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Looks like Assassin’s Creed Red’s protagonist is an African Samurai
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PlayofSparta
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Cool. Before someone calls this woke or something, he did exist and served with Oda Nobunaga:
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Yasuke - Wikipedia
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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That's pretty dope. Hopefully the writing is good.
diffusionx
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Ubisoft is literally incapable of making a better "AC in Japan" game than Ghost of Tsushima.
Punished Miku
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He was in Nioh also.
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For the Nioh 2 page, see Yasuke (Nioh 2). Unlock: To unlock, "????". Yasuke was a warrior under Oda Nobunaga. An African—born man of imposing build, he first came to Nobunaga's attention as the servant of a Christian missionary, leaving that position and entering Nobunaga's service at the...
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PlayofSparta
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The Sengoku period is very apart from the Kamakura period. The protagonist of GoT acted like some shinobi, Yasuke was pure samurai. Also guns were very used, making Japan the largest place with guns in the world at the time.
Games of Today
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Give me Japan and the East Indies and the ability to make merchant runs on sailing trips.
Black Flag Japan.
Black Flag Japan.
Kurotri
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It's not him, guys. Just a random pic.
Variahunter
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Rise of the Ronin is already ten times better.
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RoboFu
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I would pay a thousand dollars if there is a big opnening scene with a masked samurai just kicking ass.... Then after the big battle he slowly pulls his mask down to reveal........
Alexios the Samurai!!!
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a multicultural team of v
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This was an incredibly obvious choice, they just googled "most famous non-Japanese samurai that isn't white" and picked the first hit.
He was also a dedicated retainer of Nobunaga so I can't wait for them to totally rewrite everything and be like "but he actually hated him and was secretly a good guy."
Not that Nobunaga was necessarily a bad guy I guess, he just usually isn't depicted very positively.
He was also a dedicated retainer of Nobunaga so I can't wait for them to totally rewrite everything and be like "but he actually hated him and was secretly a good guy."
Not that Nobunaga was necessarily a bad guy I guess, he just usually isn't depicted very positively.
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Captain Toad
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Yes, but it's Assassin's Creed. So, while others of the premise is woke or historically inaccurate, you can count the final product will be.Cool. Before someone calls this woke or something, he did exist and served with Oda Nobunaga:
Yasuke - Wikipedia
Pelta88
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The ethnicity of the main protagonist in any game has never been an issue for me. But please Ubisoft, just make a good Assassin's Creed game. I loved 1 and 2. And AC Blag Fag was a gem but all the other instalments have been busy work filler. Let's get back to what made AC great.
Protag could be Thanos purple and I wouldn't care as long as the actual game is good.
Protag could be Thanos purple and I wouldn't care as long as the actual game is good.
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ricardo_sousa11
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Ubi is pretty good at releasing images, games not so much
DeepEnigma
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I'm down!
Hosam6xavi
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Good reason to skip the game
I can't stand this woke BS
I can't stand this woke BS
He did exist, upon thousands and thousands of native samurais. Do I need to tell you why they choose this person as an MC?Cool. Before someone calls this woke or something, he did exist and served with Oda Nobunaga:
Yasuke - Wikipedia
Topher
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lol.....this isn't "woke" anything.
kruis
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Image is probably AI generated.
SecretAgentHam
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This looks pretty cool but I'll wait to see what gameplay is like. It at least has my interest now.
diffusionx
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Yes, but Ubisoft
Rocco Schiavone
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I don't give a fuck about Assassin's Creed. But this is as retarded as black german soldiers in Battlefield 1.
kruis
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Let's call it forced diversity then. To choose this particular historical character out of thousands of years of Japanese history is a very deliberate choice.
HoodWinked
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in this topic people unable to recognize ai generated images.
Red5
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Probably to explain how the Templar Vs Assassin's stuff, Apple of Eden etc... reached Japan, through western missionaries and trade. Tho I might be wrong, last AC game I finished was Unity and I don't remember half the lore.
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They have publicly said many times they didn't want to make a AC Japan game in the past because it's been done before so many times. Since they said that, we got Nioh, GoT and Rise of the Ronin coming too.
Maybe they just found a cool story in history they wanted to make? It could be potentially fascinating. Would be extra cool if there's a prologue where he starts in Africa, or maybe even let you sail between both places.
There is literally no reason to be upset about this. It's not race swapping a character. It's a historical figure. The reasons left to be pissed about this aren't very flattering.
DeepEnigma
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Deliberate isn't always agenda driven. It's a unique historical figure, so a deliberately unique choice.
It's not like they're race swapping already historical works.
StueyDuck
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Here's the thing. While that is true and is absolutely a real person, you are making an assassins creed game in the era and area that fans have been wanting for a long time...Cool. Before someone calls this woke or something, he did exist and served with Oda Nobunaga:
Yasuke - Wikipedia
I'd imagine there would be tons of history of Japanese stories to be told. If this is true and they did pick the one black samurai story to tell and snubbing all of Japanese history then it is a little woke
. I'm sure there was an African viking at some point too but they didn't choose them for valhallaI'll reserve judgement for the final product and seeing if they give a good reason for choosing them for the main character. But it's pretty obvious why they would pick that character.
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Hosam6xavi
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a multicultural team of v
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This would actually be a good person to do that with, though I don't know how he could be spun into being a "good" guy. Do the more recent AC games have you playing as the Templars at all? There would be a ton of potential if they let the main character be the "bad" guy and have the story play out where you corrupted Nobunaga or something like that to conquer Japan.
Reizo Ryuu
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So, out of the thousands of japanese samurai games that exists, how many of them feature a playable yasuke?
Punished Miku
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Nioh chose a white guy (William Adams), and had Yasuke in it as well. Japanese devs don't care about this crap.
Pagusas
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There is being anti-woke and then there is being an idiot who only sees woke in everything. Try to stay on the right side of that line.
Kakax11
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But it's history, Yasuke was a real mad dog thuggin' in Tokyo
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