Well they kinda backed themselves into a corner with allowing players to make choices about sexuality. This seems, to a lot of people, like intentional baiting to increase sales. And, looking at the "I want the choice to be gay" part of this, it was a big marketing point when the game was announced, and they said they were very proud of it. How does that feel like roleplaying? It doesn't, and destroys your character because now, a integral part of that character is gone or invalid. Now, your Homosexual character is forced into a heterosexual relationship, because of a plot point. You want to experience everything the game has to offer. So, you're playing a gay character, who has a husband / Boyfriend relationship. In this case, ignoring all the "I want the choice to be gay" comments, look at it this way: You're playing a gay character. Sure, it may not make that much of a difference to you, however, since a DLC helps complete a story, it really does go against that if you're playing your character a certain way, and all of a sudden your character gets funneled into an entirely different way of playing.
Pre-order my new sci-fi novel Herokiller, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook.It seems like you're just trying to disprove that it's a big deal, rather than accept peoples explanations. I hear Odyssey plays great, and after loving Origins, I’m really looking forward to it.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I think it’s a cool idea, and this may be officially as far back in time as Assassin’s Creed ever goes. Since this is literally hundreds of years before the Assassins are founded, this game really cannot be about anything but the Templar, who were around first, and already finding Pieces of Eden to dominate their enemies. And it’s the goal of the Templar to acquire more of these and use them to rule the world with rigid order.Īnd you know who else likes rigid order? The Spartans, which would make Sparta a prime candidate to be the birthplace of a secret order of powerful warriors who want to control everything.īut ultimately, it is the timeline that does it. We are already seeing our hero wield a Piece of Eden in the form of the spear, something so powerful it will likely end up corrupting anyone that uses it long enough. While Odyssey has been relatively light on story details so far, it makes sense for reasons other than the timeline. An alternate theory is that we could be playing as Aya's ancestor, meaning we're still on the side of the light, but I very much doubt that. For all I know, we may even be playing as the founding member, as either Alexios or Kassandra. It stands to reason that the reason we are heading all the way back to 400 BCE is that we’re about to discover the origins of the Order, the Templar, whatever you want to call them. While the Assassins are not formed until the end of Origins, there is already an organized villain group, called “The Order,” which is what Bayek is trying to hunt down and exterminate, and what the Assassins were formed to guard against.
While this part is still a theory, we are almost certainly witnessing the birth of something else. That is uh, several hundred years before Bayek and Aya found the Assassin Order, which makes it pretty clear why there are no traces of Assassins at all in Odyssey. It lasted almost 30 years and ran from 431 to 404 BCE. I’m no history buff, but even I know that the Peloponnesian War, the great conflict between Athens and Sparta which is the basis for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, took place way, way before that.