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    New to assassin creed, question

    I’m new to assassin creed series. I decided to buy an Xbox one yesterday and picked up Odyssey. Recently my GF and I were playing a little assassin creed 2 on the 360 and really enjoyed it. A lot of mixed reviews online about odyssey, and it looks way different from AC2 , wondering if we’ll enjoy it ? BTW she is a rookie gamer. Thanks !
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    Odyssey can be a bit overwhelming at first and there is a bit of a learning curve as far as combat and learning how the engravings and abilities systems work but if you stick with it the first few hours it will all come together. I'd suggest staying on the initial island and doing everything available and maybe even starting over the game after a few hours once you got the hang of it and replay the beginning ..... Don't worry too much about getting killed because you aren't really penalized for it like some games

    When you have specific questions use the forum search function because there is a lot of answers to questions about the game or just post your question and usually someone will answer in a day or two

    I have a bunch of videos sorted into playlists on my YouTube channel and watching them may help but I would recommend this one as it list all the quest and has time stamps for several events that may help you is you get stuck on a quest or have a problem in a boss fight

    You'll probably notice that my versions of Kassandra and Alexios look different than yours because I'm on PC and using mods but they don't change how the game plays, only the hairstyles and and the looks of some of the armor
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    Originally Posted by markchris Go to original post
    I’m new to assassin creed series. I decided to buy an Xbox one yesterday and picked up Odyssey. Recently my GF and I were playing a little assassin creed 2 on the 360 and really enjoyed it. A lot of mixed reviews online about odyssey, and it looks way different from AC2 , wondering if we’ll enjoy it ? BTW she is a rookie gamer. Thanks !
    You are new to the series so you don't really know how they screwed up the franchise yet.
    You did see the tip of the iceberg tho.

    Enjoy whatever oddessy is but it's not AC.
    You can see it as a mix of:
    -The witcher
    -Shadow of mordor
    Games that companies made to look like AC without them being AC ripoffs.
    (And then Ubisoft changed their whole franchise to be a ripoff of those games.........)
    -And God of War (you'll know when you see it)

    The fighting isn't as hard as many say it is, its:
    4x hack&slash button
    Roll away
    Roll back
    Repeat

    Have fun tho.

    Ps:
    If you don't like oddessy, you can play other AC's.
    If you really only played AC 2, you should play
    AC Brotherhood
    AC Revelations as well.
    It's with the same guy Ezio (the trilogy)

    AC 3 (is the last part of the protagonist)
    AC 4
    AC Rogue
    (These three are basically a trilogy as well)

    AC Unity (story of rogue is tied here sort of)
    The parkour is sick
    Character customization is very nice
    Fight mechanics started to be better
    Missions are good

    AC syndicate (started to get meh)
    No build up for the characters
    Parkour/climbing became useless
    Customization went way downhills
    Knife fighting was cool tho

    AC Origins... (here it became a looter slasher)
    I do give this one a pass for being a different game.
    But only because of where it takes place.
    This one should've had a trilogy as well.
    But....

    They came up with ac oddessy (SPOILERS)
    -This takes place before AC Origins
    -That means AC Origins is not the origin...
    -Your NOT an assassin/hidden one because:
    They are not invented yet by the hero from Origins
    -You are a mercenary
    (something you hired as a distraction in the previous games)
    -No hidden blade
    -No sick looking iconic AC&Spartan fusion outfit.
    -Hack n slash (no rules)
    -Fighting gods and mythical beasts (God of War)

    And then valhalla (didn't even play it)
    Where the Assassins are basically only mentioned.
    You fight witches and warlocks now (the witcher)
    Fighting gods again (God of War)

    The last 3 games
    Origins
    Oddessy
    Valhalla
    They sell, not because they are good AC games.
    (Origins gets a pass for this)
    They are only selling because a lot of players like to play open world games.
    They could have easily made oddessy and valhalla spin-off games for, For Honor.
    And it would've sold probably 10x more as well.
    But yea...
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