Assassins Creed Valhalla (Vikings)

skerry wrote: »

About 8 hours in now and having a better time with this. Combat seems a bit better. Was using 2 handed axe and using one hander and flail now. Spent last couple of hours tipping around between mission objectives but wandering off and getting distracted by treasure markers which was enjoyable and reminded me of chasing down ?s in Witcher 3. Looks fantastic too which helps.

I'm about level 25 already though so no idea what level cap is. I had a mission there and it was right beside an area that had 160 power requirement so didn't go snooping around there.

The accents are nowhere near as cringe worthy as Origins and Odyssey. Could not tolerate those forced accents. Dont know why Ubisoft try to be authentic with the accents, they remind me of Alexei Sayle in the young ones., not able for them at all. Actually tuned me off the previous games

Power level cap is 400 then you get mastery points.

I liked that they tried for authentic accents in the previous games. One of the reasons why I didn't like Unity is because you had people speaking French in West Country accents and it was the biggest cringe.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I'm looking at either Miles Morales or this off Santa. The only review i watched was from skillup who tore it to shreds mostly because it was so long and grindy before you get to the end of the story. I absolutely hate padded out and repetitive open world stuff so it really put me off off but people on boards seem to be really enjoying it. Anyone cleared it or far into it still enjoying it ?

I platinumed it at 150 games hours (I say "game hours" because that is not counting reloads I had to do due to bugs). It's not an Assassin's Creed game.
If you're not into the Assassin lore then this won't bother you. For me, I found it entirely disrespectful. The assassins seem like a side quest in this game and the conclusion to the story line comes right at the very end at the 340 power level Skillup was talking about.

For me the biggest issue was that it was buggy and poorly optimised causing a lot of restarts. They may have fixed that now so who knows.

Yeah, there's a lot of padding in the game but if you're like me who usually likes to clear all the open world fluff first and leave story until the last you may not feel it. You level up insanely fast and get two skill points just from doing one or two open world stuff in a row and the mysteries/blue markers are very enjoyable and varied, often requiring you to figure out how to resolve the NPC's problem rather than having them tell you. They still mark everything on the map so there is no sense of exploration/discovery like say a Fallout or Witcher but it's far more thought provoking than before.

What will annoy you are the "barred from the other side" puzzles which are less like puzzles but more like a laundry list of things to do just to get a single collectible - which you will need to upgrade armour. Some of the collectibles are locked behind story and the game never tells you that so be prepared to waste several minutes trying to get to a hidden area only to find out it's literally not available yet.

Speaking of the the main story - it's about 3 chapters too long, occasionally grinding to a halt so you can do more region pacifying (focus on individual story lines in the region). It kills the momentum for a narrative that is not that compelling to begin with.

I personally think it's one of the worst AC games. It's not as grindy as I think some will have you believe because like I said you get so many skill points from basically everything that it's likely you'll be more than equipped to take on the the level 340 level area. The story however is meh. At worst, you'll find the game a bit boring.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I killed 2 zealots tonight, they were not easy, the second one was really annoying as it could heal itself and you could only parry one of its attacks the others you couldn't.

Just send your raven and wolf in. They're ridiculously OP if they haven't been nerfed already.