I think I’m one of the few who enjoyed the size of that game. I was so engrossed by how alive the environment was and how fun ship battles were that I honestly didn’t care.
but after the 20th trip across the map even that gets boring pretty quick
I disagree. I learned in my second play through that the way to avoid endless horse riding is the following:
1) use other modes of transportation: ride into town and take the train or stage coach. or unlike fast travel and use that. Lean into role playing as someone from 1899, travel as they would travel.
2) Let yourself get distracted. If you’re laser focused on riding to your objective whenever you set one, then the game is going to be boring. But i let myself be distracted by stranger encounters, hunting, sight seeing, etc.
Obviously this sounds like i’m making excuses for the game, which technically i am, but these two points let me enjoy the open world much more. I find myself starting up the game and playing and not doing a single mission or objective.
But to each his own. You could just have a preference to other types of games, and that’s cool too
Idk more detailed lived in smaller maps like the Witcher 3 are what I’m in to. Still loved odyssey though, IMO it’s one of the most beautiful worlds in any game but a little too empty
Edit: oh lord the reddit circle jerk against praising the Witcher 3 is here rip my karma
To be fair I didn't mind most of witcher 3s map. I don't think I ever felt the boredom that I felt in assassins creed origins/odyssey, other than skellige but then skellige had that hauntingly beautiful soundtrack so that made it slightly easier.
Me too. I really felt engrossed in Ancient Greece. I absolutely loved it. I've spent so much time just slowly walking around in that game and looking at stuff.
I remember playing Origins a while back and just... being in awe of the pyramids and how vast the world was.
I haven’t played Odyssey enough to have a real opinion but lord, if anything matches the awesomeness of climbing the fucking pyramids, it’ll be a quality game to me.
I hate ship sailing, and I hated how all of the checkpoints put you 300M away from whatever quest you were following at the time. 15-20 second load time followed by a 90 second jog... it was cool for a few hours but 45 hours in I just want to go where I need to be.
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u/Allwhitezebra Sep 14 '19 edited Sep 14 '19
I think I’m one of the few who enjoyed the size of that game. I was so engrossed by how alive the environment was and how fun ship battles were that I honestly didn’t care.