What I Especially Don't Like About AC Origin vs. AC Valhalla

[Ceana of the Crags]

In AC Valhalla, you have a ton of targets to assassinate. In this one, you only had 5, and your wife killed 2 without you, the player, taking part. You already kill one in the very beginning, which should have left you with 4. Then you kill one to leave Siwa, leaving you with 3, but when you meet your wife, she has already killed two of your targets, leaving you with only one. This leaves the game feeling purposefully, and unnecessarily, shortened.

I thought I saw the choice to play Aya somewhere, but unless I can change back and forth, which I'm not seeing, I still get shorted on the targets. Perhaps I have missed something. If so, it would be great to know where to find it. Regardless, 5 targets vs. the 20+ in AC Valhalla is a short game.

I have 17 hours of game play in AC Origins, because of the constant crashing, and am 14% finished. In ACV, I have about 50 hours of game play with 17% completion. I have to estimate, because I started out on an easier level to get a feel for the game mechanics, then restarted at a higher difficulty level, and doing everything in Norway that I could the second time around, because I didn't know the main quest would leave me with no choice but to set-off for England at that point. The actual count of hours reads 87 hours.

To be honest, although I am an historian of the Ancient Near East, I cannot like this game as much as AC Valhalla. The graphics would be wonderful, if I could keep them on ultra high. My system specs are below. My system is not the most powerful, but certainly well-above what is required for this game. However, with the newest NVidia and Intel drivers, so that the graphics are gorgeous, the game crashes constantly on the highest setting. Without them, the game looks washed out on the highest settings. I don't have these problems with AC Valhalla, which is incredibly more complex.

So, to the question often asked, is this game worth the full price now, years later? No. Absolutely not. On hard-sale? Yes. That is how I bought it. I think I gave 25€ for the gold edition. Be aware that Steam will likely delete this post, claiming I am just seeking attention, rather than informing my fellow-gamers and adding my opinion regarding this game. That is the sort of thing they have done to me in the past to silence any criticism.

This game will frustrate you, especially if you have played ACV. ACV has a ton of player customisations available, and always has new challenges for you. It also has a long list of core challenges that will bump-up your UbiSoft account level, if you care about that. Else, it will just give you something to strive toward.

AC Origins is just lacking in comparison. For me, however, the most frustrating things are the lack of assassination targets, the game having randomly finished them for me, and the choice between great graphics with constant crashes or mediocre graphics with constant play in a game that is not "new" anymore.


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[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Not sure why you're having so many crashing issues.

My specs:

Windows 11 Pro 64 Bit
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti w 12 GB GDDR6X
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor @ 4.70 GHz
32 GB DDR5 RAM @ 4800 MT/s
2 TB M.2 SATA SSD
1 TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s

And I haven't crashed once in my current Nightmare playthrough with around a dozen hours on it.

As for targets, there are twelve, not five. Yes, Aya kills two at the start but that leaves you nine (you kill one in the intro cutscene), plus the eleven Phylakes.

Targets:
The Heron
The Ibis
The Vulture
The Ram
The Hippo
The Scarab
The Hyena
The Lizard
The Crocodile
The Jackal
The Scorpion
The Lion

Phylakes:
Abar
The Outsider
Ptolemy's Fist
The Iron Ram
The Stranger
Ra's Mercy
The Hill
Bane of Hathor
Half Horn
The Iron Bull
The Galatian

Edit: Also, you're comparing the first truly open world (all previous entries had load screen between main areas) Assassin's Creed to Odyssey and Valhalla, that had one (AC:Od) and three (AC:V) years to improve upon it. That's hardly a fair comparison. Regardless, I think the game and story still holds up extremely well today. Some would say Odyssey is a bit long on the tooth because of all the filler content (still my favorite) and I can't speak for Valhalla because I still haven't gotten around to finishing it due to boredom and annoyance at Eivor's brother's attitude.

[fester1]

AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Nvidia RTX 2060
1920x1080 capped at 60fps via nvidia control panel, 24" monitor
Graphics maxed out on all options game runs smoothly at 60fps and I've never crashed in over 100 hours of gameplay.

You should be able to kill it with your monster rig.

[StopItStepBro]

Very rare opinion piece considering Valhalla was widely regarded as a bloated, bland experience when being compared even to the likes of Odyssey.

[Baba Yaga]

i play 1400p with a 4070, i79700k and 16gb ram. i suggest use dxvk modification cause it fixes every issue with the game i have ever ha.

[Nozan]

and noone cares...