I mean, us gamers are only worried about maintaining historical accuracy, and I’m willing to give Ubisoft a pass as long as they make up for this by accurately portraying how Templars used artifacts manufactured by ancient gods who are also aliens to fight a secret war against the order of the Assassins. It’s just about being respectful to historical facts, you know?
The saddest/most hilarious part is that the people whinning are completely ignoring the fact that Yasuke seems to be less “main character” and more “costar”. It seems like you have the option to play as a Japanese Shinobi for the overwhelming majority (if not entirety) of the core game if that’s your preference. I guess they probably still view that as pandering though. Lord knows there have never been female assasins, lol.
yeah they’re deliberately ignoring that. making a sengoku period game is real lazy and using Yasuke is probably cynical on the part of the corporation but he’s cool and they were never going to make a game about expelling the Ainu from Honshu or something. These are the cowards who made far cry 5 the way it is in a world where wolfenstein exists.
And don’t get me wrong, the real story of William Adams is just as fascinating as Yasuke’s, but again the fuckin gall
I mentioned the same thing in a different thread and someone reminded me of the gamer rule of
lolI only use reddit for hobbies but lately it’s started recommending me posts from the Asmongold subreddit for some cursed reason, and they’re all just bitching and whining about the SJWs and their NARRATIVE and how they don’t care about HISTORICAL ACCURACY and how the next game will have you play as a DISABLED BLACK TRANS WOMAN and they’re doing FORCED DIVERSITY and blah blah fuckin blah. It’s seriously like 2015 never ended in there, I’m reading all the exact same stupid gotcha points I thought maybe had some substance as a dumb 20 year old who’s youtube recommends were full of Sargon.
Yasuke is a historical figure tho, it was never about historical accuracy. They just hate black people.
Lmao they’re also doing the thing they think yt woke people do: get angry about something on minorities behalf.
Japanese people seem excited about yasuke, but they’re already bitching on their behalf bc “Japanese people want to be represented in vg”.
It’s all cynical and stupid but it makes sense when you remember these are gamers we’re talking about here
Damn near every single competitive multiplayer game is the same in regards to the metagame. It’s all monkey see monkey do. You get beaten by someone doing something new, you complain about how broken it is and then you adapt by doing the exact same thing. That’s how the average gamer operates
So from these incel’s perspective they think “those sjws beat us by talking about minority representation in games so we’ll do teh same but for glorious Nipon where we get all the cartoons we jerk off to” but in real life it doesn’t work that way, they don’t understand a damn thing
A lot of those motherfuckers never grew up, there are still parts of the internet that ten years later are still rehashing gamergate filth
Like pockets of bubonic plague incubating themselves in little mountain villages years after it swept through the cities and towns.
Insane to complain about historical accuracy with Assassin’s Creed, like Yasuke (an acutal historical figure) is woke nonsense but the eternal war between the Assasins and the Templars (and aliens I think) is fine.
the only weird thing about him being a player character is that usually the assassin is a made up person who meets actual historical figures, but we know dick fuckall about him so he’s a blank enough slate for their purposes.
Yt people will never call out nioh bc their whole lives they’ve been told that not only are they welcome in every space but they are entitled to it as well.
Additionally yt people won’t complain about nioh bc it’s a yt guy that’s saving Japanese people. It’s like that movie Dances with Wolves. Yt people loooove when they’re the saviors of POC.
Yasuke is so badass and even tho I can’t play vg anymore, I’m still looking forward to the release.
I read yt as youtube throughout this comment at first and honestly it didn’t change the meaning of the comment until I realised what you meant at “saviors of the POC”.
TikTok’s shitty character count forces you to innovate. I could’ve also used ⬜
I recall people questioning why a white guy was chosen for Nioh when it came out, Tom Cruise Last Samurai etc., pretty sure it was the progressive crowd noting it tho, not the Gamers™ crowd
yeah there were some radlibs holding Ls on that one not realizing that billy was a historical figure and somehow missing that team fucking ninja are a japanese studio. maybe they were cynically having a white protagonist to sell more copies in the west but i don’t get the impression that koei or team ninja think like that, doa 6 doesn’t have rollback and you wouldn’t launch a fighting game without lobbies and rollback in whatever year that shit was if you’re catering to a western audience. A shitload of japaense people in japan love the last samurai and shit because they’re not minoritized, so i’m guessing they did billy because they’ve all seen a billion historical dramas and played other games with japanese protagonists.
using yasuke is 100% cynical corporate bullshit from ubisoft, like it’s fucking ubisoft, but yasuke is cool and kool-aid manning people is probably fun and there’s two protagonists anyway so the only thing to be mad about here is that it’s a ubisoft game and yves continues to escape justice.
They should have the next one in the old west and you play as a chinese guy and be like “we heard you wanted an asian man, well here you go” and then double piss off the racists by accurately depicting the horrible conditions building the railroads.
A Chinese gun slinger in an American West setting gunning down slave drivers and railroad barons sounds great
Yasuke even shows up in Nioh ffs!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Nioh fucking slaps.
William works as he’s coming into a strange world of arcane magic and plans to take over the world. Mutant monsters and magic.
William is confused and surprised by this world.
Players would be too.
A Japanese samurai wouldn’t be shocked as much.
