Everyone Told Me That Valhalla Was The Worst Assassin's Creed Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Everyone Told Me That Valhalla Was The Worst Assassin's Creed Game.
In what should have been the final episode of Assassin's Creed: Ranking The Series, I have a look at the longest, and to my mind least Assassiny game, in the series: Valhalla.
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the twelfth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and the successor to 2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Principally set in the years 872-878 AD, the game recounts a fictional story during the Viking expansions into the British Isles. Players control Eivor Varinsdottir, a Viking raider who, while attempting to establish a new Viking clan in England, becomes embroiled in the centuries-old conflict between the Assassin Brotherhood, who fight for peace and liberty, and the Templar Order, who desire peace through control. The game also includes a framing story, set in the 21st century, which follows Layla Hassan, an Assassin who relives Eivor's memories so as to find a way to save the Earth from destruction.
Development of the game began in 2017, around the release of Assassin's Creed Origins. Ubisoft Montreal led its three-year development with help from fourteen other Ubisoft studios worldwide, as well as Sperasoft. Numerous people involved in the development of past Assassin's Creed games returned for Valhalla, including Ashraf who served as the creative director for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) and Origins; Darby McDevitt, the lead writer for Black Flag and Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011) and co-writer of Assassin's Creed Unity (2014); and composers Jesper Kyd and Sarah Schachner, who composed the game's soundtrack alongside musician Einar Selvik. Similarly to Origins and Odyssey, the team conducted extensive research into the time period to make the game world as historically accurate as possible, and drew inspiration from Norse mythology for certain narrative elements. The team also sought to address some issues found by players with Odyssey, such as its over ambitiousness, small focus on the Assassin-Templar conflict, and the absence of traditional Assassin's Creed gameplay elements like social stealth.
Valhalla was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Stadia on November 10, 2020, with the PlayStation 5 version following on November 12. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for the narrative, characters, voice acting, visuals, soundtrack, world-design and the interconnectivity of activities, while being criticized for its length, technical issues, and repetitive structure. The game had the biggest launch in the Assassin's Creed series to date, selling the most copies within its first week and becoming the second most profitable Ubisoft title of all time. Ubisoft supported Valhalla extensively with two years of additional content, including both free and paid story expansions, game modes, and events. The game was followed by 2023’s Assassin's Creed Mirage, which features a historical setting in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age and follows Basim Ibn Ishaq, a major supporting character from Valhalla.
Its a good game the only problem is they put assasins creed in the title
yeah there is no assassins creed in the game lol. but eivor kinda lives by his own creed that’s the point of the story. a very unlikely assassin who does things simply because they must be done.
@@leandroreyes5878yes their is
Its def an Assassins creed story. its like saying rogue one is not star wars due to the lack of jedi. Valhalla is full of Ac lore lol
@@diegoestmar559It's funny how these people love to bash on the RPGs like they're "not AC" but often seem to regard *Black Flag* as one of the best AC ever. Go figure...
All three of them, Valhalla, Oddysey, and Origins are works of art. My favorite overall after playing them all is Odyssey. It had the most immersive rpg system. It also had the best camera filters for awesome in game pictures. The other games' photo systems fell flat compared to Odyssey's. I think Valhalla might have been a step up in terms of puzzles. Not sure whuch one had the most immersive puzzle stories. AC has still yet to deliver on a super immersive puzzle system. I guess finding the keys was fun in Valhalla. Oddysey had the best world. Critisism has its place but to give proper credit they're all beautiful and fun games.
The internet is a double edged sword, in many ways it ruins the fun in exploring a game by yourself and sometimes saves your time and money from a bad game.
"Homefront: The Revolution" game is really good game but very hated on by reviewers. Same goes for "Metal Gear Survive".
Edit: Every popular review about "Metal Gear Survive" is full of lies, you can't trust them. A lot of the reviews complained about the survival mechanics, scavenging for food and water, and also being limited on oxygen in the dust (Angry Joe complains about his stamina going down too quickly when his character is both really hungry and thirsty, not taking the time to hunt for food and water). Turns out food and water is plentiful later on. Not much you can do about the oxygen, you can only get a better O2 mask. (Most reviewers didn't even get to africa). A lot of people didn't like the game before even trying it, because it has "zombies" in it. However players must not be real fans of the MGS series if they think this is the first time Metal Gear has had any enemies with zombie like behavior. MGSV TPP had wandering mother base soldiers, and the Skulls. Theres also Vamp, and many others with similar behavior in past games. There has always been zombie like enemies, they just were not called zombies, just like in Metal Gear Survive they are wanderers. Plus, I don't remember zombies having hive mind, or group think.The story was bad to reviewers, however most reviewers never beat the game. Most definitely did not look at the archives to listen to the tapes in the game either ( like most did not do in TPP either ). This game actually has a good story that makes sense, although is also more complicated than one would think. The story is not just a side tale, its directly part of the series, even if its only a small part. I mean we need some explanation at least of where wormhole technology came from, how it was discovered, and so on for TPP. Metal Gear Survive gives us that explanation. Could the story have been better, longer, and portrayed in a better manner? Definitely, but what would you expect from a $40 game (now obtainable for less than $10 used). People found the gameplay boring. I would say early gameplay is annoying, using the spear and fences and just poking. However the game gets far better over time, as one would expect from a survival game. Killing wanderers gets harder, and ways of doing it get better with the different classes, class skills, and weaponry, not to mention traps, turrets, ect. Jumping into multiplayer is fun as you get larger hordes, more variety, and different elemental types, which you wont see in single player after beating the game.
@@cookie.2118those are definitely not a good game
@@rbkgaming2581 why?
Edit: why does a 3 letter word like "why" scare people off? God forbid you for actually putting effort into your thoughts.
In my case, I explored/played the whole game alone. In the end, I hated it, it become painful to finish this boring game ( + knowing what AC used to be). Nobody could give me back my money and time. You mentioned 2 things that cannot work together because no review out there changes YOUR OWN view of the game, you like it or not.
@@cookie.2118 You wouldn't know what a bad game is if it smacked you in the mouth though.
"Its like edging except it doesnt feel as good when u finish"💀💀
This guy!🤣💀☠️⚰️
Bro what 💀
no idea what was he thinking with that one…
Freaky ass analogy 🤣
@@Killerwhale317 it always feels good when you finish
At least for 10 seconds
Finally someone who realized the same thing... Valhalla is best when you play it slowly. In my first playthrough I rushed through it. It was a chore and a bore (although I liked the story). For the second time I played it over the span of maybe 3 months. It was soooo satisfying to discover what Valhalla had to offer.
I felt the exact same way about Odyssey (have not played valhalla). All the little segemented stories on each island were a few hours long each, and sometimes quite interesting !
@K.C-2049 yea same. Heard all stuff about odyssey but as i went on playing i enjoyed it a lot and honestly felt like it was still an AC. Keep the same attitude with valhalla, go slow and immerse yourself in the character or how you like it, and you'll get a satisfying animus experience together with an AC game
It's been a long time since I played, I just started up again recently trying to get excalibur. Already got Thors hammer
I don't think there is a way to play valhalla any way but slow lmaoo. its a slow boring game
@@LucianA-e5e look above matey. For you, there may be not. For others?
Each of our opinions is valid.
The "God stuff" was cut from the main game at fan request. Basically what happened was people were being upset about the fantasy elements in their sci-fi series (Origins and Odyssey had these first) so Ubisoft introduced this solution for players to be able to skip the fantasy portions by making them optional.
Now, given that it's mandatory to play the Asgard bits to understand the ending of the game it's safe to say they shot themselves in the foot and that they were waaaaay into the development of the game. The decision was made late and the devs weren't able to rewrite the the story to cut the fantasy stuff altogether - or actually make it optional.
Ah that's interesting! I wasn't following the game pre-release so I missed all that. Interesting that people complained about mythical stuff for this game despite it being in the other two, like you say.
Asgard mission chain is literally part of the main mission chain but ok.
@@overheatedeskim054Asgard is completely optional, it’s a side area.
@@overheatedeskim054no it isn’t lmao
@@overheatedeskim054someone didn’t actually finish the game 😂
“I would play at my own pace, explore how I wanted to and not worry about racing to the finish line”
Oh, you mean how games are MEANT to be played?
That's the issue right there: most of you have lost that, or never had it to begin with.
Exactly.
Unfortunately some of us have lives and jobs with limited time to play games.
Doesn't mean you gotta rush @@DeadFool321
That's more reason why you shouldn't have problems with long games@@DeadFool321
@@DeadFool321 That has nothing to do with what was said.
It's pretty nice for the first 12-15 hours or so, while the viking setting still feels fresh, and then it just becomes a chore...
The best Viking game of all time, for sure. Stunningly beautiful and with “endless buffet” of stories and discoveries to make, yet best enjoyed one meal at a time over many months. It was so easy to pick up and play again even if you took a break. It was like five seasons of an amazing TV show, which you can enjoy slowly while still binging a few episodes when you wanted to. I don’t get the haters, at all.
thats how i get through so many games. black flag was the same. odyssey too. even death stranding which isnt ac lol
So if you don’t like mindless grinding, microtransactions and boring repetitive side quests in a game devoid of any innovation you are a hater? Keep shilling.
@@corn.3892lol, you clearly haven't played the game for yourself. Their really is no grinding. Yeah, you need to level up to unlock new areas but... Leveling up is so damn easy that it basically not a problem. Microtransactions are pointless. And the side quests are really good... I assume you are talking about world events, even if you don't know what the side quests are called since you never played the game. Their is a lot of different events that make you use your brain to complete them and some are just a lot of fun to do, a lot of them feel like GTA random events that just fill the world with a lot of life.
@@cookie.2118 There is grinding (level grinding, resource grinding), you haven't played the game, lol. Sure, it's better than Odyssey, but it's still annoying. The side content is repetitive, because the world is so peaceful, the main side quests or content is carrying crates and doing mindless chores. The drug trips don't give you any meaningful progress, the entire existence of the open world is basically meaningless, why? Because its side content (very little action, meaningless drug trips, carrying stuff around and stupid puzzles) is so unbearably BORING, that the best way to play Valhalla is to ignore it and focus on the main story. Sadly, the story is not good enough to carry this game. I don't know what makes you think carrying crates full of apples is good content, but I guess to each their own.
@@cookie.2118 Plus, the world events are, OBJECTIVELY bad. They make exploration so much worse and are the second-biggest problem of Valhalla. Forget infiltrating cool fortresses and brutal fights, shoot arrows at doors, throw things around and enjoy the broken climbing, WOW, I accept that many people like the game, but this is just blatantly shilling.
Been playing this game for almost 3 months now,over 300hr and I’m still having a blast.Got the 2 dlc W o D and S o P for 1/2 price. Waiting for Valhalla Ragnarok to be discounted
I’ve enjoyed all the AC that I have played.Been an AC fan from the first one that came out in 2007.Black Flag Probably is my favourite.
Update...Holy crap, same day I made this post, I get home and turn on my PS5 and low and behold freakin Dawn of Ragnarok is on sale for $19.95!!! Crazy luck.Have not even finished Wrath o Druids and still to do Siege of Paris.
Cheers mate, this game was a good ride
It's weird how much hate this game gets, it's a blast. People need to take of the nostalgia classes and play the game as a game. I've played almost all AC games and enjoyed all of them. Skipped rogue:) I always approach the games with curiosity. I just wanna see what is behind the next hill. Even if I just find a deer I'm honestly exited. I don't aim to 100% games but almost always end up doing it anyway, just because well there was this hill I hadn't looked behind yet😂
What the hell in Valhalla does it have to do with the Assassin's apart from the first 15 minutes? It's not nostalgia, these games are flat-out worse than the first 5 games and are designed to waste your time so you spend real money on cosmetics @@jerryb2965
after I finished the main story it felt empty to me tbh unlike odyssey and origins
While I played as female Eivor, I did honestly hate her voice a lot of the time lmao. And it sucks, because the voice actress has a lovely voice, but she went for this overly raspy tone that was just really unpleasant to hear and definitely impacted her performance. She also played the voice of Eivor's mother in which she sounded way more like her natural voice and I really wish she had done that for Eivor.
Female Eivor Voice was such a Pain in the Ears lol...,will try Male Eivor next time... and finish the fantasy stuff wich i completely avoided once i finished the "main" stroy line in England...
@@DiegoRYTmale Eivor has amazing voice acting
Oddly I feel the opposite of this. I think she has the best tone and voice in the games after Ivarr and Sigurd. She really nailed what a female viking should be
I liked her voice. I just found how everyone talked a bit cringe. 🤷♀️
Her voice was fine to me
Do you not know? In AC community, every new ac release is worst game ever 👀
That is one of the most true statements about AC.
yeah they did that with black flag. Its so annoying.
@@LandonGasao Black Flag was immediately seen as an improvement to AC III.
People still rag on unity and the only thing it's praised for is the parkour
Nah, AC2 was seen as an improvement
I love Valhalla. I completed it 100% with all the additions. I also liked collecting opals, I visited every nook and cranny. After finishing the game, I missed Eivor the Viking. After a year, I'm back and playing Valhalla again. :)
It's funny. I've played every single AC ever made..
AC Unity, Revelations, 3 and Odyssey being my favorites.
It's odd though, because Valhalla has clocked the most play time, and I still find myself playing to this day. Over 300 hours and counting :)
To be fair if someone were to play through each game once, Valhalla would easily have the highest play time. I've played Black Flag 3 or 4 times and I still have more hours in my 1 playthrough of Valhalla 😅
According to Steam, I clocked over 660 hrs in 3, that's after 100% on the PS3 and I've just run up another couple of hundred on the remaster on PS5. Connor is still (deliberately) an ass, the mechanics are incredibly frustrating with their inconsistency, but it remains the most epic of the series for me and the most innovative. I think the reason I clocked in so many hours on PC was it was the closest I was going to get to a port of RDR and the sandbox is great to just run around, hunt and slaughter redcoats (or watch cougars doing it).
AC2?
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
Odyssey is my favorite
Been at this gem of a viking experience for several months, the dailies and weekly tasks are fantastic hooks to make you think "oh, go on..just a little more exploration"
The lesson here is to always judge for thyself 😊
The problem isn't the quality (which is great) it's that it is named assassins creed (and not vikings creed for example)
What I think reviewers hate about these long games is that they are rushing through the game to meet with the schedule and they lose the chance to properly dissect the game in it's slow-paced approach, as intended
This game is quantity over quality, I’m confused how y’all think this comes close to origins or Odyssey
This is not a Viking exprience tho. Nothing about this is Viking. It is not even in the general ball park of what Vikings were.
@@ncrranger6327 I did not rush and it was a bloated mess without any cohesion.
Damn, is it longer than Odyssey? I just started Odyssey yesterday and it took me 4 hours to clean the entire first area... then I opened the map :(
Yeah it's longer than Odyssey. It took me 67 hours to beat Odyssey, but Valhalla took me about 83. That does include doing all the Order of Ancients and optional areas, but I didn't collect all the collectables and didn't do any DLC.
its my fav assassin creed other than unity and mirage
Odyssey is a masterpiece.
@@joshy9392 I just got my ship, had to stop to bake some pancakes, but everything is done, and I´m ready to continu,e I´m liking the game, the revelation abouit who "Just some Spartan general" was cool, sucks for everyone :( .
500 hrs in Valhalla and 500 hrs in Oddessy. can't get enough of the best games in history.
I believe many players are missing much of the "meta" stuff that ties them all together. Going back to the start, Adam and Eve themselves were hybrid human/ISU. This means that some ISU genetic exist in varying degrees across all humanity. Those with cetain combinations have varying abilities. I.e. the vision/bird tie-ins, that cause them to pervieve things and leads them toward the assassins or the templars. These being genetic in nature also means that these individuals are oftem groomed to these philosophies through familial bonds. What the Norse ISU (and atleast one other) did was incorporate more of themSelves into this hybridization. Appearanace, traits, but most important to Valhalla, memories. BUT the person whom these attributes begin to express in [seers] deal with them in unique ways. Some go mad (Tyr/Sigurd), some integrate fully (Basim/Loki) and some struggle and eventually come to a partnership (Eivor/Havi). I believe this is also some cross breeding between the existing ISU genetics present in human lines intermixing with the newer Norse lines. Basim being probably the best example (and also explain why he also got to the middle east). So lets suppose that Basim had more hybrid genes AND the norse genes which is why Basim integrated fully with Loki. This also explains why Basim can skip around in the Animus, because his norse ISU genes add capabilities (or genetic memory of how to use the anumus in this way). I would say that as a gamer when you run into something that doesn't initially make sense, instead of assuming it's a shortcut/retcon by the game devs. Try to look deeper. ❤
An what most ppl don’t know that Cain was the the founder of the ancient order an the templars praise him
This was greatly helpful!
Honestly all the ancient aliens stuff just feels silly even fully explained. When you get to a point where you can say your original main character is strongly implied to be a direct descendant of Adam Bible it just... Feels off.
@@Noname72105 I get you. It is most def treated as an after thought or at best just a way to forward the game play into more "fantastical" ways. So yeah, definately silly, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun. 🤷♂️
I thought Aita (Roberts/john in bf and De Molay/Germaine in unity) was meant to be a random luck rebirth injected into the entirety of humanities DNA. Nothing to do with direct relation but genetically injected, cos Aita got trapped in some machine and Juno killed him. Aita i thought was human or half or something too (unless im misremembering that)
That's because reviewers like Luke Stephens panned it. I loved playing Valhalla. It has one of the greatest video game characters in all video games, namely Ivarr.
Valhalla is a game I will always enjoy playing.
Hahha I know right, don’t get me wrong it has its issues, and I haven’t played any DLC. But I had a FUCKING BLAST playing this very long epic satisfying main story, in my homeland. The raids feel amazing especially the big main mission ones. They can go on for almost an hour sometimes
Doing the raids with the community made Vikings that you can add to your crew were my favourite things to do in the game.
You're not supposed to like it 😭
@@the_marveraklet people enjoy what they want bruh
@@VinnyFrFr I know thats my point
Bro did unity dirty 💀
Unity is ass
Nah @@rolandngom5080
@@rolandngom5080unity isn’t that bad, odyssey is fucking dog shit
I don't think any game in this franchise has actually been a bad game. Some just stand out and are much more unique than others, others had either more development time or just in general better skill at being able to put together and polish the engine and gameplay and mission design, and with how many entries in the franchise there have been and how long they've been making them some just have to be at the bottom. I think otherwise there is enough variety at this point that even fans of the franchise are going to have certain developer teams or eras/styles of AC games that they prefer. And otherwise there are just going to be some general gamers that enjoy a fraction of these titles and aren't a fan of the others.
For me, the thing that always appealed to me the most about these games was being able to play around in a historical sandbox. Sure I still liked the general plot and world that the game was building, however I'm one of those who never cared a single bit about anything happening in the present-day storyline or the character of Desmond. If it wasn't taking place in the historical portion of the game I just didn't care.
And that comes from me just generally having an interest in lots of historical eras. However this also has kind of made it so that the setting can sometimes determine whether or not that becomes one of my favorite games in the franchise to begin with. I go back and forth between whether or not I like black flag or origins the best. And I think I pick origins not even necessarily because I think it's definitively a better constructed game, but just because it was so much more enticing for me to explore that game world because of an absolute love and fascination with ancient Egypt that dates back to my childhood. Otherwise I feel like I enjoy something like Assassin's Creed 3 more than many other people because I also have a high interest and attachment to the revolutionary War. That's one of my favorite eras in American history to study.
Stuff like unity and syndicate, I can realize that they are mostly generally well made games, although unity still has technical issues to this day. And they feel more like traditional Assassin's Creed titles, however I just didn't really have a huge interest in the French revolution or industrial London. So those became the first two games that I never finished in the franchise and again a big part of it is the setting, but the other part is that that was about when Ubisoft was really starting to just create these overly bloated game worlds that had just a ton of icons everywhere and all of this side content where it became daunting to really know what was worth doing and what you were supposed to be doing, and what was just pointless filler and busy work.
I feel like origins actually cleaned that up a little bit since it was taking such heavy inspiration from The Witcher 3, I felt compelled to do most of the things that I ran across in every area
And then Odyssey did the too much on the map thing again lol
It's taking me a while to finally get into Odyssey, I had to do a lot of initial grinding before that game felt like it really opened up and became fun to explore and go on adventures. And even then I've got to be 50 odd hours into that game at this point and still don't quite know how to progress the main story.
Valhalla even though I hadn't completed Odyssey, was catching my eye because I needed something to show off my new series X, and because I generally am more interested in something like the Vikings over the ancient Greeks. So I hopped into Valhalla as well and played a bit through it and had some fun and can note which things I think it does better than Odyssey in which things I think it does worse. And although it kind of cleans up the map compared to Odyssey I still feel like it has this issue of just being too big with too much stuff for its own good. But my biggest issue with Valhalla is I just don't really care about any of the characters. Odyssey also has too much going on however there's a feeling of charm and whimsy and playful sarcasm that makes it entertaining, especially if you pick Kassandra
Valhalla is just kind of missing that. So it sits as one of those games installed on my hard drive that I only ever made it a fraction of the way through, however one day I'm going to go back and give it a shake. Because it's gorgeous, even if I don't think all of the farmlands in England are all that exciting to explore, but it is mechanically sound. If you're looking for a Viking game, it is probably one of the best ones if not the best one depending on what you're looking for
So even though it lost my interest, even though Odyssey lost my interest and syndicate and unity lost my interest... I still can't look at them and say that they did that because of they're bad games. It's just the combination of whether or not it's the right time and whether I'm the right person to really love that particular setting and concept
This is a huge franchise, and at this point I would bet it's incredibly rare to find anyone who actually really loves every single entry
And I'm not going to lie, once mirage goes on a decent sale I really want to try that one out, because once again just the setting interests me more. Plus if it's not as big or as long as these other ones I might have a chance to actually beat it l😅
None of these games have been particularly perfect either. It's hard to play these games after Ghost of Tsushima.
@@nosouponhead definitely not implying any of them are perfect. But many sit amongst my favorite games I've ever played. Ghost of Tsushima is solid. But overall the setting / time doesn't personally interest me as much as many of the AC titles. Which can be a big part of how much I enjoy them or not
Also the online gaming communities are filled with crybabies who find everything bad and these communities do not represent the general audience. People keep forgetting the core aspect of video games, its for entertainment and if you are having fun, then who tf cares.
Syndicate and Odyssey definitely *were* bad games.
Yeah, I was told the same thing man over and over. So I stayed away from it. For a long time, just bought it Friday. And today is Tuesday Haven't put it down since take. My wife's gonna divorce me over LO. L.😅😅😅 The visuals Are spectacular Alone The storyline draws you in. Making you want to learn more as you play. The exploration is awesome. Bob Marley is I can't say enough I am so glad. I went with my instincts love this game❤❤❤❤
This is my first AC game I've played. Started playing 3 days ago and I can't believe I've slept on this series all this time! It's already one of my favourite games of all time
It was mine too and I'm still playing it. I'm tryna beat it on aesir difficulty without dying once.
"It's like edging only it doesn't feel as good when you finally finish" 🤣🤣 What an analogy. Legit spat out my coffee. Subbed
My only gripe with Valhalla was how repetitive the main story missions were. By the time I stormed the fifth castle I was already feeling like it had grown stale
Loved the video, got me through a long drive. The length of this game can be extended by another 40 hours if you get all the dlc haha. I have only beat Wrath of the Druids so far, if you ever return to this game, highly recommend playing it, Ireland is beautiful and the story is great.
I do the same thing. It’s good to listen to the story telling while driving along. 👍👍
You played a videogame while driving?
@@nosouponhead no I listened to the video while driving 😂
I never thought to play this one, but your video has me interested… still, I’m 300 hrs in and still not finished Odyssey… I spend a lot of time just wandering around checking out the sights
I recently stated oddessy as well. It’s so much better than Valhalla.
@@citrusjelly9069I’m still working on Origins now, but planning to try Valhalla after that…
Still, I’m not sure anything can be as good as Odyssey….
im playing Odyssey right NOW for the first time (80 hours in) and i totally know what u mean. I feel ashamed to miss such a gorgeous game all these years@@StillLateToTheParty
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
@@zicuvalentin2251 300… because this is Sparta!!
Odyssey is still #1.
I don't give a shit about a hidden blade, Odyssey was perfect
Yeah...Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
It's not my #1 game but i admit that the sailing is incredibly fun.
Not really it was designed to get you to spend money. The progression is boring the abilities are fun though.
@@frequencyoftruth2303not really, especially if you play on pc you can literally just get the paid stuff for free with cheat engine
Valhalla and Odyssey were great opportunities to break away from Assassins Creed. Ubisoft could've made whole games with ancient cultural touchstones. And let's face it, warrior cultures wouldn't have anything to do with honorless assassins, or sci-fi scenes.
I am so incredibly pleased to see this video and channel doing so well. Congratulations mate, very well deserved!
I'm 200 hours in and power level 413 but no where near finished although I collect everything before doing the main missions in an area it's an amazing game
i have to say that i liked it. if you take your time (as others have said) it really is a beautiful world and a good game. If you are rushing through it, then yes it becomes very repetitive. I like the voice acting (Eivor is the red headed actor in last kingdom) music is nice and ya it is a very beautiful game. Take your pace with this game because its long but had good elements and activities and really liked the detail they put into developing Ravensthorpe.
Repetitive is repetitive no matter how fast you go through it. I don’t understand how taking it slow would help
@@acest2098the main quests are mostly design the same in Valhalla, that's why it gets repetitive quickly when you just do main quests and nothing more. But the side content in this game is beautifully done, only players that take it slow will do them because you will miss out on most of the side activities if you are rushing to beat the game. Just do a good mix of both side quests and main quests, you will have a really good time... I will promise you that.
I thought Mirage was worst than this game. It was too short, too little to do and too boring. The climbing mechanic was bad, abilities weren't that great and I completed it in about a week, collected everything and completed the quest. Was not worth the asking price.
You guys complain for being too long
You guys complain for being too short
Wtf do you want?? Can't win them all I guess
Mirage was just a short backstory for basim, you should have known this ..
It’s a good game. I play it without the AC lore in mind, like a standalone title that made me appreciate it more.
Im literally playing Valhalla rn. The worst part is how long the story the is. If they made each arc two or 3 arcs (location only) itd shorten the story by like 20 or so hours and actually make it ok
From what I was able to gather from Mirage is that Odin was trying to take over Eivor's body much how Loki did with Basim. However unlike Loki's Subtle approach by appearing as a friend of Basim, Odin tried to take it by force by claiming to be Eivor's god.
What threw me off was how stupid all the side quests were. Why would you make a quest where npcs asks you to purposefully burn their home down to prove they’re strong warriors?💀
It’s fun to play as a Viking, but I simply didn’t care for the setting, or the story. Not as interesting for me as the previous ones.
I spent about 120 hours in the game too.
I grinded for Excalibur and Mjolnir just for funsies and in return Ubisoft took my firstborn and half my 401k
This is a great game and one of the best "viking" themed. I don't know what some people are thinking when they say it's bad. It's a beautiful game I like going around in the countryside on my horse and it's never boring and using the ship is beautiful too. The story is good the characters are good the landscapes are beautiful the lore is quite historically accurate (how it can be for a game). What else do they want? And the same people idolize games like The Wither 3 which is nothing special in my opinion. And I think with these games (Odyssey and Valhalla) Ubisoft has managed to find a great equilibrium between the story and the open world which is something nobody else has done so well. By the way Eivor is a unisex name.
about female Eivor voice there is a reason why she talks like that because she was bitten by a wolf in her neck when she was a child (she has a big scar too) which damaged her vocal chords the rasp is present in the male voice too but it's less noticeable. I didn't find anything strange in her voice. and the music is outstanding.
by the way (and then I shut up lol) this is a game you can't rush you have to enjoy the world and the story so any reasoning about how much time it takes to do something is nonsensical.
I find most Assassins Creed games are pretty tedious and I rarely finish them but I buy pretty much every one they churn out anyway. Why? because I love history, and there is no game out there that reproduces historical landmarks quite like Assassins Creed. In general they do a pretty good job of transporting me into a period in history, its like a time machine and I love it.
3:19 "20hrs in and not enjoying my time with it..." Dude. No. That alone makes me not want to play the game. Any game over 20hrs that feels like a chore is a bad game. "Dude, this bowl of turds finally gets good after you've been eating it for 10 days straight." No thank.s
I’ve seen this exact thing said for universally praised games like BG3 and no one complains 🤷♂️
It's not the worst, but it's garbage compared to Origins or Odyssey.
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...😂😂😂
I just tried it, and first thing that piss me off is that imagine how many resources they spread doing immersion braking huds and micro transactions, if they get rid of the game store they’ll had more resources to make a better game, the second one was the Skyrim skill tree, really? They think that makes an assassins creed that is the lack of all those rpg elements in favor of more realistic action, then ins the main character identity they didn’t have the guts of keeping Eibor female or male, many female were raised as boys so you telling me they couldn’t go that route. Then the whole immersion braking hit numbers and health bars. They need to make a simpler game, keep going with the original assassin formula and create just more cinematic side quest that teach you new abilities instead of having you unlock them with experience.
My advice to playing the AC RPG trio is, do a period of gameplay, play something else, make a set time limit at which you'll move on, and then come back. That way it doesn't kill you inside.
you couldn't skip through time in the original first games because of memory synchronization, I think in AC Brotherhood they tried to do it but they couldn't and that's the reason, Abstergo probably did it with Subject 16 which caused him to lose his mind and be trapped within the animus
That's right, which is why Basim being able to casually jump to the exact moment he's looking for stood out to me. That's a big deal, given what the early games established.
It's sad that FOMO makes people rush through games and feel like they have to complete them and move on. I've played this game not once but three times and have a ton of hours put into it, and it just happened because I'd launch it and play for a while, get distracted, explore, do a bit of the story, then do that again and again here and there. Took me months to finish it but it was great.
My problem with this game is the length
It was my first assassin creed game, and I loved it! I was really unwell with covid and I sat in my bed binge playing it over a week, and honestly it got me through it😭💜!
As someone who has 100% completion in all of the RPG Assassins creed games i can confidently say that Valhalla is the worst to fully complete lol
People continually say that the canonical characters for odyssey and Valhalla are the females, but we don’t see them on the cover of either game. Nothing wrong with the female characters, it just almost feels like there’s a cult out here espousing the female superiority in those two games, hear it on every single last video concerning them. Real weird.
They are female in the novels/comics and ubi stated they were lore
Honestly, I personally enjoyed Valhalla, and as a ac fan, would consider it an ac game
I played Origins and loved it. I played Odyssey and hated it. Everyone said that Valhalla was terrible, so I didn't even buy it. But it was on discount last month, so I tried it. It's surprisingly good! To be fair, I haven't finished it and I'm just 30 hours in (Lunden arc), but the game is very solid so far. I like the combat, I like the world and the characters seem fine. Sure, the arc structure of the game means that pacing can suffer, but the actual gameplay loop is fun! The stealth also seems to be mostly fixed, because I haven't encountered any detection bugs that people were complaining about. And most importantly, Valhalla has this Assassin's Creed feel to it. When I go into cities, I walk around with a cloak and armed with just a dagger. It's kinda immersive.
Just finished watching your whole AC series, you’re such an underrated TH-camr. Can’t wait for the mirage video. Appreciate you brother, cheers!
I'm not sure if I'm flattered or worried for your mental wellbeing, but thank you! I've been delayed in getting to play Mirage but hopefully next week I'll get lucky!
This is far from the worst Assassins Creed. People were just disappointed as it came after Odyssey, which was a lot better.
Valhalla is one of my favorite games tbh
Man, i swear this game is the biggest victim to mindless hate in the internet.
I don't get what the deal is to go on a game with the mindset that you're going to hate it, i used to be like that and that severely limited my enjoyment to gaming because i had such high, stupid standards where the only game i could enjoy was Rdr2 for a while because idk, i guess the internet allowed me so? And ofc you just can't compare Rdr2 to most games because of how groundbreaking it is.
When i finally let go of this stupid thought process that everything i played had to be the most flawless crafted thing of beauty ever i finally could get back to gaming and i would've missed so many amazing games if i kept that stupid mindset, guys, Valhalla is easily one of the most fun games i've ever played and does it have flaws? A whole lot of them! Is the game fun, beautiful and just overall an arguable 8/10? Damn well it is.
Don't be a mindless hater following stupid internet circlejerks and take your time to playing things! according to the internet Valhalla is one of the worst tortures ever made and The Witcher 3 is the best piece of media ever crafted in humankind history or Elden Ring being the best game of all galaxies or The Ezio trilogy being the only good thing the Ac Franchise ever pooped but man i'd be lying if i said i couldn't get past 30 hours of The Witcher 3 after multiple attempts without forcing myself to play it because "It's perfect, I NEED TO ENJOY IT" or Quitting on Elden Ring after 70 or so hours because i was simply not having fun anymore and more recently dragging my way through the Ezio trilogy (Which to be fair, although dated and massively overrated still has it's moments) while i have still ongoing 130 hours on Valhalla, loads of stuff to do (Had some pauses ofc) and rn just can't wait to go home to go play it and see what waits for me today.
Be your own man, stop trying to please your imaginary internet daddies who demands for your opinion to match their favorite creators "Oh no, i'm not allowed to enjoy to this game because fucking ASMONGOLD told me it sucks, i'm fuckin stupid if i like it now i guess".
That less judgmental mindset does not apply only to Valhalla, everyone and their mothers have a game that is universally hated but they love so much be it for emotional value, nostalgia or just vibing a lot with it and if you read that rant till here i really wanna know yours.
Well said people are just bandwagoners nowadays they jump on things like a sheep
This game was so fun. Been thinking about jumping back in.
Do it! I put about 40 hrs about a year ago and just the other day started playing again and I forgot how awesome it was
@@dedo7326 I think I have over 100. I was playing it everyday after work and every waking minute on the weekends
not that good@@dedo7326
It has horrible voice acting, that was almost a deal breaker. The movements feel very clunky, somehow worse than in Odyssey, that was almost a deal breaker.
Then it is gated by ridiculous boss fights. That was the real deal breaker.
I love Odyssey, I just can not play Valhalla.
Genrally my main problem with AC franchise is the immersion breaking sequences in modern times. It seems like a useless vanity that they never got rid of, and it will forever plague this franchise.
It was a great game that didn't deserve the hate. It really isn't that long if you are just doing the main story. Most side stuff is completely optional. No different than something like skyrim or the Witcher 3.
It deserved the hate that it wouldn't have gotten when it weren't called "assassins creed"
It was a good game but imo suffered from the collectibles-hunting carbon copy-pasting of other Assassins Creed games. The best parts of Valhalla were the parts that weren’t in other AC games.
naw, main story was pretty long. And drug its feet
Nah great game is crazy, this is the worst AC game I’ve ever played 💀
@wezzsimple6612 your opinion. To me the original is the worse now. It hasn't aged well at all. After playing the the modern games (origins to Valhalla) it's really hard to go back to the old ones. They feel too bare bones after having so much added.
i finished the game but didnt get any of the time skipping. was that part of a DLC or update?
Valhalla is excellent. Shits all over Odyssey in every way
I spent 3 months on this game, off and on playing it. Racked up 350 plus hours, got all items & trophies - everything completed except didn't touch Ragnarok Saga and after a few times trying the Skill challenges & the River Raids DLC quit both. It was still waaaay too long. Prob completed 80% of the content & those River Raids are procedurally generated Loot, so can drag on for hours. Especially the main story just dragged on and on with very little to keep my interest after Ivarr & Coelbert portion of story are completed.
the best AC game BY FAR
Not the best
@@xXNeOnSwAgXxyes the best
@@xXNeOnSwAgXx ppppffffft
It's definetely the worst in terms of historical accuracy.
Having Origins and Unity so low, abstained me from watching the rest of the video =/
As an AC title, yeah maybe it misses the mark...but on its own, it was a great idea that was poorly executed. Way too many people involved in the decision making, too many people making contributions to the game, and Ubisoft once again listened to the wrong part of their so-called fanbase. They're one of many companies who are afraid to tell someone "Yeah no we are not doing that, it's a terrible idea"
They could've turned this game into something great but destroyed it by trying to jam it into the AC mold. Seems like they allowed criticism to directly impact their own decision making in the development process and the result was underwhelming asf.
I just bought it for 19$ i liked odyssey so i think i would like valhalla tho
mirage is definitely worst... "back to the roots" didnt work for me and horrible stealth,story etc. 3/10.
Mirage was the worst AC game I've played. Valhalla is ok
Origin is the best
@@oblivian1308 your right about that 👍
I loved AC Valhalla! It had possibly the best story of the new trilogy, and i'm primarily a story player. Odyssey had the best combat though, and Origins had the best setting.
My mom told me this along time ago. Whatever the internet says do/believe the opposite.
As an OG AC fan, I hate the game being an AC game. Otherwise this is a great game
Personally, I'm very tired of hearing how this game is bad and not part of AC. I actually believe this to be the fullest and most complete installment and playing Mirage following, I have cemented my view that going back to the old format is not the way to go. Shame.
Basim can skip through events inside Animus because he's an Isu and is technologically advanced and understands Animus a lot better and what it's capable of doing.
I agree with most of your ideas and critizisms.
I enjoyed a lot about Valhalla. It is not at all a bad game as such. I do not think it is too long at all.
I had great fun roaming the world, and I actually loved the incremental upgrade mechanic. It felt natural to me, and you had to make strategic decisions while choosing your upgrade path. I often went to areas that required a higher skill level than I had, because the game is too easy as it is.
- My main criticism is that this should have been developed as a separate IP, and not as an Assassin's Creed game. Viking gameplay does not connect well with the Assassin's Creed way of doing things. It works against it, actually.
- I also missed the beautiful ancient city environments in this game, but they just did not exist in this area in this time period.
- I did not like the supernatural/god nonsense in this game at all. I would have preferred a pure realistic approach to this historical setting.
- I think the castle sieges were nonsensical. I could with ease conquer every castle on my own, by singlehandidly killing everyone inside, but was then in the next instance forced to do it all over again in a siege. This was a dumb mechanic. Not well-designed, and not thought through, by the devs.
it is too long. If you try to do EVERYTHING, side missions, secrets and such, u can be looking easy at 300 hours. With all DLCs, game mods, probably 400 or 500. That is just insane and, for completionists like me (i like to do everything in a game), its a nightmare. I myself just had to stop, is too much. Plus, the game is plagued with bad game decisions that hurt the game.
- bloated content
- extremely long and mostly empty maps. I get it, they tried to portrait England in the past, but its a game decision that
hurts the game. Plus, points of interest are way too far apart from each other.
- cryptic secrets and other annoyances in the world design
- performance issues - such as constant crashes
- animation problems (clunky combat, getting stuff in the enviromment)
- sound mixing issues, muffled sounds, unimpactful weapon sounds etc.
- kinda bland story that lacks.. "soul", in the lack of a better analogy, and other stuff i could stay here rambling about
all day.
- too many gameplay mechanics getting introduced, not well explained, many of those pointless and unconsequential.
They could be removed from the game and you would not miss them one bit. That is the definition of bloat
- repetitive all way around. Its just too much.
This said, i dont think is a bad game at all, there are many things to be enjoyed (beautiful landscapes, nordic setting, cool weapons and gear, upgrade system is good, like you said, interesting characters, overall enjoyable game when it works well, and other stuff. I personally liked the raid missions, but also felt excessive and repetitive at some point. It feels like they used the good things from Odyssey, upped x20 everything, then scratched many good mechanics, introducing others are are worse. It feels like a disjointed mess that had good elements in between, but used in a disorganized, unfocused way.
@@hernanipereira"it is too long. If you try to do EVERYTHING, side missions, secrets and such, u can be looking easy at 300 hours. "
I have no problem with 300 hours. And as you said, you do not have to do everything. It is there if you want to, but it is your choice.
of course its optional, but if is in the game, its there for a reason. right? If is just there to bloat and waste our time, or to be skipped, then its a bad sign. I liked the game overall but i felt over and over it was wasting my time - overall feeling with many sidequests etc - Plus, if u just skip stuff, you might be missing important stuff, you never know. The game would have benefited more with less stuff in game, like i said, being more focused in the main story with some side missions, being smaller in size and scope. I had the feeling Valhalla got a bit greedy or, at least, overambitious; devs at some point tried to do everything, all the same time, kept adding stuff that has no real meaning or purpose and lost focus (i mean, there is even a roguelite mode in game o.o)@@Ploskkky
I stand by the fact that Valhalla is the worst Assassin's Creed game. But at the same time is a good action-rpg with vikings, raids, nordic gods etc.
It's not the worst assassin's Creed but for a series where most of the games are quite bad anyway, Valhalla manages to be at the bottom half in my opinion.
People are weird,who cares about minor stuff if it’s a good game that’s fine by me.People are obsessed with minutiae details.
Anyway I love fantasy games and in reality all games are fantasy stories,it’s not real life 😂
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...
@@zicuvalentin2251But he didn't mantionted Odyssey
I look at the new games as isu games.
Which I like because when I first played rogue, I wanted to know more about them but the old games didn't have much besides the first few.
I would have been okay with female Eivor if the marketing didn't lie to us and imply male Eivor was canon. In almost all of the promos, even for some DLC, Eivor was shown to be a man and it is so frustrating. Same thing happened with Odyssey. Also, as a huge history buff, the inaccuracies of Valhalla was painful to see, especially after exploring a very accurate Egypt in origins. The thing is most of the inaccuracies wouldn’t be an issue if the game was just set 200 years later so weapons like the Dane axe would be accurate
I’m impressed you did all of that in 83 hours. I had 90 hours and I still had areas not discovered and hadn’t finished the main story. By which time I was completely burnt out. Maybe I’ll go back and try finish it.
Just try playing one day and rest for another day.
If the game was called non sneaky anime viking instead of assassins creed it Would have been an -okay- game
Best AC game ever! Almost 400 hours in and still exploring.
You're still exploring because the map is a bloated mess of copy pasted assets. Wow, how exciting and intriguing
Would have watch more, but you didn’t make it clear if spoilers were a concern and opened talking about the endings so that’s as far as I can get for now.
Imagine thinking garbage Ubisoft games are worthy of spoiler warnings.
You'd have to have a half decent story to spoil first before being able to spoil it
I spent the time to go through all side quests and every single wealth or collective item i could get before i proceeded with the main quest within the current area i was in. After doing such allowed me to understand the story far better. Ofc you can't expect everyone to have that sort of dedication however the option to do so is there and choosing not to go through it is your choice. If you complain you don't get the story you have only yourself to point at.
I did the same thing until it became so boring I was unable to continue playing the game. Which was unbelievably fast, I got to that point faster than in Odyssey.
As much as I enjoyed AC Valhalla it wasn't a good “Assassin's Creed” game.
I dont know why there's so much hate for this game. I mean this is by far the most jam-packed features of all AC game But sadly they removed it to AC Mirage which is sucks for my opinion. This definitely one of my favorite AC game in the series
People hate it because it's too long, way too much pointless loot and way to bloated with chores for activities and collectibles, mediocre storyline and plot and pointless side content that just a snooze fest, skill trees are just way to long and bloated and it plays more like mediocre viking game rather then an ac game
Because the game is half baked and is designed to drive you to spend more money.
-World too big and ypu don't want to get all the collectibles? Buy an xp booster.
-your weapons and armor are blandly designed with boring passives? Buy some new ones in the store for $10 a pop.
-want more than 10 poorly made raids? Buy the dlc.
@@kingpinavatar couldn't agree more they tarnish my favorite environment, culture and lore which is vikings, just imagine the damage they would do with samurai. And the Japan setting they probably make it play more like a mediocre or sub par sumari game or a boot leg version of ghost of tsushima but just a shittyer and half back version that's way too over priced with way too much micro transactions
Content and features for the sake of content and features is meaningless and shoving it into a game breaks immersion and makes the world open and dead because playing a collectathon is not fun especially for ac games which have the microtransactions curse supprised they didn't pull a star wars battle front before EA got hit up the ass with lawsuits forcing them to fix the game and make it playable with non intrusive micro transactions or put pointless skins in the game like fortnite that doesn't make in universe sense
I wished origins had more content honestly.
I even go on and replay the side quests and enemy locations.
I decided to try to play through all the Assassin’s Creed games and when I got to Revelations I realized I couldnt do it anymore. Felt like the exact same thing with less environment diversity, same formula, some of the same frustrating mechanics. I wasnt passionate about what I was doing or excited for the grind. It’s like they said… “remember those frustrating moments leading up to all the progress made? Yeah screw that, its all gone and you’re just older now I guess.” Decided to take a shot in the dark and play a newer one (Valhalla) because I hoped they changed a lot, and boy am I having a BLAST. Has to be the best viking based game available, but I am pleasantly surprised at how the Assassin order ties in to everything. Theres a LOT of content which means a lot of mysteries and battles, raids, etc.
17:26 I think we Basim waiting for his for Sigur to also realize that he’s a God and unlock those memories because they’re just reincarnated potentially over and over and over again So if he wants to take revenge, why would you take revenge on someone who doesn’t know a thing instead you show them what they did and then you kill him it seems convoluted but I think that’s what he’s doing it
What normal ppl see:
assassin's creed: valhalla
What ac fans see:
viking dude with a hidden blade's creed: valhalla
I loved this game. While I'm new to AC so cannot compare. I loved playing as a Viking. I don't mind it being long, I did find some points were repetitive, if they took the repetition out and added new ones it would be amazing. Overall if they brought out valhalla 2 I would get it
You might be surprised to know Farcry: Primal introduced a 'bird' pet which was the prototype for all the birds we get in AC: Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla. That mechanic was never used in any other Farcry game.
Ahh yes.. the game made for nobody. Wonder why?
Bro, there's no Assassin's Creed in this 1 hour Assassin's Creed video.
“It’s too long”
Yall literally complaining that you got too much for your money. I get it to an extent but in todays market me personally I want to be able to put 100 or so hours in a game and not 100% it. I know yall going to come for me but I work hard for my money and I want to get the most out of the money I spend. I’m currently still playing this bc I just bought this game last week on sale lol but my point still stands
Yea I stopped this video 3 minutes in when he said Elden Ring was too long.
To each their own, I really liked the length of odyssey and valhalla.
But I REALLY like how many fake outs Elden Ring has... when you first think "oh I'm about the beat the game" and then you realize it's only halfway done.
Plus the various side area that are super out of the way, like the Haligtree or Moghs Domain, or The River. That shit was awesome every time. Gods I love elden ring
Black Flag, Origins, Oyssey, and Valhalla. All bangers. Mirage was poo.
Calling Mirage "poo" when it's clear from your favorites that you're just not a fan of Assassin's Creed is a little silly. Not that I'm saying not being a fan of the core AC formula is bad, it's just you could stand to be a bit more self-aware about that and the fact that these games aren't what fans want, and Mirage is way closer to that than any of the other games you listed.
The game is good, but has zero to do with "Assassin's Creed" and should've just been a stand alone game.
It’s unfortunate that not many people were aware that Valhalla pretty much serves as a “Love Letter” to the Franchise considering this Game makes Many References from Previous Titles.
The worse creed game is mirage hands down, the combat and weapons in that game are absolutely trash
Played ODYSSEY 3000 hours...
2:45 had me GAGGED
it's the worst assassins creed game because it isn't an assassins creed like game.
Yea, for you
@@juancarlosponce6664 I play it and it is really good but I is not assassin’s creed they just wanted to make money of calling it assassin’s creed