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I am guilty of this, most of my games I have installed and paid for I have only played once
Yasuke is a historical figure though.I see there is already a lot of push back from the community regarding this. Obviously the stupid pricing structure is an issue with Ubisoft but I see a lot of people are saying that having a black dude as the main character of a story based in feudal Japan just does not make sense. From what I can read, it is not about the black character as a racist thing, but just that it does not feel right for the setting. Obviously Ubisoft is pushing the agenda so it will be interesting to see what the sales will be
Yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man, likely of African origin, who served as a servant and retainer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga in 1581–1582, during the Sengoku period.[2] He was retained by the daimyō as a koshō (小姓, page) for a period of 15 months until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident.[3][4]
Fair point, lots of reasons to dislike Ubisoft and also think playing an actual ethnic Japanese would have been a bit more authentic rather than playing a unique historical character who was a an outlier in the culture.Yeah I checked the video of them explaining it. I personally don't really care about it. As long as the game itself is good, I could play with a chicken for all I care. I am just wondering if this won't bite them in the ass a bit considering all the crap lately in the gaming industry. It seems that p1ssing off your player base has become the norm for game companies these days.
There are two main characters though.Fair point, lots of reasons to dislike Ubisoft and also think playing an actual ethnic Japanese would have been a bit more authentic rather than playing a unique historical character who was a an outlier in the culture.
Unique is exactly why I’d play it, there are dozens of Samurai games out there and it’s becoming boring. If it’s historically accurate, it’s authentic enough for me, and interesting. I very much support p1ssing off stupid people.
Assassin's Creed has not been historically accurate for a very long timePart of the problem is that Yasuke was not a samurai so kinda not historically accurate.
That said pretty sure with current US DEI push that not the only problem it might have, will see when the game comes out if its worth playing or not (Too early to say). For me, it's more about if the game is fun or not. If the DEI push takes away from the game, then I will have an issue.
I have no problem if there is green pink or even gold people in the game or if is factual or not, but for example when you start pushing sexuality in a game that has nothing to do with sex then I can see me going "Nope, im out"
They are also adding a ultimate addition with a $15 a month price tag or something crazy like that?
Crazy
There are many reasons to be upset about this
The black guy is not one of them