Ahahaha yes This game would've been better if it changed its entire story and its powers and instead we played as darius, don't need to be in the assassins order to have that feel
The Legacy of the First Blade DLC ties into the proto-assassins and gives more backstory to the philosophical and political conflict that will become the Assassins vs Templars. Yeah it's cheap they make you pay more just to connect Odyssey to the series but whatever. I like the DLC. Imo it works better as an 'origins' story than actual AC Origins, which had a terrible story
Playing as Darius would've been the obvious and easy solution, but really it would've ruined the mystique of his character. I like Darius better as a side character, this wise but mysterious mentor for Kassandra/Alexios who you have kinship with on account of both being 'tainted ones' despite being so different in every other way. The dynamic with player and Darius was cool. I wouldnt have changed it
@@reality_is_sin the story is objectively terrible. The concept is good, but the excecution is godawful, for reasons I could literally write a book on. Here's a few examples I was able to pull from my head in just a few minutes: -the use of 'in media res'. This narrative technique can work in a novel or movie, but it doesn't work here in a video game in which you as the player need to understand you motivations for doing what you do. More than any AC game, you're made to feel like a passive spectator of events, rather than a prime mover. Bayek is often sidelined by Aya, which only adds to his passivity as a protagonist. Bayek's character has potential, but the writers can't seem to decide if they want him to be a smiling and likeable family man or a dark, brooding menace, so they try both, and it fails. I just can't buy this guy as being super traumatized by his son's death when one minute later he's laughing drinking beer with his friends. The socio-political aspect of the story has absolutely NO subtlety or nuance. Greeks = Bad, Romans = Bad, native Egyptians = superstitious but sympathetic idiots, everyone except Aya and Bayek = Bad. The entire story rests on your motivation to avenge Khemu, but since his death isn't revealed until about an hour into the game, you have no idea what you're supposed to be fighting. Even then, my sympathy for a character whose only reason to exist in the story being to die is hardly enough of a motivating factor to care. Bayek is motivated to avenge Khemu because, by stabbing him in the heart, he can't enter the field of reeds in the afterlife. This would be an interesting motivating factor, except the story doesn't explain it to you, and you would have no understanding of its significance unless you were familiar with ancient Egyptian religion. Even if you were, the story doesn't explore it. Speaking of that, the guilt that Bayek should feel over being the one to wield the knife is never explored. He externalises all of his anger towards the Order, making him seem more deranged than anything. Nothing wrong with having an antihero, but the narrative doesn't explore this conundrum. Bayek absolutely chews the scenery during the assassination memory corridors. It's as if the game is afraid I won't empathise with him for losing his son (mission accomplished, i didn't) so they have him go completely overboard with vengeful rage. An example of the writing's tell-not-show writing. The writers should allow the player to form our own empathy of Bayek's situation instead of having it rammed down our throat. AC2 dealt with grief much better - as you collect feathers for your brother, you legitimately felt that sense of loss on your own. Origin's writers have no time for subtlety. Ptolemy is supposed to be the big bad guy, but the story absolutely makes no use of him, reducing him to a pathetic, ineffectual version of King Joffrey that accomplishes nothing. Various scenes that feel as if they should be meaningful and epic, are not. For example, when Bayek gets the hidden blade, it's just like 'kay, cool, thanks for that'. Where's the sense of wonder and adventure we see in every other AC game? This whole story is just far too bleak and cynical for its own good. Speaking of that, the whole formation of the Brotherhood is glossed over so quickly. All of a sudden Bayek has all these people on his side and there you go, brotherhood formed. This was supposed to be the main purpose of the story, instead the majority of the story is Bayek screaming at people and Cleopatra wanting a throne. If you want a really good video that summarises what's wrong with Origin's story, watch Alien Platypus video "What Assassin's Creed Origins failed to understand"
Fun fact: homosexuality was actually not officially outlawed in ancient Greece as it would later be with the rise of the Abrahamic religions, so the option to make your character gay or lesbian is technically historically accurate. In fact, the very word lesbian is derived from the Greek island of Lesbos, where a female poet named Sappho expressed her love for other women.
@@dm8in like... odyssey it's the game that explains about isu artifacts and why some people can hold them and be fine while others can't about the eagle vision and why some people (basically every ac protag) has it it sets the story for ac origins which explains how the brotherhood started "ooooh but it doesn't have templars" templars didn't exist in ancient Greece like I said, odyssey is the only ac game that goes in depth about the isu and explains events from every past ac game soooooo yeah it does fit the ac narrative, but not so much in the assassins vs templars conflict part, but in the isu part, which has been very important since the first game
I’ve played through this entire game multiple times, and I still struggle to understand how they explained half of the things you just commented on. This game is little more than fetch quests. It is not AT ALL relevant to the ac storyline. Same with Valhalla, at least Valhalla gave us Desmond back sort of.
@@bignick2k215 like I just commented above, the ORIGINS TRILOGY (AC origins, odyssey and valhalla) focus on explaining the ORIGINS of the brotherhood and most of the story of the ISU, you know, the beings who are being discussed in the games since AC1? yeah those And how some humans actually have ISU blood and therefore can use ISU artifacts and have "the sight". Kassandra had ISU blood, and is an ancestor to Aya/Amunet, who created the Hidden Ones (that would eventually become the assassins) , and Eivor also had ISU blood, and helped Hytham clear the rest of the order of ancients, and that led to the beginning of the TEMPLAR ORDER, also Hytham was one of the very first ASSASSINS in the game lore. So yeah keep trying to make sense of the cutscenes my friend, for you have not been doing a very good job.
@@ahzigos I mean we already knew from previous games that some people have more first civ blood than others, AC odyssey didn't expand anything useful in that regard. Completely disposable tbh
I did spend a large amount of my time with kassandra Spartan kicking people from great heights, best one was a bounty hunter straight off a mountain I honestly never found that body lol.
The way the game ties in to the assassin storyline is that in the dlc your son becomes bayak’s (origins guy) ancestor. Bayak created the first brotherhood
@@qui-gonjinn8350 In the inventory screen, right click the gear and voila, an visual customization screen. Took me a while to realise it and now the Deimos set looks more like the armor of a Han Chinese general as compared to the armor worn by Alexios.
@@j.mtherandomguy8701 ive beaten the game weeks ago, a little late wouldnt you say? And i play on console so you know no right click . But thanks i guess.
I at level 10 (I think) killed one of the 2nd highest cultists by jokingly kicking a civilian off a cliff THAT CIVILIAN WAS THE CULTIST I was dead on the floor laughing when I realised
I love the devs for adding that one line of her saying: *I probably shouldn't be climbing this* XD
The first thing I did was hang on Zeus’s dick
@@obiwankenobi6655 n i c e
That's a voice line for Alexios too
@@obiwankenobi6655 Master Kenobi, I think that isn't the high ground.
Obi Wan Kenobi I did it too lol
“Well Ubisoft listened and now you can just land on solid ground” almost spit my drink out lmao
Testiklese: Not the hero Greece deserved, but the hero it needed.
Gioco Royeca that’s not how you spell it
Gioco Royeca *testikles
*proceeds to die*
"Still waiting to see how this ties into the assassins storyline"
So are we all
Ahahaha yes
This game would've been better if it changed its entire story and its powers and instead we played as darius, don't need to be in the assassins order to have that feel
The Legacy of the First Blade DLC ties into the proto-assassins and gives more backstory to the philosophical and political conflict that will become the Assassins vs Templars. Yeah it's cheap they make you pay more just to connect Odyssey to the series but whatever. I like the DLC. Imo it works better as an 'origins' story than actual AC Origins, which had a terrible story
Playing as Darius would've been the obvious and easy solution, but really it would've ruined the mystique of his character. I like Darius better as a side character, this wise but mysterious mentor for Kassandra/Alexios who you have kinship with on account of both being 'tainted ones' despite being so different in every other way. The dynamic with player and Darius was cool. I wouldnt have changed it
@@DougWIngate origins has a bad story is legitimately the worst opinion I’ve ever seen
@@reality_is_sin the story is objectively terrible. The concept is good, but the excecution is godawful, for reasons I could literally write a book on. Here's a few examples I was able to pull from my head in just a few minutes:
-the use of 'in media res'. This narrative technique can work in a novel or movie, but it doesn't work here in a video game in which you as the player need to understand you motivations for doing what you do. More than any AC game, you're made to feel like a passive spectator of events, rather than a prime mover. Bayek is often sidelined by Aya, which only adds to his passivity as a protagonist.
Bayek's character has potential, but the writers can't seem to decide if they want him to be a smiling and likeable family man or a dark, brooding menace, so they try both, and it fails. I just can't buy this guy as being super traumatized by his son's death when one minute later he's laughing drinking beer with his friends.
The socio-political aspect of the story has absolutely NO subtlety or nuance. Greeks = Bad, Romans = Bad, native Egyptians = superstitious but sympathetic idiots, everyone except Aya and Bayek = Bad.
The entire story rests on your motivation to avenge Khemu, but since his death isn't revealed until about an hour into the game, you have no idea what you're supposed to be fighting. Even then, my sympathy for a character whose only reason to exist in the story being to die is hardly enough of a motivating factor to care.
Bayek is motivated to avenge Khemu because, by stabbing him in the heart, he can't enter the field of reeds in the afterlife. This would be an interesting motivating factor, except the story doesn't explain it to you, and you would have no understanding of its significance unless you were familiar with ancient Egyptian religion. Even if you were, the story doesn't explore it.
Speaking of that, the guilt that Bayek should feel over being the one to wield the knife is never explored. He externalises all of his anger towards the Order, making him seem more deranged than anything. Nothing wrong with having an antihero, but the narrative doesn't explore this conundrum.
Bayek absolutely chews the scenery during the assassination memory corridors. It's as if the game is afraid I won't empathise with him for losing his son (mission accomplished, i didn't) so they have him go completely overboard with vengeful rage. An example of the writing's tell-not-show writing. The writers should allow the player to form our own empathy of Bayek's situation instead of having it rammed down our throat. AC2 dealt with grief much better - as you collect feathers for your brother, you legitimately felt that sense of loss on your own. Origin's writers have no time for subtlety.
Ptolemy is supposed to be the big bad guy, but the story absolutely makes no use of him, reducing him to a pathetic, ineffectual version of King Joffrey that accomplishes nothing.
Various scenes that feel as if they should be meaningful and epic, are not. For example, when Bayek gets the hidden blade, it's just like 'kay, cool, thanks for that'. Where's the sense of wonder and adventure we see in every other AC game? This whole story is just far too bleak and cynical for its own good.
Speaking of that, the whole formation of the Brotherhood is glossed over so quickly. All of a sudden Bayek has all these people on his side and there you go, brotherhood formed. This was supposed to be the main purpose of the story, instead the majority of the story is Bayek screaming at people and Cleopatra wanting a throne.
If you want a really good video that summarises what's wrong with Origin's story, watch Alien Platypus video "What Assassin's Creed Origins failed to understand"
“Surely he can swim.”
*pans to a shark in bloody water*
Zanny: *I have entered the Comedy Area*
Incidentally that's also what the shark said
Fabio: *jumps off a cliff and die *
Zanny: *calls Fabio *
Fabio: guess I've been dead for far too long
I ruined your 69
Dude did surgery when he hit the ground
Zanny's Ac Odyssey moods
"omg this game is beautiful"
"How is this assassins creed?"
"FABIOOOO"
“This doesn’t look like the for honor community” had me in tears 😂
you always talk about your faze montage...
but when will you upload it
ALEXIs colmenares probably a subscriber special
Its just a prank
@@eppic_peppic1155 r/woosh
@@ginvaas9229 dont be that guy.
@@ginvaas9229 do you know the definition of insanity?
Fabio:
*Falls from 120ft cliff*
Zanny:
He’ll come back
“Just a horny lesbian roaming the wilderness”
Best thing I’ve heard since the quarantine announcement.
Fun fact: homosexuality was actually not officially outlawed in ancient Greece as it would later be with the rise of the Abrahamic religions, so the option to make your character gay or lesbian is technically historically accurate.
In fact, the very word lesbian is derived from the Greek island of Lesbos, where a female poet named Sappho expressed her love for other women.
@@GTAVictor9128 thats so neat thanks for the info :)
This is the best Assassin's Creed video... OF ALL TIME.
No fuck this game hilarious video though just bad game
Andre Merrick he said video, not game
@엘리야 yeah a video about a funny guy playing a bad game
I think it’s great but whatever
How old are you?
Clanker activist plays star wars battlefront 2 (2005)
John Doe Woah, watch the hard “R”
zanny : *skips all the dialogue*
also zanny: i still don't understand how this ties to the assassins creed storyline :(
@@dm8in like... odyssey it's the game that explains about isu artifacts and why some people can hold them and be fine while others can't
about the eagle vision and why some people (basically every ac protag) has it
it sets the story for ac origins which explains how the brotherhood started
"ooooh but it doesn't have templars"
templars didn't exist in ancient Greece
like I said, odyssey is the only ac game that goes in depth about the isu and explains events from every past ac game soooooo yeah it does fit the ac narrative, but not so much in the assassins vs templars conflict part, but in the isu part, which has been very important since the first game
I’ve played through this entire game multiple times, and I still struggle to understand how they explained half of the things you just commented on.
This game is little more than fetch quests. It is not AT ALL relevant to the ac storyline. Same with Valhalla, at least Valhalla gave us Desmond back sort of.
@@bignick2k215 like I just commented above, the ORIGINS TRILOGY (AC origins, odyssey and valhalla) focus on explaining the ORIGINS of the brotherhood and most of the story of the ISU, you know, the beings who are being discussed in the games since AC1? yeah those
And how some humans actually have ISU blood and therefore can use ISU artifacts and have "the sight". Kassandra had ISU blood, and is an ancestor to Aya/Amunet, who created the Hidden Ones (that would eventually become the assassins) , and Eivor also had ISU blood, and helped Hytham clear the rest of the order of ancients, and that led to the beginning of the TEMPLAR ORDER, also Hytham was one of the very first ASSASSINS in the game lore. So yeah keep trying to make sense of the cutscenes my friend, for you have not been doing a very good job.
@@ahzigos I mean we already knew from previous games that some people have more first civ blood than others, AC odyssey didn't expand anything useful in that regard. Completely disposable tbh
@@isodoubIet Odyssey expanded greatly upon it.
This Is Sparta: The Game
Also an Assassin's Creed game
Ha lol
I did spend a large amount of my time with kassandra Spartan kicking people from great heights, best one was a bounty hunter straight off a mountain I honestly never found that body lol.
The Witcher 300
If it was titled "Odyssey: a demigods tale" it would've been called the best game of 2018
6:15 "Fabio, get away from these unrendered textures, you'll get sick!"
Play Lego Star Wars 3
YES! HE MUST DO THE ASSAULT MISSIONS!!!
7:37
"I didn't mean to do that I was spamming Y to get on my horse"
We’ve all done this haha
KFC employee becomes a stealth master class
"Testikles can be difficult."
So would it be fair to say that he is a bit testy? :P
This ain't assassin creed this is a fantasy RPG lol.
I ain't complaining tho.
i am
@@fgvhhhbh241 that's y ur depressed
@@ollie4425 lmao
If it was an rpg you could make your own character
@@tylermcneeley3136 not necessarily
That part at the end escalated pretty fast
Testikles had his WHOLE life in front of him!
F
F
F
"I just wanna get to the assassin story"
This man never knew what he had coming
or what he didn't have coming, more precisely
That cutscene In the warehouse with brasidas where you fight all those goons was the most badass one yet
0:34 I never noticed she kicked that dude so hard his chest kinda exploded
*I should probably not climb this*
4:11 is my parents when they first saw me
4:00 I like how this is relevant still
Zanny-“I still don’t know how the story ties into the assassins creed story line”
Neither does Ubisoft😂
6:03 Imagine blind people listening to this video
How do they access yt in the first place doe hahah
Zanny: "Ok guys I'm with a stealth mission with my mom, and I got to impress her"
Also zanny: "Mom what the fuck are you doing"
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHAHA
7:03
that entire sequence made me die laughing lol
“Never do anything vilolent in Spartha”
GOT ME LOL!😂😂
“Oh welp there goes stealth” is a good way to describe most conflict in odyssey
10:23 "little kids close your eyes!"
Whenever zanny coughs I just think of “a fine addition to my collection”
Oh yes, “The REAL” Assassins Creed Odyssey experience
lesbian employee plays Super Mario Odyssey with famous model Fabio.
*Brazzers Exclusive*
I'm happy to know that someone at Ubi has the same humor about Greek names as I...
I enjoy the logic: Skipping through dialogue as fast as possible, "Why don't I know what's going on?"
Zanny's stealth logic:
If there is nobody to notice, nobody will notice.
yeah... that's how you do stealth... right?
whenever he says "wow the game looks gooddd", that is kinda short break after 1hour of roasting✨
10:30 this is the most perfect weee I've ever heard
Anyone really annoyed when zanny says can’t change the appearance of his clothes, but we know about visual customisation?
This was in 1.0 a year ago man. Transmog wasn't in the game
I visually customize women pantless irl.
Notannoying, just funny
@@temporaltribe women look better in tight jeans than in no pants ngl aha, same for yoga pants
“Not that I want them to hurt my mom but seriously”
8:19 is to good
This was the first video of yours I ever saw thank you for providing me with happiness Zandril, truly.
“NICE TO MEET U BRAZERS”
that cracked me up
I do wish he did a longer series with this game
5:18 his laugh tho🤣
1:57 I have ability to stay so still that I become invisible to the eye
my 12 yo cries and screams in pain while watching this clip of the future at the time he plays with papa altair,
1:53 there is exactly same camp layout in valhalla as well lmao..even the wooden bar layout as well
" *_Just a horny lesbian roaming the wilderness_* "
Pure poetry, my heart melted
2020 BE like stop coughing your giving me nightmares.
From Dunkey to Zanny. What a back to back video experience!
Thank you Zanny for making my morning!
My exact reaction to making the girls kiss. WEEEEEEEE))) This vid's pure gold!
11 minutes of pure memes
I love that zanny is reliant on the fact that Fabio cant die
dude i havent laughed that hard in a long time. thank you. subbed
4:04 it must be the pvp haters in Sea of Thieves
i literally got abs from laughing at your video, this is good stuff right here
"So I did a little bit of mining off camera."
The way the game ties in to the assassin storyline is that in the dlc your son becomes bayak’s (origins guy) ancestor. Bayak created the first brotherhood
08:24 you made him rock hard
oh damn when kazaandra said salt and more salt and zanny said wait this isn’t the for houner community i was lmao so hard
I wasn't thinking straight and thought he ment he met and killed his irl dad
This video was amazing Zanny lol
No lie that was your best video yet!!
Might have laughed till my lung broke ,but the vid was Epic
8:59 "Look at that. Father of the Minotaur."
Seeing how the Minotaur was half man and half bull, that meant that bull and a human woman...
I can't keep a straight face when watching this
I wish you woulda played more of this
I just found your content Jesus man you are so damn hilarious 😂 I love watching this
Balls
Your gf must laughing a lot when he saw what you doing at the statue of Zeus
I thought I was the only one who makes painful sound effects for my guy when he dies or, gets hurt.
"This isnt for honour community" ahh that killed me man
land of salt and more salt LOL!
5:30 you can actually change the appearance of your clothes (just like the appearance of your weapons)
Wait how?
@@qui-gonjinn8350 In the inventory screen, right click the gear and voila, an visual customization screen.
Took me a while to realise it and now the Deimos set looks more like the armor of a Han Chinese general as compared to the armor worn by Alexios.
@@j.mtherandomguy8701 ive beaten the game weeks ago, a little late wouldnt you say? And i play on console so you know no right click . But thanks i guess.
@@qui-gonjinn8350bro forgot how to say thank you
@@mrhewitson9415 i said thanks, its been a year bro u dont have to add shi💀
Bro i forgot that zanny's voice sounded different when this video came out😂
Last 10 seconds is me explaining that to my gf that watched me play this game
The dialog during your game play is hilarious loo
I think my horse is dead because when I whistle it never comes. RIP horse.
Zanny just pulled the average minecraft UA-camr. Episode 1 nothing episode 2 creative mode😂
Zanny loves climbing those statues
Rest in Peace, Testikles. Gone, but not forgotten.
Just wanted to clarify that you can, in fact, change the appearance of your gear and keep the stats the same
Who are the templars in this assassin creed wheres the assassin brotherhood who are you ppl THIS IS SPARTA
Are you serious? You don't know or is that a joke?
Brasidas plays halo wars 2 (never attack when engaged)
if this video was released in 2020 I'm pretty sure you have a serious problem with your health... I mean "SERIOUS" problem.
World war 2 survivor plays halo wars 2
dude i really like your videos.
me getting a headshot in BF2 "that's going in the montage!" Zanny's whole vid: "Thats going in the montage!"
Funniest vid I saw in a while
What always annoys me is when you are swimming whilst playing as alexios and you can always see his balls 😂
3:18 The way he says "black magic" made me tilt my head. haha
Oh yes the art of shooting arrows trough walls, only a master archer can do such a feat.
That man just wanted a hug Kazanndra...
I at level 10 (I think) killed one of the 2nd highest cultists by jokingly kicking a civilian off a cliff
THAT CIVILIAN WAS THE CULTIST I was dead on the floor laughing when I realised
Monferno I will kill random civilians now. Don’t call the fbi.