It's stupid conceptually if you don't know it works. You see yourself as the main character in your game but when you see other players they have different faces than you. It worked in Peace Walker, it worked in Watch Dogs, and it works here.
Maybe I got those two mixed up, anyway, the point is that the animations/rigs should be adjusted or else you end up with weird looking movements.
Is the gaming population even close to 50/50 male and female? If I play a game like perfect dark should I as a man demand that I am represented. I have no problem with games having all sorts of characters with both genders. What I do have a problem with is people demanding that all games have both genders playable just because its the politically correct thing to do. It should always be up to the creators.
Well I'm not asking them to add it now, but if they had planned it from the beginning it might not have been impossible with their usual 35,000 developers in 400 different studios working on it.Right...devs complain they lack time to add one famale mode, but let's add whole separate mode with 4 characters and completely different missions, because then they would surely make the game in time, right?
Have you played at Watch Dogs?The four characters are all Arno?
Maybe not target a game series that has one of the most racially diverse casts in all of gaming history. Not to mention the fact that it also has had tons of female playable characters including a game that had a female main character story which also got an HD re-release. Which i'm kind of wondering how many people here complaining about this game(when it's evident that they don't understand how it works in the first place) actually bought.
I was not expecting this misunderstanding. I was never representing that the player should control that particular woman and I don't believe the tweet I was referring to was suggesting that either.
Because there are many, many series in video games with little to no representations of minorities and women as playable characters and people are trying to rally against one of the only series that does. I don't even like the Assassin's Creed series and I know it's got one of the most diverse sets in main characters in all of video games right now. It makes no sense to target them when historically they're far better at addressing what you're complaining about then most companies are.
It's true, no one actually or genuinely cares about this topic. Thank God we can easily dismiss it then.
What a useless fucking question to ask in a thread full of people who obviously care enough post. Also, please feel free to elaborate on "this PC bull shit" and what all that entails, or why minority representation in media doesn't matter.
People don't get banned for saying they believe it should be the developers choice, they get banned because they wrap it up in "who cares?" and "this isn't important" and other such bullshit that's disrespectful to the people in the discussion, contributes fucking nothing, and is generally a way of just trying to dismiss valid discussion instead of engaging in it. Feel free to contact a mod if you're so concerned.
Yes, we are taking about video games. You know, a form of media that we as a community have been passionately defending as art and expression. Saying "who cares" is not only ignorant of all the poodle in this thread who care enough to post, or why these issues matter, but it also argues against games as art. "It's just videogames" implies they can't or shouldn't have anything meaningful to say, that they're toys.
If no woman lead is present. If homosexuality is not possible. Why is this important to anyone!? We are talking video games here.
Pretty well sums up my feelings on the attitude that we shouldn't criticize game companies on these issues, ignoring we do it for everything else.
Why are people demanding Ubisoft makes female characters in AC?
First of no. We haven't seen the cast of characters but there's always been female characters in this series before. Female characters have always had different rigs from the main character in AC games. That's just how it is. Also, they've always mo-capped different running animations for female MP characters in the series. Women and men walk/run/jog differently. It's how anatomy works. And that especially has to come through in animation. A complex female rig is different from a complex male rig. So yes. They would have to create new motion capture and keyframed run/walk cycles for a character rig that is just as complex as Arno. Except that doesn't work, because you always play as Arno. And it would be jarring to suddenly move differently unless there is a major compromise in animation quality and we get animations that don't look as fluid as they do on a male character. Which btw, Jonathan Cooper stated.
I don't want a male Joanna Dark and that would be a stupid thing if I did. Why? Because the game was designed with female Joanna Dark.
Because you would understand how it work: everyone see themselves as the main protagonist but see other players as another character.
Did you play ACIV? Abstergo was commodotizing these experiences. In every AC game an individuals experience could be different but it always led to the same conclusion. Is it a stretch to think Abstergo developed a way to allow multiple people to experience a memory simultaneously. Absolutely not.
Propably would be, at least if they want the project to be profitable.
That's not how it works in this game. They changed that aspect of the game. And the MP co-op mission targets are not the same as the SP mission targets. Did the people complaining about these things read or watch any interviews about the game? I'm genuinely curious because so many in this thread are completely misinformed about many aspects of the game so far.
Going by the preview material it looks like all the animations have been redone from the ground up. They also kicked out the classic MP mode.
No, there are plenty of people in here throwing the whole series under the bus and acting like this series has the same problem as any other series.
Because this game has been built completely from the ground up and doesn't reuse any assets from the previous games. The parkour mechanics are completely different now because they the building in the game are 1:1 scale to real life compared to the old games where they were made with 1:3 scale. Not only that, but the character models are also more complex. It's not that simple as just reusing female animations from the main game.
Arab, native american, black man and a black woman. I think that will be hard to find in other AAA franchises
I assume because the Vita versions of Killzone and CoD were also the worst selling versions no one cares about them either.
You can doubt it but that's called denial. I honestly can't think of many other game series that have such a diverse cast of nationalities as the AC series.
I already said I was a man (as if thats a bad thing) and I said it would be ridiculous for me to clamor for a male version of Joanna Dark. All this will become is games designed with a protagonist in mind and the the opposite gender tagged on for whatever reason. I don't care if the character is male or female I just think creators should make that decision and not use precious resources to do something just because the PC police think its best.
