Your thoughts on AC: Odyssey? 🤔

[GamerBlake]

Hey guys, I just finished playing AC: Odyssey. I played very thoroughly and put in ~200 hours and got most achievements. What did you think of the game? I feel like it’s highly underrated. 

[mahyar]

a normal game

[Master Disaster]

Its a great game with an excellent story however the side quests get VERY grindy and later on levelling up seems to be nothing more than a way of gating the player from progressing the story in order to force more grind.

[Stahlmann]

I absolutely loved it aswell. I couldn't stop myself from clearing up every questionmark on the map. My first run was also ~200 hours in. Then i felt bad that it is already over and did a new game +. After 2 playthroughs and all DLCs, my character is now lvl 99 and completely OP. I loved this game. The world design, the story, just everything. I just hate when i'm in the middle of a main quest and then get pulled out of the animus. I think these games would still be completely fine as a standalone without all the animus stuff in the background. The DLCs were excellent aswell.

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

Hey guys, I just finished playing AC: Odyssey. I played very thoroughly and put in ~200 hours and got most achievements. What did you think of the game? I feel like it’s highly underrated. 

Personally, I feel it's highly overrated. Sure, it was better than AC: Origins, but I barely managed to play through the main-story, after which I was already so fed up with the game that I just uninstalled it, instead of going through all the DLC-content. The story is horribly inconsistent and there are several big holes in it, the characters are mostly unbelievable, the gameplay-loop is grindy and gets boring pretty quick and there's not much variance in quest-designs.

[Morgan MLGman]

Quite a nice game, should be better optimized in terms of performance. The main story is great, the DLCs are not as great but still good and I personally like the shift towards RPG/Mercenary type game, instead of only Assassin stuff that was in the old AC games. Although this shift caused the "modern" plot to be quite useless in this iteration. I don't personally mind though.

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Stahlmann said:

I just hate when i'm in the middle of a main quest and then get pulled out of the animus.

All the animus-stuff in AC: Origins completely surprised me and seriously pissed me off. I have not played any of the earlier AC-games, I have no clue as to what the animus is or who the characters are or any of that stuff, so getting yanked out of the game and thrown into this animus-stuff with zero idea what it was about was enormously grating. At least in AC: Odyssey I knew to expect it to happen, but I still don't know what it is all about and so it still remained an awful experience.

[GamerBlake]

Just now, WereCatf said:

Personally, I feel it's highly overrated. Sure, it was better than AC: Origins, but I barely managed to play through the main-story, after which I was already so fed up with the game that I just uninstalled it, instead of going through all the DLC-content. The story is horribly inconsistent and there are several big holes in it, the characters are mostly unbelievable, the gameplay-loop is grindy and gets boring pretty quick and there's not much variance in quest-designs.

I think it also matters whether you have an interest of Ancient Greece. I’m studying Classical History (Ancient Greece & Rome) and I thought it was amazing being able to actually see a fairly accurate depiction of Ancient Greece. Not to mention on max settings the visuals were incredible. I agree the quests were repetitive but that’s why I played the DLC simultaneously with the main game, to mix things up. I found by doing that I was getting a fair mix of quests. It was awesome to see and talk to famous people from Ancient Greece like Herodatus and Pericles.

[Stahlmann]

1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

All the animus-stuff in AC: Origins completely surprised me and seriously pissed me off. I have not played any of the earlier AC-games, I have no clue as to what the animus is or who the characters are or any of that stuff, so getting yanked out of the game and thrown into this animus-stuff with zero idea what it was about was enormously grating. At least in AC: Odyssey I knew to expect it to happen, but I still don't know what it is all about and so it still remained an awful experience.

Same thing for me. I played AC 2 and then skipped all games until playing Odyssey. I had absolutely no clue what was going on in the "modern" timeline and it just felt like i got ripped out of the immersion of the main storyline.

[GamerBlake]

3 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Quite a nice game, should be better optimized in terms of performance. The main story is great, the DLCs are not as great but still good and I personally like the shift towards RPG/Mercenary type game, instead of only Assassin stuff that was in the old AC games. Although this shift caused the "modern" plot to be quite useless in this iteration. I don't personally mind though.

I agree it was a nice game. I was fortunate enough to play with an 8700K & 2080 Ti so I got about 85fps on max settings but I can only imagine the disappointment with lower specced hardware like a 1050 or something.

 

I loved the visuals though. It was the closest thing to time travel in the modern day.

[Stahlmann]

1 minute ago, GamerBlake said:

I think it also matters whether you have an interest of Ancient Greece. I’m studying Classical History (Ancient Greece & Rome) and I thought it was amazing being able to actually see a fairly accurate depiction of Ancient Greece. Not to mention on max settings the visuals were incredible. I agree the quests were repetitive but that’s why I played the DLC simultaneously with the main game, to mix things up. I found by doing that I was getting a fair mix of quests. It was awesome to see and talk to famous people from Ancient Greece like Herodatus and Pericles.

If you're interested in ancient greece, there is also a "sightseeing and history" mode you can play and let a narrator explain every bit of history to you. Altough i never really used it, i think it's an excellent addition to the game.

[GamerBlake]

4 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

All the animus-stuff in AC: Origins completely surprised me and seriously pissed me off. I have not played any of the earlier AC-games, I have no clue as to what the animus is or who the characters are or any of that stuff, so getting yanked out of the game and thrown into this animus-stuff with zero idea what it was about was enormously grating. At least in AC: Odyssey I knew to expect it to happen, but I still don't know what it is all about and so it still remained an awful experience.

You know you can just hop back into Kassandra/Alexios right? Just go back in the Animus.

[GamerBlake]

Just now, Stahlmann said:

If you're interested in ancient greece, there is also a "sightseeing and history" mode you can play and let a narrator explain every bit of history to you. Altough i never really used it, i think it's an excellent addition to the game.

Oh yeah I saw that! I haven’t done it because I wanted to explore naturally first and I’m pretty sure I know all the stuff they’ll try to teach as a student of that period.

[Stahlmann]

Just now, GamerBlake said:

You know you can just hop back into Kassandra/Alexios right? Just go back in the Animus.

Later on you did not have the option to. For example when finding and exploring the gate to atlantis.

[GamerBlake]

1 minute ago, Stahlmann said:

Later on you did not have the option to. For example when finding and exploring the gate to atlantis.

Ah yeah well not that part. But I think that part was meant as an expansion intro so you could play the Atlantis DLC. They had to get you there somehow.

[Morgan MLGman]

8 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

I agree it was a nice game. I was fortunate enough to play with an 8700K & 2080 Ti so I got about 85fps on max settings but I can only imagine the disappointment with lower specced hardware like a 1050 or something.

 

I loved the visuals though. It was the closest thing to time travel in the modern day.

Yeah, some locations were almost breathtaking for a game... I played it with a 3700X & an overclocked 1080Ti on a 1440p, 144Hz monitor so the experience was great as well (pretty much had all on Ultra, but the volumetric clouds), but now I'm waiting for my RTX 3080 TUF order to come in and I'll jump right back into the game probably Got some unfinished stuff in the DLCs, so I'll measure the performance difference with a 3080. Finally a card that I could upgrade my good old 1080Ti to

But yeah, for someone even with a 1060 it's a challenging title to run. And most people still use 1050Tis and 1060s according to Steam Hardware survey.

[GamerBlake]

20 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Yeah, some locations were almost breathtaking for a game... I played it with a 3700X & an overclocked 1080Ti on a 1440p, 144Hz monitor so the experience was great as well (pretty much had all on Ultra, but the volumetric clouds), but now I'm waiting for my RTX 3080 TUF order to come in and I'll jump right back into the game probably Got some unfinished stuff in the DLCs, so I'll measure the performance difference with a 3080. Finally a card that I could upgrade my good old 1080Ti to

But yeah, for someone even with a 1060 it's a challenging title to run. And most people still use 1050Tis and 1060s according to Steam Hardware survey.

Have you finished the main game yet? Also the Cults and Orders? I finished the game then did that stuff. Ironically my spear was only level 5 when I beat the game even though 6 is the max.  
 

Honestly the way I see it: $60 for 200+ hours of entertainment is definitely worth it. That’s less than $0.30 an hour!

 

Im glad I got the best ending though.  
 

P.S. I was going to upgrade to a 3080 but with all the supply problems & the price tag I figure a 2080 Ti will be good enough to wait for the 4000s series whenever that is.

[WereCatf]

Just now, GamerBlake said:

You know you can just hop back into Kassandra/Alexios right? Just go back in the Animus.

That's irrelevant. You're still being ripped out of the game you thought you were playing into something you have zero idea about. Being able to hop back isn't an excuse.

[Morgan MLGman]

7 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

Have you finished the main game yet? Also the Cults and Orders? I finished the game then did that stuff. Ironically my spear was only level 5 when I beat the game even though 6 is the max.  
 

Honestly the way I see it: $60 for 200+ hours of entertainment is definitely worth it. That’s less than $0.30 an hour!

 

Im glad I got the best ending though.  

Yeah, I finished the main game, and finished the Atlantis DLC, but haven't gotten around to do the second one - I'll leave that for the new card
I agree that some things aren't too straightforward in this game, I skipped a few recent AC releases and had some figuring out to do in this one. For instance I only discovered that I can do "Travel Speed" with my ship halfway through the main story and was wasting time moving slow before that...
As for the Cultists, I admit I needed google's help to find some of them, though I was caught by surprise by the character that turned out to be the "head" of the Cult!

I bought the base game for around 10$ on Epic Games store some time ago, and then managed to get both DLCs for around the same price, so it was 20$ for me in total

9 minutes ago, GamerBlake said:

P.S. I was going to upgrade to a 3080 but with all the supply problems & the price tag I figure a 2080 Ti will be good enough to wait for the 4000s series whenever that is.

For a 1080Ti, a 3080 is finally a decent upgrade (unlike the 20 series), but for a 2080Ti it's not IMO, unless you're heavily gaming at 4K perhaps.
At 1080p you'd see around 10% difference with a 3080, and even 10% may be too much because you'd be extremely CPU bound.

Stick to the 2080Ti, it's still a great card despite what Nvidia may want you to think Even my 1080Ti would still suffice for me for 1440p - It's still a very fast GPU, and I'll actually lose 1GB of VRAM with the 3080, which is not what I expected considering I'm skipping one generation with this upgrade... I just got the upgrade itch and had money to burn, you could say, so I jumped and ordered one on launch day. Luckily I chose one of the few good models that don't experience issues...

[GamerBlake]

12 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Yeah, I finished the main game, and finished the Atlantis DLC, but haven't gotten around to do the second one - I'll leave that for the new card
I agree that some things aren't too straightforward in this game, I skipped a few recent AC releases and had some figuring out to do in this one. For instance I only discovered that I can do "Travel Speed" with my ship halfway through the main story and was wasting time moving slow before that...
As for the Cultists, I admit I needed google's help to find some of them, though I was caught by surprise by the character that turned out to be the "head" of the Cult!

I bought the base game for around 10$ on Epic Games store some time ago, and then managed to get both DLCs for around the same price, so it was 20$ for me in total

For a 1080Ti, a 3080 is finally a decent upgrade (unlike the 20 series), but for a 2080Ti it's not IMO, unless you're heavily gaming at 4K perhaps.
At 1080p you'd see around 10% difference with a 3080, and even 10% may be too much because you'd be extremely CPU bound.

Stick to the 2080Ti, it's still a great card despite what Nvidia may want you to think Even my 1080Ti would still suffice for me for 1440p - It's still a very fast GPU, and I'll actually lose 1GB of VRAM with the 3080, which is not what I expected considering I'm skipping one generation with this upgrade... I just got the upgrade itch and had money to burn, you could say, so I jumped and ordered one on launch day. Luckily I chose one of the few good models that don't experience issues...

I used Google too for some of them. Especially the ones out at sea since I didn’t want to end up attacking every ship I saw.

For like the first 20 hours of the game I didn’t even know you could find those eagle markers and make them fast travel points so I ended up having to go back and get them all and at the time I couldn’t go back to Kephalonia where I started. I was kinda pissed about that since they never mention the fast travel points all over the map. 
 

 

Did you see that achievement where you have to get the Cyclops’ (from the intro) eye back by killing goats after you shove it up their a**?  

 

The BOAR was insanely hard farting gas everywhere. Omg hardest fight in the game!

 

I played “Normal” mode so I was able to do stuff ~2-3 levels above my own.

 

I just recently learned that Mercenary Rank 1 isn’t even the highest! There is a whole “prestige” set of ranks too!

Oh wow you got lucky! I bought it on sale on Steam and it was $41.99 (normally it’s $119!! ) for the “Ultimate” edition with all the DLC & perks and stuff (which I didn’t use).

 

Im only gaming at 1440p/144hz so yeah I think a 2080 Ti will be more than sufficient. However I do enjoy a cinematic play experience so once my 2080 Ti starts struggling with “medium” settings in most newer games I’ll probably replace it then.

 

I also noticed my 2080 Ti has more vram than the 3080. But it’s GDDR6 not GDDR6X like the 3080.

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

I enjoyed it, though it did become a little repetitive after a while.

 

That said, it looked great, the locations (and visuals in general) were excellent, the world felt alive with people and animals, and the story was decent enough.

 

Definitely, a high point in the series.

 

Valhalla looks to be more of the same.

[GamerBlake]

11 hours ago, Maury Sells Wigs said:

I enjoyed it, though it did become a little repetitive after a while.

 

That said, it looked great, the locations (and visuals in general) were excellent, the world felt alive with people and animals, and the story was decent enough.

 

Definitely, a high point in the series.

 

Valhalla looks to be more of the same.

Did you play the DLC? I found that by doing the Legacy of the First Blade and Fate of Atlantis quests alongside the normal game quests that it didn’t get too repetitive.

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

12 hours ago, GamerBlake said:

Did you play the DLC? I found that by doing the Legacy of the First Blade and Fate of Atlantis quests alongside the normal game quests that it didn’t get too repetitive.

No, I didn't get round to playing the DLC.

 

I kind of felt like I'd seen as much of that world as I wanted.

 

Would you recommend it then?

[jones177]

I played it on a i7 8086k with a EVGA XC.

At first I tried at 4k but the Noctua NH-D15 and EVGA XC were so loud that I played it on my ultra wide(3440 X 1440) instead.  Power from the wall was higher in this games than any other game/bench reaching almost 600 watts at 4k but only 550 watts on the ultrawide. I still keep the game on my computers for stress testing and benches.

 

I played the game without using fast travel since it is a fun exploration game. It also allowed me to pick up enough resources along the way so the game never became a grind.

 

On 9/29/2020 at 6:16 AM, GamerBlake said:

Im only gaming at 1440p/144hz so yeah I think a 2080 Ti will be more than sufficient. However I do enjoy a cinematic play experience so once my 2080 Ti starts struggling with “medium” settings in most newer games I’ll probably replace it then.

 

I think there is no point in upgrading a 2080 ti to a 3080/3090 for 1440p gaming.

My EVGA FTW3 Ultras are bottlenecked at that resolution even with hard to run games like RDR 2 and all my RT games are playable at that resolution.

 

My AC:O bench at 1440p is 81fps average with ultra high settings so the 3080 is not an upgrade. It does beat my 4k score of 59fps but not by much. 

So Going by AC:O alone the 3080 is not an upgrade at all.

A 3090 is an upgrade but only at 4k.

  

[GamerBlake]

12 hours ago, Maury Sells Wigs said:

No, I didn't get round to playing the DLC.

 

I kind of felt like I'd seen as much of that world as I wanted.

 

Would you recommend it then?

Well I enjoyed the DLC because it opened up two more entire different stories for me to play simultaneously with the main game so things didn’t get stale. When I got bored of one storyline or it started feeling repetitive I would switch and do one of the DLC storylines.

 

I would recommend it if your problem with the game is repetition and boredom.