The Internet Can't Stop Talking About the Kids in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Well back in those days I suppose incest was a lot more rampant, so maybe it is actually a fair play to the Ubisoft Dev Team for being bang on historically?

EDIT: Wait does one of those kids on the top row have Hay for his hair? Hilarious 😂

When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you..

Wow. Creepy kids!

There seems to be an alarming amount of black stripe below the mouth. I wonder if this is based off a real like plague, from those times. 😂😂😂

The voices of the kids is my main issue. They sound like the bad voice acting from the original Fable.

I've seen one of these kids grow in front of me, starting off as a normal size and then towering over me (okay they were slightly taller than me). It was pretty weird like.

They look like they should appear in the Adams Family animated movie that released a few years back.

It's even weirder that so many kids have the voice of a 35 year old American woman pretending to be an English child. Though I have to say, the soul-staring girl and a few others I've seen look like Maisie Williams with their odd potato heads that kind of make them look like a face drawn on a boiled egg. Maybe that's what Ubisoft think English girls look like.

This is...haunting.

The joys of procedural face generation.

I loved the fact that before America was discovered by the vikings American kids lived in the kingdoms of England.....well a lot of the kids in the game have American accents at least.

One of them has the look of Chucky....real horror show.

Ok, so regarding your first sentence, I just need to say that, in terms of performance, if you look at the FPS numbers, it clearly runs worse post patch than pre patch on PS5 specifically. There’s been a lot of attempted justifications and even flat out denials, but the numbers don’t lie.

@Matroska 🤣

I thought it was this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets

This game just seems to be so lazily constructed in general, even by Ubisoft's own very low standards these days

Apparently, it takes a lot to get fired (or forced to resign) at Ubisoft—and it shows.

well, they do seem to be on par with British kids from today

Well. That’s horrific.

Lower lip brows?

AC VALHALLA should be renamed: God of War - 2 years too late and pure trash

Pure nightmare fuel. I'm not sure what's more terrifying. The deformities, or the fact that almost all of them are doing duck face selfies.

The best thing I've heard from this game is some daily assassination targets turning out to be training dummies.

Good to see Ubisoft branching off into the Horror genre. Silent Hill next ??

I love this stuff😂😂😂😂

@jess3a3 don't be silly

@wiiware can't read this without thinking about Baldurs Gate

I've been playing since day one on series x and I've not seen any kids that look like this. None.

So, now escandinavian people are africans...
Ubisoft is over.

@JapaneseSonic And there is also situation, where you have kids in Neverwinter Nights (THAT NwN, not that online s*h*i*t) and if you play as "true evil" character you sooner or later find yourself in position where these kids scream "get out of me" but throw stones on you, keeps you in fight mode, so you cannot leave area or talk to npc and you cannot kill them, because they are "indestructible" by rules.

@PeletBR Baldurs gate 1&2, planescape torment, and neverwinter night is pretty good

There's a lot that's truly odd and disturbing about a lot of the models used in Valhalla. Many of the NPCs, most notably the women, have enlarged heads (proportionally to the rest of their bodies, I mean) and sloped or ill-defined shoulders that make them seem extremely weird.

The children suffer from something that other games have had as well, most notably The Witcher 3, in that they do not resemble children at all but rather smaller versions of adults and that too is rather disturbing. They have adult heads slapped onto smaller frames and just pass for children.

What the images shown in this article portray is some attempt to stretch or alter those faces to make them look different from the adult models and it fails miserably.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. All of this preoccupation with ray tracing and 4k resolution is all fine and well but not when it comes at the expense of the game itself. The glitches, bugs, graphical issues, even these models themselves are proof that their sole focus was on making the game look as pretty as possible rather than making it the best game they could.

I'd rather play a game that runs smoothly and looks reasonable but doesn't crash or have issues that require tweaking, patching and fixes to one that looks stupendous but is unplayable. As it stands, I'm stuck at 94 or 96% (whatever, I can't even be bother to check at this point). Game completed. Did everything but kill King Aelfred because the stupid quest never triggered since the game believed I already killed him.

So, yeah, looks nice but plays like crap. What a great game! /s

@JapaneseSonic They actually got the kids right in AC Origins. Since then, it's been downhill all the way.

@Matroska ROTFLMFAO!!!!!

They look normal enough to me (I live in Tennessee though... 😆 )

Cue the “it’s just a glitch in the Animus” excuse

Assassin Creed's Children of the Corn

Squish that kid...

@Athrum "well, they do seem to be on par with British kids from today"

Next update they will be adding "street talk" starting with lit, peng, blood, sick and innit.
"Yeah blood, those sick archery skillz is peng innit" (possible teeth kiss to close sentence)
"yo, that girl mucking out the stables is lit"

I think I saw that lot in Tesco earlier.

Do you know...it is a post - Halloween treat from UBI. Actually they really plan it to release it last Oct30 (unannounce)

This is why I love JRPG hahahaha

The fish monger kid has such annoying VO too...