?Tell your boss he can stick it!? ? Alexios, main character of Odyssey, 431 BCE
Before I unleash my ungodly firestorm upon the misguided heads of Ubisoft for their current and previous transgressions with the Assassin?s Creed franchise, let me preface my scorn by admitting my excitement for Odyssey when it was first announced. Ancient Greece" Spartans" Persian War" Hell yes. That would have been exciting. Given the date above, however, next to that cute attempt at recreating ancient Greek dialect, it seems we?re to be bereft of Leonidas and Xerxes. But that?s only a morsel of my problem with what I?ve seen in Odyssey?s gameplay and the path that Ubisoft has decided to go down. Besides Odyssey looking like glorified Origins DLC, it?s their dismissal of fundamental mechanics that compel me to be an angry keyboard warrior speaking his mind. I believe the series desperately needs a reboot, one that washes the franchise of its repetitive nature and offers something we recognize, but is dressed in a way that is wholly unique to what we?ve seen before. As the great Homer once said, ?Why cover the same ground again" ?it goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and anybody that does can stick it.? Let me refer to the game?s name one more time: Assassin?s Creed. I?m not an expert on the profession, but I?m almost certain that being an assassin involves a degree of stealth, something Odyssey and Origins seem to have dismissed entirely. I don?t consider wh...