Assassin's Creed Unity Thread

[Marvolo]

It's always a shame when a community of gamers who have had high standards allow Game studios to make excuses. How would you feel if Mass Effect 4 didn't allow female characters? Dragon Age only having male humans?

Ubisoft now even refuses to talk about the subject. It's clear they the truth is, they wanted to save a little amount of time and money, just make another annual AC game and release it for late quarter 2014.

Those are RPGs. A genre that has almost always allowed gender selection. No other AC game and most action adventure games of this nature do not. The protaganists are whatever gender the developer says they are. Thats how its always been. You cant pick your character's gender. Its time to move on. If you cant or are this legitimately angered by this respond the proper way and dont buy the game.

And lets be clear, this game will have females. France will have female NPCs running around. You just cant play as a female. So lets stop acting like Ubisoft has occupied the game with only males. If they did then that would be legitimately questionable.

 

[TheVileOne]

If you dislike no female assassins that much, don't buy the game. Vote with your wallet.

Do you think if a Mass Effect movie ever gets made, a studio is going to bankroll a flick with a female Shepard? Nope.

I'm fine with diversity. I think the Ubisoft developer who said what he said could've chosen his words more carefully. However, let's be honest with ourselves. The reason it's not a female character is for economic reasons obviously. Or at least perceived economic reasons in the industry.

 

[Benstamania]

^Amen.

 

[Havok83]

It's always a shame when a community of gamers who have had high standards allow Game studios to make excuses. How would you feel if Mass Effect 4 didn't allow female characters? Dragon Age only having male humans?

Or maybe people simply don't care? Honestly, I don't give a damn if they allowed for female selections. When creating characters in games, I 100% of the time make a male with a female only being the case if I replay the game. Considering I don't replay AC games upon beating them, I wouldn't have had an issue. Seems some people are making a much bigger deal out of this than it is and expecting others to follow suit when really by and large, its a non-issue.

Ubisoft now even refuses to talk about the subject. It's clear they the truth is, they wanted to save a little amount of time and money, just make another annual AC game and release it for late quarter 2014.

And the problem with that is? IMO, it would be stupid and not make good business sense for them to delay this to 2015 just to incorporate a female assassin, something which isn't vital or necessary for their plot.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

The thing is, the excuse they gave for having no playable female characters was unbelievably stupid. If they would have flat out said that they didn't think female characters would have sold, they would still face criticism, but at least they would be honest to whatever mentality they had. Saying that "it would cost too much" just to use a female model has turned them into laughing stocks, even by the creator of Assassin's Creed, and rightfully so.

 

[SolarTiger]

Some of the protagonists Assassin's Creed have used in their console, portable and standalone DLC games:

Adewale (AC4 Freedom Cry)

Aveline (AC Liberation)

Connor (AC3)

Ubisoft is the wrong studio to attack on this. They actually go outside the "older white male with brown hair" stereotype and will cast minorities and women as the leads in their games. The white knights attacking Ubisoft should focus their efforts on another developer instead.

 

[Grievous]

I'm sorry but really? One vita game from 2012? Well quiet down ladies, that should keep you all busy until at LEAST 2019.

I don't recall female gamers only buying games that let you play as a woman. I'm betting that 95% of the people that have a problem with Ubisoft right now are male. It's just another case of gamers wanting to hear themselves whine and complain about something.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Some of the protagonists Assassin's Creed have used in their console, portable and standalone DLC games:

Spoiler

Adewale (AC4 Freedom Cry)

Aveline (AC Liberation)

Connor (AC3)

Ubisoft is the wrong studio to attack on this. They actually go outside the "older white male with brown hair" stereotype and will cast minorities and women as the leads in their games. The white knights attacking Ubisoft should focus their efforts on another developer instead.

You could also add Altair Ibn-La'Ahad to that list.

 

[Quasimod0]

Ezio is also not a white male

 

[Destructus86]

I told my wife how they ended up not including a female Assassin. Didn't really bother her.
We were both in agreement that it would be NICE to see another female Assassin. But it's not a big deal.

 

[Havok83]

Ezio is also not a white male

if not, then what is he?

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I told my wife how they ended up not including a female Assassin. Didn't really bother her.
We were both in agreement that it would be NICE to see another female Assassin. But it's not a big deal.

Is the "outcry" because the lead character isn't female? Or because one of the co op characters aren't female?

 

[TheVileOne]

if not, then what is he?

Italian.

 

[Havok83]

Italian.

Italian is a nationality/ethnicity, not a race. His race was Caucasian. Ezio was a white man

 

[TheVileOne]

Semantics.

 

[cherokeesam]

Is the "outcry" because the lead character isn't female? Or because one of the co op characters aren't female?

I think the majority of the outcry is for neither; it's just for the fact that the AC spokesman came up with the lamest possible excuse to explain it. As others have said, if he'd at least been honest and said "we don't think female protagonists sell very well, and we have Aveline as proof of that," everything would be okay. Instead, he invented a clearly boneheaded excuse about it somehow costing more money to mocap/v.o. female characters. It was utter b.s., and he was called on it, even within his own company.

 

[Destructus86]

Is the "outcry" because the lead character isn't female? Or because one of the co op characters aren't female?

I think because one of the co-op characters isn't female. Which again...isn't really a huge deal. We've had plenty of diversity in the series. I think we are just going way overboard with political correctness.

Maybe for the next game we should just have a she-male that's African American, raised in a white home by a mom that is Asian and a dad that is mexican.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I think because one of the co-op characters isn't female. Which again...isn't really a huge deal. We've had plenty of diversity in the series. I think we are just going way overboard with political correctness.

Oh political correctness is absolutely out of hand to the point its sickening, but I can see why some would be peeved that at least one of the co-op characters aren't female. I mean we've had females in the multiplayer component of the game before.

 

[TheVileOne]

This guy doesn't fit the "angry white guy" archetype.

 

[zenith16]

What’s New in Assassin’s Creed Unity?

Marissa catches up with Assassin's Creed Unity senior producer Vincent Pontbriand to find out how they hope to keep things fresh and original with the new game.


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Assassin's Creed: Unity

E3 2014: Arno Dorian Profile Trailer

Meet one of the Assassins who stars in the E3 2014 demo and their weaponry in this trailer!
Views: 32,164 | Posted: 06/09/2014





source:EPN.TV & GT

 

[Benstamania]

Oh political correctness is absolutely out of hand to the point its sickening, but I can see why some would be peeved that at least one of the co-op characters aren't female. I mean we've had females in the multiplayer component of the game before.

Pretty much why I've been avoiding this thread and anything about AC AONLINE. PC Social Justice warriors are the worst.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Pretty much why I've been avoiding this thread and anything about AC AONLINE. PC Social Justice warriors are the worst.

Haha I wonder if Ubisoft is doing all this on purpose. I swear every game they push out is met with some kind of backlash from some whiney group. Far Cry 3 had the offensive sex scene, Assassins Creed IV had the offensive whaling mini game, Far Cry 4 has the offensive racist bad guy and AC: Unity has the offensive lack of female playable characters.

Damn Ubisoft, stop making people angry!

 

[Naked Shia]

Don't forget the offensive Watchdog's downgrade.

 

[zenith16]

As was said with the video interview 4 posts up

Ubisoft Quebec Takes Over the Next Assassin’s Creed Game

Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Montreal's sister studio, is ready to step out of its older sibling's shadow by taking on an Assassin's Creed all it's own, Ubisoft announced on the company's official blog this morning. Ubisoft Montreal has spearheaded every Assassin’s Creed thus far, often with help from various members of Ubisoft’s global network of developers. But with Ubisoft Quebec’s recent $28 million dollar investment, $4 million of which is going to a brand new workspace designed specifically for triple-A game development, the studio is ready to spread its eagle wings and show off what they can do. “We have the confidence of the brand team and also from Ubisoft to take leadership of an upcoming Assassin’s Creed title,” Ubisoft Quebec managing director Nicolas Rioux said. “The team is ready for the next big step.”
Ubisoft Quebec is very familiar with the franchise, of course, having helped out on every entry since Brotherhood and even spearheading The Tyranny of King Washington and Freedom Cry DLC for AC III and AC IV. The next big step for them now is bolstering their work force. Already 350 people work at Ubisoft Quebec (including some starting the groundwork for this new project), and the studio plans to reach 425 people by 2017.
With multiple studios helping out Assassin’s Creed on an annual basis (including as many as 10 for Unity), it only makes sense that at some point another studio would just take the reigns completely themselves for a title, much like how Activision has a three-studio rotation with Call of Duty. What Quebec’s Assassin’s Creed will entail is anybody’s guess, but it only cements the fact that Assassin’s Creed has plans to stick around for quite some time.
As for this year, Assassin’s Creed Unity launches on Windows PC, PS4, and Xbox One October 28.


source:EPN.TV

 

[cherokeesam]

As was said with the video interview 4 posts up

Ubisoft Quebec Takes Over the Next Assassin’s Creed Game

Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Montreal's sister studio, is ready to step out of its older sibling's shadow by taking on an Assassin's Creed all it's own, Ubisoft announced on the company's official blog this morning. Ubisoft Montreal has spearheaded every Assassin’s Creed thus far, often with help from various members of Ubisoft’s global network of developers. But with Ubisoft Quebec’s recent $28 million dollar investment, $4 million of which is going to a brand new workspace designed specifically for triple-A game development, the studio is ready to spread its eagle wings and show off what they can do. “We have the confidence of the brand team and also from Ubisoft to take leadership of an upcoming Assassin’s Creed title,” Ubisoft Quebec managing director Nicolas Rioux said. “The team is ready for the next big step.”
Ubisoft Quebec is very familiar with the franchise, of course, having helped out on every entry since Brotherhood and even spearheading The Tyranny of King Washington and Freedom Cry DLC for AC III and AC IV. The next big step for them now is bolstering their work force. Already 350 people work at Ubisoft Quebec (including some starting the groundwork for this new project), and the studio plans to reach 425 people by 2017.
With multiple studios helping out Assassin’s Creed on an annual basis (including as many as 10 for Unity), it only makes sense that at some point another studio would just take the reigns completely themselves for a title, much like how Activision has a three-studio rotation with Call of Duty. What Quebec’s Assassin’s Creed will entail is anybody’s guess, but it only cements the fact that Assassin’s Creed has plans to stick around for quite some time.
As for this year, Assassin’s Creed Unity launches on Windows PC, PS4, and Xbox One October 28.


source:EPN.TV

Who is that pic of, and from what game? Doesn't look like Arno, and that doesn't look like Paris at all. In fact, it looks like an ACIV setting, with a Spanish fortaleza in the Caribbean or Latin America. Is that one of Arno's comrades-in-arms, and does this mean the setting extends a lot farther out than just Paris?