Everyone Told Me That Valhalla Was The Worst Assassin's Creed Game
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2023
- Everyone Told Me That Valhalla Was The Worst Assassin's Creed Game.
In what should have been the final episode of Assassin's Creed: Ranking The Series, I have a look at the longest, and to my mind least Assassiny game, in the series: Valhalla.
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the twelfth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and the successor to 2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Principally set in the years 872-878 AD, the game recounts a fictional story during the Viking expansions into the British Isles. Players control Eivor Varinsdottir, a Viking raider who, while attempting to establish a new Viking clan in England, becomes embroiled in the centuries-old conflict between the Assassin Brotherhood, who fight for peace and liberty, and the Templar Order, who desire peace through control. The game also includes a framing story, set in the 21st century, which follows Layla Hassan, an Assassin who relives Eivor's memories so as to find a way to save the Earth from destruction.
Development of the game began in 2017, around the release of Assassin's Creed Origins. Ubisoft Montreal led its three-year development with help from fourteen other Ubisoft studios worldwide, as well as Sperasoft. Numerous people involved in the development of past Assassin's Creed games returned for Valhalla, including Ashraf who served as the creative director for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) and Origins; Darby McDevitt, the lead writer for Black Flag and Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011) and co-writer of Assassin's Creed Unity (2014); and composers Jesper Kyd and Sarah Schachner, who composed the game's soundtrack alongside musician Einar Selvik. Similarly to Origins and Odyssey, the team conducted extensive research into the time period to make the game world as historically accurate as possible, and drew inspiration from Norse mythology for certain narrative elements. The team also sought to address some issues found by players with Odyssey, such as its over ambitiousness, small focus on the Assassin-Templar conflict, and the absence of traditional Assassin's Creed gameplay elements like social stealth.
Valhalla was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Stadia on November 10, 2020, with the PlayStation 5 version following on November 12. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for the narrative, characters, voice acting, visuals, soundtrack, world-design and the interconnectivity of activities, while being criticized for its length, technical issues, and repetitive structure. The game had the biggest launch in the Assassin's Creed series to date, selling the most copies within its first week and becoming the second most profitable Ubisoft title of all time. Ubisoft supported Valhalla extensively with two years of additional content, including both free and paid story expansions, game modes, and events. The game was followed by 2023’s Assassin's Creed Mirage, which features a historical setting in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age and follows Basim Ibn Ishaq, a major supporting character from Valhalla. 
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Its a good game the only problem is they put assasins creed in the title
yeah there is no assassins creed in the game lol. but eivor kinda lives by his own creed that’s the point of the story. a very unlikely assassin who does things simply because they must be done.
@@leandroreyes5878yes their is
Its def an Assassins creed story. its like saying rogue one is not star wars due to the lack of jedi. Valhalla is full of Ac lore lol
@@diegoestmar559It's funny how these people love to bash on the RPGs like they're "not AC" but often seem to regard *Black Flag* as one of the best AC ever. Go figure...
All three of them, Valhalla, Oddysey, and Origins are works of art. My favorite overall after playing them all is Odyssey. It had the most immersive rpg system. It also had the best camera filters for awesome in game pictures. The other games' photo systems fell flat compared to Odyssey's. I think Valhalla might have been a step up in terms of puzzles. Not sure whuch one had the most immersive puzzle stories. AC has still yet to deliver on a super immersive puzzle system. I guess finding the keys was fun in Valhalla. Oddysey had the best world. Critisism has its place but to give proper credit they're all beautiful and fun games.
The internet is a double edged sword, in many ways it ruins the fun in exploring a game by yourself and sometimes saves your time and money from a bad game.
"Homefront: The Revolution" game is really good game but very hated on by reviewers. Same goes for "Metal Gear Survive".
Edit: Every popular review about "Metal Gear Survive" is full of lies, you can't trust them. A lot of the reviews complained about the survival mechanics, scavenging for food and water, and also being limited on oxygen in the dust (Angry Joe complains about his stamina going down too quickly when his character is both really hungry and thirsty, not taking the time to hunt for food and water). Turns out food and water is plentiful later on. Not much you can do about the oxyge, you can only get a better O2 mask. (Most reviewers didn't even get to africa). A lot of people didn't like the game before even trying it, because it has "zombies" in it. However players must not be real fans of the MGS series if they think this is the first time Metal Gear has had any enemies with zombie like behavior. MGS V TPP had wandering mother base soldiers, and the Skulls. Theres also Vamp, and many others with similar behavior in past games. There has always been zombie like enemies, they just were not called zombies, just like in Metal Gear Survive they are wanderers. Plus, I don't remember zombies having hive mind, or group think.The story was bad to reviewers. However most reviewers never beat the game. Most definitely did not look at the archives to listen to the tapes in the game either ( like most did not do in TPP either ). This game actually has a good story that makes sense, although is also more complicated than one would think. The story is not just a side tale, its directly part of the series, even if its only a small part. I mean we need some explanation at least of where wormhole technology came from, how it was discovered, and so on for TPP. Metal Gear Survive gives us that explanation. Could the story have been better, longer, and portrayed in a better manner? Definitely, but what would you expect from a $40 game (now obtainable for less than $10 used). People found the gameplay boring. I would say early gameplay is annoying, using the spear and fences and just poking. However the game gets far better over time, as one would expect from a survival game. Killing wanderers gets harder, and ways of doing it get better with the different classes, class skills, and weaponry, not to mention traps, turrets, ect. Jumping into multiplayer is fun as you get larger hordes, more variety, and different elemental types, which you wont see in single player after beating the game.
@@Cookie.2118those are definitely not a good game
@@rbkgaming2581 why?
Edit: why does a 3 letter word like "why" scare people off? God forbid you for actually putting effort into your thoughts.
In my case, I explored/played the whole game alone. In the end, I hated it, it become painful to finish this boring game ( + knowing what AC used to be). Nobody could give me back my money and time. You mentioned 2 things that cannot work together because no review out there changes YOUR OWN view of the game, you like it or not.
@@Cookie.2118 You wouldn't know what a bad game is if it smacked you in the mouth though.
"Its like edging except it doesnt feel as good when u finish"💀💀
This guy!🤣💀☠️⚰️
Bro what 💀
Finally someone who realized the same thing... Valhalla is best when you play it slowly. In my first playthrough I rushed through it. It was a chore and a bore (although I liked the story). For the second time I played it over the span of maybe 3 months. It was soooo satisfying to discover what Valhalla had to offer.
I just bought the game for 20$ and I'm excited to give it a go. I really liked Odyssey in the end, I think it'll be great to play after work as a chill experience.
I felt the exact same way about Odyssey (have not played valhalla). All the little segemented stories on each island were a few hours long each, and sometimes quite interesting !
@@K.C-2049 yea same. Heard all stuff about odyssey but as i went on playing i enjoyed it a lot and honestly felt like it was still an AC. Keep the same attitude with valhalla, go slow and immerse yourself in the character or how you like it, and you'll get a satisfying animus experience together with an AC game
It's been a long time since I played, I just started up again recently trying to get excalibur. Already got Thors hammer
I don't think there is a way to play valhalla any way but slow lmaoo. its a slow boring game
The "God stuff" was cut from the main game at fan request. Basically what happened was people were being upset about the fantasy elements in their sci-fi series (Origins and Odyssey had these first) so Ubisoft introduced this solution for players to be able to skip the fantasy portions by making them optional.
Now, given that it's mandatory to play the Asgard bits to understand the ending of the game it's safe to say they shot themselves in the foot and that they were waaaaay into the development of the game. The decision was made late and the devs weren't able to rewrite the the story to cut the fantasy stuff altogether - or actually make it optional.
Ah that's interesting! I wasn't following the game pre-release so I missed all that. Interesting that people complained about mythical stuff for this game despite it being in the other two, like you say.
Asgard mission chain is literally part of the main mission chain but ok.
@@overheatedeskim054Asgard is completely optional, it’s a side area.
@@overheatedeskim054no it isn’t lmao
@@overheatedeskim054someone didn’t actually finish the game 😂
The best Viking game of all time, for sure. Stunningly beautiful and with “endless buffet” of stories and discoveries to make, yet best enjoyed one meal at a time over many months. It was so easy to pick up and play again even if you took a break. It was like five seasons of an amazing TV show, which you can enjoy slowly while still binging a few episodes when you wanted to. I don’t get the haters, at all.
thats how i get through so many games. black flag was the same. odyssey too. even death stranding which isnt ac lol
So if you don’t like mindless grinding, microtransactions and boring repetitive side quests in a game devoid of any innovation you are a hater? Keep shilling.
@@corn.3892lol, you clearly haven't played the game for yourself. Their really is no grinding. Yeah, you need to level up to unlock new areas but... Leveling up is so damn easy that it basically not a problem. Microtransactions are pointless. And the side quests are really good... I assume you are talking about world events, even if you don't know what the side quests are called since you never played the game. Their is a lot of different events that make you use your brain to complete them and some are just a lot of fun to do, a lot of them feel like GTA random events that just fill the world with a lot of life.
@@Cookie.2118 There is grinding (level grinding, resource grinding), you haven't played the game, lol. Sure, it's better than Odyssey, but it's still annoying. The side content is repetitive, because the world is so peaceful, the main side quests or content is carrying crates and doing mindless chores. The drug trips don't give you any meaningful progress, the entire existence of the open world is basically meaningless, why? Because its side content (very little action, meaningless drug trips, carrying stuff around and stupid puzzles) is so unbearably BORING, that the best way to play Valhalla is to ignore it and focus on the main story. Sadly, the story is not good enough to carry this game. I don't know what makes you think carrying crates full of apples is good content, but I guess to each their own.
@@Cookie.2118 Plus, the world events are, OBJECTIVELY bad. They make exploration so much worse and are the second-biggest problem of Valhalla. Forget infiltrating cool fortresses and brutal fights, shoot arrows at doors, throw things around and enjoy the broken climbing, WOW, I accept that many people like the game, but this is just blatantly shilling.
It's funny. I've played every single AC ever made..
AC Unity, Revelations, 3 and Odyssey being my favorites.
It's odd though, because Valhalla has clocked the most play time, and I still find myself playing to this day. Over 300 hours and counting :)
To be fair if someone were to play through each game once, Valhalla would easily have the highest play time. I've played Black Flag 3 or 4 times and I still have more hours in my 1 playthrough of Valhalla 😅
According to Steam, I clocked over 660 hrs in 3, that's after 100% on the PS3 and I've just run up another couple of hundred on the remaster on PS5. Connor is still (deliberately) an ass, the mechanics are incredibly frustrating with their inconsistency, but it remains the most epic of the series for me and the most innovative. I think the reason I clocked in so many hours on PC was it was the closest I was going to get to a port of RDR and the sandbox is great to just run around, hunt and slaughter redcoats (or watch cougars doing it).
AC2?
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
Odyssey is my favorite
I believe many players are missing much of the "meta" stuff that ties them all together. Going back to the start, Adam and Eve themselves were hybrid human/ISU. This means that some ISU genetic exist in varying degrees across all humanity. Those with cetain combinations have varying abilities. I.e. the vision/bird tie-ins, that cause them to pervieve things and leads them toward the assassins or the templars. These being genetic in nature also means that these individuals are oftem groomed to these philosophies through familial bonds. What the Norse ISU (and atleast one other) did was incorporate more of themSelves into this hybridization. Appearanace, traits, but most important to Valhalla, memories. BUT the person whom these attributes begin to express in [seers] deal with them in unique ways. Some go mad (Tyr/Sigurd), some integrate fully (Basim/Loki) and some struggle and eventually come to a partnership (Eivor/Havi). I believe this is also some cross breeding between the existing ISU genetics present in human lines intermixing with the newer Norse lines. Basim being probably the best example (and also explain why he also got to the middle east). So lets suppose that Basim had more hybrid genes AND the norse genes which is why Basim integrated fully with Loki. This also explains why Basim can skip around in the Animus, because his norse ISU genes add capabilities (or genetic memory of how to use the anumus in this way). I would say that as a gamer when you run into something that doesn't initially make sense, instead of assuming it's a shortcut/retcon by the game devs. Try to look deeper. ❤
An what most ppl don’t know that Cain was the the founder of the ancient order an the templars praise him
This was greatly helpful!
Honestly all the ancient aliens stuff just feels silly even fully explained. When you get to a point where you can say your original main character is strongly implied to be a direct descendant of Adam Bible it just... Feels off.
@@Noname72105 I get you. It is most def treated as an after thought or at best just a way to forward the game play into more "fantastical" ways. So yeah, definately silly, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun. 🤷♂️
Been at this gem of a viking experience for several months, the dailies and weekly tasks are fantastic hooks to make you think "oh, go on..just a little more exploration"
The lesson here is to always judge for thyself 😊
The problem isn't the quality (which is great) it's that it is named assassins creed (and not vikings creed for example)
What I think reviewers hate about these long games is that they are rushing through the game to meet with the schedule and they lose the chance to properly dissect the game in it's slow-paced approach, as intended
This game is quantity over quality, I’m confused how y’all think this comes close to origins or Odyssey
This is not a Viking exprience tho. Nothing about this is Viking. It is not even in the general ball park of what Vikings were.
@@ncrranger6327 I did not rush and it was a bloated mess without any cohesion.
Hahha I know right, don’t get me wrong it has its issues, and I haven’t played any DLC. But I had a FUCKING BLAST playing this very long epic satisfying main story, in my homeland. The raids feel amazing especially the big main mission ones. They can go on for almost an hour sometimes
Doing the raids with the community made Vikings that you can add to your crew were my favourite things to do in the game.
You're not supposed to like it 😭
@@the_marveraklet people enjoy what they want bruh
@@VinnyFrFr I know thats my point
Been playing this game for almost 3 months now,over 300hr and I’m still having a blast.Got the 2 dlc W o D and S o P for 1/2 price. Waiting for Valhalla Ragnarok to be discounted
I’ve enjoyed all the AC that I have played.Been an AC fan from the first one that came out in 2007.Black Flag Probably is my favourite.
Update...Holy crap, same day I made this post, I get home and turn on my PS5 and low and behold freakin Dawn of Ragnarok is on sale for $19.95!!! Crazy luck.Have not even finished Wrath o Druids and still to do Siege of Paris.
Cheers mate, this game was a good ride
It's weird how much hate this game gets, it's a blast. People need to take of the nostalgia classes and play the game as a game. I've played almost all AC games and enjoyed all of them. Skipped rogue:) I always approach the games with curiosity. I just wanna see what is behind the next hill. Even if I just find a deer I'm honestly exited. I don't aim to 100% games but almost always end up doing it anyway, just because well there was this hill I hadn't looked behind yet😂
What the hell in Valhalla does it have to do with the Assassin's apart from the first 15 minutes? It's not nostalgia, these games are flat-out worse than the first 5 games and are designed to waste your time so you spend real money on cosmetics @@jerryb2965
While I played as female Eivor, I did honestly hate her voice a lot of the time lmao. And it sucks, because the voice actress has a lovely voice, but she went for this overly raspy tone that was just really unpleasant to hear and definitely impacted her performance. She also played the voice of Eivor's mother in which she sounded way more like her natural voice and I really wish she had done that for Eivor.
I just tried it, and first thing that piss me off is that imagine how many resources they spread doing immersion braking huds and micro transactions, if they get rid of the game store they’ll had more resources to make a better game, the second one was the Skyrim skill tree, really? They think that makes an assassins creed that is the lack of all those rpg elements in favor of more realistic action, then ins the main character identity they didn’t have the guts of keeping Eibor female or male, many female were raised as boys so you telling me they couldn’t go that route. Then the whole immersion braking hit numbers and health bars. They need to make a simpler game, keep going with the original assassin formula and create just more cinematic side quest that teach you new abilities instead of having you unlock them with experience.
I spent the time to go through all side quests and every single wealth or collective item i could get before i proceeded with the main quest within the current area i was in. After doing such allowed me to understand the story far better. Ofc you can't expect everyone to have that sort of dedication however the option to do so is there and choosing not to go through it is your choice. If you complain you don't get the story you have only yourself to point at.
I did the same thing until it became so boring I was unable to continue playing the game. Which was unbelievably fast, I got to that point faster than in Odyssey.
Damn, is it longer than Odyssey? I just started Odyssey yesterday and it took me 4 hours to clean the entire first area... then I opened the map :(
Yeah it's longer than Odyssey. It took me 67 hours to beat Odyssey, but Valhalla took me about 83. That does include doing all the Order of Ancients and optional areas, but I didn't collect all the collectables and didn't do any DLC.
its my fav assassin creed other than unity and mirage
Odyssey is a masterpiece.
@@joshy9392 I just got my ship, had to stop to bake some pancakes, but everything is done, and I´m ready to continu,e I´m liking the game, the revelation abouit who "Just some Spartan general" was cool, sucks for everyone :( .
500 hrs in Valhalla and 500 hrs in Oddessy. can't get enough of the best games in history.
I think sometimes players who criticize a game harshly have played hundreds of games and are comparing them, sometimes unconsciously, to the best games they've ever played. Also, some players have played too many games and have gotten jaded and great graphics and gameplay don't engage their joy response much any longer.
I agree with graphics but obviously you will criticize a game when you have more knowledge than someone playing a game for the first time. Same thing happens with all forms of media.
Issue with that is that Ubisoft stopped making unique experiences and just started making witcher 3 knock offs. Their games get compared to other popular games because Ubisoft steals most of their ideas from successful titles and do nothing to actually innovate.
Even rockstar games is a clear upgrade. But ubisoft? Ac new ganes is like a new dlc of witcher 3.
It's pretty nice for the first 12-15 hours or so, while the viking setting still feels fresh, and then it just becomes a chore...
Loved the video, got me through a long drive. The length of this game can be extended by another 40 hours if you get all the dlc haha. I have only beat Wrath of the Druids so far, if you ever return to this game, highly recommend playing it, Ireland is beautiful and the story is great.
I do the same thing. It’s good to listen to the story telling while driving along. 👍👍
I am so incredibly pleased to see this video and channel doing so well. Congratulations mate, very well deserved!
I don't think any game in this franchise has actually been a bad game. Some just stand out and are much more unique than others, others had either more development time or just in general better skill at being able to put together and polish the engine and gameplay and mission design, and with how many entries in the franchise there have been and how long they've been making them some just have to be at the bottom. I think otherwise there is enough variety at this point that even fans of the franchise are going to have certain developer teams or eras/styles of AC games that they prefer. And otherwise there are just going to be some general gamers that enjoy a fraction of these titles and aren't a fan of the others.
For me, the thing that always appealed to me the most about these games was being able to play around in a historical sandbox. Sure I still liked the general plot and world that the game was building, however I'm one of those who never cared a single bit about anything happening in the present-day storyline or the character of Desmond. If it wasn't taking place in the historical portion of the game I just didn't care.
And that comes from me just generally having an interest in lots of historical eras. However this also has kind of made it so that the setting can sometimes determine whether or not that becomes one of my favorite games in the franchise to begin with. I go back and forth between whether or not I like black flag or origins the best. And I think I pick origins not even necessarily because I think it's definitively a better constructed game, but just because it was so much more enticing for me to explore that game world because of an absolute love and fascination with ancient Egypt that dates back to my childhood. Otherwise I feel like I enjoy something like Assassin's Creed 3 more than many other people because I also have a high interest and attachment to the revolutionary War. That's one of my favorite eras in American history to study.
Stuff like unity and syndicate, I can realize that they are mostly generally well made games, although unity still has technical issues to this day. And they feel more like traditional Assassin's Creed titles, however I just didn't really have a huge interest in the French revolution or industrial London. So those became the first two games that I never finished in the franchise and again a big part of it is the setting, but the other part is that that was about when Ubisoft was really starting to just create these overly bloated game worlds that had just a ton of icons everywhere and all of this side content where it became daunting to really know what was worth doing and what you were supposed to be doing, and what was just pointless filler and busy work.
I feel like origins actually cleaned that up a little bit since it was taking such heavy inspiration from The Witcher 3, I felt compelled to do most of the things that I ran across in every area
And then Odyssey did the too much on the map thing again lol
It's taking me a while to finally get into Odyssey, I had to do a lot of initial grinding before that game felt like it really opened up and became fun to explore and go on adventures. And even then I've got to be 50 odd hours into that game at this point and still don't quite know how to progress the main story.
Valhalla even though I hadn't completed Odyssey, was catching my eye because I needed something to show off my new series X, and because I generally am more interested in something like the Vikings over the ancient Greeks. So I hopped into Valhalla as well and played a bit through it and had some fun and can note which things I think it does better than Odyssey in which things I think it does worse. And although it kind of cleans up the map compared to Odyssey I still feel like it has this issue of just being too big with too much stuff for its own good. But my biggest issue with Valhalla is I just don't really care about any of the characters. Odyssey also has too much going on however there's a feeling of charm and whimsy and playful sarcasm that makes it entertaining, especially if you pick Kassandra
Valhalla is just kind of missing that. So it sits as one of those games installed on my hard drive that I only ever made it a fraction of the way through, however one day I'm going to go back and give it a shake. Because it's gorgeous, even if I don't think all of the farmlands in England are all that exciting to explore, but it is mechanically sound. If you're looking for a Viking game, it is probably one of the best ones if not the best one depending on what you're looking for
So even though it lost my interest, even though Odyssey lost my interest and syndicate and unity lost my interest... I still can't look at them and say that they did that because of they're bad games. It's just the combination of whether or not it's the right time and whether I'm the right person to really love that particular setting and concept
This is a huge franchise, and at this point I would bet it's incredibly rare to find anyone who actually really loves every single entry
And I'm not going to lie, once mirage goes on a decent sale I really want to try that one out, because once again just the setting interests me more. Plus if it's not as big or as long as these other ones I might have a chance to actually beat it l😅
i have to say that i liked it. if you take your time (as others have said) it really is a beautiful world and a good game. If you are rushing through it, then yes it becomes very repetitive. I like the voice acting (Eivor is the red headed actor in last kingdom) music is nice and ya it is a very beautiful game. Take your pace with this game because its long but had good elements and activities and really liked the detail they put into developing Ravensthorpe.
Repetitive is repetitive no matter how fast you go through it. I don’t understand how taking it slow would help
@@acest2098the main quests are mostly design the same in Valhalla, that's why it gets repetitive quickly when you just do main quests and nothing more. But the side content in this game is beautifully done, only players that take it slow will do them because you will miss out on most of the side activities if you are rushing to beat the game. Just do a good mix of both side quests and main quests, you will have a really good time... I will promise you that.
I never thought to play this one, but your video has me interested… still, I’m 300 hrs in and still not finished Odyssey… I spend a lot of time just wandering around checking out the sights
I recently stated oddessy as well. It’s so much better than Valhalla.
@@citrusjelly9069I’m still working on Origins now, but planning to try Valhalla after that…
Still, I’m not sure anything can be as good as Odyssey….
im playing Odyssey right NOW for the first time (80 hours in) and i totally know what u mean. I feel ashamed to miss such a gorgeous game all these years@@leeroynaggins
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
@@zicuvalentin2251 300… because this is Sparta!!
Mind blown that you put all this energy & effort on such a small channel!
Really well done. Honestly I assumed you had at LEAST 100K+ subs.
Keep up the good work. That hour flew by & it was entertaining.
You'll definitely hit those milestones someday soon!
New sub!!👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you, I really appreciate those kind words! If you happen to know 100k or so people and could convince them to sub then I'd be super grateful, thanks!
@@borangedunn 🤣🤣
I love Valhalla. I completed it 100% with all the additions. I also liked collecting opals, I visited every nook and cranny. After finishing the game, I missed Eivor the Viking. After a year, I'm back and playing Valhalla again. :)
Bro, there's no Assassin's Creed in this 1 hour Assassin's Creed video.
Bro did unity dirty 💀
From what I was able to gather from Mirage is that Odin was trying to take over Eivor's body much how Loki did with Basim. However unlike Loki's Subtle approach by appearing as a friend of Basim, Odin tried to take it by force by claiming to be Eivor's god.
If you keep uploading these great videos, your channel will blow up 100%
I’m impressed you did all of that in 83 hours. I had 90 hours and I still had areas not discovered and hadn’t finished the main story. By which time I was completely burnt out. Maybe I’ll go back and try finish it.
Just try playing one day and rest for another day.
It’s fun to play as a Viking, but I simply didn’t care for the setting, or the story. Not as interesting for me as the previous ones.
I spent about 120 hours in the game too.
21:01 They can't fast forward because they don't know what exactly they are looking, or where and when it will turn up. That's been the case with most other AC stories.
I think we can assume Basim knows what he's looking for, so he knows what bits he can afford to skip.
Knowing how dumb Ubisoft story can be watch them try and reset the entire assassins creed storyline by having “the keeper” Desmond and Layla the new Adam and eve for a soft reboot of the franchise
This game was so fun. Been thinking about jumping back in.
Do it! I put about 40 hrs about a year ago and just the other day started playing again and I forgot how awesome it was
@@dedo7326 I think I have over 100. I was playing it everyday after work and every waking minute on the weekends
not that good@@dedo7326
you couldn't skip through time in the original first games because of memory synchronization, I think in AC Brotherhood they tried to do it but they couldn't and that's the reason, Abstergo probably did it with Subject 16 which caused him to lose his mind and be trapped within the animus
That's right, which is why Basim being able to casually jump to the exact moment he's looking for stood out to me. That's a big deal, given what the early games established.
Are all weapons in the choices you pick can't be kept or lose if you change how the story goes?
What threw me off was how stupid all the side quests were. Why would you make a quest where npcs asks you to purposefully burn their home down to prove they’re strong warriors?💀
Just finished watching your whole AC series, you’re such an underrated RUclipsr. Can’t wait for the mirage video. Appreciate you brother, cheers!
I'm not sure if I'm flattered or worried for your mental wellbeing, but thank you! I've been delayed in getting to play Mirage but hopefully next week I'll get lucky!
It was a great game that didn't deserve the hate. It really isn't that long if you are just doing the main story. Most side stuff is completely optional. No different than something like skyrim or the Witcher 3.
It deserved the hate that it wouldn't have gotten when it weren't called "assassins creed"
It was a good game but imo suffered from the collectibles-hunting carbon copy-pasting of other Assassins Creed games. The best parts of Valhalla were the parts that weren’t in other AC games.
naw, main story was pretty long. And drug its feet
Nah great game is crazy, this is the worst AC game I’ve ever played 💀
@wezzsimple6612 your opinion. To me the original is the worse now. It hasn't aged well at all. After playing the the modern games (origins to Valhalla) it's really hard to go back to the old ones. They feel too bare bones after having so much added.
What's the song in the background??
Do you plan on playing the Watch Dog Legion Assassin Creed DLC story?
Yeah, I was told the same thing man over and over. So I stayed away from it. For a long time, just bought it Friday. And today is Tuesday Haven't put it down since take. My wife's gonna divorce me over LO. L.😅😅😅 The visuals Are spectacular Alone The storyline draws you in. Making you want to learn more as you play. The exploration is awesome. Bob Marley is I can't say enough I am so glad. I went with my instincts love this game❤❤❤❤
My problem with this game is the length
One of the issues I had with this game is that I had to wait for a npc to open up a chest, sometimes they don't even come.
Odyssey is still #1.
I don't give a shit about a hidden blade, Odyssey was perfect
Yeah...Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
It’s a good game. I play it without the AC lore in mind, like a standalone title that made me appreciate it more.
I dislike long games because I usually don’t get to finish the story before I’m bored
"It's like edging only it doesn't feel as good when you finally finish" 🤣🤣 What an analogy. Legit spat out my coffee. Subbed
This is a great game and one of the best "viking" themed. I don't know what some people are thinking when they say it's bad. It's a beautiful game I like going around in the countryside on my horse and it's never boring and using the ship is beautiful too. The story is good the characters are good the landscapes are beautiful the lore is quite historically accurate (how it can be for a game). What else do they want? And the same people idolize games like The Wither 3 which is nothing special in my opinion. And I think with these games (Odyssey and Valhalla) Ubisoft has managed to find a great equilibrium between the story and the open world which is something nobody else has done so well. By the way Eivor is a unisex name.
about female Eivor voice there is a reason why she talks like that because she was bitten by a wolf in her neck when she was a child (she has a big scar too) which damaged her vocal chords the rasp is present in the male voice too but it's less noticeable. I didn't find anything strange in her voice. and the music is outstanding.
by the way (and then I shut up lol) this is a game you can't rush you have to enjoy the world and the story so any reasoning about how much time it takes to do something is nonsensical.
Best AC game ever! Almost 400 hours in and still exploring.
Have you ever even played another ac game?
You're still exploring because the map is a bloated mess of copy pasted assets. Wow, how exciting and intriguing
As someone who has 100% completion in all of the RPG Assassins creed games i can confidently say that Valhalla is the worst to fully complete lol
I dislike how they drop modern day bombshells and never follow it up or conclude it.
We will not see what happens to layla and basim probably until the 2030s.
I just bought it for 19$ i liked odyssey so i think i would like valhalla tho
I agree with most of your ideas and critizisms.
I enjoyed a lot about Valhalla. It is not at all a bad game as such. I do not think it is too long at all.
I had great fun roaming the world, and I actually loved the incremental upgrade mechanic. It felt natural to me, and you had to make strategic decisions while choosing your upgrade path. I often went to areas that required a higher skill level than I had, because the game is too easy as it is.
- My main criticism is that this should have been developed as a separate IP, and not as an Assassin's Creed game. Viking gameplay does not connect well with the Assassin's Creed way of doing things. It works against it, actually.
- I also missed the beautiful ancient city environments in this game, but they just did not exist in this area in this time period.
- I did not like the supernatural/god nonsense in this game at all. I would have preferred a pure realistic approach to this historical setting.
- I think the castle sieges were nonsensical. I could with ease conquer every castle on my own, by singlehandidly killing everyone inside, but was then in the next instance forced to do it all over again in a siege. This was a dumb mechanic. Not well-designed, and not thought through, by the devs.
it is too long. If you try to do EVERYTHING, side missions, secrets and such, u can be looking easy at 300 hours. With all DLCs, game mods, probably 400 or 500. That is just insane and, for completionists like me (i like to do everything in a game), its a nightmare. I myself just had to stop, is too much. Plus, the game is plagued with bad game decisions that hurt the game.
- bloated content
- extremely long and mostly empty maps. I get it, they tried to portrait England in the past, but its a game decision that
hurts the game. Plus, points of interest are way too far apart from each other.
- cryptic secrets and other annoyances in the world design
- performance issues - such as constant crashes
- animation problems (clunky combat, getting stuff in the enviromment)
- sound mixing issues, muffled sounds, unimpactful weapon sounds etc.
- kinda bland story that lacks.. "soul", in the lack of a better analogy, and other stuff i could stay here rambling about
all day.
- too many gameplay mechanics getting introduced, not well explained, many of those pointless and unconsequential.
They could be removed from the game and you would not miss them one bit. That is the definition of bloat
- repetitive all way around. Its just too much.
This said, i dont think is a bad game at all, there are many things to be enjoyed (beautiful landscapes, nordic setting, cool weapons and gear, upgrade system is good, like you said, interesting characters, overall enjoyable game when it works well, and other stuff. I personally liked the raid missions, but also felt excessive and repetitive at some point. It feels like they used the good things from Odyssey, upped x20 everything, then scratched many good mechanics, introducing others are are worse. It feels like a disjointed mess that had good elements in between, but used in a disorganized, unfocused way.
@@hernanipereira"it is too long. If you try to do EVERYTHING, side missions, secrets and such, u can be looking easy at 300 hours. "
I have no problem with 300 hours. And as you said, you do not have to do everything. It is there if you want to, but it is your choice.
of course its optional, but if is in the game, its there for a reason. right? If is just there to bloat and waste our time, or to be skipped, then its a bad sign. I liked the game overall but i felt over and over it was wasting my time - overall feeling with many sidequests etc - Plus, if u just skip stuff, you might be missing important stuff, you never know. The game would have benefited more with less stuff in game, like i said, being more focused in the main story with some side missions, being smaller in size and scope. I had the feeling Valhalla got a bit greedy or, at least, overambitious; devs at some point tried to do everything, all the same time, kept adding stuff that has no real meaning or purpose and lost focus (i mean, there is even a roguelite mode in game o.o)@@Ploskkky
52:09 that was in Origins as well, right? I think it was absent in Odyssey though, if I'm not mistaken...
ive started playing valhalla again; and im currently at over 260 hrs. trying to do the mastery challenges which i think have easily put on 20 hours at least and im still not finished.
Valhalla is one of my favorite games tbh
I loved this AC the most because it allowed you to pretty uncover the parts of the lore you were interested in after the main quest, but not force you if you weren't interested in it. As someone that loves every bit of the franchise I naturally did all of them, but at my own pace, & enjoyed it. I did also enjoy the liberties they took with the setting, combining a few centuries together to give the fantasy element a bit of a homage to fantasy movies for sure. It's a fantastic period I loved, 2nd to the Victorian England setting. In regard to the Isu lore, Aita was involved in an predecessor version that failed, which is why he's doomed to reanimate over & over. In regard to Havi & Evior, Loki didn't kill him outright at first because Evior was still an innocent person who didn't fully awaken Havi yet. Loki knew Sigurd wasn't Havi but used Sigurd's pain as an awakening to force Evior to awaken Havi. The only mistake Loki made in his calculation was Evior's rejection of becoming Havi fully, like how he did Basim. Evior leaves to learn to live with Havi, which is why she leaves for Vinland. Apart from Daga all of them pretty much the opposite personalities of their former Isu self, including Basim in Mirage, & we see this within Evior's internal struggle with Havi throughout the game. It's actually an incredibly well written story. As for the Templars... completely rewriting history making the founder English not French is the worst revision for dramatization yet, but reading Alfred's writings for the reasonings were great for immersion into the game lore, & seeing him making bread as a poor fellow soldier for Christ was a nice ironic touch that fits into the touch of him going into hiding for real quite well.
3:19 "20hrs in and not enjoying my time with it..." Dude. No. That alone makes me not want to play the game. Any game over 20hrs that feels like a chore is a bad game. "Dude, this bowl of turds finally gets good after you've been eating it for 10 days straight." No thank.s
I’ve seen this exact thing said for universally praised games like BG3 and no one complains 🤷♂️
Good video! 13:48 Basim went into the Grey when he was not so old. He only looks "old" because he was decaying, but his decaying was slowed down by the Yggdrasil device. His Isu DNA may have helped too. Basim was also the most broken sage, mentally, (out of the Yggdrasil method) with more similarities (physically and most importantly mentally) to Loki than the other sages had with their Isu counterparts. He empathised with Loki's memories, portrayed by Nehal, and when Basim had no purpose and felt lost in life, Loki's memories gave him purpose. Basim is still his own man though - he still did his duty as a master assassin, and explored "a new world". Most of this lore is from Mirage though.
Reading this gave me an aneurysm from how nonsensical it is
Its a very very good game actually story fighting environment is way much amazing
But this aint any assassin game
They should have named it conquest of valhalla or something like that
It's more of an Assassin's Creed game than Odyssey was.
How? Odyssey DLC single handedly has more info about the Assassins than Valhalla did Base game and DLC combined . The only relevancy Valhalla has to the "Assassins creed" is that they showed how the "modern" templar came to be unless you're referring to gameplay then i agree Valhalla is more "AC" @@eatmyshamrock
@@BullyMaguireTheAbsoluteYou had just said why it is.
I loved this game. While I'm new to AC so cannot compare. I loved playing as a Viking. I don't mind it being long, I did find some points were repetitive, if they took the repetition out and added new ones it would be amazing. Overall if they brought out valhalla 2 I would get it
You might be surprised to know Farcry: Primal introduced a 'bird' pet which was the prototype for all the birds we get in AC: Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla. That mechanic was never used in any other Farcry game.
Dude I’m almost done with mirage and I just had to come back to Valhalla. So much more to do and weapons to choose from. Same with skills and fighting styles
I spent 3 months on this game, off and on playing it. Racked up 350 plus hours, got all items & trophies - everything completed except didn't touch Ragnarok Saga and after a few times trying the Skill challenges & the River Raids DLC quit both. It was still waaaay too long. Prob completed 80% of the content & those River Raids are procedurally generated Loot, so can drag on for hours. Especially the main story just dragged on and on with very little to keep my interest after Ivarr & Coelbert portion of story are completed.
This happens with every actually good game, you get burned out on the 3rd installment of the open world rpg trilogy that is Origins, Odyssey and then Valhalla. If Valhalla came before the other two I would have appreciated the game more. I've sunk so many hours into Origins and Odyssey that I found myself finding every task on Valhalla an absolute chore because it felt like the same loop I've already played time and time again.
Precisely. Its the same game mechanic formula as origins and odyssey. Thats why it gets boring quicker. Even if this was released before origins and odyssey, we would've found origins and odyssey boring lol.
Here’s the thing I hated odyssey and got bored of origins but this game just came out on gamepass and it’s already better than the other two. Just I wish it wasn’t an assassin creed game and wish Ubisoft didn’t make it either lol. These allot of things I like and love but then there’s just that dumb Ubisoft stuff that slightly ruins the experience. If they just made an brutal open world Viking game it would be so much better.
2:45 had me GAGGED
Damn the commentary about playing games for a living was on point! There’s a lot of games last year that I felt the games would have benefitted if the reviewer was more upfront in - time schedule - backlog
Some people only have a couple of hours a week to play a game, that should count for something. What should be analyzed is, does the game respect my time or not?
I felt that RDR2 didn’t and I know I’m missing out haha
I dont know why there's so much hate for this game. I mean this is by far the most jam-packed features of all AC game But sadly they removed it to AC Mirage which is sucks for my opinion. This definitely one of my favorite AC game in the series
People hate it because it's too long, way too much pointless loot and way to bloated with chores for activities and collectibles, mediocre storyline and plot and pointless side content that just a snooze fest, skill trees are just way to long and bloated and it plays more like mediocre viking game rather then an ac game
Because the game is half baked and is designed to drive you to spend more money.
-World too big and ypu don't want to get all the collectibles? Buy an xp booster.
-your weapons and armor are blandly designed with boring passives? Buy some new ones in the store for $10 a pop.
-want more than 10 poorly made raids? Buy the dlc.
@@kingpinavatar couldn't agree more they tarnish my favorite environment, culture and lore which is vikings, just imagine the damage they would do with samurai. And the Japan setting they probably make it play more like a mediocre or sub par sumari game or a boot leg version of ghost of tsushima but just a shittyer and half back version that's way too over priced with way too much micro transactions
Content and features for the sake of content and features is meaningless and shoving it into a game breaks immersion and makes the world open and dead because playing a collectathon is not fun especially for ac games which have the microtransactions curse supprised they didn't pull a star wars battle front before EA got hit up the ass with lawsuits forcing them to fix the game and make it playable with non intrusive micro transactions or put pointless skins in the game like fortnite that doesn't make in universe sense
I wished origins had more content honestly.
I even go on and replay the side quests and enemy locations.
People are weird,who cares about minor stuff if it’s a good game that’s fine by me.People are obsessed with minutiae details.
Anyway I love fantasy games and in reality all games are fantasy stories,it’s not real life 😂
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...
@@zicuvalentin2251But he didn't mantionted Odyssey
I look at the new games as isu games.
Which I like because when I first played rogue, I wanted to know more about them but the old games didn't have much besides the first few.
I dropped it after my controls just stopped working. I was stuck on the part where you have to fish with that prince guy. And it wouldn’t work so I gave up.
Funnily enough I thought the game had bugged out at that exact bit. I couldn't figure out how to start fishing.
Though in my case I had just forgotten that I needed to select the fishing rod in the weapon wheel 😅
@@borangedunn lol I did the same but eivor just kept swinging the fishing Rod. I might give it another try in the future but at that point I was fed up
The Order members will send assassin's after you but you need to fail a quest for this to happen (you choose whether to burn a paper or hand it over I think...something like that). Each region has 2 Order agents & they'll only search for Eivor if you're in their area. It's very tough when they come after you because it didn't matter my level & just 30 levels above suggested was a massive challenge & they don't stop hunting you all game.
I enjoy the part in norway the most. The scenery and climbing up mountains is beautiful. Once england starts i feel the environment gets a bit tedious which is why so many rush through it. Its hard not to fast travel when the world is not alive like rdr2 was. That game made you want to ride around everywhere. This game doesnt as much at least in my opinion but it is a fun enough viking game i just cant see it as AC
This game is actually underrated just like a lot of things. Just because you don't understand the ending does not mean it is a bad game. Plus unlike some other long games, it is supposed to be enjoyed piece by piece rather than all at once. Also, the DLCs are actually good i have played all three.
This game becomes straight up bad after you leave Norway, it’s not underrated it just simply isn’t anywhere near as good as it’s predecessors
@wezzsimple6612 its masterpiece get over it
@@wezzsimple6612 so what you gonna do
A masterpiece of mediocrity and creative bankruptcy
I stand by the fact that Valhalla is the worst Assassin's Creed game. But at the same time is a good action-rpg with vikings, raids, nordic gods etc.
If this wasnt an assassins creed game this would be a fire game, but either way I dont think this is a a terrible game its just not on tier of ones we expect to be at way better than oddesy in my opinion
For some time I put off playing this AC game because the fall off from the peak of the franchise has been heart breaking for me personally (as I was quite young when AC1 was released so I kinda grew up with playing these games) but finally decided to buy it a few months back when it went on sale for €20. A few days ago, I platinumed the game, with 220ish hours put into it, just because that's what I've done for all of the games - I can honestly say that while there are some fun bits to Valhalla, the heart of the game is no longer there. It just feels at this stage that Ubisoft is parading the dead corpse of a once loved franchise around so they can squeeze as much money out of it as they can.
Valhalla is very soulless compared to Origins and Odyssey. Think you should try those before judging the entire franchise just on Valhalla.
I have played both. And while you are correct, Origins and Odyssey are definitely better then Valhalla - I'm not judging an entire franchise on a single game, I'm judging it as a whole from AC1 all the way up to Valhalla and the fall off of the franchise from it's hay day to what it is now is undeniable - Valhalla was just the final nail in the coffin for me.
What I understood was that the Norse Isu design a method to reincarnate just that one time, in contrast to Aita's reiterations through time.
On other note, I recommend you to eventually check out the Ireland & Paris DLCs, as they change mechanics (or revisit old mechanics), & refresh the narrative & setting to the point that I find them more similar to the relationship between Liberation-ACIII or Freedom Cry-Black Flag, than just mere more content. Personally I liked the Irish one a lot.
Regards!
As much as I enjoyed AC Valhalla it wasn't a good “Assassin's Creed” game.
why do you rank syndicate and unity that low? genuinely curious
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Ac valhalla was my 1st AC game n I freaking loved it. It's one big ass adventure! After beating valhalla n all 3 dlc I now beat Origins plus dlc n oddesey n all dlc. I'm also almost finished with mirage witch I also love! People hate on valhalla yet it made ubisoft soooo much money.
It made money because Ubisoft design their games to waste your time so you end up buying them, the same thing Activision does with COD but people are too brain dead to stop buying them.
Nice video. Well written/nicely said. I largely agree but where I don’t, I respect your opinion as you’ve clearly shown your opinions are well and thoughtfully formed.
I believe some folks hate Ubisoft for decent reasons but I strongly suspect that some hate because it’s fashionable and I believe group-thinkers group-hate.
Anyone can hate any corporation, I’d probably prefer folks hated any corporation out of hand rather than loved one.
But only group-thinkers can hate and ridicule a huge, feature-rich and objectively technically expert game like Valhalla.
I believe the group-thinker’s mind says to itself, “Ooh Skillup sounds so clever when he calls out this big, flashy game for being too big!
He sounds like someone really smart who can’t be fooled by hype or fanciness!
I don’t simply dislike this game because it isn’t to my tastes or because there’s aspects I don’t enjoy! It’s because I’m really, really clever and can’t be fooled by Ubisoft’s BS!
And it’s certainly not because I’m a bit jaded or just sick of gaming all the time, we’re all just really, really, really clever like Skillup and we’re on to Ubisoft and we can tell this game is just a total bunch of shit!”
Translation to non-group think, plain English is, “a-DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR”
I just read what I’ve typed and it does possibly sound like I’m trying to be superior but group thinking is a proven phenomenon and it’s never had more potential than it has now with social media to help its transmission and I believe that whether I enjoyed this game’s aesthetics or story or feel or whether I did not, that it can be fairly said to be objectively expertly crafted in many ways. Erm… rant over! 👍
I don't like valhalla because it has almost no assassin elements to it. And btw who is Skillup?
@@kabakugan It’s very true. It is strange to call it an Assassin’s Creed game. I wonder why they didn’t just make Odyssey and Valhalla their own separate games.
It took me two years to complete the main story after purchase because I kept losing interest with the unnecessary pledge missions. I would be so invested in the main story, but then I'd be forced to spend 10 hours doing random things I hated just to continue the aspect of the game I actually enjoyed. It was such a slog for me, and no matter how much I want to like it I never can. Most people I know who bought the game never finished it and I totally get why. Only reason I did is because the AC games are my absolute favorite game franchise besides the Souls franchise. The actual main story was great, but progressing it was a nightmare.
I can’t think of the last timed I used an ration to heal once you unlock the whole skill tree these skills that practically help you avoid damage or help regain any health you lost I really just use rations to give myself more adrenaline in a fight
it is nice to finally see someone talk about valhalla in a positive maner
I’m gonna be honest, AC Valhalla is probably my favorite AC game
It's not assassins creed.
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@@kabakugan Shut up
@@MrHalfblack69 Viking simulator with wrist knife
It is another Ubisoft witcher 3 clone with tacked on clunky stealth
Im enjoying cheesing the main story by collecting armor and supplies ( putting on level scaling is important for this to be rewarding because you do become op) but the main part of emersion for me at this point is really making Eivor feel like my own. All the skills fine tuned ( i love the ability to reallocate skill point free of penalty) explorong the map and collecting all the armor pieces i want and weapons. Transmogging them for the perfect look then going into bits of the story as the viking i envision.
48:05 -- You can actually get these guys' attention in a most memorable way. For me, I was on my way to Grantebridge to START the main storyline IN ENGLAND, I was power level 13 and this one riding along the road spotted and immediately aggroed me. I'm pretty sure she was like power level 80 or something, and I was TERRIFIED. I hadn't even built the Hidden Ones Bureau yet, so I was so confused. I ended up having her chase me all the way back to Ravensthorpe because I didn't know where else to go. Eventually I lost her, and had to go all the way back to Grantebridge on foot because I dismounted at the settlement for just a second, then my horse refused to function. It was amazing and terrible all at once.
Odyssey only works if you play as Kassandra. Alexios is an immersion breaking buffoon as the player character. So I played Valhallah as female Eivor, but after NG+, I chose male and the voice acting is just so much better, the reverse of Odyssey.
I've only ever played as Alexios (I can't stand Kassandra) and have about 20 complete play throughs, including all of the DLC. Btw, I don't like Atlantis. Hades however, I do. BTW, my NG+ char is so OP it's practically cheating. Boring really. BTW. I still save Cassandra in order to get the best ending where everyone that CAN live, does.
@@cassiespencer6134 Funny how the voice acting can have completely different effects. I find it ironic that Alexios is obviously the "correct" choice for Odyssey but I prefer Kass and that female is the correct choice for Valhalla, yret in that game I prefer male. I don't even consider Odyssey as a game per se, more of a tech demo sandbox. The engine, mechanics and sheer size & variety of the map, weapons, skills etc, sowed far more effort and attention to detail than the narrative. There are some real oddities like zero fall damage, disjointed & tonally inconsistent side quests & the ridiculous level gating of wildlife (carried over from Origins) that enhance the tech demo more than game feel for me. It's almost like the story was an afterthought they threw together to justify the sandbox. I've got 253h logged on PC and just started a PS5 playthrough as part of running through 3,4 & 5 while I avoid Mirage, so I love the sandbox - except for when i drop my toe over an invisible line and start getting one-shotted by level 60 boars.
What do you mean "after NG+"? AC Valhalla doesn't have NG+.
My bad. I was referring to play throughs other than Valhalla.
@@cassiespencer6134 I was responding to @Andrew-fq7pu.
That edging reference is fuckin hilarious
Should’ve just been called Valhalla no assassin creed anyway, I like it 1 of my favorite games specially like the soundtrack
The combat is ok for a 20 hour game. At 100 hours it just doesn’t hold up and I found it atrocious. I’ll pick Odyssey’s gear grind over Valhalla’s combat. Odyssey’s combat feels amazing on PS5. In Odyssey Ubi Connect gave me a AC themed armor set that’s infinitely upgradable so I didn’t have to do the gear grind so I did almost everything else in the game. Whereas Valhalla’s main quests feel like side quests, Odyssey’s side quests are some of AC’s best.
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
You placed my favs ACs in the top 3 and Unity to the last ! You gained a sub !
I really enjoyed Valhalla, Iit waa a huge game, and the story was epic!
It’s unfortunate that not many people were aware that Valhalla pretty much serves as a “Love Letter” to the Franchise considering this Game makes Many References from Previous Titles.
I don’t know how anyone can play this game with the compressed audio sounding like it’s coming from a can. Seriously it’s disgraceful and I don’t know how more of you don’t recognize it
“Just an excuse to include some Prodigy jokes in their Viking game”? I mean, yeah… kind of. I think “an opportunity to pay tribute to Keith Flint by including some Prodigy easter eggs” would be a bit closer to the mark.
The Fact You Get The Hidden Blade,And The Fact That Roshan And basim are in the game let alone the whole existance of the hidden ones in the game is Alone A greenlight For Naming this game an assassins creed game Even Though your motives in the game arent catered towards the hidden ones you still have an subtle passive alliance with them and even learn there ways a bit so yeah like i said #TheGoat
That's certainly not enough, lol. Not even close.
This game is, by all means, anything but an Assassin's Crerd game. It's a Viking RPG who inserts the bare minimum to try to call itself an Assassin's Creed. Having Basim and Hytham is not enough. If anything, Eivor despises and spits on the Assassin's tenets.
You mean the "hidden blade" that he has oviously strapped to the OUTSIDE of his forearm?
@@felipebritto9554 It does about as much as AC4 did and everyone and their mom loves that game.
It tells the story of people fighting to take down a cult who seeks to control the free world using technology from an ancient precursor civilization. You're a modern person using the Animus to see all of this.
While the main character doesn't personally follow the tenets of the Assassins, and even thinks they're dumb, they end up fighting for the same cause. Even if the main character doesn't really care for it much, they still use the hidden blade and kills templars. Even if it's not really an "Assassin" game, it's still following the themes of the others while being a fun pirate game.
Or viking game?
I can't tell if I'm describing Valhalla or Black Flag. Wow.
@Araichu brother, you completely distorted AC4 story.
It tells a tale of man completely lost in his purpose. He wants money and power, and that desires makes him lose every person he loved in his life.
It's a story about going to the absolutely lowest and then finding a new and bigger purpose. Something worthy to live and die for.
That's the Creed. Edward recognized the tenets and how his life until that moment was a mess. He found Redemption.
That's probably one of the most Assassin's Creed game we have yet.
Valhalla has absolutely nothing about the Assassin's dogmas. Its story is too much prolonged, and gameplay wise, disguises itself as an AC game, but it's was not developed as one.
It is, by all means, a side game. It shouldn't have Assassin's Creed in its title. They should have added the "A Assassin's Creed story" to the titles of Odyssey and Valhalla as it was intended, but greed for money spoke louder.
@@felipebritto9554 how have I distorted anything? I just didn't mention those things. The things I did mention are accurate to both games.
Eivor wishes for greatness in England, ends up losing something they love, then has a more noble motivation to fight for what they believe is right. I can interpret it as such too.
I'm not arguing that Valhalla is good and 4 is bad. I dislike Valhalla, and while I think 4 is overrated, I think it's a great game. But what I am saying is that Valhalla is just as much an AC game as 4 is.
If we're going by overarching plot, Valhalla is actually more important and a bigger AC game than 4. Having Miles returning, seeing more of the Assassins and furthering the modern story much further than 4 did.
Black Flag, Origins, Oyssey, and Valhalla. All bangers. Mirage was poo.
The size of the map and the greatness of this game is too big for many little heads
Im literally playing Valhalla rn. The worst part is how long the story the is. If they made each arc two or 3 arcs (location only) itd shorten the story by like 20 or so hours and actually make it ok
Female eivor doesn't make sence but ok bro. Keep virtue signalling. If idin himself cant be male the who exactly can?
Odin who can shape-shift? Odin who was accused of "unmanly behaviour" because of his seer practices? There's stories of him turning into a deer or a snake, but a woman is just too far fetched?
@@borangedunn assassin's creed isn't all mythology in one place it's sifi that uses mythology as a backdrop. In the story, if valhalla there is no standard for odin to be female and while it is cannon, it doesn't make sense. Basim would already know odin is eivor, yet never brings up the gender swap, and eivor is sexist to other women in the game... she is also called a lord, not a lady... and the isu odin wasn't a shape shifter.... the reason loki could do that in valhalla is because he bad an apple of Eden... you know a mind device that can make illusions.
Odin being female in valhalla in the 9th century is pointless and only creates problems for continuity and logic jumps... it doesn't work from valhallas own perspective or for sage lore at a frankly level.
Clearly, this wasn't intended to be cannon but has been pushed out for political priorities. And as someone who has studied norse mythology and its counterparts in Europe, odin is considered mad because of his strange ways with magic and so on... however, like with loki, he isn't meant to actually be a bird or a woman or a horse... he's hiding and tricking people... It's like saying if I put on drag, I'm now a woman... nothing you have said on this topic is correct, and it all shows a deep misunderstanding of both assassin's creed as a franchise and norse mythology as well.
@@borangedunn wow you seriously are doubling down on the cringe "progressive vikings" that for unknown reasons are 100% accepting homosexuality. Ppl like you are a pox on society you think the wonderful globalist diversity open sexuality nonsense works in real life like it does on your video games and star trek.
Real life isn't as glamorous, real life has bug chasers, intestinal worms, child grooming/trafficking, forced hormone treatments funny how the fictional media only shows happy fun rainbows never the reality.