@Old_Hunter_77 &
@Dalisclock, are you ready...for
AC Shadows?!
Yes, actually. Laugh at me all you want but I am genuinely looking forward to it. No I'm not jizzing myself like the folks waiting for Hades 2, Elden Ring DLC or Silksong, it just looks like it's gonna be a fun and pretty action game with swords and whatever, and that's fine.
I'm also aware how funny everyone on the internet thinks they are comparing it to Ghost of Tsushima but I think that's stupid, and you know how much I love that game.
I like everything they are advertising about the game except only one thing: that you can do main missions as either character. This suggests they still refuse to make a focused, dedicated main story. Since they haven't had one of those since Unity, and a decent one of those since Black Flag, and an actually good one since Revelations, I'm not surprised just disappointed.
The rest is good though. Most impressive is how the characters look- seem to have less of whatever that weird 'uncanny valley' vibe of Valhalla, Mirage, and other games like Horizons. But won't know for sure until I play a few hours of it.
I am not fooling myself into thinking this will be some great thing. I'm sure game critics will complain it's too long and repetitive. Yahtzee will put it in his top blandest list. Every other post on every gaming subreddit will lecture us about how Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring have EMERGENT GAMEPLAY and that makes AssCreed ass. The marketing team is promising less hand-holdy map icon stuff that the smart gamers have been bitching about and I just don't have any faith this will be implemented in a satisfying way- it'll still be too "handholdy" for the clever-than-me gamers. But I don't care, I'm not playing these games to have a pricier Outer Wilds.
I dunno when I'll buy/play it- this fall is going to have some major life changes for me which means I'll do no gaming or a lot of it to get away.
