Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Like I definitely had a time in my life where I liked having a game that was just basically like endless content.

Like one of my big COVID games was Assassin's Creed Odyssey, actually.

And that game is, and I will get to this more in a moment, basically a giant repetitive mess.

But it is a repetitive mess that has like foundationally decent gameplay for what it was trying to be at the time it was trying to be what it was trying to be.

And so it was very easy to just pick that game up and play mindlessly for several hours and then put it down and then move on to something else and not really forget where you were or what you were doing.

And now the idea of trying to get through Assassin's Creed, like I picked Assassin's Creed Odyssey up on a Steam sale about two years ago because I'd originally played it on my PS4.

And I started looking at the map.

And I'm looking at it through these rose-colored glasses like, oh, you know, this will just be my wind-down game because I've already beaten it all these years ago and blah, blah, blah.

We did that.

I want to say the last one we gave up was we gave up in the middle of the open world trilogy, like maybe Odyssey, because I never finished Valhalla.

Right.

But up until then, we pretty much did it with every single Assassin's Creed.

Those open world ones were just insane, massive, like hell of a game, but like.

Yeah, I haven't played since Valhalla.

No, I haven't played since Odyssey.

Well, I tried Valhalla.

Yeah.

Odyssey and Origins had scarred us.

It did badly.

We are talking about Junjiro, which is one of the children companions in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

I'm looking up.

So Phoebe

from Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

She is...

New Spider-Man.

It came out around the same time as Odyssey, I think.

I think it was.

Somewhere around.

I love that game.

It even beat out Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which I know you love the shit out of.

I do.

I love it.

the original, came from a time when Ubisoft was still doing motion capture for the cutscenes in all these games, right? And that lasted all the way up until Origins, which is, that's the Egypt one.

Now, starting with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, they, because, and that's when the game's like really just started getting so bloated and like overly massive and sort of just... you know, kind of eating your time a little bit.

So Odyssey, Valhalla, and Shadows all have this.

But instead of actually motion capturing any cut scenes and like body movements to these characters, they basically came up with this like almost algorithm that just is churning out the body movements of the characters while they sit and like the camera like flips back and forth while they talk.