Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Imo doesn't need an easy mode, game isn't hard if you stick to same leveled enemies. It does take a lot of time to get through though.
GOTY 2018 tied with RDR2 for me. Origins was better, mostly because of bayek and the setting.

I'm only into the third chapter or so and playing it on Hard, and honestly the difficulty for the most part is irrelevant. The conquest battle was damn near impossible with my assassin/hunter combo so I had to respec into something with a little more warrior power (and discovered the heal and it became a mandatory thing going forward), but other than that, just about all my deaths are either because I get too casual and try to get through an area too quickly or if I'm screwing around trying to get a mercenary to hunt me and get a second one or run by a fortified area. Well, that, and the damn boar in the first quest of the Daughters of Artemis or whatever - thank goodness there's a cheap way of doing it because it was also damn near impossible.
 
I have a sneaking suspicion this is the peak of the series for awhile. Great entries have usually been followed by mediocre ones. Brotherhood followed by Revelations and Black Flag followed by Unity
 
Whoever is responsible for having the notification that the new DLC is available come up every effing time you try to access the map/inventory/etc. can gargle a bag of salted dicks.
 
Whoever is responsible for having the notification that the new DLC is available come up every effing time you try to access the map/inventory/etc. can gargle a bag of salted dicks.

Didn’t even notice that when I was playing yesterday. It’s probably all I’ll see now so thanks for that. :really:
 
Didn’t even notice that when I was playing yesterday. It’s probably all I’ll see now so thanks for that. :really:

I got to play for about an hour and a half yesterday. I usually go into inventory/map/quests every couple of minutes. I noticed it *REAL* quick.
 
Whoever is responsible for having the notification that the new DLC is available come up every effing time you try to access the map/inventory/etc. can gargle a bag of salted dicks.

Yeah, what a crappy way to force eyeballs to see the release of their latest DLC. I was playing last night and it annoyed the hell out of me for a few minutes. But a quick press of the (B) button on Xbox dismisses the notice so I got over it pretty quickly.

This game's combat is better in my opinion than Origins. Its just a little bit faster and more fluid and I like the skills you can equip with the Sparta Kick being my fave so far. The combat is not as deep as something like The Witcher 3 but its still fun.

Also, Alexios voice acting is not as bad as I was lead to believe. He's actually quite funny at times. I'm still at the early part of the game so I guess that could change.
 
Deep sale on this one right now on Xbox live, great time to pick it up. Gold edition for $33!!!
 
Seriously... AC games go on sale every other week. In fact pretty sure all but the last 2 have now been free on GwG?

Plenty of games that have hardly ever if ever been on sale.
 
This is probably the best game in the series for me. But there is a lot of game in this game, lol. I just hit 100 hrs at lvl58 and after checking online to see how many quests I have left in the main story there are over 20 missions left. And that’s not counting the side missions on various islands. I’m not burned out yet but my eye is starting to wonder over to other games. I may just wait until the Season Pass is on sale before I pick that up.

I do kind of have a problem with the Season Pass content. I’m all for new missions and quest lines but I learned there are new skills to be acquired that we can only get from the Season Pass. I’m a little conflicted about that because those skills look awesome and I want them. I guess it makes sense to introduce a few new cool looking skills to get gamers even more excited for the Season Pass.

I really like the build diversity this game offers. I had a hunter/bow build I was really happy with that took me through many levels. And then about a week ago made a fire/critical hit build that reduces everything to ash. And just the other day decided to see how tanky I could get with a new armor set that gives %30 resistance to everything. And now I’m nigh unkillable. I have increased enemy scaling to heavy so no matter what all enemies are at my level but its still become too easy so I may increase the difficulty to spice things up.
 
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Whish the Season Pass was on sale...it was 15 dollars less last week on PSN so when I saw a Ubi sale this week on the MS Store I figured it would be there also but noooooooo...

Oh well still lots to do in game,level 49 now,trying to find the last piece of one of the 4 main Odyssey and could finish the family one I think now,only thing I dont like as much in this awesome RPG is the Naval combat,I just cant get use to it...I dont fully understand when I can shoot the arrows or javelins,like these 2 icons on the bottom,the cooldown or whatever to it,sometimes I hit RT and nothing happens with the Javelin throwers...
 
Whish the Season Pass was on sale...it was 15 dollars less last week on PSN so when I saw a Ubi sale this week on the MS Store I figured it would be there also but noooooooo...

Oh well still lots to do in game,level 49 now,trying to find the last piece of one of the 4 main Odyssey and could finish the family one I think now,only thing I dont like as much in this awesome RPG is the Naval combat,I just cant get use to it...I dont fully understand when I can shoot the arrows or javelins,like these 2 icons on the bottom,the cooldown or whatever to it,sometimes I hit RT and nothing happens with the Javelin throwers...

Same here, doesn’t click as much for me. I have found though that brace is your best friend, makes battles much easier if you use it often
 
Yeah Naval combat is tricky sometimes but I really like it, I have trouble keeping track of the battle and my skill cooldowns at the same time. I received the Daughters of Artemis crew theme and find the shanty sung by women so relaxing. My Warrior Women are fierce but so beautiful. I'm sure the pirates of the seas in Odyssey think we're a bunch of pushovers until cold steel is thrust into their belly. By now word has probably gone out not to mess with the ship crewed by a bunch of ladies.
 
I purchased the Season Pass for like $20 a couple weeks ago when it was on sale on Xbox. And I must say I get all giddy when I think about all the content that awaits me. Not only new story stuff but new skills and gear to acquire.
 
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Picked up the gold edition on pc with all the dlc for 20$. Probably keep me busy for months after I finish Origins.