Submitted 7 hours 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.
It would have been shit anyway like all their games of the past ~10 years
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.
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.
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.
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.
Racists, shareholders, or both?
Slave holders or racists?
Yeah those guys
I’d love to fight Cromwell!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 hours 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.