AHA-Lambda
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Cos it's horrendously worded :/
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Kotaku: AC Syndicate will feature both male/female protags (brother & sister)
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Cos it's horrendously worded :/
RipperGrim
Member
Seems to be in the same vain as GTA V which is something I enjoyed.
It's going to take a fuckton more than that to convince to be more interested in this game though.
It's going to take a fuckton more than that to convince to be more interested in this game though.
publicpwnerer
Member
So we have women to thank for the lack of co-op / multiplayer.
Thanks!!!!1
EDIT: That "1" denotes sarcasm.
Thanks!!!!1
EDIT: That "1" denotes sarcasm.
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
I don't think so, the backlash against Unity was really misguided and unwarranted to begin with.
Jawmuncher
Member
You have my attention Ubisoft. Don't let it go to waste.
agreed, i wished i could have played as Elise in Unity, she seemed more interesting than Arno.
brickarts295
Member
Well colored me interested. I guess Ubisoft took notice of how popular Elise was last year and how big was the opportunity they missed by not having her as a playable character and showing the player both sides of the Assassins and the Templars. Oh well.
OnionPowder
Member
Sad in 2015 that stuff like this is still a big headline.
SomedayTheFire
Member
They're really well designed.
lol @ pandering mentioned already. Ridiculous
lol @ pandering mentioned already. Ridiculous
This comment is walking on some mighty thin ice, if you know what I mean.
The execution of it is important but this is a good thing.
Yeah
Ubi pushed Elise pretty hard with Unity as a showcase female character, even though she wasn't playable. Wouldnt be surprised if a female playable character was in the cards since before Unity came out
Ah, yes, the artistic integrity of a game that includes microtransactions and locked treasure chests that require downloading multiple apps.
I'll take the pandering over "artistic reasons" at that point, thanks. Or, you know, anything in the continuum between "uncompromised artistic vision" and pandering.
Being able to switch to her for the open world whenever you want will help balance that out a ton.
Dominic_Shade
Member
I'll admit, my hype deflated a bit upon learning that the main narrative seems to favour Jacob, but fuck it, another AC female protagonist is enough to make me seriously consider getting this one -- particularly since we can apparently free-roam as the protagonist of our choice. I hope the option to select either male or female playable characters becomes the standard for future AC games.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Sounds good to me. Hopefully there aren't 1,000 boring miscellaneous missions scattered around the map, and they take their time crafting fewer but more complex missions. I'm going to take a wait and see on this game, Unity was pretty bad.
Ascenion
Member
Adding a second protagonist if it wasn't planned beforehand could easily upset the flow of the game same if they just changed the second protagonist to a female, or if I was directing and it wasn't my choice not be the game I originally intended. It's more of a compromising of my artistic integrity than really a negative to the game and you know the additional story treatments and updates tht would follow. Plus we'd never know if that original version was the better one.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Edit: See below.
BouncyFrag
Member
Que the awkward fan-fiction requests.
Ubisoft PR was really the one at fault with their terrible animation excuse. Just a explanation on how the co-op really worked would have been much better.
keltickennedy
Member
I'm sure this could of been an option if the game wasn't probably 75% of the way into development during the "lack of female customization" backlash when Unity came out.
It's nice they did notice and tried to incorporate something more into the next iteration.
Again, the game locked and gated content behind a microtransaction currency and random locked chests that required downloading multiple apps.
How does that upset the flow or the artistic integrity any less than a woman protagonist?
There are a fuckload of games you could try and take this stand on. But damn, Assassin's Creed?
Spaced Harrier
Member
How so?
You've no idea if this was a top down "this will shut them up" decision or created naturally (well.. as natural as can be for assasins creed's behomth produxtion)
Declaring the inclusion of a female avatar/character in the game as a step in the right direction with no other context is foolish.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
The game has my attention. However, if it really is just a free roam thing and she isn't actually usable in Missions I still won't buy. It's not enough. Maybe next year.
benicillin
Banned
They threw out any kind of real in-game logic a long time ago. Pretty much anything goes now.
The whole female controversy with Unity was a bit ridiculous.
Interesting that there's two playable characters though.
Wait, you'd only buy the game is there's a female playable character in the missions?
Interesting that there's two playable characters though.
Wait, you'd only buy the game is there's a female playable character in the missions?
Huh, that's a lot faster than I was expecting, especially given the comments from an Ubi developer about how conversations were just starting at that E3 and would take years to see results.
Given that and the odd percentage breakdown I wonder if they altered it mid production.
Anyway it's good to see they actually take feedback. I thought they'd just stonewall with male leads only until 2020.
Given that and the odd percentage breakdown I wonder if they altered it mid production.
Anyway it's good to see they actually take feedback. I thought they'd just stonewall with male leads only until 2020.
It'd be real cool if there could be character switching mid-mission. Could do some cool "heist movie" kind of stuff where the different characters are each setting up part of a planned assassination. Doesn't have to be dynamic, could just happen at specific moments where you complete an objective as the dude and then switch to the lady to do her part.
RipperGrim
Member
Lol this is Ubisoft we're talking about.
You know we can be related to people without them being our parents right?
Cpt.Underpants
Member
Hmmm. Black Flag was my last AC game
Keeping going Ubi
Keeping going Ubi
Thin ice?
i want MORE of the female protag. Not less!
Better yet, just pull the trigger on a full fledged female protag on a mainline game! =)
benicillin
Banned
This worked really well in Grand Theft Auto I thought, that game handled multiple protagonists switching on the fly during missions in a really cool way.
Do you mean just gender-wise? Because they been having different protagonists for a while now.
ChaosZeroX
Banned
It sounds like its just 1 cohesive story line and you just switch to the sister every now and then. It doesn't look they each have a separate path.
Hamster Plugin
Member
They didn't say anything about female enemies. Ubisoft hasn't had any random female enemies in an AC game and they probably won't this time either because they're scared of "violence against women" accusations or something. Ubisoft actually made it so that in Far Cry 4 half of the fighters on your side were women, but none of the enemies were for some reason.