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Post by Cyno on Dec 13, 2023 14:45:28 GMT -5
Assuming I’m not completely burnt out after finishing Valhalla, I was definitely thinking of going back and playing one of the older games. Pretty sure I have the entire mainline series on my XB1 According to my end-of-year recap, I put in 283 hours on Odyssey this year, 183 hours on AC3 Remastered, and 151 hours on Black Flag. I'm definitely AC'd out for 2023, but I thoroughly enjoyed all three games. AC3 needs a reappraisal, I think it's pretty underrated. I'm pretty impressed you put in that much time in AC3 Remastered. I got it for free with Odyssey and I deleted it (even though I never played the King Washington DLC) because of how much of a buggy mess the thing was.
The game itself is fine and I love that my corner of New Jersey is actually represented on the Frontier world map. They did a great job of nailing the Colonial-era architecture and aesthetic of the Northeast US wilderness, too. But Connor definitely suffered from being a more stoic character sandwiched between the much more dynamic Ezio and Edward. Some of the missions are just dreadful, too, with ridiculously narrow fail conditions. Especially with the optional objectives. And after how awful the Paul Revere mission was, I'm glad the series never did another "follow vague directions" mission again. Unless there was one later on and my memory blocked it out.
Though I also think it has the best "Build up your home base" content in the entire series. Turning the Davenport Homestead from a couple of houses in the wilderness to an outright village was really neat, along with the interactions with the other settlers.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 13, 2023 15:03:03 GMT -5
Anyone try the VR game yet?
Thinking about upgrading from a Quest 2 to a Quest 3, and eyeing that game as a purchase.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 13, 2023 15:37:39 GMT -5
I'm pretty impressed you put in that much time in AC3 Remastered. I got it for free with Odyssey and I deleted it (even though I never played the King Washington DLC) because of how much of a buggy mess the thing was.
The game itself is fine and I love that my corner of New Jersey is actually represented on the Frontier world map. They did a great job of nailing the Colonial-era architecture and aesthetic of the Northeast US wilderness, too. But Connor definitely suffered from being a more stoic character sandwiched between the much more dynamic Ezio and Edward. Some of the missions are just dreadful, too, with ridiculously narrow fail conditions. Especially with the optional objectives. And after how awful the Paul Revere mission was, I'm glad the series never did another "follow vague directions" mission again. Unless there was one later on and my memory blocked it out. Though I also think it has the best "Build up your home base" content in the entire series. Turning the Davenport Homestead from a couple of houses in the wilderness to an outright village was really neat, along with the interactions with the other settlers.
It's weird, I hear a lot about the bugs in AC3R, but only ever experienced a single one – the Boston background music continued playing even after travelling to other locations until I rebooted the game. There's a few terrible missions, but they're kinda the hallmark of the earlier AC games. Black Flag had an abundance of "follow and eavesdrop" missions that absolutely drove me nuts. The homestead-building aspect was probably my favourite part of the game. I'd quite happily play a game set in the AC universe which was almost entirely building a community from scratch and occasionally going out and assassinating a target.
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Post by Cyno on Dec 13, 2023 15:58:38 GMT -5
I'm pretty impressed you put in that much time in AC3 Remastered. I got it for free with Odyssey and I deleted it (even though I never played the King Washington DLC) because of how much of a buggy mess the thing was.
The game itself is fine and I love that my corner of New Jersey is actually represented on the Frontier world map. They did a great job of nailing the Colonial-era architecture and aesthetic of the Northeast US wilderness, too. But Connor definitely suffered from being a more stoic character sandwiched between the much more dynamic Ezio and Edward. Some of the missions are just dreadful, too, with ridiculously narrow fail conditions. Especially with the optional objectives. And after how awful the Paul Revere mission was, I'm glad the series never did another "follow vague directions" mission again. Unless there was one later on and my memory blocked it out. Though I also think it has the best "Build up your home base" content in the entire series. Turning the Davenport Homestead from a couple of houses in the wilderness to an outright village was really neat, along with the interactions with the other settlers.
It's weird, I hear a lot about the bugs in AC3R, but only ever experienced a single one – the Boston background music continued playing even after travelling to other locations until I rebooted the game. There's a few terrible missions, but they're kinda the hallmark of the earlier AC games. Black Flag had an abundance of "follow and eavesdrop" missions that absolutely drove me nuts. The homestead-building aspect was probably my favourite part of the game. I'd quite happily play a game set in the AC universe which was almost entirely building a community from scratch and occasionally going out and assassinating a target. I want another game like Rogue where you play as a Templar. That was really interesting to me since we saw their side of things.
Hell, the AC comics introduced the concept of the Black Cross: Assassin-like inquisitors who kill corrupt high-ranking Templars that put their own self-interests ahead of the Order's goals. Playing as one could be a ton of fun.
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Post by Muskrat on Dec 17, 2023 14:53:27 GMT -5
Oh god, I was nowhere near as far into the game as I thought. This f***ing game just doesn't end, and I basically haven't even touched Asgard.
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