You cool if I address each of these one at a time? Aight, cool.

1. Unity was a disaster of a game because of the immense amount of time and money spent on looks over actual content. Chances are no Assassins Creed game will compare with Unity for quite a while, because we’ve seen time and again that the games that don’t look that great – see the minimal graphical improvements between Assassins Creed 1 through to Brotherhood – tend to have the better stories and playability. You’re right, but not for the right reason.

2. I felt fairly similarly until I realised just how much there is going on that benefits you being stealthy. The bushes, multiple perks, guards generally being stationary or on set routes, etc. It’s less that there’s no need to, and more that it became an ambient thing, which… Eh? It’s explained away as a story aspect, which I like, but I do miss the core stealth aspects of the original games. Then again, Unity made it almost impossible to get through, so maybe it’s a good thing. The absence of the cover systems that were introduced in previous titles is a mystery, especially considering there are still cover assassinations.

3. The Secret Locations in Origins are a mixture of pretty much every style of ‘secret area’ from previous games. The biggest issue that the Boston Underground had was that it felt near endless and was utterly confusing, and in the end wasn’t actually a benefit to anyone using it. These locations use a similar exploration system of the Boston Underground, but on a smaller scale. It also feels like, again, they sacrificed some retro gameplay style in exchange for story and world building – every pyramid had a myriad of readable entires instead, which could be taken as a good or bad thing. It’s up to the player at that point.

4. The combat is substantially better than the simplistic ‘block, counter, kill’ method from the past. Was the past a fun flurry of moves? Yes, for sure, but it just made combat tedious. Though the combat in this game sure isn’t prefect, it’s a clear step in the right direction, taking many cues from For Honour. Problem with that, of course, is that For Honour relied on PvP, rather than AI. Hopefully, future instalments will keep the system introduced in Origins, with fitting tie ins from previous systems – a vaster array of enemy types and a levelling AI would be the best bet, of course.

In the end, you’re cool to have these opinions, but to say that Origins has killed the franchise is fundamentally wrong. After the travesty of Unity and the disappointment that was everything from Assassins Creed 3 through to Syndicate, the series needed something that wasn’t stellar, wasn’t over the top, but felt more grounded and interesting, and this was certainly that. Yeah, something being popular doesn’t mean it’s good, but it sure as shit means it hasn’t killed the franchise.

You caused Clint to get desynchronized with that shutdown ?

I know u posted that a month ago but jeez u shut him the fuck down ??

But here’s the thing – it’s wrong. The elephant disappears when you are under it – so you don’t know what or where you are hitting. The two guys on top of the elephant can’t be dealt with – and magically hit you, even when you are under the elephant. The elephant can start out as much of a challenge as developers wish – but it should not continue to get more challenging as you get closer to killing it – sure, adrenaline might kick in but by the end the elephant has lost…. 10 gallons of blood… and should be weaker.

Back to those guys on top of the elephant. If Ubi wanted it that way – then they should have put in some boulders/blocks for us to climb up – to deal with the drivers. You can squish me with an elephant all you want but I’ll dang sure take your eye out with a slingshot before I get mummified. Developers can sometimes get mixed up/backwards/in a rush when coming up with “challenges.”

But like I said – amazing game – love it – if the next elephant keeps me from 100% I don’t really care.

Tips to future readers: I used a bow on the elephant to build adrenaline and then chopped it a few times. Repeat. Take your time. It’s all timing. Avoiding it and waiting for an arrow shot or 3 gives you time to build back up any needed health, too. Run around, pick up arrows – wait for the elephant to charge – dodge again – chop chop again, run away, bow, repeat.

You were bitching about this on Eonvrickz’s War Elephant Jumbe video. This game is great.

I just beat one on my second try. It takes some time and having the right skill trees mastered certainly helped… But I wouldnt say “can’t” be killed.

The difficulty adjusts the more time you fail. Unless you did it in one go, buddy, then it wasn’t a challenge.

im not a teenager you fucking loser im older than you are and have been gaming longer than you have…i also play on any platform but u sound just like the sony ponys who tore this game apart just because it looked better on the xbox one x…u sound like a lil crybaby bitch for real though…all the time this company put into fixing all the other little annoying things from the other creed games and then making them better in origins and u just tear apart everything…i hate people like you who make games look bad with your bullshit whining antics when they really arent…if u dont have something positive to say then why bother spewing out negativity about something u dont even like…u come on a forum to tear a game apart that u dont like so your the one who sounds like a fucking child…if u dont like it then like i said dont fucking play it…and no one cares that you play on PC you must have messed up eyesight cuz this game looks a million times better than fucking unity…its in 4k and has HDR which unity didnt have so i did REFUTE my point that you are just a crybaby point blank period