Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: 10 Memes That Will Leave You Crying Of Laughter

Being the latest Assassin’s Creed game isn’t an easy task, but Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey performed well enough. It managed to surpass most existing and successful earlier titles despite being the least Assassin’s Creed-y of them all. That aspect of it alone is enough to prompt the Assassin’s Creed community to make their own memes about it and the franchise in general.

Beyond that, there are simply too many meme-worthy moments in Assassin’s Creed games, and Odyssey is no exception. Plenty of these satirical contemporary jabs are most noticeable after several playthroughs which is probably what’s happening right now while everyone waits for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. So here are 10 memes to quell off the nauseation of trailing missions, camp massacres, and malakas.

10 SPARTAN’S CREED 1.5: SKULL & BONES EDITION, ANYONE?

When fans first saw the trailers for Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, half of them were on fire and the other half were scratching their heads. The collective community outcry was that it didn’t look like an Assassin’s Creed game anymore…

Turns out they had nothing to worry about, it was still a good game. It’s allowed the developers to explore Assassin’s Creed like never before and introduced many innovations… mostly by borrowing notes from The Witcher III and Dark Souls.

9 THE WISDOM OF THE CREED…

There was that one cynical and stoic quote that Ezio Auditore from Assassin’s Creed 2 kept repeating. It reverberated throughout the franchise and somehow became the motto of the Assassin Brotherhood.

Problem is, the Brotherhood wasn’t even present as early as the time period portrayed in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. So that’s why we have Kassandra here improvising (or bastardizing) the creed with a more mercenary and spartan flavor. Fitting.

8 “SNEAKY” BEING THE OPERATIVE WORD HERE

The main gameplay loop and focus of Assassin’s Creed games have changed since Odyssey took the reins. It’s no longer about parkour and assassinations, but about clearing enemy encampments to get money to upgrade equipment and to level up.

It’s one of the things they borrowed from Far Cry games, of course. However, there’s something hilarious about seeing the best of the ancient Mediterranean nations get trashed by a lone Mary Sue or Gary Stu who is able to sneak while fully clad in bronze and iron.

7 ACCORDING TO UBISOFT, IT STILL IS

Stray too far from the Assassin’s Creed vision and fans are only bound to notice. This began back in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, eased down a bit, and resumed back in Origins after the developers likely realized that the core Assassin’s Creed formula has exhausted itself already.

Thankfully, this transition only made the games more fun. It still somewhat retained the true Assassin’s Creed spirit of tampering with world history except with less trailing missions and more RPG.

6 ALL IT TAKES IS ONE LOW-LEVEL MALAKAS

One of the most frustrating experiences a player can have in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is taking out a camp by themselves because mercenaries did back in the day.

Most of the time, players don’t even have to murder everyone– just the key figures like the garrison commanders and some sabotage duties. Still, there’s always that one weird guard who didn’t show up in the eagle voyeur and now you have to kill them along with half the population of ancient Greece.

5 GREEK LANGUAGE 101

Historical authenticity and cultural replication is something that Assassin’s Creed games pride themselves upon. Odyssey does it with flying colors and more as the best representation of Greek culture in the game came not from nude statues of Greek gods but from one word: “malaka!”

It’s apparently the most common word during that era if Odyssey is to be taken seriously. It’s like Origins‘ “nek” word except more forceful, passionate, and flexible as it can be used to ascribe anything from village idiot to compulsive masturbator.

4 IT JUST WORKS.

Those days when Ubisoft tried to be as accurate to the time period as possible are likely now long gone with Origins and Odyssey. Both games introduced some weird and fancy mythological elements.

This sacrificed the historical themes of the game just to make the new titles look like their RPG peers. Thankfully, they did it rather conservatively with mythical creatures only appearing in high-level side missions or in DLCs.

3 “I’M YOU BUT LONGER”

With the rate at which Assassin’s Creed games are released, one could wonder just how robust the developer’s teams are. It’s quite impressive churning out open-world game after open-world game on a year by year basis.

Then players actually get to play them and realize that there are lots of overlaps from graphical fidelity, user-interface, and even gameplay mechanics. Such was the case with Origins and Odyssey, two games which came out barely a year apart from each other. The more the merrier.

2 IT’S A GREAT WAY TO MEMORIZE SOME ANCIENT GREEK SEA SHANTIES!

Speaking of more, that’s what Odyssey offered in spades– much more. It’s the biggest Assassin’s Creed game to date and consequently has the largest map. One look at that beast and players can foresee their social lives disappearing and their sleep cycle getting wrecked.

It’s bigger than Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos and the only means of transportation are via ship or via horse– don’t even think about traveling by foot. Where are Icarus’ wings when you need them?

1 SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT

On average, it takes about 80 hours for players to finish Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey… that’s before it introduced the DLCs and the New Game plus mode. Just double or triple that amount to get the exact number now.

In any case, most of that is likely spent on murdering whole garrisons, sexual conquests, playing switcheroo on Sparta and Athens, and collecting that armor which makes the character look like Brad Pitt’s Achilles or Wonder Woman. Thankfully, most of it is fun, more so than the main quest.

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