Releasing it during Black History Month would certainly be on brand for Ubisoft right now, trying to use a wokeness shield but that month also has Monster Hunter Wilds and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 so it's a terrible business decision
Too late to course correct. The game is 90% done.
Dragon Age have one of the worst story made in last years, its super woke at the point in some languages they are using "inclusive words" non officially recognized in those languages.That last part is the absolute truth. Look at all the noise and desperation people have worked themselves into to try to force Dragon Age into being a failure. Yet the outrage is over one clunky quest line and even people who are playing it here are saying ‘it’s not woke like it was advertised to be’. It’s a PR campaign against anything can be seen as progressive, and anything, no matter how small the infraction, will be weaponized, with the goal of freezing out those types of stories. Because very few of the people ranting and raving are so stupid as to not realize what the end result will be. Creators intentions are sacred only so far as they line up with my conservative politics and if their politics don’t reflect mine it’s clearly a conspiracy where these poor devs are being forced to do these things.
If people were really just against bad writing featuring these concepts, then they also be supportive of good writing with these concepts. Funny enough you never see even 1/20th the effort to rewarding good writing and representation from the people getting triggered, it’s always and exclusively outrage and condemnation. Oh no there’s a black playable character in this series about using people’s blood to experience the past and aliens and magic. Suddenly they care about ‘historical accuracy’ in this series. When that dude almost certainly existed and *was a samurai* for a time. I guess the acceptable ratio of 90k games about Japan with Japanese protagonists sure is unbalanced to have 1 of 2 protagonists be Non Japanese/Non White in a single game.
Thought the same thing. On the one hand, it’s smart to shield yourself from the backlash, but on the other hand, it’s up against some serious competition.
Yeah a few incels in our basements we know and every company leader makes huge statements beased on the backlash from a few bubbled people. Thats how it works.
The problem is that all Assassins Creed games had a fictional protagonist native from the game country, but when everyone expected to be able to play as a Japanese samurai in an AC in feudal Japan, they bring up the only black character they could find to check a diversity box. No one would be bothered if Yasuke was like any side characters with questlines in all other AC games that had famous figures as side characters with questlines.I actually don't think they need to change anything to be historically accurate or not in this situation nothing else has been changed regarding other people's culture to remain respectful regarding the other assassin's creed titles you had situations where the founders of the United States have some sort of plot to do assassination things you have other cultures where the Pope has fucking powers but magically when a black person is in Japan it must be changed to respect the Japanese a people by the way that literally are the ones that have the most content about this character
^ wow, someone better get Koei and stop them, they need to respect, well....themselves, Japan is mad at Japan over this, I mean..ummmm /s I don't see any thread questioning Koei on this or if this person really had braids or even the outfit if its culturally appropriate, I don't fucking buy anyone REALLY generally care about this topic to this degree. So did anyone here question the earrings and braids? But question the Hip Hop? Where is that same energy to look into any of that? Yet we are suppose to believe someone truly cares about this, that seem to fail to care about it with Nioh's main character? lol
^ literally made by Japan...
So I think they're free to stick to the game that they have already regardless of how anyone feels I don't think any company should be bowing down to a vocal minority who's upset about anything inside of a fucking video game, The ones that seem to magically only appear regarding this publisher which is very funny considering there is no outrage regarding this exact character existing in several other Japanese games
So I don't know how much anyone really believes that an entire culture is really offended by any of this, If the same culture that takes a lot of these individuals and changes their gender and puts them in hentai's or supposed to believe is bothered by the fucking character they put in their own damn games lol
Nobunaga and other Japanese historical figures are literally in fucking hentai where they change his gender to a female and he/she gets plowed.
(lol enjoy the google search lolz)
This is who folks are trying to say really are hurt by this character existing in a fake game.
Ya OK.
That's because Altaïr, Ezio, Connor, Edward & Arno didn't exist and was characters from that country...with the exception of Edward being a Pirate.
The large majority of people don't know what Assassin's Creed is and have never held a gamepad.
I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about all the other historical figures in the IP that are used in wild ways.
Aenima
"The problem is that all Assassins Creed games had a fictional protagonist native from the game country" 
IMHO, the fact that they choose to use these words proves that they are forcing it. If I am writing a story, I'll create the characters that best fit the story I wish to make. I'm not going to use words like "inclusive" or "diverse" to describe my characters. They are just... the characters. The usage of these words implies that the characters are chosen due to their race.
Trolling is a art.
Black Flag is the only game where the protagonist is not native but the idea was to play as a pirate. They could have gone in multiple ways for that one, maybe reason why the expansion you play as a black character.
Thats not actually true btw and I don't buy that is suddenly the biggest issue as if that was ever some ironclad idea
Edward in ACIV is not born in the Caribbean and Eivor from Valhalla is born in Norway, but most of the game is them in England, France etc
If you know the history of Pope Alexander VI you'd know it wasn't actually out of character for him.
They have already explored northern Africa (Egypt) in AC origins, genius. If they do another one in Africa, the goal posts with many of you rage-baiting, fake gamers would then shift and you would find other reasons to scream "woke".
I couldn't agree more!
I'm not debating if he is good or bad, clearly this boss battle isn't some accurate thing
Ok and the idea of Shadows is playing as some person in a foreign land, all this is saying is that this isn't new the to IP even remotely to play character, not born in the setting.
lol and?
At least they made cool song about it.
lol mayyyyyyybe
You're forgetting someone
We don't need Ubisoft to tell us that Pope Alexander VI didn't fight an Assassin of the Creed.
Eivör is 100% a girl's name. No ifs or buts.
Hindus weren't burning women alive. It was always women's will and happened in 0.1% cases. Then just like this creative director the British tried to ban it to virtue signal that eras media and in that they aggravated the practice as people saw it as a way of resistance. Sounds similar.... because history repeats itself, you guys don't study history well that's why you get directors like these.
It's Assassin's Creed....I'd be very surprised if it bombsWe can go back and forth on this for eternity. At the end of the day, it's your money. Vote with your wallet
After seeing the results of Suicide Squad, Concord, SW Outlaws, DA: Veilguard, I think it's going to bomb big time
Let's see if he still has the same big mouth and bravado comes March-2025.
The game got blasted for blatant and sometimes outright offensive historical inaccuracies in terms of time period stuff, there being props from like completely different period china, clothing being totally wrong etc.
Meant more that it was close to Greeks in culture. Since people started talking about colonization.
Ah, yes. The Phoenicians had a great deal of influence on Greek culture.
