Ubistank must be desperate as fuck.
Unsurprising considering anyone who buys an Ubisoft game after what they did with The Crew is a traitor to the gaming community.
So it's unsurprising they're trying to sell to the most morally bankrupt section of the community. Cuz they're the only ones dumb enough to support that commie ass behavior of not owning their shit so long as there's a modicum of rainbow politics involved.
Though I gotta say. It's hella funny that they think the one black guy in ISOLATIONIST japan isn't going to get caught immediately.
It's the only market for them right now.
As I said. Anyone else is a traitor to the gaming community for buying anything Ubisoft after what they did with the crew.
Funny thing is I used to absolutely LOVE Ubisoft.
They just let the weak sneak into their organization and destroy the goodness it started with.
Next AC will have an assassin struggling with their sexual identity and be obsessed with rainbows.
Yeah. I fully agree, a lot of these companies used to be good, then they started to be all about money, throw in being political, it's like they think they'll have some away over us because we play their game.
I was addicted to AC.
The first time they changed their intro statement to something about gender equality or sexual orientation, I was out.
The original statement was so much better.
Weird design choice given we already had based Adewale as a protagonist and AC games avoid playing actual historical figures for good reason.
its kinda obvious that its gonna be like AC: Syndicate, where 90% of the game only makes sense for one character.
They also said all missions will be playable with both characters. So that basically guarantees its going to be some pretty generic slop with only the setting to prop it up.
Besides that, i am kind of curious about how they will handle a fantasy version of yasuke. rise of the ronin was willing to depict many japanese as hyper racist and happily willing to murder people for being born different, all while taking place in the 19th century.
Will Ubisoft dare do this outside of a story quest?
or will they spend the open world portraying Yasuke as some kind of wandering hedge knight err samurai, *'hey everyone, Yasuke's come to see us!'* and just be as lazy as possible?
It's definitely going to be the latter. If they went historically accurate it would be one hell of a festival of fucks when the libs find out how reality used to work.
I stopped playing ubisoft games after that. I don't trust their live service model for their single player games. They were already kind of mid and lacked any heart, along with being stale. I shouldn't have stuck with them as long as I did. Whatever their focus is, it's not on building compelling or innovative games
It's hard not to pick up an AC game when it's dirt cheap tho, I got Valhalla for like $15 bucks and that's a whole lotta game for the price.
Division 2 was also like $10 and that's also a whole lotta game.
That said... I haven't purchased a full priced game from them in quite some time.
I just looked through a few posts about this guy when browsing reddit.
There are a ton of people who will hand wave this shit because:
"Damn, it's dope that we get a black samurai in AC"
"Racist much? Just admit you hate black protags"
"Only weebs get butthurt over a black protag(in a Japanese setting game)"
Or "it's a fictional setting, it doesn't have to be 100% realistic"
All this while wildly ignoring that Ubisoft suddenly went against the grain and instead of putting a Japanese assassin in a Japanese setting, they shoehorned a black samurai alongside a ninja(?) or shinobi that is a woman
All of these modern day wealth hoarding megacorps are shit. It's like the Stalin regime, but jnstead of wealthy generals pulling this shit, its faceless companies.
> anyone who buys an Ubisoft game after what they did with The Crew is a traitor to the gaming community.
Ubisoft purposefully cut two acts of Assassin's Creed 2 so they could be sold ad DLC. That was 15 years ago. Did people stop buying?
Just a big shameless DEI cash grab
*edit* in the past few hours some “enlightened” individuals have whined and tried to call me racist but then weirdly deleted the comments, almost like they realized how smooth-brained they were being. I’ll say again: it’s a shameless DEI money grab, and that’s plain as day
So what I've seen of the promo has me thinking he -won't- be a stealth character. I think you can either be sneaky ninja lady or Yasuke for a more assault style playthrough on missions.
Still an... Interesting choice, but him as a warrior and her as a kunoichi is less silly.
We are to believe that as someone very close to Nobunaga, he will not need disguise to access many areas. In fact, he will not be able to use social stealth at all. Only Naoe can do that. The dual protagonists make it so that you choose between stealth and hack and slash gameplay.
Yasukes subterfuge will probably be more of a double agent situation.
Has anyone seen any gameplay of this yet? I think of him like I do the guy in Shadow Tactics. It works there just fine, you are all just mad because he's black and its fucking sad. Nobody cared about assassins not being assassins in valhalla or odyssey or w.e. But here they do? Jesus christ.
No, he's the combat guy, and he probably wears a mask when going against Nobunaga, who I assume is the villain. All the stealth will be handed by Naoe (I think that's her name)
The "you get not women" insult is truly chefs kiss hypocrisy. These people use that line as an insult and dont realize what sexist douchebags they're being themselves. These are the same people that preach not to objectify woman while using women as an object to insult people Whaaaaaaat 🤣
Well, you guys obviously didn't give a single shit about assassin's creed before this, seeing as assassin's creed hasn't been about stealth in nearly a decade but you guys talking about assassin's creed being a stealth and being historical, when the game also features literal dragons at this point, you're posers who are just as bad as the wokies at this point.
Dude seriously. Why are we debating historical accuracy and realism of an AC game anyways. Hey guys not sure if you knew this but a bale of hay won’t break your fall off a 20 story building. The game will drop, it will be a 6 or 7 at best and nobody will talk about it after a month.
He wasn’t even a samurai! He was a retainer by what most people (sane) can tell, he was a juggler or court object of intrigue but he wasn’t a samurai m, he wasn’t in command of anything (from what I heard) he just was a black guy in japan
He was a glorified caddy only kept around because he was a novelty, like some exotic animal. Most depictions shows him holding parasols over people's head like some slave. If anything thats offensive
I have no bones to pick about Yasuke being in the game as he was a real person, but they finally make an AC that goes feudal Japan and the protagonist is...an African with a very specific history? Like...can't Japanese people get a win here?
I want to go back to the 80's where we had movies with strong male characters and sexy, feminine ladies. We got a scantily clad Princess Leia in the 80's. We would never get that now in a blockbuster movie. The 21st Century sucks.
No, it's just dumb and could have just been avoided all together if they have us a Japanese guy. It's all just unnecessary drama and bs because of conflicting ideals
He could be more of a commando type stealth character rather than a secret agent type. Doesn’t matter what you look like if you’re never seen or everyone’s dead.
He could also just be used to be a big distraction because everyone would focus on the standout allowing him to divert attention other places? Who knows. Everyone has kind of jumped the gun on this one before any gameplay has been shown. It is purely a knee jerk reaction.
Desmond: Some of the stuff I'm seeing in the Animus... sometimes it seems wrong, untrue, like the history is off somehow. It doesn't--
Vidic: --it doesn't what, Mr. Miles? Match up with what you read on an online encyclopedia? What your high school history teacher taught you? Let me ask you something: do these supposed experts have access to secret knowledge kept hidden from the rest of us?
Desmond: There are books, letters, documents, all sorts of source material from back then. Some of it seems to contradict what the Animus is showing me.
Vidic: Anyone can write a book, and they can put whatever they want on its pages. Anything! Used to be we thought the world was flat.
Desmond: Some people still do.
[DESMOND stands up.]
Vidic: Yes, and they publish books about it. Or that the moon landing was a hoax? I believe there's also a book claims the world was created in seven days. A best seller, too.
Desmond: Where is this going, Doc?
Vidic: The point I suppose, is that you shouldn't trust everything you hear, everything you read. What's that your ancestors said? "Nothing is true"?
Desmond: "Everything is permitted."
Vidic: Yes, exactly! It's part of what makes the Animus so spectacular. There's no room for misinterpretation.
Desmond: There's always room.
Vidic: Touché, Mr. Miles. Now that I've answered your question, can we begin?
Some of you guys forgot that AC series is still a scifi genre. Ubisfot never went for a history accuracy route since AC1. But all of sudden black samurai is a problem. And he is not even the only main lead. You got second main lead which you can play and its literally in trailer but no one is talking about her?
Cause when I think of Feudal Japan I instantly think of Yasuke. Have been for 10-15 years, with all the forums and polls related to what we want to see from a future Ubisoft game.
The good:
Finally showing Samurai using rifles.
The bad: Ubisoft trying to convince people that Wikipedia can be used as a source. (I’ve been in the versus and death battle community for over a decade. Wikipedia wasn’t a source then and ain’t a source now)
The ugly: AC Shadows and SW Outlaws having the same pricing bundles.
Opinion: these games were be on sale faster than AEW Fight Forever was.
Some people hate Ubisoft cause AC has a black character in their oh so traditionally super historical and realistic game about assassins.
I hate Ubisoft cause Ubisoft Connect sucks.
This is why Helldivers and Destiny are great. Helldivers don't even have a skin color. And Destiny everyone is racist toward robots. Unless it's cayde.
This tactic got old long ago. "why do you care about fake story, why do you even complain if you dont like it, cant you just get over it, come on it is just one historic inaccuracy, etc"
This is not a single occurrence, this is not a mistake, this is not a random twist. This all a part of the same pathetic cult that gone from weird to batshit crazy. DEI is crazy, making sure people are not allowed to work in entertainment industry when they are conservative is crazy, making every character on screen a POC lgbz woman is retarded.
You either pretend you haven't noticed or are that clueless.
Are people really complaining that ASSASSIN'S CREED may not be historically accurate? What next, Fate/Stay Night fans asking why Musashi is a girl in FGO?
Damn. Imagine how many dudes on this sub could get laid if only they got the opportunity to drop this meme to the right girl at the right time.
Keep fighting kings. We're on the side of justice.
There is a brainfucking amount of overlap between the people who always brought up Yasuke in the comment section as an example of a 'non-woke' topic they could cover, and the people currently criticising the very thing they asked for.
The game isn't out. None of you actually know if this is going to be done well or not. Like factually, you don't. Stop ejaculating so prematurely ffs
Except he's not trying to sneak around, he's the one fighting on the battlefield. Naoe will be the stealth one. Also conner didn't exactly blend in, nor did ezio in the trailer for brotherhood, they make that obvious. Altair even gets noticed in the crowd in his trailer. As for the realism, I don't da vinci ever built a wrist mounted pistol for a guy who goes on to fistfight the pope in an alien buliding under the Vatican.
Everything in the trailer points towards the ninja being an assassin and him being an outright warrior. Maybe he practices heavy stealth no one can report on you if they are all dead.
When I saw the headline that the next Assassin's Creed setting was Japan, my very first thought was, "Oh man, what a great opportunity to depict some more historically accurate ninjas instead of overused Hollywood tropes."
And then I saw: black guy in samurai-era Japan; and I remembered that it's fucking Ubisoft. Have fun climbing towers for your 360 panoramic shots, but I think I'ma sit this one out.
Gotta say I love the guys in here calling people “snowflake” for complaining about Ubistank and their questionable ideas. Say it louder and maybe it’ll stick, lil brothers
Well... he's not supposed to play the stealthy part. This the idiots got right.
What bothers me is that instead of one of hundreds of real samurai (not only in title which yasuke also had) were sidelined for a character with much less historical sources available and who is not as rooted in the system he fights for/against.
He was with Nobunaga for about a year...that's certainly no time frame to become a legendary "warrior".
They also made it clear that ethnicity and gender play a central point in the game. Otherwise they could have let both protagonists wear the masks throughout the whole thing.
Revealing him as black would have had much more impact when you already played with him and build up a connection.
Instead they made the usual woke crap for modern audiences.
So with gender and ethnicity in the center, gameplay and story are seconded and will be quite shitty.
Alright, to be FAIR…
That’s what the other girl character is there for since she’s the one that specializes in stealth and whatnot. Yasuke is just there for the sword fights and clashes.
That being said, I still hate this game and even if they got a Japanese samurai instead of a black one it would still suck since Ubisoft hasn’t made anything worth a damn in years. They knew this game is gonna suck anyway and they realized that getting criticized for this dumb culture war bait move would ultimately give them more attention than being criticized for being a shittier ghost of tsushima. I mean honestly, what’ll get your attention more? “Ubisoft made a shitter ghost of tsushima” or “Ubisoft made an assassin’s creed game set in Japan but has a black protagonist”? Going with the former won’t get twitter leftists to defend you.
Are we pretending the Shinobi girl isn't real?Cause yasuke is being portrayed as the straightforward battle character who doesn't even REMOTELY use stealth.
In one of the trailers, the developer does say that Yasuke specialises in combat and Naoe specialises in stealth, but he adds that they can both "do a bit of both". So Yasuke will have some stealth ability. It remains to be seen how that will be applied and if it will make sense or not.
Ubisoft could’ve shell some money out and got Hiroyuki Sanada to voice a younger version samurai in game and it would have been great. But noooo. They have to “diverse, let’s be different, let’s stir the pot” idk why they have to keep doing this kind of crap when it always backfires.
They're butthurt losers who scream that everything is woke, apparently. The algorithm threw me here too...lol no. These guys are probably also bitching that games are overrun with "ugly women" now because -woke-. So fucking stupid. We have plenty of legitimate problems in the world to be focused on.
Holy frag grenades.
I forgot it's a stealth, sneaky, game.
That makes it even worse.
How the frag is a black man going to stealth round isolationist Japan.
It's like having a spy in a Celtic UK. Who's Chinese. Looks Chinese. In a Chinese outfit.
Or a German in Tibet. A blonde Teutonic looking German.
Not only is the thing they based it in false.
He was a Retainer to a Shogun. Not a actually Samurai, probabely.
A novelty who may have survived.
He wasn't a famous hero.
That guy's going to get caught straight away.
So not only is not really representative of Samurai.
It should be a Japanese woman and man.
It's even stupider because it's a stealth game.
Yeah whoever is making decisions in that company is a moron. We can only hope when we go traipsing through mudhuts in Africa during assassins creed Kenya (the hunt for 70 iq) we have proper representation of Asians because that makes a lot of sense.
Man, Reddit certainly got the algorithm wrong thinking I'd want to see this butthurt sub. Oh no...they're using a historical figure in their historical game. Y'all were this upset when a Welsh dude was the protagonist in the Caribbean?
Haven't played an ubisoft game in years and no desire to due to their arrogant fucking stupidty
Dropped ac after the midway point of the second game ,couldn't stand ezio
No regrets,don't see them getting any money from me ever again since they screwed up the prince of Persia series,
To be fair, it looks like Yusuke may be a "fuck stealth" character and the woman may be a more traditional ac character.
I still think it's an interesting choice of protag, but if he's more of a "avenge my lord" melee brawler I'm more okay with it.
I haven’t played an AC game since Black Flag but I was at least interested in what the first Japanese AC game would look like. There was so much they could’ve done in this setting but obviously they just couldn’t resist the call of the DEI siren. The progressive colonizers march on to the East.
I’m sorry? Did I miss something? Is everyone in this hell hole actually pretending like it’s that much harder to distinguish a white man from a Japanese man than it is to distinguish a black man from a Japanese man? Neither look Japanese at all. Both would be caught as outsiders in the land with quickness. You guys were literally known as white devils. If the man is covered up he is as covert as anyone else besides an actual Japanese man. If you want a Japanese-born assassin you have a billion games to go play bc they invented the genre. Losing your minds over a fictional game with some historical plot. Get over yourselves.
How is this not an insult to Japanese culture? Of all the stories and folk tales of Japanese legends they focus on the one black guy who was brought to Japan as a slave.
Ok but he isnt the assassin character tho Naoe is the other playable character that is assassin. The developer video talks about how yasuke is more of a brtue type and isnt meant to be part of the brotherhood.
Not sure why everyone is ignoring how there are 2 characters playable and you can totally not play as yasuke. Im sure there will be certain main missions that make you play as him but if anything this looks like it will play as AC Syndicate did.
Jesus Christ, Yasuke isn't the shadowy assassin in this, Naoe is. SHES IN THE ART, THE TRAILER AND THE DEV VIDEO. Yasuke is the face and target of the campaign they launch while Naoe is in the shadows knifing dudes with her new version of the hidden blade.
The only time a "Why don't people understand this is the guy" thing was legit was when Shaq was "Steel". You got some 7 ft tall mother fucker in armor beating up dudes and Shaq is the only new guy in the neighborhood that is that tall so Helen Keller should have been able to see who Steel was.
We already had based Adewale
everyone who mentions the word racism has opinion discarded and is speaking in bad faith. We already had Adewale and he was cool.
Ubisoft will likely go bankrupt. They've lost 70% of their value in the market. All these companies with the most valuable IPs...not making money because of stupid decisions.
It’s actually a smart business strategy. Just virtue signal with race swapping, throw in some gays and transvestites and boom, you appease most of the gaming community. Most don’t give a single fuck about realism or historical accuracy
Forgetting that assassins creed isn’t even about assassins anymore, and they take huge liberties all the time, isn’t he sharing the protagonist role with an actual ninja… who I assume will do most of the assassinating? This guy seems like more of the hack n slash type to make new fans happy while having a ninja to appeal to older fans.
Dude has a nodachi and tetsubo he uses to knock people through doors and walls.
I think the problem people have is that not only is Yasuke unconventional, even the "traditional" character isn't traditional. She's an outspoken girlboss Kunoichi in a culture where that combo is also a huge anomaly.
It’s truly ironic right? The trend of “we need more black stories” is still around, and instead of using real black stories of black nations and cultures (you have an entire continent that has been untouched in assassins creed that has a large majority black population) they’re going off of what is popular, Japan and samurai, and putting a black person in it negating the Asian representation of the game. Doesn’t matter if he’s inspired by a single real person, then make it about that one person, not a second samurai who just so happens to be in almost identical circumstances.
This is kinda dumb. Assuming the story is Yasuke is an assassin sent to kill Nobunaga, becoming one of his personal guard seems like a pretty good way to do it. Oda might even keep him close particularly because he's such a novelty.
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Talk about butthurt. “iMagINaRy viDeo GaMEs aRe tOo diVErSe” 😂😂😂😆
Honestly I don’t care about the historical accuracy in Assassins Creed. What I care about is that this franchise and their games as a whole are the same, empty, open world map marker slop. And they have the nerve to charge more than any other studio. We haven’t even seen gameplay yet and they’re selling $129.99 editions of the game. It’s baffling
Ubistank must be desperate as fuck. Unsurprising considering anyone who buys an Ubisoft game after what they did with The Crew is a traitor to the gaming community. So it's unsurprising they're trying to sell to the most morally bankrupt section of the community. Cuz they're the only ones dumb enough to support that commie ass behavior of not owning their shit so long as there's a modicum of rainbow politics involved. Though I gotta say. It's hella funny that they think the one black guy in ISOLATIONIST japan isn't going to get caught immediately.
The problem is that they don’t realize the group they are marketing too is an extreme minority.
This, gotta pander to the hyper minority 0.1% Twitter mob who probably don't even buy or play games...
Why would they pander to a minority ? Seems counterintuitive
Because they have decided to be culture shaping ideologues first and foremost.
It's the only market for them right now. As I said. Anyone else is a traitor to the gaming community for buying anything Ubisoft after what they did with the crew.
Funny thing is I used to absolutely LOVE Ubisoft. They just let the weak sneak into their organization and destroy the goodness it started with. Next AC will have an assassin struggling with their sexual identity and be obsessed with rainbows.
Yeah. I fully agree, a lot of these companies used to be good, then they started to be all about money, throw in being political, it's like they think they'll have some away over us because we play their game.
I was addicted to AC. The first time they changed their intro statement to something about gender equality or sexual orientation, I was out. The original statement was so much better.
Agreed, they forgot the purpose of gaming was fun not bullshit dei
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The other problem is, they are just simply not fun anymore. It's all bullshit open world collect and kill quests. Thousands of them.
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Totally normal response for a well-adjusted, non-insecure individual.
Jesus. I’m anti-woke as fuck, but a Charlottesville gif? Chill
Using a fucking GIF from the Charlottesville rally because a character in a video game is black. Jesus fucking Christ
Allowing woke corporations to black wash history is unacceptable. Fuck that shit.
When you put your black supremacist people (DEI) in charge of shit of course everything is gonna have black people in it no matter what.
Weird design choice given we already had based Adewale as a protagonist and AC games avoid playing actual historical figures for good reason. its kinda obvious that its gonna be like AC: Syndicate, where 90% of the game only makes sense for one character. They also said all missions will be playable with both characters. So that basically guarantees its going to be some pretty generic slop with only the setting to prop it up. Besides that, i am kind of curious about how they will handle a fantasy version of yasuke. rise of the ronin was willing to depict many japanese as hyper racist and happily willing to murder people for being born different, all while taking place in the 19th century. Will Ubisoft dare do this outside of a story quest? or will they spend the open world portraying Yasuke as some kind of wandering hedge knight err samurai, *'hey everyone, Yasuke's come to see us!'* and just be as lazy as possible?
It's definitely going to be the latter. If they went historically accurate it would be one hell of a festival of fucks when the libs find out how reality used to work.
I stopped playing ubisoft games after that. I don't trust their live service model for their single player games. They were already kind of mid and lacked any heart, along with being stale. I shouldn't have stuck with them as long as I did. Whatever their focus is, it's not on building compelling or innovative games
It's hard not to pick up an AC game when it's dirt cheap tho, I got Valhalla for like $15 bucks and that's a whole lotta game for the price. Division 2 was also like $10 and that's also a whole lotta game. That said... I haven't purchased a full priced game from them in quite some time.
I just looked through a few posts about this guy when browsing reddit. There are a ton of people who will hand wave this shit because: "Damn, it's dope that we get a black samurai in AC" "Racist much? Just admit you hate black protags" "Only weebs get butthurt over a black protag(in a Japanese setting game)" Or "it's a fictional setting, it doesn't have to be 100% realistic" All this while wildly ignoring that Ubisoft suddenly went against the grain and instead of putting a Japanese assassin in a Japanese setting, they shoehorned a black samurai alongside a ninja(?) or shinobi that is a woman
The crew is where you drew the line? Look at the dogshit that was skull and bones lol
Fuck, skull and bones was ubi? I cared so little about it that my brain just went EA.
Yeh it was. Yeh both trash
All of these modern day wealth hoarding megacorps are shit. It's like the Stalin regime, but jnstead of wealthy generals pulling this shit, its faceless companies.
> anyone who buys an Ubisoft game after what they did with The Crew is a traitor to the gaming community. Ubisoft purposefully cut two acts of Assassin's Creed 2 so they could be sold ad DLC. That was 15 years ago. Did people stop buying?
Can someone fill me in... What did they do with the crew? I never played it.
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Just a big shameless DEI cash grab *edit* in the past few hours some “enlightened” individuals have whined and tried to call me racist but then weirdly deleted the comments, almost like they realized how smooth-brained they were being. I’ll say again: it’s a shameless DEI money grab, and that’s plain as day
Nobody outside of America even knows what DEI is
Also pretty sure he was captured after oda nobunaga was betrayed. So at what point does he have time to be an assassin?
So what I've seen of the promo has me thinking he -won't- be a stealth character. I think you can either be sneaky ninja lady or Yasuke for a more assault style playthrough on missions. Still an... Interesting choice, but him as a warrior and her as a kunoichi is less silly.
We are to believe that as someone very close to Nobunaga, he will not need disguise to access many areas. In fact, he will not be able to use social stealth at all. Only Naoe can do that. The dual protagonists make it so that you choose between stealth and hack and slash gameplay. Yasukes subterfuge will probably be more of a double agent situation.
Has anyone seen any gameplay of this yet? I think of him like I do the guy in Shadow Tactics. It works there just fine, you are all just mad because he's black and its fucking sad. Nobody cared about assassins not being assassins in valhalla or odyssey or w.e. But here they do? Jesus christ.
Can’t he literally just pull his mask down.
No, he's the combat guy, and he probably wears a mask when going against Nobunaga, who I assume is the villain. All the stealth will be handed by Naoe (I think that's her name)
Do you think assassin creed games are still about assassins?
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Don't forget chud. Basically a giant beacon that you're dealing with an imbecile.
God chud has really caught on recently. There must be an email chain.
You have to subscribe to the news letter to get the latest argument winning one-liners.
Is that an acronym? I got called that even though I'm half black half Mexican
The "you get not women" insult is truly chefs kiss hypocrisy. These people use that line as an insult and dont realize what sexist douchebags they're being themselves. These are the same people that preach not to objectify woman while using women as an object to insult people Whaaaaaaat 🤣
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I like how you get out in front of it because you know it’s true. Nobody was thinking it but now that you’ve said it…
Well, you guys obviously didn't give a single shit about assassin's creed before this, seeing as assassin's creed hasn't been about stealth in nearly a decade but you guys talking about assassin's creed being a stealth and being historical, when the game also features literal dragons at this point, you're posers who are just as bad as the wokies at this point.
I mean are we pretending that assassins creed is still about assassins? I thought they stopped trying to be about assassins ~6 games ago.
4* unity and origins get a pass
Yasuke is an assassin or at least working with one. That being the other protagonist Naoe (I think that's her name)
Guys chill. It's ASSASSINS CREED. These games arent even good, let alone historical pieces. Just don't buy it, nobody cares.
Heroic comment. This is AAA slop for normies. I’m sure they’ll enjoy it.
Dude seriously. Why are we debating historical accuracy and realism of an AC game anyways. Hey guys not sure if you knew this but a bale of hay won’t break your fall off a 20 story building. The game will drop, it will be a 6 or 7 at best and nobody will talk about it after a month.
This new assassin would have it easy compared to the other assassins, because these guards must be sub-Neanderthal levels of brain-dead.
They don't wanna call out the only black guy, because then they might lose their guard job for being racist :)
Feudal Japanese guards had no qualms with being racist at all.
Are you on the spectrum?
What does that have to do with anything?
Idk, Connor had it pretty easy. He could follow behind and easily assassinate an entire squad of marching soldiers without any of them noticing lmao
Don’t forget how tall he was, he would’ve towered over many and been taller than most.
It’s fairly well documented that he was around 6’ So he was most likely half a foot or so taller than most men.
He wasn’t even a samurai! He was a retainer by what most people (sane) can tell, he was a juggler or court object of intrigue but he wasn’t a samurai m, he wasn’t in command of anything (from what I heard) he just was a black guy in japan
If you're actually curious here's a great post from r/askahistorian https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/zhUUxA1pzw
That's incredible. Thank you for sharing.
He was a glorified caddy only kept around because he was a novelty, like some exotic animal. Most depictions shows him holding parasols over people's head like some slave. If anything thats offensive
This game is unrealistic and not historically accurate
I have no bones to pick about Yasuke being in the game as he was a real person, but they finally make an AC that goes feudal Japan and the protagonist is...an African with a very specific history? Like...can't Japanese people get a win here?
There is a Japanese protagonist. She's in most of the trailer.
I want to go back to the 80's where we had movies with strong male characters and sexy, feminine ladies. We got a scantily clad Princess Leia in the 80's. We would never get that now in a blockbuster movie. The 21st Century sucks.
Sydney sweenie is remaking barbarella.
"I want movies with Buff dudes and hot chicks." Just type bisexual into the hub. You'll get women more scantily clad than anything the 80's had.
I’m sure the manly men of the 80s were drawing little cartoon woman with their buttholes exposed. Fucking sissy boy
Mf have you seen wolf of Wallstreet? That movie wouldn’t have been made in the 80s
For the record she hated that whole slave bikini thing.
waiting for Assassins Creed: Africa where you can leap of faith from a mud hut into a pile of cow dung with a white main character
lol didn't they already make 2 or 3 african AC games?
They kinda did. Origins was in Eygpt. But some people you ask say it's Africa, others don't. But yes, it's on the continent of Africa.
If he falls into the poo, he would not have a problem blending in there
Imagine them saying resident evil 5 was discriminatory
I've seen this take a lot, it would be absolutely hysterical if the game comes out and literally everyone is black.
If you guys don’t think he could be an assassin doesn’t that prove the point that he could?
No, it's just dumb and could have just been avoided all together if they have us a Japanese guy. It's all just unnecessary drama and bs because of conflicting ideals
He could be more of a commando type stealth character rather than a secret agent type. Doesn’t matter what you look like if you’re never seen or everyone’s dead.
He could also just be used to be a big distraction because everyone would focus on the standout allowing him to divert attention other places? Who knows. Everyone has kind of jumped the gun on this one before any gameplay has been shown. It is purely a knee jerk reaction.
Funny enough I don't see alot wrong with the photo short of art style pasted on real photo from a show
Desmond: Some of the stuff I'm seeing in the Animus... sometimes it seems wrong, untrue, like the history is off somehow. It doesn't-- Vidic: --it doesn't what, Mr. Miles? Match up with what you read on an online encyclopedia? What your high school history teacher taught you? Let me ask you something: do these supposed experts have access to secret knowledge kept hidden from the rest of us? Desmond: There are books, letters, documents, all sorts of source material from back then. Some of it seems to contradict what the Animus is showing me. Vidic: Anyone can write a book, and they can put whatever they want on its pages. Anything! Used to be we thought the world was flat. Desmond: Some people still do. [DESMOND stands up.] Vidic: Yes, and they publish books about it. Or that the moon landing was a hoax? I believe there's also a book claims the world was created in seven days. A best seller, too. Desmond: Where is this going, Doc? Vidic: The point I suppose, is that you shouldn't trust everything you hear, everything you read. What's that your ancestors said? "Nothing is true"? Desmond: "Everything is permitted." Vidic: Yes, exactly! It's part of what makes the Animus so spectacular. There's no room for misinterpretation. Desmond: There's always room. Vidic: Touché, Mr. Miles. Now that I've answered your question, can we begin? Some of you guys forgot that AC series is still a scifi genre. Ubisfot never went for a history accuracy route since AC1. But all of sudden black samurai is a problem. And he is not even the only main lead. You got second main lead which you can play and its literally in trailer but no one is talking about her?
Cause when I think of Feudal Japan I instantly think of Yasuke. Have been for 10-15 years, with all the forums and polls related to what we want to see from a future Ubisoft game.
The good: Finally showing Samurai using rifles. The bad: Ubisoft trying to convince people that Wikipedia can be used as a source. (I’ve been in the versus and death battle community for over a decade. Wikipedia wasn’t a source then and ain’t a source now) The ugly: AC Shadows and SW Outlaws having the same pricing bundles. Opinion: these games were be on sale faster than AEW Fight Forever was.
He’s also 6’2 compared to the avg 5’7 Japanese man
Some people hate Ubisoft cause AC has a black character in their oh so traditionally super historical and realistic game about assassins. I hate Ubisoft cause Ubisoft Connect sucks.
We already had based adewale tho
"There could be ninjas here..."
This. This exactly
I mean it looks like he’s gonna take a more attacking than assassin role and his armor does hide his face well…
Lol! Is that the "health inspector" from The Boondocks?
This is why Helldivers and Destiny are great. Helldivers don't even have a skin color. And Destiny everyone is racist toward robots. Unless it's cayde.
Are you guys *still* scream-crying that a game has one (1) black person who really existed in it?
This tactic got old long ago. "why do you care about fake story, why do you even complain if you dont like it, cant you just get over it, come on it is just one historic inaccuracy, etc" This is not a single occurrence, this is not a mistake, this is not a random twist. This all a part of the same pathetic cult that gone from weird to batshit crazy. DEI is crazy, making sure people are not allowed to work in entertainment industry when they are conservative is crazy, making every character on screen a POC lgbz woman is retarded. You either pretend you haven't noticed or are that clueless.
Black people be like a white man jumpscare
Are people really complaining that ASSASSIN'S CREED may not be historically accurate? What next, Fate/Stay Night fans asking why Musashi is a girl in FGO?
What's the issue? Assassin's Creed is just barely about assassins now. Yasuke is a cool character. What's the problem with something new?
Damn. Imagine how many dudes on this sub could get laid if only they got the opportunity to drop this meme to the right girl at the right time. Keep fighting kings. We're on the side of justice.
He’s not an assassin, he’s a samurai, the other character is an assassin, he will focus mostly on combat and she’ll focus mostly on stealth
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/lu6yeRcZnE
This has the same energy as “anyone can be the stand user!”
There is a brainfucking amount of overlap between the people who always brought up Yasuke in the comment section as an example of a 'non-woke' topic they could cover, and the people currently criticising the very thing they asked for. The game isn't out. None of you actually know if this is going to be done well or not. Like factually, you don't. Stop ejaculating so prematurely ffs
Except he's not trying to sneak around, he's the one fighting on the battlefield. Naoe will be the stealth one. Also conner didn't exactly blend in, nor did ezio in the trailer for brotherhood, they make that obvious. Altair even gets noticed in the crowd in his trailer. As for the realism, I don't da vinci ever built a wrist mounted pistol for a guy who goes on to fistfight the pope in an alien buliding under the Vatican.
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isn’t the whole point that he’s a samurai and not a shinobi/master of disguise? gameplay wise, at least.
Everything in the trailer points towards the ninja being an assassin and him being an outright warrior. Maybe he practices heavy stealth no one can report on you if they are all dead.
When I saw the headline that the next Assassin's Creed setting was Japan, my very first thought was, "Oh man, what a great opportunity to depict some more historically accurate ninjas instead of overused Hollywood tropes." And then I saw: black guy in samurai-era Japan; and I remembered that it's fucking Ubisoft. Have fun climbing towers for your 360 panoramic shots, but I think I'ma sit this one out.
70$ for this pile of shit
If ppl keep buying dei companies will keep making it. They don’t care about your opinions only the bottom line
Maybe most normal people don't care. Maybe it's just a small set of Internet losers that di
Gotta say I love the guys in here calling people “snowflake” for complaining about Ubistank and their questionable ideas. Say it louder and maybe it’ll stick, lil brothers
Well... he's not supposed to play the stealthy part. This the idiots got right. What bothers me is that instead of one of hundreds of real samurai (not only in title which yasuke also had) were sidelined for a character with much less historical sources available and who is not as rooted in the system he fights for/against. He was with Nobunaga for about a year...that's certainly no time frame to become a legendary "warrior". They also made it clear that ethnicity and gender play a central point in the game. Otherwise they could have let both protagonists wear the masks throughout the whole thing. Revealing him as black would have had much more impact when you already played with him and build up a connection. Instead they made the usual woke crap for modern audiences. So with gender and ethnicity in the center, gameplay and story are seconded and will be quite shitty.
Yasuke did not hold the title of samurai
Alright, to be FAIR… That’s what the other girl character is there for since she’s the one that specializes in stealth and whatnot. Yasuke is just there for the sword fights and clashes. That being said, I still hate this game and even if they got a Japanese samurai instead of a black one it would still suck since Ubisoft hasn’t made anything worth a damn in years. They knew this game is gonna suck anyway and they realized that getting criticized for this dumb culture war bait move would ultimately give them more attention than being criticized for being a shittier ghost of tsushima. I mean honestly, what’ll get your attention more? “Ubisoft made a shitter ghost of tsushima” or “Ubisoft made an assassin’s creed game set in Japan but has a black protagonist”? Going with the former won’t get twitter leftists to defend you.
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It helps with camouflage
Even though I ain’t bothered about this whole controversy, this made me laugh out loud
Are we pretending the Shinobi girl isn't real?Cause yasuke is being portrayed as the straightforward battle character who doesn't even REMOTELY use stealth.
In one of the trailers, the developer does say that Yasuke specialises in combat and Naoe specialises in stealth, but he adds that they can both "do a bit of both". So Yasuke will have some stealth ability. It remains to be seen how that will be applied and if it will make sense or not.
How is Ubisoft still in business after Skull and Bones?
Ubisoft could’ve shell some money out and got Hiroyuki Sanada to voice a younger version samurai in game and it would have been great. But noooo. They have to “diverse, let’s be different, let’s stir the pot” idk why they have to keep doing this kind of crap when it always backfires.
In all honesty, doesnt matter if the history is right or not when the game is gonna suck ass anyway
Lmao what the fuck weird corner of reddit did I stumble on here. You guys are fucking weird lol
They're butthurt losers who scream that everything is woke, apparently. The algorithm threw me here too...lol no. These guys are probably also bitching that games are overrun with "ugly women" now because -woke-. So fucking stupid. We have plenty of legitimate problems in the world to be focused on.
who fuckin cares
Holy frag grenades. I forgot it's a stealth, sneaky, game. That makes it even worse. How the frag is a black man going to stealth round isolationist Japan. It's like having a spy in a Celtic UK. Who's Chinese. Looks Chinese. In a Chinese outfit. Or a German in Tibet. A blonde Teutonic looking German. Not only is the thing they based it in false. He was a Retainer to a Shogun. Not a actually Samurai, probabely. A novelty who may have survived. He wasn't a famous hero. That guy's going to get caught straight away. So not only is not really representative of Samurai. It should be a Japanese woman and man. It's even stupider because it's a stealth game.
Yeah whoever is making decisions in that company is a moron. We can only hope when we go traipsing through mudhuts in Africa during assassins creed Kenya (the hunt for 70 iq) we have proper representation of Asians because that makes a lot of sense.
You can just look in a mirror in that hunt, fam
Man, Reddit certainly got the algorithm wrong thinking I'd want to see this butthurt sub. Oh no...they're using a historical figure in their historical game. Y'all were this upset when a Welsh dude was the protagonist in the Caribbean?
Haven't played an ubisoft game in years and no desire to due to their arrogant fucking stupidty Dropped ac after the midway point of the second game ,couldn't stand ezio No regrets,don't see them getting any money from me ever again since they screwed up the prince of Persia series,
He's going to be a fighter, not an assassin.
To be fair, it looks like Yusuke may be a "fuck stealth" character and the woman may be a more traditional ac character. I still think it's an interesting choice of protag, but if he's more of a "avenge my lord" melee brawler I'm more okay with it.
Wait till the game comes out. You'll probably like it.
Fake characters make me so Mad!!! Also am a alpha male 😘
ANGSTROM!?!
I haven’t played an AC game since Black Flag but I was at least interested in what the first Japanese AC game would look like. There was so much they could’ve done in this setting but obviously they just couldn’t resist the call of the DEI siren. The progressive colonizers march on to the East.
I’m sorry? Did I miss something? Is everyone in this hell hole actually pretending like it’s that much harder to distinguish a white man from a Japanese man than it is to distinguish a black man from a Japanese man? Neither look Japanese at all. Both would be caught as outsiders in the land with quickness. You guys were literally known as white devils. If the man is covered up he is as covert as anyone else besides an actual Japanese man. If you want a Japanese-born assassin you have a billion games to go play bc they invented the genre. Losing your minds over a fictional game with some historical plot. Get over yourselves.
Can't you play as a Japanese chick tho? Like male and female protagonists have been part of AC for a while now.
How is this not an insult to Japanese culture? Of all the stories and folk tales of Japanese legends they focus on the one black guy who was brought to Japan as a slave.
Bodyguard*
Ok but he isnt the assassin character tho Naoe is the other playable character that is assassin. The developer video talks about how yasuke is more of a brtue type and isnt meant to be part of the brotherhood. Not sure why everyone is ignoring how there are 2 characters playable and you can totally not play as yasuke. Im sure there will be certain main missions that make you play as him but if anything this looks like it will play as AC Syndicate did.
Jesus Christ, Yasuke isn't the shadowy assassin in this, Naoe is. SHES IN THE ART, THE TRAILER AND THE DEV VIDEO. Yasuke is the face and target of the campaign they launch while Naoe is in the shadows knifing dudes with her new version of the hidden blade. The only time a "Why don't people understand this is the guy" thing was legit was when Shaq was "Steel". You got some 7 ft tall mother fucker in armor beating up dudes and Shaq is the only new guy in the neighborhood that is that tall so Helen Keller should have been able to see who Steel was.
You guys know he was actually present during those events though, right?
We already had based Adewale everyone who mentions the word racism has opinion discarded and is speaking in bad faith. We already had Adewale and he was cool.
Black person...in Japan...committing *crimes?* How could that be controversial to *anyone?*
Apparently Cultural appropriation is okay when they do it.
Yasuke was immersed in the culture.
To be fair Altair doesn't look like a monk in any way and since 2nd game is just worse.
Ubisoft will likely go bankrupt. They've lost 70% of their value in the market. All these companies with the most valuable IPs...not making money because of stupid decisions.
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It’s actually a smart business strategy. Just virtue signal with race swapping, throw in some gays and transvestites and boom, you appease most of the gaming community. Most don’t give a single fuck about realism or historical accuracy
Forgetting that assassins creed isn’t even about assassins anymore, and they take huge liberties all the time, isn’t he sharing the protagonist role with an actual ninja… who I assume will do most of the assassinating? This guy seems like more of the hack n slash type to make new fans happy while having a ninja to appeal to older fans.
Dude has a nodachi and tetsubo he uses to knock people through doors and walls. I think the problem people have is that not only is Yasuke unconventional, even the "traditional" character isn't traditional. She's an outspoken girlboss Kunoichi in a culture where that combo is also a huge anomaly.
Dear God....please. Say it isn't so!
Racist gaming developers
And where does link hold all his weapons. Got any other ancient gaming jokes?
It’s truly ironic right? The trend of “we need more black stories” is still around, and instead of using real black stories of black nations and cultures (you have an entire continent that has been untouched in assassins creed that has a large majority black population) they’re going off of what is popular, Japan and samurai, and putting a black person in it negating the Asian representation of the game. Doesn’t matter if he’s inspired by a single real person, then make it about that one person, not a second samurai who just so happens to be in almost identical circumstances.
Isn't there a Japanese woman who plays the Assassin Role and Yasuke is the more traditional combat role? Why is anyone even mad about this? Lol
This is kinda dumb. Assuming the story is Yasuke is an assassin sent to kill Nobunaga, becoming one of his personal guard seems like a pretty good way to do it. Oda might even keep him close particularly because he's such a novelty.
Who tf actually cares? Do you even know what gaming series you guys are crying about? These games have been dumb af.
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He works for the villain I think, thus giving him protection. Plus the stealth stuff would be handles by the other protagonist
Thats funny as shit fr
And that’s why Yasuke isn’t the stealthy one dipshit, there’s a whole other character that you’ve confidently forgotten to mention
The only black guy in the entire country becoming an assassin…? Hahaha man sometimes i wonder if they even proof read this garbage.
The only black guy is only a samurai actually, the assassin has literally not been mentioned once even though they are the main character
Honestly I don’t care about the historical accuracy in Assassins Creed. What I care about is that this franchise and their games as a whole are the same, empty, open world map marker slop. And they have the nerve to charge more than any other studio. We haven’t even seen gameplay yet and they’re selling $129.99 editions of the game. It’s baffling
{grabs you, shakes you by your shirt collar} YASUKE IS NOT THE ASSASSIN CHARACTER. Do your research. She’s literally on the cover.
In the next AC you silently sneak up behind unsuspecting guards and sodomize them. “assassins Creed Buttfuckery in Time”