If Odyssey is anything like Origins then it's utterly bloated and averageI would like to present Exhibit A for the defence of Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Defence rests your honour.
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PC Gaming ERA | October 2019 - No Truce With The Outer Worlds
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This honestly made me impossibile for me to enjoy the game. I just cringe so hard when I hear all those Greek characters speak English... with modern Greek accents. I mean, I totally get that I cannot expect a triple-A game to be dubbed in Greek (or ancient Greek) and that it needs to have English voices. But why those damn accents? They all look like a bunch of English people mocking the Greek language (and yes, I know that most of the characters are voiced by Greek actors, but that doesn't change the effect it has on me). It's like "it's a meee, Maaaario. Mamma mia!" but with Greek instead of Italian... in a game that should have a more serious narrative than Super Mario.
You mean a wandering mercenary wouldn't be wearing makeup and have threaded eyebrows?
There is a lot of good stuff there, but yes, vast quantities of the game are bloat and mediocre copy and paste content.
Worse yet, to finish the game you have to do a lot of bloat, you can't just do the interesting stuff.
Indivisible is pretty cool so far but also a bit confusing. And the writing is terrible but not in a good way.
It's even more bloated.
It's even more bloated.
I enjoyed Odyssey enough to sink probably more time than I've ever spent completing a single other game before, but yeah, it's a lot and I really wish there were more handcrafted content; as is, most of the story-related missions are just remixed versions of the systems-driven activities you can do just wandering about the world map.
The Fate of Atlantis DLC isn't perfect, but it's a lot less bloated and feels more handcrafted in its design.
The Fate of Atlantis DLC isn't perfect, but it's a lot less bloated and feels more handcrafted in its design.
With the ideal set-up, I would agree with you.
However, given my current set-up, Stadia should be the most economical way to play RDR2 and CP2077 at 1080p with 60 fps.
Definitely didn't like how bloated Origins was but man Bayek was an awesome character. Probably my favorite after Ezio, though I loved Shay from AC: Rogue too.
well, that's a damn shame. guess steam/uplay sale it is for me then.
ooh, i'm always down for a murder VN
holy hell, those look amazing.
Supposedly Steam is going to be getting a new "Remote play together" feature that lets you invite people to remotely play "local" coop pc games with you, with only one copy of the game. At least according to this guy on Twitter:
Sounds cool, although I dunno if I know many local coop games. Could something like that work in emulators?
Sounds cool, although I dunno if I know many local coop games. Could something like that work in emulators?
Parsec works in emulators fine and most other steam features work with non-steam games so It might work.
also the beta is supposed to launch on Oct 21st
So I'll finally be able to play Crawl with people.
Also uuuuuh wonder if that can used to play fighting games with bad netcode in a better way
Also uuuuuh wonder if that can used to play fighting games with bad netcode in a better way
The next step will be for Valve to create a server/lobby system so that people can join with randos in local co-op games. If this takes off then I wonder if more devs would be just content with just local co-op and have Valve carry the online burden. For non competitive games but games that could benefit greatly from co-op play, this thing could be huge.
I now the parsec thing exists but having a platform holder make something official is vastly more preferable I think. Do Xbox and Nintendo have anything similar? I know Sony has shareplay. The more platforms that can offer something like this the better for devs as they can design their games around such features.
I dunno how relevant it is, but I was hoping maybe they'd also look into something like "emulating" online servers for games with dead online modes. Valve servers would be used to make game lobbies, and also trick the game into thinking it's official game servers, so you could play certain older online games with friends, or partially revive certain games with an online community that can play the game again.
Really interested where Remote Play will go forward, they have basically added every single thing that could be done (connect from anywhere, connect in almost all devices, now the remote play coop). I guess the next step would be to allow you to use Steam servers, but that would be more expensive (although I could imagine them doing something akin to Steam Plus for that? lmao, although it could be a really interesting competition to Stadia / XCloud)
Talking about other competition: still surprised Steam hasnt allowed subscription services inthe platform, even when it has similar tools for monthly payments / temporal ownership of games through the Steam Cafe program.
Talking about other competition: still surprised Steam hasnt allowed subscription services inthe platform, even when it has similar tools for monthly payments / temporal ownership of games through the Steam Cafe program.
Holy shit I never thought about that but that would be amazing. If we can do that then we could also use it to bypass terrible netcode in existing games if Valve's version is superior.
Combine that with a lobby system and I could be co-op with folks in Nioh now which otherwise seems dead unless I wanna wait for ages for the game to pair me with someone.
Somebody should make picture with Timmy-goose stealing some exclusive from Gaben.
This cannot continue.
"You're thinking about how much you want to honk 2B, aren't you?"
This cannot continue.
Syndicate is a better syndicate themed game than ac syndicate.
But i have no desire to fight u and respect ur decidion.
That is true even though it doesn't help them that much to be honest.
Mine too... I loved the setting, and the fact that you were an actual assassin.
Speaking of AC, did they ever add cheats to Odyssey like they did for Origins?
Ooh, does this mean I can get my Backer's early access on GOG now?
Nope, and this month's patch will be the final update to the game, so it's not coming. If I were to guess, I'd say it was scrapped in favour of the quest creator.
Man I really need to finish Syndicate now. Fuck that was a good game.
I think the only Assassin's Creed content I haven't loved is the side scrolling games and that only because the gameplay sucked compared to Mark of the Ninja
I will most likely pick this up once I'm done with GreedFall
I'm not sold on the concept. Seems like the requirement to do a full Picross puzzle to uncover a piece of evidence would break the flow of the narrative part of the game.
Speaking about, I noticed yesterday that rare achievements glow now.
I would like something similar to Playstation, though, were you have something like a total achievement level.
parsec is used this way, so it'd be really really great if steam's solution has similar functionality
absolute game changer for fighting games if so, though I'm sure it's dependent on distance and etc.
not that there is much choice to begin with, but steam would absolutely become the de facto fighting game pc option (lol it already is)
Speaking about, I noticed yesterday that rare achievements glow now.
I would like something similar to Playstation, though, were you have something like a total achievement level.
I can't think of a good way to make something like an achievement level work with Steam's loose restrictions on achievements. A game dev can put as many or few into a game as they want, so there are no standards as to how to score them. Frankly, I prefer that approach where developers have control of achievements, but it does make an overarching scoring system hard to manage.
Speaking about, I noticed yesterday that rare achievements glow now.
I would like something similar to Playstation, though, were you have something like a total achievement level.
Anything under 10% glows. Probably should add more effects, one for <10, one for <1 etc...
It was always glowing actually for the beta.Speaking about, I noticed yesterday that rare achievements glow now.
I would like something similar to Playstation, though, were you have something like a total achievement level.
Achievement glow are now an item that can drop when you complete a card set (only 1 allowed per game), or can be obtained when you 100% the games (this version would be non-tradeable).
Valve hire me for my awesome ideas :toucan:
Edit: Reminder that Steam currently has the option to tie achievements / certain stuff in your game, to specific card drops, so it would be possible to do this.
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