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[–] philycheezestake@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m actually looking forward to an Assassin’s Creed game for the first time since AC3, has the modern day story gotten any more coherent?

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still can't believe they haven't just ditched the modern day stuff

At this point I agree. I loved the modern day stuff up until the end of 3. But then Black Flag just made it a boring slog with maybe one or two good ideas.

[–] Wumbologist@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

In AC: Odyssey it gave you the option to outright skip the modern day sections

[–] CarterDarter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not any personal interest in Black Flag? Tbf, my opinion is that it's a great game but not a good Assassin's Creed game

[–] philycheezestake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I loved Black Flag but I wasn’t excited for it like the previous titles and the present day stuff was just kinda spinning it’s wheels while making meta jokes about Ubisoft.

[–] CarterDarter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Very fair! I go back to replay it with excitement and it always drops off my face when I remember how god awful the present day stuff is.. can't believe it took until Odyssey to give us an option to skip

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can't believe they didn't create any mods for BF, could easily have been like Skyrim in terms of longevity. People would have added full on trading and fleet mods like the old school Syd Meyers games. What a waste of dev time to create so much potential and justet it die.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubisoft did finally make a stand alone version that's in beta right now. Skull and Bones. They promised all the cool stuff we wanted and it's totally separate from assassin's Creed, but unfortunately they seemed to have botched it and there's even fewer features than in Black Flag. Ubisoft just doesn't seem to be able to make anything else except progressively worse AC games.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Hey! They also can drive Far Cry and all the Tom Clancy series into the ground, while also forgetting the rest of their beloved series even existed.

[–] bestturtleboy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know - no I played Valhalla and enjoyed the gameplay but the story is just so gone now. I hope this new game has it brought back.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are they still working on buffing the shit out of the same modern day protagonist as before or what? I only got about halfway through Odyssey (but looked up the ending) and skipped Valhalla.