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Ubisoft can't turn back, that's the danger of cater to certain people. The moment you stop, they'll eat you alive. Besides, if there was anyone with a braincell working there, they'd figure out that they should invest to Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watchdogs etc. and not spending hundreds of millions on gems like Skull and Bones or XDefiant. The one phrase that keeps coming up is: "Ubisoft keeps chasing trends instead of setting them." And I'll just add - they are always couple of years late too. Btw, 100% don't pre-order.

You are not wrong, and it's a reason why I think games like KCD or Wukong are such a breath of fresh air in gaming. Only thing I would disagree is that it's not part of the culture war - it is, just not intentionaly. The games are played by US players and the US market is co big that it can't be ignored. That said, I don't think devs should cater it just out of fear of what some american might think. But games are part of culture, therefore they will be used in culture war.

@@zuzisam Yes, games for a US audience make the american "culture war" a topic, and games from/for other markets don't make it a topic, while americans will still try to interpret their topics into it. Thats a fundamental difference though...I think the takeaway is to just not buy games that are marketed to a US audience, and just ignore however the americans interpret messages or sides into games not made for them...

They are very comperable, the same way you can compare Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Baldur's Gate 3. The games target the same audience, they release in the same time window, the gameplay is different but the point is the same. I find the rage against Yasuke exaggerated but very valid. Point isn't that there is an African man being portrayed as a samurai, point is a) why they did it, and it wasn't because they just thought it's a great idea but because of dei brownie points, b) if they put white guy as a samurai the internet would be still burning and no one would call it exgagerated and ridiculous - it would be valid concern, as it should be, c) the games should showcase the world past, embelished, yes, but still recognizible. As I as, as a Czech it would insult me if AC set in Bohemia 1400's would include anyone who isn't middle European. Even if it was Italian protagonist and there were Italians in Bohemia - it doesn't represent who we are. It's absurd. Btw, you called African samurai exotic... isn't Japanese samurai exotic enough? I'm also going to play both games, AC as Naoe because I want to play Assassin's Creed as an assassin and stealthing around as Yasuke is virtualy impossible, the same way like the flaming bird outfits in Odyssey/Valhalla were dumb ploy of Ubisoft take more money from players pockets.

@@zuzisam It would be more logical to compare Ghost of Yotei to AC shadows in this case; Moreover, if the protagonist was white (instead of Yasuke), few people would have complained. People didn't say anything about the last samurai with Tom Cruise for example, or even the shogun series. I live in France and I know people who would have preferred a white instead of a black because they think that white people know how to adapt better to Asian culture and are more respectful (so they think that black people are incapable of behaving well and integrating into Japanese culture which is a bad, stupid and dangerous thought in 2024-2025). It is time to accept that Yasuke (the real one) did indeed exist and that he did indeed serve Oda Nubunaga from 1581 to 1582. So if we want to criticize someone, it's Oda Nobunaga and not Ubisoft. If Nobunaga had not put Yasuke at his service, Ubisoft would never have had the idea of ​​putting Yasuke in an Assassin's Creed. It is therefore totally legitimate to put him in a video game. I am French and if one day a game set in the 1500s or 1600s used an Italian or English character as a hero, it would not bother me. If I take your example, I deduce that you did not like AC Revelation. I remind you that in AC Revelation we played an Italian in Turkey. Japanese samurai in Japan are something common in medieval Japan, an African samurai is totally new and unique. I remind you that Oda Nobunaga liked exoticism, that is to say what, according to him, was out of the ordinary, and a tall black man was new in Japan in the 1580s, especially for a great warlord. Ubisoft was right to stand out from other games dealing with feudal Japan. Honestly, I think that putting Yasuke in a video game is a huge advantage in terms of the story. We need to stop being too formal with video games. I liked Ghost of Tsushima but I didn't find that Sucker Punch took risks with this game, they stayed pretty smooth. Here Ubisoft chose Yasuke, a very mysterious man with an atypical and very interesting background. In any case, you won't have a choice, you will have to play Yasuke at some point (probably from the beginning of the game). I just hope that it doesn't scare you or that it doesn't disgust you to embody a black man. Don't worry, you won't turn into a black man if you play Yasuke. The game will definitely sell very well and make tens of millions of sales, if not more. So I'm not worried about Ubisoft.

@@zuzisam It would be more logical to compare Ghost of Yotei to AC shadows in this case; Moreover, if the protagonist was white (instead of Yasuke), few people would have complained. People didn't say anything about the last samurai with Tom Cruise for example, or even the shogun series. I live in France and I know people who would have preferred a white instead of a black because they think that white people know how to adapt better to Asian culture and are more respectful (so they think that black people are incapable of behaving well and integrating into Japanese culture which is a bad, stupid and dangerous thought in 2024-2025). It is time to accept that Yasuke (the real one) did indeed exist and that he did indeed serve Oda Nubunaga from 1581 to 1582. So if we want to criticize someone, it's Oda Nobunaga and not Ubisoft. If Nobunaga had not put Yasuke at his service, Ubisoft would never have had the idea of ​​putting Yasuke in an Assassin's Creed. It is therefore totally legitimate to put him in a video game. I am French and if one day a game set in the 1500s or 1600s used an Italian or English character as a hero, it would not bother me. If I take your example, I deduce that you did not like AC Revelation. I remind you that in AC Revelation we played an Italian in Turkey. Japanese samurai in Japan are something common in medieval Japan, an African samurai is totally new and unique. I remind you that Oda Nobunaga liked exoticism, that is to say what, according to him, was out of the ordinary, and a tall black man was new in Japan in the 1580s, especially for a great warlord. Ubisoft was right to stand out from other games dealing with feudal Japan. Honestly, I think that putting Yasuke in a video game is a huge advantage in terms of the story. We need to stop being too formal with video games. I liked Ghost of Tsushima but I didn't find that Sucker Punch took risks with this game, they stayed pretty smooth. Here Ubisoft chose Yasuke, a very mysterious man with an atypical and very interesting background. In any case, you won't have a choice, you will have to play Yasuke at some point (probably from the beginning of the game). I just hope that it doesn't scare you or that it doesn't disgust you to embody a black man. Don't worry, you won't turn into a black man if you play Yasuke. The game will definitely sell very well and make tens of millions of sales, if not more. So I'm not worried about Ubisoft.

It's true some people don't have taste.

​@@zuzisam damn girl calm down

@@muhammadharits7127 It's a joke as a reply to a comment... what was I suppose to say to that?

@@zuzisam i knew you were joking, also you can said whatever you want

I'll play both :) Not Ghost of Yotei tho, I'm on Xbox.

I'm planning to play only as Naoe as well, because she is the assassin archetype but yeah, it's worth mentioning that they DID Yasuke dirty by putting him into that chunky brute category with hip hop music. It's almost like they wanted people to complain - whcih I'm happy to do. But I'm sure it will be a pretty game with fun gameplay. Kinda like Odyssey.

Oh, absolutely! I like closure, closure is nice, we should start doing that again.

Tak to je další důvod, ale posledních pár let, kdy je všechno prequel, sequel, remake atd. mě to prostě už jenom nepřekvapuje.

@@zuzisam Hrajou v tom hlavni roli penize. Jsem z filmoveho prumyslu a muž v černém (byznysmen ala smrtijed) mi říká jak dělat film. Počítám s tím že to lidi do dvou let přestane bavit a firmy se budou muset vrátit ke starým kořenům dělání kvalitních počinů. Já sám nevím jak bych předělal Harryho Pottera. Pamatuju si tu větu.. láska Harry, láska... a ta je teď potřeba víc než kdy jindy. Jestli se nový seriál neudělá s láskou tak je to k ničemu.

I'm actually surprised they didn't go with animated version, it sure would've been cheaper and less of a risk. Commiting to 7 seasons of a TV show is kinda insane.

Aw, thank you! But nope, I'm sagittarius :)

@ nice a straight shooter sign

Sure but some kids will see this version first, which is the scary part

You have more faith in her than I do, since she already supported black Hermione🤷‍♀

@@zuzisam that was a theather, not a movie

@@merisav4171 She still got along with it, so clearly she doesn't mind.

And that's another thing: censorship and toxic positivity, let's see how it will work for them in the long run.

@ It’s making me vote with my wallet a lot, lately. Haven’t bought a new game since Armored Core VI!

I agree, as long as the game is good, runs well, tells engaging story and treats its characters and the player with respect, no one cares if the dev no. 52 is blue hair non-binary or christian mom with 5 kids. That is until one of them starts running their mouth online

Detransitioner rights.

I don't judge the game, I think it will be decent. I will eventually play it. Doesn't change the fact that if you work for a big company, you either keep THAT information for yourself OR you keep your mouth shut about your opinions, because you represent even off the clock. That's how life works.

And why would I ever want to give anybody that acts like that money? Bitch literally said he hopes I never know peace lmao. Bitch openly said he is a racist that refused to hire people based off their skin color. Fuck him and the game that's putting bread on his table.

Because the things Hansen wrote on twitter are worthy of investigation by his company. At the very least, he should be fired. And if an investigation reveals he has indeed chosen to hire based on discriminatory methods, that is illegal in the United States. This can open him and his company up to civil or even criminal litigation.

If I had a game coming out, I would literally gave everyone who worked on said game a class on how to behave online, because clearly some people willing to sink the ship to achieve absolutely nothing.

@@zuzisam are you talking about the gamers or the game dev's who create these games who don't know how to talk online? i mean if you are just talking about the gamers, you won't be able to change behavior no matter how hard you try, even if you got government involved to help. but on the game dev side, that can be managed because it's a profession not an ice cream social where they can blurt out anything they please and not be effected by it, from my knowledge they all sign a non discloser agreement, so that could be something that exists within the agreement added into it, have it explain that they could run into legal consequences if they blurt out anything within that agreement online and it can effect their future prospects in the gaming industry. so these devs would have a more tight lip because there are real consequences to their actions they don't want happening to them now or in the future.

@@5226-p1e I'm talking about devs of course. What you described is not unheard off. In my company I had to sign NDA about what I post online, I'm a face of my company, like it or not, I and my coworkes have responsibility for its image outside of our working hours. Devs shouldn't have it different, *especially* those who work in lead positions i.e. Hansen.

in my opinion when it comes to the woke stuff, they should instead give the player the choice to opt out of the woke content in the game, just separate this content in an alternate download of the game, like a optional bethesda high resolution texture pack. that way the game company doesn't piss off the ppl who hate this stuff in the game and it also doesn't piss off the ppl who want it in the game, the base game content will be non woke and the optional download will be for the woke stuff. they should also have some kind of statistics checker to see how many ppl downloaded the woke content in comparison to the ppl who only downloaded the non woke content of the game, to better understand where the vast majority of the audience stands on the whole woke issue. now it makes sense to put the woke stuff in the optional download for better sales of the game because it will likely mean the game is a success, but it should never be released together, like put the optional download as separate content 5 to 6 months down the road. i think all games could benefit from something like this.

@@5226-p1e The problem with this is what do you define as "woke," is let's say, same sex relationship between two NPC's woke? For me, no, for someone else yeah. That's why I don't think this could work, in some cases it would literally break the game. Not to mention the discrimination lawsuits that would follow. But then again, you can opt out from the woke stuff when you write your game well, again BG3 is perfect example. You can be the Chad, roaming Faerun with your hot girlfriend Shadowheart OR you can be nonbinary gnome who is boning the hunky bear, no judgement, it's up to you and that's how you write a game for everyone.

@@zuzisam it's all explained in pretty much everything the left wing party advocates for, since they coopted the word, they started using it in the context of what woke meant, so we have to use their standards since this is how they describe the word. and in their eyes same sex relationships is considered as woke, because it was them who broadened the meaning. why would there be discrimination lawsuits? when they placed both content to the game, one is just separated in another optional download file, so they both still exist in game, no need for any lawsuit. the game can still be for everyone, but they have to cater to the majority audience first and foremost, in which this case as well as all failed games based on the woke ideology, "i understand Baldur's gate is considered an exception, but not the rule" and what would it break in a quest to do this? in my opinion, all they would need to do is create alternate character's for the missing ones that the optional DLC content provides, so the game has both options, and caters to both parties, but they have to cater to non-woke party first because these ppl simply will not bow down to the woke content in the game, they are willing to bankrupt a game if the game doesn't meet their standards, and they happen to be the majority of gamers who control whether a game makes it or flops. the point of all of this is to provide the option for both parties, but doing it in a way that will be accepted by not only the majority gamers but also cater to the minority of gamers and the studio doesn't need to go bankrupt and have to sell. my whole point is to not cause the whole gaming studio to go bankrupt but while also providing what ppl actually want in the game. again i know balders gate offered both options in the game, but from my understanding the game was also written well and it was fun, not a lot of games these days can seem to meet that standard sadly, and the main concern for the majority of gamers is the woke stuff, then they talk about the other issues of the game, like performance or gameplay loops or story, i mean everything matters in the overall rating, but the most hot button topic ppl will not fold on is the woke stuff. they kind of did something like what i'm talking about with that most recent Spiderman game, in America they sold the woke version, but in Saudi Arabia they sold the non woke version of the game. i mean if that studio did that, some folks questioned if they were really for the cause of the woke messaging or if it was just so they could make money by not making a woke version of the game. i suppose they could also sell the game separately for other game studios, make a woke version or a non woke version, but i don't trust that they would do this kind of thing, it's far easier to sell the same game but have the optional download.

@@5226-p1e They don’t have to cater to the majority audience, first. Some games are made specifically for niche audiences. Look at shmups that sell only around 10k copies, for example. Most people do not care about woke stuff in games. The people who are critical of it are somewhat a minority. The majority actually either doesn’t care, or doesn’t follow gaming news.

Infected by blight. I'm convinced they're all infected by the blight.

"taash is well written" ... okay, we can immediately ignore your judgement then. See ya¬

@@STEVEYTHEEXEEVEE you clearly didn’t play the game.

@@eceamo why? cause i disagree with you? no, i dont need to play the game to see how many awful scenes, representation, writing and disrespect the game is to the franchise. you're simply wrong.

It’s funny that they were only nominated for 1 category, it was for accessibility/innovation. I hope they lose that one too 😂

I was also surprised. I was sure that Bioware already had a deal behind the scenes to win GOTY and boost sales. Glad that Failguard isn't nominated tho. I hate that game so much, it destroyed my favorite franchise.

I was also surprised. I was sure that Bioware already had a deal behind the scenes to win GOTY and boost sales. Glad that Failguard isn't nominated tho. I hate that game so much, it destroyed my favorite franchise.

DLC's should have their own category and should not be included in GOTY nominations. The whole thing sounds like a joke tbh.......

That's the joke. By the time you are done with playing (for me it's like 10 hours, I can't do it anymore) you want Solas and the Elves just to kill everyone and destroy the world. If I could as a Rook side with him - I would. But that's the joke - the game won't let you because.... they know.

@@zuzisam They pretty much killed the history of past games...everything, everyone....we fought for nothing......No the joke is if you get the secret ending....looks like they left room for another game down the road....no one will trust this company again with their money.....hardest thing to get back for any person in life and or in love is trust.

you can't side with the bad guys in any dragon age actually.

@@nocturnal03 but this is one that I would like to see it in O:) not sure if you read it right...if given the choice is what I said......

@@nocturnal03true but, we did have the choice of killing off companions or at least be rude and dismissive towards them. In Veilguard, we’re forced to be nice and supportive only.

Also BG3 is the best comparison because BioWare made BG and BG2. They were the kings of rpg games, once upon a time, that's the standard they're being compared to: their own company's past and legacy

This is what happens when you hire people based on who they are and not what they can do.

(Angry upvote) The problem is way bigger than you think. "They" want to be respected while disrespecting other cultures and values, sometimes even their own. It also looks like it's a typical shift of "the oppressed are trying to become the oppressor". I don't have anything against LGBT folks because as a materialist and Marxist I know where all of it comes from, and I do not blame them, BUT the moment they try to force their views and values onto still a majority of NORMAL people, I'll fight back ferociously. People hate labels and being hated based on the said labels, but at the same time they come up with more stupid identities and stuff, and for what? There are only two genders - biologically you're either a man or a woman, everything else is an artificial and NOT needed construct created to keep the society divided and confused. If anything, those people need a proper medical and psychiatrical help, which, guess what, they cannot afford due to bs health care systems everywhere, in any country! And so, instead of uniting for bigger cause like improving health care, economic situation et cetera for everyone, we all (not only them, but also normal folks just from different industries) just sit in our own bubbles either fighting for stupid and meaningless ideas, or doing nothing and not caring about people of poorer professions like drivers, delivery workers, outsourced staff and many others. After all, as one smart grandpa once said, "People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises."

100% but then again, these people are willing to destroy language, history and the very reality just for brownie points from some activists. (And obviously the BlackRock money)

lmfao, beautifulx???? The dialogues were already giving me litteral migraines in english! I'd have lost it!🤣

@@eestiny9734 yeah, I've used -x as an example but it really is like that "latinx" bs but done not only to nouns but verbs and adjectives too - they're trying to enforce those translations even tho it simply exposes their whole ideology as fake af. What kind of inclusion is it to destroy other translations to the point where it's laughable? It's really tiering to push back against but push back we will.

They will make Mass Effect 5 because it's the last hope for BioWare to even stay open. Pretty sure EA will give them ultimatum, you either make this good or you are done. With that being said - I don't think they can make it good. They can't fire people like Corinne Busche and those They/Thems writers because it would "look bad" so maybe they'll get different positions within the company but they are staying and they will push the agenda. You are absolutely right tho, Mass Effect will have it hard because everyone will remember this nonsense. DA is dead (until 10 years from now BioWare will be gone, someone in Larian will get bored and gets the rights and make a new game, but I digress, lmao)

@@zuzisam I'm not so sure that EA will give them an ultimatum like this. Dragon Age 2, Anthem, Mass Effect Andromeda and now Dragon Age: The Veilguard were all games that made EA unhappy if I'm not mistaken. For EA standards Bioware already got a lot of second chances I think. The only reason they are still there is probably Dragon Age Inquisition, which sold 12 million copies as far as I know. I can see EA cutting their losses at this point, especially if Mass Effect 5 ends up in development hell as well.. The Veilguard ended up there for a while and now we all know why 😅 But should they make it I think the same thing as you. Personally I believe these DEI hires resulted in a bad echo chamber at Boware. I am sure there were lots of people at Bioware who were not happy with Taash, but can you imagine working there and speaking out about this? Anyone who would do this would probably be called a bigot and ruin their own career with that. And because of that, I think Bioware suffers from a huge toxic positivity issue, which can probably not be solved as long as certain people work there. I do like the idea of Larian Studios creating the next Dragon Age though 🙂

Mass effect 2 is 2 crew member non-binary.

I'm on Tumblr and I 100% believe Corinne Busche has Tumblr account. That platform loves this game.

Nope, it's actually someone with experience, and they've done great work previously. This is the same person who wrote characters like Solas ALSO Tali and Mordin from Mass Effect, which makes this even more disappointing.

It's worse - it's butchered political statement. They messed up big time.