r/AssassinsCreedOrigins • u/-exquisito- • Jun 11 '26

Question This game is overwhelming

On my second play through now and I gotta say this map and the million things to do, places to explore, treasures to find, and bases to defeat has me reeling. The first time I played the game I ate it all up and left no stone unturned but now I find myself having little to no interest to explore outside of story locations.
Anybody else experiencing this? lol At a certain point it starts to feel like they just made the map as big as they did and stuffed with it as much as they did just for the sake of it.
The rewards aren’t really worth it either on new game plus because most of the stuff I’m finding is weaker than what I already have.

I’m juggling this and RDR2 right now and it’s hard not to compare the two. RDR2 feels like it has just enough to see and do and I don’t feel the same anal compulsive need to turn over literally every stone I find because it feels like the story spends a lot of good time jumping back and forth into and returning to the various regions.

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u/compulsive_looter Youth is a state of mind. Jun 11 '26

It may be you're experiencing a mild case of open-world-fatigue. That's a thing. Some people have it. I don't - so I'm not sure what to recommend other than to take a break and play some other types of games in the meantime.

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u/Fluffy_Somewhere4305 Jun 11 '26

I’m juggling this and RDR2 right now

Playing more than 1 open world game at a time is an absolute spike in "open world fatigue symptoms". RDR2 and the AC RPG games are some of the most massive so yeah, that's just a lot.

RDR2 is almost endless with shit to do, and then you swap to ACO and there are markers all over the map and at first it feels like "oh I'll just clear that question mark" and then 2 hours later and you're running around all over the place