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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They had a lot of good ideas in Unity. It's such a shame that its poor launch basically single-handedly caused Ubisoft to pivot into the RPG style AC games instead.

Even though the controls are somewhat clunky, the concept of the free run up/down in Unity is amazing, and could have ended up being truly stellar had they continued to work on it. When you get it to work in Unity and you string together a nice parkour sequence you feel like a million bucks. The animations are just the best in the series, and Paris is the best AC city they ever created (and it's not close).

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tbf I didn't mind the RPG ones. I think Origins struck the better balance of having a linear story while still letting you build Bayek how you wanted.

I liked Odyssey, but I didn't really care for how there were multiple endings, because it doesn't make sense from a narrative or lore standpoint. The Animus is supposed to show us the genetic memories of people who lived in the past, so shouldn't everything that happens in the Animus actually have happened in the past? Why are there multiple choice endings, or discussions for that matter? Still, it was fun for the power fantasy it was.

Valhalla was just too much.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago

To be honest they kind of just gave up on the whole modern day angle, which I personally find a shame. But I agree with you, it makes no sense to have multiple endings given what the Animus is supposed to be. I mean, that's the whole reason we were getting stuff like "Game Over: Ezio never killed civilians" earlier.