IGN: the same group of people that think it's racist to kill african Zombies in a game that takes place in Sub Saharian Africa (RE5). SMH

@williamthefloridano

Ай бұрын

RE5 was good. But coulda been better without the zombie/parasite component.

@Edvanallen5151

Ай бұрын

@@williamthefloridanolol

@PrivateCitizen84

Ай бұрын

Played RE5 to death always looking to upgrade the guns on replays. As regards to the NPC drama racists looking for racism imo. As a gamer Chris vs boulders was the most WTF moment in that game imo.

@MichaelImo

Ай бұрын

funny enough main character was a white dude was I supposed to be angry.. I don't get why people care so much.

@Edvanallen5151

Ай бұрын

@@MichaelImo And if you really dont care why are you even here? Funny enough the world was not solely with black or white ethnicities only and an asian theater deserves an asian protagonist. I dont get who you to judge/control people’s likes and hate on a moral high tone.

Remember , you cant spell ignorant without ign.

@sion7651

Ай бұрын

uh! good one!

@w92viking64

Ай бұрын

lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@pepperdiao37

Ай бұрын

This comment should be pinned 😆

Chris Redfield killing zombies in Africa-That’s RACIST! Yasuke killing Japanese-That’s so brave!

@Nolongerhereanymore

Ай бұрын

Hope Ubisoft goes under

@Tony-ih1pg

Ай бұрын

Ubisoft's neo-colonialism at its best

@President_Shin

Ай бұрын

Umm.. one was actual history and the other fiction.

@craigs71

Ай бұрын

@@President_Shin One was fiction and the other was based on a contentious historical figure who's historical significance has been most likely overblown, look at some Japanese takes on the story and for god's sake don't use Wikipedia as a source of information.

@whatyousay8888

Ай бұрын

Covid

In the 2000s, we had Samurai Jack. In the 2020s, we get Samurai Black

@MrPoop1000000

Ай бұрын

Samurai Jack always seemed to be more Ninja than Samurai

@oratank

Ай бұрын

there is nothing wrong with Samurai Black if this isn't a stealth game in Japan

@BloodEdgeExtreme2000

Ай бұрын

Funnily enough. Samurai Jack is voiced by a Black Dude.

@TheDylbot5000

Ай бұрын

This comment wins... also samurai jack, what a classic that guy was

@TheDylbot5000

Ай бұрын

​​@BloodEdgeExtreme2000 give it a rest broseph, funnily enough black "samurai" was a servant/ retainer and very likely not actually a samurai... there's a reason the entire country of Japan is rejecting the black samurai lol

As an Asian guy, this could only be fair by making next Assassin's creed set in Ethiopia... But the protagonist should be Admiral Zheng He of Ming china His mission is to assassinate African emperor of Ethiopian Admiral Zheng He was historical too

@zaskiaalsakila7248

Ай бұрын

Nah Zheng He is too high up there... We bring some historical Java or Borneo tribesman coming to Ethiopia with blowpipe and wooden spears. And the outfit? Literal short skirts and maybe bare body. Tats sounds way more cool than what Ubisoft can come up with.

Someone wrote: As a Japanese person, I’ve waited for AC to adapt a Japanese story, so I can play an epic story of a SAMURAI in Japan. Now in current year, we don’t get a samurai but a forced diversity character that’s not a samurai, OR Japanese. For context; the real historical Yasuke met Nobunaga for a year, then was sold back to the Jesuits and never obtained a rank as a samurai. We could've had Hanzo Hattori as protagonist, dammit Ubisoft. And I totally agree.

@braalo07

Ай бұрын

Doubt anyone would have guessed the Japanese AC would have a Samurai, expected probably a ninja given its a stealth game. Perhaps they could have made him a NPC or allows one to select between a male and female assassin characters to play with the samurai. I don’t take video game stuff seriously but do sympathize with those that feel hard done. Best protest is boycotting for those that are affected

@nadaproblem3023

Ай бұрын

Or Musashi Miyamoto imo

So a Korean guy would rather see black men as Samurai than a Japanese man, makes complete sense actually.

@Morec0

Ай бұрын

Yep. Koreans hate the Japanese. The American mind cannot comprehend this.

@mucy2807

Ай бұрын

And considering the apparent racisms from blacks towards Asians, this definitely sound true 🤔🤔🤔

@ljsims13

Ай бұрын

Doesn’t matter what a Korean guy thinks it a video game made by a company out of the uk 🤡

@mrspeigel3593

Ай бұрын

Given the history between the two countries that actually tracks

@mramisuzuki6962

Ай бұрын

@@ljsims13umm the Koreans hate the Samurai and the IJA. They commit atrocities against them twice. Read about Kiyomasa Kato.

Someone's grandma told them the best samurai was black and nobody can change her mind.

@jakubkaminski167

Ай бұрын

Granny off her meds again

@ChaoticHoly

Ай бұрын

Larry Fink crossdressing.

@sirg-had8821

Ай бұрын

That dementia is acting up again.

@arielquelme

Ай бұрын

As an Asian guy, this could only be fair by making next Assassin's creed set in Ethiopia... But the protagonist should be Admiral Zheng He of Ming china His mission is to assassinate African emperor of Ethiopian Admiral Zheng He was historical too

@emmanuelmartindale8309

Ай бұрын

Damn u were really hurt by that.. so tell me her race again?

actual cultural appropriation

“It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them”

@RaggedyGreg

Ай бұрын

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been to the Great Wall of China, I have seen the Pyramids of Egypt, I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel. But never in all my years have I witnessed something as improbable, as impossible, as what we've witnessed here today!

@Dionysos_____Alters

Ай бұрын

Dodgeball😂

@Tenchi3

Ай бұрын

If no one cancels their pre-orders, it will pay out for them. 🤔

if I were asian Id ask this IGN dude "who died and made you the spokesperson for all asians?"

At this rate I won't need any gas for my next roadtrip with all the mainstream gaslighting I'm getting 👌👌👌

@Jogeta5

Ай бұрын

😆

My grandma said that yasuke actually invented the samurai.

@hex1c

Ай бұрын

What? That's crazy. My great grandma said Shogun was from Africa?

@abrahamflores2566

Ай бұрын

"I don't care what they told you in school, Samurai's were black" -some they/them

@Sichko021

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@freethinker--

Ай бұрын

🤦 delusional grandma, Samurai follow the code of Bushido and the art of Kendo,100% Japanese.

@madjoe8622

Ай бұрын

Wow, Amazing! And my grandma told me Ubisoft is the best game developer in the world!

I haven’t been able to take AC’s depiction of historical characters seriously ever since they portrayed Karl Marx as a peaceful protestor who goes on about supporting “muh democracy”.

@RogerBliddack

Ай бұрын

When did you start expecting video games to be MORE "historically accurate" than reading a book?? Did you buy that first PlayStation or Xbox console because you thought you were gonna use it to get a college degree?? Really?

@PrivateCitizen84

Ай бұрын

In defence of AC I always saw it as an alternative reality/timeline with all the sci-fi and ancient faction stuff. I was never a big fan of the games, but for some reason I did like the film spin off. If they want to do a black samuria whatever. It's not like this is Shogun 2 Total War or something. I do like alt reality games like Fallout, Homefront, Wolfenstein.

@adamalexander4883

Ай бұрын

For me, one of the breaking points when I came to realize that any pretense of historical accuracy had been abandoned for the sake of appealing to the lowest common denominator was in origins when a young Egyptian girl in 49 BC said “that’s so cool!“

@LordZub4291

Ай бұрын

​@@RogerBliddackNo but the game was supposed to take characters from real life and incorporate them into the game

@doomraven0

Ай бұрын

That completely tracks since the entire left wing political religion is founded on Marx's teachings as their deity. It's a lot easier to stay rich and powerful if you convince everyone poorer than you that Marxism is legit.

The author sounds like he has a strong case of self-loathing.

@coling3957

Ай бұрын

its required to be a progressive hack

@windowsVD

Ай бұрын

He was probably paid money to push this ideology. There are lots of sellouts in every demographic. It reminds me of Asians in academia who tried to make the case for “why affirmative action in Ivy League universities is actually GOOD” even when it’s well-known that affirmative action policies (now rebranded under DEI) in Ivy League universities puts Asian applicants at a disadvantage.

@Kevin-mx4vm

Ай бұрын

Author is Korean, so Japanese loathing most likely.

Imagine having to be so committed to an ideology you will make yourself look like a contradictory fool on purpose, because you have to for the cause

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

Cults, am i right or am i right?

@DavidTMSN

Ай бұрын

Cognitive dissonance.

So, let me get this straight, having a black samurai in a videogame set in Japan is the best for Asian representation... Got it

@cyberedge881

Ай бұрын

The guy is bending over backwards to cuck himself. People who are infected with the woke mind virus think that if they put black people on a pedestal above all others it will be their salvation. They'll finally be a good person.

@totomen666

Ай бұрын

Not just "Having" but rather killing locals and making out with guy who pretends to be girl, because writer for the game - wrote book about man-on-man sex in times of feudal japan and monks. 1. What wokies think i want - black samurai with LGBT sex-friend 2. What i really want - just game with Koga and Iga ninjas

@RaggedyGreg

Ай бұрын

@@totomen666 so why not call it Assassin’s Creed New York and call it a day?

@norihiro01

Ай бұрын

😂😂 good comment

I wonder if the George Floyd outfit will be locked behind a paywall.

@TrollingRacist-ng9fd

Ай бұрын

Sit down

Anyone with a shred of knowledge about the Sengoku Jidai knows that Nobunaga only kept Yusuke under his wing to piss off and mock the traditionalists, he was merely an amusing foreing tool, not a ''legendary samurai'' or someone regarded as an ''equal''. And even if I were to ignore those delusions people want to play a character that matches the time and place of the game, same as ALL the other games did before this one.

@johnsmithfrombackeast7376

Ай бұрын

Much like Toronaga in Shogun.

@Kross415

Ай бұрын

@@johnsmithfrombackeast7376 And Toranaga is based on Tokugawa Ieyasu, successor of Oda Nobunaga🤣

@mikaelkarlsson8969

Ай бұрын

Toyotomi hideyoshi was as poor peasant and a servant for many years before he rose up. His work was involving to carry Nobunagas sandals and warm them up in the morning. Its documented that he one daymade a misstake and forgott to warm them up infront of a fire and insteed he stuck them close to the body with arms around to warm them up. Other of much higher rank wanted to cut of his head because he had made them dirty because he was a peasant. Nobunaga stoped it and liked the creativity. It took years for him to rise up as lowest class in japan and Nobunaga would make yasuke to a samurai after one year? Its ridicoulus. Even if Nobunaga took a liking to him he was still a lower class then the native lowest class. You dont become a samurai after 15 month of daily sword training. It would take years and not only traning. Toyotomi hideyoshi is well documented and he is a very important figure in Japan. I think he would been a great main charachter. A underdog farmer that become a Imperial Regent and Chancellor Of The Realm. He was also called the monkey by Nobunaga even after years and when he earned his respect. This would fit him in a assaisn creed game. Small and nimble. Dont need to be 100% accurate but atlest he has proof that he rose and become even more than a samurai. We could follow his younger years as a thief and where he was a servant to Nobunagas enemies and at that time he did not care to wich lord he served.

He's just mad about what the Japanese did to his ancestors.

@coling3957

Ай бұрын

possibly true as Japan occupied Korea and were tyrannical masters. though not as bad as the Kim dynasty now.

The water in IGN should be inspected for contamination by the EPA! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Streetrocker28

Ай бұрын

I think shit has hit the fan so far , that the EPA Has to be putting stuff in their water …

@aaronjaggan

Ай бұрын

7.8

Assassin's Creed Shadows will go down as the most racist video game ever. Racist against Japanese & Asians in general by stating that they are not good enough for a game based on their own history. Racist against Blacks because "Shadows = Black" so only a Black character can lead a game named in part Shadow. Oh, and in Japan, Yasuke is well known and documented to have been a _slave_ of Nobunaga.

@Starvin-Marvin

Ай бұрын

It’s also racist because it’s insinuating that the first black guy in Japan was secretly an assassin (because us black people end people wherever they go according to Ubisoft)

@Edvanallen5151

Ай бұрын

Literally every w#ke product’s nature was reversed-racist or sexist. Racist towards white and polish people in witcher, sexist to female role and hate men. They were merely the problem they claim fighting against

@MichaelImo

Ай бұрын

could you tell me where he was a slave? everything I read states that he was given the same payment as a samurai.. and all samurai as servents.

@Tony-ih1pg

Ай бұрын

​@@MichaelImohe was first a Portugese slave, then became the slave of an Italian priest that brought him to Japan through India (he could have been Indian, we are not sure). What we knkw for sure is that he was 3 yeard in Japan, 15 months at the service of Oda Nobunaga, who named him koshō, a glorified servant, thay carried his weapons and did tricks in parties for Nobunaga. There is ONE battle we know for sure he has been in, and he surrendered

@Lynce222

Ай бұрын

And he will be pointed out by every npc person just for his color skin, reminding him is difference everytime in his gameplay

I cant wait for ubisoft to complain how shit the game is doing. And also attacking the fans for not buying it.

@frost1842

Ай бұрын

That's what they gonna do isn't it, making an excuse why they game flop

@Spritel4

Ай бұрын

It's become par for the course.

The story begins when he tries to pay with a fake 20 yen

@simbanugz2906

Ай бұрын

Mmooommmmaaa

@stuyrides5144

Ай бұрын

🤣😂😅

@davidlilley4166

Ай бұрын

And ends with riots and looting throughout feudal Japan 😂😂😂

@victorcampudoni2682

Ай бұрын

​@@davidlilley4166"mostly peaceful protest" lol

@coling3957

Ай бұрын

LMAO . his death scenes in game are "ah cant breath!" :P prob

the guy (kim) is using "Asian" as if asians are all the same ... when he should have been using Japanese instead. Something I've noticed. Oh and the writer is from san fran as shown in the video, so it really explains it all. edit: later in the article he complains that asian people are not a monolith and yet he treated as such in the article he wrote. These people have no self awarness, hypocritical, and raycist (specially asians towards other asian people, i know because I grew up in this evironment).

@norihiro01

Ай бұрын

100%

I'm not a huge fan of this "Asian" nonsense in America really. In actual East Asia, no one sees themselves as Asian, but as their nationalities, of which they have a large sense of pride. The three major East Asian countries, Japan, China, and Korea, have different languages and cultures, and are only united by a broad racial phenotype. If anything, the idea of pan-Asian-ism is reductive. Of course this guy is Korean, and at least he has the decency to say so, although the surname Kim is a big giveaway anyway. Who does this guy think he's speaking for? Other woke "Asian Americans?" Certainly not the legion of actual Japanese people who downvoted this game into oblivion.

@gundamnduke0

Ай бұрын

this, fuck Asian stereotyping in America

Assassins creed: korea Where korea’s hero is black. Lets see if this writer won’t be the first to say “asian hate”

@p12remakeisreal

Ай бұрын

There's actually a single mention of a Blackman named Haegwi (海鬼)... who is presumed to be under the command of Ming dynasty forces, and There's literally zero details and futher mention about him other than a tall man with dark skinned color did participate in the war. Also no Korean consider him seriously at all since the war lasted for many years and many events, figures from Chosun,Japan,Ming outweigh his presence. However, given all these dei craps happening in the west these days, and narrative of woke Asian decents in west it's not surprising this Haegwi figure is decorated as a some sort of an unsung warrior shit.

@Kevin-mx4vm

Ай бұрын

​@@p12remakeisrealdoes that translate to black ghost

It's kind of hard to be stealthy when you're the only one that stood out noticeably

@MrGlobbits

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but at night.... Anyway those guys weren't about stealth the ninjas were.

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

@@MrGlobbits Samurai were a class, not a job description, Hanzo Hattori was a samurai and a ninja. There is a bit of confussion because the image of a samurai is of a man in full armour and of a ninja a guy in an all black suit but that was not how it worked a samurai could be in infantry, cavalry, what ever those holding rifles were or even an ninja.

@FIGHTFAN777

Ай бұрын

Lol

Why is it always the Americans who are complaining the loudest about something that has nothing to do with them.

@Mirage-pz

Ай бұрын

In this case its Japan and its about them. Same with cleopatra and egyptians but well...who are they compared to saint woke activist

@Blake-ld7mx

Ай бұрын

Man who knows 😂 I remember when Castlevania Nocturne came out. When I saw the black girl in trailer I was like oof this won't end well here we go😂

@madjoe8622

Ай бұрын

Because the US has some media that explain them what wokeness is?

You can totally get why a Korean guy would kinda not be into Samurai. That shouldn't be a basis for Japanese erasure.

Yasuke was what we would know as the court Jester. There to laugh at and amuse people.

I don't mind them stretching what ever logic to justify a Black Samurai we are talking about historically fiction here, But for Assassin's Creed a game about Assassins who kill targes out in the streets and then blend back into the crowd to hide. Having your protagonist be a the only black man in feudal Japan walking around in armor is just silly. This would have made for some awesome DLC. Besides Assassin's Creed you have the expectation to playing the local people with each new game. You want a Black Samurai make it it's own game with it's own world's logic and gameplay.

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

It is to hide the price tag, if the game went with a thud because of its price then the developers would not be able to hide behind anything and it is not like the management cares if the company is profitable or not. Just deflect and trick the investors, it is not their money after all.

@zaskiaalsakila7248

Ай бұрын

If Ubi wanna have black Samurai, LGBT woman, ugly Npcs, ESg, SBinc approved storylines, just make an entire fictional world. Like a Black Desert, Crimson Desert, Nier Automata, Dragon's Dogma, Monster Hunter type of country and dump all of ur "Esg approved" characters there. Don't disturb our real world, our history. It's the same Forspoken thing over again. Does Ubisoft wanna see physical copies of Shadows in a landfill dump? Tats what happened to copies of Forspoken btw.

As a tremendous fan of Japan and it's history,I'm fucking pissed about this...I would have loved playing as an actual samurai in an assassins creed game,but fuck this..

@MyVengenceEndsNow

Ай бұрын

There are so many....SOOOOO MANY other legendary samurai they could have chosen...that were ACTUALLY legendary.

@firstlast-wm3li

Ай бұрын

Its*

@Delicashilous

Ай бұрын

AC Shadows got me hyped... for ghost of Tsushima.

@EBNall

Ай бұрын

You've done it a thousand times before, time for something different.

@Travelvision2020

Ай бұрын

And yet the Japanese are defending this game and telling u crybaby not to tell them ABOUT THEIR CULTURE

I get the same feeling watching British TV made in the last 5 years, not much representation for my demographic (White, Male, English and Straight).

@NoNeed2No

Ай бұрын

Everyone in our history was black apparently. Anne Boleyn being a particularly egregious example.

@cyberedge881

Ай бұрын

That's what is absurd about the people who defend the kind of crap Ubisoft is pulling. They act like it is an isolated incident, when in reality what people are reacting to is the agenda behind it. If you ignore that context you're completely missing the point. It isn't about one black man in one videogame.

@Junior.illinois

Ай бұрын

indeed

@LonelyGamr

Ай бұрын

just happy "the inbetweeners" came out before the woke millennials took over television

@NoNeed2No

Ай бұрын

@@LonelyGamr Ha that would NEVER be made today, or if it was every episode would have Carly lecturing the boys on the patriarchy

I hope Japan 🇯🇵 blocks the sale of this game!!

@jaybirdblood591

Ай бұрын

Stop crying

@helo4066

Ай бұрын

@@jaybirdblood591 … said the crybaby.

@jaybirdblood591

Ай бұрын

@helo4066 when i read your comment i heard whinning you even used exclamation marks

@jaybirdblood591

Ай бұрын

@@helo4066 did you fold your arms after texting that..¿

@Deadmare

Ай бұрын

I hope they sue I want a lawsuit

The writer isnt Korean. He is American, that only shares the privilege of having an asian ethnicity that can be traced to Korea. Clearly raised, educated, and celebrated journalistically (?), in SoCal that's halfway across the world from Japan. As he writes, asians are not a monolith. And hes American (of asian descent). Dont speak for asians living in the east.

I like how Kim is craping on Sakai. When we have NO IDEA how good the characterization Shadows will be. Kim's complaining about not having a Korean game. When Stellar Blade just came out...

@mramisuzuki6962

Ай бұрын

Nayeonetta and Nikki are boobie games!!

I’m an Asian and I’m not even anti-woke. I think, at its heart, wokeness is about being a more compassionate society, but of course, as humans, when we take ideologies to the extreme we tend to screw them up. That goes with any movement and any ideology. But this is insane. The west already doesn’t have a healthy relationship with Asian male protagonists, and the one time Ubisoft could give Asian males that representation, they take it away in the name of diversity (and let’s be real, we all know why they did this). Again, not paying respect to the history and culture of Japan. No wonder Japanese twitter went nuclear during the release, and I don’t blame them.

@INeedJesus55

Ай бұрын

Wokeness is not about being more compassionate, its about destroying strong, established cultures, societies and nations that are capable of standing up against globalism and replacing them with something more malleable and controllable. It's about disconnecting people from their past to create for them a new future where all cultures are melted together as one blob of globalist slop.

@INeedJesus55

Ай бұрын

My reply to your comment is completely invisible as if I had never written it. I used no profanity or said anything even remotely offensive (apart from the truth) yet my comment has been wiped off the map by AI as if it had never been spoken and that should grease the wheels of your mind.

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

Not really, like a lot of cults they spew nice words when what they do is effectively evil while trying to look like they do good, think all the "divine/angelic" bosses in jrpg who seek to destroy, enslave or being a jerk, it is like that. An image of good that hides evil.

@latte2475

Ай бұрын

This isn't about woke or anything at this point. this is purely being racist against Asian, the anti-Asian kinda thing

@jayare2583

Ай бұрын

Being woke is the furthest thing from compassion. That's all just a smoke screen..woke is just subversion..here to destroy what is pure and true

lol make a Assassin's Creed in Africa staring a Mexican main character

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

Nah, a native american.

@davidhong9112

Ай бұрын

Viva, los amigos, cabron.

@osakachandoll6824

Ай бұрын

@@Raximus3000 they had a native in the game before , so they should use some one from Canada instead lol

@TheAmazingDOGG

Ай бұрын

Orale, mis chavos, vamos a chingar la madre weyyyyyy... No mames.

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

@@osakachandoll6824 So, a being whose head gets detached from the rest of its body when it talks, lol.(southpark canadian)

I’m no expert but I would’ve thought there were hundreds, if not thousands of samurai to choose from, some of which are known and well respected by the Japanese, so ubi creates a black protagonist who they brag is a known historical figure, NOT a samurai. Pander much?

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

And a bad protagonist for a stealth game.

@ethanvallance4989

Ай бұрын

He's not the stealth part They wanted you to play a samurai and ninja so the girl ninja is the stealth character. Very much like syndicate. ​@@Raximus3000

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

@@ethanvallance4989 Even the guy was midly capable on it, hell Ghost of Tsushima managed both!

When I saw it was a black Samurai I was immediately put off. Tired off this black washing of history. Ironic since they throw around the term "culture vulture"....that's exactly what this is.

1984 Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

@KianoUyMOOP

Ай бұрын

The chocolate rations are receiving an increase this week.

99.9999% of Samurai were Japanese but lets pick the one black guy who may have been a samurai (probably not though) as the protagonist. Given the few records we have of him are over a 3-4 year period if he was given a honorary rank he would hardly have been a very skilled one, when you consider Japanese samurai were trained from a very young age

@Lordvell-de6gm

Ай бұрын

Someone is mad 😡😡😡 about a true person in history 😭 clown azz

Ghost is far superior to this piece of crap and it’s just one more nail in the coffin for Ubisoft. I’m surprised they didn’t announce that the main character was also trans to try and get some more of that BlackRock, ESG money.

@madjoe8622

Ай бұрын

There're rumors he's ghey.

Ign definitely hired a journalist who dont like gameing or even doesn't care about it.

The whole article is moot. We're talking about AC, not every other piece of media featuring samurai. There have been NO samurai in AC until this ONE game. Every AC game has a local as the protag. This one doesn't because DEI is ONLY implemented SPITEFULLY. It's always *at the expense* of another. Why not just make an AC game in Africa? Because that wouldn't be spiteful.

I am so disappointed that Ubisoft is using an actual person whom has passed away to tell a fictional story when they easily could've just do what they did for every other game and make a fictional character of the nation/region like they have done so many times. Nobody, not a single fan of the series, thought it was a tired trope. Yasuke could've still been in the game as a cameo or as a side/support character. Also. I am disappointed at this Asian American for lumping all Asians together as though they all share the same historical records and interests. Once they outed themselves as Korean they lost the argument. It's not a story about Asia. It's a story about Japan. Get over it. I am nothing more than an African American male who loves all of the differences and similarities of all cultures. Give Japan their respect. This feels like a slap in the face.

@Mirage-pz

Ай бұрын

Err westernerd have done it a lot, Enemy at the gates?

@gundamnduke0

Ай бұрын

Honestly, they could've just have the girl ninja be the sole protag like the earlier games and Yasuke just be like a supporting character with fictional expansion to his story.

Can't wait to see a tall muscular black man with braids avoid detection in old Japan

Just play Ghost of tsushima instead I bet you assassin's Creed isn't even going to touch the awesomeness of that game.

The Wikipedia article on Yasuke is such a minefield right now. The opinion that seems to be the most substantiated is that Yasuke likely didn’t have much of a role, was likely in Japan for about 16 months, and was not a Samurai. He’s still a contested figure because we frankly don’t know a lot about him.

@ChaoticHoly

Ай бұрын

Japan sees him as nothing more than a slave of Nobunaga. I'll take the historical word of the Japanese regarding Japanese history than a bunch of French and/or French Canadians.

@chumorgan443

Ай бұрын

And there's no citations for any of it. you'd think such an outlier as a black samurai would of had some period art or writing about him and his brave exploits... But nothing. All his heroics adventures , written recently based on wishful thinking.

@ChaoticHoly

Ай бұрын

Japan sees him as nothing more than a slave of Nobunaga. I'll take the historical word of the Japanese regarding Japanese history than a bunch of French and/or French Canadians.

@coling3957

Ай бұрын

allowing wikipedia to be edited - unless its to change a conservative person's narrative when he has been libelled - is letting activists rewrite a source of history still used by a lot of people. its utterly nonsensical - INGSOC stuff! they must have a Winston Smith rewriting all the stories

@RoninX33

Ай бұрын

Wikipedia is not the place you want to trust for information.

The story begins with the dialogue being interrupted by the chirp of the smoke detector needing batteries

I predict this will be the least successful AssCreed game so far. Hopefully it will do Ubislop some financial damage, becuase they produce nothing good any more, and they believe gamers are plebs that shouldn't be allowed to own their games. IGN(orant) is trying to be the next Kotaku. Mercunte can probably get a job there when the Kotaku broom cupboard gets shut down.

A highly missplaced character for no other reason that they due to DEI and funding were forced to put a black man in the game to tick off boxes. Damn Blackrock and Vanguard for the likes of this BS.

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

More like forced to make the only known black guy from the period who stood out like sore thump into the protagonist of a stealth game...

This Yasuke have no achievements, No impact whatsoever to Japan history, No battle record even his story about being a Samurai/Squire is contested. The only interesting about him is his black skin color that is also the only reason Oda is interested on him. For a person who have nothing to show except his skin color i find it weird that ubisoft choose him as the so called legendary warrior

So much for “Stop Asian Hate” these people were spouting a couple years ago….

You can't spell ignorant without ign

@NoNeed2No

Ай бұрын

I like that lol

As a black male I find this whole situation extremely embarrassing.

Ubisoft made the mistake of not hiring Samuel L Jackson to play Yasuke. I'd buy that game!

If the game is set in England I want to play an Englishman, if it’s set in Japan I want to play a Japanese.

@Raximus3000

Ай бұрын

Especialy when the game is supposed to be all about the region.

@flykyrt81

Ай бұрын

Ubisoft and Baby Inc: NO! You will play a black samurai in Japan and you will play a black Knight in England. We will offer you down the line DLC where you can play a Trans-woman an a whopping 69 pronoun options! Lol!

@cyberedge881

Ай бұрын

Exactly. It's just about showing respect to the cultures and peoples that you are depicting. I also think that it's what people prefer aesthetically. When the setting is Feudal Japan I want to see clothing, architecture, people, etc that are specific to that setting. Same goes for medieval Europe, Ancient Egypt, the Aztec empire, or any other setting. I want to enjoy the things unique to those settings, I don't want to see a world that is more similar to modern New York city just so that they can fulfill their globalist overlords' diversity agenda.

@masibee

Ай бұрын

Too bad then,Vallaha takes place in England and you play as a Norwegian. Black Flag in Carribbean when you play as Welsh. No complaints back then.

@masibee

Ай бұрын

@@Raximus3000 You can spot the fake fans. Valhalla takes place in England and you play as Norwegian, Black Flag set in Carribbean and you play as Welsh man, Revelations in Turkey and you play as Italian. No complaints then I wonder why?

Saw a thing on Twitter showing sweet baby inc listing themselves as former Ubisoft devs, makes perfect sense.

What's unfortunate is we've been waiting for this setting for years and they just had to wreck it. Every other entry has had the right representation for the era/setting, yet that doesn't seem to be good enough.

Wait. Is he korean American (a korean who moved from korea to America) or is her American (wss born in America). You're only korean American if you moved from korea and got your citizenship properly. But yeah this article had so many dead giveaways in what he was really saying

You forget the English man William Adam’s who became a Samurai - I have a suspicion they didn’t pick him for the main character in Japan because he was a white samurai

Yuske a "samurai" who quickly surrendered to Akechi who immediately beheaded him.

@gundamnduke0

Ай бұрын

Akechi didn't behead him though. Akechi said Yasuke is not a samurai, and he's not a Japanese, then sent him back to the missionaries.

If this were a Tom cruise last samurai character this issue wouldn’t exist, facts.

@thadkayne

Ай бұрын

that character and movie wasn't pushing woke inclusion diversity bullshit. facts

Even a bowl of chop suey won't digest well with me.

What would a Samurai do when his Lord die in a war ? I dont see Yasuke showing any "Samurai" action back then.

And that black guy wasn't even a samurai

@ljsims13

Ай бұрын

Yes he was 🤡 he had the same benefits if not more

@jaybirdblood591

Ай бұрын

How you know what he was..¿

@Kodeuk

Ай бұрын

@@ljsims13 that nobody ain’t no samurai 🤡 he’s a myth aka folklore in Japan lol he’s in NO HISTORICAL TEXT BOOKS IN JAPAN. Show me where’s there’s proof that he existed? In a real Japanese text book. Y’all westerners are nothing but frauds who rewrite Yasuke story with zero proof. And what’s funny is that how you westerners was so focus on rewriting Yasuke story y’all forgetting about how the samurai hierarchy works 🤣🫵🏽 1. A real samurai has to start their training at the age of 5-13 of age and every samurai is a nobles born pure blooded Japanese and Yasuke is not a pure blooded Japanese or from a nobles family. And Yasuke came down to Japan as an adult. 2. Yasuke only stayed in Japan for 1-3 years and IT DOES NOT TAKE 1-3 YEARS TO BECOME A SAMURAI. Matter of fact any samurai who failed to protect their master MUST COMMIT SEPPUKU and Yasuke indeed failed to protect his master from the fire but yet he never commuted seppuku which proves he is no samurai plus he surrender to the enemy as well lol no samurai will do that ever. All of these circumstances THAT YOU WESTERNERS IGNORE REALLY DEBUNK YALL CLAIMS. If y’all decided to try to change our history by rewriting Yasuke story then try to make the story more sense and believable 🤡🤣🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽 y’all ain’t slick and y’all will never be a samurai ever

@Kodeuk

Ай бұрын

@@jaybirdblood591 that nobody ain’t no samurai 🤡 he’s a myth aka folklore in Japan lol he’s in NO HISTORICAL TEXT BOOKS IN JAPAN. Show me where’s there’s proof that he existed? In a real Japanese text book. Y’all westerners are nothing but frauds who rewrite Yasuke story with zero proof. And what’s funny is that how you westerners was so focus on rewriting Yasuke story y’all forgetting about how the samurai hierarchy works 🤣🫵🏽 1. A real samurai has to start their training at the age of 5-13 of age and every samurai is a nobles born pure blooded Japanese and Yasuke is not a pure blooded Japanese or from a nobles family. And Yasuke came down to Japan as an adult. 2. Yasuke only stayed in Japan for 1-3 years and IT DOES NOT TAKE 1-3 YEARS TO BECOME A SAMURAI. Matter of fact any samurai who failed to protect their master MUST COMMIT SEPPUKU and Yasuke indeed failed to protect his master from the fire but yet he never commuted seppuku which proves he is no samurai plus he surrender to the enemy as well lol no samurai will do that ever. All of these circumstances THAT YOU WESTERNERS IGNORE REALLY DEBUNK YALL CLAIMS. If y’all decided to try to change our history by rewriting Yasuke story then try to make the story more sense and believable 🤡🤣🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽🫵🏽 y’all ain’t slick and y’all will never be a samurai ever

@Kodeuk

Ай бұрын

@@jaybirdblood591 he’s no samurai because he doesn’t exist in history text books in Japan history 🤣🤣🤣

Anyone notice the guy looks more like a modern American than a African?

It’s not that he’s black, it’s that he’s NOT Japanese. Honestly games could completely get away from this issue but just putting in character creation.

Best thing people can do with this is a.) Don't buy anything from Ubisoft and b.) add Kotaku and IGN to your hosts file blocklist to avoid giving them any traffic.

If you didn’t want to have an Asian protagonist, then don’t set it in Japan in 1579. Ubisoft tells gamers that they have to get comfortable not owning their games. So let’s stop renting their games.

To be honest it's weird that they just dont use the man name in this game even. Yasuke is not a name as it's like title of a job. It's not even a nickname as it be same like a person who is dragging the golf bag around and gives the stick to the gold player. Even knights had people who carried their swords. It's like a personal slave. It's also kind of funny that people dont actually understand that this is mocking the black people by making the character like that without deep understanding what the word actually means

The only Samurai that can only be seen at night when he opens his eyes or shows his teeth.

I’m not surprised that a Korean is happy about the lack of Japanese representation in a game set in Japan considering the animosity that still exists between the two peoples due to the history they share

I miss the onimusha series. that was fun back in the day.

It is weirdly refreshing that they are playing culture vulture of Japanese culture and not European culture for once.

Jesus, that thumbnail made me reach for my weapon and wallet simultaneously.

We waz kangz n shiet

@NoNeed2No

Ай бұрын

We wuz samurangz n shiieeeeeet

He was a sword bearer for Oda Nobunaga. Not a Samurai but definitely higher class than a peasant in those days because being allowed to bear a sword was a big deal and not for peasants.

Damn, IGN needs to #StopAsianHate

Weird how they were so offended by RE5 having a white man in Africa...yet this is A-OK

I’d be willing to bet that IGN had him write that deflection piece before their cover story in the new game came out.

Yasuke sounds like a Japanese name. If he existed at all, why don't we hear about the person's original mozambique name?

I agree with the Korean kid. There are other Asians in the world not just Japanese people on an island.

Anyone know if the bots have been deployed to youtube likes by Ubisoft for Shadows?

The game is set in JAPAN and these journalist are not grasping the idea that people think it's weird to play as a black man in Feudal Japan Assassin's Creed? Sounds like a great idea. Yasuke kills an enemy as the other enemies give chase to the only black man in feudal Japan. Yasuke blends into the crowd. Now the enemy cannot find the 6ft tall black man wearing samurai armor amongst the Japanese townsfolk.

You know, looking at that list of 10 games the writer of that article prattled off, part of me has to wonder how many of them actually made it Stateside and/or Out of Japan at all. I'd be surprised if it was more than half cause about half of those games I've never heard thing one of until now, and it's only Sekiro and Tsushima that I've heard of in recent memory. And recent memory being about 5 to 10 years.

IGN again, are they going the Kotaku route? what now they will blame their French subsidiary that is not connected to them in any way? it ain't gonna cut it this time!

@knessing7681

Ай бұрын

ign just told kotaku to hold it's (budlight) beer.

I’ve bought every AC game so far and I’ve loved all of them in their own way. Samurai have and always will be my most favorite historical warriors but I absolutely will not be buying or playing this game. The Japanese MEN deserve to be represented in the assassins creed genre. I’m massively disappointed with Ubisoft.

IGN - Imagine Gulag Network

And limited number of black people doesn't speak for all black people.

I don't care about representation at all. I care about immersion. Knowing the main character was not a Samurai and in all likelihood never saw battle breaks it for me.

Somebody please bring back Techu Stealth Assasins with Rikkimaru and Ayame.

Yeah we had those other samurai games, but I wanted a Japanese assassins creed . That’s the point

I've uninstalled all my UBISOFT games, now I am waiting till they delete my account in a couple years from not playing anymore. I am sad to watch my money sink away into the nether, but, I'd rather watch it waste away instead of supporting them with a player statistic. First it was the subscription model, then the Star Wars debacle, now this, 3 strikes your out.

How many people do you kill in the average Assassin's Creed game? It must be in the thousands. So this will be a game of a violent black man killing thousands of Japanese people.

3:32 "Hold my beer, I'm gonna do some mental gymnastics" got me rolling on the floor 🤣🤣🤣🤣

reminds when Netflix tried to make that Cleopatra series

And yet John Blackthorne was considered slightly racist then I read an article of its good that the white englishman is a bumbling goof in the show. The guy is literally based off of William Adams. Also "Like a Dragon" is a Yakuza game...a game about mobsters. Also the author is not Korean. The author is American. If I can't say I am Irish American without getting laughed at you can't say you are Korean.

@Tony-ih1pg

Ай бұрын

But Blackthorn is based on a British guy we KNOW has been made Samurai and Hatamoto, with JAPANESE SOURCES saying so. And that British samurai brought Economic Reforms to Japan, which helped their economy a LOT, so he had an IMPORTANT role in Japan

@sirthicc1908

Ай бұрын

@@Tony-ih1pg I don't think we are disagreeing. I'm saying I read articles of people complaining about him. Then another saying him walking around looking lost and a goofball is a good thing??? (A little insulting to the character). Or I'm just missing what you are saying entirely