I was just playing Far Cry Primal and I had an epiphany! Ubisoft can't figure out how to make realism fun!

I mean look at all their recent games. Most of them are set in OUR world, i.e. reality. And yet they all have supernatural elements. AC Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla, Far Cry 4, Primal, 5. All of them, while set in our world, have VISIONS and MAGIC!

AC 1 through Unity were set in historical settings. Sure, they deviated from 100% realism because they wanted parkour to happen and whatnot. But all in all, they were mostly believeable (minus AC3 DLC). But then it's like something happened and Ubi decided to "enhance" these franchises with visions and magic and all the fantasy stuff. I'm guessing they believe that realism is no longer fun. Well, Warhorse proved them wrong with Kingdom Come Deliverance.

What do you think? Do you like all the fantasy stuff in AC games? Or do you think that there's enough room within the boundaries of "realism" to make AC games fun?

So this doesn't really affect gameplay and it's not the biggest problem if you have no grasp of the Icelandic language whatsoever, but if you do speak Icelandic then the mistakes Ubisoft makes with the language are really immersion-shattering.

To start with just a few;

-Eivor is a name in both Old Norse and Modern Icelandic (which is close to Old Norse), however it is a feminine-exclusive name. A man named Eivor is like a man named Susan or Bethany.

-There's a bit near the beginning while Eivor is rescuing her crew, she tells an enemy "You just killed yourself Ergi! (coward)"

"Ergi" does not mean "coward", it is an emasculating insult with specific homophobic connotations. Even something as simple as "You just killed yourself Ergi! (womanly)" would have been more accurate. But if we want to be exact it would be something like "gay" or "tr*nnie"

-The game repeateadly uses "Drengir" to mean Warrior except...Drengir means "boy." Drengir is not what you call Sven Bear-Strangler, it's what you call his son, little 5 year old Anders Svensson. The codex entry for "Drengir" even tries to suggest "badass" as a translation, which...no. Not even close.

-This is another little nitpick I have and it is a minor one. But most of the people who emigrated to Ravensthorpe from Norway are all supposed to be from Fornburg right? So why do they have such different accents? Dag and Randvi for example sound much more "Swedish" than "Norweigian", (probably owing to their Swedish voice actors so I am not gonna get too hung up on this one.)

-Perhaps my biggest nitpick; anytime you use the sagas as a source, you have to be extremely careful. The sagas didn't exist until the 13th Century, well after Scandinavia had Christianized and CENTURIES after all of this "Great Heathen Army" stuff went down. And people wouldn't have talked about these "sagas" much at the time because like I said, they didn't exist yet.

For the last two days been checking the time-limited challenge section to see if the results/rewards updating but not seeing they are. For example there's the "kill enemies with long sword (0/50)" and "win dice game (0/1)" and I've done multiple kills already with the long sword and already won a dice game and the results are still saying 0/50 for long sword kills and 0/1 for the dice game.

Anybody else experiencing this?