The Backlog Check-in Vol. 195: 9/25/21: FIFA 22 Edition
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:20 pm
Played: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Finished (playing): Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Playing: Diablo III: Eternal Collection
Added: Nothing
I finished episode 2 of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: The Fate of Atlantis, and it was really good. The story, characters and quests were all great, and it was well paced and didn’t overstay its welcome. Just when I was starting to want to leave its dark, dreary and depressing environment, I reached its end. It definitely looks cool somewhat like a Souls game, but after a while it becomes an unpleasant place to be in unlike beautiful and colorful ancient Greece from the main game.
I started playing episode 3 Judgment of Atlantis, and didn’t really care for it. Atlantis is colorful and pretty much like Elysium is, but poorly designed and laid out. It’s a condensed, multileveled, same-y looking city environment that’s congested and difficult to navigate. I gave it a chance and did a few quests, but none of them were good IMO. In addition to the quests not being very good, you’re also given a bunch of mundane collect-a-thon tasks that I just wasn’t up for so I decided to quit.
Episode 2 Torment of Hades felt connected to the main game since you go to the underworld where you sent your defeated enemies, and encounter a lot of them there again. The environment was also designed/laid out similar to the ones in the main game, and the quests were primarily based on combat without any boring or mundane tasks. Episode 1 Fields of Elysium and episode 3 Judgment of Atlantis are too far removed from the main game for me, and are also too focused on being connected to the modern day sci-fi stuff which I really have no interest in. Not to mention that their environments are too fantastical and poorly designed/laid out IMO, especially Judgment of Atlantis.
I wasn’t liking Judgment of Atlantis at all, and didn’t have an interest in playing it any longer. While I wanted to see the story to its conclusion, I wasn’t about to play through something that I wasn’t enjoying just to do so. I don’t really care about the modern day sci-fi stuff in the game, so it wasn’t worth playing through the final episode of the DLC just to see more of it.
I’m officially done with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I put another 195 hours into it this second time playing it and I’ve had more than my fill of it at this point. I’m playing Diablo III: Eternal Collection now since that’s what I was playing when I started playing Odyssey again.
Games releasing this week
Aeon Drive
Agatha Christie: Hurcule Poirot - The First Cases
Alchemic Cutie
AlphaLink
Asdivine Saga
Astria Ascending
Away: The Survival Series
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back
Centipede: Recharged
Chernobylite
ConnecTank
Creepy Tale
Dandy Ace
Death’s Gambit: Afterlife
Demon Skin
Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality
eFootball 2022
The Eternal Cylinder
ExZeus: The Complete Collection
FIFA 22
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher
Impostor Factory
Industria
In Sound Mind
Insurgency: Sandstorm
A Juggler’s Tale
KeyWe
Knockout Home Fitness
The Last Friend
Lemnis Gate
Mary Skelter Finale
Melty Blood: Type Lumina
New World
NYKRA
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
Phoenix Point
Rogue Lords
Skeletal Avenger
Space Revenge
Steel Assault
Toy Soldiers HD
Unsighted
Finished (playing): Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Playing: Diablo III: Eternal Collection
Added: Nothing
I finished episode 2 of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: The Fate of Atlantis, and it was really good. The story, characters and quests were all great, and it was well paced and didn’t overstay its welcome. Just when I was starting to want to leave its dark, dreary and depressing environment, I reached its end. It definitely looks cool somewhat like a Souls game, but after a while it becomes an unpleasant place to be in unlike beautiful and colorful ancient Greece from the main game.
I started playing episode 3 Judgment of Atlantis, and didn’t really care for it. Atlantis is colorful and pretty much like Elysium is, but poorly designed and laid out. It’s a condensed, multileveled, same-y looking city environment that’s congested and difficult to navigate. I gave it a chance and did a few quests, but none of them were good IMO. In addition to the quests not being very good, you’re also given a bunch of mundane collect-a-thon tasks that I just wasn’t up for so I decided to quit.
Episode 2 Torment of Hades felt connected to the main game since you go to the underworld where you sent your defeated enemies, and encounter a lot of them there again. The environment was also designed/laid out similar to the ones in the main game, and the quests were primarily based on combat without any boring or mundane tasks. Episode 1 Fields of Elysium and episode 3 Judgment of Atlantis are too far removed from the main game for me, and are also too focused on being connected to the modern day sci-fi stuff which I really have no interest in. Not to mention that their environments are too fantastical and poorly designed/laid out IMO, especially Judgment of Atlantis.
I wasn’t liking Judgment of Atlantis at all, and didn’t have an interest in playing it any longer. While I wanted to see the story to its conclusion, I wasn’t about to play through something that I wasn’t enjoying just to do so. I don’t really care about the modern day sci-fi stuff in the game, so it wasn’t worth playing through the final episode of the DLC just to see more of it.
I’m officially done with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I put another 195 hours into it this second time playing it and I’ve had more than my fill of it at this point. I’m playing Diablo III: Eternal Collection now since that’s what I was playing when I started playing Odyssey again.
Games releasing this week
Aeon Drive
Agatha Christie: Hurcule Poirot - The First Cases
Alchemic Cutie
AlphaLink
Asdivine Saga
Astria Ascending
Away: The Survival Series
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back
Centipede: Recharged
Chernobylite
ConnecTank
Creepy Tale
Dandy Ace
Death’s Gambit: Afterlife
Demon Skin
Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality
eFootball 2022
The Eternal Cylinder
ExZeus: The Complete Collection
FIFA 22
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher
Impostor Factory
Industria
In Sound Mind
Insurgency: Sandstorm
A Juggler’s Tale
KeyWe
Knockout Home Fitness
The Last Friend
Lemnis Gate
Mary Skelter Finale
Melty Blood: Type Lumina
New World
NYKRA
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
Phoenix Point
Rogue Lords
Skeletal Avenger
Space Revenge
Steel Assault
Toy Soldiers HD
Unsighted