Assassins Creed Valhalla - set in the Viking age - now on Steam

[Fedora Master]

50gb of uncompressed localization into Swahili and Khazak

 

[just]

You forgot to tell them how big the download was... 158 GBs.

I haven't played many AAA games since 2010, where games were max 20GBs; so you can tell that I live in a cave... but fucking 158GBs is ridicilous even for today. What did they improved in these 158,000 megabytes; better AI than F.E.A.R.? Better sound design than Thief? Better map layout than Blood? Better third person movement than POP : Sands of Time? All they "improved" is textures and special effects to attract normies whose brain age is approximately 3-5 years old.

games are 4k and everything is voiced in multiple languages. also devs dont care about optimizations coz they dont have to.
not long ago, i dont remember which AAA game, the credits were few GBs big MPG video (white text on black background) instead of like idk, few MB shader or whatever

 

[Alienman]

50gb of uncompressed localization into Swahili and Khazak

4k swahili

 

[Lord_Potato]

I find it refreshing that the devs placed some of the best content in the late game, instead of frontloading it, like most companies do these days. Shires in Northumbria and Glowecestreshire (where you should not go before achieving power 200+) and of course the mythological realms (Asgard, Jotunheim, Svartalheim) are home to some of the greatest stories, quests and battles in the game.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Finally, after 183 hours and 4,5 months, I managed to complete this motherfucker.

It was trying my patience but also managed to surprise me with some cool quests and emotional moments. And it's pretty fucking beautiful, with some great art design. My inner graphics whore is sated for 2-3 months.

It's pretty when you're sailing...

...and when you take a ride with friends.

It's even pretty in old ass dungeons...

...and long-forgotten temples.

The forests can be idyllic...

...or fucking eerie.

The climate can kill you...

...but there is hope for some warmth and mead in the distance.

Sometimes it resembles Elden Ring...

Yeah, a lot.

But there are moments of genuine relaxation and sweetness.

And romances.

Lots of romances.

If you want, there're lots and lots of opportunities for these.

Some other adventures I've had:

Me and my homies sailing through the night to wreck a Saxon fortress in the distance.

Admiring the ruins of Roman architecture.

Strolling along the end of the world - Hardian's Wall.

Making friends...

...and bidding them farewell...

...quite often in fact.

I've never liked Paris anyway.

Calling my friends to party!

And now we're interrupting the show for some mandatory gay propaganda.

 

[Hellion]

Setting aside the obvious Ubisoft moments of incloosiveness and pink unicorn cosmetic packs, I still believe wholeheartedly that Valhalla is a great game through and through. Perhaps it would have been received better if it didn't feature the AC brand in its title and wasn't the 3rd consecutive yuge-ass open-world RPG to be released in that franchise within 4-5 years.

Just seeing these screenshots makes me want to play it again and follow different quest paths.

 

[cvv]

Setting aside the obvious Ubisoft moments of incloosiveness and pink unicorn cosmetic packs, I still believe wholeheartedly that Valhalla is a great game through and through.

It is not.

But if Ubi made this game and then handed it over to someone like early 2010s CDPR or Warhorse - white, nerdy, super competent Europeans with deep ties to the old Yuro culture and not infected with the woke virus yet - it could've been a truly great game.

As it is, it's eye-rolling popamole and full of exhausting stronk-wahmenism. Plus it's way, waay, WAAAYY too long.

I've still invested almost 200 hours in this, kill me.

 

[NecroLord]

Finally, after 183 hours and 4,5 months, I managed to complete this motherfucker.

It was trying my patience but also managed to surprise me with some cool quests and emotional moments. And it's pretty fucking beautiful, with some great art design. My inner graphics whore is sated for 2-3 months.

It's pretty when you're sailing...

...and when you take a ride with friends.

It's even pretty in old ass dungeons,

And long-forgotten temples.

The forests can be idyllic...

...or fucking eerie.

The climate can kill you...

...but there is hope for some warmth and mead in the distance.

Sometimes it resembles Elden Ring...

Yeah, a lot.

But there are moments of genuine relaxation and sweetness.

And romances.

If you want, there're lots and lots of opportunities for these.

Some other adventures I've had:

Me and my homies sailing through the night to wreck a Saxon fortress in the distance.

Admiring the ruins of Roman architecture.

Strolling along the end of the world - Hardian's Wall.

Making friends...

...and bidding them farewell...

...quite often in fact.

I've never liked Paris anyway.

Calling my friends to party!

And now we're interrupting the show for some mandatory gay propaganda.

I didn't know vikings used to speak polish.

 

[norolim]

I didn't know vikings used to speak polish.

Well, some time ago some professional Swedish scientists found evidence, that Vikings were female Muslims. In Poland we have better professional scientist and we are currently in the process of finding evidence, that Vikings were in fact Polish.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

The screenshots look terrible, why is everything so.. blurry and characters looking like indie-RPG 3d portraits.

 

[Tyrr]

Is this another AC where the marketing department forced the developer to add a male character option and the butthurt developers made the female option 'canon'?

 

[Atlantico]

Is this another AC where the marketing department forced the developer to add a male character option and the butthurt developers made the female option 'canon'?

It's probably the other way around, marketing decides which character is "canon", the devs are all freaks and degenerates but they have no control over such things.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Is this another AC where the marketing department forced the developer to add a male character option and the butthurt developers made the female option 'canon'?

I think neither version of Eivor is 'canon', but taking into account the character of norse culture, female option is less jarring than Kassandra pretending to be a female 'Spartan mercenary' in classical Hellas.

 

[Atlantico]

Is this another AC where the marketing department forced the developer to add a male character option and the butthurt developers made the female option 'canon'?

I think neither version of Eivor is 'canon', but taking into account the character of norse culture, female option is less jarring than Kassandra pretending to be a female 'Spartan mercenary' in classical Hellas.

I don't care at all what they consider "canon" since I don't gaf about AC canon.

It doesn't matter at all which character you play in this game or in Odyssey. People who worry about what is "AC canon" are faggots of such magnitude they break the scale.

Play Odyssey as whichever character you want, it doesn't change the game at all.

 

[Reinhardt]

Finally, after 183 hours and 4,5 months, I managed to complete this motherfucker.

It was trying my patience but also managed to surprise me with some cool quests and emotional moments. And it's pretty fucking beautiful, with some great art design. My inner graphics whore is sated for 2-3 months.

It's pretty when you're sailing...

...and when you take a ride with friends.

It's even pretty in old ass dungeons,

And long-forgotten temples.

The forests can be idyllic...

...or fucking eerie.

The climate can kill you...

...but there is hope for some warmth and mead in the distance.

Sometimes it resembles Elden Ring...

Yeah, a lot.

But there are moments of genuine relaxation and sweetness.

And romances.

If you want, there're lots and lots of opportunities for these.

Some other adventures I've had:

Me and my homies sailing through the night to wreck a Saxon fortress in the distance.

Admiring the ruins of Roman architecture.

Strolling along the end of the world - Hardian's Wall.

Making friends...

...and bidding them farewell...

...quite often in fact.

I've never liked Paris anyway.

Calling my friends to party!

And now we're interrupting the show for some mandatory gay propaganda.

looks like modded skyrim, but shitty.

 

[cvv]

I think neither version of Eivor is 'canon', but taking into account the character of norse culture, female option is less jarring than Kassandra pretending to be a female 'Spartan mercenary' in classical Hellas.

Both scenarios are equally jarring. A case could be made if a Norse village was attacked women grabbed swords and shields and jumped into the meat grinder with their men, as a desperate last resort, but the idea they were going on raids (going viking) is just as absurd as female generals of the Spartan army.

Play Odyssey as whichever character you want, it doesn't change the game at all.

People who can actually play a female viking or an ancient Greek mercenary without a dent in their enjoyment have been severely damaged by the currentyear culture and are no longer useful members of the society.

 

[Atlantico]

People who can actually play a female viking or an ancient Greek mercenary without a dent in their enjoyment have been severely damaged by the currentyear culture and are no longer useful members of the society.

AC is fantasy, those people who think it is a history-sim have been severely damaged by the currentyear culture and are no longer useful members of society.

 

[Ryzer]

Finally, after 183 hours and 4,5 months, I managed to complete this motherfucker.

What's your verdict on this pos plus its expansions? Also were there some "WE WUZ" moments with zulu vikings?

 

[Lord_Potato]

Finally, after 183 hours and 4,5 months, I managed to complete this motherfucker.

What's your verdict on this pos plus its expansions? Also were there some "WE WUZ" moments with zulu vikings?

It's a very uneven game. There are moments of genuine greatness (a well-crafted quest here, some decently written dialogue there, and very good Dawn of Ragnarok dlc), but a large part of the game is just more Ubisoft AssCreed mass-produced banality. I played it mostly because there are few RPGs in quasi-historical settings. And also , because I've recently bought a new desktop and wanted to experience the high production values. Fortunately, the current-day narrative was very limited, so I didn't have to spend too much time outside of Animus.

Wrath of the Druids was a nice dlc, with short, self-contained story and trade mechanics that allowed you to get gear from distant lands (Byzantium, the Kalifate, Rus, etc.), Siege of Paris on the other hand was boring and offered very little of new stuff. As I said Dawn of Ragnarok is very, very good, and it adds magic which provides lots of new and fun tools for exploration and stealth (the whole dlc happens in Eivor's visions after drinking potions brewed by a local witch).

As for 'we wuz', there are some tanned characters, but usually it's stated that they came from afar (like the boy who gives random quests and sells exotic items in your village). You won't find a black skinned jarl here, like in this new Wikings tv series.

 

[cvv]

People who can actually play a female viking or an ancient Greek mercenary without a dent in their enjoyment have been severely damaged by the currentyear culture and are no longer useful members of the society.

AC is fantasy, those people who think it is a history-sim have been severely damaged by the currentyear culture and are no longer useful members of society.

Baldur's Gate is fantasy too, doesn't mean it'd be okily dokily to have an option to recruit a purple haired queer antifa feminist spouting about Marx all the time into your party.

Shit like female Greek generals and female vikings move the game away from what it could've been deeper and deeper into the dumb, popamole muck, that was my point.

 

[Atlantico]

Baldur's Gate is fantasy too, doesn't mean it'd be okily dokily to have an option to recruit a purple haired queer antifa feminist spouting about Marx all the time into your party.

I agree. We had that in DAI, not in BG, but it wasn't ok at all.

Shit like female Greek generals and female vikings move the game away from what it could've been deeper and deeper into the dumb, popamole muck, that was my point.

I don't recall any female Greek generals in Odyssey. Obviously a huge game and I have not seen every single part of it, but was there a female Greek general in it?

Female vikings in fantasy, how is that different from female warriors in Baldur's Gate or AD&D in general.

 

[Elttharion]

Is this another AC where the marketing department forced the developer to add a male character option and the butthurt developers made the female option 'canon'?

Yes, the MC is canonically a woman, again, despite the fact the vast majority of players chose the male protagonist. Also the samurai for their Japan game is a woman and the shinobi is a black man.

 

[cvv]

Is this another AC where the marketing department forced the developer to add a male character option and the butthurt developers made the female option 'canon'?

Yes, the MC is canonically a woman, again, despite the fact the vast majority of players chose the male protagonist. Also the samurai for their Japan game is a woman and the shinobi is a black man.

It's fine tho because it's fantasy you see.

 

[Reinhardt]

and the shinobi is a black man.

"despite being ~0% of feudal japan population"
crime stats will be fun
no, seriously. "we heard killer is black. it's impossibru to track him down in our butiful and diverse nippon!

 

[Atlantico]

Is this another AC where the marketing department forced the developer to add a male character option and the butthurt developers made the female option 'canon'?

Yes, the MC is canonically a woman, again, despite the fact the vast majority of players chose the male protagonist. Also the samurai for their Japan game is a woman and the shinobi is a black man.

It's fine tho because it's fantasy you see.

There's fantasy and then there's your imagination, so where was the female Greek general? In the game or only in your imagination?

But yeah it is fantasy. There is literally no difference between the AC games and Forgotten Realms. It's all made up bullshit that's plagiarizing history to a larger or smaller degree. The only (ONLY) way you could protest women warriors is if you believe that the AC series is historical in any way, shape or form, and if you do then there is no helping you — people who believe Ubisoft marketing should just check out of polite society.