So after a little over 200 hours of playing I've finally finished AC Odyssey and all it's DLC. That is to say I've done everything to get the Platinum and have the trophy count at 100% for the lot. However there are still quite a few missions still in my quest-log and question marks still dotted around. But unusually for me I'm going to leave it like that and move on to something else.
I very much enjoyed the game but certainly feel it could be much better. It's great if people truly love the game and want to endlessly keep going around and doing every last thing on the map but for me I've had my fill of bandit camps and forts after the first 20/30 odd. I don't need another 100 or so just in order to push my level up.
While I have enjoyed this and Origins I feel that the actual idea of being an historical assassin has been replaced with a warrior with magical weapons. I think it might have been preferable to have these 2 games as a different franchise altogether and have rested the AC line for a few years instead. Ubisoft basically just wanted the brand recognition and put in just enough elements (animus/Isu) to make it related.
I might add more of my thoughts another time but I've realised I've been up for 24 hours now and struggling to keep my thoughts cohesive.
@BearsEatBeets I felt the same way over Orgins and I just suddenly hit the wall after one too many camps. Think is was on the 88% mark for the trophies in the base game, which is 7 trophies from getting all of em. Brilliant game which I really enjoyed, I just had to stop playing otherwise I probably would have ended up hating the game.
@KratosMD I don't think you could say the franchise has always had magical weapons just because of the apple of eden. Until Origins all the weapons that you used in minute to minute gameplay were historically accurate to the period or things that could have practically existed with some clever invention (hidden blade/wrist gun). It all probably ties into the fact that the overarching story involving the first civilisation and playing as ancestors in the animus are probably my least favourite parts of the franchise.
I'm of the opposite view with the historical settings. During the original 'Desmond' games I didn't mind the future bits but I always preferred when the game just got back to the past. With the following games after I was pleased that they scaled back the animus/abstergo parts. For me I would have liked for them to drop these parts of the game altogether and change the formula a different way.
AC could be a game purely played as a character in an historical setting with a more personal story and more fitting gameplay for an 'assassin'. I miss the actual art of discovering a target and trying to get to them and escape without being caught. Not having a five minute battle with someone you have stabbed through the neck because they are 'high-level' and can't be killed that way.
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed fighting the Egyptian gods in Origins and Cyclops in Odyssey, they are fun games but they not really assassins. I'm up for more games like this but think they could have dropped the AC part and just go all in on the fantasy rpg. Again I think that would give them more freedom with the story telling which is one of the weakest parts of most Ubisoft games. I've played all the main AC games except Rogue and they were all good games but never truly great. They're fun while you are playing them but mostly forgettable and rarely do I feel the desire to replay them.
It will be interesting where they go with the next AC game. I'm excited for it either way and bound to get it. It could potentially be my first next gen game much like Black Flag was for my PS4. I just hope I don't have to kill 100 goats and pick up 100 rocks every time I level up if I want to keep using my current gear.
@JohnnyShoulder Yeah sometimes less is more. If you want the Plat you're going to have to 'complete' every question mark on the map so pace yourself. It was the last thing I did.
The name of that game somewhat rings a bell @nessisonett but I don't think I realised 428: Shibuya Scramble was a visual novel... I could do with playing one of those and it sounds pretty interesting from your thoughts with it
I know it was 2 weeks ago but I only just saw your post on finishing Bravely Default @kyleforrester87
... You have to play through the game's first half (albeit abbreviated) in the second part of it 5 times?!
I hope the true ending, super secret boss or whatever it was that was tied into doing that (Surely the game doesn't make you play through it five times for no reason) was worth it!
Nice to hear you enjoyed it though and finally finished it six years and 1 day to the date... Fifteen days ago
Good luck on the second Bravely Default!
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
I think it was worth sticking around for the extremely cool final boss fight, but I do hope the developer never does something like that again. Also, the sequel needs better difficulty balancing and dungeon design.
Maybe in Bravely Default 2!
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Didn't realise there's a sequel @Ralizah called Bravely Second but there's also an upcoming sequel called Bravely Default II... What a silly naming convention... had me a little confused there
As for me
I beat NieR: Automata last night.
"Endings" A, B, C, D among like four or five joke ones
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It makes more sense if you think of it in a Final Fantasy context. The core games are always numbered sequels, whereas the sequels to specific games get weird names.
You did Ending E as well, right? The true ending? No playthrough is complete without Ending E.
It was past midnight and I really needed to sleep so I just Quickly got ending D to compliment ending C and backed out of every other choice it gave at that point.
I'll do it at some point. Possibly. I don't feel like it'll make my opinion of it any better. In fact I'll probably end up not liking it even more. Especially for the time being.
Moment to moment I liked NieR: Automata ... But taking a step back to view it as a whole my opinion has had very wild peaks and troughs regarding this with it's storytelling & themes.
Not in a good way either.
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Ending E is absolutely necessary and no playthrough is truly complete without it. Genuinely, it’s the best moment in gaming possibly ever.
@nessisonett I think whether you find Ending E to be emotional or irritatingly gimmicky depends on your reaction to the game and its quirks as a whole. Especially considering how frustrating it can initially be.
Speaking of playing through games mulitiple times, i hear you need to play Dragon Quest XI three times to get the true ending at what is already quite a lengthy game. And the second play through it takes away fast travel? I'm glad I found the game so dull and gave up during the first play through!
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@JohnnyShoulder No. The game's story is separated into three parts, with the third part, leading to the true ending, being a lengthy post-game campaign. All three sections are completely unique.
And I still fast-traveled plenty in Part Two. You just have to rediscover locations from part one because, for story reasons, things have changed pretty dramatically in the game.
It's all one complete playthrough of the game, though.
...You know what would've made it better @Ralizah? ... an Invisible zombies mode
Next you'll be telling me @nessisonett that In order to truly appreciate the 2B is actually 2E twist that I need to get Ending "XXY%4" in Chapter 2/Route B which involves waiting around in one specific area so long that 2B just whips out a mallet from beneath her skirt and bludgeons 9S to death out of boredom... that or I dunno... read some japan only obscure manga adaption that was printed on boxes of Pocky
... Terrible attempts at jokes aside I very much doubt I'm going to like that final bit as much as you or anyone else on here and that's rather disappointing to me.
I had pretty much no knowledge or expectations for NieR Automata. Not even built up expectations like a few other games I've disliked with extremely positive receptions. It's truly a shame to me that I just can't enjoy it.
I'll be keeping it for the time being so who knows... maybe I'll enjoy it more a few years down the line 😁
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy That’s too bad that the game didn’t quite live up to the reputation. But that’s okay - different strokes for different folks. I certainly have my share of games that I can’t quite understand the appeal. I do feel bad to have led you astray 😅. Ah well, 1 out of 2 ain’t bad.
I will say that it’s probably worth playing through ending E, since you’ve made it this far. It brings the narrative around in a very unique way. Although I’m not confident that it will change your impression of the game entirely, but it’s worth experiencing just for the sake of completeness. You’re 98% of the way to the finish line. You basically just have to lunge forward and collapse through the finishing tape onto the track. 😂
If you can tolerate it after that, and only after playing ending E if you choose to the discussion is interesting on the game thread, and I especially liked the video kyle posted which broke the game down. It’s in comment 316: https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps4/nier_automata?start=300...
But I understand your hesitation to commit anymore time since you probably keep thinking, when is this game actually going to get good like everyone says? 😂
@Ralizah@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yeah I knew it was coming since I got to the end before but by the 4th time I was still like “reallllly???” - it is a joke to be honest. BUT, it’s worth the persistence and the little bits of new story that occur are a treat.
As for the name, Bravely Default, I always thought it was a really cool title. The title itself means something along the lines of “be brave and don’t do what’s expected of you i.e. default against expectations yada yada” which is a theme which runs throughout the game.
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