If Yasuke was Japanese instead of African...

[Littlefatcat]

Would people care about his lack of Assassin abilities? If he were Japanese and a samurai and his character was constantly at odds with Naoe for fighting without honor would people care less and be more open to playing as him? I think I will play both characters but just curious if people would be more inclined to play as him being limited to samurai abilities if he were a Japanese man and not African. The switch between two playstyles is intriguing and fits the universe of AC when you think of Templars being more of a warrior and assassins being more like ninja. Naoe is like an assassin while Yasuke is more of a Templar. And what if it had been William Adams as the samurai who accompanies Naoe instead of Yasuke? Would there still be a controversy?

tdlr: People are closet racists and would not care about Yasuke being a samurai with no shinobi abilities if he was a Japanese dude or William Adams.

[darksagerk]

You can't replace Yasuke with any old Japanese guy. He's too important to Japanese culture and history. Stop proposing racist solutions to non-problems.

[Littlefatcat]

Originally posted by darksagerk:

You can't replace Yasuke with any old Japanese guy. He's too important to Japanese culture and history. Stop proposing racist solutions to non-problems.

I didn't propose any solutions. I asked questions.

[darksagerk]

Originally posted by Littlefatcat:

Originally posted by darksagerk:

You can't replace Yasuke with any old Japanese guy. He's too important to Japanese culture and history. Stop proposing racist solutions to non-problems.

I didn't propose any solutions. I asked questions.

You're proposing ethnic cleansing. Apologize.

[Littlefatcat]

Originally posted by darksagerk:

Originally posted by Littlefatcat:

I didn't propose any solutions. I asked questions.

You're proposing ethnic cleansing. Apologize.

I don't follow?

[darksagerk]

Originally posted by Littlefatcat:

Originally posted by darksagerk:

You're proposing ethnic cleansing. Apologize.

I don't follow?

You are removing (cleansing) an ethnic (Yasuke-sama). Ignorance is no excuse for racism, but it certainly is a product of it.

[Littlefatcat]

Originally posted by darksagerk:

Originally posted by Littlefatcat:

I don't follow?

You are removing (cleansing) an ethnic (Yasuke-sama). Ignorance is no excuse for racism, but it certainly is a product of it.

Nah I don't want Yasuke removed. Thanks for the clown though

[darksagerk]

Originally posted by Littlefatcat:

Originally posted by darksagerk:

You are removing (cleansing) an ethnic (Yasuke-sama). Ignorance is no excuse for racism, but it certainly is a product of it.

Nah I don't want Yasuke removed.

I'm glad you've changed your mind.

[Littlefatcat]

Originally posted by darksagerk:

Originally posted by Littlefatcat:

Nah I don't want Yasuke removed.

I'm glad you've changed your mind.

No you just misinterpreted what I wrote. It's okay we all make mistakes sometimes. It's our failures that make us stronger.

[sh3riff]

Maybe stop quoting one another? Looks like a looney tunes here.

Originally posted by ROZA:

None of the people complaining about Yasuke care about the gameplay

Funny you say that .. I dont care about Yasuke at all, nor about the stupid lies of Ubisoft trying to promote him and idolize him, but i do care about the extremely bad combat frames or katana poking out of scabbard when weapon is holstered in their trailers, gameplays, or about the rainbow npc glowing or suddenly grey visuals .. etc
Its either fully colorful or no colors at all .. that is just so lame. They couldnt decide on the style so put everything they came up with .. every stupid idea someone in the room had.
Reminds me the meme where manager is asking for ideas and they throw up the guy thru the window .. seems there was no smart guy in their company they could fire :)
And its pretty sad that no one is talking down on Ubisoft for these game breaking things.

[V I D A L]

Regardless, it should be a Ninja, not a Samurai. The only reason Ubisoft made a Samurai is because they picked Yasuke first.

Assassin's Creed is obviously the perfect theme for ninjas.

[coinflipper12 #WormSympathizer]

if you removed the culture war from the equation it would just be yet another forgettable and mediocre ubisoft game.

So to answer your question, l doubt many would even care about this games existence. Ubisoft isn't concerned with story telling and your fanfic is ultimately only delegated to the first game, any entry past that just has the templars as bad guys and they have an evil plan, now you as the player must save the world from flavor of the month mcguffin.

AC will never live up to its potential.

[justdrop]

Presales are good, idk what the last post is talking about.

[sh3riff]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

The only reason Ubisoft made a Samurai is because they picked Yasuke first.

Unconfirmed information but rumor is that in early development, there was no Yasuke.
Naoe also was different.
This happened because of DEI push and klišé "wester character uglification"

More people are more inclined to this especially now when they released the concept art.
In a past some "influencers" talked to the Ubisoft employees who shared some concepts too, some leaked emails etc ..

Originally posted by justdrop:

Presales are good

They really are not .. this is confirmed by Ubisoft.

[justdrop]

Originally posted by sh3riff:

They really are not .. this is confirmed by Ubisoft.

Going to need a source on that https://www.eurogamer.net/assassins-creed-shadows-pre-orders-solid-in-line-with-series-second-biggest-launch

[sh3riff]

Not really important .. i dont know where i saw it and i dont pay much attention to articles, 3rd parties .
Its not really important because they never said a real number what they expect ..
They did say this last year in summer too .. but if the sales were so good last year in summer already, why the sudden multiple delays? You can just use common sense too, its free.
They did say this for previous games too .. aand it was a lie, it comes and goes.

First, company is drowning, they are trying to survive this year but their left doesnt know what right is doing ..

Bioware expected veilguard to sale over 10 millions copies.
Few months later EA said they were expecting only 3 millions, still did not hit that.

You can just easily change the expected number with the time .. high chance its happening here. If you lower your expectations, you can easily meet your expectations :)