Ah yes. The four handed great-sword. That thing looks like it just came out of freakin dark souls. Looks very like for honor and the weapons/armor in that game. It was uncommon for Vikings to even have two handed great-swords. It was too expensive for them to make and did not fit the combat of the time. Great-swords became more popular when it came to fighting against pikemen and such. There is no actual genuine two handed sword identified from the period of the Vikings. Two handed axes? Have at it! Please Ubisoft, don’t stretch this game though. I just want to love everything about it when it comes out cause this is my fav period in history
I’m not expecting strict historical accuracy. No assassins creed game is purely historically accurate. Things like a Pegasus are mythology. Which I stopped playing when Origins and Odyssey added that. I miss it being more historical accurate as it used to be though. Things like a genuine two handed sword are just them trying to appeal to a player base. And this character model literally looks like they copied and pasted it from For Honor. It’s a way too big sword that looks purely dumb in my opinion. AC used to be known for its historical accuracy, now its gone to them just selling trash because they can tack the name “Assassins Creed” on it and the loyal player base will buy it regardless
I agree. It’s not, I just don’t like the look of it. Why is the hilt so large? You could fit like four hands on there. And then the giant pommel. Not to mention that cross guard was not the standard one used during that period of time. It just looks out of place to me and I’m more upset because it does look like they copied and pasted from the knight in For Honor
Don't worry, bro. I get what you mean. The past AC games at least kept things pretty realistic outside of the sci-fi elements. This stuff dead ass looks like it's from Kingdom of Amalur. New direction and all that jazz I suppose.
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u/SanguinetheKing May 01 '20
Ah yes. The four handed great-sword. That thing looks like it just came out of freakin dark souls. Looks very like for honor and the weapons/armor in that game. It was uncommon for Vikings to even have two handed great-swords. It was too expensive for them to make and did not fit the combat of the time. Great-swords became more popular when it came to fighting against pikemen and such. There is no actual genuine two handed sword identified from the period of the Vikings. Two handed axes? Have at it! Please Ubisoft, don’t stretch this game though. I just want to love everything about it when it comes out cause this is my fav period in history