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I was pretty disappointed in Valhalla. After getting the platinum trophy for origins and odyssey Valhalla was just too much of a slog and I didn't bother.
EA* !... itâs in the game... but at a price..
Herd great things about it bout it yesterday for ÂŁ35 .. I knew something was wrong when a whale started flying out the water in Norway and glitched back into the sea after 5 second of flight.
How did this game get released like this ? Why was there not more warnings presenting themselves to me until after I bought it fml
this is the worst game in the series? have you heard of AC Unity?
the game is still pretty damn buggy as shit. but they have patched it up over the years.
i will agree that Valhalla's skill boost completely ruins the game and the lack of side quests was a bad idea, but at least this game runs without major glitches that makes you want to quit out of anger due to unresponsive controls and glitches.
even with the patches, that games still worse off. and Ubisoft have already said they are done patching it.
I was 15 when I bought Odyssey, now I'm 49 and still haven't beat it.
I platinumed it on playstation. i had stopped for a year but its the only game id ever just given up on. i finished it out of some form of spite. ill never play the franchise again. i just come to warm my hands by the fire.
Wait till you get witcher 3.. that shit is boring+long..
@@cleverdeedigitalart5335 Nah Witcher 3 is worth it. I just got Od the other day for the summer....Probably not going to finish it by the way yall speakin
@@Bkhaveityouway donât let others ppl opinions keep your from playing because there are tons on people including me that love origins and odyssey! They both have problems but there still good games imo!!
@Alex Sonne time traveller?
*âI accidentally broke Assassinâs Creed Valhallaâ*
So did Ubisoft...
Ubi broke it on purpose.
he changed the titile now, got some backlash
Except Ubisoft breaking Valhalla was no accident.
One of the worst AC game and it's kinda boring very boring..
When the new Far Cry gameplay demo has more emphasis on stealth then Assassinâs Creed...
For real..... man AC was my all time fav game franchise ... I was obsessed.. the gameplay was fire. The characters were fire... and the LORE?!?!? LORE WAS TOP TIER and for a ancient history obsessed person.. wtf happened?!?! What's worse. Since2007 when AC dropped I wanted 3 eras. Roman, ancient Greece and vikings!! And they did it!!! And i was So disappointed!!!!!! Origins was dope tho. I enjoyed alot of it. And the story was pretty dope. But then all down hill. I was obsessed w AC. And waited for those e eras... how the f did they acrew up so bad?!?!?!?!?
@Team Worm Youâre donât have to use that weapon
@Team Worm Lol howâs that feature bad?
And more military shooter tactics than ghost recon.
@@Kimkong2 "Ghost" Recon
I'm about 40 hours into this game and, if I'm honest, I can already feel the "Okay, I'm getting sick of this now" seeping into my mind. Ubisoft really have taken a "Quantity over Quality" approach with their recent games. Assassin's Creed, as a franchise, is my weakness but this game really is slowly making me get over that weakness.
It's because Ubisoft doesn't understand Assassin's Creed. I mean look at the recent entries. All of them have way more to do with the history of the time rather than focusing on the Assassin's Creed stuff. And that bleeds over to gameplay where parkour and stealth are limited and discouraged in favor of massive battles.
Yea I'm trying to beat Days Gone and it keeps throwing useless quests in the way of the main story. They could have cut probably 30% of the game and it would have been better. It also frequently places each quest on opposite ends of the map so half the game is driving and finding materials. Overall it's decent, I'm having fun with it, but I'll never play it again once I beat it. And I'm gonna be spent on open world games for a while.
Same here, I quit around 50 hours into the game when I checked the map and saw that I still didnt even conquer half of the territories and I found the story, characters and parkour to be really mediocre and its way too damn repetitive, I really need to stop caring about this franchise for the sake of my own sanity lol.
40 hours is a long time, I always treat AC games as 'play until you are bored' even the old ones were so full of stuff, I only finished them because I was a teenager.
@@off-meta-michael I actually found Days Gone to be a great open world game. Valhalla is Just Cause open world filth.
"The junk food of gaming" the best description I've heard
more like "the cigarettes of videogames"
@@renaigh Honestly, more like: "the Burger King of gaming".
Only reason I didn't use "McDonalds" is because we all know that belongs to Call of Duty.
@@6ixlxrd man, I love BK shakes
You say like it's a bad thing. A game can be many things and doesn't make it bad, including "junk food". That's like saying every movie needs to be "Oscar worthy" to be good.
@@user-fm8xs3hr3w Thatâs not what itâs like saying at all: itâs like saying every movie needs to be enjoyable to be good. AC is enjoyable, just like junk food is enjoyable. But good to you does not mean good for you, and the AC franchise as of late has definitely been the furthest thing from âgood for youâ. All youâll get from it now is depression and profound levels of disappointment, which isnât exactly good for mental health.
Why did they cut sidequests? They didn't, they made Essexe, Glowecestrescire, Snotinghamscire and other arcs that feel like sidequests mandatory. People were complaining about the bloat of having to play meaningless side missions to level up enough to continue the main story. Ubisoft "fixed" this by turning the sidequests into main missions, so it wouldn't feel as meaningless. Which of course massively backfired, because the game feels even more bloated. I do think some of these arcs are quite enjoyable on their own and would have worked far better as side content, but instead you're rushing through them to get to the end of the story.
Strangely, I've heard that the Mythical arcs that have a big role in the ending of Eivor and Sigurd's story are apparently not mandatory, and can thus be considered side content. They're the most annoying part of the game though, so maybe that's for the better.
The arcs really aren't enjoyable except the first one, and the last 2 ones and all of Vinland, the starting part of the game and that's it
@@buffkangaroodog To me, there are a few storylines in Valhalla: Eivor and Sigurd's story, the alliance story, and the Order of Ancients story. Of these, Eivor and Sigurd's story is the most engaging to me, and thus feels most like the main story. Very few arcs directly relate to this story, but strange enough, the only optional arcs (Asgard and Jotunheim) are a part of this story.
Then there are a bunch of arcs that are part of the Order of Ancients story, which therefore still feel obligatory to finish this storyline, but already do feel like they're not that important, as I don't see what the benefit of destroying the Order is for Eivor. I also don't see why these have to be finished (apart from Vinland) before finishing Eivor and Sigurd's story.
Finally, there's the alliance story. Of course, every arc is somewhat related to this as Eivor visits each region to form an alliance. But apart from that basic fact, whatever Eivor does in these regions does not feel like a main mission. And most of these allies' role in the endgame is so superficial that you wonder why this all was necessary. And once again, having to finish all these arcs really pulls you out of Eivor and Sigurd's story, which is basically ignored for the second half of the game. Them being thematically linked to Eivor's journey to becoming a leader is not enough to justify their role as part of the main story in my eyes.
As I said, on their own I thought plenty of these arcs were quite enjoyable, and I'd say they're certainly better than most side quests in Origins or Odyssey. But comparing it to just AC is not enough. The Witcher 3, the game these new AC games try to emulate, tells some great, expansive, engaging stories which are side quest AND are meaningful. And I think this is exactly the role the alliance arcs should've had: optional content which is still meaningful to Eivor's story.
Did Asgard and Jotunheim after completing literally everything else and I was kinda pissed the game made the content optional because it covered a crucial aspect of the story. Overall did not enjoy those regions of the game but I would've enjoyed the main ending more had I played them before.
The mythical arcs are shit..
They prolly thought they were harkening back to the Ezio trilogy when you would do a couple random missions (like the three before you assassinate Emilio) before you get the big kill but itâs all part of the ââmain storyâ.
Except they neglected the fact that the world of Valhalla is just way too big and unfocused and the arcs drag on forever with nothing to tie them all together narratively so everything feels so pointless.
Instead of monitazation on xp boost they should have a âStory Modeâ in the difficulty in the settings so the xp boost integrated in the mode for people who just want the story
Iv nearly wrapped up Valhallas story at 85hrs and iv never felt like I needed to spend any extra money in the game if I'm honest.
Decent enough game, ending is confusing as hell but I must admit I enjoyed Oddysey more
There's already an easy mode. What's the point of having an easy mode if you're selling an option to make the game even way easier
@Dominic Haertig It broke the game for me because you level up much faster than you get enough new gear at your level or enough resources to upgrade what you already had ..... It made the game even more of a grind trying to keep a good set of armor and weapons upgraded and made upgrading the ship even more of a grind because that took even more resources than armor and weapons upgrades ..... The Drachmae boost was much more useful but the XP boost not so much .... It was more noticable to me because I had already played through the entire game and DLCs before I got it as a present so I could see how out of balance it made the game with the leveling system it had .....
But then ubisoft would be missing out on all that sweet sweet cash money
Like the Witcher 3?
I got the impression there were a lot of decisions being made on that game by people who don't design games.
Or not even play games
Yes sir đ
The thing that ruined Valhalla the most for me was that this was the game where Ubisoft _completely_ abandoned the notion of recreating an irl historical setting & going straight for 100% historical fantasy.
Sure, you could complain about the mythological stuff in Odyssey or Origins, or about the ancient aliens stuff throughout the franchise, but in every game up until Valhalla they recreated a specific setting from history. Odyssey was _specifically_ Greece during the Peloponnesian war. Origins was _specifically_ Ptolemaic Egypt.
On the other hand, with Valhalla, they just took every 'cool' thing from across a spectrum of several hundred years in Northern European history & mashed it all together... From the characters present to the architecture, the weapons, armor, technology, cities, castles, etc. Nothing matches _anything_ with regard to the timeline. I mean, chirst's sake, there are stave churches in pre-christian Scandanavian settlements. There are renaissance era castles in ruins during the 9th century.
It's so bad, it'd be like having a game about Columbus's voyages, but he used GPS to navigate.
That excuse of â people who donât have timeâ is just outright bullshit. They donât need to finish the game in a week, they could do it in a month little by little like people used to do. They keep shoving this nothing burgers down our throats and we keep parroting their bullshit itâs astonishing.
The KEY trait of this franchise just doesnât exist. You are not an âassassinâ anymore.
You can instantly kill people with your blade, plan an attack, and kill guards while flipping from Bush to Bush. If you've played these games, you'll know that what it means to be an assassin, isn't just STEALTH and POKING PEOPLE. People think there's games live or die off of stealth, which is already in these games, and I don't get it.
@@JerahNeptune People ALWAYS jump on "stealth" but i didn't use that word AT ALL friend. it's about being a "specialized" assassin, not a "warrior" with tankie health looking to smash swords with enemy health bars. You're supposed to be a sleak and mobile killer, using techniques, equipment and fighting styles that are extraordinarily unique and unmatched to the foes you encounter. how is going from bush to bush an exciting or interesting mechanic? i don't get it.
â@@Miss.6ixEdits He do have a point with the stealth part. The key trait of any assasin is not to be spotted or recognized and the best way to achieve that is to remain hidden or in stealth. Stealth can ofc be used in other ways like disguises from the Hitman series to remain hidden in plain sight while using planning to get to your target, Assasins can ofc have distractions like smoke bombs, diffrent kinds of poison and the early games have used most of them and in those games it made sense u were 100% a legit assasin. Not a pirate, not a mercenary or viking but a real assasin. That is not the case in the later games. The games may be called AssasinÂŽs creed as it shares the lore universe but the player caracter stopped being anything like an assasin in Black Flag and has never been an assasin in the games after Black Flag. What u do in the games and how u get to your target are influenced by the assasins in those games but as u said yourself "u are NOT an assasin" in those games so u should not have access to the secret technices and specilized equipments that the real assasins use.
Even in the earlier games u were the greatest warrior in human history. Counter kill, Counter kill, Counter kill, U could reck up a body count in the hundreds with just 2 buttons. The only reson ppl played more like assasins was becouse the game forced u to play like that for many targets.
I doubt Ubisoft will ever go back to the gameplay style where u trully are an assasin again so if u expect to be a true assasin in the future games i am afraid u most likly are gonna be disappointed.
@@Shiftry87 Ubisoft shouldn't call it assassins creed, plain and simple. but its a recognizable and immediate consumer name people know and love and they're here to make money. funnily enough i gave up the franchise when black flag came out. the ship battles just didn't jell with me at all coming from AC3. But the earlier games we're a different time for gaming and a two button kill was fine and fun. they could have easily invested time in more gameplay mechanics by now, not weapon / clothing and enemy percentages. They'll definitely go back and try to "reboot" the franchise like MW and BF are doing as we speak. But if that happens any time soon I highly doubt it. I realize a game has to grow and change but making Assassins Creed a looter is horrible. it's the same every time, just like division, just like ghost recon, destiny, borderlands, warframe. it's just not fun anymore and i've been disappointed :/
@@Shiftry87 they should make more games like ac rogue.
SkillUp said it best IMO, "Valhalla is a 35hour experience dragged out over 85 hours"
I'm not gonna lie, when I play these new AC games, I play them with trainers and cheat engine to skip the rediculous amount of bullshit grinding they enforce in these games, and by doing so the games become much better experiences because of it.
Youâre pathetic. To play a single player game with cheat codes. If itâs too much for you then donât play them. Everyone is complaining, too long, too cliche, too easy, bla bla bla. At least they are not telling you one thing and sells something else like others. Play dark souls if these are too long and too easy.
@@mahwardy6918 Weak attempt to get under my skin little child. I give it a 1.5 out of 10. Try harder next time.
@@Supadrumma441 I do not blame you bro for using th cheat. U want to beat game and move on. I would use it too specially ac viking is so boring
@@nafisishtiaque I also use cheat engine to teleport across the maps to avoid having to endure a loadscreen, my pc is powerful enough to load assets in seconds so the whole 25sec load screen is just pointless.
Its why I dislike open world games now, big huge maps full of nothing but padding so it takes ages to get anywhere.
@@Supadrumma441 What cheat engines do you use?
You canât accidentally break something that was broken to begin with
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Man having Luke with us Full Time is gonna be a treat.
The Critiques and discussions are gonna be RICH!
Yes, I expect them to be quite WELL-ENDOWED
They didn't cut side quests, they took them and renamed them into main story quests which is why the story is so unengaging and all over the place. I don't give a shit about these characters or what they want because they are all boring and unrelatable. The exploration is far better than Odyssey tho, combat too probably.
The combat is legit a really good time. It's pretty fun to explore stuff too. But. It takes wayyyyy to long to upgrade multiple sets of gear (oh hey buy our resource pack) and the story is absolutely terrible. And the helix store is bullshit. (Although I am guilty of buying cool shit).
Now odyssey had better exploration by far, you actually felt like an adventurer, use your ship to go to other islands, exploring tombs and temples. Underwater sunken treasure, nah, exploration was definitely better
@@malwd6321 I agree odyssey had better exploration. I really miss the ship aspect. My favorite AC game of all time is black flag. It's just not as much fun shooting arrows from your ship as cannons. If they could make another pirate game with today's ACs skill/ability/gear advancements I would literally die.
@@malwd6321 Endless repetition killed Odyssey exploration for me. Every single camp and tomb was the copy paste of each other, with nothing useful in any of them.
In Valhalla it's not difficult but it at least requires some actual exploration around the place in order to find the gear/materials/abilities etc, and feels more satisfying to me than running around a camp to fill the quota on looted chests. It felt fully artificial in Odyssey, which was my biggest complaint for the whole game in general.
@@omarcomming722 you still felt like an adventurer to me, vs valhalla it felt like a a task that was unnecessary af, run around a building, shoot the lock on the door, open the door to get a chest with nothing worth while or a weapon not worth having, ship relegated to river raids and exploration almost non existent
The way they designed assassination damage is also odd. The âadvanced assassinationâ skill removes any point of investing skill points in assassination damage if you can succeed at the QTE.
8:32-9:16 you are completely wrong, you are encouraging companies (especially like ubisoft and activision) to charge for absolutelly no content provided in single player story games. this shouldn't be allowed and should be highly discouraged.
They better pay, wtf? đ. You're basically paying for a game mode lower than easy mode
We live in a free commerce economy, the companies can do whatever they want, price it unfairly as much as they want, wake up to the unfortunate reality hombre
@@bmillz6243 so we should just let it happen
@@Sevren_ I mean, what are you going to do about it?
@@bmillz6243 call them the n word
My biggest problem with the game was that if you do any significant amount of side stuff you become OP and combat becomes trivial which just made the game boring. Essentially the same thing that happens if you use the Xp boost.
I had the exact same problem. After 30hrs I was so over leveled that the combat became as sick joke and playing the game was a snooze fest. Of the story telling was better paced maybe that would have saved it but they removed side quests from previous games and main them part of the main story which made the ACTUAL main story that's 10hrs long 50hrs long.
Not a real Problem 4 me cuz ac games back in the way were always pretty easy, its about the Passion to build a good Story and a living world, ac2 was really easy but the main FOCUS here was the absolut incredible Story and its telling..thats why that game was that good even with ez combat
@@komix1873 Yeah but Valhalla story is way worse than 2.
Why did they get rid of side content? Because people were moaning about side content in Origins and Odyssey. This means most the side content was drafted into the main story. I did enjoy the world events though, they are similar to some of the stuff from RDR2 and GoT, serve very much to flesh out the world, without lingering.
Oh stop it. AC Valhalla is a mess worse than GoT which wasn't even a good game
People were moaning about side content in Origins and Odyssey because the vast majority of it was the same few things copy and pasted to a ridiculous level
@@buffkangaroodog Witcher 3 contracts & *?* marks on the map were literally filler, copy pasted content
@@buffkangaroodog thank God!! AC was ruined for me when they turned it into an RPG. I get that some people like it, but it's not for me. It would have broken my heart if Watch Dogs and Far Cry had gone the same way!
They won't change AC back though, because it's making them so much money :( Guess that's what happens when you make a game so long and boring that people will pay to skip to the end!
@@COHOFSohamSengupta FINALLY someone said it... I have no clue why people keep praising Witcher's side content. It's literally all generic copy pasted filler. Even these "great stories" people raved about were extremely shallow for the most part. Just fetch quests basically. And the monster contracts were literally ALL the same, mechanically speaking.
I think at this point we just have to accept that Assassins Creed is dead, feels bad that weâll never get another proper AC game again :(
Itâs not dead I mean assassins creed Valhalla is one of the most best seller games on the franchise instead I would say itâs a good game just not an good assassins creed game
@@sir_chris_the_third73 more sales doesn't mean the game is good. The main story is good as it was written by Darby, but everything else is bland and bloated. The sales are high because the game appeals to generic and casual audiences who don't want assassins in an AC game, but a Viking or Spartan fantasy
@@krotonval this was my first assassins creed game. Me and my friend both own it and we agree itâs not really an assassin game or stealth game. This is just a Viking game with ancient Illuminati over arching villains. And I enjoy it for that because the Viking parts are bad ass but I donât feel like an assassin. The stealth here is so bare bones, limited and lacks creativity itâs just bland. If I wanted a true stealth experience Iâd go replay the Arkham trilogy for the 4th time. Which is what Iâm doing now that Iâm kinda bored of the game
I'll play a 2nd Origins or Odyssey in a fucking heartbeat bro!
@@NevermoreEVHBLS sucks to be you
I was so incredibly excited for a Viking based AC game, I should have really tempered my expectations. Maybe someday I'll grab this for $5 on clearance but can't really see myself wanting to spend more than that on it. Thank you for the reassurance!
I hear what you're sayin, but....
I'm still enjoying it.
Same. 180 hours in my playthrough.
There's already a design option for folks with little time who want to blast through the game: difficulty settings / easy mode.
The idea that people will pay even more money for less content and a smaller experience đ€Šââïž
This is such a terrible take
Dog shit take. You shouldnât have to alter an artificial difficulty meter to cut thru an excessively long game. So basically, if a game is too short, say âwell you can max the difficulty settingsâ and if itâs too long say âput the difficulty on easy.â And I say artificial because all these difficulty meters really do is change the amount of damage you take/give out, with only minute changes elsewhere. A truly good game shouldnât need you to manipulate difficulty settings, and in fact many amazing games bypass it completely, like the dark souls series, bloodborne, and BOTW.
Also keep in mind there are people who want a challenging gaming experience, but at the same time they donât want it to be excessively long. Difficulty and length are not the same thing.
That affects combat kid. What about all the crappy cutscenes and crappy dialogue? Oh yeah we can't skip that
@@bishbosh4815 Nah we want quality over quantity
I'm impressed by the mental gymnastics you go through in order to justify XP boosts being locked behind a paywall in a game deliberately designed to waste your time.
@Mr D absolutely the best way. Just stay away from garbage and don't give a dime to ubi.
Head over to the bay if you really wanna try.
I don't feel like he tries to justify it as he tries to be objective and impartial. I think he's just simply wrong. They make copious amounts of money through microtransactions via whales.
@@notdonaldtrump8447 His argument is that he can undestand why it's behind a paywall because otherwise everybody would be using it which would ruin the experience. Now I don't personally follow Luke all that much but I am still disappointed to hear someone like him say something so idiotic. Cheat codes existed for a long time now and they were free, did they ruin the experience because everyone was using them? Absolutely not. If the XP boost was free, the only ones willing to use it would be the ones who simply wish to cut through the main story quickly and directly. NOW, the fact that the game is deliberately designed to be grindy and thus most people would take the free boost is a whole another story about greed and bad game design. Even "objectively" speaking, this argument makes no sense and it's simply weak mental gymnastics.
In theory the âside questâ itâs almost they tried to go to a Red Dead approach and there is just random things happen in the world they just didnât execute it correctly. AC could take a lot of notes from red dead and get away from the dialogue option choice I think they need to go back to the roots, make it more straight forward narrative and focus on stealth and the dumb things that you mentioned, like the leveling up.
but if they cut out levelling they wouldnt be able to sell you xp boosters to play the game quicker and at a decent pace lol
@@buffkangaroodog I know they are scripted but when you encounter them they seem random. Like someone running out of the woods to suck venom out of a wound is random, correct? Some of them were interesting but I agree most of them were not really good or worth remembering. The NPC interaction in Valhalla sucks I think that it downgrades the game a lot. My point was taking more of those elements from red dead and adding them in. Being able to hear actual conversations of NPCs and such
they taken things from red dead 2 and witcher 3 but they don't do these things as well plus they add a ton of filler to their games and force you to do it in order progress.
Loved odysee. Bought valhalla cause, hey! More odysee, maybe more assassin stuff!
30 hours later, i was playing just to try to get to the ending.
50 hours after that, i stopped because i kept complainibg that odysee was better
@@buffkangaroodog stop defending the game lmao i see u under every single comment of this vid tryna defend it
what was better about odyssey?
@@oyblech8671 for me for example just the gameplay was better and honestly the history period intrested me more
@@oyblech8671 nothing
@@oyblech8671 Settings, Mercenary system, weapon and armor aesthetic designs, Sailing a ship in the beautiful water of Greece, naval combat and Odyssey feels more like an RPG then Valhalla. In Valhalla Ubisoft forced me to play as viking berserker both in Eivor's animation and gameplay, but in Odyssey I can be a Archer or Assassin if I make a good archery or assassin build. And world designs of Greece completely destroyed England.
If they were genuinely sincere about wanting to save people time, they would've implemented cheat codes like back in the day. It's about getting money, no matter how small or large. That is all the XP boost system is.
trainers exist, ubi dont care about singleplayer cheating
@@MetalHeadLocked Nor should they care, but the point still stands that their only intention is to con more money out of players in both modes.
I am really shocked that you condone "xp boosts" in games, AT ALL. We had cheat codes for people that don't want to experience the game as it meant to be, what happened to that? It's the developers (or, more realistically, developers on behalf of publishers) inventing problems and selling you solutions to them. Very disappointed in your take.
I think his argument could be used as a reason to add XP boosts to accessibility settings.
@@65firered or an easy mode/difficulty setting
@@VargVikernes1488 It should be separate from difficulty. Leveling faster shouldn't mean the game is easier unless the player wants it to be.
Subnaughtica is the only game I know to this day that has cheat codes from the old days of gaming. Although, it is a completely different genre and game.
@@firestorm7977 Saint's Row, RDR, and GTA still do it. Though Saint's Row did sell them outright in SR3 & 4.
Thank you ! That is my biggest issue with this game . The side âquestsâ are laughable âmicro eventsâ. Worst decision ever . Some of my favourite content from AC in the last 2 games were their side quests. Canât wait for the critique
I agree. The old side quest model created so much memorable content, meanwhile these stupid one off Events are wholey forgettable. This just compounds the grind and bloat.
No micro events are an excellent decision! Look at Red dead redemption 2 with their events. They sould put micro events AND big side quest like in rd2. Hiding the quest obligate you to explore the world by yourself with your eyes not with your map or gps. The exploration will feel way more interesting! But they need to improve the narration of these quest.
@@god9210 Think we're talking about the quality of these "side quests" ... As in , there was NO quality what so ever. "I wanna feel the heat again in our relationship" *Lights roof on fire* YESSS thats it, oh thats it ... Utter trash. Also, there's no hiding these when you map is COVERED in blue, light blue, gold dots.... lol Origins & Odyssey side content were on a different level
I must be the 1%...I've put 155 hours in and am still loving it, and going through the DLC. To each their own I suppose.
Youâre not the only one. I love Valhalla. Its just a frustrating experience, because I was expecting something significantly better than Origins and Odyssey, and what we got is an almost identical experience with minor tweaks and changes acting like a fresh coat of paint
@@corbinfreeman6607 and I suppose that's what for me I liked. I liked odyssey too, but thought if they could do that with viking lore it would be perfect, and I feel like that's what I got :P I play a ton of games, so having one like this that is more story than combat challenge for me is refreshing. I got demon souls for that :P
@@jvdubz yeah, I thoroughly enjoy AC for the story based content. Especially after playing Dark Souls 3 for the third time.
Same here. Best game 2020. I donât understand why people would buy a game to finish it in 5 hours or get an XP boost to bypass everything. Go back to CoD MW to get your instant gratification, kid of the instant gratification generation...
@@freddumartin7878 I honestly didn't know xp boosts existed, I love doing all the side stuff, get huge satisfaction from checking each regions boxes
I like Odyssey, I think it' the best AC game and I've been playing the series since 07. I am a completionist who loves to explore and appreciates side content. Odyssey feels like a Bioware RPG set in an open world and it's all I could have dreamed of in that regard.
The best AC game since '07? I think you're overexaggeting a lot rn.
Best ac game is Odyssee?? Man you must be joking a lot...
@@komix1873 Nope. AC has always been a shallow series with basic gameplay. Odyssey changed that.
The most fun I had pre Odyssey was AC3 multiplayer, that was unique and a fun challenge, shame they got rid of it after Black Flag.
@@HeloisGevit Odyssey challenging? Nah its just a boring grindfest. Odyssey is so shit it actually makes me laugh. Unity is the only challenging AC game.
@@HeloisGevit agreed. Iâm also an 07 vet and a lot of this community wear rose-tinted glasses for the older games. The newer games have their flaws sure but they do a lot of things better than the older games. And I also think Odyssey is the best game in the series. Best âassassinâ game would go to Unity but Odyssey is a hell of a game. But most people are sheep and just want to hate on the game because itâs the cool thing to do even tho if you compare Odyssey to older AC games the quality isnât even comparable aka the new games outshine them by quite a lot.
This whole comment section in a nutshell:
"Valhalla is the worst AC game ever"
"Odyssey is the best assassin's creed ever made"
"Every game after AC syndicate is garbage"
"Every AC game after assassin's creed 3 is horrible"
Can y'all just like something new and different?
Sure, occasionally I'll like something new and different, but new and different doesn't guarantee that it'll be good.
Some people, including myself, don't like Valhalla because it's too long, too bloated, too repetitive, has not enough stealth, not enough parkour, has too much level-gating, too many microtransactions, etc.
Those are all good reasons not to like it. We're not just complaining because we like criticising things, or because we're resistant to anything new. We're complaining because there are things about it that don't work.
Their talking about Ubisoft ya know there is nothing new or different about Ubisoft.
I'll like something new and different if it's good, not if it's shit.
With the exception of Odyssey, I've enjoyed all the AC games. But I'm done with Ubisoft due to the unethical work practices behind the scenes
@@tsurbwobniar20 You are objectively right.
350 is just the highest level among the regions
The highest level possible in this game is 427
100% Crit Chance while Full Health build is so much fun on Odyssey on Nightmare difficulty. Makes it feel like the much better older games.
Really hyped for the critique!
Man, i loved Origins, loved Odyssey, and thought i'd love this one too...I downloaded it on Uplay Launcher (Didn't wanna buy this on Epic :) ) Played about 1 week and dropped off the game for these reasons:
Dialogue Audio and Sound effects were really bad quality, like they were muffled and sounded like it was recorded via a Zoom Call, really weird and bad for an AAA game of this size...
Game got too boring, no side quests made it way too boring. The side content is just not worth it.
I put 15 hours in and was bored out of my mind. Stopped playing and haven't picked it up since.
@@KJ-ft2kq same. And itâs a damn shame, because I was really digging the music and the atmosphere. But once those ran out, the game fell flat, badly.
â@@TheWefikus A very large world that isn't deep or meaningful. I remember random side missions in Witcher 3 better than main quests in AC.
The audio on this mix is terrible compared to Odyssey
For me (and I hope luke covers this extensively ) was the stealth.. one of the largest features marketed and it just doesn't work. At all. To say its pathetic is to give ubisoft too much praise. It is as though they tried their hardest to make a completely unenjoyable experience, and if that is the case they succeeded in spades.. there's such a clear lack of passion in the game and i can't enjoy it. Here's one example of what could have been a fun, engaging mechanic that would add some much needed depth but instead is just an immersion killing buggy mechanic, and that is the cloak..
If you didn't already know when you have large weapons or a bow equipped they rest on your characters back. When you activate your cloak the weapons just dissappear into the ether, not only does this look ridiculous but it kills my immersion, like immediately, and it annoys me because the solution is staring you blind in the face. Instead of making it so your weapons dissappear, they stay on your back, and this in turn makes you seem more suspicious when for whatever reason you try social stealthing for example. Instead you can use small weapons, daggers hammers etc that are stored on the waist, that way when the cloak is pulled over you the weapons are naturally concealed, and you wouldn't draw additional attention from guards as you're not lugging around a giant greatsword while trying to convey that your a monk..
This simple change would make you consider your loadout and equipment for stealth, they could better develop interesting and more meaningful armour and weapon perks around this, daggers better for stealth swords better for combat. Its this lack of any real playstyle specialisation on top of pathetic and silly visual bugs that just ruin the experience for me
I've already forgotten Valhalla exists. But I will be replaying origins and odyssey for sure. Origins for the story, Odyssey for the insanely nice build creation mechanics.
The reason that Valhalla got rid of side quests is because so many players of odyssey complained about how you had to complete it in order to level up to the level required to explore new regions. The problem still hasn't been solved in that regard for Valhalla. I actually really enjoyed the side content in odyssey and it was extremely memorable. There was one side quest in Pephka where your character has to retrieve some flowers for a dying father and her grieving daughter. It was somber and genuine. I wish Valhalla did the same
Money from micro transactions never trickles down to the developers, come on man you know this.
"it's massive, it's sexy, it's awesome" sounds like lady dimitrescu
@Mr D i can be persuaded lol
@Mr D ah, a fellow man of culture right here
Luke actively embracing that full-time youtube job a good whole day after announcing it. Good shit. Good luck!!
Really enjoying your channel my man! Keep it up đ thank you đ
People will be all over this game in like 3-4 years, just like Unity
@@gooddoggo3547 dont talk shit about origins...Valhalla and Odyssey dont even compare to it...
@@gooddoggo3547 nah man, it is supposed to be the brotherhoods beginning, and it does a pretty good job of conveying that although Curse of the Pharaohs didnt do that justice with the overly fantastical elements....
Ac Origins was the chefâs kiss of the new assassin creed series. Then AC Odyssey came in, it was fun but, more and AC Valhalla is more of the above with everything stretched by 1000%.
All 3 of them are terrible.
@@Ishpreetb264 AC Origins was the best tbh it was step in the right direction the rest are cash grabs.
@@BloopinDaThird No, it wasn't. Origins had terrible parkour, huge map with nothing to do, copy paste side quests and the story was just terrible. The story didn't feel like that of origin of the assassins, it was just another revenge plot with boring side characters and antagonists. The only good thing about that game was Abubakar Salim's performance as Bayek.
In regards to the little micro quests, I think I remember them saying they didnât want you to have some quest log full or uncompleted quests that keep building up as the game progresses, or something along those lines. Pretty sure they talked about it in Jayveeâs interview with Darby back just a bit before the game released
Man it really makes me sad to see where the franchise has gone. It's sad to be personally questioning if I'll buy or not the next entry
they create a domino effect every time they decide to put MTX in these games. that first bad design choice forces them into more bad choices, then further bad choices to address the issues caused by the previous choices. eventually the game becomes a joyless, directionless, deathmarch of pablum and busywork.
Playing this game made me appreciate Odyssey...I'm diving back into it.
The next game in the franchise will make you appreciate Valhalla. Such is the nature of Ubisoftâs development. Odyssey made origins look incredible, and Valhalla did the same for odyssey.
More like Valhalla made Odyssey feel slightly more palatable, but your point remains.
I'd say the "side quests" are now the "main quests" of areas that bring nothing to the overhaul story
I love this channel so much
I loved Odyssey, it was so well put together, the main story as you complete the side stuff. I felt it was a good balance. I did not buy the experience boost but I also didn't complete a lot that I would have in other games. The bloat is real but, I cant help myself. I LOVE A.C.
They didnt cut sidequests its just in the form in mysteries
Speaking as a salesman here.
The xp boost, all the stuff you can buy in the game and all the side content was only designed to sell itself.
I know,stating the obvious here - but this is exactly the only point here, was the only goal.
Marketing wad there to promote the game and hype it up. It said "200 hours" . Some players who value their time more then money (as they have enough) where possibly worried if they have the time to grind.
Then the developer said,: " Don't worry people! - we have the solution here , for 5 bucks (or whatever it was) ."
Most of the game sales that the developer aims for is right after launch.
This is the revenue that counts for the quarterly stats.
The fact that the feature , (and I'm calling it exactly the way I think they are calling it - ) that breaks the game or hurts the experience is irrelevant.
People only notice it after they've played hours of the game, and ...already spent their money.
Creating a masterpiece of a game is secondary to making sales.
The former gets you into the hearts of the few that understand, the latter makes you money.
Take an example , I love RDR2 - its a masterpiece.
Its waay more fun simply riding your horse and exploring the basic game mechanics then playing Valhalla.
I'm sure some people would agree. It sold 50 mil. copies?
However, looking at it from the money perspective....it was released 5 years ago.
How many AC where made in that period?
I'm not comparing the games, I'm comparing the product .
I invite you to research Magic the Gathering card game business model and Games Workshop business model.
The predatory practices in video games are just a joke comparing with that.
Love your content, great editing, pacing and you are a joy to listen to.
Love your content as always. I normally love side quests but The new structure of them made me simply not do them. Itâs sad because the quality of side quests is one of the reasons I loved the franchise. I was also overleveled during most of Valhalla. Spot on with your thoughts here. Keep up the great work.
I heard that Ubisoft got rid off side quest, because they can't write an interesting quest to save their lives...
I'm not trying to fanboy here... But I for one loved the mysteries dots on the map instead of side quests. I absolutely despised having dozens of side quests in Odyssey that I'd have to go back to and find in this massive world. Here it's an encounter which would be funny / sad / interesting and brief, do a quick task and then continue exploring or going back to main quests.. I played it to completion and was very happy this way. I didn't 100% Odyssey nor Origins.
Thousands of tiny meaningless dots that i don't even remember wtf happend 5 mins later. Just a teeny dopamine boop. No effort, no memory, no enjoyment.
@@chimerakait I have vivid memories of some!
- The girl who fell into the rabbit hole
- one punch grandpa
- pig of prophecy (lol because it didnt work for me for 6 months.)
Not saying it's a perfect thing, but it's a subjective thing I guess.
@@chimerakait you can say the same thing with odysseyâs side quest
Odysseyâs were freaking amazing. Thereâs the quest with Supideo, the one where you make a love potion for an old couple, the one where you encounter a girl who wants a necklace for her friends, the one where you end up finding a Minotaur, and the one where you try and defend a town from pirates but things go hilariously wrong. Are they all great? No. But thereâs enough great ones that it elevates the game overall.
Iâd take Odysseyâs side quests over whatever the hell Valhalla has any day.
@@Lego4LifeProductions No
I've missed you dude. I beat the newest Valhalla DLC and immediately thought of you. Be well man
"He was welcomed into resigning if that makes sense"
Encouraged. The word you're looking for is encouraged. Or maybe pushed into xD
Honestly I feel like theyâre making assassins creed just history kill sim
They Sell So đ€·đŒ
Luke, you want to break the game? Dual-wield 2 spears and witness the slaughter...
I think we should coin the term "to Ubisoft something". It's when you try to solve a mechanic people complain about, but in the process you completely break what made that mechanic good in the first place and to solve that, you design a quick workaround which makes the mechanic completely redundant. Ubisoft Ubisofted progression in Valhalla, just like they Ubisofted stealth in AC Origins and Odyssey, weapon variety in FC Primal and combat in FC New Dawn.
I think maybe the reason the XP boost in this game is so large and awards the player so much is because lots of people disliked the idea of XP boost in the last two games and so knowing they "had" to have XP boost included in this game the developers overcompensated in order to make this purchase really feel worth it.
Hey so I remember in an interview (perhaps the hour-long Ubi spoiler stream with Darby McDevitt?) it was said that they changed side quests to those mini events because it wouldn't make sense for a viking to go out of his way to help people since they're a raider or whatever. I mean, you go out of you war to rid the land of curses or to offer fish to altars but hey, that was the reasoning.
The next AC will be free-to-play so get ready for even more shittier shit.
They can keep there shiit games as main story quest don't work they can be free but not gonna install them..
I have the Rowdy raiders quest glitch / bug can't talk to thyg oudside the longhouse. One of the last quest cannot finish of the last order member cose of the story cannot continue.. goddamm fix the shiit before bring it out..
Have a good Day
I don't understand why you'd think that Ubisoft making the game bloated on purpose to encourage microtransactions would be a conspiracy theory. It's so obvious. It's the simplest explanations for such massive games being released almost every year. And I don't think the devs get much of a say in it, they are just told to stretch the content as much as possible so players resource to spending money on additional content. The recent conference call in which Ubisoft lays out its plan of focusing on free-to-play and live service content going forward makes it that much clearer. And the point is not if the microtransactions are a big chunk of their revenue right now, the point is to push a new business model to their huge fanbase. Ubisoft is just grooming players into microtransactions, ultimately that's what this is about
Brilliant, fair and insightful commentary bud đ
I want to go back to the actual stealth AC games :(
This is the AC game where I stealthed the most after Odyssey, it boils down to how you chose to play, the options are there.
@@AGameOdyssey I agree options are there, but for an ASSASSINS game, the stealth isnât really in depth, even tomb raider has more options for stealth
I've been going back to Unity and having a lot of fun đ€·ââïž
@@jenga2104 Appart from the mud smearing, I can't think of anything else in Tomb Raider, and TR lacks some of the options in AC. It's not Hitman for sure, but nor should it be.
ALSO...ac was so cool and had massive personality before. I was playing black flag again yesterday and DAMN it was so COOL.
I miss Odysseys RPG mechanics, you could make so many distinct playstyles which require very different approaches to situations
Valhalla has one playstyle, blood soaked drengr
People were complaining about the rpg machanics cus you couldn't assassinate enemys in 1 hit. The only complained cuz they didn't want to accept the fact that it had RPG mechanics now. I had a build where I was assassinating people 20 levels above me and one hit
You're just stuck in the past...get with the times and accept the change for what it is and enjoy it. Valhalla had an amazing story many lacked the focus to complete.
If "many" lacked the focus to complete the story, then they should have made it shorter and better so that "many" would have the focus to complete it. If the majority of your players are complaining, change.
7:48 "Gamers that don't have a lot of time and just want to blast through the main story can pay 5$ to do so" In my day, this was called 'moving the difficulty slider to easy'
Youâre the best Luke đ€đŒ
I really enjoyed this game when it first came out and now I dislike it as an ac game
How does that kind of change even happen. What spured you bad man?
@@themGAMEman just playing it more and more changed my opinion
Honestly, I had the XP boost in Odyssey, but I didn't in Valhalla, but I felt like I level capped way faster in Valhalla. I still had four more territories to take over when I hit the cap. This was before the patch that scaled up enemies, so I barely took a hit of damage in the final battle. I still had fun doing things like raids, but the story just got boring because it was so easy.
The fact that they expect People to pay up to 80 bucks for a single Game and then your suppose to give them more money to bypass most of the content of the game is insane to me. And the fact anyone is defending it in anyway is even more insane
There were a lot of things I did not like about the game even tho I really like Eivor
Hold ubisoft accountable for their abuse and assult culture
Hold literally thousands of people accountable for the actions of a few? Boycott their products and hurt the livelihoods of thousands of people? Did you even think about this comment before you posted it or did you just virtue signal for likes?
@@WeirdVoyager it's not a few its actually the largest case of widespread assult and rape culture in the entire entertainment industry. Let that sink in hearvy wienstien wasn't as bad as ubisoft
@@WeirdVoyager wait are you defending rape? Why?
@@bobpope3656 because shut up I don't want to know the disgusting shit that goes into making my game.
@@kingdomkey63 Harvey Weinstein was one person. A multinational enterprise is obviously going to be a much bigger deal. But with that said, there are thousands of employees who had nothing to with these charges, who are completely innocent, who have been working under extreme crunch conditions, who are now grouped in with abusers and who people like you are advocating to boycott. I can guarantee you don't know the name of a single one of the abusers or victims without Google. It's just empty virtue signaling.
I had really high hopes for this game especially because it takes place in one of my favorite historical time periods.
I think they replaced side quests with World events because they were wanting something like Red Dead Redemption 2 where you would come across these random events in the world. They also said in the game play reveal that they thought it would be unrealistic for Eivor to just have a checklist of quests to do and that these quests should be done as you come across them. The problem is Red Dead 2 doesn't have these random events just labeled on the map,so when you do come across it it's actually done organically and rewards you for exploring the game. Since Valhalla has put these on your map AND compass its basically just going from point A to point B like Odyssey. And unlike Red Dead, the voice acting a d animations are so bad in this game that it genuinely takes you out of the immersion
I hated Valhalla... Then I actually played it. Yeah, I was one of those hate-bandwagoners, judging the game just by how it looked like Odyssey 2.0
Now, I like it. It's a good game, but an abhorrent AC game. But the changes they've made to evolve the series while trying to make fans happy is... Odd. It's no longer AC game really...
Here are my 2 cents of some of the main stuff:
[COMBAT IS A WOMBAT]
- The combat uses the hit-box style combat, but... It's stupid now, because enemies die in few hits, just like in older games. They even have some takedown animations. So... They basically made a full circle and made the new combat system into what it was before... But just worse. Why can't they just go back to the animation based combat, because at least that one LOOKED cool... This "RPG" combat system doesn't work in this context anymore, with these numbers, with this pace. So it's just kinda... Dull.
[STEALTH IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH]
- Stealth is broken in any other difficulty than Easy. This is mainly due to unpredictable AI behaviour and that's due to a huge world where pathfinding glitches out all the time. Easy gives the stealth that leeway so it's not frustrating when enemies spot you in a nanosecond because they decided to suddenly do a 360 when trying to initiate an idle animation.
But cause the world is so huge, enemy placement is really hit-or-miss most of the time so staying stealthy is inconsistent.
Also the "SoCiAl StEaLtH" is a useless tacked-on feature they implemented to appeal to fans and the automatic cloak is infuriating.
[MYSTERIES REVEALED IN YOUR CHECKLIST'S HISTORY]
- Mysteries are A GREAT addition (shouldn't replace bigger sidequests like this), but because they're marked on the map and in the checklist, they become collectables. Instead of making the world feel alive and make it feel like you're stumbling onto something, it makes them all into complex, narrative collectables... It's the old problem of marking EVERY interesting location in the map with a "?", ruining the sense of exploration and thusly, the whole point of having an open world.
There's a stupidly easy fix for this tho: REMOVE the markers from the map and checklist. Boom! Now you actually stumble upon the mysteries and you never know how many there still are! This incentivises exploration of the map, to go to places that look interesting or where you haven't been to yet.
Very subjective stuff here:
[XP BOOST FOR FREE]
- Oddly, I never felt I needed more XP, as I did about 70% of the mysteries that were on my route. I played on the hardest combat difficulty and I only died to Zealots 1 or 2 shotting me. The combat is too floaty and unprecise to be made "difficult" in any other way than having stupid high enemy damage output; Because that's what this combat system was designed for in Origins. So my damage output and resistance were good, maybe too good, for most of the game.
[MALE OR FEMALE VOICE TO TELL THE TALE]
- Male Eivor is highly superior to female Eivor. Both actors give an amazing performance, but the female voice doesn't fit Eivor's character. It feels... Forced, like she's trying wayyyy too hard to sound tough. Kassandra didn't have this problem, so I wonder...
The male performance fits Eivor's stoic, poetic, calm but fierce character better than the female one. The poetic way Eivor speaks constantly comes out better from this husky, a bit mysterious voice than a raspy growl of someone who sounds like they're constantly smelling something bad.
[DIALOGUE IS MONOLOGUE]
- Maybe the only reason that I didn't get too bored of the game was the dialogue. It sure is quite pretentious and cringe at times, but GODDAMNIT: It still is pretty good. It's more poetry than real people talking. It's like these people are narrating their own sagas. It's nothing quotable, but it is colourful.
A disclaimer tho: I used a trainer to give me ass-ton of supplies so I didn't have to raid monasteries. That shit got old after doing it 3 times and I never wanted to do them again. This eliminated about 15% of the bloat from the game for me and it really made a difference.
It's still a crap p2w wannabe game
@@bf2istrash58 Good criticism. Very thought-provoking.
this spot on mysteries should be hidden and there should also be side missions to go along with them ubisoft games always feel like one giant checklist. also cyberpunk had this issue witcher 3 has allot of stuff marked but their are still hidden side quests were as cyberpunk has everything marked on the map in the end i just used fast travel comapred with witcher 3 , red dead 2 , kingdom and even fallout 4 which have hidden things in their worlds. I think the main reason for this is trying to appeal to everyone and most people have short attention spans and like checklist formula.
I might get it on sale. But Eivor doesn't interest me much. I play Odyssey; it has an awesome setting but I don't like Alexios. I think it's weird playing an RPG as a character you didn't create. When Alexios put a guy's glass eye inside a goat rectum, I lost any relatability I had to him.
Itâs weird, I agree with so many of your points, and yet Iâm still enjoying the game after six months. The game is so big and sprawling that thereâs never any sense of urgency, and I keep returning to it knowing that thereâs still stuff to do. I like your analogy about Ubisoft product being the VG equivalent of fastfood, but to me, Valhalla is more like a giant cake with frosting up to the rafters. One piece and youâre full, at least for a short period of time. And I kinda like those cakes, even though they taste worse and worse as time goes on.
Defending a system that nudges you into paying for a solution to a problem purposefully designed to be a problem ain't nowhere near to being moral, Luke.
I personally loved the shift from side quests to mini world events. I hated Odyssey because it shoves so many side quests down your throat to distract you from the main story. In Valhalla, I donât have this huge list of quests where I have to stop doing the main quest, go somewhere, do something, then come back, all for XP that wasnât worth it. Instead, the encounters take place in one small area where I donât have to go anywhere, I can just do one or two on my way to the main quest objective, and I donât have to shift focus onto that for like 20 minutes. It gives Ubisoft a way to add more content without dumping a new side quest on you every 5 minutes. By the way, donât think Iâm a mindless AC defender because I really didnât expect to like this game, but itâs been awesome so far.
The biggest scam was that after a month of release they level capped enemies to scale power level like odyssey, AND then added XP boosters again so that people may pay for it...
You could literally bypass all of this by just using a trainer and giving yourself 2x XP boost effectively letting you finish the game faster without actually disregarding the majority of it
the lack of side quests honestly makes me not want to go back to the game and make the world feel super empty. yeah there's stuff to collect and small world events but they just feel like things to use to level up rather than something that has any meaning or value to it at all
I love how you say valhalla with your voice and accent
Dude, I'm more interested in Far Cry 6 then I ever was on Valhalla (never got it btw), specifically because it looks like it has STEALTH!
@@buffkangaroodog nah man, not even close! I played WD1 four times and on WD 2 Iâm on my second play through.. but I canât stand Legion.. played 2hrs of it and dropped it
@@redfoofan4618 Watch Dogs 2 was sooo underrated. I played it 4 times. MULITPLAYER was amazing.... Legions was trying to do too much.
be careful with far cry 6 because the trailers and promotional videos of valhalla all showed stealth and social stealth as a big deal but when the main game came out you quickly realized how ineffective and broken the stealth was and how much discouraged you are in using it.
@@buffkangaroodog bruh why legion? haha, that game looks like one of ubisoft's worst, lol
@@DEVIL3333333 good point!
The xp boost feature isnât justifiable at all in any sense. When you take the game like the Witcher 3 (perfect RPG example) you can blast through the main game and do ok,
or in RDR2 (perfect sandbox action adventure example) where you donât level up at all.
Horizon also did it very well with new types of enemies being the barrier in the world, not the level of the same bandit like in the Witcher.
Also the in game shop (Reda) has a daily stock, where u can get stuff if u trade in Opals. Its not possible to get a full set in there. U can perhaps get like 1 piece gear, lets say an helmet (1 armour piece cost 120 opals). But to get the other 3 or 4 gear u need to buy them for real money, because 1) u dont get enough opals playihng through the game and 2) the items they sell are limited to 1 daily item and 6 weekly items i think. Most items are like tattoos, or statues for your settlement or stuff to make your ship look different. Gear is very rare. Basically its get 1 rare gear free, but for the other pieces u need to buy it with real money.
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I love the Odyssey side quests.
they were mostly just filler used for grinding there was only a few good ones the writing needed work.
@@John-996 filler and fetch quests, camp clearing etc theyâre on rails
They better pay, wtf? đ. You're paying for a game mode lower than easy mode. Idk how you're complaining about the game being too easy if that's exactly what you wanted! lol
I dont regret my now 300 hours in AC valhalla, but while I had fun for the first 2/3 of the game, my issue was the pacing from around lvl 230 to 380 because the ending province was locked for so long.
10:45 I can answer that. Simply put, most people thought that AC Odyssey was too grindy because it's leveling system heavily relied on the player doing side quests. The main story was really cheap on XP and the recommended level for the quests kept getting higher and higher. So, players were forced to do the side quests and not everyone enjoyed doing that over and over again. The side quests felt like meaningless filler in a game where it's main quest line was already meaningless filler. But I'm getting off topic. Valhalla tried to fix this by shoving all the would be side quests into main quests. While it does help them feel less meaningless, it still lengthens an already pretty long game. As for the micro events, I believe the developers were inspired by Red Dead Redemption 2 when they made those. I think the idea is that it would make the world more lively because another issue that was brought against Odyssey was that Greece was for all intends and purposes, a very boring open world that players couldn't interact with. Cities are boring and lifeless in Odyssey, whereas Origins and every game before it had active and lively settings with people talking, moving, etc. Most cities in Odyssey just had people either stand still or rarely say anything at all. I hope that answered your questions.
When I picked up Odyssey a year after release, there were player-designed side-quests that pumped you full of XP, helped me skip those 5 hour stretches deliberately implemented to slow the main campaign. But later I did a bunch of the side quests after finishing, and the majority were... fine. Some were funny in a dumb, pseudo-post modern sort of way. It amazes me that they push these multi-million dollar games out the door without substantial writers going over the script with a microscope and tweezers, tho.
@@sartavin I noticed that lack of substantial writers to double check scripts as well. It sucks. With all the time and resources, you'd think they'd get it right. My biggest problem with the side quests in general was that they were just as boring as the main quests. They both functioned, played, and felt almost exactly the same. Also those player designed side quests you mentioned, you're correct in that they offered alot of XP and players loved them. But of course, Ubisoft got the stupid notion that players were simply using them to farm for XP. And when players are easily able to farm for XP in game, Ubisoft's whole scheme of profiting off of XP Boosts via Microtranscations becomes obsolete. While I can't confirm or deny that players were using them solely for XP farming, I don't understand how that's a bad thing. If anything, it was a good thing. Players could breeze through the story without spending a dime and could come back and enjoy the side quests IF THEY WANTED TO. But God forbid players have any fun. From what I've been told, Ubisoft scaled back the amount of XP earned through the player designed side quests, bringing us full circle back into a grindy mess of a game. I'm sorry, but Luke saying Valhalla is worse than Odyssey makes no sense to me.
@@zanpack2947 Yeah, Valhalla is way better than Odyssey. It's not even a contest.
@@kokroughtoss1257 Agreed.
sorry to see you still waste your time on these bad Ubisoft games. How about making videos about good games for a change. I loved those videos.
I saw your vid on my recommendations so i decided to give it a shot. I could not believe these strong words about this game. "Breaks itself'. I thought that the guy must surely have some strong arguments, especially now, after the patches.
I played the game smoothly for about 90-100 hours. I was legit tired, not from boredom, but because the game was so long, i felt that i experienced a whole rpg until that point, and the game was still going for at least 100 hours more.
The side mission elements are absent, sure, but the random events that worked as side missions, fit perfectly, to make the world feel alive. The graphics and complexity of the world are perfect, The progression system felt natural, and the hype was real when you knew that after a couple of level ups, you are going to unlock one cool move, or one passive that is going to help you out more with tougher enemies. The game is not punishing you, giving you the oportunity to reorganise your skill tree. The game has many different weapons with completely different animations, numerous armors, even dying hair, beard, customizable ships, crow and many more. And finally THE HOMESTEAD is back after so many years. A place that whatever you do, you can just return back, and enjoy yourself in activities, new dialogues and events and a lot of extras, if you exchange them with in game treasures/animal/fish hunting. The game lucks in the story part a little, copying the asthetics of History Channel's "Vikings". But in general its an expansive and colourful game. A huge turning point on the ac odyssey, origins huge but empty worlds, full of good graphics but nothing of value.
So yeah, your whole vid is invalid.
And about the paying level up boosters point you mentioned... Stop playing Warzone so much, and just enjoy a meaningful and slow story driven adventure.
Peace.
I can see your points on most of this stuff, but I've spent more than 200 hours in Valhalla and I've loved it for the most part. That being said, this is the first time I really got into an AC game, so I could have a different perspective than most players. Anyway, I appreciate the time and effort you put into your content, it's excellent.
Exactly I played 450hrs of Odyssey so I'm worn out on this formula already
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