Took me 2 years to fill the bugs on the museum in ACNL.

I think being able to get that final rare stag beetle would be far less satisfying without the wait.

I burnt out on AC. Mainly due to the fact I was furloughed and had all the time so I just binged it. As Questor said, repetitive dialogue and gameplay are too much too bare, especially when they expect players to keep logging in everyday for years. Tapping away at the A button is all I seem to do in the game and it can get mind numbing.

It's a lovely game. The cuteness is unparalleled and the graphics are gorgeous. I will still pop it on to have a run about and do some stuff, but the core gameplay loop is so shallow. I expected many, many more mini games and events to get lost in, but really it' just a very simplistic fishing game with some tree shaking and customisation options.

The missus has fallen deeply into it. I've never seen her so addicted to a game. First thing she does every morning is turn AC on. I'm now after something new to play. I really want to buy Nioh 2 right now but my sensible self is telling me to avoid it like the plague...

Origins, actually

Tempy wrote:

Origins, actually

Is that a serious response? Cos I wanted to play another Creed at some point. Haven’t really played one properly (just bits of 3 and 4) since Brotherhood. I was burnt out.

hylian_elf wrote:

Tempy wrote:

Origins, actually

Is that a serious response? Cos I wanted to play another Creed at some point. Haven’t really played one properly (just bits of 3 and 4) since Brotherhood. I was burnt out.

IMO, yep.

Origins and Odyssey are both good, for various reasons. I played them both (the opposite way around) and I ended up preferring Origins. It's more intimate, has tigther combat, has less of the issues with gear and inability to assassinate/damage tough enemies (though not entirely absent) and I think Bayek is a great protagonist. The Scales of the Crocodile is probably the best mission series in any AC game ever.

Right, just grabbed gold edition of Origins for £9, now to find time to play it...

I think aesthetically the world worked really well. I liked travelling all over by boat and seeing the new places, each island had its own little feeling to it - one of them had a purple dye works going on and they did a good job of suffusing the environment with a nice purple hue, and similarly there was a town that fished tons of octopus and it was nice and ruddy orange hue. 

Fundamentally both places were almost identical, but I disagree that the world design for AAA has had its bar raised by those games in such a way that what Odyssey offers is pointless, it's going for that quasi-historical myhtologic feel and I think it nails that myself. I think the various Ubi studios worked really hard to give areas their own feel and character even if the underlying game was fairly predictable.

I guess what I am saying is... whilst they might not be the best, they're still engaging worlds in many ways.

Alternatively I didnt last long with Odyssey at all, mainly because I found the combat dull.

I definitely do not get the love for the main character.  I’d read loads about how wonderful she was but I just couldn’t get to it.  Never mind the massive cliches they’d saddled her with, i just couldn’t get over how poorly written much of the dialogue was and how downright rotten the soundmix was then forced around it.  I really wanted to like this one too.  The previous entry had (apparently) set decent foundations, the setting should be right up my alley and I usually find Tempys recommendations on here really match my likes too but I just couldn’t find my feet with it all.

No thanks, I have no idea when I will play it. Just for future reference, when I do get round to it, I was wondering which is more well-received out of latest two. 

What did you think of it?

All I can say is that I was a noisy critic of the AssCree games but Odyssey was class. Can loan on bone to anyone if they'd like.

Actually, don't. I need to get on with Persona 5 R

I read earlier that entering the fishing competition in AC involves pressing the A button 29 times.
Each attempt.

I brought this up while playing Yakuza 0 and it wasnt even that bad in that game.

Pokemon is heroundous for it, been playing this pissing game for decades I dont need
"Hi welcome to the pokemon centre."
A
"This is where you can you heal your pokemon"
A
"Would you like to heal your pokemon"
A
*animation*
"Your pokemon are fully healed, we hope to see you again"
A

The Japanese have too much patience for bullshit.

They wont. This is almost every Japanese game.
I assume it is because in Japanese these things are more compressed due to the characters in their language.

Say goodbye to the next fortnight