I chopped about 45 seconds at the end of the video when talking about Yasuke. I don't know enough about this guy to make strong arguments, and frankly, I don't care. We shouldn't care. What Ubisoft is doing here is obvious, and they don't even deserve our time as we discuss whether the guy was a real samurai or not. This is a cheap marketing ploy, and the attention needs to be on their scummy monetization tactics and their dull, boring games. We also need to be focusing on the fact that they didn't even show the gameplay or discuss game mechanics. They aren't even trying at this point, and they think distracting everyone with the only black samurai(maybe, idc) is going to sell this game. The gameplay will decide, and I think it's telling that they don't have the confidence to show any. I mentioned Nioh, and I stand by that. Yes, Team Ninja is a Japanese group, but I still think plucking out the only white samurai is silly looking. But here's the thing with Nioh: I freaking loved that game, and I quickly forgot that the character was white. I was too invested in the tight combat, the crafting, the cool world, and everything else this game has to offer. That's the other reason I don't think Yasuke deserves much attention. If this game is EXTREMELY fun to play(which I doubt), then we won't give a damn what he looks like. But again, it's telling that we are discussing the merits of Yasuke, because there isn't anything else to discuss, because Ubisoft gave us nothing and has been giving us nothing for years. That fact that everyone is up in arms about Yasuke being one of the main characters says little about the audience, and volumes about how little there is to discuss about ANY Ubisoft game. Last point about gameplay. I'm playing Hades 2 at the moment, and I'm only on night 8 I think, but I have been about halfway through the third area, so I haven't seen everything, but I have seen 2/3 of it. I haven't seen any of this supposed woke writing or whatever yet. Yes, the character pictures are different, and some are silly, but the game is fun, so it's less important. I'm not saying entirely unimportant, you can discuss if you want to, but its importance is low. If you play this game, you don't want to discuss what Artemis looks like, you want to discuss the new magic and elemental systems. You want to talk about the play speed and if you think slowing it down is good or not. The MECHANICS of this game are interesting to discuss, the side characters are secondary, perhaps tertiary. I'm not pretending to be on a moral high ground here. It's fine to mock Ubisoft for this obvious ploy to get attention, because what they are doing is stupid. I'm just cautioning that we keep the perspectives right and give things the attention they deserve. While Yasuke deserves some attention, he doesn't deserve as much as their other shitty practices do. Happy gaming!
Did you do a piece like this on Valhalla ?do some research before you go talking about something you have no clue about. Don’t see how a bunch of grown men are mad about a black character in 2024. You nerds decided hey it’s a girl and a black dude let’s take the frustration out on him instead 😂😂. We hate 🤵🏾♂️more anyway.
Man, people sure forget that there is a woman in this game. She's Japanese and is the sneaky one. When I saw the trailer my initial reaction was that wow, this will make for an interesting story. He's an outsider. Very Assassin's Creed if you ask me. If he wasn't a historical character I'd be with you, but he is. Thinking it's just virtue signaling is so damn cynical. I say that as a huge cynical asshole. Ubisoft makes very vapid open worlds, has fake RPG mechanics and generally has terrible stories. Especially Ubisoft Quebec. Don't know what has these people so outraged over art, but I think we all need to go touch grass
I would recommend Metatron's take on Yaskue including his reaction to this trailer, if people are interested in the history of Yaskue and whether or not he was ever a samurai 🤔.
One, just one black guy among 99.99% of native. Why focus on him? What about the ainus, the real minority in Japan. Where is the 'inclusivity" there? Again, Japan viewed through the lens of the recent western cultural trend: wokeness.
Actually we should care about distorting history and pandering for The Message. Yasuke's character is not bad because he is black but because he is black for all the wrong reasons.
As a 6'7 black man myself I can confirm without reservation, that sneaking around anywhere is not my strong suit. Nighttime, sure I've got built in camo but I'm still tall af so it really doesn't do much good.
I apologize. After I read "built in camo" all I heard was Lincoln Osiris from Tropic Thunder saying "mother natures natural night camo" and now your entire comment is said in his voice in my head.😂😂😂
Why hello fellow 6'7" guy yes I can confirm trying to sneak around or hide in a crowd after stabbing some guard with my hidden blade would not be viable and changing outfits won't help either. Same issue with being a superhero changing into costume saving the day then reappearing as the only guy as tall as the hero around and the only one not there when the hero appeared.
I love how Sucker Punch dealt with months and months of toxic sludge being thrown at them being accused of "cultural appropriation" by western journos despite the game being beyond loved in Japan with some legendary Japanese game directors even gushing over it yet apparently this game also made entirely by white people is ok........I wonder why 🙄
"Ghost of Tsushima is superior" is the most succinct way to say what everyone is saying. That game still blows my mind. It was my first ever fully solo (I didn't need my husband's help for any main story boss fights so it counts! lol) Platinum Trophy and I am still so glad that it holds that title for me.
It was one of those games that you WANT to platinum, simply because you want to have more things to do in the game, you just want to stay there. Fingers crossed a sequel gets announced soon.
I was hyped for the trailer but when I saw the samurai, I was hoping the rumors were false. My disappointment was immeasurable and I was glad I had three hours before I crashed in my bed
Just to put into perspective how much of a disaster this is. Nate Fox and Jason Connell, who led Ghost of Tsushima's development, were made tourism ambassadors of Tsushima because of the game's incredible reception. Since the reveal of AC Shadows, Japan has unified in hating this game.
The Japanese don't hate the game. They are more upset that one of the trailers show a Chinese lamp instead of a Japanese one. They make content about yosuke all the time. Idk what your on about
Every other AC game featured a unique fictional character as the protagonist until this one. I wouldn't have had a problem with Yasuke appearing as an NPC or character that you play as on a side mission, but it's obvious that they decided to go with him as the main character for the purpose of generating controversy and scoring ESG points, which just makes it feel very pandering and lame.
The irony of you wanting him to be an NPC is hilarious. It’s like you guys can never fathom the main character being anything other than white and male otherwise it’s pandering.
@@ecalebw I'm not sure who the "you guys" is that you're referring to, but I really liked Adéwalé in Freedom Cry and Aveline in Liberation, neither of whom were white males.
@@ecalebw That argument doesn't really make sense in this case. People want the main character in the Japanese Assassins Creed game to be Japanese. We're not asking for, nor expecting the character to be a white guy.
And they aren’t the only game company or movie franchise like this anymore. I feel the same way about Star Wars and marvel even though I used to love them
Ah, the time when they had "toxic environment hostile to women" according to some of their ex employees. I recall Kim Belair worked there too. Amazing, it is amazing that once they started to get it right according to activists, the one thing I was interested in started to get so much worse.
People comparing Nioh to this debacle just make me shake my head. William Adams was a real Englishman who went to Japan and actually became a real samurai, named Miura Anjin by none other than Tokugawa Ieyasu himself. Yasuke was never made a samurai, he was a curiosity to Nobunaga, who had no problem using foreign technology if he deemed it beneficial to his cause. Nobunaga is famously depicted wearing a cuirass and was the first Japanese warlord to mass field firearms in battle.
@@robertbeisert3315 I forgot to state that it is a very fictional/fantastical adaptation. But the main point of contention is that William was a real samurai and Yasuke was not. Not to mention the obvious DEI informed decision to use the one black guy that could be named in Japan.
@calvinchan8511 oh, without a doubt or question. I just wanted to highlight the absolute absurdity of comparing a series with pretensions to documentary and a game where I use magic talismans to slay oni for magic gems.
If they really wanna criticize Nioh then the one critique they should've thrown is making William Irish instead of English (going by his guardian spirit being an entity of Irish/Gaelic myths and it speaking Gaelic). But hell nah :v. That game's few minutes of showing Yasuke was much more respectful all things considered. Sequel included
Fortunately, my brain is "locked" to an era where top-tier games were around $50, so when a company tries to tell me it's in my interests to pay $110 just to get a complete game (before reviews come out... that will likely be buggy as hell on release... that Ubisoft in particular has just expressed a right to "yoink" out of my collection at their own _discretion_ ...) I have very little difficulty telling them where they can put their "special offer".
11:55 You know what's hilarious. If someone made a Samurai game as like an Alternate history of Yasuke where he does become a samurai that's not connected to Assassin's Creed, it'd probably be fine, people would probably want to play it. It's the fact it's specifically Assassin's Creed, both in the Japanese game fans have been waiting for and the fact Yasuke would be terrible as an assassin that ruins it.
@@saurmandersauce8048Alternative history that's still grounded in reality. No, there won't be flying unicorns pooping rainbows in it, but the lore that explains the commonalities between the deities of several world religions being down to just ancient, advanced humanoids, is incredibly plausible.
@@jmalit’s still alternate history. Stop saying but to a complete statement it doesn’t need anymore. It says before every game they say this game is HISTORICAL FICTION
I really never wanted to turn into "that guy," but learning this year that AC, Valhalla appeared on the SBI list, then learning the next AC game heavily features a samurai of colour in the Orient, it's hard to not hesitate or notice creative red flags. If they take the time and try contributing to verisimilitude, im always willing to keep an open mind. The past few years of media in all forms sacrificing internal logic and believability in favour of fancy aesthetics/cgi/combat/action is pretty discouraging
Verisimilitude is the main thing DEI has killed in fiction it's what destroys immersion. Also stop fighting being that guy most of us are now that guy since most things are being ruined and we have working brains with pattern recognition I'd be more worried if I didn't notice and wasn't that guy.
@@mimosajdOh yeah so true. I remember gamers being up in arms over AC Origins. Or remember AC3 where you played as a native American killing white Americans? Oh, and the uproar over 2 of the 4 main protagonists in Gears of War not being white...yeah see how stupid your point is. Your probs a leftie.
New AC main character supposedly wasn't even a Samurai, and was given a sword that couldn't cut, his only use was he was big. He was just written about because he was the one of the only dark skinned in a light skinned country
Not being racist here, but a black guy in samurai armor back in feudal Japan would attract some attention me thinks and is not an everyday sight. Could not just have a Japanese guy and girl.
As a black person I one hundred percent agree with you. I feel that the main characters should reflect their country and be somewhat historically accurate and not shove in diversity for the sake of it. People online will get angry over anything and not take actual criticism and just call you rascist.
If you look up the actual history behind him, it's even more hilarious than that. The sad thing is that it could actually make for something interesting if it wasn't being handled by "didn't earn it" hack frauds.
It did they were so taken aback that when an African foreigner came to feudal Japan. They made him scrub his skin with soap and water because they didn’t believe his skin was actually black.
People who has study or even looked up the basics of Japanese History. The only reason why A black person is there is cause Nobunaga wants to buy something Exotic . Exotic being a black Slave
agreed, but I disagree about them going with what's expected. Someone who is in constant contact with elites yet was paid so little mind we barely have any recorded history of them is the *_perfect_* assassin and the perfect person to do a soft 'restart' of the franchise with. (not a literal restart, more of a conceptual one) Get back to the slower and more methodical social espionage and trickery of the originals while completely rethinking some of the surrounding gameplay aspects that have become tired and played out after game after game after game after game.
Hell I've wanted a Ninja Assassin's Creed game for years. Literally all they needed to do was make the main character of the game a Ninja, give a bunch of cool Ninja Weapons and boom, easy money.
they will still make a bunch of money... Valhalla made more money than previous two games combined. And by the time AC comes out everyone will already platinum GoT on PC
I think they could have gone the exact opposite way here and it still would have been gold. You *_are_* a hulking brute who stands out like a sore thumb, can't climb much of anywhere and aren't very quiet, so you *_need_* to lean into the slower and more methodical gameplay of the originals. It could have both been a huge return to form and a massive departure that allowed them to completely re-imagine the gameplay while keeping the core themes. For instance, a wrist blade is great for someone of an average, non-descript build, but a giant hulking brute? yeaaah not so much. Instead, he'd want a proportionally sized (fucking giant) folding/disassemblable crossbow that allows him to take out key targets at a (comparatively) massive range without being spotted. When you are a one-of-a-kind even a single witness who saw your clear outline needs to be immediately dealt with, so being able to take people out without being spotted is more important than being able to disappear into crowds *_after_* being spotted. I mean, even the IRL history of the guy, his massive stature and race meant that he was exposed to tons of elites as a spectacle but never given much thought because he was *_just_* a spectacle to them. He barely has any recorded history for the same reason. Name a better person to be an assassin than someone who was casually rubbing elbows with royalty, yet has almost no recorded history because people paid him *_that_* little mind. It'd be a sort of cross between the original AC and modern Hitman, which itself is very similar conceptually to the original AC games.
They'll still make decent money off this, believe me. IME the people who will buy this are also the same people who think Ezio is their favorite Assassin, like Lambos, support Real Madrid or Barcelona, dream of living in Dubai, will pirate games despite having the money to afford their own gaming PC, prefers hammy, telenovela-style acting in their entertainment, and think whoever has the loudest voice in an argument has the most authority. EDIT: added more stereotypes.
Naoe must be the best assassin in the entire series because you and many others have been ignoring the fucking obvious Japanese ninja in the FRONT COVER OF THE GAME ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS MY DUDE!???? YOU HAVE YOUR JAPANESE MAIN NINJA PROTAG QUITE LITERALLY IN FRONT OF YOU OH MY WORD.
This feels like Yasuke started out as the protagonist of the DLC series associated with AC Shadows. Sweet Baby consultants saw this and advised Ubisoft to bump the original Japanese main character and crowbar Yasuke into the main game.
i wanted ninjas when they introduced the concept to me in the Ezio movie where he is an old man. I thought for sure they are gonna make a female ninja game then... Then they didn't. The "ended" the modern day story of Desmond and suddenly I didn't care anymore.
I still don’t understand the decision to end Desmond. The whole search for the Templar treasure through time was, in my opinion, what sold the game. That was their unique feature, it was incredibly interesting. Now they just throw a dart at a map and pick random historical places and pretend it all has significance.
@@gregowen2022Apparently, the reason they ended Desmond was because the original creator of the franchise was fired and the devs who came after didn't like him, not to mention the fact a lot of the fans at the time didn't like him nor the modern day stuff in general.
@@milasspace Nope. I really don't understand the praise that game gets, it's massively overrated! Anyone saying BF is better than Brotherhood already loses all credibility to me so for the masses to claim BF is peak is mind boggling to me. I dropped BF when I started to see then game constantly sent me to Sea( which I didn't like ).
Just for everyone's awareness, a little detail on Ubisoft's stock: There present stock price (ticker symbol UBSFY) is $4.70. Their five year performance: the stock has lost 71.27% of it's value from it's peak of $20.78 from Jan of 2021. Present market cap is 2.81 billion. As such, they have lost a whopping 12.43 BILLION IN MARKET CAP in the past 3 1/2 years.
Last Assassin's Creed game I played was Origins and I thought it was pretty fun overal. I loved the setting of Ancient Egypt, it was beautiful to look at and the expansions into the Afterlife were awesome too, hell Bayek is my favorite Assassin of the bunch, but I just don't care anymore.
Ghost of Tsushima Gave me what I wanted from AC it just needs better stealth like being able to hang from ledges or cling to corners and do corner assassination without exposing yourself Arkham batman style and more assassination mechanics in the sequel. Other than that I love it I've beaten the game 23 times it's what I play when listening to podcasts and testing out new builds like poison archer, Resolve and health builds, fear based fire builds etc. There are a lot of modifiers with charms that change how fights. I also just love the sword fighting and replay duels constantly with different armor sets, charms and at different difficulties. It feels like playing games back in the day where you do absolutely everything in the game and scrape it for every scrap of fun you can. It's like wiping a plate with a piece of bread to get all the gravy while saving for the next big game you will play for a whole year.
Agreed. I remember being excited to platinum that game, searching for every little thing and I somehow never got bored of it. Squeezing every drop of it didn’t feel like a chore, it was a pleasure
Most people say its just a game its not historically accurate why so serious . Me : But !!!!!!!! Ac 2 enzio italian in italy story Ac 3 connor native america in america Ac origin : bayek a persian in persia Ac odyssey : kassandra a spartan in greek metalogy story Ac valhalla : Eivor a viking decedent with viking story . But in Ac shadow we got sasuke a blackman represent japan with japanese story culture and history ??? Did japan lack of historical figure to represent their own Ac story and narrative ?? Even i from asian confuse why we need black to represent our own history and culture ??
No shit. Just because we're talking about this shit doesn't mean we turn a blind eyes on the price. The game won't sell regardless because of this shit anyway. 😂😂😂😂
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 plenty of shit products sell well. And it’s not like you can try before you buy anymore unless you wanna subscribe to a service like Uplay or game pass. Anyone I know who played AC agree it’s all been downhill since black flag. Ubisoft is digging their own grave with their lazy copy/paste design and their shameless monetization schemes.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271”getting ready to crash”. Ubisoft currently having success makes it even more likely to flounder because it will keep following all the bad trends that caused the crash. The companies that will survive will be the smaller and more nimble ones, not the massive studios. Ubisofts massive budgets and constant releases also mean that in a crash they lose more of their income then say bethesda, which doesn’t rely on constant releases
Well, the thing about Nioh William was actually an historical western dude who did come to Japan and did become a samurai. I think it was either Dutch or British.
Been waiting 10 yeears for an Assassin's Creed set in Japan and what do they do....they include DEI in it. And yeah it is kind of moot at this point since Ghost of Tsushima was effectively Assassin's Creed Japan but with better writing.
Does Yasuke count as DEI if home boy real existed though? Or is simply telling a story about Yasuke DEI? Maybe let's wait till the game comes out or at least wait till there is a real gameplay trailer before we start talking about the game like it's a failure?
@@froggylegs1499 It's a game set in Japan and every prior game the main assassins, whether it was one or two were always natives to the setting of the game, yet here in Japan, they chose this game to make one of the protagnoists the literal only black guy in Japan at the time. That is DEI
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 Maybe(and I known I'm being optimistic here) they just thought it would be fun to tell a story about the guy? 2015 had like 7 different movie studios trademark films about Yasuke. People are interested in making versions of his story. Maybe they are doing this cuz it interest them? A story about Yasuke has to be set during this time period. I don't think that counts as DEI, no? And if it does, how could you tell a story about him that is not DEI? I always thought DEI was forcing diversity in a real time period or setting, like for an example a Mexican Viking (if this did exist in any point in time, my bad) I don't see how Yasuke is DEI the same way i don't see William's story as a "White Savoir " story. They both existed.
1 view in 41 seconds. This channel probably didn't fall off because I clicked on the notification and went right to the video to be one of the first people to see it.
They could've portrayed him as a Mentor of the Japanese Brotherhood moonlighting as Nobunaga's retainer, like a Japanese take on AC3's Achilles. Still fulfills the titular Creed's Second Tenet (hide in plain sight), because who would suspect that this tall, oni-looking dude under Nobunaga's employ is a leader of a top-secret organization? But of course, they had to mess that up all for... 📣 *THE MESSAGE.* 📣
Ghost of Tsushima is a masterpiece, seriously, it's criminally underrated. Don't watch spoilers or reviews, just get it if, you think there's even a slim chance you'll enjoy it, because you'll love it. I don't know about Souls type, I couldn't manage the screeching on Bloodborne, but I've played Armored Core 6 just to get a sense of difficulty in modern gaming. Ghost of Tsushima is accessible, kind of, but on new game plus, with the cursed charms and the broken armour, it's as difficult as they come. One thing I really appreciated was the fact that button spamming and losing composure only makes things worse and worse, but if you keep your cool you can pull it off. You can approach situations as you please, stealthily, developing a plan or strategy, or you can go full on berserk. And it's gut wrenching of a storyline, don't be fooled by the beautiful graphics, it's brutal. As I once said about GOT ending, "everyone knows what's coming, but when it comes, no one is prepared for it". Get your tissues boys, it's Arthur Morgan all over again. (Jin doesn't die, so it's not a spoiler).
I was one of the hardcore AC fans who wanted a compromise between the Yes and No sides of the Feudal Japan debate. I proposed the idea of an AC game that's set in Meiji Restoration era Japan. Basically, think of _The Last Samurai_ as a video game. It meets the fans' desires of an AC game set in Japan and Alex Hutchinson's desire of having more unique historical settings. If they released that instead of _Origins_ it would've been a smash success if done right. Seeing how low this franchise sunk genuinely brings a tear to my eye.
Oh lovely, Sony is already screwing up the Tsushima PC release with the same BS they tried to pull on Helldivers. Wonderful. Still a good game, though.
Not really the same thing. Helldivers players who already bought the game weren't able to play. Where now they just aren't allowing people in those countries the ability to buy the game. They could have done better and made online $10 DLC for those countries affected, but they didn't so it's their loss. It's out on every piracy site. If you can't buy it pirate it.
geezas! Another video game crash is inevitable if all people think like you. I can imagine the mental gymnastics you have gone through just to create a problem in an unreleased game that nobody has played yet. I just hope your subs are not too woke to join your bandwagon of hate lol
AC Shadows BARELY looks like an Assassins Creed game, the first 6 (AC, 2, Brotherhood, Revaluations, 3, Black Flag) games all felt like AC, they all felt like they neetly tied together. Now AC games come off as that in name only, its Assassins Creed because it was made by Ubisoft, not because it captures the same essense that made the first couple of games in the series different from other games like it
Agreed. The name means nothing now. They are basic action adventure games in a boring open world and maybe some tall grass to hide in. It’s more formulaic than modern day MCU
@@gregowen2022 Ubisoft, like Disney, is just operating under the mentality of "our games are good, because they make money" rather than "our games make money because they're good". The latter is motivated by wanting to tell a good story and deliver engaging gameplay to the audience, the other is trying to appeal to the most common denominator and taking the "safe road" simply because it worked before
Well we got mirage to satisfy the og fans, that did bring it back to its roots, story wasn’t as good as the originals but as far as gameplay I loved it
@@mrhunter2154 sure but the fact Mirage is an outlier says a lot about where the franchise is going. Let me put it this way, if you have to make your franchise more generic for people to like it, perhaps consider that they weren't interested in playing AC. There's a difference between altering a product to appeal to a wider audience, and altering it to the point where its not the same thing
@@krnatsu I mean maybe so, but as an og fan obviously I liked the older games but I also enjoyed the newer RPGs as well aside from Valhalla. I heard a rumor Bordeaux may continue to make oldschool style games while other companies work on the big RPGs to satisfy both oldschool and newer fans. I’d be all for that
Not only Tsushima but you also have Sekiro, Rise of the Ronin, Trek to Yomi, Ninja Gaiden re-release, etc all out now, plus a slew of television/movies that has jumped on this relative period (Blue Eye Samurai, Shogun). So what would have been fun and innovative a decade ago is now Ubisoft once again getting to the party late because all other media has decided to do it.... Vikings, Last Kingdom, The Northman, Vinland Saga etc....oh i guess we should do a Vikings game. At this point I will be shocked if we don't see a WWII AC in the next few years based on that 2012 stateme- OH WAIT THEY ALREADY DID IT IN UNITY!! Or they'll completely throw out the current concept and they'll do a future-based game with dystopian AI and cybernetics. Follow the media trends, wait a few years, then you'll see an AC game.
@@gregowen2022 I've had a Leftist from Portland tell me that he hates living in America and wonders why I would make the mistake of moving here from my third-world shithole. Pretty much telling me, "go back to your country" under the guise of an edgy self-hating American.
Ain’t racism just ignorance, most of the ppl speaking acting like Yasuke never existed, Leonardo wasn’t a weapon designer for Assaassins so who cares about historical Avvi Stacy all of sudden
Yasuke, while not a samurai, was a vassal. In other words, a man who received land from a feudal lord in return for homage and loyalty. _A black man was taken on as a vassal by Nobunaga-sama and received a stipend. His name was decided to be Yasuke. He was also given a short sword and a house. He was sometimes made to carry Nobunaga-sama's tools_ _The black man understood a little Japanese, and Nobunaga never tired of talking with him. And because he was strong and could do a few tricks, Nobunaga took great pleasure in protecting him and had him roam around the city of Kyoto with an attendant. Some people in the town thought that Nobunaga might make him as tono_ (a lord) source: the italicized passages are from the records of the Society of Jesus of Japan, where wikipedia got the info*/
Honestly AC Origins, Far Cry 5 and Ghost recon Wildlands were really good, flawed but still super enjoyable. Around 2017 I thought we would see another golden age of Ubi... yeah
@@nenadmilovanovic5271: even games like Rouge was pretty damn good and Unity eventually got there after all it’s stupid buggy problems. It’s just that Black Flag was the PEAK. And I don’t think they’ve ever been able to get back all the good will they had garnered at that point.
For me assassins creed died when i excitedly got origins, hid in a bush, stabbed someone in the neck... And they turned around and one shot killed me because i was the wrong level.
Dude same, I remember impaling enemies through their goddamn chest several times just for it to barley effect their health and got right back up like nothing happened and they hit me like three times and I die, it was so stupid.
I love RPGs. All my favorite games are RPGs. But I don't like Ubisoft's AC RPGs. Part of it was the bird tagging replacing eagle vision. The other part is likely that somewhere my brain was saying "it's pretty, but it's not *Assassin's Creed.* " I really wanted to like the AC RPGs and don't really know why I don't like them, I can only guess.
A Yasuke game, on its own, could be cool. He arrived as a missionary's assistant, so he spoke enough Japanese to get by, and while he wasn't a samurai, he *was* a page. I'm not entirely sure exactly what duties that entailed in feudal Japan, but since he served Nobunaga, it's not impossible to imagine and write a scenario in which he'd be put in the role of bodyguard or ordered to fight. The potential for a good game is there-but not Assassin's Creed. As for Nioh though...sorry, but that one doesn't hold up. People cried because a game based on the story of William Adams, a real-life historical figure who was officially made a samurai for his contributions to Japan, starred a white guy, because apparently you're just not allowed to set a game in Japan unless the main character is Japanese. It's the same brand of projection that let those people insist to this day that RE5 was racist because it took place in Africa-although, in this case, it's even worse, because the people who worked on the game are themselves Japanese, so ultimately it was a bunch of woke Westerners screaming at Japanese people that they were only allowed to write stories about Japanese people. It was not a great look for anyone.
Yes because Japanese people/gaming companies haven’t used Yasuke in their stories or games(….. they have). It’s not like Japanese people didn’t enjoy the story of Yasuke cause how we would have even gotten research of him if they truly didn’t care. As a white guy STOP PUTTING YOUR IDEALS ON OTHERS THAT YOU DONT EVEN TALK TO
Day one DLC is Theft only games like Elden Ring and Ghost of Tsushima have real DLC. You get a complete experience followed by added value more story and gameplay and map months after the original game can out. If the DLC is already available when the game comes out it's just content they stole from a complete game and should be illegal as fraud.
Umm excuse me the hell did you say? Did they seriously have a Child of Light 2 concept on the go and they got rid of it? If it's true that a sequel to a game that's so beloved to me was canned for yet another garbage tier game in a franchise that should have died ages ago it's going to make me hate Shadows so much more.
In regards to the original Nioh and the historical figure of William Adams, I disagree it was wrong...primarily because of what I believe they were going for. I believe the idea was that William is a stranger in a strange land facing strange beings (For clarity I mean yokai and not the Japanese). In order for he, a foreigner, to survive he has learn and master things that just as foreign to him. This IMHO pairs nicely with the game's atmosphere and difficulty to cement the fact William is a fish out of water. I think Team Ninja's choice to use William in this regard was a deliberately and thematically approriate choice that serves the game rather than to pander. Whereas Ubisoft's protrayal of Yasuke is the opposite and to get that ESG/BRIDGE/WEF funding. I am not even opposed to Yasuke being a protagonist or major character in the game per say. However, I think would've been more narratively interesting to have him retain his well...retainer role instead of being a full fledged samurai. It could explore how Yasuke feels about the whole affair, but also use his "trophy" status among Nobunga to better infiltrate, gain intel, and y'know...assassinate certain big players among Japan at the time. Y'know, like an actual Assassin. Just my long-winded two cents.
It’s a solid point about Adams being the way we the player discover Japan, I appreciate that perspective. My issue with any samurai being someone other than Japanese is that it always feels like reaching, just like Yasuke does here. Of course, the big difference is that Team Ninja is based in Japan, while Ubi is not.
@@gregowen2022 if one were to truly nitpick William, they're supposed to be nitpicking him being Irish in the game instead of English (like he was IRL). Guardian spirit being a Merrow (basically an Irish mermaid/siren), having an Irish name Saoirse, speaks Gaelic, etc. But ultimately that's not what they were going for and actually helped a bit solidify the story + they really weren't going for ESG points considering well....they also got Yasuke in it and treated him in the same manner as some of the other pop-culture urban legends present in that game (that pretty much stayed as urban legends lol).
i always has this idea for a WWII AC since right after Rogue, that it was essentially a reverse. You start as a SS Soldier, on his mission to become more than a Templar foot soldier during the invasion of Stalingrad, just to be captured by the Russian Brotherhood, who find a way to convince you to turn against the Templars and the rest of the game takes place in Berlin, until the end when you get to kill Hitler in the Eagle's Nest, just to end up being killed by the Soviets as they take the city.
Your concept is boring and it reinvents the wheel. Any ideas on a WW2 AC always ends in, "you get to kill Hitler." Why? Because he's the Big Bad, durrrrr. 🙄 At least old Wolfenstein games had a more original take. Besides, you already have a WW2 game that allows you to conduct covert ops missions behind enemy lines, infiltrating bases and whatnot. You know what that game is? Steven Spielberg's Medal of Honor, released all the way back in 1999.
Don't mind me, I'm going to play the Ezio Trilogy for the... Okay I've lost count how many times I've played through them, but I always come back every single year!
Thank you for covering the issues with this game in an all encompassing manner instead of just zeroing in on the most surface level problem. It’s still a problem but you addressed it with the appropriate amount of context and scale while handling the criticism of Ubisoft well here.
Yasuke wasn't exactly a Samurai specifically as far as we know, but he was a warrior and based on the little historical knowledge we have of him he appears to have been relatively close and trusted by Nobunaga. It's important to understand when we use words like retainer/servant in the west it might not carry the same connotation as they do in the east. All Samurai are retainers after all, who serve their daimyo. In the same way that one might say a Noble Night is still the servant or retainer of the king. And Nobunaga was certainly a powerful warlord for his time. And while we don't know Yasuke's exact position in Nobunaga's hierarchy, from the evidence we do have it is clear that Yasuke was favored by Nobunaga, who gave Yasuke a weapon and a house of his own, trusted Yasuke to try and save his son when he was betrayed by one his other retainers, and the two were close enough that some of the other nobles under Nobunage began to think he would make Yasuke a Lord. As far as we know that last bit didn't ever play out, but to say that Yasuke is AT BEST as squire is disingenuous I think. There is evidence to support the idea he was much much more than that, but not enough to conclusively state his position one way or the other. There is a lot of wiggle room to tell a fictional story w/ Yasuke precisely because we DON'T know a whole lot about him.
Fr, and even if he is real, why not have a story about a Japanese man and woman wanting to save his own country. Because of Ghost of Tsushima did it? It’s so dumb
Ill still argue 2 big things in defense of Nioh, 1. Nioh doesnt make you think that its super historically accurate, Assassins creed did at one point, and 2 the main charcter in nioh 1 was a historical figure who did indeed become a samurai and play a small but important part in Japanese history.
I'm with you for most of the video (and against this game because of Sweet Baby Inc and the clear DEI it's pushing) but you got a slip-up with your Yasuke info. The real-life Yasuke was documented at 5'9". He did arrive as a slave and was kept by Nobunaga because of his skin. He was a retainer, which are and can be a samurai. He was Nobunaga's weapon holder but that was actually a High Ranking Position. He actually had more social rank than many other Japanese because of that. He's less impressive with the fact that the only recorded battle of him that was documented has him losing and becoming a prisoner. And when he is released, no other documented information about him is seen again.
To kill ass creed shadows(they literally even have a Japanese consultant who seems to be abit too deep into LGBTQ and pedo stuff) sucker punch just needs to announce ghost 2.
It’s a historical fact that after Yasuke left Japan he swam to Australia to lay siege across the lands and helped Australia gain independence from the British.
@@omensoffate Yasuke; the man that created a perpetual motion device that can do work infinitely without an external energy source, Also landed on the moon. Astonishing!
It isn't sure if he was a Samurai or not. There is very little known about him. Women Shinobi didn't really exist. Then again Shinobi didn't really assassinate...
Me too! I'm heading for vacation and I'm going to watch Fallout and Xmen 97 during that time. I already loved Shogun, so I'm looking for another show or two to do a "it's not all bad, there are still good shows" kind of video. Any other recent suggestions?
@@gregowen2022I’d like to jump in and recommend Severance. The second season is (finally) almost here so it might be a good idea to jump into it if you haven’t already. It’s some chef’s kiss great sci-fi.
@@gregowen2022 With fallout specifically, I think people overlook how good the DIALOGUE writing is, specifically. It's why the plot not making sense was so hard for alot of people to notice. The issue with fallout - as far as I can tell, and I haven't heard this voiced ANYWHERE - is that every single level of the production was rock solid.... EXCEPT for the PLOT. There's some strange mind virus preventing writers from building a solid and resilient PLOT. They had to shoehorn in heavy handed political """"""""allegory"""""""" and it had a domino effect of the story's foundation. In terms of suggestions, I haven't seen much of what's coming out lately - so I dunno what would be good for engagement boosting.. I dunno about you, but I feel like the tide is slowly pulling back. Corporate tactics are convincing less and less people, the indie scene on ALL fronts is getting bigger and better and more resilient, The most I've heard about CoD in two years is how the skins are whacky, but that's really it. It might be worth tucking away motivational things about that as you see them over the coming weeks, and maybe just present a collage of them. It's so easy to get discouraged nowadays, it's important to shine a light on the harder to notice good things.
A ww1 Assassins Creed in which you try and stop the black hand from killing the Archduke Franz Ferdinand which in real life his assassination started WW1 would be badass. Maybe make it to were you try and stop them but if you fail you have to clean up the mess/hunt down the terrorist groups members. A more modern yet older setting like WW1/2 would be fantastic.
I was an Assassin’s Creed teen, I got started writing by doing Assassin’s Creed fanfiction…. Now I’m just disappointed and not playing the new games. It was a fun phase, but so many fandoms have been hijacked and crashing into mediocrity. No thanks!
I don't care about the "controversy." While people have argued about the franchise being supposedly historical or not, Assassin's Creed has always been on the more wacky fictional side of things from the start regardless of what people say. HOWEVER, I am not keen on Ubisoft again falling short and just having another open world experience for us all filled with boring busywork. It means nothing to be an "assassin" in the series now. There's no weight, no proper conveyance as to the importance of being part of the Assassin Order since.........Black Flag, I would say. Nowadays, we're just playing as random edgy people wearing hoods and sticking blades into others.
Aaaahhh Greg, this is your best video yet. Very well done indeed, keep up the good work. Yeah, Ubislop is dead to me, I played six AC games, it seriously looks like I won't be playing anymore, sad times in a minor way.
I don't know if you'll see this, but if you're drinking green tea, and it has a sour/bitter taste of tannins, then you're brewing it in water that's too hot! Green tea should be brewed at 85°C (185°F), at 2-5 minutes. Add a teaspoon of honey for some extra sweetness!
I could have understood Japan, WWII, and Egypt not being great settings because there are no huge buildings to leap from. But AC is more than just parkour as we found out later.
That double-dipping dig at the IRS, love it. ♥ So I have to pay taxes every year on the house I bought, whose price was higher than listed because of sales tax, and I paid for it with an income that is also taxed. Oh, and when I die and pass what I have to my descendants, that will also be taxed. And if I refuse to pay, men with guns will show up to make sure I do, or else I get to make license plates until they think they got their money's worth.
Strange that Nioh 1 got the flack that it did. William Adams is a real person in history that Nioh 1 tried to revolve around. The historical accuracy is obviously not perfect but i believe it's more than enough to understand the scenario.
I understand that he was a real guy and an actual samurai unlike yasuke, but a non-japanese samurai is always going to look odd, so I get the pushback on Nioh. Even if it wasn’t reaching (it was made by a Japanese team, afterall) it always Looks like reaching when a non-japanese gets plucked from history to be the protagonist. Just optics, really
@@magenta_iris I did, too, and what I regret not saying in this video is that gameplay trumps everything. What people remember about Nioh is that it was awesome. You don't see the main character that much, and you're so wrapped up in how excellent the game is that you don't care what he looks like. I bet if SuckerPunch had been the one to announce Tsushima 2, starring Yasuke, it wouldn't be as much of a deal, because they have the respect of making a great game. It's the combination of this being an obvious pandering ploy, AND Ubisoft having a reputation for boring bloated games that is making it so bad.
@@gregowen2022 I agree. Gameplay should always trump everything else in regards to when it comes to the final product or the rating of such. It is called a video GAME after all.
I wouldn’t say they’re desparate, Valhalla was the first entry to pass 1 billion in revenue. But they are, as usual in recent years, just trend chasing. They could have been first on the block here but they chose to release it with Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of The Ronin on the market already with more on the way. This setting could have easily been a slam dunk for them if they had released it long before. To be fair though even RGG thought ‘western gamers won’t like a game based on historical Japan’ which is why they didn’t port Ishin over to the west until recently, legit citing Ghost’s popularity as the reason they did so. Why this was a prevelant thought in the industry I’ll never understand. People obviously love this stuff.
I am floored to find out Valhalla’s sales numbers. I’ve never heard anything good about this game! I’ve heard a resounding “meh, it was bloated”. That is truly shocking
This whole "Nioh did the same" debate is so bullshit. Dude, Team Ninja is a Japanese studio. They can play around however the fuck they want with their own history and folklore. Ubisoft is a French company tho. It's like saying that I can call black people the N word because they do the same to each other, so it must be okay. What?
While I don't usually fall for the sort of marketing tricks employed like price anchoring or monthly subscriptions for things like Ubisoft+ (the one I would say I'm most susceptible to is FOMO namely with big sales where games are over 50% off), it always fascinates me to see the little psychological tricks used by companies to try and make the tactic work. Seemingly doubling the number of features from base edition to gold edition. Changing the banner from base game to the other more pricier editions, always adding onto the list of available features no matter their actual value, and relying that ppl get the $18/month edition several months earlier to get more money out of the consumer who doesn't know any better.
I chopped about 45 seconds at the end of the video when talking about Yasuke. I don't know enough about this guy to make strong arguments, and frankly, I don't care. We shouldn't care. What Ubisoft is doing here is obvious, and they don't even deserve our time as we discuss whether the guy was a real samurai or not. This is a cheap marketing ploy, and the attention needs to be on their scummy monetization tactics and their dull, boring games. We also need to be focusing on the fact that they didn't even show the gameplay or discuss game mechanics. They aren't even trying at this point, and they think distracting everyone with the only black samurai(maybe, idc) is going to sell this game.
The gameplay will decide, and I think it's telling that they don't have the confidence to show any. I mentioned Nioh, and I stand by that. Yes, Team Ninja is a Japanese group, but I still think plucking out the only white samurai is silly looking. But here's the thing with Nioh: I freaking loved that game, and I quickly forgot that the character was white. I was too invested in the tight combat, the crafting, the cool world, and everything else this game has to offer. That's the other reason I don't think Yasuke deserves much attention. If this game is EXTREMELY fun to play(which I doubt), then we won't give a damn what he looks like. But again, it's telling that we are discussing the merits of Yasuke, because there isn't anything else to discuss, because Ubisoft gave us nothing and has been giving us nothing for years. That fact that everyone is up in arms about Yasuke being one of the main characters says little about the audience, and volumes about how little there is to discuss about ANY Ubisoft game.
Last point about gameplay. I'm playing Hades 2 at the moment, and I'm only on night 8 I think, but I have been about halfway through the third area, so I haven't seen everything, but I have seen 2/3 of it. I haven't seen any of this supposed woke writing or whatever yet. Yes, the character pictures are different, and some are silly, but the game is fun, so it's less important. I'm not saying entirely unimportant, you can discuss if you want to, but its importance is low. If you play this game, you don't want to discuss what Artemis looks like, you want to discuss the new magic and elemental systems. You want to talk about the play speed and if you think slowing it down is good or not. The MECHANICS of this game are interesting to discuss, the side characters are secondary, perhaps tertiary.
I'm not pretending to be on a moral high ground here. It's fine to mock Ubisoft for this obvious ploy to get attention, because what they are doing is stupid. I'm just cautioning that we keep the perspectives right and give things the attention they deserve. While Yasuke deserves some attention, he doesn't deserve as much as their other shitty practices do.
Happy gaming!
Did you do a piece like this on Valhalla ?do some research before you go talking about something you have no clue about. Don’t see how a bunch of grown men are mad about a black character in 2024. You nerds decided hey it’s a girl and a black dude let’s take the frustration out on him instead 😂😂. We hate 🤵🏾♂️more anyway.
Man, people sure forget that there is a woman in this game. She's Japanese and is the sneaky one. When I saw the trailer my initial reaction was that wow, this will make for an interesting story. He's an outsider. Very Assassin's Creed if you ask me. If he wasn't a historical character I'd be with you, but he is. Thinking it's just virtue signaling is so damn cynical. I say that as a huge cynical asshole. Ubisoft makes very vapid open worlds, has fake RPG mechanics and generally has terrible stories. Especially Ubisoft Quebec. Don't know what has these people so outraged over art, but I think we all need to go touch grass
I would recommend Metatron's take on Yaskue including his reaction to this trailer, if people are interested in the history of Yaskue and whether or not he was ever a samurai 🤔.
One, just one black guy among 99.99% of native. Why focus on him? What about the ainus, the real minority in Japan. Where is the 'inclusivity" there? Again, Japan viewed through the lens of the recent western cultural trend: wokeness.
Actually we should care about distorting history and pandering for The Message. Yasuke's character is not bad because he is black but because he is black for all the wrong reasons.
As a 6'7 black man myself I can confirm without reservation, that sneaking around anywhere is not my strong suit. Nighttime, sure I've got built in camo but I'm still tall af so it really doesn't do much good.
I apologize. After I read "built in camo" all I heard was Lincoln Osiris from Tropic Thunder saying "mother natures natural night camo" and now your entire comment is said in his voice in my head.😂😂😂
Identify as a lesbian woman and you can easily sneak to be a vice president in Ubisoft.
@@mhug86 that is my favorite comedy movie of all time. For my comment to invoke that in your mind has made me quite happy!
Do you walk around naked at night for extra sneak points?
Why hello fellow 6'7" guy yes I can confirm trying to sneak around or hide in a crowd after stabbing some guard with my hidden blade would not be viable and changing outfits won't help either. Same issue with being a superhero changing into costume saving the day then reappearing as the only guy as tall as the hero around and the only one not there when the hero appeared.
In China, we made a meme says ' Ubisoft is more excited finding Yasuke in history books than Oda Nobunaga finding Yasuke in real life. '
😂😂😂
Hey guy's did you know in Ghost of Tsushima you can play as an actual Japanese Samurai in Japan shocking I know.
The journalists called that cultural appropriation though 😂
Good. I already own it but will donate the money I planned to spend on this to sucker punch just out of the kindness of my heart
@@Marukomekun what a kind gesture
@@QuattroSG the journalist might want to say that to the Japanese fans face.
You know Japanese people don’t actually mind that he’s black? Nothing like white people to get offended for other races 😂
I love how Sucker Punch dealt with months and months of toxic sludge being thrown at them being accused of "cultural appropriation" by western journos despite the game being beyond loved in Japan with some legendary Japanese game directors even gushing over it yet apparently this game also made entirely by white people is ok........I wonder why 🙄
That movie was weird...but the girls were hot.
@@TempoLOOKING I was referring to the game developer who made Ghost Of Tsushima not that terrible Snyder movie 😅
Because woke crowd is pure poison. They are the most dangerous cancer of our society. Jornos, they are not. Activists promoting their cult they are.
Because there's an echo at Ubisoft
@@KeyBladeMaster-Dan what movie was he talking about?
"Ghost of Tsushima is superior" is the most succinct way to say what everyone is saying.
That game still blows my mind.
It was my first ever fully solo (I didn't need my husband's help for any main story boss fights so it counts! lol) Platinum Trophy and I am still so glad that it holds that title for me.
I mean yea I enjoyed GOT so much I actually platinum it and when I’m normally done with a story I’m done with a game
It was one of those games that you WANT to platinum, simply because you want to have more things to do in the game, you just want to stay there. Fingers crossed a sequel gets announced soon.
It was my second platt my first was WD2
Ghost and fromsoft games are usually the only games I go out of my way to platinum cause I just want to keep playing.
Good fucking games
Man... When I saw the poster, I was really hyped for a mili-second until I realized that it's current-day Ubisoft.
Yep. A decade ago I would have been hyped
Yeah, Ubislop is dead to me, I played six AC games, it seriously looks like I won't be playing anymore, sad times in a minor way.
I agree with this guy; the game would’ve been perfect setting a decade ago. Now it’s just overdone.
I was hyped for the trailer but when I saw the samurai, I was hoping the rumors were false. My disappointment was immeasurable and I was glad I had three hours before I crashed in my bed
@@kerlongsjorlejov1945would you prefer a second William Adams samurai game instead?
"I don't care what your school teachers told you but SHOGUN IS BLACK!"
My granny told me!
Just to put into perspective how much of a disaster this is. Nate Fox and Jason Connell, who led Ghost of Tsushima's development, were made tourism ambassadors of Tsushima because of the game's incredible reception. Since the reveal of AC Shadows, Japan has unified in hating this game.
The Japanese don't hate the game. They are more upset that one of the trailers show a Chinese lamp instead of a Japanese one. They make content about yosuke all the time. Idk what your on about
@@terrellfair9812yeah, you do NOT know what he’s talking about. Educate urself before commenting then? You doughnut
Every other AC game featured a unique fictional character as the protagonist until this one. I wouldn't have had a problem with Yasuke appearing as an NPC or character that you play as on a side mission, but it's obvious that they decided to go with him as the main character for the purpose of generating controversy and scoring ESG points, which just makes it feel very pandering and lame.
Like Greg says, it’s not pandering, it’s lazy marketing.
The irony of you wanting him to be an NPC is hilarious. It’s like you guys can never fathom the main character being anything other than white and male otherwise it’s pandering.
@@ecalebw I'm not sure who the "you guys" is that you're referring to, but I really liked Adéwalé in Freedom Cry and Aveline in Liberation, neither of whom were white males.
@@ecalebw That argument doesn't really make sense in this case. People want the main character in the Japanese Assassins Creed game to be Japanese. We're not asking for, nor expecting the character to be a white guy.
Ubisoft used to be so good. I feel like we won’t be losing anything if that just go away.
I'm afraid I agree. I used to be sad for them, but I quit mourning years ago, sort of like Bioware
And they aren’t the only game company or movie franchise like this anymore. I feel the same way about Star Wars and marvel even though I used to love them
@@gregowen2022 Bioware hurts me more because they created Dragon Age Origins, easily my favorite game
Their best year was 2003 with Beyond Good and Evil, Sands of Time , XIII.
Ah, the time when they had "toxic environment hostile to women" according to some of their ex employees. I recall Kim Belair worked there too.
Amazing, it is amazing that once they started to get it right according to activists, the one thing I was interested in started to get so much worse.
People comparing Nioh to this debacle just make me shake my head. William Adams was a real Englishman who went to Japan and actually became a real samurai, named Miura Anjin by none other than Tokugawa Ieyasu himself.
Yasuke was never made a samurai, he was a curiosity to Nobunaga, who had no problem using foreign technology if he deemed it beneficial to his cause. Nobunaga is famously depicted wearing a cuirass and was the first Japanese warlord to mass field firearms in battle.
Unless there really was a secret war between demons and magic ninjas over a Welsh fairy, Nioh was just using names to ground it in a time and place.
@@robertbeisert3315 I forgot to state that it is a very fictional/fantastical adaptation. But the main point of contention is that William was a real samurai and Yasuke was not.
Not to mention the obvious DEI informed decision to use the one black guy that could be named in Japan.
@calvinchan8511 oh, without a doubt or question. I just wanted to highlight the absolute absurdity of comparing a series with pretensions to documentary and a game where I use magic talismans to slay oni for magic gems.
If they really wanna criticize Nioh then the one critique they should've thrown is making William Irish instead of English (going by his guardian spirit being an entity of Irish/Gaelic myths and it speaking Gaelic).
But hell nah :v. That game's few minutes of showing Yasuke was much more respectful all things considered. Sequel included
@user-gt7vi9jm9mand AC pretends to be historically accurate? They literally have a “this is fiction” statement at the beginning of all their games
Fortunately, my brain is "locked" to an era where top-tier games were around $50, so when a company tries to tell me it's in my interests to pay $110 just to get a complete game (before reviews come out... that will likely be buggy as hell on release... that Ubisoft in particular has just expressed a right to "yoink" out of my collection at their own _discretion_ ...) I have very little difficulty telling them where they can put their "special offer".
11:55 You know what's hilarious. If someone made a Samurai game as like an Alternate history of Yasuke where he does become a samurai that's not connected to Assassin's Creed, it'd probably be fine, people would probably want to play it. It's the fact it's specifically Assassin's Creed, both in the Japanese game fans have been waiting for and the fact Yasuke would be terrible as an assassin that ruins it.
or if he was a character in samurai warriors seeing as that game does over exaggerate historical figures
AC is alternative history what do you mean
@@saurmandersauce8048Alternative history that's still grounded in reality.
No, there won't be flying unicorns pooping rainbows in it, but the lore that explains the commonalities between the deities of several world religions being down to just ancient, advanced humanoids, is incredibly plausible.
He's not an assassin in Shadows. He's a big strong guy who smashes shit up.
@@jmalit’s still alternate history. Stop saying but to a complete statement it doesn’t need anymore. It says before every game they say this game is HISTORICAL FICTION
I really never wanted to turn into "that guy," but learning this year that AC, Valhalla appeared on the SBI list, then learning the next AC game heavily features a samurai of colour in the Orient, it's hard to not hesitate or notice creative red flags.
If they take the time and try contributing to verisimilitude, im always willing to keep an open mind. The past few years of media in all forms sacrificing internal logic and believability in favour of fancy aesthetics/cgi/combat/action is pretty discouraging
Verisimilitude is the main thing DEI has killed in fiction it's what destroys immersion. Also stop fighting being that guy most of us are now that guy since most things are being ruined and we have working brains with pattern recognition I'd be more worried if I didn't notice and wasn't that guy.
Gamers sure break down the moment they see brown people
@@mimosajd where they don't belong get it right dude
@@mimosajdOh yeah so true. I remember gamers being up in arms over AC Origins. Or remember AC3 where you played as a native American killing white Americans? Oh, and the uproar over 2 of the 4 main protagonists in Gears of War not being white...yeah see how stupid your point is. Your probs a leftie.
@@mimosajd You set an AC game in the empire of the Zulu and I'd be pissed to have a Caucasian protagonist without a compelling reason for it.
New AC main character supposedly wasn't even a Samurai, and was given a sword that couldn't cut, his only use was he was big. He was just written about because he was the one of the only dark skinned in a light skinned country
Not being racist here, but a black guy in samurai armor back in feudal Japan would attract some attention me thinks and is not an everyday sight. Could not just have a Japanese guy and girl.
As a black person I one hundred percent agree with you. I feel that the main characters should reflect their country and be somewhat historically accurate and not shove in diversity for the sake of it. People online will get angry over anything and not take actual criticism and just call you rascist.
If you look up the actual history behind him, it's even more hilarious than that.
The sad thing is that it could actually make for something interesting if it wasn't being handled by "didn't earn it" hack frauds.
It did they were so taken aback that when an African foreigner came to feudal Japan.
They made him scrub his skin with soap and water because they didn’t believe his skin was actually black.
People who has study or even looked up the basics of Japanese History. The only reason why A black person is there is cause Nobunaga wants to buy something Exotic . Exotic being a black Slave
agreed, but I disagree about them going with what's expected. Someone who is in constant contact with elites yet was paid so little mind we barely have any recorded history of them is the *_perfect_* assassin and the perfect person to do a soft 'restart' of the franchise with. (not a literal restart, more of a conceptual one) Get back to the slower and more methodical social espionage and trickery of the originals while completely rethinking some of the surrounding gameplay aspects that have become tired and played out after game after game after game after game.
Hell I've wanted a Ninja Assassin's Creed game for years. Literally all they needed to do was make the main character of the game a Ninja, give a bunch of cool Ninja Weapons and boom, easy money.
they will still make a bunch of money... Valhalla made more money than previous two games combined. And by the time AC comes out everyone will already platinum GoT on PC
I think they could have gone the exact opposite way here and it still would have been gold. You *_are_* a hulking brute who stands out like a sore thumb, can't climb much of anywhere and aren't very quiet, so you *_need_* to lean into the slower and more methodical gameplay of the originals. It could have both been a huge return to form and a massive departure that allowed them to completely re-imagine the gameplay while keeping the core themes. For instance, a wrist blade is great for someone of an average, non-descript build, but a giant hulking brute? yeaaah not so much. Instead, he'd want a proportionally sized (fucking giant) folding/disassemblable crossbow that allows him to take out key targets at a (comparatively) massive range without being spotted. When you are a one-of-a-kind even a single witness who saw your clear outline needs to be immediately dealt with, so being able to take people out without being spotted is more important than being able to disappear into crowds *_after_* being spotted.
I mean, even the IRL history of the guy, his massive stature and race meant that he was exposed to tons of elites as a spectacle but never given much thought because he was *_just_* a spectacle to them. He barely has any recorded history for the same reason. Name a better person to be an assassin than someone who was casually rubbing elbows with royalty, yet has almost no recorded history because people paid him *_that_* little mind.
It'd be a sort of cross between the original AC and modern Hitman, which itself is very similar conceptually to the original AC games.
They'll still make decent money off this, believe me. IME the people who will buy this are also the same people who think Ezio is their favorite Assassin, like Lambos, support Real Madrid or Barcelona, dream of living in Dubai, will pirate games despite having the money to afford their own gaming PC, prefers hammy, telenovela-style acting in their entertainment, and think whoever has the loudest voice in an argument has the most authority.
EDIT: added more stereotypes.
Good thing the main character is literally a ninja, naoe seems to be more of the main protagonist than Yasuke at least by the trailer
Naoe must be the best assassin in the entire series because you and many others have been ignoring the fucking obvious Japanese ninja in the FRONT COVER OF THE GAME ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS MY DUDE!???? YOU HAVE YOUR JAPANESE MAIN NINJA PROTAG QUITE LITERALLY IN FRONT OF YOU OH MY WORD.
This feels like Yasuke started out as the protagonist of the DLC series associated with AC Shadows. Sweet Baby consultants saw this and advised Ubisoft to bump the original Japanese main character and crowbar Yasuke into the main game.
Now see, having Yasuke as a DLC storyline like Jack the Ripper was for Syndicate makes sense.
@@blade1hunter100 Ubisoft: "Make sense? Heaven forbid, we don't want that."
i wanted ninjas when they introduced the concept to me in the Ezio movie where he is an old man. I thought for sure they are gonna make a female ninja game then... Then they didn't. The "ended" the modern day story of Desmond and suddenly I didn't care anymore.
I still don’t understand the decision to end Desmond. The whole search for the Templar treasure through time was, in my opinion, what sold the game. That was their unique feature, it was incredibly interesting. Now they just throw a dart at a map and pick random historical places and pretend it all has significance.
@@gregowen2022Apparently, the reason they ended Desmond was because the original creator of the franchise was fired and the devs who came after didn't like him, not to mention the fact a lot of the fans at the time didn't like him nor the modern day stuff in general.
@@theomegapotato370 Normies ruined the franchise. The modern day was the whole point.
We'll never have a game as good as Black Flag ever again
I'm afraid not. I need to maybe do a retro review and talk about why everyone still references that one as the peak
I'm I really the only one that didn't like Black Flag 🥴🥴🥴?
@milasspace is it red flag with blood poisoning
@@milasspace no, I also think black flag is overrated
@@milasspace Nope. I really don't understand the praise that game gets, it's massively overrated! Anyone saying BF is better than Brotherhood already loses all credibility to me so for the masses to claim BF is peak is mind boggling to me. I dropped BF when I started to see then game constantly sent me to Sea( which I didn't like ).
Just for everyone's awareness, a little detail on Ubisoft's stock:
There present stock price (ticker symbol UBSFY) is $4.70. Their five year performance: the stock has lost 71.27% of it's value from it's peak of $20.78 from Jan of 2021. Present market cap is 2.81 billion. As such, they have lost a whopping 12.43 BILLION IN MARKET CAP in the past 3 1/2 years.
I love how the marketing correctly communicates that the base game is going to be disappointing
Last Assassin's Creed game I played was Origins and I thought it was pretty fun overal. I loved the setting of Ancient Egypt, it was beautiful to look at and the expansions into the Afterlife were awesome too, hell Bayek is my favorite Assassin of the bunch, but I just don't care anymore.
Ghost of Tsushima Gave me what I wanted from AC it just needs better stealth like being able to hang from ledges or cling to corners and do corner assassination without exposing yourself Arkham batman style and more assassination mechanics in the sequel. Other than that I love it I've beaten the game 23 times it's what I play when listening to podcasts and testing out new builds like poison archer, Resolve and health builds, fear based fire builds etc. There are a lot of modifiers with charms that change how fights. I also just love the sword fighting and replay duels constantly with different armor sets, charms and at different difficulties. It feels like playing games back in the day where you do absolutely everything in the game and scrape it for every scrap of fun you can. It's like wiping a plate with a piece of bread to get all the gravy while saving for the next big game you will play for a whole year.
Agreed. I remember being excited to platinum that game, searching for every little thing and I somehow never got bored of it. Squeezing every drop of it didn’t feel like a chore, it was a pleasure
@@gregowen2022 games like that are hard to find in the triple A market
Most people say its just a game its not historically accurate why so serious .
Me : But !!!!!!!!
Ac 2 enzio italian in italy story
Ac 3 connor native america in america
Ac origin : bayek a persian in persia
Ac odyssey : kassandra a spartan in greek metalogy story
Ac valhalla : Eivor a viking decedent with viking story .
But in Ac shadow we got sasuke a blackman represent japan with japanese story culture and history ??? Did japan lack of historical figure to represent their own Ac story and narrative ?? Even i from asian confuse why we need black to represent our own history and culture ??
People!, also remember they will try to sell this as a $70 USD game or a $130 USD premium 3 day early access, nevermind, Greg mentioned in 9:09
If the game actually works 3 days early
No shit. Just because we're talking about this shit doesn't mean we turn a blind eyes on the price. The game won't sell regardless because of this shit anyway. 😂😂😂😂
If AAA gaming is getting ready to crash I think Ubisoft will be either the first or only major studio to utterly collapse
AC Valhalla broke 1 billion in sales in 2021. it was the most sold AC game to date...what are you talking about?
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 plenty of shit products sell well. And it’s not like you can try before you buy anymore unless you wanna subscribe to a service like Uplay or game pass. Anyone I know who played AC agree it’s all been downhill since black flag. Ubisoft is digging their own grave with their lazy copy/paste design and their shameless monetization schemes.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271”getting ready to crash”. Ubisoft currently having success makes it even more likely to flounder because it will keep following all the bad trends that caused the crash. The companies that will survive will be the smaller and more nimble ones, not the massive studios.
Ubisofts massive budgets and constant releases also mean that in a crash they lose more of their income then say bethesda, which doesn’t rely on constant releases
Well, the thing about Nioh William was actually an historical western dude who did come to Japan and did become a samurai. I think it was either Dutch or British.
"Nobunaga oda was a black man. It's the truth because my grandma said so"
Been waiting 10 yeears for an Assassin's Creed set in Japan and what do they do....they include DEI in it. And yeah it is kind of moot at this point since Ghost of Tsushima was effectively Assassin's Creed Japan but with better writing.
Yep, they had so many chances and SuckerPunch was like, fine I guess we'll do it ourselves
and if you want a harder GOT, you have Sekiro. This game is pointless.
Does Yasuke count as DEI if home boy real existed though? Or is simply telling a story about Yasuke DEI?
Maybe let's wait till the game comes out or at least wait till there is a real gameplay trailer before we start talking about the game like it's a failure?
@@froggylegs1499 It's a game set in Japan and every prior game the main assassins, whether it was one or two were always natives to the setting of the game, yet here in Japan, they chose this game to make one of the protagnoists the literal only black guy in Japan at the time.
That is DEI
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 Maybe(and I known I'm being optimistic here) they just thought it would be fun to tell a story about the guy? 2015 had like 7 different movie studios trademark films about Yasuke. People are interested in making versions of his story. Maybe they are doing this cuz it interest them? A story about Yasuke has to be set during this time period. I don't think that counts as DEI, no?
And if it does, how could you tell a story about him that is not DEI? I always thought DEI was forcing diversity in a real time period or setting, like for an example a Mexican Viking (if this did exist in any point in time, my bad)
I don't see how Yasuke is DEI the same way i don't see William's story as a "White Savoir " story. They both existed.
1 view in 41 seconds. This channel probably didn't fall off because I clicked on the notification and went right to the video to be one of the first people to see it.
what NOOO
the sad thing is that the story of Yasuke is really cool and interesting, and it's gonna be told by Ubisoft
They could've portrayed him as a Mentor of the Japanese Brotherhood moonlighting as Nobunaga's retainer, like a Japanese take on AC3's Achilles. Still fulfills the titular Creed's Second Tenet (hide in plain sight), because who would suspect that this tall, oni-looking dude under Nobunaga's employ is a leader of a top-secret organization?
But of course, they had to mess that up all for... 📣 *THE MESSAGE.* 📣
Shit, that would actually be cool. @@jmal
@@jmal Dude quick I think you might still have time to present this idea to Ubisoft and prevent an shitty storyline!
Most of the story has been fantasized
@@omensoffateBecause he disappeared later on in his life.
Ghost of Tsushima is a masterpiece, seriously, it's criminally underrated. Don't watch spoilers or reviews, just get it if, you think there's even a slim chance you'll enjoy it, because you'll love it. I don't know about Souls type, I couldn't manage the screeching on Bloodborne, but I've played Armored Core 6 just to get a sense of difficulty in modern gaming. Ghost of Tsushima is accessible, kind of, but on new game plus, with the cursed charms and the broken armour, it's as difficult as they come. One thing I really appreciated was the fact that button spamming and losing composure only makes things worse and worse, but if you keep your cool you can pull it off. You can approach situations as you please, stealthily, developing a plan or strategy, or you can go full on berserk. And it's gut wrenching of a storyline, don't be fooled by the beautiful graphics, it's brutal. As I once said about GOT ending, "everyone knows what's coming, but when it comes, no one is prepared for it". Get your tissues boys, it's Arthur Morgan all over again. (Jin doesn't die, so it's not a spoiler).
I was one of the hardcore AC fans who wanted a compromise between the Yes and No sides of the Feudal Japan debate. I proposed the idea of an AC game that's set in Meiji Restoration era Japan. Basically, think of _The Last Samurai_ as a video game. It meets the fans' desires of an AC game set in Japan and Alex Hutchinson's desire of having more unique historical settings. If they released that instead of _Origins_ it would've been a smash success if done right.
Seeing how low this franchise sunk genuinely brings a tear to my eye.
Oh lovely, Sony is already screwing up the Tsushima PC release with the same BS they tried to pull on Helldivers. Wonderful.
Still a good game, though.
The seas it is then, mateys.
So...Ubisoft should go begging back to Atari. They've not made 1 good game since. Stick to Raymen you hacks.
Sony: "If you'll excuse me, I need to step on this rake now"
Not really the same thing. Helldivers players who already bought the game weren't able to play. Where now they just aren't allowing people in those countries the ability to buy the game. They could have done better and made online $10 DLC for those countries affected, but they didn't so it's their loss.
It's out on every piracy site. If you can't buy it pirate it.
geezas! Another video game crash is inevitable if all people think like you. I can imagine the mental gymnastics you have gone through just to create a problem in an unreleased game that nobody has played yet. I just hope your subs are not too woke to join your bandwagon of hate lol
If only ghost wasn't still blocked in countries where you can't get ps account. Even if it isn't required to play.
AC Shadows BARELY looks like an Assassins Creed game, the first 6 (AC, 2, Brotherhood, Revaluations, 3, Black Flag) games all felt like AC, they all felt like they neetly tied together. Now AC games come off as that in name only, its Assassins Creed because it was made by Ubisoft, not because it captures the same essense that made the first couple of games in the series different from other games like it
Agreed. The name means nothing now. They are basic action adventure games in a boring open world and maybe some tall grass to hide in. It’s more formulaic than modern day MCU
@@gregowen2022 Ubisoft, like Disney, is just operating under the mentality of "our games are good, because they make money" rather than "our games make money because they're good". The latter is motivated by wanting to tell a good story and deliver engaging gameplay to the audience, the other is trying to appeal to the most common denominator and taking the "safe road" simply because it worked before
Well we got mirage to satisfy the og fans, that did bring it back to its roots, story wasn’t as good as the originals but as far as gameplay I loved it
@@mrhunter2154 sure but the fact Mirage is an outlier says a lot about where the franchise is going. Let me put it this way, if you have to make your franchise more generic for people to like it, perhaps consider that they weren't interested in playing AC. There's a difference between altering a product to appeal to a wider audience, and altering it to the point where its not the same thing
@@krnatsu I mean maybe so, but as an og fan obviously I liked the older games but I also enjoyed the newer RPGs as well aside from Valhalla. I heard a rumor Bordeaux may continue to make oldschool style games while other companies work on the big RPGs to satisfy both oldschool and newer fans. I’d be all for that
Not only Tsushima but you also have Sekiro, Rise of the Ronin, Trek to Yomi, Ninja Gaiden re-release, etc all out now, plus a slew of television/movies that has jumped on this relative period (Blue Eye Samurai, Shogun). So what would have been fun and innovative a decade ago is now Ubisoft once again getting to the party late because all other media has decided to do it.... Vikings, Last Kingdom, The Northman, Vinland Saga etc....oh i guess we should do a Vikings game. At this point I will be shocked if we don't see a WWII AC in the next few years based on that 2012 stateme- OH WAIT THEY ALREADY DID IT IN UNITY!! Or they'll completely throw out the current concept and they'll do a future-based game with dystopian AI and cybernetics. Follow the media trends, wait a few years, then you'll see an AC game.
We Wuz Samurai
All that really matters is that no one in Shadows ever says "nigai!".
Fighting perceived racism with more blatant racism is a weird flex.
(The Saboteur already did Assassin's Creed in occupied Paris, it needs a remaster)
It's also so cringe that this is 100% preying on children getting mommy and daddy to sign up for a subscription and forget it.
Exactly. The anti-racist crowd is full of the most racist people you’ll meet
@@gregowen2022 I've had a Leftist from Portland tell me that he hates living in America and wonders why I would make the mistake of moving here from my third-world shithole. Pretty much telling me, "go back to your country" under the guise of an edgy self-hating American.
Ain’t racism just ignorance, most of the ppl speaking acting like Yasuke never existed, Leonardo wasn’t a weapon designer for Assaassins so who cares about historical Avvi Stacy all of sudden
We see through y’all 😂
Yasuke, while not a samurai, was a vassal. In other words, a man who received land from a feudal lord in return for homage and loyalty.
_A black man was taken on as a vassal by Nobunaga-sama and received a stipend. His name was decided to be Yasuke. He was also given a short sword and a house. He was sometimes made to carry Nobunaga-sama's tools_
_The black man understood a little Japanese, and Nobunaga never tired of talking with him. And because he was strong and could do a few tricks, Nobunaga took great pleasure in protecting him and had him roam around the city of Kyoto with an attendant. Some people in the town thought that Nobunaga might make him as tono_ (a lord)
source: the italicized passages are from the records of the Society of Jesus of Japan, where wikipedia got the info*/
Don’t source Wikipedia
Ubisoft peaked with Black Flag and it’s all been downhill since. It’s unbelievable
Honestly AC Origins, Far Cry 5 and Ghost recon Wildlands were really good, flawed but still super enjoyable. Around 2017 I thought we would see another golden age of Ubi... yeah
That was around the same time they made Far Cry 3, right? Good times.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271: even games like Rouge was pretty damn good and Unity eventually got there after all it’s stupid buggy problems.
It’s just that Black Flag was the PEAK.
And I don’t think they’ve ever been able to get back all the good will they had garnered at that point.
For me assassins creed died when i excitedly got origins, hid in a bush, stabbed someone in the neck...
And they turned around and one shot killed me because i was the wrong level.
Dude same, I remember impaling enemies through their goddamn chest several times just for it to barley effect their health and got right back up like nothing happened and they hit me like three times and I die, it was so stupid.
I love RPGs. All my favorite games are RPGs. But I don't like Ubisoft's AC RPGs. Part of it was the bird tagging replacing eagle vision. The other part is likely that somewhere my brain was saying "it's pretty, but it's not *Assassin's Creed.* " I really wanted to like the AC RPGs and don't really know why I don't like them, I can only guess.
Piracy isn't stealing if buying isn't owning
A Yasuke game, on its own, could be cool. He arrived as a missionary's assistant, so he spoke enough Japanese to get by, and while he wasn't a samurai, he *was* a page. I'm not entirely sure exactly what duties that entailed in feudal Japan, but since he served Nobunaga, it's not impossible to imagine and write a scenario in which he'd be put in the role of bodyguard or ordered to fight. The potential for a good game is there-but not Assassin's Creed.
As for Nioh though...sorry, but that one doesn't hold up. People cried because a game based on the story of William Adams, a real-life historical figure who was officially made a samurai for his contributions to Japan, starred a white guy, because apparently you're just not allowed to set a game in Japan unless the main character is Japanese. It's the same brand of projection that let those people insist to this day that RE5 was racist because it took place in Africa-although, in this case, it's even worse, because the people who worked on the game are themselves Japanese, so ultimately it was a bunch of woke Westerners screaming at Japanese people that they were only allowed to write stories about Japanese people. It was not a great look for anyone.
弥助は日本語をしゃべれません
Yes because Japanese people/gaming companies haven’t used Yasuke in their stories or games(….. they have). It’s not like Japanese people didn’t enjoy the story of Yasuke cause how we would have even gotten research of him if they truly didn’t care. As a white guy STOP PUTTING YOUR IDEALS ON OTHERS THAT YOU DONT EVEN TALK TO
@@legendofsaig sjw
Yasuke was a slave dude 😂
@@omensoffate false
Day one DLC is Theft only games like Elden Ring and Ghost of Tsushima have real DLC. You get a complete experience followed by added value more story and gameplay and map months after the original game can out. If the DLC is already available when the game comes out it's just content they stole from a complete game and should be illegal as fraud.
2:45 Thats so accurate! When I heard about this game. My first thought was "Not interested. Already have Ghost of Tsuhima"
Average height of Japanese pre-17th was 5 feet, meanwhile a 6 feet+ black dude tries to blend in after stabbed someone.😂😂😂😂
No 5ft2 to 5ft4.
Like Connor wasn’t big ☠️☠️
If you buy this game. It shows your level of intelligence and or when you were born(after the year 2000
Or I'm rich and can buy it to spite you
@@PunishedXo one for the stupid column
I bet they're feeling pretty stupid about scrapping the Child of Light 2 game.
IDK CoL2 *was* a thing.
Umm excuse me the hell did you say? Did they seriously have a Child of Light 2 concept on the go and they got rid of it? If it's true that a sequel to a game that's so beloved to me was canned for yet another garbage tier game in a franchise that should have died ages ago it's going to make me hate Shadows so much more.
Subscription model to basically stream your games. Is Ubisoft CEO hanging out with Disney’s CEO? 😅
In regards to the original Nioh and the historical figure of William Adams, I disagree it was wrong...primarily because of what I believe they were going for.
I believe the idea was that William is a stranger in a strange land facing strange beings (For clarity I mean yokai and not the Japanese). In order for he, a foreigner, to survive he has learn and master things that just as foreign to him.
This IMHO pairs nicely with the game's atmosphere and difficulty to cement the fact William is a fish out of water.
I think Team Ninja's choice to use William in this regard was a deliberately and thematically approriate choice that serves the game rather than to pander.
Whereas Ubisoft's protrayal of Yasuke is the opposite and to get that ESG/BRIDGE/WEF funding.
I am not even opposed to Yasuke being a protagonist or major character in the game per say.
However, I think would've been more narratively interesting to have him retain his well...retainer role instead of being a full fledged samurai. It could explore how Yasuke feels about the whole affair, but also use his "trophy" status among Nobunga to better infiltrate, gain intel, and y'know...assassinate certain big players among Japan at the time. Y'know, like an actual Assassin.
Just my long-winded two cents.
It’s a solid point about Adams being the way we the player discover Japan, I appreciate that perspective.
My issue with any samurai being someone other than Japanese is that it always feels like reaching, just like Yasuke does here. Of course, the big difference is that Team Ninja is based in Japan, while Ubi is not.
@@gregowen2022 if one were to truly nitpick William, they're supposed to be nitpicking him being Irish in the game instead of English (like he was IRL). Guardian spirit being a Merrow (basically an Irish mermaid/siren), having an Irish name Saoirse, speaks Gaelic, etc. But ultimately that's not what they were going for and actually helped a bit solidify the story + they really weren't going for ESG points considering well....they also got Yasuke in it and treated him in the same manner as some of the other pop-culture urban legends present in that game (that pretty much stayed as urban legends lol).
" Leave The Ubisoft ALONE! You NATIVE JAPANESE! - fanboy Colonizer
Whoa whoa, it's only colonization, racist, sexist, homephobia if your local dei consultant says it is.
Nope it is an Ubisoft game, basically the same game quest/mechanics but different color of paint
Yep, they all start to blend together. Tom Clancy's Far Watch Creed. Here's your map and your 1000 map icons. Enjoy.
i always has this idea for a WWII AC since right after Rogue, that it was essentially a reverse. You start as a SS Soldier, on his mission to become more than a Templar foot soldier during the invasion of Stalingrad, just to be captured by the Russian Brotherhood, who find a way to convince you to turn against the Templars and the rest of the game takes place in Berlin, until the end when you get to kill Hitler in the Eagle's Nest, just to end up being killed by the Soviets as they take the city.
That's actually genuinely cool. It's a shame
My god I want that plz but I will not get it
Your concept is boring and it reinvents the wheel. Any ideas on a WW2 AC always ends in, "you get to kill Hitler." Why? Because he's the Big Bad, durrrrr. 🙄
At least old Wolfenstein games had a more original take.
Besides, you already have a WW2 game that allows you to conduct covert ops missions behind enemy lines, infiltrating bases and whatnot.
You know what that game is? Steven Spielberg's Medal of Honor, released all the way back in 1999.
Don't mind me, I'm going to play the Ezio Trilogy for the... Okay I've lost count how many times I've played through them, but I always come back every single year!
Thank you for covering the issues with this game in an all encompassing manner instead of just zeroing in on the most surface level problem. It’s still a problem but you addressed it with the appropriate amount of context and scale while handling the criticism of Ubisoft well here.
I appreciate you noticing! Trying to get the balance right is tough
They had one job. "Ninjas in Japan."
The other character is literally a ninja
It's kinda like a Spanish kid taking a Spanish test in high school, kinda hard to fail. Yet somehow.....
@@zacheltringham8524real nijjas
in Nioh's case, William Adams was based on a real englishman who went to japan and became the first Foreigner samurai.
AC Shadows is just Walmart Ghost of Tsushima.
Yasuke wasn't exactly a Samurai specifically as far as we know, but he was a warrior and based on the little historical knowledge we have of him he appears to have been relatively close and trusted by Nobunaga. It's important to understand when we use words like retainer/servant in the west it might not carry the same connotation as they do in the east. All Samurai are retainers after all, who serve their daimyo. In the same way that one might say a Noble Night is still the servant or retainer of the king. And Nobunaga was certainly a powerful warlord for his time. And while we don't know Yasuke's exact position in Nobunaga's hierarchy, from the evidence we do have it is clear that Yasuke was favored by Nobunaga, who gave Yasuke a weapon and a house of his own, trusted Yasuke to try and save his son when he was betrayed by one his other retainers, and the two were close enough that some of the other nobles under Nobunage began to think he would make Yasuke a Lord. As far as we know that last bit didn't ever play out, but to say that Yasuke is AT BEST as squire is disingenuous I think. There is evidence to support the idea he was much much more than that, but not enough to conclusively state his position one way or the other. There is a lot of wiggle room to tell a fictional story w/ Yasuke precisely because we DON'T know a whole lot about him.
Funny how all of the sudden a small group of people became experts on Yasuke. As if he saved Japan back in the day
Fr, and even if he is real, why not have a story about a Japanese man and woman wanting to save his own country. Because of Ghost of Tsushima did it? It’s so dumb
Both the haters and the lovers suddenly know SO MUCH about the guy lol.
Ill still argue 2 big things in defense of Nioh, 1. Nioh doesnt make you think that its super historically accurate, Assassins creed did at one point, and 2 the main charcter in nioh 1 was a historical figure who did indeed become a samurai and play a small but important part in Japanese history.
I'm with you for most of the video (and against this game because of Sweet Baby Inc and the clear DEI it's pushing) but you got a slip-up with your Yasuke info.
The real-life Yasuke was documented at 5'9". He did arrive as a slave and was kept by Nobunaga because of his skin. He was a retainer, which are and can be a samurai. He was Nobunaga's weapon holder but that was actually a High Ranking Position. He actually had more social rank than many other Japanese because of that.
He's less impressive with the fact that the only recorded battle of him that was documented has him losing and becoming a prisoner. And when he is released, no other documented information about him is seen again.
Interesting, I appreciate the extra info!
Interesting, I appreciate the extra info!
@@gregowen2022 oh shiii, you read it and replied. Today just became awesome.
He was kept around as a jester with the “retainer” title
Look I’m a black guy, how the hell is a giant black dude supposed to not stand out in feudal Japan and be a stealthy assassin?
Greg, I agree with everything you say. When saying "Yasuke" the U is virtually silent. Like Sasuke from Naruto.
Yea it's like Yaske
Haha, today was not my best. Pretty sure I also said Nubonaga, lol. Can I blame it all on my cold?
216$ a year for the subscription 😂 yeah ok I'll get right in that. Nope. @Ubisoft died to me years ago
They were on the right track in Mirage I didnt know why they went back to the RPG again.
To kill ass creed shadows(they literally even have a Japanese consultant who seems to be abit too deep into LGBTQ and pedo stuff) sucker punch just needs to announce ghost 2.
Damn! They really just don't care anymore '$70 or $130 take it or leave it.'
I’d like to see a rouroni kenshin game that would be epic
That would be very cool. Way cooler than that AC game lol
Try SEKIRO. It's very hard at some Missions, but that's live...
It’s a historical fact that after Yasuke left Japan he swam to Australia to lay siege across the lands and helped Australia gain independence from the British.
He also landed on the moon
@@omensoffate Yasuke; the man that created a perpetual motion device that can do work infinitely without an external energy source, Also landed on the moon. Astonishing!
It's gonna be ironic. Ubisoft wants to make a game set in Japan. But all its really doing is convincing players to go play Ghosts of Tashima instead.😄
You know Sucker Punch is loving this trailer. They couldn't have bought better advertising, lol
Its unfortunate with the DEI shit but the real problem to me is that it's $130 for the complete game...
It isn't sure if he was a Samurai or not. There is very little known about him. Women Shinobi didn't really exist. Then again Shinobi didn't really assassinate...
No worries, it will be as good as Skulls and Bones. I see you salivating and getting all giddy. Ubisoft is a company on the up and up.
Now that I've seen you make a contagiously positive set of videos - I'm like... yearning for there to be some kick ass stuff for you to talk about.
Me too! I'm heading for vacation and I'm going to watch Fallout and Xmen 97 during that time. I already loved Shogun, so I'm looking for another show or two to do a "it's not all bad, there are still good shows" kind of video.
Any other recent suggestions?
@@gregowen2022I’d like to jump in and recommend Severance. The second season is (finally) almost here so it might be a good idea to jump into it if you haven’t already. It’s some chef’s kiss great sci-fi.
@@gregowen2022 With fallout specifically, I think people overlook how good the DIALOGUE writing is, specifically. It's why the plot not making sense was so hard for alot of people to notice. The issue with fallout - as far as I can tell, and I haven't heard this voiced ANYWHERE - is that every single level of the production was rock solid.... EXCEPT for the PLOT. There's some strange mind virus preventing writers from building a solid and resilient PLOT. They had to shoehorn in heavy handed political """"""""allegory"""""""" and it had a domino effect of the story's foundation.
In terms of suggestions, I haven't seen much of what's coming out lately - so I dunno what would be good for engagement boosting.. I dunno about you, but I feel like the tide is slowly pulling back. Corporate tactics are convincing less and less people, the indie scene on ALL fronts is getting bigger and better and more resilient, The most I've heard about CoD in two years is how the skins are whacky, but that's really it. It might be worth tucking away motivational things about that as you see them over the coming weeks, and maybe just present a collage of them. It's so easy to get discouraged nowadays, it's important to shine a light on the harder to notice good things.
A ww1 Assassins Creed in which you try and stop the black hand from killing the Archduke Franz Ferdinand which in real life his assassination started WW1 would be badass. Maybe make it to were you try and stop them but if you fail you have to clean up the mess/hunt down the terrorist groups members. A more modern yet older setting like WW1/2 would be fantastic.
I stopped playing Ubisoft games when I lost an MMA match against their stupid Ubisoft Connect Uplay garbage
And subsequently had to engage with their customer support...
I was an Assassin’s Creed teen, I got started writing by doing Assassin’s Creed fanfiction…. Now I’m just disappointed and not playing the new games. It was a fun phase, but so many fandoms have been hijacked and crashing into mediocrity. No thanks!
This one gonna flop hard
Props on the Yorkshire Tea!!!!!
I don't care about the "controversy." While people have argued about the franchise being supposedly historical or not, Assassin's Creed has always been on the more wacky fictional side of things from the start regardless of what people say. HOWEVER, I am not keen on Ubisoft again falling short and just having another open world experience for us all filled with boring busywork.
It means nothing to be an "assassin" in the series now. There's no weight, no proper conveyance as to the importance of being part of the Assassin Order since.........Black Flag, I would say. Nowadays, we're just playing as random edgy people wearing hoods and sticking blades into others.
Yep, the name used to mean something. now they are just empty, basic action adventure games.
@@gregowen2022 you forget it became boring after the first game
Aaaahhh Greg, this is your best video yet. Very well done indeed, keep up the good work. Yeah, Ubislop is dead to me, I played six AC games, it seriously looks like I won't be playing anymore, sad times in a minor way.
I don't know if you'll see this, but if you're drinking green tea, and it has a sour/bitter taste of tannins, then you're brewing it in water that's too hot!
Green tea should be brewed at 85°C (185°F), at 2-5 minutes. Add a teaspoon of honey for some extra sweetness!
I’ll try the honey. Maybe it’ll work with green. It doesn’t work for me with black, oddly, it makes black taste more bitter.
I could have understood Japan, WWII, and Egypt not being great settings because there are no huge buildings to leap from. But AC is more than just parkour as we found out later.
Sinking ship for Star Wars? That thing is laying next to the Titanic now
That double-dipping dig at the IRS, love it. ♥
So I have to pay taxes every year on the house I bought, whose price was higher than listed because of sales tax, and I paid for it with an income that is also taxed. Oh, and when I die and pass what I have to my descendants, that will also be taxed. And if I refuse to pay, men with guns will show up to make sure I do, or else I get to make license plates until they think they got their money's worth.
Strange that Nioh 1 got the flack that it did. William Adams is a real person in history that Nioh 1 tried to revolve around. The historical accuracy is obviously not perfect but i believe it's more than enough to understand the scenario.
I understand that he was a real guy and an actual samurai unlike yasuke, but a non-japanese samurai is always going to look odd, so I get the pushback on Nioh. Even if it wasn’t reaching (it was made by a Japanese team, afterall) it always Looks like reaching when a non-japanese gets plucked from history to be the protagonist. Just optics, really
@@gregowen2022 Yeah I suppose you're right. I just find it odd is all, I personally enjoyed Nioh 1 a ton.
@@magenta_iris I did, too, and what I regret not saying in this video is that gameplay trumps everything. What people remember about Nioh is that it was awesome. You don't see the main character that much, and you're so wrapped up in how excellent the game is that you don't care what he looks like.
I bet if SuckerPunch had been the one to announce Tsushima 2, starring Yasuke, it wouldn't be as much of a deal, because they have the respect of making a great game. It's the combination of this being an obvious pandering ploy, AND Ubisoft having a reputation for boring bloated games that is making it so bad.
@@gregowen2022 I agree. Gameplay should always trump everything else in regards to when it comes to the final product or the rating of such. It is called a video GAME after all.
I wouldn’t say they’re desparate, Valhalla was the first entry to pass 1 billion in revenue. But they are, as usual in recent years, just trend chasing. They could have been first on the block here but they chose to release it with Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of The Ronin on the market already with more on the way. This setting could have easily been a slam dunk for them if they had released it long before.
To be fair though even RGG thought ‘western gamers won’t like a game based on historical Japan’ which is why they didn’t port Ishin over to the west until recently, legit citing Ghost’s popularity as the reason they did so. Why this was a prevelant thought in the industry I’ll never understand. People obviously love this stuff.
I am floored to find out Valhalla’s sales numbers. I’ve never heard anything good about this game! I’ve heard a resounding “meh, it was bloated”. That is truly shocking
I was in high school marching band with Jordan, loved to see him get the shoutout
The Feudal Japan level from Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is probably better than this will be 😅
I love how you disect this problem without going into the DEI aspect
彼らの政治的信条のために我々の歴史や文化が都合のいい道具として使われるのは実に不本意ですな
Thank you for explaining the tiers so well! You inspired me to go Ultimate!
This whole "Nioh did the same" debate is so bullshit. Dude, Team Ninja is a Japanese studio. They can play around however the fuck they want with their own history and folklore. Ubisoft is a French company tho. It's like saying that I can call black people the N word because they do the same to each other, so it must be okay. What?
While I don't usually fall for the sort of marketing tricks employed like price anchoring or monthly subscriptions for things like Ubisoft+ (the one I would say I'm most susceptible to is FOMO namely with big sales where games are over 50% off), it always fascinates me to see the little psychological tricks used by companies to try and make the tactic work.
Seemingly doubling the number of features from base edition to gold edition. Changing the banner from base game to the other more pricier editions, always adding onto the list of available features no matter their actual value, and relying that ppl get the $18/month edition several months earlier to get more money out of the consumer who doesn't know any better.
I am more bored with the idea of the black samurai as the male main hero