This "TW: TROY" interview explains why Odyssey was a hole in the water.

[[BRE] Léonard "le Fol"]

It's strange but Maya Georgieva explains exactly one of the main reasons why this game is so wrong. Perverted sarcasm, satire over what you should not make satire on to build drama and flow\pacing in the story.. but again, just put it simply: read here the first paragraph if you want is enough.

They did not want to learn, and this was clear to me already: with all those Classical Sources institutional documents, Myths and stories all the data we have over that SO CRUCIAL for Western culture, phase of Human history in Asia Minor and Greece...

it was just disregarded.. i say this as a passionated AC player but just a good games lover, and also as a person who has studied and studies these times. From the cultural management point they may have reached some divulgative success with AC Odyssey but in terms of HOW to use the past as mechanic, or also how to use what was known 3-4 years ago in terms of game making into the game (that was a bad bad copy of the amazing system that is in Shadow of Mordor)...

And now.. they say "flyting will be in Valhalla"... oh? really? About time!
After u forced me through hours of this chore, last year, now u want me to believe u will do what needs to be done?

You could not handle GREEK CULTURE because you gave all this in the hands of some lazy US studio and Made in China outsourced companies .. and

Well i ll stop here:

Here is an explanation of why making games doesn't take 1-2 year.. uy need research and then coding for years. https://www.totalwar.com/blog/myths-monsters-and-meaning-the-truth-behind-the-myth/

When we ask for content WE WANT you to actually do the work of research and then embed into mechanics some facts, some reality and stories, stuff we can chew and feel emotion from... this is totally absent in Odyssey not to mention the Rpg which simply doesn't work at all...

I feel always surprised when people wanna play this... ok, do it. I did it for research reason but if u do it for playing, u wanna play a game, stay away from it!

[Perplex]

This post made no sense to me.

[matthewtheobald]

Well there is the fact that whilst Assassins Creed uses historical locations, events and depictions of historical figures, it’s all still fiction and down to the interpretation of the studios to make a game compelling and enjoyable.

I’m gonna need some actual evidence of what you didn’t like about the game to change my opinions. What exactly do you dislike about the story telling, do you have any examples?

You could not handle GREEK CULTURE because you gave all this in the hands of some lazy US studio and Made in China outsourced companies .. and

Is it greek culture or mythology? Also, is it based on Ancient Greek Mythology?Mythology is story-telling, interpretation of fable. It isn’t concrete, evidenced fact. Assassins Creed, in my opinion is a fantastic showcase of imagination and creative story telling, based on Ancient Greek history and mythology most importantly.

[Keldorn]

We don't need more reason to resent about something, we have enough of that in this era. And please stop trying to find a reason to be offended, just enjoy.

[[BRE] Léonard "le Fol"]

I dnt need to change your opinion, i have need to express myself because i care to share my understandings and experiences. I do not use the media as a return of religious or to religious as so many people do, more like many zombies.

But if u simply want to have examples on that specific "mis-treatment" i can make you a ton. Anyway i dnt want to use this article as a levarage to actually start another topic over how bad the game is even if I state and stated it. It s an awful game in terms of rpg capabilities, human-like skills, and tons of other QoL things from horse super powers on how.much the entire effort of design is inclined on comsetics to buy with real money ... disgusting. I am talking of sources from Institutional documents to objects that have been put for example in one of those sanctuaries in Sparta... (sparta has been rendered in stone) there was not much stone in sparta. Sparta was made of wood mainly, it was another world. They did not studied history nor the sources. It was a fantastic game in terms of fantasy indeed, but all those places did not exist in the same time or did not exist anyway like the beautiful but empty sparta fetch quest this fetch quest that. There was no working around mechanics or rendering of elements of the past into the game. They did not put us into agones but the cool

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fist fight ... and it was 90% all the times all a satire sarcasm narrative. Never serious and when it was serious those rare cases it was not believable. Often wayyyy too open spaces just to show to stake holders what is the power of their procedural generation tools and engine etc...

Zero interest in hand rafting mechanics or narrative or levels, mainly a showcase of cut scenes very few anyway and animations.

A lot was recycled as usually any companies does bu here oh boy o girls...

What more again back to topic? About writing is bad ? Well the cringy sexual constant perversion on choices .. like we had to do sex, i love it but why doing it like that.. like it was just abt greasing holes and sticks. Seriously it is like that but in a videogame u never put violence or sex without a reason otherwize it s soft porn, cheap stuff...
There was no romantic arc with characters.. nothing ...so dnt put sex.

Storywise more? Tons of mishandling... cyclops and ulysses why they haven t put it into place the real stories of odysseus? Both with poliphemus and Circe the game rendering of that is painfully bare bones...

They just rushed the title and i dnt see but ppl with small expectactions enjoying it. I just felt like collecting grocery store list and completing them. There was no thirst for knowledge there was no real narrative of places, stories etc. It felt like a disjointed series of episodes which themselves were nothing to be excited about and why making us move so much when the story is not so compelling... alredy origins shows issues in this but it s filled with great writing. Why putting this stuff ao far from all the knowledge we have of instutional type from those times why putting us so far from mythology..

The truth? GEORGIEVA makes it very clear. It s a super hard time filled and also in Bronze age somehow also empty of info and it s complex to make a game with/about these things. They did not even try to... i tell you from a person who knowsnvideogames and good ones have played since ms dos and also knows some stuff about arhcheology and classical heritage. I just wish they could remake or complete the game.. but it will never happen it will always be this stain ... hopefully other games will make up.

This is the source of everything.. it can t be mistreated like this. Tons of things we say and do today come from those times and those people.. so disrespected...

I can t co op with that.