Assassins Creed Valhalla - Is It WORTH PLAYING in 2023? (Review)
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2024
- One billion dollars. That’s how much money Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has raked in for Ubisoft since its launch in late 2020. So while many OG AC fans are unsatisfied with the direction this franchise has taken in recent years, it’s clear that the RPG model is here to stay.
In this video, I’ll be reviewing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and telling you whether it’s worth your time today. We’ll dive deep into the combat, stealth mechanics, quest structure, exploration, story and the major DLC. There will be some spoilers during the story section, but don’t worry I’ll warn you before diving into all that.
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0:00 Introduction
2:27 How RPG is AC Valhalla?
5:32 Combat and Stealth
9:21 Raiding and Settlement Building
11:29 Exploration
12:35 Side Quests... I Mean "Main" Quests
15:49 DLC
19:31 Conclusion: Is Assassins Creed Valhalla Worth Playing in 2023?
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It was an honor. Great review Big Dan
The male Eivor voice actor is hands down my favorite part of the game.
His voice actor does such a good job at portraying this more leader-like Viking and fits the game's narrative more imo. Also flyting with him is just perfect.
If you think that's good voice acting then you're gonna shit bricks when you hear an actual good voice acting.
@@Mr.Sax. I have one for you. If you think this is BAD voice acting, look up Megan Fox's voice acting for Nitara in Mortal Kombat 1.
There's talent, then there's unrecognized talent and then there's that.
@@bruh-myega If we both take an exam, you score 1/10 and I score 3/10, my exam is three times better than yours but I still got horrible mark.
We're not talking about which voice acting is worse than which, we're talking about good voice acting.
@@Mr.Sax.What the hell are you talking about LMAO. Why are you trying so hard to stir up an argument? You do realize that I'm not taking you seriously at all right?
I believe Twitter would be more fitting for you if you wanna fight over dumb shit. They'll love your comparisons there.
Also, one more thing since you're being pressed by unpopular opinions: Male Eivor's voice actor is Good. Boo. Happy recovery
@@Mr.Sax. You're talking about good voice acting contrasted by bad, you get a 0 outta 100, get out of my classroom.
People say Valhalla isn’t very “Assassin’s Creed” but I’ve been able to play the majority of it silently and strike from the shadows. Yes, there are mandatory combat sequences and raids…but I haven’t seen a military encampment yet I couldn’t stealth.
The most interesting part of the raiding in this game is that... if you kill civs you are disconnected from nexus (even if they are wandering in the middle of a big fight), bc vikins never did such things like killing innocent ppl. Makes sense...
right, because viking is not what Hollywood or netflix shows you, its quite the opposite, the word itself simply means seafearer, in ancient germanic societies you would be thrown out or killed when being a alcoholic, rapist, thief or other immoral guy, those people were natural this way, not like abrahamics preaching to be so and in reality are the wolf in sheep clothes
Eivor didn't do it. Other vikings did.
@@intermilan9731 that's stupid and lazy let me kill random people im a viking ffs
Its because essentially assassin creed is entering the animus to re live the life of someone in the past. Killing innocent’s is like you trying to “change history” the animus rejects the activity as a non-memory of the character.
Vikings never killed innocent people 😂
Yes, they did. They were not angels on Earth.
And what u mean that u are disconnected from nexus? I have accidently killed some by standers and havent been disconnected from anything. In other ac games if u kill innocent by stander everyone becomes hostile to u in that region but in Valhalla nothing happened, I just dissappeared from the scene and continued like nothing happened.
9:19 and upgrading your gear chances its appearance. For example weapons get extra engravings and beautifully carved handles each time we upgrade them. Its so cool. I didn't really see than in other games
You can also see that in both of the recent two god of war games
@@rogerlee4126 with 2 weapons😂😂😂😂😂
@@dombo916 weapons, gear, shields (with every playable character)
another thing ghost of tsushima did first and better lmfao
@@pablodopaminoso every playable character???? you can only play with kratos and atreus...
the biggest mistake i did was to focus on leveling up my character that made the main storyline boring and easy. This happened mainly when I hunted all zealots in the beginning. I think I was at level 120-200 when I killed the last zealot. When I was at level 270 something, there was still level 20 areas I had to play.
New Game+ was a must. Still hurt they didn't add it in, I'm 537 for a year now and wish I could get another playthrough having 100% of the game.
@Jit didn't odyssey have New game+?
@@joshhaney9769 yes it does
U level up your character enough if u just follow the main story and do few side guests. Combats are not that hard anyways and its nice to have some challenge when u fight the bosses.
I'm currently on my first playthrough and around 90 hours in. I stuck 200 into odyssey and I hear this one is longer.
While it's not as good as the other two, the assassin part is pretty much gone, it's still a great game and the graphics are superb.
For me, the games graphics and combat is good enough for a long haul.
I intentionally didn't finish the game, because I waited for all the dlcs and stuff in a complete edition. I will just start a new game.
Id say valhalla is like 20% longer than odyssey just for story. If you plan to get 100% of achievements valhalla easily has over 300 hours of things to do. Just the amount of land/maps to explore in valhalla is so gigantic. Odyssey is beautiful
@Percy Lex I clocked in 249 hours with both season pass expansions and every single trophy completed. Need to go back at some point for ragnarok but needed a break :)
@@themarchinggoblin8294 i got the complete edition of valhalla and it almost seamlessly has you go through the dlc’s as you are progressing story mode. I didnt even realize i was doing dlc’s half the time lol. This made it feel much less grindy, people complain the base game had them doing boring side stuff for xp to move on in the story, i had none of that going on with the version i got. Overall im very satisfied and after i beat odyssey i plan to play red dead redemption 2 (ive been stuck on an mmorpg for 3 years) now im playing all the games i missed out on but got extremely high ratings.
Currently at about 85 Hours into the Game, love it so far, and the Norse Depiction fills my Viking loving and Norse Mythology knowing Heart really good to see that they did their research. Having a Big Blast
That's really sad I'm sorry you have such horrible taste why not Plat the new God of war
@@desertgrowndank7256 Ragnarok was really enjoyable too, but could you please respect my opinion by not Insulting me? You can disagree with me while staying friendly, you know?
@@desertgrowndank7256 really sad ur upset he liked a game u didnt
i have 85 days💀
@@desertgrowndank7256 stfu you’re the sad one for being upset that he liked a game that you didn’t
Hey man, great review. I didn’t end up buying the game after watching but you did a good job providing a thorough overview
Same lol fuck this billshit.
Only reason I enjoyed this game was because around the time of its release I had just finished the show "Vikings" so it was kinda lit in that regard. I recommend it.
I am a very patient gamer, I love games I can sink 40, 60, 100 hours into. But ACV took 90 hours to get to the credits and I wanted my time back. Just a bloated mess.
Exactly
I have 90h and still not bored lol
I have over 500 hours and I feel like I missed out on a year or so of my life
@@melodiasrojas8428 I'm glad for you, but I'm wondering what's got your attention. Because it's probably not the combat, it's certainly not the story, it's not likely the world locations.
All the things that were interesting about AC:Origins, AC:Odyssey, and the numbered games aren't present. And all of those games tend to get better in what you can see, do and fight as time goes on. In ACV it felt the opposite to me. I'd finish a story in one zone and never want to return.
_"I'm glad for you, but I'm wondering what's got your attention. Because it's probably not the combat, it's certainly not the story, it's not likely the world locations."_
Why, because _you_ didn't like them, so no one could? The sheer arrogance! The story is absolutely fantastic - _FAR_ superior to any other AC game - the combat is brilliant, and the world locations are on par, or possibly even better, than any other game that's ever been made; travelling around Middle Ages Britain, seeing all the historic locations and learning about historic people, is absolutely wonderful. I couldn't ask for more. Aside from that, the little puzzles all around the place are interesting and fun, the gear is tremendous, the little World Events are a lovely addition. It's just one of the greatest games of all time. Shame you didn't understand it...
I waited till Ragnarok, and holiday price cuts to play Valhalla. So far I've sunk about 450hrs into 3 playthroughs. Absolutely worth the money I paid, compared to the 20 hr 70$ games they release these days.
FACTS 💯
I’m at around 150 hours in the game. I have two territories left in England to do, and I haven’t touched the dlcs except the River Raids. I’m enjoying it, yes it can be a grind but I don’t think it was as bad as Odyssey.
One feature other than the raids I really enjoy is the fortress assaults, both are a big step up from the battle system in Odyssey.
Odyssey is good
@@rezalmao Odyssey was a fun game, it was just a grind and a bit tedious in a lot of areas is what I meant.
@@Jon0387 i find Valhalla grindy also you just notice it less (max lvl in Valhalla is 500+) because in valhalla you can be much lower lvl than enemies and still survive. In odyssey, if you try to fight 3 lvls above your own it becomes extremely difficult. Odyssey also takes alot of micromanaging at farming your resources and gold to upgrade your gear and boat. Valhalla just makes all that much smoother.
@@Knowledge.to_Come Currently running assassin/archer build in odyssey at lvl 33 and im beating lvl 50s asses.
Depends on what your doing i beat odyssey 100 percent base game and the dlcs done everything even got all the achievements for it and in total it took me just short of 200 hrs where as in valhalla I'm max lvl 537 I'm 148 hrs in and I still have to do the asgard storyline then theres still the 4 dlcs do after and I'm working on 100 percenting this game like I did with odyssey so I'm looking at anywhere inbetween a 200 or 300 hr playthrough
Easily my favourite game! I discovered brought this during the lockdown and it was 2 years of constant gaming. Very addictive
I sank way over 300 hours into this game. It is overstuffed with repetitive side stuff to cover a fairly uninteresting story. I played as female Eivor for the most part but swapped to male at the end, and the male character works so much better overall for the story and immersion. Why did I bother playing so much of it? Because I have OCD and can’t leave any quest marker unfinished. AC Odyssey was a much better and more fun game. This is a copy and paste grind fest in comparison. You gave a very balanced and accurate review, Dan.
Played odyssey 2500 hours....valhalla I gave up after 120 hours is too boring.
how is this game a copy paste grind but odyssey isnt? Odyssey has more randomised and less hand crafted content than this entry
Game journos love to always argue gamers only pick the male character because sexism and the female ones are better actors blah blah but in this case I'm sorry: Male Eivor's VA is leagues above Female Eivor's! We're talking Mass Effect 1 FemShep vs BroShep difference here (but gender reversed).
I still haven't beaten Orgin or Odyssey. Until I do I wont buy another Assassin's Creed Game. Unless its 80% off.
As a open world viking rpg its great.
What you have to look at, is the price conpared to the possible time you can spend on it.
I got it on sale and i paid roughly 10 US cents pr hour in my first playthrough.. compared to the last star wars game i played where the campaign cost me 4-5 US dollars an hour.
My point is, on sale you get GREAT value for the money with Valhalla., even if its not on sale you will be able to spend less than a dollar for each hour of the main story.. something alot of games cant match.
I feel robbed paying full price for a game with a 15 hour campaign..
Kind of funny I got this yesterday and today you come out with this XD
Giga Chad?? Hahaha.. Eivor is a 100% female name in Scandinavia. Historically as well. Female Eivor all the way baby! =)
You AC OG’s got the stiff end because they changed the way AC was. But us time period lovers and Warband / Crusader Kings roleplayers also got the stiff end because of how they chose to make armors. They had the chance to showcase amazing armors… but they gave us Red Dead Online bounty hunters with fiery eyepatches.
I got Valhalla with all dlc's on xmas sale. So far I spent 150h and haven't seen it all. It's really fun and breath taking beautiful. Would play ot again.
I just got the Complete edition for 36 bucks. Feels like a steal haha.
@@intermilan9731 if you get 100% of achievements itll only cost 10 cents an hour to play cause it can easily reach over 300 hours with all the dlc
I started playing the game last week ive been having fun. Grinded out exaliber right away and loved using the weapon
i grinded out Mjolnir lol i feel like thorr
I'm on hour 344. I have yet to play the last paid dlc and the 2 free dlcs. I like to wander around a complete stuff. To each their own. I'm glad it took long to complete.
Keep in mind that I haven't done a second playthrough like AC Origins or AC Odyssey.
Man I'm on odyssey right now on 160hrs ! I love it
344? Jesus how much time wasted, you could play or do anything else much better with all that time
@RxKing wasn't wasted if I enjoyed it. This was a course of 2 years. 1st year I went through a breakup so had more time on my hands lol
@@juanluishernandez3515 sorry to hear bro 💯
@@adamcooper1735 NPC
I had never played a game that had such a big investment in the development, that was so beautiful, with so many systems and yet, so utterly boring due to how repetitive and utterly inconsequential everything feels. Ironically I recently went back to playing the very first Assassin's Creed game and it actually felt so refreshing on it's simplicity and realistic representation of a medieval world.
This game took me 92 hours. I put it down once I got Thor’s Hammer. Eventually I’ll pick up up the DLC and continue. This game was a real time investment and, despite its pacing issues, it was a fun ride!
Recently did all the dlc besides the ragnarok expansion and it was for sure worth it. Was only $20 on Xbox for all dlc besides ragnarok
@@aidankenny2218 Now its $28 with all dlcs including ragnarok with the complete edition. Very tempted but feel I will just buy and leave it as I have so many gamepass games I want to play first.
if you go into the settings and change the damage ratio for enemies and yourself to Maximum, it feels more realistic and makes the pacing much more fluid
also gets rid of that rpg feeling. turn off numbers turn off helath bar.... classic
@@Growmetheus What does that setting do actually?
World events might be my favorite quest system in any game. It removes the endless backtracking of Origins.
@jcape147 I disagree with every word in this sentence.
@@darthsyphilis6008 I disagree with yours
People say that main missions are disconnected. I dont think so, your allies come to help u later in game and u can go to meet them in their regions after u become friends with them. Not every character has to stick around the whole game anyways for them being meaninfull.
I am thinking of going back to playing Valhalla my first Assassins creed game , I stopped playing once I reached The story with Kassandra , And now have the urg to pick female Eivor and get immersed again , nice review
Odyssey was just so well done. There was much more variety to the landscape, and ocean combat was awesome. I do love Valhalla, though. If you’re a 100% completion geek, it’s a solid game. I would give Odyssey a 10 and Valhalla a 9.
Giving Odyssey a 10/10 is absolute BLASPHEMY
@@YesNo-yl6ws As an RPG it's a fantastic game. You also have the option to be Assassin but not extensive like previous AC game and simple like Skyrim.
@@rifathrealm990 its not a 10 prob a 7 or 8 at most
@@YesNo-yl6ws it has an average rating of 9.2/10 if you add up all the websites who counted the number of reviews and accross 3 different website reviews steam ign and games radar have the game at a minimum of 9/10.
@@YesNo-yl6ws odyssey was a masterpiece
I'm amazed at how the best decision they made in making AC successful, has been to take the AC out of the games. They should really just give up on the "Assassins x Templar" "arching plot" and just focus on what they do well. creating experiences in historical settings, and just make a damn fun game. (I'm personally completely just done with the assassins and Templars, because ever-since Black Flag, that sub-plot has been slowly but surely declining to actual fun content.
Could not agree more Vahalla would have been Great as a historical Viking RPG. Take away the AC stuff and Norse stuff, which could be its own game and make a great Vinking game.
Even as someone that likes the old style AC games and thinks there's still a place for them I can't disagree with you. I don't have to have it an AC game just give me "mythical-historical simulator open world game" and I'd be perfectly happy.
After playing elden ring, I wanted something to play while waiting for the expansion, it's OK, I like the combat, but i kept hitting circle to dodge accidentally out of habit, and the parry timing is strange.
I'm curious about the current performance of this game on the original Xbox one. I can't seem to find much out that's not from back in 2020
Runs and looks incredibly well on the old Xbox one.
Just made it to the part where Sigurd and basim are held up in a fishing house, his personality pulled an almost 180
I enjoyed your outro. :)
My main issue with Valhalla is that I don’t care for the secondary characters. So the story feels long, I have not finished the game at all. In the very beginning just finished Mercia and decided it wasn’t worth my time. The main story is about me betraying Sigurd, yet I barely spend time with him. I don’t feel like I should even be loyal or feel bad about the choice. Is just the story l, I guess, is too slow.
I didn't finish the game either, I waited for a complete edition to come out, so I can do it all together
Is so funny how shit changes so quickly. So after leaving this comment I decided a couple of days later to try the game again. And so far I have enjoyed it because instead of trying to beat the game story fast, I just decided to immerse myself in the world and it’s people. I just finished East Anglia and started the crossover story between Cassandra and Eivor. Honestly it’s been great, not a dull moment so far. It takes a while for the story to start kicking in, but when it does, it actually gives me a good payoff. Still, the game is super long and the Order aspect of it… is honestly the least interesting part. I wouldn’t say that’s necessarily bad, is just not the most important story beat of the game.
I chose to let the animus decide and what is did was that “Eivor” was female but “Havi” was male. So you get to play with both
I love Valhalla one of my favorite games.. I loved making alliances, taking territories over and so on. I’m not one of the huge OG AC fans. I like Vikings and that time period I can care less about the ISU and all that jazz 🤷🏼♂️ 👍🏻👍🏻
I kind of missed the part where in Witcher 3 choices matter that much. Because they don't, especially compared to Witcher 1 and 2 where your choices had huge impact.
I commented quite a bit the last time you reviewed this, so won't repeat myself. This is a good review of the game. I learned quickly not to treat it as an AC game and smash around like a drunk Viking instead. Made it way more fun! Thanks Dan🙂
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I dont get how people complain when a game is over 100 hours if you buy it on special comes out to like 10 cents an hour to play, vs buying a game that only has 20 hours of stuff and paying over 5$ an hour for it. I find it hilarious actually
As someone that likes long games (hell I play Skyrim, Witcher 3, FO4 etc as my favorites) there is a point where if you don't keep pacing the content well and making things fresh it starts to wear out it's welcome, however. AC: Valhalla hits that point, and I think the primary reason is that unlike most other very large games you don't get much of a chance to go do another branch for long. The side content are just these tiny 3 minute long (no exaggeration look it up that's the average) things that there are a few of in each region.
If I need a break in Witcher 3 or Skyrim I can be like "okay let me go do this faction/questline for a while or wander over here and see what's going on." There isn't really that in AC: V. Some of the post launch content kiiiinda tried for more of that, but even then, you're in some way or another following the very disjointed main questline 90% of the time.
You can't say that the new Assassin's Creed model is here to stay when Assassin's Creed Mirage is taking cues from the older titles.
I think we'll have both in the future. Big, story driven, action adventure games as well as more focused stealth games.
@@Calladim I can see that. Maybe the larger open world titles every other year
@@brandonzimmerman1667 I think that'd be pretty perfect
I loved this game as a fuck around you're a Viking game when I was just relaxing after work, took months to actually beat it, cost me like 45 bucks thanks to Uplay + 😂😂
I really enjoy the game but there is a point when a game becomes to big that it over stays it's welcome especially when you have other games to play.
I love the game. Im taking my time, the graphics are awesome, exploring, discovering stuff, putting attention to the quest and the storyline and playing it in the hardest difficulty, im alreay at 100 hours and cant get enough
i started playing last week and I already put like 20 hours in lol, i havent played an AC game since syndicate and im actually really enjoying this one and jus soaking it in
I love the open world assassin's creeds can't wait for the next one
This game is the only ac game that I really loved!!. I approached it as viking rpg and fell in love with the world and characters. The overall feel of this game worked for me way more than the others. Combat improved, less loot was great. Music is wonderful. I even loved the puzzles. Loved figuring out how to get into all the locked houses even . I understand and appreciate all the negative criticism its not perfect but most of this game just hit right for me
That's how I approached Odyssey and I loved it. I just started Valhalla and your words have made me very optimistic.
I'm a completionist so i go after every marker on the map and do everything. I have about 80 hours into my game and ive fully explored about half the map, and im on chapter 9 of the main story. And power level 200 or so. Ill probably have 200+ hours into it when i finish. More if I buy the expansion.
I deliberately didn't finish the base game and left it for months, waiting for a complete edition to come out.
I suffer from map ocd myself
@@JoeSmith-mp2fn same, in AC odyssey i compulsively cleared out every “?” In the regions the main story sent me to everytime before doing the quests there and had to clear the map when I felt the story was 95% done lol
@@JoeSmith-mp2fn Me too, it was so fucking boring, but i just couldn't let those dots stay there.
🤔I’m 54 yrs old, my son told me to check out RDR2 my first PC game😂 I loved it, im done now, but im looking for a PC game like Red Dead Redemption 2🤔🤔🤔
You should play Red dead redemption(1), it's actually the continuation to red dead 2
@@theorjan1 do they have it for XBOX ONE ?
@@JerseyStyle7 I believe there is backwards compatibility, so you can play an xbox 360 copy on your xbox one👌You should look it up and make sure though before you buy it
@@theorjan1 I will check it out. See if I could do some research. Thank you.
I really enjoy it. One thing that bugs me are the roads. They have the strip of grass in the middle, and ruts on either side made by cart wheels. That only happened when cars replaced horse and carts 😂
There are carts that are pulled by 2 horses.
I just finished oddessy and now it was like to be continued in vahalla but oddessy looks like it was actually better
I almost platinum odyssey by one trophy left.after 200 hours of odyssey I completed the entire odyssey main story and all cultists defeated.
I still play it cause its a actually a good viking game and I like to call myself a god as eivor because I bought a good pack, went for my special abilities that i use, and I leveled up fast cause i bought a booster. Now im powerful
about the dlc the game and dlc are on sale for 25 dollars should i buy it ?
Once I gpt the Blazing Sword, I annihilated the Order and all of the Zealots in a couple of days. Getting the Blazing Sword was very annoying
Play it slow, and don't grind or be a completionist that just want all those cluster icon on the map dissapear by playing this game for like 6-8 hours in one sitting..
That's what i learnt from my rush first playthrough during the pandemic..
It was punishing
Currently playing it again, really taking it slow. it's been about four months and i barely made it to 50%
But just taking time to enjoy the scenery, complete just one or two quest per day, and try to immerse to the world, gotta say i kinda enjoyed it
Still, F Ubisoft for making so many ugly mythical gear rather than the more grounded one
Female Eivor is actually pretty fun because she sounds like she's from a completely different game most of the time. I like to lean into that with more fantasy looking weapons/armor/mounts.
She's a female Arnold Schwarzenegger and I can't get enough of her...
It's like I am playing a teen boy
I prefer men because female is too much LGBT
Let the Animus decide means female Eivor, male Odin.
Personally I enjoy the game for its gameplay and looks. I recently played the Witcher for the first time which was more amazing and it’s a masterpiece. Before the Witcher I thought ac Valhalla was amazing, but my opinion has been downgraded to say that Valhalla is good. Not great, not bad just good. It’s not awesome like the Witcher 3 but I still enjoy for what it is
i wish u had the option to be a viking to become an assassin that would give u different options on how to complete the story... trying to play like an assassin rn is painful at times at just 13h in
Change the diffulty maybe?
Just bought this game today , gonna start it tonight ! Any tips for first time playing assassins creed game ?
I’ve never played ac ever, I’m hardcore fifa player, got so sick of it tried odyssey and it’s unreal game
Out of playing all the AC rpg trilogy fully with about 100+ hrs in each of them dlc included, no question AC origins is the best of if the 3 and it’s the best AC Ubisoft had made since revelations hands down. Odyssey was fun just cause if the Demi god abilities I like how it really dove deep into the isu and with Valhalla I just appreciated how they connected all the AC games together, you see the crystal ball in Vinland arc that’s soon to be used by Conner in AC3 and you hear Ezios voice in the Odin visions. And most importantly some closure on what happened to Desmond now I can finally say after the whole thing with “AC died when Desmond died” has been officially over they can finally move on now and move onto live service title with AC infinite lol
Origins was very good it had a perfect balance of size, story and gameplay. Odyssey and Valhalla took the demi-god route, so their a little “easier”.
I like how origins forces you to do side quests just to keep up with the main quest lvl requirements. Valhalla really took it ouf of the park in terms of total size and content, but because of the fact they focused on Vikings, alot of the huge buildings and things of that sort from Odyssey and origins, we were left with more basic buildings that vikings built vs the impressive huge temples that egyptians built.
It makes sense though, valhalla is vikings living in the north hunter gatherers with not much time to build, vs egyptian farmers with the best weather requires to erect massive temples. Historical accuracy aside, valhalla is visually less appealing than Odyssey simply because ancient greece and the vikings had very very different living conditions.
went the piracy route just to try it out and even if this was given for free I wouldn't even bother playing this. took me 50+ hours for basically a 8-10 hour storyline. the only thing that kept me engange is what the hell is happening on the modern day. I am excited for Mirage since they are teasing it as a return to form for the series. Sank in 700+ hours in Odyssey testing out different paths thinking there would be different outcomes on the choices and it just felt flat. AC Origin was a perfect balance. I love the OG AC games, was skeptical when Origins was introduced but grown to like it, but after Odyssey I am passing up on AC games with this formula.
Played odyssey 2500 hours....valhalla I gave up after 120 hours is too boring.
Piracy don't have a complete edition version. So I bought it when I saw a discount.
Went after AC Valhalla again last week. Somewhere close to 60 hours......and just did one main quest. Been all over the place having a hella good time with it.
This is exactly the review I was looking for. I’m an “OG” AC game player and miss the old play style. I guess I will continue to wait until they make something similar again. Thanks for the review
AC Mirage has been said to do just that!
@@LucasMenzMusic doubt
So you like, Follow Guy,pocket Guy,kill Guy,pocket Guy.... Ok you OG AC gamer 🤣
@@patrikpetrucha5536 it’s what I enjoy 🤷🏻
@@patrikpetrucha5536 That wasn’t the gist of the game back then tho
I dont care about old assasin creed fans this game is one of the best open world games out as fan of anything viking related i had the time of my life on this game and new one is just going to be even better
Bought the disc on ps4. Got a digital ps5 lost the disc after doing about 40% but I bought the game again for 15 bucks. So now I'm back to going a viking
If you’ve got game pass, you are good to go. I might be the weird one here but all of the stuff that I didn’t like about early AC games seem to be gone from this one lol this is the first one that I’ve enjoyed this much. But then again, I’m much more casual and love an open world RPG. It took me 10 hours to get to the intro and 70 hours later. I am well less than halfway done. Haven’t gotten bored yet. The general consensus I got from the video was that this is kind of AC lite. I think that’s the word I would say as well. But it’s not even expensive if you have to buy it anymore and it’s fun.
What can I say, Odyssey was easy to level up fast, and even by taking out all the bosses. I’ve beaten it 3 times.
Is it perfect no but I get to play a viking in one of the craziest story I have ever herd so I just make my own shit up as I go
Brought day one ultimate edition on ps4 still playing but on ps5 now I love everything about it except the ultimate should have come with everything for the $150 price tag in Australia and I'm playing assassin's creed odyssey on PC love it too loads fun but the fucking sharks 🤣
The let animus decide option picks female for the england parts and male for the asgard parts.
Stopped at 60hrs.Hard between two full time job but I like Vikings era so I'm not deleting atm.
Over 120 hours in and still can’t finish it. Had its moments, but just couldn’t focus due to bloat. Might try it again one year. Good vid Dan!
Great review but some constructive critisism would be to have you try and keep the things containing spoilers to the end of your video, I was relaxing and didnt even get to pause before you had warned me and began to spoil part of the story
U r absolutely right bro this game is made for unemployed people like me😂😂😂
I am experiencing major buggy and clunky gameplay on my ps5. Anyone elms having this issue?
When respeccing, you can just choose the abilites you want to quickly use the points instead of doing all 200 points or whatever one by one.
If you want combat & content I say it's a solid game to get with it's dlc's, but if you a more classic AC game it's not really that.
Male eivor is a boss love him I picked kassandra though in odyssey
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I haven’t played assasins creed since black flag, but I actually fucked with valhalla heavy. i thought it was really good (until the very end because it got repetitive).
The Vikings setting is the best one they could’ve chose
155 Hours, the game feels kind of a chore to play, but it was a birthday present from my brother so I feel olbigated to finish what I started in October of 2020. I audibly said during the Isle of Skye questline "Are you fucking kidding me Ubisoft?! Why do I have to walk to five locations not near to fast travel points for this glorified fetch quest of a story arc?" Hopefully Siege of Paris is better.
I personally love it I have 50h and still love it it has some problems but is a fun game.. I wlll sink 100h on it... I still think origins is better in some things tho
Odyssey was my absolute favorite, if a bit repetitive. Valhalla fell flat for me, not sure why.
I recently bought ACV complete edition it was on sale 65% off so 51$ (tax included) no way in hell I'd spend 140$ but I couldn't pass it up I haven't played it yet as I was about to fall asleep in my chair..
I had a Excalibur and Thors Hammer I felt like a god while fighting
Default sex option runs with canon eivor im pretty sure... Also idk about your statement that the rpg style will stick especially since mirage was stated to return to previous games styles... Dont get me wrong itll probably have some rpg elements but unity was the 1st game with skills to a basic degree but no one considered it an rpg and i very much preferred the old style games and the last game i actually really liked was origins mostly because of it's really strong story and not absurd length (it couldve even been a tad longer as the ending felt rushed to me)... also just cos it made a billion i wouldnt grade that as a success element... The viking genre was a popular option that it failed to perfect imo, the story was pretty horrid and i had such high hopes but ive always been realistically critical of these games... Ive bought every special edition since 2 but doesnt mean i think theyre all perfect but this game is the 1st ive still not completed... By normality with all of them i finish the story very quickly after release and then do a 2nd thorough playthrough, this game i never finished and it only ever felt like a chore of a game... A real let down which i wished it wasnt and luckily the dawn of ragnarok dlc didnt interest me otherwise id be pissed about more dlc being charged for on top of the expensive edition i already ordered...
My fav games are 2, 4 and origins... Odyssey had a good story but again felt like a chore and the dialogue options are tedious when you essentially go through them all to finish a conversation and the story impact element just ruins any potential for a better tighter story for this series imo... I hope they change things otherwise theyll probably end up losing me as a long time fan and ritualistic special edition buyer which would make 11 year old me inside very sad 😭
They've also said Mirage is a one-off though and the next one after that (I think going under just the code title of Jade for now) is modern AC open world again.
@@ironwolf56 ummm, jade is a mobile game... Gameplay leaked 2 months ago or so, looks like the console games just lighter graphics. Mirage looks identical to origins mechanic/animation wise with some elements of the newer ones and since its a spin off game of a character from a game i didnt like it may be crap still.
@@KNINESVIDS My bad I messed it up but Infinity and Codename Red are supposed to be open world. I mixed up Red with Jade because Red is the supposedly asia setting I was thinking Jade... Asia... ya know.
@@ironwolf56 red is apparently japan i think, infinity they described as a hub/nexus. Then they showed off assassins creed nexus which was a vr thing with different assassins from the series so i dont know if that was infinity or if they just had a description crossover of names and such for extra confusion. 😂
Im guessing with red and hexe they may do something similar to what happened with rogue and unity, same year release but 1 for previous generation consoles and 1 for the new generation thatll (hopefully) be an overhaul of the engine like unity was... But they have been using snowdrop engine quite diversely with very different games too (rocksmith, the new avatar game and either division or ghost recon cant remember which) so maybe theyll abandon anvilnext or use both for different games... Ive no doubt they could upgrade anvil yet again but they have 3 internal branches of active game engines i believe atm so who knows.
I really love this game 😁 still haven’t even finished it yet.
It just dropped on Game Pass. I played it for two hours before I realized that I just didn’t care and uninstalled it.
I played like 40 hs and got bored.
Very repetitive and bloated. Also the combat is really bad. No weight at all.
One thing that i liked are the sidequests because there are not the typical ubisoft fetch quest. They tried to do original things with these.
I like the gamplay a lot more that oddysy.... But still think origins is the best
When it comes to voice acting out of other mediums of Viking shows and stuff I’ve seen female eivor sounds like what my brain sees Vikings sounding like
September 2023; I’m over 300 hours in. I’ve deliberately been dragging my feet to make this game last as long as possible. Huge mistake. I’ve finished Siege of Paris and Wrath of Druids, I’m almost maxed out at power level, and there’s still TONS of stuff all over the map I haven’t touched. Just play the main story and be done with it.
I had fun. I still am, 130 hours in. There are certainly painful parts, but I wouldnt say its any worse than other games I played in the past. I actually hated my time more in the MW2 2022 campaign. But its the little things like the unpatched bugs that have existed for 3 years or the stupid missions that make it hard to love. I just got my quiver and ration upgrades wiped and for some reason a bag of rations cost thousands of iron to upgrade, while im spending 500 iron an upgrade on my weapons to upgrade them. I have to hunt for iron, and that is incredibly boring and painful. There should be a patch to this shit by now. And for gods sake, why no ng+???
The next version of AC, you will be a tailor for the AC clan. Not one person killed in the whole game. You just get custom needles and thread to patch holes in outfits until you find the "perfect design". Occasionally, you have to settle squabbles with other tailors, fighting for the same contracts. By fighting, I mean, just some yelling and sabotage to thwart them from obtaining materials from the supply-chain of raw fabrication supplies. Using stealth to obtain that royal-silk, and swap it for purple stained burlap, from the traders.
Bonus, you get to play in all the maps from every past game, and hear the actual assassins' stories about all the assassination's he did. Maybe a couple side-quests with the weapons-expert, who makes the various assassin-specific weapons... I mean, weapon. Which is the exact same weapon in every game. But apparently it has to be "reinvented" every time. (Such a horrible concept for a "creed". DIY-Assassin, without an actual group or faction or order. Other than, by secrets, so secure, other assassins' don't even know about them, until they do!)
Other than black flag absolutely in my top three favorite
You should check out Dragon Ball Z Kakarot since that game is technically an RPG, I mean you can level up your characters, do side quests and explore the world as you play through the story, it does have a little bit of a JRPG feel to it as you can encounter random enemies as you explore the world then the game switches to an arena fighter type mode, and you can have up to two party members fight along side you
Small rpg elements but I wouldnt consider it a rpg game. You do not role play....no choices and the game plays out the same every time. So many games are labeled a rpg these days that I think ppl forget what really makes a game a rpg aka role playing game...and dbz is not one.
@@devinvez3869 under those rules, Zelda wouldn't be an rpg either
@@riftshredder5438 Zelda is a Sandbox open world game not an RPG.
@@devinvez3869 wtf is a role playing game then? Any game u can role play in damn near, u mean a game where u get to chose every little detail in, those are miniscule. Like elderscrolls or WoW? What else?
@@devinvez3869 so star wars, final fantasy and the Witcher aren't rpgs?
I heard ac vahalla used to have a lot of corrupted saves I had no issues with it on orgins or odyssey I even looked to make sure my saves weren’t corrupted in odyssey or orgins vahalla is the worst out of the 3 but odyssey was better people can argue all they want but I’m telling them now there wasting there time against me you won’t change my mind I’m too stubborn to think vahalla is better when it’s not true t7 pdm even thinks vahalla sucks
I bought this game and Elden Ring at the same time. I wish I wouldn’t have played ER first, played ACV for about 10 minutes, shutting it off because the graphics blew compared to ER.
Lol. It goes the other way tho. Graphics are great in ACV, the combat not that great. ER graphics are not that great, but combat is way better. :)
Assassin's creed valhalla 4 me feels lika more about parkour and fight whed swords so the making prince of persia again but Open world xD
Story wise it isn't the best but I really liked eivors storyline with Sigurd and I REALLY like the isu stuff but the gameplay is extremely well made in my opinion with weapon types combined with runes
Am I alone in thinking Wrath of Druids was way more interesting than Siege of Paris?
Bro i get 100 hours on assassins creed origin and i'm so tired to play assassins creed game againnn😭
Glad I got ac valhalla on sale for $19 & season pass for $19
I started this game in Dec 2020. I still haven't finished 😢I have kids, what can I do🤷🏼♂️
sell em