Assassin's Creed Odyssey

[Gotmadskillzson]

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It was pretty uneventful.

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I had dinner with mother and brother. Deimos gave non verbal communication that he wasn't happy how I was eating, and mother pretty much told me to use better manners when eating dinner at the table.

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My ending everybody lived. It was me, my sister, my brother and both parents at the dinner table. Kassandra and Stentor started wrestling to see who was more stronger while poured my dad more wine.

Afterwards I went to my ship and they all were crew members LTs. So out of the 4 LT spots, I have Stentor, Kassandra, my dad and my mom. They are legendary status too. It is funny that every time you get on your ship, one of them will have a conversation with you. Once Stentor said you actually ride this thing ? It is kind of primitive. Another time my sister said I am not taking orders from you. You say but I am the captain, you have to. Then Kassandra said fine, but I want to steer. Another time my mom was like hey did you remember to do this, remember to do that, it was hilarious.

[Dave_S]

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Evidently fire was dangerous as **** back in ancient Greece. I had to get rid of fire engravings because I kept catching myself on fire.

I thought this little sequence was great.
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About the cyclops

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I really, really enjoyed the fight. I really liked all the mythical creature fights besides Medusa. It was neat to see real minotaur after the first fake one.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Yeah over all I found fire in this game to be overly annoying. Every time I explored a cave or tomb and was using my torch I constantly would catch myself on fire just by WALKING. Also didn't like how the CPU fire weapons did more damage then your fire weapons.

[CMH]

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Finally got the chance to play this on Google Stream. Not bad.

I have NEVER liked an Assassin's Creed game. Rented Origins for a day. Played it for 30 min before turning it off, disgusted with the whole thing. I don't know why. I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll try again someday.

There are still things in Odyssey that make me cringe with the AC series. Combat is odd. The movement, the moves, it all just feels poorly designed in some way. Why can't the characters in AC move like God of War? It's not clunky, it's just bad animations in my opinion. It truly moves like the beta of Conan but with prettier colors and surroundings.

It's the same issue when you move around. The character doesn't have any weight. It's just floating. It's nitpicky but it just surprises me that this series cares so little about getting character movement right.

Anyway, I'm into the story so far and enjoying it for what it is. It's definitely a pretty game and the acting is pretty damn good. I haven't gotten anywhere close to doing anything of significance yet but I'll be playing until at least the end of my invite from Google.

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[TrustTheProcess]

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Finally got the chance to play this on Google Stream. Not bad.

I have NEVER liked an Assassin's Creed game. Rented Origins for a day. Played it for 30 min before turning it off, disgusted with the whole thing. I don't know why. I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll try again someday.

There are still things in Odyssey that make me cringe with the AC series. Combat is odd. The movement, the moves, it all just feels poorly designed in some way. Why can't the characters in AC move like God of War? It's not clunky, it's just bad animations in my opinion. It truly moves like the beta of Conan but with prettier colors and surroundings.

It's the same issue when you move around. The character doesn't have any weight. It's just floating. It's nitpicky but it just surprises me that this series cares so little about getting character movement right.

Anyway, I'm into the story so far and enjoying it for what it is. It's definitely a pretty game and the acting is pretty damn good. I haven't gotten anywhere close to doing anything of significance yet but I'll be playing until at least the end of my invite from Google.

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I got to agree with the movement. Combat is severely lacking. Anybody else having frame rate issues on xbox? Starts to make me feel nauseas.

[Dave_S]

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I thought the same about movement, but maybe after 15 hours I didn't notice it anymore.





A lot of the side quests are terrific imo, I just got Poseidon's Trident.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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[peter42O]

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While the animations could use some work, the combat system is excellent and easily the best in the entire franchise. Unlike pre-Origins where you could just spam the block/counter button and attack, here you have to be cautious especially with stronger enemies.

Movement wise, the game feels good to me and controlling Kassandra feels very fluid actually compared to old games. It still has weird movements like when climbing and at times, just wanting to "step/drop down" but doesn't happen. The parkour system still needs work to refine, perfect and polish it all.

For hack and slash/melee combat, Origins/Odyssey is the best I have played after Horizon Zero Dawn this generation. It's so damn satisfying. The only thing I wish was in the game was dismemberments and decapitations like in Witcher. Other than that, no major complaints at all regarding the combat.

100 hours in. On Chapter 6. Have 12 or so regions left. Mainly the "story" regions as I don't want to visit them until I have to. The side quests have been excellent thus far. Origins was second best this generation for me after The Witcher III but that honor now goes to Odyssey. I'm enjoying them more than Origins and quality wise, is right behind TW3.

Still ignoring all the message board quests and all that timed and randomly generated garbage. Also, after killing 80 or so mercenaries, im done with them. I pay them off every time now. This system would have been so much better if there were "pre-set" mercenaries for every region that were in that region's level range and that's it.

Story and characters wise, im loving it all thus far. It definitely has me glued to my seat as I want to see how it all plays out.

[ezio]

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Is it me or do the enemies not auto-scale to your level anymore? I am level 13 and went back to some earlier areas and fought people level 10 and 11?

[ImTellinTim]

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Is it me or do the enemies not auto-scale to your level anymore? I am level 13 and went back to some earlier areas and fought people level 10 and 11?

Once you do an area, it stays 2 levels behind you as you level up. Undiscovered areas stay with your level until you go there if you pass the original max level that it had.

[ezio]

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Once you do an area, it stays 2 levels behind you as you level up. Undiscovered areas stay with your level until you go there if you pass the original max level that it had.

Oh ok. Thank you.

Ezio

[ImTellinTim]

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It appears that new areas also don’t keep up with you and stay 2 behind...


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[Gotmadskillzson]

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So ummmmm, why this wasn't part of the main story baffles me

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Ok last night I finally killed all the members of the Cult of Kosmos. Killing all them is a journey, especially when it comes to The Gods of The Aegean branch due to you know the ocean being so big and they literally roaming it constantly. A few of them literally took me days to find sailing back and forth. Also didn't like how they never was alone, they were always escorted by 3 or 4 other ships.

Anyway the leader of the Cult was the woman you met in Athens. She was Perkles's wife. I never suspected that, I always thought it would be Sokrates considering he was always showing up everywhere I was. So at the end when you find her and be at their HQ Lair, she tells you she saw the future when she touched the gold glowing pyramid.

That she knew the Cult was going to come to an end and would be replaced by a new order. That the entire world was going to change. Instead of of a religion of dozens of gods, it will be replaced by a 1 God religion. That instead of city states society, the world will turn into a 1 nation kind of society.

Your character don't believe it will happen. Says that it was tried before and failed. So here is how this game ties into the rest of the series.

Odyssey had the Cult of Kosmos 400 years before Origins which had The Order of The Ancients which eventually led to The Order of The Templar's hundreds of years later.

[ezio]

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It appears that new areas also don’t keep up with you and stay 2 behind...


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Intersting.

Thank you.

[Dave_S]

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So ummmmm, why this wasn't part of the main story baffles me

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Ok last night I finally killed all the members of the Cult of Kosmos. Killing all them is a journey, especially when it comes to The Gods of The Aegean branch due to you know the ocean being so big and they literally roaming it constantly. A few of them literally took me days to find sailing back and forth. Also didn't like how they never was alone, they were always escorted by 3 or 4 other ships.

Anyway the leader of the Cult was the woman you met in Athens. She was Perkles's wife. I never suspected that, I always thought it would be Sokrates considering he was always showing up everywhere I was. So at the end when you find her and be at their HQ Lair, she tells you she saw the future when she touched the gold glowing pyramid.

That she knew the Cult was going to come to an end and would be replaced by a new order. That the entire world was going to change. Instead of of a religion of dozens of gods, it will be replaced by a 1 God religion. That instead of city states society, the world will turn into a 1 nation kind of society.

Your character don't believe it will happen. Says that it was tried before and failed. So here is how this game ties into the rest of the series.

Odyssey had the Cult of Kosmos 400 years before Origins which had The Order of The Ancients which eventually led to The Order of The Templar's hundreds of years later.

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Kassandra died in current times, like 2018 in my game. I was crushed to see her die.