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Why Assassins Creed: Unitys has no playable women?
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UnluckyKate
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They are the four same. As everyone gets into each other game with its main character. Think about that
TheWatchGuard
Banned
You choose your skill set, I haven't read anything on making an actual character. Your still Arno that one guy, they may reskin you in Co op like Watch Dogs does but everyone will be Arno.
lol. because I am not questioning the developers choice of characters hero's in a video game ? cute
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rockman zx
Member
I agree with this, but at the same time I can't care less if the game has male or female leads.
Corday (if he's talking about her) could be an important non-playable character. Historical figures are not playable in AC games.
Advanced Warfare looks like a pretty significant deviation from the standard CoD-fare.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
White Knights to the rescue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are people forgetting you play as a female character in AC Liberation, it's not that they don't want to have female characters?
Why can't I play as a male character in:
Tomb Raider
Transistor
Lightning Returns
Beyond Two Souls
Gone Home
Remember Me
AC3 Liberation
Gravity Rush
Portal
Bayonetta
Metroid
Mirrors Edge
Heavenly Sword
FF X-2?
Is it because, for the most part, the stories were written for women characters and not to have interchangeable generic male/female characters?
A story written for a male character, OMG SEXIST.
Are people forgetting you play as a female character in AC Liberation, it's not that they don't want to have female characters?
Why can't I play as a male character in:
Tomb Raider
Transistor
Lightning Returns
Beyond Two Souls
Gone Home
Remember Me
AC3 Liberation
Gravity Rush
Portal
Bayonetta
Metroid
Mirrors Edge
Heavenly Sword
FF X-2?
Is it because, for the most part, the stories were written for women characters and not to have interchangeable generic male/female characters?
A story written for a male character, OMG SEXIST.
Nemesis_
Member
I'm not convinced there will be "major consequences". Nobody is going to look at a game and say Oh HEY I COULD CREATE A FEMALE CHARACTER and then put it down or boycott the franchise.
At least I hope nobody would :|
timetokill
Banned
Does your character not say anything in the game? Do they not have scripted interactions with other characters?
I'm not defending Ubi's decision, it's not really that defensible, but my guess based on the series is the characters are still written, they just use your customized (Male only) characters in the cutscenes.
Because you type your posts like there's honey stuck under the space key.
Oh your one of those ...anyways
Why not give woman or people who want to play the game a choice? If they have 9 development studios and all these resources would it be that hard to re-skin a female character?
are posts like these not the most ridiculous things ever? i'm seriously not trying to backseat mod, but nothing makes my blood boil like a good ol' "who cares?!" or "omg sjw's!" or "i don't care" post.
now go write us a list of games featuring male main characters
bye
polyh3dron
Banned
probably because they didn't want to do something half assed like make a "Ms. Male Character" option and there would've had to be so many differences to account for in the game to make a proper female lead.
Liberation has a female lead, though.
Oh and this:
is just a bit much.
Liberation has a female lead, though.
Oh and this:
is just a bit much.
lol i thought you were trolling without realizing there were actually 10 studios developing this game
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Considering Ubisoft plans to rehash the Assassin's Creed series on an annual basis you'd think they'd have incorporated a female version of the main character into their pipeline so that the games could offer that...
lmao. that made me laugh. thank you
Sorry btw English isn't my first language, so I am not very good at it.
I highly doubt the sales potential of an Assassin's Creed game would be marred by having the option for a female character. Hell, I doubt it would effect sales of most games...
Why are you being so passive aggressive?
TheWatchGuard
Banned
It's not simply reskinning there would be additional coding, the story would have to be rewritten to make sense from two different character perspectives, and of course the artwork and animation, it really would be a significant investment.
Puppet Shadow
Member
Damn, I didn't realize it wasn't a choice. Not what I'd call a 'Pre-order cancelled!' but it's disappointing we don't have this option, as I prefer to play as a female if given the choice. As to the reasons for this, I'm apt to give Ubi the benefit of the doubt. Choosing to not put in a women based on some idiotic sexist reason seems more far fetched to me than budgeting reasons.
The fact that you probably worked so hard to come out with such a miserably small list that covers over 20 years of games to do your little trolling makes a case for what the "White Knights" are saying, what a den of immature people this board has turned into.
It's funny that now of all times it seems like more people are complaining about there not being a female option in Assassin's Creed.
All male, all the time (barring multiplayer), except for Liberation. Am I saying it's right? No, but it's nothing new guys.
All male, all the time (barring multiplayer), except for Liberation. Am I saying it's right? No, but it's nothing new guys.
So the reasoning is laziness?
I just don't understand with all their resources, money and talent they just couldn't offer the option other then "oh it's just to hard".
Orthogonal
Member
Bingo, it's a business driven decision. There are certainly female gamers out there, but there probably aren't enough on the fence about buying the game due solely on having a female playable character to make it worth it.
It takes new models, voice acting and possibly animations. Not trivial or free.
One of the key events of the era was the assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday. There's actual historical evidence of a lady assassin doing shady shit and changing the course of history. There's a fucking tailor-made way to take inspiration from that and put women in. It is inexcusable bullshit.
Hades Hotgun
Banned
HighResTomato
Member
Yeah but AC is not a game that follows YOUR CREATED character. It follows the life of a character carefully written by Ubisoft to entertain their biggest target audience (because $$$).
Ass Creed is a cash-cow and Ubi won't invest in it by the looks of it. Talking about all the recycled animations for the main character.
I would put money on her being an important character in the story.
I never played Revelations so correct me if I'm wrong, but the other AC games didn't feature a character creator.
That's cool, now give me the list where the protagonist is male.
What's that? It's every other fucking game ever made?
Weird how 50% of the population consists of girls/women yet they only make up like 0.5% of games huh?
EightBitNate
Member
While it's certainly not equal, I'd say female-leads are having a renaissance right now. You have to consider the fact that there more males than females gaming, and even fewer females into "hardcore" gaming. Media usually mirrors it's audience. I don't think we'll ever have 50/50 male/female leads.
Just look at movies. Most movies that involve action usually have a male lead.
Just look at movies. Most movies that involve action usually have a male lead.
PinkCrayon
Member
To be fair, she killed one guy... and got caught.
NotoriousPUG
Member
Posts like his that have a different opinion than yours?
i think i'm being pretty direct in calling out bad posts i've seen in this thread.
fake edit: seems that everyone sees themselves as arnaud, which i guess...makes this 'okay'. still the worst excuse i've ever heard but
The character creator is for co-op is it not?
The main lead of this story is Arno.
Correct me if I am wrong.
But that's bullshit. I mean I get it, but it's still just lazy dev bullshit.
They could have just re-skinned woman characters and it would have been perfectly fine. Instead they just decided to omit them all together, which is strange.
Coolade
Member
I believe people tried to attack Rockstar for doing the same thing. Writing 3 male lead characters. Then they went on to sell 35 million copies.
Isn't forcing female characters onto a development teams vision for a game equally as wrong as purposely omitting it? Aiden Pierce was a prototypical standard white male protagonist that was stale and boring. I admit I'd like more variety, but it's not that upsetting. AC has a history of incorporating female leads. AC4 DLC was dedicated to such. These things seem to be blown out of proportion.
Isn't forcing female characters onto a development teams vision for a game equally as wrong as purposely omitting it? Aiden Pierce was a prototypical standard white male protagonist that was stale and boring. I admit I'd like more variety, but it's not that upsetting. AC has a history of incorporating female leads. AC4 DLC was dedicated to such. These things seem to be blown out of proportion.
Female representation in video games doesn't stop at a playable or non-playable character. I bet that one more time, the script writers underlined the weight of the women in the historical events, as far as they can do it in a game.
Same shitty controversy every time with the same shitty argument on both sides.
Same shitty controversy every time with the same shitty argument on both sides.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Funny how people are pre-judging me despite not knowing me or my opinions. I could have listed any number of other games but I am not a walking encyclopedia, I had to go and look for games to list.
Maybe if you had less of a persecution complex you wouldn't react so ridiculously. I am gay but I don't shout it from the rooftops or display it in avatars.
I am not saying the problem doesn't exist, I am also not saying I don't care, but I am sick of people whining about not having a female playable character.
Assassins Creed is hardly a pinnacle of storytelling, it has no female playable character because no one wrote a female playable character, that's not to say they have some agenda and didn't write one on purpose, it just happens that this story doesn't have one.
Would I like to have options, yes. Does it bother me if I don't, yes. I won't force someone to write a character or story in a way that they wouldn't naturally write just so we can fill a quota.
Well, "stealth".
Largely consisted of dressing up in different outfits for certain things.
im really proud of you
Even if the character creator is co-op only, why can't I be a woman in co-op? It's not like it would be confusing as they mark your team mates so you don;t try and kill them anyway.
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