Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• architect@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ll be honest, corps have owned art for far too fucking long. The people deserve this outcome. You can’t make good art by committee, and they’ve already fed everyone slop for years dressed in a shiny wrapper.

  Support independent artists even if it isn’t polished.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s why Indie games are doing so well, people are obviously tired of bland corporate slop over and over again.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never made it too far into RDR2, but RDR1 is a VERY white game. Like, frigging Tom Jane’s Gun did a better job of acknowledging there was melanin in The Wild West and that game… does not age well. Was RDR2 significantly different?

  Because, inherently, a LOT of wild west stories are set in or around The Reconstruction and have The Civil War as a major aspect. In large part because that is what contributed to so many guns (and people who knew how to use them) in an environment where there were a lot of scores to settle and an expectation that the government would actively hinder anything.

  Whereas this sounds like a continuation of the AssFlag DLC where you straight up murder slavers in Haiti. Which, in turn, is a logical fallout of the origins of The Assassins mostly being about personal freedom and humanity and The Templar being a controlling fascist force that goes way back to Ass Creed 1.

  You know… the game where the real bad guys were actually the brown people who were manipulating everyone and King Richard was actually a pretty good guy with a really hot right hand woman.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll agree RDR1 didn’t do much (except the Mexico plight). RDR2 was much better. I can honestly say that I’ve never felt as much joy than punching klansman and just absolutely destroying racists

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I literally got stuck in the first area of the new Indiana Jones game because I just couldn’t stop dropping my disguise so I can beat the shit out of Italian fascists.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fair enough. I don’t recall people getting angry over the existence of black people in RDR2 but I also mostly just tune out the folk who can at all stand the controls of that game (one day I’ll try again).

      Because I do think having actual people of color with even a modicum of agency makes a huge difference. Like, going back to RDR1, Bonnie is basically the epitome of “strong woman written by men”. There are so many hints that she is kind of a badass and she definitely has her moments, but basically anything of import is done by John and she increasingly is depicted as someone who needs her big strong outlaw to save her. Which is the same thing when you have Steve Rogers punch a klansman versus having Sam Wilson get his punch on.

      Which, to get back to AssCreed, is funnily enough a recurring problem with the games from basically the end of Desmond up until Odyssey. AssFlag was a really fun game with really cool characters but it increasingly became obvious that Whitey McKenway (I am too lazy to look up his name) is almost a secondary character in the story about Mary Read and Anne Bonny and even Adewale (who did get a DLC that nobody played). Like, here are characters who have VERY personal stakes that can explore the societal problems inherent to the world and… we get snippets of their story while Whitey just works toward knocking someone up because he is Connor’s ancestor.

      And that very much continued with the Egypt one where The Wife was a MUCH MUCH MUCH cooler character who actually drove the story while we played as The Husband whose claim to fame is he chopped off his finger to go back to something that had already been borderline retconned out of the series.

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is accurate. They don’t care about the political instability aspect, because they don’t care about making political commentary. They just don’t want to publish something that is guaranteed to get review bombed and not sell as much as it could.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fucking wild that this is the state of things. That you have to be courageous to make a game with a black person as the main character.

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