>>716333103
>Is it worth going for any of the newer ones like Odyssey and Valhalla?
Origins is great.
Odyssey is only good if you don't like Assassin's Creed and treat it as a generic RPG, and even then its got a pretty bad and inconsistent story and character development with enormous repetition.
Valhalla is only good for the starting 20 hours, everything past that is immense padding outside of the Siege of Paris DLC.
Mirage is what a remake of AC1 should be like just with better parkour.
Shadows is not $40 so I have no opinions on it yet.
>I know they have very good city design
Origins does, Mirage does, Valhalla only does for like two cities I can think of, and Odyssey only does for Athens and Sparta and even then I prefer going around Lesbos more because it feels like an actual different area.
>or something similar to reduce the grind and boring parts
The only game that needs cheats to reduce the grind is Odyssey. Origins overlevels you very quickly and Valhalla gives you so many level ups just from doing anything it's insane. You will sometimes level up 2-3 times just doing a single main story mission.
>>716334945
>Probably one of the better stories in AC.
On what planet? It makes the Assassins nonsensical assholes, the Templars are treated like God sent them down to Earth to feed the homeless, Shay is by far the worst written MC of the series with only Eivor and The Eagle Bearer even coming close, none of the betrayal makes any sense and requires every single person involved to not act like a human being, and Shay being a diehard Templar supporter after the events of AC3 (Which happen in between the ending and the epilogue) makes him an enormous hypocrite and the story not make any sense at all.
>>716343089
AC games don't really get mods that are anything other that skin swaps. I think more recently there's been some parkour overhauls for the very early games but that's it.
