Assassin's Creed Series: Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

I am not certain that the story in Odyssey is better for me. The big knock is that I completely forgot about it playing and completed the story without realizing it. I think for me it is Kassandra that makes Odyssey better. Not the story because Kassandra felt more than a one note character and wasn't fighting their nature as a Spartan versus Eivor not being very Viking unless it was convenient for the story. One thing I have learned with both Odyssey and Valhalla is I don't like the sections where you are reliving the ISU memories for those both were the least liked parts of the games for me.

With both games I have never really gone back after moving on. I do have twice as much time with Valhalla as I do with Odyssey, but I didn't start playing Odyssey until after everything was released when I went back on with the approach of "one last time" to try and get beyond the starting island. So that meant I did a lot of just logging into Valhalla for daily quests and challenges waiting for more content where everything was pretty much a straight line to the end for Odyssey and I think the DLC really pushed me away from Odyssey for I didn't mind the first DLC packs for Valhalla, but Ragnarok left me with the same feeling as the DLC packs for Odyssey.

I would say as of this moment any purchase of Mirage is highly unlikely. Especially from what has been announced with the game. Going back to more pre-Origin's gameplay would be nice, but I don't think they fully learned the lesson that people want some open world and not fully corridor gameplay, but something in the middle not full of unrelated tasks.

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I have the least about of time for a Dragon Age game with Inquisition, but I think it has a lot of the same reasons why I don't have a lot of post-game play with Odyssey or Valhalla.  Not having NG+ and how much I disliked crafting and gathering materials or traversing the game.  I am also more sci-fi when it comes to my gameplay options so I have thousands of hours in Mas Effect and just hundreds in Dragon Age.  The most game outside of a MMO is Mass Effect 2 and 3 with both games having over 2,000 hours each.

I will never do this again, but on my main character for World of Warcraft I have over 16,000 hours played.

Ultimate Assassin's Creed tier list

That was pretty funny and overall I am mostly in agreeance with the ratings, Odyssey too low, Origins too high.

Two laugh emojis from me 

What? This game has the same two options. Also, hiding in tall grass and hiding bodies isn't exactly new to the series lol. Why would they even mention that.

I am wondering what focusing on Basim is going to do for the game.  The people I know are less than thrilled about his being the protagonist this time around and multiple saying they aren't planning on buying the game for they don't like the idea.  I am definitely in that boat and last time that happened I waited until the game after that was on steep discount before even buying it.  I even have a couple of friends that stopped playing Valhalla the moment they finished the story because they disliked the ending of the game that much and it seems they are building the future of the franchise on Basim at the moment too.

Right now I am putting the way they are handling Basim to be about the same as the future of the IP after AC3 and how they handled Desmond and the modern content.

The moment they said Basim was the focus, I immediately lost any interest in Mirage and see no way I’ll get it back. First game since starting where I’m just skipping it.

Are you going to play it on release dragontartare ?

I liked what I saw in the trailer but wonder if I have the patience to go back to that older style gameplay.

Rogue is pretty short, did you finish Black Flag?

From what I saw in the review you posted Origins may be a good lead in to Mirage.

Honestly it is only worth finishing for the story links to the other games AC3 and the lead into Unity.

Yeah I remembered helping you I just couldn't remember if you finished it, did you write it up on here?

One sentence on what you thought?

Glad I didn't read the book,


Yeah the ship combat is brilliant. I literally played hundreds of hours sinking ships to get myself to number 1 Pirate in my region, think I have been dethroned now but that was years ago.

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