Just finished Far Cry 5, and I’m almost done with Assassins Creed Origins.
Awesome games from UbiSoft. Can’t wait for the next installments.
Bro, go and play it. Its an awesome way to burn 40+hrs.Skipped Origins, but I think I'm all in on Odyssey. Looks beautiful.
AC2 is one of my favorite games of all time. That said, I'm a tad nervous about this RPG path they took the series down and that's partly why I didn't get Origins. Is there still the satisfaction of assassinating and one-shotting bad guys? I see videos of Bayek impaling dudes and they fall down...then get back up. Cuz, RPG mechanics.
But Odyssey I just can't resist and I figure they will have fine-tuned it enough with the second game with all the new mechanics and systems they are using, to where I am willing to give it a shot.
I am not exactly sure what you are referring to, but is that so far fetch really? lol .
But one thing I really love in this game is using the eagle to scout and tag all the enemies in a fort/area and then slowly infiltrate quietly the entire area with bows and arrows with one-shots to the head.
Like this video, but minus the slow motion arrow control. I just let it fly:
https://youtu.be/99OvpJRQPFk
After Witcher 3, I think these guys deserve the benefit of the doubt on anything they make until they prove us wrong. When you make a GOAT game, you get that kind of respect.
You can find a bunch of writeups online about a behind the scenes demo that CDPR showed the media, but basically everyone was absolutely blown away and they showed things that you haven't seen anywhere else. Lots of stuff you'd expect from CDPR like branching storylines and a ton of new combat tweaks that you've never seen before. Bullets that ricochet off walls, implants that change your GUI and allow you to see different things, drugs that change sensory perception like slowing down time, mantis blades that can come out of your arms and help you climb walls and rip up enemies in close combat...
They also stressed verticality and people were commenting how every floor of a high-rise seemed so alive, like there were people to talk to and quests and stories to discover. Basically, CDPR can do no wrong in my book until they release a sub-par game.
You can find a bunch of writeups online about a behind the scenes demo that CDPR showed the media, but basically everyone was absolutely blown away and they showed things that you haven't seen anywhere else. Lots of stuff you'd expect from CDPR like branching storylines and a ton of new combat tweaks that you've never seen before. Bullets that ricochet off walls, implants that change your GUI and allow you to see different things, drugs that change sensory perception like slowing down time, mantis blades that can come out of your arms and help you climb walls and rip up enemies in close combat...
They also stressed verticality and people were commenting how every floor of a high-rise seemed so alive, like there were people to talk to and quests and stories to discover. Basically, CDPR can do no wrong in my book until they release a sub-par game.
Also, I'm a bit late to the game but I bought God of War and just beat it. Easily one of the best games I've ever played and it's in TLoU tier right below the Witcher 3 for me. So many amazing story moments in the game, and the first fight with The Stranger is better directed than any action sequence in any Marvel movie so far. Just unbelievable quality and everything is so polished.
I think I posted somewhere on here that the Witcher 3 and GoW are like 1a,1b for me. Hard to decide.
So I agree 100% with your entire post. lol
What makes the Witcher 3 the GOAT for me is the sheer ambition of the game. The game wasn't nearly as polished as something like GoW; there were a ton of bugs, combat wasn't nearly as good... But there's no other game where I could wander into any little random town and get a fascinating story about the world I'm exploring. Between the fantastic writing and creativity of the team, no other open world has felt so alive and independent of whatever you're doing. Compare that to all the Elder Scrolls games where everyone basically exists to give you quests.