ACO - Beautiful but really dumb?
SPOILER ALERT
I have played all AC games and finished all but AC Rouge.
So now playing ACO the game just looks amazing, fighting is great, animations are superb, open world of old Greece is just amazing. I really enjoy the scenery.
But game after that feels really dumb. I am not even speaking about the main quest. You can like it or not. I am talking of the game mechanics and logic. Most of players are completeonists. We want to complete every marking on the map and have the marking it is finished. So every fort, warehouse, temple, workshop, leader house, farm ...what ever. I want to accomplish the assignment. Kill the captain, loot the treasure, burn the supplies and so on.
And now you come to the part of the game where it makes no sense. So in Athens, where for the sake of argument, I like them and I want to be on their side, I have to kill their soldier, burn their supplies, loot their treasure, kill their polemarch. I really don't want their power to go down but I am forced to do that if I want to complete the marking.
The other day I came to a farm where the lady asked me to find here husband. So I did and I found him. I finished the quest and helped them. And then I burned their granaries and looted their treasures. Cause I wanted to have the marking the location is finished. I felt wrong and stupid.
One time I finished a quest for my mother and quest finished with the animation in her leader house. After that I was immediately attacked by the bounty giver who was in the end animation in the back and then by the rest of the soldiers in the house of my mother. My allies. After I help them. Dumb? No....
This hybrid of AC and new open RPG is nowhere. It just insults logic and there are really a lot of really dumb situations. I do salute that the game moves towards The Witcher 3 but somehow Ubisoft is still dwarfed by a small company form Poland where all the actions are well placed in the game where it all makes sense.
I really hope that the future will bring logic into the AC franchise cause it seems it got lost along the way.