I thought this was supposed to be a RPG with at least a little choice and consequence. So far at least it's not -- it's entirely linear, and it forces me into doing things I'd really rather not be doing, and that in an open-world game I shouldn't be forced to do. I'd refund except I've already played too much for that.
Why did you think that? It's Assassin's Creed by Ubisoft. I just don't get where you get your expectations. You claim Origins has some historical accuracy ambitions, I'm sure it did have higher than average historical aspirations for an AC game, but it's still 100% rooted in fantasy - just a different genre of fantasy, historical fantasy.
AC:Odyssey is full on fantasy, keeping a historical backdrop (to be generous) embracing what it really is - and that does actually make it
less cringy than anything before it - that's not even mentioning the whole Assassins/Templars bullshit plot which is cringe on a stick.
When I was playing AC:Black Flag, I noticed there was *no* attempt at historical accuracy. None what so ever.
From the way society was described in Havana to how pirates functioned and everything in between - it was just stupid on glue-sniffing brofist level. Absolute nonsense from start to finish.
And then someone here made the claim that the first AC game was even better, historically speaking. Not to mention the nostalgia-tinted love AC2 receives for whatever reason, it's historically utter shit as well. Because they all are.
And now we are supposed to be all
because AC:Odyssey just takes the logical and long coming step of moving into complete fantasy. The setting is just a backdrop. It gives us interesting places to see, and people to meet, but it is an alternate reality to history.
Perhaps AC:Origins could be said have had historical ambitions, but it was still just nonsense, historically speaking.
Point is, people expecting historical accuracy from Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series of games are setting themselves up for either self-delusion or disappointment. That was *never* a thing.
I am not a fan of the AC series, but this game is p. much ok. Oh yes, there's a linear plot, everything is railroaded and you have to kill dear old daddy. Well, not really - you can spare him, but the game pretends he's just dead for all intents and purposes.
I would have loved to have choices, but they're not here. No more than in Mass Effect, it's just the illusion of choice.
I don't give a shit about fucking homo Assassins or the faggot Templars, they can both burn for me - that entire plot and the Abstergo bullshit is just triggering, it's so bad and so uninspired and uninteresting.
In the end, I'm just larping as a hired mercenary/adventurer in fantasy Greece and having a good time at it! Every time the asshole Assassins and their dumbass plot rears its head, I just shut off mentally and click past it. I don't care, never will. Stupid, stupid, stupid.