Assassin's Creed Odyssey

[MillerEP 30455]

Super excited about this game. It looks beautiful. Naval battles are back. It takes part at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. You're a Lacedemonian mercenary, who can fight for various city-states in massive city on city battles. Drops October 5.

 

Edited June 11, 2018 by MillerEP

[bernorange 8361]

I still haven't yet played Origins (which I want to do).  I guess it'll be on sale soon.

[angelfacedmongoloid 80]

There's a best of e3 sale for PS4 right now that includes Origins. Available until the 19th: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/grid/STORE-MSF77008-BESTOFE3SALEGG/1

 

[Bigbend1812 12915]

This looks bonerific.

[angelfacedmongoloid 80]

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/assassins-creed-odyssey

 

Looks to be getting pretty good reviews. I'll probably grab this eventually but only recently picked up Origins and will try playing through that and some other games before this one.

 

[Zavala 1384]

On 6/11/2018 at 5:33 PM, bernorange said:

I still haven't yet played Origins (which I want to do).  I guess it'll be on sale soon.

all the games are identical, they stopped pretending to progress the storyline and just lay over additional settings and times on the same game.

But it's pretty, and kind of grind fun.

[Bigbend1812 12915]

Played some the other night.  I’m digging it.  Beautiful game.  I hate MarKos.

[MadBurgerMaker 404]

This is a good game.  

I'm not minmaxing armor and weapons, which is probably making things more difficult.  I tend to just go with what I think looks the coolest at the moment.  Spears are the shit, although there don't seem to be shields (for the player), which is kind of a bummer. 

Edited October 11, 2018 by MadBurgerMaker

[Michael Knight 12978]

I got into the Project Stream beta so I'm playing this game for free in Chrome, pretty fun.

[Gene Parmesan 4007]

Can I just pick up this game and go, or is some backstory knowledge required or beneficial?  I played the first 2 a long time ago in my younger years, but pretty much quit gaming when I had kids.  Now I've been playing more single player games.  I've given up on online gaming because I suck and don't have the time or energy to get better.

[MadBurgerMaker 404]

14 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Can I just pick up this game and go, or is some backstory knowledge required or beneficial?  I played the first 2 a long time ago in my younger years, but pretty much quit gaming when I had kids.  Now I've been playing more single player games.  I've given up on online gaming because I suck and don't have the time or energy to get better.

You can. The only one of these I really played before this one was Origins, which is actually set in a later time period. There's some sort of modern day storyline that goes along with it, so there might be more background there that tires in with the other games, but TBH I was finding that part to be annoying filler keeping me away from the good parts and wasn't paying much attention to it.