Assassin's Creed Shadows Showcases Everything Wrong With Ubisoft As A Company 

i been playing assassins creed since the first one i wouldnt preoder it either. its crazy how expensive games gotten especially ubisoft products. i hate it.

Dual protagonist trope getting hot these days? This game, GTA 6(l don't know if you can play both of them but they are center stage) and possibly, other new games? l wonder what will they make?

280 USD for the collectors edition..... I remember getting the AC Origins collectors edition for less than 150, and thats the only one I ever got haha.

New update from the AC twitter now states, "Assassin's Creed Shadows will not require a mandatory connection at all times. An online connection will be needed to install the game, but you will be able to play the entire journey offline, and explore Japan without any online connection." This is welcome news but it's the bare minimum/standard any company should do for every single player game. Plus why require the Internet at all for a disc copy. If the servers ever go down, anyone with a disc version will be stuffed.

I never played an assassins creed game before cause I never cared for the setting of the previous games but this one catches my interest since it takes place in japan

My main issues are: 1) no gameplay has been shown (there is an article on IGN about 40 Details You Need to Know that covers stealth, parkour, combat, rpg mechanics, the open world, assassinations, and quests but why not just show us this in a gameplay video) and 2) Ubisoft is behind this. If Ubisoft was not behind this I would have been much more interested. The trailer, and premise have me very interested, and I want to give the benefit of the doubt to the developers but nothing Ubisoft has done warrants this. Their practises are anti-consumer, as you've stated, plus their comments about gaming have been utterly asinine, such as not owning games, and treating them as rentals. Their open world formula has been one of the reasons I'm put off by open world games. Heck games that copy their formula suffer as a result, such as FF7 Rebirth's open world. I hope this game is different but right now there's no evidence to suggest otherwise. Also enough with the overpriced editions that lock missions to them. It's annoying and never justified. One example that comes to mind is Arkham Knight with its Harley mission (if you pre-ordered), which turned out to be 15 minutes long. A total package for £70 ($88.6) is considered absurd. Tiers for games, streaming services are doing a similar thing now with their tiers. People need to stop supporting these practises. Now for the gamer rage against Yasuke. Apologies Avid if this goes on for too long or I go on a tangent but I just want to put this out there for clarity due to the racist comments being made against Yasuke. For one, he was real, and two, he was a samurai. If you go onto AskHistorians on Reddit, type in Yasuke, a user by the name ParallelPain has gone into great detail explaining both points. He has translated primary sources into English. Look for the one that asks "Yasuke, African Samurai. Is the outrage justified"? He really explains very well why Yasuke most likely was a samurai. There's another one titled "History of Black/Africans in Japan". In this he translates multiple written accounts of Yasuke from Japanese. I really cannot believe Wikipedia is being used as a source by people attempting to state Yasuke was not a samurai. In uni any student would be marked down for using Wikipedia as a source in any citation. No academic journal uses Wikipedia yet people have decided to rely on it for this. Just some points ParallelPain states are: despite people dismissing Yasuke as a retainer (such people think Yasuke was more of a 'baggage' handler), the premise itself does not make sense because retainers were samurai, especially the retainers of a lord as powerful Nobunaga. Another point he makes in contention to a person stating few documents refer to Yasuke, and none referred to him as a samurai is the following: samurai was not a title but a job/class, and very few sources refer to known and famous samurai as samurai. If it looks like a duck and all. Also, he states a page/squire/aide/bodyguard was a samurai. The assumption is that if he was a weapons-bearer, then he would most likely have been a page/squire/aide/bodygaurd (a samurai). If he was this, he would have been a warrior on par with Ranmaru. Yasuke was given a katana during his first meeting with Nobunaga in 1581. Even the original Portuguese letter detailing this moment used the term catana to translate Yasuke was given a katana (koshigatana, which is another name for wakizashi, which for some reason got translated into a "short, ceromonial katana" in English). Being made a weapon-bearer for Nobunaga implies a significant amount of trust that would not have been given to a simpe servant (as people are trying to downplay Yasuke as). There's so much more info PP goes into. Also funny how now people want historical accuracy from the series when it's always taken great liberties with history, and the premise for the series has been revealing a hidden history not found in any book. The Pope weilding the Apple of Eden, Ezio using a flying machine to bomb targets, a forgotten advanced civilisation, and so much more, but Yasuke breaks immersion! The developers have said Yasuke will be a way to tell a newcomers perspective of Japan, while Naoe will tell a native perspective. It's a nice way to go about it. Two different perspectives will be great, and I wonder if one will end up joining the Templars. I also wonder how they'll have npcs react towards Yasuke, taking inspiration from Mafia 3 could be a good way to go about it. I know some East Asian guys in the West want more representation in gaming, not knocking it but just this year alone we've gotten Tekken 8, Like a Dragon:Infnite Wealth, Persona 3 Reloaded, Rise of the Ronin, Jujutsu Kaisen:Cursed Clash, all of which had East Asian men as protagonists (not sure if FF7 Rebirth counts as I'm not sure if people see Cloud as East Asian). Last year we got Like a Dragon Gaiden, Sifu, Mortal Kombat 1, Wo Long, and more. That's on top of games from previous generations such as: Shenmue, True Crime Streets of La, Sleeping Dogs, Onimusha, Genji, Tenchu, Dynasty Warriros, Street Fighter, Sekiro, Persona, Like a Dragon series, Judgement, Red Steel, Way of the Samurai series, Asura's Wrath, Samurai Western, No More Heroes and more. One game doing things differently is really not the be-all-end-all for East Asian male representation it's being made into. I think anyone stating "Asian erasure" is being dramatic. Anyway, great video, sorry about going off on a long one with this comment. I am definitely interested in this game but it's Ubisoft, so I'll have to wait and see, as I do not want to support an anti-consumer company.