Multiplat Assassin's Creed - Shadows

[dwwaino]

I can easily ignore the trolls as they're everywhere on the internet, but the only genuine criticisms are the same as the previous games and why that as much as I enjoy my time with them they aren't day one for me anymore. AC games have an identity crisis in that they don't know if they're a third person action or full blown RPG. The problem with this is a lot of features are only half baked and not fully developed and imo the games suffer for it.

AC games get discounted pretty quickly though so rather than day one I figured I smash some other stuff in my queue and by the time I get around to this there should be 10-20% off. Green Man Gaming was already cheaper than Steam at launch and they've been often the same for AAA releases lately.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Put it this way, if you liked Origins and Odyssey, you'll like this. And don't compare it to GoT. Ignore all other opinions.

Interesting I have seen a few people say this when from what I see of the tone and aesthetic of this game is that it looks a lot more serious and dark like Valhalla. Odyssey was very vibrant and humourous and didn't take itself seriously a lot of the time (I mean there were quests which involved delivering dildos to people).

 

[dwwaino]

Interesting I have seen a few people say this when from what I see of the tone and aesthetic of this game is that it looks a lot more serious and dark like Valhalla. Odyssey was very vibrant and humourous and didn't take itself seriously a lot of the time (I mean there were quests which involved delivering dildos to people).

How dare you assert that Testikles wasn't serious.

 

[Sixpence]

Interesting I have seen a few people say this when from what I see of the tone and aesthetic of this game is that it looks a lot more serious and dark like Valhalla. Odyssey was very vibrant and humourous and didn't take itself seriously a lot of the time (I mean there were quests which involved delivering dildos to people).

Yeh, Odyssey is more humourous, but that's not really what makes the game. It still plays a lot like Origins, which is more serious.

Also, a game set during the Sengoku Jidai wouldn't really hit the mark being more humourous!

 

[dwwaino]

Some of the other stuff in my to play queue hasn't been as exciting as I'd hoped and unfortunately new install of Cities Skylines 2 on a brand new machine is copping the same crashing that is plaguing most other CS2 players so I've suddenly ended up with limited to play and I caved in and bought this. Have always enjoyed the series but haven't been a must get day one or FOMO type of game to me however the stuff appearing on my feeds over the past two weeks has actually made me want to play it. It was also nice to put my new FTTP connection to the test. Queued to download, went for a walk down the beach and came home to find it already done.

Now that I've got it and will begin playing tonight you guys can now put up with my posting.

 

[dwwaino]

Was that the longest intro for an AC game? Nearly 2 hours to get through the prologue and the initial setup but I did appreciate the story foundation and so much work has gone into the cut scenes in this and music is fantastic. Meditations are already one of my favourite things. Petting cats and puppies is an automatic 10/10. The best thing though is that it fixed one of my biggest peeves from Odyssey and it was worse in Valhalla. That was the extremely over compressed audio which made combat a little dull. There was no oomph and very little feedback when you made contact. Actually by Valhalla the combat was over simplistic in general when you could just mash the same button to strike through any attack or guard. While AC games will never have the deepest combat early on I like this one as while it's still button mash when you get an opening at least you have to setup that opening. Also the audio and feedback is improved where striking in combat is actually satisfying. It's early for me so still time to get fatigue by Ubi-bloat but this feels like a substantial step forward for Ubisoft but that probably means the next 2 or 3 AC games will be identical lol.