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[MageAquarius20]

As a game: it looks gorgeous with a good open-world and a really fantastic Greece
As an Assassin's Creed: Well....it is not an Assassin's Creed but Ubisoft wanted it to be in the franchise and have the title. I don't know why and who came up with this idea I just wanna tell him you just ruined one of the greatest franchises in history.

AC had been ruined long ago, by ungrateful fans and people, who didn't cared for the plot. It's the best if we just make our own stories and wait for Ancestors.

[GabrielCorvis]

AC had been ruined long ago, by ungrateful fans and people, who didn't cared for the plot. It's the best if we just make our own stories and wait for Ancestors.

Not necessarily directly responding just to this, but to the ones before this, too. Obviously I have my own opinions. The only AC games I didn't like were AC 3, Rogue, & Unity with its gods-awful micro-transactions & multi-player tailored bs. I, personally, enjoyed the hell out of Syndicate. I liked the Frye twins. Didn't really like the train missions. They felt tacked on & weren't that exciting, but I liked the rest of it. I have a personal beef with the combat in Origins. I feel if someone wants to play a Souls game, go ****ing play a Souls game & leave Assassin's Creed alone. When I can't ****ing stealth kill an ******* that's SEVEN levels or so below me, that's ****ing ridiculous. All-in-all I like it despite still not having finished it &, as one commenter I read already stated, it not actually being set in Ancient Egypt. I'd have much preferred Middle Kingdom, or even New Kingdom. Even though it's been done to death they could have done something interesting with Tutankhamun's death. Though it's been no more run into the ground than ****ing Cleopatra. I read an interesting theory just recently about Odyssey maybe being the origins of The Order. So that could be a thing. I'd also like to respond to something someone said earlier about the protagonists after Ezio & Altair. Of course no protagonist has done anything huge in the world since those two, they were Desmond Miles' ancestors who was a guy basically tasked with averting an apocalypse. You can't really top that for scope. Ultimately these games are about people. Not their actions. They're about individual peoples' stories set against this millennia-long shadow war & these oftentimes world-altering historical events. That's why I, personally, play them. I love the stories...most of them. I could do without the First Civilization nonsense, but that's just me. Also, what I actually came here to post was really wishing they (Ubisoft) would do a fully realized Shao Jun game. I would LOVE to play around in ancient China.

[TaleraRis]

It doesn't give much of an Assassin's Creed feel to me. I don't like the dialogue options or the character choice. It makes the character we're going to play feel very generic. We always had a specific character we experienced the life of before. It gave us a special connection and made the character feel that much more real that you don't get from a more generic protagonist. I have hopes it will prove itself as a worthy entry in the series. But I'm not encouraged by what we have seen so far.

[Wombles-_-]

THAT ^^
The more time passes & younger gamers get, the less they need to deal with present day anything from early AC. They aren't going to understand it without knowing the past games meanings, so are they going to be forced to buy/rent the early games to understand all of that?? I don't even remember any of it now, or care. Each new Assassin brings new things to each game to make them unique to that game - like the whole Pirate/ship thing was to Black Flag. It wasn't my thing, but it was a very good game.
Even in Origins which I adore, I had no clue what the messages meant from the people before? I'd let that play & go make some lunch lol
Just play the older games if you want that & Desmond. It was awesome & had its place, but I don't think it's going to go over well for newer AC fans coming in who have no idea what any of that meant 7 yrs ago.

Lastly, in the E3 gameplay seg, they're obviously going to be showing ACTION scenes for the show... people are running with a short clip they see as if it showcases the entire game & all you'll have in your arsenal.
??? The complaining blows my mind sometimes.
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+1^^ Never mind new players too the game, I loved the modern day for the first three or four games. Sadly the slop of decline gets even stepper with each new game, Origins modern day has to be the most annoying in my opinion, I just wish if they want to waste their time on that crap now give me a skip button so I don't have to waste mine.

[distrust74]

I never followed the community, so I am honestly surprised anyone cares about the modern day and backstory stuff. I remember back when the first game released the majority was entirely puzzled why they broke up the cool historical setting with this scifi element. Apparently a lot has changed since then.

My thoughts? Thank you, fastest pre-order ever for me.
Setting looks great, gameplay seems improved from origins, I love the material details, and finally being allowed to choose gender was overdue. Really looking forward to it.

[bitebug2003]

I don't mind that it's more of an RPG and it looks similar to other games I've played (right down to the romancing)

But is it an Assassin's Creed game in the true sense - maybe not.
It plays very similar to Assassin's Creed Origins but minus all the Assassin-y stuff which is a shame.
Although the Kotaku article I read said it has stealth - so I'm conflicted.

Perhaps Ubisoft can create a FAQ to clarify all the questions.

ETA:

I don't care about Modern Day either

And I really don't see the point of it in Origins - It's just a bunch of text files and jargon and I now make a point of glossing over it.

[ProdiGurl]

It doesn't give much of an Assassin's Creed feel to me. I don't like the dialogue options or the character choice. It makes the character we're going to play feel very generic. We always had a specific character we experienced the life of before. It gave us a special connection and made the character feel that much more real that you don't get from a more generic protagonist. I have hopes it will prove itself as a worthy entry in the series. But I'm not encouraged by what we have seen so far.

Then Ubi hears how they aren't giving us female protagonists, guys complain that they don't want to play as a female -
EVERY character is "generic" - we all played as Ezio and Bayek, etc.

[Sooxzay]

Tombs are in the game aswell. Even if I wish they would have some deeper mechanics like in AC2 and ACB where we had to solve some puzzles and mechanisms to get ahead instead of just crushing walls and killing snakes.

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[KrK87]

Well mabey we will find out where Bayeks wife got the assassins blade.

[jgrunes]

I guess a lot of you guys just watched the E3 show of the new AC: Odyssey. What do you guys like and dislike so far?

The facial animations look far better than in origins and the combat looks fancy. Sadly they didnt show much about stealth gameplay until now.


Btw already a gameplay video by jorraptor:

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Seems like the Leonidas Spear is somewhat a piece of eden when looking at the background in the inventory and also the glowing animation while using it. This also explains why its so powerful when doing special attacks with it.

Thanks for starting this! The only thing I would love to see changed is the ability to use a shield. This is Ancient Greece, it's integral for warfare in this time. Sign this petition if you would love to see them add player shields perhaps in a dlc!
https://www.change.org/p/ubisoft-bring-back-the-shield-for-assassins-creed-odyssey-2a473dd2-8a36-4944-b5ad-92c946c0611f?recruiter=881788103&utm_source=share_ petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_comb o_share_initial