gate 3 did i tell you guys about the statistic that uh was shared with me about how many people in the world wear the skin that i currently wear in the game no so i play as Ivor from Assassin's Creed Valhalla

We don't want to look like that Assassin's Creed Valhalla skin. Yeah. Only four people finished this episode. God, if I found out, actually, I never want to see anything like that.

But I did want to ask both of you about uh assassin's creed uh mirage which is heather you put so much time into valhalla and matt you know i know this isn't prince of persia but it is like you know a

Well, I recently dabbled a little bit more in Valhalla because I've had Viking madness. And one of the things that I cannot bear is to return to a video game.

It's great because you meet that guy in in valhalla um there is a move that he does where he's so fast that the uh animus cannot keep up with what he's doing so it just looks like he's glitching from murder

We haven't talked about Valhalla. Assassin's Creed Valhalla, which is like by far the most time that I've ever spent in an open world game. God, that fucking game. We almost lost you there. Yeah.

And same with Elden Ring and same with Valhalla for me. Like, Grand Theft Auto 3 feels like post 9-11. Like, it feels, they all feel like times. Yeah, yeah.

The most frustrating part of Assassin's Creed Valhalla was that it didn't continue to just be bigger and bigger. How many hours did you have in that ultimately? I don't know. I said it on the show.

Yes, and so did Yeah, and the Valhalla mode and story rocks and They did a really smart thing was they basically are just like we'll just do Hades Like we'll just do exactly this and like there's there's

And then you get sent back to the you know to Valhalla yeah started over It's a very very satisfying There's a very satisfying story beat in in that that is like one of the coolest things that they've

What I liked about Valhalla, the Viking Assassin's Creed game, was that it encouraged stealth.

Yeah, I guess the difference there is somebody like Jin in Ghost of Tsushima or the character from Assassin's Creed Valhalla, they are sort of like super powerful, like they are strong characters and they

From what we know of the culture, because, like, because you see, you hear about Valhalla a lot. It's a subtitle of the Assassin's Creed game.

So Valhalla famously, as far as the surviving stories go that we have, is this place where half of the slain warriors go to live with Odin, the god in his hall, which is Valhalla or Valhull in Old Norse

So basically the whole Valhalla ideal is that the afterlife is just a more ideal version of the life that you live here on Earth. Wow. Yeah, it was important to them.

And I won't, then I won't finish it unless it's Valhalla. But I might, I might sink into those shadows and see what I can see.

Cause you really were into the Valhalla Assassin's Creed. Well, so I think that it is a slick way to do a dumb version of history. Like it's a dumb primer on a certain era of history.

I also really like, I like when the game is interesting, because I didn't go into Vikings or the Valhalla game thinking, oh my God, I can't wait to learn more about Vikings.

And then I got into, then my next one was Valhalla. Yes.

I did not, so yeah, I hovered over Valhalla and I was like, wow, I wonder if this is like a truncated version of Valhalla or something, but if it's just a launcher, then that's not great.

Well, I mean, in Valhalla, there were modern day sequences. Yes.

If they were all different in the way that Valhalla is different than Shadows, which I think functionally also just very different, like you played two very different types of characters.

And most of those old times, like the fact that Valhalla is, I think, the third oldest, so most of them fall in between Valhalla and now, and that to me is like, that's a thousand years of history.

So like a coffee shop where elves and other fantasy races, mermaids and the like are visiting or manage a dystopian cyberpunk bar like in VA 11 Hall A, AKA Valhalla. Gosh.