Is Assassin's Creed Elder Scrolls now?

And lords of the fallen

Raiziel wrote:

I think it wants to be The Witcher 3.

The music certainly does.

I'm now quite some distance from the nearest quest and level 13 but most of the stuff around me is to high level. Even the wildlife is deadly. Still satisfying when a location only needs things stealing rather than killing and you can sneak in and complete it. Less so when an angry pig wipes out most of your life in one charge.

The big pitched battles are fun. Spent most of the time desperately trying to take down a level 12 foe (I was level 11) I wrongly assumed was the big commander only to discover it was some bounty hunter trying to collect my reward. Still I taught him a lesson then one the battle single handedly.

It certainly pays not to specialize to much in out right sneaky assassinary.. it's nice to be able to deal some big damage on teh go with a few buffs.

No you can and indeed are mostly encouraged to stealth apart from the big pitched battles

Had a good bash on this last night and I have to say it left me impressed.  The world space is very detailed and I like that fact that incidental npcs blabber on in Ancient Greek. Adds to the atmos.  Barely a few minutes out of the tutorial and I was diving through flooded caves seeking lost treasures and raiding bandit camps.   The stealth mechanics seem a bit clunky but my early failed assassination attempts were probably just a result of my cack handedness rather than the controls.

Comparisons with Witcher 3 ( a game unduly lionised here for some reason) seem fair, but here's a list of things it does better:

It's only early doors for me, but the combat delivers a good sense of heft and enemy AI is definitely smarter so far (bandits scatter for cover upon sensing they're under arrow attack).  No 'I'll chase you up to this point and then return to my patrol zone' lameness that so badly afflicted mobs in the Witcher.

The maps is littered with '?'  just like CD Projekt's game but the use of the Eagle here to scout out areas is inspired.  Soaring high above the landscape to tag enemies and points of interest is suitably epic.  I can't see that ever getting old and you don't get the sense you're just hoovering up '?' on the map, like with the Witcher.

Horses - mounts just seem so much more natural and the ability to auto cruise on roads works better, with a neat feature to lock onto quest locations.  Boat travel too seems more fluid and traversal by foot and underwater feels vastly superior too.  Loving the ability to scale anything, Zelda like.

It remains to be seen whether the side quests are of a similar quality to the Witcher, but all the early indications are that this title is setting a new standard in open-world RPGs.  But don't just take my word for it, Biffo liked it too!

Quests definitely the weak spot. Would prefer a more organic approach the questing like in TES gams - my brain gets overloaded with all the '?' littered around the maps.

Are you going man or chick Block?

The Mercs system is quite good though. It's nice to be able to pay them off when you don't want to be over run.

Also you can't hunt down the person that put the bounty on you.

So far my ships a bit underused but only cos I've traveled so far on foot exploring.

Blocks100 wrote:

Chick.   A series first.

Apart from Liberation.

And a couple of the 2D ones, I think.

22 hours in

Top half of the map showing where I've been in colour.



Bottom half of the map I've not visited.There's a middle bit I didn't bother with.



Me taming a legendary wolf to be my temporary side kick. Sadly no trophy for this.

The map is huge alright, and I notice that each region is clearly marked with the level range, presumably to help you straying into areas that are way above your level.  I'm only level 5 currently, and had been putting off a level 4 quest until I had levelled up to 5, thinking it would be fun to give the bandits a proper mauling.  However, when I got the quest location, I noticed that all the enemies had scaled with me to level 5.  Is this a thing?   Not good if it is.

You can get up to two levels ahead of side quests. The areas show the maximum level that can be seen.

Generally you'll be ok if you stay around your level.

I think story quests scale with you.

It's a good system. I'm pretty unstoppable now.

I've got to sail somewhere and I come across four boats..I can take two down but the at least one gets me before I can finish.. I've not really paid attention to the ship controls.. or tactics

Any advice?

Not ok hun?