Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ultimately Disappointed Me

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Huge worlds full of nothing will never be better than a smaller denser map

It's funny. It's an Assassins Creed game where you're not even a Proto-Assassin. You're just an ally.

Remember how in old games, even in origins, there were these fortresses that were too tough to attack head on? When a huge fortress full of enemies ready to be stealth killed, felt like a delicious meal presented in front of you, a treat, instead of a chore. If I want to play a big open world game, I’ll play RDR2. If I wanted to play an RPG with good combat, I’ll play a souls game. AC right now is in this weird spot where it’s “ok” in many perspectives, but nails none of them.

The older assassins creed games had a certain ambiance, an atmosphere, a world so rich, you could be so immersed that you can taste, feel, and smell the world around you. It was fresh and satisfying to glide over rooftops and parkour around the world. These are the things I am not feeling with the newer titles.

Eivor: can't parkour and climb properly because he is a viking Also Eivor: proceeds to climb up a 50 foot brick wall

I was shocked to see that we didn’t get to fight in a shield wall. The most Viking thing ever

i remember when you could walk up to 2 guards from the front and simultaneously assassinate them with the twin hidden blades. i could kill them inconspicuously and walk away, watching other guards being alerted and investigate who did it, all watching this from the crowd a few meters away. now when you are near the enemy they get suspicious and detect you, even if youre just standing around. now you assassinate one enemy and are forced to fight the other.

I am 50h in and I have no clue why Eivor is everyone's errand boy, the story feels like it should have ended 20h ago

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla "Hrm... No, something's not right." Assassin's Creed: Valhalla "Better."

I just didn’t connect to Arthur in Red Dead 2 because there were no dialogue options... Said no one ever.

My greatest dissapointment is the last chapter, where you call for help ALL OVER ENGLAND, and there only ~12 people show up in a small camp, I was expecting something like Odessey, but in reality......we just fight in a small village with poorly guarded in Christmas

I have started playing origins again and I am interested by every sight and always complete the objectives in the question mark areas. I just find it very satisfying to come across this random area and be attacked by crocodiles while a person on a boat watches and screams.

I want a city that takes up 30% of the map. I don't care if we need a load screen to get there. I just want to Parkour through the roof tops again.

The game is ocean wide, but only puddle deep.

Honestly I didn't know what was wrong playing this game till I watched this and he covered pretty much everything that bugged me

This game is set in my country with a whole area in my county. I can look out my window right now and see one of the castles you can attack in game which is an incredible thing to experience. However once the novelty of that wore of I sadly found it tiring , dull and a world that feels completely artificial. Quite sad

One thing I want to add about the dialogue. I always thought it was weird to choose the dialogue, when we're supposedly just viewing the past through the animus.

They need to get back to the roots.. more verticality instead on sprawling flat lands. More darkness.

Thank you for bringing up the tedium of barred doors everywhere. It's like every time I'm headed towards a glowing ball on the radar (mostly just to get rid of it), I end up stopping at a door that's locked from the inside, even though there's nobody in there. Just hundreds of barred-up empty buildings with nobody in them. And yet somehow every single one of them can be compromised if you stand on a pole in a lake and shoot the bar off the door through a window with your sniper bow (which works because of reasons), or if you find the f***ing explosive vase thing in whatever stupid-ass place the developers made you walk to get it, and use that to make a hole in a wall to reach the prize, the precious bullshit that took you this far. And then what do you find? ~~Nickel Ingot~~