Assassin's Creed: Origins - The Ultimate Critique
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Assassin's Creed: Origins is one of the most ambitious titles I've encountered in recent memory. It attempts to recreate an ancient country and multiple ancient cultures all at the same while providing more gameplay variety than ever before. In this video I'll be looking at the elements of the game I think work, don't work, and will look at the parts of the game I feel are worth discussing. Let me know your thoughts below!
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5:37 - Act 1: Narrative
31:18 - Act 2: Gameplay
55:45 - Act 3: The Tech...
59:18 - Act 4: Micro-$$$
1:03:58 - Conclusion & Verdict
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You didn’t like Bayek because you didn’t put his beard or hair back on him
It honestly makes him a different person. The fact that he put an ezio outfit on him is also a big no from me. Personally don't like to switch the outfit of the protagonist in any AC games
Odin Urkedal Same, the only game where I changed the outfit was Unity.
Dude, you is fucking darn Right,
@@odikostarr especially in origins because any legacy outfit makes it look as though you're in the wrong time period
I think Bayek looked good in the Altair outfit towards the end of the game.
Ezio being good with the ladies is a great storytelling,
but Bayek being good with children literally melt my heart and makes me more interested to him
And the fact that he can’t hit children in the game makes him even more interesting 🙌🏽
@@moiseplacide6982 cus that's not allowed in games lmao
Bayek is my favorite assassin so far. That he’s still so friendly and cheerful after everything he’s gone through shows incredible strength of character.
I made a good Luke Stephens drinking game that you guys may want to play. Watch any critique he made and follow these rules:
~If he references Witcher 3, take a shot
~If he talks about what the developers intended from a business standpoint, take a shot
~If he says either the word "subjective" or "objective", take a shot
~If he says "ludonarrative dissonance", finish your drink
Enjoy!
Dude, I just played this and I'm gone with the wind. Don't play with Jagermiester!
If he calls the assassins brotherhood the “assassins creed” take a shot
Are you trying to kill me?
Great use of your time
BEISisICE imma do this challenge with everclear, 95%alc. Wish me luck!
I disagree with what you said about Bayek's character, saying that he was very stiff and unlikeable cuz he was not really open like how Arno was. But that really was the whole point of the game, that Bayek was a reserved man, a man with only one purpose in mind, and that is to kill his enemies who murdered his Son. He has no time to sit and make jokes Nor the emotional capacity to be even 'charming'. He is only doing what's needed to be done, as a protector and as a avenger. However, we do get to see glimpses of Bayek opening up, such as his missions with Reda, the orphaned travelling boy, where he laughs at his implausible stories. So to sum up, I'd like to believe, from my experience of this story, that Bayek is rather simple but determined man, who has no time for humour but does get entertained by the unusual little things and definitely not, 'stiff'.
naru sasu oh my fucking god, dude. You can't be more right in your life.
agree 100%.
So he's Connor
but more likeable....and less Charles Lee....and not Connor.
Nicholas Sims
Connor was a stump of wood compared to Bayek. There is solemn and then there is not having a character. Bayek is a man who is solemn much of the time but can also be lighthearted and even charismatic. He's flirtatious and playful with his wife at times, I even remember him mocking Cleopatra and her somewhat ostentatious attitude behind her back so that Aya could see. Bayek also seems to have a soft spot for children, even playing a game of "hide and seek" with a group of children some time after the beginning of the game.
Bayek is definitely not a Connor.
Bayek is such a chad that he went and just jumped off high places just so that kids would be amused
Oh gosh, I just did that quest recently and I think it has to be one of my favourites, because why the hell not lol
He's really not a good guy
@@linkthepig4219 Of course not. I just found that mission really funny
@@Maeno34
Oh. Which mission? Is it in like a DLC or something?
@@linkthepig4219 Nope. One of the synchronisation points, I think it's the temple of Zeus in Cyrene, is how you get it. Just jump off like normal and some kid will make you do it a few more times in different places. Even if I'm wrong about the exact point, if you go get all of the points you're bound to run into it.
I loved Bayek. I was very suprised by how much I actually did like him. I don't know how you couldn't like him.
His accent kinda sucks. Makes understanding him tricky in some scenes.
His accent sucks though.
Justin Merithew whats with Edward he was perfect for the carabean setting
123doomdoom lucky im from germany because there is no special accents translation for most people in any media accept side characters that's weird sometimes
Justin Merithew oh man you gotta play 4 its a really great game it absolutely makes up for 3 its more of a pirate game though so not the best AC game but one of the best games in the franchise its even for sale on uplay right now
Bayek was the first assassin in a long time that I INSTANTLY liked. I found him incredibly captivating and likeable right from the start. How could you not like him?
How can you like this character? He's awful.
@@sanjonn oh hello Rudjek
@@sanjonn ur awful
@@sanjonn what a horrible opinion, wow
Probably his hair and beard, but yeah I liked him from the moment I saw him ingame.
i like bayek as a character, he's a family man who's great with kids and animals. its what i like most about him the most.
Eclipse its was I like most about him the most too
Eclipse i liked that he was so playful with kids but he’d loose his shit when confronting those templar dudes. Shows that he’s vengeful and yet hopeful
Sounds like the most generic protagonist of all time.
I really enjoyed AC origins, 1st ac game I played and will always have a special place in my heart from soundtrack to game play. I liked him with kids and animals as well, The only thing i did not like was I thought the role of him being soft with aya and aya being hard (in terms of relationship). I think it should have been the other way around... like a real man.
@@rcruz2008 Tell me more about "real men", please. I haven't had enough of them in the narrative mediums of the last couple centuries.
I always thought Bayek's character was brooding. A father in mourning for his son goes out on a one-minded quest for vengeance as part of his grieving process. This is why he shows hesitation in killing that cultist, because it'll mean severing his final connection to his son in this mortal coil.
to;dr Bayek isn't stiff, he's depressed and in grieving imo.
I will even kill the sekhmet tfor revenge for my son!!!! 😂😂😂😂
@@fettaheker Ha that's not quite as bad as Watch Dogs 1 - "Imma kill all these random dudes because my NIECE!"
@@LadyAhro to be fair Aiden doesn’t pretend to be a hero until the very end and the whole point of the last choice is if he’d continue being the punisher or try to be better
Except that was never set up, never mentioned until we get to the cultust. Introducing character development in the last possible moment is just lazy.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 never set up? It's literally the whole motivation for the entire game from the beginning, and in flashbacks (before Khemu was killed) Bayek is a more animated and generally happier person, not everything needs to be explicitly told to you, *that's* lazy storytelling.
senu saved this franchise
so true haha
Agree TW3 is the greatest game ever made so far. Before that GTA SA was on my top. But I love AC Origins also BECAUSE they copied some good things from TW3. I absolutely love the new combat in Origins, but sadly it's waaaay to easy (yes on nightmare).
I would play a game with Geralt Roach and Senu...The witchers creed
Yep
@@sensoeirensen The Witcher 3 is overrated and boring.
After watching this very well made video, I just have one question: who the hell plays bayek without his beard? He looks so weird without it
Yes, he does, but as i know how much beard can itch, then I just sometimes let him feel comfortable :P
@@niimunnu omg that's meeeeeee
lol I liked him with and without beard, Without he looks Persian or something and not black. Like in the trailer when he stops the arrow with his shield and the look he gives.. bro thats bad ass lol
I can't believe they had to patch in the ability to put his beard and hair back on... and toggle the hood
I varied Bayek's appearance every storyline, because I tend to roleplay many games.
Prologue-Aya: Beard + Hair (He automatically looks likes this)
Main Story: No Beard + No Hair (because Aya shaved him)
The Hidden Ones: Beard + No Hair (looks like a proper Mentor)
Curse of The Pharaohs: Beard + Hair (looks like an aged badass)
I'd rather have a beer with Bayek than Arno :)
Michael Olberding actually bayek got me hooked from the first scene,the exploding anger he had when killing rudjek and medunamun,I love bayek
thomas brady It’s set during the time period where Rome and Greece were basically more powerful than Egypt. Legit almost every NPC is black, only white people I can name is Julius and some of the Roman generals.
Peder Rudi As long as you don't ask him how the kids are
Beer>wine in this case
@@timoplays478 sleep? I never sleep.
I've played 36 hrs and have hardly left Alexandria.. only played the Siwa story mode parts. I see 150hrs in this game, easy
Jerry C wow
Jerry C aye. Mainly get caught up in photo mode. Still not played anymore story. I'm not even that bothered about it personally.
livibam Are you playing this difficulty setting on the hardest difficulty? Because if so... you'd cut your play time hours in half, if you were playing this game on normal medium difficulty. The game does seem a bit more challenging on the toughest difficulty, but even then... who really has all that kind of time... to spend 150 hours of actual game time?
assasinz creed fiend I'm in no rush. It's time management. I work full time, cycle 200miles and go to the gym 3x a week. Take control of your life.
I'm 15 days, 7 hours in so far. I'm level 40 with all legendary weps/mounts/etc.. and have over 80K gold even buying a ton of heka chests. Finished the main story but still have over 20 side quests to go. Played on hardest difficulty and also choose to have all NPC level to my level which IMHO was worth the challenge and I never felt bored. Game is just visually amazing and I love exploring every nook and cranny.
Origins > Odyssey
Yeah. I think everyone agrees
Tbh i prefer the setting of odyssey
Facts never tried origins until today and I'm in love. Played Odyssey for over 120 hours. Still a great game however the character, gameplay and all over feel are much better in origins for my money.
@@robby469 way better.
Josh K yes
The Discovery Tour alone is perfectly done, and a nice touch to history.. That never gets enough respect
While I do agree that the story is basic and felt rushed at the end, I just absolutely love this game. As someone who lived in Egypt during my early childhood and seeing relics of ancient Egypt but never truly understanding their meaning. This game awakened some feelings from my childhood. The world, characters, and it's building felt very immersive and true. and Doing side missions I felt like I was doing the Medjay job for real and helping people in the world. Overall, it was a thrilling experience completing the game 100% and discovering Egypt with all its beauty and misery.
This is what i loved about the assasins creed games
I loved this game all of it the ending was a bit rushed but I still think that this is the best Assassins creed game and I've played the Ezio trilogy
Origins was developed by the Black Flag team.
hm I liked black flag
I loved Black Flag
No wonder it didn't feel like an assassin creed game again.
it's the same dev studio though: Ubi Mtl is the main studio for the AC series. I'm pretty sure that was just marketing.
Did not know that. Still need to play black flag.
It seems Ubisoft is scared of the idea of committing to a larger story overall. You see it in the side quests, you see it in the main missions, and you see it in their games. Every AC game since Ezio has had a different protagonist. Why invest in these characters as a player when you know they will ditch this one for another next year? It seemed Bayek would be different, but no.
They like to switch the time period greatly and usually leave pieces that you can discover of the last character as to what happend to them
Well....
I.....guess you hate Persona, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Zelda, and Dark Souls for using different protagonist each game.....
Yeah. Me too, I would like to see a deep, complex character story. But they want to do shallow mainstream games without any depth, obviously :-(
different protagonists wouldn't be an issue if they had a good modern day character and story/questline. a lot of people dislike modern day but if they did it well and had a protagonist that was awesome, then having a different main character in was game wouldn't be as jarring
I actually prefer them exploring the vast number of interesting eras and places. Ezio Auditore got on my nerves after a while, as did Altair Ibn la-Ahad...
I really liked solving the constellations, I really enjoyed getting to see what kind of father Bayek was.
Only thing I dont like is how the story deals with the Brotherhood itself. It feels rushed and minimalistic and just moves away from a surprisingly engaging and good revenge story of Bayek. And Aya taking over the ending :/
I agree! If they had a little more time to make the ending a bit better it would be great haha
felt like to me that the Brotherhood was just tacked on to the end, loved the game overall tho.
Resit Pasa it's not finished
I think the origins of the brotherhood was handled quite well.
I hate that she has the last boss battle. I feel like Ubisoft tried to be too much like Witcher by playing another character. But it worked in Witcher not that much here.
There are only 2 things AC needs to do to get back in the good graces of those sick of it:
1. Get a good writer and make the story good and *original*
2. Get rid of the damn microtransactions
+Galahad did you forgot about the god damn tailing missions?
DLC is actually really good, it allows for some side stories to be made without making a new game.
Galahad
(with Odyssey in mind)
3. Bring back the emphasis on infiltration and stealth kills and not the hack-and-slash stuff.
4. pull back on the rpg just a bit so that it doesn't dominate the game.
@
I didn't say give up on the rpg.
And I'm glad you like your historically inaccurate hack-and-slash rpg witcher 3 clone, more power to you, but it's not an AC game so I'm out as far as AC is concerned.
177SCmaro
yes is an AC! IF you will play it until the end then you will see how the story wraps up with everything! In this game is more also about the whole Templars creation...in this game you have the Cult of Cosmos which does the same idea of controlling the events and people for their own benefits like Templars...take them as the early Templars! Also you will see at the end something were you will find out that is not good for either the Templars or Assassins to win...both sides need to remain in conflict to have balance, because order can't exist without chaos and vice versa!
This game is the best AC from the series! AC was never historical accurate lol...and also why there should be history accuracy lol? Weren't the games about having fun?
"You need to play this game in 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020. Whenever."
COVID cleared up the time for me to slide in at the last second. Just got the platinum trophy.
I felt this comment so bad😂
Origins biggest weakness, I believe, was that it did not spend enough time establishing Bayek, Aya, and their son. I understand that they wanted to throw us into the gameplay, but the entire story revolved around Bayek avenging his son. But they didn't spend any time making you care about the son, so the story fell flat overall.
If they had pulled off something like Last of Us with Sarah, or the Witcher with Ciri, then it would've done far better overall.
smiles if you do all the stone circles around the map you can learn more about Bayeks relationship with his son
Aaron Varela exactly ... it made his son sound cool
You never played the whole game
@@saranshsharma4005 agree
@@aaronvarela910no, i do not want another garbage ciri type story, by the time I completed witcher 3 i was bored out of my mind.
The combat is one of the weakest parts of Horizon Zero Dawn?? HA. The combat is absolutely sublime.
Yeah, I don't know what he's smokin'. :P
the horizon zero dawn combat, is boring and repetitive, dodge, shot, dodge shot, strike, played in maximum difficulty, i really didnt enjoy that game, ac orgins >>>>> horizon zero down
Nacho Muriel Yoi are talking out of your ass. HZD has a better story, more beautiful bioms, better atmosphere. And a dlc that unlocks a new part of the map for 20+ hours of content. That being said, black flag is the best assassins creed game.
@@nelzelpher2088
better story? my ass, its predictable af
Ive played every single AC from start to finish. This one was my favorite.
The khemu and aya thing really made me sad🙁
Not finished with the game yet, but so far it's starting to become my favorite AC game
I started with Odyssey, then played Valhalla and then I played this piece of garbage. I can't understand how people not only like this game but think it's their favorite.
@@sanjonn Valhalla is the most soulless piece of shit I've ever played. Worse than even the witcher 3.
Odyssey is alright, but I hate the weapon systems.
@@sanjonn This "piece of garbage" was the first entry in the new AC series, and served as a benchmark and starting point for your precious Valhalla (which is arguably the worst of the three)
Bayek is a fantastic character. The range of emotion on display from the start of the game to the point you get to siwa is immense. He starts of showing his rage and hatred, to stoicism when dueling the first enemy to bromance when he meets his friend hepzefa to sweetness when he reunites with rabiah the old healer lady that knew him from when he was little. The hell you mean "stiff and unlikable"?
real shit, i wish there was more/it lasted longer of course but what we got was still good lmao, im mildly surprised he said that
People make 5 minute reviews...
LukiePoo makes a 5 minute intro to his 1 hour review
Yeah but I don't like how he keeps comparing the game to other rpg games jumping around all over the place focus on one game!
Bayek's the best assassin after Ezio. Dude loves kids and it's so heart warming to watch him interact with them. He's pretty hilarious too. The only reason Ezio's above him is cuz he had three games and we spent more time with him.
you think he's the best because he likes kids? sus
Hello! I just got done playing this on the Xbox One X.
Wow. I think this is the most time I have invested in an Assassin’s Creed game and I have been playing the franchise since the very first entry. I completed it 100% and did all possible side quests. I was about 70 hours in after all was said and done.
I then decided to purchase The Hidden Ones DLC. I played through it and made sure to do every possible thing and 100% the expansion as well. I am currently downloading The Curse of the Pharaohs DLC after watching (and reading) several reviews, one of which was yours.
I agree with most of your points in this review and I have already started watching your other lengthy AC reviews and already fell in love with them.
These Assassin’s Creed videos have inspired me to replay the entire francise.
I enjoyed Black Flag so much, I 100% twice. Once on last generation consoles and once on Xbox One. I just bought Rogue Remastered. I did play through the original, which not many people even played. I also picked up the Ezio Collection as well. I have not yet started Odyssey, but I will right after I 100% Curse of the Pharaohs and I plan on buying all major expansions for it. I will also 100% ACIII Remastered when it releases as well as Liberation as I never played that one. The Ezio Collection is gonna take a lot of effort and time to get through though, especially if I plan to 100% all 3 of the games.
Assassin’s Creed: Origins and your long AC review videos have inspired me to replay through this amazing franchise! Thank you!
A treu AC fan😂
How many Assassin’s Creed games have you 100%? I only recently 100% Black Flag and acquired all of its single player achievements on Xbox 360 (since my Xbox One is not working) whereas for Origins and Odyssey I have most of the achievements.
I bought this game gold 2 days ago and am currently replaying it for my second time and love this game and bayek is my man
The story is so confusing
This game was the most fun ACreed with amazing side quests and an engaging fast-paced combat system
But assassinating without getting caught is soooo hard
Fettah Eker yea that’s unfortunately true but still my fav besides it not always feeling ac ... I realllly disliked odyssey because it wasn’t assassins creed but I somewhat liked it
What do AC fans really want? They hated unity and syndicate for being 'too much of the same but in a diffferent setting' and then Origins sucked because it didn't 'feel like a AC game'. MAKE UP YOUR MINDS
Agree wholeheartedly with most of what you bring up, it's not perfect but it serves as a great stepping stone to this "new era" of assassins creed games. I only hope that the developers get the time they need to make their games and they don't simply return to churning out an AC once every year while sacrificing quality as they have in the past. As we can clearly see what happens to a seemingly stagnant franchise once they take the time to figure things out.
Chosen_Undead Absolutely, I’m excited to see a 2 or more year gap between each AC game if this is the kind of massive step up in quality that we’re going to keep seeing
thomas brady would you kindly let us have fun.
I actually quite liked the story
I'm playing it now and it's so ooooo confusing
@@fettaheker It does start with a confusing begining XD
@@ElectrusBoom Really?It hot confusing right when you start playing kinda like this:Wow wow wow who is this guy???He killed his what?Bayek okay....,Medjay?!?What s that?
The side quests in this game were really nice. In each city they all had their own little story so when you beat one side quest another would pop up continuing the story. I really loved it
Ubisoft definitely got their momentum back with AC
Then Oddyssey came out
@@ryan_lew9796 lmao fax
@@ryan_lew9796 then everything went to shit
I have been playing for the past week non-stop almost everyday and let me tell you, it has been years since a game has won me from the first 6 hours. I jumped into it with the thought of playing an AC Game that has everything from great gameplay to a huge map and things to do, things the AC franchise always went forward with, the story is the biggest point but people told me the story kinda sucks. I went on it completely blind, not even a trailer to know how the character looks like, no. I wanted to experience the Assassin's Creed world like I did when I was a kid: Completely blind, thrown into a huge world that matters. Those who told me that AC:Origins lacks as an AC game can suck it, because this is ancient Egypt, before the creation of the Assassin Order, complete chaos over the land, more than in Brotherhood and let me tell you that was fucking tartarus, Rome was fucking hell with everything that was happening. Imagine Egypt back then, utter chaos in a desert oasis with danger looming around every corner, deasese and animal predators and people just trying to make it by when they are harassed by their own guard and Pharaoh and at the center of it all, a man that is chaos himself but shows you little moments of a side more carring, a Bayek that isn't just a determined murderer, a Bayek that was trying to protect his people and was ultimately brought into a path of destruction against his enemies in a land where it reeks of death in almost every corner. If Origins is not the best entry in the series after the Ezio trilogy I don't know what it is, and not just because it delivers an open world with things to do like we always loved from the AC franchise but a reason as to why the story is not your typical AC. It is chaos and you have to do something for it while fighting fire with fire. Bayek is alright, Origins is alright and easily one of the most enjoyable AC Games ever. Origins is the reason Odyssey is a bad fucking game.
I personally think the parkour was a downgrade
Right especially after we had Unity which is amazing but I would say it is better than the first 3 games
@@00Batman Yeah, imagine a new ac game with an intricate story and parkour system
@@XlWolfMaster unity and Origins come close but they could be better
@@00Batman Agreed
To be fair here, I'm only relating this off of personal experience of course, I really had no problem with understanding the story. It certainly didn't take me up to the 15th hour of the game to start understanding. I agree, yes, it's a bit confusing when compared to some other titles in this or other franchises, but it was by no means not understandable at any point. As for Bayek, I really liked the character. He's stiff for a reason, and his stiffness due to what he went through is actually what's giving him charm. His drive as a character is having revenge against not only the people who murdered his son, but against a lifetime of serving those who were responsible. What gives him his charm and makes him very much likable is specifically the side missions, the interactions with the people of Egypt for which he still has love and a sense of duty for. It gets even better when Bayek helps or interacts with children, showing off how great of a parent he was and could have been had events not unfolded like this.
I'm here 6 plus years just to say Bayek is great and Ubisoft should've improved on this gameplay and Odyssey in future games, this game was a gem, that idk if Ubisoft can replicate anytime soon
For sure! They should add on to Origin and remaster Black Flag.
Luke, you do such a great job dissecting games. I love delving into different aspects of games with fellow gamers and it warms my heart to know that you have such a passion for this kind of thing. Keep up the fantastic work :)
Why is XXXTENACION on the thumbnail?
That bayeks son
Bio _God it's bayeks son xxxtentacion
Lmao!
Asks me Q! Xxx in the field of reeds now 😥
that's actually ybn nahmir
I just started this game in 2021 and I have put in just over 70 hours with finishing the main Quest and a handful of side quests and there is still a lot more to do. Including the DLC there is a bunch more to sink in hours. This game is a 10/10 and it has a world that feels alive with a good storyline and fun combat. Bayek is a boss and is a great character.
soundtrack gives me chills
Love the overall design of the game. The weapons, the armor, the buildings, the wilderness, all of it is exactly like what I would've loved to see as a child
I’m glad I watched your other reviews before I saw this one. This review is so appallingly bad I would definitely have never come back to your channel 😅
132 hours 100%ed it including all bonus content and DLC. With that being said I spent some time idling and vibing to the musicians in Alexandria in the Brothel.
If they make a sequel set in Rome they should make it Aya getting corrupted by the ancient artifacts and using the power for evil and then Bayek having to kill her
Your "Ultimate Critiques" are amazing! I LOVE THE WORLD!! The game looks like it came from the 19th century orientalist era of painting! Just started playing (20 hrs in) and I must say the lock on is slippery- but I actually really enjoyed the dash mechanic and how it varies to a roll .. just seems more organic than the typical roll out of way. I have not played too many AC games but the inability to jump unless on a ledge had me frustrated, especially with the jumping attack skill, maybe I just have to get used to it. Seems like no one comments on it- but the one thing that blew my away was the WATER! WOW! the lighting/effects on the surface and underwater is amazing!!
pretty sad that he didnt mention the ancient machines or various super fun/creative side quests
It has been some years and this is still my favorite game in a while. I kept playing it just because it's gorgeous
I bought this over the holidays on sale and absolutely loved wandering around the world doing side quests. It was an amazing living world. Then I finished the story, and it fell apart like Game of Thrones. Wish I would have rushed the story and then just indulged in the amazing open world after.
Aya’s storyline made me completely dislike her as a person, as it felt like she never really cared about Byake as a Husband. She also never felt like she truly cared about her son, and I half expected that Aya was one of the people in the Vault.
It shocked me that they made her this unlikable as a character when Byake was a better person great with kids great fighter etc He would be someone I am willing to have a beer with while Aya is someone I would just stay far away from.
You could tell really that the story wasn't their main focus and instead just churning out side quests. They want you to just focus on the side quests because it's stuff to do, obviously it's good to have tons of things to do my point is, don't give the audience a main quest if you have nothing good to offer, I still think there weren't any real good reasons as to why the order had to start here and not when Darius was around.
To me it felt like they put their main focus on building the open world of Egypt considering how gorgeous it is. Main story and side quests felt like they didn't focus as much on them because of rather weak writing, and how most of the side quests felt repetitive, almost all missions had you go save some person from a military camp.
Hardly any of the side missions felt memorable, I already had forgotten most of the missions mentioned in this video.
In Memphis there was this one side mission where you go to speak to the Seer again, asking what Bayek's vision meant. So the Seer asks you to go give those three guys some protective amulets, then you sail the Seer to this island and have to dive up some statue and then you meditate with the Seer but then he's suddenly gone with no explanation? What the fuck? Where's the explanation to Bayek's vision? Why the hell did I have to do all that shit when there's no pay-off?
And the main story truly felt rushed and less focused at some points, for instance, when Cleopatra gains the throne, Bayek and Aya are so suddenly unhappy with her.
I think it was fair of them to have a slightly large focus on world building than the story, which I still felt was engaging, because this is what the original did. If you played the original, you have to admit that a lot of it was repetitive with a story just barely connecting the targets. The original and Origins could be treated as more of a proof of concept while the next one is the one with fantastic story and polished gameplay, like AC2/Brotherhood and even Black Flag with AC3.
However, I disagree with you on some aspects that pertain to the main missions, which I felt were memorable. The way they display the assassination cutscenes were unique and felt memorable (especially the one with the Crocodile) compared to some previous games and thought that the Targets' motivations for their actions were better here that in a lot of previous targets, who a lot of the time committed crimes for power just for power's sake and not to help people in their own Templar-ish way.
Also, Bayek and Aya were unhappy with her because she and Caesar basically gave the man who murdered their son a pardon. I also think that the Seer just disappearing thing was for some kind of magical effect that was meant to confuse us and Bayek thereby enhancing the mysticism of the Seer, but I do agree that they should have focused more on that side quest's narrative since it has such an important tie in to Bayek's growth and acceptance of his son's death.
that what this whole game fails at the story to pull you in like witcher 3. like wtf was that on rails shooter with Caesar trying to escape Alexandria and half of Alexandria burning down never being shown. like that is one of the most interesting thing happening in the history of that time, but they pretty much skipped over it. and the whole order felt weak i never understood the connection between them and there was only 1 that was slightly interesting and the last 3 are just all the sudden introduced and you kill them like 5 minutes later. The Original had amazing villains they had good introduction why they were messed up, but had good motivation behind it why they were doing it. and actually had a pretty good plot twist at the end. one of the few ac with a good story
robodudeful There were some interesting parts in the main missions. I also liked those assassination cutscenes and that mission where your target was the Crocodile. That was a strong scene where we find out that the Crocodile has drowned that little girl. The writing with other main targets felt predictable like that plot twist with the scarab or how the few last targets were rushed as they were introduced all of a sudden and you end up killing them almost immediately.
But almost all the side missions felt forgettable and boring. And I think that could be because of how the dialogue is mostly told in the same way, from a 3rd person view where you see the npc and Bayek. There was hardly any cutscenes or otherwise interesting ways how that dialogue would play. It was like watching dialogue scenes from Star Wars prequels where characters are just standing and talking, completely stale and boring.
As for your first point, I don't agree that just because the first games has repetitive story it makes it okay to have repetitive story in the later games.
no freaking way first of the side quest are dull and boring the dungeons are okay the the story is fine and the game glitches badly
i love this game
Currently playing this for the 3rd time.
I feel the sniper bow’s control feature was great. I frequently used it to take down moving targets on horseback
I think it’s just broken on pc if you have a gaming mouse that has a button that lowers sensitivity a lot of epic headshots then
I disagree with you on the narrative. I had no problem following it and felt that the way it was told allowed me to read into the character’s motives as I went along. I loved this game. To me it’s one of if not the best game in the series.
the game is boring. this is no real rpg. you cannot interact with world. you just kill and kill and kill all the time. its boring and I am very tired of this game. it make me sick really. big world and full things in the world but you just kill. and no creed at all just bayak. where is the creed, the assassins?
I was SUPER disappointed with the portrayal of Cleopatra and Ptolemy. Was really hoping they'd explore their relationship as siblings and as 'lovers', which strangely the plot ignored. Instead Ptolemy is just an ineffectual poor man's King Joffrey who never pushes his weight, which is especially strange since the first half of the game is trying to make him the big bad guy. Then he gets brushed off into obscurity after Caesar courts Cleopatra and we barely hear from him again. What should have been a very tense power struggle scene just came off as comedic. I felt more sorry for Ptolemy than anything. As for Cleopatra, we get a dead eyed British girl with HPD who plays into all the tired old stereotypes. I was really hoping for a fresh take on Cleopatra, and was hugely let down there. This was especially jarring having played this game after Odyssey, where the historical figures are much more well written.
I actually use the control the arrow system for 99.9 percent of my bow combat, and I do use bows quiet a lot.
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40:58 Ah yes, the 'greatly improved parkour system' that you in later years describe as 'depressing and simplified'. What happened Luke? Was no one around to copy opinions off of at the time?
Ubisoft are on a mission obviously and Id call it an important and well done effort these days: making huge but detailed singleplayer games.
They have heard the voices who were critizing their boring and repetitive sidequest design and they reworked it well. They still are not close to the Witcher3, but I will support them to continue in this direction. After over 90hrs in ACO, I still love coming back, wandering around, finding a hidden question mark etc. And yeah: Ive almost forgotten most about the main story already. A weak point for sure, very badly written at times, strange plot holes but as I said: they are on a way and Im willing to go with them if the games keep the quality of this one or at best: even get better and to do that Ubisoft just needs to learn how to tell a good story. Main character, overall atmosphere, progression, weapondesign, combat and the best open world Ive ever experienced, those things are already there.
I have hopes for the future.
Witcher 3 is overrated, origins is better than it in nearly every aspect, better combat, has stealth and parkour that works, better characters, more interesting and original open world
Bayek is far more interesting and better acted than Gerald
Adewale you are obviously trolling me. Not interested, thank you.
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Not trolling you, just my opinion, witcher 3 is probably a better made game, but still boring as shit for me
Geralt is Aiden Pearce with swords and powers, the fantasy medieval setting is done to death, and drags on far to much
Combat is very 1 dimensional and doesn't offer a lot of options. Witcher you just have 2 swords and both don't really differ that much, origins has 7 different weapon classes if I remember with each weapon feeling different and unique, you are given more options to attacking targets wether being stealthy or full blown battle mode
Ancient Egypt gave a more diverse open world with far more variations of cultures and landscapes which you can explore seemlesly
Geralt always speaks in the same tone and just feels like a generic character, Bayek changes with every emotion to a soft spoken nice guy who is good with people to a bloodthirsty agent of death
Plus it's a lot more rewarding, I gave up in the witcher because no matter how much I traveled and looted I still had some weak ass silver sword.
Just been through my 3rd play through i got 120hrs with completed story and all almost all the sidestory passed. This is a long game not to mention i havent beaten any of the dlcs. Its a beautiful game though
6/8.3 "Better than IGN"
-IGN
Bayek’s characer was incredible, family loving, great with kids, strong, bold, brave you name it… the best ❤
Tbh I didn't give a shit about bayeks son at all and i also felt like they threw away a sequel with aya travelling to Rome etc which is so annoying and I was dissapointed with the tombs as they could have put in so many more mysteries and things to find rather than just some treasure I feel like there is so many problems with the story imo but everything outside of the story is very good but I feel like they didn't need to label everything on the map such as treasure as thesense of exploration is reduced by that. And flavius is the main enemy but he has virtually no progression and I felt like he was just somebody to kill rather than a person who I hated and felt satisfied once I killed him
same
I love this game to death. I am Bayek. I..am...Assassin's Creed.
I want the Assassins’s Creed game after AC Odyssey to be in Ancient Rome. Maybe around Caesar, and it should be called Assassin’s Creed Legion.
I think Assassins Creed Imperium would be better.
MathiasJames2002 or call it Iliad
How about Valhalla?
For me this was the most boring game in the franchise and I played all of them, even the 2d chronicles. I forced myself to finish it.
38:02 Isn't that pretty much the same way TW3 works? If anything, I'd say that AC:O has more side quests that are optional for leveling. I'm a completionist which meant that I was always 2-3 levels above the story mission recommended level in TW3, but in AC:O I had to use the animus control panel and turn my EXP slider down to 65% to keep myself from soaring past the story mission recommended level, and even then I was consistently over leveled.
People are giving Witcher 3's story/writing way too much credit. I can already name 20 writing mistakes, errors and inconsistencies just in the first hour of play. Not to mention that nothing is ever explained to you and you will never have any idea who any of the characters are that Geralt is friends with. Luke keeps portraying it as the holy grail of storytelling as well which is really not what I expected from someone going in depth.
That's because the game heavily relies on the fact that players either played the first 2 games, read the books or both. In a way it wasn't really aimed towards new players but it really wasn't that bad. The witcher 3 was my first experience in the witcher world and I picked up on stuff very quickly although I did go back and play the previous game and some stuff did make more sense after. I'll admit though it would have been nice to have some explanation for some stuff but I personally found it wasn't bad enough for me to not enjoy the game
@@leshennoire3789 I constantly felt like that one unpopular guy who has 1 friend (Geralt), but that friend has 50+ friends and is always talking to them and ignoring me, causing me to feel totally alienated and I just wanna leave lol. It's not just that though, the writing in general is just bad. Most people simply don't notice because the cutscenes are so wonderfully acted and VA'd.
Loving this game only 10 hours in and I love it miles more than Odyssey. Odyssey was great but I feel like origins has a good mix of classic AC with the new direction peppered in... Combine that with a much better chatacter, voice acting and small little details and I'm over the moon 😍
Point 1. Horizon Zero Dawn's combat was a lot stronger than A.C. Origins. Just because you have a problem with the bow, doesn't mean that the combat system is bad. The staff is for combat, the bow/crossbows are for stealth and range. Point 2. The sniping bow is for sniping, if you use it properly for curving/following a target at distance you can pull off nice shots. Again, just because you have a problem with it doesn't mean that it is bad. Plus, Aloy felt more manageable than the clunky Byek. Just my opinion...
Favorite Assassin's Creed
I wanted to like this game so bad, but just wasen't engaged. The world is massive, but I would personally argue it's too big. A lot of it is just flat desert where all you can do is hold foward and wait. Though the one thing that just disengaged me was the removal of many options.
The traversal mechanics had gotten both better and worse at the same time. I love you no longer need to hold a button to run and climbing up a wall is a seperate button, and I love the the parkour roll is done by a button press. But they took away many options and just automated a lot. The lack a a grasp button puts you at the mercy of the game to choose if you are going to grab onto a wall. But since most of the world is flat and you will most likely grab on to a wall most of the time it doens't really matter. But they also too away jumping up on a wall and jumping away from a wall. Jumping up wall and holding the grasp button was one option to make climbing faster and made you think when you are climbing when you have a large gap between one climbing point and another. Rather then just hold the left stick to the direction to the point you want to jump to.
They also took away some options when it came to the mount. You can no longer jump off a mount, jump onto one from a high place or assassinate enemies from a mount. Assassinating from a mount was just fun. Jumping off a mount kept the pace of the game rather then just dismounting the climbing a wall.
Speaking of assassinations, assassination options. What most people won't know from the previous series (mainly the Ezio series) holding RT changes how you assasinate the enemy. Rather from hay, ledge or bench, holding RT and the assassinate button made the charcter jump out and kill the enemy where he is. Rather than if you just press the assassinate button inside hay, ezio brings the enemy into the hay, pressing the button from a ledge pulls the enemy over the ledge etc. Assassinating enemies near a ledge in Origins was always really finicky for me and didn't work 80% of the time. For some reason Bayak didn't want to pull enemies over the ledge most of the time. The prompt just wouldn't show even the enemy is very close to the ledge.
Basically the removal of many of the traversal options made something that required at least some skill to do made what should have been one of the selling points of the franchise, to something that is really mind numbing to do. Mechanically, climbing a wall in Origins and running is nearly identical. In both cases, all you have to do is hold the left stick to the direction you want to go to. The removal of the assassination options was a let down.
My biggest problem is that it never seems that Bayek ever deals with the fact that he killed his own kid. It's like he's in complete denial, unwilling to admit he fucked up, or wasn't paying enough attention to what he was doing, or that he was simply too hot headed... and ended up killing his own son. Over and over you hear him say "you murdered my son". Maybe twice out of the whole game do you ever hear him say he did it himself.
The villains in this game suck, mainly because there are so many of them and they’re all shrouded in mystery until you kill them. Not once did I ever feel afraid or intimidated by the villain or should I say villain simply because you don’t ever get enough time with each of them and there are so many that it’s extremely hard to keep track of who you killed and why. It’s like the game says “ here, kill this person, now here kill this one”. Yes each one of them does some pretty terrible things like the one who cut off an old guys tongue and the lady who killed a little girl. But you don’t understand their motivations or personality until that 30 second cutscene after they’re dead. Just wish assassins creed would go back to making a good fleshed out villain like connors father from AC3
One of my favourite things about the game is the way the Egyptian characters speak with Nigerian accents. It's incredibly woke. It's almost as enjoyable as Ezio's impersonation of a Mexican
One of the best thing about this game is that it doesn't have sexual content. Also there is so running around and having sex with people. This is my favorite Assassins creed.
*My body is ready.*
Josh Keul (°`~°`) I know I know
I loved this game, I don't agreed with everything, but yeah there were some stiff moments. But no, bayek was an amazing character.
Yeah the narrative is my biggest gripe with this game and you pretty much nailed it when you said that its greatest weakness is that it's too vague. It could've started out with Bayek doing more intimate things in the opening hours; going around in Siwa, having conversations about his past and future with old friends and so on. And you could've also established much better who Ptolemy was and how he oppressed Egypt. Maybe have a convoy travel through Siwa which starts to harass the local people? And there's also very little explanation to the fact that there's no pharaohs left in the country and that medjays are more or less dissolved. I went into the game thinking that Bayek would serve this great pharaoh at the start, but it was nothing like that at all. This, as well as the ending, left me with a very bittersweet feeling. No one really wins and there's no great sense of accomplishment. Khemu finds peace in the afterlife but the real struggle with Bayek and Aya continues and that's what we as players relate to the most. Egypt is doomed, Bayek loses the love of his life, Aya is set on becoming a stone cold killer and then it just ends. Aya and Bayek could've at least fought together even though their ideals were separate? The kind of relationship they ended up having was way too complicated for such a lacklustre storytelling. You really need to flesh characters out with lots of interaction and interesting dialogue. What we got was nothing like that and it all felt really sour and "eh?". It hurt my overall experience of the game, even though I really liked the exploration. I hope they pay more attention to the games they claim to be inspirer by (Witcher) in the future. And for gods sake fix all those long loading screens in between the cuts of different scenes. It totally messes with the pace! /rant over
Leo Lundgren you know shit of quality games!!!
Last time a relationship happened in Assassins Creed, someone dies. Altair and Maria Ezio and Christina Arno and Elise. I could go on.
I disagree with the dialogue being overly vague. This is the ancient world. The dialogue sounding slightly more vague or simplistic in nature helps with immersion, unless the dialogue is so over simplified it feels as if the characters lose intelligence or self awareness. Which I feel as if it does not do this, instead it doesn’t necessarily simplify every statement but communicate it in a more efficient way that would lack any lingo or modern delivery of those ideas. The dialogue he showed when making this point also was very understandable and felt good and interesting to me. They are talking about the entire ancient world of superpowers slowly falling and revealing a pattern that is to play throughout history to modern times. He creates the assassins creed, he is no longer a father, a husband. Or a Medjay, the only things he knew in his life, he is not a hidden one, that’s beautiful dialogue to me lol
Bayek was amazing
Your combat review is stupid, that lock enemy mechanic is optional.
I never used it in my first walk-through and worked fine for me. I was able to take multiple enemies out.
That lock system was meant for one on one enemy combat, not multiple ones
I loved this game. My favorite of the series.
Hepzefa: Welcome home, bayek welcome back to siwa
Game: New location discovered, Siwa
Watched every minute, every second. Thanks, Luke, for everything.
The leveling system is my only problem with the game. It forces you to do like 8 boring ass side quests in order just to level up once, and every main quest requires you to level up 2 or 3 times in order not to be utterly skull fucked by the higher level enemies and it really pissed me off to the point where I quit half way through out of boredom and just wanting to play the main quest line. Eventually when I came back it let me auto boost to max level in order to play a dlc I got with the season pass, so I just did that and played through the other half of the game and dlc at max level
Great video. But HUD isn't customizable at all, you can just pick one of four presets. Previous AC games HAD HUD customization, this one doesn't.
Yeah i was just gonna say, I don't get what he meant when he said the hud was customizable lol
Jiří Fiala Yeah true but at the same time I don’t feel like the HUD needs as much customisation in this game because it’s so minimalist in the first place, I never even checked if I could change the HUD settings cos it never bothered me, whereas in previous games I’ve always turned off the minimap and puppeteer to clear the junk off the screen
Yeah and there's no need to change the HUD in this game it's perfectly fine the way it is
Sir Babz I just wanted to keep enemy tagging but remove the blending effect on Bayek in bushes, but the game doesn't allow that.
You are giving Ubisoft too much credit on their motivation of character development. They have a clear narrative of pushing the feminist narrative.
So just played and finished this game cause it was on sale a few weeks ago. I absolutely loved it. I remember when seeing the trailer for the first time back when the game originally came out and thinking that I wasn’t impressed. This game caught me off guard and the ending was beautiful 🤩
I liked the woman who you save from committing suicide. It would have been nice to see her in another quest.
The history itself was not the best part of it, but I felt a lot of care about the creation of the creed and it's symbols (better than star wars for example) and I LOVED how amunet is put in the story
the one think that I'm stuck with is, how did Aya and Bayek were buried together? I hope they will talk about this in future because it is possible to have a lot of history in there (not specifically in video game format)
The soundtrack during gameplay was terrible, I had to turn off music audio after a while. It kept playing the same 2 tracks every time Bayek was in a restricted area, and played the same track every time a wild animal attacked. Gave me a freaking headache.
Don't you think its intentionally vague because they plan on having a sequel with Bayek. The novel actually makes the narrative more open.
ThatVanceGuy every assassins's game has individual books. Pretty good i must say. I think the author name is Oliver bowden.
Ahmar Camacho Oh I have to grab the novel then!
@@soumyadeepbanerjee964 did u grab the novel?
Origins was the first kick to that series' corpse. And Odyssey was downright necrophilia.
I was set to buy AC Odyssey this week until I watched Gods of Egypt, then this game suddenly caught my eye more than Odyssey ever did
WHAT game?