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[StueyDuck]

No. Literally never even slightly implied this. I'm done with this stupid conversation.

I mean that's how you initially implied your response to me... the issue isn't that he is black. The issue is that they haven't done this to any of the prior entries and when we finally get a game set in Japan as we've all been screaming for they pick the one famous black person.

I mean do you genuinely not see what's going on in that situation.like hand on your heart, full ignorance, confusion?

 

[LazyParrot]

I mean i would of loved if we had a fake character and yasuke gets involved in our adventures. That'd be very inline with what to expect from asscreed.

Never fear, just play on PC. Some outraged weeb is bound to create a mod that turns him into Oda Nobunaga himself. Or an anime girl with huge tiddies.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Announced new game at the exact same moment as announcing the dlc has always bugged the shit out of me.

 

[Punished Miku]

I mean that's how you initially implied your response to me... the issue isn't that he is black. The issue is that they haven't done this to any of the prior entries and when we finally get a game set in Japan as we've all been screaming for they pick the one famous black person.

I mean do you genuinely not see what's going on in that situation.like hand on your heart, full ignorance, confusion?

I think a lot of people are mentally deranged by being anti-woke. I think Ubisoft really transparently refused to do a AC Japan game for years because they said there were already tons of games like that and they didn't want to do something so similar to what's already out there. I think they found an interesting angle to make their game unique and got interested.

Why won't Ubisoft make an Assassin's Creed game set in feudal Japan?

Answer (1 of 2): Yes; you are not the only person to ask this question; though chances are quite slim. Not only Feudal Japan but also a game based on the world war series were also suggested by the fan community. since release of Assassin’s creed 3 & 4 there were speculations that the franchise ...

www.quora.com

 

[GymWolf]

It just sucks because on a technical level they create some of the best game worlds in the industry. If they can't emphasize good combat in a feudal Japan AC game, they never will. It doesn't even need to be super deep, just make it visceral and satisfying like Ghost of Tsushima. Shit shouldn't be hard

BTW, I'm pretty Ubisoft is releasing this trailer now instead of at their direct next month because of Ghost of Tsushima 2, which will most likely be shown later this month at Sony's event

Tsushima has no ragdoll, precanned death animations that get boring after 20 min and terrible, uber-basic gore, hopefully it's nothing like that.

The combat itself was ok mechanically, but that shit didn't felt visceral or meaty at all to me, sorry.

Comically exagerated death poses like old samurai movies make me yawn at best, even worse when their invisible lifebar is depleted and they start the death animation when you are still slicing em up with no feedback whatsoever(because the animation already started)

It's 2024 and precanned death animations with no ragdoll were already old by ps2 times.

 

[Danjin44]

Oh how exciting!

 

[iHaunter]

Anyone else tired of announcements of announcements?

 

[xrnzaaas]

Well at least it's not gonna be a live-action trailer.

 

[HL3.exe]

Finally, the first 'next gen' Assassin's Creed! (On 4 year+ old hardware at this point, lol)

Let's see if it'll actually feel distinctive from last gen, and use the tech leap in interesting gameplay driven ways.

Spoiler: Spoiler

probably not

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

An announcement of an announcement is the most backwards thing the marketing industry invented. This is ridiculous.

It took so long for an AC in Japan that we already got two games that fill that niche with Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Ronin. No way Ubisoft doesn't fumble this with their certified Ubi Formula.

Yea, they should have been like MS and gave us a heads up on when their marketing would be starting. I was caught off guard on this announcement of the upcoming announcement. Hold your horses there buddy.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

 

[Nigel]

The protagonist reveal is going to destroy this game and probably make it DOA lmao. It's all the debate around it will be.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Tsushima has no ragdoll, precanned death animations that get boring after 20 min and terrible, uber-basic gore, hopefully it's nothing like that.

The combat itself was ok mechanically, but that shit didn't felt visceral or meaty at all to me, sorry.

Comically exagerated death poses like old samurai movies make me yawn at best, even worse when their invisible lifebar is depleted and they start the death animation when you are still slicing em up with no feedback whatsoever(because the animation already started)

It's 2024 and precanned death animations with no ragdoll were already old by ps2 times.

Gore and limb dismemberment was disappointing, but at least it didn't feel like you were cutting through paper. Enemies had weight to them and parrying was very solid. Don't remember scripted death animations, but regardless, I think your opinion is in the minority. The combat wasn't deep but it was satisfying, and the game did a good job making you feel like a badass all the way through. No AC game comes close to Ghost's combat, and Ghost isn't even great, only good

 

[Luipadre]

The only Ubisoft game im interested in at the moment. I skipped mirage and waiting for this one. Gameplay in june at the ubi event and thank god its currgen only altho i dont expect a huge bump in graphics. Ubisoft games used to look amazing, not anymore

 

[Punished Miku]

No AC game comes close to Ghost's combat, and Ghost isn't even great, only good

Ghost combat is literally almost a 1:1 copy of old Assassin's Creed games from the Ezio trilogy. Just newer.

 

[SmokedMeat]

So we know about the season pass content before the actual game reveal.

 

[splattered]

Season Pass is HOW much!? Damn...

 

[Cyberpunkd]

The only Ubisoft game I have any interest in. Hope it’s more of Origins quality and less like Valhalla's.

Can I interest you in some EXP boost DLC?

 

[Oberstein]

Finally!

 

[Bartski]

need to see those improvements in gameplay animation tech

 

[Zathalus]

There are plenty of Samurai games where you can play as an ethically Japanese person. None that allow you to play as Yasuke that I can think of it, so it would be pretty interesting due to that. Nioh having you play as William Adams was quite cool as well.

 

[Bartski]

The only Ubisoft game im interested in at the moment. I skipped mirage and waiting for this one. Gameplay in june at the ubi event and thank god its currgen only altho i dont expect a huge bump in graphics. Ubisoft games used to look amazing, not anymore

Mirage was the first AC I played since Black Flag and it sucked. I'll be there for the reveal but if they start hyping it up as the next 250h+ Valhalla - I'm out.

 

[Luipadre]

Mirage was the first AC I played since Black Flag and it sucked. I'll be there for the reveal but if they start hyping it up as the next 250h+ Valhalla - I'm out.

Well this one will be the RPG one, so it will be a lot longer than mirage

 

[Aion002]

Can't wait to play a white guy in Africa. Of course, this will never happen and we very well know why
As for the accuracy, I might be wrong but I read on multiple occasions that this black samurai was not an actual samurai but a samurai's servant or something like that.

Samurai was a caste of military nobility in Japan.

Under Nobunaga, Yasuke worked almost as one. According to historical records Oda Nobunaga named him Yasuke (his original name is unknow), gave to him a residence and a wakizashi (a short katana). Yasuke also worked as a personal body guard to Nobunaga and was his weapon bearer.

Yasuke fought battles for Nobunaga and Nobunaga enjoyed his presence.

However, Nobunaga did not give him a surname and since there are no records if he was actually granted the title, things are up in the air.


There were other foreigners that became samurais (and there are records of it), like William Adams, an english navigator that ended up becoming a servant of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Coincidentally enough, William Adams is the main character of Nioh and Yasuke plays a minor role in the game.


Anyway... Yasuke story is so interesting, him having received the title or not doesn't matter.


I think this might be the first Ubisoft game that I might buy at launch since the ps3.

 

[digital_ghost]

Ubi

soft

Ubihating

Jk

 

[GymWolf]

Gore and limb dismemberment was disappointing, but at least it didn't feel like you were cutting through paper. Enemies had weight to them and parrying was very solid. Don't remember scripted death animations, but regardless, I think your opinion is in the minority. The combat wasn't deep but it was satisfying, and the game did a good job making you feel like a badass all the way through. No AC game comes close to Ghost's combat, and Ghost isn't even great, only good

The game only has precanned death animations, not sure how didn't noticed that you have zero dynamic animations when enemies die, you deplete their invisible lifebar and the long, theatrical animation start without any chance of changing it, no matter the direction of the final blow nor how many time you hit them after the animation start, the game has the most noticeable precanned death animations of any triple A from past gen, and when the animation end, the enemies just glue on the ground even if their body is half out of the surface instead of falling down (that's the no ragdoll), the whole thing feels silly\fake as fuck unless you are an old samurai movie aficionado or just don't put much weight on these details.

Sucker punch just hate to use ragdoll for some reasons, infamous 3 had the same problem, the same 2-3 death animations repetead for an entire game with zero ragdoll, even in a game where you blast enemies left and right with powers and ragdoll should be fucking in.

I think my opinion is shared by whoever hates silly looking precanned death animations and no ragdoll in 2024, i'm not talking about the mechanics of the combat, those were ok.
( i mean there is a reason why 99,99% of games were you kill stuff has ragdoll, even kiddy games like the last 2 zelda, imagine helldivers 2 if enemies just had their samey death animations and glue to the ground instead of what you have now)

But tbf, i'm kinda anal with this shit

To return to the original point, i hope it's nothing like tsushima, that one was too much parry based, mono-weapon for dozens of hours and the stance system was a joke, it was just a damage multiplier for certain type of enemies, i admit that it was ok\fun but it was not my cup of tea.
i prefer if they refine (a lot) what they had in origins.

 

[Arsic]

I’m excited to see this honestly. This is the odyssey team correct? That’s my favorite AC.

I was playing a little mirage again this weekend. That is a beautiful game to look at in performance mode on ps5.

 

[Evolved1]

Day never, not even for free. preorder bonuses before you even show the game. get fucked

 

[Negotiator101]

Gameplay June 10th I imagine.

 

[Mr Moose]

Going to have an Osaka-ben dialect.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Sony is pushing ps4 for as long as they can that’s an important point indeed

 

[Laptop1991]

I would normally be really interested in any new Assassin's Creed but i have lust lost all trust in Ubisoft now, i'm not paying them to not own my game. i won't support this in anyway shape or gorm, so unless they say otherwise, i'll pass.

 

[Black_Stride]

The protagonist reveal is going to destroy this game and probably make it DOA lmao. It's all the debate around it will be.

You what love?

I take it you dont know Assassins Creed games huh?
Considering AC RPG fans have been waiting for this since 2020, its set in Japan..............10 million units would be low.
You can bet on that.

 

[The_Observer]

Great, a cgi trailer... my only hope this year for a real nextgen looking game, but we will still not know.

 

[Negotiator101]

Great, a cgi trailer... my only hope this year for a real nextgen looking game, but we will still not know.

Hellblade 2 is out in 7 days, say what you will about the gameplay but the graphics are absolutely next-gen/current.

 

[Dazraell]

 

[Negotiator101]

Pre-rendered unfortunately.

 

[ReBurn]

I remember the PS3 days when Assassins Creed was new and I was excited for it. It's so difficult to be excited for it now. It's been done to death.

 

[Negotiator101]

I remember the PS3 days when Assassins Creed was new and I was excited for it. It's so difficult to be excited for it now. It's been done to death.

It's hard to imagine how they could actually make it new and exciting again.

 

[ReBurn]

It's hard to imagine how they could actually make it new and exciting again.

That's where I am. I like Assassins Creed, but every time I play one it feels like the game I played before. Maybe this one will be something special.

 

[March Climber]

Cinematic...

Gameplay showcase will most likely happen during the Ubisoft Conference at Summer Games Fest.

 

[Lorianus]

Everyone is only talking about the yasuke character, isnt this supposed to be a dual protag game ?, i thought you could choose between the guy and a female ninja/kunoichi according to leaks earlier in the year.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Why not an Assassins Creed set in the Monty Python Holy Grail times and work for the Knights of Niii? Unlock new abilities collecting shrubbery’s

 

[March Climber]

The protagonist reveal is going to destroy this game and probably make it DOA lmao. It's all the debate around it will be.

It’s honestly sad and frustrating that this might happen. Imagine a handful of video games and youtube grifters successfully mindfucking the majority of the gaming community into seeing everything as political, even when a dev is just trying to be creative or different.

Trying to box-in a creative industry into as rigid of a corner as possible, is just something else.

 

[Alan Silvestro]

 

[thatJohann]

Zero interest for this and even less interest once I learned the upcoming trailer is a cinematic trailer. Hard pass.

 

[SJRB]

CGI reveal trailers can fuck right off.

 

[Hrk69]

Can't wait for the completely useless CGI trailer

Such a waste of resources

 

[Chuck Berry]

Just as things were starting to die down a bit with the Sweet Baby bullshit...

...here we go with black dude in ancient Japan.

Regardless of the historical accuracy the timing of this announcement couldnt be more thrilling

 

[Muffdraul]

I don't give a shit about CGI trailers.

I have ALWAYS hated announcement of an announcement bullshit.

Still like AC, though! ~flips bird at all the haters~