Game becomes a Walking Simulator after 30 hours

[Night Lovell]

Snoozefest going to location to location before you get one short fight sequence then it's back to riding horse for 1000+ meters.

Game is cooked

[5ean5ean]

I guess you haven't unlocked the cars yet. Git gud

[The Former]

It was a walking simulator for me from the first moment, because I enjoy walking through beautiful environments. If you don't like such things, unlock them kakurega and fast travel.

Also I've come to realize I'm officially too old to understand slang. I keep seeing the phrase "this game is cooked", and I have no idea what it means. In my day a whole five years ago, it meant done. Finished. Hopeless. Over. No chance. Screwed.

But it can't still mean that, because Shadows is 2025's second-best seller in the US and the second-best grossing AC game of all time. The top seller was Valhalla, a game with 70% positive reviews on Steam. By contrast, Shadows has 80% positive.

Will someone inform me as to what it means for a game to be "cooked" in Current Year?

[fuke]

Originally posted by The Former:

It was a walking simulator for me from the first moment, because I enjoy walking through beautiful environments. If you don't like such things, unlock them kakurega and fast travel.

Also I've come to realize I'm officially too old to understand slang. I keep seeing the phrase "this game is cooked", and I have no idea what it means. In my day a whole five years ago, it meant done. Finished. Hopeless. Over. No chance. Screwed.

But it can't still mean that, because Shadows is 2025's second-best seller in the US and the second-best grossing AC game of all time. The top seller was Valhalla, a game with 70% positive reviews on Steam. By contrast, Shadows has 80% positive.

Will someone inform me as to what it means for a game to be "cooked" in Current Year?

They must be referring to the famous Japanese saying about this era, which compared the foundation of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the "cooking" (baking) of a cake by three famous leaders, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu: 「織田がつき 羽柴がこねし 天下 餅 座り し まま に 食う は 徳川」

[Daevinski]

Originally posted by The Former:

It was a walking simulator for me from the first moment, because I enjoy walking through beautiful environments. If you don't like such things, unlock them kakurega and fast travel.

Also I've come to realize I'm officially too old to understand slang. I keep seeing the phrase "this game is cooked", and I have no idea what it means. In my day a whole five years ago, it meant done. Finished. Hopeless. Over. No chance. Screwed.

But it can't still mean that, because Shadows is 2025's second-best seller in the US and the second-best grossing AC game of all time. The top seller was Valhalla, a game with 70% positive reviews on Steam. By contrast, Shadows has 80% positive.

Will someone inform me as to what it means for a game to be "cooked" in Current Year?

Where can I find the official information about the sales and etc? Care to share the link?

[Skylers Meth]

As Yasuke says in one of the quests they're riding to

"it's about the journey, not the destination"

[Jem]

Ah yes the great journey of a walking simulator.

Elden Ring sold 30 millions copies today, by the way (a number AC Shadows will never reach)

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by Jem:

Ah yes the great journey of a walking simulator.

Elden Ring sold 30 millions copies today, by the way (a number AC Shadows will never reach)

Well that was random. These people let this game live rent free in thier heads.

[Skylers Meth]

Originally posted by Jem:

Ah yes the great journey of a walking simulator.

Elden Ring sold 30 millions copies today, by the way (a number AC Shadows will never reach)

I'd much rather play this than Elden Ring or any Fromsoft game. My choice.

[Jem]

Elden Ring is a much better OW journey than AC Shadows.

[Night Lovell]

Originally posted by Skylers Meth:

As Yasuke says in one of the quests they're riding to

"it's about the journey, not the destination"

Well the journey in Assassins Creed gets boring fast and is way too long. They literally had to add in auto-path follow because the Walking Simulator was getting annoying for people to do manually.

Uninstalled. I'll be playing a game that isn't a snoozefest.