Sam writes: "In a way, Assassin's Creed Valhalla is as much about being a badass Viking kicking butt and drinking ale, as it is about immersing yourself in Dark Ages England. But it's not just about the history, but more about capturing the mindset of the people at the time. Because of that, the series has become well known for its blending of history and mythology. Real-life locales and people are brought to life alongside the monstrous beasts that the people of the time really believed in, from Medusa to the Minotaur of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, to the Egyptian Gods like Anubis and Sobek in Assassin's Creed Origins. "
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
100% agree
All these ubisoft titles, Farcry, AC, Ghost recon, boast huge maps, but with the same, 3 missions or the same base to clear 100s of times. Hour 1 of any of those titles is the same as hour 100, there big for the sake of being big, with the illusion of player freedom, where we really want depth and player expression.
Give me a solid 15-20 hour engaging single player driven IP any day. Life's too short you dig.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.
Filler, it's like a 80 episodes show where only the first and last episodes actually matter
It's been a problem with pretty much every modern AAA game all through last gen and this gen. God forbid you point it out tho because all these big games are masterpieces and people lose their minds if you criticize them. Death Stranding is a fetch quest fest, but people will die defending it cause it's a "masterpiece".
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That’s great and I like the mythological factor. But saying Norse history is cold, hard, and dry merely demonstrates how little this dev knows about Norse history.
Fools. Pre-Viking and Viking history is full of great historical events and conflicts.
The Vikings invaded the British Isles, Northern Europe and took Southern expeditions as far as Italy. Ubisoft is tripping on their own shoelaces.
It's not like I'm not enjoying the 'realism' of AC Odyssey, which is my first in the series, and I'm really digging the feeling of exploring a more authentic representation of Ancient Greece than anything I've seen before but I am really looking forward to fighting the Cyclops and the Minotaur.
I don't see why they can't have the best of both worlds in the new game.
Cool....to bad your games are all bland, copy & pasted, overly bloated with needlessly large maps & terrible combat. Odyssey was an abysmal game IMO, but to each their own.
I have little doubt this will turn out the same way for me.