Assassins Creed Odyssey

God the Stentor thing is 130hrs of gameplay ago, not sure if I remember correctly

Won't get much play done today, too much to do round the house and the wife is home this week instead of working to keep me in the lifestyle I am accustomed to.

Also got distracted trying to finish MEA Annihilation.

You see spoilers? I see the block, text still hidden. I’m glad to know not everyone sees what I see (or rather don’t see). I’ll be careful about quoting.

There was a time when it was better written, and it gives the game a certain theme or anchor. I think it could be iffy ditching it entirely. Limiting the interruptions is great. I think Unity and Odyssey each do a great job of not foisting it upon us. That said, the current writing for the Modern Day is absolutely terrible. The characters are cartoonishly bad stereotypes of hipster millennials. The VA, or more likely the voice direction, is terribad. It’s obvious that different teams, likely in different studios, are responsible for the main story and the modern. The main game is solidly written and acted, while the modern is painful. It needs to be addressed, since they’re clearly building toward something with Layla that they consider major. (I hope it’s not the original time walker Desmond idea, but I suspect it is.)

So, in terms of gameplay, I absolutely agree. In terms of story, I think a better written modern day adds to the metastory. The main problem is that they keep jumping about, abandoning stories midway through for new directions with new characters. It’s annoying. If that’s the plan, I’d wholeheartedly support the abandonment of the modern day entanglements.

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So a while back I couldn't get romancing the stone quest (Medusa questline) to trigger so I left and probably put another 20 hours into it since. I think I've finished the family questline stiff, I got alexios out of the cult and reunited the family+stendor. I've only got a few more islands to explore (one of which contributes to another mythic creature). So I've got like 97% of the map explored and I've done more than half the ? Marks. Aside from that I have 2 more sages to kill to find out whom the ghost is (which I've an idea of who it is based off the hints).

I decided to come back to lesbos to do the medusa, but oy to find out the damn thing still won't trigger. So I looked it up and apparently it can be bugged for some players and it has been since launch. Great.... So I started looking for what may cause it and how to fix it and that's not happening. It seems restarting would be the only option and I have no desire to restart all over. As for what triggers the issue, it seems kind of mixed. I've heard killing the guards before talking to the lady bugs it out but I'm also hearing it just won't trigger the quest icon at all (my case) to engage it. I sent ubisoft a nice rant as that's just BS on a big quest like that. If it's not fixed in the next few weeks I guess I'll be watching the Atlantis stuff on YT sadly. I'm not giving up on my 110 hours of play time to get that to trigger.

Since I've pretty much experienced most of the game I'll start putting out my final thoughts which I may update a little more after I get the cultists done and if ubisoft fixes my Medusa issue (or I'll just report in after watching it on YT).

*It's a fun and beautiful game, one I actually would love to replay if I didn't already have various other games waiting in line. If they do NG+ I may get back to it later.

* Combat is fluid but has input issues, the abilities are a nice change since last time I played an AC game. Just adds to being a badass Spartan.

*Boat feature is kind of meh to me, the Mediterranean looks gorgeous but the boat fights really didn't interest me, I only partook in it of it was a mainline quest ordeal.

*The loot was also very detailed, I never had resource issues but then again I didn't bother upgrading the gold gear till I was lvl 50, by then I had 5k+ of everything and I'm nearly at 1 million in dracmea.

*The story itself was alright, I played a Kassandra whom really tried not being a greedy mercenary, I also banged anyone and anything I could 👍.

* It does get repetitive, especially with all the fetch quests and forts, this is why I stopped playing the early AC games as I didn't see that changing, if this game wasn't Greek themed or rpg marketed, I wouldn't have gotten it.

The only big negative for me was the bugs. I've had ? Marks I couldn't complete be because of chests being 200 feet into the ground (this contributes to me not bothering with the ?s so much) and I've had cutscenes go black that required me to restart the game. Aside from that, there's the current Medusa issue which is actually what pisses me off the most when it comes to the bugs. Games been out how long now? And this contributes to the ISU storyline so it's just frustrating how I'm on a standstill till it's resolved (if it gets resolved).

I don't do scores, so I'll just say it's a good game, not the best open world game but not the worst either. I may try out the next AC game if it has a good theme to it and hopefully they get better at the repetition.

A modern day story wouldn't work tbh. As Element Zero stated, the biggest draw is the opportunity to visit the past. I've never been to Ancient Greece. I've never been to Renaissance Italy. The chance to do so is why I really love the AC series. In a modern day story where would we go that we can't ever go to in real life?

Also, who will the protagonist be? Layla? Ugh. It's better to keep focusing on revisiting history. Not to mention historically, the assassin outfits were much better 😊

Thaletas refuses even a direct threesome offer from Kass. Too dumb to live if you ask me 😂

I think the writers put too many ways for him to die. The poison must be my favourite since it comes out of nowhere. You need to do certain quests and dialogues in a specific way for him to survive. It's like the intended consequence is to get rid of him 😁

I decided to see if there's any difference in xp with the new level cap so I started a new PT briefly, finish the starter island and see what's the level. No difference, it's the same as before so I left it at that.

But a weird thing happened when protag finished the shroud quest and reported back to Elpenor. During the cutscene, the other guy who handed the pouch over would leave. But this time, the NPC looked different. What's more, he fell dead after the cutscene ended. For no reason!

Oh I had that happen to me as well. I just attributed it to the plague that was spreading after Alexios saved that family. That NPC just had a very weak constitution 

Also that issue was already present from the last update, the one that came with the first part of the Lost Tales of Greece. Must be some weird bug.

I have been having a good glitch all game where loot that I have looted returns in places like forts, so going round the fort I clear all the loot and then when I have to go back to part of the fort say to loot a guy I shot with an arrow the loot is available again. 

Re your comment on male avatars this worries me for when I decide to do an Alexios PT after this Kass one. I am worried I'll start and then want to play as Kassandra again.