Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)

it took me 116 hours and i wasnt expecting ANY of this. i loved this game but it felt like playing a new game, not an assassins creed. graphics are beautiful, gameplay is enjoyable and the lore is pretty good. really had fun playing.

i believe the only downside for me was how long it takes to finish the entire game and the size of the map.. kind of unnecessary... but even so, it's still a lot of fun.

Chronolog III c: The Ancient Era - Battles For Greece

Interestingly, I took a bit of a detour with this one.

Originally, I planned to play Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey in its proper timeline spot—around the 5th century BCE—but I ended up postponing it until after finishing Origins. That’s because Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition had just announced its most ambitious single-player DLC to date: Chronicles – Battle for Greece, which covered many of the same historical events as Odyssey, especially the Peloponnesian War. To make the most of the Assassin's Creed plotline, I decided to jump backward in time after Origins and approach Greece once again, in both Odyssey and Battle for Greece.

Worth it? I definitely think so.

Battle for Greece, the first entry in the AoE Chronicles series, covers some background and what leads into the conflicts in and around Classical Greece. The campaign lets you experience the unfolding of history through the eyes of different civilizations—the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta—each seen through the lives and decisions of pivotal historical figures like Darius I, Themistocles, Perikles, and Brasidas.

AoE’s scenario design gives structure to this complex era, while Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey brings it to life in three dimensions. Much like Origins, Odyssey offered a ground-level (and sea-level) perspective—letting me run over the streets of Athens, climb the mountains of Sparta, and sail across the Aegean Sea. Even though the Assassin’s Creed version of events takes plenty of creative liberties, it still gave me an immersive sense of what Ancient Greece might have felt like.

Both games overlap not only in their depiction of the Peloponnesian War, but also in their treatment of earlier events like the Greco-Persian conflicts. It was fascinating to compare how each game handles major figures and plot points. While AoE gives you the strategy and broad strokes, AC delivers the personalities, ideologies, and ground-level drama + action.

Together, they form a compelling, if fictionalized, picture of a civilization torn by internal and external struggles—one that laid much of the philosophical, cultural, and military groundwork for Western history.

And that wraps up the last of the Ancient era journey through the video games.

Rome and Egypt <-- Chronolog Ancient Era Post --> Final Reflection

Solid odyssey through ancient Greece. Modern stuff is minimal. RPG elements would be fine if the level-scaling wasn't so aggressive, making you question why bother making it RPG. (Because lizardbrain likes number go up). Didn't bother with dlc, game is already long enough.

Last ac game I played was black flag, so according to that, I'll probably play viking one around 2034.