This needs to bomb badly
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History purists will hate it. Anime fans will hate it. Common sense people will hate it. The Japanese will hate it. This officially has nothing for everyone.
Naggers will like it.
“I gets to hurt asians withouts gettin in trouble juss like in real life.”
Hipsters will think it's the greatest shit.
We wuz ninjaz n sheet.
The only thing that allowed afrosamurai to be remotely believable was that it took place in a distant future cyberpunk dystopia.
This is just gonna be a joke.
Nah, this game is so amazing they need to make a 2nd one immediately. It's Creedin' time, boys!
Reddit will love it.
We wuz samurais n sheeit.
All yoh niggas are belong to us!!! 🇯🇵
SAMZ!
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The thing about Ubisoft is that they're at the government tit. Skull & Bones was the product of subsidies in Singapore, because canceling would have voided the subsidy agreements and triggered penalty clauses. My search of "Ubisoft subsidies" also kicked up Quebec and Berlin as further hits.
Even if the company is digging into operating profits, Ubisoft is large enough that creative accounting marking losses against taxes and suckling on subsidies can keep their moribund corpse trundling along for years. Yeah, they're walking wounded, but that just means they need to kowtow for more ESG money, right?
Oh, it was money laundering and someone else found out for me. Yay!
They should've gone bankrupt when uplay became a thing. Faggot normies with no standards just rolled over for that shit. Now they're getting exactly what they deserve, but still think they have any right to complain about it.
Which I don't understand. I'm content playing the same game for a decade. I don't get that itch to go out and buy the latest thing. Especially when that thing is $60 and the same rehashed shit as the prior thing.
Because the normie class is bigger than yhe dedicated one.
That's the part that GGers can never admit.
Example:
My family has an xbox one they've had since I moved out and left it. They buy new games according to the old logic "buy a new copy a year after release when it's $10 cheaper at target" they've bought all the AC games, all the Farcry games, and dad buys madden too.
My dad and sister use it. But recently it stopped reading disks. And the line was "guess were not playing Xbox anymore"
Its a light hobby to most. They don't read the messages or the press. They don't watch the cut scenes. The woke shit is "kinda dumb" but not a deal breaker because "those college losers will never get any real power"
That's the theme
Ubisoft have been pushing “FINALLY A WOMAN PROTAGONIST” since AC Syndicate back in 2015. They give you the “option” to choose the more historically accurate male character, but it’s purely cosmetic. NPC’s still call you “she”, male characters make passes at you etc.
At the end of Valhalla they straight up just say “fuck you” and put their chain-smoking lesbian into the final cut scenes even if you’ve played as the male Eivor for the last 300 hours. You can actually feel the contempt. They hate you, and they want you to know it. Fuck you.
And with each new release it becomes harder and harder to ignore. Like how in Mirage they made Basim the narrator from fight club except that his Tyler Durden was a strong girlboss who was supposed to be Loki’s id or some stupid shit (I dunno, I only watched synthetic man’s review because nothing can make me actually play it).
But the problem is that the “finally a woman protagonist” bullshit is so tired and worn and played out that even Ubisoft can see it. So they’re trying to spice it up with the return of the 2 protag setup, except one of them now has to be a token black samurai because of some obscure legend somewhere that may or may not be true. So they pander to women and BLM in one foul swoop and broadcast that virtue signal nice and bright for everyone to see.
God only knows what retarded bullshit their “codename hexe” will be, with its lesbian witches and open satanism.
Valhalla was basically the last straw for me. I got off of the assassin’s creed train there. It’s a pity because I really loved the series back in the day, but they’ve made it clear that it’s not FOR me anymore, so they can all fuck off.
I stopped with Assassin's Creed Unity.
I wasn't even going to entertain anything after that as all of it has been a very clear downgrade on literally every front. It's amazing because AC Unity still looks better than any Ubisoft game that has come out after it.
All of the girlboss/lesbian/jogger/faggotry pandering in all their recent games have made me just abandon them for good.
Honestly make that game and then look shocked when there is backlash. I would innocently use the Anne Boyelin defense
The desperation to justify using a black protagonist by touting Yasuke is such a farce. What samurai wore their swords on their back? And those grips are too short. And cornrows(or dreads) in a samurai top knot? For fucks sake just put in an actual Japanese man. There’s no need to even give this game a chance based on this alone. There’s a 50/50 shot this has some multiverse split in game where you team up with Miles Morales and liberate Japan from the evil Japanese.
Insert meme about looking forward to watching Ryan Gosling as Martin Luther King Jr. or Shaka Zulu.
Is there any truth to that black samurai legend? Also even if it was totally legit if you tell me about a new samurai in ancient Japan, I want to play as a Japanese character
There was no black samurai. The only ''account'' of one is an unconfirmed fiction / lie by a foreigner.
The records of other ( real ) Japanese people mentionned in the fiction, do not mention a black samurai.
I figured as much. If there had been one, I would think it would’ve been documented pretty well. I’m extremely skeptical of any of these claims that pop up in the past decade. Like the people that justify modern period pieces by insisting blacks were everywhere in Europe in the Middle Ages
Yea he was just a sailor or possibly a slave. Nobunaga was fascinated by his skin and took him home to show guests. He stayed there for less then a year. Nobunaga may have made him an honorary samurai. Then Nonunaga was killed and when everyone else was being executed they let him go because they regarded him as a farm animal. Not joking. The idea that he was an elite samurai warrior is ridiculous. Almost nothing is actually known. Because he wasn't important.
I figured that either it was totally false or had a bit of truth that was greatly embellished due to the times we live in. Similar to how when that stupid Netflix Vikings show with the black woman as a Viking came out all of a sudden shill media articles popped up claiming that historians say that African Vikings were common. Or something like that
The only believable idea is that Portuguese slave traders made it to Japan and that Nobunaga purchased Yasuke from them. If he was a Samurai, it was really in title only, I doubt he was a trained warrior or bodyguard, but rather a personal manservant.
Gotcha. Thanks
Well, no, not necessarily. Being born into the caste is certainly the most common and easiest way of being samurai, but people definitely were "promoted" to being samurai if they performed some exemplary deed. Or were a foreigner a high-ranking daimyo took a liking to.
Hell, one of the most important samurai figures in all of feudal Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, started life as a peasant, was promoted to samurai and then one of the most historically impactful daimyos in Japanese history, shogun in all but name.
Ironically, his birth as a peasant was the reason he couldn't become shogun (he had none of the necessary bloodlines). But samurai, that was definitely possible. Uncommon, but possible.
Honestly, if it weren't Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft and, most importantly, Current Year, this could be interesting. There have been interesting "foreigner becomes a samurai" stories. But yeah, in Current Year, with AC/Ubi...it's utter shit. Zero benefit of the doubt.
It really is a shame they ran "black" into the ground. There are issues to criticize surrounding many aspects of blackness, sure. But it really shouldn't be an immediate turn off if the main character in some form of entertainment is black. We've had plenty of good entertainment with prominent black people in the past. But these woke fuckers have made that impossible. We now get Black people, instead of black people. Again: Zero benefit of the doubt.
If you rewatch BP you'll realize it's garbage. I enjoyed it at first because it "seemed* novel and that's about the only thing I had going for it. But let's break down black panther objectively: Internal inconsistencies abound. So Tchalla had his powers during the events of Civil War before he became Black Panther presumably because his dad was still alive. So the role is inherited? But wait, what's this? Other tribes can challenge you for the position of Black Panther. Including tribes that you don't even have sovereignty over. Wtf? And it's okay if you miss the deadline because Killmonger just shows up even though no one knows who the fuck he is and he apparently is entitled to a match as well. And he wasn't even from an opposing tribe.
So can anyone throw down the gauntlet?
Does this nation have laws?
How did KM just walk into wakanda when it's supposedly super advanced and secure?
Killmongers motives make no sense. Wakanda all but abandoned him but he wants to go back. America actually raised.him but he hates America. He hates America and whites but that didn't stop him from joining the US military to kill non Americans including non whites. In fact he enjoyed his time killing on behalf of America so much that he carved tallys into his own skin for each kill.
He's mad at wakanda for neglecting him even though no one knew or had any reason to know he existed and he knows they didn't know.
When Tchalla lost, he comes back and fights the now seemingly legitimate king and the royal guards don't even protect the new king. so wakandans just play fast and loose with laws there. I guess no different from blacks in the US so perhaps that's not an oversight but the writers deliberate function of them being black.
Wakanda decides the best way to help blacks is to make som community center in the US inner city instead of stopping ethnic conflict in neighboring African countries.
Those gorilla tribe people agree to help Tchalla instead of Killmonger even though Killmonger basically is doing what they were saying Tchalla should have done when they challenged him initially.
The story makes no sense and was basically a giant pander to blacks.
Black Panther is legitimately a trash movie. Nonsense plot, garbage effects, stupid premise. It’s in the bottom half of Marvel movies, and that’s a low bar.
The community center thing at the end cracked me up when I watched it. It's such a bad movie and the politics are completely unhinged.
This hyper-advanved civilization still uses trial by combat to decide on a leader. That's the biggest unintentional burn on blacks I've seen to date.
It's pretty much White Guilt, the Movie. Showing that blacks would be lords and masters of all creation if it weren't for evil whitey has implications no one really thinks about.
We really did not. This is something people tell themselves to try to reconcile how they actually feel and avoid embracing the fact that the current disdain they harbour for minorities should have been there from the start.
A few years ago the concept of an AAA game based on Japanese history starring a black protag would've been a meme.
This almost looks like ai art lmao
This dumpster fire can at least be mocked with memes.
"We wuz samz 'n' shiet!"
Hard to say. AssCreed doesn't have a super terrible rep. The last game, Mirage, was a resounding "meh" but seemed to be a turn in the right direction from the sprawling, bloated mess that peaked in Valhalla.
Still, the games have completely given up pretending to be historical pieces and you got all sorts of anachronistic goofy shit.
I wouldn't have minded if Yasuke had been a cameo, a samura's servant as he is historically described, but Ubisoft finally makes a feudal Japan AssCreed and they make it start a black dude because Japanese people aren't diverse enough. So they are making their assassin game that used to be about blending in and centering it on the most conspicuous man in all of Japan.
I am hoping this game bombs just because everyone knows that if this game is a financial success Ubisoft will use the profits to pay off the Skull and Bones debt. It's funny as hell that a AA team making Helldivers 2 - and focusing their game on being FUN - has put Skull and Bones completely out of people's minds.
Thanks, I hate it. Seriously, people have been clamoring for AC: Japan...and this is what they throw them? These people are useless, and can fuck right off.
Sounds like it's time for a Japanese publisher or a based indie dev to take up the mantle. Steal AC's gameplay and make a better, historically accurate open world game. Yeah AC is an overplayed formula but so what, people are still buying. Even better if they can improve on it like Palworld did with Pokemon.
I've been checked out of AssCreed since 3
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I hope so. I didn’t think they would actually go through with this. If they want to do this so bad then do some African warrior fighting rival tribes.
Well if its another "quadruple a" title that ubi has so pathetically coined, then it's guaranteed to fail. AFLATION.
Nice DeviantArt image.
Close. Searching Tineye, it looks like this is artwork titled Yasuke by Anthony Azekwoh, a "multidisciplinary Nigerian artist". It was first used in 2020 on a medium story by Sean Kernan called "The African Slave who Became a Japanese Samurai", at https://medium.com/publishous but the link to Sean's article is dead. Anthony does have a DeviantArt page too.
Assassin's Creed: Codename Red is the working title of the next AC game, but that's all we know.
Nice sleuthing.
I wish people would stop mindlessly posting images, or maybe it's a subset of users who are doing it maliciously. Either way, this image isn't associated with Assassin's Creed and is misleading.
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Ass Creed: Niggers
i think most assassins creed games sell okay.. so i dont think its gonna flop. or its gonna fail like literally every game that puts a black person as the main character lol.
this game mightve been fine if it was released 10-15 years ago. like during the afro-samurai era of anime