Man I am loving the hell out of AC: Origins. I know the series is always polarizing and the Ubisoft hate has literally become a meme now but I've never been a huge fan of the series. Played a good 30 hours of Black Flag and that is the only game I've played more than an hour of. So to say I'm a light fan is an understatement, which perhaps gives me a fresher perspective and experience with the game considering I'm sure they're all extremely similar. But this one is a true joy to play both in the combat regard, stealth (which has come a long way since the first of "I pop my head around the corner and ten guards buttfuck me immediately") and most of all, ten fold so, the exploration. This is such a huge world and yet the vast majority of it is so much more detailed than I thought it'd be considering deserts aren't know for their detail.
There's the usual open world antics. I'll run into an NPC that says the same thing five times in a row in less than five minutes; someone's leg with start dancing on its own and looking like its having a seizure randomly; I can't climb some rocks that are totally climbable but will be able to scale a 90 degree, totally flat surface; and while the combat is vastly improved over the basically brain-dead combat of previous entries (in that I could kill everyone with ease if I actually was brain dead), it needs refinement.
Overall though, if they keep this up and take the time that they took to make this game when they inevitably cash in on the much wanted Feudal Japan version of the series, that kind of game would suck up hundreds of hours of my time. This is very close to that and I think, if the quality of the production and story stay, I'll actually finish a game for once.