Hopefully the changes will come, they could have released this last year but they choose to polish and that's good enough a sign for me, also the TLC seen in the game gives the impression that the devs enjoyed making this game. They do need a few of these in a row to be saved I'd reckon and if they can put out a mainline Farcry and continue to update their formula away from bloat to what other open world games have done lately, there is definitely hope for them, I'd reckon.

Completely agree thst word of mouth is winning here and the hate campaign is causing good publicity. 

If you're going for 100% in Valhalla then don't worry, AC Shadows will be discounted quite a bit by the time you're done with that, LOL. Though in fairness, Odyssey will take about the same amount of time (maybe 10-20 hours less) but Valhalla just feels damn tedious to go for 100%...You'll grow sick of trying to 100% that game fairly quickly, I couldn't be bothered to go higher than 82% and that was 120+ hours, while I got 100% on Odyssey and it took me about 80 hours, Lol.

100% AC Origins because I was close to beating the game already and the season pass was on sale.  First AC game that I got all the achievements for, but it should have been AC II only missing the No-hitter achievement.   

I finished Odyssey and it took forever to get anything going and later Ubisoft nerfed leveling up some stuff in a patch. Not because it was OP but to make it even harder and want people to buy MTX.

Well ghost brought something new, in my opinion. And possibly ghost of yotie might add there on spin on it with other gameplay elements, who know.

I've played quite a few games that felt new or different, this gen.  

From what i've seen of AC,  it doesn't look like they've evolved anything.

Whoa, easy there. Where do you get your information? :D

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What new things did Ghost of Tsushima brought to the table? It's just a Ubisoft game with a very good artstyle.

(And that's not a bad thing because I think Ubisoft games in a vacuum are fine, the problem is they just make the same game with different skins)

GoT brought the slick showdown mechanic when first taking on a group of enemies. It brought about a new age of open world design where you are guided by in world indicators such as the wind or animals to places of interest as adopted now by games like Elden Ring and FF7 Rebirth, a mechanic thst prevents opening the map every ten seconds or following a dot on a minimal or compass. It brought back no clear camera lock on from days gone by and showed how shite lock on is, ruining some games and made it work for a modern game. The Witcher 3 brought about the age of spaced out points of interest (that balance down time without overwhelming the player extending gameplay sessions and ensuring the player engages instead of tapping out of all side content by be too bombarded) but GoT evolved on thst further and like TW3 done with side quests it made even the most basic of points of interest very impactful. There are other minors things as well such as using the consoles power for particle effects of over graphics and making the game look beautiful with stuff on screen and the focus on Jin having to choose stealth or stay honourable as a way to have the player choose a method of play.

To say GoT is an Ubisoft game is to severely misunderstand the game or just downplay the effect it had on other open world games since, it is what the Ubisoft formula should have evolved into, a more refined less hand holding experience but instead they went and tried to replicate The Witcher 3 without understanding what made that open world so good. There's a reason Shadows is more like GoT than like the three previous games and I for one love it. The two protagonists is basically Jin's too choices of stealth or honour. 

Really enjoying the game so far. I do not play these games for the "story". I play them to relax and walk around and for that the game excels for me.