My only obligations are my job, so I can pretty much waste all my time on games if i want to. I play one at a time, maybe add in three rounds of CS2 per week to get the drops. What would really drain time is an mmo but I’ve been clean of that for a while.
I guess games just don’t excite me anymore as they used to so I just pick out the ones that do and stick to them. When there’s nothing on the release horizon, I revert back to city builders or racing games till the next release.
Just one. Playing two at once would be tricky, I’d need like a second computer or something. And switching back and fourth between keyboards really quickly would probably lead to lots of deaths.
Not to be overly negative, but what are fans playing for these days? I only played the original 2 games and the (first?) North American one.
It seems people hate the modern stories, the gameplay is shallow at best and it’s parkour has been far surpassed by many other games by now. The games are very often used as examples of modern AAA studios having no creativity and just churning out the same game over and over. The games look beautiful and I’ve heard the educational versions are pretty useful, but what are the primary draw these days?
Again I don’t want to be a hater, that’s just what I’ve picked up from other people talking about it.
Black Flag was the first one I played. As a result I then played Rogue and 3, then tried 2, which seemed mechanically a bit outdated (might try it again; just wish its health UI were more like Black Flag’s), so played Unity instead. Still have to try Syndicate, which seems to still be mechanically similar enough to the original formula to be interesting.
Played Origins past the first boss fight, but stopped since it no longer felt like an Assassin’s Creed game. Odyssey and Valhalla appear to replicate the Origins formula, so skipped them altogether. Might try Mirage at some point, given its lack of the RPG mechanics of the prior three games, but probably won’t get Shadows due to it seemingly returning in part to the RPG formula.
You’ve basically outlined everything people hate about modern assassin’s creed. It’s generally accepted that the last good ac was origins which came out in 2017, and while I do enjoy it, it was the start of ac becoming the generic open-world cookie-cutter rpg that it is today.
As cool as the upcoming game sounds, being set in Japan which people have been wanting for a very long time, and as much as I want to enjoy every ac game, the past few releases have just been chipping away my hope at getting something good
I love the assassin recruits mechanic. I just wish they would let me use more than 6 recruits at once and have them follow me like escorts, but I understand this was a necessary nerf.
I really appreciate how the hidden blade is kept as an OG weapon even late game for all of the entries I have played so far (till Rouge). The way it one shots the enemy if you time it perfectly makes you feel like a master for doing so. The kill streak combo goes so well with this that you don’t even realise you just annihilated an entire army of brutes just like that.
Toe Jam & Earl. As a kid, it seemed just endlessly creative, you could just explore & explore forever. And the shit humor - I was the exact right age where every joke was a banger. Although the game itself would be badly dated today, I bet the music holds up well, albeit in short bursts. I still get snippets stuck in my head.
Starcraft, Starcraft 2 has ruined me with multi-building-selection, the clunkiness, no smart casting, selecting more than a handful of units at a time.
Witcher 3. I don’t enjoy “dark” “gritty” stuff the way that I used to. I’m way more effected by some of the more explicit themes than I used to be. When I played it it was my only solace in a rough period of my life. I’d rather protect my fond memories than play it again, as I doubt it will mean as much to me now as then.
I never completed it, just managed to squeeze in a few hours on the school’s brand new Apple lls (I think that’s what they were but I could be misremembering, it’s been a minute)
I loved a lot of early Blizzard stuff and I have no desire to play any of them ever again. Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Diablo were all huge parts of my life and I have done nothing with any of those series since those games, let alone go back to those.
I was also a so into Smash Brothers that I was in the competitive scene and won some locals, but I haven’t really felt the call of that series since Melee. Loved my time with the game and the scene though.
I’d also add a lifetime subscription to Nexus, that alone can add so much life to so many games. Hell, if I’m checking out a game, I see what kind of mod support it has first.
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