Assassin's Creed Origins

Zero-Cool

The crocodile is some bastard

marcbrophy

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I understand, I hate stuff being ruined lately, and everyone is doing it. So nowadays I watch the initial trailer, a gameplay trailer and nothing more. It's why I got a not so nice surprise with the upgrade system in NFS Payback, I just expected another NFS game as normal!

What a truly vile progression system that game has!
I'd have bought that game at full price if it was good!
Now, I don't think I'd even bother downloading it for free when it eventually goes to the EA Access vault

Sephiroth_dude

Just finished the main story, that was awful last mission.

Battleflag

For a game mode that Ubisoft recycles in all of their games - this game is very meh. Was very excited for it and while the graphics and surroundings are absolutely gorgeous the quests are ridiculously boring. The game is basically far cry re-skinned, it doesn't feel like an AC game. I'm playing on hard and the fights are piss easy. Only lvl 20 but hopefully it will pick up but man it's such a very average game.

Sephiroth_dude

One trophy away from the platinum!

biggebruv

Battleflag wrote: »

For a game mode that Ubisoft recycles in all of their games - this game is very meh. Was very excited for it and while the graphics and surroundings are absolutely gorgeous the quests are ridiculously boring. The game is basically far cry re-skinned, it doesn't feel like an AC game. I'm playing on hard and the fights are piss easy. Only lvl 20 but hopefully it will pick up but man it's such a very average game.

This is what holds me back from buying the game

It looks stunning has a few new changes to the overall system but in the end your still doing the same boring ass missions that were present in 4 ,unity ,syndicate

biggebruv

biggebruv wrote: »

This is what holds me back from buying the game

It looks stunning has a few new changes to the overall system but in the end your still doing the same boring ass missions that were present in 4 ,unity ,syndicate

It is an AC game at heart even with the many changes, but it's infinitely better than Unity and Syndicate and I liked those. It's world is a genuinely fun to explore, there is some repetition for sure but to say it's like Far Cry is not fair at all. The missions structure is different to previous games, much more like an rpg game.

I'm someone who suffers from "open world fatigue" and this didn't happen me at all with this.

ItsHoggie

Origins is in no way like Far Cry

FAILSAFE 00

biggebruv wrote: »

This is what holds me back from buying the game

It looks stunning has a few new changes to the overall system but in the end your still doing the same boring ass missions that were present in 4 ,unity ,syndicate

Buy it and thank us later. The game is awesome.

Sephiroth_dude

Going for the old habits trophy at the moment, wish too god I'd kept up with clearing out the ? zone too zone, would have saved me alot of work now.

Sephiroth_dude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Going for the old habits trophy at the moment, wish too god I'd kept up with clearing out the ? zone too zone, would have saved me alot of work now.

Yeah I was quite systematic about that before moving on to a new part of the map. It helps if you do the sync points first. 99% of them will be on the map then, but the zoom and the fact they vanish at a certain point isn't helpful.

Penn

I said I'd hold off on this game due to being skeptical of the changes Ubisoft were making (and if they'd change anything at all really) and due to AC fatigue.

Have decided to get it for Xmas. Will give it a shot, as reviews and general reception seems to be really good.

Sephiroth_dude

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I was quite systematic about that before moving on to a new part of the map. It helps if you do the sync points first. 99% of them will be on the map then, but the zoom and the fact they vanish at a certain point isn't helpful.

I have been all synced I think, I have all the elephant camps done at least, they were tough bastards.

biggebruv

Deleted User wrote: »

It is an AC game at heart even with the many changes, but it's infinitely better than Unity and Syndicate and I liked those. It's world is a genuinely fun to explore, there is some repetition for sure but to say it's like Far Cry is not fair at all. The missions structure is different to previous games, much more like an rpg game.

I'm someone who suffers from "open world fatigue" and this didn't happen me at all with this.

I will play it but I’m waiting till it’s a bit cheaper maybe around 25euros
It’s down to 40euro in smiths already so maybe around Xmas I could pick it up

OptimusTractor

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I have been all synced I think, I have all the elephant camps done at least, they were tough bastards.

F*ck Dumbo.

Sephiroth_dude

OptimusTractor wrote: »

F*ck Dumbo.

I especially hated the camp with two of them!

Just when I thought I had all the ? done last night another one would pop up!

ninja 12

I got the last Steam achievement for this today .

I finished the story and side quests about a week ago , and spent the last while finishing off the remaining camps , locations and achievements .

I left the elephants until last ( I hated them and the chariot racing ) .


My overall impressions are much more positive than negative .

I enjoyed the game but found the weapon system a bit tedious ( I ended up selling / dismantling most of them due to the sheer amount of swords , bows etc I amassed during my playthrough .

I would have preferred if Ubisoft had left Unicorns , flaming swords , flaming horses (nightmare pack )and similar stuff out of the game .

I enjoyed the scenery , the little details .

The sound effects worked well in 5.1 .

The combat at first I wasn't too sure about but it grew on me .

Judging by this installment , I'd buy the next outing of Assassin's Creed

Those f'n chariot races felt rigged , only did enough for the achievement. You'd be going along grand only to have the nitrous button pressed from behind to catch you on the line.

marcbrophy

Deleted User wrote: »

Those f'n chariot races felt rigged , only did enough for the achievement. You'd be going along grand only to have the nitrous button pressed from behind to catch you on the line.

I only did the training one, once!
Never been back!
Awful thing altogether!
Rather hang around Krokodilopolis all day getting bit by crocs every 5 seconds, than go back

Sephiroth_dude

Finished all ? marks on the map, spent ages last night combing the map for it, didn't pick anything when you play as

Aya, except for looting guards

can't find the one I missed.

ninja 12

Deleted User wrote: »

Those f'n chariot races felt rigged , only did enough for the achievement.

Same here .

marcbrophy wrote: »

I only did the training one, once!
Never been back!
Awful thing altogether!
Rather hang around Krokodilopolis all day getting bit by crocs every 5 seconds, than go back

I thought that the tutorial race was harder than the real ones .
Couldn't win the tutorial but won enough of the real races to get the achievement .

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Finished all ? marks on the map, spent ages last night combing the map for it, didn't pick anything when you play as

Aya, except for looting guards

can't find the one I missed.

There are a couple of quests that only appear when you get near them , same as the Hotep Cavern - it only appears when you get near it .

marcbrophy

ninja 12 wrote: »

I thought that the tutorial race was harder than the real ones .
Couldn't win the tutorial but won enough of the real races to get the achievement .

I might go back to them so! I need money and I like achievements

ninja 12

marcbrophy wrote: »

I might go back to them so! I need money and I like achievements

You only need to win the first tournament for the achievement .

There are three races in it .

I came 1st in the first race , 2nd in the second race and either 1st or 2nd ( can't remember ) in the third race and got the Steam/Uplay Ben-Hur achievement .

It goes by points allocated for coming 1st,2nd ,3rd ect.

No need to come 1st in all three races (thankfully)

Sephiroth_dude

ninja 12 wrote: »

There are a couple of quests that only appear when you get near them , same as the Hotep Cavern - it only appears when you get near it .

Finally got the plat last night, it was an enemy base I was missing.

Temptamperu

Got this today on PSN for 40 bucks. I like how it looks and sounds but there is something not quite right with the controls. other than that quite an enjoyable romp. Glad I waited for a sale.

ItsHoggie

Temptamperu wrote: »

Got this today on PSN for 40 bucks. I like how it looks and sounds but there is something not quite right with the controls. other than that quite an enjoyable romp. Glad I waited for a sale.

I thought that myself at first, it was my only gripe for the first few hours but trust me you'll get used to it. It's a great game!

Yeah same, felt like dark souls controls. Forgot about it after I got into the game.

marcbrophy

I know a lot have probably finished this one and moved on by now, but for those of us that still have it, today's xbox patch brings a much needed feature!

An uncompleted locations filter for the map!

Shiminay

*bump* I picked this up a few days ago and I'm rather enjoying it. I've not played an AC game since Black Flag, so the changes introduced are welcome. I'm not really enjoying the combat as I haven't really figured it out, so it feels clumsy and random. The different bows are a nice idea, took some getting used to.

It runs like ass on my PC though (which is no slouch). Averaging only 40ish FPS with things on medium. Not terribly impressed, but I'm already speccing upgrades

dreamers75

It ran fine in Ultra on my 1080 but hammered my 5960X CPU (not copy protection apparently) but it was over 60% usage for the 1st time in its life.

The combat is different but once you get the hang of it is an improvement.