Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Zero Punctuation) 

Is it just me or does Yahtzee seem to be talking slower than normal in this video?

Your wife is my math teacher and we got to watch one of your videos in class it’s kinda weird know your teacher has streamed over 24 hours of dark souls

I think the thing that angered me the most was when I killed the last sage, revealing the orchestrator of the entire conspiracy was *that character* but I couldn't kill them, as I had 7 small fry cultists remaining, two of whom I physically could not kill, seeing as my having killed them during story quests was apparently not allowed and thus glitched them to be permanently alive. I feel like once I know who the big bad is, my ability to kill the big bad should not be hindered by a bunch of jackasses that are scattered across dozens of miles.

The problem with Ubisoft's idea of RPGs is that they don't understand nor care about adding actual difficulty to the AI. Enemies are only more difficult the higher their levels are because their health bars are bigger. Enemies continue to fight the same way, with all the same weapons. You can cheese everyone with the Spartan Kick and Bull Rush powers to send them flying off cliffs for an insta-kill. It's pathetically designed.

Ubisoft needs to learn that "more" doesn't always mean "better"

This review feels more tired than his recent reviews. Was Yahtzee just tired the day he recorded or is he just tired of AC?

Ubisoft will set an Assassin's Creed game in Feudal Japan before Yahtzee reviews HuniePop.

Assassin's Creed: We've GOT to have MONEYYYYYYYYYYY.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: *THE MMO* , The Single Player Edition~

“Let’s all laugh at an industry, that never learns anything. Tee hee hee”

Yatzhee: I've been playing this game for 40 hours and don't like it. Ubisoft fan boys: Clearly Yatzhee is just hating on this game for views and he would love it if he actually sat down and played it.

Halfway through watching this video it dawned on me, as he was talking about how many assassins creed games he’s reviewed (10) and that there was even a time gap, I have been watching Zero Punctuation for over 11 years. Every week. I don’t still get through or to every game but I have watched this series forever and I appreciate that it’s still going. I guess this is a weird thanks to Yahtzee.

anyone remember what it was like playing assassins creed 2 for the first time? i remember one of my favorite pass times after i spent hours and hours completing everything. yes. EVERYTHING. was just walking up to a group of dickish guards i happened to walk by and deliver a rabies roofie directly up their arse as inconspicuously as can be done when drugging someone by stabbing them with a large metal blade and then watching him murder his friends or watching them murder him. i need a psychiatrist. but despite my fond memory's of the series i think its a good thing i left off at assassins creed black flag so i can stay with the fond memory's and not drag them through the mud that is ubisofts business model of "the eajits keep buying, we keep selling"

Holy shit I literally guessed it was Herodotus as a joke. Man, Ubisoft really deserve no credit anymore.

I forgot that Odyssey was even coming out until it was suddenly all over RU-vid.

You want a good stealth game, play Sly cooper. Yes, the cartoon raccoon game from a million years ago is better at stealth than a modern triple A game.

I still cant believe this series is going

"......" "... It's herodotus.."

3:05 "like trying to get more exercise by placing the TV remote on the other side of the couch". That's Genius!

3 years late to the party. But the finishing joke is possibly one of my favourites ever. Well done, Yahtzee comedy genius.

What's the point of calling it Assassin's Creed if it's not gonna involve stealth or clever subterfuge? If I wanted punchups in huge crowds with RPG elements, I'd just boot up Shadow of War again.

AC: Odyssey is definitive proof that things such as size, length and content do not equal depth, quality and pacing. Open-world games are becoming bigger and denser but not deeper or more intricate.

I predict a blandest game of 2018 contender

Yahtzee I have been watching you for about 5 years at this point, watched and rewatched like all your reviews and you never fail to keep it interesting and hilarious love ya man

Technically you reviewed 11 AC games. You forgot about chronicles.

"...you did it ubisoft, you beat me." Welp, there goes this game from the bottom of my list of potential purchases, to struck off the list completely.

You sound very sad in this video

I can’t wait for the next game where we get to meet the guy who invented farming.

I used to want them to make an assassins creed in japan... I don't anymore.

Feel better yahtz!

Let not this review distract you the fact that Juno was kill off screen.

I LOVE the Golden Axe character selection skeleton placement.

Knowing that Yahtzee will one day review *HuniePop* it fills me with determination!

A level system? Cool! So I can go back to a level 1 area and kill everyone I see by looking at them!? Wait. Why is there a level 50 bandit on the first island? He's just as hard to fight as everyone else! Oh sh*t! All the bandits are level 50! The civilians are level 50! The f*cking goats are level 50! What's the point of the level system in this game anyway besides keeping you away from certain areas!?

I just realized this game and origins are two different games. Bravo Ubisoft.

LOLed at these bits: To do: - Kill Spartans - Help Athenians - Kill Athenians - Help Spartans - Kill more Spartans - Kill bandits - Kill polar bear - Avenge Athenians - Avenge Spartans (that you killed) Henry the Wine Snob Sarah the Sociable Grutnhos the Flatulent Lysander the Sodomite

2016 copy paste reskin $60. 2017 copy paste reskin $60. 2018 copy paste reskin $60.

I loved the Hitchhiker's reference

The other day my friend and I discussed Assassin's Creed. I said I remembered I being enjoyable and II being extremely good, Brotherhood being pretty much the same but with a bit of unnecessary filler added in which brought it down a bit for me. Then the next game again. Then the next game was pretty much entirily unnecessary filler. Then Black Flag happened, which I didn't feel like buying after the disappointment that was III. But then I got it for free so I played it. It had enjoyable ship combat but still turned out to be the only game I had to force myself to finish. I stopped with the series after that. So that conversation put me in the mood to play II again to see if it was really possible for an Assassin's Creed game to be as good as I remember. Hence, I started a new save file. Turns out it still is one of the most enjoyable games I've ever known. It really puts into perspective just how far the series has fallen. Truly a shame. I've always tried to be hopeful for Ubisoft. They were my favourite developer as a child. Stuff like Rayman and Prince of Persia and all. When they made AC II that cemented them in my mind as the best in the business. Then the Ubisoft of today happened. Even though I haven't bought one of their games in years, I really never wanted to accept what it had become. But I suppose there's no hope anymore. Rest in peace good Ubisoft.

If you and Terrible Writing Advice had a collab I would die happy

You can hear the exhaustion in his voice.

1:12 Damnit Yahtzee I haven't slept in 31 hours largely thanks to my university Electromagnetic Theory course. I come here to relax and you just throw those equations right back at me? WHY CAN'T I ESCAPE THEM?

I just can't get into yearly update games. The first 3 were cool, but I lost interest when the barrage of sequels came. Just not worth the effort of following.

Best video of the month, also, the end where you announce you are going to EGLX, the description you gave x Killed me.

At least yahtzee got further than I did. I didn't even start

This is the one game I watched Yahtz stream; it's interesting which details he chooses for his reviews. The dialog trees took forever in the stream.

"It's not connecting; like my linkedin account" Quote that for a LinkedIn testimonial.

just found these reviews again after what feels like a decade, glad to see they're EXACTLY the same as I remember em. I've got a looooot to catch up on...

The moment you decide to stop playing the AC series you win. What do you win? The option to find much better things to do with your life.

Does anyone else think Yahtzee’s little assassin avatar looks like he has a big smile?

I hate how fantasy like the Assassins creed games got

“American main course meals” killed me.

Are we even assassins anymore? Are there even templars? No. Its wacky woo hoo mercenary time with an eagle.

The “American Meal” bit at the end got me real good

I played it,finished it,took me 103 hours to finish mostly everything in the game and I enjoyed it to the fullest. It is a good game but that's just it,no innovation or whatsoever. I wont buy the next title though if they don't stop copy pasting. So many re-used assets from Origins,it's just lazy. So yeah....7/10 for me.

Yahtzee sounds so tired and I love it, because it absolutely fits this review.

I had just asked myself, "Hang on, how many assassin's creed games have there been?" and then Yahtzee announced he had REVIEWED 10! Like FFS, WHY DO THEY MAKE MORE!? I know Halo, CoD, and Battlefield keep pushing out new titles all the time, but Assassin's creed is starting to look like MARIO at this point!

I agree with all of this (especially that part about assassinations not necessarily killing people) but there are a few things he did leave out which are somewhat positive: -the world is unique and stunning, although there are a few copy paste locations -the monster boss/hunters of Artimis fights are pretty darn fun and challenging (although not new thanks to origins doing pretty much exactly the same thing in its DLC) -He is completely right about the Mercenaries coming to fuck your day, they can also lead to some very epic moments. -The combat is smooth and fair so I rarely ever called bullshit on something

But Yahtzee, what about Assassin's Creed: Rogue? You know, about that (maybe) irish guy filling the gap between 3 and 4 that made "so much more different".

I like the callout to Grunthos, one of the galaxy's lesser known poets. RIP Douglas, we miss you.

I both love this game and fully agree with everything yahtzee is saying. I'm a touch conflicted XD

This is the first review that has brought tears to my eyes. Nowadays I look forward to ubisoft games ONLY to see the hilarious reviews that come out. I'm glad I didn't play any of the far cry games because now I can go back and play the best happily.

I was absolutely convinced that I'd seen this exact same video from you before, Yahtzee. I had this huge de-ja-vu and wondered how far back in time I'd traveled. Then I realized I was confusing this with Origins, and I didn't even know these were different games.

I find the defeat in Yatzhee's voice both hilarious and sad at the same time.

Set speed to 1.25 to get un-tired Yahtzee back

I like huge portions in restaurants. You don't eat it all there; you eat until you're full, then you take the rest home for later.

I'm 54% main story at level 38. It took me 74 hours.

I like how History is decided based on what you choose in a dialog tree. I mean, whats the purpose of options if in the end, it doesnt even matter.

I'm extremely glad you based this review around the microtransactions and the grindiness of this disaster of a game. You pretty much summed up everything I feel about this game, when disgustingly, NONE of the mainstream reviewers could be bothered to see this game for exactly what this is: a tick the box simulator that relies on standard completionist tendencies and is designed around being so tedious you rather pay to complete it than not complete at all because of the 60 dollars you already spent. Not to mention the atrocious writing that clearly shows all the talent left after the Ezio saga.

All we need is assassins creed in space where you are playing through the memories of an assassin ancestor who got picked up by aliens and traveled the galaxy with no mention of Templar’s or assassins.

It was supposed to be a trilogy, 10 years ago. So I bought them up to the third one. Equals five games. Cheeky twats. Will not buy another one. Even though Black Flag was supposed to be good, and should have had Henry Rollins as the main protagonist. Please people, stop buying this garbage. It only encourages and emboldens them to filch more money off you.

this review was exactly what i expected.

getting involved in the war of between Sparta and Athens is pointless because if you read your history you know that Sparta wins the war any ways in the end.

'Grunthos the Flatulent'. I see someone's read Douglas Adams.

I mostly agree here, but I must point out the slight hypocrisy in Yahtzee complaining about enemies taking too long to forget about you, when in many other reviews, he has bemoaned the fact that enemies often forget far too soon.

Sweet graphic from golden axe

1:59 You're underselling it: in AC3 we followed Connor Kenway from conception.

I actually really liked it. 15 hours too long most definitely but I was never angry or bored of it and I was hooked on the story the whole way through. I don't know, maybe I'm in the minority here. I do miss sneaky sneaky stab stab game play though.

Aww I'm super late to the show and missed his Toronto visit.... also COVID... O.o

You sound so slow and tired like back when you first started. That bad?

well here we are again, it's always such a pleasure.

5:07 Forty hours he says...I SPENT EIGHTY just trying to hit the level cap so I wouldn't have to constantly upgrade the legendary gear with quadrillions of resources and drachma...AND THEN UBISOFT RAISED THE CAP!

Remember when the Modern Day plot seemed like it was going somewhere? This game ends with the Modern Day character meeting the past character. They have an artifact which makes them immortal, they give it to you and then die. Then the Modern Day person just leaves. It took about three games for Future Desmond to get to this stage of lack of progress.

So, when are you going to upgrade that CRT monitor?

4:05 the LinkedIn reference did it for me

I actually enjoyed it. It was fun, great characters and story and your choice actually influence the story. Didnt care for Ezio - it was boring charavter with boring gameplay (every battle press 1 bitton yo counter). Oddessey is actually for me the best AC up to date.

Coincidentally, Piss About with Eagle is my collab project with Lazerhawk

i dont understand the justification for dialogue trees and by extension the massive amount of choice they give us now. isnt the concept that we're REPLAYING memories? Things that have happened in stone? Like sure the previous games let you kill the way you want but you could never do anything too far off of what the character would do.. how can you justify changing the entire tide of the Sparta-Athens war? It would make more sense if you were locked into the Sparta side, that would actually BE a neat culture for the assassin's brotherhood to have lived on through and the original corruption of Athens was the spark that caused the Brotherhood to solidify into a intercontinental alliance.

the last joke about the shining made my day :D

Out of all 10, which one is the best? Is it Black Flag?

A month after this video comes out, and I still haven't come close to beating the main storyline of this game. Yup. I can't finish this one either.

I guess the more they go into RPG stuff, the more assassins creed stops becoming the action-stealth games people like. Also couldn't finish the story is something, normally AC would be done in about 20-40 hours. It also sounds like yahtzee is just tired off the series now. After 10 games i guess it was inevitable

I just watched this... and released you're coming to Canada!

You okay Yahtzee? You sound a bit sick for this one, your voice was a little on the lower and stuffy side.

In Origins they said you had to upgrade your hidden blade to be able to assassinate higher level enemies. In this game, no matter how upgraded your spear is, you can't one hit kill polemarchs (the really big dudes) or bounty hunters. And you still assassinate enemies just as painfully slow as when you first start the game.

who keeps buying these games!?

Almost every side mission I've done ends with my fucking someone. I love this game.

I loved Assassins creed: Odyssey at first. I haven't played any of them since Black Flag. I was immediately driven to compare it to Witcher 3. Beautiful looking world, plot/dialogue choices, tons of quests. Then about 15 hours in I realized - every single activity is EXACTLY the fucking same. The choices you make don't matter at all. Maybe the bigger ones catch up with you later in the story or something, but i didn't fucking care. The way she bounces between Athens and Sparta was infuriating, as was how the Cult of Whatever secretly manipulated every fucking event in world history so somehow every single plot point magically had a cult member behind it. Wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle comes to mind. And the voice acting sucked. Every side character sounds like an American who just watched "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

Glad to see someone else pointed out that ASSASSIN"s Creed is no longer about being an assassin and just some western RPG filled with grind. I miss the old stealth and parkour. I played ASSASSIN"s Creed for the badass assassin stuff. If I wanted to play a western RPG there's the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, the Wticher etc...

I honestly don't get every reviewer saying that this is a grind and that Ubisoft is always tempting players to buying the time savers in Odyssey. By the time I left the starting island I was 5 levels above the recommended level, by the time I dealt with the Wolf of Sparta I was at minimum 10 levels above the recommended level, by the time I met the character's mother i was 25 to 30 levels above what I should be. Why? Because all I did was do each quest in areas marked with a yellow exclamation mark. I rarely, if ever do bounty missions. The only grind I ever had to do was kill some animals for leather to upgrade a piece of armor. Not once did I think about paying for armor, weapons, or timesavers. The game doesnt even shove it in your face. Also, on the note being "forced into combat", you really arent, if you level up your abilities for assassin damage, and wear armor that gives assassin damage, you can one shot most enemies in the game.