@niggaflamebuttholeaids Except all the previous ones had some focus on stealth and assassinations.

@matrix Well, yeah, it’s a stealth game. Though I’d argue the stealth really stopped mattering after the first one.

DID Odyssey ditch it altogether?

@niggaflamebuttholeaids No, it's all there, just not really needed. You can just regularly fight through missions and enemies have levels so those several levels above you can't be killed.

@matrix So yeah, exactly like all the others lmfao

@niggaflamebuttholeaids @matrix AC games are good for the parkour, the London game really stands out in particular as an amazing experience in environmental exploration. Like if they took out all the map marker chasing and combat and story and put all that money instead into deeper and more rewarding environmental exploration they'd have an epic franchise on their hands. Unfortunately Ubisoft will always suck the soul out of every ip they get their hands on and serialize the shit out of the content to best hypnotize 13 year olds into making in game purchases.

@yuri @matrix I’d say they have artistic merit, for sure. The environments and interactivity with them is always impressive and I’d never discredit them for that.

But what hooked me on the first one was you had several avenues of approach to a target, largely determined by how much time you invested in side quests, (which I believe also affected your health bar?) and then for the final God Mode boss you have to use all the mechanics and equipment you’ve built up with to win, with obscured vision. The gameplay loop and escalation was amazing. Even the aesthetic has aged pretty damn well compared to it’s immediate successors.

Yet for some reason everyone seems to remember the 2nd one as the peak. Annoys me.