I am playing Assassins Creed Odyssee after playing Ghost of Tsushima. It's like going from a smartphone to a flip phone in how outdated it is in open world systems. Odyssee is inferior in every single category.
Pedestrian AI is completely nonsensical. Why are they diving out of the way when you're on your horse just slowly making your way around? It looks hilarious and dumb at the same time as they're diving for cover when horse is not even going fast. Even when you have the horse on autopilot and the AI is taking it through towns. Horse also runs over geese and birds. Complete immersion break for me.
Pedestrians feel weightless and shallow. No depth to them. It feels they are made out of paper.
Mercenary AI is so bad as well. Just waiting for you to finish a main story cutscene. Once cutscene is over, they attack you even if you're in a main character's home.
Collecting crap is completely useless for upgrading your gear because you get a better drop two levels later. And the over abundance of loot is hard to manage.
Combat in AC Odyssee sucks so much compared to Ghost. You fight Spearman, shieldman, heavy and light soldiers exactly the same way whereas in Ghost you have to change stance against who you're fighting.
The story is completely nonsensical and full of plot holes. The Olympic event is such a letdown where you fight 3 dudes and that's it. The crowd isn't even cheering and there's like only 20 people in the stands. How hard is it to create a cool Olympic crowd and sounds of real cheers and hooting and hollering? There's so many instances like these where story segments are half baked.
