@Bamila that's also because they have the historically wrong black and white narrative of the ancient mediterranean world which in Odyssey is strictly Athenian or Spartan which is so stupid there are no words, it could not even be more wrong than that even if we tried. And then they removed the shields in a game that's based on the most epic shieldwall in history and on 2 factions that would not have gained any power ever without their shields it is ridiculous.
It just lacks all the historically correct diversity we had in Origins.
I started Odyssey twice or even 3 times, it is historically wrong in so many ways. Leonidas and most of the Spartan Soldiers and your hero use a Spear without a Shield which is ridiculous especially when this whole thing is about Sparta vs. Athens. Like the whole Intro totally destroys everything that actually happened in the epic battle of the Thermopylae. Because the united greek army was nothing without their shields and their whole strategy to hold back the overpowered and generally superior Persians was based on solid shield walls. That being said, there is not even an option in the game for just using a shield like any fighter in history did to survive any fight.
This thing alone made Odyssey really bad. Also that instead of a Shield you wield a shortened Spear is just plain stupid nobody would ever do that, you would just die immediately.
Another thing that sucks big time in Odyssey is that Ubisoft just went back into white supremacist eurocentristic mode that totally denies the fact that many other cultures than the freaking pirates who called themselves Greeks and Persians ruled over vast territories of the mediterranean, including islands that are officially greek today. In general, they just cut all the amazing diversity of Origins out of the game and recreated the nationalist propaganda that the mediterranean was 'greek' which was totally wrong in ancient times and is still totally wrong or not true today.
And then they even went hardcore white supremacist and eurocentristic when they launched a freakin Viking Assassins Creed which is even more pathetic than the dual wielding spear fighting instead of a shield in Odyssey.
So after all, I will always come back to the only historically accurate and black Assassin's Creed and won't ever touch this Valhalla which really is every white supremacists stupid, historically wrong wet dream.
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@Bamila that's also because they have the historically wrong black and white narrative of the ancient mediterranean world which in Odyssey is strictly Athenian or Spartan which is so stupid there are no words, it could not even be more wrong than that even if we tried. And then they removed the shields in a game that's based on the most epic shieldwall in history and on 2 factions that would not have gained any power ever without their shields it is ridiculous.
It just lacks all the historically correct diversity we had in Origins.
Re: Hands On: Assassin's Creed Origins PS5 Patch Reminds Us That It's One of the Series' Best Games
I started Odyssey twice or even 3 times, it is historically wrong in so many ways. Leonidas and most of the Spartan Soldiers and your hero use a Spear without a Shield which is ridiculous especially when this whole thing is about Sparta vs. Athens. Like the whole Intro totally destroys everything that actually happened in the epic battle of the Thermopylae. Because the united greek army was nothing without their shields and their whole strategy to hold back the overpowered and generally superior Persians was based on solid shield walls. That being said, there is not even an option in the game for just using a shield like any fighter in history did to survive any fight.
This thing alone made Odyssey really bad. Also that instead of a Shield you wield a shortened Spear is just plain stupid nobody would ever do that, you would just die immediately.
Another thing that sucks big time in Odyssey is that Ubisoft just went back into white supremacist eurocentristic mode that totally denies the fact that many other cultures than the freaking pirates who called themselves Greeks and Persians ruled over vast territories of the mediterranean, including islands that are officially greek today. In general, they just cut all the amazing diversity of Origins out of the game and recreated the nationalist propaganda that the mediterranean was 'greek' which was totally wrong in ancient times and is still totally wrong or not true today.
And then they even went hardcore white supremacist and eurocentristic when they launched a freakin Viking Assassins Creed which is even more pathetic than the dual wielding spear fighting instead of a shield in Odyssey.
So after all, I will always come back to the only historically accurate and black Assassin's Creed and won't ever touch this Valhalla which really is every white supremacists stupid, historically wrong wet dream.