Semi unrelated, i recently finished AC Valhalla after putting in 100+ hours or so and I didn’t hate it, guys. It was definitely janky, like nowhere near what AC 1 or 2 were in their time, but it wasn’t as horrifically woke as I’d expected.
There were parts of it I didn’t totally hate, not gonna lie. The expansions were definitely better than the base game (that forgotten saga was actually pretty awesome), but the amount of estrogen medieval England was supposedly swimming in was highly cringey.
I’ve been able to ignore the wokeness in the previous AC games, up to and including Odyssey, but for some reason with Valhalla it felt like they were far more blunt, like they were actively TRYING to annoy me with it. Like, “you WILL bow before us and you WILL like it.” After a while I just kept thinking, “fuck off, game.”
Never had that feeling with Ezio or Connor or Edward. I never wanted any of them to fuck off at any point.
I can’t say for sure whether it’s because the quality of writers and devs has tanked or if it’s just because games (like everything else) have become so fucking bland and lacklustre lately. All the analogies about “fast-food gaming” and “a mile wide but an inch deep” really are true.
The WORST thing about Valhalla by far isn’t the shitty writing or forgettable characters or the woke nonsense. It’s the squandered potential. They could have made something shorter, grittier and far more epic with that setting.
Again I didn’t hate ALL of it, just most of it. Which pretty much still means it sucks, doesn’t it?
Semi unrelated, i recently finished AC Valhalla after putting in 100+ hours or so and I didn’t hate it, guys. It was definitely janky, like nowhere near what AC 1 or 2 were in their time, but it wasn’t as horrifically woke as I’d expected.
There were parts of it I didn’t totally hate, not gonna lie. The expansions were definitely better than the base game (that forgotten saga was actually pretty awesome), but the amount of estrogen medieval England was supposedly swimming in was highly cringey.
I’ve been able to ignore the wokeness in the previous AC games, up to and including Odyssey, but for some reason with Valhalla it felt like they were far more blunt, like they were actively TRYING to annoy me with it. Like, “you WILL bow before us and you WILL like it.” After a while I just kept thinking, “fuck off, game.”
Never had that feeling with Ezio or Connor or Edward. I never wanted any of them to fuck off at any point.
I can’t say for sure whether it’s because the quality of writers and devs has tanked or if it’s just because games (like everything else) have become so fucking bland and lacklustre lately. All the analogies about “fast-food gaming” and “a mile wide but an inch deep” really are true.
The WORST thing about Valhalla by far isn’t the shitty writing or forgettable characters or the woke nonsense. It’s the squandered potential. They could have made something shorter, grittier and far more epic with that setting.
Again I didn’t hate ALL of it, just most of it. Which pretty much still means it sucks, doesn’t it?
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