Assassin’s Creed is too big – AC: Mirage has to be smaller and shorter

Assassin’s Creed has gotten too big and too broad, and to rescue the Ubisoft RPG game series, AC: Mirage needs to be shorter, smaller, and stealthier

[Christopher]

Not sure about stealthier. AC Valhalla, for all its bloat and size, was very stealthy in design.

[porkChop]

I'd agree with that. The games just need to be smaller. I dont need 30 hours of great content being handcuffed to 70 hours of bloat. Just give me the 30 hours of the good stuff and call it a day. Shorter dev time, cheaper budget, etc.

[Profchaos]

For as much as I played I felt there was quite a lot of action storm the castle / town / fort style. Very different from the early games where you had to blend into the crowd get close to your target and stealth kill then escape like in ac1.

I don't dislike the action however the size and bloat needs to be halved

[chicken_in_the_corn]

It's confirmed to be. Valhalla's size really hurt it imo

[P_Bomb]

I haven’t done Valhalla but I platinumed Odyssey and that map was entirely too big.

[TheKingKratos]

It's alot bigger than Odyssey

Valhalla was fun for the first 20 hours or so but it should have ended there it kept on going and going i put 130 hours to finish it and it bored me to tears

They story and side missions are good but the gameplay is so damn repetitive it was too much

[Chriswheeler22]

Valhalla was confirmed to be smaller too, but we've seen how that went.

[LostPotato]

Given that Mirage is a Valhalla DLC that was axed to release as a full game means I have no doubt it will be smaller. Anyway the article writer should do his research better as everything he wants has already been confirmed.

The next full game is Codename Red set in Feudal Japan developed this time by Ubisoft Quebec who made.Odyssey.

[Jayrod]

first assassin creed too small I wish I can get over the wall now is too big who complains about having too much content

[TheEnigma313]

No one wants a bunch of filler. Missions begin to become the same.

[Abear21]

Yeah it’s about the quality of content for sure, but for some fans the game can’t be too long. If the devs vision is an enormous world I say bring it on. If it gets boring I’ll stop playing. Better than too short and I don’t give a rats steamy crap about finishing everything I buy.

[Demetrius]

Ac mirage was posed to be Valhalla dlc well when you think about it that means mirage hasn’t been in development long so that also means why there’s no gameplay vids only “talk” smh here we go again ubisoft half finishing a title in this great gaming series >:/

[neutralgamer1992]

yes a 15-20 hours single player story driven experience with level locks, the borining grind and XP boosters

[anast]

How about no xp boosters then their games wouldn't feel like a bloated grind.

[Elda]

LOL!

[Abear21]

I honestly think most complaints about games being too long come from review sites and completion/trophy and achievement obsessed gamers. I buy games on sale and stop playing when I stop having fun so complaining about a games length is something that I don’t understand.

[FallenAngel1984]

Calling Assassin’s Creed an RPG series makes my blood boil

[jjb1981]

Valhalla could have been perfectly fine with 30 hours of actual game time without the bloat quests and grinding. Valhalla is excellent in my opinion and was much better than Origins and Odyssey if you remove the grinding nonsense.

[sagapo]

I think the preference of map size depends on your personal taste. If I can get all trophies/achievements without having to explore every inch of the map, size doesn’t really matter.
It also depends on how that map is filled, e.g. if half the map is desert with nothing to do, then yeah, make the map smaller.
It also depends on your taste of exploring, just wandering around. A big map can contribute to that, if that’s your thing.

[Einhander1971]

Ain't that most of the crap nowadays, bloated out with pointless quests, missions. Just so you think your getting more for your money. And once completed never played again!! What happened to short quality titles with style over substance. Quality over quantity. Replayability !! I'm still playing games from the 80s and 90s because they have that go back to again and again quality.

[Chocoburger]

100% this! People who want these massive games don't value their own lifespans.
They believe that 80+ hours of junk gaming is good value for the money, all the while they ignore countless of masterpiece games that are 'too short' (which in fact are not too short, because they are highly replayable!).

Metal Gear Solid took me 21 hours to complete back in 1998.
Nowadays I beat the game in around 8 hours or less, which is perfectly fine for me.
I've beaten the game over 10 times, and I play the game over and over again, not because I need to EXP grind, or resource grind, or equipment grind. NO! I play it over and over again because its FUN! I don't want or need the game to be 50 hours long, that would have ruined the game. The natural desire to go back and play a game from start to finish, that's true replay value. Not GAAS grindy garbage making you feel compelled to waste hours of your life just to get a freakin' Trophy. That's torture.

I used to be a huge AC fan in the past, before UbiShit turned their series in GAAS, and everything became a slog of a grind. So many aspects of the series dropped in quality, from the boring world maps, to the throwaway plots, and the near endless collectibles. Ugh, I've had enough of UbiShit.

These days I play retro games more than modern games. And looking at what the industry is trending towards, that'll never change. What a shame, greed ruins everything.

[Father__Merrin]

I'm on ac oddessey on pc and ac valhalla on SX the games are too big. By knocking it down to a quarter of the size it still dwarfs other games

[MrVux000]

A game is not bad cuz its big ... a game is bad if that big content is mostly filler or a total bloat that adds nothing to do games story or gameplay for the most part.

Witcher 3 still serves as a prime example where a big game can be big and still have quality content for the majority of the game lenght.

[Lionsguard]

AC games needs to be no more than 15 hours for the story and 25-30 for completionists. Odyssey was too damn much for too little payoff, the ending was crap for an epic of that size and length.

[frostypants]

LOL...AC's fundamental issues run so much deeper than this. A well designed game won't suffer from its length. It's only an issue if the game simply isn't fun enough to spend the time with.

[HyperMoused]

I got over Ubisoft for this, huge games with a billion things to collect that do very little, collect 73 of these to unlock some gloves, save 48 of these things to unlock the new undies, complete 27 of these to unlock the boots...so big, so full of so much something that is nothing.

[Riftrider]

I haven't played many AC games but I tried origins and Odyssey and Odyssey for sure seemed way to big and repetitive for me and I made it until my character was level 36 and knowing how much was left enough for me.

[Heavenly King]

I ended up hating AC Valhalla, too much bloated content. They need to cut corners and just leave the top parts of the game so that it is a 30hrs game and with the best side missions to be 50hrs at most; and that's it.