My girlfriend has been playing this. She's a huge Assassin's Creed fan and has played all of them up to this point... multiple times. She's having a real hard time getting into it. So far her complaints are:
-The opening sucks. It drops you in with no context and doesn't offer much motivations. Barebones story setup.
-The side-content is bland. She compared it to the Hinterlands in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Lots of meaningless stuff, especailly compared to other AC games like Syndicate and event Unity (which she agrees is a pile of garbage
-Even the story missions are lacking. She described stumbling onto the target for one of her assassinations without realizing because the scenario wasn't particularly engaging.
She's also having trouble adjusting to the new combat.
From what I've seen it seems that they are trying to make this game more Witcher like without having the highly bespoke and quality content to back it up.
I'm actually kind of interested in the game because of the changes they've made but I doubt I'll really ever play much of it unless it's deeply discounted on PC
My favorite thing about this new AC is how questing is handled. I saw a dope temple that had guards, climbed to the top, assasssinated a dude by dropping down. Dude ended up being part of the main quest, game moved forward story wise by accident. Exploration naturally leads to you completing unfound quests.
Hmm, this is probably the same thing I mentioned above. She felt pretty underwhelmed when this happened because she didn't get any kind of dramatic encounter... it just happened.
I think it's interesting hearing her take because she's not the kind of person that plays a ton of new releases. The things she dislikes may be things I or others will enjoy.
