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Assassin's Creed Shadows is an upcoming action role-playing game (RPG) set in 16th-century Japan, where players take on the roles of a shinobi assassin and a samurai to usher in a new era for the country:
Setting
The game takes place during the late Sengoku period, when the warlord Oda Nobunaga overthrew the Ashikaga shogunate. Players explore a beautiful open world that includes castle towns, ports, shrines, and landscapes.
Characters
Players take on the roles of Naoe, a female shinobi assassin from Iga Province, and Yasuke, an African samurai based on a real-life historical figure. The two characters have different playstyles, skill trees, and weapons, and players can approach quests in multiple ways.
Gameplay
Players can explore, create a shinobi league, customize a hideout, and build up a spy network. The game features a non-linear campaign with targets that can be tracked in any order. Some targets can be stumbled upon organically, while others require more structured infiltration gameplay.
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Assassin's Creed Shadows is scheduled for release on February 14, 2025 for PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S, macOS, and iPadOS.
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Beyond Good & Evil. . .that's pretty much it.
The best Ubisoft game of recent years is Immortals Fenix Rising. Heavily Breath of the Wild inspired - but I'd argue it's better than BotW. It's a shame they cancelled the planned sequel.
AC3 and watchdogs. Funny how that Yasuke was originally supposed to be a Japanese man but scrapped him to pander
I have more favorites. FarCry 3 for the villain Vaas. Man he was sick. AC Black Flag for the ship battles. Splinter Cell which did stealth gameplay so good. And my first game from Ubisoft Prince of Persia Sand of Time till today i play it and my sister and I try to speedrun it and beat each others time. Man the good old times where games were games.
Same. Enjoyed the changes with origins and odyssey, but I missed the stealth of previous games. I skipped Valhalla too, just don’t vibe. They could remake Black Flag and do well there while they figure out the mess they have created.
Ubisoft in 2013:
''Assassin's Creed: Black Flag''
Ubisoft now:
''Assassin's Creed: Red Flag''
No. It's still Black Flag. But now that means something else.
@@mjohnsen8606 ac rainbow flag?
@@hustensaftvernichter3785 more like ded flag.
Legion, Valhalla, Breakpoint, FC 6, they went down hill so hard even their mp like x défiant and the other one don't even remember the name... Bruh they're probably bankrupt soon
More like Assassins Creed :Pride Flag
This isnt the Ubisoft you remeber, all those folks left years ago. Its now a "savior studio" that had no repect for the cultures they appropriate.
My first AC was Black Flag. The naval combat was so fantastic but the melee was terribly boring. My next AC was Odyssey and it was fantastic for me. Loved almost everything about it. Tried Origins and Valhalla and they ended up not holding my attention very long.
I would've been excited for AC in Japan but their tendency to add in their personal social narratives and identity politics have just become obnoxious at this point.
That gameplay would have to be phenomenal for it to get my attention.
Another case of white people trying to feel guilt on behalf of another race 🤣
It’s also extremely racist to say that other races can’t use things from your culture
The drawing of those lines is racist
Why people left?
@@brightyaD.e.i. policies kick people out
Look at all the racist white cry babies. Keep coping.
Isn't this the same developer that told us we need to get comfortable with not owning games? I agree - and I've started by not owning any more Ubisoft games. Let them fail. It's time for gamers to stop rooting for people who are against gamers.
You’ll own nothing and be happy!
The mindset of our corporate overlords
Exactly. If that's how they feel then they need to get comfortable with us not paying them for garbage games.
I've honestly never seen anyone root for Ubisoft. I feel like every single review of all their products for the last decade have just been "yup... It's a Ubisoft game alright".
It took 2000 people to develop RDR 2 one of the best selling open world games of all time. Ubisoft's main studio in Montreal has more than 4000 employed. The fact that they haven't developed a single game as competent as RDR 2 from a narrative and gameplay loop perspective is evident of their terrible management.
There's a few different photos of game studios of "then and now" being from when they were successful compared to now and the "then" photos have a smaller group of... Stereotypical looking gamers and programmers. The "now" photos are quadruple the the staff all looking like the stereotypical liberal audience.
I highly doubt that plus it’s rockstar and they had several years to make RDR2
This is the entire issue with what AAA has become explained in a nutshell. How the hell do you begin to manage 4000 employees? How on earth can you create a coherent workflow with such massive scopes and insane budgets?
Outlaws is an unfinished game and the lack of another option of a main character is what killed that game.
I think there's a lot more that killed that game, though I agree with you that's part of it.
It has become one of those games that I don't even want to wait for it to go on sale before I buy it, just not worth my time or money whatsoever. It's like a watered down, incomplete, rated E for Everyone version of a Rockstar GTA/RDR game. Could've been sooooo much better if Ubi wasn't shite
@@Shimotsuki_D_Alber only good part about outlaws was the plant damage
Ubisoft started failing after Origins. The original devs of AC said in an interview over a decade ago they would NEVER use 4 settings because they were too "Mainstream" Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Viking Era, Fuedal Japan. They wanted to use less popular settings like Constantinople and bring them into light. Hate it when games don't respect the foundations they were built upon. Ubisoft has been the worst offender of that this past decade
I thought they had always planned to use locations like Egypt, Greece, Japan, China etc.. these locations were referenced in the first game.
@@SpitfireSpud no, they referenced assassins being in those settings but they said they would never make games in those settings because they are "overused."
Back in 2011 they did a survey asking fans what settings they wanted and the top 3 I think was WW2, Ancient Egypt, and Japan and the Devs said in a bunch of interviews that they were disappointed in fans picking such boring settings and they wanted to use underutilized settings like India.
Found an old article if you want to read it, look up, "Ubisoft says Assassin's Creed V won't be in Japan - so our best guess is India"
@@blaketfg9374 ah okay, I was wondering, as I remembered seeing those cryptic messages in the first game. I took a look at that article, much appreciate the reply and for the info. 👍
Clearly they didn't account for THIS level of incompetence. Then again who could?
If you honestly think that they’d be able to remove a whole main character from the game in 3-4 months your delusional.
They'll probably make some change to where he's not actually a "samurai" but something else. Game is gonna crash and burn anyways. I don't think there's anything they can do to save it at this point. The damage is done
All they really need to do is remodel him to be an actual Japanese man who happens to be named Yasuke. Maybe put a cherry on top and redo the architecture to Japanese instead of Chinese.
Personally, I'd have stuck with a single MC, Do what Valhalla and Odyssey did where you choose your gender at the start, maybe let you flip flop in between if you want like Val. They tried the 2 MC thing in Syndicate and honestly I'd say Syndicate is prolly the least favorite of most people. Least it's the one basically nobody talks about or remembers. It's not outright bad, just stuck like halfway between good and decent.
@@Leifreon Yeah, but they won't be able to do that in 3 months. They'd have to redo entire cut scenes and possible rewrite/re-record certain dialog that referenced he was black. It's just too time restricted at this point unless they push it back even further
@@Maximer77and by that time people will have their eyes set on getting Ghost of Yotei.
I am gonna be the devils advocate for a bit , but hear me out. I am gonna say that Yasuke’s story is fresh and different. Samurais like Musashi and Toyotomi, while immensely important and marketable, have already been featured extensively in Japanese and global media for decades. Yasuke, on the other hand, offers a new perspective and narrative that stands out among more familiar samurai stories. Yasuke’s story is relatively under-documented, which gives creators a lot of narrative freedom. Unlike Musashi or Toyotomi, whose lives are well-documented and heavily mythologized, Yasuke’s life is more of a blank canvas. This allows Ubisoft to fill in gaps with creative liberties, expanding his role beyond what history has documented.
HOWEVER If the creators take too many liberties with Yasuke’s integration into samurai culture without addressing the real cultural and racial tensions of that era, it risks creating a narrative that doesn’t respect the actual challenges Yasuke likely faced. The tension between Yasuke’s outsider status and the firm , secluded nature of Japanese society should be central to his story. Oversimplifying how he was accepted by Oda Nobunaga or the other samurai, without exploring the complex dynamics of xenophobia, power, and loyalty, could result in a shallow or even misleading portrayal. As someone who loves history ,this is my biggest concern, and based on the information and footage we’ve seen so far, I doubt Ubisoft will be able to effectively capture the complexity of Yasuke's journey within feudal Japan.
If you want to play AC shadows then buy Ghost of Tsushima
They aren't ready for that conversation
Some can't do that because it's exclusive to Playstation
It is insane how much better ghost of Tsushima looks even the ps4 version lmao
I think my fellow Frenchos at Ubisoft can translate this just by the game names. They’re gonna riot🤣
@gamerdragon4807 unless you're 10 years old and can't make your own purchases then there is no question about whether you can play it or not. If you can afford an Xbox, then you can afford a Playstation. It's also on PC.
You can CHOOSE to not own a Playstation or a gaming PC, but to say you can't do it just reeks of console fanboy BS.
This whole situation will FOREVER be a point of reference on what not to do when adapting a culture's history. It is horrifying how bad ubisoft has continued to mess up and be so ignorant.
Assassin’s Creed Black flag was Ubisoft at their peak. It’s just never felt the same since then.
Exactly 💯
Don't forget Far Cry 3.
Black flag was a great game, but a mid Assassin's Creed game, since it barely scratched the surface of the lore. Ezio trilogy was the only true AC game. The rest of the games are fun with AC forced into the story.
Ubisoft was one, maybe two more successful Assassin's Creed's away from having one of the most profitable game franchises of all time. I cannot believe they screwed that up.
I can but not like this. I expected more of the usual corporate greed and incompetent writing to be the ultimate downfall.
Trading away respect for fetishism will do that to a studio.
That said, the "my source told me" rumor about Yasuke being removed was painfully obvious tabloid stupidity, that's one of those "scrap and rebuild the entire project"-level maneuvers.
It’s not about the characters. It’s about the REASON of why they did it. The reason was enough to turn players off. Their mindset that was purposely made for this game destroyed it.
Exactly, if yasuke was a secondary character who play a role in the story, even a fantasized one, no one would care
@@brkenppt2222 It would be awesome seeing Yasuke as a side character, could even be related to side missions or story missions in some way, shape, or form. But having him be the MC and butchering Japanese history to fit DEI narratives and agendas, is why this game doesn't interest me at all.
@@brkenppt2222why can he be a secondary character but can't be a playable character/protagonist?
What is the reason? How do you know?
@@Shimotsuki_D_AlberHow exactly did they butcher Japanese history?
誤解をされている方が多い気がしますが、日本人は単に「黒人の侍主人公」に怒っているわけではない。
大は鳥居や家紋から小は筆の持ち方まで挙げればキリがない不正確な描写と、そこに滲み出る日本の文化への無理解と軽視に怒っているのです。
加えて知的財産や文化財の無断使用は言語道断です。
OK, game developers got it. Noone will create games in Japan settings ever again. Bye.
@@VlReaderr If they won't do the due diligence to actually get stuff right, they might as well never create games in Japanese settings if they can't get it right. What's the sense in doing so but failing spectacularly, so we can get this annoying news and nonsense again and again? lmfao
@@OmegaSaiyanPrince, of course. If developers cannot fit all strict rules for the setting, they will concentrate on other settings, probably not so demanding. Noone wants to follow Charlie Hebdo fate.
BTW, were those rules so strict some years ago? Or they become only now and only for Ubisoft? Did Japanese examine Civilization games as careful as they did Shadows? I can remember some complaints from Bolivia about false presentation in Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Was it the problem?
@VlReaderr lol so mad 🤣🤣 what's wrong with you? He's right
@@VlReaderrJapan settings and history need to be done right if someone else of going to represent their culture otherwise it's just disrespectful and disgusting I'm HAPPY that Ubisoft is getting screwed over that haven't made good games since black flag they deserve everything that's coming to them
I stand with Japan on this! I hate agenda games anyways. But my fave at a tie would be the first Div game and Assassin's Creed OG.
As Iong as i can choose to only play nao i might give the game a chance. An ac game set in japan needs to embrace that ninja in the shadow fantasy.
Hilarious how Ubi's CEO is blaming gamers and our "extraordinary expectations" on the flop of Star Wars: Outlaws - No, we just want games that are good, bug free, perform well and aren't designed to nickle and dime people, much like most of their games.
Don't forget that we don't want all the woke bullshit jammed down our throats...
These CEOs are never willing to take accountability when they f*** up. But for him to explicitly blame the playera for not wanting to shill 70 bucks to mire in underdeveloped, over monetized slop is shameful and stupid. Hes either lying to himself or he doesnt have half a brain in his head. Either way the leadership (or perhaps lack thereof) is running the company into the ground.
Black Flag was my go to i still pick it up and go ship hunting creating huge ship battles love that game.
I REALLY enjoyed Odyssey, Valhalla just fell apart and they havent recovered.
Didn't enjoy odyssey and Valhalla. Both sucked. AC origins and Mirage have been the better ones
Lol. AC hasn't had a good game since Black Flag
@@chefcc90 I'd say Unity if it wasn't for the bugs and crashes. It was actually fun to play and the story was interesting when it actually worked. and Origins was a refreshing change. Ruined by microtransactions in a SP game though. The Ezio trilogy will always be the peak though.
@@chefcc90 ACBF was good but more of the same game AC3 and the others were. Origins was actually good. Valhalla had the most interesting story in a long time when it comes to the overall plot of the current story. Mirage was decent too. Odyssey was bloated as hell but a lot of people seemed to enjoy that combat and open world. The story was odd to me.
I enjoyed Odyssey so much. Valhalla felt so bland, boring and....you know that feeling you get when you're sick? That just...sick...feeling? Yeah. That's what it felt like.
Historically inaccurate and Black washing Japanese history to push woke agendas. Hard pass and i love Assassins creed
Fujibayashi Naoe has entered chat. Did you forget about her? Really convenient people leave her out when discussing this game, but hey...why be honest when pushing your own bad faith agenda.
@@RedShadowOfSaturn Tf you yapping about here? What is your point? Lol
@@Shimotsuki_D_Alber Uh oh...I was accused of "yapping," the new internet buzzword. I must've been deaded. Lemme explain, not that you have the attention span for it.
Assassin's Creed Shadows actually has TWO playable characters. Not just one black person. One of them, Naoe, is Japanese. Assassin's Creed Shadows has a Japanese protagonist.
Culture Warriors aren't aware of that because they really hate black people, and are hiding behind a few Japanese critics of the game.
Hope that helps.
@@RedShadowOfSaturn I've got the attention span, no worries. I finished the video, it sounds like you didn't though. I'm sorry you couldn't get through the video because it wasn't 30 seconds long.
The backlash Ubisoft is receiving is not because there is no Japanese protagonist option, it's due to the blatant butchering of Japanese history for the sake of mediocre pandering and forcing DEI agendas.
Yasuke was hardly a footnote in Japanese history, treated as a pet/party trick during his very short-lived tenure in Japan. He wasn't a samurai.
Japanese history and culture is something Japan takes very seriously, Ubisoft disrespecting their culture like that is plain wrong. Not to mention, all of the other artifacts, buildings, symbols, etc. that they didn't get permission to use in their game.
Try to do some more research on topics before talking about things you clearly don't understand.
Hope this helps.
@@Shimotsuki_D_Alber Aww, you thought I didn't watch the whole video when I did, that's sweet, bud, appreciate that.
So right off, yes, Naoe is a huge part of this discourse, because LITERALLY not a single person I see screeching about this game "forcing a DEI agenda" discusses her. Know why? Because she doesn't fit into YOUR agenda thinking everything is indoctrination and disrespecting culture. Sorry, bud.
Second, Yasuke wasn't barely a footnote, and even if he was, he really existed, there's pretty decent evidence of his existence and station, and after nearly 20 games of AC taking real people and making their own version (many of whom were LITERALLY NOTHING like they actually were in real life), Yasuke having HIS own version is literally par for the course, and not, what did you call it? "A forced DEI agenda?" Cute, though. Tell on yourself harder. Naoe has entered chat, by the way, she WASN'T real at all, her father was, but keep on that "forced DEI agenda" as if it's real. Uh huh.
And ah yes, Japan, the only country on the planet to care about its culture so much they wouldn't give permission to use images of its landmarks and artifacts. Neat. Wait...are they the only culture to care about those things enough to not give permission? Seems like that's the first I've heard of it after a bajillion AC games have done the same exact thing. Interesting.
Apparently I'm the one who hasn't researched this enough, though. Cool. what am I not understanding again?
Keep in mind...I'm not defending UbiSoft here. They're a terrible company through and through...though it's pretty awesome and super sweet that every person coming down on UbiSoft NOW as a black person is taking front and center for this AC game that isn't even out yet...how did those people feel when stories about UbiSoft was abusing its employees? Did that matter to those people, or do they just care about protesting UbiSoft NOW?
Hope that helps too, clearly you haven't thought your position through very well and are believing some very bad actors. And no, a few folks on TH-cam doesn't constitute "an entire nation."
Woke rot at the executive level has caused this.
Great video. To answer your last question.
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Give the TC ip to someone else Ubisoft.
If you want to play AC Shadows, just buy either Ghost of Tsushima or Rise Of The Ronin.
Not the same. I love ghosts but it’s just different 😂
Shadows will be the first AC game I will not buy in a decade. Enough is enough.
I actively doubt that UBI will listen to any sort of public feedback, former employees actively said they ignore it and chalk it up to toxic gamer culture.
Until leadership changes, this company is still going down.
"Cultural feedback" is an interesting way to say "Broke international law by including religious symbols that expressly forbidden to include in media without approval"
I 100% loved this commany just as you. All good things come to an end. I want this company to fold and I hope the AC IP goes to someone who will do it justice.
I’ll be honest I didn’t know about the torii gate thing and had to go look it up.
Considering all the backlash this game was already getting something like this “”should”” have been researched to hell and back to make sure it was bulletproof instead they handed their detractors even more ammo.
It's a shame what has happened to the Assassin's Creed Franchise. It has had it's ups and downs, with AC II still my favourite of all. Ezio being my #1 character. AC Origins was the last great one for me, due to it's setting and story.
It doesn't leave me feeling good about the new Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and especially The Division 3 games. God, I hope they don't mess these up!!😬
Once the results regarding the sales of Shadows are known, I think Harvard Business School will come to interview UBI in order to create a textbook. What should UBI have done? It seems like it will be a popular teaching material.
They would never dare 😂 harvard is just as ideologically captured by The Movement as Ubi is.
R.I.P Ubisoft thank you for the bangers a long time ago
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AC Shadows should have been an easy win for Ubisoft, the Japan setting has been long requested from fans of the series. All they needed to do was bring the same level of quality that was present in AC Odyssey or even Valhalla. I think adding Yasuke to the game was probably one of the worst moves they could have made just because of how controversial his history is. I'm fairly certain if they had just made an original character inspired by Yasuke's story I think they could have avoided much of the backlash they have been receiving.
Ubisoft phoning in what should be a slam dunk is so typical of what the company has become.
There’s a pretty good meet about all this I saw a while ago:
*Sucker Punch:* “Look at me, look at me!
I am the Assassin now.”
“The mid 2016’s” ahh man, what a decade the 2016’s were 😂
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I still pick up Ghost Recon Wildlands on occasion when The Division 2 is getting stale. Games just aren't up to snuff anymore.
Ubisoft peaked with AC: Black Flag.
As soon as the trailer dropped I knew the Japanese government would be having a word with Ubisoft. Japan are very strict on representation of historical figures. The Japanese government have blocked historically inaccurate games and other media before and aren't afraid of doing it again.
Big L for the game series that's all about history. Oh wait, all the guys that cared about that don't work at Ubisoft anymore. Funny that.
Ghost of Tsushima, the best Assassin’s Creed game
For honor is the last Ubisoft game I’ll play. Hope those devs will keep their jobs when Ubisoft fails
Hate ubisoft games, especially the AC series. It’s always been a cheap reskin of a reskin of a reskin, with janky mechanics and uninteresting stories. The nail in the coffin was that CEO saying we “need to get used to not owning our games” and I hit the roof. They were already getting zero of my money and that BS made it clear we are not and never will be aligned. Everything from them is so generic and soulless, poorly designed and written by executive committee. Awful. I want nothing to do with that 💩 company. I hope they fail.
This comment right here, if the owner of Ubi could simply read this comment and drop his ego for one second...perhaps they could turn the ship around. But these people are elitists, cultists, hive minders incapable of individual thought. There is no negotiating with these people.
I too hope they fail.
I'm inclined to agree with Ubisoft's investors that Ubisoft CEO Deez Gigglenutz is intentionally ruining the company and has been since the early 2010's. Deez Gigglenutz has got to go.
In the words of Lord Humungus, "Just walk away.."
Actually Coach Starks favorite words were Get your ass up field now
Bro I swear, i came for your title, and I’m half way in the vid and you ahve talked about everything except the collapse of shadows. wtf
Where's Tenchu when you need it?
Shinobido* Shinobido is better
Fellow helldivers we need to deploy to mastia to defend the dss from being cut off
Souless wokism is a fair way to describe Ubisoft. I hope the take over from their investors works, maybe they will sell off all the IP and another studio will get a crack at reviving the IP, I mean for god's sake their stock used to be at 90, now its at 9...
Assassin's Creed 3. Conor was the best for me I would love a remake
There is a remaster of it which includes liberation.
@@the_epileptic_gamer1190 I have the remaster, I would just love to see a remake with today's modern engines.
@@DarkTrunksSj3 yeah, I wasn't sure what you meant, but thought I'd at least tell you about a more "modern" version of it if you didn't know. But I 100% agree with you. 3 has been and always will be my favorite.
Honestly, this is one of the best, most detailed and thought out breakdown of the whole situation I've seen yet. Thank you for making it.
My favorite Ubisoft title
was definitely Assassin’s Creed 2, I remember when playing this game I played it from the moment I woke up around 8 AM till my bedtime around 10 PM. It only felt like moments passed by that’s how fun it was. The story was incredible. The character development was amazing Ezio by far is the GOAT of assassin‘s Creed and no one else can change my mind about that.
Thank you for this grounded take on this issue. You managed to cut through the noise that is polluting my feed with hyperbolic and clickbaity trash on this and related topics…
Sad that they only decided on making AC: Japan when they could spin it for The Message. Really, a true disappointment of a company. Wonder who'll buy up the scraps, EA? Microsoft? Or Sony?
Hopefully someone buys Ubisoft and cleans house getting rid of all the DEI hires
@@mikesmurawski3331 we'd never be so lucky. They'll clean house of any worth while devs and pump in MORE ESG and DEI
I agree with Terry, Blackrock or some other woke ass company like Disney will buy it. Then all the decent people still there will all be replaced LGBQT woketards.
I wanted to play as a Japanese Male Ninja/Samurai. I will buy Ghost of Tsushima instead.
People can say what they want we all know why there's a problem....
Choas....Chaos
Assassins creed 2 and brotherhood were the peak of the series for me. Ubisoft fell off hard, and Yves gillemot is to blame.
The fact that folks are also starting the rage about the main protagonist in the ghost of Tsushima sequel highlights very clearly that players ( at least the western ones ) don't really care about the historical in accuracies, they just want to continue to have white male protagonist, and I'll die on that hill. Get over it, if that's your thing you have literally a billion games to choose from.
Asians are now white people too?😂😂😂😂 I did not know that Jin Sakai was a white man.
Get over the fact that gamers have rejected this game.
@@RedArc4Lif3 go place space marine 2 I'm sure that one's right up your alley.
@@monterialwise1567 Nah not a fan of Warhammer 40k. It seems cool but maybe in 20 years when I'm in my mid 40s.
Aren't they asking for a Japanese samurai??
Btw,I am indian and no representation ruins the entertainment industry.
I just heard they are making a remake of the TV series Roots and Brad Pitt will be playing the lead role of Kunta Kinte. I pretty sure the black community will be just fine with that. Sometimes I just don't get the logic of some of these developers. Oooh we are DEI compliant but who cares if we aren't authentic or caring about a countries culture. sigh....
The DEI agenda is destroying so many companies
It amazes me that it took Ubisoft this long to go broke
Ubisoft created a black hole and now is collapsing into it. no pun intended
Tbh I just hate how they didnt gave Altair any follow up story he is the best assassin in my opinion. His robe is perfect blend of white, red, brown & silver & not to mention he is the only assassin that has a closed neck design on the hood & has no collar. Tbh I think Altair's robe design is the best because it was really stealthy I mean Ezio up to Arno in AC unity their robe is fine looks elegant but the collar & the open neck hood looks more stylish than stealthy. Also doesn't help that Ezio blend into the dancers white wearing white. Atleast Altair's robe looks similar to the clothes of the crowd he is trying to blend into.
Hey man, double check spelling in your title.
Dude remember the assassins creed multiplayer where you could blend into crowds to kill other players. That was some fun shit
I wonder if the issue is Ubisoft themselves. It's almost like the developers they hired have all been for one reason and have something in common apart from not being good enough.
The question is can Ubisoft afford to release AC after the next financial year, so if they can delay it, it's got to be released by early march to get a months worth of sales under its belt.
I am pretty sure the talented and skilled people at Ubisoft, are pretty much gone! Those people that made all the great games we all love, back in the day, are no longer there!
Hopefully UBISOFT Québec will save the franchise.
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Considering they are the ones who got us in this mess and are responsible for Shadows... What hope?
@@65firered The studio of Ubisoft Québec is in a civil war right now more so than the one in Montréal. Some just want to make the best AC ever with this one but the woke minded people at the senior leadership are killing everything that could make the game great! A friend of mine told me that the same thing is happening at WB Montréal.
Will see who won that war but if Guillemot dosen't stop DEI and the spread of the woke mind virus i am afraid it's gonna be the end.
Hope is just knowing the fact that some passionate people at UBISOFT Québec are holding the line till the end.
さようなら UBISOFT.
@@quebecpower978 I see. Though it seems like trying to plug a hole in the Titanic. At the very least if they fail, they don't have to go down with the ship.
@@quebecpower978the rumours say AC Hexe will be a gay and lesbian „festival“. Although I am German and I live near Salem (the enviroment the game is settled) I won‘t play it
Man, Yves Guillemot truly is a 4 🌟 CEO!
They should have just stuck with their original vision. It sounded (if the info was accurate) a hell of a lot more compelling than whatever half assed narrative they piece together now.
0:25 close one you saved yourself there 😂
It’s a shame. I have so many hours on AC Origins and it is still one of my favorite games today. I’ve played since the first AC and I can’t bring myself to finish Mirage. They might be doomed, and they did it to themselves.
Maybe Seppuku is an idea for all who worked on this game.
What the hell happened to outlaws, she actually look’s pretty cute in the trailer, give me that character model
4:04 I personally miss the pieces of Eden and the modern side of the AC games they were fun mysteries to add some depth and they have just been abandoned.
Entertainment is no place to drive agenda's - we use entertainment to escape the 'real' life. I don't want a small part of a community telling me how I should enjoy my entertainment!
Oooo I’m glad you’re covering this!
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Hey Buzz. It is always great to hear your take on one of these new Dumpster Fire games. Thanks for this one and though I was looking forward to it releasing. I was skeptical because it was UBI. Hands down Splinter Cell on PC. At this point, I might as well give my Xbox away. It has been dormant since March and if I get to March 2025 it will be a gift to my grandson. Thanks for keeping us up to date Buzz. Have great day Bud!!!
My favorite Ubisoft game is AC-Black Flags. I love pirate games. I tried that new Skull and Bones and was like WTF is this trash? And reinstalled Black Flags and was just floored how much better Black Flags is compared to the "flop" called Skull and Bones.
Black flag is probably my favorite Ubisoft game. I also enjoyed odyssey and Wildlands.
But yeah, Ubisoft isn’t the same
Between the Ezio trilogy (I love the 3 in the same measure), AC Unity or The Division (1), it's REALLY dificult to choose just one favorite game, so I guess I'll leave it as my top 5.
As to what's happening right now at Ubi, I'm really worried at what will happen to those two AMAZING franchises (AC e TD), not only because they will NEVER be as good as I wish, but maybe they'll just "die" all together...
Honestly. I feel like the only successful AC bit was the collaboration event with the mobile game summoners war.
We begged for AC to go to Japan since AC 2 released. Now that so many of us don't give a shit 🤷
Give AC to a developer who gives a damn Ubisaps!
Ubisoft needs to spend all of the extra time they bought with this delay to make sure AC Shadows is a good game that does the AC IP justice. If they spend the whole time trying to cater to right-wing culture warrior snowflakes who weren't going to buy the game anyway, Shadows truly will be hopeless.
AC got boring after Desmonds story ended and Gameplay became your typical action game with grinding and enemies becoming damage sponges.
Stopped playing after black flag and will play ghost of tsushima before I give a Ubisoft game more interest.
Glad someone is brave enough to say this. It didn't necessarily need to continue Desmond's story specifically, but the lack of a present day element, ya know, the thing that the ANIMUS is literally built to dive into ancestors' memories to benefit, at least to me, is a big reason why the games aren't doing so well. There's basically no present day reason or motivation or "endgame" for the characters to be exploring history, and the history stories being told aren't powerful enough to have long term replayability.
I'm at the stage where I don't care about ubislop anymore so I hope it all crumbles
The female assassin looks like an asset on Adobe's mixamo.
Current Ubisoft couldn’t make another experience like AC2 or Black Flag if their lives depended on it. Too much corporate bullshit and toxic positivity/DEI.
My favorite all-time AC titles were AC2 (+ its Brotherhood & Revelations DLCs, right) and Origins (as well as Black Flag obviously, but we all know this one is NOT an Assassin's Creed, don't we?) AC2 had by far the best writing & atmosphere in the whole series, and Origins had the absolutely mind-blowing setting & landscapes ever seen in a video game (only problem was, it also inaugurated an era where AC games lost their stealthy side to become more combat-focused, thus losing half of their original soul).
Granted, I haven't played a few of the AC titles, from the sorry AC3 to Unity, and again from Valhalla to Mirage, but those titles I missed were already showing all the flaws & shortcomings that pulled the series down: poor writing, overextended (read, ridiculously & uselessly diluted) playtime, abusive quest markers/POIs/collectibles, a more and more remote link with the original plot at the very roots of the series, increasingly buggier games, performance issues, assumed reinterpretation of History (as in: historical (in)accuracy), and the list goes on.
As a result, Shadows is just the latest piece epitomizing everything that's been wrong with the series for years, amplified by the devs surrendering to today's shitty out-of-place woke culture, and is therefore unlikely to save the company from the series of terrible choices they seem to have taken at heart to tick one after the other. As a matter of fact, it may go as far as being the final nail in Ubi's coffin, especially at an age where the so-acclaimed Ghosts of Tsushima exists. Time will tell of course, but unfortunately I wouldn't hold my breath.
Istg Ubisoft doesn't even try anymore
Despite the feedback on star wars. I’m loving outlaws. It’s fresh and just fun. The worlds they built are packed and fun to explore. Overall a great time.
Assassins Creed Odyssey was an absolutely MASTERPIECE I love everything about it and I just wanted that for a Fudal Japanese setting, it’s the first AC game since Odyssey I’ve been excited for, this is really disappointing
I wish we could have had a Kenway Trilogy or quadrilogy.
AC has never been about historical accuracy until Yasuke arrived. Weird that it's such a big issue. If people disliked a game based on the world design and structures being misrepresented that's understandable, In this case the Japanese landmarks are held in high honor so sure they don't want those depicted wrong, but It's a game at the end of the day. I don't play GOW, because the people and landmarks are 100% accurate to the time. I doubt anyone in any AC game actually did what AC devs are saying they did. I honestly feel people shouldn't even judge a game before they play it (Demos should be mandatory). But the gaming world has gotten so bad about 💩on a game based off trailers and personal feelings. That a game can't even come out before it's in the negative.
I think AC has been soulless since Rogue. I desperately wanted Origins to be a masterpiece but when I found out the hidden blade couldnt instakill all enemies I knew the writing was on the wall. CoD used to be a good series too but has also been soulless ever since Bops 2. The state of gaming is pretty sad.
Tom Clancy's EndWar! Best console RTS i've ever played! Only downside was 2v2 matches vs Bots even on the hardest difficulty were always waay too short^^
Ubisoft has been making failed content for the past 8 years. So many fails, we just cannot risk buying some "NEW" game from them, knowing how bad, every game they have made in the last decade is a flop. I have to hold my wallet on this one, and every game they make from this point on, forever. Until I see that the game is good and fun to play. Then, and only then, will I buy something from Ubisoft. Sorry Ubisoft, but your track record is crap and it shows. Paying high dollars for substandard programmers is not a good business model. Most programmers these days are mostly full of hot air. Look around... see many epic games lately... like I said, "Hot Air"!
10:12 remember what happened to vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2 I’m still waiting for that to come out like 3 years after it was meant to launch.
Assassins Creed: Stunning and Brave
great Shadows had Samurai ...That would be the first assassins creed game id buy...Gave up on games working when I left industry in 2015
I always loved assasins creed because of their stealth gameplay as they started to drift away from stealth so too did I start to drift from Ubisoft
Devoted AC fan here…. And I’m still hyped for shadows 😂🤷♂️