Does Ubisoft want us to be homeless?

The New AC looks great! (there is no gameplay)
I stream on twitch! / theonlyzanny

[@thirdzanny]

Sorry for the misinformation gamers 🙏. Didn't know the actual Yasuke history but I'm learning about him now in the comments lol. I just knew he existed and would just read about him in passing.

[@triplesupper2164]

Hey zanny how is kirin doing?

[@btchiaintkidding7837]

it is good trailer tho it almost... almost gives me hope. maybe the history is fanfic but if the gameplay is good, just mix Sekiro's movement/prosthetic tools and Tsushima's open world and the game should be amazing. we just may get good open combat in this game, why is it so hard to make good combat ubi why?

[@Delta-Snake]

ass's creed

[@kryppo4245]

i bet ubisoft just made him a MC for outrage instead of making a better game since they know the Ghosts of tsushima comparisons will be inevitable

[@JLiger]

he not samurai and historly figure ..... all assassin creed are fiction character and yes they want us be homeless btw they will homeless lol btw I will pass because for honor we getting samurai real one I getting it will be out June 4.

[@Average_enjoyer_of_hk]

Ubisoft shanked me in an alley and stole my left kidney

[@just_bladeok2041]

I'm surprised they didn't force you to pay for the experience

[@Angrenost02]

Players should get used to not own their kidneys

[@TyrantsRuin]

While holding you for ransom till you buy back your own kidney

[@slushbrain8495]

You was marked as a fortress main boss.

[@user-vm9we7fs4d]

Those French

[@nikolaswolters1862]

Robbers in the future will force us to buy ubisoft games

[@user-vm9we7fs4d]

Look at me look at me 👁️👁️I am the captain now

[@keysncoffee7733]

“Don’t shoot! I’ll buy it!! I’ll buy the damn subscription!! Please!!!”

[@ismaelbouissef4436]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@keysncoffee7733

[@Saitama-ur3lq]

you guys should be on r/fuckubisoft

[@MONMCFF]

​@@Saitama-ur3lqyes

[@truecaliber1995]

Ubisoft: Here's a cinematic trailer with no gameplay, an inconsistent pace and tone, and an innacurate picture of what the final product will look like. That will be 130 dollars, please!

[@vodkavecz]

Not that inaccurate, AC has the kind of cool looking trailers that show things you can actually do in game. Not in the same cinematic fashion, but it's there.

[@shadowninja1275]

Me: "SCREW YOU UBISOFT!"🥷👎🗑️

[@konighartzderiv.4898]

The ingame version is so much lamer tho. Look at the epic Valhalla trailer and look gow bad the game turned out. ​@@vodkavecz

[@vodkavecz]

@@konighartzderiv.4898 that's what I said. It's not as cinematic, but it's there. Be it hiring courtesans or hidden gun in AC2, or the pirate hing in BF, or the grapple and carriage riding in Syndicate

[@bercalziner722]

@@konighartzderiv.4898I mean tbh I think Ubisoft has improved their stealth gameplay since Valhalla. Mirage was forced to work with Valhalla animations since it was a dlc at first. The tools were a step in the right direction. I doubt Ubisoft will mess up Naoe. It’s Yasuke I’m worried about. I think it’ll be a decent game regardless though.

[@tomcroosfunni792]

"We can't mix Shinobi and Samurai together due to social classes" *Puts magic and gods into their games*

[@lukalovric2463]

shinobi werent a class tho

[@TheSpongyMallard]

Also, Ghost of Tsushima exists.

[@leithaziz2716]

Sekiro: Excuse me?

[@doriangrigorie7345]

dude why is that a bad thing? the fact that you have 2 separate ways to enjoy both worlds is good yall be hating like ur paid for it

[@KlutchAndJerel]

Prolly better gameplay to separate. That way I can have a full stealth character, and a full fighting character

[@shiddlestick]

“We cannot mix samurai and shinobi together” Ghost of Tsushima gameplay: 💀

[@fxckitswayne_]

For as a protagonist. You absolute imbecile.

[@MrFallenone]

They are not talking about gameplay. They wanted 2 characters for maximum representation, now with 0 white protagonists bonus points. They are just making excuses. The gameplay will be the same for both based on your loadout because a woman can do the same things as a man otherwise they would loose points again.

[@ThumbSipper]

​@@MrFallenone I can smell your breath trough the monitor man, please go outside...

[@ymfkl]

​@@MrFallenone Dude...

[@lacuna3693]

But in ghost of tsushima, you were just playing as a samurai that wasn't honorable. I want disguises, hiding directly above enemies, kusarigama combat, etc

[@kingsleycy3450]

Ubisoft always puts more effort in marketing than the actual game. They are the biggest snake oil salesman in an industry that's just snake oil salesmen

[@iyaramonk]

That is a crazy statement. There is immense amount of work that goes into these games.

[@niamhmaloney8750]

@@iyaramonk Yeah, like the beautiful background art, the music, the shitty combat that's more repetitive than Fifa, and the character models that look like playdough people

[@chickenjimmy6552]

​@@iyaramonk Are you serious? Every single game they put out is knowingly worse than its advertising. The games are buggy, soulless garbage that purely exists to shake the pockets of idiots that will buy anything they sell

[@nixad4248]

when would you all stop bitching around,you can wait for sale and buy the game its not up to them to make you homeless its up to you,if you act like baby and cant even wait for a sale ofc you will be homeless and dumb.on the other hand you can be more patient and wait for sale it will legit cost max 30euros

[@Fem-dp9we]

@@chickenjimmy6552 Buggy? which one? unity? that's only one game though

[@ShrimpEmporium]

Not just homeless. In debt. Enslaved.

[@Delta-Snake]

Then you have to escape and learn the way of assassin. Truly immersive experience

[@PrototypeFreak89]

Only one hope... Sell your a$$ to males to get $$$. Have a great day!

[@_ikoo]

Never trust a cinematic, especially if it Ubisoft's.

[@walkingwhisperer]

People do get hyped so often from CGI trailers. That's the problem with gaming today.

[@raedjoobeur3864]

By now I'm sure that everyone will pass Ubisoft games.

[@tj7667]

Well they do make really nice trailers not so much games tho

[@JustapErson]

Ubi and activision are the kings of making great trailers and awful scummy games.

[@gabrielaleactus9932]

I can vouch for that

[@skxlter5747]

Do NOT pre order until you seen gameplay first, it's that simple guys cmon now

[@thebigsida6645]

no. do not preorder period.

[@Rob_Kankerboef]

Do not buy this game period.

[@tyr573]

I mean gameplay is just the last 4 games lol

[@bobertastic6541]

It’s assassins creed, just don’t preorder at all

[@B-rex127]

Still wanna get the collectors edition. I don't care how much hate I get for saying this but haters can fuck themselves

[@leithaziz2716]

Ubisoft kinda struck gold a little too late with the choice of setting. You can already get a more fulfilling experience with Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima and Like a Dragon Ishin. And they all cost half as much (some of them don't even sell additional DLC).

[@doriangrigorie7345]

u talk like the game is already out and you already played it to say the other games are more fullfilling

[@snitchinkitty2421]

Nothing is too late games will always come out

[@vernonparker5154]

Ghost of Tsushima did Assassin’s Creed better than Ubisoft

[@Fascists4Palestine]

​@@vernonparker5154no lyin

[@nakiangoderich3014]

​@doriangrigorie7345 You saying you'd pay $130 dollars for a game? Especially when there are always better alternatives?

[@sobhannasrolahian1429]

dude, anything that Ubisoft publishes is shit until proven otherwise

[@DoubleU159]

They honestly haven’t released anything good for at least a decade

[@marcelomoreno7]

​@@DoubleU159Your just hating at this point.

[@billclinton1235]

​@@marcelomoreno7Name 5 good recent Ubisoft game bro

[@marcelomoreno7]

@@billclinton1235 You said a decade not like recent like 3 years ago and they do got good games there recent games aren't bad but not the best there average. Recent ubiosft games that have been good for me is far 6, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Valhalla was decent, avatar was good.

[@sobhannasrolahian1429]

@@marcelomoreno7 bro the point that you referring to is the bottom of the barrel

[@Zetsubbo]

Not giving Ubisoft a dime is the true way of samurai

[@hendreor.m6685]

It shows honor

[@nileredsexperiment834]

It is written in the Bushido code

[@robertjv]

Bruh £129??? It managed to beat £120 outlaws

[@HybridReal]

It’s £69 for the base game. It’s £129 for the third tier of editions for the game. £70 is a average pricing for video games nowadays. Exaggerating the price to make this video clickable certainly worked.

[@SenorStinky3730]

@@HybridReal 70 is not average for video games nowadays. It’s only average for games made by triple A studios which are all horrible. And this isn’t an exaggeration of the process because it’s literally the price of the game with a couple cosmetics which would have cost around 90 not long ago. You literally can’t defend the daylight robbery that are the games pushed out by these studios.

[@sgt.milkshake3352]

Nah, you don't get it, they put a bunch of cosmetics and content you should be able to earn after you paid for the fucking £ 70 game behind an even bigger paywall, so it's fine!! ​@@SenorStinky3730

[@DINOMAN1337]

158 for the gold edition that comes with steelbook at jbhifi here in australia same price on steam as well

[@rainbowsnek]

in my country its $100 just for the 'standard' edition which is ~$20 more than the cheapest AAA game i've seen. Still not as much as starfield though which is $120 by itself (im still not over that) of course, the gold edition is $160 lmao. $200 for the ultimate edition which has some p2w equipment compared to gold? My friend bought a bloody laptop for that much recently, ubisoft is smoking hard these days. the pre-order bonus isn't cosmetics or anything BTW i need people to know, it's another 'bonus quest'. so they have content locked behind both the season pass AND the pre-order bonus

[@photometricx8149]

shout out to the "hear me out: ALIENS" guy at 3:02

[@GrassPokeKing]

Can't wait to see how ahead of their time they'll end up being

[@NotEvnClos98]

“We can’t really mix shinobi and samurai together.” Sucker Punch: *Laughs in Jin Sakai*

[@rpgislife]

"We can't combine the two playstyles of shinobi and samurai" Ghost of Tsushima wants to know your location.

[@user-um2yd5vq3m]

But they put gods in an assassins creed games

[@shinobiofashina2168]

Ubisoft sold me fent at the gas station for 20$ turns out it was a weekly subscription

[@ImTriumph]

is ubisoft chinese?

[@solidmatzo]

How are they gonna ask for pre-orders and show NO gameplay?????

[@OgSuda]

Because it's Ubisoft

[@Jay-on2on]

We all know yasuke has a time traveling barber

[@damianwojcik7287]

Zanny Yasuke wasn't really respected by other samurai. He was bought by Oda Nobunaga who used Yasuke as something of a jester. He then got killed ,Yasuke captured and we know nothing more of him. And all that took place in span of like 15 months. His story is kind of depressing but also leaves some room for the writers at ubisoft. But they haven't written anything good in like 7 years so...

[@hakugen3479]

*7 years* Eeeh, crank that up to *the last decade* and maybe we're getting close.

[@leithaziz2716]

Poor guy

[@damianwojcik7287]

@@hakugen3479 I enjoyed Origins

[@hakugen3479]

@@damianwojcik7287 the start of their downfall but eh, good enough.

[@MrJakmatt]

Forsure gonna rewrite his entire story to him being some super badass samurai that everyone respected and feared all so they can push “diversity” in FUEDAL JAPAN. Can’t make this shit up.

[@kryppo4245]

Just play ghosts of tsushima instead its cheaper and will be 100x better than whatever ubisoft will shit out

[@NikZedika]

He never finished it.

[@theguardian2428]

​@NikZedika Yes he did. He spared Jins Uncle. And even beat the DLC

[@dooper264]

@@theguardian2428 no he’s still deciding if he’s gonna spare him

[@hakugen3479]

I hope to god when this pile of garbage released it gets compared to death to Ghost of Tsushima just so people will finally open their eyes as to what a truly "great" game is and not this subpar shit for an exorbitant price.

[@ssilent8202]

@@theguardian2428video?

[@mahdiakhavan3658]

The best way it can turn out is exactly ghost of tsushima

[@hakugen3479]

_Half_ as good as Ghost, and that is already expecting tok much from Ubisuck.

[@mahdiakhavan3658]

@hakugen3479 we'll play it for about 6 hours and then go back to Ghost of tsushima. That game was a masterpeace

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

Ghost of tsushima is just about the perfect samurai game imo, not as fantasy based as Sekiro or Nioh, eleganta and simple. 10/10 game

[@Fem-dp9we]

nah it will eventually surpass

[@acojo8205]

Ghost of Tsushima was mid though

[@patriot459]

The dislikes are for Ubisoft. I haven’t seen a company lose so much faith from their community then these guys. Also I truly do not need to play as yasuke and would just prefer to play as you know the fucking assassin!? Ubisoft can’t help themselves but continue to try and make this franchise disconnected from using stealth and playing as the assassins. They saw samurai and couldn’t help themselves but be like yes be the black samurai guy yes let’s give him magic and other bull shit. Then someone in the back of the room is like but isn’t this assassins creed shouldnt players be an actual assassin? After throwing that employee into the dungeons they created the girl so that they can try and say there is stealth.

[@holysword876]

Exactly!!! I dont know why the heck Ubisoft is trying to do something 'new', when all they need to recreate is black flag but in Japan times. I mean samurai and ninja combo looks nice, but if their track record for mid fight gameplay continues, its just going to mean samurai is gonna feel awful, and the shinobi is gonna be at best meh.

[@aarondiaz7196]

Is a product and a work of art, you are free to not buy and they are free to make their work of art they way they want.

[@astronotics531]

You can play with Naoe throughout the entire game in stealth mode, although some quests are reserved for Yasuke.

[@doriangrigorie7345]

the most discombobulated statement pulled out of your ass you could make. Naoe is just as important as Yasuke and nothing suggests otherwise. In no assassins creed ever would you only use sealth, nobody ever played an ac only steathly. Remember how combat focused was ac4

[@holysword876]

@@aarondiaz7196 Funnily enough we are also free to criticize them all we want, the only person who doesnt want others to be free seems to be you lol.

[@pl0xie494]

There are alot of people spreading misinformation about yasuke. Here is the truth: Yasuke was a retainer of nobunaga, not a samurai, not some jester or pet to be shown around japan. His background as a warrior slave in india and him participating in 2 known battles, Nijo castle and Tenmokuzan(according to ietadas diary) shows that. He was a bodyguard at times to nobunaga, it makes sense since the man was huge. And also, he wasnt a slave by the time he was in japan. Slaves arent given house, stipend and sword.

[@gwop827]

But a retainer is a lower class samurai from what i understand.

[@pl0xie494]

@gwop827 they are bushi(warrior), but not necessarily samurai from what I know. I could be wrong though. Samurai are often identified via having fiefs or a family name. Another reason he couldn't be samurai to me is that when nobunaga was forced to commit seppuku alongside his samurai, Yasuke was spared.

[@gwop827]

@@pl0xie494 Oh ok. But from what I understand, he was considerably more prestigious than other retainers since he was given the honour of the blade bearer for nobunga, which was supposed to show you were incredibly trusted

[@pl0xie494]

@gwop827 Yes this is true.

[@aruther444]

Another Assassin's Creed game? Seriously Ubisoft? May as well call it Ubisoft's Greed

[@Shayman94]

At 129 euros, it's basically it lol.

[@sebbepvp1207]

i bet when the game releases your gonna change your little mind of yours

[@6Tainted1370]

@@sebbepvp1207 How funny that you're calling him little minded hahaha

[@vernonparker5154]

@@sebbepvp1207Haven’t bought an Ubisoft game since 2018. Besides, Ghost of Tsushima does Assassin’s Creed better than anything Ubislop has put out in the last decade

[@steelbear2063]

There are 2 genders of gamers : those who complain that a series is running for too long and those who complain about a series not getting new games

[@RemyVonLion]

Yasuke was a sword bearer that surrendered the one time he had to fight, according to the top comment on a post on r/gaming about this trailer lol.

[@frankiepollock7380]

that person seems to have just posted misinfo. Can't find anything like that in retellings of his very much undocumented life

[@SolitasRuisu]

Seems like a trustworthy and non-biased source, carry on

[@Smokey348]

@@SolitasRuisu so you are saying he fought in multiple battles?

[@Ruben-no1tb]

He fought in 2 battle(not to sure about the first one, since it’s journal entries) and had some skill with the sword since he was able to be a kaishakunin. He also tried fighting some forces after finding out about a betrayal, but was then talked into stopping by a vessel

[@SolitasRuisu]

@@Smokey348 I'm saying ever since the game was revealed there has been an ongoing edit war on the wikipedia page of Yasuke trying to cement the narrative about him not being a "samurai" even though most historians seemed to agree that outside of some very specific technicalities of what it means to be a samurai in different time periods (since who could be considered one did change during Japan's history), Yasuke could be considered a samurai while under Nobunaga's service. So I do tend to think people who are very invested in heavily downplaying that seem to be more motivated to create a narrative rather than faithfulness to history.

[@loyal-tf-fan]

>Finally get AC set in Japan >Overlook all historical characters and potential to instead go with a foreigner >Yasuke is literally called “The Black One” who was just a slave to someone and only stayed in Japan for 14 months, not enough to justify him being a trained Samurai.

[@Smokey348]

Pretty sure yasuke doesn't mean ''the black one'' lol . Its most likely means house helper or smth in that sense (something to do with his profession). He was a servant for Oda Nobunaga. I think he carried his swords and did other stuff.

[@loyal-tf-fan]

@@Smokey348 House helper = le no herupa, and he may of done "something" when his owner died but he ultimately surrendered and left Japan, staying in Japanese for only about 14 months.

[@Smokey348]

@@loyal-tf-fan you using google translate?

[@Tvanon]

​@@loyal-tf-fan clearly you dont speak japanese. I do, I never heard the term Yasuke before but it actually make sense to be mean "house helper", which probably written as 家助. Herupa is just katakana from helper, and I dont think they start using herupa in that era.

[@ilhamadigunawan5264]

@@loyal-tf-fan blud thinks he's the shit by using that google translate 💀ain't no way Oda knows "herupa" in the age he's in

[@burgroslav3542]

Funny thing: There are very few historic sources describing Yosuke as a samurai, mostly just a notes from missionaries. And even if he was a samurai, he totaly did not learnt their ways and become honorable among them. You see, the true story is that Yasuke was a slave brought to Japan by foreign merchants and since Japan was very isolated (there were periods of time where Japan was completly isolated from the other world and the rulers strictly prohibited traveling there.), a black man for japanese people was something extremly new and exotic. So the ruler bough (or recieved him as a gift) Yasuke and most probably made him samurai so he could keep him close, since someone as high as ruler could not spend time with a servant. He was just a toy for him. Forcing Yasuke into the game just feels weird. There are tons of Japanese folk heroes and they chose the least japanese one out of them.

[@miobro2901]

My brother in Christ the Japanese themselves love yasuke it is simply you a racist westerner who thinks he can speak for culture he has no bounds in

[@kidis_grassa9394]

This game needs ONE THING to be a 10/10 Another developer.

[@w12266]

TWO MORE things: - Another Publisher - Not calling it AC

[@crispycracker5103]

The Assassins are gonna find tanalorr

[@eetukovanen6170]

Yeah yasuke was just a slave of an french nobel man who forgot/sold him in japan and he was a sword bearer until he died. Never was a samurai

[@pilotman9819]

You have to check the post from Ubisoft Japan. The Japanese fans are absolutely destroying it from bottom to top. Also, Yasuke was never a Samurai. He was mentioned once or twice and that was it. This is an excerpt from Akechi-sama about him after the fall of Oda Nobunaga: "Fróis wrote in the annual report of the Jesuits: The black man understood a little Japanese, and Nobunaga never tired of talking with him. And because he was strong and could do a few tricks, Nobunaga took great pleasure in protecting him and had him roam around the city of Kyoto with an attendant. Some people in the town thought that Nobunaga might make him as tono ("lord") A black man whom the visitor [Valignano] sent to Nobunaga went to the house of Nobunaga's son after his death and was fighting for quite a long time, when a vassal of Akechi approached him and said, 'Do not be afraid, give me that sword', so he gave him the sword. The vassal asked Akechi what should be done with the black man, and he said, *'A black slave is an animal (bestial) and knows nothing, nor is he Japanese, so do not kill him, and place him in the custody at the cathedral of Padre in Portugal."* So yeah, the guy's role is not even miniscule. Its nonexistent. Rather than someone like Hattori Hanzo or Nobuyasu or great other legendary Samurai's with long written battles and achievements, hundreds of Servants, large and massive Fiefdoms making them right of the title of Samurai, they picked the guy with little to no history. (They admitted to this at 4:26)

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

Idk if it'd be worse or better if they just made up a black character rather than having Yasuke. The templars do mess with historical records tho so there's some suspension of disbelief there

[@seniorsterling1064]

I will be honest, haven't you played freedom cry, assassins don't tolerate slavery or sexism, anyone can be an assassin, in fact maybe yasuke was saved by the assassins because he was just that, a " pet" or " decoration" and now he fights against his enslavers. Perfect proof is that alot of ppl say nobunaga's faction are the villains if so then it makes sense especially going by the excerpt you quoted. He was freed by assassins, trained by them then an ally lord or someone with influence makes him a samurai, very simple but Ubisoft is trash so who knows.

[@snip3st3r]

@@seniorsterling1064 Even if he was saved by the assassins, no way would all the other Japanese samurai and lords just let this black man walk around in the streets like a samurai without severe consequences.

[@samerkk1836]

youre just making shit up you dumbass, japanese devs literally made multiple game wth yusuke as the protaganist hes well respected

[@seniorsterling1064]

@@snip3st3r well he is backed by a lord or someone of some kind of esteem, they might just be afraid of his tall stature and black skin, remember even today black ppl in Japan are treated very differently. Imagine back then where Japan is extremely isolated yasuke might even be seen as a black oni.

[@spookysandwich5744]

I hope we get another AC Syndicate kind of game from this. In Syndicate, Evie was more stealth while Jacob was more combat, so it's nice that they're doing that again. All we can do is pray, wait for a gameplay trailer, and then buy the game a month after release when it's on sale.

[@ryanspencer6778]

This seems so much worse than Ghost of Tsushima in every way. I know it's not trying to be GoT, but it will inevitably be compared to it.

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

I think ubisoft will overcompensate with the combat. GoT's combat is very simple and very smooth, it'll be hard to remove that AC jank that's in every game to keep up with it

[@Darling-2003]

Yasuke is not even a samurai. He was a manservant carrying weapons. Ubisoft saying they care for history is horse shit

[@sparten6]

He was a servant for ONE YEAR then got sold to the Jesuits by oda nobunaga

[@MrFallenone]

@@sparten6 Guess he wasnt a very good servant.

[@alienatedslayer]

Lmao also they make him look more American than African. I'm pretty sure my man would be black as the night.

[@asvphios9996]

Keep crying about it…he was a samurai!!

[@sparten6]

@@asvphios9996 no you should cry bro. Because he wasn’t. Imagine defending a company that only wants your money

[@Rockyroad321]

I did some proper research, yasuke was not an official samurai as that requires a social hierarchy but people are saying he was just a water boy which is just not true and downplays yasukes significance. Nobunaga bought Yasuke as a slave and had him trained. On record He was a hard worker and gained the trust of many. Nobunaga is the first samurai to almost conquer the whole of Japan and he appointed Yasuke as his retainer. In Japan to be a retainer means you were very respected and trusted. Regardless of that, on record Yasuke was given a higher rank than most Japanese warriors at the time and was given the right to own property along with his own personal katanas which is a huge privilege. Yasuke was his personal bodyguard the day nobunaga was assassinated in the fire and was captured under suspicion of nobunagas murder but released due to their trust in him. ^^ and that is all on record. There is no record after his release but since nobunaga was assassinated and he was his retainer I assumed he lost his job or became an insignificant low rank warrior. Whether yasuke was a samurai or not, his real story is great and to gain trust on that scale must mean he was a very skilled warrior. Bro was officially appointed a higher rank than the average warrior but yall still wanna call him a water boy… Edit: also the name “Yasuke” was given to him by oda nobunaga be wise Yasuke didn’t have a prior name.

[@lordhelmchen3154]

I mean, besides it being Ubi, can you really blame people for hating the protagonists? People don't hate to see a black protagonist, they hate that he was only chosen as protagonist to force more inclusivity into the game. I read into Yasuke's history a bit and what is shown in popular media could not be farther from the truth (I hope I got everything correct, if not feel free to correct me): He wasn't a samurai, he was never trained in combat. He never actually fought in a battle. The Jesuits showed him to Oda Nobunaga who was intrigued because Yasuke was very tall, muscular and above all of black skin colour. There is no sugarcoating it. Oda made him is sword bearer, meaning he would carry Oda's sword and stay by his side constantly. In battle, Yasuke still stayed by his lord, far away from the battlefield and outside of any combat. Then after mere months, Oda died, Yasuke stayed with Oda's son but the castle where they stayed got conquered and after the battle he got returned to the Jesuits (because the victorious warlod basically said "he is not a man but an animal, so he should be sent to the Jesuits"). That's it. That's the bleak historic, factual truth: Nobunaga kept him by his side and gave him titles because Yasuke was an exotic never-before-seen foreigner, basically a walking trophy or pet. Did Yasuke learn much about Japan and Samurai? Yeah probably. And his story is still interesting. But to portray him as this heroic black samurai figure is just factually wrong and having him be a protagonist in a Japan-AC could be seen as an insult to Japanese culture. Technically, the same goes for the other protagonist being a woman but that's a discussion I don't want to start or participate in. The thing is: Do people hate a story where Yasuke is this intriguing figure learning the ways of the samurai? No, that would make for a cool story. What people hate is that this is a pretty obvious inclusivity type of thing and Ubi with their "team of experts in history, religion and culture" says that they want to show us Yasuke's "real" history where in fact they just write an a-historical fiction about him. If they made a completely new game that doesn't belong to the "semi-realistic/authentic" AC franchise (well, before they went full on magic spellslinging at least) and this game would be marketed as a fictional expansion of Yasuke's story, a sort of "what if" scenario, people would have zero problems with it.

[@TheHoundOfAnubis]

His Wikipedia was recently changed but also it's a game, a game in a series where you play a white guy as the Mc in the Caribbean sea, a game where you fight a dog that wants to kill Odin, and a giant sepereant on rooftops with a bow made of light, where napoleon uses some magic apple to fight wars and George Washington used it too, a series where you fight Gorgons but yeah now is the time to complain about historical accuracy

[@lordhelmchen3154]

@@TheHoundOfAnubis Edward being the protagonist is absolutely not a problem. Black Flag is centered around Carribbean pirates (which historically existed)... so of course he is a European sailor/pirate... Regarding AC Valhala: Yeah, the trend of overdoing it with the fantasy aspects has existed in all the newer games (starting with Origins), I don't like that either. But that doesn't mean people can't complain about the new AC game. You fail to misunderstand the problem I think. It's *not* that AC isn't 100% historically accurate! But the core concept of the AC games has always been to take a historicically accurate setting and use historical figures for side characters or antagonists, while keeping their basic lives and actions relatively accurate, AND THEN injecting the subtle fantasy and magic elements into it that slightly alter historical events and people. AC is, at its core, not just a fantasy game. You can compare it to the old Indiana Jones movies: Yes, magic and supernatural things exists (the Ark, the Holy Grail and so on) but the setting itself is a "realistic" down-to-earth historical action setting. Indy doesn't fling spells like Dumbledore, despite the fact that magic exists in the background. Just like the (old) AC games, I would describe the setting as "historical with sublte alternate reality fantasy aspects" and not just as "alternate history fantasy". The Apples of Eden are that subtle magic that is added into the historical setting, Yasuke however is a fundamentally wrong portrayal of historical events, clearly for the sake of diversity alone... all while the developers claim their portrayal of Yasuke is historically accurate. I hope it's clear what I mean with this. Basically what they are doing with Yasuke is a different kind of "historical inaccuracy" than the Isu and Apples and so on, and this, coupled with people being fed up about forced diversity, is what gets people so riled up.

[@TheHoundOfAnubis]

@@lordhelmchen3154 I will read this and respond after work. I'm not ignoring it but it looks like a lot of info

[@lordhelmchen3154]

@@TheHoundOfAnubis No worries, I just wanted to explain it a bit more thoroughly so as to not cause any misunderstandings. :)

[@thirsty7281]

@@lordhelmchen3154 Thought I'd chip in... You have been one of the few rational people that have had the best take on all this, and explained it very well. Everyone knows why this whole thing is problematic but either pretend to ignore facts, or just recycle toddler-level twitter takes they have heard to act all moral as if they like it. The whole "fantasy stuff always existed in AC so why be upset now about a black dude???" is such a bad argument. Even Ubisoft in one of their promotional videos said the historical accuracy and culture was key to portray well. So Ubisoft are still claiming to try and be historically accurate. In older games, all of the fantasy or sci-fi stuff was well woven into the genuine care they had put into making the world, characters and historical things come to life. (Admittedly after making the games RPG's they went too far with the fantasy elements at the expense of realism/immersion). This is absolutely a desperate stretch of a handful of brief records to "historically" justify their main character being black for diversity reasons only. The same reasons these dodgy companies have done it with many other movies/shows/games/documentaries etc. in the past. Also if they make the main character black, even if it is silly for the game, the can use it as an excuse to blame critics for being racist, and ignore any valid criticism. Movies and shows have done this for a while (mostly Disney). They're getting everyone arguing so they can sneak their $129 game into releasing. Does anyone actually think these ultra-greedy companies genuinely care? No. It's amazing that people are defending this scummy company. It is in all essence "woke." But this word has been villanised to a point where if you even use it you are seen as cringe. It is "woke" vs "anit-woke" and both sides are pretty stupid, but you can't seem to make valid points without being cringed at or labelled for making a point. It's a fascinating phenomenon. And rather dangerous. One side can push something ridiculous or even harmful, but sprinkle in special nice words, or deflect, that no one could possibly argue against without being seen as a bad person. And they keep getting away with it, have done for years. There is also the huge issue with diversity and representation being if you deliberately choose someone of a specific race for diversity/representation reasons you are now representing that whole race and so HAVE to write the character in a way that reflects that. Therefore, the character is ALWAYS meant to be charismatic or likable, very talented and capable, and very little bad happens to them. Keep an eye out for it and you'll see what I mean. By ignoring diversity and representation you have creative freedom to write any character you want and make them interesting, because you aren't tied to anything political. It's seriously why many recent movies and shows have sucked. I kinda just wish people chilled out about DEI stuff and just went back to focusing on good writing, immersion, and gameplay. Now it is certainly all corporate bs, virtue signaling, and greed. Thanks for the discussion, and I hope things change one day, but till then stay perceptive, intelligent, and kind! All the best mate! :)

[@justahotdog8430]

so its just ghost of tsushima at home

[@Excalibur01]

I hate this because it was obvious that they wanted a black character and now they were probably foaming at the mouth when they discovered the ONE black guy

[@silencedmaxim5889]

Yasuke could have been a great side character you meet or help out. Instead we get to experience feudal Japan through the eyes of a black man. So dumb, yet so modern in a terrible way.

[@moretoastedthanatoasterstr9773]

Ubisoft: We can't really mix ninja and samurai gamepla........... Ghost of tsushima: hold me sake

[@WhiteDireWolf_217]

Lol, "Ubisofts Ambtions!". Mr Krabs: MONEY!

[@itsthegr8matt]

Ubisoft: Introduces Naomi and Yasuke Zanny: Is she a romancable character?

[@qq-lw2vp]

Have anyone actually been to Japan, they fucking distain foreigners even today, now imagine the 15th century.

[@riyadkanos8487]

there is no assassin stuff in that game bro..

[@Kreznit]

Of course Ubisoft resorts to cultural appropriation by using an African protagonist for their game that’s supposed to represent Japanese culture. Yes, Yasuke was a real person, but he was no assassin. Unfortunately, he was more of an exotic attraction to the Japanese people, who did not respect him in the slightest.

[@NikZedika]

This. I always adore hearing the VERY false and misinformed stories about him. He was NOT this “rando dude who worked his way up the ranks and was always highly respected and adored”.

[@NikZedika]

Like more so basic gist we aren’t sure 100% what is absolutely true and what is exaggerated or such.

[@bruuuuuuuuhhhh]

Hence why Yasuke will not be a stealth character. They say so

[@Kreznit]

@@bruuuuuuuuhhhh but he wasn’t a battle-hardened warrior either.

[@hakugen3479]

It's Ubisuck. At this point do you really expect them to respect source material anymore?

[@robertjv]

Second hand game stores just became even better

[@Ronythereditor]

Yasuke was paraded by Oda for like two years before he got sold back into slavery, what a truly inspiring story

[@dawidjaworski4945]

I love the trailer for Ghost of Tsushima! Oh... wait

[@epsilon6516]

9:25 Zanny knows what’s up, those two were the best AC games

[@captainjack1742]

Ubisoft tied me to a chair once and threatened to push me out of a 40 story window if I didn’t pay a monthly subscription

[@gto_jojolion7021]

Yasuke wasn’t a samurai, he was a retainer. The reason why people hate this game already is because Ubisoft is claiming that Yasuke was some powerful samurai when in reality he wasn’t. And also how we don’t get to play as a Japanese man in a game set in feudal Japan. If i was Japanese and saw that this is how my culture is being represented then i’d be mad too. If they wanted to make an AC game with a black protagonist then they should’ve made a game set in Africa, that would’ve been dope

[@RWM0]

You will give us your life savings and be happy - Ubisoft probably

[@vipergaming7078]

Bro Sakai Clan armour had mad crazy drip

[@DanaRJabbaR]

Yasuke would have been a much more interesting character if he were a side character.

[@afroahmed3989]

Is it because of the woman?! Zany pretending to be stupid is just comedy gold , no Zany it's because of Ubisoft taking a dumb on the Japanese culture by making a black dude a samurai, Yasuke was a real person yes but he was a retainer for Oda noubonaga , he wasn't given the title of samurai, he wasn't even allowed to carry a katana , he was nothing but a spectacle an exotic animal to show to the Japanese who have never seen a black man in their lives , this DEI shit needs to end

[@pl0xie494]

Yasuke did have a weapon. It's recorded that after the defense of Nijo castle, he gave up his sword, meaning he had one.

[@afroahmed3989]

​@@pl0xie494 It was a wakizashi a short sword not a katana, if he had a katana he would've been killed on the spot , but history a side , who really thought making a game about a black man killing and robbing Asians was actually a good idea ?

[@pl0xie494]

@afroahmed3989 Yasuke wasn't unique in killing Japanese people at the time. Did you forget that at the period japan was in a massive civil war?

[@pl0xie494]

@afroahmed3989 No idea why youtube doesn't let me post links. On r/askhistorians, a guy named Pararellpain replies to many posts about yasuke. He says that indeed, Yasuke was given a katana. In a letter by Luis Frois, h3 uses the word "cataná". Read the full post named "Yasuke, African Samurai. Is the outrage justified?"

[@diptychon5572]

Ubisoft talking about historical accuracy...jeah. I think Warhorse has a good laugh

[@majorcole4]

Day 192 of asking Zanny to do an uncharted series:

[@snuffle2405]

The mad man.

[@jaytheninja4777]

Day 2 of asking uncharted guy to talk about uncharted with me:

[@Shrome123]

Uncharted 4 on pc is amazing

[@Kai-no9os]

Yo! you still going?

[@bigbobyboi]

Day 192 of Zanny not giving a sht 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@laaarsu]

Remember that an AC set in Japan only became feasible for Ubisoft because of the success of Ghost of Tsushima, in the same way that they made Valhalla because of the success of God Of War 2018.

[@upashah]

Zanny dropping the Shogun ref has me more hyped than the actual ubisoft game.

[@Vge21x]

If this trailer came out after Unity, I'd be excited. As is, there is absolutely zero chance I'll buy it, I'll probably add it to my Epic library when it's free in 7 years or so. And then I'll forget to ever actually download it.

[@RjLonewolf]

Waited for an Assassin's creed game that is set in japan to play as an cool assassin . And they gave us a black man. the level of stupidity and ideology crap they try to put into video games is really concerning.

[@MrFallenone]

Literal dozens of cool characters ... naah heres a sword bearer that got sold off after a year rewritten into a mad badass OC

[@RjLonewolf]

@@MrFallenone the black person represented in the game is not even a real samurai he was just an amusement for the king so he kept him close as a retainer

[@agentc7020]

​@@RjLonewolfHAHAHAHA, "for the king", yeah, you know your stuff man, definitely.

[@agentc7020]

​@@MrFallenone Can you tell me where have you read the part of him being sold after a year? I've honestly only seen that on this comment section, most everywhere else I had looked (before this game was even announced even) stated that Yasuke fought when Oda was overrun and people don't really know what happened to him from there on.

[@RjLonewolf]

​@@agentc7020 ok even if this is true it is irrelevant. Cause no one gives a shit about yasuke there were thousands of reputable real samurai in Japan. And yasuke was pretty much nothing. What's next Assassin's creed Africa and you play as a Chinese man.

[@bioware2457]

Yasuke wasn't a samurai. He was a retainer

[@sp5der77]

subbed simply jsut cuz ur a chill dude. wish u more success brother

[@dakotaezell3114]

As excited as i am, I still need gameplay.

[@MichusubPl]

I will probably buy it when it's on -50% discount

[@hakugen3479]

Even getting this dumpster fire gifted to you and it'll still feel like you got robbed.

[@MarcelMatani]

just play ghost of tsushima 2 instead it will prob be more assassins creed than this too

[@Smokey348]

Why could they not have made him (yasuke) an assassin that came to japan to find ''the shadows that serve the light'' and becomes a spy serving oda because that would actually make more sense and good. Here he came to japan in 1579 and almost instantly serves oda and becomes high status and later a shadow?

[@Mariodash23]

I imagine if it wasn't revealed how artificial the inclusion of minority characters really is in western entertainment, people would've found Yasuke being in this game a cool addition.

[@Moka_Latte]

The age of Quintuple A game is upon us. For real tho, if the gameplay isn't "assassin's creed", i'm all in. But if it's a similar case to Mirage then my expectations are as low as they can possibly get.

[@pakthecube]

The age of not being able to afford the game begins 😂

[@silentslayergaming8469]

Mirage had the best gameplay in years since unity to be fair. But it was just short and had a boring storyline.

[@manoc6943]

Yeah wouldn’t want Assassin’s Creed to be Assassin’s Creed

[@MarcelMatani]

so you guys are the reason that ubisoft didnt build on ac unity

[@ievademytaxes_]

0:23 real ones get this reference

[@AkiyamerGaming]

shogun reference?

[@ievademytaxes_]

@@AkiyamerGaming YESSIRR!!!

[@Nik-tq2hl]

Too little too late from Ubisoft, Ghost of Tsushima scratched the Ninja/Samurai itch.

[@teagan5494]

Ubisoft making generally good looking games…locking them away from literally any living man that isn’t rich, Ubisoft just isn’t for the Middle class…I hope no one buys their game so they are forced to move their prices down, and stop putting gameplay and missions in 60$+ DLC’s, I’m tired of it…

[@OrdinaryGatez]

Lore wise Yasuke is cool as shit but knowing Ubisoft they’ll water his story down to a buncha fetch quests

[@reyanreyanreyan]

Literally. Hearing about yasuke sounded so sick so I really hope it’s done well

[@onaj_tamo4425]

He wasn't even a samurai in real life😂

[@ssilent8202]

Remember kids: yasuke was never a samurai in real life, only a retainer

[@elk_21]

​@@ssilent8202retainers did military tasks

[@sp1ashy345]

@@elk_21 african men in Japan in Feudal times also blended seamlessly with the xenophobic culture 🤣🤣

[@leoenhorning]

Yasuke wasn’t the first black samurai, he wasn’t a samurai at all, he was a servant and somewhat of a bodyguard for Oda Nobunaga, everything about him being a samurai is non facts, it’s sad that they rob Asians of roles in their own culture just to have “inclusivity” and use a false story that has zero factual evidence..

[@falling_vega1257]

It's silly to insist he wasn't a samurai. Sure, it's not 100% proven that he was one, but most of the historical evidence points towards him being one. I have no idea how anyone could conclude that he definetly could not have been. The Shinchōkōki describes him as being under Nobunaga fuchi, which is a warrior employed by a stipend. If you look at the rest of the Shinchōkōki, every single use of the word "stipend", without exception, was in reference to paying samurai. There is no reason to think that Ōta Gyūichi suddenly started using that word differently when talking about Yasuke. He was given a samurai's stipend, he was given a decorated sword, and he was given a residence. The most likely explanation is that he was a samurai

[@flwrptl9737]

he wasn’t a samurai in the sense we think of it as. samurai’s are like knights they are a class of people, you couldn’t just become a knight. in yasuke’s case he was a literal slave brought from the portuguese jesuit’s when they first arrived in like the late 1500s early 1600s during the unification period of the sengoku era. They went to oda and oda was literally fascinated by yasuke and his black skin, bro made him run his skin to see if the black would come off. he became a bodyguard and pretty much just stayed with oda the entirety of his life and moved up the court like that. if anything he’s an honorary samurai which is like getting a PHD when you never even went to college. dude has a cool life but they always fuck his story around fronweied diversity points and never touch on the fact he was a slave who found liberation.

[@falling_vega1257]

@@flwrptl9737 Generally that's correct, samurai were a class of people, mainly hereditary, but there were exceptions. There are other examples of foreigners, who were not originally part of the "samurai class" that were able to improve their standing in Japanese society and make their way into the samurai class. One of the first of these was the English sailor, William Adams, but there are also cases of Dutch and Italians becoming samurai. You don't need to be born into the class, you can be accepted into it. I don't think it's fair to call it an "honourary" position either when he did fight, being described as having the strength of 10 men

[@IcyPickleYT]

Someone remind them that if I evade taxes to buy the game I can't play the game 💀💀

[@bruhboi699]

I think the reason for all the dislikes is because there is a lot more known about Yasuke then they’re saying in the video. There are books from that time period that reference him pretty heavily and not once was he ever said to be a samurai or anything close to it. Feels like a bending of the truth just for story and marketing purposes.

[@Kenthis15]

The “black samurai,” wasn’t a samurai, he was a slave that bore Nobunagas weapons so he didn’t have to carry them. The word used for him was “blade bearer,” and people misinterpret that as a samurai. He was a walking sword rack.

[@pl0xie494]

...which was a respected position, mind you.

[@gwop827]

Where was this criticism when he appeared in Nioh 2?

[@Kenthis15]

@@pl0xie494 not for him, he was a traveling novelty. A slave that Nobunaga could show off and parade around because he was a unique piece of furniture.

[@pl0xie494]

@Kenthis15 you are right that nobunaga wants to show him off, but you are wrong to degrade him as a novelty. He was given a house, stipend and a sword. He served as a bodyguard and participated in the defense of Nijo castle with the oda heir and the battle of Tenmokuzan(according to ietadas diary)

[@happyplacemanvibe3074]

​@@gwop827nioh actually helped inspire interest in him, good interest in a movie idea of him being played by Chadwick boseman, and etc. Then ac does one, a series full of non historical shenanigans, and it's a problem so much so they trying to argue with historians.

[@venomsnakessidepiece]

alternate thumbnail: america finds out what the rest of us have already been paying for regular priced games

[@Kai-no9os]

I'm pretty sure Zanny is from the philippines

[@benv9788]

Ubisoft: You'll own nothing and you'll like it

[@Zach-cn4lb]

Imagine seeing the Ubisoft logo and not immediately ignoring everything after it lol

[@ethanmitchell7479]

A Japanese themed game that’s going to be played by mostly English speaking players and they got the thickest French accent to attempt to describe it….. Sounds like Ubisoft

[@TheUltraKekster]

Look man I get that inflation is a thing and I see why standard edition's price is like that but holy fuck the price jump from Gold bro 😭

[@snip3st3r]

Asmongold did a good video explaining it. They don't want you to buy the 130$ version, they want you to be upsold to see the 130$ and then see the price for the subscription service and get that instead as a "deal".

[@TheUltraKekster]

@@snip3st3r Nice try ubi but Im still broke either way 😂

[@KadeemG61]

Ubisoft should’ve watched The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise as a Japanese warrior.

[@rainbowsnek]

Bruh i need people to know, the pre-order bonus isn't cosmetics or anything like you'd expect.. its another bonus quest. so even if you do get the season pass, you can still miss out on some content if you miss the pre-order window. Wow

[@Sahil909s]

Yasuke wasn't even a samurai, he was more like a pet.

[@doriangrigorie7345]

He was a sword bearer, but his entire life is not documented, so his story is more of a "what if"

[@bubonictato4192]

Man was a slave, became a court jester, and then became a slave again

[@OlegRTT]

HE BUILD JAPAN!!!! They will chat that soon.

[@Irimu_]

If it's even 1/10 of Ghost of Tsushima I'll be happy.

[@arkansanfilms805]

I can only imagine what that child who saw Yasuke was thinking.

[@TheRealDeepFriedWonton]

I like reading the comment sections of trailers for games made by AAA studios because it's interesting to see almost every single playerbase hate and not trust the company that makes their game while also owning every game and dlc that company has ever made.

[@ruuuk9]

10 seconds zero views. This downfall must be studied

[@burtreynolds8030]

Your humor is 6 months late

[@ruuuk9]

@@burtreynolds8030 tragic but true

[@AshishKumar-ps2ug]

Such a racism. People are willing to pay 150$ for GTA 6 and mourning homeless on the Assassin's Creed Shadows price tag.

[@kushagrachaturvedy2821]

Ubisoft really expects us to pay double the price without showing any gameplay and still say that you don’t actually own it

[@kylebooker1987]

Ac shadows sounds a lot like ac syndicate from the way it's been described.

[@tonig.1546]

First AC game in Japan. Main character is an obscure Historical African figure, based on the slave of an Italian missionary. Said character was then “gifted” to the Oda clan.

[@hendreor.m6685]

Wasnt it a portuguese and not an italian?

[@oinkgoespiggy7781]

A black samurai in Japan? Why not just give us a samurai game with a regular japanese samurai?

[@hakugen3479]

Yasuke is a real character that existed, though just wasn't a samurai. There's a whole anime series about him on netflix.

[@beatsaber1235]

Cuz hes a real guy like tf

[@oinkgoespiggy7781]

@beatsaber1235 but what exactly does he have to do with assassin's creed?? When this game clearly has nothing to do with assassin's

[@hakugen3479]

@@oinkgoespiggy7781 well, ask yourself when is the last Assassin's Creed game that actually has anything at all to do with "the creed of Assassins" and you have your answer. Spoiler, nothing at all. Yasuke has absolutely nothing to do with the assassin or the templar or whatever, but Ubisuck can't write a good story to save their life so they settled for the next best thing they know and that is butchering historical facts and figures just so they can shoehorn it into the AC universe.

[@beatsaber1235]

@@oinkgoespiggy7781 it looks to me like they wanted a “samurai” that most people haven’t seen. Dont get me wrong this game is gonna be dogshit but not because a guy is black

[@stuartmiller8868]

So it’s like Evie and Jacob, one’s more stealthy and one is trigger happy

[@realomniman]

They say you can't put stealth and combat into one character, but that's literally just every other AC character and Jin Sakai

[@Raichiro]

Will I play it: Yes Will I enjoy it: No

[@marlongerke6618]

Then dont pay for it

[@user-vm9we7fs4d]

Absolute cuck

[@Raichiro]

@@marlongerke6618 Nah it was just a joke man I’m not buying that garbage

[@OGSomeOne]

You understand pricing is following market. Minimum wages went up, so cost to make went up, so pricing goes up because you are making more money to pay higher prices, and then want to ask for a higher minimum wages, so the cost to make goes up, so pricing goes up because you are making more money to pay higher prices, return line 1

[@cy_pher03]

„I like the trailer“ - me everytime. „Well that was pointless“ - me after 100+ hours spent collecting feathers for my stupid little ingame brother

[@masonharter2393]

Man I just wanna know how the 6’2 black samurai is gonna “hide in plain sight”