Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Greece)

Yeah, I picked it up on Friday. I was sick this weekend, so I managed to put in a little over 20 hours since purchasing it. I like it a lot. Not as good as RDR2 imo, but the best the AC series has been since Black Flag and Ezio, and the best the combat has ever been. It's amazing how much allowing me to choose how my character responds in dialogues added to the game for me. I think the real standout in this game is world they created. Greece is beautiful and really fun to explore.

The game is huge though, I don't see how I'm going to finish before the new POE league, which is going to create a serious internal conflict for me.

Just started playing and wondering if its more fast paced (combat/running/climbing) than Origins? Feels like turbo mode but might just be me being used to the RDR2 gameplay as I just completed that game yesterday.

Beat the game on Google Stream - almost 60 hours. Just can't bring myself to investing anymore time into this game when I know it will be all for naught. Hunter abilities vastly overpower any of the other abilities, which is a little disappointing. I thought the ship battles were tedious. The quests though, especially the last Odyssey quest (Gates of Atlantis) was by far my most fun quest.

I didn't dislike Origins, but this is an improvement in every way. That said I'm about 42 hours in now and I'm starting to get burnt out. I'll probably take a big break when the new POE league drops next Friday and then come back to it after a few weeks. In the meantime I'll slow it down. I still like the story and the basic structure, but when I see a big fort with tons of people to take out I tend to turn off the game and come back to it later.

Fucker said:

You can get a game code for this from Ebay for $25. It's an AMD games bundle that comes with ACO, Star Control, and Strange Brigade. I obviously can't vouch for the sellers, but it's a deal if you are on the fence.

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just to follow up on this, as i said before you do need a Radeon 570/580/590 to activate the bundle but you can activate this and the newer bundle which gives you Division 2 and Devil May Cry 5 (both not released) on any 580/590 machine. I bought bundle keys for both for $20 each and activated them all on my brothers 580 machine, just had to login to my uPlay account on his PC and it activated to my account, gave me steam keys for the steam games and told me it'll email me for division (uplay) and DMC5 when its out. AC:O is just regular edition, no season pass, but still a great deal. nice thing about PC version is you can cheat with CheatEngine and give yourself all the cosmetic crap for free.

season pass for ACO should go on sale on uPlay the day after christmas, they always have a big sale after that. its on sale right now on uPlay too until wed, like 30-50% off but physical copies I think, PC digital is "only" 33% off

Cabales said:

I didn't dislike Origins, but this is an improvement in every way. That said I'm about 42 hours in now and I'm starting to get burnt out. I'll probably take a big break when the new POE league drops next Friday and then come back to it after a few weeks. In the meantime I'll slow it down. I still like the story and the basic structure, but when I see a big fort with tons of people to take out I tend to turn off the game and come back to it later.

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I did the same thing... the game is way more fun to me than RDR 2 was, but I think their biggest mistake was creating such a big world that is historically accurate and to scale. All of the locations look the exact same, and really almost all of the enemies are exactly the same as well. Not only that the skills are really shallow. I'm level 25 and pretty much have everything I need/want for my melee build outside of getting them stronger via spear upgrades. Now that someone mentioned hunter abilities, I may have to play with my bow a bit.