A lot has happened these past couple of months after the announcement of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Now as you all know, we are not interested in politics, which is why we haven’t touched the subject of Yasuke. However, we can’t turn a blind eye to Ubisoft’s latest lies and excuses.
Earlier today, Ubisoft issued an official statement about AC: Shadows. Ubisoft claimed that the game is fiction and that it does not have factual representations or historical characters. And, right there, Ubisoft has been caught lying.
The Assassin’s Creed Shadows team has a message for our Japanese community. pic.twitter.com/AIyWNU9YhG
— Assassin’s Creed (@assassinscreed) July 23, 2024
Let’s see what Ubisoft claimed IN ITS OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE back in May 2024.
“Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place in 16th-century Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama era. Players will play as two distinct characters, a Japanese shinobi, Naoe, and a real-life historical samurai, Yasuke.”
Ubi went one step further, stating that AC: Shadows will be the first game that will have a real-life historical character in the entire AC series. These are Ubisoft’s own words, not ours. So, Ubisoft claimed that Yasuke was a real-life historical samurai. And that’s exactly what sparked the controversy around Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
This whole thing could have been avoided if Ubisoft had not bragged about using a real-life historical samurai. But no, the team wanted to push its agenda as much as possible. And now that a lot of historians question Yasuke’s role, Ubisoft is backtracking.
The issue here is that Ubisoft has not apologized for making things up. Instead of trying to cover its lies, the team should have simply said “Sorry guys, we messed it up. Yasuke wasn’t a samurai and we got things wrong. We just hope you’ll at least enjoy the game for what it is“. Now that would be an honest apology. But oh no. Ubisoft is so proud that it cannot take the “L”.
Again, the main issue here is that at first Ubisoft was pushing AC: Shadows as a game that had Yasuke as a real-life historical samurai. And now, the team claims that the game is fiction. Now that’s one of the best backflips we’ve seen.
If you want an “Assassin’s Creed game in Japan” game, you should get Ghost of Tsushima. GoT is everything that AC: Shadows would like to be.
Finally, it will be interesting to see how the game will sell when it launches. My guess is that a lot of Assassin’s Creed fans won’t even care about such a thing. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if it hits one million sales in record time. Still, this is another lie in Ubisoft’s list!
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I get the sentiment but hasnt another japanese historian come out and say that Yasuke was a samurai now? I saw that grummz grifter back pedaling after the guy posted.
grummz is correct and the "japanesse historian" is a member of the communist party of japan and he is a member of an organization called pony whose idea is that they are funded by blackrock and its trying to bring western influence and money to japanesse companies and take them over and make them woke, the guy is a open borders globalist communist whose jump is to be a "entertainment consultant" aka to specifically say "yes western woke subversion good" so the woke hacks can take everything over.
The woke scum in charge of the press ignored all the historians that disprove their arguments and promoted the communist blackrock funded subversive who repeated the same debunked argument that was debunked months ago. "He was a samurai because he was given a house and a sword" and like everyone pointed out "so did merchants. does that mean they are samurai?"
I guess its also kinda weird because there are japanese games that depict yasuke as a samurai as well. it just seems weird that now that a western company is doing it, people want to act upset as if they were planning to buy the game despite everyone generally pooping on ubisoft and the franchise for years now.
dont those games have monsters as well?
definitely at least 2 that I’ve played and another I know about, but its still weird Japanese studios are fine doing it and no one complained then.
they are fantasy though not history.
okay if he wasnt a samurai, why would they lie and elevate him for no reason if the title and culture is so important?
You would think that something as unique/unusual in history like a "black samurai" would be common knowledge and documented everywhere in a society that was keen of keeping a record of their history.
It's not.
afro centrism. Thomas lockley who wrote the book about him lied and has his stuff removed from the university. He said in a interview with the japanese refugee organization that japan must take more refugees in and be more diverse and he knows whats that like because he is jewish. So the dude made up a story of a slave who was in japan for 15 months and his name means “the black one” and turned him into some super awesome le epic lgendary samurai that in the book he claims it could be him who brought back the head of the ruler of japan without any evidence for the sole reason of saying “you see your most important samurai was black, therefore japan was always diverse and you need to take infinite immigrants in” same as in sweden that they claimed the vikings were black and they were muslim and if you play valhala you have black vikgins and muslims in the game.
Im not hugely familiar with the AC games but arent those Black and Muslim characters part of the general international assassin order?
Because is their culture and they can mess with it whatever way the want in the same way Ubi did with the french revolution…they obviously don't take it seriously…the Fate series is a clear example of that, and that mess with historical and fantastical figures of every culture.
They don't claim to be historical authentical tho…they are very self-aware something that Ubisoft lacks.
Just to be clear, so it was also wrong when Ubisoft messed with any history outside of AC Unity in like every other game? or is it just when they get to Japan is when it becomes a problem?
alredy took out his "historic knowledge" everything he said is now just more lies
not the white guy, the hirayama guy lied as well?
he is a member of the ocmmunist party paid by a western company funded by black rock to promote western ideas and capital in japan.
so, what the guy said was not true?
why are you using manipulatory terms ?? that’s really f*** up.
what was manipulatory?
Japanese Historian Yu Hirayama:
I am pretty sure the game will be a good one, in terms of gameplay, if you can ignore the woke story.
That's the part that confounds me. I fee like so many people had already written off Ubislop and the AC games so its weird that there's such a backlash at this because the gameplay is going to be the same/similar to the ones people claim to hate. The game looks interesting enough and I don't mind playing either character but again its just crazy so many people had this reaction to it.
i cant play ubisoft games anymore they are all the same.
I personally havent played a ubisoft game outside of R6 Siege and Fractured But Whole in like the last 9ish years. Actually I did start playing XDefiant and it was pretty good apart from the start of the new season. I wanted to check out Valhalla but my friends said it was too long and not worth the slog so I was going to give this a try.
if you never played a ac game and you play this one you would think its amazing but if you play the last 3-4 you see they are exactly the same, this is the problem with ubisoft games.
Fair point, I guess im uniquely in that situation. Hopefully its not as bloated as people say valhalla was.
yea, exactly … why waste energy on this crap?
dont like it? dont play it. … like we used to do … dwindling sales number will convey the idea to these mega publishers
its like the community plays less games nowadays and spends more time comment-warring
Heck or let the game come out for the reviewers to rip to pieces if its truly bad. I know more about that saints row reboot and forspoken because people keep bringing them up instead of letting them be forgotten as bad games that reviewers also gave middling to poor reviews of. Honestly this year has showed me that a lot of the online grifters and engagement farmers really arent playing games between the people saying elden ring dlc was too hard, the stellar blade petition, woke witch hunting instead of playing/promoting good games and now complaing about ubisoft games like they havent been ubisoft games for decades now.
my dude, reviewers are walking on eg shells trying to say that woke games like concord and flintlock are bad without actually saying it or pointing out that everyone is tired of wokeness. I watched some video in which some guy read a review of elite 2 in which the reviewer says the game is so bad that next time they should throw the baby out with the bath water meaning dont make a game like this every again because the idea itself is horrible and the guy who reads the review says "i miss when they reviewed games instead of describing the game mechanics"
Well yeah, the reviewers are bought and paid for by these companies and will shill for games to get review copies you had that thot who said that having a kid while playing a game is like being disabled and in the past she said that when she worked for ign, reviews were written to get influence in the cliques in the game industry and not for consumers, then she started bashing trump, retweeted some petition to ban 6 days in fallujah because "its a muslim killing simulator" and thne she got hired by sony santa monice to write for god of war ragnacuck.
The industry is filled with those woke freaks and they are colluding with each other and they have a blacklist.
This problem cant be fixed without a complete crash.
They don’t have to walk on egg shells because the games have faults outside of these features that don’t matter. I don’t recall seeing a glowing review for any of the usual suspects. Not being able to tell what half the characters do by looking at them is probably the biggest issue imo with Concord, not because it has people of color but that’s besides the point lol. More so, I just don’t think the powers that be will let there be an actual crash. The biggest wigs still have revenue from the giant pillars of the industry between the Epics, ABK, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, etc that still sell gang busters no matter how much any community tries to organize efforts against them. People still buy Sports games micro transactions by the billions, there are probably more pre orders for GTA 6 than sales of popular games this year, and despite all complaints of performance we know the switch 2 and pokemon are gonna break records on release.
yes and i agree with you, indifference is worse than hate but if they dont know what they did wrong, then the lying scum media and activists will lie on what they did wrong and give it another shot, so more years and capital wasted and another studio in the trash.
All these companies try to prevent this by having "focus groups" telling them what consumers want but like all studies they are fake with rigged test pools and results.
This right here. Who gives a f*k about this? It all sounds like a right-wing campaign to frame any kind of diversity as some kind of revisionist nightmare. I'm disappointed that DSO covered this and I'm unfollowing.
The writer of the black samurai book has confirmed in a interview with japanesse refugee association that his grandfather was jewish and japan needs to take more immigrants.
The consultant ubisoft hired is half jewish woman who defends her mother being a hoe and wrote books on the gay relationships of budhist monks with children, like they do in the west with the catholic church.
The "historian" who said that he was a samurai and the media promoted him is a member of the community party of japan he is a globalist and pro open borders and he works for a company called pony whose idea is to get western money and influencers to japan to take over japanesse media and change them to be woke and promote wokeness and western values and make japan more diverse.
Yasuke was not a samurai he was a sword carrier, he did not enter battles with rap music and samurai armor slaughtering everyone, he did not speak japanese aside from a few words and he certainly did not master the bldae in the less than 3 years he was in japan.
So yes its all revisionist propaganda whose goal is to make japan more diverse and open borders and ruin it.
Bet you didnt know anything of the information i conveyed.
It's the japanophiles. It's a Western developer making a game about Japan, and they are losing their panties over it.
that makes it even weirder imo because I wouldnt think that japanophiles/weabs would even look at most western games let alone assassins creed of all things for anything.
have you played any ac game lately? Or any ubisoft game really.
gameplay wise I think unity had the peak gameplay and world to explore.
unity was the most repetitive.
I hate when people when use the word repetitive when it comes to video games. all video games are repetitive.
well, would you say half life is as repettive as ubislop open world games and diablo games?
using your words earlier yes it becomes as repetitive.
I hated how the protagonist would bend over like he's about to get fcked in the a*s every time you pulled your sword out though
lmao
All.
It never been good since AC2, Black Flag and Unity…
Who the f*k still buys anything with the Ubisoft logo?
You underestimate slop eaters. They sleepwalk through games, watching cutscenes and checking boxes, barely even processing what's happening on the screen while they listen to soycasts. The slop eater sees a familiar brand or logo and clicks purchase, always digital of course, they don't look at anything else, they have no understanding of what they're buying, they just know that they're "supposed to" buy it, because the shill media tells them that it's in vogue, that all of the cool people are buying the thing.
I gotta so much to say about this that i dont know where to begin, ubisoft has become worse than ea in terms of business practices, drm always online, recycled games etc. I cant enjoy their games anymore they are all the same repettive trash. If any other company made the games ubisoft announces, it would be interesting but knowing ubisoft, they are gonna be the same sht so who cares. Also they are by far the most woke company according to insiders.
When it comes to this game, in ac you always played as fictional characters because the idea was that these characters were hiding the in the shadows and were not eve mentioned from history. Yasuke could have been a side character in the game that was based on a real person, however the character that ubisoft has created is not a real person but a fictional character. He did not speak japanesse aside from a few words, he was not a samurai, he did not slay armies and entered with rap music, he did not master the sword in the less than 3 years he was in japan. Its all fake fan fiction for black exploitation. They upgraded him to afro samurai because he is black and see that as a great way to push multiculturalism and open borders to japan saying "you see japan was always diverse" In the same way they upgraded shieldmaidens who were mythological blow up dolls for vikings in valhala to epic female warriors, they turned yasuke into isakai black samurai.
Utter nonsense. All the information about him comes from 2 sentences in an ancient scroll, he was not a noteworthy figure, the guy who wrote the black samurai book is known to lie to sell books, he made everything up and edited his own wikipedia with fake sources. Studies on yasuke were faked so they pulled them from universities, the historian who said he was a samurai was a member of the communist party aka a subversive and he works for a company whose goal is to bring western esg woke capital and influence in japan so they can take over japanese media production and make it woke and western, also funded by black rock. Also the consultant ubisoft hired was a half jewish woman whose mothers was a hoe and she wrote books about the gay relationships of budhist monks with children, another subversive spiteful mutant freak who wants to destroy japanese culture out of spite for being an abnormal freak. These people are hired BECAUSE they are woke and agree with the ideology not despite of it, it doesnt just so happen they are woke, they were given those jobs BECAUSE they are woke and its a false appeal to authority.
Ubisoft messed up greatly, using wrong letters, using copyrighted designs without a permit, selling the sword from a character from one piece as yasuke's official "iconic" collectable sword, lmao, messing up seasons so they both gather rice and have blossoming trees. Just laughable.
In the west we are told yasuake is a "historical figure" which they made bisexual because the subversion must continue, in japan in the offical site they say its fictional. In the west they say only westerners complain and the japanesse dont care, in japan they say only japanesse complain and the rest of the world doesnt care.
THEY ARE LYING.
The walls are closing in for ubisoft, they wont admit they are wrong and take the L, i hope they shut down. Also Yasuke stole my bike.
100% agree bro. Ubisoft is gone too far. Hope no one buy this woke satanic garbage of game.
"satanic" yes synagogue of satan .
Don't be absurd, Goebbels.
its in the bible.
Unfortunately most of the sheep don't care and will buy the game regardless of the amount of woke trash shoved into the game.
Since you're calling out the jays, the now disgraced historian, Thomas Lockley, confirmed in a 2020 interview with the Japan Association for Refugees (yes, really) that his great grandfather is indeed one of them. Every Single Time once again…
most people have no idea about the ancient cryptos, marranos etc but they're everywhere. The vast majority of those who change names are tribesters. I could go through almost all major historical figures who are were cryptos including Kerry/Kohn and "his" cousin he ran against, bush etc etc
every conspiracy theory if looked into can be disproven, but this one, you keep finding jews everywhere.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAH EVERY SINGLE TIME.
HOLY CHRIST
You're writing books at this point, who the fck reads this?
34 people so far
Normal people don't come to this site, I think they're all your second life playmates
yet here you are
True, but I'm abnormal in another way. I'm not physically or mentally defactive like most of you here.
I think most people here are either dumb or physically below average virgins aka social outcasts. No normal human being writes or reads a comment that long.
you are indeed special.
Holy moly bro you have 15 guest votes in my screen.
50 percent of your upvotes have me blocked, it makes perfect sense though.
they are not guest votes they are people who blocked you.
Are you blind?
that last sentence got me laughing 'yasuke stole my bike' other than that. Very well written, I totally stand with you on this.
You make plenty of valid points which I think every sane person can get behind and we've already had some heated exchange about this recently. I still think most of you are reaching when it comes to this specific subject matter.
Why are people way more emotionally charged about this than all the other inaccuracies in the series' past? Why aren't all the mytho creatures in Origins a big deal? Why wasn't George Washington's DLC problematic to anyone? Or Ezio being the main lead protagonist in Revelations when that title by all your standards should have been given to a Turk or a Greek? This isn't a whataboutism. It's about keeping people in check and ensuring that they maintain that same persistent take on every other similar scenario.
In my mind, the way Yasuke is being depicted is no different from concepts like John Henry, an American folklore, which was apparently based on a real person. The idea of exaggerating and creating fictional elements on real figures has always been a thing in storytelling. While it is true that the world is becoming more interconnected due to globalisation, I do believe that most of you are reading way too much into it. If the way Yasuke is being depicted is promoting multiculturalism and open borders then the same sentiment has to be applied to a handful of other AC games in the past which had you playing non-natives in foreign lands. It's only an issue here because of Yasuke's complexion.
It's almost like as if people are just never going to be comfortable with the idea of seeing black people being depicted in more ways beyond all the stereotypical aspects we're known for like slavery, the rap culture, the gang life, primitive African tribes, etc.
Yasuke gameplay section had hip hop for music…they are mocking black people but you can't see it. Talk about stereotypes.
I was aware of that and I hated it. Not trying to say what they’re doing is perfect but I am appreciating how he’s being presented so far. He doesn’t speak in ebonics, have one of those obnoxious haircuts we see in modern entertainment, he’s intelligent, articulate, competent and appears to be of goodwill which are all the opposites of the negative black stereotypes that continues to plague modern entertainment.
He's also gay.
The design of his armor is cool, leaning more in fantasy…but everything about him is fantasy anyways. He's portrayed as a brute too…with a huge piece of wood as a weapon…not cool. He could be in Far Cry Primal with that gear…it sucks. I get that they want him to feel different than the Assassin chick, but they went with the caveman route combat wise.
At least he doesn't have the Warmonger generic haircut that every single black character has now.
Dude, i get that you want another black Assassin in the series…I'm surprised they didn't make a game with the Black Panther movie success set in ancient Africa and i would be angry is the protagonist of said game was not black/from Africa. At least Bayek is Egyptian, a medjay…that was cool.
yeah the armor is good.
bro you're a latino, why do you even care lmao
they aint mocking sht, they are appealing to them in order to avoid lawsuits.
Because i care about humanity's history? because i don't want to be lectured in a piece of entertainment? because i don't tolerate revisionism of any kind? is that enough? or being latino suddenly makes me unable to have an opinion about anything?
nah but it aint ur beef juanito. Let them square it out with their peers ffs. #loco
"Why are people way more emotionally charged about this than all the other inaccuracies in the series' past? "
because westerners are weebs who care about the honor of japan more than their own subverted countries. The enjoy media from japan and dont want them ruined, their own countries are ruined and they defend japan as a form of cope, i am still mad with what they did in odyssey but to be fair there is a whole lot more dirt on this game than odyssey.
"Or Ezio being the main lead protagonist in Revelations when that title by all your standards should have been given to a Turk or a Greek? "
You mean the area that the byzantine empire was locate which was part of the roman empire? Ezio is italian. He didnt go to the other side of the planet, he moved a little to the east.
". If the way Yasuke is being depicted is promoting multiculturalism and open borders then the same sentiment has to be applied to a handful of other AC games in the past which had you playing non-natives in foreign lands. It's only an issue here because of Yasuke's complexion."
In case you didnt notice it took years for people to notice the subversion in older games and have enough of it, many who called it early were banned. It is precisely becuase he is black that we are not allowed to talk about it and they hide behind his blackness as a form of defense. Stop engaging in this this woke trickery. At least in the case of origins they tried to push a bit we was kangxz with bayak but he was nubian so it can stand on its own. Then you had arabs working together with vikings in valhala only to shove arabs as the main faction in mirage and now this. The subversion has been going slowly for years, now its so blatant that anyone can see it.
Fair enough about the Japan comment. I can see that being plausible. Figured most just have this unnatural attachment to the Japanese people which I sure some of them do.
As for the Revelations statement, even though the Byzantine Empire crumbled decades before the events which unfolded in that game, it still doesn’t answer my question as to why the game did not star a Turk or Greek protagonist since they were the dominant race in that region during that time period. In fact, it should have just been given to a Turk since people feel the need to have their race represented in the countries which these games take place in. Sure, it may not be as homogeneous as Japan but you get my drift.
My only argument about Yasuke was that he has every right to be represented as a samurai warrior since these games were never truly about trying to get everything accurate. Plus, it just makes for a more compelling story over him being a slave or servant. Especially in a game called Assassin’s Creed. But I will admit that Ubisoft has certainly messed up for sure by making him the poster child of the game when they could have just reserved him for a standalone expansion pack or some large DLC kinda like the ones found in The Witcher 3. What they’re doing here just doesn’t appear to be in good faith. It’s a shame because the whole idea can work and can be received well by most communities but they had to make some of the the most illogical choices known to man.
I don’t have any rebuttal about the last paragraph. I do think there is this bias and stigma in the industry towards white and perhaps Asian people as well. I’ve known this for a long, long time that there’s been this subversive push going on. In fact I’ve been complaining about how masculine women have been getting in games since the first Mass Effect came out. However, in Mirage there were hints of other races like the one black guy who appears to be a prominent character. I wouldn’t know for sure since I haven’t played it. But the Middle East has always been relatively diverse when it comes to religion and ethnicity. Especially since the Arab-Muslim slave trade since the 7th century up until the 20th. So it would be surprising to not see plenty of non-Arabs in that game.
Because romans were able to walk freely while greeks were enslaved and turks were colluding with the templars .
” he has every right to be represented as a samurai warrior since these games were never truly about trying to get everything accurate”
yasuek means the black one, he was did not have a family name, he did not wear armor and go to battles with rap music, he did not master the blade in 15 months in japan and he surrendered when his master was killed instead of falling on his sword dishonoring his family name, which he didnt have and then they concluded he was not a threat to anyone so they gave him back to the Jesuits where he disappeared from history living the rest of his live like a slave.
He had no rights, he was a pet not a legendary samurai that liberal jews like thomas lockley upgraded to promote “black empowerment” and “afro centrism”. Just like the “woman king” was meant to promote feminism which is why they name it “woman king” when in reality they got absolutely destroyed in battle and they enslaved their own people, disgusting woke white washing of history.
“Plus, it just makes for a more compelling story over him being a slave or servant.”
which is why he shouldnt have been the main character but a side character like the older games.
“in Mirage there were hints of other races like the one black guy who appears to be a prominent character. I w”
which is not that accurate along with how the main character’s mentor is a woman….in ancient islamic iraq…lmao.
Because no one can really pinpoint stuff like that in history but one thing anyone can agree on for certain, there was no black in a yellow land. Do you have any idea how hard it was to get inside the feudal Japan? Bro what are you on about? A BLACK dude? A chompy huge black dude? DO you have any idea how africans looked back then? Do you know why african americans look like silver backs nowadays? It's their nutrition, full of steroids. I lived in the states 8yrs ago and got to 210lbs. Never have i ever in my entire life as a 6'3 190cm person gained so much weight from fruits and vegetables.
Back on subject, that is fking absurd and fictional and since everyone knows how woke UBI chosing a female and a black dude as main protagonists are, we want them to suffer for their inconsistencies and greed. I bet my as$ they would make her lesbian if they could. Anything to pass that green yayo.
"there was no black in a yellow land"
Well except for Yasuke of course. But yes there are no documentations about other blacks living there to my knowledge.
"Do you know why african americans look like silver backs nowadays?"
I don't know. It's kinda like how Ron Perlman also looks like a silverback more or less. Genetics perhaps? I don't know if I see a grand difference in the way people looked back then compared to now and you gotta bear in mind that not all blacks look alike. I know the kinds you're talking about and I look nothing like them. I don't have the same round flat nose, large nostrils and lips, etc.
Well as I've mentioned before in another comment, this is not a hill I'm willing to die on because I see the issues coming from all sides but I also see the plausibility of everything. I know there's an agenda behind games like this which intends to divide our world. That there are elites who wishes to instil a one world government where no country can have any say on their own future. It's why they desperately want Russia to fall and hope to come after China through Taiwan. I'm aware of all these things but my arguments are not in defence of Ubisoft. Ubisoft can crash and burn for all I care. They ruined themselves the moment they folded into the whole MeToo BS and starting ushering generic terms like "toxic work culture" and began cancelling all the great talents who were responsible for their legacy titles and replaced them with all these soulless bots. My only focus has always been about the argument concerning the historical accuracy of the AC franchise.
Very well said, I top my hat to you sir. No oversight on your part, I agree on all points.
Extremely well said. Articulate, eloquent, and hopefully encourages the reader to be introspective.
I doubt anyone cares about Rome or George Washington at all, while japanese culture has been spreading heavily through media, so most people would want culture accurate content.
Both the time period and Samurais are very beloved across the world honestly, which is why Ghost of Tsushima been quite the success, being one of the best selling of this year despite releasing years ago.
That’s a fair statement. I’m certainly not oblivious to what all these progressives in power are trying to do. They can’t stand tradition. Especially ones which have lasted for many centuries or millenniums. They want everything in our entertainment to fit the same generic, soulless and ugly archetype.
I get that the Ezio and George Washington examples aren’t as out of place compared to what’s going on with Shadows. Their intentions alone makes it off-putting. But as I’ve stated in a few other comments before, this idea could have worked and could have been better received if it weren’t for the way Ubisoft handled it. They knew people wanted an actual Japanese protagonist that fits the bill of a samurai assassin. Yasuke’s implementation would have been greatly effective if they had just reserved this moment for a standalone expansion pack kinda like what they did with like Freedom Cry.
if they wanted to use an actual foreigner that became a samurai they could've used William Adams; but, I guess old Billie's is a little to white for their agenda.
The last game was a white guy so I guess they wanted to figure a way to mix it up.
I think the first Nioh game did that. Probably did not want to copy or be accused of copying it. I would have been fine with it, though.
they couldn’t just use the famous Hattori Hanzō instead.
tranneehukerwood goes out of its way to replace any white males, who are not tribesters or brick mason scum, with other ethnicities I've seen that with a gone with the wind spoof on a nick or diz show where clark gable was replaced w a big darky, happens all the time.
if they wanted to use an actual foreigner that became a samurai they could've used William Adams; but, I guess old Billie's is a little to white for their agenda.
I'll just play Like a Dragon: Ishin, I hope Kenzan eventually makes it to PC too.
you can play it on an emulator with a partial fan translation.
Thanks for the tip!
I finished Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth recently.
Yeah I plan to go through all the games in the series, I just got done with Judgment: excellent game.
"Shut up and swallow our cosmopolitan, leftist propaganda, when we are caught it's 'a fiction' and free speech, and when you defend your tradition & race it's racist & evil"
"cosmopolitan"
thats one way to say it, i prefer rotless cosmopolitan jedeobolsevick.
Hey pal, can you ask @Ba why he blocked me? I never had any beef with the guy and always upvoted him because he spoke the hard truth. Maybe he was doing a mass blocking and I got caught in the friendly fire?
I got you bro, let's ask the guy
@Shieftain is asking
He actually downvoted when I said Nintendo was not as bad as the (((USA))) corpos, and a few "IP" rules was necessary.
Probably the current IP thing should be completely obliterated.
But in a sane society the pure parasiting should be punished.
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Thanks for the unblock. I guess I should've given a reply instead of just leaving a downvote on that comment of yours. IIRC that comment was made on an article where nintendo handed out another DMCA notice so anyone who appeared to downplay what nintendo did received mass downvotes. I do agree that IP laws do need to be revised, but there needs to be a better balance and not too much power given to whoever can afford the better lawyers. Currently in the world of corporate law, it's the corporations and not the random group of nerds working on a fan project in their free time that can afford to pay for "justice."
nah nah, i blocked that dkwad a long time ago. You can't reason with him. @disqus_PExGrQ9scC:disqus must've had a valid reason. When Shitanistan is on a role, it's best to leave him be.
tribesters way, free and open when they are not in control then later when they take over via criminal ways it's all this is too much free and open and we need to "protect you" with natl security black hole carte blanche.
hey why did you block Shieftain? not nice
I unblocked him.
The fact that there are people defending this insanity, or worse; people who believe the trophy slave, one of the Oda's personal collection was actually a Samurai, tells everything about the modern day video games industry.
The vast majority of video games today are not video games; they are Propaganda, and by-product of ongoing political, psychological warfare. Nothing but a bunch of weapons to destroy and subjugate your mind. And those people are eagerly, enthusiastically ready to gobble up every single of those toxic cultural waste passionately.
Political invaders who masquerading as tourist, morally and intellectually defunct dimwits who masquerading as cynical edgelord, and literal paid shills all blended together, accelerating the degeneration of video games and eventual crash of the industry; and they wouldn't even blink an eye or remotely care about it when it actually happen. They will just move to other industry to burn, like Huns or Mongols.
If you're even remotely not against this, or have gladly played or bought any recent Ubisoft 'Games', you are more than the problem of this industry; you are part of the giant cancerous tumor cells devouring the entire system. The problem was so bad those cancer cells forced John into writing a damn political editorial on DSOGaming, one of the most apolitical gaming blog in the entire western hemisphere.
Journalists, developers, and wokists. You degraded our beloved hobby and art into despicable and disgusting political propaganda.
There will be special place in hell for you.
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people have said gaming was going to crash for decades, its just not going to happen. i think the only way for people to get past this is to just start ignoring these games and to just promote and play the good games like the Baldurs Gate 3s, Elden Rings and Cyberpunks of the industry as well as smaller studios.
its crashing right now my dude, one studio after the other makes woke games, they flop and they lay off people.
These big comapnies lay off people regardless brother. ABK, and Microsoft had some of their most profitable years in history and still laid off thousands of workers. Embracer closing studios left and right for making the same games they’ve always made. Baldurs Gate 3, a very woke coded game hasnt seen an ounce of this kind of behavior yet.
microsoft bought so many studios only to shut them down and fire everyone also baldurs gate 3 wokeness was added in the late stages of development, act 3 is most of the wokeness and yet despite that the company said they are done with the game and dnd because of wizzard of the coast.
Tbf with as great as BG3 was for Larian, im sure whatever they go into next will be huge as well. I think it more shows that the corporatism and consolidation since they all do these same practices but these AAA Indies are able to deliver much better experiences and representation.
Concord is just one recent example.
I also predict the studio that made the recently released SBI-infested flintlock game will be in dire straits very soon given the abysmal steam chart numbers. It peaked at 648 concurrent players lmao. They're so done.
That's a lower budget Flospoken, of course it will kill the studio…not with a mind but with a pistol.
grummz posted a picture of the credits and he said the ones in blue are getting fired. That was most of them.
It is already n gayme pass.
or flintlock
I hope this will be a flop too. But knowing there are lots of sheeps that are ignorant or don't care that will buy the game regardless, pisses me off
like i said the dude was a sword carrier for his master, he carried his golf club. Is like how they upgraded the shieldmaidens from mythical blow up dolls for the vikings who went to valhala essentially the 72 virgin thing from islam into the "Le epic feminist warriors" lmao, they did the same with wonder woman when she was initially a bdsm kink character. So the sword carrier trophy beast slave is now "LE EPIC TOTALY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE AWESOME SAMURAI THAT MASTERED HIS SWORD IN 2 YEARS DUE TO HIS MELANIN ADVANTAGE AND SLAYED ARMIES"
COME ON.
GODDAYUUUM
Why is everyone writing essays now
Ubisoft has some of the flakiest executive management that I have ever seen in gaming. No surprise that they have made an utter a*s out of themselves yet again.
I 100% agree with John on that point. If Ubisoft had just admitted from the start that they built the game around this Yasuke character knowing he wasn't a samurai because they wanted a game about a black samurai, and apologized for it, then the backlash wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad.
Unfortunately not only are they waffling on apologizing for having done this in the first place, but they're still waffling on admitting that Yasuke wasn't even a real samurai and are trying to leave it ambiguous as if it isn't actually known for certain whether or not he was.
My prediction is that the game will be a flop in Japan. Ubisoft has already alienated much of their Japanese audience with this insanity, and I don't know if they'd be willing to forgive them. Japanese history and culture is very important in Japan, and Ubisoft (a foreign company) just got done sh*tting on it, and then offered up this half-apology half-excuse PR statement, and I just don't see enough Japanese gamers being willing to forgive them for it.
As for western markets, anyone who was already considering buying the game who is OK with the creative liberties that Ubisoft has taken will probably still get it and play it. Anyone who cares about historical accuracy, who is annoyed about the obvious DEI themes that drove the character design and story, or who have gotten tired of Ubisoft's garbage games will probably pass on this one.
Well done! japanese folks. Cancel this game and show these shi**y evil corps the power of culture. It will be a victorious day! the day nobody buys this propaganda trash and they will fall rock bottom, on a verge of bankruptcy after looting innocent players.
Feel like people get lost in all the debate of the historicity of this garbage when the entire goal behind of all of this to uproot native homogenous populous and to say that Japan deserves to have infinity Africans imported into their country because they have always been a part of their culture, that's what people really should be talking about.
exactly its BLACKED propaganda for japan, jpaan has been targeted for replacement.
You know sh*t really hit the fan when even John can't ignore the controversy anymore.
John likes them clicks, and we like John for giving us a place to discuss this crap with relative freedom
I hope Star Wars Outlaws and AC: Shadows fail. Then maybe Ubisoft will get the real message and learn to stop pandering to DEI lunatics.
What is DEI about Outlaws? Is it just the woman MC?
you never read my posts?
The real actress has boobs, in the model they removed them and made her ugly, so the main character is a woman, the bounty hunter chasing her is a woman, the bombmaker she is looking for is a woman, the legendary gunslinger she recruits is a woman, the queen and her bodyguard also women, the random stormtrooper she uses her purse puppy to distract is a woman as well, the imperial officer escorted by two storm troopers is also a woman, the jawa she does a quest for in the latest trailer is also a woman and the pirate leader in the same quest is also a woman.
"THE FORCE IS FEMALE" Say the middle aged lesbians who run diisney star wars and made the acolyte.
Well this is exactly what this is as well a star wars disney approved game.
I havent really tried to engage with a lot of Star Wars stuff since the last movie. I watched the first season of Boba Fett and then Season 2 for the Bill Burr episode. The other games EA put out haven’t really interested me as much as this one, So I guess itll be my litmus test on how bad everything’s gotten.
sadly judging by valhala npcs will still buy this one.
I hope all Ubisoft employees starve to death.
If I was a betting man which I kind of am, I'd bet everything I have and my life on the fact that "Jeremy" here is a third world sh*tskin.
1-denial of being brown (refer to 3 to 10)
2-denial of being a Muslim (refer to 3 to 10)
3-constant rant about Jews
4- kkk avatar only because he hates jews
5- deep knowledge of jew lore
6- accusing everyone of being a jew
7- a username that Indian scammer would choose
8-third world insults and statements
9-easy to trigger
10- talks sh*t about jews if you bring up the fact that muhammed was a child whisperer
You slime ball mongrel what if he is a Arab. There is nothing wrong with that and even if everybody was a twisted freak like you and believed there is something wrong with being a Arab he was born a Arab. He didnt choose that but you chose to be what you are. A waste of human dna that should be locked away in a cell somewhere and forgotten about. I bet your family is so proud of you. hah. fecking mongrel
You ugly piece of brown sh*t, shoo
Does your mommy know you say things like that on the internet? You know she is worried about you getting beat up so much at school. Dont make her worry so much about you. isn't it already bad enough that she has to have a mongrel piece of sh#t for a son. Dont make your mommy cry for you mongrel.
No, she actually doesn’t. I’d kill to go back to school and get into a fight with my friends again. You don’t realize how fun life is when you’re at that age.
Games and movies were also much better back then too. No sh*tskins, ugly female protagonist, tr4nny or any other cr4p.
you must be new here dagoat is a notorious troll.
Calling that filthy mongrel a troll is a insult to trolls.
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Sure…compare a series like Guilty Gear which is absolutely over the top fantasy with a series that claims authenticity in a historical fiction using a real-life person in a fictional role for DEI points. This is idiotic.
Since when are games "authentic history" ?
Somehow it's fine if Japan represents Samurais as dark-skinned. But when a Western company does it, it's suddenly a major problem? I can smell weeb from a mile away and it stinks.
Since the first one? check what authenticity means.
Japan can deal with their culture whatever they want, is theirs after all…what kind of argument is that? are you slow? you are calling me weeb while using anime characters as examples…are you r3tarded?
Yeah, no. Japan has done just a bit too much raping and slaughtering in their history to claim that their "history" only pertains to them.
You think any culture would put their darkest aspects into their art and show it to the world? of course they would focus on the positives…what are you? 10? Hollywood does the same with every movie that focuses on amurica!!!
Japan's history denialism goes a lot further than just avoiding games.
Japan has government-approved history textbooks that completely deny the Nanjing Massacre even happened.
Again, your point?
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okay what about Nioh or Samurai Warriors?
The games that are obvious over the top fantasy? you are killing demons and other beast from japanese folklore in those.
Samurai Warriors is a musou…not realism there using historical figures as fighting characters basically.
Japan can mess with their culture whoever they want in the same way the west does with theirs.
Or are you going to tell me that Washington was hanging around with a native assassin during the civil war? the key difference there is that Connor is fictional so of course you can do whatever you want with him.
You don’t think its still weird they chose to call him Samurai? Like its really something they didnt have to do and it wouldnt have changed those games at all if they addressed him any other way.
I just don't understand why they claim to do all the historical research just to end up calling a minor historical curiosity like Yasuke a samurai when is not something set in stone at all.
Like i said, if the dude was just an NPC that gives you quests like other historical figures in previous games nobody would care…but all of the sudden they chose a real person as a protagonist in a franchise were the Assassin player before always was 1) fictional and 2) representative of the setting or native.
Of course you have the native shinobi, but nobody cares, let's be honest (i would rather have the game being just her, but that doesn't sell according to Ubisoft).
This is just a poor attempt of revisionism with pandering on the side.
its honestly super crazy how no one cares about the japanese shinobi you can actually play as. like she really is a shadow after the story trailer makes it seem like she actually has the larger role in the narrative and story too.
To me is just Ubisoft being Ubisoft having no faith in their female characters, but the franchise didn't have a compelling character regardless of their genitalia since…Bayek?
Or maybe most players prefer to play as males in a setting were a male warrior makes more sense, since most of them are males therefore i can't blame Ubisoft for their choices, as much as i don't like the company.
So you wanna forget about the Apple of Eden and every other sci-fi/fantasy elements from the franchise since the very first game? Like how Desmond, through Ezio, discovers Minerva, a non-human character from the species who were responsible for creating the Apple of Eden. You guys are reaching by creating one excuse after another but we can play this game all day long.
That just such a dumb argument. Yes the series always had fantasy elements…in the background.
When it comes to recreate the simulation of the historical setting it always was grounded and trying to recreate the "real thing"… from the city to the Assassin outfit. that explains all the research behind it they claim to do with historians and so on.
Is really not that hard to understand my man.
You're still ignoring what they did with Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla. Those games weren't pushing all the fantasy elements in the background. The backlash for those were nowhere near what we're seeing here.
Again, Ezio, an Italian man, had no reason to play the main role in Revelations by your standards. Believe me, if they just went with a random black guy instead of Yasuke for Shadows we'd still be having this conversation. If they used Ezio as an example (or any European dude) for this game nobody would be complaining. People are mad because of Yasuke's complexion. They can't tolerate it.
And those games were at the earliest points in civilization of the series, so liberties are acknowledged even in game, Valhalla is basically a joke that nobody takes it as a representation of real vikings…
You really are trying to play the racist card in a series that has characters of all the races and nobody cares…really?
People would be mad if they use a hispanic too (in a society as homogeneous as feudal Japan every race but asian would be weird as a choice for the protagonist race), but at least that character would be fictional.
You really don't understand what people are arguing about.
I understand perfectly well I wholeheartedly relate to those sentiments but you continue to ignore what I say. I already mentioned that if they were to replace Yasuke with a completely fictional black dude it would still be a problem. And as I've mentioned, retainers are samurai more or less. They probably just don't have the same privileges as a high ranking samurai but they are samurai nonetheless. People are blowing this out of proportion. The whole timing is just terrible because of all the woke crap in our entertainment.
Oh i get it, but people wanted a AC game set in Japan since the first/second game…and once they have it, they go with the unusual choice.
Suddenly Ubi cares more about african representation over asian representation it seems.
The debate of the black slave being a samurai is dumb, he wasn't (call him retainer or a pet, i don't care he was not a samurai)…Ubi would save all this trouble it at least make him an Assassin…still would be dumb but it would be more in line with the lore of the Creed at least, but they choose being polemic and now are taking the consequences of it…i honestly hope this game flops just like the Star Wars game, Ubisoft is a tumor.
It feels like a kick in the balls man.
"Oh i get it, but people wanted a AC game set in Japan since the first/second game…and once they have it, they go with the unusual choice."
And that is something I completely sympathise with and I can get behind 100% but I'm just not happy with the way people have reacted to the whole thing. The concept of making Yasuke a samurai warrior in an Assassin's Creed game could work in theory and they should have saved it for a standalone expansion pack. I'm not denying that Ubisoft has messed up here but I don't think there is anything disingenuous about what they're doing just yet. All I'm saying is that people should just wait it out first before coming to the grand conclusion that Ubisoft hates Asians and want to instil further division in our world. It's easy to assume what the end result will be because of the way things are and I get that but it's not the end of the world. Even if they have fumbled you still have other countless games set in Feudal Japan that feeds into what you would prefer to see.
Again, a retainer is a samurai. Let's not try to redefine what retainer is because you guys have managed to successfully fool most of us, myself included. Either way, it will be interesting to see what comes out of this game once it's released and how the world will react to it.
A retainer was the equivalent of a caddy in golf, keep using wikipedia as your main source of information. Yasuke could work in the main game as quest giver NPC, or yeah…a DLC when they can go all out…that's not reality so is pointless to talk about what if.
The argument of wait for the game to be out to get an opinion is beyond r3tarded, what do you think all that money wasted on marketing for an AC game is?
“A retainer was the equivalent of a caddy in golf”
Great! Because you said it I now believe it. Retainers aren’t whatever it is you’re making them out to be. They had countless roles, being a samurai was one of them but their roles were indeed mostly administrative. Yasuke is a big mystery to all of us which is why his depiction as a samurai can be just as valid as him being a slave or a farmer. It really does not matter in the end. His existence in Japan is a remarkable one to tell and giving it a hint of folklore isn’t doing Japan any injustice since the Japanese have already done it themselves numerous times.
My point about telling people to just wait and see is that you don’t know how the whole thing will play out. All you know is that you don’t like what you’re seeing. There has been many cases in the past that not everything is as it seems. Yasuke and Naoe will undoubtedly be the main heroes of this whole game but we don’t know how well they’ll be presented on screen other than the samples we’ve seen thus far. Assassin’s Creed Jade may not be a mainline AC game but its set in Ancient China and you play a Chinese protagonist. So it’s not like as if Ubisoft is Anti-Japanese in any way. Although I only just heard that the game got cancelled or something.
They wanted to tell a unique spin on Japanese history with a real -life figure who most people didn’t even know existed. All I’m saying is that people just need to give it a chance. Hopefully because of this backlash Ubisoft will perhaps try to make amends by giving people what the want in the future. As for now, there’s nothing they can do about it.
Are you a Ubisoft employee? you read like you are begging people to buy your game. The only remarkable thing about that slave is that he was black in feudal Japan…really man? that's all there is for you? as long as he is black is great, so facking sad.
A retainer was not a samurai, if they were the same then the distinction is meaningless…but you want your black samurai with japanese people bowing at every step he does like he was Nobunaga himself because you need the fantasy in your head being portrayed in a facking videogame…you are pathetic dude.
There's nothing unique about Ubisoft or the stories and games they create, they don't know that word. Don't make me laugh Joe Rogan.
Funny, I’m currently watching a Joe Rogan podcast but paused to see these comments. I wish I was an Ubisoft employee, at least during the golden years when they used to make great games. Games that apparently mean nothing to you because their company has always been crap.
Listen man, I have no interest to die on this hill. I’m just merely pointing out how silly a lot of you guys sound. When I see people spewing low IQ drivel it triggers me and I feel the need to chime in. If the game ends up being terrible it’s not the end of the world for me. I have a backlog of over a 1000 games I have yet to play so the idea of this game flopping doesn’t concern me one bit. I just love challenging people whenever I see flaws in their arguments, that’s all. We can agree to disagree about the whole retainer thing but you are wrong lol.
You can keep asserting the idea that I want to see Yasuke presented in such a way for whatever perverse reason but I already said before that I like unique storytelling. Especially ones which challenge standard conventions. The concept of what appears to be the only black guy who lived among the Japanese during Feudal times and becomes a samurai warrior is a really intriguing plot for me and is something I know can work for various forms of entertainment. Because he’s based on a real person it makes it more plausible and not entirely random.
Again, the history books has very little to say about him so it’s not for you or me to decide what his day-to-day life entailed. I know you’re pleading to God hoping that he’s no more than a shoe cleaner or, better yet, a slave. You want to assert your views as a fundamental fact but I’m here to tell you that you weren’t there at the time to witness who he truly was. This is why I keep saying that his depiction should not matter in any shape or form. But it is cool to visualise him as a samurai in a game that’s not meant to be historically accurate to begin with. It’s all make-believe and designed to be fun and not to be taken literally. It’s like how the producers behind the Zelda games talked about how they don’t want their stories to have any deep philosophical meanings even though they still put a certain emphasis in their lore.
I’m gonna leave you with this video I found on X taken from the first AC game which goes against all your claims that these games have always tried to be accurate and that they were never about trying to alter history or create “what if” moments: https://x.com/ClaudioACSy/status/1815776169347694692
you mean the ones that they ditched for focusing more in the setting's story?
So all of a sudden it’s no longer canon? Those who are coming late into the franchise will be playing the first few games and come across all these moments and will be left with all kinds of impressions. Like it or not, it’s still part of the lore. It’s in all the Wikis and videos you can find on YouTube covering these games.
i once again repeat that the modern era stuff and the templar stuff is ditched for focusing more in the setting of wherever the games take place.
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Do you truly believe that people wouldn't blow it out of proportion if they didn't use Yasuke but instead a completely fictional black guy? Give me a break with that nonsense. George Washington did some ridiculous things in ACIII's DLC which didn't align with actual history. Why didn't you complain about it back then? Thought so.
If it doesn't matter, why they didn't create a fictional "insert any race other than asian" character like in previous games? why choosing a real "black samurai".
Yes. the DLC was bonkers…and i laugh at it for how stupid it was…that was americans telling their OWN version of history (history that i would assume is well known anyways, not like the case of Yasuke)…so i don't see the problem there, nobody took it seriously.
You have other games portraying black samurais, nobody cares because the games don't take it seriously because the notion itself is silly. It clashes when you are trying to recreate a grounded feudal Japan.
Go back to twitter, f4ggot.
Who said they were trying to created a grounded Feudal Japan? This game isn't Ghost of Tsushima. Why is it up to you or anyone to decide how Ubisoft should depict their culture? Where was this outrage when they went crazy with ancient Egypt? If they made this game ultra futuristic and threw in elements that doesn't align with modern or historical Japan would that be an issue for you?
The AC franchise has never cared about trying to get anything 100% right and the whole Yasuke situation is the least problematic thing they've ever done. It's just people like you can't handle seeing a black hero in foreign lands which you feel the need to protect for some nonsensical reason. Japan has every right to complain about it but I'm sure there are plenty of people there who are actually chill with it but they just aren't being covered.
EVERY SINGLE GAME previously tried to recreate the historical setting ffs and now all of the sudden they go full on fantasy? don't make me laugh.
I can understand that the further you go back in time the more liberties you can take…but we are talking about feudal Japan here, there's plenty of historical material to do something more or less accurate when it comes to setting. People were mocking Bayek in the Origins reveal so i don't see how the reaction to Yasuke is a surprise to you, you must be new to the internet.
I can handle a "black hero in a foreign land" with no problems (Origins is my favorite RPG AC), just no try to tell me that really happen, you do it by not using a real person you revisionist moron.
They had dozens of real samurais to pick, but they pick the "black one" because? why are you so defensive about it? just because he was black? the reason that make Yasuke stand out and "famous"?
You are so dense, you must be made of mercury.
Provide me examples of elements that are full-on fantasy in Shadows beyond Yasuke's depiction. We've yet to see any mythological creatures in the game and I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to go down that route once again.
I understand the nature of the series becoming more and more ridiculous throughout the years and would prefer if they go back to the more grounded elements prior to ACIII's DLC. But my argument is directed an the inconsistencies from people like yourself who were never this emotionally charged at all the examples I've already mentioned. Yes there may have been some backlash at Bayek's introduction but it's a far cry from what we're seeing here. It's always whenever it's a black man people get mad. Never with an Indian or whoever else.
I'm not being defensive on the idea of a black protagonist set in Feudal Japan. It wouldn't matter to me if Ubisoft were fold and cancel the game due to the backlash and I never get to play it. Like always, folks like yourself read into everything and create your own assumptions out of that. That's not my problem.
You ask why couldn't they just use any other well known samurai figures. Why did they role the dice on Yasuke? My question to you is why not? They could have used a descendant of Ezio for all I care, as long they can make it interesting and engaging. The thing is, nobody would complain anywhere as near to the level we're seeing with Yasuke if they went with a European guy instead.
My issue is not necessarily a matter of trying to defend the concept of a black samurai but to point out the hypocritical nature of people, specifically Westerners. Even if they were to throw him in as a standalone DLC kinda like what we saw with Freedom Cry it would still be enough to stir up pandemonium. We all know why that is and I've already mentioned it before.
You are aware that shinobis weren't a thing right? they were just what we would call "terrorists"…they didn't have a uniform and wear all black doing ridiculous ninja things.
They were just dudes doing sabotaje in civilian clothes or "cortesans" taking information out of big heads while doing their "work".
But your friend Yazuke stole the female protagonist attention so nobody cares about her even her concept is unrealistic, but at least she's not real and you can buy her as an Assassin at least.
Your fixation on race tells me all about you.
"Your fixation on race tells me all about you."
My fixation on race is based on the obsession people have with Yasuke. People not only have a problem with Yasuke's (allegedly) fictional representation but they've made it very clear that they hate the whole concept of a black samurai when they were perfectly fine with it in the past. Nobody was having a hissy fit over the Yasuke anime Netflix series from 2021. The Japanese have always depicted him as a samurai but when the French do it it's a problem. Ok.
Btw I just found out that retainers are samurais so people once again are purposefully misleading things just as a way to brush aside any positive historical facts about black accomplishments. They've done this with the Tuskegee Airmen and I'm sure they've done it with plenty of other things.
Why are black people always playing the victim card, is so sad.
Genius, there's more of a reaction/uproar in this depiction of Yasuke because there's more eyes into it because AC is the biggest Ubisoft franchise…and his inclusion as a protagonist goes against what the series did in the previous 10+ games.
You need an AC game with a black samurai for racial validation, is pathetic.
Is not a problem of race, the problem is how transparent Ubi choice was to bring controversy thanks to over a decade of identity politics.
What bloody victim card? I'm saying it as it is. Yasuke's official trailer has 2M views whereas Assassin's Creed Shadows World Premiere trailer has 9.1M. I think it's safe to say that the overall reception between the two can still be compared.
Like I said before, if they went with a descendant or a white European student of Ezio and made him the face of ACS and depict him as a samurai warrior and all that jazz you wouldn't be anywhere near as angry or emotionally fuelled as you are right now. Where is the lie or the victimisation in that? I'm just pointing out the harsh bitter reality of things which is that white Westerners incredibly intolerant when it comes to things like this.
His inclusion is a drop in the ocean compared to all the other ridiculousness that has happened in the series' past. You're more accepting of giant snakes and minotaur bosses than you are of the unusual take of making a black man the main protagonist in a game set in Feudal Japan. Your statement would have held some ground if Ezio didn't step one foot in Constantinople since during that time the land was occupied by the Turks and Greeks. There would be the odd travelling merchants here and there but that's about it. Ubisoft could have certainly handled it in a much better way but not in the way which I know you guys would have liked it, which is to make him a useless background asset.
FFS i already told you that any race but an asian is questionable for the protagonist as a feudal samurai. I already told you that you find a black Assassin in Adewale and as far as i know, nobody has a problem with him…hell the whole franchise is a celebration on how different races are portrayed as heroes in their setting, the whole point of the Creed is the value of freedom over anything else that could divide humankind.
Ezio travelling to Constantinople is a continuation of his history that started in Italy, his home country, what kind of bs are you trying to pull with that?
You keep bringing race when i already told you TWICE is not the main issue when it comes to Yasuke reaction.
Right. I agree. However, if the game suddenly starts throwing all kinds of mythological creatures at you, like what we’ve seen in the past numerous times from this franchise, then your argument will no longer have any bearing. We’ll end up with a game that’s not doing anything particularly differently than what we already saw with Nioh.
I hate that they put mythological creatures since Origins (and at least, that was masked as an hallucination in the main game) as creations of the Izu in the simulation, but in context they are part of the simulation they aren't portray as a real event.
We are talking about feudal Japan here, Yasuke was real…the role they are puting him is not…not what bs they could put in ancient civilizations that can take huge liberties. BIG difference.
Nioh comparison is stupid, the series since the first game is pure fantasy with not a single interest in portraying any historical authenticity.
Fair enough but we don’t know for sure who Yasuke was because his history wasn’t properly documented. So to complain about his samurai role is just as ridiculous as claiming that he was a slave. Both can be right at the same time or neither could be right at all.
You are basically crapping in all the work and research historians do…it doesn't matter, both positions can be right or wrong..is all relative.
Do you think that something so unique in history like a black samurai would be everywhere and would be super known and registered…but we are talking about something super obscure…weird.
Is a beautiful story, a slave becoming a knight…Disney should make a movie about it…that's how real it sounds.
History has always been written by the victors. If you were smart enough you would know that a lot of these people who call the shots should not always be trusted at face value. Always take things with a pinch of salt. I already posted a comment referring to that one video on X which further clarifies my point but I’m not sure if its gone through yet by the time I was typing this.
“Is a beautiful story, a slave becoming a knight…Disney should make a movie about it…that’s how real it sounds.”
Or they could make badass animes out of it like Afro Samurai or the Yasuke series which I’m sure is nowhere near as good. We’ve had Django Unchained and other concepts which have taken what you have said and crafted unique stories out of it. This condescending tone of yours is extremely off-putting and it’s part of the many reasons why most of the world hates Westerners these days.
Jesus, read yourself…you write like a b*tch.
afro samurai exists.
Okay? But I wasn’t talking about Afro Samurai.
ac liberation also exists along with freedom’s cry. No backlash there.
Bargain bin within 6 months, Save your money and grab it later.
"ACKCHUALLY!, in historical Japan, a Samurai…"
No-life weebs and Twitter degenerates fighting with each other if a game character is historically accurate or not, has got to be the most pathetic thing I have seen in gaming. Complete morons.
nuAC games…never forget. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/03ccd19ff73599468eec843f255db3f54f16cdc086941dad63880a8eddea1e94.png
i remember this but the stupid greeks did not rise up against this so they deserve what they get.
I wonder who produces these pile of Satanic feces disguising as an "entertainment product!" to spoon feed you and indoctrinate you with their Satanic agenda…
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dude the historical consultant they hired is a half jewish woman who defends her mother being a hoe and wrote a book on the gay relationships of budhist monks with chidlren like they do here in the west with catholic priests. Japan did not have a feminist movement until some jewish woman moved there and started it. The onwer of phub is a rabbi. The owner of only fans is the biggest donor to aipac, these people are responsible for every "progressive" change, there was even an article that said some tribals living in the amazon forest doesnt like jews moving in because "they change things"
That's just Jubisoft doing Jubisoft. They've been doing that ambiguous marxist tactics for a long time, remember the "history" mode of origins and odyssey? pure bs but they know that many will only think it's all real historical stuff, I'm certainly not talking about the forms and structures of buildings and other things that can be objectively verified. The other stuff that Jubisoft and it's ilk do to fraudulently inject their sick cult's ways into the mindsets and such of historical figures etc Scum.
Eh, Japan and Japanese companies have had no problem towing the line of DEI and wokeism cancer for the past half decade.
Now that it has come for them, they are up in arms?
Reap what you sow. Should have woken up sooner.
Can't wait for Ubisoft eventual Bankruptcy
This company need to be bought and then they lay off every single employee working there and get their IPs sold on an auction
https://media3.giphy.com/media/UlW9P3FfFEkXS/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Not going to happen …. Actually I'm waiting for the stock to bottom out so I can get it dirt cheap because Ubisoft stands to make a ton of money in the near future. Why?
Because they bought the Cloud Gaming Rights dirt cheap for Call of Duty, all other current Activision Blizzard games, and any coming over the next 15 years which is going to be a major income stream. UK regulators forced Microsoft to sell that part in order to get acceptance for the Activism Blizzard deal and Ubisoft got it for pennies on the dollar.
cloud gaming? Imagine still believing in the cloud.
Actually, they're doing great financially. It's a company with healthy growth, it's not going to happen.
It seems like there's a high correlation between nerds complaining about ubisoft and their financial gains.
great? great? Just a year ago there were videos on how the collapse of ubisoft is scaring people. They lay off people all the time, valhala made ton of money but the rest are not doing well.
Video by a dumb kunt of a nerd like you who can’t even read a financial statement.
You are so stupid, it’s too funny.
that was before valhala made a billion dollars.
whatever it takes to stop them from making the same game ever and bring some change, same needs to happen to bethesda, starfield is legit fallout 4 without a worldmap and the only new addition to the game is the space ship building which was done by the 76 studio.
AC Shadows and AC Franchise is so bad and mediocre that no amount of corrections will fix it
Even if they went ahead and replaced both yasuke and the girl with 2 japanese dudes this game will still be a mediocre garbage open world time wasting fest
the only thing that is good about this game is that the graphics are good, the rest looks meh. Just like the avatar game they made recently.
Y'all are gonna buy it anyways and test on your new RTX 5090. So don't even bother with the articles and the controversies because you know you gonna buy it. How is Ubisoft suppose to change if y'all still buy their rubbish. Makes no sense to me. Everyone in this comment section is going to buy that crap.
Sir, this is DSOG. You can find mindless consumers in the normie-spheres, such as reddit and youtube.
cant see anything it says "content unavailable" i guess the coward blocked me.
Yeah man, it saddens me.
Ubi is a disgrace of a company, sell it to people who are competent.
hard to find these days.
ubisoft ain't lying . they are speaking truth, its noobs chinese japanese doesn't know anything
speaking of chinese, ubisoft using chinesse letters instead of japanese, so its fair to say they dont know what they are doing,
Is so obvious they chose Yazuke for pandering and all the controversy it would cause, not because an artistic merit, respect for a culture or history or something like that. And they don't have a spine to defend it.
Ubisoft cynicism is disgusting, going into the podium of trashy companies with Konami and EA.
Yes, let's be careful of not disrespecting the "Japanese culture" and "history".
The one where Japanese tortured and experimented on thousands of civilians, in the most gruesome page of human history.
Let's be careful not to "offend" the culture that raped tens of thousands of women.
Japanese history makes Pol Pot look good.
you must be korean or chinese
No, I'm from the West, where we have freedom of information. Unlike in Japan itself, where history books are censored and need government approval.
No, I'm from the West, where we have freedom of information. Unlike in Japan itself, where history books are censored and need government approval.
Lol you cannot even call a Negr* a Negr* or any other spade a spade and most not even know Obama is a mulato of Jewish family
Yea the "west" the melting pot
Your point? a culture is a culture and if you want to represent it you do it accurate or you turn into something else…that may as well be propaganda. The games already have a lot of revisionism…specially the later ones more focus on the RPG aspects.
Ah, you want an accurate representation of Japanese men of war.
Where only just a few decades ago, Japanese soldiers performed cannibalism and ate their American victims.
I don't think anyone wants to play an accurate representation of Japan's history, unless you want to make a horror movie where you throw up every 2 minutes.
Maybe what you are describing is in the game in a sidequest, you don't know…with Ubisoft maybe there's a dragon and you have to find balls to revive a fallen friend…
Now tell me about Israel, Zionist, those that say belong to those groups like Oppenhaimer, and how Pol Pot came to be by them
I mean we are being historically accurate here am right?
the coward has me blocked, what did he say?
Yes, let’s be careful of not disrespecting the “Japanese culture” and “history”.
The one where Japanese tortured and experimented on thousands of civilians, in the most gruesome page of human history.
Let’s be careful not to “offend” the culture that raped tens of thousands of women.
Japanese history makes Pol Pot look good.
i mean he is not wrong but its the same with turkish nationalists, you cant insult countries that their people will tear you a new one if you dare try. What has the west achieved by allowing the constant shtting on our history and culture? Nothing good.
The thing is most cultures had their dark times, nothing new. Some have advanced however and are not stuck in the middle ages anymore. Drop nuclear bombs is on civilian towns along with mao's, stahlins and h cleansings is still the worst imo
Not the same era, we are not talking about WW2 here. And make no mistake its not only just Japan that has bad history, almost every country have their fair share of dark history
Okay, but who hasn't done that at some point? There is no people who's history has none of those things somewhere.
Ubisoft Games = satanic freemasonry antichrist gay woke trash
weeb avatar = unhinged twitter lunatic
it never fails
screw historical accuracy and samurais and japan, if a game is looking fun, that's all i care about
If you think that the gameplay they showed is fun, you need a lobotomy
when did i say this game is looking fun, i said all i care about is if a game is fun or not , not the surrounding cancel culture, learn to read you lobotomized mongoloid.
Read your comment, you are making it an Assassin's Creed related post…addressing directly that you don't care about accuracy, samurais and japan as long as it is fun, if the part talking about a game being fun is not related with the former then you are a m0ron and the lobotomy was already made.
well does it?
absolutely not
Western developers have an artistic license to put in games whatever they want. Not just Japan has this right. This is a right for Western developers too, if anything Western civilization is the most protective of artistic license.
It is ironic that so many people in this thread are advocating to "cancel" gaming companies that don't adhere to what they want. John advocates that Ubisoft should be pushed to apologize to the online mob.
It is ironic that the people claiming to rail against "woke cancel culture", are the ones trying to censor games and artistic freedom. You somehow can't "offend" Japanese history, because Japanese and their violent history of rape and torture has cleary never offended anyone else their rights.
I don't personally care about Ubisoft games, but I'll defend their right to express themselves how they want. I am not going to try to cancel them, or force them into a position where they need to apologize, and where everything is deemed offensive.
If Assassin's Creed games were historically accurate we'd all be playing as Radical Islamic Terrorists because that what the Assassins were historically ….. The 11th Century version of ISIS
they made the mentor of the middle easterner character in mirage a woman…women had no rights back then.
Who thought it was a good idea to make a game with Fentanyl Floyd cosplaying as a samurai?
yasuke stole my bike.
My favorite part of this is watching the anti-woke crowd going into full Cancel Culture mode like the hypocrites they are ……
The irony in your comment is palpable
ubisoft is lying about everything you dishonoest hack, the people they hired as consultants are communist anti japanesse bolsevicks, their historical advisor is a half jewish woman whose mother was a hoe and she wrote books on the gay relationships of budhist monks with children, a subversive that is only hired because she is woke not because she is a historian. Same with the other guy who is a member of the communist party and wants open borders to replace the japanesse and he is part of a company called pony who wants to bring western companies to japan so they can take over their media companies and make them worke like the west and he is funded by blackrock.
They were also lying to investors about the game receptions and player feedback.
My God, I am thoroughly disappointed in you, John. And before anyone starts lashing out on me without giving me the benefit of a doubt, I will make it clear that I am conservative-leaning individual of African descent. I'm an immigrant who has lived almost my whole life in the UK and I absolutely respect traditional Western values to the core and I certainly respect every other culture out there. I despise wokeness in games, liars and genuinely hate how much men and women have drifted away from their traditional roles in life in the modern age.
That being said, Ubisoft isn't lying here because if you actually read the whole context they explicitly say that Yasuke's history is mysterious one with his samurai status is left open for questioning. That is true. Wikipedia and other sources refer to him as a samurai but no one truly knows for sure.
This doesn't change the fact that the Assassin's Creed franchise is free to do whatever they want with him. If they wish to depict him as a samurai of royalty status or as a runaway slave who works as a retainer then there's nothing stopping them from doing that.
The franchise was never historically accurate, otherwise we would have a serious problem with every single depiction in the past. Especially when they started going crazy with all the mythological creatures you had to face off against in titles like Origins. People are being way too picky for my liking and I honestly believe it's due to certain biases they carry. Seeing reactions like this is precisely why I don't bother with most modern art and entertainment any more.
Every single game in the franchise had a native or the most likely person to be around in the setting as a protagonist…but muh shinobi!! she's a japanese woman!!! nobody gives a flying f/ck about female protagonists (but Tomb Raider!! yeah, the franchise was made with a female protagonist from the get go..everyone likes t1ts anyways)… that's why in Ubi's wisdom they think having a black "samurai" will sell or at least bring attention.
If it's just fiction why even bother with all the historical research they claim to do?, damn, just make every single setting as diverse as possible then, damn history. I want this game to have every single race, gender (there's only two just like s3x) and species in feudal Japan.
The historical research is about the architecture and the world building like Paris in Unity, Egypt in Origins and Greece in Odyssey
If the games were historically accurate we'd all be playing as Radical Islamic Terrorists
The characters, including who you play as are part of the world building and research too, why are you making the distinction is beyond me.
How are the Hashashins 'Radical Islamic Terrorists' while most of their work was killing for money?
speaking of which, ubisoft was called out 3 weeks ago for having the wrong architecture in that game, also not understanding how seasons work, as they both have tree blossoms and picking rice at the same day.
See, the problem is that you cannot handle a unique or different spin on storytelling if it doesn't align with your biases. There is nothing inherently evil or twisted about making a concept of an unlikely hero who finds himself in the most unlikely place. You can make a historical fiction game while still conducting tons of research in order to get certain things right and ensure that it remains respectful and familiar to those those people and culture it's based on. This has always been a thing in the creative industry.
You're just mad that they want to depict a competent and intelligent black man in a setting which you feel the need to protect. Nobody is complaining about the female Shinobi character to the same extent as the black man. In fact I've seen plenty of people saying that they hope to just play as her and avoid Yasuke at all costs. If Yasuke was replaced by a fictional white samurai we wouldn't be having this conversation at all.
You are just sounding like the parody of an SJW…stop wasting everyone's time.
I enjoyed Freedom Cry as much as Black Flag and nobody said a negative thing about Adewale, so your "argument" is invalid.
The reason for that is because it’s set in the Caribbean where plenty of black people exist and have existed there since the 15th century. I still don’t get the big deal of making a black samurai the main protagonist in Feudal Japan setting when its been done before a bunch of times in other mediums, whether it’s Yasuke or someone completely fictional. This backlash is artificial to some extent and can only be found among the gaming community. It’s like how most gamers lose their minds over companies covering up their female characters but when it comes to the same damn thing in live action movies and TV shows it’s radio silence. Gamers are a strange breed of people.
Because this is the first one in the franchise where you play as someone not native to the setting. Every other protagonist was from the same country even the recent ones: Bayek/Aya, Alexios/Kassandra, and Eivor. Why the sudden 'creative' change when it comes to Feudal Japan, a setting their fans were begging for for a long time (and a weeb's dream come true)?
Let's be honest, Yasuke only exists in this game as a token of 'diversity.' Vanguard made recent investments in Ubisoft and they like this sh*t.
It’s the second. Revelations had Ezio embark in Constantinople. But I get the notion behind wanting a Japanese man instead, especially considering how long people had to wait for it. I’m only going to judge this game once it finally comes out because assuming the worst is never the way to go. It’s unfortunate the way all of this unfolding and I do believe smarter business choice would be to save Yasuke for a standalone expasion pack but all these major companies are completely out of touch. Either way, I guess this will serve as a major lesson for all of us.
yes but why you upvote the am with joe clown?
edward kennaway or whatever the name of the blondie in black flag was sucked as well as the rest of the game, n oidea why people thing black flag is the best ac instead of the worst, probably for the same reason valhala and valheim sold so well, people wnated a viking game and a ac game was available, black flag fans never played seadogs.
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser"
– Socrates
Label me as anything as you want. Call me names. I don't give a damn. But I'm always going to be here calling all of you out on your BS. The political left and right have absolutely lost the plot but the one thing you all have in common is that you all play the same tricks.
I'm the voice of reason whereas you're just an insecure little brat who's having trouble dealing with someone who is able to counteract with strong talking points. The difference between me and you is that I'm able to admit where I'm wrong. You're not happy with the fact that I refuse to adhere to your cult so you just have to call me an SJW even though I hate those kinds as well lol.
What was my BS again oh great Sokrates? you are just insane if you think of yourself as the voice of reason here.
You are playing it as a neutral entity while you are OK with a corporation doing historical revisionism in order to enforce a progressive view of history, you are not fooling anyone.
Alright buddy. Time to take your meds and go about with your life.
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser"
– Socrates
Works both ways see? i'm a master of debate.
Bro, you're clearly triggered by all of this. I just merely pointed out the fact that you resorted to slander when you had nothing of value left to say. But I'll let you have the last word unless you have something intelligent to say that's worth responding to.
Triggered? you have another zoomer word besides problematic too? are you going to call me toxic?
I had enough of your stupidity, so we can let it be here…you aren't going to play this or maybe you will…don't care, and i'm sure as hell i won't even pirate it.
AHAAHAHAHHAAHAH
""When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser"
– Socrates
Label me as anything as you want. Call me names. I don't give a damn. But I'm always going to be here calling all of you out on your BS. "
"Alright buddy. Time to take your meds and go about with your life."
AHHAHAHAHAHHA hypocrite, clown.
Apparently playful mockery is slanderous. He's the one accusing me of being asset or an enabler to these revisionists when I feel like I've made it abundantly clear a number of times that I'm against all these things. Clearly nobody wants to listen.
Now is playful mockery…you are a fa66ot
Lmao what’s wrong with you, dude? I’m trying to reason with people here haha
we also call you on your bs.
i saw the reviews on kotaku and other sites praising freedom's cry and i said "ok lets see what so great about this game"
It was a standalone dlc for black flag that you play as a black guy blowing up french slavers with a bludnerbass and liberating slaves in the plantations with the same animation playing every time.
This is trash, they praised the dlc for political reasons, it was "woke" and this is how these scum are rating games today, now how good they are but how much they promote the message and this was in 2013 by the way, now its insane.
every ubisoft game has the same spin. Every ubisoft game is more woke than the last one, yasuke was not a bisexual. If yasuke was some white guy we would find it very weird as well, there is a ac games set in china its a mobile game, you can create your own character, why? Shouldnt you be asian? You are making hypotheticals when you dont have an example, meanwhile we have an example here with this game.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying but I heard that game was cancelled or something. If that’s the case then it’s pretty irrelevant and not worth mentioning. Ubisoft has been virtue signalling really hard and everybody has the right to call them out on it. I don’t know much about the sexuality thing other than hearing that the characters will be part of the LGBT craze. It’s strange and makes virtually no sense for them to even mention it but the industry has been like this for a while. There’s always going to be that one dev whose job is to cater to that crowd. It wouldn’t surprise me if future Warhammer games begin to do that with each new entry.
I’m not sure what hypothesis you’re referring to. All I mentioned were facts about how the creative industry functions, the way people respond unabashedly whenever a black man is placed in a setting that may seem unlikely and unrealistic despite it being true, and how certain comments have proven that people are straight-up intolerant and hypocritical by saying they would rather play a female shinobi for believability when that in of itself is also unrealistic since female ninjas/shinobi were unlikely a thing and even if they were they were probably as rare as a foreign samurai. But anyone is more than welcome to correct me on that.
“, and how certain comments have proven that people are straight-up intolerant and hypocritical by saying they would rather play a female shinobi for believability when that in of itself is also unrealistic since female ninjas/shinobi were unlikely a thing and even if they were they were probably as rare as a foreign samurai. ”
true but at tleast that character can sneak, will yasuke be able to climb buildings?
I just realised that your profile pic is from Prey 2006. I completed that just a few days ago (played with lossless scaling for 127 fps smoothness).
Haha yeah I've had this pfp for years now. I think I completed back in 2012 based on my screenshots' upload date on Steam. That game had a massive impact on me and it still hurts that we never got a sequel to it.
Great voice acting, memorable characters, engaging and unique gameplay and some of the best score I've heard in any game. I still listen to the soundtrack to this day and was thinking of replaying it at some point. They don't make 'em like they used to.
"ubisoft isnt lying"
my dude you blind, for the past 3 weeks ubisoft lies have been constantly exposed. Ysuke was not a samurai and he was not bisexual, he did not master the blade in the less than 3 years he was in japan and did not speak and read japanese.
They turned him into gay afro samurai. Its an isekai itsn ot historically accurate.
"The franchise was never historically accurate, "
THEY REMOVED THE CROSSBOW FROM THE FIRST GAME BECAUSE IT WASNT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE.
I am disappointed on how clueless you are.
We’re talking about the same franchise where you’re constantly leaping from towering buildings into conveniently placed haystacks and making it out in one piece unharmed right? The same franchise which has already admitted since the first game that the simulations via the Animus does not completely align with what’s told in the history books?
Imagine referencing the removal of the crossbow as if that’s a compelling argument but meanwhile turn a blind eye to all the fully functional creations made by Da Vinci himself like the flying machine and wooden tank. Neither of these things worked but they still went with it. You can miss me with that nonsense.
its still meant to be be believable.
Right. But it's still altered history. The concept of Yasuke being a samurai could have worked but they chose the worst possible moment to realise it. If I were in charge I would have accurately represented him as he were in the history books but would maybe throw in the samurai spin later in the expansions if I feel like it would fit the AC universe. There isn't a need to make him a samurai at all but a lot of people, myself included, just find it kinda interesting.
The franchise has always had those "what-if" moments even if most of them were background or underground stuff. As long as it doesn't feel intrusive in an ideological sense, offensive or just straight-up stupid or unrealistic in any way then I don't see the big deal. But I get the hatred towards Ubisoft and a lot of these other Marxists corpos. They don't approach these things in the same manner which is why I understand the backlash to it.
there is another story that he was a mercenary bodyguard for some italian dude but ubislop went with “he was abducted as a child from zimbabue by the porotguise”
Wasn’t it a priest? That’s how he was introduced and was handed over to Nobunaga as a gift. Honestly, these stories would make a great concept for movies and games but a lot of these companies perhaps see it differently. Personally I don’t mind the fairy tale concept of him being a samurai warrior and all that but it all depends on the circumstance. We’ve always exaggerated historical figures by utilising them in fantasy so this is nothing new. The Netflix series, Nioh and others are great examples of that. Even if he isn’t depicted as a samurai in those cases he still carries all those attributes that makes one a samurai and appears to have super human-like abilities to some extent. But after all these exchanges I’ve had on here, I get where people are coming from when it comes to ACS. And it’s clear that Ubisoft are on some divisive agenda.
Here's the sheep I was talking about.
Right there, look.
Here it is for you, Mr Sheep!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/766eb1d94be584e0f9595c1b87d9674b06cc7faca3ef72df8356d79bd54fd2c7.png
It’s almost like as if you’re asserting the fact that I believe what this man was doing a good deed when I actually don’t. I think what Japan did was right. There’s no known evidence that Yasuke was a samurai despite what Wikipedia says and I agree with that notion to some extent. The reason why I said “to some extent” is because of the questionable role he had along with the fact that he was given his own sword, was closely associated with Nobunaga, etc. If he truly wasn’t a samurai then he wasn’t a samurai. So what’s the issue?
yasuke means the black one, this is how much they respected him, lockley made him a legendary samurai to sell books and to promote afrocentrism and open borders in japan.
I actually wasn’t aware of him until I started seeing his name here but I did take a glimpse of one of his interviews on YouTube. He admitted there that he made a bunch of things up in his books so it’s not like he was trying to keep it under wraps, but yeah the whole thing is a complete train wreck.
The jew lost and based nippon won.
No one asked for Assassin's Creed: Fentanyl Floyd.
At this point i just want Ubisoft to go the way THQ did
At this point, looking at what Ubi has turned the Ass Creed games into……. Immortals Fenyx Rising might just be one of the best "fun" open world game that this studio has put out.
Why don't they make a historically factual game about the JEWS manipulating human civilization for millennia to further their gains towards an anti-christ type figure
That's your villains, game about killing Jews, you can make that character as gay or black or purple as you want ubi if it's explicitly stated that he's/she/ze whatever the f killing JEWS
because jews own hollywood and that fg elon musk is banning anyone pointing out. In fact japan did not have a feminist movement until a jewish woman moved there and started it and in the talmud it says there are 4-5 genders and this where the 72 gender mania comes from, they are responsible for everything.
Go Woke Go broke !
Thisi s a lame a*s poor begging excuse now that they see that the pre-orders are far below of their expectation.
They see its a trainwreck of a game storming down a cliff.
To save their money and reputation they pull out the oldest trick in the book every company does..
excusses and whats worst good excusses..
so please gib moneyy
game looks fun and its fiction and maybe people should know that video games and movie stories are not real and its not documentary.
Wrong!
If any type of media is portraying real life stuff, they have the obligation to be at least coherent.
Or would you make a n@zi movie with a black Hitler?
that last idea sounds pretty good lol
One thing bugs me though. The double standard.
At least lots of people defend Japan, and especially Japanese themselves, of course.
But if they made a new game about France or Germany, taking place in the Middle Ages or something, nobody would have said anything if the main character was black.
Not even 50 years ago, there were NO blacks in France, despite what the media keeps repeating all day long.
But nowadays, there are SO many that people don't even question it anymore, and they even accept it when the media says that we were blacks 2000 years ago already.
Hell, there's a show these days about a black AND gay AND disabled British king, have you heard of it? And NOBODY says anything about it.
This is how bad it got in the West.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6e740a119bfdf83fbd7fc854476a8af15fe39e1422d6cad79d90e414948b4f79.jpg
I've read a lot of complaints about this "kang", so your argument is invalid.
Holy crap, we're way too far beyond parody at this point. Our memes making fun of them get turned into reality in a few short years.
ah the user you replied blocked me , why so ?
Let's find out.
That's weird, my comment got completely erased for some reason. Anyway, I'll try asking again.
thanks brother !
Same here!
i said literally that 4-5 year ago, there was a feminist parody site called medusa magazine but they had to shut it down because feminsits unironicaly ended up doing the thinks they mocked them with as the extreme thing they will never do. This is why babylon bee is predicting the future. The left is taking the extreme position we mock them as and make it their official position. There is no point mocking the left and making parodies out of them because they will take the joke and make it their next move. This is why if we were to predict where things are heading, white genocide is the next extreme position after white erase and you bet the left will make it their official position like in south africa.
Hey, @disqus_fzReE8lsLc:disqus is wondering why you have him blocked?
Heya, a_good_friend is asking why you have him unblocked.
i wonder if the writers and producers of this show are jewish.
You think people will rise up and kick them out of europe again?
Well, something weird is happening in Europe lately.
The most anti-Jewish people are now… the leftists. lol (well, especially in France)
I have no idea what’s going to happen.
Everything is crazy and doesn’t make sense here anymore.
And I don’t feel represented by any party.
All I know is that the economy is collapsing, and that I intend to leave the country soon and transfer my money where it’s safe.
i hope both the d*ck cutters get expulsed
The sheep doesn't even know about this controversy, all they want is that this garbage got released so they can play as "the only negro samurai ever".
It's going to sell a lot in Dumbfückistan, aka USandA.
There was some idiot around here saying Yasuke was a real japanese character. Like what the actual fk lmao
//Edit: euphoricShadow was the dude and he's still at it lmao. Talk about a ubi fanatic
Thank you for going against the grain of gaming journalism. Too many outlets are staunchly defending Ubisoft in this situation.
Fake controversy started by nutjobs that should be ignored
meaning?
They couldn't even make their gay pavement ape use a katana. Hulking around as some freakish giant with a club murdering Japs kek. Obviously, women made this trash.
yasuke mean s "the black one" wow so they really respected that guy so much they called him black.
Is hilarious how people randomly mark topics political to avoid the elephant in the room.
There never existed Black Samurai's going around listening to rap music, this is a culture thing in Japan and there nothing political about it.
Ubisoft lying and not knowing what they doing is nothing new either, they got roasted enough by the Japanese already, and Ubisoft deserves all of it for misrespresenting a whole culture.