AC Origins is way too fucking big and long. After getting to Krokodilopolis in Faiyum Oasis I was getting so burnt out on the settlement/city after settlement/city and their quests that I put the game on pause and went and explored the rest of the map clearing out the fog of war and doing every tower synch point to see what's left out there. And there is a lot left out there! Like when I got to Cyrene in the top left corner I was like wait wtf, there's another huge ass city even bigger than Alexandria???
My main issue with the bloat in Origins is that unlike HD town are hard FF13, Origins has a toooon of settlements and cities but...they're all kinda the same. There's like 2-3 types of settlements and then the big cities and at the end of the day in the smaller settlements there's like this whole town and nothing to do there besides pick up a quest or two and then leave. Just feels like too much repetition. Origins is good and fun but the gameplay's pretty shallow and there's just not enough there to justify the massive size of the game map and amount of quests/areas. When I get back to RDR2 one thing I'm looking forward to is RDR2 giving each town/settlement more uniqueness to them.
To me Origins is the first AC that feels like a Bethesda game like Oblivion/Skyrim/Fallout. It's a huge map but a lot of it is just the same stuff and everything is spread apart.
I still like Origins, but yeah the issue is when the game outstays its welcome it's like I could be playing better games with my time.
The other thing is I don't understand why Odyssey exists. Origins has GIANT GREEK/ROMAN CITIES and country side and ocean and etc... plus Egyptian cities and pyramids and tomb raiding (which unfortunately sucks because every tomb plays out like the exact same and the puzzles are reaaaaally lame. Such a step down from AC2's platforming puzzles for tombs). Like you look at Unity and Syndicate and while they're similar the setting's are totally different. French Revolution Paris is nothing like Victorian era London. But like without having played Odyssey, it seems like Greece would be pretty damn similar in setting to the Greek/Roman portions of Origins. So like why would I want to do another 60-80 hour run of this game again without even being a vastly different and unique setting? Just seems odd to me and at this point I'm in the camp that I'm going to skip Odyssey like I skipped Rogue and move on to the next game they announce after Origins + Origins DLC.
What do you have against 8 bit?
I just don't enjoy 8-bit games in the modern day. Even stuff in the modern day with 8-bit aesthetic like MM9 or vvvvv still play more modern than games of the time.
More power to retro gaming people that enjoy 8-bit and earlier stuff.
As someone who never replays old games and has never been into retro gaming (I grew up on colecovision/atari/dos/nes, etc... but I have zero love and interest in replaying pre-16 bit gaming), this latest string of games I'm playing is finally getting me into retro gaming. I may end up replaying a lot of ps1/ps2/n64/gc/saturn/dc-era stuff in the coming years...
Late to the party, retro has only been going up lately. But no problem with that big lawyer money
Who said anything about buying retro games
I'm talking about replaying games I already own. Even stuff that I haven't played like Snatcher or Policenauts I have sitting around in my backlog.