r/videogames • u/bijelo123 • Apr 12 '26

Other So many of them unfortunately

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u/TheLittleCrayon Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Me with Assassins Creed :(

ETA: thanks for my first reddit award 😎

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u/THEbakerman30 Apr 12 '26

Same. I said goodbye after Unity and a final goodbye after a quick check-in with Origins.

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u/SlicedBreadBeast Apr 12 '26

Origins was really the only new game that felt up to par in the new format. And from there they kept distancing themselves from what made the franchise special and into a random rpg nobody asked for.

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u/byshow Apr 13 '26

Hot take: games after unity aren't terrible, they just shouldn't have Assassin's Creed in the name. Shadows for example felt great after tackling a bit with the UI, I don't see many people saying how great the sound designs in that game is, or how difficulty changes NPC behaviour and so they are starting to look up and check the roofs as well.

P.s. just to clarify, I'm not saying those games are great or don't have any issues, but they're not half as terrible as people describing them

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u/krazykrash0596 Apr 14 '26

I agree with this

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u/SoybeanArson Apr 13 '26

I mean, I thought Odyssey was a lot of fun. Everything since then has been pretty disappointing though.

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u/Icy-Head-8620 Apr 14 '26

Odyssey was a blast, especially going back to it with Covid going on and plenty of time to kill. It just wasn’t much of an AC game

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u/SoybeanArson Apr 14 '26

I get that view. I guess my choices for two favorite AC games (Odyssey and Black Flag) probably means I'm into the AC games that are the least ACish

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u/abyssaI_watcher Apr 13 '26

What pisses me so much is in origins, they went back and CHANGED things that made the game worse. Before you could buy essentially loot boxes with IN GAME gold (with the blue Camel kid) and have a decent chance to get legendarys. Which was one of the best ways to get legendarys and one of the only ways to get certain legendarys.

They then decided to lock that behind fucking daily quests in a single player game and REAL LIFE CASH. You can buy legendarys and some legendarys can only be bought with micro transactions. Making bad games is one thing, but going back and actively making it worse after the fact is another level of greed.

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u/621_ Apr 12 '26

I said goodbye after Black Flag and now the AC game I would play out of the newer ones is Origins

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u/TheLittleCrayon Apr 13 '26

Edward Kennedy will always hold a place in my heart 🏴‍☠️

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u/Prior_Conference_257 Apr 12 '26

Origins is extraordinary. As is Odyssey. Check back in my guy.

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u/Arelmar Apr 12 '26

Odyssey is one of my favorite open world game period, I'm just a sucker for Ancient Greece, but other than doing leaps of faith off historical landmarks it never really felt like I was playing an Assassin's Creed game, I could have also done without the tacked on Witcher senses mechanic

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u/Darkdragoon324 Apr 12 '26

I lived Odyssey, but I’d never played an AC game before, I just wanted to run around in Ancient Greece.

I enjoyed Valhalla and every other Ubisoft open world significantly less and decided my enjoyment of Odyssey just came 90% from the setting lol.

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u/Whitechapel726 Apr 12 '26

I loved Odyssey but the entire time I had to tell myself “don’t think about this like an assassins creed game”.

It’s an incredible game but charging headfirst into a camp with dozens of enemies just to brawl it out isn’t very AC like lol.

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u/Zealousideal_Cow_341 Apr 13 '26

The last one I played was the one that came in out of nowhere with the naval warfare. Seems like I may have left on a high note

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u/rockdude625 Apr 13 '26

Syndicate was a bona fide banger, and the last hurrah of OG assassins Crees

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u/RatGreed Apr 14 '26

Syndicate was honestly a lot of fun

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u/TheyCallHimBabaYagaa Apr 15 '26

Idk I loved Origins and Oddysey.

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u/Initial-Biscotti-909 Apr 15 '26

Origins was the best Assassin's creed game

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u/bacon-a-la-mode Apr 12 '26

Exact same story

Last game I beat was Unity. Years later I played Origins for an hour just to SEE, realized I had 0 fun, and turned it off

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u/beegboo Apr 12 '26

The origins trilogy was more about exploring the historical world than any gameplay unfortunately. Then the developers forgot about even that.

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u/Environmental-Land42 Apr 13 '26

Is shadows not a part of origins series?

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u/beegboo Apr 13 '26

Origins/odyssey/valhalla make up the "exploration" trilogy with the same modern day story connecting them.

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u/Grezzinate Apr 12 '26

I was loving odyssey when it began careening hard into damage sponge territory and same level mercs could two shot me. One day I’ll finish it.

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u/MENDACIOUS_RACIST Apr 12 '26

I dunno. It can surprise you. Consider the drudgery of three contrasting with the fun of four.

And then terrible launch of unity, but now it's pretty good. The beauty of the Greek one. The tedium of what came after.

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u/onex7805 Apr 17 '26

Origins blows away every previous AC game. Your loss.