Anyone play(ed) assassin's creed origins?

Story was boring, but exploring Egypt made my dick hard. 8/10

I liked Bayek and the story was passable. Very interesting side missions. Supposedly Bayek has more of a voice in the DLC.

I’m in the camp that origins was probably by game of the year.

I downloaded it to play overseas on PC since you can play it offline. It is easily one of, if not the best, of the series. I was a huge fan of Black Flag, and Origins gave me that same feeling but didn’t conflict since it was two completely different subjects.

Assassin's Creed 2 with this gameplay would be GOAT.


Having a lot of fun with Origins. I unlocked a unicorn mount that shoots out rainbows from it's hooves as it's walking. Pretty much the best thing ever.

Not saying the story sucks. It is just the weakest part.

The game for me was about exploration. I'm lvl45. Whatever the max is for DLC. This is the only game besides FO4 I've 100% (before the 1st DLC).

It is a really fun game. I have theroies about simulations but won't spoil.

Of course it is worth it. I have my problems with it, but It's one of the better games to come out in 2017.

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What are your problems with it?

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I felt that with this being the origin story of the Assassin's Brotherhood, they had the opportunity to tell a really interesting story. The story in this game though barely exists.

There's relatively next to no interaction with the First Civilization despite the fact that exploring the Pyramids would be the perfect place to expand upon the lore of that world.

The modern day story is playable this time, but it's more pointless than it has ever been. You're confined to a tiny brown cave the entire time, and there's relatively little to see or do beyond just breaking up chapters in the main game.

I realize that technically speaking you aren't an assassin (at least not until the tail end of the game), but in this game you feel least like an assassin than maybe any game before it. The last couple of villains you fight are borderline gladiatorial arena battles. The end of the game does have you assassinate an important historical figure but it feels more like an interactive cutscene than a real mission in the game.

That being said, what story is there is about Aya. Not to spoil anything, but she is the true driving force behind the plot whereas Bayek is a side character.

I'm also still not the biggest fan of the pseudo-RPG elements they are shoehorning into the "next gen" AC games starting with AC Unity. I just think it's dumb that the exact same guard in one area can one shot kill you whereas another area you can do the same to him. It limits exploration when you're in an area that the game dictates as not valid for your current level and also locks many of the games best skills and abilities behind a skill tree whereas the old games simply gave you access to everything from the start or at the very least organically unlocked abilities based on where you were in the story.

Side activities in earlier AC games were never what I would call "great," but Origins tries to mirror Witcher 3 with each side mission being it's own little quest with a storyline, only most of the side missions are boring, unmemorable fetch quests.

Dude when they released the tour mode I spent an entire day high as a kite on the couch going through all the tours.

It's amazing how they added such a fantastic learning tool into a video game.

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We did sort of explore it but imo it is almost confirmation we are in a 3 layer simulation.

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Just Googled this and it blew my mind. Never would have thought about that

Well. The great pyramids were really just giant batteries that powered lower Egypt. Duh. The long tailed lizard people helped build it in 2 days.

Common knowledge.