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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 15, 2019 19:02:32 GMT -5
From what I have read, AC Origins was sort of a transitional form from earlier AC games to the more open-world RPG format of AC Odyssey. I've never played any earlier AC games.
Part of the sale was that AC3 Remastered was tossed in for free when I bought AC Odyssey. I tried to play it first before playing AC Odyssey, but I couldn't. Apparently it counts as DLC for AC Odyssey and I didn't have the DRM key code to play it on its own. But supposedly now that I have authorized AC Odyssey, AC3 Remastered will unlock. However, I couldn't fit both of them on my disk drive at the same time without deleting other games I didn't want to delete.
It's a little complicated installing an Ubisoft game from Steam, because instead of just directly having Steam manage the DRM, Steam works with Ubisoft's UPlay to handle the authorization. Previously for Ubisoft games, I bought them on UPlay.
But having some games on UPlay and some on Steam makes for more complicated management. Almost all my other games are on Steam.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 15, 2019 22:14:29 GMT -5
I liked all the earlier AC games. The combat was relatively easy (even if you died here and there), the parkour (e.g., climbing, jumping, hanging, tightroping) was a lot of fun and smooth, the sit-down puzzles were okay (even if some didn't make any sense), and the environmental puzzles were really challenging.
AC AC2 AC Brotherhood AC Revelations AC3 AC4 Black Flag
AC3 got poor reviews but I liked it a lot.
I'm waiting for the price to come down for AC Rogue, AC Unity, and AC Syndicate.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 16, 2019 6:45:16 GMT -5
AC Odyssey starts with you on the island of Kephallonia, which is rendered fairly faithfully to the real island except in scale (it's only maybe 1 km from one end of the island to the other, and the player can run that distance in a few minutes). The real island is about 50x bigger. You can also reach the island of Ithaca just by swimming there or taking a small boat.
You get a series of quests leading to a confrontation with the biggest gangster on the island. You can also wander the two islands and find smaller radiant quests, discover locations, explore a few caves, fight bandit camps, etc.
But all of this is just the introduction to the main game ... when you finally deal with this gangster, you end up with a ship that can sail to the mainland and all the other Greek islands. It's kind of like the small area in Far Cry 4 where you are stuck until you complete the introductory questlines, and then the rest of Kyrat opens up to you. In this game they lock most of the map away from you until you finish what almost seems like a tutorial miniature game.
A lot of open world RPG games seem to have something like that, although the Elder Scrolls games tend to pretty much just dump you into the full open world with not much more than a vague "you should go see this guy at this place" first quest -- which you are free to ignore if you want. Oblivion and Skyrim both had a short tutorial dungeon to go through, while Morrowind pretty nearly dumped you straight out on your own. But none of them had a small open mini-world for you to explore before releasing you into the main world.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 17, 2019 9:47:36 GMT -5
god of war has been shipped. hope it arrives by saturday
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 17, 2019 12:33:06 GMT -5
Speaking of god of war, PSN has the God of War Collection (includes God of War and God of War II) for the PS3 for $5.99. Problem is, I don't know if I'll have time to play video games anymore!
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 17, 2019 17:50:04 GMT -5
Ubisoft is currently giving away Assassin's Creed Unity for free via uplay, in honor of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 17, 2019 17:54:39 GMT -5
Ubisoft is currently giving away Assassin's Creed Unity for free via uplay, in honor of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Too bad I can't take advantage of this. No PC.
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Post by XAsstCoach on Apr 17, 2019 21:31:08 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 17, 2019 21:38:21 GMT -5
Has anyone ever played any of the Star Wars games? I've been avoiding them like the plague because I just assume they're going to suck. I could be wrong. You know that Jedi power that allows you to levitate someone? I've already experienced that in a couple of games -- Borderlands 2, Just Cause 3 -- and it's pretty cool. I don't know if that's an actual skill in the Star Wars games though.
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Post by XAsstCoach on Apr 18, 2019 1:22:58 GMT -5
Has anyone ever played any of the Star Wars games? I've been avoiding them like the plague because I just assume they're going to suck. I could be wrong. You know that Jedi power that allows you to levitate someone? I've already experienced that in a couple of games -- Borderlands 2, Just Cause 3 -- and it's pretty cool. I don't know if that's an actual skill in the Star Wars games though. Played mostly on PC when it was released....started with Star Wars: Dark Forces where we got a glimpse of the Darktrooper. Then played the following afterwards: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Star Wars: Republic Commando Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II The best was Knights of the Old Republic, but I enjoyed playing the games listed above. Then there was bubkus...nothing like these FPS for the longest time. Actually, they released a couple but it was more like online multi-players type of game, and I'm not a fan of it. So, I'm looking forward to this new release and I hope gameplay will be similar to Horizon Zero Dawn.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 18, 2019 4:45:26 GMT -5
Has anyone ever played any of the Star Wars games? I've been avoiding them like the plague because I just assume they're going to suck. I could be wrong. You know that Jedi power that allows you to levitate someone? I've already experienced that in a couple of games -- Borderlands 2, Just Cause 3 -- and it's pretty cool. I don't know if that's an actual skill in the Star Wars games though. Back in about 1985 I spent some quarters playing the Star Wars Empire Strikes Back arcade video game. It was just the same four scenes repeated over and over at higher difficulty: shoot the probots, use your tow cables to trip the walkers, shoot tie fighters, dodge asteroids. If you met certain goals you got a bonus letter (J-E-D-I), four bonuses ("JEDI") gave you an extra shield, or something like that.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 18, 2019 5:53:38 GMT -5
doesn't EA have a terrible reputation with respect to a previous star wars game?
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Post by XAsstCoach on Apr 18, 2019 7:47:00 GMT -5
doesn't EA have a terrible reputation with respect to a previous star wars game? Yeah, Battlefront II was a bust. I think price dropped to the $20-30 range like 4-6 months after its release. Fans were starting to complain about it, calling for Disney to revoke EA’s licensing agreement.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 18, 2019 8:54:06 GMT -5
just beat shadow of the tomb raider. will drop it in the mail tomorrow morning. next game in the queue is god of war gamefly has received shadow of the tomb raider. that's quick.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 20, 2019 8:37:55 GMT -5
Wolfgang, I think you would love AC: Odyssey. It plays a lot like Far Cry except 1) has a more interesting plot, 2) has no guns, 3) has BRUTAL melee combat. You liked the melee takedowns in Far Cry? You get way, way more of them in AC: Odyssey. And you also get really brutal melee fights too -- with spears, swords, and even giant sledgehammers. And naval battles too.
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