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Assassin's Creed Odyssey: First Eight Hours Impressions/Previews (New Footage)
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I wonder if they'll go with the historical Spartan way of dealing with twins...
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I watched the 20 minutes one of the spanish website vandal, and the guy said he loved it, its a better version of origins, a game he also really liked, and everything new they added was really fun. He also said he find the main story much better told and engaging, but i never had a problem with the story in origins (although i have to say, thats ebcuase im talking more about Bayek's personal story here, and some sidequests, the villans plot was meh).
Im really excited.
Most hyped thing for me is the character model imporvement (there was a TON of repetitive models for characters in Origins) and the dialogue options and animations.
Im really excited.
Most hyped thing for me is the character model imporvement (there was a TON of repetitive models for characters in Origins) and the dialogue options and animations.
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Thank you :)! I didn't know that there'd be a Roman love interest (didn't know the Romans would have much of a presence in this at all, TBH :p).
I loved Origins, completed all the quests and DLCs. My excitement on the game started to wane recently because on the offset it looked like more Origins and there were so many games coming out in the next few months that I also wanted to play. Then I saw the option for Exploration Mode and I was back in.
This is genuinely my most-anticipated game for the rest of the year, and I'm not even much of an Assassin's Creed fan. With BioWare off doing Anthem, Cyberpunk still on the distant horizon, and Obsidian still mainly working with smaller budgets - come on Outer Worlds!!! - I thought it'd be years before I got to play another big budget, dialogue-driven RPG. I'm so glad - and still so shocked? - that Ubisoft, of all people, decided to come riding in to the rescue, and everything I read and see of Odyssey just amplifies that feeling.
(I've only skimmed this stuff tho, 'cause I already know I'm getting it - well, assuming it doesn't tank with the critics I follow - so might as well dodge as many spoilers as possible. I'm still annoyed that I didn't get to go into Mass Effect 2 not knowing the Big Twist of the opening ahead of time.)
(I've only skimmed this stuff tho, 'cause I already know I'm getting it - well, assuming it doesn't tank with the critics I follow - so might as well dodge as many spoilers as possible. I'm still annoyed that I didn't get to go into Mass Effect 2 not knowing the Big Twist of the opening ahead of time.)
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i have a feeling its a combo of the water tech from origins but the wave part right against the beach may be animated texture created from actual video footage and blended into the water mesh. cant say until i see it up close
My most anticipated game of the year by a mile at this point.
Exploration mode?
Meaningful player choice?
Excellent writing?
Smaller objectives and outposts having a purpose and tying into a larger system?
They took all of my complaints from Origins (my personal GotY last year) and addressed them. This will be a long three weeks.
Exploration mode?
Meaningful player choice?
Excellent writing?
Smaller objectives and outposts having a purpose and tying into a larger system?
They took all of my complaints from Origins (my personal GotY last year) and addressed them. This will be a long three weeks.
The game is looking better and better. I am not picking it up till next year (heya backlog) but I will definitely play this one.
Loved Origins and love Greek setting plus all the improvements.
Loved Origins and love Greek setting plus all the improvements.
Yeap, that's what I did with Origins, grabbed the "Gold Edition" which had Season Pass and some other crap for $45 on BF or maybe Christmas (don't quite remember).
Edit: I do wish Ubisoft goes all in at some point and dumps the modern stuff. We already got Gods and Magic in Origins and Odyssey, might as well make the whole thing alternate history RPG series :P.
Really impressed by the character animation in the cut scenes and the music, particularly the use of vocals. I'm going to spend a lot of time in this world.
Can't wait for AC Odyssey. My most anticipated game for the last six months of 2018. Thanks to a 25% off promo code from Best Buy and the 20% off via GCU I had before it expired a few weeks ago, I was about to get the Gold Edition for $56 plus tax including the $10 pre-order reward certificate. Great deal as I was all in for Odyssey anyway. 20 more days to go for me!!!
This is our own video but I figured this specific section could be interesting to some in this thread: I spent the last hour of my game session traveling about 10 km through the open worlds and ended up visiting both Athens and Sparta, which are - as far as I know - among the biggest cities in this game.
From this timestamp on there's about 4 minutes of footage of various locations in the world, including those cities, just ignore the german talk in the background if you don't speak the language ;)
There's another short look at Athens at 28:30.
From this timestamp on there's about 4 minutes of footage of various locations in the world, including those cities, just ignore the german talk in the background if you don't speak the language ;)
There's another short look at Athens at 28:30.
I just want to know the same thing I want to know every year.
Does it have non situational ambient music? Meaning, not during a mission, not during combat, not when swimming, or anything that could otherwise trigger music to start playing. Just music that comes and goes as you explore the world doing nothing, even just standing still.
And since Origins had it, does it also have a music frequency option in the menus?
Does it have non situational ambient music? Meaning, not during a mission, not during combat, not when swimming, or anything that could otherwise trigger music to start playing. Just music that comes and goes as you explore the world doing nothing, even just standing still.
And since Origins had it, does it also have a music frequency option in the menus?
Looks great, but I'm still suffering burnout from Origins. As good as this one may be, I'll be taking a break and probably look to pick up the inevitable GOTY edition. Hopefully they go back to a 2 year cadence.
The tide/waves rolling up on shore is something that has been modeled and present in games for many years now, but never looking so close like that. I think there was one particular beach area in Origins but I don't remember it having rolling waves like that, will have to double-check.
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I would love to do that as well. But my inner completionist will dismiss this idea and I will try to clear everything...
Player choice + the big jump in writing quality will make side quests a lot more appealing I think.
I'm hoping the team has learnt from Origins and made side quests more substantial in terms of EXP gain. Origins had the issue where side quests gave you so little EXP that it felt like you weren't making much progress at all after doing a few of them. Its DLC fixed this issue but went a bit too far in the other direction, so Odyssey has to strike a balance there.
I'd love to do this, but if it's like Origins then this will be impossible,
? I felt overleveld because of doing sidequests, and that wasn't even close to doing all of them
Origins had the issue where sidequests were repetitive, boring, irrelevant to the story and poor in terms of rewards.
Yet, you HAD to do sidequests in order to level up for the later half of the base-game mainline, DLC and for the god challenges.
It's weird, I would say the same in the first half of the game but in the second half when the level gating really kicks in each side quest had very little weight to it in terms of character progression. I finished that game drastically overlevelled and cheesed the final boss because I just couldn't be doing 10+ side missions to get to where I "should" have been.
I was particularly impressed by the editing and amount of little gestures here:
A lot of work went into the tools for the RPG convo system and it shows. In another life we could've had another Mass Effect Andromeda situation where the team struggled to create the proper tools and didn't have a sufficient workforce.
Is this a multiple choice cutscene?
Do we know if the level system from Origins is back? That was terrible IMO. Having to do tons of sidequests just to reach a level to continue story missions.
