Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Dcully · 04-10-2018 3:35pm

Venom wrote: »

ACG and Worth A Buy are my go to Youtube game reviewers.

Ah yer man Mac is a whingy yoke, at times hes correct other times he couldnt be further off the mark.
Hes funny as hell thats for sure :P

bigphil2 · 04-10-2018 4:55pm

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

I've been playing it for the past 2 days and I'm liking it alot. I'd go as far as to say it's the best in the series since Brotherhood and the story just gets more and more interesting. I want to see what happens next but I keep being distracted by the beautiful world and all the side quests and activities.

It's far better than Origins in just about every way even though it uses a lot of the same assets. Origins became very repetitive and bloated whereas with Odyssey at least so far I'm not fatigued by it yet and I've just reached Athens. I always feel compelled to do the military bases and bandit camps nearby because they're much smaller and seeing as a lot of them contain quest items you never have to clear them out more than once.

yeah,i got about 20hours into Origins and couldnt be arsed to continue.ill go back to iut no doubt,but itll be next year ,looking at the next 6 months releases

bigphil2 · 04-10-2018 4:57pm

still waiting for my gold edition copy from the game collection,hope its there when i get home in a while..still it cost the same as the vanilla version on psn so im not too annoyed

Temptamperu · 04-10-2018 8:39pm

Looking at the countdown on psn is killing me. I wanna play now!!!!!

dreamers75 · 04-10-2018 10:28pm

Used a VPN to get early access, its a damn fine looking game in 4k.

jaxxx · 04-10-2018 10:30pm

I don't think I'm gonna get it. Looks good, very good. There's just something... missing for me, dunno what. I remember watching videos on youtube for Black Flag when it came out, and almost immediately I was like "OMG I need this now!". I'm not getting that feeling watching vids on Odyssey

awec · 04-10-2018 11:30pm

Not sure whether to buy or not. I bought Origins and got bored after 6 or 7 hours of play.

dreamers75 · 05-10-2018 1:04am

I like the idea of exploration mode but it needs to be implemented better. Its seems to be a reaction to to many markers problem some people have.

I started the game with it on and turned it off after a while, good idea bad execution.

Dcully · 05-10-2018 8:47am

jaxxx wrote: »

I don't think I'm gonna get it. Looks good, very good. There's just something... missing for me, dunno what. I remember watching videos on youtube for Black Flag when it came out, and almost immediately I was like "OMG I need this now!". I'm not getting that feeling watching vids on Odyssey

Im actually like that with this game and im not an AC fan at all, this is a totally different game, its a full on rpg in an open world, its been compared to the witcher 3 but better combat which speaks volumes.

Weapons/armor/stats/upgrades/skill trees/ all done like a proper rpg with an open world and fun combat is right up my street

This is also different to origins apparently, while fun and had small elements of rpg it was the gateway to what odyssey seems to be right now,,, i could be wrong as i havent played it yet but thats what the general consensus seems to be with reviewers and streamers etc.

Rory28 · 05-10-2018 11:40am

Dcully wrote: »

Weapons/armor/stats/upgrades/skill trees/ all done like a proper rpg with an open world and fun combat is right up my street

How heavy are the rpg elements?

marcbrophy · 05-10-2018 11:51am

Rory28 wrote: »

How heavy are the rpg elements?

You can scale it with your difficulty selection!
I'm playing on easy, least RPG elements

bigphil2 · 05-10-2018 12:02pm

Pretty good q&a here,going through the ups and downs,seems to me its improved on the good stuff and eliminated some of the faults from Origins..

letsgo2018 · 05-10-2018 12:53pm

Is this game more like the Witcher 3 or Shadow of War. How does it compare to both

05-10-2018 1:07pm

Only played a half hour or so earlier and messed around in the world. Movement feels the best it's ever been in an AC title and I like the parry , timing on it seems quite easy to get to grips with though would have preferred a single button to do it like dark souls etc. or can that be changed I didn't think to check.

marcbrophy · 05-10-2018 1:14pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Only played a half hour or so earlier and messed around in the world. Movement feels the best it's ever been in an AC title and I like the parry , timing on it seems quite easy to get to grips with though would have preferred a single button to do it like dark souls etc. or can that be changed I didn't think to check.

There's an alternate control scheme in the menu's alright, but not sure if it changes parry controls

It is a bit of a pain for me at the moment, as I keep holding LB/L1 and my brain forgets to let go.
Hopefully I get the hang of it soon

dreamers75 · 05-10-2018 3:58pm

The parrying is a bit of a cheat so far unless there are moves coming later that you cant parry.

You can parry arrows ffs

Combat is good but not witcher 3 good but I dont have a full set of unlocks yet so maybe it will change.

Calling it now the Spartan Kick is FUS RO DAH for 2018, its absolutely hilarious the things you can do with it

marcbrophy · 05-10-2018 4:19pm

So is everyone playing as Kassie?

Did anyone successfully romance

Odessa

as her?

awec · 05-10-2018 6:01pm

UPlay seems broken today.

TheDoc · 05-10-2018 8:23pm

Eagerly awaiting my steam download to finish.

First Assassins Creed game since I believe the second one that came out. This has had me hyped ever since I saw it was based in ancient greece

TheValeyard · 05-10-2018 9:23pm

Oh dear God the size of this game

Potential-Monke · 05-10-2018 9:41pm

Broke out today and got this. My tooth can wait to be extracted! Heard there's a 1.4Gb patch, so that won't happen tonight. Anyone know if there's anything game breaking in the first, say, 4 hours without the patch?

letsgo2018 · 05-10-2018 9:47pm

letsgo2018 wrote: »

Is this game more like the Witcher 3 or Shadow of War. How does it compare to both

?

05-10-2018 10:06pm

During the blood fever side quest did people

Let them live

? Wonder if there will be consequences for that? I walked away.

dreamers75 · 05-10-2018 10:17pm

letsgo2018 wrote: »

?

Being a dick its a populist version of both whereas the best of both of those are ticked of as "things to do" and "ways to do them".

Yes its a game that takes inspiration from others, I hope it takes its own spin on them.

But yes there are echoes of both games and a few others in this.

letsgo2018 · 06-10-2018 11:37am

Is the gold edition worth. I think I'm going to fork out for Spider-Man and tomb raider as Well

Exclamation Marc · 06-10-2018 11:48am

letsgo2018 wrote: »

Is the gold edition worth. I think I'm going to fork out for Spider-Man and tomb raider as Well

If you like the sound of the season pass then yes. You'll save a few quid on it. I got mine off TheGameCollection for about 70 I think which is probably the best price.

06-10-2018 11:52am

Gold edition also has AC3 and Liberation remasters when they come out next year. So worth if you fancy replaying them as well the usual season pass content.

Potential-Monke · 06-10-2018 12:40pm

So I've a few hours into this now, but i'm at a slight impasse. I'm still very early, and have to do a level 3 Odyssey mission where you have to steal something. I'll have no problem doing the mission, but the Level 5 Merc is following me around, and no matter what i do, he follows me, so I can't complete the mission without triggering him, and he's kicking my ass! I even rode to the other side of the island and thought it would do a lap and I could go back and do the mission, but no, he runs after me (you can see him running) and when he gets near he walks around in circles until he sees me. Rinse repeat. Can't get him to bugger off and even if i try a side quest he follows me... Quit, reload, restart PS4, doesn't matter, he's still there every time.

Dcully · 06-10-2018 12:52pm

Can you kill other guys maybe to level up a bit more to then take him on?
I havent played yet but i hear enemy even 1 level above you are really hard to kill so level is huge so i expect a small bit of a grind,, then again if he doesnt fcuk off you cant grind?

Potential-Monke · 06-10-2018 12:55pm

Dcully wrote: »

Can you kill other guys maybe to level up a bit more to then take him on?
I havent played yet but i hear enemy even 1 level above you are really hard to kill so level is huge so i expect a small bit of a grind,, then again if he doesnt fcuk off you cant grind?

Exactly! Fecker is following me everywhere, and missions seem to get the most XP. I'll have another hop off him tonight, hopefully I can beat him, but even Kassandra is telling herself to hide when he's about, so I don't have much hope. Got him down to 1/3rd bar of health but he get faster as far as I can tell.

Maybe I'll try going to another island, that might put him back in his loop.

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