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Assassin's Creed Odyssey, set in ancient Greece - it's definitely an RPG now

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MORE GAMERS PREFER PLAYING AS ALEXIOS IN ASSASSIN’S CREED: ODYSSEY AND UBISOFT IS SHOCKED
Posted on December 15, 2018, 7:01 am By Billy D

There are a lot of constants: The expansion of the universe, SJWs getting things censored, human stupidity, and majority of hardcore gamers are male. A bunch of gaming studios have tried ignoring that last one for as much as possible, only for the reality of the numbers to bite them on the rear end… real hard. That’s what happened to Ubisoft when they finally looked over the stats and realized that majority of the people playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey don’t like playing as a chick.

Destructoid is reporting that in the latest Game Informer Magazine, they interviewed director Scott Phillips and he revealed that two-thirds of gamers played as Alexios, the male Spartan, instead of the female warrior, Kassandra. This is despite Ubisoft plastering Kassandra all over the promotional material and SJW journalists constantly hammering people over the head about Kassandra being the canon (lesbian) protagonist, most people didn’t want to play as her.

Phillips noted that those stats surprised him because during play-tests the split was 50/50 and thought that more people would play as Kassandra. This also surprised the team, given that a bunch of lying media outlets proclaim that 50% of the gaming industry is made up of female gamers, when in reality they’re including casual games, Facebook games, and mobile games in that stat, and as has been revealed in multiple articles, the casual crowd is a completely different buying demographic than the hardcore gaming demographic, the latter of whom is made up mostly of males.

Females prefer puzzle games, role-playing titles, casual games, social games, and casino games. Now some of you might be saying “But isn’t Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey an RPG?” and to that I say “Only in name.”

It’s not one of those immersive, story-driven role-playing games, it’s one of those cheesy grindy games where you waste a lot of time being bored, grinding in that horrible combat system, and scavenging for loot. Most chicks probably don’t dig that kind of work-rate mechanic in gaming that turns the whole experience into a perfunctory and straining exercise in maintaining focus and patience. Most women have far better things to do than grind all day or pay Ubisoft for some cash shop item so they don’t have to play anymore.

Anyway, hopefully this is an eye-opener for Ubisoft and they stop being stupid when it comes to “diversity” and “inclusion” as if anyone buys a game for that nonsense. They’re lucky a bunch of ignorant people bought Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, because if more people were aware of the historical revisionism, and Ubisoft’s “diversity” agenda, the sales would have tanked and there would have been a nice, shiny spot on the Get Woke, Go Broke Master List for Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.

(Thanks for the news tip zac za)
 

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Why don't they let you build your own character so this bullshit stops and if you want to play as a crazy lesbian whore, you can do it yourself and leave me alone?
 
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kassandra's voice actor is a lot better than alexios'
No idea why they made two protagonists tbh, the canon one is Kassandra. Must have taken a lot of extra time to fully voice all the lines for Alexios.
 

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Is there any way to get rid of preorder items from your inventory? My OCD makes me irk every time I see those 3 sets of armors and weapons I could just sell for those sweet eurodollars.
 

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the problem with this game is it's just as damn long as Witcher 3, but the repetition of the content is much higher. Even Witcher had a bit of a problem with that, AC Odyssey just gets kind of old 50 hours in really.

Also naval combat is borderline unplayable without damage mods, feels so boring after the first few times
 
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Is there any way to get rid of preorder items from your inventory? My OCD makes me irk every time I see those 3 sets of armors and weapons I could just sell for those sweet eurodollars.
You soon get a chest to hide them in.

the problem with this game is it's just as damn long as Witcher 3, but the repetition of the content is much higher. Even Witcher had a bit of a problem with that, AC Odyssey just gets kind of old 50 hours in really.

Also naval combat is borderline unplayable without damage mods, feels so boring after the first few times
I'd like say the game is full of filler/padding because Ubisoft wants to sell you XP boost packs and other crap, but the truth is also that crap/filler/collectible/time wasting content has been a part of the series well before any dlc, only the level gating is new. IMO game works best if you stick to the main story quests (wouldn't bother clearing the guarded areas the main quests take you through either as that also gets repetitive) and work around the level gating by using a higher difficulty/higher xp setting from the start, or cheats.
 
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if it wasn't for piracy then one would have to give money to Ubisoft and thus fund terrorism against gamers. I dare say that buying a game like this is much worse, ethically speaking, than pirating it.
 

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Is there any way to get rid of preorder items from your inventory? My OCD makes me irk every time I see those 3 sets of armors and weapons I could just sell for those sweet eurodollars.
it's a reminder that piracy is wrong

So are preorders.

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Is there any way to get rid of preorder items from your inventory? My OCD makes me irk every time I see those 3 sets of armors and weapons I could just sell for those sweet eurodollars.
There is a storage chest on your ship, just dump them in there.
 

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if you kill the minotaur before going to pephka, a lot of the dialogue/reactions are different

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nearly 70 hours played and I think I still have a lot of content left. Might be longer than witcher 3 with both expansions.
70 hours isn't even half as long as The Witcher 3 in its entirety though. You could easily put in 200+ hours with the main game and the expansions before running out of content.
 
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if you kill the minotaur before going to pephka, a lot of the dialogue/reactions are different

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nearly 70 hours played and I think I still have a lot of content left. Might be longer than witcher 3 with both expansions.
70 hours isn't even half as long as The Witcher 3 in its entirety though. You could easily put in 200+ hours with the main game and the expansions before running out of content.

took me 93 hours

93 hours and 4 minutes to complete everything sans the treasure hunts in Skellige.
:4/5:
 

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if you kill the minotaur before going to pephka, a lot of the dialogue/reactions are different

vyHBQXP.jpg

nearly 70 hours played and I think I still have a lot of content left. Might be longer than witcher 3 with both expansions.
70 hours isn't even half as long as The Witcher 3 in its entirety though. You could easily put in 200+ hours with the main game and the expansions before running out of content.

took me 93 hours

93 hours and 4 minutes to complete everything sans the treasure hunts in Skellige.
:4/5:
Then you didn't do everything. The avg completionist time for the GOTY version which is game + exapansions on HLTB with 684 responses is 194 hours and 4 minutes. Avg completionist for the standard base game (no dlc) version is 178 hours and 59 minutes with 5.8k responses. Obviously player response can vary and people can interpret "completionist" in different ways, but it does give us a pretty good baseline average considering the number of responses and reported averages.
 
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if you kill the minotaur before going to pephka, a lot of the dialogue/reactions are different

vyHBQXP.jpg

nearly 70 hours played and I think I still have a lot of content left. Might be longer than witcher 3 with both expansions.
70 hours isn't even half as long as The Witcher 3 in its entirety though. You could easily put in 200+ hours with the main game and the expansions before running out of content.

took me 93 hours

93 hours and 4 minutes to complete everything sans the treasure hunts in Skellige.
:4/5:
Then you didn't do everything. The avg completionist time for the GOTY version which is game + exapansions on HLTB with 684 responses is 194 hours and 4 minutes. Avg completionist for the standard base game (no dlc) version is 178 hours and 59 minutes with 5.8k responses. Obviously player response can vary and people can interpret "completionist" in different ways, but it does give us a pretty good baseline average considering the number of responses and reported averages.
100% completed requires multiple playthroughs to get all the achievements
 

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^It's true, though. Whenever a quest objective requires you to find a place or a person in that mode, you get 3 clues like "the target is at the center of [X Region] - The target is to the west of a lake - the target is in an olive grove" (clues that you've already heard from the NPCs giving you the quest) and have to proceed from there.
 

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No, I'd just stick to the main quests (odyssey first) and leave the side/filler content for after the main quest is done if you still want more.

That's what I eventually ended up doing. I have to say, the game got a lot better once I completed the main quest. Wandering around exploring ruins, hunting for cultists, killing legendary monsters, and slaughtering my way up the mercenary hierarchy was way more entertaining than dealing with the family melodrama of the main quest line.

It took me about 80 hours total, and there were a lot of sidequests I skipped, but I really don't feel like I missed much by skipping them.
 

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Scaling is customizable now

https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/...-month-in-assassins-creed-odyssey-january2019

As soon as the update hits on January 10, visit the options menu and find the Level Scaling setting. From there you'll be able to customize how drastically the enemies will scale to your level.

  • Heavy – All enemies remain at your level.
  • Normal – No change in the difficulty settings.
  • Light – Content is around two levels below your level.
  • Very Light – Content is around four levels below your level.
 

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20 hours in...it is not bad. Some quests are actually decent, one was even hilarious (Stupideo). It looks beautiful at times and plays well enough. Levelling is all kinds of fucked up, damage sponges are annoying, and it is super arcadey and nonimmersive, a brutally stark contrast after spending 150 hours in Old West. But, it is fun so far.
 

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I'm having a good time with this time. It had me and my brothers playing it through this christmas. I have some issues with it, like the way it handles the levels of the enemies (Same shit system that The witcher 3 were you have stats reduction against enemies 5 levels above you), some nitpicking about the narrative and the atmosphere of the game... but is good. I really like reading those stone tablets offering you riddles that guides you to treasures.
 

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I'm having a good time with this time. It had me and my brothers playing it through this christmas. I have some issues with it, like the way it handles the levels of the enemies (Same shit system that The witcher 3 were you have stats reduction against enemies 5 levels above you), some nitpicking about the narrative and the atmosphere of the game... but is good. I really like reading those stone tablets offering you riddles that guides you to treasures.
The levelling and scaling here is significantly worse than in Witcher 3 even.
 

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