Assassin's Creed Origins in 2024.

[Talion 2024.]

Good morning everyone.

I would first like to apologise for bringing up this discussion again, but last year I was hesitant to purchase Assassin's Creed Origins due to having gone through a temporary change in interests.

Now however, I find myself irresistibly drawn to Origins due to its unique historical setting and its gorgeous looking open-world, as well as its likeable protagonist and great story as well as game-play.

Would any of you recommend this game this year?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feelings on this game.

[FN$]

After 2020, Ubisoft made a patch at some point that broke the game. If you haven't purchased it already I wouldn't recommend to, as its support for higher resolutions than 1920x1080 has been removed, the blurriness of the overall game has been increased making it look like you have water in your eyes and the cutscenes, text quality is very low res as well. It feels like a game from 2006. Now, you have mods out there but the game will use a lot more resources and require PC with a GPU that can compare to an RTX and the result won't be as good as AC Mirage per say, Origins textures being pretty low res. Though, if you have an Nvidia GPU, you can try with freestyle and RTGI and get interesting results. Also note the LOD is pretty low. Now, the game is a classic and an Assassin's Creed like never made before. There is no Assassin's Creed out there that can stand up to this one as this one is the true fulfillment, in my opinion, of the Open World aspect of them. In this Assassin's Creed, indeed, the world feels very open in a way that would remind you Far Cry 3 or even a proper Action/Adventure game. This game is not leaning towards the RPG side of things, so a RPG approach to the game as in, checking the stats, taking care of your inventory (besides upgrade to the character) is pretty unnecessary and more of a "in your own taste" thing, which is pretty good. It's more into Action and Adventure. It's not a very long game, but it is challenging, some would say hard, it has a really decent amount of content and did a good job in picturing Ancient Egypt well. The story is one of the best out there and as you said the setting is really cool. It took me about 90 hours to fully complete it 100% first time including all DLCs, but I was chilling. There is a little amount of tryhard required to do so, especially if you play in the hardest difficulty, some enemies will require you to even change weapons you're using or actually paying attention to stats, but they are a one off. Now compared to any other AC game, the gameplay is actually good. No latency, fluid, reactive etc. You don't waste that much time actually waiting for the game to catch up in any way (tagging enemies with the bird or else for instance is nearly instant). This game has the most thrilling combat system in all AC's in my opinion. In 2024 and for all these things this game is still amazing and ahead of most games today. I mean, you can shoot a bow from your mount. Concerning the story, it is not repetitive, even the secondary quests are pretty surprising most of the time, heck, even the collectibles and such are different each time, though there's still a gameplay pattern (break some stuff or move some dumb things). I would say as per an AC game this would not be the thing even though it's pretty classic and in accordance with the series. But for an open world, action adventure, go for it. The game is really good. Downside of it may be the historical part being still a bit hesitant, you don't get to know the mythology or culture as well as in Odyssey (which is a real pity if you ask me, everyone knows about Greece), the Book of the Dead etc. Some historical facts are wrong as well and the prominence of Greeks on the map feels like some sort of cultural appropriation. I would say about that that they haven't dig deep down enough be it for political or other unknown reasons. But it's really a shame and in the end it's what's really dragging this game down in my opinion, as nothing else does, apart that it seems to have been abandoned by Ubi's teams.

[Hatfield]

I had the game for years but never played it until recently when I finished it with all of it's DLC.

The visuals hold up,especially if cranked up to max settings.The game visually is an eyecandy almost everywhere you look.I struggle to find any game that came out this year to look as good as this one.

The combat I find a bit clunky and unresponsive at times.

The main missions are interesting and somewhat varied but the side quests are pretty repetitive.

[Talion 2024.]

Originally posted by Dronk:

After 2020, Ubisoft made a patch at some point that broke the game. If you haven't purchased it already I wouldn't recommend to, as its support for higher resolutions than 1920x1080 has been removed, the blurriness of the overall game has been increased making it look like you have water in your eyes and the cutscenes, text quality is very low res as well. It feels like a game from 2006. Now, you have mods out there but the game will use a lot more resources and require PC with a GPU that can compare to an RTX and the result won't be as good as AC Mirage per say, Origins textures being pretty low res. Though, if you have an Nvidia GPU, you can try with freestyle and RTGI and get interesting results. Also note the LOD is pretty low. Now, the game is a classic and an Assassin's Creed like never made before. There is no Assassin's Creed out there that can stand up to this one as this one is the true fulfillment, in my opinion, of the Open World aspect of them. In this Assassin's Creed, indeed, the world feels very open in a way that would remind you Far Cry 3 or even a proper Action/Adventure game. This game is not leaning towards the RPG side of things, so a RPG approach to the game as in, checking the stats, taking care of your inventory (besides upgrade to the character) is pretty unnecessary and more of a "in your own taste" thing, which is pretty good. It's more into Action and Adventure. It's not a very long game, but it is challenging, some would say hard, it has a really decent amount of content and did a good job in picturing Ancient Egypt well. The story is one of the best out there and as you said the setting is really cool. It took me about 90 hours to fully complete it 100% first time including all DLCs, but I was chilling. There is a little amount of tryhard required to do so, especially if you play in the hardest difficulty, some enemies will require you to even change weapons you're using or actually paying attention to stats, but they are a one off. Now compared to any other AC game, the gameplay is actually good. No latency, fluid, reactive etc. You don't waste that much time actually waiting for the game to catch up in any way (tagging enemies with the bird or else for instance is nearly instant). In 2024 and for all these things this game is still amazing and ahead of most games today. I mean, you can shoot a bow from your mount. Concerning the story, it is not repetitive, even the secondary quests are pretty surprising most of the time, heck, even the collectibles and such are different each time, though there's still a gameplay pattern (break some stuff or move some dumb things). I would say as per an AC game this would not be the thing even though it's pretty classic and in accordance with the series. But for an open world, action adventure, go for it. The game is really good. Downside of it may be the historical part being still a bit hesitant, you don't get to know the mythology or culture as well as in Odyssey (which is a real pity if you ask me, everyone knows about Greece), the Book of the Dead etc. Some historical facts are wrong as well and the prominence of Greeks on the map feels like some sort of cultural appropriation. I would say about that that they haven't dig deep down enough be it for political or other unknown reasons. But it's really a shame and in the end it's what's really dragging this game down in my opinion, as nothing else does, apart that it seems to have been abandoned by Ubi's teams.

Quite a detailed paragraph. But I appreciate your thoughts on Origins.

Frankly though, I think my PC should be powerful enough to handle Origins just fine.

I will consider what you have said nevertheless.

[Talion 2024.]

Originally posted by Hatfield:

I had the game for years but never played it until recently when I finished it with all of it's DLC.

The visuals hold up,especially if cranked up to max settings.The game visually is an eyecandy almost everywhere you look.I struggle to find any game that came out this year to look as good as this one.

The combat I find a bit clunky and unresponsive at times.

The main missions are interesting and somewhat varied but the side quests are pretty repetitive.

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

[Basan™]

Well, not wishing to rain down upon the AC:O's (Assassin's Creed: Origins) parade if you're acquiring it directly from Steam I'd also instanly look for a thread to look up on how to repatch to its previous 1.60 version because, as sort of usual from Uni$fot one of their recent patches has managed to cripple the Daily Quests usually offered by Reda.

Those are usually found and handed out by him at several points in the world's map and alongside its Camel there are obviously the way more known Heka Chests shop interaction.
Although imho it's far better to do the Daily Quests to obtain gold items that will serve you well without having to spend cash turning it into Helix Credits.

And on top of that you've probably already heard my very good opinion about AC:O around several other sections of the Steam's forums that also revolve around different titles from the AC saga / franchise.

[Talion 2024.]

Originally posted by Basan™:

Well, not wishing to rain down upon the AC:O's (Assassin's Creed: Origins) parade if you're acquiring it directly from Steam I'd also instanly look for a thread to look up on how to repatch to its previous 1.60 version because, as sort of usual from Uni$fot one of their recent patches has managed to cripple the Daily Quests usually offered by Reda. :winter2019happybulb:

Those are usually found and handed out by him at several points in the world's map and alongside its Camel there are obviously the way more known Heka Chests shop interaction.
Although imho it's far better to do the Daily Quests to obtain gold items that will serve you well without having to spend cash turning it into Helix Credits. :cozyroe:

And on top of that you've probably already heard my very good opinion about AC:O around several other sections of the Steam's forums that also revolve around different titles from the AC saga / franchise. :baa:

Are there any Assassin's Creed titles that haven't been ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up by Ubisoft recently?

[Talion 2024.]

If you think that the Assassin's Creed games are too much of a gamble thanks to Ubisoft's most recent ♥♥♥♥-ups, then I will instead consider the Arkham games developed by Rocksteady.

[Basan™]

Hmm... That I know of, AC: Valhalla hasn't been forked up.
And I highly doubt that they'd fork up AC: Mirage this fast since they're trying to redeem themselves from the bad imagery that they've been passing and getting while pi5s pot handling most of the previous AC's titles in the last year or so. (I.e., read purposedly inserting obsolescence into most of those thus trying to force players to fetch other, newer games. )

[Talion 2024.]

Originally posted by Basan™:

Hmm... That I know of, AC: Valhalla hasn't been forked up. :arcstone:
And I highly doubt that they'd fork up AC: Mirage this fast since they're trying to redeem themselves from the bad imagery that they've been passing and getting while pi5s pot handling most of the previous AC's titles in the last year or so. (I.e., read purposedly inserting obsolescence into most of those thus trying to force players to fetch other, newer games. )

In other words, you wouldn't recommend any of the Assassin's Creed games available on Steam, correct?

[Basan™]

Well, they've screwed AC IV: BF (Assassin's Creed IV: Blak Flag) for both Steam's and Ubi$oft's version and did similar regarding a few other of their oldere games.
In fact, the only one that only has recently been screwed only for Steam's shipped out version and not their Ubi$oft's counterpart are AC:O and, if memory serves me right, they also messed up with AC: Rogue but didn't affected my Ubi$oft version.

And even considering that Ubi's Support[www.ubisoft.com] is pretty much atrocious by default in around 100% of the cases, at least it wouldn't involve having another middle man into the equation.

Although, all in all, as an overall situation they've pretty much lost me as fidelized customer pretty much since I've gotten and started playing AC: Oddyssey. At this point, I think that might prefer to go *Yarr* on them through a renowed name for such a deed, rather than keep feeding them those bad practices and lessen effort for lower quality games still being chargedd as if they actually were deserving the 3A price tag (i.e., around 60€ for the base game).
So, perhaps its best to ponder at least a modicum amount of time on how you'll decide to proceed from this point onwards possessing this amounted knowledge of mine (and easily presented if browsing through those games' respective forum sections).

[Blurey]

I am currently playing Origins and then moving on to Odyssey, w8 on Ghost of Tsushima in May. And i will say i love the game, the visuals hold up, the game run's smooth i had next to no problems. The controler is supported (dualsense) thoe the game has no heptic or adopted triggers, they are just starting to develop games like these. (GoT supports it)

The music and atmopshere are really good. The weapons feel different enough. You can tweek around interface, do you want to see the minimap, not see enemies through walls to make the game more imerssive. I mean the vistas in this game are probably the best and the depth of view..clocked so far 50h

[Talion 2024.]

Originally posted by Basan™:

Well, they've screwed AC IV: BF (Assassin's Creed IV: Blak Flag) for both Steam's and Ubi$oft's version and did similar regarding a few other of their oldere games.
In fact, the only one that only has recently been screwed only for Steam's shipped out version and not their Ubi$oft's counterpart are AC:O and, if memory serves me right, they also messed up with AC: Rogue but didn't affected my Ubi$oft version.

And even considering that Ubi's Support[www.ubisoft.com] is pretty much atrocious by default in around 100% of the cases, at least it wouldn't involve having another middle man into the equation.

Although, all in all, as an overall situation they've pretty much lost me as fidelized customer pretty much since I've gotten and started playing AC: Oddyssey. At this point, I think that might prefer to go *Yarr* on them through a renowed name for such a deed, rather than keep feeding them those bad practices and lessen effort for lower quality games still being chargedd as if they actually were deserving the 3A price tag (i.e., around 60€ for the base game).
So, perhaps its best to ponder at least a modicum amount of time on how you'll decide to proceed from this point onwards possessing this amounted knowledge of mine (and easily presented if browsing through those games' respective forum sections).

Given that what you're saying most definitely makes sense, I think I shall play it safe and instead consider purchasing games that are in no way supported by/affiliated with Ubisoft....

The Arkham games strike me as the closest thing to an Assassin's Creed experience, while not being afraid to experiment and stand out.

[Talion 2024.]

Originally posted by Blurey:

I am currently playing Origins and then moving on to Odyssey, w8 on Ghost of Tsushima in May. And i will say i love the game, the visuals hold up, the game run's smooth i had next to no problems. The controler is supported (dualsense) thoe the game has no heptic or adopted triggers, they are just starting to develop games like these. (GoT supports it)

The music and atmopshere are really good. The weapons feel different enough. You can tweek around interface, do you want to see the minimap, not see enemies through walls to make the game more imerssive. I mean the vistas in this game are probably the best and the depth of view..clocked so far 50h

Noted. Thanks for your thoughts and opinions.

[FN$]

https://youtu.be/Y-77GUKJask?si=rqhNjUlUizoTh6go&t=560
Check out this if you want better gfx. I also included my settings if you have an nvidia gpu this will increase the graphics quality a lot. Take it as a starting point though, I'm no expert on this and just made it trying to fit the original game's looks
Edit : It looks pretty much the same because youtube loves to mow down the quality of my videos 🤣

[Talion 2024.]

Originally posted by Dronk:

https://youtu.be/Y-77GUKJask?si=rqhNjUlUizoTh6go&t=560
Check out this if you want better gfx. I also included my settings if you have an nvidia gpu this will increase the graphics quality a lot. Take it as a starting point though, I'm no expert on this and just made it trying to fit the original game's looks

As a matter of fact, I already have an Nvidia GPU. So I should be covered. But thanks anyway.