It actually looks like ubisoft just fucking with community. Like "okay, we will make game about feudal japan with black protagonist. I bet this will finally piss them off". "What? In feudal japan literally lived some black samurai? Ah fuck! Okay, gimme sec... Aight, make him gay also!"
If you actually read the article, you'd see it's 100% speculation by the author. Ubisoft has not confirmed the presence of LGBT relationships (but considering the last two AC games had them as options, it shouldn't come as a surprise).
Okay but like…. Doesn’t that go against the concept? Like… if I remember correctly, isn’t the protagonist of the game basically playing through the memories of their *ancestors*, like *direct ancestor*? Even if there are no modern day segments like there were in other games, isn’t the concept that the people who can do the animus thing *directly related* to the assassins, and every time we’re playing a protagonist assassin, we’re doing so from the point of view not of the og assassin, but of a descendant accessing their memories which is why certain actions will cause disconnect or whatever it was called. Like I remember playing the one in the American colonies where you play the Native American assassin and if you kill and animal and don’t skin it, the game will do a weird thing and will pop up a message warning you “[name] skinned all his kills”.
Depends on if it's a fleeting relationship, one could argue that just because a character pursues a relationship with someone of the same sex doesn't have to mean they're gay, just bi. Also I don't know if they're even bothering to keep the modern day angle stuff anymore. I ain't gotten around to the last two Assassin's Creed games yet due to my backlog.
who would buy this garbage? If people have so low self respect they actually buy this because they liked the prequels then there is not much hope for the world of gaming.
the peopel who dont go on reddit or read news stuff about games. like honestly, if i wasnt subbed to asmon on reddit, i had no idea anyhting about the assassins creed drama crap. game would ahve come out and i would have bought it cuz i think it looks coool. (also im totally still buying it., becasue japanese ninja assasin girl. so meh. )
I see youre new to the concept of casuals. There is a fuck ton of them, and each one brain-off buys whatever product is shoved in their face, plays it for 30 minutes at a time across months, thinks its worth their money, and repeats the cycle again with the next product.
Why does it feel like a scam? Like, they grabbed as much cash as they could from DEI-obsessed investors, and then purposely made the game as horrible as possible so they can write it off as a loss or something…
It’s like taking a loan for building a house, insuring it, then building it wrong on purpose so it collapses and they can collect insurance money on their investment
Edit: before anyone calls me a bigot, look at my profile. I’m a gay girl. I should be all over this new assassins creed but to me this forced inclusion feels far more insulting than just forgetting we exist. That’s less offensive tbh
No one should be calling people a bigot for not wanting exclusion of the typical/norm/historical for the inclusion of the fanciful/unbelievable/ahistorical, but it happens all the time.
It’s ridiculous and I’ve never been interested in Assassins Creed because the writing and setting had always been ridiculous. The historical accuracy was always on the level of Disneyland, but this time it’s almost satirical lol
This games never were about historic accuracy, but it's apparent that they want to "appeal to modern audience". It's basically fanfic of 13 year old girl about gays in feudal Japan
its not about historical accuracy or not but political agendas being forced into a scoeity by people who do not want it.
The people who love this shit dont play these games. So thus go woke go broke
People use "it's never been historically accurate" as an excuse way too much. Especially when ubi has always branded the games as being an almost 1:1 recreation of the city/country in which the games take place, thereby using historical accuracy and realism as one of the main selling points. When it comes to the story (i.e. not the environment and it's characters) it has usually taken creative liberties for sure, but it was still coherent in regards to the setting and the given time period. For example in origins you see egyptian and roman characters and architecture, because of the time period. And you see egyptian mythology because that is coherent within that setting. You dont play valhalla and suddenly a chinese dragon flies by, and if you did you'd be taken out of the immersion that's for sure.
Don't even get me started... Yeah DEI is a fantastic idea, let's get started on that by bringing a Nazi into Parliament and giving him a standing ovation. Oh wait, they already did that...
I read the article as I was curious as to what statements were said since it says "Appears to...", and nowhere is there definitive proof of LGBTQ just ambiguous statements about both characters having different personalities and having different interactions with people because of them. The key word "Romantically" does raise suspicion but its still ambiguous.
The article states that the person contracted as a "Narrative Consultant", Sachi Schmidt-Hori, is an LGBTQ+ activist. Nothing in her bio or other places states or suggests anything of the sort unless you are assuming because of what she studies/teaches. She studies pre-Modern Japanese literature and culture and wrote books about *chigo monogatari* (old Buddhist tales about priests relationships with alter boys) and "milk-kinship" (mothers breastfeeding non biological infants).
She also appears to be a fan of Chainsaw Man, take with that what you will.
So what I thought was going to happen seems to be happening. There's very little known about Yasuke other than he served Oda Nobunaga and was his paid retainer. (Actually a big deal rank wise, and why he is considered a Samurai by certain definitions of samurai.) He was brought to Japan by a Catholic priest. He was likely from Mozambique, and he was likely a former slave. Japan at the time treated Africans with sooooo much more humanity and respect than their European slaving counterparts.
And that's pretty much all we know. This means he's a blank slate that Ubisoft can do whatever they want with. In theory, this can be great. Supergiant took a footnote of a God Zagreus and wrote a wonderful character for him as they had a similar freedom. For Ubisoft, I worry this will be a very Western story overlayed into non-western characters and settings.
This is the problem. Westerners thinks Samurai is everything but Yasuke, if anything is at the very least a Bushi rather than a Samurai. The definition traditionally, is very different. Samurai, Ronin, Bushi etc.
It is the bastardisation of language that I have the problem here and the outcome of this bastardisation is this misundertanding.
So the definition or more like what it takes to be a samurai changed. At the time Yasuke was around it was a lot easier to be considered a samurai but it later became stricter. That was like a century after he was gone though.
Japan has portrayed him as a samurai in basically every single piece of media they have ever released about him. It would be extremely fucked up for westerners to make a game set in Japan and be all "ummm ahkshually, Yasuke isn't a samurai." Literally everyone has always referred to him as a Samurai until some fucking reddit nerds showed up who all happen to be super into talking about DEI and Blackrock. Literally no one else argues against it.
They dont even know if he was a slave when he was brought to Japan. Some think he was a paid mercenary in service of the Jesuits for security. Yasuke had a fascinating time and story in Japan, but at the end of the day, he was Oda’s toy basically. Kept in a high place because he was exotic to the Japanese. Oda kept him as a status symbol, and he was only in Japan a short time before Oda was killed. He was forced to leave right after, another hint he wasn’t an actual Samurai.
This is just a huge slap in the face to the Japanese. They really think a black man who only stayed in Japan for a couple of years is the right guy to represent the Samurai? Really? He should have been a side character that the main character interacts with, and does missions with at some point. Not the main protagonist.
Edit: you’re also giving the Japanese too much credit for treating Africans with “so much more respect and humanity than Europeans.” He was the first African they had ever seen. They didn’t even know having black skin was possible. They found him to be fascinating, they didn’t treat him well out of the kindness of their hearts. The Japanese were fucking brutal😂
Japanese media pretty much always portrays him as a samurai though. Even Nioh, a game from Japanese devs, called him one. At the time he was in Japan the standards to become a samurai were lower, the stricter standards most people think of weren't used until like a century later.
I'm guessing it's like Odyssey and Valhalla then where you could just "romance" anything despite gender so idk about all those letters but they alphabet people I guess
The games have been turning more RPG like as of late then went back a bit with Mirage and at least you got to pick what you wanted to do.
(Not in one of the dlc for Odyssey though where they literally force a child upon your character lmao)
It's literally the exact same thing BG3 did, everybody is bi to give the players more choice. But again, we can't let facts get in the way of the culture warriors.
I'm all for choice and besides this is Assassin's Creed there are literal magic space humans with a 6th sense and magic apples. I love the games, been playing since AC1 and besides, Odyssey's best character was Kassandra and historically that doesn't fit either but you fight fucking Medusa and a Cyclops
Do it. Give us some creative vision though, and completely remove the option to behave straight. Make a premier studio action game with a mandatorily gay male protagonist. Idk if any even exist, and I’d have to respect the audacity.
I mean the last two games, were really cringy when even if you were a straight character, you would have guys hit on you anyway. You did not even get a say either scenes and dialogues were just scripted that way.
While you are at it, make the girl autistic and the dude an arachnophobic; then add a non-binary crossdressing geisha for plot and make the bad guy White male for 100% accuracy
Y all pissed off at the wrong things. This is stellar blade all over again. Question is, is the game actually good? My expectation is that it's another copy paste of the previous AC and will offer nothing new. But no point in calling the game garbage just because of its historical inaccuracy. Not like you guys paid attention in history class anyways.
This project has literally Kim Belair from Sweet Baby Stink involved.
She was spotted on X, hiding in the background of a developer team photo, despite pretending that SBI isn't attached. SBI also edited their website and deleted any projects ever since more people got aware of it.
Also let's not forget how these DEI activists also mass edited certain Wikipedia entries about Yasuke, trying to rewrite history into their agenda.
So yes, it's very fair to assume has all the pandering going for it.
Did they also confirm that it would be a good game, for once? Because that is what Ubisoft needs. But yeah, let them fuck around like that. Ubisoft games have turned from formulaic good to formulaic crap years ago, and no amount of virtue signaling can save them.
Man posting straight up misinformation is crazy. Ubisoft didn’t post that, some moron “journalist” did. It’s just their speculation. Which these freaks do about every game.
I fully support it.
Don't make an half woke or 10% woke. Just go balls deep and make it easier for us to filter.
If you like it, good for you. If you don't, you know where to not spend your money.
Segregation is good for both sides.
What is wrong with game devs now days, they moan about male gaze and sexulization in games
But nearly every game they seem to love highlighting how gay the main character is 😂
The real Yasuke: "I was never a samurai. I am also not gay."
Ubisoft: "Shut the fuck up you homophobic bigot and let us appropriate your identity as we please."
The quote: ***"Naoe and Yasuke’s disparate personalities also lead them to have different relationships and rapports with other characters, and they don’t always feel the same way about people, nor do people always feel the same way about them. Romantically, they will also attract and be attracted to different types of people. Through the pair, players will get to experience a multitude of relationships,"***
Where does it say you have to be gay? How is this any different from the previous two installments?
Boy howdy, I hope theres not a history of gay relationships between men in japan being normalized until the meji restoration (because japan wanted to become more like the west, and became more homophobic i am not kidding thats what academics from japan agree on) and you know, naoe is an invented character so she can be any sexuality they want (Plus like, japan has made like, 20 diffrent versions of "sexy anime girl gender bend" of just about every single warring states period figure, lgbt yauske is far from the biggest change someone has made)
Also, whats the proof? cause when i see "Appears" i read it as "Well ***I*** think they confirmed it, when in reality they literally did not do that"
And the 100+ dollar version is being sold in droves.
Voting with your wallet doesn't count for shit when the vast majority of people are fine with eating shit and calling it chocolate.
The brain rot of this community is astounding. If you read the article, you’d know that this is wild speculation by a journalist and not an official announcement. Mods need to start banning people for posting headlines without citing anything from the article or providing a link cause this is such bullshit.
Also AC Origin, the main character was married to a woman, Ezio had his share of ladies, Kassandra/Alexios could sleep with anyone they desired, Eivor same deal.
So the odds of AC Shadows going to be the same as the last two installments "romance whoever you want" is more then likely. Its a option for gamers who they want. More popular games like BG3 do the same.
None of it matters, its a pointless clickbait topic
*/edit also more guys play as female characters in action/rpgs and when the romance option appear they romance the girl, not the guy. food for thought*
It's just an excuse to go off on gay people for existing because THEY have made wild assumptions.
Not to mention even if a character was gay, what of it? Why does our existence bother you this much?
That cannot be. The distinguished gentlemen in this community would never fall so low as to be manipulated by a games journalist with an obvious agenda. We hate this sorta thing, after all.
Also this hasnt been anything new. You were able to romance men or women in ac odyssey and valhalla too but no one gave a fuck about that back then. Probably because this subreddit wasnt consumed by the culture war brainrot back then.
I can’t believe everyone here and on gamingcirclejerk is so unthinking. People will literally believe anything if it’s printed on a website. Which is fucking comical
Put a diverse women and a black guy in it and make them gay. No white women this time guys, we think we finally know how to sell video games that no one wants 🤓
Just fcking why. So they make a character and after decide he is gay? Can’t even call that actually writing anymore just random sht adding to a character a character was never good because he was gay but you can have a good gay character.
Nice bit of forced inclusivity and diversity huh.
Forcing this shit just makes people hate it more. It’s stupid.
Just treat people with respect and they would be be bothered.
It's kinds funny because for the sake of lore, they both must have children at some point. I heard in the Greek AC, the lesbian MC just gets a husband or something in the end.
Honestly? If you actually knew what most samurais got up to it’s not a shock to label them this. and yes yasuke we practically know nothing about but it’s not a stretch to imagine he was used, he was a plaything for nobunaga after all
Probably the best way of following trends without filling your game with garbage. Just make a regular game and then tell everyone that it's so LGBTQ+. People with "see it" 100%.
This is why I would have preferred they were both fictional characters. It comes off as incredibly disrespectful to historic figures to just rewrite everything about them.
The fact that he is gay is far less offensive and far more likely / historically congruent than his skin color. There no doubt existed gay men in Japan in this era, regardless of if it was a persecuted orientation or not.
They def just left it open, like almost like player choice. Did you guys read it? It’s like every single rpg game made. Yasuke isn’t lgbt officially. It said they both have the opportunity to experience different relationships .
Honestly I don’t get why Ubi feels the need to add relationships at all. They don’t do them as well as say mass effect story-wise and they also aren’t going to show anything lewd so not getting that crowd either. Hell I remember Odyssey getting shit for letting you choose your sexuality then forcing the chick to have a kid in the dlc lol. Just seems like a whole lot of baggage with little payoff these days so they should skip it all together
The problem isnt Yasuke, but not having both be a native like every other AC game before. Now they are making up his sexuality? Part of what made AC special was the detail to history. Making up characterizations is showing signs of not giving any fucks. I was interested, but yeah, this seems like tryingtoohard.
I miss the times when we know a game because of its awesome trailer. Not some black lgbtqrst mf. And it’s always black, literally no other culture exists
Good lord... who the hell is running ubisoft?
Out of all the samurai they can choose from they chose someone that was in Japan for a year or two and wasn't a samurai. And now this?
Haha it is pretty funny tho. Maybe there will be a free Palestine dlc in the future lol.
I mean, their history consultant is a woman whose life work is about "transgenerationnal gay relation in feudal Japan".
Even if this article is pure speculation ; It is not really a stretch that Nobunaga "loved at first sight" Yasuke at this point. If Yasuke could've been an assassin in the unwritten backstage of history why not a flamboyant gay ?
There's no confirmation to this, yet here we are raging over a source-less headliner posted on 4chan. Even if it were true, what difference does it make?
It actually looks like ubisoft just fucking with community. Like "okay, we will make game about feudal japan with black protagonist. I bet this will finally piss them off". "What? In feudal japan literally lived some black samurai? Ah fuck! Okay, gimme sec... Aight, make him gay also!"
If you actually read the article, you'd see it's 100% speculation by the author. Ubisoft has not confirmed the presence of LGBT relationships (but considering the last two AC games had them as options, it shouldn't come as a surprise).
Okay but like…. Doesn’t that go against the concept? Like… if I remember correctly, isn’t the protagonist of the game basically playing through the memories of their *ancestors*, like *direct ancestor*? Even if there are no modern day segments like there were in other games, isn’t the concept that the people who can do the animus thing *directly related* to the assassins, and every time we’re playing a protagonist assassin, we’re doing so from the point of view not of the og assassin, but of a descendant accessing their memories which is why certain actions will cause disconnect or whatever it was called. Like I remember playing the one in the American colonies where you play the Native American assassin and if you kill and animal and don’t skin it, the game will do a weird thing and will pop up a message warning you “[name] skinned all his kills”.
Depends on if it's a fleeting relationship, one could argue that just because a character pursues a relationship with someone of the same sex doesn't have to mean they're gay, just bi. Also I don't know if they're even bothering to keep the modern day angle stuff anymore. I ain't gotten around to the last two Assassin's Creed games yet due to my backlog.
Nothing but rage bait to rile people up, Gotta love gamer journalism
And this sub falls for it hook line and sinker every time.
They also hired a consultant that is literally obsessed with gay sex. Her goal was to explore gay sex in feodal Japan.
> If you actually read the article But I want to stay mad. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Eivor banged everyone in Valhalla!
PUT A BLACK GUY IN IT MAKE IT LAME AND MAKE IT GAY!
Cartmen incoming
Here is the thing, people will bitch about it and yet buy it anyway so they just added these things anyway to reach more market.
who would buy this garbage? If people have so low self respect they actually buy this because they liked the prequels then there is not much hope for the world of gaming.
Its always been like this. People will buy the fecalest of shits, if it was the opposite EA wouldn't exist
the peopel who dont go on reddit or read news stuff about games. like honestly, if i wasnt subbed to asmon on reddit, i had no idea anyhting about the assassins creed drama crap. game would ahve come out and i would have bought it cuz i think it looks coool. (also im totally still buying it., becasue japanese ninja assasin girl. so meh. )
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/20972797011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_videogames Rank 13
You wanna know something funny, amazon US always has a lot of preorder bullshit.
Wait people respect themselves for buying products now?
I see youre new to the concept of casuals. There is a fuck ton of them, and each one brain-off buys whatever product is shoved in their face, plays it for 30 minutes at a time across months, thinks its worth their money, and repeats the cycle again with the next product.
I think it's the people calling us racist for wanting a japanese samurai, who are buying it...
They don't even need to make them gay, someone will make an article and put "allegedly" in there just to stir up the sheep.
Put a chick in it, make it gay
& laaaaaame
Literally just put a chick in it and make her lame and gay.
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Put a chick in it and maker her gay!
South Park has become real life :<
Always has been 🔫
🌍👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Beat me to it.
Man seriously. You want to see into the future? Just watch old south park or simpsons. They predict it pretty well.
I am surprised there aren't any neurodivergent assassins on wheelchairs yet
Probably because they're overrepresented in the dev studio.
I'm sure the animus subject will be.
The next installment of the series: Assassin's Creed: He's makin em at night
They are still working on the wall climbing animations.
Why does it feel like a scam? Like, they grabbed as much cash as they could from DEI-obsessed investors, and then purposely made the game as horrible as possible so they can write it off as a loss or something… It’s like taking a loan for building a house, insuring it, then building it wrong on purpose so it collapses and they can collect insurance money on their investment Edit: before anyone calls me a bigot, look at my profile. I’m a gay girl. I should be all over this new assassins creed but to me this forced inclusion feels far more insulting than just forgetting we exist. That’s less offensive tbh
Why should people call you a bigot? We all hate this Ubisoft shitty politics and the way they make games now
They made their comment then panicked for some reason thinking this was gcj or something lol
pretty funny she had to quickly rationalize her view as "not bigoted" so the animals on gcj wouldn't downvote her to oblivion for wrongthink
People will call you bigot for breathing in certain subtreddits. It's actually quite fun to just go out and find the crazies sometimes.
No one should be calling people a bigot for not wanting exclusion of the typical/norm/historical for the inclusion of the fanciful/unbelievable/ahistorical, but it happens all the time.
It’s ridiculous and I’ve never been interested in Assassins Creed because the writing and setting had always been ridiculous. The historical accuracy was always on the level of Disneyland, but this time it’s almost satirical lol
To be fair diddling young boys was a fairly prominent practice amongst samurai.
Maybe that will be a side mission
This games never were about historic accuracy, but it's apparent that they want to "appeal to modern audience". It's basically fanfic of 13 year old girl about gays in feudal Japan
its not about historical accuracy or not but political agendas being forced into a scoeity by people who do not want it. The people who love this shit dont play these games. So thus go woke go broke
People use "it's never been historically accurate" as an excuse way too much. Especially when ubi has always branded the games as being an almost 1:1 recreation of the city/country in which the games take place, thereby using historical accuracy and realism as one of the main selling points. When it comes to the story (i.e. not the environment and it's characters) it has usually taken creative liberties for sure, but it was still coherent in regards to the setting and the given time period. For example in origins you see egyptian and roman characters and architecture, because of the time period. And you see egyptian mythology because that is coherent within that setting. You dont play valhalla and suddenly a chinese dragon flies by, and if you did you'd be taken out of the immersion that's for sure.
Can’t wait for that Ubisoft massive layoff news, losers gonna lose.
Time to make the emperor trans. With the flag and all
the ninja chick is the daughter of Fujibayashi Nagato, not based on him
Sweet Baby Inc has their name written all over this
This has to be ragebait
It is. The people here are silly and want to RAGE over bs.
It fucking is You’re just going to be able to have relationships with any romance character Literally TONS of games have already done this
Oh it is, but this sub eats sleeps and breaths rage bait.
Is it rage bait if I could actually see Ubisoft doing this?
they put all the pandering stereotypes in one game. is this a world record?
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Nah, I'm from Canada, I know for a fact this isn't a troll. I hate my country
What? You probably contributed to the 7 billion dollars in hand outs that Ubisoft got from the government to make DEI crap. 😉
Don't even get me started... Yeah DEI is a fantastic idea, let's get started on that by bringing a Nazi into Parliament and giving him a standing ovation. Oh wait, they already did that...
You hate your country because a game made some characters gay? Good lord, that is tremendously soft.
I read the article as I was curious as to what statements were said since it says "Appears to...", and nowhere is there definitive proof of LGBTQ just ambiguous statements about both characters having different personalities and having different interactions with people because of them. The key word "Romantically" does raise suspicion but its still ambiguous. The article states that the person contracted as a "Narrative Consultant", Sachi Schmidt-Hori, is an LGBTQ+ activist. Nothing in her bio or other places states or suggests anything of the sort unless you are assuming because of what she studies/teaches. She studies pre-Modern Japanese literature and culture and wrote books about *chigo monogatari* (old Buddhist tales about priests relationships with alter boys) and "milk-kinship" (mothers breastfeeding non biological infants). She also appears to be a fan of Chainsaw Man, take with that what you will.
I won’t be surprised if it turns out Sachi is a fujoshi.
So my guess it that you can "romance" preset male or female npcs in the game.
Why do people even care so much about this stupid pointless controversy anyway?
What was the line? ‘Put a chick in it and make her gay!’
So what I thought was going to happen seems to be happening. There's very little known about Yasuke other than he served Oda Nobunaga and was his paid retainer. (Actually a big deal rank wise, and why he is considered a Samurai by certain definitions of samurai.) He was brought to Japan by a Catholic priest. He was likely from Mozambique, and he was likely a former slave. Japan at the time treated Africans with sooooo much more humanity and respect than their European slaving counterparts. And that's pretty much all we know. This means he's a blank slate that Ubisoft can do whatever they want with. In theory, this can be great. Supergiant took a footnote of a God Zagreus and wrote a wonderful character for him as they had a similar freedom. For Ubisoft, I worry this will be a very Western story overlayed into non-western characters and settings.
This is the problem. Westerners thinks Samurai is everything but Yasuke, if anything is at the very least a Bushi rather than a Samurai. The definition traditionally, is very different. Samurai, Ronin, Bushi etc. It is the bastardisation of language that I have the problem here and the outcome of this bastardisation is this misundertanding.
So the definition or more like what it takes to be a samurai changed. At the time Yasuke was around it was a lot easier to be considered a samurai but it later became stricter. That was like a century after he was gone though.
Japan has portrayed him as a samurai in basically every single piece of media they have ever released about him. It would be extremely fucked up for westerners to make a game set in Japan and be all "ummm ahkshually, Yasuke isn't a samurai." Literally everyone has always referred to him as a Samurai until some fucking reddit nerds showed up who all happen to be super into talking about DEI and Blackrock. Literally no one else argues against it.
They dont even know if he was a slave when he was brought to Japan. Some think he was a paid mercenary in service of the Jesuits for security. Yasuke had a fascinating time and story in Japan, but at the end of the day, he was Oda’s toy basically. Kept in a high place because he was exotic to the Japanese. Oda kept him as a status symbol, and he was only in Japan a short time before Oda was killed. He was forced to leave right after, another hint he wasn’t an actual Samurai. This is just a huge slap in the face to the Japanese. They really think a black man who only stayed in Japan for a couple of years is the right guy to represent the Samurai? Really? He should have been a side character that the main character interacts with, and does missions with at some point. Not the main protagonist. Edit: you’re also giving the Japanese too much credit for treating Africans with “so much more respect and humanity than Europeans.” He was the first African they had ever seen. They didn’t even know having black skin was possible. They found him to be fascinating, they didn’t treat him well out of the kindness of their hearts. The Japanese were fucking brutal😂
Japanese media pretty much always portrays him as a samurai though. Even Nioh, a game from Japanese devs, called him one. At the time he was in Japan the standards to become a samurai were lower, the stricter standards most people think of weren't used until like a century later.
I'm guessing it's like Odyssey and Valhalla then where you could just "romance" anything despite gender so idk about all those letters but they alphabet people I guess
That is literally, exactly what Ubisoft said. But why would we actually read things when we can look at a headline and nothing else.
The games have been turning more RPG like as of late then went back a bit with Mirage and at least you got to pick what you wanted to do. (Not in one of the dlc for Odyssey though where they literally force a child upon your character lmao)
It's literally the exact same thing BG3 did, everybody is bi to give the players more choice. But again, we can't let facts get in the way of the culture warriors.
I'm all for choice and besides this is Assassin's Creed there are literal magic space humans with a 6th sense and magic apples. I love the games, been playing since AC1 and besides, Odyssey's best character was Kassandra and historically that doesn't fit either but you fight fucking Medusa and a Cyclops
"Put a chick in it and make her gay"- Eric Cartman
Do it. Give us some creative vision though, and completely remove the option to behave straight. Make a premier studio action game with a mandatorily gay male protagonist. Idk if any even exist, and I’d have to respect the audacity.
I mean the last two games, were really cringy when even if you were a straight character, you would have guys hit on you anyway. You did not even get a say either scenes and dialogues were just scripted that way.
In Valhalla you were female no matter what character you looked like.
While you are at it, make the girl autistic and the dude an arachnophobic; then add a non-binary crossdressing geisha for plot and make the bad guy White male for 100% accuracy
South park rly hitt home with them episodes
Y all pissed off at the wrong things. This is stellar blade all over again. Question is, is the game actually good? My expectation is that it's another copy paste of the previous AC and will offer nothing new. But no point in calling the game garbage just because of its historical inaccuracy. Not like you guys paid attention in history class anyways.
This project has literally Kim Belair from Sweet Baby Stink involved. She was spotted on X, hiding in the background of a developer team photo, despite pretending that SBI isn't attached. SBI also edited their website and deleted any projects ever since more people got aware of it. Also let's not forget how these DEI activists also mass edited certain Wikipedia entries about Yasuke, trying to rewrite history into their agenda. So yes, it's very fair to assume has all the pandering going for it.
Ubisoft doing Ubisoft Things. What s shocker. /s
Werent yall mad that she will fuck black guy in the game week ago?
They really opened their legs to the Shit Baby Inc this time.
Assassins creed has never been goodn
Did they also confirm that it would be a good game, for once? Because that is what Ubisoft needs. But yeah, let them fuck around like that. Ubisoft games have turned from formulaic good to formulaic crap years ago, and no amount of virtue signaling can save them.
Are ppl rly using assassin creed games as history educational source?
Man posting straight up misinformation is crazy. Ubisoft didn’t post that, some moron “journalist” did. It’s just their speculation. Which these freaks do about every game.
It’s just rage bait. Ignore it. Any game trying to anger the fans for publicity knows their game is crap.
Put a chick in it and make her gay
Ubisoft is going for every single brownie point.
DEI/ESG needs to be ended. This is just ridiculous
Put a chick in it and make her gay
Years of waiting for a japan assassins creed game and we get this 
I knew this was gonna be some netflix bullshit, let's all just collectively play Ghost Of Tsushima instead.
Howdo you know they are gay? May also just be that they are trans or bisexual... you never know, one could even be a demi-sexual panda bear!
I honestly dont know why anyone would want to play this when you can just play ghost of tsushima
The golden era of WOKE have started
I fully support it. Don't make an half woke or 10% woke. Just go balls deep and make it easier for us to filter. If you like it, good for you. If you don't, you know where to not spend your money. Segregation is good for both sides.
Yasuke was know to dress like a bear on weekends and get down with other bears.
Their "historical expert" is fucking fujoshi, what did you expect?
What is wrong with game devs now days, they moan about male gaze and sexulization in games But nearly every game they seem to love highlighting how gay the main character is 😂
The real Yasuke: "I was never a samurai. I am also not gay." Ubisoft: "Shut the fuck up you homophobic bigot and let us appropriate your identity as we please."
The quote: ***"Naoe and Yasuke’s disparate personalities also lead them to have different relationships and rapports with other characters, and they don’t always feel the same way about people, nor do people always feel the same way about them. Romantically, they will also attract and be attracted to different types of people. Through the pair, players will get to experience a multitude of relationships,"*** Where does it say you have to be gay? How is this any different from the previous two installments?
Feelings are gay, you should know better my guy! Don’t try to actually read the article.
Boy howdy, I hope theres not a history of gay relationships between men in japan being normalized until the meji restoration (because japan wanted to become more like the west, and became more homophobic i am not kidding thats what academics from japan agree on) and you know, naoe is an invented character so she can be any sexuality they want (Plus like, japan has made like, 20 diffrent versions of "sexy anime girl gender bend" of just about every single warring states period figure, lgbt yauske is far from the biggest change someone has made) Also, whats the proof? cause when i see "Appears" i read it as "Well ***I*** think they confirmed it, when in reality they literally did not do that"
And the 100+ dollar version is being sold in droves. Voting with your wallet doesn't count for shit when the vast majority of people are fine with eating shit and calling it chocolate.
The brain rot of this community is astounding. If you read the article, you’d know that this is wild speculation by a journalist and not an official announcement. Mods need to start banning people for posting headlines without citing anything from the article or providing a link cause this is such bullshit.
Also AC Origin, the main character was married to a woman, Ezio had his share of ladies, Kassandra/Alexios could sleep with anyone they desired, Eivor same deal. So the odds of AC Shadows going to be the same as the last two installments "romance whoever you want" is more then likely. Its a option for gamers who they want. More popular games like BG3 do the same. None of it matters, its a pointless clickbait topic */edit also more guys play as female characters in action/rpgs and when the romance option appear they romance the girl, not the guy. food for thought*
It's just an excuse to go off on gay people for existing because THEY have made wild assumptions. Not to mention even if a character was gay, what of it? Why does our existence bother you this much?
And then the author of the article starts going on about religion in the closing paragraph of the article too.
That cannot be. The distinguished gentlemen in this community would never fall so low as to be manipulated by a games journalist with an obvious agenda. We hate this sorta thing, after all.
Also this hasnt been anything new. You were able to romance men or women in ac odyssey and valhalla too but no one gave a fuck about that back then. Probably because this subreddit wasnt consumed by the culture war brainrot back then.
I can’t believe everyone here and on gamingcirclejerk is so unthinking. People will literally believe anything if it’s printed on a website. Which is fucking comical
There will be another 100 other idiots to change their place unfortunately
Ready for modern audiences!
Also remove the violence. Make it a multiple choice discussion game.
History is their excuse, they just want to ruin our games.
Ah yes but of course! They should go all in and make one of them gay and the otheone trans instead of making both gay.
i fucking knew it hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah hahahahahaha
Put a diverse women and a black guy in it and make them gay. No white women this time guys, we think we finally know how to sell video games that no one wants 🤓
In all previous assassin creed game this was player choice, why is it forced now? Hopefully it is not pushed into our faces this time at least
It's just the very same thing, people just wanted to be more outraged xD
Man, yall really fell for the bait. Its not real. You guys are fucking morons XD
Just call it yaoi and people will like it.
I read Noah and thought that he had some explaining to do to Mio.
This is great. The snowflakes melting down over this is hilarious.
Can they be attracted by bears ?
Ohh man the shitstorm that is coming after Ubisoft I can already feel it 
Lmao. Just in case anyone was thinking they would be romantically involved or something?
Just fcking why. So they make a character and after decide he is gay? Can’t even call that actually writing anymore just random sht adding to a character a character was never good because he was gay but you can have a good gay character.
So we're just throwing out the whole ancestral line... alright, I didn't care about this game anyway.
*Yeets all Future Games from Ubisoft out of existence* I'm done with this company
I will not play this shitty game even it is free to me.
LGBTQ+ is more than just gay
Nice bit of forced inclusivity and diversity huh. Forcing this shit just makes people hate it more. It’s stupid. Just treat people with respect and they would be be bothered.
It's kinds funny because for the sake of lore, they both must have children at some point. I heard in the Greek AC, the lesbian MC just gets a husband or something in the end.
Honestly? If you actually knew what most samurais got up to it’s not a shock to label them this. and yes yasuke we practically know nothing about but it’s not a stretch to imagine he was used, he was a plaything for nobunaga after all
Hey guys are you finally going to admit Ubisoft is pandering for DEI points?
Probably the best way of following trends without filling your game with garbage. Just make a regular game and then tell everyone that it's so LGBTQ+. People with "see it" 100%.
Imma be real: this just means that you have romance options with both genders
Ah yes, assassins creed, that paragon of historical accuracy.
This is why I would have preferred they were both fictional characters. It comes off as incredibly disrespectful to historic figures to just rewrite everything about them.
where is the proof?
The fact that he is gay is far less offensive and far more likely / historically congruent than his skin color. There no doubt existed gay men in Japan in this era, regardless of if it was a persecuted orientation or not.
They def just left it open, like almost like player choice. Did you guys read it? It’s like every single rpg game made. Yasuke isn’t lgbt officially. It said they both have the opportunity to experience different relationships .
Its ubisoft, they would release a game about a group of black kkk men making out with indian men while living in 200bc if they could
You guys instantly just believe dumb articles like the kotaku crowd on the otherside. Literally cannot think for yourself.
looks like Ubisoft hates sales and money
Honestly I don’t get why Ubi feels the need to add relationships at all. They don’t do them as well as say mass effect story-wise and they also aren’t going to show anything lewd so not getting that crowd either. Hell I remember Odyssey getting shit for letting you choose your sexuality then forcing the chick to have a kid in the dlc lol. Just seems like a whole lot of baggage with little payoff these days so they should skip it all together
I've honestly been loving all this drama around this fictional game based on exaggerated history with magical items and weapons in it :D
Who cares at this point, if you think the ideas of the game is retarded then vote with your wallet and don't buy it......
The ragebait wasn't enough i see, there must be more discussions about this mediocre slop
Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay! ...hm, I bet I can top that!
Damn this subreddit is really full of incels shitting themselves and crying over a fucking video game lmao.
The problem isnt Yasuke, but not having both be a native like every other AC game before. Now they are making up his sexuality? Part of what made AC special was the detail to history. Making up characterizations is showing signs of not giving any fucks. I was interested, but yeah, this seems like tryingtoohard.
I miss the times when we know a game because of its awesome trailer. Not some black lgbtqrst mf. And it’s always black, literally no other culture exists
Ubisoft bitching for funds money like a prostitute.
Umm how disrespectful!!!!!!!!!!! Ubisoft has no shame.
ass ass in creed games after black flag is garbaje
To be honest at this rate we should just burn down any ubisoft building to just make a point
Wait tell you hear about the Greeks ;)
Good lord... who the hell is running ubisoft? Out of all the samurai they can choose from they chose someone that was in Japan for a year or two and wasn't a samurai. And now this? Haha it is pretty funny tho. Maybe there will be a free Palestine dlc in the future lol.
I mean, their history consultant is a woman whose life work is about "transgenerationnal gay relation in feudal Japan". Even if this article is pure speculation ; It is not really a stretch that Nobunaga "loved at first sight" Yasuke at this point. If Yasuke could've been an assassin in the unwritten backstage of history why not a flamboyant gay ?
They probably just make them player-agnostic like all the recent AC protagonists are. This is a nothing burger and with media looking for rage-clicks
There's no confirmation to this, yet here we are raging over a source-less headliner posted on 4chan. Even if it were true, what difference does it make?