Assassin's Creed Shadows is 100% cooked

[@ajdz1840]

Ubisoft should just scrap Shadows and move onto Assassin’s Creed: Africa starring Zheng He as the protagonist

[@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133]

Assasin's Creed: Black Myth

[@shensahib]

The French/Quebec company Ubisoft should have visited the colonial past of France in Africa if they really wanted a black/african main character. It would be revolutionary and interetsting seeing how poor Africans resisted European colonizers. But UBISOFT is probably not comfortable making such a game.

[@blazichaos7181]

@@shensahib No, but you see, that would mean actually having to read about the African cultures they pay lip service to but don't actually care about other then how it can be used to help virtue signal. Along with actually coming up with original and interesting stories/games based instead of bastardising what already exist.

[@nyomanbandarayani6830]

Black Myth: Yasuke

[@bruh-bn3ni]

Funnily enough he has more historical background and records than Yasuke. They should copy Yasuke and make it so Zheng He frees Africa from the oppressors and fights alongside a black woman to kill black men I'm sure basketball people are fine with taking it both ways and won't complain

[@DerangedHobbit]

Ubisoft wanted DEI, they got DEi: Delayed, Embarrassed, Ignored.

[@ricardohoang8452]

Final moment - being bankrupt

[@Rellikan]

😂 Not sure about Ignored. More like illegitimised.

[@sebastianbronowicki7073]

I thought it stood for 'Doomed, Egocentric, Insufferable'?

[@Monarth]

Destroy Everything Important

[@sten260]

if this fails in terms of sales it's a GG for ubisoft. AC is like their only golden goose left, all their other franchises are already in the shiter

[@maple1748]

I still can't get over how they have a black guy slaughtering japanese people in a game, if we did the same thing but replaced yasuke with a white guy and the japanese with black people, wouldn't the game get cancelled.

[@balthazor44]

People freaked out about a white guy killing black zombies in RE5...16 years ago. They'd go completely bonkers today.

[@PantoniStrikesBack]

@@balthazor44 I was thinking of that. And the funniest part is that the game was set in Africa.

[@jaylanjefferson1498]

@@PantoniStrikesBack so whats the problem with assassins creed shadows? Why should people care about this

[@MrMrTravman]

​@@jaylanjefferson1498 Exactly, it shouldnt be an issue. The problem is the double standards. That being said, its not Ubisofts fault people went crazy over RE5 17 years ago...

[@randomthot125]

@@jaylanjefferson1498 You can ask the Japanese, they have a lot to say.

[@kenmaru777]

I will 100% guarantee Nexusmod will ban mod which changes Yasuke

[@maverickckj]

But will allow you to change the female ninja to have darker skin

[@Slepepe]

​@@maverickckjand ban mods that make her look prettier?

[@WelshDragonn]

Wait really? Didn’t know they could actually do this. That’s dumb.

[@Bakagii]

imagine if someone mod's yasuke out of the game

[@DirtyDan77-]

@@WelshDragonnyeah nexus is run by a bunch of twitter leftists unfortunately, but we still have gamebannana

[@S8N6]

I've never rooted harder for a company's downfall than I have for Ubisoft

[@shensahib]

The French/Quebec company Ubisoft should have visited the colonial past of France in Africa if they really wanted a black/african main character. It would be revolutionary and interetsting seeing how poor Africans resisted European colonizers. But UBISOFT is probably not comfortable making such a game.

[@jofa6897]

Blizzard

[@Milby91]

Also, peep how everyone is smaller than him. I refuse to believe that in a fake story about a 6ft black man that did not exist, there were no 6ft Japanese man, which probably did exist.

[@casidelbowen2675]

Same.

[@coldstonestunners]

But they have the division

[@thedeadpoule4028]

We already have a samouraï/ ninja / assassin game in feudal japan. It's called Ghost of Tsushima

[@greedygremlin7471]

This.

[@jaylanjefferson1498]

sadly people are choosing to be upset over something trying to stand out

[@jessicaavery1080]

Heck I have more trust in Ghost of Yotai than this

[@megageek8509]

@@jaylanjefferson1498 how is it standing out?

[@leila13dnd]

Literally. And soon Ghost of Yotei too. I have a lot more trust in those devs than in Ubisoft. They did a phenomenal job with Tsushima.

[@Angelo_Nicolson]

In feudal Japan, samurai were said to emit an orange glow when they became vulnerable to an attack.

[@Catolicodeguerra]

Asmon completely acting like he didnt see elon get 10x ratio by ian about israel i know why oyyy veyyy😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@danedi2951]

​​@@CatolicodeguerraImagine taking Ian Miles Cheong seriously

[@orangejuice3235]

Ubisoft's attention to historical detail is truly breathtaking.

[@skeetorkiftwon]

That is only between yellow ledge grabs.

[@ghostlight69420]

@@Catolicodeguerra night media said shut it down

[@drizztsensei]

Black samurai, female Han Solo, black Prince of Persia ... yeah, I can't see why Ubisoft keeps failing ...

[@MidTeirHuman]

So you don’t like the game because it has a black samurai even tho he’s based off a real life samurai in history?

[@mrman2415]

​@@MidTeirHuman He wasn't a samurai, he was a servant.

[@pira707]

@@MidTeirHuman he wasn't a samurai.......

[@Rov-Nihil]

​@@MidTeirHuman wasn't a real samurai lol

[@nnitro527]

​@@MidTeirHuman jesus....🫠

[@botondnyitrai3128]

Feels like the animations lack fluidity. Like there is a certain animation for every movement, but there is no inbetween stuff. Its as if the moment you start the new action the character just twitches into that newly queued animation's starting position.

[@blackwidow7804]

Yes its like a small pause between different movement. Its 2014 level of animation smoothness.

[@botondnyitrai3128]

@blackwidow7804 not to mention the unresponsive enemies don't help either. Like you cut someone and there is us just a spkater of blood, doesn't even follow the direction of the cut. You can make a better combat in skyrim with like 5 mods

[@mrhyde8764]

Maybe shouldve had a Japanese man instead of a black guy that wasn't even a samurai

[@lefengsterVLOG]

You would think it would be the obvious plan 😅

[@Xnorre]

They did it specifically because white men like Japan so much

[@ROFLWAFFLELAWL4]

Whats worse is they probably haven't consulted a single Japanese historian for any of this. That alone could have (maybe not) made this whole thing significantly better.

[@GoldenChainhandle]

If they'd make the switch I'd buy it. As someone who is Asian I feel insulted otherwise.

[@MisterGreis]

@@ROFLWAFFLELAWL4 They did, but her PhD was in Japanese monk man boy love.

[@Joon-qu4dy]

they need to delay their greed before delaying game

[@ots8238]

more people are waiting for the news of the game cancellation than its actual release by now

[@jimjumj3074]

At this rate, it isn't even about greed but their nonsensical agenda. Like they couldn't just make a Japanese Samurai you know... Japanese...

[@Milby91]

Stop asking them to do what is impossible for them.

[@shensahib]

The French/Quebec company Ubisoft should have visited the colonial past of France in Africa if they really wanted a black/african main character. It would be revolutionary and interetsting seeing how poor Africans resisted European colonizers. But UBISOFT is probably not comfortable making such a game.

[@guncrafter2009]

Assassin's greed

[@Simbabweman]

They really need to take notes from their decades old games: Splinter Cell, on how to do stealth for assassins creed. They have been crouching and hiding in bushes in nearly every triple A game for the last 10 years. If you had them hanging from the ceiling, hiding in areas no regular person could, it would make this so much more compelling. And the wordt part is they couldve been doing this all along since they owned splinter cell from the start. They are sitting on the files if they needed any assistance or reference.

[@bowl3864]

You know damn well these modern devs do not have the talent or wit for that

[@MrIcomsic]

They lost a lot of people at black samurai. They could delay this a year, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s not what people want

[@misandry3467]

@@MrIcomsic that’s where you’re wrong. If they would’ve made his health bar, fried chicken and his magic bar purple drank… and played mumble rap I’d pay double

[@anonymoususername2201]

Insane lol. We whuz samurai en shiet, purple drank

[@BWA85]

We have had a good black samurai before. Afro-Samurai. Voice by Samuel Jackson. It can be done well if done right. But UbiFail can't do it right.

[@jaylanjefferson1498]

then play ghost or the sea of other japanese samurai. Oh you should play nioh, the protagonist is inspired by an english man who became a samurai

[@Sitri444]

We all know his race is the only reason he's the protagonist, and that's primarily why I won't buy the game. The gameplay looks decent, at least, but that's not enough to get me to support the ideology behind Yasuke's existence with my money.

[@kenpachiramasama1139]

I like how they didn’t show off any quest design, npc interaction, or dialogue tell you a lot about the game already.

[@vangelisgru7271]

There. Atleast someone brought it up

[@NwahEnjoyer]

Yeah it's like the game isn't even finished. They can't even bother to work on it properly. They WANT to be bankrupted

[@rainbowsnek]

all the cuts remind me of how movies do the same to distract/induce epilepsy in the audience so they cant ever see the action scenes in their entirety and thus cant claim that their bad

[@MrMajesticJack]

I bet they will have some very nice AI voices. Some lovely emotionless discord. It's gonna be so amazing. Robot like voices are so humanlike.

[@901Wes]

Actually fair criticism , much more relevant than whining about a black samurai.

[@Great-Dao-of-Elegance]

He gave Veilguard a 6/10, with that horrible npc a.i, trash dialogue options, mediocore skills and horrible boss designs. Sure Asmon, I believe you.

[@3ndeavor]

Does a 6/10 sound good to you?

[@Blockhead2]

Boohoo the cc doesn't agree with you? Very sad. Better luck next time, I'm sure you'll find the circlejerk you agree with.

[@Great-Dao-of-Elegance]

@3ndeavor 5 is average and 6 is above average according to him. Veilguard is not an above average game.

[@3ndeavor]

@@Great-Dao-of-Elegance sorry, I didn't see you said "according to him." I'd have to hear him explains that but then it would not check out.

[@EchoObserver9]

"Maybe adding MORE hip-hop music in front of shoehorned in Yasuke will show them blacks an their "allies" that they are included! That will make our games succeed! Huh guys!" Said The racist decision makers at Ubisoft who managed to gaslight themselves into thinking they are actually good people. Or They knew all along that these [Identity politics] are just a different way to practice division and racism and wanted to exploit them anyway for money... Disgusting eitherway...

[@arturcorticeiro7990]

Absolutely spot on

[@mrbigglezworth42]

Larry Fink disliked this comment.

[@idindunuphenwong]

There is never enough hip-hop music for Afro Samooai fans

[@yipperdeyip]

Frankly, a silent trailer like this where they just show the sound of the actual game world, the weather, footsteps, etc is REALLY good... It would've sold me if it was a different game lol. But too little too late I'm never touching Ubislop garbage though. Origins was trash and everything that came after didn't improve at all. Pure slop.

[@HeinzWissikh]

Litterly add snoop dogg as well

[@juggernaut6666]

fuck they changed it to my birthday somehow I feel insulted.

[@LordMuzhy]

Happy bday bro I’ll make sure to get you a copy of sahdows

[@Kurs..]

​@@LordMuzhy Don't ruin his birthday even more 😂

[@Yunothehero]

Its okay bro it happens to us all😅

[@stefanusunicorn7483]

my condolences bro 🤣

[@questtech2698]

on the bright side, you can watch them fail

[@sergioserranogranados3742]

Just to point a small, little fact..., in 20, March, 1995, there was a terrorist attack in Japan..., the Tokyo subway sarin attack, the Perpetrators were Aum Shinrikyo..., the good people of Japan are going to take this in to account, when this game launches.

[@Malkav]

God there's something so funny watching a black dude in samurai armor just trashing ;people's houses, shops and vending stalls in game. Tone deaf much Ubisoft?

[@golem5809]

AC BLM: Californias Wrath

[@kaleiohulee6693]

Plan A was minimum viable product. Plan B was actually finish making the game. We're on to plan C, saturate the marketing with enough gaslight to not bankrupt the company.

[@moonasha]

this game is so goofy. People can't see 3 feet above their head. A person landing makes zero noise. Getting stabbed in the belly means you die instantly and don't scream

[@deimos8072]

how about other games

[@EldgardHammerheart-m9g]

Yasuke breaking into homes is likely historically accurate.

[@idindunuphenwong]

You'd be singing a different tune if he had an afro and a #1 bandana

[@donutbevil9669]

@@idindunuphenwong Maybe because it wasn't meant to be taken seriously? Afro Samurai was NOT historically accurate. Never will be. I didn't know they had MF RPGs in steampunk Japan.

[@coronavirus553]

@@donutbevil9669Still appropriating Japanese culture.

[@TEEANVEE]

💀💀💀

[@starlson3442]

Bro...

[@Rex_Nichts]

Right… so around 11 mins. in, they're showing a black man terrorizing a Japanese village. Very progressive Ubisoft.

[@misandry3467]

@@Rex_Nichts at least it’s historically genetically accurate

[@parzival2077]

Dude it's a frickin game 😹 They are showing the game physics and battling style Did you expect an Assassin's creed game to have the main character start farming corns? 😹

[@mahfoudseraf5995]

Lol

[@creepy_assassin6234]

​@@parzival2077ac DID have protagonists running "businesses". You'd know if you have played them

[@parzival2077]

@@creepy_assassin6234 And was that the main premise of the game/character? Also which AC protagonists were they that ran "businesses"?

[@dotflann]

"Kingdom come, Deliverance 2" as if they were different games Lmao peak journalism right here

[@LUEshiful]

Got yasuke acting like a black tiktoker in asia

[@AveragePunEnjoyer]

Just wait until they release the Johnny Somali DLC

[@hunger4wonder]

Underrated comment xD

[@CollegeBallYouknow]

@@AveragePunEnjoyer Sounds like a good excuse for a Korea expansion

[@operationcox]

when he starts destroying homes and that groceries shop I was like: "Oh, now I understand why they made him black"

[@UsOsArSa]

Stereotypes

[@respox2191]

BLM Simulator

[@ThatGuyXX7]

That's messed up.

[@JanizMakudomaru]

Hilarious and on point

[@fruxo4218]

"heartfelt thanks to our incredible fans" -- all 5 of them.

[@PantoniStrikesBack]

I won't give you a like, cause you have the likes of all 5 of them when I write this XD

[@sinisterpink9907]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2125">35:25</a> ppl are hyped to see AC fail. They've already written it off as DEI tainted and have lost trust in Ubisoft. So they're waiting to see Ubi get their just desserts

[@em_the_bee]

Why would anyone buy the new AC? Didn't they make 15 of them already?

[@scotttimbrell8632]

​@@em_the_bee Yeah we can literally go play any other AC. French, American, african, greek, British, Norse....only thing we don't have is what everyone wanted, a Japanese one ;-;

[@TNvision]

​@@scotttimbrell8632yeah. Which is super stupid. Because when they inevitably makes an AC game based on the african continent, who's the protagonist? A chinaman?

[@WashedSotta]

@@scotttimbrell8632 and they wasted the setting on this slop. they should have made a japan themed AC back when everybody actually wanted it and AC wasnt yet overplayed / ubisoft wasnt a complete joke. so like a decade ago... would have been hype.

[@WashedSotta]

@@TNvision well there already is one AC origins so i doubt they will go there again but ur most likely right they would pull some bullshit too. black character would probably still be the protagonist they wouldnt be able to help themselves with that but i can imagine them making the character disabled or something lol

[@shyhrk]

If they don't focus on a black man murdering unlimited number of Japanese people as the main protagonist, for a game set in Japan, that will be marketed in Japan as well....that just ruined it for me. Graphic is nice, but if you watch Dash Blue's videos, you know it has lots of problematic with the depiction of Japanese architecture, culture, and more. Shallow developers understanding, they seem to just go for the Japanese 'look', not quite more beyond that.

[@misandry3467]

Historically accurate Africa behavior

[@parzival2077]

I hate black washing in movies/games as well but yall are taking it personal 😹 It's a damn game smh

[@Zephy_Sky]

​@@parzival2077 people like their games to feel authentic. Who'da thunk it

[@NebuchadnezzaR420]

who cares about graphics, for real. A shit game with the best graphics of the world is still a shit game

[@darianstarfrog]

Released on the date of Japan's worst domestic terror attack too

[@hunger4wonder]

Today i learned, ninjas in feudal Japan had x-ray vision. Also, japanese swords were magical and glowed with different colors intermittently.

[@LOGYBEATS]

get ready for ubisoft to go "back to it's roots" soon

[@tacotacotington3638]

Which will just be DEI slop

[@Bonbon-C]

Nah..... it will never recover.. Never!

[@Laserhowl]

I thought I heard them say something along that line with Assassin's Creed Mirage already. I guess probably more for the franchise rather than Ubisoft itself. Either way, I agree and expect the same thing to happen.

[@yhormthemidget]

The good old 'return to form' like Veilguard? Do it. I wanna see how low the ship can sink.

[@OxMan95]

Return to form 😅

[@dragosalexpop]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="303">5:03</a> they still didn't fix the CULTURAL/HISTORIC stuff like the 2 opposing fish on the rooftops (Shachihoko). In the game, every rooftop has one pair, while historically they would be placed only atop the highest point, on the castle roof. That castle sure is VERY protected against evil spirits and such. Probably to ward of haters and players who root for Ubi's downfall.

[@raitoiro]

No, I recently visited Himeji castle and they had a pair on the roof of many buildings. Obviously the biggest pair was at the top of the keep but you could find pairs on the roof of other towers and some random low buildings. In fact the keep itself had more than one pair. Also they're not protecting against random evil spirits, they're supposed to protect against fire specifically. And with those castles being 80% wood you better believe that was a major concern.

[@AriusAB]

they also hasn't gotten permission to use The nobunaga sigil lol

[@dragosalexpop]

@@raitoiro You're right. My bad. However they did seem to get them wrong as in make them all the same.

[@stormlappy]

Japanese : we have alot of historical and mythological figures you can use Ubisoft : are they gay ? Japanese : err… some of them maybe Ubisoft : are they black ? Japanese : its feudal japan… an island far from africa.. of course no Ubisoft : we choose yasuke as protagonist then Japanese : but his record cannot be confirm by other’s sources Ubisoft : WE WANT YASUKE AND ITS FINAL !

[@happybuggy1582]

But looking at the gameplay i actually feel like they made a huge leap among many AC releases. Almost as big as Blackflag and Unity. I give them that. Story wise, we will see about how much DEI influence there is and how much they might ruin it. If it’s anything better than Horizon then id say this game is pretty competitive. Also, please for heavens sake remove the abstergo industry BS. I swear nobody cares about it.

[@Wuking93]

Cry

[@samvargas1651]

So cooked the protagonist got burned.

[@taken6298]

💀

[@enclaveofdoom]

[@fritzthecat8158]

LMAAAOOOO 😂

[@TheDylls]

Damn... 😂

[@seanguinn]

😂

[@Micolashcage1]

Man i really hope 2025 and onward is the post-DEI era

[@stockpicksbytim1228]

I think it gets worse before it gets better, things seem to slowly be changing but it will take more than a year. Also this isnt just video games its corporate america in general.

[@rainsfall4119]

@@Micolashcage1 i don't think so they keep doing this until you reach a point to say "whatever" and after that the next generation will the ones who to see these slops normal and then they leach on to another progressive idea and the cycle keeps continue this happened hundreds of times throughout history, the whole world is running by the far left and republicans are hiding in a bunker because they already filled their pocket in the past 80 years, it's a new world order and it will not change

[@lucassmith1886]

Things are slowly changing, and there are more and more people being critical and vocal about it than ever. It is just going to take a while before the biggest corporations adjust to the obvious shift in the Average American's mind

[@nemesisnick66]

Not post dei REVERSE dei

[@dingus6317]

We need uncle H back

[@MMasterDE]

A problem with the weather is that you got the trees and plants all looking the same. When you get to a season when it starts to snow, trees tend to shed their leaf etc. They got too varied weather for one season, and there's no seasons mechanic it seems.

[@skagglav]

In Unity they had "rare" animations for the climbing and jumping that spiced it all up. I really don't think a frontflip is necessary in every jump. It makes it feel obnoxious

[@BenjiPrice502]

I dont know how they failed to carry those animations over they were so good. To this day, so fluid.

[@m.a6416]

If you buy this, you paid for more DEI in games

[@TheOne-eo4xu]

Cope

[@datemike1184]

I love the AC series so I will buy it when the master edition is on sale for 30bucks

[@Kyojironaxx]

@@datemike1184 If you buy that you can't call you a fan.

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

​@@datemike1184 I take it you've not been a fan for long then, Assassin's Creed has hardly even been Assassin's Creed for a long time now. Nowadays they're basically just For Honor clones, but as an RPG.

[@Lonelysum]

Pls pirate the game

[@KumaKumaKuma28]

There is something about Naoe's animations that's really off. If you look at the grapple climbing it looks so weird. The best way I can describe it is the animation frame is not smooth? Example would be like an NPC doing an animation but kind of a background animation at a distance and they do like the most basic of animations to save resources. Like it just doesn't feel smooth when she's climbing the grapple at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="227">3:47</a>. Why did they also put so much motion blur in her animation as well at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="544">9:04</a>? To make her seem fast? It just looks like she's a blurry mess.

[@kyledouglascox]

Every time Yasuke wins a fight, he should say "HELL YEAH" while putting his sword away

[@LokirofRoriksted]

"UWU MF"

[@lowadamal]

We was kangs

[@Lonelysum]

He should say ballas for life

[@huricanethreeonesix]

"Booyah"

[@fromeggman]

The funny part, they are dropping it on the same date as the infamous Sarin Gas attack that happened in Tokyo. They really can't help themselves can they?

[@Dgalvez420]

That's actually crazy

[@ciswhiteknight3050]

Let’s not read too much into it.

[@s.d.m.g361]

@@ciswhiteknight3050 no, let's read even more into it.

[@bensantos3882]

This needs more bumps to shame it to April 1st!

[@flameron1]

Ok….and? It’s a date.

[@alexfigueroa247]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="705">11:45</a> Yasuke’s weapon didn’t connect with the last panel of the fence that broke. I mean it nipped it at a corner, but the rest of the portion of the fence disappeared. Had to watch it at .25x and take screenshots to verify

[@Diego-m4m4n]

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of AC fans dreamed of playing an AC in Japan controlling a male and female Japanese protagonist, but for reasons that even Ubisoft doesn't know (first they said it was for historical reasons, then they said it was for fictional reasons) we have what we have... Like trying to fit a circular figure into a square hole

[@Subsistence69]

Well the circle does go in the square hole

[@dhanyl2725]

The thing is the dev team can make the game be as fictional or as devoted to history as they want, but flip-flopping like that just to get some biased message out is pitiful

[@masonmoffort]

​@@Subsistence69 LMAO

[@Starboiiiii]

They really delayed it to March 20th. The date of one of the worst terrorist attacks in Japanese history (Sarin Attack, March 20th 1995)

[@ciswhiteknight3050]

You’re reading way too much into the date. Chill with the tinfoil hat

[@ROFLWAFFLELAWL4]

They're really just doubling down on not actually giving a fuck about the history their games based on huh?

[@cyanmage1]

Nintendo is releasing Xenoblade X that day so I highly doubt that really matters

[@john_everson]

@@ciswhiteknight3050oh, target audience in comments. where are your other comrades, or are all four of them are busy in another comment sections?

[@VaporeonEnjoyer1]

@@cyanmage1 But it would be funny to accuse them of that, get the influencers talking about it, and make them address it.

[@ReflectMobs]

When you include DEI in your game, we DIE of boredom.

[@mylesshao]

Goodbye my childhood. It was fun while it lasted

[@stevenfinch4238]

The Ubisoft of today, is not the Ubisoft of yesterday. That Ubisoft has been gone for a decade.

[@11274reece]

Idk man, if we get a good ending here then Titles like AC and Splinter Cell could be picked up by companies that would do them justice. I'd love to see capcom with some UBI games under their control. Or imagine a company like Warhorse Studios that's really into historical accuracy picking up AC... Future may not be too bleak.

[@kylefer]

Splinter cell 1- Chaos Theory. Rainbow Six 3, Black Arrow, Vegas, and Vegas 2. Ghost Recon up until Advanced Warfighter 2. Assassins Creed up until Syndicate (Or Unity, both of those is where MTX really started to encroach and the mindless grind of doing hundreds of fetch quests and collectibles scattered everywhere started, as well as the RPG Style Combat.) Those were their peak in my opinion.

[@lacostethannatos2429]

This thing look even worse than AC Valhalla

[@stevenfinch4238]

@@kylefer so yeah, 2015 and earlier. Even the farcry series started to decline around that point. Imo, 3 and 4 are easily the best of the lot. 2 was actually pretty good too, had alot of fun running around infected with malaria 😂

[@z1clappersdevil594]

"delayed ,delayed, Cancelled...?"

[@shensahib]

The French/Quebec company Ubisoft should have visited the colonial past of France in Africa if they really wanted a black/african main character. It would be revolutionary and interetsting seeing how poor Africans resisted European colonizers. But UBISOFT is probably not comfortable making such a game.

[@Entreped]

It's the "duck, duck, goose" of game development.

[@thsudy]

Naw this is exactly what happened to skull and bones

[@arterius169]

hopefully not. I'd love to see the memes first

[@JohnYoo39]

They would never cancel. They'd have to refund pre-orders.

[@4nti0ch]

there are more uncut environmental clips than gameplay. interesting.

[@axechete]

Nothing screams historical accuracy than having the protagonist reverse-grip their katana.

[@misandry3467]

How about a Chinese man as Zulu tribesmen 😂

[@hagaiak]

Who cares? If it's cool why not have it? Let's be real the only real problem with the game is Yasuke, everything else is inconsequential. If it had a proper Japanese protagonist the sentiment on this game would turn 180 degrees, because everything else is pretty much everything we all waited for from AC set in Japan.

[@kri1ndawn440]

Not really. People dislike Ubisoft and based on the other smaller controversies and fumbles they've had up to release, it would likely still have a mixed reception (though admittedly better than it is now)​@@hagaiak

[@creepy_assassin6234]

​@@hagaiaknah... People have always wanted AC japan ofc. But ubisoft had outright said NO. They saw witcher 3 blowing up in the past, so they chased the fantasy rpg trend. Then Ghost of Tsushima happened, and here we are now. Its just another poor attempt to mimic the success of a previous product. With DEI shoved in ofc. Gotta get that funding

[@hagaiak]

@@creepy_assassin6234 As a long time AC fan I was waiting for AC in Japan long before Ghost of Tsushima ever existed. Since AC3 pretty much. I agree that DEI being shoved down our throats is just making everything shittier.

[@Wanderer-q6e]

Step frame by frame at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="769">12:49</a>. It's a landing/roll animation midair (the hands touch nonexistent ground) that transfers in 1 frame to a neutral falling animation. How did that think that was good to showcase? That was _really_ bad.

[@huggablepenguin1465]

Until companies learn that good graphics =/= good game, they will continue sinking. Players want a memorable story and immersion. Not realism.

[@saintilsteven]

So the will release on the 30th anniversary on terrorist at the subway in Japan!! This is no coincidence it’s already the 4h time

[@cyanmage1]

Nintendo is also releasing Xenoblade X that day so its hardly a big deal if a Japanese company is releasing something anyone can

[@archersterling6726]

Oh shut up. There's an attack and every date

[@darianstarfrog]

​@archersterling6726 they also sent a half Tori gate to Japanese..

[@lunarvision]

Is Yasuke still in the game? If so, not interested.

[@parzival2077]

Cool No one's forcing you to buy the game

[@Nutterbutter123]

“Racist” -Me, a sexist for not wanting to play some little broad

[@SitrepMan-dc2gp]

@@parzival2077 And no one asked you to state the obvious. Yet here you are, defending slop.

[@parzival2077]

@@SitrepMan-dc2gp defending slop? Here yall are, fully judging a game before it even comes out.

[@Ravi9A]

@@parzival2077 yes. And there is nothing you can do about it.

[@WertySensei]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="494">8:14</a> Notice he actually thrusts the sword through the enemy's throat and the enemy's reaction is to wiggle in place instead of falling to the ground and choking to death on their own blood. Makes sense if you're smooth brained.

[@FireElFreak]

Yasuke would have been an insane boss battle but instead this is the timeline we’re in.

[@blazin220]

Honestly! Or even one of those obscure side missions! That would have been perfect

[@sorin0533]

He actually is in Nioh if I'm not mistaken, obsidian samurai and you get the obsidian armour

[@blutoo1363]

It would be so emotional too, like he understands oppression due to his skin colour but he also has a duty to perform

[@HSE331]

He only fought once and ran away. He would be a side quest to fetch Oda's awords or something.

[@Capt.RedBeard]

@HSE331 lol true. He was Odas pet

[@DenethorDurrandir]

They actually using the mythical yellow paint. Not only do the level designers know nothing about the setting of their levels, they don't even know how to design levels in a game. DEI strikes again.

[@dogbackwards7658]

As Ancient Scholar's have said: "Go woke, Go Broke"

[@Techcensorshipbot]

They are delaying the inevitable. There’s no saving this flop.

[@mistydolphin2524]

@@Techcensorshipbot Its like bailing water on the Titanic mid sink with a thimble.

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

double protagonist games always end up in the same "here's a new ability for this character, but you have to play the next mission as the other one" disaster.

[@sebastianbronowicki7073]

Didn't work out for AC Syndicate, yet here they are, doing the same exact thing again, expecting things to change.

[@Lonelysum]

​@@sebastianbronowicki7073and I bet if the dei shit wasn't here most fans would fall for this bullshit when they've played something exactly like this before

[@sensoeirensen]

They can delay as long as Skull and Bones nobody will buy woke crap anymore.

[@DaCheeeeeeese]

Notice how there was 0 soundtrack to the gameplay they showed, theyre probably redoing the battle soundtrack cause of the blowback of the trapish type music

[@goldfish1837]

Did you watch the video?

[@tris9596]

Some ppl have jobs and have no time to watch a 40mins vid

[@goldfish1837]

@@tris9596 2x speed and if you can't even bother to asses something for more than 5 minutes maybe those people should not comment just a thaught

[@pastaplatoon6184]

A shadow of its former self.

[@TheA10king]

hey, say that again?

[@tacotacotington3638]

That’s what happens when all the devs that actually worked leave, and they hire DEI rejects instead.

[@waynemorgan6153]

Ass Creed going to Japan was the easiest layup for Ubisoft and they found a way to fumble the ball. Thomas Lockley gave them the rope and the DEI addled minds over at Ubisoft decided to string themselves up, figuratively speaking ofc.

[@jaykimjay]

People would be less angry if Ubi put a big message at the beginning of their trailer saying that is all Fiction and loosely based on real events. But no, they tried to rewrite history and gaslight the entire world.

[@bruh-bn3ni]

They have their fans gaslight like "erm actually this game isn't supposed to be historical accurate!" And if it wasn't historical accurate why would you feel the need to have articles and historians show up to verify it? And why did the Wikipedia page immediately trend and become locked and protected changing from retainer to samurai?

[@misandry3467]

Yeah, no tired of the bullshit don’t care about the excuse anymore

[@inciacci549]

At this point the only real event I care about is their downfall due to DEI

[@coronavirus553]

@@bruh-bn3ni When people see black, they get mad, so they probably had historians on standby to try to calm the inevitable storm.

[@dhanyl2725]

​@@bruh-bn3ni After claiming yasuke is supposed to be historically accurate, yea screw that

[@mrman2415]

I want it released so I can watch it fail

[@idindunuphenwong]

You know it wouldn't fail if bro had an afro with a #1 bandana

[@inciacci549]

You know it's gonna get shilled so hard by IGN and other game journos like they did for Veilguard and TLOU2

[@giladeliyahu2716]

i mean sure the game looks ok graphicly in parts but black flag was waaaay better looking all the way back in 2013 and it had better gameplay loop with sailing and pirating added on but i do like that things cut the way u cut it like metal gear rising revengeance but i bet it wont have the aiming and the slow mo to take really good use of it but if they got it on enemies itll be a good game if its just for flat objects with no filling it will be just a shallow mechanic added up instead of a real combat enhancer

[@sirgamer44]

Should have made the male main character Japanese in a game that takes place in feudal Japan.

[@Lattrodon]

Assassin's Creed California would unironically be fucking awesome.

[@Supperdude9]

But you'd die when you press start when you spawn into the wild fires. How'd that be fun?

[@shensahib]

The French/Quebec company Ubisoft should have visited the colonial past of France in Africa if they really wanted a black/african main character. It would be revolutionary and interetsting seeing how poor Africans resisted European colonizers. But UBISOFT is probably not comfortable making such a game.

[@Lattrodon]

@@shensahib they already did Assassin's Creed origins though. Ubisoft is not comfortable with people buying their games and making money lol

[@flowerbloom5782]

Lmao we fighting crackheads with this one😂😂😂

[@shensahib]

@@Lattrodon Origins' ancient Roman-Greco-Egyptian background is dinstinctly different from the much more recent colonial Africa. Bayek is a Berber Egyptian, completely different from Sub-Sahara Africans. One can argue North Africans are more similar to Romans/Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples than they are to black Africans.

[@bladel1ger619]

Remember, in the old games, you never needed colour codes to dodge. You had to read the movement on your own and actually pay attention.

[@SKizzleAXE]

damn ubisoft about to get comfortable not having players 😭😭

[@Nutterbutter123]

You’re that one dude with the videos

[@raitonodefeat6503]

Keep in mind they are playing this game with RTX 4090, so this won't be the graphical experience of an average player. You could also see the absurd amount of smearing in this "DEMO", This is it, the best moments of their game, You really should pray before you pre-order this because chances are you would play at native 20fps, upscaled and frame gen at 60fps, lower graphics preset, and tons of smearing and ghosting.

[@CollegeBallYouknow]

So in short: Ubisoft used all their Bandaids

[@smiIingman]

All of those animations Naoe did were insanely childish and overdone. Even if they reduce Yasukes screentime, it's still gonna be trash

[@AnOwlfie]

Nothing is more important in business than customer trust in your brand. And right now, the customers trust that everything Ubisoft touches turns to shit.

[@matthewbrowett9255]

I refuse to play as a gay African samurai.

[@mramisuzuki6962]

Not a samurai.

[@Keg2986]

This is giving "We have Ghost of Tsushima at home" vibes

[@projectkisaragi]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="392">6:32</a> Idk, a lot AC unity fans put that game in such a high pedestal because of the Parkour

[@editorrbr2107]

Yeah, parkour and cinematics are integral to AC titles. Spazzing out on roofs is a lot of the fun.

[@SahiPie]

It’s why Unity has gotten a better reception from the fans now. For all its failings it has one of the best parkour in the series.

[@andrewhardison3169]

I was thinking the same thing. Parkour is core to the game franchise

[@JeronCradle]

"Best value for shareholders" What about the consumers?

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

Devs: Should the enemies teleport during attacks? Director: Of course. Devs: Okay, 1-10, how much motion blur. Director: 99

[@Cameron_Levine]

Lets not forget Ubisoft refused to take out a stolen flag from a reenactment group in the art book. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT thing, they made merch of a symbol of the atomic bomb dropping... Ubisoft is beyond cooked. It's like deep-frying an ice cube. This whole game feels like someone took a sledgehammer to Japanese Culture and shoddily repaired it.

[@TuanLe-gl4yt]

Yeah they hired SBI doing this shit?

[@harukananase9636]

This and they also cut the symbol into half which is beyond disrespectful. And they made a cgi version of a Buddhist statue that is forbidden to even draw nobody is allowed for that. And also they used chinese musical items . And in trailer in this video the female samurai murdered people in a holy ground (see that stone lantern thingy i forgot the name) that s usually near temple or its marked as holy ground nobody kill anything there. And also the obvious insult to call japanese racist while they couldn't tell the difference between Japanese and South Asian face for the female ch

[@harukananase9636]

Also reverse katana and they even TRADE MARK a family symbols which means they get to sell stuff with that symbol on it without anyone permission and nobody can use that symbol in other games based on trademark laws . They got the musical items plays in this trailer also wrong . And even the outfit for the musical player .they broke tori gate . They also trying to trade mark yasuke armor .theres even more I don't remember

[@fourdeep6561]

@@harukananase9636 Forgot the hip hop music playing when yasuke is fighting like good lord.

[@different_From_Yesterday]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1443">24:03</a> the fence was like "ohh ya already cut me? i not notice. ok ok i got cut now"

[@CactusJack60]

These AAA studios, corporate media and Redditors simply just cannot accept that the main gaming demographic are regular ass dudes who don't want to hear about social politics in a VIDEO GAME unless it involves Dwarves and Orcs.

[@raitonodefeat6503]

This trailer feels like those AI videos that gets unrecognizable after 30s so they cut it before you notice the shit.

[@honilock577]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="17">0:17</a> This feels like watching Truman Show irl, they're completely unaware or writing through gritted teeth with a gun to their head.. "Unwavering support from the fans" "overwhelming excitement" what the fuck?

[@isca10]

they wrote this to the shareholders, not the community. everything they do is for the shareholders and money.

[@wargamesmaster]

You all know the saying "a game delayed is eventually good" but frankly, I doubt it applies to Shadows.

[@desumafia]

delay for a longer time then

[@TheAsylumCat]

One delay is a good sign. Two is sketch, bad resource management. Three or more is time to throw out all expectations.

[@rainbowprism6242]

If they do it Nintendo style and throw it back few years? Yeah. Not if they keep moving goalpost few months at a time. Also, reminder. Ubisoft have no expert developers left anymore.

[@fredrikedvardsson9246]

Skulls and bones got delayed and.....

[@BC_Joshie]

Yall googoo-gaagaa whiney baby girls are hilarious, yall said the same about origins, about valhalla, about mirage, and in the end you you had nothing to complain about so you complained the game had to much content and it was too long... Shadows looks better than them all... lol

[@Zombiesbum]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="30">0:30</a> You got it right the first time; Expired.

[@Ztsakkeus]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="590">9:50</a> She slipped on ice before combat, Kinda cool thing. Wonder if it could delay your attack and make you hit by enemy. edit: the destroyable probs, broke along the sword path. Thats cool, usually games are super lazt and the probs just explode if attacked.

[@StralianBtw]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="540">9:00</a> this combat doesn't look like what an Assassins creed game should be, they are moving so far away from the AC combat style they should just change the name at this point

[@akchemaceshwa]

Even Samurai didn't wear that armor, it was for royal people and that too for casually waking in village?

[@lonleybeer]

"Parkour looks floaty" my brother ac unity had more floatier parkour, and it felt smooth anyways

[@madmantheepic7278]

There are some Ubislop loyalists still excited for this game, saying that this extra 1 month delay is a good thing actually! More polish, more time for devs they said. I kid you not.

[@TheAsylumCat]

I shall now evoke the ghost of Duke Nukem Forever.

[@DantesHQ]

Come on... really? Ubisoft is trash, but this looks decent, if not good. It feels like you are just hating for the sake of hating...

[@rijaya_bolchara4502]

Like Asmon said a lot of sus cuts, ridiculous moment at 17:04 but i like the music and atmosphere in general. I skipped all drama but I heard Japanese complained about houses and other traditional shit. Typical AC experience. But that's me, playing AC only on sales or pirating so my standarts aren't that high kek.

[@TheAsylumCat]

@DantesHQ I've been around the block a few times. At best, it'll be aggressively average, but due to delays and how heavily edited the trailers are, it looks like they're trying to hide poor optimization and bugs. It's their trailer, after all. They're not going to show the game in an honest light.

[@ivansalamon7028]

​@@DantesHQA lot of people are

[@LukePatrick-H]

I hope we get an all new 15 year development timeline for a quintuple A product. This game will have NFTs, pre-order missions and AI generated voice actors for the unholy trinity of Ubisoft design.

[@Wintercide]

The next Ubi game will be an open world with a pay gate on every mission, item, and ability. If it has guns it'll cost $.99 per reload.

[@Simbabweman]

One thing id also like to see in triple A games whenever they advertise seasons, is to have the seasons change while you play. Not just when the story sees fit and you have a loading screen to separate it. With the tech now, surely they could have the seasons change slowly over time.

[@kylefer]

Splinter cell 1- Chaos Theory. Rainbow Six 3, Black Arrow, Vegas, and Vegas 2. Ghost Recon up until Advanced Warfighter 2. Assassins Creed up until Syndicate (Or Unity, both of those is where MTX really started to encroach and the mindless grind of doing hundreds of fetch quests and collectibles scattered everywhere started, as well as the RPG Style Combat.) Those were their peak in my opinion.

[@kylefer]

Forgot to mention Far Cry, Instincts Predator up to Far Cry 2.

[@ROFLWAFFLELAWL4]

Unity might be the last really good AC game. It had a ton of issues but I think the world that was built is one of the best. For some Brotherhood was the last good one. Either way, those last 2 were around when AC ended, for me anyways. Origins and up though? Enjoyable or not those, at least to me, were no longer Assassins Creed games. Might as well just create a new IP at that point instead of trying to tie it down to all of this to AC.

[@kylefer]

True, I did enjoy Unity and Origins now that you mention it.

[@UndeadFleshgod]

Splinter Cell 1 was great, the follow-ups were alright Rainbow Six Rogue Spear was absolute peak, Rogue Spear 3 was okay through but anything after is cancer. Only the first Ghost Recon was amazing, the rest did not feel like Ghost Recon. Assassin's Creed got stale after the 2nd game. Prince of Persia SoT was a good game for the time, the rest sucked.

[@DA7274]

Unity, I will never forget my disappointment during that era of gaming. I returned it the next day when I ran into the cluster fuck of bugs that game was. Even Batman Arkham Knight required a huge patch day one but at least they had it.

[@KeVB-q1k]

They picked a character from a fan fiction novel and literally said he was their most accurate historical character ever. they can push whatever they want, I can't wait to see them fall

[@ChadeGB]

Let's be honest, the stealth/cqc, climbing and parkour mechanics in the Creed games have always been solid, as is the overall graphics quality, I don't expect this one to be any different. They just started getting lazy and cutting corners everywhere else.

[@lens_hunter]

Another month until I can finally not play it.

[@bobpop1944]

Ubisoft had failed as a game company

[@Stevo.100]

Honestly shocks me it's still in business, they made far more mistakes than THQ ever did! And THQ were still making banger games up until they went bankrupt.

[@vladline1882]

All of it is self inflicted. They welcomed the rot.

[@Cethris]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="383">6:23</a> yes it does. This is how AC started. From prince of Persia. From a guy passionately telling on E3 about their new parkour tech. This is core feature of AC it has to be good. Running around the city from a certain time period is why a lot of ppl play the game

[@danielhavoc889]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1305">21:45</a> Its been like this since we first saw gameplay, but the lighting just ignores the hood she wears and directly lights up the top of her head. Such a simple and easy to fix detail that makes such a visible difference.

[@benjamingrant6203]

I still don’t understand what Ubisoft was thinking with this game they broke their formula this game would be so much better if Naoe who is a fictional character was the only playable character and Yasuke was an npc

[@benjamingrant6203]

Assassins Creed is an IP that prints money even when the game is bad and that’s because the AC formula is so good. The source material for AC is literally ever notable event in history. The story writes its damn self