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[dcx4610]

Eh. This is one I can't get behind.

Religion is a personal choice. It doesn't have to be respected. I don't have to follow or believe what you do. It might be offensive to you to have it in a game but I wouldn't bat an eye at it. We don't, nor should we have blasphemy laws. If you want to censor it in Japan, go for it but leave it in for everyone else.

I remember playing the first Assassin's Creed and being blown away by being able to run around Temple Mount and climb all over the buildings. That was brave but also amazing.

 

[Alebrije]

In another chapter of "Videogames serious bussiness".

 

[RedC]

I hope it bombs so hard. Lazy half assed 100% pure woke development pretending to be a normal game. Imposter game. Most importantly, shitty game.

Assassin's Creed: Shadows of a Man's Dick

 

[Neofire]

"Japanese culture is consumed and receives no respect" lol the irony, every culture on this planet has been commercialized. Cry more people still running around complaining about a videogame.

 

[Bernardougf]

I dont think they would mind had the game being respectful from the beginning... now it seems that everything is reason for complaining... they just hate this game from inception and are already nitpicking... I guess if controversy was Ubisoft goal than they achieved with perfection...

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Makes sense to be honest whether you agree with a religion or not.

How?? It's standard destructible environmental assets.

 

[K' Dash]

This game is cursed.

That's what you get for taking 15 years to make the game with the setting everyone was asking for.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

i'm going to destroy every cultural object in the game and then impregnate all the woman with black babies

 

[FoxMcChief]

i'm going to destroy every cultural object in the game and then impregnate all the woman with black babies

I think I found my new fetish.

 

[kindaGoth]

I'm actually stunned that people are actually on Ubisoft side this time.
Maybe they don't care about culture because they don't have one? Or maybe its just Japan and people are naturally inclined to dogpilled on them.

People are on the side of Ubisoft *primarily* because the people they hate are attacking Ubisoft. Or at least they have concluded that it’s the people they hate who are attacking Ubisoft.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Wahhhhhhh video game polygons are hurting my delicate feelings!

 

[FeralEcho]

Yeah,no....Unless there's a mission specifically in the game that ASKS you to destroy a religious site this is a bunch of manufactured bullshit by a bunch of spineless pussies looking for a fight because their lives are too meaningless.

All I see is some moron going straight into the game's "religious site" location and causing shit for the sake of it not because the game asks him to but simply because he's a cunt.

I've tore this game and Ubisoft to shreads with criticism over the past year but this is the first time I side with them on this game. This is all manufactured bullshit by stupid people.

 

[Just_one]

what a bunch of pussies.

fuck off already.

game is gonna be great.

 

[DeepEnigma]

i'm going to destroy every cultural object in the game and then impregnate all the woman with black babies

 

[cormack12]

Dunno why this is an issue. All my heroes in WWII are the baddies. Every time.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Fuck this game and fuck Ubisoft, but fuck the religious fruitcakes even more.

Agreed on all fronts, this is getting a bit ridiculous..

 

[BbMajor7th]

I think this is an overreaction. At the same time, you live by the sword and you die by the sword. When folks tried to start a mini-controversy over 2B's design in NieR: Automata, Yoko Taro said something like '...but I like beautiful women and big butts' and everyone was like 'Well, if we can't even shame him for it, what are we supposed to do?' If Ubisoft had the courage to say, 'Slow your roll, it's a video game - Manhattan gets leveled every other year in fiction...' this'd probably go away much faster. You know they'll be writing some handwringing statement about the importance of cultural respect as we speak though.

 

[CGNoire]

The future of mankind is just gonna be people bitching and whineing and being offended for eternity isnt it?

 

[Rubim]

Does Japan get a free pass for gaming mechanics that existed in every previous release of that game?
You did raid churches on Valhalla, did you not?

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

I think this is an overreaction. At the same time, you live by the sword and you die by the sword. When folks tried to start a mini-controversy over 2B's design in NieR: Automata, Yoko Taro said something like '...but I like beautiful women and big butts' and everyone was like 'Well, if we can't even shame him for it, what are we supposed to do?' If Ubisoft had the courage to say, 'Slow your roll, it's a video game - Manhattan gets leveled every other year in fiction...' this'd probably go away much faster. You know they'll be writing some handwringing statement right now about the importance of cultural respect as we speak though.

I agree, i don't care one way or another, i mean yeah they could made items in shrines not destroyable, but this is not the real issues, not matter what Ubi will do with this game there will be complaints, so stand your ground, or just give up and make all the changes people want (which will never end), but stop making sorry announcements.

 

[Lambogenie]

How?? It's standard destructible environmental assets.

Same way some brands don't want their cars to be shown damaged even though it's destructible in real life.

Not saying this is true, but if it is, I wouldn't be surprised by it is all.

 

[killatopak]

Good.

Fuck around and find out. People won’t respect something if you let them destroy it.

I think people know not to fuck with Korean cultural sites when someone got arrested for disrespecting it. A necessary cautionary tale as a reminder for modern people who don’t think about consequences which is pretty damn common nowadays.

 

[RedC]

Good.

Fuck around and find out. People won’t respect something if you let them destroy it.

I think people know not to fuck with Korean cultural sites when someone got arrested for disrespecting it. A necessary cautionary tale as a reminder for modern people who don’t think about consequences which is pretty damn common nowadays.

There's a huge difference between having destructible environments that include historical, religious, and cultural sites in a fictional period piece video game and destroying historical, religious, and cultural sites in real life.

Will we have to start explaining the violence in video games again?

I swear we are regressing.

 

[Hot5pur]

Religion is just fantasy so I don't see the big deal.

 

[Gamerfan81]

Damn, the Resetera members here are coming out in full force, just like the Elon Musk thread.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Religion is just fantasy so I don't see the big deal.

 

[Lokaum D+]

I think the Capitol gets litterally destroyed in a COD episode.


This is fiction ffs! The intro of Vanquish, a japanese game, is San Francisco being fucking nuked!

Japan was nuked in real life ( twice ) by American's, so its more then fair game

 

[Lokaum D+]

Bro in AC 2 you fucking mugged the Pope in the final act, stop being a fucking pussy

but can u trash a church ? or break Jesus statues ??

 

[PatientGamer]

but I thought the 'woke left' was the snowflakes?

 

[Lokaum D+]

but I thought the 'woke left' was the snowflakes?

its easy to call ppl snowflakes when you are mocking pacific religious groups, it would like to see if Ubi has the courage to make a game were you can enter a Mosque, trash the place included their prophet statues or pictures and them proceeds to call Muslins snowflakes.

 

[killatopak]

There's a huge difference between having destructible environments that include historical, religious, and cultural sites in a fictional period piece video game and destroying historical, religious, and cultural sites in real life.

Will we have to start explaining the violence in video games again?

I swear we are regressing.

I find that hypocritical. Watch them destroy Muslim landmarks and see how they react.

This shit is so selective. The only difference is whether people will actually take action towards it or not.

I find it very hard for other devs to include this specific shrine in their games in fear of being treated the same as Ubisoft. Mission accomplished for the shrine caretakers.

 

[Raven117]

All in all, I think the more general point is that Ubisoft has now shown enough respect for the source material as a whole. And that's why the smaller stuff is being picked on.

Compare this to previous AC games where they took painstaking effort to be accurate (like their recreation of Notre Dame in Unity, or the Vatican).

 

[Last Hearth]

I'm sure all these people had the same reaction when all the previous games allowed you to pillage, loot and massacre innocents in churches and temples.

Unless it's not ACTUALLY about the destruction of Japanese religious sites, is it hmmm....

Westerners finding out other cultures don't take insults to the their religion nearly as well as Christians in the west.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

I don't even care for this game too much, it doesn't look too interesting to me, but people getting triggered by a religious site getting destroyed in a game should seek professional treatment.

Agreed, its pathetic.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Westerners finding out other cultures don't take insults to the their religion nearly as well as Christians in the west.

Ubisoft should make an Assassin's Creed game where some mosques get destroyed and see reactions they get to that

FAFO is one hell of a drug

 

[Plague Doctor]

On the one hand, it's becoming bitch eating crackers with this game.

On the other hand, they really painted a target on themselves with the multitude of errors from the onset.

Live by purity/vanity politics. Die by purity/vanity politics.

Moral lesson: Just don't enter the social issue foray. Make your game, shut the fuck up, don't virtue signal to the press. Redirect your internal assets from sensitivity training towards social media guidelines and best practices to your staff. Enforce them strictly.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Agreed, why won't these dumb Japanese people just shut up and let us westerners wipe our asses with their religions, cultures, customs and traditions?

That reminds me of the most tedious scene in The last of us part 2, where you are in a religious place... I hate that part.

 

[sendit]

but can u trash a church ? or break Jesus statues ??

Yes

 

[proandrad]

They are doing a better job at selling the game than Ubisoft.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Lol, this game is going to sell gangbusters no matter how bad the press has been.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I think it’s just that small dick energy that needs to be focused on something, so why not the big dicked black samurai game?

 

[Blank Space Invader]

Piss on Ubisoft. I hope this game is what takes them out.

 

[Puscifer]

Sorry, but what a bunch of fucking pussies.
Ridiculous.

Seriously, it's been nearly 20 years of Assassin's Creed games doing the same shit but because it's Japanese culture it's some form of sacrilege? I swear there's too many weebs who weren't bullied enough.

 

[Puscifer]

What a retarded take.

No, it's the reasonable one.

 

[Diddy X]

Ubisoft have it so bad, they earned the apathy of every gamer over the last decade, everybody is enjoying seeing them burn

 

[N0S]

This game is really death by a thousand cuts, man

 

[RedC]

This thread has just compelled me to pre-order the game.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Yes

dont know what is your point, but i didn't prove nothing, didn't see any deliberate destruction of religious artifacts in any of those videos, like is done in ACS also, killing NPC inside church is not "trashing the place".

 

[Danjin44]

This is overreaction.....it god damn video game.

For love god even Sekiro's Senpou Temple the monks abounded their teaching in order search for immortality and done brutal things.

They are fictions, nothing more and nothing less, no reason get offended over it.

 

[Puscifer]

“Inspired”
“Work of fiction”

You know, maybe the families of the victims of Ed Gein should have sued the filmmakers of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (“Inspired by a True Story” as it was advertised) for clearly taking the serial killer and using his story for a profitable slasher film but also wildly changing the details like having it set in Texas, changing the killers name and having him use a chainsaw, etc……oh wait, the families didn’t do that. In fact, just like year the film was placed in the US National Film Registry.

Should Christians start suing every work of fiction that uses Jesus in an “inaccurate” manner? Or God for that matter? Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman better watch out!

We've been killing God and defiling Christianity for 30 years with the entire Shin Megami Tensei series. Fucking hell in one title we literally killed YVHV with the spear of destiny! People are tripping hardcore over this game.