GooseMan69
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I just can’t do it anymore. The game showed me everything it had to offer in the first 20 or so hours and then decided it would be cool to stretch it for another 80 hours. And frankly, the game took a nosedive after Norway.
Let me back up for a minute and say this is my first Assassins Creed since Black Flag. I’ve enjoyed every AC game I’ve played. Even the first one. I decided to get back into the series with Valhalla. It was great...at first. It had all the things I wanted in an AC game, with some added RPG and open world stuff. I loved exploring Norway. I wanted to see and do everything. The soundtrack was amazing. The story had me mildly interested.
Then you reach England and the game comes to a screeching halt. I was overwhelmed by side content and map markers. Eventually I gave up on all the side activities, because most of them weren’t worthwhile.
The mission/quest design is completely brain dead. The devs obviously didn’t have time or resources to make memorable quests so they just copy and paste some radiant style quests into random areas. If the game is feeling spicy you’ll fight some endlessly respawning enemies in a fortress until you complete the extremely scripted and linear objectives. What a blast.
I haven’t even mentioned the game is janky as absolute fuck. Every two seconds there’s some goofy shit going on. There was a patch that completely fucked the lip syncing so characters would frequently talk without opening their mouths during cutscenes. They recently fixed that with a patch. So they needed a patch to fix the patch.
I was lying to myself until tonight. “No, the game is fine, just a little janky!!” Then I loaded up Ghost of Tsushima on PS5 and realized it’s better in literally every way. It’s polished. The combat is top tier. Despite being 50 ish hours, it’s downright concise in comparison. The story gets better as it goes on instead of trailing off into fucking nothing. If nothing else, Valhalla gave me a newfound appreciation for Ghost, even though I liked the game before.
Fucking hell Ubisoft, just make shorter games.
Let me back up for a minute and say this is my first Assassins Creed since Black Flag. I’ve enjoyed every AC game I’ve played. Even the first one. I decided to get back into the series with Valhalla. It was great...at first. It had all the things I wanted in an AC game, with some added RPG and open world stuff. I loved exploring Norway. I wanted to see and do everything. The soundtrack was amazing. The story had me mildly interested.
Then you reach England and the game comes to a screeching halt. I was overwhelmed by side content and map markers. Eventually I gave up on all the side activities, because most of them weren’t worthwhile.
The mission/quest design is completely brain dead. The devs obviously didn’t have time or resources to make memorable quests so they just copy and paste some radiant style quests into random areas. If the game is feeling spicy you’ll fight some endlessly respawning enemies in a fortress until you complete the extremely scripted and linear objectives. What a blast.
I haven’t even mentioned the game is janky as absolute fuck. Every two seconds there’s some goofy shit going on. There was a patch that completely fucked the lip syncing so characters would frequently talk without opening their mouths during cutscenes. They recently fixed that with a patch. So they needed a patch to fix the patch.
I was lying to myself until tonight. “No, the game is fine, just a little janky!!” Then I loaded up Ghost of Tsushima on PS5 and realized it’s better in literally every way. It’s polished. The combat is top tier. Despite being 50 ish hours, it’s downright concise in comparison. The story gets better as it goes on instead of trailing off into fucking nothing. If nothing else, Valhalla gave me a newfound appreciation for Ghost, even though I liked the game before.
Fucking hell Ubisoft, just make shorter games.
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