Like for real, gamers okay with aliens being Gods and Leonardo Da Vinci being an assassin but God forbid they make a historic Black dude in Japan being slightly cooler than he was

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    Soon as I heard "the african samurai" in the described video, I was like OH NO, GAMERS

    you-hear-about-video-games

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      Yup lotta gamers going "why no Asian man!?" nevermind you get a choice between two different characters with different ethnicity, oh wait guess it's cuss the other choice is a icky lady wojak-nooo

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    6 months ago

    it's famous historical figure Yasuke. there's a netflix anime about him and everything.

    but also it's ubisoft so i'm sure they're using him cynically

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      edit-2
      6 months ago

      but also it's ubisoft so i'm sure they're using him cynically

      No question. But gamers' thoughts and opinions have the depth of a shallow puddle so as soon as they see a black man in Japan its "Ubisoft woke, SJW, DEI, Sweet Baby aaaaaaaaaah"guts-rage

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
        hexagon
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        6 months ago

        That's the majority of comments along with "ummm ACKSHUALLY he was never a retainer" nevermind this game had Leonardo Da Vinci as some secretive inventor for the assassins who also helped discover that aliens were behind everything us-foreign-policy

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Is kinda shit that Yasuke is a protagonist to be fair, the only cool thing about AC is to be play as a fictional character interacting with real historical figures. Yasuke should be a NPC.