@@Blackpapalink lets not pretend Ubisoft is the only company you own digital titles from lol... even steam can take any of your titles back any time they want
The hiphop in the background for a black character gives the same racist energy as Asian characters on TV shows having a gong sound effect or ~mysterious traditional music~ play every time they’re on screen
Why they even attempted this shit is beyond me. They lost their chance to put out a solid stealth/samurai game as soon as Ghost of Tsushima dropped. Not only did it respect the culture better and represent the time period in a mostly accurate way, it also gave us a very deep combat system, with unique mechanics, interesting (fictional) characters as well as real characters. Not too mention it also did all of that with some of the best style and graphics this generation. Ubisoft is hamstringing themselves with AC Shadows, because if any of its core mechanics or storytelling isn't up to the same par as GoT, you'll lose fan interest at blinding speed. ESPECIALLY now that Ghost of Yōtei has been announced.
@@johnnycoolguy9554 hilarious how ubisoft prided and bragged themselves on so much they were sticking to authenticity and respecting the culture but all they had was controversy meanwhile the ghost of tshusima devs became permanent tourism ambassadors of the island the game took place in
I can't even feel bad of Ubisoft anymore, because they have willingly thrown away every opportunity to make good games by trashing every IP they've gotten their hands on. They would rather produce boring, corporate slop with the same cookie-cutter gameplay year after year
@@babyjiren9676DEI ain't even the biggest problem when they literally rent their game for 200 bucks and yet also can yoink it from your own library if they want to.
Ubisoft's level of respect for history and culture: 1. Hip hop music for Yasuke 2. One-legged Torii gate, a symbol of the destruction caused by the atom bomb. 3. Chinese music in AC Shadows World Trailer. Instrument used is a Sanxian, not a Shamisen. Whatever Ubisoft is going through right now, it deserves a lot worse than that. Edit: a lot of Ubisoft bootlickers are desperately trying to defend this shit.
Let's not forget about a black guy who also isn't connected to the Nobunaga family is wearing armour and weapons with the Nobunaga family badge, while it's also displayed everywhere being cut off. That's like showing a burning US flag.
and the Black samurai proved false, written by some brittish dude living in japan for DEI reasons. and making that black samurai in couple with a japanese girl, who together kill traditional japanese men.. the message.
If they didn't go for historical acuracy route at all, and just made A fantasy game with A badass black ninja and fun gameplay, I think A lot of people would play that.
Isn't Ubisoft a French company? How come it's behaving so absurdly unsightly. It doesn't add up almost. The acting up unsightly, sure, but the overly emphasis on different values, not in the slightest. The French couldn't care less who or what you are. What the heck is this. I'll need to dig up what's the matter with this company. All I know of is that the shareholders are a major contributor in some ways than other.
@@DoneBrokeDatBack Because that's just what the industry is, now. The suits have taken over and gaming has honestly gotten worse overall. Sure, there's many new games and genre offshoots, (YAAY! VARIETY!!!!) However, it's all ran by people who don't give a shit about gamers nor gaming and just see dollar signs. It's just investors wanting to take the money from people who are passionate about a hobby and it's pretty sickening, tbh... At least Ubisoft has been up front about it, I guess...
A game set in India with Bollywood dance sequences in the background would actually be far less offensive than what Ubisoft is doing. At least Bollywood IS from India. In AC Shadows they're playing African-American music for a man from Mozambique living in Japan!!!
As an Indian I just want to say don’t dare to offend our region in anywhere includes games too the consequences are much worse literally much worse that’s the reason why there are no games based on Indian religion.
@@ricardorocha6612 Suppose a game similar to Assassin's Creed was based in India, and a British character came to help India gain freedom, which never actually happened. This could result in a huge court case in our country, potentially leading to a ban not only in India but also in neighboring countries with strong ties to India. Now, imagine if a game were based on Hindu religion and included some fictional content for gameplay purposes that ended up hurting the religious sentiments of people. In such a case, people could go as far as burning down Ubisoft's office and even threatening the CEO's life. In India, people don't forgive even the smallest mistakes when it comes to Hinduism.
I remember developer logs from AC2. They sent several artists to Italy to find locations and historic neighborhoods for photoshoots, references and inspiration. I guess this time budget was thinner.
Old AC developers were major history nerds. They loved the time periods, people and places their games featured and it showed. The new ones actively hate it. History is bad in their ideology so all they care about is spreading their message.
Bro I remember having a history test back when AC3 came out and remembered dates, historical figures names, etc cause of AC3 lol that was my favorite game at the time and played it so much and discussed the ending with friends and theorize what would happen next after Desmond….
There is only one reason why they chose a black protagonist in an Assassins Creed Japan, and its definitely not because they have devs who are passionate and knowledgeable about Japan.
Ubisoft is one of those company that you CANNOT feel bad for, they made bad decision after bad decision and then have the gall to say for gamers to get comfortable with not owning games...100% deserved hope they close so someone buys assassin's creed and treats it better than slopsoft.
The more kind side of me that feels bad for them wishes they would make a comeback and actually started making good games (or even just acceptable games) but... the other not-so-kind side of me which surges when I remember all the stuff they've done... really wishes they would just straight up go bankrupt.
I suddenly don't feel bad about paying super low prices for years old games they still have at full price, and have the balls to charge over $100 for their full content.
The gaming industry is a competitive space and players have a lot of choices. AAA gaming companies like Ubisoft need to innovate and bring fresh experiences to capture players' interest. Glad they've reconsidered their plan to meet the high expectations of their franchise.
@@4RILDIGITAL hate to break it to you, but just because they delay it once, doesn't mean they'll get it right. How many times did Cyberpunk got delayed? One too many. And it takes 2 years after release to actually get it right.
@@Worms2pl Shadow of War is most Assassin's Creed game than any Assassin's Creed game ever. In fact it's a game to surpass Assassin's Creed. I still play it and Arkham Knight every now and then.
@@methamphetamememcmeth3422 I wouldn't say it's more Assassin's Creed than Assassin's Creed. It's an awesome game, don't get me wrong but the 2 of them are very different. Shadow of War is more of a power fantasy than anything.
Sub-Saharaian African ethnicity not culture* Don't know if you're American or not, but Africa is a massively diverse continent, North Africans looks nothing like their southern or central part
@@johan13135 Yeah, but that technically only makes the point even more valid. It's almost as if generalizing everyone with a specific skin color to "black, must play hip hop" is a bad idea.
11:50 I want to point out. Historians have lost their jobs for doing that. Filling in the blanks on just a few documents can result in problems when trying to accurately preserve documentation of the past.
Anyways, the whole promotion of AC Shadows using a One Piece sword is bad enough, but from what I heard, there's an even worse piece on it's official merch of chibi statues from Pure Arts showing the main duo, and one of them sitting on top of a one-legged torii gate. There are no one-legged torii gates in Japan, with the exception of one in Nagasaki... And that used to have two legs before the bombing.
Also correct me if I'm wrong they are using the Oda clan symbols in some armour and weapons I sure hope they are paying the clan royalties since the Oda clan still exists today.
@@ravenguard0098 they used the wrong symbols on yasuke's sashimono, the wrong kanji for certain things too, and the neutral npcs in game stop what they're doing to bow to him even when they're citizens of an enemy clan/non-Oda faction and by law is someone they look down on due to him surrendering when Oda died lol.
@@ravenguard0098 According to the Japanese game development, the offending crest will not appear in the game. They have claimed the game will not get a Japanese release but this was not fully clear. They were also unclear about the crest appearing in other regions publications.
Don't expect them to fix anything with the delay, there's a reason they're doing it in February... That's Black History Month. They're going to use that as a shield for criticism. Could be coincidence, but Ubisoft doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point. Don't be surprised if they pull the "you're being racist about a bIack character on BIack History Month" spiel when it's released.
Why are we even playing as a samurai in an AC game? Just make the ninja lady the only character, have her main focus be stealth, and if you get into combat, make her a glass canon, and give her a big enough tool kit to escape if necessary.
@@TheFaxTM and the whole "hide in plain sight" aspect of every assassins creed game is out the window. "Oh who could the assassin be? Could it be the one hulking African guy in the whole of Japan who just happened to show up before all this stuff started going down? Nah can't be"
We wouldn't want that. That be to much of a good thing. And modern ubisoft don't want that. Nope We don't need a ninja clan or organization of assassins that's been around for such a long time.......noooo that's way too much good work
What i hate the most about modern gaming and game companies is as an average consumer when we try to give feedback we are literally just talking to a brick wall. These companies will quite literally NEVER listen to their player base, and it’s so easy for them to just turn off any criticism. Comment section? Just disable it! Getting disliked into oblivion? Just turn of likes and dislikes! Tons of quote retweets? Doesn’t matter, not like there’s an actual human running their social media. They can literally just turn off their ears, and they won’t change until their companies are run into the ground, and in all honesty they probably won’t be, because there will always be the consumers happy to turn off their brain and buy buy buy the next product with a big logo on it. It made me laugh so hard when last year people were talking shit about mwiii “oh this game is terrible stop buying cod” “stop giving cod your money” “stop paying activision for trash” the second the black ops 6 trailer comes out the same people “I can’t wait to play zombies!” “This looks awesome! I’ll pay 100 dollars for the pre order edition!” “This definitely won’t be the same as last time!”
The problem is majority of gamers are, simply put "normies". Most people don't go out of their way to look into the stock value of games, get behind the scenes info, see what crazy stuff devs post on their socials, etc.. I do believe more people are becoming informed but if these companies keep having their hubris and agendas on full display, eventually even "normies" are going to start waking up...but the pendulum is shifting so that's good at least
We've seen this exact comment a million times. We already don't buy those games. Why do you think gamepass, ubiplus etc is getting so big? So we can pay a few bucks to test for slop without the two hour steam refund limit that most games can pad past and then cancel the subscription.
They probably generated it in an AI and then go on off that picture, and the AI most likely yoinked an anime picture or logo but they (Ubisoft) didnt know that like an idiot that they are 😂
Mate, do you not remember the Metal Gear Solid reference back in AC2 (or was it Brotherhood?) with a full-blown cardboard box? Got problems with Ubisoft but putting references in their games ain't one of them
Yotei merely demonstrated what a once respected developer has turned into. Both devs have the same rotten woke ideologies and both are insulting the Japanese culture.
@@alwaysalonesoki1217 Don't tell me that because the game has a woman as the protagonist, don't see people saying Nier and Bayonetta as "woke" and "politically correct" when it is the same case. Beside, Ghost of Tsushima was received well by the Japanese.
10:20 its sad because it takes like a 2-15 second google search to find a picture of a real katana sitting in a museum somewhere they couldve based a design off of rather than just copying an anime design
Bruh... You must've missed the deleted Thomas Lockley interview vids ( -forgot the channel name but it's some old guy with glasses and like 1000 subs- found him. It's Lance E. Lee Podcast) where he talked about his role in AC Shadows development and accusing whoever criticized the game and anyone who dared to question the legitimacy of his so-called "research" of being ray-cysts. You must've also missed the fact that Lockley himself started editing the wiki page way back when he first wrote his books on Yasuke under the username TottoriTom (Tommy-boy lives/lived in Tottori prefecture fyi) and literally CITED HIS OWN BOOKS AS SOURCES. Why would anyone do that, you ask? To promote their own grift, why else. Bro made bank off those books and his lies were perpetuated for years till he finally got caught now. You must've also missed the most recent ubisoft fail where they turned a WWII NAGASAKI B0- MBING MEMORIAL into a freaking FUNKO POP TOY to promote their stvpid game! Now how on earth did you miss THAT one?!! It was literally the final nail in the Ubislop coffin for why they -got kicked out- oops I mean "willingly pulled out" of Tokyo Game Show!
@@dylan4125yt deletes my comments if I so much as type out the word 🔫, in fact this was my 2nd attempt since the first one got deleted. Count yourself lucky that you haven't been caught in filter b0- t jail (yes yt deletes my comments if I say that word too)
@@dylan4125Ha. Gone in 12 seconds. See? You'll see my reply to you with those exact two words in your notifications, but when you click on it it's not there.
Playing a modern African American hip hop sound track on a "supposedly" African guy name "Yasake" in Japan is historically accurate, and totally not racist and insensitive to Africans, stereotypical to African Americans and definitely not degrading and white washing Japanese culture. - Some Ubislob CEO
I remember people begging Ubisoft to make an assassin's creed game in Japan all the way back during AC Brotherhood. Too bad Sucker Punch Studios beat them to the punch (haha) twice.
“In today's ultra-competitive market, players expect extraordinary experiences and ultra-polished games on Day 1. We need to continue to improve when it comes to fine-tuning our games and delivering outstanding gameplay” 😭😭
AC IV is actually a good pirate game. And typical of Ubisoft to find things to ruin while making it. I'm not a fan of pirate games at all, but I really like pirates. I just hate collectibles.
@TheSoCalledZoner1 I honestly stopped playing Ubisoft games once Uplay/Always online became forced requirements of all their newer games. Same reason I am upset about new Sony games on PC needing PSN. It is just Windows LIVE all over again...
You know what is crazy?. Of all the damn month they could've picked they end up picking the worst. February is Avowed Monster Hunter Widls New Yakuza Game Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Civilization 7 They just committed game suicide LMAO.. They just want this game to come up, be a massive flop and make tax write off for the fiscal year or something
@@nhanon67asit doesn’t matter, these games are all very hyped and if you release your game at the same time, people only have so much time and money they’re willing to spend which means less sales
15:37 I don't think Muta understands how batsh-t insane Assassin's Creed lore was from the beginning. "The Truth" minigames in ACII and Brotherhood are absolutely BONKERS! The Isu all being this precursor race of super scientists that inspired the religions of the world like Greco-Roman and Norse mythology has also been a thing since ACII. Let me give you an example of how crazy it gets. In the AC Brotherhood "The Truth" minigames, it is revealed that human kind was NOT evolved from apes. And rather, the Templars used a piece of Eden to somehow create a fake homo-erectus skeleton or something for some reason. Humanity was created by the Isu, the precursor race, in their image. BUT, it's also true that in the AC universe that if enough humans believe something, it becomes true. I'm pretty sure in AC Revelations, it's shown that the Isu tried to get humanity to gaslight itself into making a solar flare not happen, but the humans and Isu were too busy warring with each other to make it work. Which the Templars then tried to accomplish with an apple of Eden tied to a SATELLITE! As well as one on the f*cking MOON! And Neil Armstrong put it there! This means that humans both are and are not evolved from apes in Assassin's Creed!
If it's such a "dream project", than why is every aspect of it half-arsed like it's an AI generated project, couldn't be bothered to get some ACTUAL historians on board, and learn the most basic of social norms for said country you are making a game about?
@@bcj842I made the same comment on a historian's channel and got called racist for it. It's sad how many people bent over backwards to defend this trainwreck of a game.
@@Lonaticus Americancentrism, especially in regards to race. Mutahara kinda fell into that by getting really annoyed by the music but was emotionally not there about that weeb katana thing nor did he bring up that Torii gate issue.
Hip hop wasnt a thing back then lmao, so Yasuke wouldnt even like it but Africa has had hip hop since the 90s (americanized) and now has localized/african style hip hop so theres that
Never forget that Ubislop consistently bragged about how AC: Shadows was "Authentic". And this, more than anything else, is why people are shifting on this game so hard for it's design choices
They removed the crossbow from the original game for not being authentic. Even though they did exist back then, they felt he wouldn't have been able to find one. They then put tons of work into being historically accurate with settings and characters. Then they slowly went downhill. This was the only saving grace because their mechanics, bugs and 100% achievements are the worst aspects of their games. But now they are making a game about a guy vaguely mentioned in some made up story. Which is funny because all their protagonists are kinda made up, surrounded by actual real people. But they legit said "we need to be woke let's get a black dude, oh look it's authentic!" Biggest clown shoes ever. I can maybe almost accept him, just not in the way they brought him into the game.
It's good that they have decided to delay the game considering the backlash from various areas. The gaming industry needs refreshment and repetitive versions of any game will only lead to their downfall. It's about time game developers focus on creating unique and engaging content to recapture the interest of the audience.
Why? Concord was slop, made to try to get as much money as possible from a saturated market, with little to no thought or substance put forth. Is this the same?
Ghost of Yotei is another game that has a female protagonist just because it's the modern thing to replace strong male characters with strong female characters for diversity points. I don't see Ghost of Yotei doing as well as Ghost of Tsushima
@@VaultDweller2076 one thing is a color haired "quirky" girl as a protagonist, whos whole plot is "le bad people!!!! i hate them all!!!!", another is serious, well written and close to actual REAL history. If the game will not be on the same level as Ghost of Tsushima storywise, it will be MUCH MUCH better then AC:S. I have confidence in sucker punch, the story they wrote for Jin was amazing.
8:36 OMG now I want an Assassin's Creed where people start dancing in the background as you fight and random elephants appear in the scene once in a while.
There is an AC game in India: "Assassin’s Creed Chronicles India". Wouldn't say the OST is the best in the franchise, but it is alright, no Tunak Tunak though - at least not this time
8:30 No! It's actually worse than that though! Because at least they'd be playing real Indian music! They are playing AMERICAN HIP HOP and attributing that to an African historical figure (likely a slave to a Feudal Lord and nothing more). It's not even African music... They are basically saying "Meh, black is black, close enough!" This is easily the most out of touch Assassin's Creed game ever. You gotta remember, Ubisoft used to be the company that did such meticulous research on the cultures and geography of their setting that they were able to provide the rebuilders of Notre Dame full schematics of the cathedral that was burned and partially destroyed because nobody else had those detailed plans. They went there and made the plans themselves for one of their games (I think Unity?). Look at AC 2 and all the work that went into that game. After Origins, this new direction became apparent. They don't put as much thought into their story or setting anymore.
I still remember how when AC2 came out people were extremely impressed with how accurate it was in displaying Italy. Who knew that years later they couldn't put half as much work in to save the entire company from ruin?
My dream is Ubisoft has to sell of the Assassin's Creed IP to a company that actually cares about it. It's been over a decade since an AC game felt worth it.
Ubisoft, Konami and Activision-Blizzard are the Kings of working hard to build a solid reputation making great games, only to let greed and ignorance plow their companies straight into their graves.
I was looking for this!!! Ubisoft is too busy circle jerking the AC franchise, yet they clearly have a fan base that is still waiting for a mascot they neglected (Rayman 4) But atp, I wouldn’t trust Ubisoft with making a Rayman game and would rather them just leave him alone…
I still don’t get why they don’t just use a Japanese man for the protagonist. If you want a man of African descent make a game during the era of Shaka Zulu.
or just make the black man of African descent be a side character, at the end , people wanted a japanese themed AC game to play as a Japanese man or woman, you don't hear anyone complain about the female protagonist, nobody cares since it's whatever and you had people like her actually doing shit like that, meanwhile, there wasn't a black samurai, a black retainer sure, why not have Yasuke's master be the main protagonist with Yasuke going with him to protect and help him.
This might be part of the problem. Ubisoft considers 76 critic and 54 user score on metacritic as "solid scores". I don't know about ubisoft but if I spent 200 million on a game and it averaged a 6.5/10 I wouldn't consider that "solid"
Yeah, 6.5 isn't bad... but that is very disappointing especially given the money spent. If I made something and it was a 6.5, I'd be kinda disappointed, but still glad I made my own game. I'd be a bit more.. expressive if I spent even 1 mil.
The one legged torii gate reminiscent of the Nagasaki nuclear destruction on the collector’s edition figurine and their refusal to stop selling the art book with stolen art says otherwise.
8:08 Honestly I wouldn’t mind that cause if there’s an Assassin Creed game set in India, then yeah, expect Indian culture infused in. That actually sounds like a solid idea for the franchise. But the issue with Shadows is that the location is set in Japan, so you would expect feudal Japanese music, but just because a black main character is involved, you also add the hip hop music. I think that’s an important distinction.
I always thought it would’ve been cool if Yasuke could stealth in restricted areas with enemy Samurai since he has the build and would know how samurai operate. Would just need a mask and matching armor to blend in.
@@dravenripley9468Yeah. Game was showing him killing people in the middle of the day surrounded by witnesses. As well as ramming to a gate. Base on their marketing, the game about assassins is only 50% stealth. And his parts are mandatory, so you can't play as only the ninja.
Historically Yasuke was around 6'0 /182 cm. However, the badass samurai Todo Takatora was 6'3 /190 cm and 23 years old in 1579. There were large Sengoku samurai like Saito Yoshitatsu, his family and son. Yoshitatsu was 6'6 / 197 cm.
People still Keep Trying to give ubisoft the benefit of the doubt. With the whole, it's not always been historically. Accurate to argument.They keep making this mistake when they talk about assassin's creed. Players being upset that it's not historically accurate was not true. They weren't upset That it's not historically accurate. They're upset because ubisoft. Defended their decisions To make him a samurai to state other things about his past because they were historically accurate so they can make the Character this way. Being historically, accurate was their defense. Players did not make that accusation first.
After what happens to the Crew, I would not even buy The Crew 2 for 1 dollar. Imagine paying for a game then one day the game is taken away from you with no refund. Would not want to waste money on buying something that you cannot own permanently.
I dont wanna sound like a culture warrior, but i think a lot of the controversy with Shadows would've been avoided if they made Yasuke an important side character instead of the player character. I dont have a problem with him being in the game, even in an exaggerated sense, but I don't like that you're playing a real person in a series that has always had fictional protagonists. Anyway, Ghost of Yotei looks far better, gonna save my money for that instead of giving it to Ubisoft.
I tend to agree with this. In past games they’ve always taken historical figures and made them side characters. It worked so much better for keeping it feeling “authentic” while also giving them a chance to insert the Assassins vs Templars story.
Why can't they just make a fictional shinobi/assassin with an African origin, one that is less historical tainting since it doesn't involve a specific real person, in a game with the title of ASSASSIN'S CREED?
Not just that, they could've even made Yasuke as a black samurai and get away with it. the issue is that they constantly were boasting how "historically accurate" they are. If they just from the get go leave out the historical accurate part and do what AC generally does anyway and just blame it on the templars who have slightly altered history or something, this would've never happened. but they first went "historical accurate!" so "we're taking some creative liberty!" to "we're being as historical accurate, but we'll go past the established truth" (basically saying they'll rewrite established history) They went back and forth so many times now that they literally shot themselves with a pistol, then amputated that leg with a shotgun, just to repeat it on the other leg, it's actually insane.
@@DarkDyllon No people would have still complained I promise, you underestimate the racism. If this was about historical accuracy, they would be mad about the COUNTLESS historical inaccuracies stacked sky high in other AC games. Just look at GTA 6 trailer and all the comments it got. It's set in diverse af Florida and yet there was tons of backlash about the black and hispanic presence in the game. I saw white (and asian and black tbh) dudes talking about how they can't wait to unalive the black women NPCs in the game. Just an upsetting culture that's grown worse in the community, and as a female gamer I just stay to myself when I would love to connect with fellow gamers and even date, but the white suprmcy and n cel and red pill culture drives women away - yes even white women, myself and all of my gamer gfs stay away. It's filled with some of the worst prejudice stuff out there. The ironic part is those guys talk about the "chads" but those guys are actually genuinely better company, and feel more safe to be around. It's disappointing.
Absolutely agree with Mutahar when he says that Assassin's Creed was never meant to be historically accurate. Having played 95% of the entire franchise, I've never really thought it to be anything but sci-fi historical action. I even played through all the education parts of Origins for my 100% completion. That being said, it will always rub me the wrong way when Ubisoft will try to shoehorn a type of character that parts from the mold of the era and tries to convince us that it's normal and real. If it was a unique character they made with his own origin that's well written, such as that of a slave who washes up on the shore of Japan or whatever, I wouldn't give two shits. But to pick a character and make us believe he's real and historically accurate rather than historical adjacent and fictional as they've always been feels wrong. In addition, what's wrong with just having a Japanese lead. What compelled them to think that for the biggest game of their franchise, going to Japan, home to stealth and Ninjas, really the inspiration and foundation for what it means to be Assassins and stealthy, they elected to have one of their protagonists not be Japanese at all is just extremely strange to me. But in Italy we get Italians, Egypt we have Egyptians, England we have Brits, but Japan we don't have that at all. It's just a strange shift that is incredibly difficult to ignore. On top of that, in this era of game development where every single fucking game feels like there's some agenda pieced into it, trying to meet a diversity quota, it really struck a wrong chord at the wrong time, and the hip hop music controversy exploded that beyond compare. Ubisoft needs to stick to their originality and authentic landscapes rather than trying to meet diversity quotas and partitioning their games trying to make as much money as possible while spending as little money as possible on actual development on things like innovation and depth. But they're in too deep. They can redeem themselves greatly by cancelling the game and basically rewriting the story and changing the lead but the amount of money wasted simply won't fly by the investors. They'd rather publish a strange and mid assassin's creed game, trying to make back whatever money they wasted, instead of making a game true to the era yet fun for players and aid their reputation. Let's be honest reputation is something triple A studios like this do not give two shits about. If it ever did, we'd have live service EA games that you don't need to pay yearly for and Ubisoft games that don't cost an arm and a leg to get the full experience.
Nah it ain’t over unless I see an Article or Vid that says “Ubisoft shuts down after a disappointing 2024. CEO & Co founder Yves Guillemot forced to resign” I would’ve added “Only to be arrested” but that be too high of a expectation
How their historical “experts” were so dumb that they decided the broken Torii gate was ok Btw, I was essentially the boss of Thomas Lockley at one point. He was a useless know it all
@@asmith1405 There's a reason he went back to the UK after only a couple of years. the BOE didn't renew his contact because he wouldn't fall in line. After that, nobody cared. He was one in thousands of other ALTs that come and go. It wasn't until years later when I started working at the Chiba BOE and was doing guest lectures at Kanda that I ran into him again. Knowing that he was doing any kind of work at Kanda was disappointing. Kanda is a prestigious University, well know for it's English studies. After his "breakthrough", you better believe that history teachers had a lot to say about it. He's a joke and widely disliked within the teaching community. The foreigner that makes up history.
Honestly, it could have been fun to have an African-Japanese fusion soundtrack for Yasuke, alternatively with a slight Portugese/Italian twist (think that's the missionaries he came with?) to show the character's history and journey. But Japanese trap beat? If anything he's Afro-Japanese not Afro-American... Jeez Ubisoft
What you’re suggesting would absolutely suck for video game combat music. If the music wasn’t accurate to the time period, it would be no better than them using the trap beat.
I will give them credit, The Crew Motorfest actually is a step up from previous titles, ranging from much better handling to simple details like cars sinking in mud or sand while doing a burnout (because that’s considered impressive for a AAA racer)… I then take that credit away because the only game from the franchise with soul was the first game, the one they shut down (and ruined with updates anyways).
I remember people asking for an AC game set in Japan almost since the beginning of the series. I never would have guessed that the reason we never got it for this long was because Ubisoft hates Japanese people.
I don't think they hate Japanese people, but rather in their attempt to write a unique individual into a story that seems like 70% fiction they never stopped to think if they should.
@@mesmorrow Nah they do. You don't double or triple down like that unless you have some hate in you. Imagine if they made a game on ancient India with a white women as a protagonist. The conclusion is simple.
@@mesmorrowI'm guessing the DEI consultants didn't want a Japanese male protagonist because of how patriarchal Japanese society is (you know, Yamato Nadeshiko and all that) and Yasuke was the perfect excuse.
@@scruffy90Even that doesn't make any sense because female warriors where a thing like Tomoe Gozen and Minamoto Raikou got gender bent thrice at least so they could have gotten away with that too.
The funny thing is no, you didn't. They haven't followed a yearly model since 2015. Which ironically hurt them in the end. They wanted to start it with Ezio, and they made him a glorious trilogy. Then they pumped out two games in 2012, and again in 2014. Unity shit the bed but it was patched to acceptability. But when they took off a year for Origins, they changed a lot about the series for the worse, which would bleed through even more in later games. It took them 3 years to make a game that was originally DLC for Valhalla. Where is your yearly game?
Dude, old AC games were more historically accurate than this one... They even didnt put the crossbow in AC because it was not historically accurate. And in several promo videos they tried to sell the game as historically accurate.
@@BlackpapalinkBlack Flag is the best Skull and Bones expac. Funny how time can flow backwards with greedy, ignorant game studios. Especially the last few years.
They’re not remotely close to bankruptcy lol. Even in their awful last year and pushing out their biggest game they’re gonna be net positive on profit. They have 1.3 billion cash on hand and only 2.7 billion total debt (normal amount). The banks which are buying up all these cheap shares btw value the company at like 4x it’s current stock price. No one in this comments section should invest lol.
Yasuke SHOULD be in the game. NOT including him would've been a huge missed opportunity for the game. However, we should NOT be playing as him or any historical figure at all. We have never played as a historical character. It was always about being ones working in the shadows of history. It's saddening and depressing that I feel like this game could be better that it will have been when it's finally released
@@Obsidian-Nebulathis wouldn’t have controversy if Naoe was the sole protagonist and gay black man was her mentor figure or informant/insider for the Oda clan.
@AxleTrade Yeah, that would work, but even if there was additional character, it could have been her brother or uncle, who's older and no longer an active shinobi. Some memory sequence could have us working alongside Yasuke on some missions. I'm pretty sure nobody would even care or bother to comment about this. It just wouldn't matter to anyone. It would have been fine
Lets be honest with ourselves. Ubisoft wanted to make game set in feudal Japan, but couldnt because its a setting difficult to make without upsetting "the activists" (you know, old school japanese folks arent exactly known for acceptance for other cultures). So they decided to dig up some obscure historical figure that happened to be black guy and used his name to essentially deflect people who say that black samurai is just as out of place as AC cobra is in age of empires. Except Yasuke is not a cheat code joke/east egg.
@@uw62g192 with 3’s polish and mechanics would’ve been the perfect Farcry, imo. The malaria, enemies respawning, and the companions having permadeath were pretty terrible though, ngl.
My problem with season passes, especially in single player games is that it basically locks off cool stuff you could find or earn in the game behind a stupid "play x amount of hours" paywall.
@@davyjones77 If that was the case the protagonist would most likely be a Siddi, an ethnic minority group from india who are descendants of the Bantu tribe from southeast Aftrica.
Instead of hay balls, you jump into large piles of poop. The city’s are so crowded you have to walk on the roofs or you lose HP over time. The missions give you small amounts of money and the last boss is the hygienist inspector
I got into For Honor sometime last year and the servers of that game being shut down are pretty much the only thing I’d be upset about losing Ubisoft over.
The "Ghost of Yōtei" announce trailer was brilliant, Sucker Punch is just serving us a 5 star meal. I bet Ubisoft shat themselves after watching that trailer because they'll never release a game like Ghost of Tsushima or a new game for "Ghost of *insert japanese region/island*" series in many years to come.
Thank you so much for recommending Shadows of Doubt. It looks very interesting, and I wouldn't have even known about it had you not mentioned it. On that note, I 100% agree that games developed out of passion and love for the craft can be found in droves in the indie scene. It's where the creativity of smaller devs really shine in a way that even the most talented devs working for a AAA studios with suits breathing down their necks simply cannot replicate.
Honestly I disagree. Ubisoft has always been very safe, and it going down would probably be a pretty big signal to the industry that they need to start innovating again, because the old formula isn't working. Having some giants go down might just push things in the right direction.
I personally hate average games more then bad games because with a bad game you can eventually forget about the experience, but with an average game it’ll drive you insane with all the wasted potential
The sword not being historically accurate is like a non-subject...every episode has inaccuracies like this, it's not as if AC1 or 2 didn't already have discrepancies in the way they portrayed their period. I'm in three different subs about AC, and it's a constant subject of "how can they not get this right" amongst history buffs. And that actually makes for great conversations at times, where you learn a thing or two about the era. I think the fact that a modeler went for a reproduction of a One Piece sword is way more problematic...but as you say, these games are more historical fantasy and scifi than precise recreation. They give you the vibe not really the facts. The rest though is so cringe. The hip-hop in combat is so out of character for this franchise, and such a "how do you do fellow kids" moment. And the research about Yasuke :/ And the backtrack from Ubi/Epic only to "okay we need money, let's release it on Steam": it's cool there's more options for the pc gamers who will play the game, but it's also hilarious in terms of timing.
that makes me wonder what the reaction would have been if they just made another black samurai, but an original protagonist inspired by the legend of yasuke? AC games were never 100% accurate but they were believable, and from what i remember they also never claimed historical accuracy or made it a selling point of the series, so i think that the insistence that’s everything is studied and accurate is where the disconnect comes from.
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“Gamers should get used to not owning games they paid for”
-Ubisoft
I'm very used to the idea of not owning any more Ubisoft games. I hope they enjoy never seeing a cent from me again.
@@Blackpapalink lets not pretend Ubisoft is the only company you own digital titles from lol... even steam can take any of your titles back any time they want
"If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing"
"Ubisoft should get used to not selling the games they make."
- Gamers
Alright lets morally pirate it
I like how it shifted from:
- Only westerners dislike it
- Small minorty in Japan dislike it
- Canceled Tokyo game show
Next stage is Studio shutdown. All according to keikaku
Is always the same with this shills, they move the goalposts to try and lesser criticism, usually accompanied by an "-ist"
Left wing politics can only exist through gaslighting, lies and fraud
@temponly-v6p who asked?
@@ArthurShotgunthere’s something fishy about them wanting to release it in black history month too.
The hiphop in the background for a black character gives the same racist energy as Asian characters on TV shows having a gong sound effect or ~mysterious traditional music~ play every time they’re on screen
DUDUN DUDUN..YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Or the "doo-doo doo-doo doo doo doo-doo-doo"
Chineseeee fluteeee
music made by black people being used to as a black mans theme
yea ok, and making a brazilian fight in capoeiran style's also racist
@@I_H_M_N The music is from African American culture.
Yasuke ain't even from America.
Ubisoft saw the Ghost of Yotei trailer and said "Shit".
Why they even attempted this shit is beyond me. They lost their chance to put out a solid stealth/samurai game as soon as Ghost of Tsushima dropped. Not only did it respect the culture better and represent the time period in a mostly accurate way, it also gave us a very deep combat system, with unique mechanics, interesting (fictional) characters as well as real characters. Not too mention it also did all of that with some of the best style and graphics this generation.
Ubisoft is hamstringing themselves with AC Shadows, because if any of its core mechanics or storytelling isn't up to the same par as GoT, you'll lose fan interest at blinding speed. ESPECIALLY now that Ghost of Yōtei has been announced.
@@johnnycoolguy9554 hilarious how ubisoft prided and bragged themselves on so much they were sticking to authenticity and respecting the culture but all they had was controversy meanwhile the ghost of tshusima devs became permanent tourism ambassadors of the island the game took place in
I saw Ghost of Yotei and thought "oh joy, another incredibly generic open world game"
@@lukew6725there’s always someone
I can't even feel bad of Ubisoft anymore, because they have willingly thrown away every opportunity to make good games by trashing every IP they've gotten their hands on. They would rather produce boring, corporate slop with the same cookie-cutter gameplay year after year
And to top it all off they’ve become the most DEI infested company of all in the western gaming industry
@@babyjiren9676DEI ain't even the biggest problem when they literally rent their game for 200 bucks and yet also can yoink it from your own library if they want to.
Its all downhill after Assassin's Creed Odyssey, why would you put RPG mechanic on a Assassin's game
I still won’t forgive them for abandoning rayman IP and they just don’t care about rayman anymore! Man I missed rayman so much
@@babyjiren9676Dude, list actual reasons.
Ubisoft probably has an AI generated CEO
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The fact a bot comment beneath you stole your comment makes this ten times funnier.
Does it, I mean they, know the legal system too?
@@Sunrust 🗿
Bro I see you *and* the botted comment that stole your comment.
Ubisoft's level of respect for history and culture:
1. Hip hop music for Yasuke
2. One-legged Torii gate, a symbol of the destruction caused by the atom bomb.
3. Chinese music in AC Shadows World Trailer. Instrument used is a Sanxian, not a Shamisen.
Whatever Ubisoft is going through right now, it deserves a lot worse than that.
Edit: a lot of Ubisoft bootlickers are desperately trying to defend this shit.
Let's not forget about a black guy who also isn't connected to the Nobunaga family is wearing armour and weapons with the Nobunaga family badge, while it's also displayed everywhere being cut off. That's like showing a burning US flag.
and the Black samurai proved false, written by some brittish dude living in japan for DEI reasons.
and making that black samurai in couple with a japanese girl, who together kill traditional japanese men.. the message.
@@zomkinolet’s not forget also about the ancient alien people controlling everything behind the scenes, like wtf happened to historical accuracy?
they preach but dont teach.
If they didn't go for historical acuracy route at all, and just made A fantasy game with A badass black ninja and fun gameplay, I think A lot of people would play that.
8:31 I don’t know, Assasins Creed Bollywood sounds fire.
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Muta has no idea what he just manifested.
Assassin's Creed needs to go the Yakuza route now.
With sharuk khan as the main character
@@bbreimmnext thing you know Assassins Creed in the Wild West with the banjo 🪕 and Rock n roll soundtrack
@@bierymolina4379That would just be red dead redemption
"Gamers should get used to not owning games"
"Ubisoft should get used to shutting down and not making games anymore"
I still can't believe they thought that was a good talking point. Pure corporate greed, arrogance and ignorance.
Isn't Ubisoft a French company? How come it's behaving so absurdly unsightly. It doesn't add up almost. The acting up unsightly, sure, but the overly emphasis on different values, not in the slightest. The French couldn't care less who or what you are. What the heck is this. I'll need to dig up what's the matter with this company. All I know of is that the shareholders are a major contributor in some ways than other.
@@花XOI They also have a lot of canadian friends and Canada is pretty much the spearhead for all these horrible corporate decisions in western gaming.
@@SammEater canada is cooker ngl they only do bad shit lately
@@DoneBrokeDatBack Because that's just what the industry is, now. The suits have taken over and gaming has honestly gotten worse overall. Sure, there's many new games and genre offshoots, (YAAY! VARIETY!!!!) However, it's all ran by people who don't give a shit about gamers nor gaming and just see dollar signs. It's just investors wanting to take the money from people who are passionate about a hobby and it's pretty sickening, tbh...
At least Ubisoft has been up front about it, I guess...
Ubisoft's dying? Somebody needs to buy the rights to Rayman so we can get a new game.
Exactly! Cuz heck Ubisoft for not caring about rayman anymore!
@@yousefslimani99 Lets buy all the IPs
@@midnightblue3285I call dibs on Driver! And Might and Magic!
The first Rayman is one of my favorites! I hope someone protects poor rayman!
Rayman 2: The Great Escape is still one of the best games I've ever played.
A game set in India with Bollywood dance sequences in the background would actually be far less offensive than what Ubisoft is doing. At least Bollywood IS from India. In AC Shadows they're playing African-American music for a man from Mozambique living in Japan!!!
Yeah it would be like if they guy was british-indian got in a fight in france and then the Bollywood musical number hit
As an Indian I just want to say don’t dare to offend our region in anywhere includes games too the consequences are much worse literally much worse that’s the reason why there are no games based on Indian religion.
@@sushmalal4356can you give more context to this?
@@ricardorocha6612
@@ricardorocha6612 Suppose a game similar to Assassin's Creed was based in India, and a British character came to help India gain freedom, which never actually happened. This could result in a huge court case in our country, potentially leading to a ban not only in India but also in neighboring countries with strong ties to India. Now, imagine if a game were based on Hindu religion and included some fictional content for gameplay purposes that ended up hurting the religious sentiments of people. In such a case, people could go as far as burning down Ubisoft's office and even threatening the CEO's life. In India, people don't forgive even the smallest mistakes when it comes to Hinduism.
Ubisoft should get used to not owning an office or having employees
I remember developer logs from AC2. They sent several artists to Italy to find locations and historic neighborhoods for photoshoots, references and inspiration.
I guess this time budget was thinner.
Old AC developers were major history nerds. They loved the time periods, people and places their games featured and it showed. The new ones actively hate it. History is bad in their ideology so all they care about is spreading their message.
Bro I remember having a history test back when AC3 came out and remembered dates, historical figures names, etc cause of AC3 lol that was my favorite game at the time and played it so much and discussed the ending with friends and theorize what would happen next after Desmond….
The budget went to DEI instead to promote diversity and watching a lot of anime as reference instead of actually going to Japan.
@@shuraamano stupid take. It's corporate greed, not DEI. Why would it cost more to be diverse? DEI is a dog whistle for saying "I hate minorities"
There is only one reason why they chose a black protagonist in an Assassins Creed Japan, and its definitely not because they have devs who are passionate and knowledgeable about Japan.
They really go to feudal Japan for ASSASSIN game and picked Samurai instead of a more sneaky option, you know, NINJA?!
Shinobi, Ninjas are fictional 😅
That's what the two characters are for (not trying to defend ubischlock but that's the idea)
@@ThatRandomFastingGuy so is one of the protagonists for the game they decided to make….
The game has two protagonists. A samurai and a ninja.
@@ThatRandomFastingGuyits the popular term for shinobi. You just did the equivalent of someone saying its not water its aqua
Ubisoft is one of those company that you CANNOT feel bad for, they made bad decision after bad decision and then have the gall to say for gamers to get comfortable with not owning games...100% deserved hope they close so someone buys assassin's creed and treats it better than slopsoft.
Well I feel very comfortable not owning their games.
The more kind side of me that feels bad for them wishes they would make a comeback and actually started making good games (or even just acceptable games) but... the other not-so-kind side of me which surges when I remember all the stuff they've done... really wishes they would just straight up go bankrupt.
I suddenly don't feel bad about paying super low prices for years old games they still have at full price, and have the balls to charge over $100 for their full content.
The gaming industry is a competitive space and players have a lot of choices. AAA gaming companies like Ubisoft need to innovate and bring fresh experiences to capture players' interest. Glad they've reconsidered their plan to meet the high expectations of their franchise.
They just need to put some effort and cut the woke bs.
@@4RILDIGITAL hate to break it to you, but just because they delay it once, doesn't mean they'll get it right.
How many times did Cyberpunk got delayed? One too many. And it takes 2 years after release to actually get it right.
"High expectations for their franchise"
Have you been living under a rock for the last 10 years? Literally no one is looking forward to this game.
@@lokifrostpaw2976one to many? I think not. It should have been delayed much longer and released the game they actually wanted.
I'm devastated, how will I get my generic open world tower climbing simulator with stealth mechanics.
play shadow of war over any new ubi game ever
@@Worms2pl or play a good game set in Japan like Ghost of Tsushima or the Yakuza/Like a Dragon games.
@@Worms2pl Shadow of War is most Assassin's Creed game than any Assassin's Creed game ever. In fact it's a game to surpass Assassin's Creed. I still play it and Arkham Knight every now and then.
@@Pårchmēntôs not much Assassin's Creed like mechanics.
@@methamphetamememcmeth3422 I wouldn't say it's more Assassin's Creed than Assassin's Creed. It's an awesome game, don't get me wrong but the 2 of them are very different. Shadow of War is more of a power fantasy than anything.
Remember. Yasuke is AFRICAN, not American African. Two different cultures
You expect companies that advocate for minority representation to actually know that?
also, not all African Americans care about Hip Hop or are urban... so there's that.
@@Enum_Dev Logically, they should. Practically, nope, too many out of touch executives who don't actually care but want to look good.
Sub-Saharaian African ethnicity not culture* Don't know if you're American or not, but Africa is a massively diverse continent, North Africans looks nothing like their southern or central part
@@johan13135 Yeah, but that technically only makes the point even more valid. It's almost as if generalizing everyone with a specific skin color to "black, must play hip hop" is a bad idea.
11:50 I want to point out. Historians have lost their jobs for doing that. Filling in the blanks on just a few documents can result in problems when trying to accurately preserve documentation of the past.
Ubisoft's decision to cancel the game is a smart choice considering their current reputation.
It's not canceled lol
They didn't cancel, just postponed, unfortunately.
Anyways, the whole promotion of AC Shadows using a One Piece sword is bad enough, but from what I heard, there's an even worse piece on it's official merch of chibi statues from Pure Arts showing the main duo, and one of them sitting on top of a one-legged torii gate. There are no one-legged torii gates in Japan, with the exception of one in Nagasaki... And that used to have two legs before the bombing.
I still remember from history lesson that Hiroshima and Nagasaki get bombed with nuke.
Also correct me if I'm wrong they are using the Oda clan symbols in some armour and weapons I sure hope they are paying the clan royalties since the Oda clan still exists today.
@@GregorianMG I'm proud of you
@@ravenguard0098 they used the wrong symbols on yasuke's sashimono, the wrong kanji for certain things too, and the neutral npcs in game stop what they're doing to bow to him even when they're citizens of an enemy clan/non-Oda faction and by law is someone they look down on due to him surrendering when Oda died lol.
@@ravenguard0098 According to the Japanese game development, the offending crest will not appear in the game. They have claimed the game will not get a Japanese release but this was not fully clear. They were also unclear about the crest appearing in other regions publications.
Don't expect them to fix anything with the delay, there's a reason they're doing it in February... That's Black History Month. They're going to use that as a shield for criticism.
Could be coincidence, but Ubisoft doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point. Don't be surprised if they pull the "you're being racist about a bIack character on BIack History Month" spiel when it's released.
BHM only exists in America, no one outside cares.
A delay isn't gonna fix Ubi-slop.
Still won’t sell like Yotei 😂
God damn you're right.
Holy fuck you’re right. I gotta hand it to Ubislop, that’s actually smart
Why are we even playing as a samurai in an AC game? Just make the ninja lady the only character, have her main focus be stealth, and if you get into combat, make her a glass canon, and give her a big enough tool kit to escape if necessary.
Ubisoft can't do it. It will be a fat black woman girlboss. In japanese armor.
That was the original idea for this game which was leaked also many times, but you know
*WOKISM EXIST NOW*
@@n0rsca392 they already have a female lead in the game that's native Japanese.
@@TheFaxTM and the whole "hide in plain sight" aspect of every assassins creed game is out the window. "Oh who could the assassin be? Could it be the one hulking African guy in the whole of Japan who just happened to show up before all this stuff started going down? Nah can't be"
We wouldn't want that. That be to much of a good thing. And modern ubisoft don't want that. Nope
We don't need a ninja clan or organization of assassins that's been around for such a long time.......noooo that's way too much good work
What i hate the most about modern gaming and game companies is as an average consumer when we try to give feedback we are literally just talking to a brick wall. These companies will quite literally NEVER listen to their player base, and it’s so easy for them to just turn off any criticism. Comment section? Just disable it! Getting disliked into oblivion? Just turn of likes and dislikes! Tons of quote retweets? Doesn’t matter, not like there’s an actual human running their social media. They can literally just turn off their ears, and they won’t change until their companies are run into the ground, and in all honesty they probably won’t be, because there will always be the consumers happy to turn off their brain and buy buy buy the next product with a big logo on it. It made me laugh so hard when last year people were talking shit about mwiii “oh this game is terrible stop buying cod” “stop giving cod your money” “stop paying activision for trash” the second the black ops 6 trailer comes out the same people “I can’t wait to play zombies!” “This looks awesome! I’ll pay 100 dollars for the pre order edition!” “This definitely won’t be the same as last time!”
If we stop buying mediocre games, they'll stop making mediocre games, simple🤷♂️
The problem is majority of gamers are, simply put "normies". Most people don't go out of their way to look into the stock value of games, get behind the scenes info, see what crazy stuff devs post on their socials, etc.. I do believe more people are becoming informed but if these companies keep having their hubris and agendas on full display, eventually even "normies" are going to start waking up...but the pendulum is shifting so that's good at least
Yup
@@sparxtheknightYou'd be surprised. A lot of normies play casual indie multiplayer games too.
It is fine producing mediocre game BUT only if the price reflects it, no way i would buy mediocre game for 60$
We've seen this exact comment a million times. We already don't buy those games. Why do you think gamepass, ubiplus etc is getting so big? So we can pay a few bucks to test for slop without the two hour steam refund limit that most games can pad past and then cancel the subscription.
The clever bastards at Ubisoft chose a replica sword from One Piece to set up the brilliant Roronoa Zoro cameo in this historically accurate game.
I'm scared for Yasuke's fate in that case, everyone knows Zoro's infamous moniker...
@@MrDannominority hunter? 😂
They probably generated it in an AI and then go on off that picture, and the AI most likely yoinked an anime picture or logo but they (Ubisoft) didnt know that like an idiot that they are 😂
Mate, do you not remember the Metal Gear Solid reference back in AC2 (or was it Brotherhood?) with a full-blown cardboard box?
Got problems with Ubisoft but putting references in their games ain't one of them
@Corvaric its a statue that they are selling.... not an in game reference
After Sony's State of Play, Ubisoft got sucker punched.
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BRAVO! a better option. better not spoil the experience by being genre fatigue playing AC RED
Noice
Can't wait for Ghost of Yotei
I came reading this 😊
Assassin's Creed Shadows will be featuring a smoke detector beep in its ambience for an immersive experience
Ghost of Yotei showed up once and Ubisoft went to panic mode lmao
You know somebody is in full panic mode when they have to try and resort to racism being the cause of a video not selling during black history month
@@dindunuphenwongThey are so predictable that they should already be writing the headlines to blame the players
Yotei merely demonstrated what a once respected developer has turned into.
Both devs have the same rotten woke ideologies and both are insulting the Japanese culture.
@@alwaysalonesoki1217 Don't tell me that because the game has a woman as the protagonist, don't see people saying Nier and Bayonetta as "woke" and "politically correct" when it is the same case. Beside, Ghost of Tsushima was received well by the Japanese.
Check the lead VA on that game, Ghost of Wokei more like.
Skull n Bones, Star Wars Outlaws, and this...the end of Ubisoft is finally here.
go woke and go broke
hopefully a competent company buys the ips and does something positive with them
Kinda sad on how they have become after something like Assassin's Creed Black Flag, the only true pirate game.
WOW, I reported him like 3 times, and still youtube doesn't do sh1t. Trully ignoring ToS, so why we should turn off adblock?
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The slop must stop. This industry needs a hard reset
If we gonna have crash of ATARI's years. We gonna lockdown on emulators, and old titles. There plenty of good games around lol.
I rather not take the crash, especially when the people who pushed the industry to the downward ride can jump off while the workers get screwed over.
Haven't seen you in a while.
Aw yeah, 1983 round 2. Let's go
@@tonypeppermint5329You would rather see these companies just keep selling garbage?
10:20 its sad because it takes like a 2-15 second google search to find a picture of a real katana sitting in a museum somewhere they couldve based a design off of rather than just copying an anime design
Bruh... You must've missed the deleted Thomas Lockley interview vids ( -forgot the channel name but it's some old guy with glasses and like 1000 subs- found him. It's Lance E. Lee Podcast) where he talked about his role in AC Shadows development and accusing whoever criticized the game and anyone who dared to question the legitimacy of his so-called "research" of being ray-cysts. You must've also missed the fact that Lockley himself started editing the wiki page way back when he first wrote his books on Yasuke under the username TottoriTom (Tommy-boy lives/lived in Tottori prefecture fyi) and literally CITED HIS OWN BOOKS AS SOURCES. Why would anyone do that, you ask? To promote their own grift, why else. Bro made bank off those books and his lies were perpetuated for years till he finally got caught now. You must've also missed the most recent ubisoft fail where they turned a WWII NAGASAKI B0- MBING MEMORIAL into a freaking FUNKO POP TOY to promote their stvpid game! Now how on earth did you miss THAT one?!! It was literally the final nail in the Ubislop coffin for why they -got kicked out- oops I mean "willingly pulled out" of Tokyo Game Show!
You can type the word racist and bomb. Your comments arnt monetized.
@@dylan4125yt deletes my comments if I so much as type out the word 🔫, in fact this was my 2nd attempt since the first one got deleted. Count yourself lucky that you haven't been caught in filter b0- t jail (yes yt deletes my comments if I say that word too)
@@dylan4125Ha. Gone in 12 seconds. See? You'll see my reply to you with those exact two words in your notifications, but when you click on it it's not there.
@@ThePopo543 this happens to me too
What i usually do is copy paste what i got to a seperate text document just in case it doesnt post
Muta tends to skip some small information that matters.
They never fixed watch dogs legions btw :(
so surprised
I wish they added a weapon and car shop before quitting so we could atleast have some final customization features
@temponly-v6pbots these days are out of pocket
And yet you'll continue to buy their slop
Funfact they purposely ruined the first watchdog in order to be successful (whatever that means)
Ubisoft not doing well? No way 😱
Haha sarcasm 🤣
Why don't people like slop?! - Ubisoft CEO
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Ubisoft execs: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE JOHNNY SOMALI SIMULATOR ISNT SELLING!!
Playing a modern African American hip hop sound track on a "supposedly" African guy name "Yasake" in Japan is historically accurate, and totally not racist and insensitive to Africans, stereotypical to African Americans and definitely not degrading and white washing Japanese culture.
- Some Ubislob CEO
Not Indian, but I would fucking love a Bollywood-style game to be made. Just the most ridiculous over-the-top action one can imagine
Indian yakuza
Please
Someone need to make a video game adaptation of Dhoom tbh
Woke
@SirZubo 🤡 what so you mean?
I remember people begging Ubisoft to make an assassin's creed game in Japan all the way back during AC Brotherhood. Too bad Sucker Punch Studios beat them to the punch (haha) twice.
If buying a game isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
Muta should see the leaked memo. it's freaking crazy. The CEO should resign or be fired.
is it on yt?
I read demo lol.
@CycloidalHeadache Then why are you here?
“In today's ultra-competitive market, players expect extraordinary experiences and ultra-polished games on Day 1. We need to continue to improve when it comes to fine-tuning our games and delivering outstanding gameplay” 😭😭
@CycloidalHeadacheduuuude stop being a Karen.
February 2025 is also the new Like A Dragon game.
Why would I waste my time with AssCreed when I could play Goro Majima as a pirate?
I’m playing Ishin right now. 🤠
I'm going to be honest here the majority of people are not going to be playing any Yakuza game. The majority of people just do not like that genre.
Yar har, feedle da dee, being a pirate is alright with me!
And Monster Hunter Wilds....
AC IV is actually a good pirate game. And typical of Ubisoft to find things to ruin while making it. I'm not a fan of pirate games at all, but I really like pirates. I just hate collectibles.
Gotta get the champagne ready boys.
I want front row seats!!! 💺
Same 😎 the fireworks will be amazing
Massive L for pc master race?
For them ghost of Tsushima players
@TheSoCalledZoner1 I honestly stopped playing Ubisoft games once Uplay/Always online became forced requirements of all their newer games. Same reason I am upset about new Sony games on PC needing PSN. It is just Windows LIVE all over again...
@@TheSoCalledZoner1Especially if the IPs might not get grabbed in time.
8:04 that Assassin's Creed india tangent was hilarious
I'm starting to think these triple A games are just money laundering operations or something.
yeah, concord 400bn somehow???
Because they are
@pirakaleader2 400 million,
100 million of of becoming half a billion dollars. Absolutely nuts. Game budgets have absolutely ballooned.
@@TheStygian yeah it’s crazy, that budget would fund a small Indy studio for a Decade or two and they would produce much more
They are
You know what is crazy?. Of all the damn month they could've picked they end up picking the worst.
February is
Avowed
Monster Hunter Widls
New Yakuza Game
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
Civilization 7
They just committed game suicide LMAO.. They just want this game to come up, be a massive flop and make tax write off for the fiscal year or something
Between Avowed and KCD2 I won’t be touching this at all now lol
Which game is like assassins creed tho?
@nhanon67as it doesn't matter. Releasing an already controversial game during an already busy month is not likely to lead to success.
@@nhanon67asit doesn’t matter, these games are all very hyped and if you release your game at the same time, people only have so much time and money they’re willing to spend which means less sales
Do people think “tax write off” = free money?
Assassins Creed Shadows must've been hit with the Ghost of Yotei jumpscare.
Hardly a jump scare, trailer made me fall asleep
15:37 I don't think Muta understands how batsh-t insane Assassin's Creed lore was from the beginning. "The Truth" minigames in ACII and Brotherhood are absolutely BONKERS! The Isu all being this precursor race of super scientists that inspired the religions of the world like Greco-Roman and Norse mythology has also been a thing since ACII.
Let me give you an example of how crazy it gets. In the AC Brotherhood "The Truth" minigames, it is revealed that human kind was NOT evolved from apes. And rather, the Templars used a piece of Eden to somehow create a fake homo-erectus skeleton or something for some reason. Humanity was created by the Isu, the precursor race, in their image. BUT, it's also true that in the AC universe that if enough humans believe something, it becomes true. I'm pretty sure in AC Revelations, it's shown that the Isu tried to get humanity to gaslight itself into making a solar flare not happen, but the humans and Isu were too busy warring with each other to make it work. Which the Templars then tried to accomplish with an apple of Eden tied to a SATELLITE! As well as one on the f*cking MOON! And Neil Armstrong put it there!
This means that humans both are and are not evolved from apes in Assassin's Creed!
If it's such a "dream project", than why is every aspect of it half-arsed like it's an AI generated project, couldn't be bothered to get some ACTUAL historians on board, and learn the most basic of social norms for said country you are making a game about?
Not to mention the blatant paying off shills, youtubers, and “game journalists” to defend and whitewash their products despite the obvious bigotry.
No not 'half-arsed'. That implies they put any kind of work in it at all! This is Ubisoft quality! It's Full-arsed!
@@TheEuphoniumboy pretty sure full-arsed is the "norm" as compared to half-arsed. this would be not arsed at all
@@AxleTradeironic that you mention "whitewashing" when ubisoft is doing the exact opposite with this game lol
Its shitty either way tho
Corporate language bro
Japanese mixed Hip Hop battle music with Black Samurai... who is not African American... he just African
They couldn't be arsed to try and meld traditional Japanese music with... like... West African beats...
So was he the next DLC character for Concord?
@@bcj842I made the same comment on a historian's channel and got called racist for it. It's sad how many people bent over backwards to defend this trainwreck of a game.
@@Lonaticus
Americancentrism, especially in regards to race. Mutahara kinda fell into that by getting really annoyed by the music but was emotionally not there about that weeb katana thing nor did he bring up that Torii gate issue.
Hip hop wasnt a thing back then lmao, so Yasuke wouldnt even like it but Africa has had hip hop since the 90s (americanized) and now has localized/african style hip hop so theres that
Never forget that Ubislop consistently bragged about how AC: Shadows was "Authentic".
And this, more than anything else, is why people are shifting on this game so hard for it's design choices
They removed the crossbow from the original game for not being authentic. Even though they did exist back then, they felt he wouldn't have been able to find one. They then put tons of work into being historically accurate with settings and characters. Then they slowly went downhill. This was the only saving grace because their mechanics, bugs and 100% achievements are the worst aspects of their games. But now they are making a game about a guy vaguely mentioned in some made up story. Which is funny because all their protagonists are kinda made up, surrounded by actual real people. But they legit said "we need to be woke let's get a black dude, oh look it's authentic!" Biggest clown shoes ever. I can maybe almost accept him, just not in the way they brought him into the game.
I knew exactly what songs you were going to reference @ 8:05 😂
It's good that they have decided to delay the game considering the backlash from various areas. The gaming industry needs refreshment and repetitive versions of any game will only lead to their downfall. It's about time game developers focus on creating unique and engaging content to recapture the interest of the audience.
We'll be celebrating Assassins Creed just like we were Concord
celebrate it w/ playing Ghost of Yotei 🍻
@@R3TR0J4N you know, I don’t hate Sony as much after seeing GoY ngl. Still a shit company, but not as shit now lol
Why? Concord was slop, made to try to get as much money as possible from a saturated market, with little to no thought or substance put forth. Is this the same?
@@MetastaticMaladies we'll be celebrating.
Assassin's creed ain't gonna go down like Concord, we both know that.. it'll fail but not a massive fail like Concord
The moment when Ghost of Yōtei got announced
Ubisoft must’ve shat themselves
Edit: 2:49 also, that’s what she said
fr 😂😂😂
Ghost of Yotei is another game that has a female protagonist just because it's the modern thing to replace strong male characters with strong female characters for diversity points. I don't see Ghost of Yotei doing as well as Ghost of Tsushima
@VaultDweller2076 it will definitely still do better than an ubisoft game lmao.
@@VaultDweller2076 What do you mean “replaced”? Our boy deserves the rest, and why can't it just be a different story?
@@VaultDweller2076 one thing is a color haired "quirky" girl as a protagonist, whos whole plot is "le bad people!!!! i hate them all!!!!", another is serious, well written and close to actual REAL history. If the game will not be on the same level as Ghost of Tsushima storywise, it will be MUCH MUCH better then AC:S. I have confidence in sucker punch, the story they wrote for Jin was amazing.
8:36 OMG now I want an Assassin's Creed where people start dancing in the background as you fight and random elephants appear in the scene once in a while.
There is an AC game in India: "Assassin’s Creed Chronicles India". Wouldn't say the OST is the best in the franchise, but it is alright, no Tunak Tunak though - at least not this time
The AC Chronicles trilogy was a banger, nice low budget 2D games
A videogame set in India without Tunak Tunak in its soundtrack is a crime against humanity.
@@varunkaushik2834 No it isnt....
@@Vergil11-kg3qp No It IsNt 🤓
@@varunkaushik2834 That song is used, just like Apu, to mock Indians. No need for that.
8:30 No! It's actually worse than that though! Because at least they'd be playing real Indian music! They are playing AMERICAN HIP HOP and attributing that to an African historical figure (likely a slave to a Feudal Lord and nothing more). It's not even African music... They are basically saying "Meh, black is black, close enough!" This is easily the most out of touch Assassin's Creed game ever. You gotta remember, Ubisoft used to be the company that did such meticulous research on the cultures and geography of their setting that they were able to provide the rebuilders of Notre Dame full schematics of the cathedral that was burned and partially destroyed because nobody else had those detailed plans. They went there and made the plans themselves for one of their games (I think Unity?). Look at AC 2 and all the work that went into that game. After Origins, this new direction became apparent. They don't put as much thought into their story or setting anymore.
He was no longer a slave. He was said to have been a weapon bearer or retainer for Nobunaga. Not the same thing as a Slave nor a Samurai.
Yeah, that was weird for him to say. They did that in Far Cry 4 with indian music and they were BANGERS
if it does die, maybe watch dogs and farcry can FINALLY get new owners!
Same with rayman
Splinter Cell
The crew
Yes PLEASE!
Crytek should get far cry back
I still remember how when AC2 came out people were extremely impressed with how accurate it was in displaying Italy. Who knew that years later they couldn't put half as much work in to save the entire company from ruin?
My dream is Ubisoft has to sell of the Assassin's Creed IP to a company that actually cares about it. It's been over a decade since an AC game felt worth it.
They need a hard reboot imo. Hitman games are the definite Social Stealth games, AC is pales compared to it.
Ubisoft, Konami and Activision-Blizzard are the Kings of working hard to build a solid reputation making great games, only to let greed and ignorance plow their companies straight into their graves.
You forgot Bethesda
This has been happening now for over a decade.
We need to save Rayman!!
I was looking for this!!! Ubisoft is too busy circle jerking the AC franchise, yet they clearly have a fan base that is still waiting for a mascot they neglected (Rayman 4)
But atp, I wouldn’t trust Ubisoft with making a Rayman game and would rather them just leave him alone…
Ubisoft be like “We here you Rayman fans but F you! We’re doing what we want to do!”
And then there's everyone who's been waiting for Beyond Good and Evil 2 for 16 years.
15:30 you are not wrong Mutahar, but the issue is that they did advertise it at one point as a historically accurate game
I still don’t get why they don’t just use a Japanese man for the protagonist. If you want a man of African descent make a game during the era of Shaka Zulu.
or just make the black man of African descent be a side character, at the end , people wanted a japanese themed AC game to play as a Japanese man or woman, you don't hear anyone complain about the female protagonist, nobody cares since it's whatever and you had people like her actually doing shit like that, meanwhile, there wasn't a black samurai, a black retainer sure, why not have Yasuke's master be the main protagonist with Yasuke going with him to protect and help him.
We already got Africans in origins
@@Kelek47 not really WE talk here about mali empire or Ghana
@adamb.m4844 it takes place in Africa, they are Africans if you want to be technical
@@DarkDyllonyou can play as a Japanese woman
This might be part of the problem. Ubisoft considers 76 critic and 54 user score on metacritic as "solid scores". I don't know about ubisoft but if I spent 200 million on a game and it averaged a 6.5/10 I wouldn't consider that "solid"
Yeah, 6.5 isn't bad... but that is very disappointing especially given the money spent. If I made something and it was a 6.5, I'd be kinda disappointed, but still glad I made my own game. I'd be a bit more.. expressive if I spent even 1 mil.
@@Gandhi_Physique6.5 is genuinely so bad when you see how biased game critics are, giving out 7+ ratings like its candy
The fact that they pushed AC: Shadows release, oof. They definitely are aware of how f up they are.
The one legged torii gate reminiscent of the Nagasaki nuclear destruction on the collector’s edition figurine and their refusal to stop selling the art book with stolen art says otherwise.
8:08
Honestly I wouldn’t mind that cause if there’s an Assassin Creed game set in India, then yeah, expect Indian culture infused in. That actually sounds like a solid idea for the franchise. But the issue with Shadows is that the location is set in Japan, so you would expect feudal Japanese music, but just because a black main character is involved, you also add the hip hop music. I think that’s an important distinction.
And nothing of value was lost.
"renewed stealth" with a 6'5 fully armored only black dude in the area. Right...
To be fair he was advertised as more of the brute force character the rpgs are known for.
I always thought it would’ve been cool if Yasuke could stealth in restricted areas with enemy Samurai since he has the build and would know how samurai operate. Would just need a mask and matching armor to blend in.
@@dravenripley9468Yeah. Game was showing him killing people in the middle of the day surrounded by witnesses. As well as ramming to a gate.
Base on their marketing, the game about assassins is only 50% stealth. And his parts are mandatory, so you can't play as only the ninja.
Historically Yasuke was around 6'0 /182 cm. However, the badass samurai Todo Takatora was 6'3 /190 cm and 23 years old in 1579. There were large Sengoku samurai like Saito Yoshitatsu, his family and son. Yoshitatsu was 6'6 / 197 cm.
That's a problem with every game that's trying to be a stealth game as a mechanic lol. Every male character has to be a giant.
People still Keep Trying to give ubisoft the benefit of the doubt. With the whole, it's not always been historically. Accurate to argument.They keep making this mistake when they talk about assassin's creed. Players being upset that it's not historically accurate was not true. They weren't upset
That it's not historically accurate. They're upset because ubisoft. Defended their decisions To make him a samurai to state other things about his past because they were historically accurate so they can make the Character this way. Being historically, accurate was their defense. Players did not make that accusation first.
Muta singing tunak tunak tun was definitely not on my 2024 bingo card
“Assassins Creed: New Deli” is crazy 😭😭
Dingi Dingi Dingi Dingi
“Buy The Crew 2 for a dollar!”
Would rather not have you take it away when your company dies…
Literally browsing steam right now and saw it for like 2 bucks, 2 bucks too many
Locked to 60fps on pc. No thanks Ubisoft😅
I bought it for $1, lame. Uninstalled right away
I wouldn’t even download it for free. Ubisoft slop doesn’t deserve to take up space on my hard drive
After what happens to the Crew, I would not even buy The Crew 2 for 1 dollar. Imagine paying for a game then one day the game is taken away from you with no refund. Would not want to waste money on buying something that you cannot own permanently.
I dont wanna sound like a culture warrior, but i think a lot of the controversy with Shadows would've been avoided if they made Yasuke an important side character instead of the player character. I dont have a problem with him being in the game, even in an exaggerated sense, but I don't like that you're playing a real person in a series that has always had fictional protagonists.
Anyway, Ghost of Yotei looks far better, gonna save my money for that instead of giving it to Ubisoft.
@@negative6442 I still haven't bought BG3 and Armored Core 6. I want MH Wilds too. And gonna pirate AC Mirage.
I tend to agree with this. In past games they’ve always taken historical figures and made them side characters. It worked so much better for keeping it feeling “authentic” while also giving them a chance to insert the Assassins vs Templars story.
Why can't they just make a fictional shinobi/assassin with an African origin, one that is less historical tainting since it doesn't involve a specific real person, in a game with the title of ASSASSIN'S CREED?
Not just that, they could've even made Yasuke as a black samurai and get away with it.
the issue is that they constantly were boasting how "historically accurate" they are.
If they just from the get go leave out the historical accurate part and do what AC generally does anyway and just blame it on the templars who have slightly altered history or something, this would've never happened.
but they first went "historical accurate!" so "we're taking some creative liberty!" to "we're being as historical accurate, but we'll go past the established truth" (basically saying they'll rewrite established history)
They went back and forth so many times now that they literally shot themselves with a pistol, then amputated that leg with a shotgun, just to repeat it on the other leg, it's actually insane.
@@DarkDyllon No people would have still complained I promise, you underestimate the racism. If this was about historical accuracy, they would be mad about the COUNTLESS historical inaccuracies stacked sky high in other AC games. Just look at GTA 6 trailer and all the comments it got. It's set in diverse af Florida and yet there was tons of backlash about the black and hispanic presence in the game. I saw white (and asian and black tbh) dudes talking about how they can't wait to unalive the black women NPCs in the game.
Just an upsetting culture that's grown worse in the community, and as a female gamer I just stay to myself when I would love to connect with fellow gamers and even date, but the white suprmcy and n cel and red pill culture drives women away - yes even white women, myself and all of my gamer gfs stay away. It's filled with some of the worst prejudice stuff out there. The ironic part is those guys talk about the "chads" but those guys are actually genuinely better company, and feel more safe to be around. It's disappointing.
Absolutely agree with Mutahar when he says that Assassin's Creed was never meant to be historically accurate. Having played 95% of the entire franchise, I've never really thought it to be anything but sci-fi historical action. I even played through all the education parts of Origins for my 100% completion. That being said, it will always rub me the wrong way when Ubisoft will try to shoehorn a type of character that parts from the mold of the era and tries to convince us that it's normal and real. If it was a unique character they made with his own origin that's well written, such as that of a slave who washes up on the shore of Japan or whatever, I wouldn't give two shits. But to pick a character and make us believe he's real and historically accurate rather than historical adjacent and fictional as they've always been feels wrong. In addition, what's wrong with just having a Japanese lead. What compelled them to think that for the biggest game of their franchise, going to Japan, home to stealth and Ninjas, really the inspiration and foundation for what it means to be Assassins and stealthy, they elected to have one of their protagonists not be Japanese at all is just extremely strange to me. But in Italy we get Italians, Egypt we have Egyptians, England we have Brits, but Japan we don't have that at all. It's just a strange shift that is incredibly difficult to ignore.
On top of that, in this era of game development where every single fucking game feels like there's some agenda pieced into it, trying to meet a diversity quota, it really struck a wrong chord at the wrong time, and the hip hop music controversy exploded that beyond compare. Ubisoft needs to stick to their originality and authentic landscapes rather than trying to meet diversity quotas and partitioning their games trying to make as much money as possible while spending as little money as possible on actual development on things like innovation and depth. But they're in too deep. They can redeem themselves greatly by cancelling the game and basically rewriting the story and changing the lead but the amount of money wasted simply won't fly by the investors. They'd rather publish a strange and mid assassin's creed game, trying to make back whatever money they wasted, instead of making a game true to the era yet fun for players and aid their reputation. Let's be honest reputation is something triple A studios like this do not give two shits about. If it ever did, we'd have live service EA games that you don't need to pay yearly for and Ubisoft games that don't cost an arm and a leg to get the full experience.
Nah it ain’t over unless I see an Article or Vid that says “Ubisoft shuts down after a disappointing 2024. CEO & Co founder Yves Guillemot forced to resign” I would’ve added “Only to be arrested” but that be too high of a expectation
The universe can make it happen
How their historical “experts” were so dumb that they decided the broken Torii gate was ok
Btw, I was essentially the boss of Thomas Lockley at one point. He was a useless know it all
You can't leave us hanging with something like that.
@@billmelater6470 I worked at the BOE. He never listened to instruction given to him and did things his own way instead.
@@teddyinjapan dirt?
@@asmith1405 There's a reason he went back to the UK after only a couple of years. the BOE didn't renew his contact because he wouldn't fall in line. After that, nobody cared. He was one in thousands of other ALTs that come and go.
It wasn't until years later when I started working at the Chiba BOE and was doing guest lectures at Kanda that I ran into him again. Knowing that he was doing any kind of work at Kanda was disappointing. Kanda is a prestigious University, well know for it's English studies.
After his "breakthrough", you better believe that history teachers had a lot to say about it. He's a joke and widely disliked within the teaching community. The foreigner that makes up history.
@@teddyinjapan It makes me wonder how grifters can stay around.
Honestly, it could have been fun to have an African-Japanese fusion soundtrack for Yasuke, alternatively with a slight Portugese/Italian twist (think that's the missionaries he came with?) to show the character's history and journey. But Japanese trap beat? If anything he's Afro-Japanese not Afro-American... Jeez Ubisoft
It gives me Samurai Champloo vibes (the music that is) and is kinda sick. Just wish it wasn't inadvertently racist by being Yasuke's combat music lol
What you’re suggesting would absolutely suck for video game combat music. If the music wasn’t accurate to the time period, it would be no better than them using the trap beat.
No. Let him cook guys. This is why he is not in video game industry. His idea suck.
I will give them credit, The Crew Motorfest actually is a step up from previous titles, ranging from much better handling to simple details like cars sinking in mud or sand while doing a burnout (because that’s considered impressive for a AAA racer)… I then take that credit away because the only game from the franchise with soul was the first game, the one they shut down (and ruined with updates anyways).
Finally nature is healing and my depression is cured
not happening. getting worse🎉...
I remember people asking for an AC game set in Japan almost since the beginning of the series.
I never would have guessed that the reason we never got it for this long was because Ubisoft hates Japanese people.
I don't think they hate Japanese people, but rather in their attempt to write a unique individual into a story that seems like 70% fiction they never stopped to think if they should.
It's okay. Japan hates everyone else.
@@mesmorrow
Nah they do. You don't double or triple down like that unless you have some hate in you.
Imagine if they made a game on ancient India with a white women as a protagonist. The conclusion is simple.
@@mesmorrowI'm guessing the DEI consultants didn't want a Japanese male protagonist because of how patriarchal Japanese society is (you know, Yamato Nadeshiko and all that) and Yasuke was the perfect excuse.
@@scruffy90Even that doesn't make any sense because female warriors where a thing like Tomoe Gozen and Minamoto Raikou got gender bent thrice at least so they could have gotten away with that too.
I've been waiting for Rayman 4 since 2004, yet we got Ass creed every f*cking year
It's time to let go; we're not getting it.
Same:(
The funny thing is no, you didn't. They haven't followed a yearly model since 2015. Which ironically hurt them in the end. They wanted to start it with Ezio, and they made him a glorious trilogy. Then they pumped out two games in 2012, and again in 2014. Unity shit the bed but it was patched to acceptability. But when they took off a year for Origins, they changed a lot about the series for the worse, which would bleed through even more in later games. It took them 3 years to make a game that was originally DLC for Valhalla. Where is your yearly game?
8:14 that would be hysterical somebody needs to make that 🤣
Dude, old AC games were more historically accurate than this one... They even didnt put the crossbow in AC because it was not historically accurate.
And in several promo videos they tried to sell the game as historically accurate.
There was a time when you played a Ubisoft game Ubihard, but nowadays much like a man with ED, Ubisoft.
Real
Ayo
You mean 10 years ago? When Black Flag came out.
@@Blackpapalinkfuck me, I still sing some sea chants while running errands
@@BlackpapalinkBlack Flag is the best Skull and Bones expac. Funny how time can flow backwards with greedy, ignorant game studios. Especially the last few years.
We can only hope the Bankruptsy notice comes soon after.
Cope
@@TheSMR1969Time to start handing out resumes at other studios, lil bro.
They’re not remotely close to bankruptcy lol. Even in their awful last year and pushing out their biggest game they’re gonna be net positive on profit. They have 1.3 billion cash on hand and only 2.7 billion total debt (normal amount). The banks which are buying up all these cheap shares btw value the company at like 4x it’s current stock price. No one in this comments section should invest lol.
Yasuke SHOULD be in the game. NOT including him would've been a huge missed opportunity for the game.
However, we should NOT be playing as him or any historical figure at all. We have never played as a historical character. It was always about being ones working in the shadows of history.
It's saddening and depressing that I feel like this game could be better that it will have been when it's finally released
@@Obsidian-Nebulathis wouldn’t have controversy if Naoe was the sole protagonist and gay black man was her mentor figure or informant/insider for the Oda clan.
@AxleTrade Yeah, that would work, but even if there was additional character, it could have been her brother or uncle, who's older and no longer an active shinobi. Some memory sequence could have us working alongside Yasuke on some missions. I'm pretty sure nobody would even care or bother to comment about this. It just wouldn't matter to anyone. It would have been fine
True Yasuke should have just been an ally of the MC would have avoided all of this had they just done that
Lets be honest with ourselves. Ubisoft wanted to make game set in feudal Japan, but couldnt because its a setting difficult to make without upsetting "the activists" (you know, old school japanese folks arent exactly known for acceptance for other cultures). So they decided to dig up some obscure historical figure that happened to be black guy and used his name to essentially deflect people who say that black samurai is just as out of place as AC cobra is in age of empires. Except Yasuke is not a cheat code joke/east egg.
If Ac unity was coming out now unstead of shadows, i would actually be impressed, that game looks insane even now
Sad because they used to be good, I’m replaying Far Cry 2 right now and wish that Ubisoft was the one we have today.
I wanted another "Blood Dragon" 😭 Like, a FULL GAME
Far Cry 2 had some real dumb mechanics. 3 was perfect
@@uw62g192 with 3’s polish and mechanics would’ve been the perfect Farcry, imo. The malaria, enemies respawning, and the companions having permadeath were pretty terrible though, ngl.
i'd kill for blood dragon 2
@@NotDr.Evil137 Me too, but you know they'd butcher it.
My problem with season passes, especially in single player games is that it basically locks off cool stuff you could find or earn in the game behind a stupid "play x amount of hours" paywall.
Assassin’s Creed: New Delhi 💀💀
i wont be surprised if they manage to find a "historically accurate" african to be the protagonist
Imagine playing as the Monkey Man of Delhi
@@davyjones77 If that was the case the protagonist would most likely be a Siddi, an ethnic minority group from india who are descendants of the Bantu tribe from southeast Aftrica.
Instead of hay balls, you jump into large piles of poop. The city’s are so crowded you have to walk on the roofs or you lose HP over time. The missions give you small amounts of money and the last boss is the hygienist inspector
Side-quest for new Delhi: DO NOT REDEEEM!
I got into For Honor sometime last year and the servers of that game being shut down are pretty much the only thing I’d be upset about losing Ubisoft over.
The "Ghost of Yōtei" announce trailer was brilliant, Sucker Punch is just serving us a 5 star meal. I bet Ubisoft shat themselves after watching that trailer because they'll never release a game like Ghost of Tsushima or a new game for "Ghost of *insert japanese region/island*" series in many years to come.
That'd be another woke slop. Obviously AC is going to be much better, as a game
@@RazielDeTam I'd sacrifice both for Sekiro 2
Thank you so much for recommending Shadows of Doubt. It looks very interesting, and I wouldn't have even known about it had you not mentioned it. On that note, I 100% agree that games developed out of passion and love for the craft can be found in droves in the indie scene. It's where the creativity of smaller devs really shine in a way that even the most talented devs working for a AAA studios with suits breathing down their necks simply cannot replicate.
Finally some good news in this hellish year. Nothing will change if Ubisoft dies.
More like a cursed year to me
Honestly I disagree. Ubisoft has always been very safe, and it going down would probably be a pretty big signal to the industry that they need to start innovating again, because the old formula isn't working. Having some giants go down might just push things in the right direction.
dang this year everything is cancelled
I personally hate average games more then bad games because with a bad game you can eventually forget about the experience, but with an average game it’ll drive you insane with all the wasted potential
The sword not being historically accurate is like a non-subject...every episode has inaccuracies like this, it's not as if AC1 or 2 didn't already have discrepancies in the way they portrayed their period. I'm in three different subs about AC, and it's a constant subject of "how can they not get this right" amongst history buffs. And that actually makes for great conversations at times, where you learn a thing or two about the era. I think the fact that a modeler went for a reproduction of a One Piece sword is way more problematic...but as you say, these games are more historical fantasy and scifi than precise recreation. They give you the vibe not really the facts.
The rest though is so cringe. The hip-hop in combat is so out of character for this franchise, and such a "how do you do fellow kids" moment. And the research about Yasuke :/
And the backtrack from Ubi/Epic only to "okay we need money, let's release it on Steam": it's cool there's more options for the pc gamers who will play the game, but it's also hilarious in terms of timing.
that makes me wonder what the reaction would have been if they just made another black samurai, but an original protagonist inspired by the legend of yasuke? AC games were never 100% accurate but they were believable, and from what i remember they also never claimed historical accuracy or made it a selling point of the series, so i think that the insistence that’s everything is studied and accurate is where the disconnect comes from.
I still love rayman 1 and 2 from UBI i would love to see both get remakes