Being a Black Gamer in America... SMH
Vložit
- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Was settling down for the night then I see all the $*#$#@@*(# about Ubisoft putting Yosuke as one of the lead protagonist in Assassin's Creed Shadows.
#blackgamer
#AssassinscreedShadows - Hry
I'm just here to remind everybody that Ubisoft games go on sale really quick and don't pre-order any video games ever.
My main problem is simply disagreeing suddenly means I’m a racist & somehow not a fan of a franchise iv played almost every game of. Just no actual conversation happening only screams with zero arguments. If the game is good the game is good no matter what.
That’s how i feel. I don’t think the race of the main character is a huge deal for a lot of people. It’s totally normal to criticize a movie for having a nonjapanese main samurai character though. People always roll their eyes at this stuff. The difference now though is that instead of being a white samurai, he’s black. Of course some of the people upset about it are probably racist, but i think it’s pretty arrogant to assume that if you’re annoyed at stuff like that it makes you a racist.
I didnt even know people were outraged about GTA San Andreas. Loved that game. I was like 14 or so. lol
Yea man. It was bad in IGN / Gamefaqs forums back then. However once they played the game? They loved CJ
Yes they went ape shit
Yeah I loved it, it's still my favorite GTA, I've never heard a bad word about it, even then. Someone needs to tell him that no matter what it is, someone is going to complain about it.
Bet all these 'racist' AC fans have Origins in their top 5... Bayek was a white guy wasnt he? Oh wait.
People arent bothered about playing black characters - people are bothered when diversity and inclusion is hamfisted in.
Thousands of years of Japanese history and they just so happened to focus on this time period, with the black 'samurai'? Seems legit.
I want to see black culture, African stories and myths. Stuff we havent seen before, yano.
If i were black I'd want more than to just be pasted into every other country's history, when its convenient.
A lot of people didn't like bayek they called him a N word wanna be ezio
@Swavae I'm not convinced, I never heard anything like that. AC has always had race match up with location - who would have issue with Egyption in Egypt?
Thing is for me, if inclusion and diversity wasn't discussed every 5 seconds, people wouldn't be anywhere near as annoyed by this new AC game.
I use Garth from fable 2 as an example of this. He was black, nobody cared. He was cool.
Current day. New Fable trailer. Richard Ayoade (a fucking national treasure), people get mad about him being included because he's black.
The box has been opened now. Anytime a minority is included it will be assumed to be part of THE MESSAGE. Can you blame people for thinking that? Nope.
Ubisoft has been intentionally provocative, as they are aware how this will be seen. No doubt it'll be used as a deflection also, if the game just ends up sucking balls.
Tldr - I don't blame you
@@itwasntme8667You would complain regardless. Whether they are race swapped, original, or based on history people complain about diverse characters. If you don't like the concept just don't play the game. Simple.
@kingquestOZ I'm just a racist what can I say?
Read what I said. Instead of taking the easy way out by assuming the worst about some random on the Internet.
I was clearly trying to articulate why people are angry without just defaulting to the easy answer... like you just did.
Bayek is in my top 3 AC main characters. It was the last AC game I properly enjoyed. So no, I wouldn't be bothered regardless.
I 100% agree, where's african mythology games
All this complaining on both sides as if Ubisoft isn't just a trash company that has made nothing but mediocre games for the last 8 - 10 years lol!
Some people have just missed the past 10 years starting from feminism, splintering into intersectional feminism (which then built on Marxism to include race, gender, sexuality as oppressed classes), then the antithesis of that rising in the name of 'gamergate'.
And they cost 120-150 USD now, and the prices will rise, and there will be more paid services and they will be able to delete games from your account just on a whim.
nioh was developed by team ninja, japanese people who made the modern ninja gaiden series
Being real, Yasuke is 100% a money grab opportunity. There was already a AC Japan story, had been for a few years now, pulling the name 'Taka' out on twitter was not some random thing. Taka Yamaguchi was/should've been the protagonist of the game, Naoe could've even fit as a former student of Mochizuki Chiyome, who was also in the original Japan story, as a Templar ally. Along with Hattori Hanzo who was a Master Assassin for the Order, who partnered with Taka a few times. Now formula up to now has been use a fictional character who is in line with the time period and setting, and skirt the edges of the actual history of the time with the AC story (the fill in the gaps/secret history established from the first one).
While Yasuke was there, he was not as important as the game is making him out to be, what they could've done though is have him be an important side character who worked with the Order in secret or as a go between for us and Oda since he was said to be close to Oda. Instead everything formerly established is being tossed aside for the sake of including a black character. This freedom fighter/savior angle they're writing toward just doesn't exist at the time. Now you can say it's fictional, but first even fiction has rules, second they're breaking and bending the time period to justify the story, mainly Yasuke's existence as they want to write him. Because what makes even less sense is that Naoe is even partnering with him when the trailer shows that she saw him among the soldiers when her family was being murdered and her home burned. So now he can't even when reasonable be the bad guy, and why is that if not for any other reason than he's black and we can't possible set him up as the villain of her story. Thirdly and I think this is the one that we should really look at, the idea of needing a foreign perspective has never come up in an AC game until we finally got to Japan. Why is that? Why is it that Japan needed the foreign perspective to explore its history. Even at the level of setting themselves apart from Tsushima or ROTR, that should've come down to story and gameplay, rather than what they've gone for.
Look, down to it, they could've waited another game cycle to move the next game back to Africa and explore the Mali or Songhai Empires along with the overwhelming variety of African Mythology outside of Egyptian myth. I'd love to see an AC go back to India or China and explore Hindu and Chinese myth respectively. Head back to America and maybe just maybe follow up on the tribe Eivor came across in Vinland iirc they had the Apple of Eden, and Native Mythology is deep and largely unexplored (for good reason in large part). There are other chances to get all sorts of characters and have not only more meaning, but at least come off as genuine attempts to right a perceived wrong. As I said at the beginning, Yasuke comes off as nothing more than a money grab because of the leanings toward diversity and how much blind support these things can drum up right now.
My favorite black video game character is Sargent major Johnson from the halo series
Michael LeRoi
I don't care about Ubisoft games, but I have a lot of experience with Nioh. TL;DR at the end. Here are a few facts of note about Nioh:
The protagonist of Nioh, William, is based off of the real life figure William Adams, later dubbed Miura Anjin. Miura Anjin, both in game and in real history, was granted the title of samurai by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Though Nioh is a partially fictional setting with yokai and magic, there are also real world events in it. For example, the cannons that were in the ship William sailed in on, the Liefde, are shown in game as being used in the Battle of Sekigahara.
Yasuke is also in Nioh. You can fight against him as a boss or play as him directly after unlocking him in the Hidden Teahouse. Before he is revealed as Yasuke, his title as a boss is "Obsidian Samurai."
In Nioh 1, Yasuke's dialog to William states, "Lord Nobunaga told me that he would make me a true samurai some day, but he died before it could happen. It seems you have achieved it on your own."
In Nioh 2, this differs. In sub mission "The Warrior," Yasuke's dialog states, "Lord Nobunaga made me a samurai. He freed me from my shackles. Now I vow to fight on... so that nothing may disturb my master's rest." Keep in mind that the events of Nioh 2 are almost entirely a prequel to Nioh 1.
So, across both Nioh 1 and Nioh 2, Yasuke essentially carries himself as a samurai, even if he was never officially given the title by his master. But, even the in-game title "Obsidian Samurai" assumes him as one from the start. Nioh 2 seems to cement this, with Yasuke retroactively contradicting what he said in Nioh 1. Instead of having a typical lordship over a territory or commanding armies, he overlooks Nobunaga's burial site, defending his lord as he did before Nobunaga's death.
TL;DR, here's the takeaways:
In Nioh 1 and 2, you can play as both Miura Anjin and Yasuke.
Though history shows that Miura Anjin was given the title of samurai but Yasuke only the position of retainer, both characters are recognized in the Nioh games as samurai.
In Nioh 2, you can also play as a custom character, so your samurai can look like just about anything you want, man or woman, any origin.
I hope this clarifies things. Let me know if there was anything I missed.
I am a black game designer and am makeing a game based on the Moors, will let you know when it's done. We outchea
Yooo keep me posted! My brother is in USC film school and he's on a project about Mansa Musa
I just subscribed to keep up with the progress. Keep us posted.
Let me know
Just subbed keep us updated , could you make one about the richest man in history after. I think it would blow white peoples minds to know he was from Africa
This sounds cool. I'm a "yt suprem" and i would love a AC in Africa around Kilimandjaro in tansania and also congo rainforest searching for lost cities or lost civilizations like a underground wakanda or smth, tame lions, doing vodoo and shamanism etc......
But apparently the "white" women with small hats in europe want africans, everywhere beside africa.... also the problem in this drama is more over mass-*migration and not about the blks,yt,asians in USA and their "rakism" problems
YOU FORGOT ALL THESE ARE A THANG THERE ARE PLENTY BLACK PROTAGONIST IN RELATIVELY POPULAR GAMES
Miles Morales
The Walking Dead
Alyx Vance
Bangalore -- Apex Legends
Deathloop
Barret Wallace
Marcus Holloway
Augustus Cole
Far Cry 4
James Heller
Mafia III
Sheva Alomar
Watch Dogs 2
Colt And Jules From Deathloop
GTA V
Left 4 Dead 2
Lola
David Anderson
Forspoken
Lifeline
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
Uncharted
Team Fortress 2
Resident Evil
Far Cry 4? You mean Longinius?
Absolutely ,there are hundreds of countries thousands of cultures why not give them representation . Is representation is all about black and lgbtq
@@ShivamShukla-vq4en Yeah it's not even about the main guy in AC being black, it's about him not being Japanese, in a Japanese samurai game. Nioh was made by a Japanese company so it was okay, and they even had Yasuke in the the second one and no one cared, he was even pretty cool. But for a Canadian company to do this is insulting, finally a Japanese AC and no Japanese main guy.
Don't forget Crysis, Prophet is one of the coolest characters.
Far cry 4?? what?
all ill say is, i found a bunch of news papers from the 80's. Abort a tion and race of tv characters were on their front pages too. Just really weird how we have been "fighting" the same "fights" since long before u or anybody else alive started. just really weird that
Unless you understand why Ubisoft went in that direction, you are missing the forest for the tree.
If this game came out around the time of AC3, there would have never been such a racket about it and a lot of the people raging right now would have been mostly optimistic about the game.
But now more and more people are becoming aware that such games go in this direction for brownie points and cash infusions by ESG investors instead of because they have a cool idea that they want to make reality.
You can be sure that most of the people who are upset about this game, are still fans of GTA San Andreas and Carl Johnson.
Nonsense. It's racism. I remember when the trailer for gta v revealing the protagonists came out. We read the same rants about Franklin.
@@firstblessings8777 So back in GTA V was the trailer downvoted by about 70-80% of the voters who specifically had issues with Franklin? I do not think so. This is something different and that has been explained by many youtube outlets
CJ is the best GTA protagonist in the best GTA. Also CJ was probably the most humanized protagonist who wasn’t an “evil” mobster or psycho, before Nico anyway
Well they have hired LGBTQ+ Consultant to add more diversity.So it will not be worst thing :D Maybe he will be gay too
👍🏿
they just announced he will be hahahha
@@aesirgod7818 Well who would have guess it right? Meanwhile we have Ghost of Tsushima on steam right now just buy it is best game eweeeer
The main char in AC Valhalla was gay.
@@magneisuemwinterjuice7810 I'm making an response video on that guy after I drop about my thoughts about AC Shadows & all but this is gonna be into the list for sure no lie!
I've never had an issue playing as a black character in games, I just don't like it when it's so on the nose that it's being done to keep people happy rather than the character is black because or the character is gay because etc. Sometimes it's like we have to have a transgender character, we have to have a black character, we have to have an autistic character etc. I don't even care if there are games with exclusively black characters but I don't feel like the reverse should be an issue either if it makes sense for there to be no black characters like in games set 100's of years ago.
My issue isn't with Yasuke. He's cool. My issue is with all the crap Ubi got wrong. The freaking house seal is wrong, the tatami mats are square, the architecture is off, Yusuke is wearing a helmet when he wasn't of that rank as one of Nobunaga's retainers. They could have made something good. Instead they made something mediocre at best, and put a black guy on the cover to eat the blame for them.
All I CARE For is the gameplay, NOTHING ELSE. If it’s ass and not grounded, like enemies taking WAY TOOOOOOOOOOO LONG to die, then it ain’t for me.
PS: I’m a Black guy.
As we should bro. I even said in the video. If this shit don't play right, we aint messing with it.
@@SynKyller Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!
When Battlefield 1 dropped, which had a black guy on the cover, I did not buy it, because I wasn’t a fan of the setting.
@@jbk19xx57 no bro you have to get online and be outraged!!! You doing it wrong you see. Acting irrational and arguing about the historical accuracy and trying to invalidate the thought of something different!! This is the only way!
@@jbk19xx57 At least you didn't throw a fit because a black guy was on the cover like gamers did 😒
“Dusty “ 😂😂😂😂
I remember the same with Watch Dogs 2. Everyone acted like a black guy couldn't be smart... it was a shame.
I remember that!!!!!
Now they love Marcus
Oh wow. I never knew that. Learned something new today.
Was a shame, Marcus was that dude. Should of dueled protagist him wit Aiden and see what people would say
@@qadashchaayah7485 Because it wasn't the big issue this person is making it out to be. Obviously someone out there is gonna complain and be racist,
but most people just played the game and enjoyed it.
The game didn't so well financially because people didn't trust Ubisoft since they'd been lied to about Watch Dogs 1.
I understand that perspective. Personally, I would also look forward to playing Yasuke. Problem is, Ubisoft and Sweet baby Inc (google them If you need to) are factually fake woke. A Companie literally getting paid to 'woke wash' stories and a bunch of Karens running the Shadow production, preaching diversity. I just wish Studios would hire their staff mainly for their talent again and not because of their activist status. Yasuke could have turned out amazing, but I guarantee you, they won't pull it off. It's time that black studios deliver some bangers, so we don't need activists anymore that are literally capitalizing on us being guests in other races narratives.
I agree that ubisoft is likely doing this for the wrong reasons, but the outrage is for the wrong reasons aswell. Both sides are retarded.
I agree with you 100 percent man. I've been debating my friend with this Yasuke conversation. He keeps giving me the same regurgitated BS the Internet has been saying. Just like you it doesn't matter the race or gender the character is as long as it's fun to play. At the end of the day we all bleed red.
Well, as a black dude in West Africa, I wouldn't be particularly happy if Assasins Creed was to be based in that region,
only for the protagonist to be some white, or Asian immigrent. I'd like to play the game as a native.
To me, having a problem with this game isn't necessarily something that's rooted in racism, of course that doesn't apply to everyone.
@@M_k-zi3tn As a white dude in North America I see you as equal. Not superior or lesser than me. Just because you're black and I'm white doesn't automatically change the dynamic of the conversation of Yasuke in a video game.
There are plenty of games that had a white person in Africa such as Resident Evil, Uncharted, Sniper Elite, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Halo, and so much more. Do you have a problem with those? Also we are the consumers not the artists. We're not entitled to tell the artists what to make. We're only entitled to choose to support the artists or not.
Your friend is right. They do this crap for DEI reasons. There's a reason for the first time in AC history they've used a character that makes absolutely no sense in historical and regional context.
Also love how the guy who responds to you gives a historical example and you reach for games with modern settings and/or horror and sci fi themes.
The guy who created this video is ignorant and sees everything as racism.
@@saintxrage2311 No your a woke White male . You do know White people are the actual world minority right? That there are more Blacks, Hispanic and Asians then White> Chris Redfield isn't White he is Native American. Most game makers are activist and not "artist'.
@@saintxrage2311 this is what we call the white savior complex
Ubisoft knew what they were doing. Plenty of people in Black (ADOS) or African history to model a history game after
but they choose someone else culture to make a black person the face of.
Thts because people
Have been begging for arc Japan for a long time and Tsushima kinda forced their hand. But they also have to be a bit different from Tsushima AND yasuke is simply a fascinating character that happens to fit right into the arc historical fiction formula. And really who cares about their intentions at the end of the day, if it’s good it’s good, if it’s bad it’s bad, end of discussion. But hating on it before it comes out because he’s black is racist period end of story.
@@mookiestewart3776 "That's because people have been begging for an arc in Japan for a long time " Yes and that's a lot of people's problems with it , they've known people wanted a full traditional Japanese experience like you got with other the other games and yet just to make a political statement they've shat all over it(when they know they could've just made a game set in Africa if they were desperately wanted black main characters, everybody would've liked that and finally there'd be a game set with unique African culture instead of black people hamfisted in places just for political reasons and yes it's obviously done for that reason and not naturally ,they're even making him "queer" too. Gotta get that ESG score up!).So whilst Yasuke was a bit of an oddity at the time he honestly didn't amount to much ,he was after all just a retainer and his uniqueness actively hurts him in this instance; hard to be an assassin when you're physically taller and darker than everyone else and stand out in every room, it's also scary how after the trailer dropped ideologues immediately rushed to change wiki pages to lie about Yasuke. Anyway Yasuke should've just been a character the main characters interact with (like da'vinci) who gives you missions or helps you out/saves you then everyone would be happy then too.
People aren't racist (a word thrown around way to much where it doesn't belong honestly) especially not the Japanese who are mad that they've wanted a assassin creed game set in their culture yet for political reasons that are mainly western centred reasons their culture is now co-opted to be used as an ideological weapon (like how in the aforementioned hypothetical Africa game people would be quite right to get upset if the main character was white or asian and I'd be against that too) since an ex ubisoft guy told us what the original plot of the game was going to be before current year. Honestly I feel bad for all the black people who are fed up of getting essentially writing sloppy seconds instead of them just basing games on African culture and people instead.
Keep your foot on they necks! A lot of people speaking about this are tip toeing knowing damn well it’s more about just a main black protagonist. To your greatest point in my opinion.. almost every game has a white protagonist and we just enjoy the damn game.
Are you saying that Japanese people are white?
I don’t think it has anything to do with the main protagonist being a black guy. The big thing that it has to do with his UB soft charging us 110 bucks for the game. On top of that Ubisoft has told us, as gamers, that we need to get used to not owning our games. Has nothing to do with the protagonist.
Hmmm... And what race was the last Assassin's Creed protagonist?
You’re damn right it’s because of a black protag, it’s about the black protag raceswapping an asian position(a even more marginalized group) out in spite of all that trash these woke media are spouting, DEI this, representation that, fairness for the marginalized. But with the pattern we’ve seen going on for around a decade or so, turns out it was just code for “black.” It ain’t really about the other marginalized groups, that’s why you’ll be seeing shit like 5 roles for the black folks, black male, black female, black gay male, black light skin male, black elderly wisemen/woman and so on and on, then you’ll have maybe like 1 or 2 positions for the asians for example that gets to be shared with all the different kind of asians. Sometimes they’ll be lucky as just a background extra. Ubisoft can’t hide behind the historical angle with this character either, because that’s exactly what dismantles their cover when they had a precedence of never using a historical person in the first place.
Leftist are snakes, they’re hypocrites, they’re contradictory. They have a fetish for black people. And it’s not really about you, it’s about them, because they are mostly white people who now get to play the white savior in real life to feed their ego. Ya’ll just tokens but you don’t really realize it. They’ve been exposed these last few years, this is fatigue and people are calling them out on that shit. Haven’t you noticed all these leftist media and movements are taking losses left and right? People are waking up on the woke.
@@GninjaGnome86
Nah, that's a bunch of cap. It's legit about the black antagonist. You can go ahead and miss us with that bull 💩.
I noticed even in movies if the star of the movie is black a lot of the time theres backlash. People act like we dont exist in real life lmao of course theres going to be black people in ur movies, games, tv shows etc.
Yeah, so much racism in black panther. 😂
They’re ok with black people as long as they aren’t the main.
@@user-fo8ey1ix6fyou talking about the movie set in Africa??? Just sit down 🤦♂️
They hated Miles Morales too😂 now he has one of the highest movies of all time. Thanks for making this bro. We never found an issue playing all those games back then. Even now I don't care the color of my protag as long as the mechanics are good and the story is compelling. When i saw Yasuke i was like this is cool only to go to the comments and see all this dumb shit.
they don't hate Miles Morales, the latest game has been well received, the only problem tho is the blatant message near the end of the game as "let's replace peter parker with morales and call it spiderman replacement now" heavily implied in the game as a message, as if we don't see that the replacement theory is already a reality in our daily lives. There is a difference between introducing a black character as a hero and making him his own good hero and well written and then, introducing bait messages that are clearly made to radicalize or annoy one part of the population on purpose in these games.
@@Tigerhearty i was referring to when Miles was Introduced they hated that shit they couldn't fathom a black spiderman.
and its he is still hated proof no one id buying that shit
@@gazaalley3862 I don't remember people hating on Miles when the run of Ultimate was being published.
He's only been getting hate these days because hack writers are trying to side line Peter for Miles.
@@Zeiss120 unfortunately I do remember it was the same Shit with Falcon, Jane foster, Amadeus Cho too
This generation of "nerds" is toxic for no reason. Make it make sense......
mafia 3 got some bias heat too, I loved all the games. 3 reminded me of driver with so many classic cars, and the location being in new Orléans was very refreshing, and being a black Vietnam veteran was really interesting.
Assassins creed has never been historically accurate, people saying otherwise have lost their minds or never played the games. Leonardo definitely did not build all the shit he did in AC in real life history. He built a tank in the AC games ffs. They always just use the historical figures as a base line and then do whatever they want with them cause its fiction. Never, has assassins creed been historically accurate. People be smokin something
Most complaining are not a fan of the series. They are just in it for their cultural agenda disputes otherwise they'd mention the inaccuracy of prior titles when it happened
@@e3vL1 Yeah, theres plenty of things to be geuninely mad and angry about with the AC games. I personally tapped out of the games with how they treated desmond and the crew, they literally did lucy dirty cause the guy didn't like the actress. They let their feelings get in the way of a potentially good story pay off.
It also always used people from the country you were playing in
Having a japenese themed game with a blac character is objectively trash
Would be the same with a white guy or women
@@KeinProblem-uv5jh are you saying women aren't Japanese? Lol
They picked a foreigner bc it's better to have a fish out of water protagonist so players can explore the setting the same time the character in the story does
Seeing there are two main characters it contrasts points of view a foreigner and one native to the setting
@@e3vL1 Nobody tell Kein about the Fate Series where my pfp is from where historical figures are genderbent into male and female all the time. He'd go batshit
You make a lot of sense. Back then I was in the Dark Souls community so I didn't see any of that with GTA. But you can't tell me it was the majority of non-black players being racist. At least I would hope it wasn't.
Now as far as AS Creed. The last one I played was a black flag. I don't care for the franchise anymore but if I did care. This would be a miss for Ubisoft.
don't despair brother I preordered the collectors edition of shadows 🥰
A foreigner in a Japanese game is a good idea, remember Nioh?
That game was trash too, lol.
Ngl I was mad about nioh, but for this honestly this new one I’m wasn’t upset at all realistically.
This video is video is the first I've heard of the game at all.I've heard people refuse a game with a black lead because of company decisions, staff saying stupid things, and yeah some just because it's a black character. I have never heard of people not wanting to play San Andreas because of the black characters ( i was very young then). This doesn't surprise me because of the way things have been for the past few years rampant tokenism .
San Andreas doesn’t break the mold that people have for black people. It’s set in the hood similar to 90s LA and that’s how blacks are seen so people can accept it. But if they try to put blacks in a different setting and you get a lot of pushback.
There was the same backlash for Watch dog 2 having a black protagonist
We know what it is..I don’t know why folks pretending like it’s anything else. I didn’t realize how racist the gaming community was/is until Xbox live came out back in the day. I’d be rich if I had a dollar for every N….R I’ve been called online.
Man I’m only half black and barely have a black cadence but that shit would STILL get thrown at me on Xbox live back in the day. Them fuckers were throwing that shot at anyone different back in the early 2000’s . Shit is sad man
Really is.
Ooi man Nioh has white main character. No one claimed that he was real samurai in Japan ok ?
U guys are into some theory that yasuke was real samurai 😂😂😂
That's what's wrong with this situation okay???
Do you understand or you are milking the situation for clicks and views ?
I think you are missing the point..it's not about black representation. it's about taking away asian representation, which is inarguably less represented in the US. and yes, people were pissed about Nioh too. and when I say people, I mean Asian Americans. Ya'll are making this about white vs black again when the real victims are Asians, as usual.
They did this shit with Battlefield 1 with the black character. They went crazy lmao
I'm trying to enjoy comics, games, an marvel movies but it's hard lol
As long as it doesn't stutter or drop frame rates, im playing it
I think the tie to any DEI stuff is causing an over reaction from people. The game should exist on it's own merit and let people make the decision to buy it. Trying to hate or destroy something solely based on race is what the billionaire class wants from us anyway as opposed to finding a common humanity. Then again what do I know newest game I play is Fallout 3 new vegas or FF14 I haven't owned a console since PS3.
All this vitriol for Yasuke but none of it for William in nioh just proves my point guys.... yall wasn't writing "novels" about how William isn't traditionally Japanese and shouldn't be the main protagonist in nioh nor are you making scenarios of a Japanese knight in the war or roses.
Again. Hypocrites....
Japanese Developer and Publisher =/= Wokey French Developer and Publisher
They aren’t freaking out over William Adams in Nioh because there’s actually documentation of him obtaining the title of samurai in real life compared to Yasuke. There’s also the fact Nioh is a game made by Japanese developers and they didn’t pick William Adams over other historical Japanese figures for political reasons like what Ubisoft did with Yasuke
Nobody had a problem with Yasuke in Nioh 2, and the Japanese audience loved that game. So maybe it's a Ubisoft problem not a race problem.
@@Xrevenger100 So the Japanese don't mind other races as the main character in their games... got it.
@@Viperveteran I don’t see them hating on Nioh because William Adams is the main character. Americans on the other hand…..
I play MechWarrior on line. They amoung of racism I have encountered lately during gameplay is disturbing. Even though its not and in game character , just goes to show the racism amoung the players.
Another in game character that get a lot of anger because of their racism is Preston Garvey of Fallout 4
They will listen to your message on this and stick their finger ears pretending it's not being said.
It's 2024. The spirit don't change. It stays the same and is inherited
Nioh was based on a book with a white protagonist in japan, that's why there was no outrage.
As a black gamer I’m dying for more black protagonist foh if I gotta consistently play as Europeans or lookalikes then to hear an uproar on 1
Maybe people have a different opinion. I’m black and I think this choice was dumb but I have no intention of buying the game anyway. Since all you care about is swing a black face I’ll film myself crossing the street and you’ll say it’s a masterpiece. Gotta love seeing young black ppl so obsessed with race. Glad I learned to tune people like you out.
The only black protagonists they want you to be is TJ from GTA or an NBA player.
Facts
@WilliamLopshire his point exactly there only couple protagonist while most mv in video are white
@WilliamLopshire dude do u understand u don't have to play wit that character and speaking of they are being respectful the main character is the Japanese assassin u ppl in America certain demographic are really racist and don't even realize it it funny and apalling how mad everyone is of a black guy even though he part of that of era. Has a statue of him even has a museum dedicated to him ya are the only one wit a problem
Finally someone with some dead damn sense 🔥 earned a subscriber out of me. No one said a damn thing about William being a blonde haired blue eyed samurai not one person lmfaooo. Ask them why they made Gods of Egypt and all the characters were caucasians 😂
my beef with yasuke is that he looks more like a templar then an assassin. need more info and gameplay vids
How did this video not get ratio’d?
because it is a bunch of intelligent humans talking about a real issue. this is not a space for children. understand now kid.
@@TheHasaan279 y’all can’t be too intelligent because as many people that have discussed the issue, you people seem too ignorant that you all missed the point.
Japan, history of having a shit ton of famous authentic Samurai to pick from and they choose a black slave that was the equivalent of a court jester or a gold caddy to prop him up to be something that he clearly wasn’t. There isn’t any documentation that he was ever in a fight.
This is a slap in the face to the Japanese people, who I might add that Ubisoft is expecting to buy this game. It’s also a slap in the face that Ubisoft couldn’t elevate a black person in an African or American setting that actually was known for doing heroic shit.
@@TheHasaan279 but you all are not intelligent. You mean that you’re a pseudo intellectual. If you were intelligent, after listening to the issues that people have with this game you’d get the point but you too ignorant to do so.
@@TheHasaan279Bro really thought he had something with that statement
@@Forteoverload then why keep deleting it?
well this time around I think most people know why they are doing this it's all politics
My favorite Assassin Creed was 2 Ezio story then black flag
Origins
@@Swavae facts
@@darkdre7 I wish they contenuied his story
Brother, good work in calling out them folk. I was about to go in on one fool, but The Most High said he'd get the rebels from among us (Ezekiel 20:38). I trust they'll burn with those they love and their loved one's father, who was a liar from the beginning. BTW the faces from your main characters list all look alike. May as well be the same dude from different angles.
We wuz samuraiz n shiet.
In all seriousness, though. If you think of yourself as a black gamer rather than just a gamer, you already lost. When your race defines you, you're always going to be upset. Free your mind like En Vogue said.
We are in the middle of AANHPI month and developers like Bungie and Blizzard have in game tidbits celebrating those gamers. When Black live matter was a thing, respawn celebrated black gamers with badges. They also celebrated Asian gamers, LGBTQ gamers as well as girl gamers with badges.
I am a gamer first but tell that to the racist 7 year Olds that use racial slurs in the COD lobbies, once they hear my voice.
Problem is not the fact that it's a black character. Look at Origins, black character in a game set in Africa makes sense. There would have been backlash if the main characters of Origins were white or asian. Mirage wouldnt make sense if the main character was white black or asian.
Also comparing ac to other games is kind of difficult because the history and historical accuracy are a big point of these games whilst other fantasy games that might have white or black samurais dont emphasise the historical accuracy and therefor dont cause backlash.
I feel like almost all games pretty much should have a create a character option from now on because I’m sick and tired of these racists and their whining.
Fable series was some of my favorite games I never complained about having to play as a white boy the games were dope! Samething with army of two back in the day my brother and I used to play that game all the time.
@@ThisDudeFromTheNorththat’s the thing though, before mafia and gta SA came out the internet was foooded with racist assholes. No one comes out and just shits on white guys en masse for every random game they are featured in …..these situations aren’t equivalent
Bro, I swear I was thinking the same thing. They only cry racism when they have to play a black character. Thank you for making this video. Black Gamers Unite 💪🏾💪🏾
💪🏿
I’m a black gamer and I won’t be uniting. If all you care about is color I’ll make a crappy game since I know you’ll buy it cuz I’m black. You just see racism everywhere
@drstephenstrange897 first off black people can NOT be racist. We can be bigots or prejudice but not racist. Yall swear yall smart but yall end up sounding dumb
@@SynKyller"black people can NOT be racist" is the only dumb sounding statement here
@@SynKyller That killed any "argument' you had. You can and are racist towards Asians and Whites. "Yall swear yall smart but yall end up sounding dumb" ah the sweet irony in that..
Look I'm a long time fan of the AC series I'm upset about recent games because they lost the whole point of being an assassin the main characters were always 90% of the time the same ethnicity as the country they were in and, yes I know the game has never been realistic but, I miss it no being a hack and slash. my example of a great AC game unity it didn't have the best story but, the parkour and stealth was done beautifully I don't care what the ethnicity of my character is but I want them to be part of the assassins again, alexios wasn't even an assassin they could've made it a spin off in the same universe called Odyssey of the eagle bearer also, the character being a black samurai doesn't bother me cool concept and idea.
but, people trying to change and force people to change real life history to suit their narrative is what makes me mad about the whole thing and, this could be a great game just not a great assassins creed game plus, assassins creed freedom cry is a great game in it's own right.
I love Achilles from AC3 too I just want a well written story/character the story going back to templars vs assassins.
Not a half baked fantasy rpg hack and slash where the protagonist magically get's a hidden blade; doesn't get initiated into the order and, being able to scale everything by just holding one button it get's so boring it, was so fun being able to use all the parkour mechanics to traverse the landscape but, you couldn't just scale a flat wall you had to think and, get into the mind of how would an assassin climbs. I don't just want to get the character in their prime I want to follow their story and, know their reason for joining the order and, watch them grow.
I mean dude give me a main character who, has a good story that makes sense has style when parkouring around I don't care if he's white black yellow pink or purple I just want a good AC game.
Also thank anyone who read this I know it's a lot but, one more thing I don't like how people are trying to make the Japanese out to be racist when, you're trying to represent their culture imagine if a white man tried to go and change black culture and history the point is, don't try and change someone's culture and, when they don't like it claim their racist I'm just over being called a racist just because i want a good game because if the game comes out and I call it shit I am somehow automatically a racist again thank you for your time.
Nioh is a fantasy game not base on real events
Again. Which is it? It's a fantasy game or is william Adam's based of the real Will Adams? Also you do know that even though nioh takes place a hundred years later after Nobanga, yasuke is in Nioh 2 as the obsidian samurai right?
Assassins creed is a fantasy game too, it just has historical framing you absolute sped.
@SynKyller stop with the victim mentality brother
@@Slaphard😂😂😂
Correct me if I’m wrong but William is also never made a samurai you loot the gear off enemies. Also William is seen as literally the ultimate weeb for being an excuse to put a white guy in Japan.
I think Lincoln Clay was an amazing fictional protagonist and was extremely cool in Mafia 3. Yasuke definitely has the cool factor going for him; hopefully they give him great dialogue too.
I Love Lincoln Clays Character my favorite Mafia game 💯💯💯💪💪💪💪💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥
I am Japanese and my wife is African, but she is no longer in this world. I wanted to share my opinion about the game. You mentioned the accuracy of the story in the Assassin's Creed series. But the problem is that the setting like structures, houses, nature, objects - everything is bizarre and not Japanese but Chinese And the protagonist, Naoe, doesn't look Japanese but has more the ethnicity of Vietnamese or Korean or Thai.she looks like liu kang swap gender And this is the problem I have than others. If the idea is to create a game in the correct environment and Japanese traditions settings And that has to be done properly, in my opinion. The problem with Yasuke, I think, is that we Japanese expected more of a representation of a famous shinobi or samurai to represent the land of the rising sun. And I think if we wanted an African protagonist, I would have liked it more if it had been set in a traditional Mozambican environment with an African protagonist.
More importantly, this is the first time that Ubisoft has decided to use a main character as a historical figure rather than a secondary one. And I think that's what created the controversy that's going on right now.
Go play GOT or tons of other samurai games that feature an Asian protagonist dude. It's one game and are you people really crying about how the female protagonist doesn't look Japanese, like what? 😂 I mean the structure thing is the only valid thing but saying the FP looks vietnamese is insane, lots of Japanese have smaller eyes and tanner skin, sorry they didn't make her the super pretty, big boobed high pitched school girl.
@@whatreallymatters571 First of all, stop being disrespectful and stop watching anime, kids. It's not good for you. And second, you need help, you're completely delusional.
And third, go back to school and re-learn the history of every country and then we can talk.
Sorry for your loss.
@@SynKyller As a Japanese, I was very interested in African culture. And so I did research to find traces if there were Africans in Japan in the periods between 1500's and 1700's. In the National Library, where you can find all the documents from the history of Japan, a bit like X-Files with the files etc. Gathered in one place. All in one place. I don't know how to say it in English, but hey, I'll do my best. I found documents about Yasuke, but not much, just a page that talks about his history and the letter he wrote before he left Japan, it was said that Nobunaga found a person chained by the Portuguese Who has the power Stronger than a bear And that he had the ability to be able to knock down 10 people at once. near the harbor and Since Nobunaga was a person of great curiosity he wondered why he was chained. Asking lots of questions to the slaver. He decided to wash him He felt A little bad to see a man treated like this and to see him so dirty But in fact He understood that his skin was black And that's where the first Japanese to meet an African. And so nobunaga. decided. to keep him as a bodyguard. since he was very very strong and he never separated from nobunaga. and nobunaga. asked him a question, what's your name? l 'African said to him, "I don't have a name. So I'll give you one. Your name will be Yasuke. And now that I have set you free, you are no longer a slave. You are my bodyguard. And you will always be close to me. Now that you are with me. There will be no one to humiliate you. Because you are my bodyguard. And little by little, we'll get to know each other. Nobunaga gave him everything he needed, like a house, food, bath and everything. And that's why Yasuke was so fascinated by Nobunaga and he was so loyal, the loyalty of a warrior Who never left a second Of Nobunaga.From time to time, he liked to talk to him. even in private. not every time. because nobunaga was literally the highest status of the country of japan nobunaga was a military commander of feudal japan from the sengoku period to the azuchi-momoyama period in japan he is one of the three greatest heroes of the sengoku period.He was a busy man, and yes, Yasuke was there, but not outside, close to Nobunaga. Nobunaga killed himself during the Honnō-ji Incident in 1582, when his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide ambushed and trapped him in a temple in Kyoto, upon realizing he was surrounded, he committed seppuku. Nobunaga was succeeded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who along with Tokugawa Ieyasu completed his war of unification shortly afterward.Yasuke was there, he wanted to fight at the side of his beloved Daimyō But Nobunaga don't want to see Yasuke tied up with a chain like a slave again So Nobunaga decide to give him freedom.For black person Do you know what that means, that's crazy, you know that's? Wow, that's beautiful And then when he got there, man to him. To save Nobunaga family first So he gave him a boat. So he can escape. He made a promise, To him. To live his life happily, He was invited. You should go back to your country And promise me To have a good life And then he disappeared, Some people say he was returned to his own country. He left as a Christian monk and I love this story, I really do.
Nobunaga is the only one daimyo to have freed a slave.
There is One thing I’m really scared about yasuke situation with Ubisoft. It’s sweet baby inc who made the story Who has to chooser an Japanese historian figure as writer of lgbtqia+ into Buddhism she is called Sachi Schmidt-Hori and she got banned to my country because of blasphemy of Buddha going into romance with Buddhist priest loving an adolescent. If you want to know, the title of the book is Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives. I hope this message is gonna stay.
Sachi Schmidt-Hori She is the criminal for writing a book that talks about the blasphemy story between a religious monk and an Abus1v3 love story between a teenager. For one thing, we know that she ran away to Canada.
But I didn't know that she was working with Ubisoft and why Ubisoft was working with her. I don't understand it because it's crazy for me. I wonder how much of the idea was to be able to choose this Sachi Schmidt-Hori. What was Ubisoft thinking? But seriously, you have to think about it, we all have to think about it.
The day that will release the game. I swear, there will have a war. All the Buddhists will talk about this. It's disrespectful For the Buddhism ,for the black community, African community and the Asian community. it is Racist. I don't get it, how they came up of all of this.
May God protect us, friends, may God protect us
I thoroughly 100% Approve Of This Message😂!!!
Im a yt dude. I'm not supporting the game because Ubisoft said we gotta get use to not owning our games. I dont support that business model. Idgaf about who im playing as. I just wanna own what i spend money on, and i want the developers to be treated like humans. These mf complaining about a black man as a main character are just straight racist. Theres plenty of good reasons to hate Ubisoft. Being racist is not the way.
Yt people keep making me feel embarrassed lol
Im gonna play tf outta this game. But im gonna pirate it because if i dont own it after paying $70 then pirating it isnt stealing.
It’s all good brutha , we know not all white people are that way. It’s just sad that such a large portion of the community that we belong to really fucking hate us. I’m mad/upset but that’s mostly coming from a place of hurt. Shit is fucked up man
Well. Sure. There are some real racists not wanting black protagonists just becasue of the color of skin. But in this cas I think it's mostly because of Ubisoft clearly checking off ESG checkboxes. No matter if it makes sense or not. Typical "let's make character black and gay" to get more points. It wouldn't be that big deal if it wouldn't be AC game too. Because this is very unexpected and clearly shows they care about DEI, not good game. BTW - San Andreas is still best GTA game for me. Well written, well designed, having great dialogues.
Thank you for your take. I just happened to stumble across AC Shadows last night ,and Ive spent at least 2 hours watching content creators' videos and reading their comments. It is truly cancerous. You'd think you were at a Klan rally. No cap.
You are one of the only content creator to call it out for what it is; *xenophobia and racism.*
Edit: I didn't know the incident behind starhawk and GTA4.
I am glad you did this!
I second that.
The assassins creed page is showing great progression about this game
Yasuke is not an official samurai enough to excuse blackwashing Asian people in a asian themed game.
it's a fictional story where u can jump 500 feat into a haystack and fight literal primordial gods but you draw the line at a black guy being a main character even though there's another Japanese protagonist there? And no there is no written record of him being a samurai because the word "samurai wasn't a thing yet, even tho he literally performed the roles of a samurai and even held weapons for a main Japanese general which is a great honour. I doubt you're Japanese, you are more likely a white weeb judging by your cringe username and pfp.
That's not what's happening.
@@KodachiC Not an argument, that's exactly what's happening and has been happening to asians in the west for a very long time.
@@HakiKingEntertainment In what ways have asians been being erased from western media? last i checked yall did that aswell considering a Japanese game called Nioh made by japanese people even made their main character white so.
@@duen-wayneogilvie5223 That character was an actual documented samurai and therefore is not the same thing, and it still doesn't matter because that would only prove my point further, you didn't think that through man, in games and in movies asian characters have been pushed to be more and more western this is very clear to anyone paying attention
Preach it!
Anyone remember “Afro Samurai” ? I loved that series, anime, games. Those had Samuel Jackson. Amazing.
I have to listen to that soundtrack again. That was crazy good.
This discourse is dumb/racist as hell.
The only reason I won’t play this game is because I hate Ubisoft and the assassins creed series sucks.
Also San Andreas is still my favorite GTA
was there outrage over assassins creed liberation? or assassins creed 3 as a native american? or assassins creed one wit a middle eastern guy? where was the outrage?
To be fair, in AC1 they told Altair's voice actor to not use a Sirian accent unlike the other characters, because middle-east was still a hot topic in 2007
since when was Assassins creed historically accurate? Yusake served under the house of Nobunaga one of the greatest warriors, that's all I need to know to find Yusake an interesting character there is a lot we don't know, which means Ubisoft can get creative with his story.
all that matters is culture and culture doesn't belong to race. And Idaf about what is or isnt historic because this is fictional entertainment, people barking about correct history in video games is just so weird since there are a million other incongruencies to history in these type of games that they dont complain about because we all know we're not here for a history lesson.
It reminds me of the hate GoW remake got for a black character playing Loki's wife because "that's not Norse culture" but no one had a problem with the fact that loki himself was half greek in that game or that Mimir was from Scotland.
The hypocrisy is just so tiresome.
Assassin's Creed games draw significant inspiration from history but are unmistakably works of fiction. Isekai shows hold great popularity in Japan, and introducing Yasuke provides an ideal opportunity to blend historical accuracy with the isekai genre.
Nioh is a fantasy game, unlike AC that follows our world in a sandbox. For me though its the way Ubisoft went about it and we know why they did, and the game will fail.
As a black gamer I can’t relate to most of my viewers but they enjoy the content
True Talk!!!
This had to be said
The problem with the black samurai is Yasuke isn't a samurai in a game series that is trying to be historically accurate, Samurai's are sacred to Japan's culture and a lot of Japanese players are also upset because it reads as a black on asian hate crime seeing Yasuke cut through a lot of Japanese people, like how resident evil 5 felt racist for its setting. If AC wasn't trying to be historically accurate I would've loved Yasuke, he has a nice design, and I also hold Nioh to similar standards for the same problems. Also, the pricing felt greedy regardless of opinions on the protagonists.
Can some one, anyone post an article or video from a Japanese gamer / journalist complaining about this?
@@SynKyller There's is no outrage from the Japanese. Assassin's, Creed Shadows is the #1 pre-ordered product on Amazon Japan.
Everything this man just said if bullshit, the Japanese don't care that Yasuke is playable infact they love it.
Also this link is of a Historian proving that Yasuke was real and was a samurai, and he did fight on the frontlines.
czcams.com/video/dHwu95rpc6w/video.htmlsi=SMFu2VvmPcX6nw7f
@@SynKyller So many Japansese people on Twitter, CZcams, and Tiktok have been defending the fact that they love the fact that Yasuke is playable.
Yasuke has always been present in Japanese Media PERIOD! Even if some Japanses men see it as a hate crime, fuck them that just means they are fragile. Most video games portray white men. In Japan's case most games portray Japnese men, if they got a problem with a Japanese woman and a real figure who's a part of their history then they are just fragile.
Also these racist have been doing nothing but mass downvoting the trailer for the game on the Japanese version and pretending it's the Japnese citizens when it's just a bunch of butt hurt white men lying through their teeth because they can't stand us "niggas".
@@SynKyller Japanese peopel have been very vocal against the racist that were downplaying Yasukes existence and his accomplishments. Yasuke is usually present in a few manag, story books, and games. The people downplaying Yasuke are the rcaists, those are the only ones, then they pretend it's about Japanese representation when they ignore the Japnese Kunoichi.
Like I said before The new Assasins Creed is Amazon's #1 best seller on Amazon Japan, the reception is grate. Then don't feel as if it's some weird hate crime, like this looser is saying.
As for sources we have the BBC, Encyclopedia Briticania, Smithsonian Magazine, Even Diareis of other Bushi (warriors) aka samurai accounting their sightings of Yasuke, and him fighting on the battlefield
@@SynKyller
These dudes never cared the pope turned out to be a wizard, they never cared that DaVinci made a pocket dagger, they never cared they fought literal God's, but for some reason a black man how actually existed in Japan fucks them up to the point that they rage.
As a white man that was born in Tulsa Texas I know a "R" when I see one the fact that a Japanese professor really said " Yes Yasuke is apart of our culture he is Japanese folklore in some stories he is a samurai, in some stories he isn't, in some stories he is a villain and in some he his a hero" and she also stated that their is more evidence that he was a samurai than he wasn't. The fact that ppl are making bot AI accounts to shit on the game and dislike the Japanese version is CRAZY. Me personally I have no problem whatsoever because one of my favorite game characters is Franklin in GTA 5. Alot of these people are just masking their hate towards black ppl behind this game, a group of ppl that have already been through so much crap in America, a MULTICULTURAL country. I guess its hard now that we as White's cant get special attention because of our skin color anymore and have to work and have good character like everyone else.I just hope that the game is good because they are asking for a pre-order with no gameplay that's my problem and at the end of the day if the game is not good all of this really won't matter 💯🤷🏻♂️
Maybe people just have a different opinion. You feel better after your virtue signaling? I’m black and think you sound ridiculous
Nicer reply. Pay fools no mind. Some aren't happy in their own skin. Most get their wake-up call and fade away.
Who's the random Japanese professor you just made up? And even then, their authority doesn't make it true.
There is no evidence that Yasuke was a "samurai". It wasn't even a common term in his time. He is a very important figure in Nobunaga's time and was respected (he had the honor of holding Nobunaga's swords, which was no small thing) and while he was most likely trained in combat, nothing NOTHING has said he was a Samurai.
@@user-fo8ey1ix6f "Sachi- Schmiot Hori" it's funny how you guys will listen to some random dude on CZcams and Twitter but try discredit ppl with credentials and a team of other REAL Japanese Historian and literature because you guys are butt hurt LMAO do you really care about the history or is really something else
Hey brother look....I'm inspired by this vid and yourself. I'm a trying and upcoming gamer 51 years of age. I play alot of shadow of war but as I been playing and broadcasting I been gaining alot of fans and subscribers until they found out I was a black gamer that had many hours then most youtubers playing the game and that I had gear that they couldnt reach. they started hating and viewer count went down. But it's all good because I still have some strong supporters that's telling me to keep going and that they are WHITE AND PROUD OF ME THANKS BRO. I SUBBED TO YA THANKS
Keep. Going. Forward bro. The subs that left, are irrelevant. I am "level 48" myself and I don't see myself stopping any time son. What's your game tag? Whats your channel? I'll sub.
@SynKyller thank you soooo much brother. Your really inspiring..I been gaming since I was 9...and still going influenced by my father. My gamer tag is Emptymangaming same as on youtube thank you thank thank you🙏🏿
Thank you for this video 👏👏👏👏👏
You're welcome 😊
I get why Japanese people mainly are upset. The Main Protagonists for all of the previous Assassin Creed games have been tied to the ethnicity of the setting. Yasuke has never been a main Protagonist in Games until now being he is a footnote in Japanese History. Assassins Creed Games have been loosely based on History. Had this been the other way around (An Assassins Creed of the First Japanese Guy in Africa) then it would be just as controversial or considered Racist like RE5.
Some Japanese people are upset. Most Japanese people don't care and are happy with Yasuke as a protagonist. Also, what about the Japanese female assassin/shinobi? Did everyone forget about her as the other main protagonist?
@@SirJimbo89 IDK about most if we're talking about Japanese people actually interested in AC. The Dislike ratio is pretty bad. Female character is Japanese but shes female and both characters are not Japanese.
It's true that the dislike ratio is bad, but I think most of the dislike probably comes from the US viewers.
@@SirJimbo89 you speak for all japanese people? the japan's shadows trailer has massive dislikes lmao it seems more japanese are upset with it compared to being ok with it.
Fuck em. I don't give a damn who it pisses off. As a matter of fact I'm glad they're upset. It's quite funny and revealing. I was going to say "the hypocrisy is unbelievable" but it's actually very believable considering the type of people we're talking about. Yeah, the fake outrage is pretty funny. Historical accuracy only matters when it suits them and doesn't upset their sense importance and place at the center. Everything has to be about them or allowed by them. Talk about fragile. These people actually have the nerve to call other people "snowflakes" lol. Projecting much?
IMO, the big issue isn't that Yasuke is in the game and may be exaggerated from a retainer/bodyguard with weapons into a full Samurai-class of nobility (because AC has aliens and scifi tech and isn't historical anyways), but rather there isn't an Asian male protagonist in a game about feudal Japan (in the first full Assassin's Creed game in this part of the world). If we call this race washing and look at this "blackwashing" in combination with "whitewashing" from Tom Cruise' Last Samurai and the Shogun TV/book series and other TV/film, then we can conclude it as a part of the long-running discrimination against Asian men by the media that prefers to use any other men except Asian men as the lead protagonist.
Tom Cruise's Last Samurai and the Shogun TV/book series also made the main character a white guy in Japan (instead of focusing on the thousands of East Asian heroes, they decide to create a new European character based very loosely on several real life figures and heavily exaggerated into being mostly a fictional character). Also see Dragon Ball, Avatar Last Airbender live action film, Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, etc. where they all were whitewashed. This situation goes back decades, such as when Bruce Lee was denied the role of the character in the Kung Fu series (they chose David Carradine) because he was considered "too Chinese" to play the role of a wandering Shaolin monk. They chose John Wayne to play Genghis Khan even though there have been Asian/Asian-American actors in Hollywood since the Silent era of film. The new Netflix show the Three Body Problem was based on a Chinese novel series where the first book almost entirely takes place in 1970s China and 2000s China. What did Netflix do? They erased the entire modern 2000s Chinese setting to set it in the United Kindom instead, got rid of basically all of the Chinese characters, and replaced them with new characters that allowed them to use mostly British actors. For people who are familiar with the books, the two different Chinese settings were unique and are supposed to be thematically and philsophically contrasting with each other to represent different values and perspectives...so they are not only race & culture swapping, but they're also erasing key themes and philosophical viewpoints of the story.
There is a female protagonist though..and we already got ghosts of tsushima..so i dont get what the big deal is..not to mention japanese game using samanosuke akechi, and samurai warriors
totally agree, if a game about the zulus had a norwegian male main character, it would be extremely insulting, but somehow when its the east asian men nobody cares
@@UNSTABLE111 The big deal is the American media loves to erase Asian males and pair Asian females as love interests to non-Asians men. The fact that there is a female protagonist who is Asian but no Asian male makes it worse because it perpetuates this racist trend. See The Last Samurai movie where Tom Cruise is the white guy protagonist who romances the Asian wife whose husband he literally killed. Talk about the media portraying Asian men as cucks - Tom Cruise literally kills the guy and takes his wife. See Shogun where the white guy protagonist has a romance with the Asian woman.
Ghost of Tsushima was distributed by Sony. All those other games you mentioned were made by Japanese studios so they have no problem with Asian-male leads. Where are the American made games that aren't made with Asian money that have Asian male leads?
@UNSTABLE111 The big deal is the American media loves to erase Asian males and pair Asian females as love interests to non-Asians men. The fact that there is a female protagonist who is Asian but no Asian male makes it worse because it perpetuates this racist trend. See The Last Samurai movie where Tom Cruise is the white guy protagonist who romances the Asian wife whose husband he literally killed. Talk about the media portraying Asian men as cucks - Tom Cruise literally kills the guy and takes his wife. See Shogun where the white guy protagonist has a romance with the Asian woman.
Ghost of Tsushima was distributed by Sony. All those other games you mentioned were made by Japanese studios so they have no problem with Asian-male leads. Where are the American made games that aren't made with Asian money that have Asian male leads?
@@superpowerdragon Theres literally an assassins creed game set in the Caribbean with a Welshman as the protaglonist.
*the wiki states that Nobu armed him with a short sword and at one point considered making Yasuke his top samurai????? and that he was "strong as 10 men" and used to wrestle common soldiers for sport???? sounds like a guy who was much more than just a retainer 😂 personally, I'm more excited to play as the woman and hopefully Yasuke can be a companion in combat* 🙌
Don't use wikipedia as a source, you can check the edit history on that to see just recently the push to edit it to make it sound like Yasuke was 100% this or 100% that.
My problem is not that he's black, is that he's black when he shouldn't be. It's fitting for GTA set in america to have a black protag. It's fit for a game in a random fantasy set, or somewhere in europe or america. It's not fit for a game set in feudal japan. Even if Yasuke was there, they should retain the fidelity of the setting by having a native protagonist, like we had in literally every one of the over twenty entries in the franchise. If AC does one thing well, it's the setting and immersion. I'd love to have played as Miyamoto Musashi for example. Honestly, I wouldn't even be mad if any other entry had a black protag, but I just love Japan and Japanese people so much, so it sucks that we can't have a native -- but this is just my own bias.
Also something I've noticed is that you say people are angry because the protagonist doesn't look like them. Most of them are white, not asian. This protagonist would be asian under normal circumstances, which would not look like them either.
There is a native protagonist in the game. There’s a female shinobi assassin character named Naoe that will be playable alongside Yasuke.
It's just fake annoying that they will do all they can to avoid using a white or Japanese man. So they use a black "samurai" and a female ninja lol. Its the obvious nature of their hatred towards straight men of white or Asian backround. THats the stuff I can't stand. Yusuke should have been an ally in the game because it's an interesting side story. Def not the main character.
@@VJ2099 thats such a strawman argument so what if they have one japanese protagonist they should both be japanese its fuedal japan there was no black people around there in that time and yasuke isnt noone special he was literally just a squire an errand boy they are trying to change his history to make him look like some samurai warrior when he wasn't and thats the problem i have with the game and that they obviously used him to push D.E.I
@aesirgod7818 bro how was what I said a straw man argument? I literally just pointed out the fact that one of the protagonists is Japanese. Also Yasuke is actually a historical figure that was in Japan in the late 16th century and was made a samurai by Oda Nobunaga himself. Do some research (and no, don’t use Wikipedia).
@@justinhimes4917 We get 1 game where you don't have to play as a dude and you guys gets so pissed. Putting women in games means they hate straight men? You make no sense
I am a huge fan of Afro Samurai the Anime who is based on Yasuke too.
The nioh character was a real person and it was made by a Japanese studio.
Afro Samurai had a game over a decade ago, and an anime by Japanese studios, nobody complained
You know why?
Japan will stick to artistic vision,
Ubiflop is doing this for political brownie points,
That's why their doing this now, they weren't doing it before, and we can see right through it
So when will it not be for brownie points?
czcams.com/video/ux-P4TzGIPU/video.htmlsi=VAHD-u-OWkqmRrEj COPE :)
@@gazaalley3862Depends on the company,
I can trust a studio that is for their creative vision and their fans first
But if it's one of the western ones virtue signaling to try to make us forget the sexual predators they promoted and covered for,
then making public pledges for social issues they never made before to look like the good guys and get some type of funding,
Well.... you get the idea
@@gazaalley3862 when it's made for stylistic, artistic and more of a fun to gameplay reasons rather then a woke company cathering to ESG financial blackmail and doing it only for pandering reasons, without style, without really thinking about it. There's many examples of games really well made with black protagonists.
@@Tigerhearty and how do you know that is actually the case ? Have you played the game ? Do you already know what the story is about ? Or you are just rattling off what you think is true ? What is your evidence to back it up since you are making the claim that this game is indeed for brownie points and not authentic?
It's all planned to divide the people over something so stupid and mediocre it's a video game if you got a problem with a game it should be the story nothing to do with the characters I don't care what color race background if the game is fun and has a good story none of it matters..
Imagine AC game about Africa but the main character is an asian or caucasian dude who is presented as native warrior from African tribe... It would be just nonsense and disrespect to African culture, same with AC:Shadows it's nonsense and disrespect to Japanese culture. Btw I'm caucasian and GTA:SA my favorite game of all time
I think you lack faith in your companions to say the least lol but you have brought up a lot of things I did not know, like that there was backlash of the GTA IV character and the white equivalent Samurai getting no backlash. IDK who he was and wish you used your video editor to show me something tangible.
KDot Ford checking in. Great video bro
Appreciate it!
new subscriber 🥳Gen X
Hi, Black Man here. Gotta point out a couple of things: first, you spelled Yasuke wrong. Secondly, if you actually look at Yasuke's documented history, you'd understand that there isn't much there-kinda like finding black characters in video games naturally. Yasuke wasn't a samurai in the traditional sense but held the title as a broad term that was used centuries later for all men and women serving in military roles. Yasuke was a retainer, a sword bearer. Essentially, through all accounts, this man was a servant to the Shogun. This is the Japanese version of Johnny Appleseed or John Henry, or a figure wrapped in myth more than historical fact. His story is a fascinating blend of history and legend, but it's crucial to separate the romanticized versions from the real-life experiences he had.
I'd rather see authentic black historical figures such as Shaka Zulu, Queen Nzinga, or Harriet Tubman. Hell, there's a long list of black figures I'd love to see in games, but here we are, just getting these scraps that gaming DEI producers think we need.
shut up goofy
A retainer was still some form and samurai bro and sword bearer was one the most honourable things to do at that time because it means you’re very trusted
"I'd rather see authentic black historical figures such as Shaka Zulu, Queen Nzinga, or Harriet Tubman. Hell, there's a long list of black figures I'd love to see in games, but here we are, just getting these scraps that gaming DEI producers think we need."
I don't understand why this is so hard to understand. Would they want to play with a white dude in the middle of Africa? Trying to save the poor black people from the templars.
This is a disingenuous reply, yasuke was real and it's perfectly within the rights of the game designers to create a historical fiction narrative around the sparce details of his time in Japan. The game has already added entirely made up context to the life of George Washington, Leonardo De Vinci, and made up characters such as Conor, Eveline, Altair, Etzio and all the other assassins. Yasuke's live after Japan could definitely be explored in dlc but his main game story may perhaps be relatively brief and the game could mor heavily focus on the other protagonist Naoe whom most of you critics, who have even played the game yet, seem to ignore.
You’re so wrong lmao. Watch actual Japanese people speak about the man then come back and delete your comment
Great video
the other AC games have the respective ethnicity represented. Example, middle eastern in ancient egypt, Italians in Italy, etc. When it came AC in Japan, a black man? really? you think every one is hating this because the protagonist is black? Perhaps you should wait for AC in Africa, stop stealing. Yasuke was not even a samurai, he's "retainer", a servent, and a very insignificant person in history. Cultural appropriation seems one side, wouldn't you say?
If the samurai was just Japanese, yall would be saying ubisoft is trying to copy Ghost of Tsushima. "Can't it just be a ninja?" Stop being disingenuous. You insulting my intelligence. Riddle me this. Did you have this same energy when Chris Redfield was killing African zombies in RE5 and real African gamers were pissed? I did and I was FOR Chris killing black zombies in africa. "We killed white ones in the past 4 games, we can't kill black ones in this new game that's based in AFRICA?"
SO don't come at me like I'm the hypocrite here.... I mean, where was this for William Adam's in Nioh/Nioh2? That's what I thought
@@SynKyller what is this tit for tat attitude? I don't know who Chris Redfield is. We talking about a particular title, stay on that. You are making it into a race war. Ubisoft and your woke army, Sweet Baby Inc did the Japanese wrong, a lap in the face, you don't have problem with it. Stop stealing.
@@SynKyller looks like response has been deleted. No point in this anymore, is it? Notice the lack of shame, must be a cultural thing.
@@davidhong9112snow roaches steal culture lol please don't try to bring that up
@@davidhong9112cope harder.😂😂😂
I am a white male GTA San Andreas was my favorite Grand Theft Auto of all times an GTA V Franklin was my favorite character to play with Grace has nothing to do with the video game this is dumb..
Good thumbnail
It's the internet brother, go outside.
What's up Shelton. Good video. People are taking this stuff way too far.
SWABY!!! How are you doing!?!?! Still keep in touch with the rest of the old Koalition.com crew?
@@SynKyller yeah man. Me and Richard are running things over there still. The team isn’t as big as it used to be now. Glad to see you’re still doing your thing.
You killed this shel. The fake outcry is exposing a lot of people.
They hate when other people learn their history
They know history. Its why they're rejecting this nonsense.