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Yasuke was a real guy. Rascists are once again mad that reality exists and proves them wrong.
Ah but the samurai council did not grant him the rank of samurai in real life.
He was merely an armed retainer, not a samurai.
Ignore that samurai literally means retainer, that is entirely irrelevant.
He was granted a seat at the samurai council, but they did not grant him the title of samurai
Yasuke was made up by the shogun who was being controlled by the jews.
Game set in the Caribbean? Play as a welshman.
They are saying the quiet part out loud!
Also wasn’t a big chunk of AC Valhalla playing as a Norse invader in England? Idk that game was so dog shit I couldn’t get past that chapter.
The english had it coming, what with being english and all
For me, the magic sauce missing from Valhalla was the sense of living in and seeing an ancient civilization we’ll never see again.
I could still stomp around in an English bog now and it probably wouldn’t look all that different
Almost all of Valhalla was in England, because you’re operating as a raiding party. That’s the entire framing device. These people don’t even play the games that they’re losing their minds about.
not a large portion of it, almost all of it
I’m genuinely curious why anyone cares about an Assassin’s Creed game in 2024. The series has been absolute dog-water for over a decade and a half. When was the last decent one? “Black Flag”? “Brotherhood”? Sure it’s fun to see CHUDs be CHUDs, but I’m really surprised anyone even remotely cares about this series. What even is an Assassin’s Creed at this point? They are creatively vapid beyond recognition.
I’m looking forward to thinking about buying this game for $10 on sale in like 5 years and still probably not getting it
When was the last decent one?
Confusingly it’s Unity, the closest the series ever came to delivering on its initial concept, which every other game just ignores.
I couldn’t get through Unity. The gameplay didn’t really grip me, then again the gameplay loop has been flat since 3. Not “bad” exactly but very much flat. The characters were all pretty forgettable, I felt like assassin’s really jumped the shark with the “genetic memory” gimmick in the first game. It properly would have been a great or narrative tool in the third game or something. I’m not even being cynical or hater (though being a hater is a lot of fun), it just felt Assassin’s Creed has always been a cool premise with very mediocre games.
I will say the world design of Versailles felt really good and rich. Then again, for me I find Assassin’s Creed works really well for the first 2-10 hours and after that it’s charm quickly depletes.
I mean it’s never been good, but Unity gives the most direct and logical control over vertical traversal, ejects, stuff like that. Compared to the bizarre timing based stuff and secret button prompts in AC1 it’s a solid climbing system. Combat is vicious and should be avoided, the scale and detail of the city is staggering, crowd stealth mechanics actually work, crouching makes stealth actually viable. I stealthed tons of missions in it, the story is whatever but has always been.
I am a hater and AC was never good, it was always a dogshit non-replacement for Prince of Persia and AC1 is an intolerable game. The climbing works okay once you understand it (which the game never really teaches you, just tells you to hold RT) and the combat is entirely braindead. Mission structure sucks and is extremely repetitive even on PC, the whole game is trash and AC2 weirdly made it even worse. Unity’s assassination missions are rad though, it’s finally the historical Hitman Blood Money we were always promised, killing your mark without being noticed and slipping out feels SO FUCKIN GOOD
It is also a great concept totally wasted on bullshit games. How did they manage to make it so non cool??
Unity’s assassination missions are rad though, it’s finally the historical Hitman Blood Money we were always promised, killing your mark without being noticed and slipping out feels SO FUCKIN GOOD
Shame I didn’t get through it enough, I love the Hitman games and sense building tension of Hitman always hits the mark for me. A period piece Hitman is kinda all I have ever wanted from the AC titles, there are little hints here and there of it but never really deliver on that promise.
Agent 47’s game when done well really highlight the fun of building tension and the joy of setting things in place. That’s always been the fun for me in a Hitman game, is not just solving the puzzle of the “hit” but the act of setting the puzzle’s solution on to the board and seeing it all come together. The plot never did it for me, i kinda saw what they were going for, but it never hit the mark for me. Luckily the pure mechanics of a good Hitman game really carry the experience for me every time.
The climbing works okay once you understand it (which the game never really teaches you, just tells you to hold RT) and the combat is entirely braindead.
That’s what killed it for me most of the time, the act of moving around always felt kinda neat and dynamic but fightin’ dude was just “What if Batman Arkham-style combat but worse in every way? What if we made being a cool super assassin lame as hell?”
It is also a great concept totally wasted on bullshit games. How did they manage to make it so non cool??
Agreed!
unity played good but i was still mad about them just abandoning the modern day story and then at the end of unity you find out the thing you were looking for with your shitty hacker collective wasn’t even there in the past so the whole game was pointless.
The modern day story was unequivocally the worst part of previous games, so good fuck em =)
Tell me sincerely that you were invested in Desmond Whitebread and his fishface gf.
Literally everyone forgets Syndicate, follow up to unity. I thought it was fantastic.
I remember the part where they make their sockpuppet Marx say that peaceful protest is the only way
I didn’t bother cause it looked like they gutted all the fun stuff
You get a secret train base and get to meet the most libbed up version of Karl Marx. Kinda mid, but having two playable characters with one being more stealthy and the other being a bruiser was cool
Looks like they’re recycling that for Shadow.
I’m totally hyped to buy that game in like 5 years for $10 and play it for like 15 hours
And on Steam lol
I though black flag was fun.
No one cares about it except the average consumer and reactionaries. Fascists will make a million soyjak memes but they have a deeper understanding of all the lore from popular products and IPs out there than the average fan
they are saying what part out loud?
I know the twitter guy is racist and hating the fact that Yasuke is the protagonist, but what does that sentence even mean
If the Japanese game has a protagonist who is Japanese, then maybe it’s that White Nationalist slogan of “Germany for the Germans”, “Japan for the Japanese”, and so on? That typical anti-internationalist, anti-miscegenation position.
I mean that’s what the twitter nazi is about, but it doesn’t make sense in the tweet’s context: he implies that ubisoft is saying something out loud and I just don’t get it
I think there’s some nonsense going around that, I don’t know, “Big Woke”? doesn’t like Japan because Japanese developers are still based and boob-pilled. I mean it’s confused and asinine and a game of loosely associating whatever shit is in front of you, but I think that’s the underlying stuff. They won’t let you play as a Japanese man because Japan isn’t woke enough, which makes them racist and hypocrites. If I had to guess why they can rationalize being able to play as Norse, for instance, which probably isn’t woke, it’s probably because Japanese vs. Western devs is a sort of current issue for these gamergooners, so the choice to make the protagonist a Black man instead of Japanese can be contextualized into this ongoing struggle. Which is like, double fucking nonsense because the decision was probably made years ago.
damn, I am way out of the loop
thanks for the primer, comrade
I honestly think the simplest answer if he’s doing what right wingers do sometimes which is appropriate a common left critique of the right but without any of its context that makes it make sense bc they’re baby brained dipshits that can’t understand they’re trying to force a square peg in a round hole. I see them do it all the time
Isn’t the ninja Japanese?
But she’s a woman, which is horrifying
You’ll notice they said:
game set in greece, play as a greek man
True sickos out there playing as Alexios and not Kassandra.
Especially since Kassandra is the Canon protagonist
Combining misogyny and anti-blackness!
I thought gamers liked it when there are hot Japanese women in their games
Hell, hot Japanese ninja women are a trope all by themselves.
Is he… Is he accusing Ubisoft of being Hoteps who think that samurai were black? Truly a bizzare thing to say.
I will buy an Assassin’s Creed game for the first time in over a decade if the ultimate villain/leader of the templars is revealed to be Yakub
Close, in the last game it was revealed the founder of the Templar Order was none other than…
spoiler
Alfred the Great, dun, dun, DUUN! Mr. King Anglo-Saxon himself
Yakub is the bad guy in season 2 of Invincible
that would be way fucking funnier lmao.
hotep pseudohistory videogames would be a wild fucking ride
wtf is DEI?
Oh, ok, I was under the impression that DEI was some cringeworthy new slang for angry gamers to use as criticism.
It kind of is tho. Right wing weirdos are using it negatively the same way they use woke.
Oh your right-wing spidey sense is functioning correctly. DEI is the new right wing dog whistle.
1980s- Commie
1990s- Politically Correct
2000s- SJW
2010s- Woke
2020s- DEI
No way SJW is 2000s, it is more like 2012-2016 or so, then it’s “woke” up until like 2022, “DEI” as a scarecrow is 2 years old tops.
Can we please go back to commie
You’re missing CRT
it is. “woke” is too many letters so they got rid of one
Doraemon, Evangelion, Inuyasha
Anti-Japaneseists have seized control of Ubisoft. Trust the plan, comrades.
game set in america, play as native american man
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS
The anti-wokes have gone woke…
I wish these people would
for once in their pathetic livesimagine typing this much when you could just post the nword with the same effect
I don’t think he’s even the main character. The main character is the female ninja which gamers seem to also foam at the mouth. But I guess ninjas are historically accurate now. If you look in the trailer comments, you’ll see a bunch of losers who are declaring their courageous refusal to pre order a shitty game because of muh diversity
I’m curious if anyone’s ever studied the weird Madonna-whore complex that gamers have. I don’t even know if you can classify it as that, because MWC usually involves putting someone on a pedestal but gamers will freak out about one game not having hot girls then in the very next game decry the game for having hot girls. I don’t get it.
It needs to be hot girls that in no way represent a “challenge” to the supremacy of male characters. If a role is historically male, even a waifu in that position is a feminist plot to castrate the western man.
but gamers will freak out about one game not having hot girls then in the very next game decry the game for having hot girls. I don’t get it.
might be two different groups
Play as a japanese man? Their name is literally YASUKE crine
I mean a lot of people have the names Jean but probably wouldn’t call themselves French. Names aren’t a great indicator of much
yasuke is a very common name in Mozambique
