Interesting. Yes, that would explain some things, but they still could have added entries for the stuff based on fact. Like the Pharos, the Great Library, Alexandria itself, the tomb of Alexander (yes, I know it's guesswork because we don't know where it is), the pyramids, sphinx, and so on.I still have to give discovery tour a look, but I think one of the reasons of that change might be with the more fantasy approach of the game. That are a lot of stuff in this game that is pure fantasy or seperate from reality by time and/or space. Alexandria for example, looked more like a Roman City than a Macedonian one, and some buildings are just (bad) guesses. Stuff like this is really weird:
It's like people just made a modern crane but change to wood and stone to make it look like it's ancident tech. You can't have a historical note about that.
What is weirder is that there are actually ancient cranes in the game, which looked like this (a Roman one):
I would strongly urge you to try discovery mode. As I understand it, they did put a ton of time into the buildings and history etc and it's more like an interactive museum tour. I thi k they highlight the areas to go to and look at, so I assume they stay away from any wonkier areas like cranes.I still have to give discovery tour a look, but I think one of the reasons of that change might be with the more fantasy approach of the game. That are a lot of stuff in this game that is pure fantasy or seperate from reality by time and/or space. Alexandria for example, looked more like a Roman City than a Macedonian one, and some buildings are just (bad) guesses. Stuff like this is really weird:
It's like people just made a modern crane but change to wood and stone to make it look like it's ancident tech. You can't have a historical note about that.
What is weirder is that there are actually ancient cranes in the game, which looked like this (a Roman one):
This was one of the main flaws with Xenoblade X a lot of the fun stories and stuff were put into side quest the game didnt require you to do so if you just critical pathed the game you missed out on a lot of fun stuff. I think the best way to look at these games is to try and just get lost in the world set little daily goals and just enjoy it in little pieces of the world at a time. It's why I enjoyed Origins so much and why it made me jump back into AC full force. Sure a lot of it can feel kinda samey at times but the sense of your character growing stronger and the world itself being so beautiful that more than anything made me want to keep jumping back in.
If you was calling a game like Rambo: The Video Game or The Quiet Man awful I would agree,sure you can not like a game,I don't like a lot of games,AAA or indie,I am just saying your arguments is full of hyperbole comparisons,Origins is not amazing by any means for sure.
So you judged your purchase by just one person making a thread about it??
I must say I'm positively surprised by how bad this game is.
A few weeks ago I created a thread about FTL. I'm still in love with this game and playing it daily. It's a very simply game in a way. Visually it feels like it could have been made on powerpoint for examle... so why is it so great? Because the two people that made it had a complete understanding of the gameplay mechanics that support the game. They knew exactly how to create this small little ship to ship combat that enganged the players so competlely. They knew where to give room for chance, where to give room for skill and where to give room for planning. Its gameplay is absolutely masterclass.
What does it have to do with Origins? Because this game feels the exact opposite. It's this huge, immense, lavish game developed by hundreds of people all across the world. It must have costed quite a lot of money and from a technical point of view it's impressive all right (even though it runs terribly). Yet the actual game part, the playing part, is abysmal. I don't think I've played any open world in which the structure is so clear defined by fetch quests. I mean, the game IS the fetch quests. The narrative/story is like someone wrote the script, and then their dog destroyed the book and so they just kind of put all the pages roughly together and in no particular order. Talking about things that feel broken, the combat reminds me of this scene from IASIP:
Obviously they wanted to copy Dark Soul's combat. So first they stripped it down its very basic form. Then broke it and tried to put it back together, just like that bottle. Well, you can still drink from it but it's not fun.
Now, the game has a store for you to buy things with your money. One of them are Time Savers Packs. The game literally asks if you want to use your money to buy something so you don't have to play the game. This is not ok.
I fail to think of 5 straight minutes that I have fun playing this game. Maybe 2, 3 minutes tops. Climbing somewhere and assassinating some guard is fun, but then I meet this guy that I can instakill, then I have to fight and the fun is gone. I cannot think of a single quest that felt worth doing so far, that surprised me in some way or was particularly different from anything else. Oh, and the way this game just throwequipment at you is bizarre, I have to change weapons every 10 minutes.
If this is an evolution compared to the AC games that came right before, then those must be terrible indeed. It's definitely not an evolution compared to AC2 and Brotherhood.
How does this game get such praise?!
I must say I'm positively surprised by how bad this game is.
A few weeks ago I created a thread about FTL. I'm still in love with this game and playing it daily. It's a very simply game in a way. Visually it feels like it could have been made on powerpoint for examle... so why is it so great? Because the two people that made it had a complete understanding of the gameplay mechanics that support the game. They knew exactly how to create this small little ship to ship combat that enganged the players so competlely. They knew where to give room for chance, where to give room for skill and where to give room for planning. Its gameplay is absolutely masterclass.
What does it have to do with Origins? Because this game feels the exact opposite. It's this huge, immense, lavish game developed by hundreds of people all across the world. It must have costed quite a lot of money and from a technical point of view it's impressive all right (even though it runs terribly). Yet the actual game part, the playing part, is abysmal. I don't think I've played any open world in which the structure is so clear defined by fetch quests. I mean, the game IS the fetch quests. The narrative/story is like someone wrote the script, and then their dog destroyed the book and so they just kind of put all the pages roughly together and in no particular order. Talking about things that feel broken, the combat reminds me of this scene from IASIP:
Obviously they wanted to copy Dark Soul's combat. So first they stripped it down its very basic form. Then broke it and tried to put it back together, just like that bottle. Well, you can still drink from it but it's not fun.
Now, the game has a store for you to buy things with your money. One of them are Time Savers Packs. The game literally asks if you want to use your money to buy something so you don't have to play the game. This is not ok.
I fail to think of 5 straight minutes that I have fun playing this game. Maybe 2, 3 minutes tops. Climbing somewhere and assassinating some guard is fun, but then I meet this guy that I can instakill, then I have to fight and the fun is gone. I cannot think of a single quest that felt worth doing so far, that surprised me in some way or was particularly different from anything else. Oh, and the way this game just throwequipment at you is bizarre, I have to change weapons every 10 minutes.
If this is an evolution compared to the AC games that came right before, then those must be terrible indeed. It's definitely not an evolution compared to AC2 and Brotherhood.
How does this game get such praise?!
You must work for Ubisoft based on how defensive this post is.
And I am telling you that doing unique, main story quality content in a game is not grinding just because it's not part of the critical path.
Yes.
It's a real shame. It's great that they've put all that effort into discovery mode for students and people who just want that side of things. But I want some of that info while playing. I don't want to have to go into another mode to get all that. Massively hurt the experience for me, because in the game I could be looking at something of great historical significance but not realise it, and just think "oh it's another big building/monument".
