Assassin's Creed Valhalla Won't Be the Longest or Biggest Game in the Series, Says Ubisoft Dev

That's a good thing, Odyssey was waaaay too long and boring at some point.

That's cool. Quality over quantity and all that.

That's good.
I'm disappointed they arent even showing proper gameplay today though

That actually might consider me to take another go at the series. I've last played the one set in London, which was bloated and quite mundane.

Agree – this is a good thing. Trying to keep one-upping themselves on this parameter would start to look ridiculous.

I loved both Origins and Odyssey but felt the Origins story was more focused because of its slightly smaller world,so hopefully this is a good thing.

At last some common sense in the gaming industry, there is a lot of bloat in that game and I feel it could have been an even better game by trimming a lot of it off. That and progress tied to your camp and not an xp bar and if they pull off making the modern day sections remotely interesting, then this could well be a very exciting game

Smaller is better - Odyssey was great but too large for me. It was just too spread out even though the world was amazing

@crimsontadpoles that's what my Mrs. says !

I'm fine with this if it means more carefully crafted locations and more interactivity with the world. Really looking forward to seeing Valhalla in action.

@JJ2 Pretty sure we'll be seeing some in just a few hours

so more focus and less fluff?

GOOD

The problem isn't the game too long, but many of those long hours spent on boring sidequest for grinding xp. I have no problem playing 100+ hours on games like nier automata, or 60+ hours on god of war and spider-man ps4.

I'm personally loving Odyssey. £15 for a game which has given me so many hours makes it well worth the money. I hot the season pass when it was £7 too which has added even more to it. Can't wait for Valhalla although I'll probably wait until that's quite cheap too 😋

@wiiware if you're having to grind, you're doing something wrong. Nothing in Odyssey is gated or required to grind.

Haha. What world is this??? For my money, I want the longest, biggest, best experience possible. Was Odyssey long? Yes. Do I still love Spartan kicking the hell out of people? Yes, also. Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece are epic periods of history that deserved epic video game treatments.

I think I put a good 200 hours into Odyssey so if it's even half of that time then it's all good.

Well let's hope they do the danes history justice by making them intelligent but absolutely murdering scumbags.

Oh wait ubisoft, nevermind!

@Icey664
A look at the in game gameplay but not like a good demo. Just a trailer
https://twitter.com/AshrafAIsmail/status/1258089812352995332?s=19

Good. Too many developers care too much about length that their games end up feeling emptier or requiring more grinding. Valhalla seems to be fixing Odyssey’s main issues.

Liking it more and more...

I totally get why people may want a shorter game. For me, I'm out of work due to covid 19 & my industry may not reopen until next spring. My wife can afford 1 gift at Xmas. So I may wait a VERY long time to play Valhalla.

@ankehuber That doesnt sound like a good thing that you skip the movies because it takes too long. Is it to much filler like with Syndicate im sure i would have more fun if the was more streamlined with less of the same boring missions. I rather have 20 hours of fun then a 100 of OMG when is it done.

@JJ2 I thought they were at the Xbox SX games reveal at 4pm uk time which is now but I’m at work till late so I can’t watch it till 11.

Just the most microtransactions.

Origins was a painful grind with poorly written and forgettable characters in side missions that you were essentially forced to take part in to grind your level so you could play the actually interesting main missions. It was a good game beside that (and the fact that it was trying way too hard to channel the success of The Witcher 3), but Assassin's Creed will always be Ubisoftified and sport the unnecessarily large worlds that have nothing in them besides boring filler (Ghost Recon Breakpoint is probably the best example of this).

I've skipped Odyssey because I wanted to try to complete Origins again first but I simply can't do it because it's so boring at times. Therefore, Odyssey might be pretty good, or it might suck, I really don't know. But if Valhalla shrinks the world to the point where the only content is engaging and worthwhile (I like to say, "build the world around the content, not the content around the world"), and rids itself of the tedious future and modern day sections, I think it'll be well worth it.

I also just want to see York in a game again.

This is actually really disappointing. Odyssey is one of my favorite games because it was super immersive, long, and the story was great. I loved how big the world was and how many places you could go and see. This is the only assasins game that ever interested me because of the content and game play. I thought the next Assasins game would be the same. Very sad, might have to rethink playing this one.

Great. Even Origins was soooo large. I hope assassin returns back to its roots, where you are someone, who makes world better, uncovers templar conspiracy and fight Abstergo (or Helix or whatever it is now). Not just some random one, who cannot air assassinate or double assassinate because haven't proper skill or level (that's biggest nonsense I've ever seen in AC games) It all can happen in a world size between AC 2 and AC Rogue with gameplay around 40+ hours (including optional missions and collecting data shards).

I really can't understand the devs here. We live in 2020, games SHOULD be getting bigger and bigger, having many more interesting activities, more detailed interiors of buildings etc. So, instead of making the game shorter, they should focus on making the game BOTH BIGGER, AND GIVE MORE DEPTH TO THIS. Supposedly, we are going towards a more advanced technology these years,(with big leaps as a matter of fact) I just can't understand the decision to simply shorten the game length. In fact, people wanted more depth in Odyssey and Origins, not a shorter game, it's the grinding that upsets gamers, not the game length as a definition

@Sashi895 it says scaling back a little bit. Ever heard of quality vs quantity. Its still going to be a huge game lol. Less filler, more good stuff. Had to reply to your comment because i couldnt believe someone would re-think this game for being a little bit smaller lmfao. Ridiculous

@asapas8 it doesnt even say how much smaller or give any details and already weve got someone complaining about length. Why don't you wait and see. How about flipping out when you actually know the length lol. Odyssey is a huge game but it had a lot of filler. A lot of boring, forgettable stuff. Maybe they're just setting a higher bar for quality this time. And we will probably also get DLC, and post-game quest additions. Gamers are so spoiled lmao. You just want more and more even if 20% of that is just, go here, kill this, come and get paid. I guess people percieve this news differently. You see it as SMALLER? NO, THEYRE CHEATING ME. Others see it as the game striving for you to have MORE FUN. If i can play this game and just have fun not doing quests or anything, then they will have been successful. Especially if many others can also have fun.. bigger doesnt mean bettee. What about denser, more immersive, more interactive stuff. Less checklists, more actual exploration, less *****, more quality

@ShadowbaneRogue have you played Horizon Zero Dawn yet?

60 hours into Odyssey and im not finished. Havnt even done many side quests. Im loving it but yeah, ill not complain if the next one is scaled down a bit!

@Gotham ''bigger doesnt mean bettee. What about denser, more immersive, more interactive stuff. Less checklists, more actual exploration, less *****, more quality''

And that's why you fall in the trap too. I didn't tell about JUST BEING BIGGER. I told about being BOTH BIGGER AND DENSER GAME!!! We live in 2020 and technology advances with gigantic leaps each and every day, I bet that they can easily achieve something like this. Shortening the game isn't an excuse for the 'bloating complains' as they mentioned.
Let's hope it is going to be as big as Odyssey and denser. That could make everyone happy I think, and that's the point that each and every game should set as a target, especially in open world games.

But how will they sell you the ability to skip the bloat if they don't put the bloat in there to start with? Colour me confused!

I do not mind at all about about the world being smaller at all. However I would like the game to be long still because I want to be a good amount of re-playability. Because if the game is too short replaying would be to quick or even first time around.

Should I wait for PS5 version or buy the PS4? Do you think it will be released at the same time or will Ubisoft simply postpone the PS5 delivery so they can sell enough PS4 copies?