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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The problem I have with having Yasuke as a main character is as follows:

Assassins Creed at its core has always been about exploring cultures through their most iconic time period, from the perspective of a person from that culture, with an exception of AC3, where the main character's mother was Native American and father was white, but done so to explore the history around colonialism.

I welcome the idea of an Assassins Creed game within central Africa with an African man/woman as its lead, but I think we can all intuitively understand how wrong it would be to give one of the leading roles to a white character.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (12 children)

I like how we aren't allowed to be bummed that we dont get to pick someone more representative of that culture. Thats racism right? Or reverse-racism?

Literally my first reaction seeing that picture is, "well thats an odd choice".

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[+] [email protected] -11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Yasuke is a questionable choice for a protagonist. It breaks with the pattern of inserting a fictional character into the world, you'll never convince me that his race was not a calculated factor in choosing him, and his status as a samurai (and portrayal in western media) is largely based on a single historian's work with questionable credibility. Ubisoft has used the Oda family crest without permission (the family still exists today), ~~used imagery of the Buddha without permission (retracted, may have been the Budai)~~, used a destroyed torii gate as advertising material; and for how much they bleat about historical accuracy, their trailers are chock full of inaccuracies.

I do not believe that a character is enhanced or ruined based on their race, but Ubisoft is definitely exploiting it.

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 5 months ago (20 children)

I’ve come to realize I don’t enjoy games that I can’t rp as the character. I just can’t get invested in a story where my character doesn’t look like me. Perfect example is Horizon zero dawn. I loved that game so much. Mechanics and gameplay were great. Visually stunning. And yet I had no problem dropping it for something else. I didn’t even finish it.

It’s not hard to comprehend that as a Hispanic man, I would want to play games with characters that look like me. A simple character creation screen is not hard to make for every game. Let anyone play as any character they want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Tbh, even if I live character customization I don't think it's easy and affordable at all for a small dev. You have to make sure all aspects of the game adapt to the choice (models, textures, items, SE, writing and so on). Actually, I suppose it can significantly increase the cost of the project.

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