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dayum, they deleted it fucking fast
I think this shit never posted LOL I’m working on an alternative
So does this confirm we are playing as 2 characters during the story?
Looks like it.
Yes, AC Syndicate/GTA V/Spider-Man 2 style setup.
Hopefully it's NOT AC syndicate situation where the other character fizzles out of the existence during the switch.
Probably not as they most likely have a complete separate storyline that I assume will connect midway, or atleast I hope that’s what they’re going for
Probably not. The primary Ubisoft execs who encouraged that choice left in 2020.
Definitely would love the GTA 5 switch style
Hopefully with this giant leap in the tech and immersion and what not they keep touting for Red (shadows) I would hope for this too.
More like AC Origins hopefully.
It blows my mind Henderson isn't Tier 1, he keeps getting all this shit right
Henderson is tier 1, and he has been since day 1
Oh shit you right, i got confused cause i saw insider gaming on tier 2 and it's kinda weird, since it's his site
Its because not everything posted on the site is Henderson, there are other writers who we're not going to give tier 1 credibility just because they work with him
I think frax should be tier 1 too , while he doesn’t leak that much he’s always right
Black Samurai and a Female Shinobi, so it matches up.
This is better than " the Animus not sure which gender you are" lol Just straight up give us individual male and female characters like this or syndicate.
Agreed. The whole “you can play as either male or female, they’re the same character!” aspect is dumb.
“You can play as either gender but one is not canon”
What the fuck!?
Who cares about what is canon in an assassins creed game anyways, when not even the developers care? They gave up on the entire Desmond arc by finishing it in a shitty comic or something...
To be fair, I really cared actually. I would show up to those games for the out of Animus story. That’s probably why I haven’t enjoyed an Assassin’s Creed game in a couple of years.
I actually played it for the plot, lol. Prehistoric sci-fi is one of my favourite tropes.
They only did that once tbf, Eivor in Valhalla is canonically female only the ability to play as the male version is tied to something else that is end of the game spoilers and actually quite dope I thought
You can play the entire game as male Eivor if you want (which I did). It wasn’t same deal in Odyssey where there was a canonical choice, but you could play through the entire game as Alexios if you wanted to.
End of Valhalla spoilers:the Male Eivor is canonically Odin who is the Isu fused in with the female character Eivor, which is what I’m saying, the actual human part of Eivor is female in the story. I think it’s a cool way to have both looks, but yea unlike odyssey they actually wrote it into the story.
It functionally doesn’t matter I was just saying it’s actually canon in the game that Eivor is the female one
Male Eivor is Odin (Having). Female Eivor is the actual human we control. Since Odin was supposed to take over Eivor's body, the animus is unable to distinguish the gender and this the gender is said to be ambiguous.
Facts. So stupid when they then just canonise the female character anyway in the novelisation. Just make the female character compulsory and don't give us dialogue options.
It's something stupid and cowardly like "oh men will complain if they're forced to play a female character".
If somebody is that fuckin' stupid just let 'em complain.
The reasoning for these decisions was pretty close to what you're saying.
Ubisoft execs thought female characters don't sell, so they practically "forced" the devs to have a male option.
Which is funny when you consider how popular the Tomb Raider games are or Horizon, or Bayonetta.
Jeez I just realized there truly aren't many AAA games with female protagonists... Good thing that's changing imo.
Gamers will absolutely complain if forced to play a female character. In the other AC: Shadows thread here, people are literally whining about having to play as a black guy "instead of someone Japanese", then downvoting people pointing out that there's a whole second protagonist who literally is Japanese.
Its not stupid, but it is cowardly.
The numbers all say that male characters are the most played. So big companies will always try and make their protagonist male.
IIRC when it started with Odyssey the devs really wanted to make Cassandra the only protagonist. Ubisoft Execs said no because "gamers don't buy games where you play as a girl", so they had to either let players select the gender or remove Cassandra entirely. Making Cassandra the canon option was literally the most the developers could do so I give them props for that.
It goes even further, back to Origins, actually. Aya was originally intended to be the main protagonist of Origins, while Bayek would've died early on.
If you look at the top 50 best selling games of all time, not a single one has a female-only protagonist.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/top-50-best-selling-video-games-all-time
I winced hard when I watched the Dawn of Ragnarok trailer and heard "you can select Odin's gender".
Talking about this one.
Lmfao they actually went with Yasuke as the MC...
It's going to be such a shitshow when this trailer drops. I can't wait to laugh my ass off!
WE part 2
Bruh. Yasuke not even vassal or retainer at this point, with horns and circle ornament he literally skip hierarchy to high status officers lmfao.
Really funny people and companies keep trying to gas up Yasuke as being more important than he ever actually was
What do you mean you want a Male Japanese protagonist in feudal japan? That makes you a bigot!!
/s
I wonder if the Japanese feel that Yasuke was shoehorned in as a protagonist.
Probably don't even have to be Japanese to think that this decision was certainly a weird one.
Yeah it's not like there's tons of stuff about, or inspired by, yasuka that comes out of japan.
I wonder how many of the people bitching in this thread are white guys talking over Asian people like myself who are excited for this game?
Damn that imgur logo looks sick, the Ubisoft designers are amazing
It looks awesome. I like the idea of two distinct characters, rather than just a gender swap. Hopefully this transitions into gameplay with two unique playstyles.
But I was really hoping to play as a male Japanese shinobi 😭 (I'm Japanese). At least we got Ghost of Tsushima II for that.
It has been leaked to have two different playstyles.
Yasuke will be the heavy combat oriented samurai whereas Naoe will be the stealthy shinobi
Heard from a leaker (appropriately, that leaker is Shinobi lol) that's there's a ton more gameplay elements for both Stealth and combat
It's a good decision to use two characters since a single character that can has to do everything (like the previous 3 RPG protagonists) end up feeling bland gameplay wise
So Oda Nobunaga is going to be the good guy here that was tragically demonized by society and the 'evil' Tokugawas?
I wonder how they will handle his death, since his body was never recovered.
Akechi Mitsuhide is probably gonna be the antagonist of the first arc, Tokugawa clan the second arc. I really hope they're gonna go with this approach, it makes Ubisoft look even more tone-deaf after the west has been exposed to Feudal Japan through media like Disney's Shogun, where Ieyasu is portrayed in a much better light
Black samurai?
Yeah, no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
the girl's weapon looks cool, hopefully it's nice to play with
also cool artwork
It's a kusarigama and you get one in Ninja gaiden 2. It is indeed cool.
There's a kusarigama just like that in Nioh and Nioh 2 for those that are interested. Very fun games but difficult to get into.
Black main character in a Japanese themed assassins creed game cause why not, right Ubisoft? Surely an actual Japanese guy wouldn’t have sufficed. Asian representation in a Japanese game? Nahhhhh hell no, instead make it about that one obscure African “samurai” with a largely embellished history who wound up in Japan and became an actual samurai’s carpet cleaner.
Go ahead with the downvotes but Nioh also featured an obscure historic foreigner (English Man) as the main character.
There was no outrage before... why now?
Because:
It was years ago back when people were less preoccupied with this stuff. And Nioh was and still is a far smaller series, if a 50 million dollar movie does something it won't reach the same number of people as a Disney movie with 200 million just in advertising budget.
A Japanese studio did it, that's their history and they have more leeway to play around with it. This is a french studio that just decided fuck it, let's have a black samurai.
William Adams is not that obscure, at least nowhere near Yasuke who is only notable because he is black. Plus the European pressence in Japan was far more significant than the African one.
William Adams was an actual samurai, a hatamoto even whereas Yasuke was a retainer, a total nobody. Yet western media keeps trying to make him as this super great samurai, because to some people the notion of a black samurai is appealing.
I'm happy to apparently inform you that there is, in fact, Asian representation in this Japanese-set game.
Dope artwork. Seems like it's gone.
It blows my mind that Ubisoft refuses to let us play as a Japanese native. But they have to somehow push their black token character into it. Wtf is wrong? Why are Asians so neglected by the west?
I would say Asian men are "neglected" by representation in the west, Asian women seem to be represented because people like to fetishise and objectify women.
The equality act in the UK had to change because it only looked at diversity on a single spectrum, it wasn't until an older female news anchor pointed out older people weren't discriminated against because they had plenty of older male anchors, and women were not either because they had plenty of young female anchors. But the point was they never hired or retained older female news anchors.
Yeah lets totally ignore Naoe, the true MC of the game.... Sit tf down.
A japanese native is literally on the front of the cover man lmao
How are you guys getting down voted for this? Such a cesspool here, man. Jesus.. 😭
Guy I'm replying to is most active in that Kotaku In Action sub so maybe some of them are leaking in here lol. Other than that I have no clue
There is literally a Japanese woman, but she's not real /s
Black samurai shitshow in 3.. 2.. 1..
Which is totally warranted. The game takes place in Japan. Could you imagine the complete and total meltdown if an Assassin's Creed game that took place in Africa starred an Asian man? Or a white dude? Peoples heads would explode from the outrage.
Lol people don't understand the historical aspect of the game.. Which is irrelevant in FC2 or MGSV
with black flag at least the caribbean sea was full of european pirates, in valhalla many dane/norse invaded england. But this is just 1 dude that only known because he was different.
You mean Far Cry 2? Lmao
Northern Africa exists, and it's not full of Black people.
Far Cry 2's UAC is not in northern Africa.
It's completely justified. A Japan themed Assassin's Creed game has been heavily requested for like a decade. Yasuke was never an actual Samurai, only a retainer. Asian dudes are a large gaming market and get shafted badly in representation. It's just blatant how politically motivated it is.
Ubisoft disrespecting against Asian people, nice move. I wanted to play as a real Japanese Samurai, not a token character of the DEI consultant
Don't you play as a white guy in nioh?
Which is sad,because him and Naoe seem two of the coolest Assassin's Creed's protagonists.