re: Assassin's Creed: Origins

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Congrats your feelings got hurt? I mean, don't dish it if you can't take it.

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You got fricked hard and your down voting wont help you.

Like I said know the players before you bust on the scene being an arse.

Tell me wise one what part of my system isn't good enough to run AC:O?

And yeah it has problems with 5.1 and 7.1, I will let google prove you wrong on that one, I switched to "stereo" and now I can hear the dialog in cut scenes.

Heaven help him if he tackles one of the big boys on here.

I just got to the second part of the map and 2 hits kills me and it's fricking frustrating

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I just got to the second part of the map and 2 hits kills me and it's fricking frustrating

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Yeah, you definitely have to grind to get your levels up. It's not too bad compared to games like Skyrim though.

It took me a bit to get used to the combat in the game. But the storyline has been fantastic. I've really enjoyed it.

I love this game, but I'm going to rant for a bit. These next-gen AC games have been trying to turn into pseudo-action RPGs and it's lame. Staples like smoke bombs, sleep darts, and poison are locked behind a skill tree. You run up to a bandit camp that looks like virtually every other bandit camp only this one is three or four levels higher than your player character, and you get killed in one or two hits by the "boss" of the camp because you had the audacity to run into an area of the world that per your level, you're not supposed to be at regardless of whether or not it makes sense from a world building standpoint (ie why are the Crocodiles in Memphis so much more badass than the ones in Siwa?)

The main story so far as I can tell is just a string of intel gathering and assassination missions. Many of your targets are completely random with no characterization or backstory. The assassination missions themselves are the lamest they've ever been. Go here and kill this dude. The assassination missions in Syndicate and Unity at least gave you alternate routes to complete the same objective.

I am left to wonder why the last generation Assassin's Creed games had so much more to the story. Is it more difficult to render detailed in-engine cutscenes with the next gen engine? Has a new writing team took over the franchise after AC Rogue on last gen systems? The next gen AC games put so much emphasis on the setting that it's more or less all there is now.

The side missions kill any sense of urgency in the plot and only really serve to pad out the length of an otherwise pretty short game. You can't just power through the main story which in and of itself is not a bad thing, but the recommended levels for each story mission are too far apart. Unless you grind through side missions on the front end, you may have to spend 2 or 3 levels doing nothing but side stories. The side stories themselves aren't all that interesting. You are more an errand boy than an assassin.