Assassins Creed Odyssey

Challenge accepted! Hold my wine!

P.S. Boats are not ships, right? 😋
Am I allowed to single handedly raid ships while swimming alone in the deep sea?

I just had a crazy experience.

Riding to pursue a bounty, I experienced extreme pop-in, as a Spartan camp appeared all around me. I kept riding and attacked the merc I was hunting. All of the Spartans pursues, and a big ass three-way brawl started. Soon, civilians were arming themselves and my wanted meter sky-rocketed. One of the four mercs who came for me was Exekias the Legend, cultist and #1 merc. I’ve been #2 for a while, and intended to eventually go find the old man. I dropped his ass, and his bear and three other mercs. Glorious! I’m now “Top of the Food Chain”, as the trophy says. I’ve also decapitated the Heroes of the Cult. I’ll mop up the leftovers as they are found.

It is kind of interesting that the noterioty system seems to be sommething which technically you don't want to raise because that is how they work in most games...you only get points when you do something bad...but for ACO it seems like the only way to get certain things to happen that are apparently story related. Curiouser and curiouser.

I got the infamous trophy last night. It happened very quickly. Just kill a high level character in front of a bunch of soldiers will do it.

I recommend going to Delos/Mykonos too when Barnabas informs you someone asks for you there to help a rebellion. It's not a light hearted funny area as Pephka, but it's also a pretty well done quest line. And depending on your choices:

Wow, I'm so glad I decided to do those quests first. I knew exactly where the cultist was, but figured those quests would disappear if I went off plan. I didn't imagine that it would glitch a trophy.

I turned down Kyra, even though she's the most attractive NPC I've yet encountered. Thaletas seems totally infatuated infatuated with her, and she's involved with him, so I didn't want to get between them. Thaletas could be an ally. No reason to alienate him over some punani. 😂 Alexios can score that anywhere.

I'm going kill this cultist and take a break. Apparently, a water main must be replaced on my street. My water will be off for an indeterminate number of hours in the morning. Sounds like a good time to stay up late playing and sleep through the water outage.

For those who didn't know, here's a location, SW of Delos near an island, to find an outfit for the females to have an all-female crew. They sing the same songs as the males. There's also a male bandit outfit in the same location

According to Ubisoft Club, I'm 50% way through game with exactly 100 hrs put in; give or take a few for being idle. Holy shit this game is massive. Though my one regret with how I've been playing, is that I wish I did the question marks later.

I just checked my stats a few minutes ago. I’m 66.7% through the main story, with 74% of the game completed. I’ve play just under 102 hours. I’ve traveled 1.67 Million meters. Crazy!

I’ve completed so much today. Crete is huge and took most of the day. I’ve completed all of the southern islands and as far north as Samos and Poseidon’s Temple. I’ve gone back to the upper Peloponnesus, now, in pursuit of cultists and unexplored areas. Lots of cultists died today. I’m presently in Boeotia, closing in on completion. Then, I’ll either go to Achaia or back to island-hopping. I think I might try to finish up the Peloponnesus before doing all of the islands. I want to see whether completing the Artemis hunting quests makes those ladies less hostile. I have cultists, two animals and one final site for the Blind King all on the Peloponnesus, so I guess that might be best.

For the person willing to grind through those early levels and stick with this giant game, this is definitely one of the best AC games so far. It’s right there with AC2 & Brotherhood, and Origins. It’s a little rough around the edges. Loading times are a constant nuisance on PS4 Pro. What it lacks in final polishing, though, it balances with quality content in great quantity. The game gets better as it goes along. I just diubtvwhether most players will ever see the finish line.

colfoley , I think you’d like this game. My views of it evolve as I play. It’s huge with endless things to do. It’s main story is good, and the side quests are generally decent. There’s some repetition in taking down bases, camps, etc... but that’s just part of AC. The RP is just detailed enough to make me think I could RP two types of character (good and selfish) and the myriad combinations between. You’ll still get mostly the same story, but your attitude can vary decently. I believe this game has multiple endings. It certainly feels like there have been a few major decision points that would dictate such. Combat is Grundy at first, then improved and finally very fun once your spear and skills are totally evolved. The explosive power of Aleksios’ moves at this point is pretty fun to watch and play. I almost wish I weren’t using so much fire so that I could enjoy watching the spear flash more clearly. (Almost. I love my fire weapons.)

A few assorted thoughts to end the post: Thunderstorms are incredible. The looks and sounds are impressive. The new patch helped the game look cleaner on PS4 Pro. It’s comparable to Origins, now. Aleksios’ VA is really good. He’s silly and sarcastic when it’s okay to be so, but he kills the serious scenes. Great performance! I can’t wait to use Kassandra and feel the differences. Her VA is getting high praise from many online. For all the bitching about this not being “a true AC game”, this is the most AC of all of the games since Ezio for me. It’s centered squarely on all the things that make the IP great: good protagonist; Isu awesomeness; and intelligent, powerful, scheming enemies that need to be killed.

Ramming Speed: the Game.

Yus.

Got to Tier 1 Merc at 44. Because collectibles.
12 more Triangle People to destroy.
Are You Not Entertained, now all level 50 redux to get other collectibles.
Ram everything for money: the sequel

My Precious:





Somewhat dated pictures from 10ish hours ago. Its stronger now.

I like Bird. He finds the good shit. All 22 Tombs vs Snakes in a Pot completed. 105 hrs so far and I just started the main mission for Land of Working Night Ladies. Still have Preview Island, Pirate Lady and Help the Doc to do, as far as main plot progress. X, in the circle of Triangle land is listed as level 35. I outleveled that aspect a lot.

4 triangle branches down now. Just a few more to go.

I recruited Big Smoldering Bertha (Debora). Now I feel like it makes ship boarding bit pointless for me to join. She just jumps over there and throws everyone off the ship in record time. The sharks have a field day.