Assassins Creed Valhalla Review - Even Odin would get bored before the end.
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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
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 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.
"I'm riding a wolf"
I would expect nothing less from Ubisoft.
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
I'm done paying full price for Ubi games. If you've played one of their recent games, you've basically played them all. Just zero creativity from this company.
They are good at world building though
Its a pity because they have some good ideas :(
So you only just figured that out? Lol
I think this is a title I'll pick up for like 15-20 bucks max
@@luketalbot7006 UBISOFT games are just not worth your time and your privacy.
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"
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.
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 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.
@@NorHeadHunter 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.
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.
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 👌🏻
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 ;)
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.
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.
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.
11:07 Laughed so hard, the whole house is awake now. 😂
Wow what a weirdo
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.
I love how small studies with low budgets are able to make games magnitudes better than studios with billions behind their name
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
Love your stuff, Mack. Love how you do indie and AAA games. Leave no stone unturned!
'One has one's silver spoon up one's a***' - Mack 2020 Brilliant :)
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.
The "silver spoon" bit really cracked me up, hilarious and so very true!
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.
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
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
"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.
I love the thumbnail!! Good to see you back Mack, was looking forward to your review of this.
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
The English were actually never enslaved by the Romans. The AAnglo/Saxon migration happened mostly after the Romans left. The ones who were actually ensaved were the Britonnic Celts, and lots of them fled west and founded Wales after the English arrived.
I remember you talking about the viking history in your War of the Vikings review. It was a great history lesson
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
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.
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.
I would litterally be engrossed if Mack did a few history lesson videos, these intersections are almost as good as Assassin's Creed Tourguide mode (educational map exploration with voiced exposition and no threats ect)
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.
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.
That closing clip of you running into a tree had me rolling haha.
Word to word how I felt while playing AC Odesy I'm disappointed that they have not changed the game design even though they said they changed it...
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
Thanks for always giving a honest review! I think i'll skip this one.
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?
I cannot imagine a Viking Assassin that looks like a buff Arnold Schwarzenegger sneaking into somewhere, or blending in, in order to assassinate someone.
Eivor isn’t buff he has the same body type as bayek
Mack throwing that nudity comment was perfection .... had me literally lol. Great review.
Great honest review as always Mack. I thought Ubisoft admitted that Odyssey was far too long??. Guess they didnt learn from the last one..lol
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 ;)
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.
@@muridae05 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The hudge wolve makes one look like Nils Holgersson, ridding his goose
It's Harald Fairhair, not Hardrada. The battle of Stamford bridge was in 1066 around 200 years later.
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
Everyone major publisher has their main big cash grab:
EA: FIFA
Activision: CoD
Ubisoft Assassins Creed
I join in with the whispered “from the developers “right in my girlfriends ear and she’s not happy with me now 😂👌
How are you feeling ? Hopefully your feeling better soon 👍 great video as usual
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.
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
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 ....
That title card with your face on that dudes body was hilarious :D
If I can ride a giant wolf, I will name my character LEMAN RUSS
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)
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
Things ubisoft can do to really improve the Assassins Creed series
1) Stop the part in the game where you will have to constantly have to play boring side missions just so that you can level up and carry on the main story ( Assassins Creed Origins and Odyssey), like you actually spend more time on side missions than the actual story
2) Create a assassins creed 2 remastered or a black flag remastered
3) Create a more variety set of weapons and bring back the AC2 and AC3 fighting gameplay where you have multiple different finishes with a single weapon where you actually feel like a god, Instead of only having like 2 finishes per weapon
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 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 sure someone already pointed this out, but that's Harold finehair, not hardrada. Cheers for the reveiw man
The Roman in-slaved the Iceni, which eventually became the Welch. Viking conquered the Saxon. You most liking have viking blood, which is Anglo-Saxon. The last true indigenous English are the Welch. How do you not know this? I live on the other side of the planet.
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.
People who come here to find if a game is good: 0
People who come here to find if a game is a banter wank: *absolutely everyone ever*
They pulled a Shadow of War by dragging the game out in hopes you'll pay to make it end... What a fucking joke
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.
Just as a bit of a history note, the king Harold in norway isnt harald hadrada but is Harold Fairhair who came about 150 years earlier. The time of Harold Godwinson and the like came a bit later on in history than when this game was set because it was when all the petty kingdoms of England show in the game had become one United kingdom of England
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
"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.
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
Controversial but my favourite AC was Syndicate. A fun & focused story, far more emphasis on stealth, interesting characters & historical figures, great atmosphere & locations, historical but modern enough for fun weapons & equipment, no vast open fields of nothing, mostly great voicework, good weapon progression, minimal & cosmetic only microtransactions that most people could buy with Ubi points that were generously rewarded for game progression, no story bloating for level gaining/mtx sales etc.
It still had 1 or 2 problems like repetitive combat but overall it's the most fun & compelling time I've had with an AC game. Probably the only Ubi game I'd buy again if it were remastered/remade.
Syndicate was a bit of fun but the only AC game that I actually enjoyed for the story was Brotherhood.
Origins isn't too bad, either.
Unity could have been okay if it didn't run like a turd on wheels.
Odyssey was... Not grabbing my interest at all
Valhalla doesn't even remotely grab me.
The material packs sell items that can be easily found around the map, the rare ingots are not included in those packs which are needed to upgrade items so it doesn't make the grind any easier
The funniest bug i had so far was the "raid" command in a river raid. Instead of automatically stopping near the coast it rammed full speed in the wharf, flew the boat up and left it laying at 45% on the wharf. Never got reset after the raid was completed, so in order to get out i had to walk almost next to the following camp to pop it back with a horn call
I love how you get “mission desynchronization” if you kill civilians during raids 💀
The graphics are actually beyond amazing. I always just stop and look around and
Embrace the beautiful scenery that these graphics provide.
Lol no. Even witcher 3 from 2015 has much better environments. Valhalla looks all around generic as hell, as do 90% of all AAA games nowadays.
@@caffeineaddictlolecksdee You clearly haven't played it then and you're talking out of watching gameplay compressed by RUclips on 1080p on a phone most likely
You’re blind then
Regarding the accents (I'm Norwegian), there is one dude named Hrorkar or something that leads you into an ambush and I thought it was an Indian dignitary from the far east or something, but no, they hired a dude with an Indian accent to do a ancient Norse accent (I don't mind if they have Indians doing it, just lose the accent, it was confusing as hell).
Your reviews are so on point. Coming back to this after a year. I have both the DLCs but I cant be motivated to start them. I know they will have the same mindless grind.
"The English are portrayed as bastards" - God forbid :P
We are bastards . And proud
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.
A game being extra long is always a plus for me. I know the norm is a new game every week but I generally like to stick to 1 game to play for 1 - 3 months. I've been playing odyssey for 110 hrs now and i'm still not done lol.
It’s hilarious seeing the Vikings being portrayed as heroes
It’s Ubisoft’s duty as a french company to make the British look bad in all of their games.
Call of duty cold war review?
cant wait for that one
He's working on it.
Words can’t describe how excited I am for that one. Hope the bell is ready...
You're right about the accents. A lot of None British Developers think we all speak all snooty and Sophisticated, ooh yes, one does require a cup of Chaa
"One has one's silver spoon up one's arse" I lost it
This is always how modern Ubisoft games are. Waaaay too long. Farcry 5 was the same, about twice the length it needed to be.
If it's long it gives me a lot of pleasure
@@alwaysdisputin9930 It's not how long a game is it how you use it.
But how many gay trans viking-kin are there, Mack? That's what really matters.
Zero
Hopefully one day the devs figure out that bigger is not always better and that quality always trumps quantity.
Your point about the accents is dumb.
English accents did not exist in any way as they do today.
Infact, around the 1700s, English accents sounded more like Americans do today than they did like the English today.
Majority of the accents seemed to have developed in the industrial revolution and right before.
So to have historically accurate accents, the whole game would have to be in Old English and Old Norse, and they would need a recording of every word in those two languages from back then.
Still, that is not enough, they would also need all the dead languages from those regions, and recordings of them as well, in order to have real historical accuracy.
Im sure nobody will mind the entire game being in subtitles.
I came for the review, I stayed for the history lesson.
Just note that he has mistaken Harald Finehair for Harald Hardrade, 100 year difference between them :)
After watching this it’s confirmed my fear that this game suffers from the same issue odyssey did. I couldn’t finish odyssey because of how long it is and this will be the same
Me: Looks dull. Mack: You raid monasteries. Me: Oh, hello.
That's not Harald Hadrada, it's Harald Fairhair the first king of Norway. The game is set in the 870s rather than the 1060s.