I finally got 2 hours of Far Cry in, that was good fun
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Yeah agreed, AC Origins was by far my favourite from the franchise. Not only was it the only one I’ve finished but also completed and got the Platinum for it.
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Mmm, so you would rate it better than Odyssey? If so, it is next on my list.
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Oh absolutely, without a doubt.
Coming from Odyssey though you will notice a simpler combat system, it not as much variety as there is an evolution of the mechanics over time.
But in everything else, character development, dialogue and narrative, animations, etc. are all so much better in my opinion of course. I’m sure @Solitude will disagree but that’s okay, such is the beauty of gaming. Though I’m sure @Wlad could also add some thoughts that are perhaps better constructed than my own.
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Yikes, I should have bought origins when the whole AC line was on special, will wait for next time. I can’t believe that they charge almost R1k for it now.
Nevermind, got the gold edition from green man gaming for R250.
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I don’t believe I can construct thoughts better than anyone’s.
But yeah Origins is great. Definitely in my top 3 AC games, although not no 1. (That honour goes to ACIII, which everybody else hates). Bayek is a badass and Egypt is beautiful. They also did a great job with the tombs which in susequent games feel like a copy and paste affair.
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Don’t listen to @Beo . He doesn’t even finish the games. I 100% completed all three and Odyssey was by far the best for me. The characters, story and setting beat everything else. 2nd was Valhalla.
I didn’t like Origins that much. To me it didn’t feel like a living world. The characters all felt like robots. Like it was West World.
However I’m in the minority with this. Most people prefer Origins. Just like the most people prefer the ANC. 
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Just to add to this. I like all the AC games and Origins is definitely worth playing.
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Just snorted my morning coffee all over the counter! Thank you.
And yeah… wake up sheeple!!
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Correction everyone . Don’t listen to this guy. He thinks Dark Souls 2 is the best one! I mean, can you imagine?!
Jokes aside. I cannot fathom how Origins doesn’t feel like a living world to you. That’s one of the stand out features of the game for me. I walked around in a market square in one of the first villages everywhere and I could hear people talking about random stuff all over the place. I can’t recall anything like that in copy and paste simulator (Odyssey).
Origins also has sandstorms in the desert and Bayek will start hallucinating if you spend too much time wandering in the desert. The map is also very varied whereas in Odyessey and Valhalla almost everything looks the same. It’s pretty yes, but (almost) everything has the same aesthetic in those two.
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Odyssey does that too but much more convincingly in my opinion. Also Odyssey has Kassandra. She’s such a great character. Going through the game with the ups and downs and how Kassandra handles it just felt so much more alive than anything in Origins.
Bayek just didn’t click with me. His story is a much more personal one and the kind of story that I normally would love but at no point did I feel invested in his story or in his world. I think another place where Odyssey excelled was that your choices influenced the story and the world. Plus the side-quests were their own stories that really brought the world alive. It was the same with Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s all the little stories of the people around you and the people you meet that make the game memorable.
Origins just didn’t have that for me.
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Fair enough. To each his own. How you feel about Odyssey is how I feel about Origins and vice versa.
One of the very first side missions in Origins has you playing hide and seek with one of Bayek’s friend’s children. That shit felt so awesome and wholesome.
To me Odyssey felt like a flat copy paste world with nothing interesting happening. The choices all seemed fake to me in the sense that it doesn’t matter what you choose and they don’t really affect anything. Kassandra is alright. I found her a bit annoying to be honest but that’s just me. Still, it’s not a bad game. Just not my favourite.
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Agree with this. Origins’ story hit hard for me. It really felt like the origin of the series. It was great to see it all unfold at the end. I’m almost in the mood to download and replay the game. I couldn’t get into Odyssey’s story at all and gave up around 10-12 hours in. The same with Valhalla.
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Add my vote into the Odyssey is leagues better than Origins. The world within Odyssey is miles better, there is a better story, better acting, better writing, better graphics, sounds and asthetics, better enemies and better NPCs. It has better side missions, better collectables, a better free camera option. And it has boobs, both manly and womanly boobs.
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Interesting read, I am playing my way backwards through the franchise so it is an interesting journey. Odyssey’s combat is MMO level hard (HP vs cooldown vs dmg taken/healed). Valhalla was a breeze in comparison. I am 22 hours into Odyssey. Just adventuring. Starting to realise that I can just kill everyone, Sparta or Athens. I am trying to stick to not killing Spartans though. The game does try hard to show that both sides can be saints and assholes, so its hard 
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This sums it up pretty well:
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At the moment when I get some gaming time, I am lost in Anno 1800 and also added some No Man’s Sky.
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As an FYI… from today’s Coming Soon to Game Pass post on Xbox Wire:
In the next two months, Assassin’s Creed Origins will join the library for cloud, console, and PC via Ubisoft Connect app.
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Ah! Bought it already for R250. I have had to uninstall the xbox app because I keep getting a surprise drive removed error, which apparently is caused by the app. Will install it when something comes around that I want to play.
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Playing a LOT of Ultimate Alliance 3. The grind is real.
I also started up Xenoblade Chronicles again after I saw XC3 release was pushed forward two months.
Other than that I’m playing Mafia and Tiny Tina Wonderlands on PC
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I am 35 hours into Odyssey and starting to feel the lack of side quests. Valhalla had a ton of them, many of them little vignettes on the lives/beliefs/historical references of the time and people. Odyssey has very little so it is becoming a little thin in the feel for me. That and the fact that to complete a map objective you invariably have to kill everything in it, even in temples/farms/cities. I am starting to feel more like a roaming murderer for hire than an adventurer. I refuse to kill anything Spartan, which means half the map objectives go undone.
Running into Sokrates was fun though, the game shines with that.
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