Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
A SW2 version would be pretty cool though.
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Assassin's Creed Shadows Gets Another Delay - Now Releasing March 20th
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A SW2 version would be pretty cool though.
Radical_3d
Member
It releases in iPhone so the non previous gen policy is BS. A SW2 is overkill in this case.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
March 20 is all about.....
Oh wow XCX is out that day? Fuuuuuuck yes! I know what I'm buyin!
Strategize
Member
NGL this video is such a whiplash, from the title you'd expect one thing, but then you actually watch the video and you see a man impressed with what he's seeing at various points but scared to actually praise it in fear of how his chat will react lol. These grifters are such pussies.
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Yep. Exactly my thoughts.
Influencers are set to hate it and no amount of changes will.. change that. Was exactly the same with forspoken but truth be told, that marketing campaign was terrible....
Like.... black samurai was always a cool idea. Ever since the blm movement, the effect is opposite.
Cmon... this was always pretty cool
MonkD
Member
What does grifter mean in this context?
They're ripping their viewers off by giving them a reason not spend money on something?
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
I would be mad if they did that.
He being a black samurai could be an amazing story
Buggy Loop
Member
sendit
Member
I agree, an amazing side story as a DLC mission with the main character still being Japanese.
balls of snow
Member
Well said.
Also cant wait for the game.
balls of snow
Member
Again, I played a female Spartan in Odyssey with a magic spear that could fly across the battlefield to do multikill assassination. Its so authentic though because she was hot and looked Greek.
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
Yeah, sure. It's a fantasy setting, not historical.
balls of snow
Member
Educational tours from Assassin’s Creed games to be used across 52 schools in UK | Game World Observer
Ubisoft is stepping up its educational partnership with non-profit program Digital Schoolhouse. The publisher is expanding its Discovery Tour, an educational platform allowing users to explore the historical settings of various Assassin’s Creed games.
gameworldobserver.com
Angry_Megalodon
Member
It's wrong in both cases. And it's scummy of Ubisoft to pass off their history alterations as authentic. Portraying Vikings as anything other than savages is a bigger fantasy than aliens or gods.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
Agree and I was annoyed by the black samurai stuff ...but not enough that I wasn't excited about what looks like a cool AC game, with amazing visuals and what looks like the first great combat system in ages for an AC game. I used to not mind these youtube hate campaigns but now I see them as the drifters they are. I'm sick of 70-80 scoring type of games getting ruined and considered 60-70 mc games which consequently sell badly which leads to them never getting a sequel.
I have a friend who is a bit more casual of a gamer, who will mention how "bad" games are to me because he watched some youtuber bashing on it. Lately he's been telling me about how Ubisoft is "going under" as if that's an inevitability. He also refuses to check out games like Callisto Protocol for this reason.
Ubisoft are being dumb asses about this situation though. Shouldve kept quiet and kept the Feb release date. They're giving more fuel to the hate campaign instead of sticking to their guns. They're not going to be able to rewrite the character or story in time for March, so wtf are they doing here unless the technical state is so bad they simply can't avoid a Cyberpunk situation in Feb.
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
Purchased by Nintendo:
Nintendo takes over streaming portion of Xbox game pass (at least in the EU) It’s kinda like Phil’s BHAG…but in reverse.
Nintendo takes over streaming portion of Xbox game pass (at least in the EU) It’s kinda like Phil’s BHAG…but in reverse.
Jinzo Prime
Member
Nintendo doesn't want 20,000 new employees. Firing them all would be illegal in some jurisdictions, and bad PR in others. Ubisoft has to be broken up.
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
Thought they just sent everyone to timeout rooms these days.
You are not wrong…Nintendo has no need for their desiccated viscera.
Jinzo Prime
Member
Time out zones across like 20 studios in 12 countries would be very expensive. You still have to pay their salaries. Ubisoft needs to go, but the best outcome for everyone is a break-up.
saintjules
Member
sendit
Member
Are you comparing this game to Forspoken who also stars a black character as the MC in a magical fantasy land?
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Exactly. That’s the worst. I know a guy who skipped dragons dogma 2 because of microtransactions controversy… and he loves those games. Meanwhile I just played the game and it was great.
Yeah 7-8 games get destroyed. AA was already dead but now only chad games are allowed to exist
DavidGzz
Gold Member
Yeah, once I finally watched it, it was 100% reaching for criticisms because of who is making it and the main character. If it was a no name dev with a Japanese main, the praises would be constant. It looks to improve over everything in Valhalla. It's an obvious upgrade on graphics, animations, weather effects, sound effects, and features over their last game in the IP, Valhalla.
Asmon is so full of himself that he is hoping that his videos have a huge negative effect on sales. It would give him so much satisfaction and he would of course take full credit.
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GymWolf
Member
The 2 games are completely different in genre, who is in search for an open world is not gonna buy onimusha, and viceversa.
Team Andromeda
Member
I don't think Ubisoft has ever tried to pass off any of the AC games as historically accurate
And you know all this fuss about upsetting the Japanese is getting a bit much more so when Japan wasn't a lovely friend country until America dropped the bomb on them .
The way Japan treated prisoners of war was inhuman, not least my great uncle
Team Andromeda
Member
That is not saying the game is 100% accurate to history.
Next, you'll be saying the Animus is a historic real artifact
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
So what exactly does he mean that the players will learn about the "fantastic time period"?
Team Andromeda
Member
That's very different to saying its historically accurate
Lots of games are set in a fantastic time period and will look to use architecture and dress sense from that timed period while making most of the gameplay up (because its a game
Just look at the likes of Mafia, LA Noire
Jinzo Prime
Member
It's a pricing issue. There are so many games to play, but no one is going to pay $70/€80 for every game that comes out. So people have to look at reviews to figure out where to spend their money and the 7 or 8 out of 10 games get scrutinized quite heavily.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
70$ is nothing. games were 60$ for 20 years.
Everything else around doubled or tripled in pricing
RCX
Member
"various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders"
That corporate word-salad is a thing of real beauty. Ubisoft burning while simultaneously insisting on drinking petrol is one of my favorite things in videogames at the moment.
I'll almost be sad when Tencent finally offers them pennies on the dollar and stripmines them.
That corporate word-salad is a thing of real beauty. Ubisoft burning while simultaneously insisting on drinking petrol is one of my favorite things in videogames at the moment.
I'll almost be sad when Tencent finally offers them pennies on the dollar and stripmines them.
RCX
Member
This is my new favourite word.
IAmRei
Member
At least the theme, as i said above.
AmuroChan
Member
I support creators to be able to see their vision realized. So if this is the story they want to go with for this game, I say go for it. HOWEVER, the market will determine whether this game will be a hit or not. If the game's sales are soft, I don't want to see the studio come out and blame the consumers for not buying the game. Stand by your own creative decisions and accept whatever consequences come as a result of that.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Fucking hell, dude.
Well, at least you are honest about your reasons to defend the game this time. Ubisoft can't even say that much.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
lol He is not wrong though. It's history. But I dont see how it makes sense to bring up here.
As for the game being controversial, not truthful enough to history?
Who cares. The game is not for Japanese to play but rest of the world and their imagination about samurais and medieval japan.
laynelane
Member
Anti-Japanese sentiment based on events that occurred decades ago would be one of the worst moves Ubi could do. They've been so tone deaf to the Japanese in this situation, though, that I'm inclined to believe they just didn't think they were important at all with regards to a game set in their country and history. Then again, that's in line with how many activists design games - for themselves and for virtue signalling.
Team Andromeda
Member
I'm not defending the game, just getting slightly peed-off with this notion that we can't upset the Japanese or that somehow AC are historically correct and accurate when they've never been.
It's like some of the British who upset over Robbin Hood having a USA accent and being played by an American, it was beyond pathetic never mind the utter bullcrap that was Braveheart for being historically correct and not having a Scottish lead man either.
Who cares when the films are good? And I feel just the same about games even if I'm a little tired of everything in life now needing to tick a box not to upset anyone, unless of course they're white and Christian and then anything goes
geary
Member
They are committed to release on March 20th release date, which is also happens to be the date of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, 30th anniversary too.
Way to go Ubisoft.
Oh no, please announce the devs of Xenoblade, japonese devs, they shouldnt release the game in March, 20th.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Should we also earmark Sep 11th as the day nothing should release in the US ?