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03 December 2025

• Tried Valhalla after Odyssey and disappointment lvl 100x

  As the title says, 2 hours into Valhalla and I feel like headache and nausea with the dark theme and very unnatural world as compared to Odyssey 's bright and vivid yet beautiful Greece.

  Controls of Valhalla are so bad, I wonder why AC series couldn't stick to one set of play.

  The starting story is so weak, seems like Witcher with AC name.

  Characters of Odyssey are so well and engaging, Deimos + Aspasia the greatest duo will be missed.

  submitted by /u/Alternative_Ear5466 to r/AssassinsCreedOdyssey [link] [comments]
• Still Looks Amazing

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• Why does shay cormac have his holsters on so strange

  Shay has his holsters on basically backwards with the handle facing forward instead of backwards like a more modern style.when he draws it he flips his hand to do it which looks impractical and uncomfortable. Was that an actual way to carry and was it even practical?

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• Would a game set in the Isu Era be a good idea?

  I was playing Assassin's Creed III when this conversation came up, Basically, Shaun tells Desmond that after stopping the solar cataclysm they could try going much further back in the animus, reaching the Isu Era. Considering that even though Desmond was dead, Edward Kenway's memories could be revived, I think it could be done with the Isu. But I don't know, what do you think?

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• Nothing will ever touch the lighting in Unity

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• Shay Was Meant to be a Villain Protag Originally

  I'm on a replay of Rogue and the further I get into the story the more I realize Shay was originally meant to be a villain protagonist before being a tragic Anti-Hero in the final build of the game.

  I think the most obvious proof of this is Shay's ability to intentionally kill civilians without desychronizing. I know this gets hand waved as an animus glitch, but the fact is that bounty hunters come after you if you keep doing it. In universe, this can only mean Shay killed civilians when he considered it necessary and had bounty hunters come after him. It is stored in his genetic memory.

  This next point is gonna really gonna get me in trouble, but I think it's relevant. Shay kills a lot of women and POC in this game. If anyone recalls the environment around the topic of women and POC in games at the time. Well, it's rather odd to have a protagonist like Shay brut kill that amount of people from marginalized groups and make it justified. I mean, all the stalker enemies are women or indgenous men and the kill animations for those enemies are especially brutal. Hell, the other AC game that year, Unity, had a controversy around only male assassins being featured in its multi-player. Plus most AC games have encouraged us to be sympathetic to POC and women given the way they were treated in the historical eras the games takes place.

  There's also just The fact that Shay's betrayal of the Assassin's is really rushed and makes little sense. I know others have said this, but it's worth repeating. There's no reason for Shay to believe Achilles knew that messing with that artifact would cause and earthquake. Plus, at the end of the game Achilles even stops Liam from removing another artifact because he realized Shay was right. Literally all it would have taken for this story to be different would be Shay calmly saying "Hey Achilles, I don't think we should fuck with these things. I'm 99% sure that's what caused all of Lisbon to implode". You can argue Shay wouldn't be thinking rationally after accidentally causing all that death. However, the story going on to make him seem in the right makes that excuse feel silly.

  Shay's personality at the beginning of the game doesn't win him points either. Frankly, the whole time he is moaning about how he's not appreciated enough. He also accuses the assassins of being hypocrites on the very shaky ground of them freeing slaves while having France as an ally. Given the grandmaster of his chapter and Adewale are both freed slaves it feels like he isn't the one who should be complaining about that. He honestly comes off more like someone concerned with his personal freedom more than the people's freedom. Makes me feel like he was going to originally be a successful version of Duncan Walpole.

  The other major story element that makes me think Shay was meant to be a villain protagonist originally is the modern day stuff. I know most of us like to block all that out, but try to remember. Primarily, Otso Berg who is having you follow Shay's memories. Not only does he threaten you into joining the Templars at literal gun point, but there's also the recordings you can find in the Abstergo office. This includes recording of modern Templars terrorizing sick babies and letting their own men be killed in cold blood. I'm serious.

  Oh, and the ending seems to imply Shay ended up helping the radical Templars who orchestrated the French Revolution. The same ones who murder la Serra. The only Templar Grandmaster who ever made peace with The Assassin's for the common good. Keep in mind this is all revealed to us while Shay is killing Arno's dad for helping the American Revolution. Kind of just a last nail in the coffin for Shay as a good boy.

  Because of all this from now on I'm going to headcannon Rogue is the result of the modern Templars wanting a new recruit. So, they isolate the player and show him/her a very edited version of Shay's story to make the templars look like they aren't evil megalomaniacal freaks.

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• Absolutely loving this game

  “It never ends” submitted by /u/No_Dentist7567 to r/AssassinsCreedOdyssey [link] [comments]

• The more I think about it, the more a Black Flag remake makes perfect sense for Ubisoft.

  To begin I feel like I should stress the "for Ubisoft" part of the title lol

  Anyway when the Black Flag remake rumours started a lot of the conversations I heard was about the unnecessary nature of the idea that a game like Black Flag needed a remake with it being highly praised etc. and to be honest, I was and still am in the same boat.

  but thinking about it I think if they were going to remake any AC game first, Black Flag makes the most sense for them.

  The way I see it this remake (assuming it's real) will go one of three ways:

  1. More of a remaster than a remake, closer to the orignal but with polished graphics models, and knowing Ubisoft, monetisation. Most likely a disappointing outcome but it will bring some familiarity for older players and maybe something new for fans of the RPG series.
  2. The remake will be a new style of engine, testing the waters (no pun intended) for essentially the next era of Assassin's Creed. this is unlikely seeing as it's Ubisoft and we've been on the same style of game for 5 years at this point (not engine as it was updated for Valhalla)
  3. The most likely approach for Ubisoft to take is to remake Black Flag with the same RPG mechanics we've seen since Origins. They seem to be riding out this "epic fantasy" train with the likes of Ancient Egypt, Greece, Vikings and now Feudal Japan (not counting Mirage as it's a spinoff but I guess it could fill the middle eastern role). They likely want to continue this with a pirates RPG game but don't want to start completely from scratch with a new character so are using Black Flag as a starting point as it gives them a good character, story and setting. The original game had a vast open world that didn't have too much of a focus on dense, urban cities like earlier games or Mirage. They'd get a massive drawing from the RPG fans and likely a big drawing from fans of the original, and given the pirate setting it's likely prime real estate for cosmetics including plenty of mythology. As long as they don't use Skull and Bones as a starting point for mechanics it should be fine lol.

  I imagine they're more hesitant to do a remake of AC1 as it would A) take longer and B) might not be as popular with modern audiences.

  Thoughts?

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• Rewatching the AC Origins Intro… Forgot How Perfect It Is.

  I completed this game a year ago, but rewatching this intro reminds me how special Origins truly is. Bayek’s story, the world-building, the pacing… everything feels crafted with love. Easily one of the best openings in the franchise. The world, the music, the lore — everything came together so perfectly. submitted by /u/MaleficentBuy5476 to r/AssassinsCreedOrigins [link] [comments]

• Bayek’s view > my real-life problems

  Standing above Alexandria, watching the whole city breathe beneath you, the desert behind you and the pyramids on the horizon… This game doesn’t just show Egypt — it makes you feel it. submitted by /u/MaleficentBuy5476 to r/AssassinsCreedOrigins [link] [comments]