Raiziel wrote:

Bit disappointed it’s set in England.  Was hoping I’d be playing beneath auroran skies.

Whoever said Milton Keynes was kinda right

I didn't play more than the first half hour of Gears 5 so can't really say much about it

Well it starts in Norway and apparently you're free to sail back and forth across the sea to visit either landmass. A lot smaller scale than Odyssey though with presumably only your Norwegian homebase and 3 confirmed major cities in England, across the kingdoms of Northumbera, Mercia and Wessex.  Mind you, Odyssey was so HUGE the only direction they could go would be to make it smaller (but hopefully with more detail).

Other things I gleaned from the announcement was the focus on settlement building. Don't think it'll be handled like Fallout4 (god forbid), more a case of dialogue choices that'll have your merry Viking men build a blacksmith if you want to prioritise weapon crafting over sheep herding or whatever. 

As loathe as I am to side with the purists who argue that the series has forgotten its roots, you do have to pause and wonder, 'where are the Assassiny bits then?`. I mean, there's absolutely no mention of stealth gameplay elements at all in this initial announcement. Early days I admit but did no one else question why this has still got Assassin in the title? It's all mass scale battles now, no skulking in the shadows. 

Not that I'm complaining, I love the new direction the series has taken (and it's not exactly new any more anyway)

Blocks100 wrote:

Well it starts in Norway and apparently you're free to sail back and forth across the sea to visit either landmass. A lot smaller scale than Odyssey though with presumably only your Norwegian homebase and 3 confirmed major cities in England, across the kingdoms of Northumbera, Mercia and Wessex.  Mind you, Odyssey was so HUGE the only direction they could go would be to make it smaller (but hopefully with more detail).

Other things I gleaned from the announcement was the focus on settlement building. Don't think it'll be handled like Fallout4 (god forbid), more a case of dialogue choices that'll have your merry Viking men build a blacksmith if you want to prioritise weapon crafting over sheep herding or whatever. 

As loathe as I am to side with the purists who argue that the series has forgotten its roots, you do have to pause and wonder, 'where are the Assassiny bits then?`. I mean, there's absolutely no mention of stealth gameplay elements at all in this initial announcement. Early days I admit but did no one else question why this has still got Assassin in the title? It's all mass scale battles now, no skulking in the shadows. 

Not that I'm complaining, I love the new direction the series has taken (and it's not exactly new any more anyway)

I guarantee the
Odyssey team are
Working on bigger

Coming to old and new
Consoles
Male
And female
Lead

Now that I know this is what Monreal are working on, I am interested to see where they take it.

LivDiv wrote:

Cross gen(der)

Yes

Apparently the guy who plays Cnut in The Last Kingdom voices the main protagonist in this new AssCreed game. Get in!

Risotto was the second game.

You don’t. It should list the Cult as a main quest, Family as a main quest, and eventually a third main quest. They all have their own states of completion (e.g you can complete the third one without finishing the first and vice versus) but they overlap in certain places, so you’ll kill cultists as part of the family quest and so on.

Obviously good for leveling up etc though I imagine. So I'll probably get a few.

I'm on explore mode now though, and although I can mark the ones I have all clues for, it didn't say where I think they are our mark it on the main map, just on the HUD compass, which shows things down a little... Think I'm enjoying it more overall though, it is a bit more interesting than just having every blob on the map

Depends on the mission tbf

There's still a chunk of that, not is not all assassinations by any means

Just to see what all the fuss was about, I bought a copy of Black Flag sometime ago and I have now finally got round to playing it.  It was a bit of a jolt coming from Odyssey, with movement and combat being far more clunky than the game that came 5 years later, but hardly surprising. But once things started to click a bit more, there was a lot to appreciate in its recreation of 18th century Havana - the setting was spot on.

One thing I'd like to see return in Valhalla is the set piece levels. Essentially Odyssey was one big level, but apart from some memorable fortress raids, there weren't any crafted set pieces (those dynasty warrior sections don't count)

Only early days with Black Flag, but I was suitably impressed with the level where I had to free imprisoned pirates from a fleet of Spanish galleons. If the next game can craft some similarly stunning set pieces whilst still maintaining it's open world sensibilities, we'll be onto a winner.

Skull & Bones. Ubi last stated it would set sail on the '2020/2021 fiscal year'. So, lost at sea then.