Everyone's arguing about whether or not the main character should be black while forgetting the more important point: Ubisoft is trash, and we shouldn't be buying their uninspired shovelware anyway.

I beat an ancient Egyptian god to death with a Q-tip. Any claim Assassin's Creed might have had to approximating historical accuracy died several games ago even if we ignore the Ancient Aliens bullshit that's been around since the begining.

Technically, they're only "Samurai" if they're produced in Nippon within the duration of the Kamakura Period through the Meiji Restoration. Otherwise they're just sparkling warrior-nobles.

Where was that "historically accurate" crowd when Keanu starred in 47 Ronin?!

The argument is always the same. The CHUDS don't want to see black people, women, the gays, etc.

Wait there was a Black samurai? That's fucking awesome! I need to see more media about this

i miss the days when people made video games, and they were good.

I'm not sure why people are expecting the character of the video game to make or break the entire video game.

It's a new assassins creed game, it's probably going to be ass, like the rest of them.

This is some of the worst discourse I’ve seen. I went to the latest Asmongold video about this topic and asked as many people as I could to explain how a black protagonist is pushing an agenda. Not replies. Guess it is hard to explain without claiming “not historically accurate” or just sounding like a white supremacist.

I gave up on Far Cry and Watchdogs not because the games were deteriorating with each iteration (they were / are) but because the sexual harrassment ring on which the upper management fed and HR silenced the victims made supporting the company untennable. At least for me.

Since then I've found alternative indie projects that have scratched some of those itches pretty well. I don't play Ubisoft, even those games I already ~~own~~ have licenses for.

I genuinely do not get why people get so angry about the color of a character's skin in a work of historical FICTION. I dgaf about things being historical accurate in my video games. Does the guy look cool? Yup he sure do. Is the game gonna be good? It's Ubisoft so probably not. But let's assume that it will be for arguments sake.

Why is it so important to you that the character not be black? Assassin's creed as a franchise has been around for like what? Almost two decades now? And in all that time we've basically played as only white characters (with some exceptions). I don't see anything wrong with increased representation in works of art or entertainment. The more representation we see in media for any minority group the less likely it will be for the kids that grow up playing these games to grow up as racist assholes. And if you belong to a minority group, seeing someone with your skin tone represented in media will make you less likely to grow up with internalized self loathing. Like you might if all you see in media is the white dude saving the day.

At the end of the day these are works of entertainment. Their purpose isn't historically accuracy. It's entertainment and escapism. If we can't escape racism in a fucking video game how tf are we supposed to prevent it in real life?

I know you're not op but I don't really engage with public gamer forums since gamergate. I don't need the idiotic, racist/sexist/whateverist takes. I just want to forgot about the world for a bit and talk to my friends about how cool the pixels looked at that one point in time. I can get that with my friend on discord.

I thought it was common knowledge that "retainer" was literally the job description of all samurai... but I guess I should have known that the Weaboo Gamergate Brigade would conveniently ignore actual history.