Why Are Gamers Upset With Assassin's Creed Shadows?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- Assassin's Creed Shadows was recently announced but it's sparked a couple major controversies. Why are gamers upset with the game? Today we dive into that subject and discuss some of the various reasons why!
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Two things that bother me about this game:
- The price
- Made by Ubisoft
-Act Man's mustache
Buggy launch. Weak parkour
@@muhammadujaama631 nah thats glorious what are you on about
-forced politics
According to the developers the protagonist is also gay.
I’d be excited for this game if it wasn’t made by Ubisoft.
Same
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Can't wait for the reviews: "Yasuke has the exaggerated swagger of a black samurai"
*gay black samurai
90 critic review, 25 audience review.
@@onelmediaphwhere did we hurt you ?
He's got running from cops speed!
Insecure White Men are so easily threatened by everything. Every game and every show that's coming out, the discussion is the gender and the race of the cast. The downside of consuming American media is you have to deal with American identity politics.
I'm Japanese I feel like certain people are missing the point on what we are mad about this game. When you are using certain fact about history you have to respect a certain fact about them, one thing they got absolutely wrong was the building architectures being Chinese influenced and Oda clan mark being Upside down, think about it when it's you're culture that's being picked up you want them to do good but what We see is that they didn't do there homework even though they said they did and that's disappointing. And Yasuke man..... If he stared in a new IP I think there would be less backlash but he had to be the protagonist in a AC game... Why can't both protag be Japanese, They didn't do that in other AC games why do it here? Sure you could make it a fantasy and call it a day but you are using real clans and people so you have to respect that element, Ubisoft saying they did there research yet not actually calling in Japanese specialist to check is... From our point of view it's just racist
The west IS racist by trying not to be .....🤬
I am not Japanese and I am pissed about a black samurai. ( Or whatever he was )
Fukking give us a real Japanese samurai.
Atleast the main character should be a Japanese samurai "MAN".
The black could have a supporting role.
They shoehorn a black dude into Feudal Japan, the most isolationist country of the ancient world, and according to you, the architecture featured in this game appears more Chinese than Japanese, and they even got certain Japanese flags ALL WRONG...
Yankees? Right?
Yasuke was hand-crafted to get everyone to forget they're charging $130 for the full game.
70 euros where I live🤷♂️
Fake money@@thelegendofstonecoldstevea3205
@@thelegendofstonecoldstevea3205 read it again... it costs also 130€ here in germany to get the FULL game. We are not getting some quests if we are not paying 130€...
12000 where I live 💀💀
The game is 7billion dollars in Louisiana 😂
"Gamers need to get comfortable with not owning their games."
Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with gamers pirating their games.
i cant wait for the george floyd skin to drop in the new assassins creed game!
why tf would you want to pirate THIS?
@@aleksm_cuz it’s free
@@MorphinGaming Time is money, and playing this game is wasting money
but they are not even worth pirating no more
Instead of making a cool Assassin's Creed game based in Japan and focused on Japanese culture, they shoehorn a black guy in and have the audacity to claim its historical. Yasuke was a retainer, calling him a samurai in the context that he was like actual Japanese samurai is laughable. He had no impact on anything, and was kept around much like a pet. Don't get mad at me, I am not calling him that, but to the nobles who were around him, he was a novel attraction. He did nothing and was sent home after doing nothing. It wouldn't be so bad if this wasn't the 1 millionth instance of media corporations black washing history and shoe-horning black people into other peoples' culture and history.
lmao, so mad
a retainer in japan was an elite swordsman who sold military services in exchange for land to live on. stop applying european definitions of retainers to japanese history. he was not sent home, he was sent to jesuits to be treated because he was wounded when fighting to protect his lord in the honno-ji incident.
The hip hop beat for yasuke😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm more upset with the greedy practices that ubisoft is trying to pull in this game.
First time?
Wait until you find out about “insurance”
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@@2wintowerssmokerare part of the kkk by any chance?
Asking for pre-orders at all is annoying, but without showing a moment of gameplay is just outright insulting.
Come on, haven't they done this forever? Just don't pre-order anything, period.
and then proceed to buy the game just like every time
When your audience will happily buy your product despite it being broken, unfinished, lazy, full of scummy mtx and guaranteed to be deleted from their library in a not distant future you don't really have to show them anything.
Just goes to show the IQ of a Ubisoft fan. They prob know thag they're getting them preorders
A true "come on, u srs?" moment. Come on, you serious? Every company wants pre-orders. Imagine being so dumb.
some historian of Japanese history got blocked from UBI.
UBI knows that their fiction game uses a wrong Japanese history, but they don’t fix it.
At least they have to say it is fake
Wasn't that proven to be fake?
@@GAZAMAN93X it was true I think. They show their screen so..
it’s fake. Almost all of this game is fake.
First of all, He is slave. Second, he didn’t fight at all. Third, Nobunaga Oda uses him as his pet. In Japanese, we call 客寄せパンダ。
There is a tons of mistakes, but if UBI said it is fake, then most of Japanese don’t even know about this game. We hate this game because they change our history and speak as if their story is an original one.
If you search in Japanese, u will find out that most of them r fake.
Search アサクリ 炎上(asakuri enjyou)
@@GAZAMAN93XIt was probably fake
Ubisoft has truly embraced its reputation as an evil greed filled company. 130 fucking dollars for a game bro?
But you could just, buy the base game. If you’re dumb enough or love the game enough to spend that much money on extras, power to ya. I never understood why people get mad over the existence of more expensive packages of the game. Nobody’s forcing you to spend more than the $70 every game costs
70 dollars. You don't have to be this disingenuous to make fun of ubisoft, criticize something that is actually worthy of criticism, like their game design. When you single out the most expensive version you could possibly buy and act like thats the standard price, it makes you look like you're grasping at straws for something to hate on
$70 for the base game. Easy enough to look up. Don't let others think for you...
@@buckyhurdle4776it's gamers like you that let this kinda stuff slide bruh. What do you even get for paying extra?? A quest? A skin? Playing a few days early?? Trash dude. Ubisoft doesn't care about you, don't bother defending them. Those arent there for you, they're there to make more money due to ubisofts Corpo greed. As the original comment said.
@@prestigev6131 exactly it’s there if you want it but you don’t have to pay that much if you don’t want to, Sam can be so micro transactions I mean sure they shouldn’t be in there cause it’s single player game I get that but I mean I’ve never once bought anything from any assassin Creek game because if I didn’t like it, I’m just not gonna buy it
"I want to see a game where everyone is an unapologetic stereotype"
That's literally GTA games bro.
and old farcry
good comment
The initial point of GTA was British people making fun of Americans
and Postal 2
As soon as he said that I was like, "Isn't that just GTA?"
Assassins Greed: Shadow Of Former Self.
Nothing greedy about japanese assassins creed, people have been asking for Japanese creed game for over a decade.
Its nit greedy, the series is just shit tho@mattmaas5790
@@mattmaas5790 I think the greed comes from the 130 dollar pack....
@lordgrub12345 that's not greedy since the $60 version exists. More options isn't a bad thing. Let's use our brain. If you couldn't buy it for $60 you would be making sense.
@@mattmaas5790tell me you don't know the definition of "Greed" without telling me.
Wanting to play as a Japanese samurai set in feudal Japan is not "controversial". There's a reason why Shogun did so well, and this is flopping before it's even released.
People should just get ghost of tsushina and wait for its second part instead of paying for ubitrash.
The main character of Shogun is an European man in Japan. But then, he's white, so why would you have a problem with someone who isn't black?
@@mihaimatei255 yes...and the whole point of the show is that he will never be accepted or integrated into such an alien culture as feudal Japan, how confusing it all is for him, and how they are only keeping him and the Portuguese around for trade advantages, which from everything we know is exactly how outsiders would have been treated in Japan at that time.
I have a problem with morons and Ubisoft (synonymous btw) portraying Yasuke as some kind of stunning and brave hero, when in reality he was only kept around as a novelty and then likely deported or killed after his Lord lost the only battle he ever took part in.
It's got nothing to do with black or white or brown or yellow or pink or green or blue skin. It's got to do with the lies and ridiculousness of it all.
@@loosegoose9647you don’t even know the story of ac shadows yet and how Yasuke is viewed/living in Japan. Hypocritical much.
@@loosegoose9647 so historical accuracy matters in AC matters now because ...?
Is the protagonist of this game Johnny Somali?
"Assassin's Creed: Johnny Somali"
Ubisoft is like Disney. They had some good stuff in the past. But now they just make the same game over and over again.
It's terribly sad that that is so true.
Because I do think that both companies could've kept being successful they had not only stayed away of all that "progressive" bullshit but also put a little more effort into making things people want to see.
I won't get into all of Disney's incredibly stupidity, but I do think that if Ubisoft tried to actually improve the Assassin's Creed games, even in little ways, over the years, we might've all been cheering for this game's announcement trailer.
I just feel like far too many companies no longer understand how to effectively make profits that will keep coming in.
frontsoft also make the same game in the last decade
nothing like disney. Disney make stuff different for the sake of inclusion these days but forgot to make the writing and direction good. This sounds like EA and activision with madden and COD
@@RayValdezPhotography
Sorry not sorry, but it is exactly like what Disney is doing.
I mean, the idiots at Ubisoft are literally *choosing* a obscure character from Japanese history over several well known and legendary ninja just because he's a dark skinned African, and some no name girl who's no doubt going to leech off of her father's exploits.
So do kindly stop trying to make excuses for such idiocy.
@@KABLAMMATS who is frontsoft?
If buying it isn’t owning then pirating isn’t stealing
If they won’t sell me a game, I’ll do them the pleasure of not buying it
You haven't owned digital media for at least 30 years, even on physical discs. There's a reason you have to click "I agree" before installing any software. You might own the plastic that the software resides on, but you only ever had a license to use the software. A license which could always be taken away, should you do something with the software that you weren't allowed to do.
@@SleepyFen I bet you haven't played Wildlands, because that game from Ubisoft doesn't need internet to be played, only in coop.
You can move it around in any drive and have it not appear on the library but will still be playable.
Wow such an original comment I've never heard that before
@@SleepyFen i don't know man. I have a lot of movies DVD and i'm pretty sure i own them all. I mean what are they gonna do? Break into my house and steal all of my CD?
The issue is that this game trailer alone is full of inaccuracies that stem from more than Yasuke. Architecture, symbols, clans, etc. are all wrong. The issue I see (beyond Ubisofts horrid monetization) is that western game devs act like the only people that exist with real culture worth caring about are people around us. I bet Japanese people were so excited to have a game set in Japan for AC and have the main character be Japanese. Imagine how they felt seeing their culture, and a part of their history, being done to carelessly. That’s like if they made a game about 9/11 and changed everything that happened. And I have to use an extreme example because otherwise people don’t get it. There are so many ninja clans this game could’ve followed and they dropped them for the *one* black samurai. It would be the same if the main character was William Anjin, a white samurai that really existed. Except they’d never do that because DEI would explode. I think a game about Yasuke would be really cool. But it’s more than just “black samurai. Japan racist.” It’s about respecting a culture and their people. Not using Chinese architecture cause it looks Asian enough and no one will tell the difference.
How to gaslight your history class: Ubisoft
bro thinks everything was historically accurate in previous AC:s
@@RipaStar00 this also shares the same problem with Call of Duty WW2
no white main character? how can i veil my racism under the guise of historical accuracy? that’s what you sound like
@@RipaStar00 They weren't but the historic inaccuracies weren't so unbelievably blatant and brought about by DEI standards.
@@adrianxx22 No one is asking for a white main character. Making a white guy a samurai would be just as bad.
The second Ubisoft told me I wouldn't own my games is the second I told Ubisoft that I wouldn't buy theirs.
Indeed, i am not upset or angry at Ubisoft. I am actually amused: "Nice try, nope"
Bad news you don't own any of your steam game either, its a lifetime licence only that they can revoke at any moment and if you pass away
If you want to own it it has to be a physical copy and not tied to an online service
It took you that long to do that? lol
@@Alpha1598753not much of that anymore, I hate that everything has gone digital
The quote you're referring to is without context. The ubisoft guy was asked what would it take for more gamers to buy Ubisofts's subscription service and he said they'd have to get used to not owning games.
Mind you I'm not defending money hungry Ubisoft I'm just tired of seeing that misquoted
For me, I honestly miss the Assassins’s Creed games where memory is stored in the balls.
Or when health bars and levels didn't exist...
Syndicate was the last good assassins creed
@@El_Negro2003Industrial Revolution hits hard when you’re finding the Apple of Eden.
@@optick3554 origins isnt that bad, its odyssey when they went all in on the magic combat ability bull that it _really_ went downhill
The RPG ones aren’t even fun to play, just a huge grind
The racism you are missing is from Ubisoft, they have a foreigner who was in Japan for less than a year as a retainer, become a master samurai in that tiny amount of time, so good he is better than the native Japanese who had spent their lifetime training and learning to be samurai.
This implies that a black man is superior to japanese and is able to master what took them a lifetime in just a year showing that Japanese people are inferior.
This also does not go into the implications of a foreigner colonist committing ethnic cleansing against a native population.
"Its because of racism" The goddamn game is set in Asia....in goddamn Japan....a location fans have been clamoring for. It's not about racism
It is partially because of racism. \Some people cant take a black man in their game.
@@Cyborg_Leninこれは人種差別です。ただし黒人ではなく日本人男性への差別です😂
@@hippo8616well that's not true, how does havin a blaco man in japan discriminate against Japanese people? I keep forgetting how racist asians are, it really does look like everyone wants to attack black people sometimes.
@@Cyborg_Lenin 99% of the time otd completely insignificant in comparison to the enormous Amount of fans who have legitimate criticisms about the medium. They're the real vocal minority. No one gives a fuck about what they have to say and they wouldn't have a voice if progressive defenders of the show and the showrunners didn't use them to smear actual fans by selectively elevating them and presenting them as the "reason the show is failing"
@@Cyborg_Lenin99% of the time they're completely insignificant in comparison to the large number of actual fans who voice are voicing their objective criticisms about the medium. They're the real vocal minority. No one cares what a bunch of neckbeards say and they wouldn't have a voice if the progressive defenders of the showrunners, the showrunners themselves and the reporters they have on speed dial didn't smear the fans by smearing them as racist and drowning out their voices and critiques by selectively elevating the racist people and pretending they represent the majority so that they can pull their famous "they're the reason why it failed" there are a lot of black fans who hate race swapping and find it completely absurd that these people chose to elevate a minor black historical character to a main one in a medium, culture and history that is supposed to be about the Japanese.
People seem to forget, this is Ubisoft. They don't deserve to be defended or even hated, they just deserve apathy.
Apathy is death
Apathy is death
Apathy is death
Because Apathy is death.
I’m tired of everybody using that word now like it’s “meta”
13:23 “I wanna see a game where everyone is just an unapologetic stereotype.”
STREET FIGHTER HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
I miss Punch Out Wii
Hogs of War!
@@Undergamer12 beat me to it... All I gotta say is pepperige farms remembers pizza pasta
Common Act Ma'am L. Maybe he was busy going to Pride parades.
Tf2 is kinda one.
I'm so glad they based this in Asia so that the journalists can be confused if we're racist or not when we complain there are somehow black people in the game but we're not upset about the Asians.
And just for reference, Ubisoft's reputation has a lot to do with it. Listen, you KNOW they would refuse to make this game if they couldn't somehow put a black guy in it or diversity. They would never, never EVER focus on a location of time period that they couldn't do it or slip him into the trailer. And when I know that's why they did it, I can't help but feel disgusted by this phony attempt at inclusion. It's a virtue signal, it isn't genuine. Thus, I hate it.
White people aren't racist to Asians I'm fact Asians recieve the LEAST amount of hate of all races
@@quillanjacobson1478 They could have included him, the black guy really existed in japan. But imo a japanese man should havve been main character and could have met the black guy in his quest.
@@WTfire10 I would completely agree, but I don't because of Ubisoft. There is absolutely no problem with making a diverse game. Forcing diversity on the other hand... Ubisoft not only does it in their games, they do it in real life. If reports from the company are to be believed, they are incredibly racist. You are your skin color to them, you are not your own person, and if you are white they want you to have weekly get togethers to discuss your privilege. If this was an Indie studio making a game, I don't know, let's call it some Sekiro-esk clone but it's placed in Africa, it's themed with African architecture, all the characters are black folks, and the game looks awesome... I'd be totally sold on it. But if it's Pandersoft making it, I'd probably be mad, like I am about this. When they do this kind of garbage, I see Ubisoft being racist again.
@@user-wu2hu3us6x Yea I get your view point
It was Ubi who tried to use "based on historical facts" to persuade people to agree with their choice of Yasuke as the main character. Naturally, some people will use accurate historical data to examine Ubi's works, and now it seems obvious that Ubi's understanding of Japanese culture and history is shit.
Act Man, that mustache REALLY makes you look like Flanders
Hey gamerinos
Stupid sexy Flanders!!
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if he would have longer hair, he would look like a 80s pron star with that mustache
- Too little too late
- Shallow pandering and controversy mongering for free publicity
- Putting up for preorder without showing a single microsecond of gameplay
- Monthly subscription for a game that’s not even live service
- Gotta make a blood sacrifice for the Ultimate Edition that has nothing but cosmetics and pay-to-win resources in a single player game
- Ubisoft
Need I go on?
Took the words right out of my mouth
Perfectly sums it up. Race is the least of the issue. Typical money trap Ubisoft scheme. Gonna wait for the game play and story before raging about race though lol
😮mic drop
Don't forget about the absolute disrespect to Japanese culture due to the obvious pandering.
Yes go on 😂
Because we're sick of identity politics.. who asked for a gay black sumurai ?
the bigger issue is the complete disrespect and history revisionism that ubisoft and sites like IGN are pushing, IGN and multiple outlets are pushing the fact that Yasuke was a real historical "legendary samurai" of which there are zero records.
they have put a large focus on Yasuke destroying inferior japanese men and even if I accept the fact that they are portraying him as a samurai, he is disrepecting his honorable position and making a sport out of battle.
people would make a huge deal if an asian or a white guy went to Africa and started absolutely decimating the local tribes.
Not to mention the fact he was body guard was because he was tall. Not actually good with a sword also being bigger he was also stronger. Thats not skill, that's strength samurai need skill.
@@cosygoose1813 Also, he only fought in a single battle, in which he surrendered, was captured and then released since everyone thought he had no value.
@@cosygoose1813 There is no record of him having a bodyguard role.
Furthermore, there is no record of him having fought. All We knows is that he was there when his boss died.
In the end, He were sent back to the Westerners.
People always say that last part but completely ruin the comparison. Nobody would have complained if the MCU's White Wolf (Bucky Barnes) was sent on infiltration missions or whatnot while working with Wakanda. You're basically saying a black man was killing every Japanese person he met, and saying it's the same thing, but forgetting to mention he also worked with Japanese people. And honestly, yes, if handled maturely (because colonization), it _COULD_ work having a white character work with an African tribe against maybe slave trading tribes. But only handled with care
@@lucasbroome1048 Considering the tribes that weren't slave trading we're slaves and when given the chance did not hesitate to be slavers themselves. That would be extremely difficult. But I get your points, but it definitely would cause alot of controversy. But there is a difference here, being that it's some servant that is the only notable black man in Japanese history. Out of everyone they chose him.
Ubisoft knows what they’re doing. Bad publicity is better than no publicity. They just haven’t figured out that good publicity exists yet.
Well said. Think you might actually be right.
Which us weird because Assassin's Creed VR had plenty of good publicity and they updated the fans with developer diaries showing how it was going to be like
So they def know how to do it
@@thegamehoarder6887 That's exactly what it is,outrage bait works like a charm to get eyeballs.
When did this ever work in history? Bad publicity means that many people will talk about you, but because of the bad news, no one will buy your product, or they will pirate it later.
This is how many movies and games flopping nowdays, literally on a daily basis. Negative news aren't good for anything you do, ever.
@@danielhambalko7288 yeah with everything going on in the world people are more cynical than ever. Lot of them are fed up with the bullshit of it all and its thanks to corps like Ubisoft and their business practices. Fuck this game, Im sticking to skyrim modding.
I remember when assassins creed was about templars vs the assassins throughout different ages in history, but I feel like they don’t do anything with that plot line anymore.
I feel like they don't do anything with the plot line anymore? What entry in the series is this? Is there any cohesion or story to actually follow anymore?
This game is going to have assassins and templars
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@@2wintowerssmoker Damn bro let it rip XD
Really? I remember it was about how about an ancient technology from a chariot of the gods -esque being fought for throughout the ages
it's not racist to say in feudal japan we would like to play a Japanese character. Make a Zulu assassins creed, a Haitian slave revolt creed. hell a black character in a civil war creed game.
There’s literally a Japanese main character you can play😑
and yet you hear no calls for only Japanese lead characters in other media where Europeans are present like in Shogun or Blue Eyed Samurai. Not. A. Peep.
@themercwiththemouth1695 wow you repeated what he said. People are pissed off because the main protagonist isn't Japanese. Its simple to understand. Game set in Japan, have the decency to make the protagonist Japanese.
@@googlesucks925 there are two main protagonists, one of them being Japanese. Play the fucking Japanese one
@@theCC87Ikr in the first Nioh game you play as a white British man and no one complains.
Realistically, they did miss a golden opportunity to make Yasuke a bad guy. He was Nobunaga's retainer and was likely treated far better by him than most others in Japan. Nobunaga is widely regarded in Japanese history as one of the most ruthless tyrants there. The story of a loyal servant with immense power is almost never a tired cliche or trope. Add depth to his character for players to sympathize with, but making him an otherwise unwavering villain would have been nice.
They would never make the only black guy a villain
I dont care if im bad guy or good guy, yasuke is a badass and I wanna play as him
That's a very good point, but it is verboten.
Was he? @@Iron6942
He also arrived to Japan with a Jesuit missionary, so he could be made a Templar fairly convincingly. Although, I suggested having him start out as a villain, but turn on Nobunaga due to the inhumane way he treated Yasuke.
They executive said that we will not own their games.
Then guess what we won't own the new ones
You never owned any games, even the physical, you purchase the rights to play them, thats all, its in the agreement people never read lol.
“If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing,”
@kona8832 yes you do. Sure you might "damage the disc" but that's all on you if you do that, not the developer. With digital developers can take away your game at any moment. Just look at "the crew"
He's right. You can probably play this on gamepass or even Playstation Plus, eventually.
A perfect Assassin's Creed game set in Japan already exists. It's called Ghost of Tsushima.
I missed out on the steam sale. Gotta wait for the next one.
Facts, such a great game.
Naw that game makes you go through annoying flash backs if you stealth kill too many people. Its a samurai game
People who praise Sony games and tell people not to play ubisoft are literal sellouts. Sony games are much worse than ubisoft.
@@randomhero6365 You only go through like 1-2 flashbacks max if you stealth kill too much and that's like during the beginning of the game. I played the game almost exclusively as a Ghost and never got anymore flashbacks apart from those mentioned.
If They Made an AC Game in Africa and they didn’t make the protagonist Black and they used a different race. Their heads would roll.
Even thought all the main protagonist were fictional their ethnicity were in the right place.
They could’ve of used Hattori Hanzō as the samurai during that time. Born Sometime in 1542 - Deceased in 1597. For Feudal Japan.
The Creator of The Game is just pandering to the black community.
There are black fans that are hardcore AC Fans That Don’t like it.
Ubisoft Could’ve Made A Separate Game For Yasuke and Not Make it a AC Thing.
Ubisoft Creators Just Want To Earn Points With Them.
Egypt is in Africa. There already was a assassins creed game in africa.
People on twitter were fuming about yasuke and whatever, I'm just mad it's ubisoft.
Adding to the historical part of the controversy:
There was a war on the wikipedia pages of Yasuke where people kept removing and readding the part that stated "there is no conclusive evidence on Yasuke being a samurai". That definitely didn't help when it was happening during the controversy.
I think that happened *because* of this game causing controversy.
My favorite part about it is that it doesn't even help either side's argument. People are arguing "it's inconclusive that he was a samurai" that kind of goes both ways if it has to be stated that it was inconclusive. Just food for thought for both sides of the argument
It also says this on his wikipedia page: "A black slave is an animal (bestial) and knows nothing, nor is he Japanese, so do not kill him, and place him in the custody at the cathedral of Padre in India."
He was openly referred to as a slave and only had a short sword. He wasn't even considered fit to be killed by Samurai let alone be referred to as one.
@@manglerbrumtown4851 Japanese people who have studied this history consider him a Samurai for multiple reasons
Referred to not only as 'not Japanese', but also as a 'slave' and an 'animal' during his lifetime.
I don't care how people want to dress this up in the past-tense.
He was not treated as a Samurai during his life, and he never lived as one.
"You dislike the new Assassin's Creed because of the protagonist, I dislike the new Assassin's Creed because the last good one that Ubisoft made was Black Flag. We are not the same"
Well said
Unity was good
Unity and Origins despite being kinda an RPG was good though.
Amen
I'd argue the the last good one was Brotherhood.
However I did appreciate Mirage for what it was but it definitely needed a little more side activities.
An Ac game in japan where the templars are portugese settelers and catholic missionaries that you fight off as a japaneese would have made so much more sense
People are upset not because they're racist, but because Ubisoft is racist, and we all know why they're doing what they're doing.
The gamers ARE upset because they're racist too.
Before they announced Yasuke as the co-protagonist, these same gamers didn't even gave a fuck about the game (as it should be done with every Ubisoft game nowadays). Then, when they announce the protagonist was a black man, all of a sudden they started to care about the game.
They also try really hard to justify their actions by saying they are "defending japanese culture", when:
1. Japanese folk on twitter ain't giving a single fuck about this game, or the fact the co-protagonist is black;
2. No one lifted a finger to criticize Nioh for having a white man in a japanese setting (nor they should, but it shows that their problem is not with the lack of a japanese protagonist, but the existence of a black one).
Exactly.
Twitter & culture war grifting TH-camrs says otherwise
Now, now. Quite a few of them are indeed racist. The minute I saw Yasuke, I cringed because I knew what was coming. Black people in anything but black-centric media brings the racists and anti-woke/DEI/diversity crowd out of the woodwork. I hate Ubisoft for this bs ngl. People need to stop adding us to their garbage.
I mean some people are definitely racist. They're not the majority but there are definitely people who just don't wanna see a black person in any of their games.
Edward Kenway was 100% native to the setting. He was a Welsh privateer that became a pirate. If you're familiar with the age of piracy, most of the notorious pirates were English, Dutch, or Spanish. Oh, and they operated in the Caribbean because that was where a lot of lucrative trade lanes started or ended.
Edward was even half english and half welsh. He fit right into the setting.
The reason characters are native is because the games are about hidden societies fighting each other and having a black guy in japan does not work at all in that case
So he was from another country and came per ship?
There was a historical reason for him being there, but that's not the same thing as him being 100% native to the setting. You can still draw a parallel between that and there being a historical reason for Yasuke existing in japan. The criticisms of him not being able to blend in are valid, IF they were using him in stealth sections in the game. Last I heard, he's going to be the combat character, while the woman is going to be the stealth character.
Um no he 100% was not him being a pirate doesn't make him a native idiot
What's funny is that the whole Yasuke thing is distracting everyone from the Elephant in the room: that this isn't the 2007-2015 AC anymore, everyone assumes it's going to be a story about ninjas and samurai when it's likely that, 8 hours in, Yasuke is going to be fighting Japanese dragons armed with a laser rifle while riding on top of a creature that has a suspicious resemblance to a quadruped Pikachu.
And the rest of the game would be in the future vr room
This, people (tho having the absolute right to argue against Yasuke) have completely forgot what AC is. Dude. When's the last time you saw an Assassin killing a Templar?
Syndicate tho rife with its own issues, was genuinely the last narratively AC game
@@digitaldruglord1815 But that's the thing, that's what Yasuke is meant to do, make people talk about a game that otherwise wouldn't have gained much attention, both because of AC's current strange fantasy-based direction and because of yet another big, fat elephant in the room: comparisons with Ghosts of Tsushima, which has an actual serious story that's historically accurate and is free of Ubisoft's writing with it's trademark "irreverent humor" that prevents any of these games from having the serious tone they should have.
The last Assassin's Creed game I played was Black Flag. I love loot based games like the last few AC games so I don't care about the controversy about this I'm still buying it
That's DLC
In a single week, The Act Man went from looking like a fellow gamer to looking like The Warden from Rainbox Six Siege or Jeffrey Donovan from Sicario. The mustache doesn't quit.
Regarding the protaganist of the game, I think it comes down to this: The real historical figure probably wasn't a real and big samurai, so Ubisoft went out of their way to prop him up and create loads of fiction to justify him as a character. That is, like you said, historical fiction and not a big deal. But the point is: WHY did Ubisoft pick him and spend time changing history to make him a lead character. Why couldn't he be in the story as a side-character and still be important or something? Why did specifically this person need to be the protagonist? And yeah I agree you cannot really ask Ubisoft if they did it for diversity checkpoint (and even if you did ask, they might lie about it) so you don't really know why they did it, but it is kinda weird because the real historical person is not really important and def totally irrelevent to Japan or Japanese history. Regarding racism: I have seen absolutely 0 drama or backlash when AC Freedom Cry released, starring a black man as only protagonist. Everybody was fine with that and liked it. I think it is just kind of weird to pick the only black person in Japanse history and prop him up and make up a whole fictional story about him. It reeks of woke diversity bullsh.
Why care though, putting all that thought into a black guy knowing good nad well Ass creed games are shitty regardless of who the person is real fake black white arab french etc. The games are boring trash.
Yes exactly, the issue is more that the historical fiction spits in the face of the historical accuracy here. Act Man literally says that AC uses historical accuracy as a base and then the actual game is the untold story, but the fact that Yasuke’s story is known well enough that he most certainly did none of what is shown in game means his argument of historical fiction making Yasuke as a protagonist not matter null itself. Not to mention that Ubi tried saying that this depiction of Yasuke was historically accurate means that argument of historical fiction also null.
the mental gymnastics yall go through is crazy if you guys spent 1% of your energy complaining about the shitty monetisation ubisoft pulls instead of crying about some black guy then maybe ubisoft would stop robbing people in broad daylight
@@ciggylegz oh please, there isn’t a need to explain why we hate the shitty monetization, the issue with Yasuke requires much more articulation so others don’t just call it racism. And it isn’t crying over a black guy, it’s complaining about the lies he represents in this game, if he was actually a samurai in real life I’d be more or less okay with it given his gameplay isn’t focused on stealth.
@@EmperorKaykore expecting or wanting detailed 100% accurate history in a shitty boring game about alien apple things that influence history with "magical powers"🤣
We know one thing, Yasuke wont be blending into the crowd
ofc he wont, he's a fkin samurai numbnuts
Japanese people must've been more racist to Yusuke than Russians were to general Ivan Abramovich Gannibal?
ye he is meant to be played as a brute for the rpg fans not an assassin...
@@loadshedding_ Considering he never had a real battle and surrendered the real archetype subversion is to make the biggest buff black guy into a coward who makes jokes.
He'll blend in with the shadows and in night time.
The biggest thing that bothers me about this game is that I was reminded that Assassin's Creed continued being made after Black Flag
could argue unity was the last good one but it went downhill from there, oh so downhill
Origins is fantastic.
@@Xephyranthagree, unity is peak graphics, combat, and parkour, that is peak ac game for me
@@shinndig1293 as a non AC game? yeah, the games after syndicate are barely Assassin's creed anymore but as their own game they're good, but the half assed assassin title being slapped into it is what turns me off
@@davianorajagukguk1011 definitely, reason why tons of people still hate unity is the state of release of it otherwise, it's the best AC game put out.
Parkour and buildings to traverse on was the most fun I've had ever since the Ezio trilogy.
it was also before they overcomplicated the combat system when it reached Syndicate and after which started feeling far from an AC game.
The issue people have (or at least I have) is that some online sites that talks about Yasuke's origins or facts (I know it ain't to reliable but...Wikipedia) have been "updated" to present this character as an actual samurai.
These changes happened as soon as the Shadows trailer dropped or shortly after. So of course people will have issues with what's going on around that figure.
And yeah, absolutely no one would have bat an eye if Yasuke was hyper important to the story/setting as an NPC character, but as a playable one? Something is up.
People have these kind of reaction is because there are so many times these company try to force people to accept their view point with their games.
It's more than that - the shit they put in serves as a scapegoat for when they get called out about the game being pure diluted shit, to dismiss any valid criticism thrown their way with the all time classic, "they're just racists".
it’s that hard to accept the main character is black? only yt people can be in any type of media you consume?
Ubisoft need to get used to people not buying their games
People need to get used to not buying fukin ubisoft game or pre-ordering games.
I mean they don't make completely horrible games
Like wether u like the new ac games odyssey was still a game of the year contender for example
They can make good games but they're business model is fucked and is ultimately causing their games to be of less quality
It's simple really: The latest Ubisoft games disappointed huge crowds of long time fans and so nobody even dares to expect anything good, especially since Ghost of Tsushima took advantage of AC not going to Japan for decades and setting the bar ectremely high
I’m gonna get Ghost on PC the moment I get one.
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@@kevinle1083 just got it. Worth it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@2wintowerssmoker jesus christ dude, wtf?
Valhalla didn't do to good because Origins and Odyssey were so well loved. It is a bit of a downgrade but it still is a great game. Mirage didn't get as much love because the small minority of the AC community that wants stealth-focused games didn't really support it as much and the players that like the RPG style want more games like Origins and Odyssey.
The Japanese are pretty unhappy with him crushing the heads of natives, and in the other direction, people can't help but notice the soundtrack style that they chose for controlling Yas in combat, it's more... "modern"
The soundtrack is wild man it feels racist af
For those who don't know the rl guy being a servant and only being in Japan for 15 months might also be a huge reason on why people have a problem with it. Its like woman king, where they make the black person the heroes despite not even helping.
Oh pls dun give em ideas…. They’re gonna add a black trans women king now :/
Can we stop pretending that people are upset about historical inaccuracies in a fucking assassins creed game. The same assassin's creed where you the player determine the outcome of the peloponnesian war. The same assassin's creed with aliens.
@@JC19171 One historical accuracy matters on some level and two picking a servant who was only in Japan for 15 months instead of an actual samurai to be the main character is kinda racist. Like they were trying to find any way to avoid adding an Asain man.
The general consensus amongst historians is that he WAS indeed a samurai, maybe do some research beyond surface level googling.
@@hv4654 No, a couple of youtube videos doesn't deny the that samurai from childhood train to adulthood to be samurai. He was not, some speculate he was but based on a very small amount of evidence like being granted perks for working with the leader of the country. Or being given weapons and being a retainer. Which likely would of been given to him anyways. Can you source any of your information?
Can't wait to play as a Mayan Winged Hussar Eskimo when AC is set in the Mali Empire
If they're riding a jaguar into battle I'm down.
@@Delrithoand maybe also some kangaroos
Oh. "Ubisoft presents"
I'm already out.
Oh, wait, $130?
I'm so out. Bye.
Oh. They Took Away The License?
I'm Definitely OUT.
Standard is 70
@@userunknown4331 That's still way too much
I hope you didn't buy the last few mass effect games or shadow of war, any cod game since 2011, halo reach, fable 3, any game with a collectors edition, drop money on any kick starters or play any game that has microtransactions because they all pull the same shit
@@mechanicpluto2430that’s the price of every AAA game
Is it just me or did all of ubisoft just perform seppuku and is now slowly dieing
You have to mention that ubisoft and their paid sponsored ads is marketing and highlighting Yasuke as a real historical "Legendary" Samurai and a Savior of Japan from its "Oppressors".
Theory: Ubisoft put a black samurai to shield themselves from real criticism and to deflect by saying "you just have a problem with the black protagonist"
tbf if everyone acted normal about it and focused on the actual problems then Ubi wouldn't be able to deflect. One bad apple spoiling the barrel and all that.
Considering people are posting pictures online of Yasuke being portrayed as a monkey, I would say people do have a problem with a black protagonist.
Exactly! Ubisoft is always gonna be able to find a "straw man argument" now to why people didn't like the game. "Online gamers are just racist and sexist thats why they are review bombing our game" yada yada. Just seen this tactic so much in movies and everything these days lol
That's not even a theory, it's just real.
@@hollowheaded9319as they should.
Nothing from Ubisoft feels genuine anymore. I just can’t assume they’re ever acting in good faith with how predatory they’ve become over their pricing and their treatment of their players, not to mention how buggy, unfinished, and sometimes barebones their games have been lately.
Them choosing to have Yasuke as one of the main characters feels less like them wanting to tell his story, and more like using him as a shield to try and discredit anyone who has a problem with the game. It’s scummy and reductive.
Before they were at least a bit better than they are now, then they would make games that were worth your time I’ll play the older games more than the newer ones since they are basically just the same
AC Mirage, Avatar, Prince of Persia are bug-free, well finished and had no performance problems.
@@astronotics531 unity still a buggy mess ran into 20 bugs while play recently couldn’t attack at all during combat
yea its in generell that it doesnt fell like they want to give us what we want, but what they want instead
Yeah mynfirst instinct is to defend the game by saying "hes an actual person with a cool story" until i remember its ubisoft
Remember when they committed to non annual releases? Me neither
I think it is people in general (especially in Japan) who are upset, not just "gamers".
Nah, Japanese people think Yosuke is a badass. Most people have absolutely no awareness of this "controversy" whatsoever
@@hughquigley5337 Why are you lying?
@@kodosquea1994 Well the game is a best seller in Japan and Yasuke is almost always depicted as a Samurai in Japanese media. Seems to me like, only you bigots are mad
@@danielc9967 I don't know where people are getting the info that its the best selling. You cant trust the journalists or the company to be truthful with that info. we haft to wait for the actual numbers to come out. Any store pushing it to the top/front page is most likely being paid for it but that's just speculation who knows maybe its doing amazing and all of japan are paying $130 for a game from a widely hated company.
@danielc9967 x to doubt bud. Why don't you see if you keep trying to change the wiki page, this game deserves complete failure.
ayo mario man, what's up with the moustache
Bro is a viltrumite
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wait i thought he is Luigi .
getting ready for pride month i guess
@@ryuno2097 i was just going to say he looks like a gey guy from the 80s
Edward kenway was a pirate in the Carribbean and it was super common to see European pirates, people seem to forget history
Pirates, privateers, whatever you want to call them were almost entirely of European descent so yeah, Kenway was right for the setting.
@jubei7259 Roughly a quarter to a third of all pirates in the Caribbean were black. There were also a significant amount of natives too, but I've yet to find any accurate metric for that one.
Bro tell me you don't understand the word Native without explicitly telling me. Oh wait you did. A native means they are ORIGINALLY from there like NATIVE Americans. Just because Colonizers were living there doesn't make them Native it makes them common this argument does not fit a real person who was actually there. But still it's a work of fiction they can add a Mexican man and it wouldn't mean anything.
@@triton5336 Umm...tell me how Native Americans were ORIGINALLY from America, when we can track their movement from Russia, into Alaska, down through Canada, into America and then into Mexico? No one is ORIGINALLY from anywhere. People move around. Indian tribes were very nomadic. Heck, ALL of early human history was nomadic tribes. The word "Native" is only used by people who saw people already on a piece of land they just arrived on. So Native merely means "Here before me".
@@triton5336regardless, they chose a character that 100% made sense in the setting and didn't require an awkward reshuffling of history for it to make sense
Monky in sameri armor does go hard.
black guy as a samurai = disrespect the culture = I don't even bother pirating your game.
i forgot only asian and white ppl can be samurai’s, like tom cruise in the last samurai 😂
@@adrianxx22 then remember.
@@NikTsalch you remember playing a white samurai in NIOH? i forgot that’s okay because he was white. only white people are allowed in media 😂🫵🏾
@@NikTsalch i really doubt ubisoft cares if you buy a game you can’t afford anyways 🤭
@@adrianxx22 keep saying stuff you know nothing about 😂
Some random grandmother: “I don’t care what they tell you in school, Samurai were also Black.'”
Nice reference
So were they or nah?
Nah all black people are actual Native Americans, also their Jews and Muslims and the moors that took North Africa. They’re whatever race they want to be except black lmao.
@@SpikeTheWolfthere were reports of probably a handful of black samurai in history so it's legit but very minorly
Japanese man stares at Yasuke: My ancestors
As I said to a friend who asked me my take on this (I’m black):
A Yasuke game isn’t a bad idea
An Assassin’s Creed game in medieval Japan after the team idiotically said many years ago that such a setting wouldn’t work for the franchise and Sucker Punch embarrassed them and proved them wrong with Ghost of Tsushima - one of the best games of that year - is a pretty dumb idea that’s too little too late
Ghosts of Tsushima wasn't set in Japan. it was set on the tiny island of Tsushima, you literally never see or go to actual Japan. Im pretty sure their point was about an AC game not working in a setting like Japan had more to do with things like Parkour and the type of stealth that AC was known for at the time
Tsushima is absolutely nothing like an Assassin's Creed game either
Way too late considering we also have Like a Dragon Ishin and Rise of Ronin
@@lutherheggs451The Island of Tsushima is based around Feudal Japan tho. It looks almost exactly like Japan. The only reason why they probably made the island was to make more convenient from a story standpoint
@@lutherheggs451 This is a hilariously dumb comment. Tsushima is part of Japan. Saying it's not would be like saying Ibiza isn't in Spain, or Mykonos isn't in Greece. Newsflash, islands that belong to a certain country are still part of that country.
@@lutherheggs451 what de hell you taking about that place Iki Island belong to Japan literary
Wouldn’t it make more sense for it to be a ninja instead of a samurai? What I mean is being stealthy etc. is really frowned upon for samurai. Like in the ghost of Tsushima game when he starts adapting the stealth gameplay it goes against what he believes in but he does it to even the playing field. Maybe that’s the angle they will go for this but if you NEED to put a black samurai in this which I definitely disagree with that black washing but I understand he’s supposed to be the more hands on rush in fighter so make him the samurai (since we have no choice) and the female a shinobi.
That mustache is staying
Two reasons for me:
1. It’s Ubisoft, they haven’t made anything worthwhile since Unity(and that’s being generous)
2. Ghost of Tsushima did it already and probably better than the slop that Ubisoft will put out
For me it's Syndicate, but then they dropped two games with infuriating garbage ruining the good gameplay that was there, with some of the worst writing ever on top (AC Origins and Far Cry 5). I've literally gone from an Ubisoft casual fan 10ish years ago to "they're better than Activision and M$... I guess... end of good things to say".
@@theliberation9061 THat's pretty much my stance as well. Syndicate was the last AC game I relatively liked. I'm ashamed to say that I purchased Origins and Odyssey to give it a chance and hoping that I would like it but I have avoided Ubisoft games like the plague since then. In the case of the AC series, the new style of games just completely stripped out what I loved about the AC games while amplifying what I didn't like.
@@theliberation9061 far cry 5 was at least edgy. 6 is just irredeemable. nothing about far cry 6 spells risk taking. it's by the numbers safe.
Origins was the last good one if you ask me, and I will freely admit there is a bias because Ancient Egypt is something I've been fascinated by since I was a kid. Bayek was a badass too, and the first mentor. Syndicate was forgettable, and Unity was complete shit.
Unity was complete unplayable garbage if you ask me. In my opinion the last good Assassin's Creed game was Origins because of Bayek. His voice actor carried that game on his shoulders, and the Egyptian setting was amazing. Especially the different biomes you could visit like the Nile Delta and the arid foothills of the Libya/Egypt border. There's also the fact that Bayek is the guy who pretty much laid the foundations for the Assassin Brotherhood, every single character we played as, are only assassins because of him. He's forgotten by everyone but was by far the most influential figure in the Brotherhood. I just wish that they'd given Abubakar Salim more time to shine and made an Ezio-style trilogy with Bayek as the main focus, building the Hidden Ones and travelling all over the world to recruit people and stop the Order of Ancients. But as you know we don't live in that timeline.
I am Japanese.
There are a total of 1300 pre-orders for all editions on Amazon Japan.
Of course, it is out of the ranking range.
eh Amazon Japan has been known to inflate their numbers
That's 1300 more than it should be
With a massive population 1300 is nothing. Mostly excited kids/teens
William Adams is the First Foreign Samurai. Not Yasuke.
11:32 there was a black yasuke guy in japan. The thing is there were millions more japanese people in japan, and i(and i think vast majority of people) would like to see a japanese guy as the protagonist in the story that happens in japan. I have seen enough black guys pushed onto me in medea, really.
Dont buy it then 😂 its not that hard
@@ty_glizzy420-_-2 the problem is a lot of AC fans have wanted AC in japan for i don't even know how long. So it is that hard.
@@otemaj.z.4916 How is it that hard to play as a black character? It takes place in Japan. One of the main characters being black does not change that. If that's the breaking point for someone, then I think they have far more important problems in their lives to deal with.
@@otemaj.z.4916 Go cry a river then, I guess 🤷♂️
you do know how fucking insane the sentence “I have seen enough black guys pushed on to me in media” sounds,right? I’m gay so could I make the argument that I’ve seen enough straight people pushed onto me in media for decades? You see a few more black protagonists in games and you get tired of it?
Buddy, I am black and I can absolutely say this was a check box choice. Seriously, don't even pretend this isn't a purposely made decision for "diversity". Whether the game is good or not, my skin color has become a marketing ploy, and I'm not cool with that.
These games cost hundreds of millions to make, and developers want low interest rate loans, which they can get from Blackrock or Vanguard if they raise their ESG score enough. How do their raise their ESG score? By putting characters like this in the game. There is no love for Japan, and no love for black people either. They crunched the numbers and decided it was more profitable to use a black character, once all factors were considered.
It is slightly depressing how far down the comments i had to go to finally see someone making this point. But you and i both know, Act Man is taking the "safe" point of view on this topic. He'd get roasted and cancelled if he came anywhere near making the point you just did.
Because you represent black people, even if it was check list. Who cares? If the game is bad, you'll shit on it anyway? Why do you as a black man, feel the need to say, "I'm black and this is a check list"?
@@general330 this doesn't make sense.
It feels like ever since Yasuke was mentioned in any form of media as an African Man made a samurai by Nobunaga, he’s become nothing more than the unfortunate tool that he would’ve originally been seen as.
For the record, the first time I ever heard of him was his boss fight in Nioh, bastard killed me like four times before I got the rhythm
The battlefield 1 guy is a Harlem Hellfighter. They were a real unit in WW1 and were all black. I think playing as Yasuke is cool but everything from triple A studios feels like pandering now. Even if im being pandered to, it feels hollow.
I dont think was what people thouught was stupid with BF1 - it was mp games where there were black germans characters
Having Ubisoft be behind a game is like having Lada create a lunar lander: It MIGHT end up working out just fine, but past experiences leave me with with very little confidence in that assesment...
Ubisoft is like: "oh man, thank God we are getting blasted for something else other than our clunky games."
Looking at their track record...
Ubisoft never chose Yasuke as a protagonist to tell his story but for the sole purpose of pretending that any and all criticism of their greedy practices is coming from a place of racism.
You're making up an argument to get mad at.
We aren't calling y'all racists for rightfully criticizing their business practices or how they're literally selling the game for over $100
We're calling y'all racists for pretending AC magically is supposed to be historically accurate and how you're just now, only right now, getting mad about the MC of a game being native or not, accurate or not, and all that.
If you don't do that, then this doesn't apply to you.
@@toat_ You're acting like people disliking the choice of character automatically makes them racist. While sure there probably are some people who dislike the character because they dislike black people in games or whatnot, a lot of people just feel like the character was chosen specifically for his race, which comes off as tokenism. It's valid to be upset about that or at the very least suspicious of Ubisoft's motives
@@toat_btw im black, and I just want an ac game about ASSASSINS, clearly yasuke isnt going to be one and the other protagonist will, so like switching between them in game will be a detriment to the whole game. U remember syndicate right. Ubisoft dont know what they are doing anymore and they are using yasuke to bait u into buying the game thinking its a samurai simulator when its meant to be an ac game😭
@@torukiaI don't know man I think they just chose him cause his story is cool like an African man whether being captured or born to slavery brought to Japan becoming a samurai and just vanishing from the history books. That sounds like a cool story to me. I don't get this tokenism argument about his character with out it just just boiling down to his black, oh but the game has not comeout so we have no clue what is character is like. literally just speculating because his black
@@toat_man, every time someone writes "y'all" and then proceeds to talk about any sort of "ism", I instantly just tune out because clearly there's nothing of value being said.
they're making us to pre order it without showing us actual gameplay bruh
Making you are you being held at gunpoint? Get some self control wtf
Morons who pre-ordered this are the reason Ubisoft can get away with this type of bullshit. Disgusting behavior.
@@angryjoe98 no i didn't pre order it i mean "telling us to pre order it" yeah that's better thanks for the correction
@@user-cs2mx4lt3q thats fair
@@angryjoe98 until gameplay footage gets released….yea, they kinda are “forcing people who want to pre-purchase to do so without seeing any gameplay footage”
There not giving us the option to see any footage. But 100% you can just not buy the game 😂❤
So happy I’ve never preordered a game ever in my life and now I just might not ever.
Remember the good old gaming days when they were made with care? i 'member
Edward is completely different because he is the most common kind of pirate which is what he is, he may not be NATIVE TO THE AREA, but he is the most common representation of what a pirate of those times would look like.
This is too difficult for people like Act Man.
It still negates that stupid argument. Just means use a better one.
Nobody cares! No matter how much smooth brains might cry about it it was never a historical simulator or a documentary. Guess what besides Edward Kenway never existing, neither did Altiar, Ezio, Connor, Basim, nobody was fighting giant mummies and, nobody was fighting medusa. The only thing they've ever been "historically accurate-ish" about is the location
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But there were black Caribean pirates that WERE native to the setting. They missed an opportunity to do that.
In Japan, instead of issues related to racial differences, people often point out various discrepancies in the depiction of the world, such as major structural mistakes in buildings or incorrect use of emblems. The size and arrangement of tatami mats are strange, for example. The place where the esteemed Nobunaga sits should be on tatami, while his retainers should sit on wooden floors. However, the video shows the opposite. The Oda clan's banner should display the "永楽通宝,"(Eiraku Tsuho) coin, symbolizing the importance of the economy. Yet in the video, the banner only shows the Oda family crest. Additionally, the banner that comes with the Yasuke figurine as a purchase bonus actually uses the crest of Nobunaga's retainer, Hideyoshi. Since Ubisoft is lamenting their mistakes, let's pretend we've been "isekai'd" into an incorrect version of Japan. (LOL)
UBI should have used shadow clans like the Imbe clan, the Kamo clan, or the Hata clan rather than Yasuke, Nobunaga's page, for the assassin. The theory that the Hata clan are ancient Israelites is perfect for Assassin's Creed and ties in with the story of Assassin's Creed 1! I don't think UBI knows that Nobunaga is connected to the Imbe clan. Japanese shrines retain many influences from ancient Israelites and Persians. Many clans fled from the volcanic eruption in Japan around 7,500 years ago, moved to the area around Egypt, and then returned to Japan after many generations.
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"Dayum dis nibba-san done did his homework " - Yasuke, probably
I'm noticing some chinese architecture in them too. This game reeks of surface level research, even the "Historical" expert they brought in was a joke.
Japanese ancient Israelites is crazy 😂 now that would piss people off
Lmao, none of that is true.
@@trvpmusic2569 The idea that the Hata clan might be ancient Israelites is just a theory. I think otherwise. The Hata clan fled from a massive eruption in Japan (the Akahoya eruption) and migrated to areas around Egypt and Turkey. Over many generations, they brought back the customs, ideas, civil engineering, and sericulture techniques from those regions to Japan. There were likely Persians and ancient Israelites who came along with the Hata clan. Wooden tablets from the Nara period, found in Japanese archaeological sites, mention that Persians held official positions in Japan. In ancient Japan, many people with roots in Persia and the regions around Egypt migrated here. The Hata clan is the lineage that established the Inari and Hachiman shrines. The shrines with red torii gates were built by the Hata clan and are different from traditional Japanese shrines. In the shrines built by the Hata clan, there are clear influences of ancient Judaism or Nestorian Christianity, mixed with traditional Japanese elements. Please come to Japan and visit these shrines.
The character "秦" (Hata) is related to the ancient Chinese "秦" Qin dynasty, and if traced back further, it leads to the Yuzuki kingdom in Kazakhstan. Before coming to Kazakhstan, they were a clan that lived even further west. Please search for "Hata clan,"「秦氏」 "Yuzuki no Kimi,"「弓月の君」 and "Yuzuki kingdom."「弓月国」 Let's explore more about the Hata clan together.
He never belonged to the samurai class. Nobunaga liked him because he was large and black and wanted him basically as a trophy to show off. He was a slave bought by Portuguese jesuites and later left Japan together with the jesuites. Giving him an appropriate cameo in the game would be really cool, as he is a historial character. But: He was not samurai. Especially not a legendary one. Making him out to be one makes no sense, for then he would no longer be Yasuke, even in a historical, semi-accurate setting.
That's a nice fan fiction you wrote there
@@toa695 Not a very compelling counterargument.
@@furankusama well for starters, you don't know if Nobunaga only wanted him as a trophy. By the way, this game isn't meant to be historically accurate the same way none of the Assassin's Creeds are, so this is irrelevant anyway.
@@toa695Not to be condescending, but that's kind of been Assassin's Creed's whole mentality. It's not completely historical, but it's close enough that you can see where the actual history is. Mirage and Black Flag are both great at putting you into the setting and doing your AC story, but still having solid historical roots to explore at your leisure. When the popups said that it took a large number of people from all over to ensure the story didn't simply swim in stereotypes, it was something to be praised. While I don't disagree that we don't know why Nobunaba had him around, if the records show he wasn't a samurai, then he wasn't a samurai.
@@cgkase6210 records don’t show that he was or wasn’t a samurai. The term “samurai” wasn’t even used back then, so technically nobody at that time was a samurai if we want to use records.
I’m not sure what the point of saying “but at least it’s rooted in accuracy” was, in terms of adding to this discussion. If the pope can be a Templar wielding a magical apple from the garden of eden to brainwash people, and nobody got upset, this is hardly a ground shaking event.
"Your ship has a stamina bar."LOL
They had a Japanese man who was in that era who was a real life assassin but they seemed to have ignored him completely and that was Mitsuhide Akechi, the man who assassinated Oda Nobunaga.
Your argument makes no sense Oda committed suicide. And Oda is a very influential person in history playing as someone thats killed him even though he didn't doesn't make no sense.
We also already have a japanese assassin already in shadows that has been front and centre in most of the promo.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord Nobunaga was killed, the suicide theory is literally a myth.
Wow the Shinobi girl is doing her job so well not even guys like this knows that she's an assassin
@@triton5336 dude you again? What are your comment about? You don't even know what you're taking about. Can you understand what is the topic of the main comment?
The way I see it is that it must suck for Japanese guys who wanted a Japanese assassins creed for a decade and a half and with how they’ve been doing it they maybe would have you choose between a Japanese guy and a Japanese girl, but this is the one time where they decided to make the male character an actual historical figure who isn’t even representative of Japanese history.
Yasuke is literally a part of Japanese history.
@@ohveregreen8945 i guess their point is that yasuke was a minor historical figure?
@@ohveregreen8945 He wasn't a samurai
We’re literally playing as a protagonist who is a native Japanese
@@sgtroach1510yeah but SHE'S A WOMAAN
Even Wikipedia’s Japanese history is better than UBI
there's a lot of ninja clans that can be choosen as a proxy of brotherhood, but they opt for yasuke. you sure its not an agenda of some sort?
It's simple
It's made by Ubisoft.
Everything from them is blacklisted.
Get Assassin's Creed VR if you own a headset. You'll at least get mixed feelings from your own statement.
Yasuke is an interesting character for sure, but what if they made the male protagonist Miyamoto Musashi? The dude was a samurai, he was known to use non-traditional methods of fighting (like purposely being late to a duel to tilt the other guy), and he also fought while dual-wielding swords. Having a samurai with a non-traditional fighting style/mentality would have been a really cool foil to the female protagonist, who seems to be much more serious and stealth oriented.
Musashi wouldn't have been born yet.
@@sebastianpijov8708you sure? 1584-1645. Edo period 1603-1868. You were saying?
@@sebastianpijov8708 And Yasuke wasn't a samurai, nor was the pope a wizard wielding a magic alien artifact. Historical fiction allows for things to not make sense timeline-wise. Yasuke feels forced into this role much more than a slightly out of time character that would fit the tone of the series better.
@MrPWN96 there's a difference between fantasy elements and completely changing a historical characters age just so you don't need to play as a black dude. Musashi would've been even more "forced"
@@MrPWN96 how the hell is the pope villain we fought in ac having fictional powers "timeline wise" what? you guys are the ones constantly saying "historical accuracy" and "historical fiction" aren't the same thing and yet here you guys are saying the historical fiction aspect is a "timeline" thing? lol
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政府が否定しないと誰も信じないでしょうね
I will never get over the main black protagonist has hip hop music playing during his combat like it’s a back then Japan this is such a joke it’s so obv the DEI and sterotyping
"Omg someone killed the emperor. Look around for anyone who doesn't look like us quick"
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The emperor ain't death
He is in a vegetal state powering a thing call the astronomican
What?
.... What?
No, but seriously: what?
What guard's first instinct would be: "Check for gaijin"? It's the Sengoku period, the first thing you are gonna check for, is traitors working for another Clan, not assume that some foreigner must have somehow fought past all the guards and assassinated the Emperor.
@@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegelThe joke is that somebody would’ve seen him assassinate the emperor and notice he isn’t asian.
Also these bot comments above are insane.
1. This character doesn't seem to be focused on stealth.
2. Have you never seen what the protagonist normally wear in AC games? They almost never exactly blend in and regularly wear full Assassin regalia.
The fact that the main character has a Wikipedia page didn't ring alarm bells? Protagonists have all been fictional until this point.
That's the biggest problem imo. Yasuke should've been in the game as an NPC with Nobunaga, NOT as a playable character. Having you play historical people is a bad precedent for AC.
@@LordVader1094 Pretty sure that logic applied to Nioh, also. But here were are, no controversy to speak of.
@@jynxce Yasuke is marketed by Ubisoft as a historical legendary samurai. He's not a legendary samurai or a warrior. He's a swordbearer, part of an entourage.
William Adams is a navigator and a shipwright that Shogun Ieyasu declared as a samurai for the aforementioned, but Team Ninja NEVER marketed him as a legendary samurai or a warrior.
@@jynxce People always bring up Nioh but that totally misses the point. The problem isn't that there is a video game with a samurai that happens to be a brother. If Yasuke was in some random AA game I doubt many if any people would care. The problem is that this is an AC and Yasuke does not make sense on any level and breaks like every MC convention the series has followed since it's creation. All so they can add extra "diversity" to a game that already has a cast made up entirely of POCs. The entire thing is a sick joke and it's absurd that people defend this nonsense.
@@BrandonHeat243 "a cast made up entirely of POCs"
excuse me but.
IT'S SET IN FUCKING JAPAN
He wasn't a samurai
We all know why they choose a different race to play the Samurai..
It's all about rage baiting so we keep talking about this "controversial" decision. There is nothing nobel abou it.
So Ubisoft wants us to talk shit about the game.