Still haven't made it to Valhalla. Apparently my ubisoft account was hacked and I couldn't change it back because their system emails wouldn't come through. To be honest I'm dreading it. Once I hit 70 hrs in Odyssey I was like... come ONNNNNN.....I didn't even finish the last bit with Hades.
AC Shadows... I have about 30 hours in the game and will say anyone that cries about the game being DEI, woke and/or states the gameplay is trash is 100% just grifters. Shadows blows away Valhalla and at minimum is on par with Black Flag, Origins, and Odyssey.
The black samurai, Yasuke, has the EXACT same story setup as John Blackthorne in the show Shogun. He isn't some honored samurai, he was a black slave of the Portugeuse who pawned him to a Japanese lord in exchange for the freedom of their own merchant traders. The Japanese lord accepted solely cuz he noticed that Yasuke was able to merely glance across a room and identify where each threat would come from.
With that said, I rarely use Yasuke. I'm a female ninja all the way, and if I can romance a female, I'll be a lesbian ninja.
Yeah, the facial animations are bad (but no worse than AAA games like BG3) the Eng dub is atrocious (had to switch to Jap sub) and the story overall is generic (I've never played AC for the stories). The battle system is easily the best of any AC game I've played, and the environments are the best graphically that I've seen. Horizon Forbidden West Remastered is the only game that can be argued.
But that only applies if you're playing on the PS5 Pro or on PC with a GPU with ray tracing. The game is designed around ray tracing, and if you don't have it, then you literally don't know what you're missing...
Triscuit@bob_loblaw I actually really liked Valhalla for like... 40 hours. After that, you can literally feel how blatantly padded the game is. For example, the skill tree is massive... but then you realize all the nodes you unlock are pointless, like +0.3% Crit Dmg. The skill trees in Shadows is more like Origins or Ghost of Tsushima. I have about 60 hours in Shadows now and I still enjoy riding my horse across different seasons in Feudal Japan.
Veru@verucassault It took me a bit...... I forgot. Need to check tonight
My Own Hero @joemama711 Haha you're good, it's gotten really popular and good reviews, I think I'm close to beating it with 9ish hours.
Veru@verucassault Full disclosure. I still didn't. So I work from my computer all day. And I'm fucking old. It wasn't an issue over the last 5 years my fucking eye sight is nose diving. I used to have reading glasses. Then they became media glasses for reading/pc/gaming. I also have another prescription for nightdriving and distance. Last night when I was going upstairs to play games my vision was just too fking blurry lol
My Own Hero @joemama711 Oh shit that is terrible to hear, is there any way to try and make it better without surgery?
Veru@verucassault My eyesight isn't that bad yet. Just tired after staring at a screen for hours for work. I worked from home today so I'll def have time to check it out this evening.
My Own Hero @joemama711 I guess adjusting your brightness and display settings are already done or haven't helped much. I remember turning my work computer nightlight mode all the way on and it's such a godsend compared to that bright bullshit.
At the old company I used to work at, they would buy gaming displays for accountants to help with the glare, idk how much it helps or if it does at all
The black samurai, Yasuke, has the EXACT same story setup as John Blackthorne in the show Shogun. He isn't some honored samurai, he was a black slave of the Portugeuse who pawned him to a Japanese lord in exchange for the freedom of their own merchant traders. The Japanese lord accepted solely cuz he noticed that Yasuke was able to merely glance across a room and identify where each threat would come from.
With that said, I rarely use Yasuke. I'm a female ninja all the way, and if I can romance a female, I'll be a lesbian ninja.
Yeah, the facial animations are bad (but no worse than AAA games like BG3) the Eng dub is atrocious (had to switch to Jap sub) and the story overall is generic (I've never played AC for the stories). The battle system is easily the best of any AC game I've played, and the environments are the best graphically that I've seen. Horizon Forbidden West Remastered is the only game that can be argued.
But that only applies if you're playing on the PS5 Pro or on PC with a GPU with ray tracing. The game is designed around ray tracing, and if you don't have it, then you literally don't know what you're missing...
Fucking hilarious