Assassins Creed Valhalla (Vikings)

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

An Xbox ad for the game with the release date leaked via the Assassin's Creed Italy Instagram account: Coming out November 17th, 2 days before Cyberpunk. Hopefully this is false

Assassins? Italy?? Cryptic messages??? Anyone have Robert Langdon's number?

You can swap back and forth between the male and female versions of Eivor, seemingly at will. I played most of the demo as the female Eivor. Toward the end of my session I noticed an option to press up on the D-pad while toggling between menus. Doing so let me interface with the Animus and start playing as the male Eivor moments later, complete with new animations and a different voice. The whole thing was seamless, at least in the demo.

https://kotaku.com/everything-we-learned-about-assassin-s-creed-valhalla-a-1844355373

Yeah, this one has taken a step too far into RPG territory for my liking.
I hate the mechanic of non restoring health, looking for items to replenish it!
Unless you can regen with a power you unlock, I won't last.
I'll still buy the game, hoping they'll have a "legacy" mode that allows health to regen or something!
They might add it back in if fans kick up a fuss, they are pretty good at listening to their audience

Not super impressed now after that tbh.

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

https://kotaku.com/everything-we-learned-about-assassin-s-creed-valhalla-a-1844355373

I like that. Hard to know which voice actor will be better when selecting at the start and could be too deep into the game before deciding the other is probably better. Being able to switch as you please is a great move.

J. Marston wrote: »

It's a game, I'm not expecting much in the way of historical accuracy but I have to laugh how you seem to be portrayed as the good guys.

"Your goal is to build a thriving Norse settlement in a hostile land."

There's probably a good reason why the land is hostile!

The stream they did was hilarious

'Not all Vikings were bloodthirsty raiders, they just wanted to farm' immediately cut to them raiding a village and murdering everyone in it.

Tbf us lot are not exactly the target audience for a game where you play as a viking raider, the only way they could get any worse is if they did made an RPG where you play as Oliver Cromwell or a football game where you could only play as Thierry Henry's left arm.

quokula wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if that's a demo-only feature so they can show both versions of the character easily when demoing it to different journalists though.

Dunno, the way it sas it interfaces with the Animus seems to imply it's a feature that's been programmed in rather than an option just provided for the demo, but suppose we'll have to wait for confirmation. Can't remember them saying anything about being able to switch within the game.

I just really, really want a proper Assassin game!

Markitron wrote: »

Tbf us lot are not exactly the target audience for a game where you play as a viking raider, the only way they could get any worse is if they did made an RPG where you play as Oliver Cromwell or a football game where you could only play as Thierry Henry's left arm.

What the AC developers say in-game has been at odds with how the marketing team sells them before. I assume Darby McDevitt still wants to write an Irish Assassin's Creed.

Although history does allow for Vikings up the Liffey (or Seine) should the DLC want to go there and not Asgard or whatever. Skellig Michael is also crying out for that cairn building mechanic.

Penn wrote: »

Also says in the article that the modern day side of the story will actually see Layla entering the Animus to explore and fix things in the Eivor's world herself, so that actually sounds decent enough. Better than checking her emails.

Paying off those hints that Layla's Animus can hack reality then. An explanation for in Odyssey and why I thought the answer to the "Is male or female Eivor the canon gender?" question would be "yes."

I'm far from bothered about historical accuracy. Shur every group of people from them times were barbaric in their own ways. The English had the church and all the atrocities they committed, they're no better than the Vikings in that regard, just that Christianity outlived the Nordic gods and we accepted (past tense) they were the 'better' or 'good' guys. And to be honest, a 'realistic' Viking game would be boring as fcuk, spend most of it on a boat at sea, spend a lot of it in a barren, cold land (reason for travelling and raiding), or spend a small fraction in a foreign land before getting kicked back out again.

I love that AC is exploring the mythology of these times, and linking them to the First Civilisation. Keeping the same format as the first, what, 16 or so games was definitely stale, and the new version is a good step in the right direction imo. Yeah, it's not 'Assassins Creed' anymore, but it's exploring the lore behind it and I like that. The combat looks a lot faster than I thought tbh, I thought it was going to be meatier, but it's a bit early to say that for definite. Seems gory enough too, was worried they'd downplay it but decapitations and amputations galore there.

I'll be getting it either way.

Markitron wrote: »

If we are thinking about the same part

They already explained that didn't they? Pythagorus' staff gives whoever holds it eternal life. Kassandra/Alexios just lived on until the modern day when they met Layla for real

It is the same part but Kassandra's the canon protagonist in Odyssey for reference material so Alexios shouldn't be able to be there. At least not without (divine?) intervention.

Would be neat if in Valhalla.