This video has gotten a lot of traction, and there has been hate thrown on both sides. But for the record, I just want to clarify. You can have a different opinion on the story, we can talk or debate the veracity of facts, or argue whether or not certain choices should be made, but I will never support or give leniency to a group that spreads hate and death threats to working developers, irrespective of what politics or drama is involved. You can hate journalists, you can hate studio leadership, you can hate each other, but hatred towards a group of people simply trying to create entertainment and art for a populace to consume and enjoy that content as they wish, will always be respected and admired by me. This same line of thinking applies to the comment section. I don't delete anything that isn't against KZread terms of service. And I'm fine when it comes to disagreeing with me, or the news, but if comments lean toward threatening violence or harassment of devs, those will be moderated as necessary.

"This was a paid for presentation by Ubisoft"

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

Yes, Ubisoft is dumping money into my channel with 92 subscribers. They are very intelligent marketers.

The trailer on Ubisoft Japan for assassin's Creed as 5K likes and 50 k dislikes

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

Is this trying to say only Japanese people can dislike a video on a Japanese-language KZread channel? Also, dislikes are private, and a third party tool used to judge a video based off of analytics is not exactly report-able information.

@crazynthree

21 күн бұрын

@@bennyjgrkman ok the us trailer has 290k likes and 751k dislikes. And the dislike figure was pulled directly from the KZread API so seems pretty reportable.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

@@crazynthree If you're using the "Return KZread Dislike" extension, as is the most popular of these tools. It uses historical data that was previously provided by the KZread API (which is no longer available), and extrapolates that with users currently using the extension and their like/dislikes. It does not actually show the real data. Either way, what exactly would KZread dislikes prove?

@crazynthree

21 күн бұрын

@@bennyjgrkman no I'm not using an extension. Also not sure why your taking this personally? It's a little odd. I'm just giving some stats.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

@@crazynthree I’m not taking anything personally lol. Just wondering why/how? How are you able to see dislikes when that’s something KZread made private in 2021? Without using an extension?

lol historically real in the same way that Gladiator was about a historically real Emperor Commodus. All we have about this is that a guy came as a slave, interested the Japanese enough that he was given status for a while, and then wound up being sent back to be a slave once that lord died. If he was an actual Samurai, it seems odd that he was given back to the Jesuits rather than told to commit seppuku or simply becoming ronin.

Lies. It is not hate to point out Yosake is not a samurai.

@CorruptDemocratsJ6

21 күн бұрын

Yeah there's several big facts/points proving they wouldn't have allowed a bIack/foreigner to be a Samurai. At most, a token bIack guy bodyguard/servant.

@kam6642

21 күн бұрын

And time traveling through dna does not exist. Welcome to fiction dear child.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

Death threats, harassment, doxxing, and bullying are all great examples of hate. Guillemot was not referring to the entire concept, only the worst offenders.

@TheRighteousFist

21 күн бұрын

It's a fictional game genius, who cares? Do you think Rodrigo Borgia was a real Templar who fought one on one against an Assassin in a Roman cathedral? Do you think Connor was a real Indian who rode around with Paul Revere? What it really comes down to is this is low key racist push back against putting minorities into prominent roles. Even if Yasuke (not Yosake) wasn't a true Samurai, it makes no difference in a fictional re-telling of his story from a video game franchise that puts historical figures into roles they likely didn't play in real life. I suppose Leonardo Da Vinci really invented weapons for the Assassins, right, or did every other re-telling give you the same pause as Yasuke did, over the years?

@kenmasters734

21 күн бұрын

@@TheRighteousFist Spoken like a true imbecile,carry on.

AC shadows having a black main character is obviously pandering, and pretending it's not is just ridiculous. I've had this conversation with plenty of people so far and none can balance their support for shadow with how they would react if ubisoft decided to choose a white samurai instead. Wokeness is a thing in modern media and pretending it doesn't exist and throwing insults when someone points it out is just as shallow as AC shadows diversity.

@zorgivanov8685

21 күн бұрын

imagine the hate if ubisoft were to have a white, nordic man as character in Origins, the world would stop

@magneisuemwinterjuice7810

21 күн бұрын

The hyper fixation is artificial, over the top and is probably making certain content creators rich. A white samurai was chosen in Nioh and no one made a stink because it was not a popular culture war signifier. This hyper fixation extends to so much more than just AC shadows black character. A new one I just noticed it extends to is Denzel Washingtons character in Gladiators 2 (who plays a arms dealer..?) It extended to people like youtube 'Synthetic Man' calling the Fallout tv series woke garbage after 1 ep because of "forced raced mixing" his exact words. Probably thinking it would flop just like Amazon's Lord of the Ring series but instead, it exposed his bias and grift. Its mostly nonsense that may have started at one time from a place intellectual honesty, but its long past that. So keep beating that drum if you must but peoples tolerance to hearing the constant over the top whining that at times crosses over to pure bigotry will eventually reach a tipping point.

@magneisuemwinterjuice7810

21 күн бұрын

@@zorgivanov8685 Assassins Creed Black Flag took place in the Caribbean Sea and the main character was a Welshman. The 3 major cities in the game were Havana in CUBA, Nassau in the BAHAMAS, and Kingston in JAMAICA. Does the Welsh have anything to do with area and time period? The answer is no. So drop the selective outrage. You know complaining about white characters is not in vogue, stop lying.

@zorgivanov8685

21 күн бұрын

@@magneisuemwinterjuice7810 bro, you do realize that black flag took place in the caribbean sea while there were european colonies everywhere and the colonisers were white? So i mean, it is nowhere near the black samurai, stop trying. This is like saying that it is odd that character in RDR is white, because the original people of North America are indians :D

@zorgivanov8685

21 күн бұрын

@@magneisuemwinterjuice7810 you know you are not scaring anyone with the "bigotry","racism" and other scary words :D, that time has passed

I've never seen you before, but 5 seconds in I already knew where you stood on the issue. Why is that?

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

@@AllahuSnackbar270 Hey, thanks for your comment. 5 seconds in was when I was introducing the Steam Deck Top 100 topic. I guess I’m pretty positive on Steam releasing their charts? Not sure what the issue is. Thanks.

@hafluq2979

21 күн бұрын

Is it the haircut bro?

@finbharasa7777

21 күн бұрын

Wow dude, are you like a psychic 🤯🤯?

@AllahuSnackbar270

19 күн бұрын

@@hafluq2979 Possibly a contributing factor. Tofulicious. ;D

judging by your dislike ratio, I'm guessing even his own audience doesn't agree with this guy. And I'll guess that he'll never take the time to understand why either, since just calling them bigots or "A CERTAIN GROUP OF GAMERS" is easier for him than doing some research instead.

"A historically real, black samurai" - He is mentioned so little in the sources that we don't know much about the man, it's not clear whether he was or wasn't a samurai. Even his Wikipedia entry doesn't say he was a samurai. In addition to that Assassin's Creed always had fictional protagonists, It's quite clear that Ubisoft wanted a black protagonist in the game for the sake of intersectionality and diversity and Yasuke was the better option so that it won't be as obvious. Believing everything you hear without doing your due diligence to verify the validity of the claims is negligent, unprofessional and reckless considering the risk of spreading misinformation.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

My brother/sister in Christ. You can go to meet real life Thor in the last game. The god. He’s there. You can talk to him. Assassin’s Creed 3 has a DLC where George Washington takes over as King. In AC Odyssey they travel to Atlantis. These games have always shakily been placed into vaguely near-history storylines, with fantastical plot points. I guarantee you no one at Ubisoft thought about it past “wow that would be cool,” much as they do with literally everything else in their games.

@TheRighteousFist

21 күн бұрын

Why are you lying the comments like you won't get immediately fact checked? Actually, his Wikipedia entry DOES say he was a Samurai. The first line literally says, and I QUOTE from an adjacent tab: "Yasuke (Japanese: 弥助 / 弥介, Japanese pronunciation: [jasɯ̥ke]) was a man of African origin who served as a samurai to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga for a period of 15 months between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period, until Nobunaga's death in the Honnō-ji Incident." That's not to say you should believe everything you read on the internet, and while acknowledging that anyone can edit Wikipedia, it just makes no sense that you would make that statement so boldly when you know good and well someone is going to come along and check.

distractingly boring....

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

Who, me? Yeah, fair enough.

How horrible your depiction of japan can be to make japanese hold petition to cancel your game 😂😂😂

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

What.

I don't disagree with Ubisoft using Yasuke as a samurai because there was no conclusive proof that he wasn't one but there also wasn't proof that he was so I hope you understand that when you say "features a historically real black samurai" you are putting yourself in the complete opposite camp instead of looking at it holistically and doing slightly more research. Still, I'm just gonna enjoy the game as is since AC games were always alternate history for me.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

Google "Yasuke" and tell me what the consensus that the Smithsonian, the Britannica Encyclopaedia, the BBC, The Japan Times, CNN, multiple scholarly journals via JSTOR, and multiple academic research papers via Google Scholar, have all reached, that you haven't reached in your research.

@hafluq2979

21 күн бұрын

@@bennyjgrkman Thanks, The Japan Times looks like a great website and I got this directly from them: “There’s no piece of paper that says Yasuke was a samurai,” Lockley says (a Nihon University professor). It's so funny you proved my initial comment using your own sources.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

@@hafluq2979 the next two sentences: “but then there’s no piece of paper that says anybody else was a samurai.” Most telling to Lockley, however, is that no reputable Japanese historian has raised doubts about Yasuke’s samurai bonafides. Was this supposed to be a gotcha? Your single cherry picked line out of an entire 700 word article?

@hafluq2979

21 күн бұрын

@@bennyjgrkman Historian consensus is not fact. I gave you a quote based on the current fact that confirmed we do not know whether he was or was not samurai. In comparison, I can tell you that William Adams, an English man, was in fact a samurai because there are legitimate historical records of this. Historians can say whatever they want but unless they have the proof then it should never be taken as fact.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

@@hafluq2979 General consensus on things is traditionally how the world works for pretty much everything. Though, I can understand your point of view on this, but even still, I don’t get the hate towards his inclusion in the game. Samurai or not, he existed. And Assassin’s Creed is historical fiction, not fact.

lol

Main issue, why the Samurai is a black dude?!!

@EternalNetzah

21 күн бұрын

Main issue is that it's historically inaccurate for the sake of pushing real-world political agendas. People spot political agendas from miles, and it's very visible from Ubisoft (and among other companies like Netflix). Ubisoft has been having issues in regards to story telling for quite a while, but it seems like people seem to enjoy their gameplay regardless so the game is definitely going to be good. Just "OOC"ily politically themed instead of being historically inspired.

@tortepasti2

21 күн бұрын

@@EternalNetzah AC has never been in any way historically accurate. Its all out such a weak argument.

@davitigelovani5331

21 күн бұрын

@@tortepasti2 maybe not entirely, but close to it

@EternalNetzah

21 күн бұрын

@@tortepasti2 you didn't finish reading the entire text :/ Damn tiktok generation.

@tortepasti2

19 күн бұрын

@@EternalNetzah If the main issue is the historical inaccuracy rn it could very well imply that they try to be accurate. If they ever tried that they failed miserably in all but maybe architecture. That is my point. And whatever that miserable app has to do with anything, I dont know. Im probably even older then you but I dont try to use it as a sad argument.

leave in all your goofs, commit.

go away

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

You can click the three dots next to the thumbnail, and then click on not interested. It’s very quite easy to not click or see videos you don’t want to watch.

F UBISOFT .

*Random Heckling Noises*

It's weird that nobody complained about the protagonist of Nioh being a white man in feodal japan. I really don't know why 🤔...

lol everyone became a historian when this game was announced. U weirdos wine about everything.

@bennyjgrkman

21 күн бұрын

It’s wild. It’s okay to disagree with the notion of a character not being who you want. If the criticism ended there, it would have never been covered on this show. It only goes too far when it involves threatening, doxxing, and harassing-so much so that even the actual little old man CEO even heard about it.