An Archaeologist Reacts to Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Part 1) | Cincinnati Art Museum 

Thanks for this clarification!! These are very interesting videos, I love them

If you speak to her just please tell her were grateful for her knowledge and work please.

you're right!!🤘🏻

You tried to trick us, but you failed.

no worries :)

Ikr, such a missed opportunity

I genuinely don't know where they hire these producers from. It's like they are paid to do what exactly? Know anything about what they produce? Nope. Evidently just empty air.

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There's a second video, this is just the first one. Hence the "part 1" in the title.

You should look at assassins creed unity’s map. A recreation of late 1700’s Paris

@@2inches2hard I know, I've played it. I brought the game just after Notre dame cathedral burned down. And the detail is so amazing they should use the game to rebuild the cathedral

So much blood sweat and tears, they had to take everything AC:Origins did and copy paste it to Ancient Greece. So stunning. So brave. But oh well, there's still Ghost of Tsushima: The game AC fans were asking for, but never got. Thanks Ubisoft.

@@dimeterchevaeros8480 the tears are flooding in your comment

@@dimeterchevaeros8480Take a break from the internet, you seem like you're about to cry... Anyway time to get back to Odyssey :D

And thank god they did

Hardly underrated, one of the most acclaimed entries in the series (which is in itself acclaimed). Btw I finished it like 3 weeks ago... and 'cause it was part of my daily life since Christmas... I really miss it. Fantastic, beautiful game. And I love the RPG elements. I really don't know how I'm going to play again the older entries... I'd really miss this "choice-based" gameplay...

best title of the series

Dorian Gulyas play Valhalla

@@doriangulyas1351 I put in over 400 hours into Odyssey and then did Origins afterwards...although I enjoyed Origins, I preferred Odyssey. I 100% both games and thought they were both amazing...every time I had a chance to play them, I felt like I was time travelling back to ancient Greece and Egypt. I literally did absolutely everything there was to do in each of them...I haven't played Valhalla yet but I expect it to be just as awesome to experience!!!

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I did too. That just blew my mind

he's like those journalists that get early access and butcher their way through

They were playing it, but it's a recording of them playing prior to talking to her so what she's watching IS a video but it's a video based on their earlier gameplay from what I've heard

@@TheFinalFarewell well that was a bad way to do it. Just stream the gameplay with her.

@@kzero1499 Agreed, it'd be a lot smoother that way. Hopefully that's what they'll do in the future

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Lol, pretty sure a lot of people play video games like that, miss 99% of what makes it cool, then move on to some other game never realizing what they had!

@@ryanhill906 id even argue that statistic extends to the general population. im no different lol it took me forever to notice the art hung on the walls of our school and the hospital where we work.

Oh you talking about this picture? Let me look at this beautiful ground then

Yeah, she should have been the one playing the game.

It took me MONTHS to play through the whole game because I was appreciating all of the beauty and details

I was thinking the same... Man!!!!

I was thinking the same... Man!!!!

I was thinking the same... Man!!!!

I was thinking the same... Man!!!!

I was thinking the same... Man!!!!

The lore is just as mind blowing, especially with the Isu.

Same as with RDR 2 , I visit forests and it's exactly like that.👍

There were other things that weren’t so good like female soldiers just to name one.

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I know it isn't really an assassins creed game but i love it and it did took a lot of work people should stop bullying ubisoft

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Yeah I hope they'll make a video of an archaeologist from Egypt reacting to Assassin's Creed Origins!

Nice name

Yea and historically accurate. Would pay big coin for highly detailed historical games

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Props are really amazing, story is pretty cool, Cassandra and also many other characters are really worth getting to know. Then again gameplay is a bad joke of a repetetive crap with mindlessly lazy designed combat - scaled-enemies, action devoid of any player-skill based approach, difficulty means damage sponge - and have I mentioned the whole environment tries really hard to destroy any feel of any real exploration (i.e. getting rewarded for being observant and trying things out). So sad a combination... a modern one though! :D

@@martink2875 I haven't played Odyssey but I agree with you concerning Valhalla. Great graphics but the gameplay sucks, it is mainly kill kill kill. It is a pity for such wonderful work on other parts

@@RNHRK I've heard that Valhalla is different. But haven't tried it out myself as well. We'll both see I guess. And anyway, I am glad videos such as this come up. That's nice.

Not the NPC's though

UC?

@@damuvang1915 university of Cincinnati. I have her as my myth professor this semester.

@@Wiggz22 What class is that? Is that a part of a history course or something similar?

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It's prerecorded.

Pretty sure this will be a thing sooner or later

@@viaredzagames why tho? we already have vr porn, what else do we need

@@makemwet2488 to be eaten by a dinosaur digitally of course

@@smoothsat1 oh obviously

heh, just said pretty much the same thing mate lol

I've recently finished AC Origins. My jaw dropped when I first saw Alexandria. It's amazing how they recreated ancient cities. I absolutely love the architecture. Shame the gameplay and ending sucked. I'm burnt out and won't touch Odyssey for a while but I'm looking forward to it more than Origins. Just wanted to play them in release order.

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Fr, the DETAILS. It's straight up insane. Ngl Ima buy all upcoming AC games just for the world design and details, its so good.

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Kephallonia has a mountain sized statue of Zeus carved from stone, which legitimately implies people carved a mountain away. Odyssey is set during the height of the Peloponnesian War, yet apparently hoplites don’t know how to fight in phalanxes at the height of Ancient Greek military influence. Yes, some serious historical sites that are presented in Odyssey are done well, but so much historical work was done on a lot of those areas that I would hardly credit Ubisoft. In the trailer for the first Assassin’s Creed, Altair uses a crossbow which was removed from the game because they found out after the trailer release that it was unlikely to have usage during that time period. Assassin’s Creed 3 had Redcoats forming firing lines and using known historical tactics to try and fight Connor, and also gave the player a mechanic to deal with that situation. These guys couldn’t be bothered with most of this depth, and that’s partially allowed due to the lack of written historical sources. It looks amazing, sure, but historical masterpiece? Doesn’t help that the story was atrociously boring.

@@aenearion5503 there aren't too many assassins that fight in phalanx. It's still a video game. The architecture all the way down to the pottery are correct. A greek archeologist reviewed the game and about creamed herself at the accuracy of everything. It's a historical masterpiece and the closest we may ever get to a time machine. These guys are putting in ridiculous amounts of research for a video game and that far overlooks them not adding a phalanx in an assassin game.

@@TheDoats The hoplites need to be the ones fighting in phalanx, not the Assassins. That was the primary fighting style of hoplites, who were the main fighting force of most Greek city states. The way they were armed and armoured revolved around fighting in a phalanx. Odyssey instead has huge hulking guys with little to no armour each wielding a mace that size of one's head in each hand which would have been far too unwieldy to actually use in combat. Yes, lots of realism. Yes, a lot of the architecture and the small details down to the pottery are correct, but essentially every AC game has had that level of detail, and I notice that you completely ignored the point I raised about a certain mountain sized statue which I'm sure is completely historical. Also the idea of something being a historical masterpiece yet avoiding historical truth about ancient societal norms that by modern standards would be abhorrent is laughable. Ancient Greece did have better sanitary conditions -for the most part- than Dark Ages Europe, but it also had widespread paedophilic acceptance, so much so that Ancient Greek poets would write about it. You can't eliminate inconvenience regarding history then say it is a historical masterpiece. There are parts of Odyssey that are good, and there are areas where you can see they've put work in. But almost every triple AAA budget release of AC has this level of historical detail. I have no idea why you think it's a historical masterpiece compared to something like Assassin's Creed 2 or Black Flag, which have similar levels of depth. As I said in my previous post, a lot of this research is widely spread, while as research for AC Unity likely came from hundreds of conflicting sources, and research for Black Flag would have been far more difficult to do than this, due to lack of site preservation and general confusion/mismanaged reporting of events happening in the area at the time. Odyssey is based around a time period that has a few main written sources and lots of good site preservation for archeological sources.

@@TheDoats idk about u but i didnt make it through even half his book..... I don't think he realizes its a video game and its NOT actually suppose 2 be real kinda like it says at the start when you hit play..

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Agora você entende kkkkkkkkkkkk

She says it wrong

@@inquisitive6786 she says it completely right. That's how we, greeks, pronounce it and it's the same in ancient greek.

@@thanostsotoulidis5663 where the F in greece are you from that you say it like that

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ikr they are so irritating,

Finally, someone else who gets it. Everyone I know has it at the bottom of their list for favorite AC games

@@shannonmitchell8515 i own all of them including Valhalla . Odyssey had the best story lines and back story out of all of them . The detail and Tombs and even the coast salt fields , purple making dye , even had the clay pits . Game is amazing .

@@NewEnglandCopChasers I thought I was the only one

There are many of us who love the game. For me AC Odyssey is No.1 and right after is Origins. At the bottom are Unity and Valhalla.

@@shadowgamer4653 mine id say Oddessy ,Black flag and AC 3 with Connor

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Yeah I love it too, also bought the DLCs recently! Really feels like you're in ancient Greece when you're playing it, it's so cool! My dog is a stray from Greece and I sometimes show her my screen when I'm playing and she really loves staring at the dogs in the game, it's so cute! I always make jokes that she's thinking of her motherland when she stares at the screen lol

Imagine their surprise, someone paid millions to recreate something they study in books and rubbles for an entire life. I would have cried lol. Sad the AC franchise is still not in VR. I think she would have passed out from walking in acient Greece :P

It was the first AC game I played from start to finish and damn, it was great. I was surprised, seriously one of the *best* games I've played. It seems like the only people who dislike it are kids who spend too much time on RU-vid listening to reviewers lmao. Regardless, it was amazing... especially exploring the world.

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@@elaiottoiale4216 wth bro

Read the pinned comment and don't comment before reading

@@spase097 tell me more what to do.

@@MB-ey6vv open up the youtubes, type the comments, close the youtubes, crack the knuckles in satisfaction.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 those who have never played it will not understand but that is the most accurate comment ive seen.

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Respect.

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Shut your mouth

Yes, unfortunately it was apparently pre-recorded gameplay wherein they both watched what he had played earlier. It would be far better to do it live, allowing them to focus on what she wants to talk about...we could have learnt so much more from her.

Its kinda cute

She’s been doing archeological work for 25 years in that region of the world. I hate to break it to you basement dwellers but I’d say that would probably be more important and beneficial to society. Now I am going to go back to my gaming...😅

@@Sailor1010 😂👍

To be fair, it's kinda hard to be accurate when it comes to vikings, but I hear what you're saying.

Assassin's Creed has never been 100% historically accurate in any game in the Series so I don't understand why people complain about them taking a slightly different direction with the Vikings. It's Assassin's Creed not History Geographic.

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Should play AC 3 probably the best one also Blackflag and AC vahalla Ireland DLC

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Bro both origins and odyssey have educational modes used at universities for non violent historical walkthroughs, all over the news both times.

Exactly. Even if you do the game's Tours, which are excellent, they discuss how many historians and archaeologists were involved in creating the game. I'm pretty sure it's talked about in the official art book, too.

she meant the historian hired by Ubisoft, not Ubisoft.

@@huawafabe Well I don't expect one historian to decide the whole game. There's a whole team of them, says the loading screen of odyssey.

@@_M_o_n_k_e Yea that's true. But I guess that one person was in charge of specific details which she was refering to.

Me too!

Yes