Assassin's Creed Origins

Exclamation Marc · 25-10-2017 2:13pm #1

Release date is this Friday, 27th October 2017.

Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fZTbPZuRJU

I for one am very excited for it.

Long term AC fan although my interest waned a bit around Unity, not due to the bugs but the sheer overload of everything.

First review seems to be out giving it an 8.8/10 from Pure PlayStation (review has minor spoilers so I wouldn't recommend reading if you want to go in fresh on modern day story, background etc.).

Summary of review;

Is Assassin’s Creed Origins a return to form? Yes. Is it the best Assassin’s Creed ever? Probably not. While Bayek is a delight to play as he's nothing like Altair or Ezio. His revenge quest isn’t too original either, but it’s definitely an interesting one. Gameplay is as enjoyable as always and offers a wonderful array of going about things. The real show stealer in my opinion are the environments you’ll find yourself running around in. Ubisoft needed to recapture the magic that made the series great in the first place, and it seems it has done so. It's just all the quintessential problems within said magic tag along for the ride. Overall though, the entirety of Egypt is pretty darn huge and most of those issues can be forgiven. Welcome back, Assassin's Creed fans.

Kiith · 25-10-2017 2:16pm

At least they are trying something new with the series. It was badly in need of some changes, and some of the additions look good. Combat in particular looks better than the old system.

Exclamation Marc · 25-10-2017 2:21pm

Kiith wrote: »

At least they are trying something new with the series. It was badly in need of some changes, and some of the additions look good. Combat in particular looks better than the old system.

Agreed. The old system of simply countering everything whilst enemies attacked one by one just became monotonous.

Amping up the RPG elements of it is a great move and I'm delighted that they've focused on single player only this time around.

Frisbee · 25-10-2017 2:34pm

Gonna try get this tomorrow, what time do Tesco usually put their stock out? Local Tesco is only open until midnight so was thinking I might chance my arm and pop down at 11.45 or so to see if it had been put on the shelves.

Sephiroth_dude · 25-10-2017 2:53pm

Started pre load this morning before college so hopefully its done when I get home.

ninja 12 · 25-10-2017 2:54pm

Looking forward to it .
It's been pre-loading in Steam since last night at about 600KB/s .(maxing out my connection :rolleyes: )

Download is 34.8GB if anyone's interested (Gold version) . Not sure how big it'll be after unpacking .

I was hoping to get a good bit of playtime in this weekend , but as I said in another post -

ninja 12 wrote: »

I have all the Assassin's Creed games and preordered Origins the other day

There was me looking forward to playing AC Origins all weekend .

Ready to hit the preload button tomorrow , so I can have it ready for the weekend .

Then my sister in law rings my wife and says "Hey , fancy some visitors for the weekend "
Yay , visitors ,arriving Thursday or Friday :mad::mad::mad:

marcbrophy · 25-10-2017 3:02pm

Not going to be getting this in my hands until Tue, due to amazon and bank holiday!
South Park, the fractured asshole will have to get me through the long weekend

OptimusTractor · 25-10-2017 11:02pm

Pre-loading on the PS4 there now.

Exclamation Marc · 25-10-2017 11:44pm

You can purchase a unicorn with helix credits to use in the game! :pac:

ninja 12 · 25-10-2017 11:52pm

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

You can purchase a unicorn with helix credits to use in the game! :pac:

Hehe , Love the historical accuracy in the Assassin's Creed games

OptimusTractor · 26-10-2017 12:02am

ninja 12 wrote: »

Hehe , Love the historical accuracy in the Assassin's Creed games

This could Ubisofts Dan Brown moment.

Lone Stone · 26-10-2017 1:59pm

Reviews coming out sounds alrite.

Exclamation Marc · 26-10-2017 2:35pm

IGN 9/10
Eurogamer Recommended
Forbes 9.25/10
Gearnuke 8.5/10
Gamesradar 5/5
Polygon 8.5/10
Gamereactor 10/10
Game Informer 8.5/10

I am so excited now!

Jerichoholic · 26-10-2017 2:51pm

Mines getting delivered today sometime, those reviews are very pleasing to me.

marcbrophy · 26-10-2017 3:30pm

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Mines getting delivered today sometime, those reviews are very pleasing to me.

Where'd you buy it from?

My order is with amazon. It's not even been shipped, not even preparing to dispatch! Just sitting at pre-ordered.
They are beyond useless for release day delivery at this stage :mad:

Exclamation Marc · 26-10-2017 3:36pm

Bought mine for the Ubisoft store and it's due to be delivered today (anxiously checks Ups tracker for the 40tg time today).

Jerichoholic · 26-10-2017 3:37pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

Where'd you buy it from?

My order is with amazon. It's not even been shipped, not even preparing to dispatch! Just sitting at pre-ordered.
They are beyond useless for release day delivery at this stage :mad:

I ordered it yesterday from Littlewoods, and getting a delivery today. They are quick, i'll give them that.

marcbrophy · 26-10-2017 3:59pm

I should have just pre-ordered in Smyths!
Only saving a 5er after all is said and done! :pac:

26-10-2017 4:07pm

Reading the reviews makes for hopeful reading looks like a lot of what I had issue with in the past could be addressed.....maybe , no 100% sync achievement either from the looks of it ? Those really annoyed me in previous games

Sephiroth_dude · 26-10-2017 4:14pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Reading the reviews makes for hopeful reading looks like a lot of what I had issue with in the past could be addressed.....maybe , no 100% sync achievement either from the looks of it ? Those really annoyed me in previous games

Easy plat/100% by the looks of it.

martyos121 · 26-10-2017 5:14pm

Dawn of the Creed Collector's Edition arrived an hour ago, collectibles are absolutely gorgeous, photo doesn't do it justice.

Can only imagine the quality of the €800 edition, must be top class. Can't wait to get stuck into the game now.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 26-10-2017 5:18pm

martyos121 wrote: »

Dawn of the Creed Collector's Edition arrived an hour ago, collectibles are absolutely gorgeous, photo doesn't do it justice.

Can only imagine the quality of the €800 edition, must be top class. Can't wait to get stuck into the game now.

for 800 notes, id expect to be flown to egypt tbh.

Exclamation Marc · 26-10-2017 5:29pm

martyos121 wrote: »

Dawn of the Creed Collector's Edition arrived an hour ago, collectibles are absolutely gorgeous, photo doesn't do it justice.

Can only imagine the quality of the €800 edition, must be top class. Can't wait to get stuck into the game now.

Ah jeez I have one of them waiting for me at home, just made my journey home a lot more expedient! :pac:

Looks amazing

Jerichoholic · 26-10-2017 5:30pm

It's getting late now, no sign of mine yet. I'm getting worried

martyos121 · 26-10-2017 5:40pm

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Ah jeez I have one of them waiting for me at home, just made my journey home a lot more expedient! :pac:

Looks amazing

Get ready for some light assembly, had to use a tiny bit of superglue to get the arrows to stick to the bow (there's a slot on it but the arrows don't stay in on their own), and you can't see it from that angle but the eagle has to slot into a hole on the shoulder and his leg just doesn't look right whatever way you insert it so don't force it thinking it'll click perfectly into place. The back of the arrows slot into a space on his right hand where his finger should be, nearly missed that myself. Think that's all but it was more than I was expecting anyway, but it's still absolutely stunning.

Anyone who isn't completely crap at any sort of DIY could easily figure it out for themselves, but I have to admit it took me a little time to get it right because I'm useless with that stuff so hopefully that helps out anyone in the same boat.

Sonics2k · 26-10-2017 6:38pm

I honestly wouldn't trust those reviews. Assassins Creed games always get get reviews, but on launch the bugs are all shown.

Which really pisses me off because I always want these games to be great.

Falthyron · 26-10-2017 6:43pm

Sonics2k wrote: »

I honestly wouldn't trust those reviews. Assassins Creed games always get get reviews, but on launch the bugs are all shown.

Which really pisses me off because I always want these games to be great.

Good point. GameSpot gave it a 7/10 and cited technical issues as a negative.

Exclamation Marc · 26-10-2017 7:00pm

Sonics2k wrote: »

I honestly wouldn't trust those reviews. Assassins Creed games always get get reviews, but on launch the bugs are all shown.

Which really pisses me off because I always want these games to be great.

I'd find it hard to not trust so many reviews given assassin's creeds history and this exact reason. Why would anyone want to put themselves in front of criticism again for an incomplete review. IGN review for example notes that she played it for more than 30 hours and only encountered a handful of bugs.

You're also taking about one game that was riddled when you dig down into it, which was Unity. All other games have generally been material bug free at launch and gotten positive reviews.

Jerichoholic · 26-10-2017 7:07pm

Unity is also fine now after patches, it's actually a really good game.

Falthyron · 26-10-2017 7:16pm

I was a massive Assassin's Creed fan. I bought all of them on launch day (played some of them twice too), but as soon as they ditched the modern day story, I was finished with the franchise. Black Flag was very enjoyable, but when I heard that Unity won't feature any of the present day stuff (or very minimal material) I decided that I had my fill.

Story and characters are important to me and I felt the modern day storyline was integral to my interest in how the plot developed. When they ditched that it seemed like the games were becoming more formulaic to support the gameplay designs they wanted to stick with rather than creating a compelling story to fit the mechanics around. That inversion (to me, anyway) was reason enough to stop playing the next iterations.

Penn · 26-10-2017 8:43pm

Falthyron wrote: »

I was a massive Assassin's Creed fan. I bought all of them on launch day (played some of them twice too), but as soon as they ditched the modern day story, I was finished with the franchise. Black Flag was very enjoyable, but when I heard that Unity won't feature any of the present day stuff (or very minimal material) I decided that I had my fill.

Story and characters are important to me and I felt the modern day storyline was integral to my interest in how the plot developed. When they ditched that it seemed like the games were becoming more formulaic to support the gameplay designs they wanted to stick with rather than creating a compelling story to fit the mechanics around. That inversion (to me, anyway) was reason enough to stop playing the next iterations.

I was the same. It was bad enough with how much they stretched out Desmonds story (particularly the complete "We need to stall them for another game" that was his story in Revelations) and how poorly it ended. But the modern day story in Black Flag was just such absolute bullsh*t.

Falthyron · 26-10-2017 8:53pm

Penn wrote: »

I was the same. It was bad enough with how much they stretched out Desmonds story (particularly the complete "We need to stall them for another game" that was his story in Revelations) and how poorly it ended. But the modern day story in Black Flag was just such absolute bullsh*t.

Yeah, although I must admit, the ending to Revelations was quite emotional. There was something bittersweet about:

Ezio finding Altair's body and also dying there (iirc!)

I think Origins is a soft reboot to prepare for a new series of Assassin's Creed titles. However, I feel the game will flop and that will be the end of the brand for a few years, not too dissimilar to Mass Effect. Not to worry though, UbiSoft will bring back Splinter Cell to fill the void

...and so the cycle continues! :pac:

Sephiroth_dude · 26-10-2017 9:03pm

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Unity is also fine now after patches, it's actually a really good game.

Yes I really enjoyed unity, being in France during the revolution was really cool!

Falthyron wrote: »

However, I feel the game will flop .

Nooooo you're wrong!

martyos121 · 26-10-2017 9:21pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Yes I really enjoyed unity, being in France during the revolution was really cool!

Nooooo you're wrong!

I just want the series to live long enough so that we get one set in 1916-1921 Ireland. One of the Ubi top dogs, Darby McDevitt (his parents obviously hated him when they had to give him a name :pac:) is on record saying he'd love to make a game set in that period, so there's hope. He also said he wanted to set a game in China based on Shao Jun and that ended up only being a Chronicles iteration, so that's probably not a great sign. It's a perfect setting though IMO, and they already laid the foundation with a little easter egg at the start of Unity.

Falthyron · 26-10-2017 9:24pm

martyos121 wrote: »

I just want the series to live long enough so that we get one set in 1916-1921 Ireland. One of the Ubi top dogs, Darby McDevitt (his parents obviously hated him when they had to give him a name :pac:) is on record saying he'd love to make a game set in that period, so there's hope. He also said he wanted to set a game in China based on Shao Jun and that ended up only being a Chronicles iteration, so that's probably not a great sign. It's a perfect setting though IMO, and they already laid the foundation with a little easter egg at the start of Unity.

Didn't Assassin's Creed: Rogue have an 'oirish' main character though? I reckon that game will have ticked the Irish edition box.

I think Assassin's Creed has stymied the development of new Splinter Cell games so for that reason only, I want it to die. :pac: Bring back Sam Fisher and more importantly, Michael Ironside!

martyos121 · 26-10-2017 9:30pm

Falthyron wrote: »

Didn't Assassin's Creed: Rogue have an 'oirish' main character though? I reckon that game will have ticked the Irish edition box.

I think Assassin's Creed has stymied the development of new Splinter Cell games so for that reason only, I want it to die. :pac: Bring back Sam Fisher and more importantly, Michael Ironside!

Can't count that game at all, anything that's released as an exclusive on a last gen console when the new gen is at least 6 months old shouldn't be regarded as canon. It's a very odd and specific rule I use, mainly to beat Rogue with a stick. :pac:

CraigM84 · 26-10-2017 9:41pm

Am all ready and waiting for release now, least day 1 update isnt big like previous additions to the series

Or at least it's not meant to be a big day 1 update

Sephiroth_dude · 26-10-2017 9:52pm

CraigM84 wrote: »

Am all ready and waiting for release now, least day 1 update isnt big like previous additions to the series
Or at least it's not meant to be a big day 1 update

How big is it do you know?

CraigM84 · 26-10-2017 10:03pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

How big is it do you know?

1.5 gig for all platforms ( or less )

gizmo · 26-10-2017 11:54pm

Falthyron wrote: »

Yeah, although I must admit, the ending to Revelations was quite emotional. There was something bittersweet about:
Ezio finding Altair's body and also dying there (iirc!)

Fear not!

Ezio's rather sedate end is covered in the animated film, Embers

.

Not liking what you guys are saying about the modern day changes though. The treatment in Black Flag with just brief encounters with

Shaun, Rebecca and Juno

so far have been underwhelming, I can't imagine how they could make the future ones less relevant.

I did get a chuckle from one of the documents retrieved from another employees Animus terminal though. Each of the settings for the future games are listed in the Abstergo files within, I'm assuming they haven't been a surprise for folk more up to date on the series?

Falthyron · 27-10-2017 12:01am

gizmo wrote: »

Not liking what you guys are saying about the modern day changes though. The treatment in Black Flag with just brief encounters with
Shaun, Rebecca and Juno
so far have been underwhelming, I can't imagine how they could make the future ones less relevant.

I'm pretty sure the modern day setting was dropped after Black Flag. Actually, here is an article on it.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-27-future-assassins-creed-games-will-have-more-robust-modern-day-than-unity

I can't comment on Syndicate as I never played Unity or Syndicate, but maybe someone here can? Does the modern day setting return to Syndicate in a substantial manner? Or is it covered through some cut-scenes like in Unity?

Falthyron · 27-10-2017 12:02am

gizmo wrote: »

Fear not!
Ezio's rather sedate end is covered in the animated film, Embers
.

Before I go looking for this (presumably on YouTube) is this official canon?

Exclamation Marc · 27-10-2017 12:09am

Falthyron wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the modern day setting was dropped after Black Flag. Actually, here is an article on it.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-27-future-assassins-creed-games-will-have-more-robust-modern-day-than-unity

I can't comment on Syndicate as I never played Unity or Syndicate, but maybe someone here can? Does the modern day setting return to Syndicate in a substantial manner? Or is it covered through some cut-scenes like in Unity?

Yeah it's on Syndicate but it's a combination of the generic initiate storyline where you're mining information and then there's some scenes with Shaun and Rebecca looking for the Turin Shroud.

All cutscenes though if I remember correctly.

Exclamation Marc · 27-10-2017 12:10am

Falthyron wrote: »

Before I go looking for this (presumably on YouTube) is this official canon?

Yep it is canon

27-10-2017 12:31am

If you were interested in story I vaguely recall the Juno bits being the only reason to play Unity or Syndicate and even then you were better off reading the wiki as they did a much better job explaining them than the game did. I need to re-read those.

CraigM84 · 27-10-2017 1:39am

2 hours in, quite enjoyable, it does look sweet alright, kind of refreshing feel to it too, or maybe it's just me :P

Exclamation Marc · 27-10-2017 8:01am

Same here. Really enjoying it, finding it fresh but familiar all at the same time. In a really good way.

So far I can't disagree with the positive reviews, this is a great game (so far).

Sephiroth_dude · 27-10-2017 8:39am

Played about hour so far, loving it, its a really pretty game.

Kiith · 27-10-2017 9:04am

I think this is the first time i've heard people say they liked the modern day stuff. It's one thing to like the Desmond arc, as that was some attempt at a story, but the black flag stuff was bull****. I thought it was universally hated.

gizmo · 27-10-2017 9:26am

Kiith wrote: »

I think this is the first time i've heard people say they liked the modern day stuff. It's one thing to like the Desmond arc, as that was some attempt at a story, but the black flag stuff was bull****. I thought it was universally hated.

The Black Flag stuff is bull****, I was lamenting the fact it could get worse going forward.

I think I've been dragged out of the Animus three times so far with the only things of note happening in the first two trips being bumping into Shaun and Rebecca and finding the "Sample 17" report. The last one was where you met Juno which is then followed by the terrible hacker voice actor expressing disbelief that she didn't assimilate me? Something I only know is really partially possible because I've collected all of the Bottle Messages in-game.

Actually, are spoiler tags necessary for a four year old game in a thread about the latest iteration in the series? :P

Gizmo55 · 27-10-2017 11:09am

gizmo wrote: »

The Black Flag stuff is bull****, I was lamenting the fact it could get worse going forward.
I think I've been dragged out of the Animus three times so far with the only things of note happening in the first two trips being bumping into Shaun and Rebecca and finding the "Sample 17" report. The last one was where you met Juno which is then followed by the terrible hacker voice actor expressing disbelief that she didn't assimilate me? Something I only know is really partially possible because I've collected all of the Bottle Messages in-game.

Actually, are spoiler tags necessary for a four year old game in a thread about the latest iteration in the series? :P

Yep, still haven’t finished it

Assassin's Creed Origins

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