CG writes: It has been a few years since Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (2018), giving team Ubisoft a little of bit of time to take in some feedback and adjust the development of the next game in the series. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla then, should be a up there with the greats right? Perhaps not, but first-things-first, a game is only as good as its execution, and whilst there’s plenty of blood spilt in Ubisoft’s latest game, the overall experience feels marred by the ever-presence of game-breaking bugs. Who’d have thought, the tiny critters could take-on the might of the Danes in England during the 9th Century. Either way, is Assassin’s Creed Valhalla worth the time and energy at present or best left to stew a bit before diving-in?
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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This weekend from August 10-14, players can play for free Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag and Valhalla on Xbox, PlayStation and PC (availability dependent on platform).
This game has been fantastic so far. I get BOTW with a mix of Witcher vibes with this one. Story content isn't as compelling as Witcher, but mechanics and gameplay are very satisfying.