I don't plan on playing it anytime soon. I've got a pretty sizeable backlog yet. But I will play it. Haven't missed an AC title yet

I don't know how anyone gets through these games in time to start a different one, outside of perhaps being drawn to the era the game takes place in.

I must have some sort of record for hours logged in a game series without completing the game.

Odyssey is by far my favorite era thusfar and I literally get sidetracked just roaming around and kicking the shit out of bounty hunters and collecting things, then I look up and two hours have gone by in a blink and I have to get my ass in gear and get back to adulting.

Syndicate is my other one.

I think I only ever finished the original. I have Black Flag, but never started it. Haven't played origins or Valhalla either despite having access to both.

It seems to me that if feudal Japan and samurai oriented material are your thing, it should be a pretty safe bet you'll drop a ton of time in Shadows.

For me, it's absolutely the historical settings that keep me coming back. I've loved every AC game in some way but Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla were all games I put 100's of hours into.

Regarding AC Odyssey, that is my favorite so far and one that I have spent well over 100 hours on. Also the only one that I beat. I have heard great things about Black Flag but haven’t played it yet.

I do plan to wait until Shadows drops in price though. I will say feudal Japan is a great setting for games and Ghost of Tsushima is one of my favorite games of all time.

You must play Black Flag. It was probably the pivotal AC game.

I actually haven’t even played Mirage yet, but I’m reading good things about Shadows so I will try both out at some point.

Gotta say, my dad hounds the shit out of me for still not having played Black Flag yet.

I'm sure when I get around to it I'll be like why the mother **** did it take me so long to play this?!

Yes I had a Commodore 64 and Tape drive and it was painful. You really had to plan ahead to game. I would load up an EA game on tape and it might take an hour or more to load.

I played this for about an hour last night, and while I haven't given up entirely, I found it incredibly underwhelming.

The AI is absolutely ATROCIOUS. I entered an outlaw camp, triggered one of the literal ten thousand God damn tripwires in the game, and soon a huge band of Outlaws descended upon me. Pretty standard right?

I climbed a ladder to a concrete landing that offered cover from the gunfire, and literally every single God damn one of these Outlaws happily climbed the ladder to receive my axe to their face. Eagerly shambling over the pile of bodies of previous contestants.

Guns are pretty underwhelming, admittedly they are both rusty, single shot pieces of shit rifle and shotgun, but listen, if they do so little damage, make ammo available. I'm all for scrounging minimal ammo, every shot counts, thats great. Make the weapon viable and ammo precious.

Otherwise, I should just be carrying another melee weapon in its place.

Crafting appears to require enough cloth to make a ****ing beach towel just to make one single bandage.

Skill progression looks to be annoying, requiring stimulants to be found in order to learn skills that anyone with a single moving brain cell would already know how to do.

Again, traps everywhere. I'm surprised theres not a tripwire on the main character zipper for when he needs to take a piss. You easily spot it, but can do nothing because you don't have the skill to disarm it.

Like bro. The wire is attached to the pin of the grenade. Keep the pin secured, cut the wire.

By the time I'd explored the general first area, found this games version of feral ghouls, 2 guns, several weapons, and slaughterd an entire encampment of functional reeruns, I just wasn't having any fun doing it.

Perhaps it picks up if you just follow the story, but as for general exploration, combat, that sort of "find your own fun" that drives these types of games, I just didn't find much on the initial play session.

Metro: Exodus

Jesus that was ****ing depressing. 28 hours of pure ****ing anti-mirth. Good game but...jesus.

Currently addicted to Sniper Elite: Resistance invasion mode.

Invading a player that is playing through their campaign missions, and killing them just never gets old.

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Tank

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Is this game enough to convince me to get a PS5?

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Hard to justify a console for just one game. I ended up with my PS5 due to exclusivity of the Spider-Man IP, so it was essentially 3 games.

Days gone got shit on pretty hard when it launched, but it's a solid Zombie title if that genre is your cup of tea.

You'll progress from a sissy running from one or two zombies, to by the end you're death incarnate and engaging literal hundreds at a time.

You'll develop an unhealthy attachment to your motorcycle.

It's a solid game and I had a lot of fun with it, but it's not something I'd pay 500 bucks to play.