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Just don't play as female eivor... do any of the free updates or the Ireland dlc, and boom it's a good game... oh and the last chapter included don't do that.
Basically avoid any and all SBI content, playing the game as it was envisioned and yeah it's actually good.
Mildly anglophobic but what's new?
Male eivor/odin (and yes it's one character, not two separate characters)
Just do main story and the Paris dlc, and it's actually good.
Also if you leave all the hidden ones content till you're forced to do it at the end of the game you get a full remake of AC 1.
I recently replayed it with all HUD turned off except for the stealth detection (I'm not good at stealth games). Eivor turned into a less effective killer but it changes the way I approach combat and exploration. The game suddenly became super immersive.
It takes a while to get used to, but once you do you will start to appreciate all the audio and visual cues the devs put into this game.
Instead of constantly looking for floating markers and checking my minimap, I actually take note for landmarks and people's faces when attempting to find my target. When I am fighting an enemy, it felt like I am actually slashing on their body parts instead of just draining their health bars.
I was just talking about this with a fellow colleague. The conversation was initially about Ghost Recon Breakpoint and playing in Immersive Mode (which I'm doing now) but it quickly gravitated towards doing the same but for AC Valhalla. I think I'd like the game more with the "immersive" mode on (no HUD, map markers, etc).
This is always the best way to play video games 😊
@@Cryotyde by immersive mode, you mean exploration mode? Sorry cant really remember havent play the game for a while
Yep! I'm doing a third playthrough with the HUD turned off. Totally different experience in a great way! I will say i think Ubisoft played this game too safe content-wise for the Dark Age era. I wish the game had more gritty stuff like talking slaves, Ravensthorpe bring attacked constantly and looted, ransoming prisoners stuff like that.
Good advice, I'm gonna do this
The main thing is that Odyssey didn't even try to be an Assassin's creed game, it was a Spartan game through and through and it was a damn good one at that. Valhalla tried to be a Viking/Assassin game and failed at both
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I agree.. absolutely loved Odyssey and absolutely hated Valhalla. Hate might be a strong word, but I definitely didn't finish it and obviously didn't like it at all.
Right there with ya...
@@thegamerwithin3232 I honestly think Valhalla is pretty good from what I’ve played, the stealth is meh but I like how you can mix and match your weapons. like use a hammer and a flail, an axe and a dagger. I obviously don’t think it’s the best game but it’s pretty fun in my opinion.
Odyssey a ubishit origin not assassin's creed
Everyone shits on this game but I personally loved this and Odyssey.
The environments are beautiful and make you feel like you're there in that time period. The combat is good enough and the graphics are amazing too. Character dialogue is okay and theres a lot of things to do and side quests to experience. Its cool to see fleshed out cities with artwork from those time periods and it feels like you're actually there with people walking around doing their own thing. I enjoyed finding new gear and the stealth part of the game isn't all that bad. I found it fun to sneak behind enemies and take them out or, find a high point and snipe enemies from a roof until there was no more. I enjoyed that you can have different playstyles such as a sniper from afar or a run and gun tank. Loot was fun to find, and the puzzles were enjoyable and not mind numbing.
I love this game and I wish AC made more like it. Odyssey and Valhalla are personally some of my favorite games along with Skyrim, Gran Turismo 6, Runescape, Fallout 4 and Elder Scrolls online.
I love Valhalla, ignoring it’s an assassin’s creed game it’s an amazing Viking game and looks impeccable
I played it like AC and still loved it, underated stealth tbh
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Is it really a fun Viking game? There is hardly any dynamism to the Viking experience unlike the pirate experience in Black Flag to the point that's it hard for me to believe it was the same group. Even Odyssey at least made you feel like a Greek demigod
i hate just how big it is. i could finish origins or odyssey
@@unc54 yes, yes it is a fun viking game, there's monastery raids and fort assaults, forging alliances in england, meeting the ragnarrsons, drinking games, pretty much all the stuff vikings do. I personally loved valhalla for the viking experience.
The "Let the Animus decide" function works basically like this (much better explanation for character choice than Odyssey imo). Eivor is female when you play her and male when you play Odin. There's multiple DNA picked up from Eivor's corpse because there's multiple DNA inside her, her DNA and Odin's. It's intentional that you only play male Eivor when you're in her visions, because those "visions" are actually memories about Odin, you -the reader- know that of course because you played the game.
I like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, I like the Viking theme. I like how the collectibles have a lot to offer.
To be honest there was a connection i made with Eivor (male) through the journey we both made and I completed this story with tear in my eyes because of the music 😭🎶 no matter what you say about ubisoft they don't fail in this, they also included Warduna band 'Lead Singer' into making the main theme of this game and it's so much awesome 😢
W take.
Games like this unironically made me go back to the Ezio trilogy, The Kenways, and Unity to get the "Assassin" vibe back
True but the rpg trilogy got a special place in my heart specially Valhalla
@@jojocasimir1118 nah thats not assassins creed, the rpg trilogy is fucking shit i hate it
@@janprokes2930 Boring gameplay and it's repetitive. When they make you grind for a small buff that gives you 0.02% fast nutsack scratching speed
@@janprokes2930 its good as an rpg but terrible as an ac game.
@@hexadecimal973 lmao, you enjoyed the tailing missions in black flag?
I loved Valhalla. My Family is from Norway so it was so cool to see my cultures Mythology in-game. I didn’t think it failed as an A.C game because it wasn’t meant to be traditional in a sense.
Exactly don’t why people were hating on it
I tried to play this game 3 times on my PS4 in a 3 year span and stopped playing after the first 4-5 Hours. As a Classic AC Fan, It just wasn't my Game.
Then i rewatched the whole series of Vikings and was hyped to try it again on my PS5. I accepted the fact that this is not an assassins game. I play it like a Vikings game and since then... im hooked! So glad i gave it another chance. And since i got used to the new gameplay mechanics I Def gonna pick up Shadows and will try Odyssey some day. 🙏🏾
@loumos_old as someone who also struggled with this on ps4, the ps5 version played so much better it gave me a new perspective and I ended up loving it.
There were parts of this game I absolutely loved, but I could never go back to replay it, go back to level 1, go back to all that grind, just thinking about it makes me hate it.
Valhalla is a fun game to play. . . For about 50 hours. It gets old pretty quick. It really felt like the board at Ubisoft just went “Vikings seem hot right now, let’s make a Viking AC game. That’ll make a lot of money.”
My biggest beef is with the story. I kind of feel the same about Odyssey where I’m constantly asking “what is the point of this story? What are they trying to say?” The previous AC games usually had some underlying moral/philosophical lesson
it's a 15 hours game dragged to 100+.
you already see everything in 10 hours of playing.
I find myself going back to the RPG games way more then the older AC titles, and I think that’s because I really underestimated the gameplay loop and the worlds they put you in. I find myself wasting hours running through and gathering everything in Odyssey, clearing the map, and I replay the opening of Origins every other year it seems. Valhalla has a World I want to explore, I got burnt out on it so I never finished the DLC, and so now I have a New save that I’ve just been playing when I am in the mood.
It is fun to now have access to the river raids off the rip and be able to raid things when you feel like, it’s nice to have the transmog available at the beginning so you can have armor stay basic looking and not so flashy, or weapons to stay looking rugged. It really does change the experience of a second play through. I have even forgot a lot of the early quests and never did them properly because of the diving Valkyrie bug at launch where you could break barred doors, so now actually having to do the puzzles are refreshing even when I know what the reward is or even if it’s not worth it. I haven’t done any of the other things yet like the challenge stones I think I still have to upgrade my settlement more before I get that but I’m taking my time as I said, really playing it like I’m Eivor in this world instead of like a video game trying to speedrun. When I tried to just push to the end I got burnt out in 140 hours. Then I played elden ring and didn’t beat that for almost a year, went a good 4 months without playing it, and just came back to fight a couple bosses every time I was in the mood, and that game really taught me how to space out a game and not try and finish it so quickly.
Eivor is a great character, the way they struggle internally with this guilt of doing something they haven’t even done yet, Odin trying to take back his body by manipulating Eivor and gaining their trust. Plus both voice Actors have great performances, the Male Actor has a lot of line where you can feel the charisma or the wisdom in his words, and it helps a lot when your playing to grow attached to your character. The Female actress while I’m not as big of a Fan, does give a ruff and gritty performance that shows just how much Eivor has gone through, how it’s shaped them. And after Playing Mirage, while I still do not like Basim in Valhalla, it is cool to know his story before he shows up, and to now know his goals. And I Honestly liked Layla more in this then any time in Origins or Odyssey. She looks so tortured in the eyes, her struggle with the call of the staff really is felt.
It’s one of the many reasons I’m extremely bummed that they decided to ditch the present day in the main games, that was half the intrigue was wondering how the modern day was progressing and what importance the selected past would have.
The fact that you can customize your experience is also very underrated. I have the stealth difficulty all the way up and put on guaranteed assassinations, and you can play this game like the last 2, stealth is quite fun in these, it’s different then the older games but it’s going to be its completely different control scheme.
When it came out I had it at an 8/10, I’d still put it there, it really does do alot of thing right with ambiance and music, I grew to enjoy alot of the characters in it, if their time was short or long, and I found that like Odessey it proves you don’t need to tell an Assassins Creed story through the eyes on an assassin. That’s going into a can of worms I’m sure I’ll be attacked over cause well it’s AC fans, their are just as toxic as Star Wars fans. But all in all I still like this game over a couple of the older ones, and I was so surprised how quickly people switched up on it, went from oh this game is so good, to its the worst game In the franchise, but then again i shouldn’t have been surprised this has been a pattern with every new game since revelations. Wether you like it or not that’s fine, that is your opinion and your allowed to have it, but I still enjoy this game more then even the first one, mechanically, narratively, and the cast of characters are way more enjoyable then the first game for me, you only care for 6 characters in the first game, and 4 of them are in the present day which is Desmond, Lucy, 16, and Vidic, the other two is Altiar and Al Mualim, other then that I cannot even remember another characters name besides Maria, and that is only because she Marries Altair.
So I think so many people judge this game so harshly because of nostalgia rather then actual critique, and what they pose as actual Critique is really just hyper fixated nit picks. That’s common in todays world with a lot of media, and so it just something I’ve realized.
Anyway sorry for the long comment, I be rambling and I’m sure people won’t agree but it’s my opinion, feel free to disagree with me, I love talking about these things with people, I needed to discuss with someone to even understand why I disliked Mirage so much so it helps to always hear from others 😂
I didn’t read the whole thing but I think I agree with you, I just finished my second playthrough the other day and it was so much better than I was expecting! I just replayed all of them and I’ve come to the realization that I love this whole series! I have preferences and “I wish this was different” but it is what it is and I enjoy it
It's weird that you want a discussion yet try to shut people out by saying that their view is clouded with nostalgia. Who do you want to talk to? People that already agree with you?
The thing is, Vahalla is made significantly different from the games in AC that a lot of people love. That isn't nostaligia, it's a type of design they liked seeing from the series that was changed significantly enough that it's completley different from what people are wanting from the series.
@@channel45853 oh no I’m not trying to shut people out at all, that’s how I FEEL about the overwhelming and common complaints ive seen for years. I’ve argued with people for years on the “how can it be assasins creed and your not an assassin” points, a lot of the criticism has just been reiterated ever since Revelations. Cause like there’s older games where your not an assassin for big chunks of the game. It’s a lot of just disingenuous comments, like the recent criticism of shadows where they falsely claim that every game has had a character that was native to the land. Which isn’t true, and then they pushed well those characters had reasons for being there, while ignoring Yasukes reason for being there.
It’s a whole lotta that stuff, but I’m open to people voicing their disagreements, I’m just not going to get into a big argument with you if you get so adamant about it.
For example, if you don’t like actual things with the game, like the level system, controls, world, that’s your opinion, no problem with it. It’s when people do things like “Eivor not joining the assassins is stupid and ruins the game” I can’t really have a conversation with you. I just simply don’t agree with stuff like that and so if that’s your criticism I feel like that’s really just a nit pick and your blowing it out of proportion. If you played the game you’d have realized he never was going to join so this hope that he was going to was in your head and your disappointed because you didn’t want to accept what the game was telling.
I have no problem with people disagreeing with me I’m just saying if your open to discussion word it in a way that isn’t so aggressive or instigative, if it is, I’m not really going to go into it with you, I’ll tell you what I disagree with and take the things you said with a grain of salt because of how they went about it.
… I’m essentially saying if your civil and can actually have an open conversation then I welcome the conversation, we can respectfully disagree and if you say something that I never thought about I’ll better understand why people dislike the game or the series. I’m not here to change minds only to have conversations.
As to your point, isn’t that exactly what nostalgia is? People aren’t happy about the newer design and want the older one or something similar. They did something new, when the major criticism of the first 4 games was that they played the exact same and needed something fresh. Then we got 3, which people were upset Connor wasn’t like Ezio and that he was childish, even though he really wasn’t. Every MC since Revelations has just been compared to Ezio by alot of people, every game has to either be as good as brotherhood or it’s a failure. I understand the want to have in depth climbing back and a story that is inter grained in the Assassin and Templar battle like majority of the franchise has been, but it’s almost like people ignored the broader picture of the Narrative and only focused on the surface of these things, so that when we say a character who wasn’t called an “assassin” they flipped, over semantics because you did everything an assassin does just you don’t have the title. or when they went back before the assassins and Templars to show how long the conflict truly has been in place, and to explore a cool environment, it wasn’t the same, even though it’s the same world and has major implications to the story and world. To me that’s nostalgia, or at least a part of it is nostalgia. I remember I didn’t like Origins in the very beginning because I was so used to to old way the games played, but I got over it because I knew that’s what they were going with for a couple games, some people haven’t and have just hated every one of the new gen ones because it’s has a more in depth RPG style of game then the older ones.
Idk if any of that made sense and if I came off aggressive I don’t mean to and I apologize, I promise I’m not trying to come at you just trying to talk and I ramble way too much!
@@mattbettcher7439 yeah and of course there’s narrative things I wish were different with a lot of the games but as I said I find those to not be so important. I feel like if I’m focusing too much on narrative decisions then it’s 1 of two things, it really is that bad, and I haven’t come to the “well it’s just bad or doesn’t make sense, so it is what it is no need to dwell on it” part, or I’m looking for something to be upset about. It’s usually one of the two for me. Like I remember when I found out the whole “let the animus choose option” was just another female option I was pretty bummed, because after beating the story there was an OBVIOUS way you could have actually switched the gender of Eivor throughout the game and it would have made sense. Because she is Odin, i even think your female in the Asgard stuff too, which is exactly where you could have just been male Eivor, it doesn’t make sense why they couldn’t have actually worked that in the way it said, I was so intrigued by that option and then when it’s just a false option I was upset cause I really wanted to know how that would have worked. That’s like choosing 2 chests and they both have two different items, and then there’s a third chest that’s said to have a way cooler item in it then the other two, so you choose that one, and your given the right chests item anyway lol.
And yeah I just think, like with any game, when you play it with the DLC included, or with a new lease on the game, you get a vastly different experience, one that a lot of people take for granted, may not be better or worse, but different, and that alone can help you have fun.
Not gonna read all that bro
I think people have to forget about the old assassins creed games to enjoy the new games. They’re just making historically themed action rpg games. And in my opinion, they’re pretty decent. Excited for shadows
I enjoyed the hell outta this game. I knew first hand that I'm not playing as the Twins, or as a Kenway, or as Ezio...the trailer said and showed that you were a Viking so I went in believing that and I wasn't disappointed. I loved that the story was long because it was during COVID so it wasn't like I was able to go anywhere anyways. The only issues I had was that it was a buggy mess the 1st two weeks but then it played flawless for me. Plus I LOVED the expansions because it wasn't a simple 7 to 8 hour DLC, no it was like another game. I totally get that the game didn't live up to the expectations of others, but I believe it is over hated.
I agree with all you say, but I'm thinking the game did phenomenally well, by Ubisoft's standards. I didn't even bother with Mirage.
I put 30 hours into this game and felt like I had accomplished nothing. It was just never ending.
Is that bad? IMO any game under 50 hours is too short. Valhallas like 60, so it’s perfect.
@HahahMamaman Valhalla is definitely longer than that. Maybe if you do nothing but the main story? Otherwise you're definitely putting way more time into it.
@@LuckyBeerCamperit took me 65 hours on the first playthrough.
@@LuckyBeerCamper 30 hours? Bro you haven’t even reached England at that point
@@HahahMamamanfinished Valhalla around 90-115 hours when it first came out. I absolutely loved it and played it every chance I got. Was it a bit boring at times, yes, but every 1 bad thing about the game, there was 2-3 more things I loved about it.
I'm playing this game for 3rd third time. love it
I remember playing this game for like 50 hours and not coming close to the end and then i took a year off, came back and after about 15 more hours i finished the game to the most dissatisfying ending of any game i've ever played. What a collossal waste of my time. I enoyed it for about 20 hours and then the ubisoft mission formula got so obvious of going to new town and having to do chores to gain their favour only to have that disgusting ending.
The ending was pretty anti climactic, but IMO it’s one of the best RPGs ever made.
@@HahahMamamanIt's enjoyable, but very shallow and nowhere near one of the best RPGs. It isn't even top ten.
I did the same thing a few months ago. I made it to the first story arc but when I saw the words "Story Arc" on my screen, I tapped out. After 1.01 playthroughs, I didn't hate the game and truly found the English countryside and dilapidated Roman bathhouses amazing, but only enough to get me through it once. I filed it under "Play it once. And then maybe once in a while fire it up just to drool over visuals for a bit and call it a day." Unity is in that file, too.
And my own bs nitpick: I absolutely hated having to look for keys. I know we all accept that you can't just knock doors down in games even though you have a arsenal that could handle it. I accept that in every game but this. What we call a 'key', Vikings called an 'axe'. I was willing to overlook that the raids wouldn't let you just slaughter monks. Because yeah, that's grim. But this key nonsense, straight up adult hissy-fit me.
Just returned to it after an initial start from exactly 2 years ago. In my PS library & 6 weeks ago upgraded an aging PS4 to a brand new PS5. Excellent console highly worth the discount price I got it for. Made a revisit to Valhalla after playing Odyssey as my go to RPG of all time. With Valhalla, have found lots of new added content. Now enjoying it immensely. History buff also & bought a DK book on the Vikings from Amazon. The Ravensthorpe settlement faithfully recreates the true style of buildings that the Vikings lived in. Super that you can also travel to Nilhelm. Always play as female in RPG’ as their vocabulary lines are always superior. Also Eivor meets Kassandra on the added Isle of Skye which is a beautiful recreation of the true island content.
Highly recommended 👍
I’m currently playing this game about 40 hrs in loving it. I don’t look at it as an AC game, I don’t use stealth often, just playing my own way.
I go back to this game every now and again I’ve got about 90 hours on it. Really enjoy it and honestly this video is my sign it’s time to keep playing
Imma get cooked but Odyssey is my favorite & also my first AC game & I fucking love it so I start playing Valhalla about 2 weeks ago & is having fun playing it so much I just installed Origins
If you love Odyssey I think you’ll love Origins too. I played them back to back, not worrying about whether they feel like traditional AC, and they’re my faves. I stalled midway through Valhalla, but I might give it another go. This vid put me back into the mood for it 😁
Odyssey and origins were great games, except for the leveling system. It’s the one of the main reasons I like Valhalla better.
Leveling isnt even that bad for Origins and Odyssey. Theres plenty of side quests and stuff to do which forcefeeds you a bunch of XP. Not to mention that said sidequests and activities arent dreadfully repetitive like Valhalla's.
Also, going from Origins, directly to Odyssey was such a fun and amszing experience to me. I remember being blown away by the landscape of Greece and the absolutely bonkers improvement to the combat skill trees. Had qn avsolute blast platinuming both games back to back, now im looking forward todoing new game + for Origins and Odyssey, along with later on doing the DLCs for the first time 😻
AC Odyssey was an Amazing Greek Mercenary Game. And one of my favourite games in the AC Franchise because of that.
AC Valhalla whilst not a good Assassin Game, nor an Amazing Viking Game, I still had a lot of fun playing it. So IMO, whilst not what it advertised, it was still a great game.
I really enjoyed this game.
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Completed the game three times 100%, my favorite game ever alongside with witcher 3 and cyberpunk
Not long started this game and have to say I love it! Amazing game so far like the previous ones , Odyssey and Origins. 👍
Valhalla is still my favorite game of all time. I 100% it when it came out, 100% again when the Ireland expansion came out, and 100% a third time when the Paris expansion came out. That includes the small chests that don't even count towards region completion. I even like to run around from place to place. The design, characters, time and history are all important to me. But then I've studied the period of Alfred as a personal interest in my own history. I found talking with Alfred in the fish village at the end of the main part of game to be powerful, if you know English history. There will be a 4th playthrough. I'm also 50 years old and not just fanboying it. I played the original AC in '07. Played the first two Ezio games. I really did not care for that style of game. Package delivery, blending in with crowd. The original formula was too janky of a take from Prince of Persia.
I feel I should add more detail. From the very moment the game starts, the music and sound effects are perfect. Hitting the space bar on the load screen and getting that "battle sound", the voice actors for both male and female Eivor are excellent, I've played through with both. The attention to detail in every aspect of the game sticks out to me. After the first playthrough of Valhalla, it did cause me to go back and try Origins and Odyessy, which I loved both as well...but Valhalla still better. ALTHOUGH...Origins story is better, overall. Then I went and played Unity...It's a great game too, but much closer to the original games.
I like the combat mechanics of AC Valhalla, imo no ac game has this much detail of combat ,skill, ability effects....
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I understand it’s not a great AC game, I’ve played all of them. But I still enjoyed the Viking theme and the different settings. The gameplay was fun, and I enjoy a long campaign. At the very least, it’s in the top 50% of the franchise
That’s how long it’s been since I played this game. I didn’t know they got rid of the synergy systems 😅 I liked the theme of this game. It was just too long for me.
Went back and played it on the hardest difficulty and actually had more fun than my first playthrough
Valhalla is a great Viking game with AC elements in it.
Same as Odyssey was a great RPG in Greece with AC elements in it
I hate that people dog on this game because I really enjoyed playing it I thought it was fun, the world is so massive and beautiful but to eaches own.
It’s actually so good tho. I just got it for free on PS5, you can cater the settings to be less of an RPG, enable instant assassinations, etc. and it is so much fun. There’s so much to do, I had no idea how much cool stuff is in the game. Weapons, skills, abilities, it’s awesome. Latest DLC is a wash bc of all the glowy garbage and the awful art direction, the OG tone and setting for the game are awesome
i love this game as a viking game. finished on ps4 and now i'm craving this on my pc lol
I was so excited for this game I even bought the Ultimate Edition and boy was I disappointed in the lackluster story and absolute ridiculous collectible grind
This game is amazing ong i spent 6 hours wtihout stop today
Personally I really enjoy this game. I don’t really view it as an Assassin’s Creed installment,but a historical fiction set during the dark ages in England instead and for that it’s an awesome game. Could have done without the Cairns and flying papers as they are both highly frustrating and time consuming. Very interesting having a member of the Assassin Guild being an antagonist.
I played this game and I loooove it I reched power level 400 🫡
I think for me it’s there should be some stealth in these games. I think even if they did like how MGS V does give you tools and the open world and let you play it how you want to play it.
20:19 I don't think that's more wierder than killing with a fricking feather (DUNKEY GROANS)
I spent about 60 hours in this game and what I thought:
1. History:
a) We play the role of a Viking, not an assassin. In Origins, we play as the first Hidden One, a proto-assassin. Odyssey took place before the Origins, so it's natural that there were no assassins or hidden assassins during this period. In Valhalla we have the Hidden Ones, although we still play as Vikings. This wouldn't have been a problem if Eivor had joined the Hidden Ones at some point, but he didn't. I feel like we wasted potential that we didn't use as Basim and Haytham. We would have an assassin's story set in the Viking Age with a 13th warrior vibe.
b) Even though we play as a Viking, we cannot kill monks during raids.
c) Our crew as bland NPCs: I remember when I was playing the prologue and interacting with Dag, I was excited that we would get unique crew members, something like in RDR 2. Unfortunately, we only have a small army of clones. Yes, we had bland NPCs in Black Flag too, but at least they were more unique in their appearance and the way we recruited them.
d) The story is way too long: as it is. Splitting it up into chapters doesn't help at all because we can't really connect with the characters and just run around the map.
e) The story is too "Marvel-style": From AC II to AC Syndicate, the games felt like "cloak and sword" movies. AC Odyssey had atmosphere of, um, it's hard to say, but something like the "Hercules" series with Kevin Sorbo, which is a bit strange, but it was surprisingly fitting. AC 1 and Origins had a mystical and mysterious feel to them, and I think Valhalla should have a similar one, but the dialogue, all the cheesenes, characters, etc. make us feel like we're watching a Marvel movie.
2. Gameplay:
a) Combat: Combat feel too imprecise. Enemies feel like manquins, we don't feel the weight of our attacks. Enemies sometimes attack with virtually no window for reaction.
b) Open world: New open world activities sytem was step in wrong dircetion giving up normal side quests, which were sometimes combined into entire chainquests, in favor of short, often unfunny and not very interesting interactions.
c) Leveling System: The skill tree and amount of levels make leveling up less impactfull than in Origins and Odyssey. That wide range of levels make problems with open world and some quests becuase we would have to grind the boring side activities.
d) "Animal" Open Wolrd bosses: It just stupid. I know that in Odyssey there were similar open world bosses and it would't be a problem for me if we don't have enemies like King Alfred's Battle Cow. In Odyssey it was felt more "mythical" which was fit with vibe of a game.
3. Other Problems:
a) Low quality textures: As game can look beautyfull at times, especially the landscapes, there are so many low quality textures in that game, even if we play at 4K (form memory: big cheasts in monasterys during raids)
b) To much reused assets: This wouldn't be much of a problem if most of the most important characters in the main plot didn't have identical armor (Ubbe, Hvitserk, the mercenary who was hired by Ivar, Dag, etc.)
c) Game feel unpolished: Just as it is.
That's the point, Valhalla is the only AC when the Main Character is not even an Assassin even in its story, Hidden One already exists.
I have played
ODYSSEY 4500 hours
ORIGINS 1200 hours
VALHALLA 300 hours
and old A.C only 80 hours.
I like AC Valhalla because of the Vikings series it really got me into the Viking era
Ezio trilogy got me into the renaissance era
I actually loved this game so much
i'm late but i literally am in love with your intros, with the Valhalla music in the background, its fricking beautiful!
Thanks for revisitng some games, maybe that you didn't enjoy as much, but I really liked Valhalla but couldn't finish it unfortunately.
I never expected anything from this game since day 1 because I thought its going to be a boring game but I was wrong. Never thought im going to love this game after giving it like 10hrs of gameplay and really enjoyed every bit of it after that. Odyssey is one of my most favorite game but if someones gonna say this game is better than Odyssey, I wont argue about it because its really an underrated and amazing game. The only thing I hate about it is after putting 100++ hours to this game, theres a bug where theres no available main quest after completing the "The Lost Glory" quest and I told Ubisoft about the issue via email and theyre giving me useless information instead of fixing the game. But its really an amazing game and it is the most challenging AC game in terms of combat coz you have to manage your stamina just like souls game
I have some tips to make this game feel like a true GEM and its now my favourite game that Im playing.
There are some settings to tweak in options - I play on the highest dufficulty or one below that.
Anyways, set the damage Eivor does to maximum, also set enemy HP to I think its +20% , this make the game NOT to feel like the previous game where mobs take like 30 hits to be killed - instead now they take maybe 3-4 which is in my opinion much more realistic.
Also all enemy detection and difficulty settings on highest, the game should feel dangerous but without the healthsponge of higher difficulties.
There is also the colorful vibrant tone of this game is too high, I downloaded a really nice Reshade Preset to make the game have much much more darker and grittier colors which make the game feel alot more MEDIEVAL and dark.
Also no hudmarkers and other shit on screen that tells You where to go etc.
I play like this and I usually mod all my games to feel like this - Dark/Gritty/Hard.
Ty for reading long wall of text.
i only enjoyed this game when you are in Norway, i loved walking around in the snow, the second you reach England and meet a black viking, that's when i left.
I was extremely hyped for this game and cyberpunk because they came out the same time and once they came out I saw it and was disappointed of both
taking the resources does matter for the good or bad ending, I believe there are maybe 5 major choices that matter for whether sigurd comes back to the village at the end of the game
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Bro i actually liked Valhalla ngl because of the mythic weapons and stuff… i also got every dlc. Well its not an assassin game at all but i like the viking part
I think it would be cool if you went and played maneater, it’s a fun shark game
Valhalla is my favorite AC game. is it perfect? no. but i certainly got my moneys worth.
this game will always be one of my favorites , i just loved eivor as protagonist and viking vibe , Every viking fan should play this game.
absolutely adore this game. yes its not your typical AC game. but if you play it like its own game, its great
I've been watching your videos off and on for the last couple of years and I think this is the first time I've seen your face. I'm not sure what I was expecting but not at all what I guessed.
Showing my face is my version of jump scaring you
Fucking with the mustache and i love how you and the trimmer have matching outfits. W mans
I genuinely love this game and I dont know why. probably cus I think Vikings are sick
Valhalla had a really great atmosphere and feeling. I disliked odyssey because it felt like it didn’t take itself seriously or feel in any way connected to AC. Valhalla had a really great main story, city arcs were fantastic, male Eivor was fantastic (sorry female), Alfred and Fulke were great antagonists and the birth of the Templars was done perfectly. Could’ve been miles better but looking back the base game was fairly good
I really liked Valhalla and the DLC, it is a very good 7/10. While not perfect, I find it totally enjoyable. With the discussion about the difficulty with the Elden Ring DLC, its the perfect opposite if you dont have much time per gaming session. You get easy into it.
Played the main game as a berserk with double two-handed axes, I was totally OP, but had so much fun. For the DLCs, Paris, Ireland, and the other locations, I used different weapons, liked all of them.
So you get the ultimate edition for 40 50 euros and I got almost 130 hours out of it with almost everything done. For me thats value
The lack of realistic armor and weapons is what drove me insane. Even Elden Ring has more realistic armor and weapons than AC
As a Norwegian this game about My ancestors kinda disepointed me a lot
I still really enjoyed this game. I get that is incredibly huge and bloated but I loved exploring the world and doing the little side stuff and puzzles.
Am I missing something, I haven’t played but it looks visually really good
I honestly don’t understand the hatred for this game.
It’s a solid RPG that scratches the itch until the new Witcher comes out. Yes, Odyssey and Origins are “better” but I think Valhalla has the better loot and combat system out of the 3.
Regarding your point about Valhalla having taught you how it can ruin your experience based on what you think it should be, I really don't think you are to blame here.
That's not your fault. This game is called "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", most people would think and expect that the game would be about Assassins or Viking Assassins based on the name itself.
Yet somehow the game never truly lives up to the name, it's still being underserving of being named "Assassin's Creed" due the game being so void of having a proper Assassin's Creed presence.
Whatever amount of "Assassin" stuff the game provides is such a tiny amount and quickly shoved aside in favor of the "Viking" fantasy and even that seemingly doesn't hold up to expectation.
I'm sorry, but Valhalla just sucks in my opinion. I don't really like the RPG games personally, but I still think Origins & Odyssey were better RPG games by comparison.
Also I don't really agree with other Assassin's Creed games being slow with needless exposition during the intro that Valhalla have.
The older games did a far better job throwing you more quickly into the action.
Brotherhood straight up starts from where AC 2 ends and quickly throws you into combat in Rome inside the Vatican before taking it a little slower until a massive siege starts at Monteriggioni.
I enjoyed Valhalla best when it went to areas other than England. Norway, Ireland, etc. What would've been cooler, if you wanted a Viking game, would've been to have multiple hub worlds, Ireland, Frankia, England, Al Andalus (Spain) and North Africa. Maybe in a DLC we could've even visited Constantinople and become a member of the Varangian guard. This would've done two things- get rid of the samey massive world and allow us to visit different cultures. And showcase the historical reach of the Vikings, also the anthology style would've made much more sense in this format. Valhalla should've tried to be the ultimate Viking game. It's attempt to appeal to both old and new fans in what nerfed the game in the end.
I just see this as a Viking game and Norse mythology is one of my favourites so I got fun out of this game but it really had too much filler, might get the season pass since I’ve not played this game for 2 years nearly
AC Origins and Odyssey were good huge open world AC games, but my favorite AC game as either Brotherhood or Black Flag.
Mid AC game, but one of the best RPG games ever
Yep, and still sucks!
The main quest is quite good tho. But only the main quest, but in order to do it, u need to liberate the other regions, which is stupid to me.
Smaller map, smaller regions, more cinematics, no fantasy lore, and it would have been an amazing game!
PS: The cinematics with Eivor leaving Odin and the one with Basim in the campfire, are really good!
Both Valhalla and Odyssey makes me think that Ubisoft wants to make other games, but just titled it as an Assassin's Creed because of money. Valhalla isn't my Assassin's Creed game, that goes to Black Flag, but I love Valhalla on its own as a Viking game. I never use stealth, unless I necessarily have to. I think if Valhalla didn't have that Assassin's Creed title to it, then it would probably get some praise
The games are in the same universe. Valhalla is a great Viking game, just like Black Flag is a great pirate game. Both focused on their selling point instead of the series they were apart of.
@@ac_nerd9794 not really true, despite Black Flag's departures, it just played like an assassin's creed game on pirate ships, can the same be said for AC Vahalla?
@@channel45853 That's my point. Your only problem or problems is 1) Eivor didn't join the Hidden Ones at the end of the game and 2) the RPG formula doesn't play like the older games. That's just bias without any critique of the actual game like it's long drawn out story.
I’ve tried 3 different times to sit down and play this game and each time never even gave it 3hrs. One day I found the show Vikings on Netflix and the parallels are immediate and I love that shit Vikings in general are the bees knees. So I decided to jump into it one more time, not as Assassins Creed but as a Viking game. Although it’s still a B+ maybe A- game it completely scratched the itch I felt for a Viking game way better for the genre than For Honor at least. I really can’t stop playing it and it’s one of the few decent sources to see a mystical and also physical depiction of Norse myth and Ragnarok.
You can skip the skill tree loadin by switchin to a diff section go the the inventory section then back to the skill tree you’ll be able to sink skill points with out the wait
I like to think Odyssey and Valhalla were trying more to teach us about the history of the Isu
Never really cared about whether or not it's truly an "assassin" game. When the game started off I was really hooked. Then I got to England and just got so bored that I couldn't carry on. I try to go back from time to time, but it's just not vibing with me. Made some improvement from Odyssey, but also dropped the ball on other good features.
People hate on this game but the combat was insane and the world was beautiful
Valhalla was so OVER HATED. It’s so good, it got long towards the end, but for some reason I still came back for more.
Not super good, but just Normal good.
I started playing a few days ago, biggest issue I have is that since Eivor is a women’s name you’re stun-locked into playing as a female Viking.
I always chuckle at the "what's up nerd!" Call-out to enemies
I loved odyssey not as an assassins game but as a spartan rpg with a great map as well plus I just love the Greek setting. My problem with Valhalla was I love Vikings and just would want a Viking game but it still felt like a weird combo of assassins and Vikings and the map felt more empty than odyssey
I recently got this game in summer steam sale on my pc I am really enjoying the game
I LOVE THIS GAME!!
Somehow I spent 130 hours in this game. I think of this as junk food rpg type game and really only cared in the first place because my senior year in college my final thesis paper was about Viking history
This was the best AC game for about the first 5-10 hours...then it just kept going...and going...and going. The endless amount of gamebreaking glitches I encountered, the non-stop repetitive missions, the vast empty map to keep traversing. This game just exhausted me like nothing before, there was nothing compelling or worth being invested in, like Witcher 3, for example. If this game's length was more like Mirage, this would've been golden, but it's just 80 hours of shite
I have a lil over 200hrs of my time invested into this game☠️
I love Valhalla. Playing it right now. Didnt give the newer assassins creed games a chance and my last game was Syndicate. Personally lost interest after that, either from burnout of the franchise or just not liking where the story was going. I tried a bit of Origins on Gamepass last year and couldn't get into it. I don't know what made me play Valhalla, but i downloaded it three weeks ago and almost gave up on it, but after a few hours in i was hooked. I stopped looking at it like an Assassins Creed game and found it to be more like The Witcher 3 with Assassin's Creed elements. The story is still meh in my opinion, I personally think Desmonds story couldve had a few more games before killing him off and setting us down this convoluted story, but its growing on me. I personally love raiding and building alliances. Combat to me feels tight and never gets boring imo. I cant wait to finish Valhalla and play Odyssey and give Origins another try. I also really like (male) Eivor as a protagonist.
As a massive AC fan I feel its one of the best in the series. the return of shaun and rebecca with a good modern day, jesper kyd back for the soundtrack, and and amazing story. Far superior to odyssey and origins
I hope one day a company makes one of the best viking games ever. Where you can customize your character, raid other ships, have an arsenal of weapons used in that era, a skill tree for each weapon and your character, have a narrative driven story where you can have multiple out-comes and multiple endings making it worth replaying. I honestly don’t even need all that, I just want more Viking games.
That and more Pirate games! Like Black Flag has stirred a need in my soul to have a pirate game like black flag but with a created character, and your ship is one you have to take or steal. Imagine a Pirate game that has a massive sea with tons of explorable islands and even bigger cities, where you can create your character, and utilizes the Nemesis System for Guards or the Navy, where if you get captured or escape a tough fight they then become this rival to you, meeting you in battle on the seas multiple times with epic fights, man that would be so awesome.
Or like you said a Viking game where you truly are building a settlement, gathering a clan in Norway before heading to a distant land, needing to gather real supplies and dictate who does what, go on hunting trips or meet with locals. It would be so cool idk why people haven’t been more drawn to these types of games
@@justingabriel1765 yeah there’s so many cool ideas for games set in different eras of the past and that’s why I’ve always loved the ac games because they make games set in some of the coolest eras, but it seems like they only wanna make samurai games. Ghost of Tsushima is a great game but after it came out everyone thinks they need to make samurai games. I just hope they realize that people want more than just samurai games, like imagine if sucker punch (the creators of ghost of Tsushima and the infamous series) made a game with some of the ideas we just listed, that would be awesome!
@@cripzydipzy well I think that Shadows is something that’s long over due, Japan and Asia have been a hinted at and wanted as a setting for a long long time, so I’m happy we’re getting around to it, even with all the backlash it’s getting and truth and lies mixed in there. I’m really interested about Hexe, how that got some supernatural witch powers, I BELIEVE it’s an Irish female lead I’m not 100% tho I thought I heard that. That’s really got me intrigued with how that will play like and what it will look like.
But yeah I honestly think that somone should look into this. I know that the people who made the shadow of war games are making a Wonder Woman game with the nemesis system, and I’m so glad it’s coming back because it genuinely was a phenomenal mechanic, and I just hope that in the future we can have a game where your an outlaw or pirate or criminal and it utilizes that for the “good guys”, making everyone’s play through their own with random enemies that grow with your character.
Or like your in the middle of a stealth mission and then your nemesis turns up in the camp, ruining your plans and having to make you rethink your strategy. I’d like they got the Last of Us 2 enemy AI with the Nemesis system my GOD that would be amazing if it worked. It would be even better without all the information you get in shadow of war where you know if someone will betray you sometimes.
I remember I was playing and sent like 4 people to ambush this guy and when I joined the fight they all betrayed me AND I got ambushed by others, I was pissed but it was really really cool.
We can only hope man one day!
@@justingabriel1765 yeah I’ve always loved when games have a nemesis system, its like it’s encouraging me to train more so I can fight against them. That’s what I love about odyssey is the mercenary system where you can be the top mercenary after climbing the ranks
I really liked Valhalla the first time I played it but the replay ability sucks because it’s really repetitive
AC Valhalla is one of the best AC games. I'll die on that hill.
It’s the best one.
If only it had a new game plus
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@@HahahMamamanNothing will beat rebuilding the Assassins in Brotherhood.
I have a hate/love relationship with this game. I'm enjoying the Forgotten Saga so far but when it comes to campaign. I made him into Guts and thinking that this is a Berserk game with assassin's creed lore. Idk it works for me and never bothered how long the game was again. Just simply doing some black swordsman gameplay.
I still love this game
Man Vahalla was so good had me hooked for about 40 something hours worth the money forsure hope they fix some of the pacing issues these new Ubisoft games have been plagued with