you know when i was a kid playing these games all i wanted was to be in the animus and when i left i would get annoyed. fast forward to today where im replaying them all and damn the modern day store is so cool. i think a lot of people took it for granted until black flag
The guy who said that Ghost of Tsushima has better stealth than any AC game has no idea what he's talking about. Even AC Origins, a game you wouldn't necessarily categorize as a "stealth game", has better stealth mechanics than Ghost. You can carry bodies, throw sleeping darts, attack from hiding spots, kill from ledges, create poison clouds, the guards have their routines, and there's a full day/night cycle for the AI. Enemies also have more interesting behaviors. Ghost is a good game, but mechanically, the stealth system is extremely basic. All you do is walk behind people and press square. Enemies are dumb, they quickly forget you, they don't search for you... You have some gadgets like the smoke bomb, 2 different bows, a blowdart, bell lures etc., but they trivialize the stealth gameplay instead of making it deeper.
I don't know about the black guy part. Speaking as an East Asian, I'm not really a fan of Yasuke. Like this is the second game in the franchise that set entirely in East Asia (and hell the first was not even a mainline game), and there is no male protagonist? Like using Shao Jun costume for Evie in Syndicate is fun, and Naoe (based on her gameplay footage) would probably be fun to play as too, but no male protag? I thought Western media nowaday is all about representation and then Ubisoft just put a black guy into a game with Japanese setting? There are already 2 African male protags iirc in the franchise (does Freedom Cry count?), why put another one in Shadows instead of an Asian? Also, a black guy playing an important role (well-known or not, would still be important in the story) in Japanese's history, I don't know. It's not like the Mongolian in Ghost of Tsushima because they are clearly the invaders, the enemies. But Yasuke's role would probably be closer to a hero, a savior of some sort, is that a right move from Ubisoft? And don't even talk about the in-game lore, if you want stealth, wouldn't Yasuke stand out like a sore thumb?
@spectator492 I get it, yes people want a Asian man as representation in an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan. But saying that an Assassin's Creed Game set in a certain area requires a character that is from that region is purely subjective depending on the context. It's up to the writers whether they want to or not because they can select from real people or make up their own. For example a Turkish game was made and Ezio was the main character or Assassin's Creed in Caribbean having a white guy as the MC rather than a black or mayan man born there (Adewale was in DLC not the main game so doesn't count unless you want Ubisoft to do the same here too) or a native that was born there. AC Origins came years after black flag. Mainline Black representation for the series took until Origins to actually be front and centre if you ignore DLC despite black flag making more sense because of the slave trade but it wasn't which nobody cared about. It almost feels kinda strange that people only cared about this now as suppose to the past with other ethnics. The "representation" that these games offer I just take as just being the setting rather than the actual characters you play as considering how for example Yasuke is one character out of a majority Japanese who actually do important things (you see the culture of Japan as it is celebrated not where ever Yasuke is from and he gives his impression of the place as an outsider Juxtaposed with Naoe's as her being a male wouldn't change how she feels about the place given her backstory). More so than Yasuke in the grand scheme of things characters like Oda Nobunaga, Naoe (if you play as her only) or her father and others will likely play a more impactful role as Yasuke likely leaves after credits roll also Ubisoft Quebec might want to tie Yasuke to the Templar side of the narrative given his association with the Jesuits. It makes sense why they would choose him from a writing perspective but "representation" wasn't their point or they would just slap on any famous samurai like Musashi and call it a day and it would be less effort to make given how popular he is in Japan as suppose to Yasuke or Fujibiyashi which is the target audience (I am actually surprised Ubisoft execs let creatives do this rather than a more popular figure). Also most samurai or ninja are Japanese I would of rather prefer an Ainu individual rather than a Japanese person as a fresh perspective for this type of storyline. Asian representation in Western Media has grown a lot look at Star Wars Acolyte, Yakuza series, Shang Chi, Mulan, One Piece Live Action, Shogun, and so on and notice how only one is a samurai associated property because East Asia isn't just Samurai and Ninjas. I would like another sleeping dogs game or something to do with Korean History or Chinese history rather than another Samurai or ninja movie which has been done to death. In that sense you can see why Ubisoft choose Yasuke to make it feel different despite the "Samurai" archetype Yasuke is given his story obviously won't be the same like a typical samurai story.
@@triton5336 Well for a franchise with 10+ games, this is the first mainline game that set in East Asia (and could be the last, with what going on at Ubisoft), and that for immersion purposes, I would like to be able to play as an Asian male. Ubisoft can always leave the Yasuke stuffs to be a side plot (like Henry Green in Syndicate) or a DLC something. If that the case, I don’t think I would be as annoyed. And also, with Shadows being a Quebec game that has 2 protags with 2 different play-style (like Syndicate, again), I don’t think only playing as Naoe from start to end is possible. I know this is kind of just bitching but is it that hard to have 2 main characters from the same region as the setting? Syndicate had that, Odyssey had that, Valhalla had that. So why is Shadows the odd one out? You can say Yasuke acts as a view for outsiders, but then where are those for all the other game? Apologized for wasting your time but I just can’t stand their decision to make Yasuke a main character.
This is a common occurrence in ac games. And if your identity is entirely based on race, go get some therapy. You don’t need to be playing video games.
Yasuke sounds like a cool story and really unique, but they could have just given people more options. A Japanese male option. The funny thing is I wouldn't really care for the story that much. I would have rather play Ghost of Tsushima, which is basically what people seem to want.
@@spectator492 Again this is just an opinion, I could have said the same thing with black flag as Adewale was just DLC even though there was plenty of white characters before he was sidelined also Ubisoft was in a dire situation when Unity launched as they also nearly got bought up due to low stocks which are about the same as they are now. I just saw the series as a game that doesn't do representation in that way. People could also just argue they want an actually American Settler as a main character over Connor as it makes more sense in gameplay and other things versus a character wouldn't realistically be treated the same way leading to historical authenticity or accuracy talks which would happen if AC 3 happened now versus back then. Again at least you have a playable character who is from the place, I don't think their gender should mean anything. If it's a representation of culture rather than gender you want the game does have it on the actual game not as DLC like black flag. Its just a surface level preference thing as Nobody would be mad if AC Origins was headlined by Aya and a Roman character or someone like Apollodorus (who is basically like Yasuke in terms of roles). Aya is Egyptian and people would have been fine with that rather than saying they want an actual male lead in Africa as if gender means less representation somehow as women don't complain there is no female Italian representation and so on which I always find guys like you miss. This is a male dominated series until only recently as Ubisoft states "women don't sell games" which they had to make up for hence why the first AC game in Germany will have a female character only. You point is fine in the sense you want an Asia guy also in the series but saying that should be the case while ignoring Naoe when other native groups were completely ignored in the past till later is a little short sighted and pointless if you ask me but your are still entitled to your own opinion when there is a series like AC completely dedicated to Japanese history and culture Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yōtei and likely the eventual Ghost 3 which might go to the Meiji restoration period but I guess Yasuke being a playable character in a AC game ruins all that for you. I can't tell you how to feel so won't try to.
Hot take: a lot of what people hate about conner can EASILY be solved with a sequel to the game, like what the ezio trilogy got. The main complaints I see are: Lack of character development, conner is very stoic, desmond got killed off in ac3. Literally ALL of these issues could be fixed if there was a sequel to AC3.
no need to fix problems that dont exist, connor is a deep character and AC3 plot is one of the best. he may deserved a sequel back in time, but now, too late
Hot take : watch dogs was supposed to be how the modern day assassin's brotherhood operated they just took the best ideas for it and made it a separate game
It was great to be in a video for once. Kassandra/Alexios are better protagonists than Arno, Greece is visually more stunning and a better world, side content is mostly better, and Odyssey has much better combat. Maybe I should have clarified that. Great video, as always, Hidden One! I also need to say that Shadows better have the Ezio's Family theme we were teased in the trailer. The one they dropped stinks while the other songs were amazing.
@JamesSmith-ny2gb I don't even hate Arno. He just doesn't connect to me as much as Alexios or other protagonists. He does beat Shay, though. Dead Kings was peak Assassin's Creed DLC.
hot take: ezio is just good becuase he got 3 games if any AND I MEAN ANY PROTAGANIST GOT 3 GAMES EVEN JACOB HE WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE SAME IF NOT BETTER THAN EZIO
To be fair you could apply that to any character if they got that chance but better then Jacob nah maybe if syndicate got three games maybe but cuz of the time spent you can’t blame people to have him as a favorite
Agreed 100% bayek is already a better charzcter and he only had 1 game also male eivor hit differe t for me bit i live in Yorkshire so it pretty much looks like england on Valhalla😂😂
I like the idea of Yasuke but do not think he should have been a protagonist. We have actually never had an Asian man as a protagonist and have had 3 Black ones (Aveline, Adewale, and Bayek) so from representation it doesn't make sense. We also have never had a protagonist that was not a native to the culture. More importantly though there is a good reason no previous protagonist has been a historical figure and all were entirely fictional. It would have made more sense and been a lot less controversial if Yasuke was a figure like Barolomeo in AC2 and Brotherhood. He could be a main ally of the main characters and have his own questline. Hopefully they make a good game and make Yasuke an interesting well written character though.
We have had a few games where the protagonist wasn’t a native, ezio wasn’t native to turkey, eivor wasn’t native to England and you might as well throw in Edward being not native to the Caribbean or Adewale not being Haitian I’m more annoyed yasuke isn’t an assassin, as for not having an Asian man, men are so overly represented in AC, everytime we had a female protagonist they are either got a side game like aveline and Shao jun, share the role of protagonist with a man like naoe or Evie or have a option to be male like Kassandra and Eivor. If anything naoe would have been better as a stand alone protagonist considering she looks like an assassin unlike yasuke. But Yasuke does have some narrative potential, but it is Ubisoft Quebec so I don’t have high hopes
@@JamesSmith-ny2gbFlorentine Merchants were common in Constantinople so it is realistic. Pirates were often from the British isles so Edward makes sense. Carribbean slaves have been African, so adewale makes sense. Vikings attacked England so eivor makes sense. It's not just about being a native but about historically making sense. Yasuke on the other hand was probably one of the only black people in Japan. It just feels forced and it clearly is. They are trying to represent one ethnicity on the cost of another which is even more underrepresented. Talking about male lead, the games have a majority male audience so it does make sense. Historically, men have always been the fighters and mane comsumers of fighting games are male. Just like in the AC franchise. Also most men prefer a male lead, it's just how it is. Don't push for diversity where it is not needed. But I agree with you, a Naoe standalone game would have been better than an artificially diverse game.
@@lejs1974 and there was a black retainer in nobunaga’s court and black slaves were common among Portuguese traders and Jesuits in Japan Adewale is from Trinidad, not Haiti, yeah both were slave colonies but both had distinct histories and culture and language, it would be like saying England and France are the same Don’t know about about forced, he is an interesting choice, I kind of like fish out of water stories, the whole “artificially diverse argument” kind of sounds like thinly veiled racism to me, not the first time in media that we had a non Japanese protagonist in Japan. As for males often being the fighters, assassins in the series often always had women among them, would make sense if they were anything else but considering she is an assassin I don’t mind, kind of like how kassandra and eivor don’t really make sense as warriors from the time and not assassins, Ancient Greece was extremely sexist so a literate warrior woman in Greece would turn some heads and the Vikings despite being more liberal with gender equality they were still very much patriarchal and there is very few cases of female Vikings in history but it’s mostly just speculation while one becoming a clan leader is even more ridiculous. While there has been plenty of female assassins throughout the game’s lore
@@JamesSmith-ny2gb Saying that it is racist to not want a black samurai is pretty stupid. It's more racist to put a black guy as a samurai for diversity reasons instead of using the real samurai ethnicity. Just because someone doesn't like the choice, doesn't make the person a racist. Most people loved bayek and many also liked adewale, both of darker complexion. So we already have dark skinned individuals in the series but no Asian in the main games as a protagonist. They could easily had made a game in West Africa or South Africa if they REALLY wanted to include different people. But putting him in a mostly unlikely setting is just plain stupid and racist to Asians tbh. Calling Greece racist because they didn't allow the women to fight is also pretty stupid. Who says they wanted to be fighters? Why should they compete in something where men have the advantage (stronger, faster, bigger)? While Naoe does make sense, since she is a kunoichi, and stealth kills do have an advantage for females
@@lejs1974 the problem is is it’s not a unlikely location again there were Black people in Japan around this time because they were slaves, so yeah, saying that they are not likely to be in Japan is blatantly wrong. I’m so tired of hearing this word diversity or forced diversity where is your evidence that Ubisoft got the writing team together for shadows and they all said in unison we should put a black guy in this game because of diversity ? Please show me the evidence where that is proven and don’t say some stupid shit like “ well they put them in this game didn’t they”because that doesn’t really prove that they just did it for diversity
Hey I'm a huge fan and I really hope you read this. It is pretty long honestly. I'm a black guy, and to be honest, I did not mind the fact that Yasuke was a protagonist of AC shadows simply becayse he existed in real life. But I thought to myself how i would feel if an AC game was set in Uganda(my country) and the main character was instead a white guy during colonial times. I probably would not be thrilled. And a seeing a black guy be a better fighter than all the Japanese he faces at what they were trained to do for years, when he was in Japan for like a year, is kind of harsh. Truth is Ubisoft did make one protagonist black because they are woke. And they don't really care about anything else. We can see this in little details such as a possibility to make Yasuke have a gay romance in the game(probably rumors, idk). For Naoe its not issue who she dates because she was'nt real but for Yasuke, even if its optional, I don't think it would be right to play a character who was most likely straight, as a gay man. Especially considering the time period and the fact that he was from Africa, where such was unheard of, seen as disgusting and could even get you killed in some African cultures. Most games they release now is either having a black or female protagonist. I have no problem with that, because I don't know why being a female all of a sudden makes something woke to most of these gamer fans. But devs these days assume black/female protagonists have never existed in games before so they place them in every game they release. I'm sure you've seen the influence companies like sweet baby inc. has had on the industry which I think is far from positive. Inclusivity is a good thing when done right and respectfully, and not forced. Cyberpunk has literally every kind of person and race that exists and yet i did not even notice because it was done right and made sense for the location and time period. Of course the anti-woke people are taking things far with their points, lies and hate comments on AC shadows, but I do understand why a lot of people, including Japanese, are not happy. We waited for an AC game for years, I think it would have been more respectful to make both characters Japanese. Yasuke could have maybe been made an important and prominent character, but not the protagonist. That way he could still be included while not causing as much chaos on the internet. I hope you understand the point I'm trying to make here. Love your content and i look forward to more
I said it once. I'll say it again. -Yusuf deserves his own game. -Connor should get a new game re-constructing the american brotherhood. - We need to bring back the grey morality and have games from the Templars perspective. - And Odyssey would've been better recieved if at the end it was the origin story of Kassandra taking over the cult and reshaping it into what we know now as the Templar Order. Having her as the modern day antagonist.
Loyal and true fans who catapulted Ubisoft into Fortune 500 were taken for granted or abandoned. People who once called us 'losers' cuz we were gamers or loved comic books - now smelled a chance for a quick buck and stole our platforms. I recently made a John Wick style action montage using SC Blacklist stylish takedowns. Viewers really dig it. If only we got a JW game from Ubi. They had the right tools from SC and Watch Dogs. Too late now..
Idk about you but I played odyssey for 2 hours and got bored so easily whereas I couldn’t stop playing unity and finished its main story in just two days
@@georgerak9294 well i loved odyssey but never beat imo its way to big like overstaturated big i love ancient greece but its the one rpg i couldnt stick with
Hot take: The combat from 3-Rogue was some of the most mind numbingly boring combat system this game has had. I find the combat from Unity to today to be more fun because you can interact with different damage builds that change how you play significantly. Unlike before where all you had to do usually was press block then counter to instakill the enemy. (2 buttons!)
i agree wholeheartedly. Classic/1st 4 games may not be the mlst difficult but they were very skill expressive. AC2's perfect parry was so satsifying i wish all the sequels had that. and AC1 combat is most emgaging even tho it doesnt works good at suspensing your disbelief visually. the only reason i even learned to enjoy kenway combat is by watching Maceonik AC ( RIP AC -current name), watch his Adewale video, see how he does combat stealth and chain k&lls in unorthodox method. Maceonik AC is Og among og ac youtubers who is massively respected by the likes of Leo K or current trailblazers of Ac youtube scene if you were wondering
Hot take: Hot takes simply do not exist they are opinions. They are only called hot takes because most people don't agree with that opinion. So it's an unpopular opinion. I mean what would a popular opinion even be? A cold take?
But my actual hot take here is that Connor has a better character arc than Ezio. Going from a revenge fueled templar hunter to a wise assassin filled mostly with hope for the future and regret for the past is a great character arc. Ezio did have a great character arc i'm not saying he had a bad one. But Connor had a better one in my opinion.
I'm so glad you learned about hot takes and cold takes for everyone to see. Yes, you're correct, a hot take is just a different phrase for an unpopular opinion. A cold take is a popular opinion. Opinions exist. Therefore, so do hot/cold takes. Thank you for clarifying this conundrum.
Hot take: the chronicles games should have been full on open world traditional ac games instead of the side scrollers that we got. I want to play a game in those settings but in open world form
I put those in the community post way too late lol and i also may get a lot of flak for these takes if they eventually go in a video, but here goes nothing. 1. Stealth wasn't truly introduced to the franchise as a full fledged mechanic until Unity's release. Before this game, it was an unoptimized sub-mechaninc, at best. 2. The RPG trilogy is made of amazing games that 100% deserve their spot as part of the main franchise. 3. Ezio's story ( specially AC 2 ) was the ultimate responsible for turning what was once a multilayered philosophical conflict between Assassins and Templars that was introduced in AC 1 into the generic " comically evil guys vs good guys " that would be a staple of the following games. I'll add more if i remember more.
I still think Yasuke is a way more interesting character than just another Japanese one. It’s a new, interesting story. We‘ve already seen Japanese Samurai before. Its mostly about revenge or honor. This one has the potential to be something else.
Hot take: they could have keep yasuke in the game as a mentor. In actual history yasuke came in with a samurai, the ac story could have played that as him starting a branch there and the ninja girl and a male samurai we play as as his first students. It can even culminate to his surrender where we sneak in and kill the main Templar and him leaving after like in actual history leaving the ninja as the grandmaster. They have their token black guy and a woman in charge by the end
You don't get the actually controversy: it's a mix of Ubisoft being hated, "historical accuracy" of plants, stuff, buildings and that Yasuke is depicted as a called a Samurai or is presented like one. People moved the goal post when people say it's just a work of fiction to it being about Asian male representation when the series isn't really about "representation" given that the series is mostly filled with white characters rather than characters from niche or less known places like Mali or Phillipines or Korea or South America and so on. Yasuke isn't a "token" character because you could make the same label for Achilles or that kid merchant in Valhalla who was from Egypt or Basim but Yasuke actually existed so putting him in a place he already was is not the definition of Token Character despite being a minority same with the Jesuits being in the game as same or one is real and yes white people can also be token characters but real people are not token in this context unless they are used for satire or are stereotypical.
@@triton5336 I'm not ignorant to ubis bs but all I'm saying is they could have yasuke in the game not disrespected japan by using incorrect flags and making him a samurai cause he was not. They could have used his story to set him up as an assassin who under whoever he was establish an order using the female ninja and a male samurai as his first students. I know in history he loses in the end and doesn't ritually kill himself and just takes the exil and is believed to travel with the Jesuits to India. Now with him being a token ( let's be honest he is that's how ubi done him) he could have been a mentor a leader and a positive figure in black gaming, and than having the girl become mentor in the end would probably be some woman empowerment stuff and if the story would have told it nicely it would have been a smash hit.
@@heyyoadrian I am telling you that him in your role would still have the same backlash as people complained about Yasuke in his own Anime made by a Japanese Studio a year or two ago, hell Yōtei is getting heat for a actor not even the person in the actual game. So you underestimate the pettiness of Western grifters. As for Yasuke being a token character, he is not. If you thinks so give an example of something he does, Yasuke acts like a normal person doesn't do anything stereotypical. This game could literally be a masterpiece and people would still hate on it because he is playable character or even presented as a NPC character who does something rather than just be like his real life counterpart and just does nothing until the one battle where Nobunaga lost (realistically he ain't beating a army single handedly so I don't know why people make him seem like he lost a duel or something). Yasuke seems like a good character and if he is written well people won't care because they want something else not because he is actually written badly in the actual version but rather because they don't like him having this role for varying reasons that doesn't relate to execution but rather (he must be this because people won't get triggered ignoring whether it's actually a good story or not). Yasuke as an Assassin can never work in the stealth sense he can only be a Connor or warrior class Assassin so inevitably you would depict him as a samurai like figure in this setting or just not make him a warrior at all. I don't see what quests Yasuke would give you as people give this example. Yasuke serves a Feudal Lord and why would people prefer to speak to Nobunaga through Yasuke rather than directly making the character irrelevant and lack agency in a writing sense as nothing but a background character with a interesting lore. You could read on a wiki page or something.
@@heyyoadrian Ubisoft Quebec wrote Freedom Cry and Montreal wrote Black Flag Adewale and Bayek. Most black characters in AC are good or great. If they had history of this I would agree it being a likely possibility. As for why Yasuke can't be an Assassin, he Is a 6ft 2in black man in India and Japan he sticks out and even if he was in robes he is a large dude. Example of this in effect is Connor walking through a military squadron and being noticed immediately in the AC 3 trailer and since Japanese people are way shorter it's even more obvious. You will have to suspend your disbelief a lot that he can stealth kill like a traditional assassin best he can do is bow attacks. Connor is an Assassin but stealth is secondary rather than primary unless he is in the frontiers since he strikes from the trees or bushes a city or battlefield doesn't work. Yasuke and Connor are the tallest AC characters while the shortest ones are usually the better stealth characters like Arno, and Evie. It's just easier to write him as a Warrior class "Assassin" than a stealth one. Assassins can be warriors or stealth killers as Bayek is a warrior despite being the founder same as the other members who are brutes like Bartolomeo in Brotherhood or Connor (can do stealth but it's not his signature thing for obvious reasons, he is a tank or rather bullet train).
Fuedal Japan is probably the most generic choice for the series first mainline entry in Eastern Asia. Joseon Korea, colonial south East Asia, China are all more interesting choice for an AC game than the most normie choice of setting. If you do have it in Japan, Meiji restoration period would have been a better setting
"I have been talking to Ubisoft Devs and have sources from disgruntled employees... Who? Just Trust me bro I do." - Every Grifter once AC Shadows was revealed.
From a youtuber simply saying "my sources told me" but will never provide any clarity or proof. I could easily say "my sources told me" too and people will believe me because I have 83,000 subs.
Hot take: Series dying I don’t see the series dieing anytime soon there’s so many stories they could still tell. But the story I want to see is a 1861-65 American Civil War AC. Set it as a slave running away and running into the assassins (like maybe Harriet Tubman is an assassin or is an ally of theirs) could definitely pick up on the story of AC 3/Liberation be Conners grandkid (if he had kids, or atleast the Assassins guild he starteds ancestors)
@@ThePyroRobI rewatched that part. And you got to pay attention to what he said. There are many that bash those that love the rpg games. And those that bash the Connor fans because of liking Connor. And there are many fans that bash the older players for not accepting the change. That is what he is saying and addressing. This creates a divide in the community. With division, comes an equal reaction of frustration. We see that with ac shadows. It literally shows the toxicity in the ac fan base. (Not all ofc.) besides even the loudest of the minority tend to be very destructive with there statements. Deterring many new fans from the series.
What I’m highlighting is that the statement was poorly constructed. In isolation he is labelling AC fans as toxic, before proceeding on with his point. The comment itself lacks specificity. It’s the difference between “AC fans are toxic” vs “Some AC fans are toxic”, the latter fits much better when transitioning to his supporting statement. Being that the change is so small, I believed the lack of specificity to be deliberate, but perhaps it was just an oversight in the script.
Yeah you can tell that Desilets had a personal grudge on Kristen Bell because she started to ask for money for licensing her likeliness (since lucy is based on her looks and voice) to get a cut of the profits in future AC games. Desilets then killed her off in AC Brotherhood and they agreed that she gets no more mention or whatsoever moving forward except Revelations but there she gets only mentioned if you play the whack puzzles and in a sequence at the beginning abiut her funeral. Though I kinda get it. Ubisoft was betting on themselves rather to bet on a known actor. Thats absolutely understandable
Hot take all assassins creed games are assassins creed the only one you can semi say is not an assassins creed game is odyssey you don’t get the hidden blade until a damn DLC if you can’t like all the games and enjoy them for what they are so what if there’s stealth or not or if your a Viking that Aline’s with the Ac cause or a mech in the Roman times
My hot take: a lot of complaints the AC franchise has been receiving lately would be extremely valid if Ubisoft was actually forcing us to play the games. Players are too focused on giving deconstructive criticism vs. constructive criticism.
Thats fair. I can see why people say the Helix store is predatory and whatever and I never use it myself, but that's the thing is you are able to just ignore stuff like that
@@cotopaximusic thank you someone finally says yes, but micro transactions at least in my opinion are stupid as hell but I’ve never been forced to waste real life money on micro transactions in these games
People commenting they liked Origins like it was a hot take 😂 My hot take copypasta: 'Origins has the most boring side content since Unity. The main story is goated, but man, the side missions are an uninspired chore even by ubisoft standards.'
If you think I’m hating Ubisoft just to hate. Look at the Japanese review ac shadows gameplay demo videos they point out dozens of errors. Ac used to pride itself on the fantasy of living in a historical time frame. Like the notre dame in ac unity being used to rebuild the actual burnt down notre dame cathedral. I can’t tell you what to do with your money, but I can call you stupid for trusting a company like Ubisoft.
@@kyvian251 like revelations having architecture from like 3 centuries in the future? And I trust Ubisoft, because unlike you, I’ve played every single ac game, and enjoyed every single ac game. I have no reason to believe that shadows will be any different.
@@ApsmneShsbshu you didn’t even read my comment because you’d see I have beaten every single ac game except oddysey and mirage because I can’t stand those games. (I did play every ac game including liberation) but I could still have an opinion even if I haven’t because this is just objectively bad Back to shadows, they used the wrong language on the collectors edition box, they used a symbol (broken Tori gates) on a figurine for the female ninja, for the ww2 bombing of Japan, they didn’t even know what a half broken Tori gate means to the Japanese. Yasuke was writing a Japanese scroll the wrong way in the gameplay trailer
Hot take: Imagine an Assassin's Creed game set in Communist Romania. Hunting Ceausescu's Templar agents, surviving on the streets with many Securitate officers looking at you (Security agents or Securisti as they were called by many, which were agents tasked in hunting down people who spoke ill of the regime, beating them, killing them, taking them to jail stuff like that) and killing Ceausescu during his failed speech in 89, when the people were fighting the army, many dying, many arrested. This could be a great Ac game.
Look ezio being the reason assassins creed is so good now is not a reason to make him one of the vest characters he was just the start of good characters but hes not the best
Hot take: Shadows will still probably be a fun game and i don't get the issue with historical inaccuracy since the whole point is that its alternate history or hidden history as its been altered by the modern day Templars you literally fight the pope at the end of AC 2 and the guy has a magic staff. If we go by the pattern of the recent AC games they've all been pretty good only issue being Valhallas bloated story but during the key story missions it's great and mirage was short and sweet.
But the probleme is that now Ubisoft is trying to sell it like an historical accurate game for the first time putting a real life character into their game but not only that the probleme is that yasuke has literally only 15 lines about him not the fake 400 pages (btw the author of that fake book has deleted his social media accounts and Japanese historians where debunking the game in a historical way)
@@ssofa11 the majority of black flag is fiction half of the pirates we know very little about the majority of it being from propaganda at the time and every AC game opens explaining that it's historical fiction if anyone I think the pricing of the other editions is very scummy for what you get with them.
The big part of the outrage is culture war or politically fueled. but big doesnt mean all, AC protagonists have always been a fictional character that interacts with NPCs that are historical figures. Yasuke by all meam should have been a NPC, or rival, or trusted bodyguard of the big bad guy aka a boss fight obstacke to go through etc. if the didnt wanna turn the only POC as a bad guy then they could have just do a plot twist where afger we duke it out with him as a cool b0ss fight we learn he was actually secretly on our side all along and honor as a martyr(ACRevelations did this same thing). etc. Or give him his own DLC like MGRR did with their cool morally grey NPC guy/Sam. Ezio an italian man in italy. Arnor a fremch man in france. Connor a natove of america. Eivor a viking from sacandinavi. Bayek an egyptian of Egypt. All of them fictional locales, same goes for Altair bayek jacob Kassandra etc all fictional MCs interacting with NPC historical figures in the story. meanwhile the only playable samurai in the franchise is not a fictional MC but a literal historical figure who was historically indeed not a samurai(wtf) now turned into MC for some reason. just why? It has no creative or artistic vision behind its reasoning. And i as someone who is s&ck of culture war seeping into every pop culture media regarsless of genre it is just pure ann0yance to see the studio picking a side in this w&r going waaay outta its way just to skirmish with the portion of fanbase that is politically biased in the studio's opposite direction. it had absolitely zero positive effect on the franchise or marketing but just divided the already divided franchise in an unnecessary p0litical division. most asians, south-east asians, indian/inidan-adjacents were already tired of this westerners obsession with identity p0litics in our games, and this was in no way a good idea
@@ssofa11 if you’re actually going to quote Ubisoft, make sure you get the quote right they said this game is historically accurate because of all the historical characters we’re going to be meeting and they’re trying their best to make a accurate representation of the land of Japan. Do you know the same thing they’ve been saying about every assassin’s Creed game since before this game was even conceived
The modern day Assassination missions in AC3 were such a tease, and 100% proved that a full modern day game could have worked. Could have had its own parallel side series. Compare to Modern Warfare/Black Ops
Here's my own hot take. I found out that the real reason for Desmond being killed off at the end of AC3 was actually just because they didn't want to pay more money for another character model from him in the next game because each game was apparently using a different gaming engine. Do you think each of the earlier games should've just updated the 7th gen engine they had at the time to make it better over the years and make it easier to reuse and update the character models like many game companies before and during would do like Sonic Team reusing the Sonic Heroes models for Shadow the Hedgehog rather than just using a different but better engine with each and every game released which made it difficult to port and update the old character models for the new engine and thus leading them to make the decision to end Desmond's story at the 5th game?
I was AC fan played All games from Ac 1 to AC Mirage and completed them all multiple times, but AC Shadows announcement disappointed me a lot, because it's game we asked for for years, but what they created is F.U from Ubisoft to franchise fans. Even Infiniti project was huge mistake, from single player game go to live service formula nomebody asked for this from Ubisoft ,but they don't care and doing it anyway.
I can't believe I didn't add the tower defence to my comment. It is genuinely fun, I loved it and would go around killing templars to gain notoriety just so I could do it again.
I wonder if it would be cool if we got an Assassin's creed game where you could choose the select any of the protagonists from the past and go on missions to infiltrate Abstergo or any of the other evil organizations in the past while you can choose 5 or more of the past Assassin's creed protagonists as support characters in missions. If done well, i think it could be fun. 🤔
Hot take: I didn’t like Unity. I love the games pre-unity and I enjoy the RPGs(hotter take). My hottest take is that I would likely play Shadows if it was old Gen.
Hot take, Aspasia is the best leader of the Order/Cult in a base game of the RPG trilogy. She has a massive lead based entirely on the fact she appears in the story in her civilian identity long before the game officially identifies her as the Ghost of the Cult of Kosmos, where Flavius is only unmasked right before the climax where he’s the final boss of Bayek’s story and Alfred only appears in a cutscene where he’s thrown in the towel already and is burning the cakes.
Hot take: If the story was better for AC origins, Bayek should have gotten a second game he had a certain charisma to him that we haven't seen since Ezio
It doesn’t help Altaïr’s reputation in the fanbase that his focus game is the one newer players are least likely to have played, and the follow up to that is stuck on the PSP! I wouldn’t be surprised if many had their introduction to the character be the Bleeding Effect scene in II or the Masyaf disc sequences in Revelations.
I really wish they make a three kingdom period AC game. Imagine all the target you can assassinate. Dong Zhou, Liu Chong, Sun Ce,... It going to sell like hot cake. This making me want to have another campaign in TW 3K
@@daleRoss-Sayers i mean the newest AC are almost bringing nothing about Assassin's Order, except Mirage maybe. but odyssey or Valhalla isnt even about the Assassin's, ofc there is time difference but still they meh
Biggest problem with Syndicate for me is how buggy it is. I started a new game yesterday and the first time you climb to do the viewpoint as Jacob when you meet Green, I glitched through the beam and fell onto a carriage and took no damage, the carriage keeps driving so during the get up animation he started on the carriage then teleported to the ground and then glitched to standing. Game is full of stuff like that so without the grapple hook it would be awful to play.
It’s the only game I actually chose NOT to spoil the story for myself, and sat through almost the whole credit roll with my jaw dropped. That really through me for a loop 🤣🤣
Who tf is talking about soloing the universe? 😂 what is this Dragonball? Pretty much anyone can be one shot by a hidden blade it is pretty grounded. Like technically in our world a random human could go around individually stabbing all 8 billion people one at a time which is basically the same thing. It is so dumb.
I heavily agree with the take on Lucy. It stinks she was only in three games. I do wonder if her character model would have looked different with a new voice actor.
Hot Take: Assassin's Creed IV ending was rushed, especially the last 2 sequences/the ending. By this, i mean, they could at least have made another game expanding his story.
Hot take 1: the only reason why Ubisoft decided to use Yaskue is so they can set themselves apart from GOT not just having two different characters, but also by having a foreigner,they didn’t do it because “hahah diversity “ Hot take 2: let’s just be honest nobody would’ve given a fuck if they would’ve used another foreigner samurai named William Adams who is a white guy, let’s face it most people don’t give a fuck about historical accuracy or inaccuracies. They just don’t like the fact they have to play as a black dude.
I'll admit The Fate of Atlantis is one of my favorite DLCs in the series and I like The Battle of Forli more than The Bonfire of the Vanities. Also I think it's wild to rank AC 2 not only as the weakest of The Ezio Trilogy but also below AC 1.
Hot take : Assassin's creed started to lose its DNA with black flag, and I'm not saying it was a bad game, it was a good game but that was the first game that it started to feel a little less assassin-y
Not sure if this is a hot take I’m pretty new to the franchise, hot take: origins should have taken place further back maybe between the early old kingdom and mid Middle Kingdom but certainly not 1 AD, by setting it so recently in Egyptian history leaves out so much interesting historical events sure they figured it out with Odyssey which I’m not going to comment on because I haven’t played but still you leave out so much such as Persia, Israel, Polynesia, China, a real Greek assassin, just to name a few
2 takes 1. I feel like i would like Odyssey if the pacing wasn't so slow, i dropped game soon as i off the "Tutorial Island" since i lost interest. 2. The RPG line of games just feels like a mindless grindfest in an empty open world. Origins had Egypt for the most time and most of the time I felt like all i saw was sand 97% of the time when i wasn't in the cities. Odyssey had Greece and it was mostly just Islands from what i saw on the map and the locations i have seen just feels like a generic open world RPG. Valhalla on the other hand, you have a tiny bit of west of Norway and East of England. (I could be just me having a Genre fatigue)
Hear me out, what about an ac game where you play as a modern assassin? Oh wait that's hitman. I always found the modern parts of the game so strange and sort of disconnected. To this day I am still not 100% sure what's going on, I think it's like they take control of assassins throughout history to fight the templars? Why don't they fight them in the real world, I know there's a bit of that in the older acs.
@@alyaasultan2172 same when I first got into the series. Wasn’t till after 2 and brotherhood that I started to understand why he was beloved. Ima soon get into revelations, but now like I said in the comment: He is my second favorite assassin behind Connor.
@@alyaasultan2172 also, when people say that Ezio is overated. There are some Ezio fanboys that deny it. And that’s what build the anger for me more. Is ezio the goat? HECK YEAH! But we have to make scense with it rather then blindlessly choosing Ezio in the polls.
@@Jameswebbtelescope7484 the Ezio trilogy games weren't my cup of tea tbh I'm more of a Syndicate, Unity, and Rogue typa gal (gameplay wise) I'd also choose Connor over Ezio.
But syndicate, the combat just feels weak and repetitive. The older games before Unity, kills were much faster. Where as syndicate. It feels like you are punching a sponge.
Ac Stealth is extremely terrible though, after Unity, they are more akin to combat games with some stealth mechanics. If they wanted to lean more into social stealth, they should be doing like the Hitman franchise.
4:53 all hot takes are subjective to the author 4:53 all hot takes are subjective to the author Also- will shadows fail? It's likley that it'll fall well below what they need to make a profit, even if it sells millions of copies. Ubisoft should just do their job and not allow their employees yap on social media.
Big youtuber... fake sources.... I wonder if you are referring to _LegacyKillaHD_ or _Legendary Drops._ I don't even know how people watch these grifters.
