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I don’t understand how they took time away from franchise and took it a new direction with origins, sure the purest cried but the game was fantastic, odyssey was good but then they release a game fit for the ps3. I will never purchase any Ubisoft again unless it’s on sale and had a quality review from quality reviewers.
When it comes to the gender choice thing, to me discrimination is wrong no matter what. Ubisoft might think misandrists and discrimination against men is cool, but I don't. Valhalla is like the Amber heard of video games. All accusations and she said, he said, in order to justify discrimination against male fans for no reason at all.
No, I won't because assassin greed is the topic of the video. Do ur tax evasion somewhere else, makkabull
Ahhh… when a game looks like a chore.
I'll never understand RUclips channels that ask people to subscribe at the beginning of the video. If I was a new viewer of your content, why would I subscribe before seeing your content?
The thing I love about Valhalla is the amount of variation in the storylines. For example, there's the story about how you meet a naive boy-king who needs to toughen up and learn how to be a leader. Then there's the story where you meet an immature adolescent ruler who needs to learn how to take life seriously and command his people. And then there's the story where you meet an inexperienced young monarch who needs to learn how to be strong and run his kingdom. Radically different stuff!
Sarcasm at its best I hope
You got me XD
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@@David-ud9ir can no one have their own opinion
@@baronvonbaronoppenheimer the original comment literally reads like sarcasm. All 3 plots he described are so alike even I don't know if the OP was being serious or not lol
"It's fine, there's content here." -Assassin's Creed summarized.
More like - Every Ubisoft game summarized
Writer: So...how about this guy that thinks he' Roman...and he walks around in a Toga...and, uhhh, he wants to live with Vikings. And...uhhh, if you find him Roman things, he gives you stuff!
Ubisoft: We, absolutely, LOVE IT!!!! Put it in!
*new assassins creed
@@bulldawgslays3724 no the old games are bad too, 50% of the missions are tailing people talking, 40% are killing people in a camp without being detected, 10% is actually interesting gameplay
@@inanimatemist8610 ....also known as being an Assassin
I never understood the logic of a game in which you finish the game and discover the most powerful fighting tools (sword, armor, incantations, etc.) at the end of the game but the story is over, you have no enemies
Same could be said for the opposite, if you got all the best stuff at the start then looting and exploring would be pointless towards mid-late game
@@inova6165
definitely, but not according to my logic.
when you start a game you are sure at level 0 and all mvp are superior to you. to win land you have to know the land and for that you get xp and NOW ... let's play
@@PunkisDeadUareNext none of what you said made any sense at all, say it again but make sure it makes sense
@@inova6165
you start the game with a wooden sword (lower)
your enemy has an iron sword. (top)
you explore the territory, find out the history you are in and draw the conclusion that somewhere (mythologically speaking) there is a sword that has magical or mystical powers and you go in search of the myth.
discover that the myth is true and discover the mythological sword.
with this you can give up the wooden sword and equip yourself with the mythological sword which is obviously superior to the iron sword and with this the story of the game is not important as the exploration is important.
now you can start the game knowing that you have no superior enemy and that is a pleasure to play.
the games are designed in reverse and the enemy is an effort to eliminate them and the price for their elimination is something you cannot enjoy because those enemies no longer exist
it's even simpler when I come home from work, my mind is full of idiotiques and the games become difficult to play after an age and I just want to sit and relax exploring a game, I'm only referring to the kind of open world games.
ps
I don't understand why some people play difficult games that they can't finish. your life is and happens right here and right now not in games (don't waste your time with games to prove something useless to someone)
@@PunkisDeadUareNext that was an over explanation but sure either way people play hard games to challenge themselves like how people choose to learn things new to them, you assuming they do it to prove to other people they can is silly because no one ever said that they’re doing it for anyone else but themselves, it sounds to me like you don’t enjoy open world games but you’re forcing yourself to play through them because everyone else is playing them
I remember playing this and enjoying it until it got to the point where I was doing the same thing over and over when taking territory. Then I just wanted to grind the game just to see the ending which sucked. At this point the only good thing about these new assassins creed games is the history you learn
Sums it up
I was cool exploring. Until I realized there was more exploring after you drink something to trip balls. I never said nope I'm not doing any of this before in a game
Isn't that how every assassin's Creed game is, you find people you kill people. Plus story line, stfu. 😂😂😂
@@YZBRO_KillMattic but the story sucks if it was good i wouldnt mind lol
@@YZBRO_KillMattic it's how you do it..yeah you can show up to a party or you can Show up to a party you know?
Plus the game play didn't match the story, a leader of a people who is never there and do sh.t that could unalive her leaving her people screwed lol. Plus like the assassin's where there just to get fat,
Oh yes please leave your people months on end to find a old trap ridden duplicated hidden assassin's hq. I would help but it's impossible to read anywhere but here with your women..and food..beer
My AC thoughts: my biggest disappointment with Valhalla was how unrealistic it was. I thought this game was going to be one of the best medieval games in a long time (the last time AC had a medieval era setting was the first game). Even with a "Viking fantasy", they could have done so much to keep it grounded and accurate to the time period. Instead, we got plate armor, furs and leathers, huge axes, cities out of place and historical figures that made no sense. It took them until the Discovery Tour mode to give us an accurate Norse/Danish maille and tunic set! And don't even get me started on how long it took them to add correctly scaled one handed swords...
That's my biggest gripe. With how much Ubisoft bragged about their historical accuracy for years, it was a real kick in the gonads.
Ubisoft took AC in a wacky direction with Origins and it's only gotten worse. The historical realism is completely gone, the animus logic is completely broken, and the label of "Assassin's Creed" is holding these games back at this point because those elements feel tacky and shoehorned when they bother to address them. It's frustrating seeing other studios like Sucker Punch do the AC formula way better while Ubisoft just meanders around transforming Assassin's Creed into whatever game trend is hot in the market at that moment.
@@unc54 if they just said “damn AC Unity and Syndicate didn’t perform like we want, let’s start a new IP” then went from there, that would have been better at this point tbh. Majority fans don’t want this new RPG style for an AC game. Weather someone likes it or not, it’s a big difference from the old formula. Crazy thing is Unity was actually decent once they finished updating, but because they rushed the game surprise surprise it came out like a buggy mess and practically killed the OG AC style right there, syndicate was an attempt but felt almost half hearted
@@BonzerMrT majority fans lmfao.
Valhalla is their second most successful launch.
stop trying to cope.
players who don't enjoy it are a minority
The crossbow was removed for historical accuracy…
Setting aside the Gods and mythical creatures, Eivor regularly knocks the heads clean off dudes. Because it looks cool i guess. So sneaky, much assassin.
@@waynewayne8419 majority of fans of the franchise as a whole. Just because a game is sold well doesnt give it a fanbase. If anything it shows how Ubi has begun appealing to the lowest common denominator among us. A lot of us wanted to get closure on Juno, and Minerva, and subject 17. Instead, they farted it out in a preorder bonus comic book so that they could reboot it and ripoff the witcher 3, which im sure you just love.
Personally, I love AC Valhalla. It suits my casual and relaxed play style perfectly. I can spend my time exploring and finding treasures or if I want more action I can do raids or jump into one of the many quests that I have ongoing. So much to do, never bored. I can see why some people don't like it to but for me, who likes to spend a lot of time in one game at a time only, its great!
Valhalla felt more like Origins. Which felt more grounded. Odyssey went a bit too far.
Same
I love Valhalla, one of my favorite games. 👍🏻👍🏻
no offense lauren, but you just fail to see what makes a great game and what makes a trash game like valhalla. your standards are terrifically low if you enjoy this lackluster
@@wkadalie I don't know if Valhalla with its fantastical creatures and Asgard can be called grounded lol
This game was genuinely exhausting. Valhalla put the final nail in the coffin for me. as I huge AC fan since AC2 I honestly couldn’t care less about the series anymore
You know what, Valhalla did focus on the AC stuff
@@mrmeme2917 compared to Odyssey, yeah lmao, much more based on how the assassins are working
that's okay, but don't let it being "rpg" ruin that they had Valhalla as a bad game, but the last two are great
@@devanmcghee6123 I find Valhalla terrible. But that’s subjective and Some may love it. I hated odyssey more. Origins was great
@@gleam6370 why hate odyssey more? Most people (including Luke) find the game good and much better. I myself like it a lot better and think it's a better game overall
I can agree with that, despite the change in style, i loved Origin's and Odyssey before Valhalla but something about Valhalla pushed me away after playing it for a bit, it didn't grab me like the other 2 in the new RPG trilogy :)
Same, Valhalla looked interesting to me & seemed to bring back ac elements from the older games so I couldn’t understand why people didn’t like it. But then I finally played it & I can see why now. It just didn’t click with me. The world was huge but it was just boring and the combat didn’t do it for me. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but AC Odyssey is a better game than Valhalla, and that game is hated the most.
@@johnxiong6983 agreed
Bayek is one of my favorite main characters in the AC franchise, close up their with Ezio
I don't get it. Odyssey was fantastic drew me in the whole time. Valhalla just pushed us out. It felt like a huge list of chores to do instead of playing a game.
Same!
So glad to hear you say that about Syndicate. It's in my opinion the most underrated gameworld ever crafted. It's so dense and alive and such fun to traverse. Absolutely adore that game.
It's 30fps so unplayable on xbox
Honestly, I hated it.
@@geert574I love when people say 30fps is unplayable because I don't mind it at all
Honestly it was my way into the franchise properly, and it really is underrated. I absolutely love it. Pretty sure I always will.
@@theminecommanders8013 Kids today don't know the struggle of having to play something at 10 fps because your PC just can't handle any more. I finished entire games like that in my youth. 30fps is perfectly okay. Could it be better? sure. But "unplayable"? You don't even know what that word means if you call 30fps "unplayable".
Ok here is the reason why I still like playing Valhalla even 40 hours in. It is a game that i call “RUclips games” which is a phrase i like to use when describing games that have repetitive gameplay that is fun for mindless entertainment that you can just listen to some RUclips, music, or podcasts and just chill. I actually found this game pretty conducive to my mental health and allows me to just chill out after work just to do something interesting for a little bit while also not wanting to focus on a really intense and engaging story. Once im done fucking around ill play the story and of course im noticing flaws such as this being the third time in a mission where i throw a drunk person in cold water to “sober” them up and get information from them. As funny as i found it the first two times it was old fast . Also its a pretty looking game and something about the environment of Saxon England is just cool.
@@blandbara7981 How can you sound so salty about someone having a different opinion..? I also like the game but I can mostly understand and more importantly accept a different opinion. Wether you like a game or not is obviously highly subjective and therfore you will find various opinions. Also how did he not "understand" how some things work? You could not be more unspecific with your "criticism". But maybe you are the one that has it all figured out (besides handling a different view) and can truly understand the game. :)
@@blandbara7981
If having it figured out means being a manchild who can't accept other people's opinion then yeah good job with that 💀
@@Allschmoi NERD!
This is what I was just telling a buddy of mine recently about AC since like Syndicate/Unity. If I have a couple hours to kill, like waiting to meet up with someone while out in town or waiting for a flight, I can just play AC on my steam deck and not get super engaged in the story and just fuck off for a couple hours.
I agree with everything you said no cap
I am playing again after a break, and to be honest am loving it. I find the way to best enjoy ac games is as a history simulator, with stuff to do inside it. I’m really loving discovering their recreation of an important part of English history.
yeah in general i enjoy new era of ac (origins/odyssey/valhalla), they are radically different compared to ezio trilogy for sure, but they are not necessarily bad. I enjoyed ezio trilogy the most ofc but i dont mind exploration and combat of new era ac games, it depends on personal taste. I still see bazillion of " *insert any older ac game here* was so much better", like i get it, you dont like new assassins creed games, thats totally fine, but please why are you still here then?
Though i must say that valhalla has a bit too much of grindy content, i finished all three games 100% and valhalla is the longest, i believe it took me like 50hours to finish origins, 80hours odyssey and im currently at 110h in valhalla at ~77% of total completion. I dont mind the grind but this is getting a bit too much, i recon i should be able to 100% it in ~160H or so. And so far i find valhalla's story to be on the weaker side, there are couple very good story arcs but i think that there is not enough of Eivor's own character development, in fact there is barely anything about Eivor, the biggest part of the story is someone's else story not yours. So yeah in general i think ac valhalla is decent game but comparing new generation of assassins creed i find it the weakest.
I’m enjoying it as well. I also took a break after launch and came back to it after some of the garbage releases of 2022 and maybe I have a case of “the grass is always greener on the other side” but it’s not bad. I think it’s a game that benefits from your own interest in the genre (meaning Viking History not other AC games) and a willingness to experiment with all the games offerings. For a game with little stealth I choose to find stealth moments. Combat getting boring…switch your weapons out, theres like 100 options there.
Yeah the problem is I played God of War. After GoW and Ragnarok, I tried Valhalla and got bored by how “by the book” all the plot threads are. I was super disappointed.
See that's the problem. You're getting a new entry for the Assassin's Creed franchise, and the "only way to enjoy it" is seeing it as *NOT an Assassin's Creed game.* That says a lot, and it's sad.
And hey, that's awesome. I'm glad people enjoy it, even if having to look at it a different way, as it's clearly something that the developers worked incredibly hard on. It's just sad that there was a franchise everyone loved, and Ubi execs are using the name to sell games that are nothing like the actual franchise. They should go back to stealth and parkour mechanics for Assassin's Creed and just make an entirely new franchise for whatever it is they're putting out these days. They likely won't, though, because money. Hopefully Mirage is actually parkour and stealth, but as Luke said, they've told us they were bringing back elements before (in this game, in fact) and they just threw them in haphazardly. Waiting with baited breathe, yet again, I guess 🤣
The most off putting thing for me about valhalla is the lack of iconic historic locations. There are a couple of them but they just felt so underwhelming, objects, vegetation and buildings throughout the world just felt like they were copy pasted
Exactly. Oddysey wasn't a peak game either but the locations and the world in general just made me go further. Instead in Valhalla it's like I'm in a fictional world. Tbh the viking setting was not very generous
@@GodOfWar05100 yeh odyssey was way more fun to explore
its a shame as odyssey blew that out of the water
@@theoutsiderjess1869
Yes
@@GodOfWar05100 Fr, Valhalla makes you remember that you're playing a video game
20:33 the thing is, naval combat between these types of cultures was largely just boarding. i dont think there was alot of firing of projectiles between ships (especially not with respect to damaging the ship), maybe javelins, but thats short range... so it would just be an on boat, fighting game, still.
I dunno. I liked my time with Valhalla. Really enjoyed raiding and playing as a Viking. 😊
Yeah raiding. I enjoyed going in by myself, slaughtering everyone then calling in my crew to open doors and chests. River travel is tedious and not any fun whatsoever.
Same and I grew up playing older ac too. Some people just can't adapt. Instead they find flaws in the game like it's a big deal. What games doesn't have its flaws? Idk that just my opinion. Plus I'm huge Norse mythology and viking nerd so I guess I'm alittle bias.
@@minbari73 kinda ruins my viking experience when you can't kill a priest or a civilian every once in awhile without desyncrhonization. Cmon I'm pagan I should be able to kill some priest in the game without repercussions.
@@NordicJarl27 You know what I think it is... The early AC games promised to be something and expectations were met or were exceeded... The later games just seem to disappoint players because they aren't bad games... In some aspects they're great, but they have the potential to be something so much more but never reach that because of reasons that are clearly bad business decisions. The modern day storyline could have always led to something really great... But ubisoft wanted the games to be super accessible to new players and so they shoved the modern day plot as far as possible.
the devs just forgot to name it Vikings creed
I’ve beaten Skyrim over 20x and every single time I start a new file I can’t wait to explore… even if I’ve already seen the location before.. the awesome items you can find make exploration so much fun even if you’ve done it a bunch of times.. Valhalla is just a fat nothing burger with the AC game title… Odyssey is one the best games I’ve ever played, why are they doing this??
I think odyssey looks like a really cool setting and I want to play it but my friend said the game was pretty bad
@@Garlix dont listen to them
Just play the game and forget the title, play it as a spartan mercenary in open world greece with rpg mechanics
If oddysey wasnt called assassins creed, it would be a much more appreciated game.
@@kevinsarulis4067 odyssey was great
It’s just preference but 20x you needa chill
I totally agree with you on the lack of big cities! That is one of my main compaints about the current state of the franchise, in addition to the microtransactions, heavy reliance on level gating and the insane amounts of filler.
To be fair cities weren’t any bigger during AC 1-Revelations era.However they were much more denser.
Alexandria and Athens for example are actually bigger than
Damascus,Jerusalem,Acre,Florence and Venice area wise.
They just have less buildings and wider roads than early AC games that it makes parkour traversal really difficult across the city.
Only cities that i consider big in the franchise are probably London and Paris.Which are still tiny by today’s standards,just bigger than other AC cities.
I don't understand, what do you expect from 9th century England? The fucking Big Ben in Lunden?
? Microtransacftiom is optional lmao
@@aspirewot8408keep coping lol, they shouldn’t even be here to begin with
@@acoolcracker but who cares? if you don't want to pay for microtransactions, don't. the gear isn't any better than the stuff you get in the base game lol
I've never bought any of that stuff in any of the AC games that contain it and didn't miss a thing. because I play the games for world exploration.
Just completed the game today. Yes I know I'm late. TBH apart from the "Assassin's" not in the game anymore controversy I pretty much liked the story. A Viking coming with his clan to settle in England, then met a lot of people and made them lords in their respective regions. Yes it was a bit repetitive but some characters stood out like Oswald, Hunwald. Yes King Alfred being the Father of the Order was predictable but the confrontation was extremely anticlimactic. The actors of Male Eivor and Sigurd were great, and their dynamic was beautiful too. Overall, if this was a different title without the Assassin's Creed banner, it would have lived up to its name.
I also loved it, of course with many flaws, but overall the senation I get from the game is very good, the Sigurd story and the isu revelations. I don't know why so much hate
Nah the story sucked too. Please don't defend this bad game
@@student40008 nah the main story was good
@Joao Ramos it really wasn't. The dlc for example are all just side quest. And the last free dlc which ended the game was very lackluster.
@@student40008 that's dlc, that's just ubisoft being money grabbing assholes as always. I'm talking about the main story in the game, about basim, eivor, sigurd and all the sages. The interconnections were very well made
It is also kind of sad to think that with games like this, Valhalla specifically for example, if the amount of work that went into making the land and trying to fill it out, if they were to cut out 30 percent of that space. Imagine how that 30% of work could've helped bring more life into what they kept in the game. I know game design isn't easy. We are lucky anything gets made to any level of completion or polish. But Valhalla seems like they had the time to create so much for once and just went crazy with content for content's sake. It is important for games to be "full" but not overstay their welcome.
Though even after saying this, at least Valhalla is a game where when you have a desire to act sort of like a Viking, you have a good possibility of experiencing a quest or collecting an item you haven't seen yet. Assuming you haven't completed the entire game already.
Y'all crack me up the world is full of shit to do. It's teaming with life
Tbf it's not like Assassin's Creed has ever been Elden Ring or anything. Even as far back as AC2 the games side content was incredibly repetitive and offered little more than more of what you were doing in the main story
@@ArcAngle1117 not like this
@@joshuareynolds23 world is full of shit to do? alright lets see. clear every dot on ur map ok nice raid every camp same thing over and over again slightly different layout. get drunk and rap battles. and kill zealots? im not counting story as world shit so we got like 4 different things to do !! dang so much shit to do
@@_whitewizard about ten dozen or, so unique quests that have you doing all manor of strange and, weird tasks utilizing essentially every different mechanic. Unique platforming challenges, cryptic mushroom trip puzzles that task you with observing the scene before you to figure out what to do. Fighting high level difficult enemies including but not limited to beasts of every variety available in the game, three relatively difficult battles with high level enemies. Yes collectables ,as there is in every single open world game on the market, you can't really pretend that's an issue unless you have that same issue with every single open world game. We also have all the stuff of both the old and, the new bridging the gap between the two different eras of Assassin's Creed. And, bringing the isu back to the forefront of the modern day story. It's meant to be played in chapters and, digested over the course of some time telling a pretty awesome story.
The first time I played AC Valhalla I was intrigued by the settlement system. Having an upgradable home base can be really fun in games, I'm into that shit. So I looked up a wiki map with all the raid locations on it, and proceeded to do all of them in order to fully upgrade to a level 6 settlement. After I beat all the raids, I found I had just enough materials to get almost to level 6 but not quite, it seemed like I needed one more raid. I went crazy thinking I missed one, spent extra time circling back to ALL of the raid locations double checking I completed them. I come to find out, the last raid to get the materials is locked until the end of the game... I was so PISSED. Why would you do this to me ubisoft??
I think Ubisoft has a jackasses department to merge this type of bull**t stuff in way long games. It is probably a part of trial quests to test psychological health of loyal AC players. They think like: How much we can go let’s see..
Fair critique. Wtf is the point of not having the best settlement during the time you're actually playing?😂
It's crazy how devs get so far from what makes any sense.
I'm sry for your loss. 🌹
you know you are getting the supplies as you play the story as well :)
That happens A LOT
You try getting a door open or item and it's locked for a quest and you have no idea unless you look it up
@@goose33 or you read the note literally next to a fucking chest
I think what you’re looking for in difficulty is really just engagement. You mentioned a lack of enemy types. It just seems to me like the problem is just how they’ve over tuned the player giving them all of these options while keeping the enemies at the same
I really like Origins. It has the open world rpg elements but Instill feel like an assassin stealthily moving around the world taking out targets. I thought it was a good mesh of old and new. I'm playing it right now on Game Pass.
Yo I literally just got done watching your 3hr video on Valhalla, to find out 3 hours ago you released this 😂
I may be weird but i kinda love when the map marks every little thing because sometimes open world exploration is too tedious as I find myself getting lost, accidentally looking in the same place and aimlessly walking around and wasting time when all I want is to get that collectable and continue
You will go to jail
that happens in bad open world games, in good ones it doesnt happen
@Jeanssj98 it happened a lot in rdr2 and that is a masterpiece
@@Vaas-v1x in red dead 2 the exploration is way better than in any ac game
@@Jeanssj98bro rdr2 is soo boring and trash
My AC thoughts: People meme on the Ubisoft formula and the handholding and say "it's just a checklist of things to do" and I can't disagree, but I actually don't mind that, as long as I enjoy the gameplay and get a story that grabs me. Valhalla never really did, except for very brief moments. I adored Odyssey and Kassandra, Valhalla and Eivor mostly left me cold. I don't know how much of that is about the quality of the storytelling or my personal tastes, but to me Odyssey felt like an epic adventure while Valhalla just seemed like a bland Viking simulator.
Yeee
You're a Kassandra simp.
Valhalla has a pretty good story, the problem is it is WAYYYYYY too long so you lose focus at some point. Odyssey's main story, if you ignored most side-quests and side content, was pretty nicely paced. What's so weird is for Valhalla they explicitly said they decided to lose the side quests to not disrupt the flow of the story but somehow it feels like they compensated by making the story unecessarily way longer... And imo the whole returning to your village thing made it feel too repetitive. The game being ridiculously easy because of being showered in XP also make it repetitive...
I think about going back to finish this game like once a month and when I do I almost always regret it and end up dropping it again within an hour. It’s a beautiful game but it’s just such a damn chore to play. I hate feeling like I wasted money by not finishing a game but I just can’t force myself to do it. I’m downloading AC Odyssey now since I want to know what it’s like to enjoy an AC game.
I remember that when I first played Odyssey, I was like "What an amazing game!". Then after replaying some of the older ACs like Syndicate and Unity I said to myself that I miss those smaller worlds and being an actual assassin and that looking back, Odyssey was too big and too much "fantastical" things happened there in comparison to older ACs. Then I decided to replay Odyssey and from the first minutes I reminded myself how awesome this game is. Sure, I still think they went a bit too heavy on this magical stuff like some abilities or fighting with Minotaur and such but I couldn't help but love it, especially since I'm a huge Greek mythology lover. When Odyssey feels too big or too repetitive after some years, jumping back to it just feels so great. The world is gorgeous, the gameplay is fun and the atmosphere... Oh man. Odyssey especially after playing Valhalla is like eating a delicious pizza after starving for days.
I'm pretty sure this game was ubisoft seeing how much "content" they could throw in while being as lazy and quick to push it out as possible. IMO, origins was the perfect size open world, with the perfect amount of side content. Yes a lot of it was meaningless crap, and it would've been way better with more thought out stories, but still wasn't nearly as overwhelming as odyssey or valhalla
The length and content density of Origins with Odyssey-like side quests would have been awesome.
Completely agree. Origins should have been a "one and done" with the deep RPG mechanics and combat and powers and stuff.
This guy truly _gets_ it.
Ubisoft, single-handedly, is responsible for the rise of the 'Lite' Services.
Games with, like the barest minimum required to be, legally recognized, as a 'videogame' and then immediately try and sell a million copies.
Lowest investment attempting the highest return.
Origins is my favorite of the three but I didn't like Odyssey at all
@@Ancor_Vantian I've been a fan since Ac2 came out. Seeing the steady decline in quality versus the jam packed amount of meaningless content threw me away from the series for a few games. Origins was my first time back since black flag and it 100% reinvigorated my love for the series. But its sad to see less and less care put in, in favor for quick sales
Ive decided to quit literally 110 hours in. I've had family members get married and pass away in the time since I started this god forsaken video game that won't end
I quit Odyssey after 35 hours "twice" because I really want to give this game a try but I gave up after I realized this game is so boring. Like I just want to progress the main story but after the game force me to kill 9-12 member of the cult to progress I knew this game is a waste of time and really angry with it. I hate Ubisoft design ever since and never touch anything they make again
It ends, you have to ignore everything put there to distract you though. Just when you think it will end they will have another prototype King for you to have a chat with, but trust me, it does end and it is worthwhile getting there, even if it is just to say "thank fuck that's over".
So you got your money's worth
@@YungSavage203so his money was worth shit
There is a reason why there are no "big" cities its because there were no "big" cities in this region at this time and Naval fighting makes no sense in this setting too.
Yeah he is stupid for that opinion. How could there be big buildings at that time? So stupid.
His point is that big cities are fun to explore. Ubi chose to set the game in that time period and location. It is their duty to make a fun game.
I honestly know I'm in the minority but I actually enjoyed the game. I understand I'm more of a casual player so I wasn't really in a rush to finish this game which is where I think most of the critiques come from. If you play this game for too long without taking any breaks you start to see the cracks & the repetitiveness, which, by the end, were even affecting me
Game just awesome man. From story to map, from combat to music. Now they circle jerking Ac Unity, Syndicate... But all of them controls just sucks, combat boring and repetitive, bugs all over the place. Valhalla better than all area. People rushing the game and coming they said bloated, repetitive. I never felt that way, this is the least repetitive open world game i've ever played. This game like a tv show. If you trying to finish all Lost-Game of Thrones-Breaking Bad episodes in one day of course you hate it. But normal people don't do that, they finish two months like that. Valhalla structurally look like Game of Thrones.
@@el-tahiribn-ielhad9394 yeah it's pretty clear Ubisoft designed the game so you would play it over a long period of time and keep coming back. Plus the argument about there being too many dots on the map is not that solid, because you can simply turn that off by choosing a different setting for exploration. And I agree, it's interesting to see people talk fondly about Assassin's Creed Unity when it was so heavily criticised when it came out, it feels like people are never happy with this franchise
You are in the majority. It's just some long time fans have some have frustrations with the game since it's diverged so far from the original games.
I've played the game for 8 hours to see the cracks. Worst combat in series. Non functional stealth, worst parkour, boring story and characters.
@@teateekanee8576 stealth kills take like a whole 10 seconds to grab one guy lay him on his back and then full ranged extending ur hand back and then stabbing down in his throat okay nice first guard killed on to the... next- fk it just go loud melee and aimbot everyone with a bow. dont even know why they bothered with stealth in this game.
I love Valhalla! It convinced me to get back into Skyrim by being so bad!
Valhalla and skyrim is like the mcdonalds at home meme
I've only played black flag and Origins. Both of them appear to be slightly different from the original formula, but for me they were just great, especially the first one. I mean, I really enjoyed those navy combats and the environment. With Origins I had the best experience as I enjoyed very much the sensation of really being in Egypt, beautiful.
I just installed Black Flag again + Rogue... Those are great and fun games ;)
I must say I like all the new AC games - Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla. They all have something interesting to offer.
Yea? I loved all the previous games but Valhalla is just not a great game the story was boring. The quests repetitive, zero exploration needed in a giant world. The dlcs have just been reskins and recycled quests. It’s literally just origins with less reasons to explore and they literally hold your hand like you’re 3 years old. It’s really a shame they had a chance to make this game something great. They wanted to make their own Witcher/god of war game and failed then made people pay money for recycled trash dlcs. Yuck.
@@OhHesCracked it always comes down to one thing, in these open world RPGs - do you like the core game loops? And I liked them enough to keep playing, even though yes, the newer titles are way bloated.
Origins imo is the best one
@@Juju-cm7ge Indeed. Origins is flawless and has smooth and fun gameplay. I can't help but list the flaws and bugs in both Odyssey and Valhalla..
You need to leave
30:00 I think the reason for the freerunning downgrade is some system has to be built in to climb up and down every object in the world, this was probably done more manually in the older AC games with smaller maps, then some automation was introduced for Origins and Odyssey with likely manual adjustments, and then Valhalla was so over-sized they probably went full automation, hence the downgrade.
I remember being so hyped for this game and everything when the cinematic trailer dropped
Then I played the game, had several crashes and ended up having it become by far my least favorite assassins creed game. Was absolutely disappointed by the story and technical performance at launch, absolutely ridiculous. I literally forced myself to finish the game
Play it now bug fixes and everything it’s good af
@@qkkeng4e573 nope the game is still mediocre, don't lie
@@mihaimercenarul7467 ur opinion for me it’s a good game
I wanted to love this game until the 200th hour, but..started with Unity again
I played all weekend and am having a pretty good time with it. Male Eivor is a pretty cool guy.
Yh he is pretty cool. Shame ubisoft force the terribly acted female eivor as canon, and even leave stupid parts in the game where your referred to as a female, even if your playing as a man. Stupid company is pathetic.
@@chrismoore5333 hate women?
@@shouldfindaname5433 nope. But you can try 2 gaslight me if your really that weak.
@@chrismoore5333 hate women?
I really love AC Valhalla as much as I love Origins and Mirage but one thing I learned about valhalla is, almost all of the side quests are not really related to eivor as he's just randomly encountering people and solve their issues. Unlike Bayek, the side quests really matters to what he is right now and how it helped his character development. IMO.
They've either got to return to traditional grassroots AC, or double-down on an Origins/quasi-Odyssey experience. Most of it comes down to the era/time period Ubi choose as the next title card for the series, but a major overhaul in EVERY category MUST be in order. Rift is just a joke to me.
As for potential settings, I'm really hoping for a game either set at the collapse of the Second Triumvirate/fall of the Roman Republic, or in India.
Hey Luke, thanks for the video. I'm a game animator in the game industry. I think for Valhalla, Odyssey and Origins, the decision to "get rid" of many of the free run animations and systems just aligned with the new creative vision for the games. As you said at the begining of your video, AC games are now more focused on traversing wide open, mostly flat landscapes with the occasional climbing - as opposed to traversing dense, packed with roof tops cities. Even though they "already had" this great free run system and, animation bank, I think it simply didn't fit the design of the new AC games. Therefore this aspect was simplified- and other aspects (such as combat) expanded. This is only my guessing from my knowledge so far in the industry, and what I could hear there and there.
They changed it because they wanted to? That's the type of stuff you only piece together after years of experience in the game industry such as yourself. Thanks for sharing!
I feel like people didn't give Valhalla a chance at first because it had the "Assassins Creed" Title on it. It felt more like its own 'Rpg Viking Styled Game' which actually works pretty well, only if it wasn't put onto the ac series, but as its own thing. In my opinion I would name it one of the best rpg open world games you could play, it also being affordable is a plus and a bonus with the amount of content put into the game with hundereds and hundereds of hours of gameplay with all styles of missions. (don't say "there's too much content, it makes the game boring." cause you may forget about bg3, rdr2 and witcher 3, people just try finding excuses to say the game is bad, but rlly it's perfect, maybe its just not YOUR cup of tea) I believe people NOW give the chance to play the game and enjoy its rpg viking 'non stealth' gameplay and forget that it's part of ac and play it as if it is it's own thing.
I've said it once and I shall say it again, Bayek deserved a trilogy. I loved Bayek and origins so freaking much. I would paid for all 3 if they had my Boi Bayek. They did him kinda dirty. But I might be alone on that
Yes I would have more Bayek, I loved the setting.
I got to the end of Origins and genuinely thought they'd set it up for a sequel, and it just never happened, much disappointment
Origins has quickly overtake Syndicate and Brotherhood as my favorites. Bayek is a great character and while there's alot of desert and uninhabited land, I actually really enjoyed exploring Egypt, especially at night. (Still haven't played Black Flag yet, but it's on my radar. The pirate stuff look cool).
@@Pooky1991 Brotherhood? just play it again man, you'll get the feel of being an assassin, again. nothing can beat that. I just started playing it again, today, and I'm blown away, again XD
@@rijulchhabra1725 one thing about Brotherhood I wish would have become a regular mechanic was training and adding new assassin's. It's probably my favorite mechanic in all the games and I wish it was fleshed out more. Saving and adding new people to your assassin's guild and micromanaging them by sending some out on missions until they are full fledged assassin's and receiving great loot if a job is a success.
I personally believe, gameplay-wise, AC Syndicate was the best gameplay experience in the franchise. It was smooth, fast-paced in combat and really made combat a viable and somewhat balanced option not really seen in previous AC games. Also, IT DIDN'T DO AWAY WITH THE ASSASSIN ELEMENTS.
I hated the full revamp of AC with Origins and its only been diminishing since with each game after.
The combat was cartoonish
hmm interesting. gameplay-wise, ac syndicate was average for me. i dislike how the game holds your hand while free-running; not being able to do risky jumps and hoping to catch the ledge to save your skin removed the thrill for me.
the combat, however... i don't really know how to feel about it. if anything, you're pretty much just button-mashing.
Trash the best AC smooth fast paced in combat was Unity , but sad the story was trash , I could imagine ezio story with unity combat uff dream assassin creed
combat is the worse in this game, button mash 20 stabs to kill a single enemy
No way! 🤣🤣🤣
after playing AC Odyssey i don´t know how is it that ac valhalla a newer game looks worst it feels like a lazy attempt, Odyssey is superior in many ways. I was always under the impression that a newer game should feel and be better on every aspect but valhalla proved me wrong.
The only reason I kept grinding out the repetitive zone capturing was to get all the Thor armor so I could pull Mjolnir out of the stone. Also, I really liked the weapon Easter eggs like that one, Odins spear, and Excalibur. Shame I didn't play the game for the story
I actually thought Valhalla was pretty great. It has its down sides but I was engaged with that whole story, it was good nothing revolutionary. The side quests and activities were actually pretty fun. The side quests mostly were very unique to me. You find a question mark and it turns into this short interesting quest that isn’t a fetch quest. I’m sure a few may have been, but the side quests were confined to a small areas around where the player starts it, and they’re all something different. Also the world is very pretty with great visuals. I liked the big shadows from the clouds too when looking at distant things. Really adds depth. I feel AC gets unfair criticism because it isn’t focused on stealth or mainly because it is a Ubisoft game.
unpopular opinion but i agree,i still like to get on and play all of the new ones
I understand your point but I couldn’t play more than 20 hours of the game before deleting it. I redownloaded it and still couldn’t get into it.
"side quests" lolololol
@@Aj-B44 I’ve played over 140 hrs and still enjoying it
@@noahmcdonald5208 Good for you man💯 I wish I could say the same
Honestly even after having so many old AC elements it bored me. I enjoyed Odyssey more than this one.
My AC thoughts: I enjoyed every game up to Odyssey, thats where it lost me because it was so big but boring, there was no AC story except the little Layla crap, and the characters didnt really have any, well, character
I kinda want to give this game a chance. I do like the setting of Odyssey more, should I play that instead?
I loved Valhalla a lot more tbh
My thing with checklist open world maps is.......you can turn the map legend off and explore on your own if you want. This is basically what Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring do for you, since if you take one look at their respective interactive maps, they are both filled with icons, they just chose not to actually show it in game. Hell Breath of the Wild alone has 900 icons dedicated to Korok Seeds.
For me
AC 1 8/10
AC 2 7/10
AC BH 9/10
AC R 8/10
AC 3 7/3
Odyssey 9/10 for me im a big Spartan fan and diving into this world was satisfying. and i was fortunate enough to play it during the Pandemic.
Vallhalla 8/10 i miss the stealth , but i do love the Norse Mythology.
Brotherhood 🥹
I played Valhalla last year and I had hear so much bad about it. I got it as a gift and figured I played all the other AC games I might as well. Surprisingly I loved it and had a blast playing it. I respect that others don't like it but my experience was positive. Its actually my favorite AC now replacing Origins. I finished Odyssey right before which was fun but for some reason Valhalla I had a better time with. One thing I really liked was dual wielding any weapon. For a lot of the game I had a big axe in one hand and a greatsword in the other just cutting through enemies. Maybe I just liked the Viking Power fantasy, IDK.
I agree 100000 with u bro black flag orgins and valhlla great games
Yesss thank you!!!
Bro I like this game I think people are pissed because it just really isn’t assassins creed.
If this game had a different name I think the reception would’ve been better imho.
Idk I enjoyed it even with the bugs and stuff
I mean damn I didn’t think it would’ve gotten this much hate 😂
The few things I do hate was definitely the bugs, the camera when fighting was just way to far away lol and also the fact that they took off free running and climbing like it used to have but other than those things I thought it was ok.
@@JoeyBK_86 Here is the complicated part. Ubisoft took what us old school players love and dismantled it to create something that you like. So Ubisoft created two different fan bases with different ideas of what AC should be. And your taste is JUST as valid as mine. If we force Ubi to return it to just like the old days, it will likely piss your group off and if they double down on the exploration RPG historical combat simulator route, you would be happy but my group will be pissed. Unless Ubisoft finds a middle ground that both old and new school players enjoy. Ubi might have to choose one group over the other. no win win situation.
@@yiklongtay6029 you know that you can still be a stealth assasin just like in the other games, right? Or did you miss that part when you got your panties in a wad over a video game?
One of the best games I've ever played. Definitely in my top 5
NO LUKE YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE, YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO DESTROY UBISOFT, NOT JOIN THEM (anyway great video)
I've been playing valhalla for a while. Due to some lost save files I had to start the game from zero again and, honestly, it didn't feel good at all. Playing odyssey and origins more than once felt rewarding, there was always something to see and sidequests where interesting. Making different decisions in odyssey also motivated me to replay it. But Valhalla feels like a chore, something I play just for the sake of finishing the game rather than playing it to discover more about the world, because, on the other side, the cities in valhalla are so damm small and boring. Nothing like athens in odyssey or alexandria in origins. This game falls flat, Odyssey was way better and I'll never understand why they took away all the things that made it so good. Not even the npcs work well, when Eivor is talking to them they look up or any other way instead of looking at Eivor, it just breaks every sense of immersion... and that's just some of the issues I find in this game. The fact that one gets so many useless peaces of armor until you reach the high level areas is also stupid, at least in odyssey you get rare items in the early game and it fealt good to change equipement here and there to try out, but it does not happen here, the only usefull armor for the first 60 hours of game is the one you start with unless you buy something from the helix store. It's just boring
I love getting my hand held like a toddler 😌 I don't wanna be wasting my time, just help me find it all & get it done 😎
I thought the stuff with Alfred the great was good.
It would’ve been better if eivor was actually an assassin. The irony of the assassins creating their own enemy would’ve been great. Or seeing the struggle of eivor having to adjust to assassin life as a Viking. But no we can’t have a complex interesting story. Instead we have to have a drug out story that adds little to the assassin Templar conflict.
This game was “assassins adjacent” as Odyssey was. And that’s what frustrates me the most.
At least with Odyssey, they were pretty up front about it being about the First Civilization vs the actual Assassins. iirc, you don't even get any real assassin focus until the one DLC set.
@@wingedswordslayer it was pretty clear with that game they didn’t want to make an assassins creed game. They wanted to make the immortals they made after it. But because they were constrained by assassins creed they couldn’t go all out. Honestly it clear Ubisoft doesn’t wanna make assassins creed. They wanna do some rpg mythology thing which is fine but don’t shove it into another franchise it doesn’t belong in. Give us a new ip.
@@wingedswordslayer And that DLC did nothing as far as that is concerned.
@@chancylvania Immortals proves that people want what Assassin's Creed inherently can't be. Trying to turn an alt-history sci-fi stealth-action series into a mythological high fantasy RPG is a bad idea on paper, in execution, it's much worse.
@@65firered which is why they should either have assassins creed take a hiatus for a couple of years (they won’t) and let people anticipate it again while letting This mythology rpg thing they wanna do be another series.
The giant empty maps and the dumb dots all over the map are 2 problems that would solve each other. If they made smaller, better made maps, you wouldn't need those stupid dots to tell people where to look for things. If they made a city that was actually interesting to explore, you would find those points of interest by yourself. Atrocious level design.
Giant map with dumb dots and even dumber side quests... I am starting Odyssey again xD
To be fair i’m fine with the map being big as long as they make the world interactive and alive something similar to Red Dead 2.Also filling it with less but interesting content would greatly help too.
@@AFT_05G Same. I don't really care how big the world is, as long as it doesn't feel empty. If they can make the AC: Valhalla map feel full and fun to explore, I'm all for it.
@@panqueque445 Agreed. Giant EMPTY map with dumb dots and even dumber side quests. :D
My biggest complain with this game is that I played it just enough to not been able to refund it. To me it seems this game is the product of Ubisoft completely disregarding quality and going all out for quantity. Totally bloated boredom.
I thought Odyssey was long... It took me a total of 11 hours to finish the story.
Valhalla, just for the main quests and a bit of exploration, not including the DLC:
55 mother-loving hours 😩😩😩
I’ve been binging the entire series from 3 up to Valhalla, except I skipped Black Flag and am currently playing it right now. The games that I personally feel are worth playing today, I might include Black Flag I remember loving it when it came out, are Unity & Origins. I got really, really bored of Odyssey, and Syndicate felt very shallow compared to Unity & Origins.
I started a replay of black flag, and man that game is so good. I’m over here trying to play this game as much as I can even though I already beat it years ago🤣
The problem with all the critique towards ACV is the same points people bring up to trash ACV, they simply ignore in other games. As well, the same points brought up to praise other games, they simply ignore in ACV. Admittedly many things wrong with ACV, but overall, for the size and scale of the world, there are many things that are polished and fine tuned. I feel people like to single out Assassin's creed because it's an Ubisoft game.
its a major problem. This video started with a laugh at a clipping issue. Lets see if he mentions it in the upcoming elden ring review
My AC thoughts: I was utterly disappointed in lack of assassin techniques. When Basim and Hytham were introduced in the game I thought it was going to be a game about a Viking becoming an assassin and as we went through the game we would unlock move assassin skills since we got a hidden blade and the leap of faith. I expected that Eivor would learn more fluid free running, a second hidden blade the and other stuff form either Hytham or Basim as I progressed through the game helping out the assassins but instead all I got were poison techniques.
I thought the same thing. It was so disappointing
It's basically just a Ac title these days.
In a lot of ways it's the Anti-AC game and it owns it. Eivor basically says "Why would I keep this hidden?" And then never changes. It would have been great to see him/her flip it around when he/she becomes a real assassin after great character development. But nope. They needed to sell copies so they slapped AC on a mediocre viking game.
The hero we don't deserve. Goes back to garbage games just to verify they're still garbage for us. BLESS
I consciously turned off all markers in the game, and it was one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much. I don't get the argument that the game holds your hand through everything. Sure, there could be even less of that hand-holding and the exploration system could be better but you have a choice of how you want to play the game.
Exactly what I did as well. People be hating on game with stupid reasons. I enjoyed it playing casually and playing on Pathfinder and berserker mode
@@swift7998 yeah people defend this game with stupid reasons and can't accept that the game is indeed mediocre
it would be funny if suckerpunch make a viking game using the tsushima formula while ubisoft is making shinobi & samurai theme AC(which prob gonna be suck)
This game is awsome. I played all of the dlc. I put in hours and hours of time in this game
I'm glad some people are getting enjoyment from it, I'm just annoyed that it doesn't work for me. There are loads of games that I don't enjoy that other people too, but I don't usually care about those; the difference here is that AC used to be one of my favourite franchises so it feels like losing something I loved. Guess I can keep replaying the older games. And maybe AC Rift will be a fresh start, who knows!
Valhalla has a very specific style that's really going to work for some people. The problem is that it's unlikely to work for the original fans of AC because Ubisoft scrapped everything we loved (parkour, stealth, playing as an assassin, smaller worlds with more detail).
I guess I'm just different from most gamers. I absolutely love Odyssey (450 hours) and Valhalla (250 hours and still going). I really enjoy Mass Effect: Andromeda. I prefer Godfall over Warframe. I prefer Diablo 3 over Diablo 2. I was bored with Breath of the Wild. I couldn't stand Witcher 3. I want nothing to do with Elden Ring.
I mean that is your money people need to respect your choice of what game you want to play but man your taste is so bad.
It's ok, just breathing and walking can be pretty tough too.
You played so much trash games lol @Zsokorad
It's ok to be wrong sometimes so enjoy you time with what you like.
@@RomnysGonzalez He can not be wrong about his subjective opinion. He just happens to have a very different taste.
Fully disagree with the idea that map markers remove the exploration aspect. You can just ignore them, after all. Would be cool to have more options to toggle things on and off, though. I don't see the markers as a negative by any means, but I know others prefer the Elden Ring approach. Also, I think finding something lame at a point you chose to go to (not that the game told you to go to) is more tied to the overall bloat issue of this game and bad loot economy. You'd have had the exact same issue if you didn't look at the markers at all, but just decided to go explore in that direction anyways.
I enjoyed Valhalla. It has the best combat of the last 3 AC titles by far especially with the weak points and decapitations.
I tried to replay it a month ago i couldn't finish the first 2 hours
Completing the story was a torture for me even though I’m very fascinated by the Viking age and the Anglo saxons. I bought the edition with the season pass and I have only played like 2 hours of the Ireland DLC, because I realized that this DLC is the exact same as the main game. It just brings some new armor sets and weapons. The boring writing, the empty world and the meaningless activities are still the same… i haven’t touched the other dlcs at all
Odyssey and Origins for me are more enjoyable than Valhalla
What i love about Valhalla is the violence, that alone makes it fun. Who cares if it's a "good AC game"...I bet 95 percent who complain, have no idea what's going on In the overall story of the series....I mean it's really not that good anyways
I think the reason why it doesn't increase enemy health is that it wouldn't make the combat more fun; it would just turn it into a number game and slows everything down to a crawl. As you level up, the enemies shouldn't feel just as tanky as before if you are trying to do an RPG system.
The “Hidden blade” being on top of his gauntlet was dumb. The blade barely extends past his hand. But it was the black Vikings that made me laugh and shut it off.
@NiggaSniffa2005 correct. Due to having more melanin in their skin, black people would not get enough Vitamin D from what little sunlight there is up north. This would lead to a loss of bone density among other things.
Coming from Scandinavia I love Valhalla just knowing this is how my ancestors lived and being able to play as them
MyACThoughts:
I’ve played Origins and while people say they liked it still, I can feel the departure from the usual AC formula (and not in a good way).
I’m pretty completionist-for example, I 98/99% completed Black Flag but couldn’t get 100% due to a glitch/bug-and I approached Origins with the same mindset.
Origins was a definite upgrade in graphics with some changes to gameplay but I still enjoyed it. But after a while with the story, I decided to go off the beaten path and get collectibles-explore those map markers. And then it slowly got REALLY tedious. I know I can just ignore them, but I think each marker should be engaging to complete, not some chore. At some point I just hopped on my steed and had it auto travel to the next checkpoint… how is that gameplay? As Luke stated, I’m not doing anything but going from point to point.
I haven’t played Valhalla, but from what I hear, it’s much of the same and that’s honestly really disappointing.
Meh, Origins had a great story and Bayek definitely deserves a sequel but you can still see the flaws with the Unity and Syndicate engine with the style kills and finishers.
I know they added them later, but when Valhalla released there were no swords. That was a dealbreaker for me. It got too boring to me after like a week of playing
Valhalla was huge and good for everyone who likes to play videogames, don't care if it was an assassin game or not, it was a huge and good one in mechanics, graphics, story etc
I literally forced myself to finish it towards the end. One of the few games where I didn't even bother finishing all the side quests or whatever they were. Complete chore.
There no side quests, just "events" accordingly to Ubisoft
Ive said it before on other comment section about Valhalla but I think that they should have told the story from the perspective of an Anglo-Saxon local. There could be so much story potential and a revenge plot from a man who had his village raided by Vikings.
Yeah, but Vikings cool and famous, you know...
I like assassin's Creed Valhalla, I get the stealth isn't as good as other AC games, but I don't really do well with stealth anyway, I always get caught, etc. I like Norse mythology and stuff like that, that's a few reasons why I like it.
Odyssey loop is more fun, combat too it's easier parry and u can play how u like, stealth, archer or rambo. In Valhalla u can't really play stealth and game wants u to be omni man while nerfing your enjoyment by stamina meter. It's just a slog to do all checkmarkers in Valhalla
For all the games flaws, I really did have a lot of fun with Vahalla. I would love to go back to the sandbox style parkour stealth driven gameplay over this open flat world. I sunk a lot of hours into this game and did all the DLC and never felt like I was wasting my time. While there was time when I felt like some of the things I was doing was to check dots off the map I still never hated any of it. My biggest gripe with the game were the bugs and crashes when it first came out. I'd lose sometimes hours of gameplay due to it crashing. I like the updates they've given us along the way too. I felt the settlement building gimmick didn't really have the pay off or function I hoped but it was still a cool idea that they could tweak. I liked the world events rather than having annoying fetch quests, I like the whole teritoryy map at the settlement. I'm sure if I was more of a gamer and less of an AC fanboy, I would have liked this game less and seen more of how they could have made it better. I will say than after playing Ghosts of Tsushima I realized how much better the combat could have been in Vahalla lol overal I'd give it an 8/10, that's my personal score.
I honestly really enjoyed Valhalla bc I’m all about the Viking era and England but I do think the story was definitely a bit too long and I spent a lot of time looking for items just for the sake of getting them off of my map. I think this is the most polarizing AC game I’ve ever seen as people either loved it or can’t stand it.
This is kinda how I feel with ghost of Tsushima. Good game but gets too much praise for a basic ass world. Great sword gameplay. Wanted to climb on more stuff with the grappling hook. The side missions with the side characters was okay I guess.
agreed
I actually dislike level scaling being constant, it's something I didn't enjoy about odyssey. If I do some extra grinding to get some levels and some unique gear, content for my level becomming easier -is- part of the reward. However, I think stuff becoming painfully easy isn't great either. I think there needs to be some middle ground, where they are raised within a few levels of you, but certainly not straight up to your level. Iirc this is how it worked in Origins by default.
I just have a memory of feeling like it was a waste of time to level up in Odyssey because of this that stuck with me.
Then just change the level scaling settings
If you have to give a game a 'second chance', it sucks. Move on. Time is too precious.
Valhalla = Jack of all trades. Master of none.
Except stealth. That’s non existent
Dude I explore this game and take my time I literally put over 185 hours in the entire story not including the dlc this game is fun especially when it's base on a realistic time frame but made up story/ real story that what I love about this game trust me when the ragnarorck dlc came out I lost interest and other certain things. I hate there dialogue the most when u play a male character they call u a women anyway.
thank you, finally someone who admits how boring and lifeless the game is. I mean if someone stupid has to put 185 hours to admire the bland map and scenery, awful sidequests and mediocre story then i feel bad for people who find the game fun
I don’t know if anyone else notices this, but I always in every AC game since Origins noticed how bad Ubisoft designs those horses and they’ve been using the same horse look and movement through out these three games. As my mom is a professional in animal anatomy for 40 years, I showed her the horses from these games, she was stunned how extremely bad they looked and moved, they are nothing like real horses. AC horses look alot smaller and shorter in length. In comparison with Red Dead Redemption 2 and even 1 you cannot even compare these animals between these two games.
And the horses in AC feel very slow, maybe there’s a way to make them faster, but I stopped playing the game a bit after reaching the main settlement due to:
can’t explore every region no matter what, horse felt slow, too many missions without a good way of knowing which is the story missions, too many pins on the map, combat felt slow, story felt boring, sure the game tells you where to find armor but most of time even if the gear is pure crap it requires a puzzle which I can’t do because the parkour is also bad, and even more flaws
My AC thoughts: I don’t mind the markers on the map because people look up guides anyway. At first finding so many ingots instead of armor really bothered me then I realized that in odyssey I didn’t put on many new armor anyway. I always dismantled everything and even to change my “look” I used the canon look cuz it helped with my immersion. I personally don’t like a mixmatched look and feel like a lot of it is ugly anyway but that’s my opinion. My only two BIGGEST gripe with this game that I wish you had touched on was the lack of a wanted level. I have ZERO incentive to be stealthy because nothing will come after me. At least in odyssey even civis attacked you. The other gripe being that the bird is absolutely USELESS. Cant mark enemies or even mark loot when putting a waypoint on the map uses the same. Also you mentioned the combat is boring but I honestly feel that the combat for odyssey is even worse. Most enemies have a very similar parry timing but in valhalla the parry timings are just so off but in a good way. The enemies won’t always do the same attack twice and some even spam the unparryable attacks especially the daughters of lerion
I fail to see how the coloured dots make the open world a load of fetch quests where you’re constantly marking stuff but the million question marks around the previous 2’s maps don’t
This game comes so close to being a RPG. All it's missing are gear that matters, variety and interesting dialogue.
In other words I don't have any video ideas left
My AC thoughts: they have bloated the hell out of this series. Right now I'm playing GRAW2 on series x and I just played rainbow Six Vegas and THIS is when games by Ubisoft were good. Just before GRAW2 i played AC Unity! Incredible game. Slow methodical, linear tactical games. NOT everything has to be open world, looter shooter, question mark/dot ridden maps with little reason to go there. Just make a non boring game, the world is literally screaming this at you!
I don't know. People dog on Vahalla, but I loved it. I turned off the map icons and just move about at my own pace.
I love AC Valhalla. I am playing through it again currently. I am finding things that I missed the first time through. The only thing that I would change is that spiriting was default. I am challenging myself to limit myself to 200 skill points in the skill trees to prevent myself from becoming OP. I have not played Origins or Odyssey yet, but I would like to.
I am so glad I’m not alone I love Valhalla also!! I’m not gonna lie i think it is very similar to Odyssey just in a Viking setting but I love that one also so I’m not complaining! Lol
Odyssey is fun!
thank you, so many people defend this game and say that they enjoy it. So happy to see ubisoft releasing bad and mediocre games and despite all that, sheep like you enjoy them.
@@loganclark4835 thank you, so many people defend this game and say that they enjoy it. So happy to see ubisoft releasing bad and mediocre games and despite all that, sheep like you enjoy them.
@@loganclark4835 and btw I hope your parents feel bad about your life
I’m tired of people saying the game sucks, ik we’ve heard this a lot but it’s true. “It’s a good game but a bad assassins creed game”