AC4 had a bloody Welshman as the main character.Um, wtf are you talking about?
Native American who also spoke authentically
Series started with an Arab
Just this year they are released four new ips. Why do people keep forgetting that Ubisoft is the largest gaming company in the world and pump out tons of new stuff each year while also trying new things. It's very selfish to want them to stop supporting their biggest IP.
Having only one playable character is not an excuse. You would never see yourself as any other character other than the main character unless they were directly blood related. People should really stop bringing this up when criticizing a series that's known for it's inclusion and diversity. We've never been able to switch genders before n the series' story mode because we're supposed to be playing as "actual" people.
Did you understand why he became that way, though?
Zio, Tessa, and Edward's mother weren't assassins. And wtf, no, I wasn't implying that women weren't actual people nor would I ever imply that. We're supposed to be playing as actual people who existed, as in historical figures, which means that the narrative for a character has to be locked down, including their gender. So it wouldn't make sense to include an option to switch genders to a female Ezio or a male Aveline. So basically it's like complaining that you can't play as a female Nathan Drake during the story mode of Uncharted.
And who said that a future game won't have a female assassin? Heck we're getting one later this year with Unity's season pass. For all we know 2015's full heavily marketed 3D AC will have a female protagonist instead of a male one. And i'd prefer one fully robust story mode with a fully fleshed out main character, creating two of those would be incredibly difficult. And then every single game would have to have a brother sister plot to keep that up, and just no. I don't agree with the idea that there should be a brother sister plot device in order to allow a female playable character, if they make one, I want it done right, as in a full story with a female character, like Aveline. But in the case of Unity, we always play as this fella.
Yes they have. They said that we can't play as anyone but the main character. And they're right, in the lore we actually can't play as anyone but the current subject unless they're directly blood related. We're reading DNA after all. That's been true for all AC games. And they were talking specifically about Unity in that interview, not future AC games, they made Arno a male and designed him, his 9500 animations, and his tons of unique outfits with a male in mind. All of which would have to be reworked onto a female model that the player would never directly see at any point. Doing that, as in reworking all of those things that I repeat the player would never on top of making sure that all the new systems that the player can directly see, like the huge scale of Paris not having massive frame drops, is a bit much. I'm glad that they decided not to half ass it.
The animation director of AC3 was working on a character with way less animations than Arno, and on a character that was way less customizable than Arno. So his opinion is not the most valid. The "graphics team" of Unity did not come out and say "no that's false." And please don't oversimplify game development, animators are not the same people who provide textures.
Alex Amancio isn't a PR rep, he's the creative director. And Unity's head director probably didn't come out and say anything because they weren't at e3 and were working on the game. The guilty until proven innocent nonsense is ridiculous when I just gave you a ton of explanations. And I myself am an animator, and I know how hard it is to work on 3D characters, let alone a character like Arno where the quality standard is extremely high.
Guys, for the love of god, read the news about Unity's gameplay changes.
It's an AC game, so obviously it's gonna play similarly to previous games. And regardless of whether they're overdue, the point is that saying "man if only they changed things" while ignoring and belittling the multitude of changes being made with the latest iteration can be quite irritating. When you're buying Unity you're not buying the same game as last year.
They do work on other things, the teams that work on AC don't just work on AC games.
And much bigger environments, open ended mission design, more varied side quests. I feel like the people who complain so much would complain regardless. We still have people who think that murder sprees are possible despite gameplay that shows otherwise.
