Bob wrote:

https://www.eurogamer.net/assassins-creed-odyssey-available-on-pc-and-xbox-game-pass-today

The best Ass Creed comes to gamepass today.

Odyssey is the best one?
Anyway there all on ps+ extra too, all of them.

Bob wrote:

Yes by a slim
Margin

I thought it started well but got real boring real quick.
As is usual for this game series.

Best entry. Enjoyed every bit of it including the DLC. Team Alexios.

Is Origin not the best one?  I dunno.  If I had to play one now (haven't played once since I gave up on the one after Brotherhood) it would be between Origin and Odyssey.

It's Brotherhood 2

They’re both great, and I loved Valhalla for the most part, but Odyssey just clinched it for me.

The combats way better than Witcher, for me that’s biggest let down of an amazing game.

Yeah and Kassandra is a legendary video game character … don’t like her you probably need a new hobby

Minnesänger wrote:

If this is the best one I’m glad I skipped the series.

Have you not dabbled with the naval combat, Mercenary system or Conquest Battles yet? They help keep things fresh.

Blocks100 wrote:

If this is the best one I’m glad I skipped the series.

Have you not dabbled with the naval combat, Mercenary system or Conquest Battles yet? They help keep things fresh.

Yeah, think I should make clear that this is very much a case of game and player not matching - I'm just straight up not an Open World fan and I'm not a Ubisoft game fan, so I went in with low expectations. It's clearly very good, it's just not for me. 

Did try the conquest stuff, yes, and the Mercenary stuff and the Ship battles - for me, they're just more bloat and numberwang. I really don't wanna collect resources to upgrade my ship, and my enjoyment of mercenaries is somewhat lessened by the in game levelling system. But again, that's all personal preference - it just ain't my bag. 

Only area where i'd straight up say Odyssey is bad is that fucking L1+R1 parry, which it looks like you can remap, but it has to be 2 buttons at once???! Yes, it's a nice big parry window, so the effect isn't that bad, but it just feels utterly shit. Hate it, hate it, hate it.  

One thing Odyssey has going for it is that it kept me somewhat entertained for longer than Ghost of Tsushima did. 

Trying Valhalla now and, weirdly, kinda enjoying it more. Think I prefer that it gets into the spooky / weird faster and it has a more focused design philosophy with, at least for now, fewer competing systems. It's a combat RPG where you raid shit, not a loot-based sometimes-naval, Game as a Service but Single-Player, territorial domination, numberwang content-thon. 

Also, England is objectively a better country than Greece. That helps.

And @Bob - Kassandra is great. Best thing about Odyssey.

LivDiv wrote:

I'm on Valhalla and finding it much more interesting than Odyssey. Odyssey got repetitive really quickly. Valhalla is still on the same formula but the variety is much improved. The raids especially capture the feeling of being a Viking marauder. Main crit I suppose is that it's not very assassiny it's more actiony but that suits me.

Yar, this is me so far.

The only thing I haven’t touched is your village, do you have to do anything with it?

Its worth doing.
Definitely, definitely upgrade the witch lady's house when she arrives. You will be missing out on a great part of the game if you don't. Hers is the tent at the back near the waterfall.
Same with the Assassin's house, that is where you cash in the necklaces you get of the Order folk, that will get you some good abilities.
The stables is again worth doing, you upgrade your horse for significantly better stamina and the ability to swim, both massively useful.
The barracks lets you change your raid party, you make a raid leader yourself and can employ them from other random online people. Not sure how much difference this makes but its fun.
Others like the tattoo parlour are fairly obvious, havent done that one yet as there has always been somehting more interesting.

Some other side quests open up too when you level the village up. Plus two more open ended gametypes, a raid party thing and a roguelike from other houses.

It is no big deal to do really. You will pick up the supplies doing raids and sacking camps anyway. Then just go up to the sign outside each tent and upgrade it. You dont have to place anything or worry about keeping anyone happy or resupplying once upgraded. Its pretty hands off.

There's another one out then?

Actually sounds more my thing than the last couple. No numberwang / RPG faff. More focussed. And a bit more stealthy.

Reviews suggest it works reasonably well as a sight return to the series roots, though still not without its flaws (including, as ever, questionable meta story nonsense).

In theory, could you subscribe to Ubisoft+, rinse the game and then cancel your subscription?