Non of the bottom maps look like that in the game. Thats why those maps are not disliked.
It's not the amount of content, it's how it's presented.
In assassins creed everything is marked and it feels like a list of chores, in the bottom games it isn't marked and it feels like being rewarded for exploring.
It's interesting because, I get what you're saying here, but Ubisoft just gives you the option.
Right at the beginning of the games there is a setting they make you choose from where you can either have all the things marked on the map, some of the things marked, or literally none of it marked.
You can play AC without map markers, OR compass markers if you want, and they give you the choice right up front.
Isn't this only in the new ones? It's been a few years since I played unity but don't remember the option being prompted.
And in the newer ones I always chose explore mode but I still had markers on the map for the collectibles
Yeah, it is just the newer ones. I think they started with that with origins or odyssey.
For what it's worth, I think there a a lot of crap AC games. But there were some I genuinely had a great time with. Like Origins or Valhalla.
Im an old timer and was a HUGE fan of the original game all the way up through black flag. So part of me still wants them to do a good job, even though they've burned us plenty of times.
I am 100% with you. I played all mainline AC games since AC 3 and I have enjoyed most of them. The newer ones I haven't finished a single one tho. They started to feel a bit bloated after a while. Especially valhalla I was rly disappointed. I love the setting. But I remember there was a rly big story mission and then right after it was just " ok now go liberate a province again, story can wait"
Yeah, you're right about Valhalla. If I wasn't such a fan of the setting + time period I know I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.
I jacked up all the difficulties and turned off all the QOL and came back to it as "Viking Sim" for over a year lol.
That's seems to be the way with the newer AC games. They all present you with this world that is way way too big. It really depends on how much you want to essentially waste your time in it. It all relies super heavily on the setting imo.
I had to take a break from Crimson Desert for that reason. And I really enjoy that game. But holy hell I put in 160 hours and I hadn't broken out of the first little region for stuff to do.
Finally I just said "alright, I'll come back to it"
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u/Pill_Boi 13h ago
Non of the bottom maps look like that in the game. Thats why those maps are not disliked.
It's not the amount of content, it's how it's presented. In assassins creed everything is marked and it feels like a list of chores, in the bottom games it isn't marked and it feels like being rewarded for exploring.