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Hey, Endymion. This RUclipsr called Th3 Birdman is currently doing a series exposing grfiters, and he used you as an example of what a grifter is, someone who tries to benefit from the culture war with media and stuff. I was just curious if you already knew and if you were planning to respond or whatnot.
good thing about the contract work of white men, is they not effected by the lay offs and get paid non then thats it and probably getting contracts for multiple studios while the actually Dev hires well they screwed. XD
People forget that in 2020 gamers unanimously crowned Ghost of Tsushima Game of the Year, but it still lost against The Last of Us 2 at the awards, because of activists in the industry. If people don't think Ghost of Yotei isn't a response to that, or a political message, they're not paying attention.
Wow. I forgot they came out the same year. Granted, I played GoT for probably over 100 hours and never touched TLOU2, but damn. You make a solid point.
Comment of the day, hats off mate, everyone seems to think that hiring a raging activist to play the protagonist of a much anticipated sequel was a weird coincidence smh. We saw what Sony did with the last of us, they butchered every character and story in that sequel with Dei messaging, living the game bland and soulless.
I used to be a contractor at Electronic Arts. Woke liberal women in management and regular programmer-type men implementing their ideas is exactly how it worked.
I've always suspected this. Women seep into predominantly men spaces then, instead of adapting, they change things to their liking while destroying it.
It definitely sounds a lot more interesting than most assassins. Creed story intros. Shame we will never get to see it unless the game gets delayed for like another year. lol
The art industry itself is very liberal and as soon as they find out you’re a conservative artist or dev they refuse to give you opportunity. This is why it’s so polluted
that comment itself is just so damn stupid. Not you saying it is stupid but what it really means is stupid. Like Liberal used to means freedom progressive, meaning lets free the boobs, lets focus on female beauty...etc and Conservative used to mean lets only show the ankles, lets be conservative and not show too much skin. When did Liberal means lets uglification all females and make them all omni gender, while conservatives is lets show more skin and make females more feminine. Like damn what the hell happened
I work in IT. Older white male here - almost 69. Your description of the industry is pretty on point. Hard skills vs. soft skills. Employees vs. contractors.
@@michellestr8998 have a list of companies that support this NWO stuff and try your best to avoid giving them your money... not just games, movies but everything.. my list is already quite long and keeps growing everyday
You must be young! ET back in the 80's damn near killed the whole gaming industry! The game was so bad people said gaming is shit! Nah you guys are overreacting lol
@@olsonbrandon91 so? your point? the fact that the comment isn't more original just shows the point being made, that most people who hear this "get used to not owning your games" speech majority of people will react with "ok, get used to not having my money anymore."
They are not removing Yasuke, nor they will increase the quality of the game within these three months. Rather they will just delete any offensive things they've added in the game including that hiphop BGM. Ubisoft's downfall is evident now.
The original story concept sounded so much more interesting than this current garbage with Yasuke and Naoe. I'd say Ubisoft deserved the backlash they received for abandoning the original story and having virtue signaling developers disrespect the Japanese culture. They know how bad it became. That's why they didn't bother to show up for the gaming showcase event in Japan.
Wouldn't been interesting if they were tone-deaf enough to show up to the Japan game event. Then again, I guess it's hard to ignore an entire country hating you publicly.
@@ni9274 Dude unless he reveals the identity of his insider, he won't be able to prove it. That is the reason he asked us to take with a grain of salt. And also most news stories come out as insider scoops before they eventually get proven. It's your choice whether to believe it or not. The only parameter is if his track record for insider information is good.
"Straight Male Gaming" (SMG) would be a hilarious contractor company to create and have people making contractor rates to make these games actually WORK lol.
If that’s what it takes to end these shitty practices, let people with actual experience call the shots and devs are made up of people with actual talent and not schmucks they found on the street to pad out checklists, then let it collapse, I say.
That's the original plan. The old team that made Ghost of Tsushima has already quit Sucker Punch studio and go elsewhere. The one that made Ghost of Wokei is a different team.
if I'm correct, there second invasion from Mongol like 10-20 year after first one.... they coulda just start from there and win but.... have to have a strong woman who can hold double long katana that not much men can do.....
Altair died in 1257 as a Master Assassin, in 1274 Jin Sakai fought the Mongols in the land of Tsushima as the Ghost. These 2 legends basically lived almost at the same era, fighting Mongols using Guerilla tactics as an Assassin for Altair and as a Ghost for Jin, Damn.
The sheer delusion, the arrogance to be the world's savior, teacher, and moral enforcer only fuels my resentment... and hatred. No pre-orders. There's no day one purchase. From now on, there will be nothing but sneering indifference.
How about no buying at all? Otherwise we keep going back and forth. No boiling frogs. No goal post moving. Nothing at all. Even a whiff of potential woke means no buy. Absolutely nothing.
Moral enforcer ? Do you go in prison for being conservative in the US ? how do you explain that half the population isn't in prison ? Yes you people didn't have any impact on BG3, Cyberpunk or Elden Ring, you have no influence
Ubi CEO : "That sound fine.. but let's not make too fun for people to play our stuff, after all." "Put something related about current trend and.. ah you know what. Listen to our consultancy. Just do what DEI told you."
People have been saying for decades now, since AC1-2 were a thing, that they wanted a Hanzo Hattori AC game. They had it, they literally made it and were like nah George Floyd.
Ubisoft learning that fake pandering won't make you money. If they gave the original team their freedom to create Shadows how it was planned to be with all Japanese cast and faithful to Japanese lore, no one would complain and everyone would be hyped for Shadows. Ubisoft is shooting themselves in the foot.
@@Backwolfblade I question the same thing. My assumption is that Shadows might be their last chance and if that fails, I expect Ubisoft to ask a big company to buy them up, like a Microsoft or Sony.
See you when AC shadow sells 20 millions You're literally believing this guy despite the fact that he didn't provide any evidence ? Crazy how naive you people are
I have a huge backlog, im in no rush or care to buy anything at this point so im good for a long time. If the industry can unf*ck themselves they wont see my money till then.
Initially I was interested in Yotei. But hearing about how the lead VA is, and hearing the original staff from Tsushima are all gone, more ism against Asian men, the foreboding ending that will piss everyone off… My interest in Yotei is dying.
Same here. I had (and HAVE) no problem with the idea of playing a game where the MC/protagonist is a female samurai! They WERE a thing - I believe they were called onna-musha (forgive the spelling if I botched it), and were traditionally known for proficiency with the spear and polearm (yari and naginata, respectively) as well as the dai-kyu bow. They WERE pretty damn bad-ass, in other words. That being said, they would have STILL been pretty feminine - they were still women in a very old-fashioned society! What I have no time for is preachy girl-boss nonsense in a setting where, quite frankly, that sort of behaviour would NOT have been tolerated. If these idiots want to be politicians or social engineers, they should DO that... and leave the hobbies of those who ARE NOT interested in that dreck the hell alone.
My interest is completely dead for me, I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt but when I noticed all the red flags like you said I said naw 🤚🏼 let the companies collapse from their own consequences.
@@Jonas-lj8ul that's all true but they were far more common in Jins time where they were honoured and had influence on their own. 400 years latter in Yotei's time they were far more uncommon and had no influence they weren't even allowed to travel. If they got special permission the needed travel permits and documentations about the destiny of the travel and on what business they were sent on and even then they were only allowed to travel as retinue of a man. I would have far less concerns if the game played in the same time as Tsushima but in another location with her as MC, and another VA wouldn't hurt tho.
@@Simulacrum29 See, I hadn't known that. I DID know that, in the latter part of the... I wanna say Edo period, but that's probably wrong, but around then that the Onna-musha were generally expected to remain in their homes to defend the property and younger children of the household - that was the focus of their training by the late "samurai age" - but that's about it.
As an actual industry contractor: yes, yes and yes ! And they truly still go out of their way to not hire (especially white or older) male contractors. Even on returning business (because of proven trackrecord) HR tries to ghost you during the proces !!!
Never worked on games..but I used to code backend for a couple databases....I could only imagine the bs that goes on in development, production, peer review/q&a, testing.... There's enuff crap with good teams...smh...I'm glad I'm retired
If Jotei flops you just know people will blow up the fact the MC is female and sexism is to blame. Wish Sucker Punch listened to what people want. Give us Jin Sakai 2
"People" is a strong word, more like bubbles on social media. The videogame industry is chasing the same kind of public who generated 1 billion dollars for Black Panther and Barbie. But to replicate that kind of stunt on the videogame market, it's not that simple, a completely different beast lol the "gamer" stereotype is already toxic, then you add the insane prices and time consumption, people would never pay $70 to watch Barbie, no matter how much "likes" they would receive on social media after dressing in pink, taking photos and promoting a millionaire IP for free. The only recent example of "inclusive" game that was a huge success, that was Baldur's Gate 3, the apex of the rpg genre, the quality itself already sells the product, even so, the marketing of BG3 never made too much of a fuzz about the "inclusive" elements of this game (the new Dragon Age is the inverse, the marketing and interviews are pushing this kind of promotion, stirring the "internet"). That Black Panther stunt, the protagonist "represents" black culture? This will never work in Assassins Creed, even more so with Japan as the background
The original ACS story sounds utterly badass and would've been a Day-1 Edition buy for me. Even for an UbiSuck game that will drop to $20 in 6-months. The new version is just a hard pass. Oh, and my guess to how Yotei will piss-off Jin fans is if Jin is shown dying as a traitor and/or a fraud...and pathetically.
My friend is a stuntman in Vancouver and he was saying they're hiring diversity over talent. Ultimately putting them at more risk of injury, not being the best person for the job.
sooooooo instead of capitalising on one of the most loved cultures on earth, to finally set the assassins creed lore in japan BUT with all their genius decisions, they choose to change it all because they were inspired by a criminal in the united states??
I highly doubt that Japan is the most beloved culture on Earth especially when you go back just a hundred years ago, but they are definitely one of the most interesting and fascinating cultures to the West, but most beloved culture especially in the West would go to the Romans and the Roman empire.
We live in weird times. Where you can't enjoy anything, and anytime something brings up a sequel, it destroys the first one, because it catered to their fans and it was good because it did so. Welp, lately my wallet is getting more and more shut each week. It's only a matter of time I put a lock on it, and a picture that says "Remember, remember, the devs are pretenders".
My god that Ghost of Tsushima 2 sounded so goddamn good. Jin and his band of ghosts? Going into cinematic battles with said band of ghosts? Bringing the battles to mainland Japan? WHY COULDNT WE GET THIS!!! As for pissing us off... My two cents there is that either this Atsu will kill Jins descendants or his band of ghosts...
Yep. I totally feel the same way, I ain’t gonna bother with the sequel. What’s the point anymore? These devs are not our friends. They scrapped this idea for this? That tells me a lot, especially knowing the actress is insane.
Well considering that the game takes place In 1603 and Jin's descendants would likely still be on the island of tsushima, or at the very least maybe Western Japan and definitely not anywhere near the Ainu people of Hokkaido...
If Sucker Punch actually goes through with the idea of killing off Jin Sakai in a flashback mission, they'll be officially done as a company. They'll be just as fucked as Rocksteady.
@@vedsehrawat2845of course he would be dead. That’s obvious. People are more worried that he gets killed off disrespectfully or in a very undeserving manner that spits on his legacy. Kind of like tlou2 or sushi squad.
This "original" story is almost right, but it gets quite a bit wrong. The original lore for the Sengoku Period Japanese Brotherhood has been availing for a while on the AC wiki, taken from books and lore segments from various AC media. To paraphrase: Templars arrive in Japan in 1549. The Chinese Brotherhood hears about this and sends one of their master assassins who happens to be Japanese to start a Japanese brance of the Brotherhood. The Japanese Brotherhood reaches out to Oda Nobunaga to form an alliance but he says he will only do so once he unifies the land, so they secretly form an alliance with Tokugawa Ieyasu whose vassal, Hattori Hanzo, had become a master assassin. The Brotherhood then spends its time battling the Templar aligned clans to aid the Tokugawa and Oda clans conquests. Hanzo killed both the Templars Mōri Motonari and Takeda Shingen, the later of which possessed a Sword of Eden which somehow ends up in the hands of Oda Nobunaga. 5 years after that, Hanzo kills the Templar Uesugi Kenshin. Later, when the Tokugawa and Assassins learn of the plot to kill Nobunaga, Hattori Hanzo protects Tokugawa Ieyasu while Yamauchi Taka is sent to secretly kill Nobunaga and retrieve the Sword of Eden so that it doesnt fall into the hands of Akechi Mitsuhide. After this event, the Chinese assassin Liu Yan transports the Sword of Eden away from Japan. Next, in 1596, Hanzo is killed by a rival ninja, and Tokugawa suspects Toyotomi Hideyoshi played a part in his death, so he sends Taka to investigate and later kill Toyotomi. After Toyotomi's death in 1598, the land ia divided once more between Toyotomi's supporters and Tokugawa's, which leads to the battle of Sekigahara where Taka kills the general Shima Sakon to ensure Tokugawa's victory, and consiquently, the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Progressives can’t write good stories because they are insane people. Have we not observed that throughout the years? Note I didn’t say liberal because funnily enough there is a difference and the progs are definitely insane cultists.
Well to be fair, we don't really know what the plot for Yotei is right now. Will keep an eye out, but the info in this video doesn't inspire confidence...
Nobody "abandoned the ship", you're projecting and making up story I think the devs didn't realize how sexist you people were, they couldn't even imagine you would hate their new game just cause of the gender of the main character
@@abyss1138 Yotei will essentially be a mod of Tsushima, so yes, obviously not much will change other than the writing. But it's sad to see passionate western developers making great games, only to be sacked and replaced by lazy activists, who produces propaganda slop from assets that their predecessors made. This is truly late stage cultural marxism.
Yasuke is just a retcon of what the original concept for the game was: *Having the MC as a Japanese man from the start.* As with most things in the media in this time, it’s corrupted and uninteresting.
Imagine they just released it as intended with the japanese Samurai. No discussions, no heat. Maybe a huge success instead. But no, the put in Yasuke Floyd. Insanity!
I wanna say something, but might be too distasteful. Why using real life tragedy/occurance as excuse for character be what it is in the game is just.. not good. Game supposed to be fantasy, escapism, fun.. but instead, what we keep getting is hidden message and hidden agenda being put more and more that people start to relate much of real life.. smh.
I am gonna be the devils advocate for a bit , but hear me out. I am gonna say that Yasuke’s story is fresh and different. Samurais like Musashi and Toyotomi, while immensely important and marketable, have already been featured extensively in Japanese and global media for decades. Yasuke, on the other hand, offers a new perspective and narrative that stands out among more familiar samurai stories. Yasuke’s story is relatively under-documented, which gives creators a lot of narrative freedom. Unlike Musashi or Toyotomi, whose lives are well-documented and heavily mythologized, Yasuke’s life is more of a blank canvas. This allows Ubisoft to fill in gaps with creative liberties, expanding his role beyond what history has documented. HOWEVER If the creators take too many liberties with Yasuke’s integration into samurai culture without addressing the real cultural and racial tensions of that era, it risks creating a narrative that doesn’t respect the actual challenges Yasuke likely faced. The tension between Yasuke’s outsider status and the firm , secluded nature of Japanese society should be central to his story. Oversimplifying how he was accepted by Oda Nobunaga or the other samurai, without exploring the complex dynamics of xenophobia, power, and loyalty, could result in a shallow or even misleading portrayal. As someone who loves history ,this is my biggest concern, and based on the information and footage we’ve seen so far, I doubt Ubisoft will be able to effectively capture the complexity of Yasuke's journey within feudal Japan.
The only thing good that came out of that is the twitter files, potentially minor rebalancing for elections and community notes Even then, it still has some whiff of bs; mainly because of the staff that is actually running it He aint no devil; but he sure asf aint no saint either
To think we've been deliberately robbed of an epic Ghost of Tsushima II with Jin Sakai forming his own "Ghost" army against the Mongols... Just, unforgivable. And the fact that this lady in Yotei used Miyamoto Musashi's two-sword style a YEAR before he invented it is pure heresy. Like fuck the Western video game industry man, they shit over everything.
I can personally attest that its happening at animation studios. And the design artists that are skilled pick up the slack for the 'hires'. And no we dont get more money.
Aww man a shinto priest story would have been a first and would be a great way to spread cultural awareness of Shinto. It's too bad that tossed that idea. The Yotei stuff was also really sad to hear. Jin running off and spreading his movement wouldn't have been as historically accurate but would have been a lot of fun to continue his story which could have lead to many sequels like AC.
I find it funny how people think ghost of yotei is gonna be the one western AAA game with a gay female protagonist that’s some how gonna break the woke trend lol. People are so naive.
I heard about this. The devs are contracted out, in order to save money. They build the game on a limited timeframe, leaving after their contracts are up. Anything seriously wrong needs to be fixed by in-house. Much of the time, the fixers don't even know the code, so it takes forever for them learn the system and work on the game.
They didn’t want a piece of Eden to be involved? That whole part ties together the importance of the animus and our characters going into the mind of the ancestors.
Before DEI, the biggest problem of Assassin's Creed for me was exactly the animus bullshit. I hate EVERY SINGLE TIME they take me from the past to the present. I couldn't care less about this shit and it just is like a bucket of cold water on the imersion.
@@adamb.m4844facts! Ever since they killed off Desmond, i lost interest. I was expecting Desmond to become a master assassin and fighting the templars in the present timeline just like some few moments in one of his games.
@@fturatti I loved it. It was essentially like the Matrix where what we do on the inside is part of a larger purpose that would present itself one day. But that all changed after Desmond died.
It was the coolest aspect for me. Not just historical fiction, but primarly science fiction. And it tied the story of different characters from different eras perfectly
but because of shit games over the last few years, I don't have a backlog. I've never bought any of those copy/paste games like Farcry, AC, COD, or anything that even hints of Woke!
Same. I was so excited when the trailer started cause I could tell it was Suker Punch immedietly, but once i realised we wouldn't get more Jin I wanted to cry. RIP Ghost of Tsushima 2, you would have been loved and I mourn your loss.
@@evilmar2363 Agree, but could have been nice to see the Sogunate trying to reclaim the island, or having kind of redemption arc for the bushido way for Jin and reconciliate with Shimura. But it seems for GoY, most of the GoT team left the studios. Also, let's not forget that GoT lost the GOTY to TLOU2 in 2020, a game that nobody talk anymore nowadays, compared to GoT...
No, not really. I feel that he he somehow survived that 300ish years later it would be pretty stupid. Also, the more you have the same character, the higher the chance of said game can become stall and or boring. But sucker punch wouldn't let that happen but that's just my opinion
Friendly reminder that Atsu is very conveniently using Niten Ichi Ryu (two sword style) just a year BEFORE Miyamoto Musashi is documented to have invented it. Game is set in 1603, Niten Ichi Ryu was invented between 1604 and 1640, so my money is on this random woman somehow ending up teaching a literal sword saint of Japan his own invention.
Because wokeness is more infectious than the Common Cold, more insidious than Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine, and more deadly than the Black Plague, the deadliest disease in world history. Or is it the Bubonic Plague? I cannot recall...
It’s crazy how a game based in real life with a pretty good story and cultural elements that would make people appreciate Japanese culture was perverted by our own work culture in order to fit their ideas of “proper representation”
Based on what? A bunch of conservative ego's crying over a videogame? :'-) Oh I miss the days when people just shut their mouth about stuff they didn't like and move on...
It will be another slop with woke elements, that most normies will still buy. Many of them still religiously believe in Sony exclusives. I already ignored new TLoU, GoW and Spiderman, while having PS5. So what, it still sold.
@@shortw00d81 back then the game were actually made to be fun. Now we have gender/racial quotas and hateful activists pushing narratives. But also modern AAA products are very dry and sanitised. Totally different and much worse times.
@@Kickinthescience I just heard of a black goddess (or giantess to be precise) and it was enough for me. One race switch (to of course african-american) was enough to turn me off. But I also didn't much like GoW2018, I consider it an awful trend in gaming. Mainstream product, being and Oscar bait and pseudo deep, with mediocre gameplay, but for some reason extremely high praised. Only good thing for me was the visuals. If you say it's not "woke", then good. I will wait till it's in PS Plus.
the people who made the original version of shadows should just make their own game. what you described there sounded like a really good story with so much potential.
Imagine taking your car to the shop to get repaired after an accident. You drop it off and notice that the place is full of blue haired land whales. Then after you leave they drop your car off at a shop full of chads. The chads fix your car because the land whales can’t. The repairs cost twice as much because two shops get paid for the work. That is the state of modern western gaming studios.
As far as I’m concerned Ubisoft has completely lost its plot with the Assassins Creed franchise. In Assassins Creed 2 we are told about various famous assassin plots in multiple locations that I believe should have been made into games but they have been largely forgotten or ignored. It’s so annoying that they had good content and all of history to play with but can’t utilise it properly.
Ubisoft AC2: Buys a historicaly accurate book about Leonardo Da Vinci's life a thousand pages long. Adds 10 pages of fiction to it to fit the narrative of the story for AC2. Ubisoft: We took creative liberties for a historicaly accurate Da Vinci to fit our story. Also Ubisoft..... Ubisoft ACS: Buys a ficticious unaccurate book about Yasuke's life a thousand pages long. Adds 1 page of reality to it to fit the narrative of the story for ACS. Ubisoft: He was a real person.
Also, the AC2 characters database says that Leonardo was probably homosexual. I don't recall complaints about that, and I'm also Italian so I would more likely know if there were any. Now with Yasuke there will be the possibility of having gay romances (like in the previous RPG games), and the backlash is immense for obvious reasons
I won't forgive them for destroying an awesome concept for a Assassin's Creed game. They had the makings of a great Assassin's Creed game, but instead "The Message" really destroyed it completely.
I think if Ubisoft had gone with just a female ninja, things would have been better, not perfect, but better. They would have avoided a lot of the controversy.
..and thinking is not allowed when important checkbox being put at the person work table. There's that too. What left to accept by these company is profit writing on the wall.
Still would have faced some backlash as they would have likely made her physically angrogynous or worse straight up ugly. Not as much now, as you said, but backlash is still backlash, and this is the type of backlash to severely reduce potential revenue.
@@olsonbrandon91 Yeah, and stop making female characters ugly. We are way beyond sexualizing females at this point, they are actually trying to turn them into men.
The problems with video games now is theyre made by arts degree holders . When gaming was great they used to be made by computer geeks who were passionate and self-taught more often than not
The fuck are you talking about? Stop talking out of your ass. I have friends in the Animation field and games field, and I can assure you, that MOST have a degree from the arts, animation, both. Games were made by "geeks" who were self-taught in the fucking 1970s and early to mid-80s, then programs started sprouting up, and transferable skills were being learned in various programs.
it is CRAZY to me that they do not seem to understand that the pieces of eden were a huge draw for many of us who have been in the franchise since the first Assassins Creed. that's legitimately EXACTLY what we want?? who is telling them these things??? oh...right...... 😑
Assassin's Creed without Assassins and Templars fighting over ancient aliens tech is not Assassin's Creed. It's like Pirates of the Caribbean without Johnny Depp.
A. The fact Ubisoft tripped over themselves after making a dope story concept for Shadows is unfathomable B. The fact that the committee went with this concept for Ghost of Yotei instead of going with what they originally planned will bite them in the ass C. The VA for Atsu doesn’t help Ghost of Yotei either
Don't overestimate it, the industry is just following a trend, they want the Black Panther money. But videogame development is so slow and bureaucratic, they arrived too late to party. Also the key factor of "gamers" already tending to be toxic no matter what + the crazy price points and time consumption of this hobby, people would never pay $70 to watch Black Panther, of course not, the videogame market is a different beast entirely
The ending gonna piss people off because Atsu gonna kick the strongest swordsman in japanese history Musashi Miyamoto's ass.She gonna make it look easy too.😂😂😂 So basically, the strongest swordsman in Japanese history is actually a woman.
@@thatsityou XD I meant it sarcastically. Like... Eh, excuse my dumb, but my thinking was kinda like, if they got shadows in such a state; imagine whatever state they'd release yotei in. Ya know? Especially considering it's apparent og story.
@@ridleydaemonia1134but all yall saying AC:S was on life support after that Yotei trailer release. Now this MF Endymion is saying NY the game is “no where near completed. Likely 2026”. And it’s crickets outside 🦗🦗🦗
This entire story you spoke about would have been very compelling and actually respectful of the troubling period and the shinobi legend. But can’t have a game without DEI nowadays so let it die with ubisoft.
@@shortw00d81Based on the above video I've just watched. I've decided to draw the line in the sand and never support or buy from woke companies. Why would I help people who hate me? Vote with your wallet and enjoy their tears as they go broke.
@@Fearless154the voice actor is a extreme far left wing activist and idk if it’s true but I heard that devs who worked on the first game have left after seeing the production and direction this new upcoming ghost of yotei game is looking
Eastern european studios and japanese studios will hopefully never be compromised (cd project red, fromsoftware, rgg, warhorse, 4a games, square enix, capcom). Rockstar is probably the only western studio that won't get compromised, it would be sad if rockstar went woke
@@megablue8 Also those 3 are basically siblings. They may hate each other but they won't tolerate disrespect from an outsider to even just one of them.
The major mistake of Ubisoft, besides the Lockley/Yasuke nonsense, that was the typical misinterpretation of adjacent cultures. To show chinese architecture in a "historical" japanese game, it's like saying eastern asians are all the same. I am portuguese and I grew up in Brazil, I know two very good examples... Portugal and Spain are adjacent, doesn't mean we share the same exact culture and cliches... same goes for Brazil and Argentina, if you compare these two, oh boy, they get mad. Or even further, go to a argentinian and say Tango was created in Spain? It's kinda hilarious in a dark way, I don't really mind this kind of stuff (sometimes they are just honest mistakes, can't demand a degree of anthropology from every jondoe), but some people take this as a serious disrespect. Not so long ago the mainstream media assumed brazilians speak spanish, Max Payne 3 is a hilarious game, obviously not "historical" by any measure, but the lack of touch with the cultural background was funny to me, but of course, many brazilians took that as a offense (and I can't really blame them, millionaire studios who don't even try to run a background check)
You’d be surprised by how exactly many massively experienced and skilled game industry professionals are exclusively contract now. In-studio work is just not worth the hassle anymore, (given that stability does not exist in our field) and if you’re good at what you do, the work always finds you. Big AAA studios are kinda fucked. Expect it to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Holy crap...its a huge catch 22. Why work for the studio directly when it doesnt guarantee benefits or job security? Might as well work as a contractor!
@@Bignuke87 Full time work becomes a hassle when the culture isn’t welcoming of (for example) criticism pointing out a lack of game functionality or a care for the end player experience…or the contribution of ideas that conflict with a narrative. It becomes exhausting to keep pushing that stone up a mountain, so many have left to pursue their own ideas on their own time, or to become purely expensive “guns for hire.”
@@PizzaManetti thats sad and demoralizing! So, rather than a squad coming together to accomplish a goal, its devolved into dog eat dog mercenaries just trying to keep afloat?
@@Bignuke87 It’s always been dog eat dog. The business world’s influence makes it that way. Idealists don’t last long in game development…or, they just assimilate. You either join the “cult” and hide what you actually think, keeping your dreams and good ideas to yourself, or you leave and find other means of supporting yourself.
Good report dude. Liking this format. Good connections. Edit: deciding things by committee reminds me of Han and Leia's back on forth. "No time to discuss this as a committee!". "I am not a committee!".
The original concept for "Shadows" sounds fantastic. I was goose bumping at parts. The Isu-sword corrupting people sounds like they're alluding to the cursed Muramasa swords. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was abnormally paranoid. He'd straight up not comprehend what was happening before him, mood swings, and frequent illnesses. Sounds a bit like he might have been suffering from schizophrenia. I cannot believe that I'm not going to get that game. For f**k sake, I've been waiting for this game for the better part of a decade! Damn you, Endymion. You've ruined my day, week, month... Great reporting, as always. But man am I depressed now...
17:13 Wait a minute,Sucker Punch was originally working on a Ghost Of Tsushima sequel that was basically a better version of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood? Where Jin travels to Japan’s mainland and recruits people to his cause and basically creates the first ninja clan? And they scrapped that for Yotei? 😂😂😂 😭 😭😭 🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡
Sony needs to NOT double down on DEI otherwise they are going to kill the company as Concord supposedly actually costed them over 400 million and Fairgames will obviously cost them millions as well once that comes out. Funny how all of their good games right now are coming from Japan
What’s interesting is if you look up The Japanese Brotherhood of Assassin’s Creed on Fandom, there is brief paragraph on the time period that Shadows is taking place in and this brief paragraph sounds way more interesting than the Yasuke arc we are getting. Such a shame, Ubisoft is more interested in checking an inclusion/diversity box than making a great game and story to appease the fans of the AC franchise.
15:35 okay I'm out. I thought the Yotei hate was overblown bc Tsushima is one of my favorite games and I felt Sucker Punch had earned my trust, but I DESPISE iki island (yet another story that thinks "complexity" means trashing the MC's father) so if that's the crowd working on Yotei then I'm out. that DLC literally felt like Naughty Dog saw how beloved Tsushima was, how much pride and nationalism gamers took from it, and decided to send in their own writers to write a DLC for Sucker Punch that would lean into the same exact "umm actually your elders were barbaric bad guys and you should reject them and forgive their enemies" attitude that runs through so much of Druckman's trash.
That wasn't the point of Iki at all, it clearly points out that both sides of the Samurai/Raider war were terrible in how they were trying to achieve their goals. Like the base game already had that "Your elders aren't the end all be all" with how Shimura and Jin fell apart on how Jin wanted to save the most people with the smallest sacrifice
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Can you shut up already!? You making me cry about what we COULD of had.
Also alot of people claiming your lying.
Hey, Endymion. This RUclipsr called Th3 Birdman is currently doing a series exposing grfiters, and he used you as an example of what a grifter is, someone who tries to benefit from the culture war with media and stuff. I was just curious if you already knew and if you were planning to respond or whatnot.
Huge, _"300-year time"_ skip?
Star Wars High Republic, is that you? 🤔🤔🤔
@@mr.starman8706 I have no idea who that is so it’s fine people can have their opinions
good thing about the contract work of white men, is they not effected by the lay offs and get paid non then thats it and probably getting contracts for multiple studios while the actually Dev hires well they screwed. XD
Ubisoft, 2013:
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
Ubisoft now:
Assassin's Creed: Red Flag
Woke flag. (Rainbow flag)
😂
@@Sajangrg69 Troon flag.
Ubisoft after bankruptcy
Assassin's Creed: White flag
Please, no. Calling the progressists communists is too much of an insult.
To the communists
People forget that in 2020 gamers unanimously crowned Ghost of Tsushima Game of the Year, but it still lost against The Last of Us 2 at the awards, because of activists in the industry.
If people don't think Ghost of Yotei isn't a response to that, or a political message, they're not paying attention.
🤔🤔
Wow. I forgot they came out the same year. Granted, I played GoT for probably over 100 hours and never touched TLOU2, but damn. You make a solid point.
Any company that falls for awards should go bankrupt. They should realize by now that the legacy media corporations mean nothing to gamers
Comment of the day, hats off mate, everyone seems to think that hiring a raging activist to play the protagonist of a much anticipated sequel was a weird coincidence smh. We saw what Sony did with the last of us, they butchered every character and story in that sequel with Dei messaging, living the game bland and soulless.
Basically how the Joker 2 is praised now while before it wasn’t by reviewers
I used to be a contractor at Electronic Arts. Woke liberal women in management and regular programmer-type men implementing their ideas is exactly how it worked.
That might explain why EA is so shit. That, and all of the corporate greed.
They ruin everything.
It’s almost like every major culture and religion ever was onto something with limiting their autonomy.
Why kept employing woketh lib wimin 🤔
I've always suspected this.
Women seep into predominantly men spaces then, instead of adapting, they change things to their liking while destroying it.
"Step on me HR mommy"
Ngl the original story for shadows sounds like fire
True. But what do you expect from UbiSOY? 😂
I would play that game
Yeah it did. Shame the original devs got the boot for the "modern" devs.
It definitely sounds a lot more interesting than most assassins. Creed story intros. Shame we will never get to see it unless the game gets delayed for like another year. lol
it's made up, incredible how you would trust a random youtuber saying they have "sources" without providing any evidence
The art industry itself is very liberal and as soon as they find out you’re a conservative artist or dev they refuse to give you opportunity. This is why it’s so polluted
That’s a god damn shame dude
They go on and on about being inclusive and equal for everyone EXCEPT if you don’t agree with my ideals
💯💯💯
And that's why being a Indie dev is way better make your own company
that comment itself is just so damn stupid. Not you saying it is stupid but what it really means is stupid.
Like Liberal used to means freedom progressive, meaning lets free the boobs, lets focus on female beauty...etc and Conservative used to mean lets only show the ankles, lets be conservative and not show too much skin. When did Liberal means lets uglification all females and make them all omni gender, while conservatives is lets show more skin and make females more feminine.
Like damn what the hell happened
Marxism pollutes and ruins everything
I work in IT. Older white male here - almost 69. Your description of the industry is pretty on point. Hard skills vs. soft skills. Employees vs. contractors.
What can we consumers do to help change it?
@@michellestr8998Refuse to buy vvоkе games.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Almost nice
@@michellestr8998 have a list of companies that support this NWO stuff and try your best to avoid giving them your money... not just games, movies but everything.. my list is already quite long and keeps growing everyday
Ubisoft esentially wanted to disrespect an entire nation to make George Floyd a Samurai. That's the gist.
The freaks saintifying saint fent is still wild ngl
We are still having consequences in crime because of that bs
Weird that only people complaining are westerners, and weird how you forgot that Yasuke is an historical figure
@@ni9274weird that you think you did something here…
@@roadrash2005 Clearly did enough for you to respond yet failing to bring any argument or address anything
You must be young! ET back in the 80's damn near killed the whole gaming industry! The game was so bad people said gaming is shit! Nah you guys are overreacting lol
Ubisoft: Gamers should get comfortable not owning our games
Gamers: Aight let me get comfortable not buying real quick
Nice parroted comment, so original 🥱
@@olsonbrandon91 so? your point?
the fact that the comment isn't more original just shows the point being made,
that most people who hear this "get used to not owning your games" speech
majority of people will react with "ok, get used to not having my money anymore."
@@noisyguy4013at this point that comment not owning games are too old and cringe now. Always seen one in every Ubisoft videos, just stop. 🙄
One piece is the worst anime ever made. MHA is better. @@olsonbrandon91
@@noisyguy4013 "if u dont like it, dont buy it" is the new thing now
This could have all been avoided if they just put a Japanese man as a protagonist and had Yasuke as an NPC.
They are not removing Yasuke, nor they will increase the quality of the game within these three months. Rather they will just delete any offensive things they've added in the game including that hiphop BGM. Ubisoft's downfall is evident now.
yea... they will delete some staff and give the game to quality control and certification... nothing more..
Agreed there is no way they would need another year or more they are probably think we’re stupid and will forget and want there 💩 game
Been evident for years chief
No hiphop music was present in the trailer
Unless they somehow kept all the original material and paste it in the game in place of the parts or yasuke? Either way yeah, 3 months isn't enough
The original story concept sounded so much more interesting than this current garbage with Yasuke and Naoe. I'd say Ubisoft deserved the backlash they received for abandoning the original story and having virtue signaling developers disrespect the Japanese culture. They know how bad it became. That's why they didn't bother to show up for the gaming showcase event in Japan.
These woke fake devs they have now dont have the talent to create the assets, I have no doubt
When I heard it, I was so interested it was giving me the urge to play AC again
The original story concept is made up, he didn't provide any evidence just made it up
Wouldn't been interesting if they were tone-deaf enough to show up to the Japan game event. Then again, I guess it's hard to ignore an entire country hating you publicly.
@@ni9274 Dude unless he reveals the identity of his insider, he won't be able to prove it. That is the reason he asked us to take with a grain of salt. And also most news stories come out as insider scoops before they eventually get proven. It's your choice whether to believe it or not. The only parameter is if his track record for insider information is good.
"Straight Male Gaming" (SMG) would be a hilarious contractor company to create and have people making contractor rates to make these games actually WORK lol.
SMG should make mainly games, that will sell well.
We are witnessing the games industry crash in real time due to pure incompetence.
Good. As how thing should be.
If that’s what it takes to end these shitty practices, let people with actual experience call the shots and devs are made up of people with actual talent and not schmucks they found on the street to pad out checklists, then let it collapse, I say.
It's identity over merit, remember that.
and greed.
AAA gaming industry crash. Indie games are flourishing
I think the original idea would have been good for not just 1 game, but maybe a trilogy like Ezio
maybe even exploring from Japan to China to Korea
That's the original plan. The old team that made Ghost of Tsushima has already quit Sucker Punch studio and go elsewhere. The one that made Ghost of Wokei is a different team.
if I'm correct, there second invasion from Mongol like 10-20 year after first one....
they coulda just start from there and win but.... have to have a strong woman who can hold double long katana that not much men can do.....
Throw a Philippines Spin Off as well.
@@Vynne96-jg7erwrong ghost of yotei has the same game director and writers as the 1st one lol
@@Vynne96-jg7er how is Ghost of Yotei woke? Just coz it’s a female lead, it’s already woke? Lol
Altair died in 1257 as a Master Assassin, in 1274 Jin Sakai fought the Mongols in the land of Tsushima as the Ghost. These 2 legends basically lived almost at the same era, fighting Mongols using Guerilla tactics as an Assassin for Altair and as a Ghost for Jin, Damn.
The sheer delusion, the arrogance to be the world's savior, teacher, and moral enforcer only fuels my resentment... and hatred.
No pre-orders. There's no day one purchase. From now on, there will be nothing but sneering indifference.
Gotta admit that speech of yours is fire.
Agreed
I think hate is too much energy to give them, either. Indifference is the most damaging.
How about no buying at all? Otherwise we keep going back and forth.
No boiling frogs. No goal post moving. Nothing at all.
Even a whiff of potential woke means no buy.
Absolutely nothing.
Moral enforcer ? Do you go in prison for being conservative in the US ? how do you explain that half the population isn't in prison ?
Yes you people didn't have any impact on BG3, Cyberpunk or Elden Ring, you have no influence
Ubi: start with a phenomenal story and then wokitarded it beyond recognition. Classic.
Ubi CEO : "That sound fine.. but let's not make too fun for people to play our stuff, after all."
"Put something related about current trend and.. ah you know what. Listen to our consultancy. Just do what DEI told you."
People have been saying for decades now, since AC1-2 were a thing, that they wanted a Hanzo Hattori AC game. They had it, they literally made it and were like nah George Floyd.
Assassineegar's Creed: Fent Shadows
@@oompalumpus699 we wuz samurais n shieeeet
Ubisoft learning that fake pandering won't make you money. If they gave the original team their freedom to create Shadows how it was planned to be with all Japanese cast and faithful to Japanese lore, no one would complain and everyone would be hyped for Shadows.
Ubisoft is shooting themselves in the foot.
More like the face.
@@chrisrahl8577 The saying goes with "foot" but nonetheless I agree lol.
they've been shooting themselves for awhile now, one can only wonder how much longer they can go before the company falls over
@@Backwolfblade I question the same thing. My assumption is that Shadows might be their last chance and if that fails, I expect Ubisoft to ask a big company to buy them up, like a Microsoft or Sony.
See you when AC shadow sells 20 millions
You're literally believing this guy despite the fact that he didn't provide any evidence ? Crazy how naive you people are
I will not buy any games with DEI in it. I would rather save my money.
Yep my wallet stays closed.
Smart man.
I have a huge backlog, im in no rush or care to buy anything at this point so im good for a long time. If the industry can unf*ck themselves they wont see my money till then.
@@vipernest2136same
Being a bit hyperbolic here; but I’d rather put my $70 dollars through a paper shredder than give it to the modern games industry.
Initially I was interested in Yotei. But hearing about how the lead VA is, and hearing the original staff from Tsushima are all gone, more ism against Asian men, the foreboding ending that will piss everyone off… My interest in Yotei is dying.
Same here. I had (and HAVE) no problem with the idea of playing a game where the MC/protagonist is a female samurai! They WERE a thing - I believe they were called onna-musha (forgive the spelling if I botched it), and were traditionally known for proficiency with the spear and polearm (yari and naginata, respectively) as well as the dai-kyu bow. They WERE pretty damn bad-ass, in other words.
That being said, they would have STILL been pretty feminine - they were still women in a very old-fashioned society!
What I have no time for is preachy girl-boss nonsense in a setting where, quite frankly, that sort of behaviour would NOT have been tolerated. If these idiots want to be politicians or social engineers, they should DO that... and leave the hobbies of those who ARE NOT interested in that dreck the hell alone.
My interest is completely dead for me, I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt but when I noticed all the red flags like you said I said naw 🤚🏼 let the companies collapse from their own consequences.
@@Jonas-lj8ul that's all true but they were far more common in Jins time where they were honoured and had influence on their own. 400 years latter in Yotei's time they were far more uncommon and had no influence they weren't even allowed to travel. If they got special permission the needed travel permits and documentations about the destiny of the travel and on what business they were sent on and even then they were only allowed to travel as retinue of a man.
I would have far less concerns if the game played in the same time as Tsushima but in another location with her as MC, and another VA wouldn't hurt tho.
@@Simulacrum29 See, I hadn't known that. I DID know that, in the latter part of the... I wanna say Edo period, but that's probably wrong, but around then that the Onna-musha were generally expected to remain in their homes to defend the property and younger children of the household - that was the focus of their training by the late "samurai age" - but that's about it.
I called it from the beginning that Sucker Punch had been infiltrated.
As an actual industry contractor: yes, yes and yes ! And they truly still go out of their way to not hire (especially white or older) male contractors. Even on returning business (because of proven trackrecord) HR tries to ghost you during the proces !!!
Never worked on games..but I used to code backend for a couple databases....I could only imagine the bs that goes on in development, production, peer review/q&a, testing....
There's enuff crap with good teams...smh...I'm glad I'm retired
Also...age discrimination is a very very thing.
I'll bet 100$ AC Shadows is going to end with Yasuke dying and his last words will be I Can't Breath!
That would be horrible!😢
@@Herowebcomics It would be funny and totally on the nose
😂😂😂😂
Nah the last words will be, I dindu nuffin bro.
😂
If Jotei flops you just know people will blow up the fact the MC is female and sexism is to blame. Wish Sucker Punch listened to what people want. Give us Jin Sakai 2
"People" is a strong word, more like bubbles on social media. The videogame industry is chasing the same kind of public who generated 1 billion dollars for Black Panther and Barbie. But to replicate that kind of stunt on the videogame market, it's not that simple, a completely different beast lol the "gamer" stereotype is already toxic, then you add the insane prices and time consumption, people would never pay $70 to watch Barbie, no matter how much "likes" they would receive on social media after dressing in pink, taking photos and promoting a millionaire IP for free. The only recent example of "inclusive" game that was a huge success, that was Baldur's Gate 3, the apex of the rpg genre, the quality itself already sells the product, even so, the marketing of BG3 never made too much of a fuzz about the "inclusive" elements of this game (the new Dragon Age is the inverse, the marketing and interviews are pushing this kind of promotion, stirring the "internet"). That Black Panther stunt, the protagonist "represents" black culture? This will never work in Assassins Creed, even more so with Japan as the background
The original ACS story sounds utterly badass and would've been a Day-1 Edition buy for me. Even for an UbiSuck game that will drop to $20 in 6-months.
The new version is just a hard pass.
Oh, and my guess to how Yotei will piss-off Jin fans is if Jin is shown dying as a traitor and/or a fraud...and pathetically.
Sony wants to be the next Ubisoft…let them.
not really
Hope not!😢
They need to make more Astrobot games!😮
@@9tz768Cope
@@Herowebcomics dw thats there only game for the ps5 since yotei is on ps4 as well somehow, so they gonna make more astrobot 💀💀💀
@@ZeR-nr6if Sweet! $.$
My friend is a stuntman in Vancouver and he was saying they're hiring diversity over talent. Ultimately putting them at more risk of injury, not being the best person for the job.
sooooooo instead of capitalising on one of the most loved cultures on earth, to finally set the assassins creed lore in japan BUT with all their genius decisions, they choose to change it all because they were inspired by a criminal in the united states??
They hate money by thinking we'll buy anything but nope, no way.
J3ws really really hate Asia.
Yes. This has been a thing since Trayvon Martin. These people are always willing to sympathize with the "victim" because of identity politics.
Just abandoned the whole lore we wanted and went the way of woke America. Tone deaf and ignorant.
I highly doubt that Japan is the most beloved culture on Earth especially when you go back just a hundred years ago, but they are definitely one of the most interesting and fascinating cultures to the West, but most beloved culture especially in the West would go to the Romans and the Roman empire.
We live in weird times. Where you can't enjoy anything, and anytime something brings up a sequel, it destroys the first one, because it catered to their fans and it was good because it did so.
Welp, lately my wallet is getting more and more shut each week. It's only a matter of time I put a lock on it, and a picture that says "Remember, remember, the devs are pretenders".
Demoralization.
A good thing to remember!😕
I like that idea.
It’s all on purpose because all of their actions are “for the revolution”.
Remember, Remember, the devs are pretenders is a bar worthy of my brother Jaghatai Khan.
My god that Ghost of Tsushima 2 sounded so goddamn good.
Jin and his band of ghosts? Going into cinematic battles with said band of ghosts?
Bringing the battles to mainland Japan?
WHY COULDNT WE GET THIS!!!
As for pissing us off... My two cents there is that either this Atsu will kill Jins descendants or his band of ghosts...
Yep. I totally feel the same way, I ain’t gonna bother with the sequel. What’s the point anymore?
These devs are not our friends. They scrapped this idea for this? That tells me a lot, especially knowing the actress is insane.
You couldn't get this cause this is completely made up, you people are the most naive
@@ni9274you are a bot and a plant and a liar. I've seen your other comments spreading misinformation.
we can still get that?
Well considering that the game takes place In 1603 and Jin's descendants would likely still be on the island of tsushima, or at the very least maybe Western Japan and definitely not anywhere near the Ainu people of Hokkaido...
If Sucker Punch actually goes through with the idea of killing off Jin Sakai in a flashback mission, they'll be officially done as a company.
They'll be just as fucked as Rocksteady.
I can now see this as a spitting image of TLOU2 😢
Its liké last of us 2 they hahah they killed thé main charachter of thé one
I think the team making Ghost of Yotei are a completely different team from what I seen.
Bro logically, the game is based in 1600s, Jin was fighting in 1200s so by passage of time he will be dead no matter what
@@vedsehrawat2845of course he would be dead. That’s obvious. People are more worried that he gets killed off disrespectfully or in a very undeserving manner that spits on his legacy. Kind of like tlou2 or sushi squad.
This "original" story is almost right, but it gets quite a bit wrong.
The original lore for the Sengoku Period Japanese Brotherhood has been availing for a while on the AC wiki, taken from books and lore segments from various AC media. To paraphrase:
Templars arrive in Japan in 1549. The Chinese Brotherhood hears about this and sends one of their master assassins who happens to be Japanese to start a Japanese brance of the Brotherhood. The Japanese Brotherhood reaches out to Oda Nobunaga to form an alliance but he says he will only do so once he unifies the land, so they secretly form an alliance with Tokugawa Ieyasu whose vassal, Hattori Hanzo, had become a master assassin. The Brotherhood then spends its time battling the Templar aligned clans to aid the Tokugawa and Oda clans conquests. Hanzo killed both the Templars Mōri Motonari and Takeda Shingen, the later of which possessed a Sword of Eden which somehow ends up in the hands of Oda Nobunaga. 5 years after that, Hanzo kills the Templar Uesugi Kenshin.
Later, when the Tokugawa and Assassins learn of the plot to kill Nobunaga, Hattori Hanzo protects Tokugawa Ieyasu while Yamauchi Taka is sent to secretly kill Nobunaga and retrieve the Sword of Eden so that it doesnt fall into the hands of Akechi Mitsuhide. After this event, the Chinese assassin Liu Yan transports the Sword of Eden away from Japan.
Next, in 1596, Hanzo is killed by a rival ninja, and Tokugawa suspects Toyotomi Hideyoshi played a part in his death, so he sends Taka to investigate and later kill Toyotomi. After Toyotomi's death in 1598, the land ia divided once more between Toyotomi's supporters and Tokugawa's, which leads to the battle of Sekigahara where Taka kills the general Shima Sakon to ensure Tokugawa's victory, and consiquently, the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Dang. If true, the original plots for Shadows and Tsushima 2 sound INFINITELY better than what we are getting…
Agree
It's not true, completely made up
Progressives can’t write good stories because they are insane people. Have we not observed that throughout the years? Note I didn’t say liberal because funnily enough there is a difference and the progs are definitely insane cultists.
Well to be fair, we don't really know what the plot for Yotei is right now. Will keep an eye out, but the info in this video doesn't inspire confidence...
@@ayszhangYou know the plot for Shadow?
R.I.P.
Sucker Punch.
Hope the devs that abandoned ship when they saw it sinking go on to make something great.
more like rip ubisoft
Nobody "abandoned the ship", you're projecting and making up story
I think the devs didn't realize how sexist you people were, they couldn't even imagine you would hate their new game just cause of the gender of the main character
@@9tz768 Ubislop had it coming, Suckerpunch didnt.
I still think the game will probably be good.
@@abyss1138 Yotei will essentially be a mod of Tsushima, so yes, obviously not much will change other than the writing. But it's sad to see passionate western developers making great games, only to be sacked and replaced by lazy activists, who produces propaganda slop from assets that their predecessors made. This is truly late stage cultural marxism.
Yasuke is just a retcon of what the original concept for the game was:
*Having the MC as a Japanese man from the start.*
As with most things in the media in this time, it’s corrupted and uninteresting.
Imagine they just released it as intended with the japanese Samurai. No discussions, no heat. Maybe a huge success instead. But no, the put in Yasuke Floyd. Insanity!
I wanna say something, but might be too distasteful. Why using real life tragedy/occurance as excuse for character be what it is in the game is just.. not good.
Game supposed to be fantasy, escapism, fun..
but instead, what we keep getting is hidden message and hidden agenda being put more and more that people start to relate much of real life.. smh.
@@pc14thenumber9That's DEI for you!😕
They are too woke
I am gonna be the devils advocate for a bit , but hear me out. I am gonna say that Yasuke’s story is fresh and different. Samurais like Musashi and Toyotomi, while immensely important and marketable, have already been featured extensively in Japanese and global media for decades. Yasuke, on the other hand, offers a new perspective and narrative that stands out among more familiar samurai stories. Yasuke’s story is relatively under-documented, which gives creators a lot of narrative freedom. Unlike Musashi or Toyotomi, whose lives are well-documented and heavily mythologized, Yasuke’s life is more of a blank canvas. This allows Ubisoft to fill in gaps with creative liberties, expanding his role beyond what history has documented.
HOWEVER If the creators take too many liberties with Yasuke’s integration into samurai culture without addressing the real cultural and racial tensions of that era, it risks creating a narrative that doesn’t respect the actual challenges Yasuke likely faced. The tension between Yasuke’s outsider status and the firm , secluded nature of Japanese society should be central to his story. Oversimplifying how he was accepted by Oda Nobunaga or the other samurai, without exploring the complex dynamics of xenophobia, power, and loyalty, could result in a shallow or even misleading portrayal. As someone who loves history ,this is my biggest concern, and based on the information and footage we’ve seen so far, I doubt Ubisoft will be able to effectively capture the complexity of Yasuke's journey within feudal Japan.
Yasyuke Floyd 🤮
Can we just get a purge in the game industry like Elon did with Twitter?
Twitter is still shit.
@@GojiraRisingAs is Xspace and Telsa cybertruck... and the hyperloop.
The only thing good that came out of that is the twitter files, potentially minor rebalancing for elections and community notes
Even then, it still has some whiff of bs; mainly because of the staff that is actually running it
He aint no devil; but he sure asf aint no saint either
Twitter still loosing money
Crazy how you would call for thousands of people to loose their jobs just cause your luxury products aren't your taste
@@GojiraRising Twitter is always gonna be shit. But at least you are able to spill all kinds of shit now instead of only one type.
To think we've been deliberately robbed of an epic Ghost of Tsushima II with Jin Sakai forming his own "Ghost" army against the Mongols... Just, unforgivable.
And the fact that this lady in Yotei used Miyamoto Musashi's two-sword style a YEAR before he invented it is pure heresy.
Like fuck the Western video game industry man, they shit over everything.
I can personally attest that its happening at animation studios. And the design artists that are skilled pick up the slack for the 'hires'.
And no we dont get more money.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Concord
8 years
$500 million
The future of Playstation
🤣😂
Skull and Bones
11 years
$850 million
"The first AAAA title..."
Need I go on?
Black lesbians lol
They next star wars
Xbox 7 billion purchase of Bethesda, only to give flops after flops. Xbox taking l since 2014
Aww man a shinto priest story would have been a first and would be a great way to spread cultural awareness of Shinto. It's too bad that tossed that idea. The Yotei stuff was also really sad to hear. Jin running off and spreading his movement wouldn't have been as historically accurate but would have been a lot of fun to continue his story which could have lead to many sequels like AC.
I find it funny how people think ghost of yotei is gonna be the one western AAA game with a gay female protagonist that’s some how gonna break the woke trend lol. People are so naive.
What is woke about it? These days people start calling everything they don't like 'woke'... an even more irritating evolution.
Yeah they lost me the second I found out who the actress is. Thanks but no thanks.
That original plot to the game sounds dope as hell.
Yeah, I never liked the idea of a Tsushima sequel, but that pitch made me interested. Too bad it'll never happen.
I heard about this. The devs are contracted out, in order to save money. They build the game on a limited timeframe, leaving after their contracts are up. Anything seriously wrong needs to be fixed by in-house. Much of the time, the fixers don't even know the code, so it takes forever for them learn the system and work on the game.
They didn’t want a piece of Eden to be involved? That whole part ties together the importance of the animus and our characters going into the mind of the ancestors.
Before DEI, the biggest problem of Assassin's Creed for me was exactly the animus bullshit. I hate EVERY SINGLE TIME they take me from the past to the present. I couldn't care less about this shit and it just is like a bucket of cold water on the imersion.
@@fturattiassassin Creed its ended when Desmond died
@@adamb.m4844facts! Ever since they killed off Desmond, i lost interest. I was expecting Desmond to become a master assassin and fighting the templars in the present timeline just like some few moments in one of his games.
@@fturatti I loved it. It was essentially like the Matrix where what we do on the inside is part of a larger purpose that would present itself one day. But that all changed after Desmond died.
It was the coolest aspect for me. Not just historical fiction, but primarly science fiction. And it tied the story of different characters from different eras perfectly
Stop buying new games, play your backlog.
but because of shit games over the last few years, I don't have a backlog. I've never bought any of those copy/paste games like Farcry, AC, COD, or anything that even hints of Woke!
@@lemming9984 You're hereby sentenced to touch the grass and do something else.
@@lemming9984how about playing older games or emulating older consoles? I'm currently playing ace combat ps2 holy trinity.
50 years of gaming is always just a few keystrokes away.
People still need to expose these gaming companies for this bullshit, or you get games like Concord.
Thinking about Ghost of Tsushima 2 not happening makes me want to cry
Same. I was so excited when the trailer started cause I could tell it was Suker Punch immedietly, but once i realised we wouldn't get more Jin I wanted to cry. RIP Ghost of Tsushima 2, you would have been loved and I mourn your loss.
From what he described sounds kind of mid, ghost of tsushima ending is fine and should leave it there
@@evilmar2363 Agree, but could have been nice to see the Sogunate trying to reclaim the island, or having kind of redemption arc for the bushido way for Jin and reconciliate with Shimura. But it seems for GoY, most of the GoT team left the studios. Also, let's not forget that GoT lost the GOTY to TLOU2 in 2020, a game that nobody talk anymore nowadays, compared to GoT...
Wow, OG story sounds fucking awesome. What a disappointment.
Sucker Punch did the huge mistake in removing Jin Sakai from Ghost of Yotei.
Nah they didnt, yotei gonna be heat
No, not really. I feel that he he somehow survived that 300ish years later it would be pretty stupid. Also, the more you have the same character, the higher the chance of said game can become stall and or boring. But sucker punch wouldn't let that happen but that's just my opinion
@@ezralabth You misspelled "room temperature"
When the game comes out we'll see
@ezralabth i have faith in this game, only down ide is the main characters VA, but we know Sucker Punch won't disappoint
Friendly reminder that Atsu is very conveniently using Niten Ichi Ryu (two sword style) just a year BEFORE Miyamoto Musashi is documented to have invented it.
Game is set in 1603, Niten Ichi Ryu was invented between 1604 and 1640, so my money is on this random woman somehow ending up teaching a literal sword saint of Japan his own invention.
Beautiful thank you thank you. That just adds more salt on the wound for y’all hoping to have a sequel with Jin and a meeting with Miyamoto 😂🤣😂
Damn. Ghost 2 sounded amazing too. Why do they keep coming up with great game concepts but then last minute throwing it out for woke bs
Because wokeness is more infectious than the Common Cold, more insidious than Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine, and more deadly than the Black Plague, the deadliest disease in world history.
Or is it the Bubonic Plague? I cannot recall...
Execs after reading this original script: “Make him black and gay!!!”
Lil Yasgay X
Worse combination ever
"And put a chick in it!"
EXACTLY!!
Lmao panderstone into the pandervers.
Iga Shinobi as Japan's Hidden ones is top tier storytelling, if this is scrapped, may God have mercy for their souls.
It’s crazy how a game based in real life with a pretty good story and cultural elements that would make people appreciate Japanese culture was perverted by our own work culture in order to fit their ideas of “proper representation”
Ghost of Yotei sounds more and more like a game that will bury the company that dared making it.
Based on what? A bunch of conservative ego's crying over a videogame? :'-)
Oh I miss the days when people just shut their mouth about stuff they didn't like and move on...
It will be another slop with woke elements, that most normies will still buy. Many of them still religiously believe in Sony exclusives.
I already ignored new TLoU, GoW and Spiderman, while having PS5. So what, it still sold.
@@shortw00d81 back then the game were actually made to be fun. Now we have gender/racial quotas and hateful activists pushing narratives.
But also modern AAA products are very dry and sanitised.
Totally different and much worse times.
@@stanislavkimov2779 how was Ragnorok a woke slop? Odin a man who is the leader. Not a woman
@@Kickinthescience I just heard of a black goddess (or giantess to be precise) and it was enough for me. One race switch (to of course african-american) was enough to turn me off.
But I also didn't much like GoW2018, I consider it an awful trend in gaming. Mainstream product, being and Oscar bait and pseudo deep, with mediocre gameplay, but for some reason extremely high praised. Only good thing for me was the visuals.
If you say it's not "woke", then good. I will wait till it's in PS Plus.
This is happening not just in the video game industry but it's pervasive through nearly every industry in the world right now.
the people who made the original version of shadows should just make their own game. what you described there sounded like a really good story with so much potential.
they will decapitate jin with a golf club who wanna bet ?
My guess is Jin gonna be found on random hill, living alone, drinking milk cow while look all scruffy and depress.
@@pc14thenumber9 The game take place hundreds of years after GOT
Or he would get corrupted by Brainiac and a weaker character will lecture him before killing him!😂
@@ni9274 You must be fun at parties. The guy is referring to Luke skywalker from Last Jedi
@@twistedsecret2554 These people are not joking, they're very serious about this shit
Imagine taking your car to the shop to get repaired after an accident. You drop it off and notice that the place is full of blue haired land whales. Then after you leave they drop your car off at a shop full of chads. The chads fix your car because the land whales can’t. The repairs cost twice as much because two shops get paid for the work. That is the state of modern western gaming studios.
great analogy
Man they could've made a Masamune storyline instead.
We been robbed off with Jin Sakai and his Army of Ghosts :"( ......
Sucks.
Ubisoft is even worse than Sony as Skull and Bones lost twice the budget amount as Concord.
failing upwards
I'm sobbing we could have had. Great Lord General Jin Sakai The Legendary Ghost...
Naaa Jin story is done. I felt it was a good ending
@@GamingandFrightened Ya besides Jin being an outlaw. When he was supposed to be the hero.
As far as I’m concerned Ubisoft has completely lost its plot with the Assassins Creed franchise. In Assassins Creed 2 we are told about various famous assassin plots in multiple locations that I believe should have been made into games but they have been largely forgotten or ignored. It’s so annoying that they had good content and all of history to play with but can’t utilise it properly.
Its like they baked a cake, showed us the cake, then threw it out the window into the dirt for the ants to eat.
Do you mean the Assassin's Creed 2 statues under the Villa? They've tried. Amuneth is Aya from AC Origins, Darius is the character in AC Odyssey DLC
Jfk 🤝
Ubisoft AC2: Buys a historicaly accurate book about Leonardo Da Vinci's life a thousand pages long.
Adds 10 pages of fiction to it to fit the narrative of the story for AC2.
Ubisoft: We took creative liberties for a historicaly accurate Da Vinci to fit our story.
Also Ubisoft.....
Ubisoft ACS: Buys a ficticious unaccurate book about Yasuke's life a thousand pages long.
Adds 1 page of reality to it to fit the narrative of the story for ACS.
Ubisoft: He was a real person.
But he was real...?
@gbacl Not in the way ubisoft is portraying him, that's the point.
@@gbacl
1581-1582の間に、ポルトガル人宣教師に連れられて日本に来た、弥助と呼ばれた黒人が居た。彼は身長が182センチくらいあって、一度だけ織田信長の側で荷物持ちをしていた記録がある。これだけが日本の歴史の一次資料に記された真実です。
@@gbacl He was really a footnote to a footnote.
Also, the AC2 characters database says that Leonardo was probably homosexual. I don't recall complaints about that, and I'm also Italian so I would more likely know if there were any.
Now with Yasuke there will be the possibility of having gay romances (like in the previous RPG games), and the backlash is immense for obvious reasons
I won't forgive them for destroying an awesome concept for a Assassin's Creed game. They had the makings of a great Assassin's Creed game, but instead "The Message" really destroyed it completely.
I think if Ubisoft had gone with just a female ninja, things would have been better, not perfect, but better. They would have avoided a lot of the controversy.
..and thinking is not allowed when important checkbox being put at the person work table. There's that too.
What left to accept by these company is profit writing on the wall.
A cherry on a turd pile is still a pile of shite
Still would have faced some backlash as they would have likely made her physically angrogynous or worse straight up ugly. Not as much now, as you said, but backlash is still backlash, and this is the type of backlash to severely reduce potential revenue.
Ugh.. but I'm tired of all the games releasing now with female only characters, I like playing as badass characters who are not girls 😅
@@olsonbrandon91 Yeah, and stop making female characters ugly. We are way beyond sexualizing females at this point, they are actually trying to turn them into men.
The problems with video games now is theyre made by arts degree holders . When gaming was great they used to be made by computer geeks who were passionate and self-taught more often than not
The fuck are you talking about?
Stop talking out of your ass. I have friends in the Animation field and games field, and I can assure you, that MOST have a degree from the arts, animation, both.
Games were made by "geeks" who were self-taught in the fucking 1970s and early to mid-80s, then programs started sprouting up, and transferable skills were being learned in various programs.
it is CRAZY to me that they do not seem to understand that the pieces of eden were a huge draw for many of us who have been in the franchise since the first Assassins Creed. that's legitimately EXACTLY what we want?? who is telling them these things??? oh...right...... 😑
Assassin's Creed without Assassins and Templars fighting over ancient aliens tech is not Assassin's Creed.
It's like Pirates of the Caribbean without Johnny Depp.
The Templars will be racist and the new assassins will be fighting against bigotry. MMW.
Or stars wars without the Jedi and Sith
The active downfall of Ubisoft. God they made such good games
I think it's good this way. I don't wanna see Rayman turned to "rayperson" with they/them pronouns
"made". Its time to let go of the past. They made this bed now they have to lie in it.
A. The fact Ubisoft tripped over themselves after making a dope story concept for Shadows is unfathomable
B. The fact that the committee went with this concept for Ghost of Yotei instead of going with what they originally planned will bite them in the ass
C. The VA for Atsu doesn’t help Ghost of Yotei either
Am I the only one noticing that or the entire western game industry smells like estrogen and soy?
"The future is female" 🙃
Don't overestimate it, the industry is just following a trend, they want the Black Panther money. But videogame development is so slow and bureaucratic, they arrived too late to party. Also the key factor of "gamers" already tending to be toxic no matter what + the crazy price points and time consumption of this hobby, people would never pay $70 to watch Black Panther, of course not, the videogame market is a different beast entirely
19:47 - My guess is Jin will be killed by a golf club.
By the daughter of that one Mongol who liked flowers and looked after starving stray cats in his spare time.
Ngl the bit about ghost of yotei just has me depressed.
Doomcock says no matter what we got a W here. Them just having to delay it is a tacit admission we were right.
Lol "two more weeks" doomcock
The ending gonna piss people off because Atsu gonna kick the strongest swordsman in japanese history Musashi Miyamoto's ass.She gonna make it look easy too.😂😂😂 So basically, the strongest swordsman in Japanese history is actually a woman.
I subscribe to this theory
Then she ride a Gay unicorn to sky and kill all japanese gods bc they all asian men and that wont do
@@huynhyurivanvladamir7978 not a a chinaman's chance...is a saying for a reason
That explains why she's duel yielding in the trailer lol
@@huynhyurivanvladamir7978 That's another 50 dollar DLC.
These activists are just bent on ruining everything... Knowing good and well they destroyed Star Wars canon, MCU, and probably InFamous.
13:22 is when Ghost of Yotei news starts for those who dont care about AC shadows
No offense; would we care about yotei either? 😂❤
@@ridleydaemonia1134most people do hhhhhhh
@@thatsityou XD I meant it sarcastically. Like... Eh, excuse my dumb, but my thinking was kinda like, if they got shadows in such a state; imagine whatever state they'd release yotei in. Ya know? Especially considering it's apparent og story.
@@ridleydaemonia1134but all yall saying AC:S was on life support after that Yotei trailer release.
Now this MF Endymion is saying NY the game is “no where near completed. Likely 2026”. And it’s crickets outside 🦗🦗🦗
What they call this phenomena? Sequel Death.
This entire story you spoke about would have been very compelling and actually respectful of the troubling period and the shinobi legend.
But can’t have a game without DEI nowadays so let it die with ubisoft.
The fact they didn't use the Sword of Eden storyline, as they always have used Pieces of Eden in every other game, is a GODDAMN crime against us!
I loved Ghost of Tsushima and I've put hundreds of hours into several playthroughs. I won't be buying Ghost of Yotei.
Based on what? A little trailer? :'-)
@@shortw00d81yeh we just wait actual trailer
@@shortw00d81Based on the above video I've just watched.
I've decided to draw the line in the sand and never support or buy from woke companies. Why would I help people who hate me?
Vote with your wallet and enjoy their tears as they go broke.
@@SithicusPL
That's getting silly now. So a female protagonist is now a woke thing, LOL.
@@Fearless154the voice actor is a extreme far left wing activist and idk if it’s true but I heard that devs who worked on the first game have left after seeing the production and direction this new upcoming ghost of yotei game is looking
Sucker Punch, compromised.
Ubisoft, compromised.
Rocksteady, compromised.
Naughty Dog, compromised.
There a lot more to come.
Insomniac
Rockstar is next
Every single Xbox game studio. Including the ones they inherited from Blizzard & Bethesda.
Eastern european studios and japanese studios will hopefully never be compromised (cd project red, fromsoftware, rgg, warhorse, 4a games, square enix, capcom). Rockstar is probably the only western studio that won't get compromised, it would be sad if rockstar went woke
@@mohammadshatila3502CDPR and Rockstar got compromised too, even SE and Capcom have been doing some questionable stuff from what I heard.
Imagine giving up such a cool story and wasting millions for Fentanyl Floyd and a BLM movement that was a grift
You know Ubisoft screwed up really bad when the Chinese and Korean netizens are outraged and defending Japan over cultural issues.
Well it's pretty insulting to take things from their culture and call it japanese. Especially with the past animosity from history
@@megablue8 Also those 3 are basically siblings. They may hate each other but they won't tolerate disrespect from an outsider to even just one of them.
The major mistake of Ubisoft, besides the Lockley/Yasuke nonsense, that was the typical misinterpretation of adjacent cultures. To show chinese architecture in a "historical" japanese game, it's like saying eastern asians are all the same. I am portuguese and I grew up in Brazil, I know two very good examples... Portugal and Spain are adjacent, doesn't mean we share the same exact culture and cliches... same goes for Brazil and Argentina, if you compare these two, oh boy, they get mad. Or even further, go to a argentinian and say Tango was created in Spain? It's kinda hilarious in a dark way, I don't really mind this kind of stuff (sometimes they are just honest mistakes, can't demand a degree of anthropology from every jondoe), but some people take this as a serious disrespect. Not so long ago the mainstream media assumed brazilians speak spanish, Max Payne 3 is a hilarious game, obviously not "historical" by any measure, but the lack of touch with the cultural background was funny to me, but of course, many brazilians took that as a offense (and I can't really blame them, millionaire studios who don't even try to run a background check)
"demon king of the sixth heaven" was actually one of nobunaga oda's allias like the "fool of owari" and many more
You’d be surprised by how exactly many massively experienced and skilled game industry professionals are exclusively contract now. In-studio work is just not worth the hassle anymore, (given that stability does not exist in our field) and if you’re good at what you do, the work always finds you. Big AAA studios are kinda fucked. Expect it to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Holy crap...its a huge catch 22. Why work for the studio directly when it doesnt guarantee benefits or job security? Might as well work as a contractor!
Ha.. no wonder they need so much budget money. TUrn out the in-company dev is just too busy doing something else not work related at all.
@@Bignuke87 Full time work becomes a hassle when the culture isn’t welcoming of (for example) criticism pointing out a lack of game functionality or a care for the end player experience…or the contribution of ideas that conflict with a narrative. It becomes exhausting to keep pushing that stone up a mountain, so many have left to pursue their own ideas on their own time, or to become purely expensive “guns for hire.”
@@PizzaManetti thats sad and demoralizing! So, rather than a squad coming together to accomplish a goal, its devolved into dog eat dog mercenaries just trying to keep afloat?
@@Bignuke87 It’s always been dog eat dog. The business world’s influence makes it that way. Idealists don’t last long in game development…or, they just assimilate. You either join the “cult” and hide what you actually think, keeping your dreams and good ideas to yourself, or you leave and find other means of supporting yourself.
Good report dude. Liking this format. Good connections.
Edit: deciding things by committee reminds me of Han and Leia's back on forth. "No time to discuss this as a committee!".
"I am not a committee!".
I had a vote and 100% of me decided to skip this game.
The original concept for "Shadows" sounds fantastic. I was goose bumping at parts. The Isu-sword corrupting people sounds like they're alluding to the cursed Muramasa swords. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was abnormally paranoid. He'd straight up not comprehend what was happening before him, mood swings, and frequent illnesses. Sounds a bit like he might have been suffering from schizophrenia.
I cannot believe that I'm not going to get that game. For f**k sake, I've been waiting for this game for the better part of a decade!
Damn you, Endymion. You've ruined my day, week, month...
Great reporting, as always. But man am I depressed now...
Omg ! The way you were explaining the original assassins creed story was so good it was like you’re story telling !!!
17:13 Wait a minute,Sucker Punch was originally working on a Ghost Of Tsushima sequel that was basically a better version of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood? Where Jin travels to Japan’s mainland and recruits people to his cause and basically creates the first ninja clan? And they scrapped that for Yotei? 😂😂😂 😭 😭😭 🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡
Apparently they like woke culture I guess
The OG story sounds more infinitely interesting
Sony needs to NOT double down on DEI otherwise they are going to kill the company as Concord supposedly actually costed them over 400 million and Fairgames will obviously cost them millions as well once that comes out. Funny how all of their good games right now are coming from Japan
What’s interesting is if you look up The Japanese Brotherhood of Assassin’s Creed on Fandom, there is brief paragraph on the time period that Shadows is taking place in and this brief paragraph sounds way more interesting than the Yasuke arc we are getting. Such a shame, Ubisoft is more interested in checking an inclusion/diversity box than making a great game and story to appease the fans of the AC franchise.
Damn as a long time fan of the ac series that story sounded like it would've been dope af way better than the having Yasuke.
Santa Monica, Insomniac, Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog all going down the drain.
They have to ruin it all for the players.
15:35 okay I'm out. I thought the Yotei hate was overblown bc Tsushima is one of my favorite games and I felt Sucker Punch had earned my trust, but I DESPISE iki island (yet another story that thinks "complexity" means trashing the MC's father) so if that's the crowd working on Yotei then I'm out. that DLC literally felt like Naughty Dog saw how beloved Tsushima was, how much pride and nationalism gamers took from it, and decided to send in their own writers to write a DLC for Sucker Punch that would lean into the same exact "umm actually your elders were barbaric bad guys and you should reject them and forgive their enemies" attitude that runs through so much of Druckman's trash.
That wasn't the point of Iki at all, it clearly points out that both sides of the Samurai/Raider war were terrible in how they were trying to achieve their goals. Like the base game already had that "Your elders aren't the end all be all" with how Shimura and Jin fell apart on how Jin wanted to save the most people with the smallest sacrifice