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Adam Basile Woodrow said:
maybe I'm late, gay and schizo but could it be that the delay of Shadows is because Ubisoft uses the clan symbol of the Oda family without asking?
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The delay is due to a general fear that Japan might unironically sue their asses and bankrupt them, apparently. The tori gate merchandise was stated to be the straw that broke the camel's back with a delay beyond nigger month being very likely.

Word is that Ubisoft is scrambling behind the scenes since they don't have the resources necessary to do a massive rework, groups are pushing Ubisoft employees to go on strike over returning to the office, and the very real potential that the Japanese government will get involved.

The only thing that could save this game would be the removal of Yasuke as a playable character in favor of a male samurai lead, but there's no way they're going to do that at this stage. They're basically fucked no matter what they do. Release the game as-is and have a massive flop on their hands, rework the game into a less-woke version and earn the ire of the western gaming press, none of their moves are good and this came at the worst possible time.

Apparently they're going for a middle ground where they're going to downplay Yasuke's role in the narrative, probably sandpaper off some scenes where Yasuke does the wakanda salute and beheads a white christian male, they've already removed the hip-hop nigger beats for his combat theme. According to Endymion there was a scene already included that was 'guaranteed to upset a lot of people' so they're probably going to remove that.

I bet there was some kind of scene in there where he brutally slaughters some racist japs who question his samurai status and Nobunaga gets on his hands and knees and metaphorically polishes Yasuke's BBC for twenty minutes.
 
Uncle Joey said:
So I haven't touched an Ass Creed since 3, and I just started replaying 1 for the hell of it. I gotta ask where the fuck does the plot go from there? Desmond is dead, the entire plotline they were building up from the beginning has been resolved, how do you dump like 20 sequels on top of that? Unless they just said fuck it, did away with the present day animus bullshit and just made it into a historical anthology series.
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No joke, the first game after AC3 (AC4: Black Flag) has you play as a game dev working at Abstergo Game Studios in 1st person. There's no need to be a descendant anymore because they just need the DNA of the person, whether it be direct or from descendants. The protagonist of AC4 is actually the grandfather of the AC3 protagonist and Abstergo can access this because they recovered Desmond's body and collected his DNA. So you're just some random game dev fag that's experiencing Black Flag's protagonist histories for info for their game.

They spin their wheels for a bunch of games with random fucks just playing through ancestor memories until the RPG series starts with Origins, where they finally introduce a recurring AC modern day protagonist, Layla. Supposedly she's going to have a role to play in an upcoming apocalyptic event like Desmond but I don't know the details, I never finished those games because they were a slog.
 
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Edgy But Dull said:
They spin their wheels for a bunch of games with random fucks just playing through ancestor memories until the RPG series starts with Origins, where they finally introduce a recurring AC modern day protagonist, Layla. Supposedly she's going to have a role to play in an upcoming apocalyptic event like Desmond but I don't know the details, I never finished those games because they were a slog.
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Layla is fucking awful and I'm glad they killed her off. Does anyone care about spoilers for that shit?

She's a stereotypical brown girl boss who invented the new better animus that didn't need a defendant to be used and everyone loves her. Her combined with Cassandra in Odyssey was really the final straw for this series for me. They were both insufferable together. At least in Origins you could get away from the girlbossing with Bayek.

Valhalla also made everything worse. I watched my brother play the start and I barely made it to the first village before it annoyed me too much.

They really need to let the series die.
 
Scream Tail said:
Layla is fucking awful and I'm glad they killed her off. Does anyone care about spoilers for that shit?

She's a stereotypical brown girl boss who invented the new better animus that didn't need a defendant to be used and everyone loves her. Her combined with Cassandra in Odyssey was really the final straw for this series for me. They were both insufferable together. At least in Origins you could get away from the girlbossing with Bayek.

Valhalla also made everything worse. I watched my brother play the start and I barely made it to the first village before it annoyed me too much.

They really need to let the series die.
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It's funny because there was potential in the modern day story as the metanarrative, but with its repeated failures fans just cope that the draw of Ass Creed is in the historical parts.

They should have just stuck to Rebecca and Shawn as the secondary main characters in the modern day story since they were genuinely fun characters. Just have the player as being various Desmond fill-ins, and have them as the connecting narrative thread.

They sort of did that with Layla in Vahalla, and it was nice to see them again- with the setup with Basim coming back, there's potential to revive a whole MC Desmond-esque modern day story, but clearly Shadows has greater issues of its own with the problems in the historical part of the game.
 
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jje100010001 said:
They should have just stuck to Rebecca and Shawn as the secondary main characters in the modern day story since they were genuinely fun characters. Just have the player as being various Desmond fill-ins, and have them as the connecting narrative thread.
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They were kinda already doing that. They had the nameless modern day PC in Black Flag hand over data to Shaun and Rebecca. Then another nameless modern day PC in Syndicate is going through the Frye twins' memories for info about the shroud while Shaun and Rebecca act on that info.
 
I wonder if some games will be rebooted as a result of the takeover. AC, for example, would be the best thing that could happen.
 
Edgy But Dull said:
They were kinda already doing that. They had the nameless modern day PC in Black Flag hand over data to Shaun and Rebecca. Then another nameless modern day PC in Syndicate is going through the Frye twins' memories for info about the shroud while Shaun and Rebecca act on that info.
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True, but they were still sort of in the background post Ass Creed III, and only really reappeared in Vahalla.

I think Ass Creed really needs a central modern character to drive the plot forward, rather than the player fill-in.
 
Miller said:
I think SW Outlaws will have a bigger impact because Disney wants a big cut. That is partially why EA didn't renew their SW contract.
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I think they paid for the license upfront? So the losses would've already been projected.

I do think Skull and Bones was the thing that has sunk the company. The game has been in production since 2014, based on AC: Black Flag, a game that, I need to remind myself, was originally programmed for the XBox 360/PS3 era. Outlaws and Shadows were the backup plan, the surefire hits. The games that look good on investor calls because you have a game based on SW name along with your most successful original IP. Now, Ubisoft isn't 100% to blame for Outlaws bombing because Disney's mismanagement has played a starring role into that franchise's demise, but Shadows is completely self-inflicted.
 
SmugAutist said:
I think they paid for the license upfront? So the losses would've already been projected.

I do think Skull and Bones was the thing that has sunk the company. The game has been in production since 2014, based on AC: Black Flag, a game that, I need to remind myself, was originally programmed for the XBox 360/PS3 era. Outlaws and Shadows were the backup plan, the surefire hits. The games that look good on investor calls because you have a game based on SW name along with your most successful original IP. Now, Ubisoft isn't 100% to blame for Outlaws bombing because Disney's mismanagement has played a starring role into that franchise's demise, but Shadows is completely self-inflicted.
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Judging from the Insomniac leak, the Marvel licensing involved a large cut for Disney. So there's a good chance it might have been the same for Star Wars deals. Also I'm pretty sure a huge part of Skull and Bones was funded by the government of Singapore, which is why they couldn't cancel the game and had to let that bomb just slowly build up and explode in their faces.
 
SmugAutist said:
I think they paid for the license upfront? So the losses would've already been projected.

I do think Skull and Bones was the thing that has sunk the company. The game has been in production since 2014, based on AC: Black Flag, a game that, I need to remind myself, was originally programmed for the XBox 360/PS3 era. Outlaws and Shadows were the backup plan, the surefire hits. The games that look good on investor calls because you have a game based on SW name along with your most successful original IP. Now, Ubisoft isn't 100% to blame for Outlaws bombing because Disney's mismanagement has played a starring role into that franchise's demise, but Shadows is completely self-inflicted.
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When you put it like that, it feels almost like a parody of a game company in the style of "The Producers". It seems like what someone would do if they truly wanted to fail.

Edgy But Dull said:
Judging from the Insomniac leak, the Marvel licensing involved a large cut for Disney. So there's a good chance it might have been the same for Star Wars deals. Also I'm pretty sure a huge part of Skull and Bones was funded by the government of Singapore, which is why they couldn't cancel the game and had to let that bomb just slowly build up and explode in their faces.
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At some point they must have had a version of the game that was better and instead of that version, we got this.
 
Bobbobson said:
There's no way they replace Yasuke with a Japanese dude. There might have been a few spectacular DEI flops recently but I doubt we're at the point yet where AAA company admits that removing nigger would improve their product.
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If I were in charge, I would pull a Hideo Kojima and either have Yasuke written off in the first hour of the game or have it revealed that it was a plot by the bad guys implanting fake memories and the guy in charge is modeled after Lockley.
 
John Titor said:
the guy in charge is modeled after Lockley.
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No thank you.
There were many millions of Japanese and a few dozen Westerners and it'd be hypocritical to object to the Indians and Aidens forced into their London game if Anjin was shoehorned in
 
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The fuck is up with niggers and brutalizing Asians? You had an entire Kike State-astroturfed movement killed in its crib (#StopAsianHate) because NYC niggers just couldn't stop killing Asians on the subway. The attempt to demonize Caucasians and set Asians against them fell unbelievably flat and many people were able to see the mask slip from the debacle. Maybe Asians and Caucasians both need to realize right quick that the things called sub-saharans gotta go.
 
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Shit dropped on Steam so I looked up and lo behold, it was has achievements. They made a very vocal point out of not adding achievements to make people buy it on their own launcher.

So I go back and look:
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Fucking keklmao. They buckled at the knee. Time to buy both I guess. AC is my collectathon embarrassing boner franchise. Odyssey and Origins were great for what they were; alternative history games masked as AC entries.
 
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