Jebeye

I’m playing. Best AC game I’ve played so far, it’s right on the money.

Controversy aside, this is probably the game I’m most looking forward to. We wait such a long time for games these days, another month isn’t going to kill me.

Never cared for multiplayer in any game to be honest, much less a single player RPG.

It always comes at the expense of the single player experience. Look at the difference in quality between GTA 4 and 5 for example.

@naruball I’d imagine a new Afro Samurai would be fine, as it’s true to its source (an anime). I’m quite looking forward to seeing how they integrate the Yasuke story into a game about sneaky assassins, as it doesn’t seem to fit. It may be a masterclass, it may fall short, but I’ll still be buying.

The DEI accusation doesn’t bother me, but I can see where it’s come from. There have been some glaringly obvious alterations to sources in media to include people of colour over the last few years, like Triss being played by a black lady in the Witcher, and it sticks in some people’s craws because they want parity with the source text.

@DennisReynolds in fairness I had the same issue with Syndicate, it didn’t seem to fit.

I enjoyed Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla, but they weren’t Assassins Creed games. My frustration is that Japan is the perfect setting for an AC game that’s actually an AC game. Who knows, maybe it will be. I’ll be buying it anyway because I enjoy Ubi games and I’ve wanted an AC set in Japan since forever, but it’s sad to see how difficult they’ve made it for themselves.

@DennisReynolds they could be totally unsubstantiated so that’s fair enough. His colour makes no odds to me, I pre ordered the gold edition and I will do so again when they rerelease it.

Given the game follows on from Mirage, which was infinitely more stealth focused than Valhalla, and given the amount of effort they’ve clearly put into improving the stealth mechanics, it seems a weird design choice to have a character that is the complete antithesis of these things. Especially when the character is so controversial, rightly or wrongly. It seems borderline suicidal.

@ShadowofSparta yes, so why was this polarising choice really needed when the game would have been everything it needed to be without it? Seems like a crazy decision. I’m talking gameplay here, not race.

@DennisReynolds if the rumours are true, and they removed a Japanese samurai as a protagonist to shoehorn Yasuke in, then that is grounds for criticism because the motive is quite clear. Regardless, a samurai with zero stealth skills, be they black, Japanese or white, isn’t a great gameplay choice in a game about sneakily assassinating people.

@Deoxyr1bose my issue with Yasuke isn’t race related, but gameplay related. He doesn’t need to be there - Mirage put the series back towards its roots, the game should have been about just the female protagonist. The whole Assasins thing tying into Japanese ninja/shinobi or whatever would have been perfect and wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows. But now we have a guy who is essentially a tank in what really should have been a stealth game (look at the new stealth mechanics). Yasuke should have been a side character, and nobody would have batted an eyelid.

I know this kind of thing has its place, but I really wish it didn’t. It just ends up encouraging developers put 90% of their efforts into online stuff that isn’t anywhere near the quality of the single player experiences they’ve made a name from (Rockstar).

The quality and scope of games tends to massively decrease once it’s got an online component attached to draw in the 12 year olds.

@AlexPorto they did deliver on that premise, as the female protagonist is a Japanese ninja, exactly what you’d expect from an AC game set in Japan. It was a weird decision to shoehorn Yasuke in, even if it was a Japanese character in his place. A bulldozing bloke who’s terrible at stealth doesn’t fit the lore, and sticks out especially after Mirage returned the series to its roots, and Shadows has a lot of new stealth mechanics. I do think the diversity pick accusation has some merit, they could have picked any number of historical figures over Yasuke, but I’ve still pre ordered. I’ll be using the character that suits the game.

Looking forward to this more than anything else if I’m honest.

@homelesscretin the ceiling grab was straight of Tenchu. Can’t wait for this.

The ninja gameplay looks great, and that’s what I’m interested in. Day one for me.

@Shinnok789 I know what you mean, but for things like The Witcher, 100 hours is fine for me. It’ll be number one on my playlist and the longer it lasts, the better. I must have replayed TW3 10 times over the years.

@Perryg92 all the best man

Hopefully, Playground sat down and announced that the location for Horizon 6 was some random country that nobody’s been asking for, and that prompted these guys to get together and create the game everyone wants - an open world Japanese street racer.