated modding community and Ubisoft actually let them mess around.
After playing ghosts of Tsushima, it was hard to play this game. I like sucker punch combat way more, it just felt smoother. Honestly just feel like they did everything better, graphics, story, combat, etc..... ubi needs to step up their game, if sucker punch decides to do Vikings or medieval time period, ubi will be fucked.
Momentum based animation is what I think they call Tsushima style. Maybe rhythmic based combat. Free flowing??
Haven't played it but from what I see that game is also 25 hours so way less likely to be bloated with repetitive tasks.
Personally not a fan of the souls like combat.
The only game I regret buying was Kingdom Come: Deliverance, because for me it's set the bar very high for realism in historically-themed games. Watching this video, all I could do was imagine how good a viking, KCD-inspired version of this game would be.
I always think of that game when seeing forests in other games and see they are trash in comparison. Lazy fuking devs.
Odin be praised!
Kingdom Come: Deliverance starts to get dull and boring after getting all the best gear and high stats. The story is average, not super engaging. The combat is shit. 1v1 combat is fine, but facing multiple enemies is never fun, only frustrating. It is a super immersive game though, i'll give it that.
@@tylerdurden7965 you're not meant to fight many enemies at once. Realistically no matter how good you are, they'd all just rush at the same time and kill you. You can abuse it with back peddling but then it's not a surprise that it's unfun.
@@tylerdurden7965 True, when after 50 hours you are level 20 in swordfighting, it gets a bit boring. Then you can try another weapon category, which you still suck in, makes it great again. I disagree on the combat, I love the combat system, best I ever played. Then there is the story, omg the story ... Never been more engaged. The small scale makes it so much more interesting to me. Plot twists, intrigues. The monastery mission, wow. Best I ever played.
I don’t think you’re joining King Harald Hardrada since he wasn’t to be born for a hundred years.
Yeah my Norse history is not good, I just assumed it was the same Harald, I took no notice of the date which was a total giveaway. On the plus side I gace a good history less of the two most important battles of our history.
@@WorthABuyreviews It's Harald Fairhair, the king who unified Norway into a single kingdom.
@@Grok_Fractal At least it wasn't Harald Redhair...
@@si_w8201 There was too many damm Haralds in those days. Harald Halfdan, Hardrada, Fairhair, Rehair. Like, Jesus christ. No wonder people mix them up.
And the Anglo-Saxons of the day had only been there since about the time the Romans left 300-400 years prior to when the game takes place. They came over from areas of present day Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands with tribes of Angles, Jutes, Frisians, Saxons - setting up the petty kingdoms that the Norse later invaded.
The king in Norway called Harald ingame is Harald Fairhair. Harald Hardrade is quite a bit later. This setting is the Danish Great Heathen Army establishing Danelaw in "England".
Lol I'm starting to think he didn't even play the game. 😆😆
Danelaw in UK again 2020 👌🏻
I actually enjoy the long playthroughs in assassin's creed games. I clocked over 150 hours with Odyssey and still haven't finished the Atlantis DLC. As a casual gamer, I enjoy spending my evenings being immersed in a world with interesting characters, humorous dialog, entertaining story, beautiful landscapes, even the carefully crafted sounds in nature, the river, trees swaying, distant wolves howling, it all adds up to be an immersive and satisfying experience. Combat is fun too, I'm usually coming up with new strategies on how to combo different abilities rather than button mash the same abilities. IMO it's only a grind if someone is focused on getting through the main story as fast as possible, the game rewards players for taking their time to stop and appreciate the details. The extent to which you enjoy the game depends on how you approach it and what type of gamer you are. For me, it's a great way to unwind in the evening and see what it could have been like living in ancient Egypt, Greece, etc. I'm looking forward to dive into Valhalla especially since one of my favorite bands, Wardruna, worked on the sound tracks!
Your comment, sir, is a breath of fresh air in this comment section. I'm right there with you. So tired of the chorus of caveman grunts: "Ubisoft bad...grunt...bad...Ubisoft...bad..."
I played for 20 hours now and not a single time it was repetitive. These ppl in the comments are spoiled brats.
@@mikeb5499 I’m 50 hours in and this game is just amazing the people in this comment section probably haven’t even played the game
@@abrahamlincoln2584 great to hear. Like the name btw 😁👍
@@mikeb5499 thank you
I've watched every review on the web for this game and this was the first one that actually showed us what the game was really about and what to expect. This is the first review that showed the damn perk tree! Great job.
There was a mission where a woman commented on my hair and said she could help get the knots out. The only problem is is that I was completely bald. That’s when I shut the game off.
Haha, I had dreadlocks when she said that to me, so I was thinking, “ok....but it’s going to take you all month you daft bat”
huh lol, in other games peoples dialogues change based on what youre wearing, for example the witcher 3. Im all about side missions and quests because those are the ones that really get you into the world of the game, if this game has bland quests there just to fill the world it is a a bad game.... beautiful environment though such a shame they are too greedy so they put timesavers and whatnot.
@@mountain6729this is definitely not the same caliber as the Witcher 3 or RDR 2, not by a long shot. It's a typical ubisoft game, it pulls you in for an hour and then your left with a boring story, and a boring open world. Like take this for example, you want to hunt right? Cause you need food to regen your health. So, you hunt deer. You think you could loot meat off it, but nope, you loot a single deer hoof every time. You can't eat the hoof. Oh, you can fish, can you eat the fish? Nope, you can bring it to the fish guy and have him upgrade your equipment. Stupid bull#$t mechanics like this in a game really is a deal breaker ESPECIALLY if we played the cream of the crop games. Save your money, mod Skyrim and you will be happy. Just don't use too many mods ;)
The new assassin’s creed just took the franchise in the wrong direction, the whole RPG thing and being able to see the enemies health bar is a why I stopped playing. I miss the feeling of AC brotherhood and 2; where you felt like a true assassin. Another thing I watched a video from another Englishmen and he said why are the British the enemies when they are the ones who are being invaded. Lastly I love the content and keep up the great work.
so its better to block an attack and kill a whole horde of enemies after that? i mean yeah its fun but i think the rpg system is really refreshing. tho im a into rpg style of games so i guess thats personal view
Honestly, I still don't get why they go with the whole 'themed' games anyway. They never made a truly great assassin's game in the ancient times. And vikings are about the least assassin-like you could get.... Then again, I hate the whole modern world mission aspect of the entire series anyway. I understand it's their way of changing up the general setting for each game and explore different eras and such. But I would have much rather preferred to see them do basically a truly good Prince of Persia style game with some proper combat depth and good AI. Not this been there, done that type of crap and endless grinding. Isn't it ironic how one of the best Assassin's Creed games actually was basically a pirate simulator with sailing boats and stuff????! That should tell you something about how far off the mark these games really are. I too liked AC: Brotherhood probably the best in terms of the original theme. But in no way was it truly good even then. It _always_ felt like a Prince of Persia-lite and a game that was more about the visuals. The story has been consistently garbage. And (obviously) not historic in any way, regardless of what some ignorant gamers claim. Not saying it should be historic, but the game series at times definitely pretends to.
mad just mad...
Tell them the English are the enemies because you play as Vikings or did they think it was called Assasins creed Heaven.
You can turn the "health bars" off in the settings. Actually you can turn any kind of markers and icons off. Even x ray vision.
I started and quit AC: Odyssey twice (with a good bit of time between tries) because I just could not get past the long, slow middle of that game! I guess the XP booster and crafting micro-transactions made enough money for Ubi that they had no choice but to COMPLETELY IGNORE the only major complaint most folks had about AC:O and screw up Valhalla the same way.
Customer: "Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!"
Waiter: "So sorry! I'll get you another! That soup was supposed to come with TWO flies!"
Don't forget, they now implemented a completely useless Stamina system no one asked for, and no one needed in the first place. Thats how retarded these $hithead Ubitrash developers really are! They simply have no clue what they are doing anymore.
Its like playing the lottery with gameplay mechanics. And what they pick, they randomly throw into the game, even if it makes sense or not. What a bunch of wankers...
I hate odyssey, and where this franchise is at, but you're talking shit, they adressed a lot of the garbage systems in odyssey, the leveling is way way better here than the chore that odyssey was, the quests feel shorter and more compelling that having to go from X to Y and return to X. Combat feels a little better and unlike the dick head above me I think the stamina bar makes the combat less of a retarded button smasher and more like a wierd souls/sekiro type of deal with the deflect system. And for the first time exploring has a reward. I hate what ubisoft has done to this franchise but this feels like they tried, they failed but tried and it's really not that bad.
@@jorgeloredo100 I agree with the points you are making, except I am ok with the direction Ubisoft has taken. I'm not a hardcore ac fan. I didn't even play a single ac game until two or three years ago, and I played them all up to that point except for the first one and unity. I liked them all. Ac 3 holds a special place in my heart because that was the first ac game that got me interested, even though I was unable to play it till I was able to buy it myself. Black flag might be my favorite, but Valhalla is next on the list so far, although I still have yet to finish it.
Games like Valhalla are the reason that I still defend assassins creed games and Ubisoft, because I genuinely believe that, if they take the time, and spend enough money, that can make something worthwhile. 46 hours into Valhalla and I'm still having a lot of fun playing it. Not getting bored at all and I'm impressed by the level of story telling. These are just my opinions, however unpopular they undoubtedly are.
@@-hasamastersdegreeinwumbol8565 I loved Black Flag and AC 2! And I really enjoyed Odyssey... until I got the sneaking suspicion I needed to pay extra $$ to skip the mid-game grind that seemed in the game for no other reason than to get me to buy an XP Booster and resource packs.
I'll probably get AC:V as a 'time waster' when it's on sale, forewarned by reviews that I probably won't finish it.
Edit: I should add that I got AC:O for free from Google after beta testing "Project Stream" - now known as "Stadia".
And I still wouldn't give 'em $10 for an XP booster because the very idea of paying extra to NOT play a game made me want a refund! ;)
@@Bert2e I agree with what you said about Odyssey. I consider it to be one of the worst in the series, but that's only because of the absolutely horrific combat system and, like you said, the mid game grind that comes out of nowhere. I will not buy xp boosters either, or any microtransactions for that matter. People say vote with your wallet, and I feel as though I have by buying Valhalla because I want to support this direction Ubisoft has taken.
The game doesn't really have a grind to it. If I wanted to I could just do the entire main story without doing any of the side stuff from beginning to end. And that's on the hardest difficulty. And its not because its super easy or anything but because it takes more skill than power level. So if you're skilled enough, you can easily progress through the story, which is really good so far.
One thing you didn't mention that puzzled me repeatedly in Odyssey....How are they just now adding decapitation and amputation? There were so many animations in Odyssey where I was like, "that would clearly take his head off."
Laziness. This franchise is basically Madden at this point.
Cause amputation is "brutal" and vikings are "brutal" so now they have it. But I feel ya half the executions with swords in odyssey should have severed at least one limb
@@nickstewart1202 dude, the animations in Odyssey are almost comical with heavy bladed weapons when you realize they don't sever limbs. I've seen my battle axe go through a dude's neck so that you can see the blade out the other side...yet his head stays put.
They added way more buttsecks too. Waaaay more. But yeah....... I always thought the kill animations in Odyssey were insanely brutal but then Ubi said, "Hold my mead..." and went all Clive Barker.
This is the 3rd review I've watched on this game and you were the only one to even mention microtransactions. Good review as always Mack, will wait for a sale then get! 👍
that's because they are mostly a non issue = not in your face.. you don't have to open the store to even see the microtransactions.. I'm 40 hours in and haven't seen them, and I don't plan to
@@theydisintegrate the way they insert them was so predatory, in the beggining of the game they reward you with 300 whatever they call it for the shop, but guess what most things cost 350... so you will have to purchase it with real money.
@@Flafi20 well if you want to get stuff from the store either way then deal with it. I don't use those credits. If it's not something I can get in the game I don't want it, because it's too immersion breaking. But the game is too good to let that bother me. Just ignore the store, period, and enjoy the game. I understand your pov, but they are all companies who want money, so the dumb will pay for dumb stuff... Is what it is. At least they make it easy to ignore
@@theydisintegrate The problem is that they artificially stretch the game for no reason in order to get people bored and buy it. It's just lazy and bad.
@@1PPPete that's your perspective only, it's not a fact. From my perspective these games are great because they are long. It's only a problem if you don't like playing the game, and if that's the case, just play something else
Ahh the most distinguishing features of Norway "snowmen and... snow"
Ubisoft in a nutshell: Great looking open world games. Repetitive gameplay.
Its a game what do you expect... jesus people
Compare this game to The Last of Us Part II, for example, the game mechanics, animations, core gameplay, enemy AI are quite outdated. Enemies aren't smart enough, so you can't really stealth properly without foregoing suspension of disbelief, removing immersion and suspense. Enemies feel like sponges, they don't react much when injured. An enemy is suppose to limp or drag themselves or run away and retreat based on where they get hit. The game also don't do dismemberment well, their dead bodies disappear quickly, their bodies don't leave wounds, not enough gore and blood to determine the actual damage of every strike or gunshot you deal in Ubisoft games.
@@wesam6385 non tedious bullshit? first 10-15 hours of this game is pretty good. then you do the same shit over and over again and you stop giving a fuck about the non interesting story. hey go destroy these supply lines before we attack the castle again eivor.
@@master123214 Did you really play the game? I actually enjoyy this game a lot(maybe bcs i don't rush it) and enjoy the exploration, the sometimes funny side quest, world event is actually memorable somehow, the history. It has its flaw, but i actually enjoy it
@@hopefulromantic. yes i played it, havent finished it and dont plan to. i disagree about the open world, itd be a great map i think if it was alot smaller in scale. cant speak for all the side content but i disagree there aswell most of what ive seen has been horribly voice acted and sometimes even animated. the only thing i looked forward to continue doing in this game was the raids.
Thank you for being you. I appreciate these amazing reviews. Saved me lots of money in this nu age of gaming.
agreed
so many games are such pieces of shit today
11:07 Laughed so hard, the whole house is awake now. 😂
Wow what a weirdo
It feels like I live in a bizarro world
Am I the only human on this planet that manages to have fun with Valhalla? exploring the northen regions, raiding camps, taking screenshots of the aurora borealis and sneaking around enemy camps only to sound the horn so my mates invade it?
I don't know, maybe it's because my last assassin's creed was AC III (which was actually boring and a shitfest, dropped it after haytham) so I don't feel the "fatigue" some people have, I wonder why people even play all AC games to begin with, I always saw them as historical fantasy games where you roleplayed as a citizen of the era, I loved the ezio trilogy because I'm italian myself so it was wonderful to see reinassance italy and play as an italian like me and then I skipped every other AC game because the setting wasn't interesting to me (pirates were cool, but 90% of AC4 is trailing missions and not piracy).
I agree with you people bash this game so much..yet they are still buying it. I loved odyssey and this game just continues to amaze me. I love what they did to change the game. Open world games are not for everyone. Some people would love a game telling you what to do and how to kill but I like the new formula for the assassins creed series because it’s gives you options and choices. It’s such a beautiful world, Asgard is so majestic. People are so stuck in that boring shitty style of the past. They are also to busy expecting it to be something like prince of Persia and also say it’s crappy witcher 3...I like the detail Ubisoft puts in this game. So beautiful
Nah it improves on pretty much every aspect of Odyssey.
I love it aswell
I'm enjoying it, but I would only rate it 7/10. I'm 10 hours in at the moment. The combat feels janky, sometimes you just glide along the floor to perform your finishers. There's bugs and my fucking god the parkour is absolutely dogshite. The amount of times I've had to fight the parkour system in this game is stupid as fuck.
@the next level Except I have played the first one. I played it on release night. They are two completely seperate games, working in two completely seperate directions. It was advertised as an open world RPG, which is what it is.
Think you need to calm down boomer.
Love your stuff, Mack. Love how you do indie and AAA games. Leave no stone unturned!
Safe to say that early medieval history is not your strong suit.
Yeah Mack isn't a good historian at any measure.
Tbf there are quite a lot of Harolds to keep track of
I love the thumbnail!! Good to see you back Mack, was looking forward to your review of this.
I listened to the same complaints about 'bloat' and 'microtransactions' in various reviews of Odyssey, which was why I put off playing it for so long. Those worries were all pure BS. Never once felt the need to boost my XP or buy mats thru the in-game store. Frankly I don't see the purpose of the store, other than to fleece morons. I leveled just fine and by 50 was drowning in mats. I just played the damn game. I'm pretty confident that I'll have a similar same experience with Valhalla - 30 hours in and absolutely loving it. Go figure. EDIT : Finished the Basim fight after 150 hours. I understand that I can go on and that there's actually more...... but I do not care. The game is gorgeous and as with Odyssey the story is damn good, but it definitely is a bit padded and should have been edited down a bit. I think I'm put off by the fact that I have more opportunities to bone other dudes than wenches. That ain't right. F*ck off, Ubisoft.
Thank you so much Mack for an actual review of this game. I'm sure you've noticed by now that none of the other reviewers have the balls to call out the microtransactions / needless bloating that pushed into you buying microtransactions. I had a feeling this would be the case but I had to wait for your review to confirm it :') thanks again man and get well soon.
I felt the same way about Origins. It was my first time playing an assasins creed game. I didn't even get close to 20 hours on that game and I was bored to tears.
The "silver spoon" bit really cracked me up, hilarious and so very true!
They seriously need to drop the AC part and just start making "historical" games.
What the hell are you Talking about ? Did you even play the Damn game
@@mrmeme2917 No.
@@alexh4449 so Play the game then Judge if they should drop it or not
Mack, quick question wasn’t Harold Godwinson and the battle of Stamford bridge taken place approx 200 years AFTER this game and was fought against Harald Fairhair not Hadrada?
Yup
1.Celts were conquered by Romans.
2.Romans fucked off.
3. Saxons conquered Celts.
4. Vikings conquered Saxons and Celts.
5. Saxons kicked Vikings out.
6. Celts died out.
Conclusion: sucks to be a Celt.
'One has one's silver spoon up one's a***' - Mack 2020 Brilliant :)
I love how small studies with low budgets are able to make games magnitudes better than studios with billions behind their name
The Normans were basically vikings as well so... just saying.
Yeah. Normandy was literally a viking colony in northwestern France. The name Norman came from "North-man" or "Norse-man"
This game isn't that era this game takes place in 872ad 200 years before the Norman conquest of England. Also the Harald in AC is king Harald fine hair the first king of all norway, while Harald hardrada died in 1066 just before the Norman invasion which marked then ending of the viking age. The timeline in the ac Valhalla, the Normans weren't even fully established yet Rollo the founder of the Normans became Duke of Normandy around 860ad so worthabuy is way off. Lol
@@bryankowalczyk3982 Never said it was. Just based my comment on his commentary in the video that after the vikings, came the Normans...
So were the Anglo-Saxons. Most of them came from Denmark and the Denmark/Germany border and would have had the same religion as the Norse except for some language differences before they turned to Christianity.
@@FlawedFabrications The Anglo Saxons weren't vikings. They came to England centuries before the viking age
"Goes on and on and on without an end in sight"
This is the best phrase to describe AC Valhalla
It's a shame, because there's a good game in there somewhere, and it shows its head occasionally
But Ubisoft needs to learn to tone down the padding and in general scale back on this massive open world nonsense they've got going
Yeah, I agreed you with on that.
I was absolutely loving this game at the start. But it doesn't end ever! WTF. I'm on like 70h of gameplay by now and I don't even know how much I need to go yet.
If it ended 30 hours before, I would be praising the living hell out of this game. But now, it's boring. Its the same thing over and over and over again.
@@TheMordgan I actually went back after like a week's break, to see if I was ready to finish things off.
And then I realized a part of the Order of the Ancients storyline is locked behind killing all the Zealots
This game really does not understand the concept of respecting players' time.
Ubisoft just cannot replicate the magic of the Ezio trilogy. They haven't even come close again.
Hm i found AC Becoming very boring since AC revelations. Thats where i really noticed that they dont make fun anymore and are so identical.
@@Crusadio Ubisoft have really lost there way with this franchise and I think they should call it quits. Ac2 and Brotherhood will forever be legendary games.
its because everyone keeps supporting the games so why change
Should have done something on Altair again, in the plot of the original story, he leaves for Mongolia to fight Genghis Khan. Could create an amazing game with that concept. The map can include all of Persia, Central Asia and the Levant. Maybe another good concept, would be playing as a conquistador and exploring South America.
The accent thing is funny af and shit like that’s why everyone generalises British culture
Thomas Hancock yeah I know it’s not even close to being true tho it’s just as Mack said
I think it’s one the best Assassins Creed game out since Black Flag. I admit it takes time to get into it, but when your 20 hours into it and unlock abilities etc the games hell of fun!
I actually thought the opposite, I had fun to 20 hours but then wanted it to end lol
@@WorthABuyreviews assassin’s creed hasn’t being the same since black flag! My god they changed it so much! To a pile of shit last few years !! Assassin’s creed was unbelievable but then they changed it to this . Makes me mad lol thanks for a honest and good review! Everyone seems to be saying this a amazing game It’s not! It’s easy borning!! So mush talking blah blah blah !!!cutscesns! I was a die hard assassin’s creed fan! I got all the collectors additions! Like why didn’t they make a assassin’s creed based on the race that came be4!! Some most Potential!! If they made assassin’s creed mixed with 1 to all of etizos storyline and black flag with the visuals of the assassin’s creed and make a Story about the race that came be4 ! Or actually give us a good sold assassin who you feel for and will like
@PiousCoding suck it dude
I find it ironic that people complain about the repetitive nature of AC games but praise the older titles which were even more repetitive 😂😂.
I like them all. The only games I never completed was ac 1, because the steam version was virtually unplayable, ac revelations, for the same reason, unity, because of all the bugs, and odyssey, because of the grind. The other ones, from ac 2 to valhalla, have all been really enjoyable to me. Valhalla might actually be my favorite ac game at this point. I'm 80 hours in at the moment and I honestly think this game is a masterpiece. I haven't even started spiderman Miles Morales, because I want to finish this one first.
They where also repetitive yet there was less s***, so they where less repetitive.....
@@gamerxt333 that doesn’t make sense
@@mattey456 Iam saying they`re better simply because theres less stuff to be repetitive with, even if you think they where more like that than the modern games.
I guess I could of said that better though
@@gamerxt333 but if you think about it AC1 and AC2. The combat was repetitive you could just block and counter. Also you would just go to a city do then same mini objectives to get to the boss then try to assassinate him. Repeat 6-8 times. That’s how to games felt looking back on them.
Will you eventually play and review baldurs gate 3 or the early acces of this game? i have been waiting for that one. I know you liked devinity original sin 2.
Every new release makes Ezio trilogy look like masterpieces, ubi totally lost the magic, reboot and give us proper plot driven AC with stealth that gives 25 hours of quality and variety. Is this really that difficult?
That ending was BRILLIANT....
This is exactly how I feel every time I buy a Ubisoft Game.......
then don't buy them :D
@@Ebb0Productions You should definitely hold on to your day job cause this ain't it hommie.
Yet you still buy em though Cons00mer.
This game isn’t even “Assassins Creed” it’s just a crappy Witcher clone
to be fair the Creed nor the Templars existed yet in the last three games. They're doing what Black Flag did. Black Flag was a pirate game with a side of AC, the AC part being the 5 or so side missions of killing templars for keys to unlock the armor on your island
The Witcher 3 plagiarized Ubisoft's shitty checklist open-world design and everyone says it's the GOAT and cured their dog's cancer and other such crap. Not Ubisoft's fault they think gamers want shit open-world design, gamers have been holding shit game design upon a gold pedestal for years.
@Chris Mason lol there bad assassins creed games so is all the games of the ps4 era
@Chris Mason I did! And bro I’m not talking about the story idiot I’m talking about the graphics and setting and this that LOOK like the Witcher/ God of War...smh
@@user-zv8qg1co4z yeah true
Wait, Mac, the Romans "enslaved" "England" before the Ango-saxons were even there? Those naughty boys!
Britons mixed with Anglo-Saxons to create modern English people I guess
@@Astromamutit was Celtic tribes the romans invaded in what is now England
The Anglo Saxons showed up much later in history
The romans couldn’t control what is now Scotland/ the very north of England / Ireland and large swaths of wales
That closing clip of you running into a tree had me rolling haha.
English Guy: The vikings killed and enslaved lot's of English People!
Indian, Irish, Australian, Native American, Aghani, French, African, Pacific Islander Guys: Did they now?
Thanks for always giving a honest review! I think i'll skip this one.
Personally, love the exploration in the game so far, along with the mysteries and gritty atmosphere. I suspect I won’t be able to finish it though. As you said, it’s insanely long for the little variation in gameplay they have.
If you won't be able to finish the game why buy the game now? Why not wait for it to be $10/£10/€10 in 3 years time as its a Single Player game so it will be the same.
@@rashidhumine And play what in those 3 years of waiting time?
@@timmaes632 I bought AC Origins Gold Edition for £8 when they announced AC Valhalla, there's so many games that get released on a Monthly basis that you can choose from.
@@rashidhumine Nothing else to play at the moment. Shadowlands delayed. Cyberpunk delayed. zzzz
it's really annoying to keep doing that same bullshit again and again for hundreds of hours like solving environmental enigma every inch of the map or clean forts and camps.
it's as if they had found an interesting idea and decided to put it everywhere, definitly not a fun game for me after more than 30h i was bored af of doing the same thing.
The game looks great, the bow is excellent, the story is good, the countryside of England is fantastic, and so are the cold mountains of Norway, esp the snow there was fantastic. The designs of the settlements are great, I mean a lot of work went into them esp the research, but NO PEOPLE.
The fighting is ok, the new kill me glow part of the enemy is good and interesting. However the game has no people, I mean it is a desert of people. If you conquer a town there is no one working the field or melding fences et al. I know for a fact - England at the time did have a lot of people enough to get a town to work. No one travels the roads like in the other games.
The game is a lovely tapestry of fauna but without civilization it is dead. The raids are a joke, you raid with 20 people and that is it lol. The so-called city battles and sieges are also pathetic. Again you raid with 20 people, that is it. For God's sake, the celebration in the long hall after the battle has more people at the party than the army who captured the town. Once captured you can see with your eagle (which is really useless) how badly underpopulated the world is. No men manning the watchtowers or gates, if an enemy came which is very unlikely as they too have no one to form a band with, they could take the city back in one sneak attack. Clearly, the random battles we saw in Oddessey are missing in this game. The gold and blue icons are interesting but nothing is said about them and how to use them. So the game compared to the other two is lackluster and underwhelming.
You can clearly see a decline in Assassin creed once again. Nothing has changed except the developers did not work on it enough. Origins was a big world and alive. Oddessy was also even though the devs did not let use shields in a greek themed game. It seems to me the devs always miss out on a big thing in this game or series which in the end ruins it. They got it right in origins and it's downhill from there.
People have complained this game is massive in content, I like big games that go on for hundreds of hours, but I like games that are alive and lived in.
People may say this is great for a covid 19 game, they may say they could not have done more, rubbish. If the devs could not add people in a game then - it game over, and the devs should get out of the gaming industry. It would be a pathetic excuse if that was the case. As for gender roles, women fighting warbands, leading men into battles, become yarls. What rubbish is this? No women did this in the time period, why? Too weak, more prone to injury, too slow, and more useful and important in the settlements producing babies and tending the fields. In other words, women were too valuable to be wasted on war and ruling. If you had a difficult woman no guy would go near her, her reputation and her family would be mud. Putting women in men's roles cheapens women's roles in the development of settlements and civilization. Most women do not play these games it is men who play as a woman who loves to see a bit of sex with two girls.
One comment for Assassins creed Vallahala- a lazy stagnant mess (though beautiful) - what a disappointment.
Got Ubisoft+ for Immortals Fenyx Rising (pretty cool game), after beating that one I've started Valhalla - how on earth most people say it's better than Odyssey? Odyssey was miles better than this in almost everything, it had better gameplay variety - like sea battles, actictive cultist hunting, interesting character from greek culture, etc.. Valhalla has only grind.
The one thing that I dislike about the skill tree is the fact that it is everywhere! A complete mess! There is no stealth-only branch. There is no ranged-only branch. No melee-only branch. It is why I love AC: Odyssey's skill tree!
I wished that the devs took the time and care to have three separate branches on skill tree. Too late, though! They will have that second chance if they continue skill tree in AC: Mirage. Hope they don't screw it up!
On the radio they were talking about this game, how good this is, how awesome it is to b-play vikings, It is a dream come true....i was like LOL
Of course they'd bastardise the English. It's a French company. They're still salty that we beat them multiple times over and that they rolled over and surrendered in pretty much every fight 😂
That's why AC Rogue is my favourite. Helping the British during the 7 years war to burn French bases.
They couldn't weasel their way out that one.
well, if I recall correctly, Azincourt and Crécy didn't make it and the English lost all possessions in France, from Aquitaine up to Calais so I who won in the end... :D
Nobody that has participated in an England vs France war has been alive for a century.
And now your just a small outpost and lapdog of the united states. lol
@@sierrahotel4632 I liked how they did it in the series Vinkings, where each people spoke sometimes their real native tongue and usually english.
Mack throwing that nudity comment was perfection .... had me literally lol. Great review.
I'm going to correct you on 1:48 that's not Harald Hardråde but Harald Fairhair, Harald Hardråde died in 1066 and this game is set 200 years before that ;)
3:56
It seems Ubi was inspired by Skyrim perk menu when they made their skills point one. There's even the constellation pictures too for each type of skill tree
I love this game, I've had enormous amounts of fun. To each is own. Thanks for the review. 👍
The older games weren't perfect by any means but there is so much bloat and grind now.. remember to level up folks ...
There is no grind in Valhalla tho
Can't believe I was actually thinking about maybe preordering this coz I'm bored. Luckily I talked myself out of it.
The game is fucking awesome. You are missing out.
Also, the Audio is really bad in this game for some reason. Sounds like it's coming from a tin can. Odyssey didn't have this problem and I'm pretty sure Origins didn't. Weapons feel and sound like they have little to no impact and it ruins the atmosphere.
The loot is also disappointing. I know many didn't like the overabundance of gear in the last game which is a valid complaint but they went way too far in the other direction this time. Been playing for a week now and can count how many pieces of armour I've collected on one hand. Most loot is just supplies to build structures at your camp. I enjoyed hunting cultists and killing mercenaries in ACO for the gear they dropped but there doesn't seem to be any of that this time. I've killed 4 order members so far and only one piece of unique loot from one of them. Will have to see as time goes on.
It does improve on Odyssey with the reintroduction of guaranteed assassinations with the hidden blade and social stealth so stealth is more viable in most situations. I say most because some places you have to get into for quest objectives like assassinations require you to break through the front door which immediately puts you into combat with those inside and there's no other way in. Some doors and bigger chests also require you to call a raid so it's pretty much impossible to 100% solo stealth.
Also, in Odyssey you fought for Sparta or Athens and everybody had a shield yet you couldn't use shields. In this game you have shields but can't use a one handed sword despite most saxons using them, other danes using them and you using them in finishers. It has to be a troll.
Combat somehow feels worse than Odyssey. I can't quite put my finger on it but it's way more arcadey with really weird animations ect. I don't remember it being that bad in the last two games.
Then the bugs. Clipping issues on pretty much every armour, audio cutting out, ground texture flicker, flickering LOD on mountains, terrible bird flaps that look like slideshows, ludicrous animation speeds when doing spin attack with 2H axe, broken quests and other game-breaking bugs. I've played every AC and this has to be the most unpolished one since the infamous Unity launch of 2014.
Then the raids. Cool concept but way too easy even on max difficulty and shit rewards. Mostly just consists of me shooting a few saxons in the head with a bow because they barely pose a threat and then getting some supplies from a chest. It could have been so much better. The conquest battles in ACO were way more fun and rewarding.
Then the worst part: the length. Remember when you could just play through the story for 8 - 12 hours and then if you want to play more you could try and 100% it? Why is the main story now locked behind 10's of hours of what should be optional side content? The main story is probably average in length but is padded with about 40 - 50+ hours of sub-arcs and levels for each zone. It reminds me of the DA: Inquisition grind where you had to get tons of power to unlock a main quest in order to progress which slowed you down massively. I just want to enjoy the main Templar vs Brotherhood story and be done with it. Again, I'm about 6 days in and not even half way through. I've done about 3 zones out of, what, 10, 11? And that's just England.
Game has some good things going for it like the open world which is really nice and the voice actor for Eivor is perfect and when you can actually stealth it is quite fun and reminds me of the older games but it just has way too much wrong with it. It's a better AC game than the last few but I still think Odyssey was the better and more complete package overall.
Wait for it to go on sale or get a Uplay+ sub. And if you're on PC please just use cheat engine if you want the store gear. This game has editions going up to 100+ dollars with a season pass and DLC's. Those items should have been in the game as rewards since there's so little gear in the game. I'm pretty sure there's actually more armour sets on the Helix store than in the game. Don't bother giving them money for them.
Disappointing overall. Really wanted to love this game since 9th Century England is one of my favourite periods of history. They need to step it up next year.
It's Harald Fairhair, not Hardrada. The battle of Stamford bridge was in 1066 around 200 years later.
I am so happy that you and Skull-Up tell it how it is. We need more reviewers like you guys. Though seriously this should have been a massive thumbs down if you are already bored halfway in.
Sure, except skill up just rides the dong on generic and boring as hell games. Just look at his miles morales review.
I'm a slut for assassin's creed. Don't care. It's the allure of the playgrounds in different historical settings they make that draws me in. Even if it's like an RPG lite now or the older ones like Black Flag were just push button action movie combat simulators
I get a kick out of just being in the world.
I still think they need another few years off though. They have the damn money. Time to fine tune the controls and AI etc.
I booted up Odyssey to mess around and while I still enjoy it. Open worlds like this feel a lot more artificial after playing stuff like Red Dead 2.
It's ok to wait to release games Ubisoft. It really is.
I agree with you completely. The only complaint some of these virgins have is that you can choose a female main character, even though they can just make the main character male to their preference.
pretty poor choice of words m8
And i thought the consooomer meme was just that a meme yet here you are a consooomer.
Oh man you called me a consumer I'm so hurt
Guess I'll go buy a copy of assassin's Creed to cry into
@@adamdavis1737 If you had felt "hurt" because of that you would something worse than a consoomer.
You can buy all the copies you want, your sheckels. it just makes you a higher lv consoomer though.
It's Ubi so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume it's trash.
I don't blame you but Ubisoft used to be a really good game company hopefully far cry 6 will be better
That title card with your face on that dudes body was hilarious :D
Them health bars and numbers flying around is such an immersion killer! Can you get rid of them at all??
yeah, I'm playing no HUD except for my own heath and ammo... it's great that way. I always disable anything immersion breaking
I dunno, I'm all for buying a game that gives you bang for your buck. But if it gets that samey for that long --- and I know every game and every person is different --- then all of that hard development work is going to waste
My buck is $40≤ Ultimate Edition. I honestly don't think it's worth more than that and that goes for that last two as well.
not really hard work if you're just copying and pasting
I'm playing and constantly fighting with myself trying to like it.
Same bro...listen to a dialogue, then i skip all the next and fight...but no fun at all
7/10 in a AC game this days... Such a masterpiece!
So... Getting on sale then?
If you wait enough you can get the full thing, the ultimate edition for 50% off. AC games go on sale quite regularly in Uplay. AC Origins Ultimate was 80% off last sale.
$15 per month for all of their games. I'll probably do that for a bit.
@@robertdunlop5247 I am going to start doing the Ubisoft+ as well.
@@m_ridae There this, Watch Dogs and Far Cry 6 at the end of December. Probably worth $30. 50 cents per day to rent isn't too bad since the holidays are coming up and certainly no sign of me getting a ps5 lol
@@mud2479 If you aren't on PC, New Year and Spring sales are the earliest deep sales.
Tbf the point you made in the beggining with Englands history and the vikings is what put me off rooting for these characters or getting interested with this game in the first place. They're marauders and mostly looted defenceless monastaries and towns, hard to be sympathetic with these characters when you're basically playing as bandits....
I think this game is actually pretty good, people just get bored way to easily. This, like odyssey, is great when playing multiple games because you’ll have something to play when you’re not feeling multiplayer.
Agree!
The game feels pretty dumbed down to me compared to Odyssey. Limited gear, the combat feels easier (like I can take on 20 guys with no trouble). Just kinda blah really. It's not bad, it's not great.
And Odyssey was already a dumbed down mess, compared to Origins.
@@daktaklakpak5059 I never tried Origins. I didn't like the earlier entries to the series as much so I hadn't played any for quite a while. I liked the theme of Odyssey though and some people had compared it to Witcher 3 gameplay (whether you agree with that comparison is another story). I ended up really enjoying it.
inb4 people saying Ubisoft bought Mack.
yeah its funny isn´t it.. both Mack and Gman gave quite favorable reviews, both are liking the game, both said its too long and no one is calling Mack a shill in the comments unlike Gman was called by almost everyone..
@@elitereptilian200 The only people who call me a shill are butt hurt fan boys of some game I disliked years ago. Ubisoft won't even give me press keys let alone pay me for reviews.
@@WorthABuyreviews yeah I know, been watching you for sometime.. was just making a point about the duality of man where two very similar reviews are viewed wholly different by the same people.. keep on trucking Mack!
Well sir you have more in common with those Vikings then with those early Britons who were conquered by the romans
Maybe; genetic tests show there's plenty of Brythonic ancestry left, as they weren't replaced by the Anglo-Saxons.
@@runatal5914 There's more Anglo-Saxon blood in the average modern day Englishman
@@runatal5914 There really isn't
The game is on sale for 20 right now and I’m still skeptical on getting it!! Is that a fair price for this game !? At least to grab wise
I remember you talking about the viking history in your War of the Vikings review. It was a great history lesson
"It's an Assassin's Creed Game."
I haven't found any that were better than Assassin's Creed 2, because it improved on the first, and Black Flag, since it got rid of so much Assassin's Creed nonsense.
I'm still playing Black Flag, feel no compulsion to purchase any of the latest AC games
I'm stuck on III at the moment. I just blasted my way through the Ezio trilogy for the first time but they changed all the controls for III and my muscle memory can't handle it. FFS.
"It's really easy" did you try changing the settings and making it more challenging?
Hard difficulty doesn't make the game more challenging, it just makes enemies spongier.
46 Hours and I've only completed 14% of the game. That includes a chunk of Norway and everything within Lesecestrescire's boundary. This game is awesome. Last night I couldn't go to bed until I caught ten small bullhead fish. Not medium size. Not large. Ten small bullhead fish.
I see Mack had huge frame dips in the benchmark as well. I'm running a 3080 and a 3700x and I have huge frame drops in this game's benchmark. No idea what the issue is.
Idk how people still play these. I got AC fatigue like 8 years ago 😆
These games are Great !
They look good
Great Storytelling
Amazing Maps ....
Is it worth a buy?
- thats not a valid question
Is it worth a pirate?
-ummm
NO
Doing second as we speak ill be the judge (probably no still)
The fuck is wrong with this franchise and historical inaccuracy. Does it cost less to make the characters look ridiculous? Is it that hard to hire an advisor to tell the 3D artists not to give every man, woman, and child a fur pelt? For god sake this is bad. And the weapons... Not even close... Immersion was dead on arrival with this one.
11:43 😅😆
That cheese is almost as stupidly funny as the Outriders roar! 🤣
IMO of course but the progression is terrible you get only a handful of weapons and armor, the WHOLE game. I'm 40 hours into the game and power level 95 and only half way through the story, I;m so burnt on the button mashing "raid village" over and over and over to open up a BLIND / HIDDEN skill tree for lame 2 to light damage or 3 to melee damage, 2 to crit, I'm at the point I just cant do it anymore. This was a major step backwards from Odyssey...
Everyone major publisher has their main big cash grab:
EA: FIFA
Activision: CoD
Ubisoft Assassins Creed
Been looking forward to this all day
This game is a turd just like all Ubisoft games, extremely generic and boring, every game is the same game.
Well said. Generic af. I swear they automate 80% of their games, using the same scripts and presets. Watch dogs and AC are the same game these days
I've stopped playing AC as they made it an RPG. When the assassinations weren't a one shot kill. Looting , hit box combat looks clunky, the dodging animations the melee animations, all look outdated. Assassins are all about precision not mashing your weapon at the enemy hoping for the best. I've always enjoyed the brutal finishers from the older games. So UBI is already thinkin' of the next AC witch is supposedly gonna be set in China during the mongol conquest, lets see how that turns out. I doubt its gonna beat Ghost of Tsushima.
Danes: "We could recruit saxons to hit the front gates as a distraction whilst we load a ship with oil and use it to burn down the timbers of the rear iron sea gate."
Me: "Orrrrr.. I could just run in and kill everyone by myself?"