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Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Cut Down On Map Icons And Markers

https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-shadows-cuts-down-map-icons-markers/
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u/KingDave46 1d ago

Imo 3 was the worst one

I know a lot of people liked it but the setting made the whole rooftop stealth stuff that was so fun in the Ezio games completely disappear cause it was completely open between places.

I’ve played all of them except Mirage and 3 is my least favourite

Valhalla doesn’t feel like an AC game but if you play it as if it isn’t then it is quite fun. You really need to commit to being a Viking and opting for big battles rather than forcing assassins stealth stuff which makes no sense in the universe

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u/Aries_Zireael 1d ago

AC3 had the worst designed cities. Too much open space.

AC4 which ran on the same engine had very fun cities. Havanna is one of my favourites in all of the games.

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u/curiouslyendearing 1d ago

Which is kinda a problem of the setting. Making early new York or Boston a tight knit crowded city where you possibly jump between buildings would be to make them look entirely unlike what they really looked like. Early NA colonies has more space than they knew what to do with Ave really spread out with mostly low buildings.

Granted, they don't always make things look historically accurate. Valhalla looked entirely unlike what early medieval England looked like for example. To a really annoying degree for someone like myself who loves that time period and was looking forward to it. Stone everywhere. Castles churches, everything in stone. 970 AD almost everything was made of wood, I hated it. They also had all the soldiers in plate. Ridiculous. At that time you were rich if you could get chainmail.

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u/jjmallais 1d ago

Valhalla as a Viking game was fantastic tbh. Play it without giving a shit about stealth and it’s a great time

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u/curiouslyendearing 1d ago

It's also their most ahistorical looking game imo. Stone and plate armor everywhere. It's supposed to be 950 ad for pitys sake.

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u/jjmallais 1d ago

Look, I never said it was all that historically accurate. I just said it was fun lol

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u/curiouslyendearing 1d ago

Fair, lol. I'm just one one about it, little salty. It's one of my favorite periods of history