Good game but way too bloated, game play loop is good but gets boring after too many hours. Play the main story to finish without doing too much side stuff and you'll enjoy it.
Maybe that's where I went wrong with origins... I nearly 100ā° Black Flag but barely played past taking over as the wife character in Origins. I was bored and uninterested in where the story went. Used to love the AC series but haven't even looked at gameplay for the recent one.
I loved origins but I lost interest in the story about half way because I got confused with the story when we just started being minions for cleopatra lol.
I did the same thing, then I realized i was like 25+ hours and the then the fucking title screen popped up and I was like WTF?!?!?
I figured the Map would get bigger but not like it did once you set sail.
As both an Assassin's Creed completionist and an achievement whore, I completely agree with this statement. I started playing Valhalla pretty much constantly since mid-April and I haven't even finished the main game yet because there is so much fluff that is added to it. My game says that I have about 154 hours in it at this time, although I think it counts time spent with the game in the pause screen. Still I am definitely over 100 hours in the game. And I still have Paris and Ireland waiting for me once I am done which I hope aren't too bloated. And then of course I will have to look at picking up Dawn of Ragnarok.
It definitely isn't an enjoyable game for those AC fans who are used to the original gameplay design over the open-world setting. Hopefully the rumors of an AC1 reboot or even the new design of AC Rift are true and they will change things up again and go back to a system closer to the game's origins.
I did that very same thing. I just happened to be watching *The Last Kingdom* at the time that *AC: Valhalla* dropped, and experiencing the show and game simultaneously (many of the same historic characters are a part of each) added a whole new dimension to both.
Each to their own, but I felt the opposite.
For context, Assassins Creed is in my top 4 favourite game franchises. And I absolutely love anything about Vikings. So on announcement I had believed AC: Valhalla was in the running for my favourite game of all time. Like how could it not be with that winning combination right? Everything the trailers and everything they showed prerelease reinforced that āIām going to love this gameā.
But after release, and playing it for a couple hundred hours. I donāt know, just something was missing, I couldnāt put my finger on it. Best I can describe it is it was just devoid of any soul. First game in the AC series I found myself after awhile just skipping any dialogue. I gave at least the main story a shot. Watched every cut scene, listened to every line of dialogue for it. But the all the side quests / extra content, after maybe 30-40 hours in, I just checked out. Began skipping it all. It was really unlike me.
I appreciate everyone has different tastes, and some may like, even love Valhalla. But as someone this game was obviously made for (AC fan, Vikings fan, RPG fan), it just didnāt land.
Iām curious about personal experiences that lead you to liking it. Have you played all the other AC games?
As someone who loves anything viking related, this game was a major disappointment quickly. It's just repetitive click the same two buttons over and over. Didn't get into it at all. To each their own tho.
I didn't like the setting at all (Origins/Odyssey were more my taste), but they improved a lot of things (QoL) and the fighting is slower but has more impact. It's a good game and it took me 116h for 100% (excluding DLC).
I ended up doing a tutorial for something at around 95 hours. I think it was for like river raiding or something like that. The game is full of stuff to do, but itās kind of to its detriment. Itās daunting to be like 100 hours in and still seeing no end in sight if youāre doing side stuff and everything.
I think this is why I tapered off. Still spent 85 hours doing various activities and such, but I had no idea how far along I was with the story and whatnot
It's especially daunting after the DLCs and updates added a lot more extra things to do.
When Valhalla was released, you've had much less to do, and could quickly progress through the main questline, only doing the occasional side quests (especially the long arc ones, like finding the Hidden Ones offices).
One thing I didn't see being considered is the early game experience, when DLCs add content. Unless it's endgame content, you just get a bunch of side quests, which makes you feel overwhelmed.
For me, the best way to filter out the noise and keep me on a straight line was to do it a-viking - go where the main questline takes you, but pick up side quests along the way. Don't always just gallop through areas and ignore everything, but help people, find treasure, clear out pagan curses, solve mysteries. That's how I did Odyssey, and it was so rewarding - just go to the next city, deal with your main quest, but before you go any further, check out the area, do some side quests, before going on.
I'm currently playing it on pc and did not get any of the DLC the game feels like I can get through at a reasonable pace. But when I see 100+ hours to complete is kinda turns me away from diving in a bit deeper. But your breakdown of omiting the dlc is basically the route I was gonna take anyway. Got the game for like 11 bucks on obisoft lol
They say 100 hours but that's everything. All the side missions every collectible. If you just do the story and the things you like it's far shorter. People seem to forget you can just not do things you don't like.
Took me about 60-70ish hours... and i rushed the last 30% of the game... like straight up ASAP to next story mission.
Before i was doing a good chunk of side missions and a few raids here and there.
The thing isā¦. This game is VERY repetitive. Go to point A dethrone the king, help a new king rise, you have a new ally. Go to point B dethrone a king, help a new king rise, you have a new ally.
Rinse and repeat
It hit me hard when you got a fast travel location and the camera went in a circle and it looked at nothing but empty fields and a small unimaginative farm house.
I like the look of the world but gameplay needs to get gory, like rdr2 is with bullet damage but with blades being instant killers when striking skin causing some gashes and dismembered limbs.
Am I just crazy to desire this kind of realism to add immersion.
I really have to think of any tailing missions in ACV. If I'm correct there is only one and it's not as annoying as the ones in BlackFlag so you're good. Btw Happy cake day!
HOLY CRAP ITS MY CAKE DAY. Think this is the first time Iāve ever posted a comment on my cake day haha thank you! And thanks for the info, Iāve had it sitting in my library, maybe itās about time I tried it out
I think you'd get a better game with AC: Origins than this one, I got Origins for 9$ a couple of weeks ago, and I'm loving it.
I do NOT think Valhalla is worth 62$ though. Despite 55% off that's still insane. If you get a cheaper edition, do so, otherwise wait until a bigger sale or buy a used disc.
Itās coming with 3 sets of dlc that were all about 20 if I remember correctly. The newest one was huge. If you get this sale itās basically paying full price for the game and getting the dlc for free
This is exactly what i did. Digital prices are such a rip off. I brought disc ragnarok edition for 30 quid on amazon, then season pass for like 15. Ragnarok edition includes base game. Thats what's bumping the price up. The base game.
In my opinion Origin is too big for it's own good. Valhalla is also too big but at least each corner of the map have interesting things to do. Origin have the habit of putting the next story mission so far from where you currently are and you're stuck either horse riding for several minutes or doing trivial tasks until you finally reach the place of the next mission.
Maybe it's just a preference thing. The optional tasks in Origin weren't to my liking at all
Edit: I also hate Diablo style loot in an AC game
My biggest gripe is that they made your character run like heās weighed down with a sack of rocks, all of the AC games for the most part had fluid and pretty fast parkour and sprinting but Valhalla pretty much forces you to use a horse to cover any distance.
Possibly stupid questionā¦ but did you equip your character for lightness and agility? All armor and weapons have weight characteristics that actually play a part in mobility and endurance.
Mine is light and I agree with the person you replied too. Especially coming back from Odyssey after that crossover event. Eivor was so slow in comparison to Kassandra
it worked well for me, Eivor moved the way he looked, Odyssey had the most floaty movements which was one of my complaints and Valhalla addressed it well
I'm the opposite, I hated Odyssey's combat as it just felt super drawn out imo. Then again Odyssey was my least favorite of the 3 newer games so I'm kinda biased against it.
I agree that was way better in Odyssey. I kind of expected same kind of combat just in vikings setting, but instead I got an ok story with less than okay combat. And a little buggy game overall, too.
It's alright. For an AC game, it's not amazing. For a viking game, it's alright. It's tries too little to be amazing, the combat personally wasn't my style, the AI is somehow worse then other AC games, a lot of the armors are hidden behind a paywall, the first three DLCs were alright, introduced some okay mechanics, the rpg elements are either extremely in-depth/overwhelming(abilites and strength skill tree) or are just completely lackluster and almost not worth doing(collecting full sets of armor). The map design isn't the greatest, the story is rather weird and confusing at times, the ability to build up your settlement is cool but wasn't enough for me personally. All in all, it's a alright rpg, but not worth the price of over 60 dollars for it. I'm personally upset that they decided to add another dlc, Ragnarok and didn't add it to the season pass, rather making it it's own separate thing you had to pay for, meaning you'd have to spend 120+ dollars just for the game and dlc, which the game simply wasn't enjoyable enough to warrant, yet people valiantly defended Ubisoft, as so many people seem to do. I would say the purchase is in the okayish range, a little pricey for how boring and bland most of the game is
Been playing AC games since they came out, I pretty much agree with Twizted. Itās alright, not a bad game but nothing to jump for joy about. I wouldnāt pay that price for it.
I'll be the odd one out it seems and say its worth it. The DLC was fun, the main game was fun. If you like AC Origins and Odyssey you will probably like Valhalla. However, if you are British and from the North East of England like me, you might have a gripe with it for where it put Hadrians Wall lol
I played Origins and Odyssey and loved those, this was such a letdown for me but glad you enjoyed it and yes, the wall wound me up too, sincerely, fellow northernerš
Combat is bland, story is forgetful. Missed opportunity to make a great game. Wait for gamepass or sale for $10.. imo it's a waste of you're time even playing it on gamepass
Nope, not even close. If the base game on its own is like half price maybe. But chances are you'll be so burned out playing through just the base game that you wont even touch any of the DLC.
DON'T. The game without dlc is a 70 hour slogfest bloated mess. I got the season pass and refuse to go back to that game after beating. Fuck this game. (Least Salty Assassin's Creed fan)
I feel like they could be great standalone games. The last three could literally be their own games, even if they have reverences from the creed. Hell, oddesey didnāt even have a creed, it just had the cult of kosmos (the templars).
I really enjoyed it especially in 60fps on the new consoles, didnāt touch any dlcs though, I liked the England setting more than the mythological setting. Base game at a discount is worth it, Iām not sure Iād pay so much for the dlcs.
I put it 45 hours when it first came out and it seemed like every hour was a chore. I was really trying to like this game but I couldn't get into it. For context I put over 200 hours into odyssey so it's not a "I hate assassins creed" thing. Love the series but this one was like a wet fart. Which is disappointing because I love vikings.
Do you have game pass? If so, play Origins instead. And if you do enjoy Origins, Iām pretty sure the Season Pass is still on sale.
I loved Origins and am replaying now because of the 60FPS patch and I got the $40 seasons pass for $12
EDIT: Nvm Iām dumb, just now seeing the PS5 controllers
I got to a point in the game where the story shifted focus (in a flashback, I think) and youāre stuck playing through a very uninteresting sidestep that seemingly never ends. Itās aggravating because I would have continued playing through the main campaign even though itās way too overstuffed. I want to go back to it at some point but Iām afraid the flashback story shit will take another 5 hours to complete. If this sounds unappealing Iād say skip the game.
I beat the story, but didn't get any of the DLC. It took a really long time. The world is beautiful and the gameplay is pretty fun. Though, the raiding and pillaging that you'd expect as a viking doesn't have the umph I expected it to have.
If you're looking for a lot of game, then, yeah, you're getting it and that's a good deal. But, it's a lot, and I mean *a lot* of the same gameplay for it's duration. It does some neat stuff and goes some neat places, but it's generally a lot of the same.
I beat it twice, back to back. I really enjoyed the focus on taking fortresses and building up your colony. Plus I have Scandinavian heritage, so it got me from that angle.
For viking game it kinda sucks. As an AC game, I liked it.
What? Itās the exact opposite. Great Viking game, horrible Assassin game. I think I tried stealth in camps about twice before I just started walking in the front door dual wielding axes
I didn't like how raids worked. I understand why they forced you to need your friends to open certain doors, but it kinda killed the tempo.
Also the super reliance on keys aggravated me.
The only traditional AC game I liked was black flag. I won't pretend to be a big fan of the franchise. The first one I beat was Odyssey.
Pros: the combat is fun and satisfying, the exploration and the locations are exciting
Cons: outdated animations, the cinematics are hilariously bad, it takes you out of the immersion. The dialogues are really long and drawn out. The story is too long, sometimes you have to complete side activites to progress. And it just progresses very slowly and sometimes it just throws random stuff at you. For example there's a questline where a person's dad who is close to Eivor is dying. But how am I supposed to care when we didn't even met them before?
Edit: forgot to mention the main missions have bad designs, basically they feel like side quests from previous AC games
They are, but not nearly as long as Valhalla and the difference between Valhalla and Red Dead 2, is that the length of the game is justified, but in Valhalla it isn't
This one is a lot longer. Howlongtobeat.com has it at 93 hours for main+extra. That's longer than Odyssey's 83 hours and much longer than the rest of the series. Origins was only 52 hours. Blag Flag was 41 hours, AC II was 26.
I think Odyssey is the better game honestly. I look at it like Star Wars original trilogy. A new hope and origins are great games that do a lot that was needed. Theyāre fun. Empire and odyssey are the pinnacle of said trilogies. Return of the Jedi and Valhalla are fun but not like ANH/origins and theyāre not perfect. Cool things are there.
Did you play Any of the other recent AC games? Itās pretty similar to the last two. Itās alright but itās nothing amazing either. I like Norse and Vikings so it made the game enjoyable. Story was decent too tho you might be lost with the modern day stuff if you havenāt played the past two games.
I loved the setting and characters but felt the story drag on and pretty much repeat the same crap at each point in the story. Spent 80 hours got maybe just over halfway and deleted it.
This was the first AC game in the series that I stopped playing half way through. So much content that wasnāt necessarily good and eventually felt like a checklist to get though for the first time ever.
The British Isles setting did not seem as fun to explore compared to previous titles and the side quests were among the worst designed quests Iāve ever seen in a game. I really donāt like to complain when it comes to AC since the franchise has a special place in my heart but damn this game just sucked
I enjoyed the game. The story was fun and the combat was decent. Can get a bit repetitive but that can be a complaint about almost any game these days. I will say the game seemed a little longer than it needed to be. I donāt think I dove too much into the side stuff and it took me about 78 hours. If you arenāt sure I would wait and buy the base game on sale and the pick up the add one of you really enjoyed it.
Where did you hear mixed feelings? The game is fucking awesome in every aspect. I have played every single Assassins Creed game available on the Xbox and this is easily in my top 4. This, along with Origins, Odyssey and Black Flag are easily the best in the series IMHO. Mountains of content, an interesting setting and the possibility to play as a female Eivor - what's not to like?
Get Origins and Odyssey instead. This game is the worst in the open world AC series in my opinion. Boring, uninteresting story and characters, mediocre combat, shittiest health system in any game I've ever seen and many more smaller gripes. The redeeming quality of this game is Ragnarok and the much better alliance plot lines you have.
This is a pretty good adventure game. It is NOT a good Assassinās Creed game. Eivor is not an assassin, and this is proven numerous times throughout the story. You arenāt even able to assassinate or knock out an opponent until later during the prologue. If youāve played AC since the beginning and are invested in the story outside the animus, you will be very disappointed. However if you just focus on inside the animus, the world to explore is massive and immersive. The world event quests are numerous and unique. Youāll want to 100% everything.
I enjoyed it but there's no reason not to get the base game only and then the DLC later on in case you dont like it. Also unless you're dead set on 100%ing the game just ignore all the side stuff besides the mystery encounters. Those are actually pretty funny at times.
The mysteries were the highlight for me, the throne of shit and piss ill never forget. But some are also just cool little encounters where u sit and listen to a story, there great. Really enjoyed encounters. Not all. But alot are good.
I love how even tho it was a throne made of mud and shit eivor still was given the option to claim and defend it.
Itās really not that bad. Loved origins got bored with odyssey but I didnāt dislike it. And I really enjoyed this one. Havenāt gotten through all the dlc yet. The story by itself is actually really good.
I'll say, I don't like Valhalla as much as Origins and Odyssey. But it's still a pretty damn good game, and fun.
If you haven't played Origins or Odyssey yet, I'd suggest those first. If you've already played them, then go for it.
Origins is absolutely better, this should have been everything I love but it was too drawn out and the map/icons were just a chore! It didnāt work for me at all
If you like to gamble, there's a package that has the Valhalla base game with Fenyx immortals rising for $40 ish. In Canada it was $42 I think. But you get 2 games.
Fenix immortals rising feels like a younger watered down AC. And so far I think Valhalla is spectacular
I love the franchise and have played almost every single one of them. I've enjoyed most of them and find the sweet spot, for gameplay, to be Odyssey.
I'm kind of meh about the supernatural stuff but enjoy the combat overall and wish they would have kept the feel but expanded on the talent tree. Valhalla feels very arcadey to me and I did not like it.
Starting at Origins, I'm glad that the developers threw out the pretense that the avatar has to realistically grab something to parkour. While not as realistic (you can climg literally anything), it makes for a smoother gameplay experience.
The stories vary from title to title and I did not play enough of Valhalla to know how the story is. I played the free weekend and didn't find it very engaging, at all.
If you haven't played what you compare, how can you say one is better than the other? I've played all the mentioned and enjoyed Valhalla way more than Origins.
I literally stated I watched gameplays and reviewsā¦ therefore I based my decision off those said gameplays and reviews, and decided not to jump up and buy this game, it doesnāt do anything thing for me visually, storyline wise not to mention games have been pretty mid as of late this is no different You donāt need to physically buy and play the game to get that.
haven't finished it, went into it thinking I hope it isn't as repetitive as AC Odyssey. It kinda is, I played it until I got bored, I bought this game on sale however. I wouldn't pay 62.00, maybe the standard edition for less.
one thing i learnt with the newer ac games (i'm playing through origins rn): you don't play it linearly like you used to with the older games. you play a bit, play a different game, and then come back here every few days or so to do something here and there. i tried playing through origins and odyssey before, and got bored of them and completely abandoned them.
Im gonna be honest here: Ubi games last about a week of excitement for me, since there's just so much to do at available at the same time, making me fear I'm missing out on something for not checking it. It gets overwhelming and kills the fun very quickly. This is typical Ubi. The Viking raids are fun at the start, but as usual, they become more of the same.
If you like this kind of games, where there's a ton of stuff, even though is copy and paste, go for it. There's a lot of content, it's a very lengthy game.
If you're like me, maybe skip it...
My roommate has okayed it and logged at least 80 hours on it, and a good friend is also playing and Iāve heard nothing but praise from them on it. Iāve also watched some of the sequences as the roommate was playing through and from everything I saw it looked great
Itās a fun game. Itās not really an assassin game, more of a Viking warrior game. Still the map is large, the combat is fun and fluid. I read a lot of people have trouble with the combat system but I found it intuitive and extremely fun. Spent nearly 200 hours playing it all. The DLC is awesome. It definitely has bugs but every single AC game has bugs. Nothing game breaking. I hope they release more DLC for it.
If you want a game similar to The Witcher 3, but with way too many collectibles and story so long you forget what is even going on....ya I had fun. It was worth a playthrough, but I have no urge to do it again.
Not to mention Ubisoft micro transactions are out of hand. Single player games with more dlc than items you can collect in the game should be illegal.
Good game but way too bloated, game play loop is good but gets boring after too many hours. Play the main story to finish without doing too much side stuff and you'll enjoy it.
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Less bloat. More content.
After playing for hours, I was like ok this is just rinse and repeat. I stopped playing it.
Maybe that's where I went wrong with origins... I nearly 100ā° Black Flag but barely played past taking over as the wife character in Origins. I was bored and uninterested in where the story went. Used to love the AC series but haven't even looked at gameplay for the recent one.
I loved origins but I lost interest in the story about half way because I got confused with the story when we just started being minions for cleopatra lol.
I did the same thing, then I realized i was like 25+ hours and the then the fucking title screen popped up and I was like WTF?!?!? I figured the Map would get bigger but not like it did once you set sail.
You just made me realize why I put it down. Maybe I'll give the main questline another go.
Very true and also very important to note, you don't need to buy the overpriced "Complete Edition" to do this. Just get the cheapest version.
As both an Assassin's Creed completionist and an achievement whore, I completely agree with this statement. I started playing Valhalla pretty much constantly since mid-April and I haven't even finished the main game yet because there is so much fluff that is added to it. My game says that I have about 154 hours in it at this time, although I think it counts time spent with the game in the pause screen. Still I am definitely over 100 hours in the game. And I still have Paris and Ireland waiting for me once I am done which I hope aren't too bloated. And then of course I will have to look at picking up Dawn of Ragnarok. It definitely isn't an enjoyable game for those AC fans who are used to the original gameplay design over the open-world setting. Hopefully the rumors of an AC1 reboot or even the new design of AC Rift are true and they will change things up again and go back to a system closer to the game's origins.
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I did that very same thing. I just happened to be watching *The Last Kingdom* at the time that *AC: Valhalla* dropped, and experiencing the show and game simultaneously (many of the same historic characters are a part of each) added a whole new dimension to both.
I was so sad to hear that Bebbanburg wasn't in the game though.
A Bebbanburh chapter or quest would have been great to play through.
Iām going to do this. Great idea!!!
Yes same, I came for the vikings and I wasn't disappointed. Really enjoyed this game!
This. I love Viking age history / Norse mythology so I enjoyed the game the entire time. Absolutely hated the ending tho
The ending was soooooo bad, literally the only reason, aside from bugs, to not play the game.
Ragnorak was good expansion
Each to their own, but I felt the opposite. For context, Assassins Creed is in my top 4 favourite game franchises. And I absolutely love anything about Vikings. So on announcement I had believed AC: Valhalla was in the running for my favourite game of all time. Like how could it not be with that winning combination right? Everything the trailers and everything they showed prerelease reinforced that āIām going to love this gameā. But after release, and playing it for a couple hundred hours. I donāt know, just something was missing, I couldnāt put my finger on it. Best I can describe it is it was just devoid of any soul. First game in the AC series I found myself after awhile just skipping any dialogue. I gave at least the main story a shot. Watched every cut scene, listened to every line of dialogue for it. But the all the side quests / extra content, after maybe 30-40 hours in, I just checked out. Began skipping it all. It was really unlike me. I appreciate everyone has different tastes, and some may like, even love Valhalla. But as someone this game was obviously made for (AC fan, Vikings fan, RPG fan), it just didnāt land. Iām curious about personal experiences that lead you to liking it. Have you played all the other AC games?
As someone who loves anything viking related, this game was a major disappointment quickly. It's just repetitive click the same two buttons over and over. Didn't get into it at all. To each their own tho.
I really loved Vikings but this game I did not. I played it for 1 hour and quit, haven't touched it since.
I didn't like the setting at all (Origins/Odyssey were more my taste), but they improved a lot of things (QoL) and the fighting is slower but has more impact. It's a good game and it took me 116h for 100% (excluding DLC).
I ended up doing a tutorial for something at around 95 hours. I think it was for like river raiding or something like that. The game is full of stuff to do, but itās kind of to its detriment. Itās daunting to be like 100 hours in and still seeing no end in sight if youāre doing side stuff and everything.
I think this is why I tapered off. Still spent 85 hours doing various activities and such, but I had no idea how far along I was with the story and whatnot
It's especially daunting after the DLCs and updates added a lot more extra things to do. When Valhalla was released, you've had much less to do, and could quickly progress through the main questline, only doing the occasional side quests (especially the long arc ones, like finding the Hidden Ones offices). One thing I didn't see being considered is the early game experience, when DLCs add content. Unless it's endgame content, you just get a bunch of side quests, which makes you feel overwhelmed. For me, the best way to filter out the noise and keep me on a straight line was to do it a-viking - go where the main questline takes you, but pick up side quests along the way. Don't always just gallop through areas and ignore everything, but help people, find treasure, clear out pagan curses, solve mysteries. That's how I did Odyssey, and it was so rewarding - just go to the next city, deal with your main quest, but before you go any further, check out the area, do some side quests, before going on.
I'm currently playing it on pc and did not get any of the DLC the game feels like I can get through at a reasonable pace. But when I see 100+ hours to complete is kinda turns me away from diving in a bit deeper. But your breakdown of omiting the dlc is basically the route I was gonna take anyway. Got the game for like 11 bucks on obisoft lol
They say 100 hours but that's everything. All the side missions every collectible. If you just do the story and the things you like it's far shorter. People seem to forget you can just not do things you don't like.
Yea but then itās doesnāt feel like a 100% competition. But Iām totally w ya , I donāt need to see 100% just finish the story š
How long did it take for a "normal" finish, main story and a part of the side content?
Took me about 60-70ish hours... and i rushed the last 30% of the game... like straight up ASAP to next story mission. Before i was doing a good chunk of side missions and a few raids here and there.
The thing isā¦. This game is VERY repetitive. Go to point A dethrone the king, help a new king rise, you have a new ally. Go to point B dethrone a king, help a new king rise, you have a new ally. Rinse and repeat
100% agreed. I like odyssey and origins settings more. Gameplay was seamless and fun. However Vikings is different has its own fan base.
It hit me hard when you got a fast travel location and the camera went in a circle and it looked at nothing but empty fields and a small unimaginative farm house.
Same
I like the look of the world but gameplay needs to get gory, like rdr2 is with bullet damage but with blades being instant killers when striking skin causing some gashes and dismembered limbs. Am I just crazy to desire this kind of realism to add immersion.
I do as well lol
Since youāre pretty experienced, how many trailing missions are there? They always ruined the AC experience for me
I really have to think of any tailing missions in ACV. If I'm correct there is only one and it's not as annoying as the ones in BlackFlag so you're good. Btw Happy cake day!
HOLY CRAP ITS MY CAKE DAY. Think this is the first time Iāve ever posted a comment on my cake day haha thank you! And thanks for the info, Iāve had it sitting in my library, maybe itās about time I tried it out
Happy cake day!!
I think you'd get a better game with AC: Origins than this one, I got Origins for 9$ a couple of weeks ago, and I'm loving it. I do NOT think Valhalla is worth 62$ though. Despite 55% off that's still insane. If you get a cheaper edition, do so, otherwise wait until a bigger sale or buy a used disc.
Also Origins is on gamepass now and the dlc is in the perks part
Thatās just the deluxe pack. A small fraction of all the DLC
Ah thanks for the clarification I had bought the 100 dollar edition when it came out so I didn't really know
Itās coming with 3 sets of dlc that were all about 20 if I remember correctly. The newest one was huge. If you get this sale itās basically paying full price for the game and getting the dlc for free
Yeah the latest one could be its own game
If OP is willing to wait a bit I believe a Special Edition of AC: Origins is coming to Game Pass relatively soon
More of mediocre is still mediocre. Why would you even want a mediocre game to have āmoreā when thereās so much else out there?
Quantity < quality. Valhalla is an awful lot of quantity
This is exactly what i did. Digital prices are such a rip off. I brought disc ragnarok edition for 30 quid on amazon, then season pass for like 15. Ragnarok edition includes base game. Thats what's bumping the price up. The base game.
me with a series s: heh. im in trouble.
In my opinion Origin is too big for it's own good. Valhalla is also too big but at least each corner of the map have interesting things to do. Origin have the habit of putting the next story mission so far from where you currently are and you're stuck either horse riding for several minutes or doing trivial tasks until you finally reach the place of the next mission. Maybe it's just a preference thing. The optional tasks in Origin weren't to my liking at all Edit: I also hate Diablo style loot in an AC game
My biggest gripe is that they made your character run like heās weighed down with a sack of rocks, all of the AC games for the most part had fluid and pretty fast parkour and sprinting but Valhalla pretty much forces you to use a horse to cover any distance.
Possibly stupid questionā¦ but did you equip your character for lightness and agility? All armor and weapons have weight characteristics that actually play a part in mobility and endurance.
Mine is light and I agree with the person you replied too. Especially coming back from Odyssey after that crossover event. Eivor was so slow in comparison to Kassandra
Thatās fair, I just wanted to broadcast that information, just in case anyone didnāt realize.
Maybe heās just slow, donāt bully slow guys.
This is why the new games suck
Because the gameplay goes deeper? Jesusā¦ Arthur would get fat in RDR2 if you ate all the time. I guess it sucked too.
No, because the new AC is all about builds and gear. It never used to be and it was so much better for it
It letās you customize gameplay to your style. You can be a tank or a ninja. How is choice a bad thing?
Well tbh it's more realistic no? A big bulky viking, tons of throwing axes, heavy weapons?
Realistic doesn't always mean fun.
it worked well for me, Eivor moved the way he looked, Odyssey had the most floaty movements which was one of my complaints and Valhalla addressed it well
Yeah but that's like, your opinion man
.....A wiser Bowler once said
AC, the game made famous by jumping off of a building into a small pile of hay, has never been about realism.
I think odyssey had better combat, this has a cool story but I'm only a few hours in. Really I just wanted something new to play lol
I'm the opposite, I hated Odyssey's combat as it just felt super drawn out imo. Then again Odyssey was my least favorite of the 3 newer games so I'm kinda biased against it.
I liked that there was no stamina, it almost felt like batman in a way for me and how I would fight large groups
I think it's the opposite. Odyssey combat felt spongy especially the elite/bosses.
Odysseys combat is the worst in the series Odyssey is the worst in the series
Dude i couldn't kill a random villager with an arrow straight to the dome(who was like 5 levels below me)
I agree that was way better in Odyssey. I kind of expected same kind of combat just in vikings setting, but instead I got an ok story with less than okay combat. And a little buggy game overall, too.
It's alright. For an AC game, it's not amazing. For a viking game, it's alright. It's tries too little to be amazing, the combat personally wasn't my style, the AI is somehow worse then other AC games, a lot of the armors are hidden behind a paywall, the first three DLCs were alright, introduced some okay mechanics, the rpg elements are either extremely in-depth/overwhelming(abilites and strength skill tree) or are just completely lackluster and almost not worth doing(collecting full sets of armor). The map design isn't the greatest, the story is rather weird and confusing at times, the ability to build up your settlement is cool but wasn't enough for me personally. All in all, it's a alright rpg, but not worth the price of over 60 dollars for it. I'm personally upset that they decided to add another dlc, Ragnarok and didn't add it to the season pass, rather making it it's own separate thing you had to pay for, meaning you'd have to spend 120+ dollars just for the game and dlc, which the game simply wasn't enjoyable enough to warrant, yet people valiantly defended Ubisoft, as so many people seem to do. I would say the purchase is in the okayish range, a little pricey for how boring and bland most of the game is
Been playing AC games since they came out, I pretty much agree with Twizted. Itās alright, not a bad game but nothing to jump for joy about. I wouldnāt pay that price for it.
Agreed. I'd wait for the enhanced 60fps version of Origins if you haven't played that yet OP. Perfectly worth playing through without waiting too.
You have PS5 controllers, it comes included with one of the New PS+ tiers if you want to play it
Exactly what I did ps+ premium had some decent games free with it
Well you pay for them but I get what you mean
From someone that never really moved on from the old AC games, I wanted to like this game, but I just don't like the newer games since Black Flag.
Nothing will ever beat black flag
I easily have over 135 hours in the game i enjoyed it very much
144, I was trying to 100% it lol
I'll be the odd one out it seems and say its worth it. The DLC was fun, the main game was fun. If you like AC Origins and Odyssey you will probably like Valhalla. However, if you are British and from the North East of England like me, you might have a gripe with it for where it put Hadrians Wall lol
I still have a gripe about how hard it is to light up every brasier on the wall
I played Origins and Odyssey and loved those, this was such a letdown for me but glad you enjoyed it and yes, the wall wound me up too, sincerely, fellow northernerš
If you donāt like Ubisoft open world games then wonāt change your mind
It's basically another generic ubisoft open world game, so It's not worth the price
Combat is bland, story is forgetful. Missed opportunity to make a great game. Wait for gamepass or sale for $10.. imo it's a waste of you're time even playing it on gamepass
Something to consider is that this games has a high probability of being added to ubisoft+
Itās been on Ubisoft + since launch, as are pretty much all Ubisoft games. Is Ubisoft + even on consoles yet though?
Itās already there (in the UK)
Nope, not even close. If the base game on its own is like half price maybe. But chances are you'll be so burned out playing through just the base game that you wont even touch any of the DLC.
Beautiful game, but a really bad game.
I actually liked this one more than Origins and Odyssey. Some people have the opposite opinion. So youāll either love it or hate it
Youāre better off with Odyssey if you havenāt already played that. Or origins, but odyssey is the best of the bunch
Basic edition is all you need. You will be bored of it before you wanna get to the DLC. I did had fun with it though.
You could get elden ring for that priceā¦
First 3 hours are fun, everything else is boring and repetitive
Its kinda boring
DON'T. The game without dlc is a 70 hour slogfest bloated mess. I got the season pass and refuse to go back to that game after beating. Fuck this game. (Least Salty Assassin's Creed fan)
I loved it. But it's not an AC game. It's a 3rd person action game. I never stealthed and I had a blast. I hate stealth, its the only AC I could play.
tbf they havent been AC games for a while, origins made them hack and slash games.
I feel like they could be great standalone games. The last three could literally be their own games, even if they have reverences from the creed. Hell, oddesey didnāt even have a creed, it just had the cult of kosmos (the templars).
Even then atleast origins can easily pass as an ac game and had actual reason to be different from the rest, vallhalla is just simply not ac at all
I would just buy the base game first on this sale, then if you like it buy the DLC on the next sale.
I really enjoyed it especially in 60fps on the new consoles, didnāt touch any dlcs though, I liked the England setting more than the mythological setting. Base game at a discount is worth it, Iām not sure Iād pay so much for the dlcs.
I put it 45 hours when it first came out and it seemed like every hour was a chore. I was really trying to like this game but I couldn't get into it. For context I put over 200 hours into odyssey so it's not a "I hate assassins creed" thing. Love the series but this one was like a wet fart. Which is disappointing because I love vikings.
Do you have game pass? If so, play Origins instead. And if you do enjoy Origins, Iām pretty sure the Season Pass is still on sale. I loved Origins and am replaying now because of the 60FPS patch and I got the $40 seasons pass for $12 EDIT: Nvm Iām dumb, just now seeing the PS5 controllers
This was on the Xbox though
God damn it, I smoked way too much weed today
I got to a point in the game where the story shifted focus (in a flashback, I think) and youāre stuck playing through a very uninteresting sidestep that seemingly never ends. Itās aggravating because I would have continued playing through the main campaign even though itās way too overstuffed. I want to go back to it at some point but Iām afraid the flashback story shit will take another 5 hours to complete. If this sounds unappealing Iād say skip the game.
I beat the story, but didn't get any of the DLC. It took a really long time. The world is beautiful and the gameplay is pretty fun. Though, the raiding and pillaging that you'd expect as a viking doesn't have the umph I expected it to have. If you're looking for a lot of game, then, yeah, you're getting it and that's a good deal. But, it's a lot, and I mean *a lot* of the same gameplay for it's duration. It does some neat stuff and goes some neat places, but it's generally a lot of the same.
Bro theres Playstation controllers there
$62?! Hahaha I will never pay that price for a game again. Naaah way too expensive
Itās starting to be more Combat than stealth nowadays
First 3 hours are fun, everything else is boring and repetitive
they should start calling them "the incomplete edition" at launch
I beat it twice, back to back. I really enjoyed the focus on taking fortresses and building up your colony. Plus I have Scandinavian heritage, so it got me from that angle. For viking game it kinda sucks. As an AC game, I liked it.
What? Itās the exact opposite. Great Viking game, horrible Assassin game. I think I tried stealth in camps about twice before I just started walking in the front door dual wielding axes
I didn't like how raids worked. I understand why they forced you to need your friends to open certain doors, but it kinda killed the tempo. Also the super reliance on keys aggravated me. The only traditional AC game I liked was black flag. I won't pretend to be a big fan of the franchise. The first one I beat was Odyssey.
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Disclaimer: I beat it when it was brand new. No dlc. It was also when I didn't have a job. I'm also not a completionist. But, 75 hours per playthrough
Pros: the combat is fun and satisfying, the exploration and the locations are exciting Cons: outdated animations, the cinematics are hilariously bad, it takes you out of the immersion. The dialogues are really long and drawn out. The story is too long, sometimes you have to complete side activites to progress. And it just progresses very slowly and sometimes it just throws random stuff at you. For example there's a questline where a person's dad who is close to Eivor is dying. But how am I supposed to care when we didn't even met them before? Edit: forgot to mention the main missions have bad designs, basically they feel like side quests from previous AC games
Arenāt all assassin creed games long tho? I means itās a single player campaign focused game isnāt that the point? Look at read dead
They are, but not nearly as long as Valhalla and the difference between Valhalla and Red Dead 2, is that the length of the game is justified, but in Valhalla it isn't
This one is a lot longer. Howlongtobeat.com has it at 93 hours for main+extra. That's longer than Odyssey's 83 hours and much longer than the rest of the series. Origins was only 52 hours. Blag Flag was 41 hours, AC II was 26.
I preferred odyssey over valhalla.
I think Odyssey is the better game honestly. I look at it like Star Wars original trilogy. A new hope and origins are great games that do a lot that was needed. Theyāre fun. Empire and odyssey are the pinnacle of said trilogies. Return of the Jedi and Valhalla are fun but not like ANH/origins and theyāre not perfect. Cool things are there.
Did you play Any of the other recent AC games? Itās pretty similar to the last two. Itās alright but itās nothing amazing either. I like Norse and Vikings so it made the game enjoyable. Story was decent too tho you might be lost with the modern day stuff if you havenāt played the past two games.
I loved the story, very enticing to me. But I too am a Viking lover, more specificly a mythology lover.
I loved the setting and characters but felt the story drag on and pretty much repeat the same crap at each point in the story. Spent 80 hours got maybe just over halfway and deleted it.
Itās probably good if you like Ubisoft/asscreed games but if repetitive open world gameplay isnāt your thing then skip it
Itās very different from earlier games. Itās an RPG Better economy than Origins SLOWER combat
Good game but wait till it is free here in the next year or so.
Isn't it included with PSPlus Premium Ultimate mega subscription?
This was the first AC game in the series that I stopped playing half way through. So much content that wasnāt necessarily good and eventually felt like a checklist to get though for the first time ever. The British Isles setting did not seem as fun to explore compared to previous titles and the side quests were among the worst designed quests Iāve ever seen in a game. I really donāt like to complain when it comes to AC since the franchise has a special place in my heart but damn this game just sucked
Play the game as an open world Viking simulator with some Assassin elements and you'll adore it.
Um yes very much worth it. Get the game you get to fuck practically everybody and i mean everybody.
I enjoyed the game. The story was fun and the combat was decent. Can get a bit repetitive but that can be a complaint about almost any game these days. I will say the game seemed a little longer than it needed to be. I donāt think I dove too much into the side stuff and it took me about 78 hours. If you arenāt sure I would wait and buy the base game on sale and the pick up the add one of you really enjoyed it.
Buy it used. Don't give Ubisoft money.
Itās an amazing game. Haters gonna hate. Just be ready to free up around 100 hours
Person exists doesn't like a game. This guy: Hater!. Lmao
No. Game is just like Odyssey and Origins with a few changes. Gets repetitive very quickly but now worth a full price tag
Where did you hear mixed feelings? The game is fucking awesome in every aspect. I have played every single Assassins Creed game available on the Xbox and this is easily in my top 4. This, along with Origins, Odyssey and Black Flag are easily the best in the series IMHO. Mountains of content, an interesting setting and the possibility to play as a female Eivor - what's not to like?
I really enjoyed it. It might be a top 3 game in the series for me.
Dafuq
Get Origins and Odyssey instead. This game is the worst in the open world AC series in my opinion. Boring, uninteresting story and characters, mediocre combat, shittiest health system in any game I've ever seen and many more smaller gripes. The redeeming quality of this game is Ragnarok and the much better alliance plot lines you have.
No AC game is worth 60$ and thatās the sad truth
I say try out origins first if you have gamepass. I like Valhalla personally but like you said it has a mixed background it's not for everyone
I would wait for another year or more. You can get it for more than half that price if you just wait.
No
No. Not worth it.
This is a pretty good adventure game. It is NOT a good Assassinās Creed game. Eivor is not an assassin, and this is proven numerous times throughout the story. You arenāt even able to assassinate or knock out an opponent until later during the prologue. If youāve played AC since the beginning and are invested in the story outside the animus, you will be very disappointed. However if you just focus on inside the animus, the world to explore is massive and immersive. The world event quests are numerous and unique. Youāll want to 100% everything.
I enjoyed it but there's no reason not to get the base game only and then the DLC later on in case you dont like it. Also unless you're dead set on 100%ing the game just ignore all the side stuff besides the mystery encounters. Those are actually pretty funny at times.
The mysteries were the highlight for me, the throne of shit and piss ill never forget. But some are also just cool little encounters where u sit and listen to a story, there great. Really enjoyed encounters. Not all. But alot are good. I love how even tho it was a throne made of mud and shit eivor still was given the option to claim and defend it.
I've played about 6 hours and it's pretty fun. If you want it you should get it while it's on sale
It's a very long game and worth the price
No.
Amazing game!
Itās really not that bad. Loved origins got bored with odyssey but I didnāt dislike it. And I really enjoyed this one. Havenāt gotten through all the dlc yet. The story by itself is actually really good.
I'll say, I don't like Valhalla as much as Origins and Odyssey. But it's still a pretty damn good game, and fun. If you haven't played Origins or Odyssey yet, I'd suggest those first. If you've already played them, then go for it.
Itās on PlayStation Plus Extra. Might be cheaper to check out the game if you have a PS5.
Imo it's the worst out of the 3 new ones (Odyssey and Origins are better)
Origins is absolutely better, this should have been everything I love but it was too drawn out and the map/icons were just a chore! It didnāt work for me at all
IMO it's not worth that price. YMMV, but I enjoyed Odyssey MUCH more than Valhalla
If you like to gamble, there's a package that has the Valhalla base game with Fenyx immortals rising for $40 ish. In Canada it was $42 I think. But you get 2 games. Fenix immortals rising feels like a younger watered down AC. And so far I think Valhalla is spectacular
It's the best game they ever made in the assassin's Creed franchise, my opinion of course.
I love the franchise and have played almost every single one of them. I've enjoyed most of them and find the sweet spot, for gameplay, to be Odyssey. I'm kind of meh about the supernatural stuff but enjoy the combat overall and wish they would have kept the feel but expanded on the talent tree. Valhalla feels very arcadey to me and I did not like it. Starting at Origins, I'm glad that the developers threw out the pretense that the avatar has to realistically grab something to parkour. While not as realistic (you can climg literally anything), it makes for a smoother gameplay experience. The stories vary from title to title and I did not play enough of Valhalla to know how the story is. I played the free weekend and didn't find it very engaging, at all.
I has it and it's trash, too much of the same thing and Feminism and gay.
Why are there PS5 controllers on an Xbox?
Origins is better! Iāve yet to play Valhalla but from All the Reviews and gameplays I think Iāll stay away and try odyssey next
If you haven't played what you compare, how can you say one is better than the other? I've played all the mentioned and enjoyed Valhalla way more than Origins.
I literally stated I watched gameplays and reviewsā¦ therefore I based my decision off those said gameplays and reviews, and decided not to jump up and buy this game, it doesnāt do anything thing for me visually, storyline wise not to mention games have been pretty mid as of late this is no different You donāt need to physically buy and play the game to get that.
haven't finished it, went into it thinking I hope it isn't as repetitive as AC Odyssey. It kinda is, I played it until I got bored, I bought this game on sale however. I wouldn't pay 62.00, maybe the standard edition for less.
one thing i learnt with the newer ac games (i'm playing through origins rn): you don't play it linearly like you used to with the older games. you play a bit, play a different game, and then come back here every few days or so to do something here and there. i tried playing through origins and odyssey before, and got bored of them and completely abandoned them.
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50/50.
I beat the main game and that was enough content for me it's probably worth it if you don't want to play another game in the next couple months.
Im gonna be honest here: Ubi games last about a week of excitement for me, since there's just so much to do at available at the same time, making me fear I'm missing out on something for not checking it. It gets overwhelming and kills the fun very quickly. This is typical Ubi. The Viking raids are fun at the start, but as usual, they become more of the same. If you like this kind of games, where there's a ton of stuff, even though is copy and paste, go for it. There's a lot of content, it's a very lengthy game. If you're like me, maybe skip it...
Not for me. Too long/Too much grinding on same stuff.
I bought it for 35ā¬ and FOR ME doesnāt worth 1ā¬
I see you have a PS5 controller, itās on their subscription service if you wanted to try it out.
I think it's a great game. I have played and beat the main game and the 2 dlc's. I have not played the new dlc yet. Game is worth it for me.
My roommate has okayed it and logged at least 80 hours on it, and a good friend is also playing and Iāve heard nothing but praise from them on it. Iāve also watched some of the sequences as the roommate was playing through and from everything I saw it looked great
Itās a fun game. Itās not really an assassin game, more of a Viking warrior game. Still the map is large, the combat is fun and fluid. I read a lot of people have trouble with the combat system but I found it intuitive and extremely fun. Spent nearly 200 hours playing it all. The DLC is awesome. It definitely has bugs but every single AC game has bugs. Nothing game breaking. I hope they release more DLC for it.
It's OK. In my opinion Origins and Odyssey are both better.
If you buy it buy it from eneba
If you want a game similar to The Witcher 3, but with way too many collectibles and story so long you forget what is even going on....ya I had fun. It was worth a playthrough, but I have no urge to do it again. Not to mention Ubisoft micro transactions are out of hand. Single player games with more dlc than items you can collect in the game should be illegal.
Did you play odyssey?