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Assassin's Creed Origins |OT| Stalking in Memphis
- Thread starter Toa TAK
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Yeah I mean overall I really am. Just exploring the world is amazing and the story bits range from fine to pretty good. AC is one of my favorite series, and if it wasn't for my issues with the combat this would 100% be my favorite non Ezio entry, I'm going to continue either way.
I guess I'm just picky about combat in games since I usually either switch combat heavy games to hard or easy based on what I don't like about it.
I'm at around 14 hours and the sidequests are so boring. I like nearly everything about the game, except how much there is to do.
Yeah its pretty nice. But at the end the dual swords are not my favorrite weapons. For some reason. Heavy Blades click way better.
Tell me about it. I'm actually wiping all the locations right now to get the platinum..
How long did it take until now? Any estimate on the time needed for platinum. Guessing around 60-70hrs?
Took me 80 hours on Normal with a lot of fast travel near the end.
Took me like 70 hours exact. Very easy platinum, but time consuming as well.
Some are pretty good and some are a complete waste. My only gripe is that I finished the game and came back to do the ones I skipped. Some are clearly meant to be done prior to finishing the game.
Completed the main quest at level 36. Was a bit surprised how quickly the end wrapped up and not much of a grand finale. I've done most of the side quests, probably about 10 left, still lots of ? to explore and some high level Phylakes to kill.
What was also a bit flat was not getting any decent outfits or other gear while playing the main game and many side missions, just endless spears and stock shields to dismantle, even in the tombs the treasure in generic levelled items. A couple of the swords later on are okay but one is one health bar only, the other is fire blade that I prefer not to use. Unity is much better with equipment and customization. I actually stopped opening chests at level 34 and looking for ? missions to stop getting slightly inferior gear, maybe they'll be more useful afterwards?
Other bits in Unity were double stealth kill. I can't see it in Origins but even if it's on the ability table on one of the few remaining, you get this within a decent time frame in Unity.
I've loved playing the game overall and will continue to explore and get the extras but once you get them it's over.
What was also a bit flat was not getting any decent outfits or other gear while playing the main game and many side missions, just endless spears and stock shields to dismantle, even in the tombs the treasure in generic levelled items. A couple of the swords later on are okay but one is one health bar only, the other is fire blade that I prefer not to use. Unity is much better with equipment and customization. I actually stopped opening chests at level 34 and looking for ? missions to stop getting slightly inferior gear, maybe they'll be more useful afterwards?
Other bits in Unity were double stealth kill. I can't see it in Origins but even if it's on the ability table on one of the few remaining, you get this within a decent time frame in Unity.
I've loved playing the game overall and will continue to explore and get the extras but once you get them it's over.
What do you think the chances of a steam sale price for this are?
The game is fairly new but if steam holiday sales shaved off a few bucks Id be willing to wait.
The game is fairly new but if steam holiday sales shaved off a few bucks Id be willing to wait.
That's a thought I had: It's really impressive that they created so many and diverse locations but, in the end, I visited most of them only one time and will probably never see them again (even "visit" might be too big of a word).
Kind of a bummer. I appreciate the big picture but can't recall a lot of the small details.
Most locations are the same though which makes it even more boring to finish them all
Game is cool and my favorite Assassins Creed, but the side quests really are not good. Id take 50% less side quests if they had interesting characters and things to do in them. Most are "go to this fortress and rescue or kill this dude", just ugh.
What can they really do with the mechanics that already exist?
Story wise I think they shouldve had the sidequests (partially) about building up the Brotherhood.
Haven't fired the game up with the 1.05 patch yet. Does it make things better or worse in terms of visuals?
Pretty much 60 hours for my platinum. Nothing too hard just keep hold of your trinkets until you have over 100 to sell at once and then it's pretty straight forward.
The intro is really bad, try and push through if you can, it gets better.
Yeah I think having quests actually relating to the main character would make a lot more sense. Have some HQ of some sort, when you help people they might join. Or free a village from the presence of bad people, in a way where you can actually see a clear difference in the before and after. Instead of having shops in the game, which are selling things that don't make any sense realistically speaking, have instead a network of merchants linked to your HQ, and as you do quests they can sell or make new things for you. Even the skill tree is kind of a bad way of doing things. How about when you reach certain conditions (level, skill points, whatever), you get a quest to unlock a skill, instead of just picking it in a tree?
I think every time the player can get something in the game, relate it to a quest instead of just handing it through a menu. They need to make quests, so tie it to the character progression itself instead of just being things to do for people, then fill the rest with things that are more world-building or story related.
What's strange about side quests is doing missions with named NPCs who have backgrounds everytime i was like these are our assassin recruits but game was like noooppe
Nah it's still 40, i said that because i kept getting exp even beyond 40, when i "leveled up" i was still 40 but i acquired a skill point. So there's no 41 it was just my mistake.
Kinda strange that the only time I got any interesting gear was killing Phylakes for the most part. They also should have been more generous with purple gear at lower quest levels before I got the yellow gear from killing Phylakes. And getting purple gear rewards at higher level quests was also mostly pointless. I dunno, maybe they should have implemented weapon customization or something so they could give more interesting rewards for completing quests rather than XP only or a weapon/shield I immediately dismantled.
I don't understand what you've been doing? I'm pretty sure I cleared the first main area and it only took me around 5 hours.
Side quests and exploring the ?'s along the way - I get sidetracked really easily in openworld games.
The lighting is the same as it ever was. Patch 1.04 introduced a bug that broke the LoD, but the lighting has not changed.
Oh, so it was time of day that made the lighting look flatter in those comparisons? I remember seeing one last week.
And the LOD is still not fixed? I guess it will have to wait further then, I got World War II and Battlefront II campaigns to play.
I love the desert the most in this game.
They've captured the harshness and beauty of it as well as the danger.
Edit. Stats after completing the main quest and most of the side quests.
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Probably a third or quarter of the hours is just messing about in photomode/letting the game run
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I was in the same boat as him. My wife is interested in the game, so I can't "play" it when she's sleeping or whatever. But I can explore the world. I've put in a dozen hours and I've only just reached Alexandria. But I've done some random sidequests and climbed a bunch of towers, looked for hidden treasure, done some of those constellation things... there's things to do that don't move the story forward.
I've said it before and I'll say it again..Connor deserves another game where he ties up lose ends and hunts and kills Shay Cormac...Hell let Arno and Aveline make an appearance as well since they're all around the same age.
I accidentally killed Medunamun? I wasn't even doing a quest or anything, just looting the temple, used a takedown on a sleeping enemy and went into a long flashback sequence. Weird.
