Assassins Creed Odyssey

Ugh you guys are really going to make me do the dreaded 'double post' aren't you?

Well as of today I pretty much have a month left to play this game before Ace Combat 7 comes out and Ace Combat 5 gets ported onto the PS4...of course I will keep playing the game till the bitter end but man I don't think I will make it. lol.

So Ghost Arrows of Artemis may be the most OP ability in the history of archery. Can shoot through mountains, buildings, forths, across battlefields, and people to do a pretty good chunk of damage. Plus with my ability to seemingly regenerate at least one adrenaline bar over time it makes the patience game really fun at times.

So did a bunch of random exploring through Argolis and came across a Spartan controlled fort and since I am trying to avoid killing Spartans. Little later on during my 'story' rush I bumped into Hipocrates...which was actually another cave I already ran across...and pointed me in the direction of the fort. Well first time through I kind of tried to bull rush to the signal fire to prevent reinforcements to coming in, they saw me, massive fight ensued, two mercenaries got involved...dead Alexios. Take two even through sneaking around they still activated the signal fire...twice...so they can apparently do that. Also I cannot set a trap for it while its lit...and it can catch you on fire when lit. But I carefully worked my way through the fort a Ghost arrow here, a Devestating shot there...which Devastating shot is almost as fun as Sparta kick at knocking people off high places. Finally I got into see the surgeon. Now one of the reasons why I was at least TRYING to be stealthy was I didn't want to show up to the guy after killing everyone or at least be able to say "hey look...all these corpses...that's funny...they were like that when I got there." But the man in question was treating a patient and refused to come...so I knocked him out and literally carried him back to Hipocrates. Though it was also funny for role playing metagaming there was a new quest marker on the way so before reaching the quest giver I hid the body in some bushes and THEN talked to her. Finally got him to Hippocrates, his patient was saved, and off I went.

Next up the healers of Akipoles...or whoever they were. A bunch of priests wanted me to do favors and quests for them, in exchange for information on their mother. One involved a terrified priest of 'masked men' and apparently the entire order was under orders...heh...not to talk to any mistios who was asking about a woman. One involved a priest who wanted me to get rid of snakes in a bathouse but then said he didn't know anything and laughed in my face for me doing his errand for him...and yet the game didn't let me kill him. The final priest involved an interesting choice because he wanted me to bring back a bull for a sacrifice, turns out the bull was already dead so I just brought back the heart. The priest was not pleased and said that the heart could only go to one of the patients. Interesting choice ensued as a wealthy woman who was a single mother, a farmer, and an obviously dying child all could've been the beneficiaries. Now if you know my Alexios you know who I chose but I did like it that they did go through the effort and not making it just about the money. And the child was all like 'please choose the other ones'. So once again a nice touch.

Anyways all of Alexios's clues led me to the Elder priest who got his tongue cut out an interesting interrogation followed where I found out the Myrinnie actually managed to retrieve a badly wounded baby Kassandra but then lost her when the Priests said she died at the Sanctuary. Interestingly enough I don't think we got the whole story but I followed 'chrysis' around and well she was a cult member. And when I ran into her she lit a building on fire and ran. I saved the baby which apparently lost me the chance to kill her, but I hope that I get another chance later but even if I don't I think I made the right decision given what I have heard about the ending and Alexios isn't that blood thirsty.

With all that done and not much time left so I did random side questing...well one side quest. The High Horse one Dazk and OC were talking about earlier. Well sure enough he was smack dab in the middle of a military blockade and this was a location and I wanted to do the objective. But I was very afraid of him seeing me and bolting, so I basicaly stuck to one spot shot everything and then did the loot. When I approached him he bolted...right towards me, and I hit the talk button on him. Lucky. Ultimatley I decided that he should give the horse back because there should be other options. And man, I love taking to Sokrates.

Anyways last thng I did for the night was head for the Arena.

It may be a while before I do the next stage of the main story familywise at least, like a week. I really wanna explore the Arena and also really just get a good smattering of side quests in before anything else. Granted I do not think that main quest will be it or even close to starting the end of it, but I get the feeling that one stage of my adventure will be ending so...we'll see what I can do in the meantime.

Yes, Deimo's story follow the same path irregardless of which char you chose as the protag. 

Exactly that.

In all honesty its another reason I am not sure I want to play as Alexios, I just can't see Kassandra in that role.

Yeah I get that, but I just can't imagine her in that role. I wonder if I would have felt the same way about Alexios if I'd played him first?

Just from the limited time Alexios has in my Kass PT I also find his voice and delivery from his VA really jarring for lack of a better word. It's like the VA is trying to hard to sound gruff and tough and the lip synching of the words to his delivery in what I have seen really puts me off as well.

I like Kass's more subtle delivery and emotionally I think her VA delivers brilliantly, especially when Kass just completely loses it with someone so I am not sure I'd say all her approach is quieter.  

I'm retired. That means I'm not working, pottering around at home.      I have income from investments, that's all I'm saying. And I'm definitely among the old grey geezers of BSN if you're wondering how old I am. 

Well I got made redundant about 7 years ago and then it has become a forced retirement for me due to an injury and an illness but us old geezers should set up a club but sorry I am not very grey yet!!!!! 

I don't think there're keys for leaning since I don't recalling doing that. It's more of auto-leaning. It's like in MET1 when you put Shepard right next to a cover, they'll automatically put their backs to it. For AC Odyssey, I noticed that when I put Kass at the corner of her cover, bow held ready, she'll lean out if I press to shoot. 

So I know I did this a couple of days ago but this is by far and away the funiest thing I have done in ACO to this point and well I just had to share it. If you are familiar with the quest or want to skip to the good stuff the time stamp starts at 2:50:



Anyways so I started to fight in the Arena today and well I am quite impressed and I like it so far. Just don't know how much more I will do it given that's it a little imursion breaking that every time you go back to do one of the fights again you still have to fight the boss at the end. So Belos the Beast of Sparta has been killed twice...and keep in mind he is a Cultist so that is like...ahwhu?

After that I was explorng a random cave the interact prompt came up on the screen and then Alexios started expositing that 'the wounds on these men weren't caused by any Minitaur.'... I was like darting around my gaze at that moment...I imagine that might be related to a quest or something.

Anyways doing research on the whole thing I confirmed my sneaking suspcion that there is indeed no Conquest battle in Attika. That is unfortunate. So I think what I am going to do is just defeat the...Bull? In the same island that the Arena is on and then go on and start hunting for the bow of Eros. I might also putter around in Attika and do question marks to level up to...but since I am in the same neighborhood levelwise for the Erros bow I will go after it and get it before continuing on with the story.

Keep in mind though that I might also do this weekly quest and that requires me to Assassinate Spartan Leaders so I might spend a while do that to, which will then mean funilly enough conquest battles on behalf of Sparta to keep those lands in Spartan control.

Reealllly? That's a bit of a surprise given unsubstantiated evidence plus thought she could've put a spell on everyone. But then just head shotting her was pure perfection.