I’m currently progressing through what I call a “Medjay Playthrough” in AC Origins. I completely ignore the main quest and just run around Egypt helping people using the medjay outfit. It’s a cool way to play ac origins and I can still play in stealth, but it got me thinking… what if Bayek never became an Assassin? I personally think that Bayek would remain a broken protector, unwilling to let go of the past both when it comes to his son and when it comes to the Medjay of Egypt.
People often criticize Aya for how heartless she is with Bayek, as she moves ever-forward, ignoring his pleas to return to the way things were. But can you imagine the alternative? The Medjay were a dying race, and the couple no longer had a son to hold them together. Bayek’s greatest choice comes right at the end of the game, where he renounces his entire identity and embraces a new one that is more prepared for the future. If Bayek never became an assassin, I think he would have spent his days helping people, avenging his son as much as he can, and eventually being hunted down as the last Medjay of Egypt. Old Egypt was dying, and the only way to survive its death was to renounce all the things that made Bayek the guardian of a dying country. As an assassin, he became the guardian of an increasingly interweaved world.
I think most of you will agree with me, so I guess my REAL question is…. is the assassin order enough of a universal philosophy that it would have been founded regardless of Bayek? I think about the values of freedom and personal choice that are so universalizable as a way of thinking, but I also think of the specific events Bayek and Aya had to go through to realize the WAY the assassin order should be: the importance of hiding in plain sight, using hoods and social stealth to maneuver through the crowds, and of course hidden blades. I think there will always be freedom fighters in our world, but how similar would an “assassin” order be if Bayek never founded it? Would such an order even exist? Lmk your thoughts.
Assassin’s Creed Origins is a 2017 action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the Assassin’s Creed series and the successor to 2015’s Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.
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Absolute heat as always
Origins is fire 🔥 and your gameplay as well.
I always love your origins videos, it was amazing to read the video description too. For me the story of this game is very special, Bayek and his own adventure is one of the best I've seen in the franchise, and it was very interesting to see your thoughts on it
Love that game, awesome idea of refreshing AC Series. Now i'm playing Odyssey as a part of my whole AC series walkthrough and it feels like Black Flag II for me. I'm impressed how Ubisoft sometimes combine old mechanics to create new player experience and surprized that last AC games are criticized for their formula.
How do u feel about rogue?
Love how you still play this game, definitely one of the best games of its year
Imagine watchdogs stealth and really really good video man
sleep darts are broken. actually deletes an enemies detection so you can assassinate. Like: GO TO SLEEP!! then: MURDER YOU BEFORE YOU CAN FALL DOWN!!!
Love this game so much!
Sorry for going on a tangent:
One thing I love about Origins is how i know exactly where this location is as soon as your video starts. Even if you login after a while and forgot where you left Bayek last time, a brief look at your surrounding without opening the map will tell you which part of Egypt you're currently in. The green mountain regions of Cyrene, or the desert areas to the south (even the deserts have different sand color and topography), or nearer the Delta to the north. Each location feels distinct, there's a "handcrafted" feel about them.
I just came back from Odyssey and everything in that game feels copy-pasted like crazy (i used to think people who said this exaggerates but now that I play, I understand completely). Every fort looks the same, the palisaded camps seem to have the exact same layout, down to the zipline from a tall archer lookout to the scaffolding with a chest on top of it, and that gap below the fence a bit to the side of the entrance (odyssey players will know what i mean), and every tomb has the freaking same layouts and ornaments. That and other issues made me give up on odyssey halfway through the main story and reinstalled origins lol
OK moving on to your pondering, I think the question whether Assassins will still exist without Bayek can be answered in a codex page from AC2. Altair said (paraphrasing because i'm forgetful) "An idea cannot be extinguished entirely. Even if you kill every single one of its followers, burn all of their texts, destroy all their memoirs and artifacts, it will reinvent itself, slowly but surely." So if it isn't Bayek, somebody else will. And somebody else will reinvent order of the ancients/templars from the philosophy of "order through control of the masses"
BTW bro i had no idea we can shoot bow from haystacks wtf I learn something new from your vids each time
0:53 Shooting a fire arrow from a haystack. What could possibly go wrong xD
Just expressing my headcanon but when you look at the similarities, Bayek’s default outfit is a rugged modified version of his Medjay uniform change my mind lol
Also after reading your caption I agree. If anything AC Origins shouldn’t have been “the birth of the brotherhood as we know” but more a reformation. If anything there have been individuals who possibly acted solo or groups that came before Bayek and Aya respectively. Iltani and her group were responsible for the assassination of Alexander the Great. We also know about Darius assassination King Xeres. And even if Origins never happened Amunet (whoever she was) still killed Cleopatra with a venomous asp. I do believe that even if Bayek and Aya never created the Hidden Ones a group or person would still rise up to fight against oppression.
Everytime i see rpg trilogy i just cant its so bad but still I have 1000hours in rpg trilogy its weird i hope nextgen trilogy will be atleast 1000levels above this trash its such a shame ppl r saying this is good gameplay its unwatchable for me after so many hours of playing do u have the same feeling after playing so much of origins and rpg trilogy
Btw I can spend 100hours in og ac (1-revelations)no problem but in rpg trilogy i always speedrun story and thn comeback again in like 2 months and do it again but everytime i do it i cant wait for playing og ac games its weird🤣
As a fellow Old-Style Assassin I respect your work it’s very motivating keep it up 👍
Original always will be the best of the new ACs.
Origins, odyssey and Valhalla is so bad in terms of stealth that's unmeasurable
Whats the outfit you're wearing? The white one? Is it modded?
0:56 200 iq play 🙂 . Great vid
مسلسل "الفتوة"😂😂😂😂
2:25 wait a minute this object is from ac1!!!😯
Creative, throwing an arrow while you its hiding from the enemy. Did you use the fire arrow to increase damage?
Tbh watching ur videos motivates me to do stealth in origins because i feel like origins has a lot of potential being a fun stealth game if you are willing to test its system and see what works and what doesnt. I, also, love the environment creativity u can do like burning hay while guards are sleeping which is one of my fav kills from you.
*frees the civilians
*proceeds to burn them alive
I like your idea of Bayek never becoming an Assassin. I think that what if scenario is very fitting for the character, as he was quite broken after what had happened in Siwa, but he was still had a strong desire to help people.
I don't know how but you managed to make this game Stealth good😂😂😂
Not the greatest location to record but it was enjoyable