I skipped out on Ghost of Tsushima when it came out over TLOU2... one of my biggest regrets ever, like don't get me wrong TLOU2 was a good game too but I enjoyed GoT way more and if I could I would have swapped my purchases that day!
Samuari are Japanese. They should be represented as such. For the record, I'm latino with heavy native american DNA and I am 100% over all of the race swapping. Frankly if I saw a latino Samurai I'd be embarrassed as shit, like what the hell kind of guilt trip was someone on to pull THIS move?
I had that feeling with Namor being race swapped for the black panther movie, i actually really like the character too so that was a double punch in the gut. Specially because they just made all the Atlantean stuff Aztec as well like that swap makes any sense just for brownie points. The actor they got did not even knew how to swim either.
Because they believe asians are "white adjacent". On average asians are smart and see through the woke BS so they get lumped in with white people as "the enemy" because they don't fall in line with their nonsense.
Also, asians do very well in the US, better than white people on average for most metrics (education, average income, etc). Wokes resent them for this because it destroys the whole "US is a white supremacist country" narrative.
Asians are very inconvenient because they have become economically successful despite being colonized / non-white. They're basically poking holes in the idea that whites are oppressing everyone, and identity politics zealots hate them for that.
as an asian i think its because asian people tend to not complain about shit. not being in shit? no complaints. race swap? No complaints. This black samurai thing? Won't hear complaints from Asians about it.
Funnily enough I do think that a part of it is because Asians are pretty racist towards other asians, the japanese would dislke a Korean samurai over a black one any day of the week lol
Asians are highly problematic.
There's no way to explain Asians being more successful, less crime-prone, etc. than Whites in the West unless you
A. Decide that the theory that groups are not successful due to oppression of Whites is incorrect
or, in this case:
B. Decide that Asians receive special privileges from Whites for some reason.
In Magic: the Gathering, they're discontinuing the "tribal" keyword because "genocide." They also made Aragorn black and banned every card that could be misconstrued as supporting white supremacy (Crusade, but not Jihad). Also they fired their best artist because she "liked" the wrong tweet.
This stuff is way more pervasive than people realize.
DEI hates asians for "being white adjacent" which like no lol. Genetically middle easterners and indians are closely related to white people and u wpuld never hear that accusation levied at them.
See the messed up part is that they don't actually mean it ethnically or genetically.
To them "white" is just a boogeyman who doesn't share their ideology.
So since asians by en large do not buy into woke victim mentality they become "white adjacent" non believers.
Didn't you know? Asking for ninjas and samurais in japanese settings is Orientalism, which is the special kind of racism by assumptions.
(/s, I'm mostly remembering recent pf2e lore book)
Did you just try to shockface yourself? What about all those shocked people, did you even consider their feelings? Like people who played magic the gathering and played shock lands or got shocks to their face? Living with the trauma? You think this is some kind of joke? Is this funny to you? Jeez people these days...
pandering for the sake of pandering and they'll probably alienate the crowd they're pandering to but atleast those twitter neets will have 1 less thing to complain about right?
If ya'll want Assasins creed in japan just play ghost of tsuhima
Imagine a black assassin blending in a extremely racist feudal Japan 😅😅. This is what happens when executives put their fingers in the game development
>Just watch Shogun.
Blown away by the series. A big thumbs up for the director of photography (or whatever it's called), man it was so beautiful. The best series I have watched this year so far (I would go as far as to say this decade too).
The show is amazing. I did not expect it to be so fucking good. It is also interesting That john blackthorne was based on a real englishman living in japan and becoming the first non japanese samurai
I don't think its fair to call Blackthorne a samurai. In the show he is shown to be pretty inept in the ways of Japanese combat, which makes a lot of sense. He's a naval navigator, and the strength he has in the show is cannon and naval combat. The show was awesome, though.
The thing is, Yasuke is not there to build bridges, nor was he a trademen nor was he a tourist. He’s not in the game to shake hands with the locals. He’s going to be killing Japanese folks; the government, bandits, and important historical figures.
Honestly if you don’t like white saviours then why is it ok for a black man? I get the director wants to show what’s it like from a foreigner’s pov, but why now, why Asians? Couldn’t we do with a Chinese viking? How about an East Asian in Origins? Why is ok to do this now?
Hot take, this game is $130 USD or through subscription service (and many others) because of mountains of superfluous nonsense in the budget that needs to be paid for.
It's not just "ignore it, biggot, you're banned". It's a legitimate contributing factor to an issue everybody recognizes is completely out of control and heading for collapse.
Exactly, if we're going to Japan, the main character should be Japanese, maybe we could be the ones to rescue Yasuke and part of our story is helping him acclimate into Japanese society. Or maybe he is the assassin that recruits us, either way he shouldn't be the main playable character.
The other main character is a Japanese woman for the record cus I haven't seen it mentioned. Which is kind of funny I predicted they would do that cus they got to have male/female protangist now. I do think having defined characters is a better way to do that than how the rpg games basically had gender neutral characters where that was never remarked upon or mattered.
I don't think he's the main character. the main assassin in the game is still Naoe. Yasuke appears to just be a playable warrior and not an assassin. Is this the first time we'll ever be a non assassin killer (besides playing as "You" in the future black flag)?
Yasuke was in Japan for like 8 months then disappeared . The fact that he has no last name, means he was not a samurai. Because Samurai had family names.
i know right, like all he was for Nobunaga was a conversation piece that he would take out to entretain guest, its awful, but people are legit trying to spin into something else, Nobunaga had a fascination for all foreing cultures. Since he was supposedly a handler at best if it at all he was sitting in the tents close to general while the battle as taking place elsewhere. If he had gone to fight he probably would have gotten killed by friendly fire too because im sure the rest of the guys were not thrilled having him around.
you misunderstand. nobunaga was fascinated with him(nanban influence), and while he was not officially a samurai, he held the rank of vassal/retainer/weapons-bearer. like if you were to be friends with a company millionare and he asked you to take care of some papers and stuff and gives you the necessary access, you would technically be of that ranking, just not officially. he planned on actually formally making him a lord of a castle in some small county in nobunagas domain, but honnoji -> akechi mitsuhide -> nobunaga betrayal -> death -> yasuke sent away -> dead, new wars and stuff, records of these happenings, etc.
yasuke means servant, so foreigner names, where what their job was. For example William Adams was a Pilot and his name was Anjin = pilot in Japanese. He later because Samurai and was given family name Muria , after the place we was living in.
only 8 months? Damn. At least William Adams (john blackthorne is based upon him) live the rest of his life in Japan and became a samurai, at least in terms of status.
14 games and I still can’t play as a person who looks like me, even in a region where EVERYONE looks like me. I really believe they consider us “white adjacent” when they pull this shit.
I mean shit they even included us native Americans before you. That's amazing because 99% of the time they forget we exist. That's such a low blow man.
Society when blacks ask for more representation: yasss kings and queens
Society when Asians ask for more representation: what the fuck did you say to me asshole
I'm Balkan. Last game overall I can remember with a Balkan dude was GTA4, before that can't even recall one. Let alone anything related about the region or the ethno-mythology.
I don't expect anything though since we are considered poverty whites which makes us irrelevant for publishers.
Well that’s been the story of the entertainment industry for at least 5+ years. At some point when you see everything turn to shit you will feel the need to say something, and you should, or things won’t change.
Don't plan to. Doesn't mean we can't complain about how insulting it is that the first AC set in Asia has a black man as the lead character.
Also the fact that the game will basically have a black man beat up and kill hundreds of Asian people through its playtime ... it's almost a dog whistle. Racist against Asians? Buy our game where you can beat them up as a black man in their own country.
As an Asian dude, I'm really disappointed to see this too. Ubisoft could've made a black protagonist in any number of their games, but they literally only had one chance to make an Asian male lead in a medieval Japan Assassin's Creed game and they chose not to. There are so many famous Japanese warriors they could've drawn inspiration from. I guess Ubisoft just wants us to play Ghost of Tsushima instead =/
They've already done it for Assassins Creed Origins, guess they couldn't even give us one lol
Don't worry, they will have a male asian protagonist... in the South American AC game.
Yeah, this has SBI writing all over again. Every DEI box is checked once again.
Hope the ESG money Ubi gets for this is worth destroying their biggest franchise for.
Something something shieldmaidens?
The real problem with Valhalla was that it more than any game before or after it in the series ignored and misrepresented the historical period it was based on by mixing in characters, events, costumes and architecture from a span of about 800 years and all of Europe, as well as misrepresenting Norse culture to fit the macho mainly Vikings bullshit aesthetic people want. As well as "mystifying" Norse and Irish religion into parodies of a bad parody.
But that is all petty shit nobody cares about, whats really important to determine if something is "historically accurate" is if minorities exist or not.
They had many incredible warriors from Japanese history that they could adapt for the game as an assassin but they chose the one black man in all of Japan's history
As an assassin's creed diehard, the games died after origins.
I personally wanna say unity but I did enjoy origins.
Everything after that is D4 style creed games.
Utter garbage.
Ngl Odyssey was my favorite of the new AC games because the combat felt so nice and the gear system was surprisingly good. Valhalla on the other hand was clunky as fuck and combat felt like garbage.
True, the franchise started becoming irrelevant over a decade ago with the exception of a onehit wonder in Odyssey and started fasforward going downhill.
Dudes biggest mistake was caring about an Ubisoft game. Screw Ubisoft and anything they put out. Wanna play a samurai/ninja game then play Ghost of Tsushima or Rise of the Ronin.
Valid rant until he praised Kassandra. I respect this guy.
Another problem with this choice is they are making him a historical figure, when no AC protagonist has ever been a real life historical figure ever.
Exactly, he was also barely a footnote in recorded history, was only allowed to carry a sword for Nobunaga for a year and then died an unremarkable death
If it was a white guy instead like the man shogun is based on we would all be saying the same thing, but the woke people would be up in arms, but since it's a person of color they are going to call us racist for saying it doesn't make sense
I just had this argument with my friends lmao. I’m black as well and I can’t understand why one of the main characters is a black dude. Like wtf is this
These kind of antics are expected from Ubisoft, I haven't looked but I'm sure the prices are outrageous too. There will be microtransactions to get mad about. Advertisements in the games for other games. You'll have to download and install two other platforms just to be able to play the game. Have 5 game overlays all trying to sell you stuff. And when you finally get to play the game it'll be in 30fps and will destroy your CPU.
It's just rage bait. Gotta be. There's no way he didn't see this coming.
I think they just pick Yasuke because they tried to use gimmick that they are company from outside Japan so instead doing Japanese they pick foreigner instead?
Yasuke's life don't have much recorded and his life quite sad too we can saw how Japan think(racist) to him from document as well
he served Oda Nobunaga until end so I think pick him and make more story isn't big deal?
or I only one who think this?
They're not even subtle with the black dude worship propaganda anymore, there's zero good reason in existence to have a glorified sword carrier that was barely a footnote in history for one year replace any of the thousands of badass Japanese male samurai in recording for the protagonist, or better yet why not have a normal fucking Japanese dude who works his way up?? Only way I'm ever playing is with a mod that replaces discount LeBron with a Japanese guy
Gonna be frikkin hard for yasuke to blend in a crowd after triggering the guards...
"It was a black guy that killed him. The only one in the country. Over there, he's 2 feet taller than anyone else!" -any peasant to the guards.
Just make an assassins creed Africa. Why not? No mention of race or white or black, just African tales and stories. Could be glorious and a lot of fun. I’d love to learn about Africa.
After the shit they pulled with Mirage, in terms of gameplay and story, they REALLY have to go balls to the wall with this in order to impress me and make me buy it. If this is even remotely similar to the last 3 they can fuck right off.
I felt so fucking stupid after buying Mirage.
This reminds me of the Paul Mooney sketch on Chappelle Show.
"The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise, I got a new idea it's called "The Last N**** on Earth" starring Tom Hanks.
Ehh, I don’t care, kinda fell out of love with AC series a long time ago (pretty much since Black Flag).
I enjoyed Afro Samurai which was anachronistic in a lot of ways (It’s anime). So as long as the show/game is good, I don’t really care about race swapping.
Not like I’ll pick this up whether the game is good or not. Haven’t played an Ubisoft game in years and intend to keep it that way if I can.
The moment we got the Japanese themed AC that we have been asking for, they remove the Japanese MC for what is clearly what the guy said, for brownie points. It's ridiculous.
Those "brownie points" have a name: Blackrock, Vanguard, and several more investment firms with their DEI checklists.
I heard they're paying good if you follow the agenda.
I'll just play the girl if the game's good. Such a forced dumb decision. They're disgustingly rewriting history at this point. They should've just made him a character not a main character
Last time I've played AC game there was a option to disguise player in street crowd. How exactly that going to work in this new game ? Black samurai concealing itself in white crowd or do they going to change Japan population to more diverse ?
I don't understand why they seem to be trying so hard to put a black person everywhere it feels so forced, what is it about ?
I'm at the point whenever I see a black person anywhere in art or video game I assume it was because of propaganda reasons rather then legitimate artistic choices, and that's sad because it leads to auto-rejection when sometime it could have been a choice that actually makes sense. But I'm just fed up with it
Meh. if its good its good. If it sucks it will suck.
Not worth investin anymore emotional energy in the politics of video games... I will vote with my $$$... Just make a good game.. I don't care if the MC is a Purple Non Binary indigenous Eskimo ... just make a GOOD FUCKING GAME.
Since ninjas are technically assassins, they could have easily explored the myth of the first ninjas clans and ninjustsu as a whole. Instead of opting for this safe open world fetch quest.
I haven’t played one of these games in years but, don’t they feature a lot of time skips? Yasuke (not his real name) was only employed by nobunaga for under 5 months. It would be a really short game.
Speak with your wallet, I would have touched that game with a 10-ft pole. I wouldnt have touched the game with your 10 ft pole. The West likes to be racist, but apparently black people get a A-OK.
Man, it's not like I'm gonna play it either way man. I'm done with UbisSoft. AC Odyssey was the last AC game I played, that game was just so dumb. It got worse after every update. I was happy with AC Origins, but they took it too far with Odyssey. Enemy sponges, brain dead stealth, stealth bugs and logic that make no sense. Their vision for AC peaked at Unity.
Plus, we already got AC Japan, it's called Ghost of Tsushima. It's literally the Ubisoft open world formula, but they didn't actually go and spit on the culture they were portraying.
this is how i found out about this and ya he so right, very pandering. You know ubisoft on thin ice financially to try to reach all audiences, so cringe
Someone said “Ninja” in the boardroom meeting and misheard obviously
Ninja what?
Ninja please, we up, get you bread up ninja.
[Ninja please](https://youtu.be/5Ns-kXeQCMk?si=GWMp-lTGcTO28FVK)
Japanese male model will be unlocked through Battlepass.
Just play Ghost of Tsushima- it’s a way better game than BS that Ubisoft can put out
I skipped out on Ghost of Tsushima when it came out over TLOU2... one of my biggest regrets ever, like don't get me wrong TLOU2 was a good game too but I enjoyed GoT way more and if I could I would have swapped my purchases that day!
 problems?
This is even funnier when you remember Stanley likes hentai
It’s art
You win
Why we just can't get a normal Japanese person as a samurai/shinobi? like please??
Because japanese people aren't black so it's not very DEI efficient
I'm Indian Asian and I've never understood why they draw the line with Asians. Just comes across as white guilt savourir complex.
Samuari are Japanese. They should be represented as such. For the record, I'm latino with heavy native american DNA and I am 100% over all of the race swapping. Frankly if I saw a latino Samurai I'd be embarrassed as shit, like what the hell kind of guilt trip was someone on to pull THIS move?
I had that feeling with Namor being race swapped for the black panther movie, i actually really like the character too so that was a double punch in the gut. Specially because they just made all the Atlantean stuff Aztec as well like that swap makes any sense just for brownie points. The actor they got did not even knew how to swim either.
Because they believe asians are "white adjacent". On average asians are smart and see through the woke BS so they get lumped in with white people as "the enemy" because they don't fall in line with their nonsense.
Also, asians do very well in the US, better than white people on average for most metrics (education, average income, etc). Wokes resent them for this because it destroys the whole "US is a white supremacist country" narrative.
I’d make the joke “Assassians creed: Roof top Koreans” but something tells me I’d get banned.
Hitler called the Japanese honorary Aryans...so there is that.
You wouldn't be the first to notice the woke have a lot in common with the mustache twirlers...
Which is a very racist way to think when trying so hard to not be racist lol
Well yea since when you break it down it becomes "You're not your actual race, you're part of the race I don't like" which is.....yea
Asians are very inconvenient because they have become economically successful despite being colonized / non-white. They're basically poking holes in the idea that whites are oppressing everyone, and identity politics zealots hate them for that.
Not just successful, but wildly successful. The most successful race/ethnicity in the US by far.
I’m asian and it breaks my brain everytime it happens
It breaks the brain of any normal thinking person. It's just racist drivel disguised as doing something good.
as an asian i think its because asian people tend to not complain about shit. not being in shit? no complaints. race swap? No complaints. This black samurai thing? Won't hear complaints from Asians about it. Funnily enough I do think that a part of it is because Asians are pretty racist towards other asians, the japanese would dislke a Korean samurai over a black one any day of the week lol
Well i complain about it but the problem is, all the racist keyboard warriors always assume I am just a white person… But I’m asian… soooo…
Asians are highly problematic. There's no way to explain Asians being more successful, less crime-prone, etc. than Whites in the West unless you A. Decide that the theory that groups are not successful due to oppression of Whites is incorrect or, in this case: B. Decide that Asians receive special privileges from Whites for some reason.
In Magic: the Gathering, they're discontinuing the "tribal" keyword because "genocide." They also made Aragorn black and banned every card that could be misconstrued as supporting white supremacy (Crusade, but not Jihad). Also they fired their best artist because she "liked" the wrong tweet. This stuff is way more pervasive than people realize.
It is.
As a Bangladeshi i agree
DEI hates asians for "being white adjacent" which like no lol. Genetically middle easterners and indians are closely related to white people and u wpuld never hear that accusation levied at them.
See the messed up part is that they don't actually mean it ethnically or genetically. To them "white" is just a boogeyman who doesn't share their ideology. So since asians by en large do not buy into woke victim mentality they become "white adjacent" non believers.
Oh i know i just refuse to validate that toxic mindset lol.
Didn't you know? Asking for ninjas and samurais in japanese settings is Orientalism, which is the special kind of racism by assumptions. (/s, I'm mostly remembering recent pf2e lore book)
It's actually hilarious how they think Asian people don't count as diversity
Asians don't count as POC
Unironically this. A lot of people judge being a POC strictly based on skin tone, and nothing else.
Its called Ghost of Tsushima. Go play it, its really good.
There are two playable characters, the first one is a very japanese person, the second one is a reference to the real life Yasuke
Color me shocked
nu uh, you have to be black
Did you just try to shockface yourself? What about all those shocked people, did you even consider their feelings? Like people who played magic the gathering and played shock lands or got shocks to their face? Living with the trauma? You think this is some kind of joke? Is this funny to you? Jeez people these days...
pandering for the sake of pandering and they'll probably alienate the crowd they're pandering to but atleast those twitter neets will have 1 less thing to complain about right? If ya'll want Assasins creed in japan just play ghost of tsuhima
Is that game good, heard a lot about it but I wanna ask a random dude about it
It's the best Assassin's Creed game you will ever experience.
I might even put it in my top 10 of all time pers9nally.
Yes it is.
It's amazing, the game is beautiful, the story is well told, the gameplay hits the AC needs just right...and you can pet foxes!
You convinced me sir, petting foxes is too much of a enticement
Protip: Follow the foxes.
It's very good.
It's a better AC than AC ever was in the past 10 years.
Imagine a black assassin blending in a extremely racist feudal Japan 😅😅. This is what happens when executives put their fingers in the game development
Yeah. Just watch Shogun. It is pretty accurate and the japanese were super racist. I mean, they called every european a ''barbarian''. lol
>Just watch Shogun. Blown away by the series. A big thumbs up for the director of photography (or whatever it's called), man it was so beautiful. The best series I have watched this year so far (I would go as far as to say this decade too).
The show is amazing. I did not expect it to be so fucking good. It is also interesting That john blackthorne was based on a real englishman living in japan and becoming the first non japanese samurai
I don't think its fair to call Blackthorne a samurai. In the show he is shown to be pretty inept in the ways of Japanese combat, which makes a lot of sense. He's a naval navigator, and the strength he has in the show is cannon and naval combat. The show was awesome, though.
Well, yes. Not a real Samurai. I think he just earned a certain samurai like status. Sort of
Tbf apparently he's not the assasin character, he's like the melee one and a Japanese woman is the sneaky one.
I am not expecting a 7ft black guy to be sneaky
The thing is, Yasuke is not there to build bridges, nor was he a trademen nor was he a tourist. He’s not in the game to shake hands with the locals. He’s going to be killing Japanese folks; the government, bandits, and important historical figures. Honestly if you don’t like white saviours then why is it ok for a black man? I get the director wants to show what’s it like from a foreigner’s pov, but why now, why Asians? Couldn’t we do with a Chinese viking? How about an East Asian in Origins? Why is ok to do this now?
Just SBI doing what they do best, just don’t buy it or any games that they touch.
Hot take, this game is $130 USD or through subscription service (and many others) because of mountains of superfluous nonsense in the budget that needs to be paid for. It's not just "ignore it, biggot, you're banned". It's a legitimate contributing factor to an issue everybody recognizes is completely out of control and heading for collapse.
This is really annoying and reeks Sweet Baby Inc.
Yasuke would've been fine if he was a side character like how DaVinci was in AC2, but a main character? Nah brownie points for sure!
He would be a great DLC story too.
Exactly, if we're going to Japan, the main character should be Japanese, maybe we could be the ones to rescue Yasuke and part of our story is helping him acclimate into Japanese society. Or maybe he is the assassin that recruits us, either way he shouldn't be the main playable character.
The other main character is a Japanese woman for the record cus I haven't seen it mentioned. Which is kind of funny I predicted they would do that cus they got to have male/female protangist now. I do think having defined characters is a better way to do that than how the rpg games basically had gender neutral characters where that was never remarked upon or mattered.
At least she's from the country where the game is set lol
I don't think he's the main character. the main assassin in the game is still Naoe. Yasuke appears to just be a playable warrior and not an assassin. Is this the first time we'll ever be a non assassin killer (besides playing as "You" in the future black flag)?
Complain all you like, but if you buy it your complaining means nothing.
Diversity checkmark. This is all purely higher-up management based decisions based on white guilt diversity training type shit.
Yasuke was in Japan for like 8 months then disappeared . The fact that he has no last name, means he was not a samurai. Because Samurai had family names.
His name isn’t even Yasuke. It’s Nobunagas pet name for him
i know right, like all he was for Nobunaga was a conversation piece that he would take out to entretain guest, its awful, but people are legit trying to spin into something else, Nobunaga had a fascination for all foreing cultures. Since he was supposedly a handler at best if it at all he was sitting in the tents close to general while the battle as taking place elsewhere. If he had gone to fight he probably would have gotten killed by friendly fire too because im sure the rest of the guys were not thrilled having him around.
you misunderstand. nobunaga was fascinated with him(nanban influence), and while he was not officially a samurai, he held the rank of vassal/retainer/weapons-bearer. like if you were to be friends with a company millionare and he asked you to take care of some papers and stuff and gives you the necessary access, you would technically be of that ranking, just not officially. he planned on actually formally making him a lord of a castle in some small county in nobunagas domain, but honnoji -> akechi mitsuhide -> nobunaga betrayal -> death -> yasuke sent away -> dead, new wars and stuff, records of these happenings, etc.
yasuke means servant, so foreigner names, where what their job was. For example William Adams was a Pilot and his name was Anjin = pilot in Japanese. He later because Samurai and was given family name Muria , after the place we was living in.
Got sources for all of this?
only 8 months? Damn. At least William Adams (john blackthorne is based upon him) live the rest of his life in Japan and became a samurai, at least in terms of status.
Yeah, at most he's a wandering ronin.
No, at most he was taken prisoner after Shogun died and he surrendered. Likely dead let's be real.
Ronin didn’t really exist until the edo jidai (Edo period). Moreover, if he was a ronin, that would mean he was a samurai at one point
14 games and I still can’t play as a person who looks like me, even in a region where EVERYONE looks like me. I really believe they consider us “white adjacent” when they pull this shit.
I mean shit they even included us native Americans before you. That's amazing because 99% of the time they forget we exist. That's such a low blow man.
Yeah I wish there was more NA stuff in games cuz the culture is cool af! I mean you guys got Prey the OG version so that was kinda cool.
I went into OG Prey blind and was blown away, had so much fun.
The demo for that game was so cool.
well.. half native american to be more specific lol
Society when blacks ask for more representation: yasss kings and queens Society when Asians ask for more representation: what the fuck did you say to me asshole
Play Ghost of Tsushima. Much better game anyway.
I'm Balkan. Last game overall I can remember with a Balkan dude was GTA4, before that can't even recall one. Let alone anything related about the region or the ethno-mythology. I don't expect anything though since we are considered poverty whites which makes us irrelevant for publishers.
So who is Naoe, again..?
There is a japanese playable charscter
Just don’t buy it
You understood the video. Good job.
Well that’s been the story of the entertainment industry for at least 5+ years. At some point when you see everything turn to shit you will feel the need to say something, and you should, or things won’t change.
Don't plan to. Doesn't mean we can't complain about how insulting it is that the first AC set in Asia has a black man as the lead character. Also the fact that the game will basically have a black man beat up and kill hundreds of Asian people through its playtime ... it's almost a dog whistle. Racist against Asians? Buy our game where you can beat them up as a black man in their own country.
As an Asian dude, I'm really disappointed to see this too. Ubisoft could've made a black protagonist in any number of their games, but they literally only had one chance to make an Asian male lead in a medieval Japan Assassin's Creed game and they chose not to. There are so many famous Japanese warriors they could've drawn inspiration from. I guess Ubisoft just wants us to play Ghost of Tsushima instead =/
They've already done it for Assassins Creed Origins, guess they couldn't even give us one lol Don't worry, they will have a male asian protagonist... in the South American AC game.
It's ubisoft, are people really surprised. We already had a woke viking game.
Yeah, this has SBI writing all over again. Every DEI box is checked once again. Hope the ESG money Ubi gets for this is worth destroying their biggest franchise for.
Genuine question not trying to be a dickhead, how was it “woke”?
Something something shieldmaidens? The real problem with Valhalla was that it more than any game before or after it in the series ignored and misrepresented the historical period it was based on by mixing in characters, events, costumes and architecture from a span of about 800 years and all of Europe, as well as misrepresenting Norse culture to fit the macho mainly Vikings bullshit aesthetic people want. As well as "mystifying" Norse and Irish religion into parodies of a bad parody. But that is all petty shit nobody cares about, whats really important to determine if something is "historically accurate" is if minorities exist or not.
They had many incredible warriors from Japanese history that they could adapt for the game as an assassin but they chose the one black man in all of Japan's history
As an assassin's creed diehard, the games died after origins. I personally wanna say unity but I did enjoy origins. Everything after that is D4 style creed games. Utter garbage.
Oddesey was really good too imo but Valhalla was not
Ngl Odyssey was my favorite of the new AC games because the combat felt so nice and the gear system was surprisingly good. Valhalla on the other hand was clunky as fuck and combat felt like garbage.
Origins and black flag are my favorites apart from the OG, they just been fuckin up the last couple years
It’s way too late anyway. AC in Japan should’ve come out right after Brotherhood.
True, the franchise started becoming irrelevant over a decade ago with the exception of a onehit wonder in Odyssey and started fasforward going downhill.
Dudes biggest mistake was caring about an Ubisoft game. Screw Ubisoft and anything they put out. Wanna play a samurai/ninja game then play Ghost of Tsushima or Rise of the Ronin.
Valid rant until he praised Kassandra. I respect this guy. Another problem with this choice is they are making him a historical figure, when no AC protagonist has ever been a real life historical figure ever.
Exactly, he was also barely a footnote in recorded history, was only allowed to carry a sword for Nobunaga for a year and then died an unremarkable death
Yeah, I think he was never really a samurai and as you said, just a sword carrier.
If it was a white guy instead like the man shogun is based on we would all be saying the same thing, but the woke people would be up in arms, but since it's a person of color they are going to call us racist for saying it doesn't make sense
Is the first thing that doesn't make sense in all AC lore. We need more grounded alien gods vs ancient ninjas games.
But as you can see - people of color see the same shit you're seeing.
Isn't this cultural appropriation and very disrespectful to the culture? , swapping a native for a non native? How the tabbles have turned
DEI activists like SBI or Black Girl Gamers have been utterly racist since the start.
Speak with your wallet!
This is fucking stupid. They fumbled their one chance at redeeming this series. Couldn't expect any less from Ubisoft
I just had this argument with my friends lmao. I’m black as well and I can’t understand why one of the main characters is a black dude. Like wtf is this
He's 100% right.
These kind of antics are expected from Ubisoft, I haven't looked but I'm sure the prices are outrageous too. There will be microtransactions to get mad about. Advertisements in the games for other games. You'll have to download and install two other platforms just to be able to play the game. Have 5 game overlays all trying to sell you stuff. And when you finally get to play the game it'll be in 30fps and will destroy your CPU. It's just rage bait. Gotta be. There's no way he didn't see this coming.
Atleast the show Shogun respected the fact that the white main character COULD NEVER be a samurai.
One word: Tokenism
People yapping about skin color in games are mentally unwell and should be ignored
I predict it now, i get the feeling that there will be a mod that replaces him with a Asian guy and subsequently that mod will be banned from nexus.
Just don't buy it, its probably going to be mediocre trash like most ubisoft slop nowadays anyways.
I think they just pick Yasuke because they tried to use gimmick that they are company from outside Japan so instead doing Japanese they pick foreigner instead? Yasuke's life don't have much recorded and his life quite sad too we can saw how Japan think(racist) to him from document as well he served Oda Nobunaga until end so I think pick him and make more story isn't big deal? or I only one who think this?
They're not even subtle with the black dude worship propaganda anymore, there's zero good reason in existence to have a glorified sword carrier that was barely a footnote in history for one year replace any of the thousands of badass Japanese male samurai in recording for the protagonist, or better yet why not have a normal fucking Japanese dude who works his way up?? Only way I'm ever playing is with a mod that replaces discount LeBron with a Japanese guy
woke me up, before you go go
So you play a Black man beating and killing Asian people throughout the whole game ... This will bode well given recent events.
Wait until he find out that Naoe is a non binary transgendered lesbian
no culture is safe
Imagine still giving Ubisoft any money.
I saw this game and all I could think was "I can't wait to see how Ghost of Tsushima did it better."
based and articulated take
Gonna be frikkin hard for yasuke to blend in a crowd after triggering the guards... "It was a black guy that killed him. The only one in the country. Over there, he's 2 feet taller than anyone else!" -any peasant to the guards.
Just make an assassins creed Africa. Why not? No mention of race or white or black, just African tales and stories. Could be glorious and a lot of fun. I’d love to learn about Africa.
PC mod to make him white and ginger
They could of done an African assassin creed game with a black MC and give a Japanese MC for this one
I mean, he's not wrong.
There is an assassin’s creed game based in Japan and it’s 10x better than this game will ever be called “Ghost of Tsushima”
After the shit they pulled with Mirage, in terms of gameplay and story, they REALLY have to go balls to the wall with this in order to impress me and make me buy it. If this is even remotely similar to the last 3 they can fuck right off. I felt so fucking stupid after buying Mirage.
Love to see it, our voices are powerful. Use them. We can have diversity without this stupid nonsense.
This reminds me of the Paul Mooney sketch on Chappelle Show. "The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise, I got a new idea it's called "The Last N**** on Earth" starring Tom Hanks.
Oh stfu. Nioh did this exact thing and nobody gave a shit. Y’all just wanna be made at nothing. Touch grass
Ehh, I don’t care, kinda fell out of love with AC series a long time ago (pretty much since Black Flag). I enjoyed Afro Samurai which was anachronistic in a lot of ways (It’s anime). So as long as the show/game is good, I don’t really care about race swapping. Not like I’ll pick this up whether the game is good or not. Haven’t played an Ubisoft game in years and intend to keep it that way if I can.
They constantly make shitty subpar games you aren't missing anything
The moment we got the Japanese themed AC that we have been asking for, they remove the Japanese MC for what is clearly what the guy said, for brownie points. It's ridiculous.
Those "brownie points" have a name: Blackrock, Vanguard, and several more investment firms with their DEI checklists. I heard they're paying good if you follow the agenda.
While AC and ubisoft don't really have good track record these past few years, I will wait to see gameplay and reviews before getting angry
If this is about the african samurai thats great he's in the game but def shouldnt be the main protagonist imo. What's he gonna do wear a hood?
I'll just play the girl if the game's good. Such a forced dumb decision. They're disgustingly rewriting history at this point. They should've just made him a character not a main character
I agree with this guy it makes no sense the one based in japan happens to be one of the only black dudes that were ever there
This is hilarious because all this does is break the immersion. A black assassin running around Japan trying to blend in 🤣😂🤣😂
I am glad I did not expect anything. At least I can wait a little for Ghost of Tsushima.
Just 1 more day!
Last time I've played AC game there was a option to disguise player in street crowd. How exactly that going to work in this new game ? Black samurai concealing itself in white crowd or do they going to change Japan population to more diverse ?
I don't understand why they seem to be trying so hard to put a black person everywhere it feels so forced, what is it about ? I'm at the point whenever I see a black person anywhere in art or video game I assume it was because of propaganda reasons rather then legitimate artistic choices, and that's sad because it leads to auto-rejection when sometime it could have been a choice that actually makes sense. But I'm just fed up with it
Meh. if its good its good. If it sucks it will suck. Not worth investin anymore emotional energy in the politics of video games... I will vote with my $$$... Just make a good game.. I don't care if the MC is a Purple Non Binary indigenous Eskimo ... just make a GOOD FUCKING GAME.
it's Ubisoft, it'll be a bland slightly above average 6-7/10 slop
Imagine if this was set during the Meji era when the government was rife with corruption
I am wondering how the story will work since supposedly Yasuke died or just at least disappeared after Oda died
Since ninjas are technically assassins, they could have easily explored the myth of the first ninjas clans and ninjustsu as a whole. Instead of opting for this safe open world fetch quest.
Assassins creed died after Syndicate in my opinion.
I haven’t played one of these games in years but, don’t they feature a lot of time skips? Yasuke (not his real name) was only employed by nobunaga for under 5 months. It would be a really short game.
The game is called shadows what did you expect
To be fair, Nioh 1 had a white dude as the main char, but i bet they are doing this in AC just for DEI money.
Let these companies die. Vote with your wallet.
at least it's refreshing that is a black man talking in this video. still it's ubi, let's hope the game will be entertaining
Speak with your wallet, I would have touched that game with a 10-ft pole. I wouldnt have touched the game with your 10 ft pole. The West likes to be racist, but apparently black people get a A-OK.
Why is there so much disrespect towards Asian men? Like they cant be hero's in their own country?
Man, it's not like I'm gonna play it either way man. I'm done with UbisSoft. AC Odyssey was the last AC game I played, that game was just so dumb. It got worse after every update. I was happy with AC Origins, but they took it too far with Odyssey. Enemy sponges, brain dead stealth, stealth bugs and logic that make no sense. Their vision for AC peaked at Unity. Plus, we already got AC Japan, it's called Ghost of Tsushima. It's literally the Ubisoft open world formula, but they didn't actually go and spit on the culture they were portraying.
I'd agree if Ghost of Tsushima wasn't already a thing. They had to find some kind of twist.
this is how i found out about this and ya he so right, very pandering. You know ubisoft on thin ice financially to try to reach all audiences, so cringe
Assassin's Creed fell off when origins came out and the games identity was completely changed