Submitted 2 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubisoft-cancelled-a-post-civil
Cancelled because a black man killing the Klan, after all the morons complaining about Yasuke, was going to be too controversial of a video game in our (Americans’) “unstable” country.
Well racists ARE a protected class and this would hurt their poor poor fee fees.
Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.
This would be quite the game and I can see the far right bitching about it for sure. But man, I want to see an Assassin Lincoln. Imagine that? Tall boy Lincoln dawning an Assassin’s hood? Would make me actually excited for a Ubisoft AC title again. After the let down that was shadows, I might explore the Witch AC coming up…but nothing else excites me from them.
Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.
Freedom Cry, the standalone expansion for Black Flag, was essentially this concept in the Carribean. You play as Adewale, a slave turned pirate turned Assassin, and liberate plantations.
Lincoln would be cool to see in flashbacks, but I don't think he'd have been a good assassin at the time of his death. It'd have been sick, shame that Ubisoft is full of pussies.
Just make him the wise old mentor, easy
AC is so moldy Ubisoft could only get excited with a nice big Grow Home / Up sequel with no microtransactions, no ingame shop and everything unlockable through playing.
They would complain, and it would be a self report… If you’re offended by a slave killing slaveowners, then you’re a piece of shit and nobody should fucking care what you think.
It would have been shit anyway like all their games of the past ~10 years
Ubisoft will not tolerate anything but slop. The story needs to be about absolutely nothing.
I would so love to have an AC game where you play a black assassin taking out slave-owners and warmongering southern landowners, it’s a universally* acceptable premise that should be celebrated and enjoyed.
* the people this would offend should be ignored like we used to.
Isnt this basically the black flag DLC?
More specifically, the story has to MEAN nothing. It has to curve REALLY CLOSE to interesting ideas and statements only to swerve away just before they actually make you think about a thing.
“Okay team, we need to make this game about the American Civil war, but in a way that doesn’t touch on politics or offend anyone in any way, we have do whatever we can to make the Civil War seem like just some kind of completely neutral historical incident that couldn’t have been avoided, we can’t have modern slavery apologists or descendants of slaves feel ANYTHING about ANYTHING!”
Ubisoft? The notorious video game publisher that had several high-up members of staff accused of sexual and psychological harassment?
Ubisoft? The company described in a lawsuit filed by employees in 2021 as ‘a legal entity for institutional sexual harassment for setting up, maintaining and reinforcing a system where sexual harassment is tolerated because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees’?
That Ubisoft? They cancelled a game? Oh no :(
Makes sense, they’re waiting to see how your civil war is going to turn out first.
On one hand, it sucks that in the Trump era, maintaining shareholder value involves not offending Nazis. OTOH, though, given how tedious the American Revolution one was, essentially running on rails with your character inserted into key episodes, the Civil War episode would have sucked. Presumably you’d have been riding shotgun with Harriett Tubman and/or General Sherman in a succession of semi-interactive cut scenes, repeating until you shot/stabbed enough confederate NPCs to be rewarded with possibly a short break of open-world exploring as a treat.
True… I’m currently playing Ghost of Yotei, and I imagine Sucker Punch would knock a game like that out of the park
Assassin’s Creed: Django Unchained
Ghost of Abe Lincon vampire hunter available as guide via purchase
They didn’t want to alienate a good part of their market.
Slave holders or racists?
Yeah those guys
Racists, shareholders, or both?
Fucking trash country full of trash people.
The shit apple doesn’t fall far from the shit tree.
I’d love to fight Cromwell!
So they wanted to make Freedom Cry again. They’re so out of ideas. They’re coping themselves. Got it.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
I assume the idea came from Red Dead Redemption, where it does done very well. Of course, you have to have the courage to make a game like that, and I doubt Ubisoft/new ownership will ever be on board with anything that takes courage. Better to make another bland boring empty world.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks 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
architect@thelemmy.club 2 weeks 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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
It’s why Indie games are doing so well, people are obviously tired of bland corporate slop over and over again.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.