Less Content on Purpose – Assassins Creed Valhalla

UPDATE based on feedback: If the scaled back scope (as I literally said in the video…) leads to actual higher quality in the content we do get then it is almost certainly a good thing. I am however rather nervous that it wont… and so they scale back to just give us less of what people already apparently didn't like.

Watch the video before commenting because half of these people are "disagreeing" while they agree with me without even knowing because they screeched out a paragraph without comprehending the video.

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I'm not surprised at all so much tubers sat here making numerous of vids complaining about the exactly the same thing now here you go.

I don't think the complaints were that Odyssey didn't hit it's mark, as much that it was a stupid mark to begin with. If I want to spend 60hrs chasing a classical Greek ending, I'll actually read The Iliad and The Odyssey.

The problem with content in AC games is that every quest you do apart from main story feels like ticking squares in a checklist, very boring and menial stuff unlike in games like The Witcher 3, RDR 2, or Kingdom come deliverance

It’s the goddamn professional game critics on YouTube (no offense to you). The ones I’ve watched almost unanimously complained about the length & size of both Origins & Odyssey. They totally disregard the fact that they earn a living playing & reviewing as many games as possible for channel content. I play open-world rpgs for the adventure and exploration. There is nothing better than spending countless hours immersing yourself in a game world. It’s why I think the size & scope of the last two AC games were their greatest asset. I hate that these developers are listening to such shallow criticism.

Are we at the point where people are complaining about there being too much content? Like, isn't that a good thing?? Do people not want to get their money's worth anymore? Because when I drop money on a game, I want to be able to play it and feel satisfied, like I've had an experience and maybe enjoyed my time playing. If I drop a full 60 on a game but the campaign is only a few hours and there's little to no side activities I just feel like I've wasted my money.

How can there be too much content? Just skip whatever it is you don't want to do and focus on the main storyline then. Why bitch about something that you can, in most cases, simply work around and ruin it for people who actually want content?

People are infuriating. I swear to god someone is always bitching about something.

Just because it was called Odyssey doesn’t give it an excuse for being a bloated and unfocused game.

Let's just be honest traveling large distances by horse in video games isnt very fun. If ubisoft had removed the convoys these games would have felt even more barren. Can anyone really say if orgins and oddessey had a 20% smaller map the game would have been worse for it?

I somewhat disagree with u on the quality on odyssey. Personally I found it very boring having to do all the side quests to get to main story. And yes they're required. You wont have a high enough level to complete the game with out doing it. The arguement could be made that they did this to make the side quest lines more appealing. But this arguement falls flat when u compare odyssey to other RPGs like skyrim where the side content was great and arguably better than the main quest line.

Well done. Those publications based their jobs around games and then bitch when certain games are too long because they needed to get their article up in time. And then use said game in titles to drive traffic to their site. I've played Odysseytwice and that 6 hour example is bullshit, plus there would be a plethora of beauty, combat, quest to experience in that time, but they dont mention that.Another vague agenda based example of journalism

Most of the devoted Assassin’s Creed fans held the opinion that the game was too big for the sake of being big. The change to a smaller scale is them going for quality over quantity. RDR2 by no means had a small map, but it felt lived in, which is what people want: a world that feels real.

A key detail that I picked up on was that you noted the wording on quotes that were most likely translations: one of them said it outright and the other one was a tweet by the Montreal team, which comprises mainly of French-Canadians, so whoever wrote it may not have had English as there first language.

Another key detail is that you took the “gameplay reveal” at face value and didn’t look into it at all. Ashraf Ismail (the game director for Valhalla) specifically stated that it wasn’t a gameplay demo, but merely in-game rendered footage.

Overall, I love your content. They’re super high quality and you give a mostly unbiased opinion (it’s impossible to give a completely unbiased take). These few things just stood out to me as stuff that should be addressed.

I haven't even started the video, but I really love the fact that so many people are respectfully disagreeing with you – it is the mark of a healthy community.

I do not like the Assassin's Creed combat style, so I have only played a couple games in the series for short amounts of time. With that said, I decided to give Odyssey a try for the story. I absolutely love the story, the game is ridiculously long(this is a good thing), the world is huge(which I also enjoyed), still dislike the combat, but everything else was fantastic! I'm not sure I will play Valhalla though, simple because I'm not really interested in the time period.

You are wrong.. many people couldn't finish either Odyssey nor Origins. I know ì didn't, and ì almost finished every other AC game

Personally I find Ubi's massive worlds to be filled with way too many collectibles and not much else. If they scale down in this regard then I am all for it.

I love UBI's world building, they're the best in the industry imo. I don't mind decent amounts of travel time in their beautiful worlds. I can spend the time just enjoying the scenery. I hate to say kids these days but….really….kids these days. ADD central.

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downsizing is a great idea. I think they listened to the fans. I believe they can turn the franchise around if they take out the fluff. I liked odyssey but there was so much fluff.