Assassins Creed Odyssey

I do the same in games like this. My favorite is the Deus Ex games, where you can actually get through the entire game without killing a single person. 

No we are not having a hard time finding soft leather we or some of us find it strange that some of the merchants were not selling soft leather ( but you already explained that to us ). And that you need so much soft leather to upgrade your weapons and armor pieces. And i did not upgrade my weapons and armor pieces frequently but since there is a level cap in how much money you can bring with you ( 9.999.999 ) i have to spend my money on something.  

So those poor animals out there have to suffer because some of the merchants are not selling ( or not nearly enough ) soft leather to upgrade my stuff. Money for me is not an issue in this game but those poor animals are ... why not the option to buy ability points.   
 

Watched sunset until my eyes burnt... Spear level 4 now, I just want to hunt the cultists but the game wont let me!

Nope you have to be patient.  

The moment I spot a wolf, the knockout arrows come out. They're so much fun to have around (minus the fact that during combat I pay a lot of attention to not letting anyone kill them)

  I love my game animals (and my real life animals) but I worry about them so much. Until I got a mod for Skyrim that my horses and pets were invincible, I would never ride my horse anywhere or have any animals. With the mod, those giants couldn't even hurt my chickens. 

I can't help but stop and admire the scenery, some of it is absolutely glorious.  I like what they do with the light in the game, its truly wonderful:

Ah this is an interesting one.  I have not played the game as Kass yet, only Alexios...so I can't say for sure but playing the game with Kass as deimos is just eerie and really creepy...skin crawling...disconcerting...my words are inadequate to describe the overall squelching feeling when she's on the screen.  As I said way back when I first discovered it A. she's a striking woman and even though it should not be about that its weird seeing someone that attractive being that evil.  B. When I was looking at the game and doing research and watching gameplay vids to see if I'd like it most of them (in fact most videos out there) have it as her playing so I know of her as a kind, sometimes aggressive, sarcastic warrior princess so yeah...disconertaing again to see her be all murder murder stab stab.  

Though I will say Alexios's line delivery even playing him he does seem to pull off the aggressive lines easily so I do wonder if he is the better Deimos because his voice acting does lend it to that kind of performance.  

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So as far as what I did today.  Well lets see last night I started off finishing the stuff I wanted to do in the Naxos islands.  I did the quest "We're not Thieves....We're trophy hunters." And well the pirate ended up betraying me on her ship with her crew which I rather easily killed.  Then spent a brief bit trying to find Xenia's treassures and well despite having a map, no objective marker and since I hate those kinds of quests...especially in this circumstance...I bolted.  

Right to the Daughters of Lalia, where that quest line is my second favorite of the Lost Tales of Greece hmmm *thinks* yeah that's fair.  On the one hand it was a fun little side story but on the other side they really talked it up too much for what was a lot of fetch quests.  I mean don't know what to expect but they did say this was based on 'Seven Samurai' so I was expecting a lot more.  Plus the training was a little hinky because Alexios mentioned a certain way to draw back a bow which is a way to do it but I decided to double check and...that's not the way he does it.  Alexios uses his anchor point as being towards his jaw/ cheek, not near his eye like he said.  Still the final two choices was fun, don't know how it would've played out differently had I did the different way but I do suspect that choosing which path to go down determines which of the two leaders dies.  Which is sad.  

Off to looking for the Heiphostos forge I went and well as 'luck' would have it I already found it but I didn't see it at first so I spent a loong time trying to clear out the question marks, think I got everyone of them in Pandora's Cove.  

Though on the way to it finally I ran into this village called 'Lamia' which was essentially Huntress central.  The entire....fecking...village.  Bitches actually managed to kill me once but then I went back and I did go right through them like...well...I did better.  As a fast aside I have been feeeling awfully 'Arrow' the last couple of days.  

Finally found the new workshop and I bankrupted myself on just two of the new engravings.  Ignore half damage 28% of the time and the 35 Percent headshot bonus.  Well I do not give the engraving system because it seems like only certain pieces of gear accept certain bonuses.  Well then after going to a regular blacskmith to build my money back up, started engraving like mad.  2% health on kill on my chest now, I put the 28 % on my hood, and of course a few things now have the 35% headshot bonus.  I decided to test out my near gear on a new location, fortunatley I was in Phokis and I discovered another fort and this time I am sure it was the one where Elpenor was.  I went in and sabotaged the signal fire, didn't want too much trouble but I cleared out the entire area, including two mercenaries coming to fight me so my build is solid.  

After that back to the Arena in Pepka to finish that out and again they didn't really stand much of a chance, Veislos the King of the Arena...he was easy.  And then Skoura himself decided to fight me because his daughter was actually dead and he put up one hell of a fight, but I did get him in the end.  It was sad.  

With that off to Sterroppes and while he was a lot tougher then his brother he was still a bit of a pushover.  And anyways after getting him I have decided to switch to his bow.  His bow is the best looking bow in the game so far by far, and I thought Erros's bow was beautiful.  That and the stats may just be a bit better, need to engrave the thing of course.  The problem is with Erros's bow is I just don't use special arrows enough outside of death arrows and explosive arrows and now since it seems I can do flaming attacks all the time now, seriously it regenerates by the time the flames wear off, then I don't really need to use poison or fire arrows.  And the 20% health and armor could be useful.  

Sadly though my day ended in defeat, I don't know why I still have a bounty on me...but I do and when I went to Athens to turn in a quest some merc found me there I tried leading him outside the city, he killed me.  Oh speaking of mercs I got the merc cultist too, he's dead.

They’re both really good, but I definitely have favorites.

I like Alexios better as the protagonist. He brings more passion, snark and humor to the role. Also, there’s a second reason people won’t like. I feel that he’s more believable as a male protagonist, given the setting. The game ignores Kassandra’s gender. That’s totally fine, but I’d rather she face some hurdles and get to bite back. It’s a minor thing, in the end, and I’m definitely glad they finally gave us a great female lead in the series.

As Deimos, I somewhat prefer Kassandra. Alexios as Deimos is awesome. He’s full of the unbridled rage I’d expect and that the Cult seemed to fear. He really did seem irredeemable, though. (Fittingly, he faked me out and murdered mom at the end of my Kassandra PT.) Kassandra as Deimos was pretty angry, as expected, but didn’t seem 100% rage (more like 85% 😂). She had moments in which she really seemed unsure. Maybe I missed out on a few of those with Alexios due to dialogue choices. A side by side comparison, though, of identical scenes left me with the above impressions. It felt fitting that I “redeemed” Kasssndra in my first (and third) PT, but had to kill Alexios in my second PT.

TLDR: Alexios is my preferred hero. Kassandra is my preferred Deimos.

It really depended on the city state, since some were definitely more progressive than others with Sparta being famous/infamous as one of the most. In terms of warfare, while women couldn't really join the army there are cases of famous women warriors and leaders fighting in wars so it wasn't super frowned upon if a woman did those things. Also Greece had many experiences with other cultures and among them also had female fighters so yeah it wasn't an alien concept to them. "If the gods gave them those gifts, let them use them" and stuff like that.

Edit: Here is an example of a woman helping in warfare during the war between Greece and Persia: Hydna
And here is one, the half-sister of Alexander the Great, actually fighting and leading an army: Cynane

Alexios + Kassandra.  One part Green Arrow, one part Superman, one part The Flash.  

Honestly though I mean I get it in a way because games feel the need to have to justify why people in their games are just so bad ass over everyone else that they have to give them some unique super thing whether you are the chosen one, the anchor, the HEV, or the Spear of Destiny (that is its name right?), I just wish there were more heroes like Hawke.  I just want a nice, regular person who is a bad ass because of their wits and training.