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Arrogant Player Jun 29, 2020 @ 10:59pm
Stupid time travel?
I had never played any AC until a while back Epic was giving one away, so I tried it out. It had some stupid time travel/ virtual reality plot or whatever that made me not want to play the game at all.

Does this have that, or is the setting authentic?
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Perplex Jun 29, 2020 @ 11:20pm 
All AC games have that.
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Ares4X Jun 30, 2020 @ 12:41am 
As far as for the Animus is concerned, there are very few scenes in AC Odyssey that do not bother you.
Hope we get rid of it in AC Valhalla.
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Fuzzy Jun 30, 2020 @ 1:18am 
its there but its not like the older AC games only saw a short scene in the beginning so far and been playing 12 hrs.
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ewanthescot Jun 30, 2020 @ 5:09am 
Originally posted by Ares4X:
As far as for the Animus is concerned, there are very few scenes in AC Odyssey that do not bother you.
Hope we get rid of it in AC Valhalla.

Valhalla will most likely feature the Animus again, as if you look in the AC Wiki under "Games" it's listed in the Layla Saga, alongside Origins and Odyssey.
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EF_Neo1st Jun 30, 2020 @ 6:08am 
AC Origins and AC Odyssey have so little "Back to the Present" time travel moments that IO even forget these are there.
AT AC Odyssey, on my playthrough of some 140 hours (that I am exploring and doing everything I can find, not just doing main quests to rush the game), I got back to present days like 3 times only.

140h, 3 (10min exploration of the animus), a total of some 30min not at ancient Greece.
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Darth Wadewilson Jun 30, 2020 @ 6:42am 
Originally posted by Arrogant Player:
I had never played any AC until a while back Epic was giving one away, so I tried it out. It had some stupid time travel/ virtual reality plot or whatever that made me not want to play the game at all.

Does this have that, or is the setting authentic?
Nothing you can't ignore. In this game apart from a few conversations/interactions that you can have with you RL collegue nothing else. And none of that is needed for the story either. For the DLC there are some cutscenes. But it's almost smooth sailing in ancient Greece.
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EF_Neo1st Jun 30, 2020 @ 6:59am 
Originally posted by Darth Reyns:
Originally posted by Arrogant Player:
I had never played any AC until a while back Epic was giving one away, so I tried it out. It had some stupid time travel/ virtual reality plot or whatever that made me not want to play the game at all.

Does this have that, or is the setting authentic?
Nothing you can't ignore. In this game apart from a few conversations/interactions that you can have with you RL collegue nothing else. And none of that is needed for the story either. For the DLC there are some cutscenes. But it's almost smooth sailing in ancient Greece.
Or smooth running around in ancient Greece . . .
But yes, a good thing to try for a next run, to go full pirate upgrading the ship.
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Darth Revan Jun 30, 2020 @ 7:59am 
Originally posted by Arrogant Player:
I had never played any AC until a while back Epic was giving one away, so I tried it out. It had some stupid time travel/ virtual reality plot or whatever that made me not want to play the game at all.

Does this have that, or is the setting authentic?

there is no real time traveling, you play a modern day person who uses the animus to experience rememberings of thair ancestors/other peoples ancestors which are stored in your/other peoples DNA. The entire historical part is nothing more than a virtual simulation of the past build by the animus with this rememberings in the used DNA sample.

that is the base premise of all assassins creed games from the very first one up till now and i am shure that it will not go away entirely anytime soon.
Last edited by Darth Revan; Jun 30, 2020 @ 8:00am
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EF_Neo1st Jun 30, 2020 @ 8:40am 
Originally posted by Legatus Lucanus:
Originally posted by Arrogant Player:
I had never played any AC until a while back Epic was giving one away, so I tried it out. It had some stupid time travel/ virtual reality plot or whatever that made me not want to play the game at all.

Does this have that, or is the setting authentic?

there is no real time traveling, you play a modern day person who uses the animus to experience rememberings of thair ancestors/other peoples ancestors which are stored in your/other peoples DNA. The entire historical part is nothing more than a virtual simulation of the past build by the animus with this rememberings in the used DNA sample.

that is the base premise of all assassins creed games from the very first one up till now and i am shure that it will not go away entirely anytime soon.
Tbh . . . AC dont need it anymore after AC 2 or AC 3 . . . it could very much be just you playing as the said character and not pretending to be re-living the life of someone else.
I am very glad that is little to no Animus at AC Origins, Odyssey and Black Flag, the fun of the game is you exploring and fighting in ancient times not pretending to be doing something in post-modern age "just because" it all started because of it.

If the rest of AC series become a retelling of ancient era without the animus, I wouldnt miss the animus at all.
If they want to put modern or post-modern era that it is complete gameplay with entire locations to explore and things to do, not just you walking around pretending to be doing something important as a player when what is important for the player (fun, exploration, etc) happen at the ancient times.
Cool concept, for the time of AC 1-3, now move on and dont ever look back, plz.

Now it is more like . .you are the genetic evolution of all these ancient warriors, assassins, etc, the genetic result of many "heroes" of its time for the Assassins Order . . . but now you cant do crap but sleep in the animus to live it all over and over again or get out of animus just to read some letters and have crap talk that you could not care less about.

Seriously, I never paid attention to wtf happen when I leave animus at any AC after the first few times at AC1 and all I do is try to press to skip and if I can not skip some dialogue animation I just leave and go take some coffee or do something else untill that crap is done.
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Arrogant Player Jun 30, 2020 @ 11:52am 
it's like.. i want to like it but the game says, "no, i'm stupid!"

maybe i'll try origins
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EF_Neo1st Jun 30, 2020 @ 12:56pm 
Originally posted by Arrogant Player:
it's like.. i want to like it but the game says, "no, i'm stupid!"

maybe i'll try origins
. . . almost no "Animus" at both Odyssey and Origins . . . if you try Origins, Odyssey is a different theme (Origins is Egypt theme, Odyssey is Greek theme, Origins have a lot of "no civilization", like some 70% of the map or more, Odyssey not so much).

In terms of "gameplay", Origins and Odyssey are very much the same, but Origins have much less side content to be visited and done, but Odyssey repeat a lot the side quests (but have the forts and cities that vary from each other in terms of layout, also bandit camps, etc a lot more than Origins).

If you want it more for the main quests and not bother the side quests and visiting a lot of places, then go for Origins.
If you like more exploration and more things to do, go for Odyssey.
If you like more Animus, go for the classic ACs before Black Flag.
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Perplex Jun 30, 2020 @ 2:26pm 
Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:
AC Origins and AC Odyssey have so little "Back to the Present" time travel moments that IO even forget these are there.
AT AC Odyssey, on my playthrough of some 140 hours (that I am exploring and doing everything I can find, not just doing main quests to rush the game), I got back to present days like 3 times only.

140h, 3 (10min exploration of the animus), a total of some 30min not at ancient Greece.


It is also a problem in it self as when it does happen it takes you out of the game so hard that you might as well have crashed in to a wall going 150km/h.
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EF_Neo1st Jun 30, 2020 @ 2:30pm 
Originally posted by Perplex:
Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:
AC Origins and AC Odyssey have so little "Back to the Present" time travel moments that IO even forget these are there.
AT AC Odyssey, on my playthrough of some 140 hours (that I am exploring and doing everything I can find, not just doing main quests to rush the game), I got back to present days like 3 times only.

140h, 3 (10min exploration of the animus), a total of some 30min not at ancient Greece.


It is also a problem in it self as when it does happen it takes you out of the game so hard that you might as well have crashed in to a wall going 150km/h.
And that is why I mentioned (think in this topic, dont remember) AC did not need animus past AC3, it didnt even make sense to continue with the animus and it all could be just you living the life of the ancient "insert civilization here" guy/girl and that is it.

I dont like the animus thing too and I didnt like it even in AC1, after the 4th or 5th time, it was already a let down every time I was forced into that crap.
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Arrogant Player Jul 3, 2020 @ 7:15am 
Who does like it?
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EF_Neo1st Jul 3, 2020 @ 7:19am 
Originally posted by Arrogant Player:
Who does like it?
By how much they inserted at Origins and Odyssey . . I would say "not many".
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