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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Eh origins and this one feel to have leaned more heavily into combat vs stealth. Most situations are geared towards open combat IMO. The older iterations felt more like a stealth hunting game, even bringing back the simple hiding in a crowd mechanic would be a good start.
The older games felt more like tenchu where you could fight if you had to but stealth was the goal. Now you can run buck wild into every confrontation and come out ahead if you want to.
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I’ve been watching a lot of Game Maker’s Toolkit on YouTube on gameplay structure. Made me think more about AC.
Origins (haven’t played Odyssey) made both combat and stealth viable options for a lot of missions. However players often choose the path of least resistance and may get stuck in one type of gameplay, often to the detriment of overall satisfaction and quality of game play.
You’re good at combat, you’ve had lots of practice so you’re better at it. So you only tackle missions using combat. Stealth missions become a pain because you aren’t good with stealth weapons, strategies or skill level ups. It’s a vicious cycle.
Does AC origins have mission bonuses for stealth? Shadow of War occasionally made stealth a requirement to get gold on missions. Encourages you to fight with variety.
Sometimes letting players choose doesn’t work. Feels like developers are letting us choose how we like to play but if they’ve favoured one style of gameplay, it can hurt the balance of play.