Assassins Creed Odyssey

Which is exactly the problem I am talking about.

So I should stop trying to anticipate things and try to rush things and worry about things and just let them happen... Its a bit of a long story on that but long and the short of it when I get Vahalla I will worry about speedeing through Odyssey then. Don't anticipate, just play and enjoy *grumbles*

But on the subject I have actually been a pretty productive day! Finished wiping out two of the cult branches (the Eyes and the Gods of the Aegean) and did Sokrates's LOTOG mission then started Prodigal Son.

Sokrates's mission is always fun but I think I missed something when getting over the shock of meeting Plato. Talking with the philosophers about the differences on where an idea originates and then who is responsible for it. Actually as a matter of course I love all the philosophical conversations in this game but...more on that in a bit. I don't know all this was basically me trying to remember a connection I made between this conversation and actually something going on IRL but now I completely forget it so moving on...

While I enjoy Sokrates and his company Kass has said, via auto dialogue, that she does not. So while I know I could still chose the positive dialogue response anyways I did say that he annoyed her which was again another hilarious Ubisoft moment because Kass was like 'and he just keeps talking, talking, talking' and on each 'talking the camera zoomed in just a tad emphasising the point, really well done.

So I finished Brother's Seduction in my usual epic style by Devestating Shotting every last one of them.

Actually this is a bit of a theme for me because it occurred to me actually playing this game a couple of things about the romances. 1. This is what NPCs must feel like when the player character flirts with them. I mean in BioWare games the romance dialogue is usually better written but usually you have to constantly say flirty things at them or buy them gifts..so kind of yikes. 2. It occurs to me that this is what some women actually must go through. I mean I have heard some stories on this but having every single man and even some woman all go 'the lovely Kassandra' or the 'beautiful mistios'. Kass handles it with a lot of grace and humility and flattery...I suppose to her credit ...but as a player who is trying to play a celibate, professional, job first Mistios, it gets a little taxing having to turn down awkward advance after awkward advance. Though for some bizarre reason I was considering giving Mikkos a good time...

Another really bizarre trend with me and this game is...I just keep on making the same mistakes over and over again from PT to PT. Of course I am starting to wonder just how intuitive the quest design is in this game (another trend noticing more problems on future PTs, or could just be annoyed that these thingsare slowing down this PT), but yeah got to the School of Hard Knocks quest line and then...nothing. Its actually another one of my favorite quest lines in the game but I forget (and find a little odd in hindsight) that I had to go to Thasos in order to trigger the rest of the quest line. The weird thing is if Thasos triggered the quest line, including School of Hard Knocks, then why give you the option to do SHKs first and then have to warp on over to Thasos...rather then just letting you start in Thasos. But yeah, the good news I did run into my favorite little side character in the game, the Doctor, yes, yes.

Finished off in Lesbos and had the same problem. I guess I stumbled onto this quest by accident pretty much the first time but I am looking for 'the Elixir' as part of the Lesbos quest line because again, good quest, but can't find it. Lets hope I can kill the Medusa first.

I finished my mightmare run with Kassandra. Some helpful tips. Avoid getting up close and personnel when fighting mercs. If they throw a smoke grenade it will be an instant kill regardless of how much health you have. What I do is use my bow. If I do get close, I back off after a couple of hits. Having flamed arrows helps as well. Avoid the brutes who can jump from aa distance at you. Depending on how close they hit you, it could be an instant kill. When dealing with ships, stay at range. Recruit Lt's with arrow damge and ship armor. Brace is your best friend.

I decided to do a quick playthrough as Alexios to see/hear the difference. I prefer Kassandra. She sucks as Deimos whereas Alexios is better suited for that role. Alexios make for a better Commander of the ship since he has a more commanding voice when barking out orders


Be afraid. BE VERY AFRIAD


I started another playthrough as Kassandra


A couple of questions. I want to get the Atlantis dlc. Is it worth it? If so, when would the best time be to play it? If it's not worth getting, is the other dlc, the first blade, worth getting?

You know I was going to say something but I think I realize I pretty much have this reaction EVERY time I do this quest chain. God damn Markos/ this game really asks you and forces you to do some really questionable crap. Well I mean 'forces' you by making you do these things if you want to complete the quest. That poor...whoever's farm. Though it was funny too with Markos's wine if you choose to drink it, it knocks down your health by quite a significant amount. Double points that they freak out and follow you all the way back to the vineyard when you bug out. I basically think I broke or at least did a Captain Picard maneuver and put my foot down. I went to such lengths to not kill anyone when they came after me that I beat them all up and then when the quest did not continue I recruited them all and then dismissed tem on my ship. It was funny getting multiple Cerbersuses.

Onto doing the LTOG 'The Show Must Go On'. Maybe the second to last one I did for this playthrough. I do feel both bad but not too bad because I always recruit the actual military guy to do it which leaves the guy with the debt hanging. I mean it is his fault so he 'deserves it' but slavery isn't exactly a 'nice' way to pay off one's debt. But then Kass did get out of doing work so a win for her I guess.

Oikos this week - Barbaric skull helmet and Shark Bite ship customization.

The weekly is a fast one - 2 Athenian leaders, 2 Conquest wins and 15 Greek soldiers.

So its amazing what you can do in an hour and its amazing about what you cannot do in an hour.

So off to the Olympics I went and I think this is the first time I did the Olympics quest, getting Testikles, in the middle of the night/ early morning. Which kind of made the funniest cutscene ever a little hard to see but I did like the entire set up this did where it gave the tone of a mid morning father crushing everyone into the back of a stationwagon to go to a vacation to Pensylvania or something. It was a really neat idea basically traveling through nightto reach the Olympics by morning.

Anyways there is also a lot of side quests in the Olympics and a lot more of them that I remember having fun with so...we'll see? Including the one with the gutter runner which I got a good chuckle with how obvious the girl was just creeping on you in the background. And well she failed the Bob Brown test for not mthievery. Also, I found it interesting that Kass is carrying around 1963 Drachmae on her belt...which just is a lot. I was going to say something but realize it is also a bit risque and kind of moot considering that amount of Drachmae still really fit into a really small pouch so...*shrug*.

Think I am done with Odyssey for now, getting the shiny's from Oikos is something I'd like to do but I'd rather invest the time in Vlahalla rather than doing the quests just ti get cosmetics I probably will never use. Shame, I miss Odysseys pure beauty and yes I am talking about Kassandra and the scenery.   


I like Eivor and her raspy voice but there will most likely be another Kassandra. 

Finished Boetia, finished Arkadia, exposed Pausinias, off to Pylos which is in Lakonia and not in Markedonia I guess. .

Buuuutt what I wanted to talk about is euthanasia and...well I am trying to make sure that I get my moral ducks in a row and possibly remember exactly what I do because this is a really fun topic to talk about. Now IRL I am typically staunchly against euthanasia or things relating to it. But in video games I do sometimes do the whole 'person is suffering too much thing' and this comes up again in this game with Hipokrates and again always gives me a bit of a pause when I come to it. And I didn't actually give him too much Hemlock. But Hipokrates does make a good point too where he can study this man's symptoms to better help others. Where there is life, there is hope.

What is it with Kassandra and goats?

I mean I know I have done this cutscene before and in this way...but what the actual fuck Kassandra? So here she is, getting hit on by Thespis, dealing with a bunch of thugs, trying to get rid of the thugs and well...again I did this before but I did not remember this option would lead to it but 'you smell like a goat pen' sounded rather hilarious even though I was quite sure it would lead to combat. But that is part of the hillarious thing because she is insulting them, comparing them to barn yard animals, driving them off and they actually start to leave...and then she bahs at them. And it is amazing because I do not know if they put in an actual goat sound or if that is Melsanthi doing that but it was so pitch perfect and hillarious.

On the more negative side of the equation again getting free from prison, like merc central, I think I killed five of them...and once more I wonder how many mercs are actually in the game. It did lead to a neat combat where I was dueling with two of them at once. I managed to get one of them knocked down by probably 90% plus health early on and then the other one showed up but I was very eager to take out the weak one first and the other one kind of blocked me so I had to get around them to land a couple of arrow shots on them, it was glorious.

Greece Illustrated Olive Oil edition
It's over, I have the high ground!

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