Recent reviews by Goodly Iguana

The first AC game i've played a few hours and can actually see myself finishing since brotherhood.

The last Ac game I played was Black Flag, and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually it just got boring and all challenge lost.
AC Origins is an actual rpg, and if you're like me and love rpgs than you might want to take a look into this. People have compared this to other rpgs like the witcher games and morrowind, and consdiering the witcher and morrowind games are my favorite of all time games, I *had* to look into it more myself.

The short version is, i'd call it an easier witcher 3 where enemies will try their hardest to see that you end up dead if you go loud. The stealth system is *acutally* there now, the best stealth in any AC game by faaaaar. You can crouch, and if you're spotted you'll get an indicator, and a precious moment or two to duck behind cover depending on how far from them you are. But if you're right up on them they'll obviously just see some creep crouching around. The open world actually feels like stuff is going on, all in all, if you don't usually enjoy AC games, but like rpgs i'd reccomend you look into this, you might find you like it.

The loud combat is really satisfying once you have had some time with it, there's a blocking, dodging, parry, heavy attack, and shield breaker (breaks through enemy guard) attack system. Bayet is, just a man. A highly trained man, no doubt, but still a man. If 20 or so other guys surround and poke him with sharp things while archers shoot him with long sharp things with feathers at the end, oh you ded. You very very dead. Most of the time you can't just button mash your way to victory after the prologue area, massive enemies with heavy weapons that'll break through your guard requiring you to dodge and counter, regular enemies will attack surround you and attack at the same time if you try and wait out an attack to parry, and every weapon type has a different fighting style, feel, and power attack (a special attack that can be used at full adrenaline) there's a lot to learn but its not as simple as it might initially seem.

Oh, one last thing. If you do pick it up, no, you didn't miss something, the story starts off not telling the player what exactly happened to Bayek and his family. It sort of just throws you into things without saying why, but you'll eventually find things out as you do story missions. I found it jarring and odd that it didn't tell you ANYTHING at first about..... Why I was tossed into a flash forward here and killing a guy before I had even taken the reigns where not 10 seconds ago Bayet was watching the pharoh pass through his town. But yea.. It'll get to that after a few story missions.

Witcher nostalgia still fun\10

If you liked the first game, you'll like this. The main (and aparently only) complaint people have with the game is that there are micro transactions for loot boxes. I don't see why people are so upset about it when;

1: You don't need to buy them. There's no 'paywall'
2: You can buy some of them for in-game currency that you get by the truckload
3: Something number three. If I was required to buy them to advance further that'd be a problem. But that's not the case. They're just there if you don't want to run around killing captains for gear.

I poisoned a keg of grog and some assasin ambushed me, called me an amateur, and if I had ever even heard of supersaturation.

I liked the first one, and I like this one too/10

I take personal offense over the way orcs are portrayed in this game.

Would launch hordes of orcs into lava again/10

A rpg rhythme game with some pretty phat beatsies.

Thanks bro/10

After the first area it becomes more of the same, and by that point you will already be a walking god of death that could never be killed no matter how many enemies get sent your way. I find the combat fun, at least on foot. But it's more batman and shadow of mordor with a mad max reskin.

Shadow of Mordor has a fighting pit and this doesn't/10

A game very dependant on who you're playing with. As a diver, you'll want to stick close together, but if you don't leae the safety of a room, you won't find treasure, and without enough treasure, you won't be able to buy better equipment to keep the sharks at bay!

The ocean is scary/10

This game is TOUGH, there's a learning curve that you have to learn, but once you get into the groove and start figuring out parties that work well together and making more trips into the dungeons you'll start to see why this game got more popular recently. It's devastating when a member of your party dies, but that's what happens in a setting as dark and bleak as this.

My entire party died because of a crit I didn't have a recovery for/10

Every death should teach you something, and from trial and error you can improve and eventually 'git gud', and the feeling of overcoming a fight that is giving you trouble is what this series is known for. Among other things.

No shame in running past certain enemies/10

So yea.. Counter Strike. I have a love-hate relationship with these games.
There are a LOT of hackusations, and for good reason... There are a lot of cheaters in this game. Especially at higher ranks. There are a lot of custom game mades and options besides ranked though, so it's not like you're forced to deal with all that if you don't want to.

I hate surf maps/10

The problem with a game like this is the 'actors' aren't exactly the best. Some really over act, and the way some of them talk and stare made me uncomfortable at times. I'm pretty sure one of the guys never blinks. Like he's waiting for YOU to blink so he can knock you over the head and steal your stuff in the middle of the day.

I knew who the killer was the moment I saw them/10