So... We finally saw 'Assassin's Creed Shadows'...

[@LukeStephensTV]

Subscribe to my second channel for Live Stream clips or I'll make you replay AC Valhalla... kzbin.info/door/5Pi8DHUItNgbGVhjh4kVgQ

[@darugdawg2453]

Historical tweak? As a brown asian man, are you kidding me?

[@MoJoLeBowsKi]

Do you try and bullshit people on that channel to?

[@jaughnekow]

I commented on IG that nobody should pre-order this game and wait for reviews, the comment was reported as a spam and removed 😂😂🤡

[@MoJoLeBowsKi]

@@jaughnekow they're outta control man.

[@RevivedSaiyan]

Dei

[@markonovakovic6762]

"We finally saw Assassin's Creed Shadows." No Luke, we saw a cinematic trailer.

[@Lemon842-z8c]

yeah little bit of clickbait title ngl gotta get the views somehow though

[@afroponix3414]

Wah wah wah wah. He said a million times it was going to be a cinematic trailer. I guess you didn’t listen

[@marioluigi6024]

​​@@yeetus_the_feetus4858Those aren't what those are. Lmao. It's just the grammatically accurate way of including a game's title in a sentence or statement.

[@yeetus_the_feetus4858]

@@marioluigi6024your right lmao, I’ll take the L on that one😅

[@shreyway12]

Developers said they paid special attention to take all the choreography from the trailer from the gameplay.

[@MisterMonsterMan]

I never thought I would see an AC game get ratio'd so hard on a main trailer.

[@mohammadashikurrahman7530]

Sony ponies are trying to dislike bomb the game. Can't blame them. They really don't want AC shadows to be a success because if it did ghost would become irrelevant.

[@tlungu962]

@waketp420it’s def part of the reason but not the main reason of course. They did the same w/Rise of Ronin & that game is dope.

[@mohammadashikurrahman7530]

@waketp420 oh yeah it is. They are using every excuses they can get to ratio dislike the game. This tactic is as old as time.

[@Ty-wf6mg]

Because it’s popular to hate things now. Y’all will never be happy.

[@yes21g]

@@mohammadashikurrahman7530 wow bro chill out you are 100% wrong people are mad bc there are black samurai and shinobi woman in the game and on top of that its way to expensive for shitty ubisoft slop they literally have day 1 dlc and they are pushing woke agenda

[@KJ-je9pm]

The Good: Set in feudal Japan The Bad: Its from Ubisoft

[@comradekenobi6908]

The Ugly?

[@taylan5579]

the theme playing both samurai and shinobi characters in an open world game sounds interesting. studio is the same one that developed Odyssey so there's a glimmer of hope.

[@sturmbnnuy]

​@comradekenobi6908 The Ugly: they're butchering history, shinobis were not assassins and yasuke... I don't need to elaborate in this one.

[@seatown109]

@@sturmbnnuy was the real life leonardo da vinci an assistant and friend to ezio auditore that helped dismantle the templar presence in Italy 1460s? No? why do you care about historical accuracy in assassins creed games. Get. A. Grip.

[@taylan5579]

@@sturmbnnuy the whole popular culture on shinobi is based on them being assassins. what the hell are you talking about?

[@johncole4882]

For anyone that is thinking about buying ANY game from Ubisoft I would urge you to reconsider after the comments that the company made about gamers will get used to not owning games and we'll be happy about it. If you want to buy an game from Ubisoft i suggest buying it pre owned so they dont get a fkn dollar from us.

[@dawsynasay4841]

Every company will be going down this route. Ubisoft just said the quiet part out loud. I don’t really care because I’m not going to be playing the game years later

[@spazco8669]

the things you own end up owning you.

[@ryanistooconceited]

​@@spazco8669i quietly laugh to myself at people's fear in regards to the shift to a digital age. Sort of like when flight and electricity was invented.

[@iChannelz88]

To be honest they were just saying out loud the direction gaming has been heading towards since PC games started going digital only. When you think about it do we really own the games we buy digitally on steam and PSN/Xbox when 1 push of the ban button, lost or hacked account or discontinued service and our entire game library is lost? If it isn’t physical i don’t think we can say that we truly own it.

[@1nicko29]

@@ryanistooconceited gaming has gone digital long ago. almost nobody buys hard-copies of games anymore since almost no game-company releases a bug-free game version anymore. what ubisoft is trying to pull on gamers next is the refusal to grant them ownwership of the payed for content. they also want to deactivate accounts that have been dormant for a longer period of time while theyre prices belong to the highest in the industry. thats what people complain about.

[@theweddingsinger1970]

Is Tom Cruise going to show up and prove that he is indeed... THE LAST SAMURAI

[@LukeStephensTV]

DUDE I forgot that was a thing

[@BusesAreFatCars]

@@LukeStephensTV I re-watched it a while ago, it's actually a really good movie and holds up well. Let's Ask Shogo has a good video talking about it from a Japanese point of view and explaining how and why the movie is well liked in Japan.

[@unc54]

Anyone actually complaining about that movie has never actually seen it.

[@tom2gunzbombadil689]

Id def buy that DLC

[@erichoare]

You misunderstood the movie. Tom Cruise isn't the last samurai, Katsumuto is.

[@gemgem-hl7ii]

My gripe with the more recent AC games is that they don't feel like genetic memories anymore. Why not just make a new franchise that's connected to AC instead of using the animus premise without really committing to it? I remember how grounded AC1 was. Every mechanic has an explanation that ties it in to the fact that it's memory being simulated through the animus

[@peacemaster8117]

It'd be a shame to keep doing the same thing, right? The animus mechanisms change as the animus technology changes. Black Flag isn't animus-based at all, you're a playtester playing a videogame based on the genetic memories of an assassin. Origins and Odyssey both rely on portable high-powered animus tech that creates weird glitches, like fighting the Gods of Egypt.

[@sleepyhyrule6894]

This is how I’ve get since Odyssey.

[@gemgem-hl7ii]

@@peacemaster8117 They don't have to keep doing the same thing. I just wish they made it more grounded. Yes, the animus was improved and became more powerful, but I find it hard to believe that all of Greece can fit into the genetic memory of a single person. Like, did she go in every nook and cranny of Greece? Maybe they could have made it the amalgamation of genetic memories of people from different parts of Greece and explained it as such. Also, the point of the synchronization bar is that if you do something that is not in-synch with the ancestor, it will deplete the synchronization bar. That's why killing civilians and getting hit (yes, the ancestor is really good at fighting that he/she doesn't actually get hit) deplete it little by little and going to a place the ancestor never went to results in imminent desynchronization. And remember how the previous games are divided in chapters called Sequences, which represent fragments of genetic memory sequences? That's gone now. The newer AC games don't even feel like memories anymore. I liked AC Origins and AC Odyseey, but they just don't give you the feeling that you're in the animus. Even the modern part of the story feels unnecessary, unlike in the older games where the modern part is well-integrated in the story and it actually feels like it's the main plot and what you do in the animus is just a driving force for that plot.

[@DC-hw7fw]

@@peacemaster8117 That was just disingenuous and a stupid thing to say.

[@gronkymug2590]

We don't need anymore references to fake reality. They got enough trouble trying to be historically correct. Just do fake realities like fromsoft with ER. Forget real life altogether. Save yourself all these torubles.

[@angryfilin9889]

Hey everyone, Ghost of Tsushima released on pc today !

[@A01Kun]

I can confidently say that this person has good taste in games

[@ZeroHxC07]

Sony slop

[@lukazade7192]

Haven’t played ghost. I’ll check it out. But finding out ac shadows was made by the same ppl who made odyssey seems quite promising imo.

[@yunglorn]

GOT is trash imo

[@FlyingFox86]

Oh great! I have it wishlisted but didn't get a message saying it was out.

[@ianAEF]

The season shifting tells me there's going to be a lot of "repeating the same map but with snow"

[@UserNot_Known]

Stop making dumb assumptions and wait to see the game

[@VnVnV-893]

​@@UserNot_KnownUbisoft took 11 years to make Skull and Bones. Assuming them to be lazy with level design isn't unreasonable.

[@Igor19485]

@@UserNot_Known How is that a dumb assumption? It's a valid assumption, the one that will 99% turn out to be true. People were saying the same about Vallhalla " Wait until it releases don't judge it blah blah " and it turned out to be the biggest pile of shit Ubisoft ever released. I genuinely don’t understand how do people have any faith left in Ubisoft

[@darugdawg2453]

Spunds like map recycling

[@hokagab]

@@UserNot_Known It's as if patterns don't exist.

[@Bullz_eye47]

The backlash behind this game is insane that people are willing to change Wikipedia pages lol.

[@hillehai]

It's just more historical revisionism to cater to a certain ideology. We've seen where altering of historical facts leads, and it isn't pretty.

[@Bullz_eye47]

@@hillehai maybe, but as a longtime AC fan in the end it's just a video game, i play video games not to write college thesis.

[@hillehai]

@@Bullz_eye47 Well then thank god there are people with higher standards than you in this world, otherwise we'd be in a bad state.

[@gkdaniels1]

I can agree with you, but it’s just a video game, but it’s also propaganda. Creating historical fiction is perfectly fine, I enjoy a lot of historical fiction, but it’s being used to further a political ideology in the year and now . And if you allow this sort of thing to happen, eventually all real history becomes a erased and your left with what George Orwell describes in 1984.

[@peacemaster8117]

@@hillehai It seems like you ARE in a bad state, if you're this upset just because an alternate history videogame franchise has some alternate history in it.

[@charleslebi7297]

The good- nice setting, the bad- its ubisoft and there's a $130 ultimate edition.

[@Ty-wf6mg]

And? This has been going on for over a decade. Why are you shocked now?

[@kaushikkv8423]

just buy base game or wait for discount.

[@blackvalio4060]

​@@Ty-wf6mgand ubisoft hasnt given a good game for a decade, wonder why

[@Igor19485]

Who and why even buys shit like ultimate edition

[@kaushikkv8423]

@@Igor19485 exactly

[@jasonmcmurtry7812]

I think I'll just play Ghost Of Tsushima again cause no way Ubisoft is coming even close to that level of quality, amazing combat and great enemies to fight.

[@lukeluke333lukeluke]

Love Ghost Of Tsushima and been thinking about replaying it again.

[@PainxSorrow]

Go ahead no one stopping yall ai

[@joekaunietis538]

Especially since latest AC games don't care about Creed at all, like Valhalla.

[@Tringledingle]

Combats good but the enemies are objectively overused and stale there are like 2 variants throughout the whole game which have like one different attack each

[@muffetmissulena6540]

I wanted to get into the Assassin’s Creed games, but in Ubisoft’s current state, I don’t want to do anything to support them financially.

[@abc4781]

Man just start with the first game and stop at origins.

[@davidfcorreia]

Forget it. Just get them by piracy. Remenber If buying is not owning, piracy is not stealing.

[@undefinedhuman7404]

just play the ezio trilogy and nothing else, MAYBE ac1, ac3, and black flags if you want more

[@k--music]

Replaying the old games was 100% a better experience than playing Odyssey and especially Valhalla. If this is anything like Odyssey it'll be a chore to play without their bs xp boosts and other single player microtransactions too. Definitely not buying this.

[@andrewwilliams3001]

You should , I’ve been a fan of Assassin Creed Franchise since the very first Assassin Creed Game - Altair . This Franchise is just awesome . Ive played every game except Black Flag , I couldn’t get into that game … who knows i might try again . My favourites … 1 - Original the 1st 2 - Mirage 3 - Assassin Creed 3 4 - Odyssey 5 - Valhalla And playing Origins rn ; this is also one I couldn’t get into originally

[@Solaxer]

As soon as a fully finished game becomes available to the public for consumption, that is its release date. Which means “early access” is not early at all. It’s just regular access that they’ve managed to paywall. Paying full price for a game doesn’t even guarantee you access on its release day in 2024.

[@ianism3]

i don't understand why people care about this kind of thing anyways. games usually need a couple updates (at least) to iron out the kinks after release, and I don't like waiting for DLC to come out once I've finished the main game, so I wait months or even years before playing

[@pepeedge5601]

I never buy game at release. My backlog is too long anyway. By the time I get to them they are already half priced. 3 days late seems like nothing to me when I play games like 1 year after release when all the content is already avaliable.

[@pepeedge5601]

​@@ianism3That is also what I do. It pretty much made me immune to "hype buying".

[@Solaxer]

@@pepeedge5601 Thanks for sharing, I guess? Doesn’t really have much to do with what I said though.

[@pepeedge5601]

@@Solaxer It does. The industry is rather rtrded and it is not worth getting games at release.

[@gri22lybear]

I wanna put faith in Ubisoft bc I love a ton of their past games, but present Ubisoft is like trusting a Toxic Ex who constantly gaslights you smh. 😢

[@steppin-razor]

Loll

[@g3ar75]

Accurate, I loved the first two Watch dogs games and ghost recon wildlands, I will wait until release before I judge

[@ianism3]

Mirage is great though.

[@g3ar75]

@@ianism3 Mirage looks fun but it's still a far cry (hah, get it?) away from a title like AC black flag that players love. Still it's a step in the right direction

[@darknova5625]

Ac3 got me through US history in 5th grade ngl

[@senku3402]

Ubisoft needs a ceo change

[@A01Kun]

Agree

[@Sir.bookum]

Agreed

[@onlypantgamer9645]

Almost every big Gaming company need that change

[@Sir.bookum]

@@onlypantgamer9645 yah including Rockstar Not that’s some dumb 💩 too say

[@markonovakovic6762]

ASAP

[@theazranger6327]

seasons are cool... its wild that skyrim modders did seasons before a AAA open world game

[@SwallowMyKoolaid]

That’s cap my boy Bully had seasons and that came out on ps2

[@theazranger6327]

@@SwallowMyKoolaid fair enough 🤣

[@praisetheoak]

Tbh, that would the only redeeming point of the entire game. Changing seasons would be so cool on the right game

[@alinaanto]

Skyrim modders rock!!!

[@sinu9226]

why.. would most games have seasons.. 🗿

[@fazeelraza5215]

Remember, they said, ‘you should be comfortable with not owning it.’

[@Grump.]

most of us who wanted an assassins creed in japan we wanted it like Ezio style game set in japan, not odyssey reskinned...

[@Bearded.Nobody]

Who said it's a reskin of Odyssey?

[@mysterious___1]

If this game is anything like odyssey then it might be good. Go play the first 10 games or mirage

[@TheBasedBalkan]

Dude let it go. The AC style from the ezio era is over

[@eternalmetro]

wtf is an ezio style game like what does that mean

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@Bearded.Nobody You literally build your camp and faction up it says so on website.

[@jesseoverdijk318]

Luke tries not to mention Suicide Squad in a video challenge: Impossible

[@BP-dn9nv]

It's the Fallout 76 of 2024, only except it has no chance of getting better.

[@jesseoverdijk318]

@@BP-dn9nv F76 didn’t really have any chance either lol

[@Belligerennt]

Suicide squad or Assassin’s Creed VALLAHA. Pick your poison.

[@loosegoose2466]

​@@Belligerenntha ha...you beat me to it...Valhalla lives rent free in his head😅

[@KingXhuntR]

he is a sick man 😂

[@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section]

AC1: set in Syria, wherein you play a fictional Syrian AC2: set in Italy, wherein you play a fictional Italian AC3: set in America, wherein you play a fictional American AC4: set in the Caribbean, wherein you play a fictional pirate from the British Isles (which was common) ACU: set in France, wherein you play a fictional Frenchman ACSy: set in England, wherein you play two fictional English twins ACOr: set in Egypt, wherein you play a fictional Egyptian ACOd: set in Greece, wherein you play a fictional Greek demigod ACV: set in Norway, wherein you play a fictional Viking ACM: set in Iraq, wherein you play a fictional... actually a Norse demigod, but in the form of an Iraqi. ACSh: set in Japan, wherein you play as a real African.

[@AsmodeusMKO]

You forgot a few... AC2:B: set in Rome where you play as an Italian AC2:R: set in Constantinople where you play as an Italian AC3: set in America, where you play as a Welsh man for a substantial part of the game ACL: set in French Louisiana where you play as a French Louisianan woman AC Freedom Cry: set in Haiti where you play as a Trinidadian man ACR: set in the north America where you play as an Irish man ACSh: set in Japan where you play as a Japanese woman.

[@shlimeyyy1408]

womo womp

[@jaydonsciregiesekam6205]

so essentially the shinobi gets: -grappling hook and can move faster -new hidden blade and throwing knives/smoke bombs -can make use of the dynamic weather way better with new stealth mechanics and parkour and yasuke will play as a worse ghost of tsushima?

[@DonEmilianoBianchi]

Would’ve preferred a male or female shinobi option tbh

[@shreyway12]

Ghost of Tsushima only had one main weapon. How is it worse if we already know he'll have tools and multiple types of weapons?

[@liftingvids6780]

@@DonEmilianoBianchisame I really don’t wanna play as a woman it’s unrealistic af

[@KharaChmiel]

@@shreyway12 Tell me you didn't play the game without telling me. You didn't have just one weapon in Ghost lol.

[@shreyway12]

@@KharaChmiel I said main weapon. Want to explain how I’m wrong? The rest is just side weapons, the bow, and other tools.

[@tonydeluna8095]

Skepticism is about to begin

[@screaminjesus]

Ubisoft: We have Ghost of Tsushima at home

[@zionwilliams179]

we’re in the endgame jow

[@kevinthunder3375]

😂 You weren't already skeptical?

[@Zen-Oh-Kage]

Local lord = Oda nobunaga one of the most famous names in Japanese history and one of the great three unifiers of Japan… 😐

[@MusingsMuses]

Honestly as someone with a, how shall we say, flittering interest in assassin's creed, the ability to rent a new game for like $12 for a month would probably be the kicker to make me actually play the games. Just a flat 30-day rental and being offered a 'permanent' version + save transfer after time's up. Even if I only keep it that one month, they'd still get 12 bucks from someone planning on not buying at all, and that sounds like a win by any business standard.

[@Jonderlei]

As much as I loved the AC games at first I was pretty broke back then and couldnt justify buying them as youd finish the story and basically be done with them but back then we still had video stores where you could just rent them, a week rental or 2 was usually enough to finish them. I felt it was perfect for them. I definitely miss those days even though now I have more games than I know what to do with

[@yancieb]

thats exactly what Ubisoft+ is, they usually give you a 6 hour trial to their newest games and sometimes even straight up add the full game. I think theres two different tiers you can get or that may be the EA service. Its exactly what youre talking about though, should look into it.

[@DirtySancheeezz]

How will Yasuke bloody fit with that Hide in plain sight tenet i wonder 😂

[@darryljack6612]

By using known status to probably gain information from the inside and pass said information onto Naoe, essentially fighting the system from the inside out. And Naoe will do the same thing but from the outside in. This is why she is take op the stealth shinobi position and he takes up tank warrior. He is hiding in plain sight among the army, and her among the common folk

[@SuperAerie]

Just as well as a flamboyant & overly decorated dress usually does.

[@GoufinAround_]

Good thing I don't buy Ubisoft games anymore. Glad they told me to get used to not owning my games, they're getting used to not having me as a customer. I encourage everyone to do the same

[@farhanowlsadik5016]

Na Luke.. if one thing we know about Ubisoft.. if it's big it's boring

[@Noir-c9k]

That’s not necessarily true, they have done it right and they have done it wrong, like origins was a good example, and Valhalla was a bad example, thing is they don’t learn from their strengths or their mistakes, they just…abandon all progress. which is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen a company do. We know that they have some talented people at Ubisoft but this company is being run by some shady individuals that has nothing but greed on the forefront of their minds

[@rodrigoperalta822]

​@@Noir-c9keveryone praises origins but the biggest complaint Ive seen about odyssey it's that it's origins but bigger. So it's a slog because there's a lot of collectibles and a lot of grind. Valhalla went off the charts so people are starting to say "We need more like odyssey" when it was hated at the stary

[@Dandansuuuy]

Mirage is small, and boring. Odyssey is big and a great game. Wym?

[@Articfoxgamez]

If it helps sources says the map is Origin sized rather than Odyssey or Vallhalla sized.

[@cipri2k2]

that’s NOT what she said…

[@CyraXFactor]

Playing a Ubisoft game is like going to work at a shitty job. You clock in, grind your day away, clock out, go home unsatisfied and not proud of anything you did and you keep telling yourself that “the weekend is coming, where I can forget about my job and I’ll get paid soon.” The only difference is that Ubisoft isn’t paying you to go to work.

[@llama6394]

Except you can stop playing whenever you like without consequence

[@truebaptistfilms]

Yeah, I played AC3 today, and it definitely felt like that. Nothing since Origins has, though.

[@CyraXFactor]

@@llama6394 That’s the whole point. To stop playing. No consequence will ever come from not playing Ubisoft games.

[@Tazza19931]

Not really? Unlike a shitty job, these are videogames. As in, if you don't like them, you don't have to endure them if you don't want to. Just stop playing and play something more to your taste. Also, while shitty jobs are something that are pretty much universally disliked, there are droves of people who really enjoy these games.

[@CyraXFactor]

@@Tazza19931 opinions are opinions. Obviously it’s a bit of an exaggeration, as these games really only feel like chores, rather than an actual job. But again, my entire point was to stop playing. You’re taking it too personally.

[@youssef4955]

I respect everyone’s feelings and opinions about the lack of representation. Personally I am very excited about the game even if we only have seen the cinematic trailer. Most people hate the game because people with a bigger influence tells you to hate on Ubisoft. I’d like to keep an open mind and if its as good as AC odessey then i’ll be very satisfied

[@Kelvin-vd4zv]

remember when they removed altiar's crossbow from the cinematic out of the game because crossbow's didn't actually exist during that time period...

[@plankton2878]

yasuke did so now what

[@nekoluxuria7721]

​​@@plankton2878 He exists but historically was not actually a samurai, there were no actual records that he fought at the frontlines, and oh. Supporting ofa nobunaga is completely antithetical to what the assassin brotherhood stabds for and would more than likely be a templar thing. Should have set the game in the bakumatsu period, think about it. The shinsengumi existed back then, the era which foreigners were able to travel to japan, could put an unreccorded black guy in there if they wanted to as another protag while keeping a lot of people in there. And the cherry on top is that with ac being loose on history anyways, you could include a lot of cool behind the scenes stuff.

[@plankton2878]

@@nekoluxuria7721 tbh i don’t really care whether he was an actual samurai or not and i don’t understand why others do either. it’s so debated at this point that it’s turning irrelevant. what’s genuinely the big deal? like what’s ACTUALLY the problem? they got their japanese protagonist. they got their “assasssin” in an assassin’s creed game. naoe is front and center on the box art with the hood on. why is everyone ignoring her? the accuracy of whether yasuke was a samurai or not shouldn’t hurt anybody the same way no one bats an eye at the apple of eden in the same exact franchise. it’s historical FICTION.

[@nekoluxuria7721]

​​@@plankton2878read the second part of my first parragraph and the entirety of the second parragraph. The issue is less picking yasuke as the samurai character (though the issue of social stealth really comes to mind here) and more why are we using someone who works under oda nobunaga, the guy whose entire goal revolves around the unification of japan, i.e. stuff templars primarily do. The guy who was so cruel he was called a demon in the text books. You know a tyrant? I know guy is romantisized a lot, but you have to see the problem here right? Its very obvious they took yasuke because of the color of his skin and not because he would be a good vehicle to tell an assassins creed story. Like id be fine with yasuke if i am proven wrong and they do sometging interesting there, but with ubisofts track record, the people behind the writing, and you know SBI's involvement. Its not a good show for shadows to be written competently to tell a compelling story with yasuke outside of girlboss fantasy and black boi slaughtering japanese folks.

[@gritskun9591]

@@nekoluxuria7721 the actual story of yasuke is tragic and would make a good story and he for sure fought and wore samurai armor in battle although it wasn't like the one hes wearing in game, he's also considered a samurai because he has all the cool qualities of a samurai, he wore samurai armor in battle and was honor bound to his lord. Btw the general who betrayed nobu specifically didn't kill yasuke after the final battle and specifically said he wasn't a real samurai and those of his hue were animals which shows he clearly had the qualifications he just wasn't accepted by alot because of his race.

[@Brekner]

Can't wait to buy it in like 2 years with all the DLCs for like 20 bucks :D

[@ZakiBTW]

If they don't sell it on steam it'll probably be on sale in less than a year for around 25 on Ubisoft connect got ac mirage for 15 bucks 😂 pretty good game at that price

[@sora-a]

or the better option: pirate it :D

[@Alex-zy6yc]

Games with denuvo haven't been cracked since hogwarts legacy ​@@sora-a

[@ff7522]

Why wait? Pirate it so they don't get anymore money

[@Articfoxgamez]

If its like Valhalla it'll be on gamepass an extra year after that

[@Claudia_Ackermann]

For people saying *"And suddenly historical accuracy is a thing in AC 😂"* or *"Yasuke is a real person!"* or *"AC is a historical fictional game"* or *"Stop being racist, you guys are mad because the main character is black"* ​Yes but at least the other games choose fictional NATIVE characters in their regions AC 1 - Fictional SYRIAN man AC 2 - Fictional ITALIAN man AC 3 - Fictional MOHAWK man AC Liberation - Fictional BLACK woman AC 4 - Fictional WELSH man AC Freedom Cry - Fictional BLACK man AC Unity - Fictional FRENCH man AC Rogue - Fictional IRISH man AC Syndicate - Fictional ENGLISH man and woman AC Origins - Fictional EGYPTIAN man and woman AC Odyssey - Fictional GREEK man and woman AC Valhalla - Fictional NORSE man and woman AC Mirage - Fictional IRAQI man AC Chronicles China - Fictional CHINESE woman AC Chronicles India - Fictional INDIAN man AC Chronicles Russia - Fictional RUSSIAN man

[@Frisken96]

Yasuke says, "then we will look for it together". That made me wish for co-op. Fuck it would be amazing

[@juicebox9859]

would be very cool

[@Katie-hb8iq]

The problem with Yasuke is that the only notable thing about him is that he's black. He's not there for any other reason than his skin color. And he was so uninteresting as a character to begin with that they had to exaggerate his involvement and importance in the setting to make him somewhat interesting. But we really know why he's there - it's pandering and to push a current-day message. There were so many other far more notable characters - actual Japanese men - they could have used or modeled after instead. You know, people who are actually written about in books and have statues made of them. And just because some of the later entries were not historically accurate does not give them a pass to keep doing it. The entire selling point of Assassin's Creed is the historical immersion. If you don't have that, why are we playing these games? Other games do the formula so much better in non-historical contexts. I don't know how people can be immersed playing as a 6-foot-5 black samurai who is supposed to hide in plain sight like this. It's asinine. It's just not the feudal Japanese fantasy that people wanted to have with Assassin's Creed. You can't have that now. The entire narrative changes by playing as this character, as you stick out like a sore thumb, not to mention would realistically have very different interactions with the locals than any other native Japanese male samurai would.

[@BroBomba]

This. The fact is that Yasuke is really only remembered for being a fish out of water rather than anything he accomplished while in Japan. A Japanese man with the same history would have been long forgotten by now. I'm not against romanticizing the idea of him, or even producing works specifically about him, but he should not be upstaging a Japanese man in an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan. He would have been fine as a side character, or even a prominent character, just not one of the MCs.

[@rustyshackelford986]

Well said

[@Joyapp]

yeah most people defending him seem to not understand its the reasoning, not because hes black and its annoying.

[@gbohunm.i]

This is why you are wrong. Please tell me the historical significance of Ezio, Edward, or Arno or any other AC protagonist. You can't, why? Because they did not exist. Ubisoft made them up. You could even say they "exaggerated their involvement". Now you have Yasuke, a guy we know was a fish out of water and nothing else, hmmmmmm a fish out of water that seemingly disappears from the historical record sounds like the perfect building block for a character in a series about an ages long conflict between two shadow organizations that don't appear in historical record. You yourself said part of the appeal is historical immersion, what's more immersive than playing a character that we know just enough about to know they were real but enough mystery to fill in the blanks? You're right though, a big guy dressed in all Samurai armor will stick out and won't be stealthy. That's why they created a whole second protagonist that is literally a Shinobi and clearly displayed the Samurai being a melee focused non-stealth character. More than anything this comment and many like it just go to show how deep seated your racism and prejudice truly are. Simply the existence and centering ( even though it's still a shared protectionist role ) of a (real) black person to you is "pandering" and trying to push a message. Get over yourself and be better

[@TheFuronMothership]

​@@gbohunm.iTHANK YOU

[@SadisticSasquatch]

I think what is really funny about the Yasuke drama is that compared to pretty much every other AC protagonist Yasuke still is one of the most accurate depictions of their real-life counterpart. Most of the AC protags are completely made up and the ones that are real usually are just some normal guy. Yasuke was a retainer for a Japanese lord, and retainers were roles often held by samurai. So does that mean that Yasuke was for sure a samurai? No. But ignoring the fact that this isn't even the 1st time Yasuke has been represented as a samurai in a story, it still makes his depiction in this game closer than virtually every other AC protagonist. Side note: the controversey on why or why not he should be considered a Samurai also doesn't really track anyways. Because what is confirmed is that Yasuke was appointed to Guard Obunaga, was given residency and payment. He was for sure a "warrior" but the argument is whether or not he ranked high enough to be considered "samurai". And if we are being honest, people aren't getting upset because the new trailer hinted that Yasuke was inaccurately given 2 swords instead of just 1, or that he was given a fief instead of a residency. He's wearing armor, and using weapons like a warrior and in a fashion that we associate with the term Samurai, in which case historically Yasuke fits that description.

[@imbro2529]

After Ghost of Tsushima I don't see any point in the existence of Shadows

[@ilyMiickeyBee]

Damn so one Japanese inspired things means there's no reason to ever make anything else ? Lmao

[@victory7763]

​@ilyMiickeyBee people say wild sht when they're upset. I guess after GTA there's no point in open world crime games

[@OMGLittleB]

people have been wanting this for years.

[@KaitoGillscale]

So true. I played CoD3 back in the day. I'm so glad they never made a WW2 game after that.

[@TheMsr47gaming]

​@@victory7763 I mean they tried Saints Row.

[@Sumunuhriginal]

$216/year for rental access to just Ubisoft games is actually insane.

[@d4mterro320]

uhm, these games aren't replayable usually, you pay 18$ and u finish all of it, and you ve gained the dopamine out of it, then u cancel ur subscription till the next time they release a good game. Why u mad?

[@mrpringles6690]

thats very close to the price of my annual gym membership lol

[@crazygamingyt7245]

@@mrpringles6690bros getting scammed

[@JacoBee93]

You have dozens of games in that

[@00j30]

Now Luke lets not be disingenuous. If its a "vocal minority" the trailer would not be ratiod EVERYWHERE. It is clear that most people are not ok with what's being done with this game and they may in fact be the majority.

[@mrtguero]

Ubisoft devoloping a season system means they gonna sell different seasons of the game in season pass

[@gamestream2k983]

I just can’t take Ubisoft seriously anymore

[@locdogg86]

Luke you can’t undermine the tonal shift between games. No, historical accuracy isn’t the end all be all. But plenty of people hate the newer ac games because of the rpg/tonal shifts. So to say it as if those things don’t matter is disingenuous, u know that’s a bad comparison. There’s a massive difference between an order of assassins and fighting mythical creatures.

[@adultsoul4735]

"Its just a video game" argument is getting old. Yes nobody expects 1:1 historic recreation but its game set in Japan with a chance to have a Japanese protagonist but they choose black man just for political correctness points and people are getting tired of this. I see you are scrared to admit this in your videos and instead you make it sound like its a little historical tweak.

[@zuzisam]

What I'm concerned about is that we've heard nothing about assassin's creed..... in Assassin's Creed game.

[@rhysjulian805]

They've just dropped their first trailer, chill.

[@aldolaseomni4341]

The protagonists are literally the first assassins of their time.

[@kp-legacy-5477]

"we are the shadows that work for the light" That's as assassin a quote you can get

[@ryanistooconceited]

People hate Ubisoft....d... don't play their games. 😮

[@zuzisam]

@@aldolaseomni4341 Lmao what? That makes no sense

[@jarrieleyoung7056]

Yo why does everyone hate Ubisoft and assassin creed so much I like the way they twist odyssey into almost god of war I like the whole idea of yasuke I like almost all assassins creeds except marrage fr

[@Grandtemplar305]

I love odyssey you felt like a god

[@glitched-be8036]

When I first heard the rumors that we would be playing as Yasuke, I was hoping they were false rumors... All the other games at least had their protagonists with their correct ethnicity and now they just took a miniscule footnote in history to pander to the DEI crowd and it's just so typical uuuugh... Japanese history has TONS of interesting historical characters with massive potential: how about you play as Mitsuhide Akechi who is actually an assassin/samurai finding out his lord Nobunaga Oda is actually a templar with a good buildup to Nobunaga's assassination? Bam, I'd play that.

[@ianchinsor9248]

Imagine if sucker punch comes out and completely steal ubisofts things by revealing GoT 2 in June. The original GoT was the Japan assassins creed everyone wanted

[@techno_otaku]

I loves Ghost of Tsushima for what it is, but AC has their own charms too. It's just fun running around historical places helping or causing mayhem!

[@destroyinggaming4life410]

My fellow assassins creed fans, it is not the history part we have an issue with. Unless you’re Japanese, can’t really be offended. That being said, the game is called ‘Assassins creed’, please tell me how tf a 6ft black male of a tank, is going to sneak around or not cause a scene everywhere he goes. I get it, he’s a samurai and not a ninja, but it defeats the purpose of the game. So stop talking about history and convenience, that is not our point.

[@destroyinggaming4life410]

@JosephCasimir-ci5bf more like Yasuke is the imposter and it will be clear he is because he’s in fucking Japan.

[@momojafar9385]

man i wished mirage had a full team to work on instead of it being a side job. i loved the setting of that game.

[@Trace153]

Oh joy, time for Ubi games… can’t wait to ignore it and see game omega gold edition at 75% sale within 6 months after release charging people $130

[@ak-nt2tr]

I haven't seen gameplay, but Odyssey is my most favorite game ever. team Odyssey is making a game in Japan. friggin amazing. I've preordered AC since Origins and I don't regret it. Mirage was way overpriced tho. it should've stayed a DLC 30 hrs is way too short.

[@ericmagee9054]

It’s not racist to say we don’t need a black lead in feudal Japan. Let’s make that clear.

[@Grandtemplar305]

It’s not simple thing you can do is ignore it an gone bout ur day

[@myketh1196]

Take a shot every time the website uses the word “dynamic” lol

[@Pityuu2]

Dynamic i.e. created by shallow systems that have no art direction, nor intentions of telling a strory or making the player feel a certain way. Other than numb. They do make you feel numb and bored incredibly well.

[@Igones]

“Don’t bully for liking a game” Proceeds to bully people who like suicide squad 😂 That’s fair tho, its almost impossible not to make fun when they enjoy less than the bare minimum and express it very vocally

[@MrMakatoshi]

The problem with the historical aspect becomes more apparent when you look at the situation further. There were other families with actual Samurai that could be used. With the female ninja being the daughter of one of Japan's famous ninjas, it seems like they wanted the notoriety that comes with them but not the figures themselves. There's a bunch of notable figures that shaped Japan at this time and 97% are Japanese and male, that's just a fact.

[@charlesmiv3842]

So they went with a person that’s unique and different… it’s a video game.

[@sieben.5141]

It’s a video game. I’m pretty sure that people weren’t fighting spirits in Egypt, but we had some of those in Origins. I don’t care that much about how historically accurate these games are. I also would like a game more historically grounded and based in Japan, like we have Kingdom Come, but Assassins Creed will never be that historically grounded game.

[@speeddevil4040]

Well to be fair. It makes sense why they went this route. All the protags are usually 100% fictional. They like using a character that has little to no records about them to shape them into whoever they want. They can’t use someone who had a lot of history writin about them. Though I agree Yasuke made more sense as a side character, maybe make him the Leonardo Di Vinci of this game (the best friend of the MC)

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@charlesmiv3842 No they went with a false history of that person and now are glorifying slavery. Basically "Slavery in the US wasn't that bad...they had food and Houses!" He was never a Samauri, was used as a novelty "Hey look at black skin!" never battled but once because he was being attacked, and was instantly sold too someone else who offered a large sum of money losing all the titles and the house he was Supposedly "Given".

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@speeddevil4040 No he was a literal Slave against his will. Never was a samurai. This is like glorifying slavery and people are cheering for it.

[@wibblesmcscribbles3018]

I am so surprised at the amount of people who have not watched Naruto. Why are so many people pronouncing his name as YAW-Soo-Kay?

[@Bojake]

Damn that’s such a good point actually. It should be pronounced like Sasuke 😂

[@joshk4597]

i don’t like playing as a real person, if he was a side character i’d be okay with it but making another persons choices feels wrong

[@gage8545]

They’re hyping up all of these new systems like they aren’t gonna completely fall flat.

[@Eladdrin]

They have a Japanese setting & refuse to use a Male Asian protagonist out of the hundreds of figures of that time. Internet scholars saying “But Yasuke was a Samurai” were educated from Hollywood. He was a retainer w no significance other than to be a trophy. and yet Ubisoft claims this is their first “historically accurate” MC. some fans are just blind and ignorant, esp to Japanese culture

[@andreypokesaround]

Because it'll be way too much like Ghost of Tsushima. Ubi are already on thin ice with the AC franchise, so imagine what would happen if they release a mediocre product when there is already a spectacular game set in Japan with incredible combat and stealth. They will try everything to differentiate themselves from GOT, even if it means to take the story of a squire and create a new storyline...

[@Eladdrin]

@@andreypokesaround Id say that ice is broken with the backlash over Yasuke who they claim is their first historically accurate MC lol. Japanese are saying its disrespectful and youve already lost a ton of players from that decision It was enough differentiation to have Syndicate style gameplay (which they also didnt show) during the Sengoku era.

[@juicebox9859]

bro. theres an Asian female protagonist right on the god damn cover. its not just Yasuke.

[@Eladdrin]

@@juicebox9859 learn to read. the Kunoichi is not the problem

[@krissuyx]

​@@EladdrinIt's not a problem to begin with but we all know DEI was the reason behind it.

[@DoomOfConviction]

At least you could play a Greek in odyssey and an Egyptian in Origins… so if I was Japanese I would be pissed AF!

[@hillehai]

Practically every AC game has had an MC that was culturally connected to the region in which it took place. Not only is Yasuke not Japanese, he doesn't have any connection to the culture or history of Japan as he was only there for less than 2 years. I doubt he even learned to speak the language at any significant level during the time he was there either, so how does he communicate with people around him? It's ridiculous.

[@AvreeL89]

If it's like AC Odyssey I'm totally in for it! Buy only the Ubisoft+ version! you have 3 months to finish the game and it still cheaper than the standard edition! and hell, if it will take you even 5 months to finish it it's still cheaper than gold edition one.

[@ryguy1483]

If it's like Odyssey, I'm not buying it. EASILY my least favorite AC game with the WORST story (That family dinner scene at the end.... Beyond cringe. I'm going to wrestle my psychopath sister, like we've been together for all time? Weird. Just weird.)

[@marcusclark1339]

don't be dumb, don't buy services that clearly aren't worth it its just manipulative design to own nothing for a mid game and you know it will be like so many of their modern games

[@AvreeL89]

@@marcusclark1339 I get what you’re trying to say, but even if you buy the standard/gold full price/on sale you still don’t own anything, even a physical disc! I miss the old days simpler times :(

[@Nevad25]

@@AvreeL89 Or better, just don't buy this crap. If people would stop supporting those kind of practices they wouldn't have a choice but to change their strategy and give people real games that they own, just like back in the days.

[@ferasamro9735]

The milking Season is upon us.............

[@shnoozezzz9752]

im one of those ac fans that isnt very vocal (i also only buy new ones pre owned because i hate ubisofts past management and actions) and honestly i really dont get the hate rn, we played black flag as a welsh man because welsh men were in the west indies, so a real life actual black man being in japan and being close to being or was a samuri just makes sense becuase of the stories AC has told in the past of outsiders and rejected members of society fighting in the shadows to serve the light and what not. If the game is 33% more polished and detailed than odyssey i will be very happy, the simple fantasy of sneaking as an assassin especially in fuedal japan gets me pretty excited alone.

[@null5489]

Yasuke being a main character is just super disrepesctful to the Japanese. In a historical setting characterized by the struggles, triumphs, and failures of Japenese men, it's clear what message is being sent by hand picking the only black person, a footnote in history who we barely know anything about, as the hero. Plus, it appears Nobunaga is going to be the villain, most likely. So they've got a plot set up to have a black man triump over a figure beloved by the Japanese. It's actually comedic that they've done something this on the nose. This would be like making Assassin's Creed Zulu, and then having a white main character set opposite a villainous Shaka. This is just as bad as that would be.

[@SamuraiShampoo77]

Western devs low key hate the japs cuz they’ve learned to make far better games and cartoons

[@KharaChmiel]

AND NOT ONLY THAT, Yasuke worked UNDER Nobunaga. He owes whatever success he had in Japan to Nobunaga lol. I'm going to laugh out loud if Mitsuhide is the "good guy" in the story....after Mitsuhide literally sent Yasuke to India to get rid of him.

[@Dandansuuuy]

Why do japenese people not get offended on Tom Cruise for Last Samurai? C'mon It's a video game. Stop crying about it.

[@andrewbinns5035]

​@Dandansuuuy they just like tom cruise.

[@2160Tunes]

me when there are black people in my 130$ Ubisoft microtransaction-er-game

[@iropyro3095]

“We made 2 characters to give you a Shinobi fantasy and a samurai fantasy” *Laughs in Jin Sakai*

[@J.F.331]

Ghost of Tsushima (GoT) 2 will probably take us to mainland Japan and will blow AC Shadows out of the water. The one thing that AC games have always had going for them is their landscape and geography, even more so over GoT. But the story and gameplay of GoT is 10x better than most AC games and this will probably be true for GoT 2 while AC Shadows is mediocre at best with great landscape.

[@TEFFTPATTERN]

The entire vision they have for AC makes such little sense at all based on the game and mechanics they are making it for. I could write a 2 page post about why the gameplay loop for AC games is not designed for just looping outpost capture forever, the game needs a cinematic and captivating storyline that makes you want to go find the next mission. The outposts are like the bread at an Italian restaurant, it goes WITH the main dish. It’s not exciting or fun enough to want to play for more than a couple weeks at a time.

[@soumakbasumallik2399]

I remember my Japanese friend telling me that his grandmother told him: 'I don’t care what they teach you in school and in history books, but Samurai's were always Black' Pandering 101 by Ubislop!

[@nawab256]

I’m just tired of games going for woke points. Yes these games are a work of fiction but historical fiction isn’t just pure fictions, it’s sprinkled with historical facts. For example Leonardo da Vinci was a painter but also an inventor. He dabbled in engineering so when he was the guy ezio went to for gear upgrades it made sense. Ac3 had George Washington in it where he was still the first president and a revolutionary fighting the Brit’s. Yasuke was just the first black guy in Japan. He was a retainer, and exotic pet for the shogun because he was so shocked by his skin color. That’s all there was in his history. Plenty of historical Japanese people on that time they could have used for this game and they chose that one black guy. Women could not be Shinobi but they made sure we had our female character to play so we have our black samurai and Japanese women. You can’t spell woke points any easier. Everyone knows why they did it and it’s not because it would make for a cool story lol. They did it to get those sweet woke points for black rock money or what ever investor they went with. You will never see them do this to a game based on a black setting.

[@darryljack6612]

Actually their were female shinobis, it's just that they werent the majority that would be represented of a specific clan. So the history is indeed there. Samew with Yasuke being an actual individual in japanese history and having connection to Nobunaga. What you just described falls into the notion of historical fiction, for which AC has fallen intro in regard to genre.

[@gbohunm.i]

​@@darryljack6612facts. I think he just racist though

[@qadashchaayah144]

Cope and seethe.

[@k--music]

I hope they go for even more 'woke points' next time just so you feel worse. Funny enough, he's the first AC protagonist actually based on a real character. Pythagoras didn't have a Spartan super-woman daughter either (much less live to be 150) and the founding fathers weren't helped out by a badass native assassin. Caesar wasn't killed by an Egyptian spy. Yet those inaccuracies are just part of the AC formula at this point. The games are bad because of Ubisoft's greed, not because they hurt your feelings with their choice of characters. Also Nobunaga wasn't a shogun, so your whine is just as inaccurate.

[@shizz3907]

Comments like yours and just how factually wrong they are, like your claim that this upcoming AC game isn’t sprinkled with historical facts when there were female shinobi and Yasuke was an actual person really just makes me think, and I hate to say this, that you’re actually just racist and sexist. Like your seething is so potent that you are simply ignoring that this game to an extent is already showing signs of historical accuracy, maybe more than we ever got from an AC game to date.

[@uncouthliyouth4486]

This is going to be the best one since Origin’s.

[@skjaldulfr]

But in Odyssey you could go to a Greek setting and play as a Greek. That's what people are mad about. And yeah, if I wanted to play a game as a Feudal Japanese samurai, I would want a Japanese (male) player character. So the issue isn't a matter of pure historical accuracy. It's an issue of what is and is not representative of the setting. The one black guy in feudal Japan is not representative of it.

[@charliebolton3767]

As someone who adored AC Odyssey, I can't wait. I have a lot more faith in Quebec than Montreal. Japan is a great setting, and if they can make it look half as good as they did Greece, it'll be really beautiful. Need to see Gameplay first but I'm optimistic this will be a good one.

[@nobu6273]

I saw this trailer and was freakin hype. Come to find out everyone is complaining AGAIN and talkin crap for no reason. Unbelievable man- people are never happy. Me personally? I have wanted to play as a japanese girl assassin since that Ezio movie that had one in it. IM EXCITED

[@anaguma90]

I asked my Japanese friend about Yasuke and they had never even heard of him. He only seems to have been latched onto in the West for... reasons

[@enyamouth69]

Yes your friend represents all japanese people😂

[@lordbotato7175]

​@enyamouth69 not all, but definitely most tbh

[@BlueBloodPenn]

It’s a cinematic trailer which means we’ve basically seen nothing. It tells us basically nothing about the actual game.

[@Tazza19931]

People will get a lot more from reading the articles than watching the trailer. The people who watch a cinematic trailer like this and comment on how amazing it looks compared to another game that is already out really confuse me. People just need to wait and actually see the game before making big comments, regardless of whether those comments are positive or negative.

[@lI_Speedor_Il]

It tells us a bit about who the characters are

[@84everfan90]

The difference is the cyclops and medusa weren't politically charged, don't fucking gaslight us into thinking there's no difference. The man was the Japanese equivalent of a Court Jester. We can't all have a fencepost lodged so firmly up our asses.

[@mondohop713]

Legit why do you care about this so much, there’s so much other stuff happening in the world and you choose to get all worked up that grr game company doesn’t tailor everything to exactly what I believe grrr

[@davidhehir7378]

How is the only black man in Japan supposed to blend in 😂

[@MrAdal206]

Yasuke was an actual samurai of nobunaga Oda and I urge fans to read his biography, which is based on historical writings from the time. It's fascinating.

[@thecreepybunny4327]

Ngl, i liked AC odyssey quite a bit and am also a total nerd for everything japan. So definitely looking forward for this game. Also pretty nice that ghost of tsushima did come out for pc very recently, so this will be a good year for japanese themed games.

[@KharaChmiel]

I think there's a deeper level here though to the "Yasuke shouldn't be in this game" argument and that's the fact that most if not all AC games have had historically accurate races as their MCs for the places they've shown. Like the people could be from the areas and they've built that into the narrative. "It does a grave disservice to the Japanese people to have a non-Japanese person play the role of a Samurai given the context of what a Samurai was in those days" is the feeling I get from the conversation in the community. The Japanese gamers aren't very happy about it either; an AC game finally in their country and they give the role of Samurai to a non-Japanese. It's just a bit tone-deaf, ya know?

[@parkerdinh-williams6356]

I am stoked for this game honestly. I fking loved Odyssey, it was a super fun time, and Im stoked for this one. Ubisoft gets a lot of hate but they have some good games! You just need to draw enjoyment from their formula, which I 100% do.

[@Grandtemplar305]

Facts odyssey is my favorite

[@stevenr5682]

1. Yasuke dressed in full on battle armor in a city of commerce, which I assume a trading hub. Samurai’s do not wear that in a peaceful city or that setting. 2. Yasuke was taken as a “Kosho” by Oda Nobunaga. Kosho’s were sword/luggage holders at a very young age for the major warlords. They were almost like butlers. They could become samurai when they grow older into service. Yasuke never had a chance to become a samurai because just one year into the service, Nobunaga got killed at honoji. 3. Continued from point two, Yasuke never saw action in battle. At least not as a samurai, sword fighting other samurai like portrayed in the trailer. Warlord campaigns lasted for months and years. Yasuke only served for 1 year and never again. He was so unimportant in the history of Japan that there was absolutely no record of him after his lord got killed at Honoji, so why would Ubisoft pick Yasuke as the main character? 4. At the very least, this is the first main Japanese AC game in the series, why is the main character not Japanese?

[@birdis9476]

Asians have a hard working and intelligent culture so they're not approved as heroes these days.

[@Goodnightsrest]

There’s two main characters not just one lol

[@justinsteinberg]

@@Goodnightsrest exactly everyone is forgetting that!

[@TheManofThings777]

@@Goodnightsrest Both should be Japanese.

[@Grandtemplar305]

@@TheManofThings777are you even a ac fan ?

[@atlxzsx]

Ubisoft really hurt some of you guys. Geez

[@Jeroen4]

Yasuke was a servant

[@BRN2BNDAIR]

I saw a scene where I thought this was the intro for Madden 26 🤣

[@birtes1825]

FYI, the rank that Yasuke had was actually part of the samurai, which all were vassals to their lords, so that is not actually a stretch of history, there's not just a lot more known about him apart from that.

[@djcrouton2680]

Which gives the writers a lot of freedom if they want to craft a story with him in it.

[@BiggieNoodles]

Dude. He was a samurai. He was a vassal. Go look him up all they are doing is exaggerating a true story

[@TmoneyOGGamer]

It doesn’t have to be historically accurate, but it should be respectful of the culture it is portraying. I am Asian and I am offended. That’s obviously just my opinion, but I think in this case, it matters. Instead of getting a white savior, we get a black savior, us Asians just can’t help ourselves…lol

[@Motion_God]

I mean there wasn’t any outrage when Nioh came out

[@TmoneyOGGamer]

@@Motion_God It’s based on a Manga, Japanese comic, this is being forced on by westerners. If they are going to bring up wokeness and DEI, it goes both ways. There’s no outrage does not mean it’s not offensive. I never liked The Last Samurai either.

[@newhope33]

@@Motion_God William adams was a actual Samurai Yasuki wasn't.

[@Motion_God]

@@TmoneyOGGamer exactly

[@Motion_God]

@@newhope33 yes but all assassins Creeds games are inaccurate tho so what’s the outrage about this one in particular

[@TheShortMeadow]

Japanese person here, quick pronunciation note: Yasuke is pronounced Yas-kay (like Sasuke from Naruto)

[@Harry-tm3ck]

Okay lord sakai

[@mayormccheese3786]

I feel like this is going to be a “Ghost of Tsushima did it better” thing

[@blessanabey5575]

Yasuke invented Dreads.😂

[@petersimonsaba]

I don't think they are 'massaging' the historical record. It is likely (as agreed by most historians on the topic) that Yasuke, a respected and armed retainer of the most powerful man in Japan at the time, was considered a Samurai. Of course they will be taking creative liberties with his story but they have not distorted history to do so (essentially, they are filling in the gaps as very little is explicitly known of Yasuke).

[@tehbeernerd]

Regardless of the history, it’s a ploy for Ubisoft to get people talk about literally anything else, because it takes the heat off of their awful recent run of games. Nothing like ginning up discourse to make people stupid.

[@petersimonsaba]

@@tehbeernerd It was probably them trying to differentiate the game from Ghost of Tsushima, which had just come out when they started development. The distraction and diversity element are more likely to be side benefits. Keep in mind it is the developers who choose the story - I doubt they would have planned ahead for Ubisoft's failure in the subsequent 4 years.

[@evanauditoredafrienze]

The AC2 music you use in the background is so nostalgic and eery. I listen to the soundtrack sometimes on long scenic drives. Really takes me back to being a kid

[@emilcioran7444]

Nobody had a problem with nioh let that sink in...

[@HighKnighter]

Nioh didn't have mtx and is actually good.

[@yarikistaken]

Probably because it was made by the Japanese with no intention to pander :)

[@borgnafthecheesegod1546]

@justsomeguypostingmemes1170 lmfao, you talkin about the ancient sci fi aliens with apples of eden influencing events behind the scenes even after death being realistic, no bud, asassins creed has also been fantasy almost since its first few games, hell odyssey was as close to just straight up greek fantasy as you could get without making a damn percy jackson game or sum

[@Goodnightsrest]

@@borgnafthecheesegod1546I love when they try the “ ItS bAsED iN HisTorY” route. Like we don’t all know that AC hasn’t be sci-fi fantasy since the beginning 😂😂

[@loganfaraday1740]

"Their vison": ESG and DEI

[@kamilszczęsny-m9d]

only bigots say ESG and DEI.rascist

[@UserNotFound00101]

Wonder if they are going to race swap Japanese characters, like they did with Vikings in Valhalla.

[@whiteraven9544]

Are you telling me Madusa didn't actually exist? 😱😱

[@theastralwisdom]

You mean to tell me Bayek didn't actually fight Anubis?! and NOW they have the audacity to put a black man in my Japan based game?! MY REALISM IMMERSION IS CRUMBLING! 😭🗾! not 🌍! (in case you can't tell, I'm mocking racists.)

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@theastralwisdomYou must have a lot of hay with the strawmans you’re making. Assassins Creed has always had the native people be the main playable character in the time period they’re set in from a demographic speaking stand point aside from Revelations. Having Yasuke and a Japanese woman be the only playable characters and not a Japanese man was very much obviously decided due to ESG and DEI initiatives that have minority quotas for black people only than genuine creativity. It’s extreme pandering. Yasuke was never a samurai. Assassins Creed has always tried to look and feel as authentic as possible with some obvious sacrifices for gameplay reasons aside from the couple previous entries which had more mythical creatures incorporated. If you’re going to be ignorant, at least try to educate yourself beforehand as to why people are really upset. We want to be a Japanese version of Ezio, Altair, Edward, and Connor set in feudal Japan without ESG demanding minority representation because they’re too fragile to play as someone typical from this era.

[@Devin7Eleven]

No Medusa never existed just like Yasuke was never a samurai.

[@roonkolos]

I don't care whether or not Yasuke was or wasn't a real samurai I care that Ubisoft is trying to peddle WAAAAAAY fucking more than any of their games deserve The worst part is people are going to buy it out of spite one way or another. This is why this shit will never end People care more about pretending they're making a point rather than actually having standards

[@boredboard5707]

Games get a 100% more fun once you stop interacting with the fan base

[@Grandtemplar305]

Yesirrrr

[@deltafive_o-first2417]

Its a problem that if you take out the girl and just leave Yasuke there nothing Assassins Creed about this at all but hey final judgement for the final product

[@gbohunm.i]

That is an insane take. You can do that with any other AC game. "If you take out the assassinations, there's nothing Assassin's Creed about black flag" And before you say "that's not the same thing, that's a key gameplay system" Naoe is the players way to engage with those systems in this game

[@deltafive_o-first2417]

@@gbohunm.i You misunderstand. What Im saying is that specifically in this trailer if you just leave Yusuke there isnt really anything that says AC. Theres nothing about him that indicates hes an assassin. No hood, no blade, no Assassin logo even on him, no mention of the creed, no brotherhood, and even his target has no Templar logo. It doesnt need all of those but it should have some to make him feel like hes an Assassin. No your thing isnt the same because you escalated it to the whole game. Im just talking about the problem with this trailer and the current presentation of this character.

[@peacemaster8117]

@@deltafive_o-first2417 There wasn't anything overtly Assassin-y about the guy in Origins either, and that game was pretty good. If you removed Connor from AC3 there'd be nobody who looked Assassin-y. Why's it a problem if Yasuke doesn't look like an Assassin? Who cares?