15 years ago they were creating pseudo-Trotskyist subplots about how the Templars invented capitalism to dominate the world, the culmination of which was the Bretton Woods Conference
Alongside outright stating the Templars overthrew the Soviet Union and the Bush admin purposely started the Iraq War for the sake of making work for contractors
Wtf happened to that Ubisoft lmao
bruh imagine trotkyite assasins creed in ussr under stalin, it could go so fucking mental, first you are doing your job fighting porkies-templars in the 20s, then duplicitious stalin betrays revolution™, so you hunt red comissars (with tears on your eyes), but then nazi invasion happens and you fight templars again
or you could go anarchist route via kronstadt-lenin-kirov and still arrive at besieged leningrad
p.s. they even have good cities, compared to wasteland of ac3:wooden huts
Idk if I trust videogame writing to do justice to the Reconstruction. I guess if you’re just killing klansmen then sure whatever but I’m just imagining some Bioshock Infinite type shit
It is so funny how much chuds hate marvel slop given how much it caters to right wing politics.
Im not defending it but I kind of understand it. Marvels politics are neoliberal as fuck and uphold the status quo but to many rightwingers that is simply not enough. They want nothing short of fascism so of course the politics of marvel would seem “progressive” in comparison to what many rightwingers and even conservatives imagine the world should look like.
The marvel cinematic universe features an ubermensch running a privatised world police out of his benevolent weapon producing company, and an explicit endorsement of the world view that only the elect can make moral judgement. The villains are always “left” coded, minorities who have been oppressed, victims of american imperialism or a combination of all 3. The lawmaker they presented as a pathetic character in one movie for using gun control talking points to talk about billionaires with nukes was subsequently turned into a nazi traitor just to complete the package.
Literally the only thing that isn’t written explicitly for them is that minorities participate in the social order.There is no media that panders more heavily to chuds on earth than superhero slop. All the shit they “like” is either old and critical of the right (Starship troopers et al) or it is functionally identical to marvel slop there’s just fewer minority actors in it.
I dont disagree with you that Marvel has bad politics. But the fact that Marvels politics arent bad enough for the average chud shows just how far right their worldview is. The modern chud wants nothing less than a 3rd Reich style fash ethnostate with everything that entails.
I just disagree that the politics arent bad enough. I think the problem is the visible minorities. First Blood and Starship Troopers are explicitly critical of their politics and they get adulation from that crowd because the main characters are white (Even though the main character of starship troopers isn’t supposed to be white) and the enemy is an other.
Well, yes most chuds have no capacity for critical media analysis. The story, setting, or plot dont really matter as long as the actors are white hot and hetero thats really the main aspect regardless of media. Good/bad politics dont “really” factor into it wether chuds like something only if it passes their superficial vibe check.
it would be like their marx who’s like “go kill these radicals who want to do political violence. All good communists like me only want to do peaceful reforms”
They would have made John Brown a Templar and forced you to not to lower yourself to the level of slavers by killing them.
Isn’t killing people literally everything you do in AC games though? How would you even make an AC game that opposes killing people?
damn that sounds fucking awesome ,shame
The most hilarious thing about AC lore is that Lenin is good
I bet the narrative designers are trots
Nah they’re just libs
Ubisoft Karl Marx could be criticising adventurism. What did the Narodniks achieve, and what did the Bolsheviks achieve?
Yeah it’s not though he’s completely presented as a demsoc whereas Marx fundamentally saw no pathway to socialism through democracy but solely through revolution as the engine of all history.
Marx thought there was a democratic road to socialism in some countries but not others
maybe
damn that sounds fucking awesome ,shame
It would still be the same slop. Don’t give them more credit than they deserve.
I like AC games bro ,have all the olds one pirated
you don’t get to play In Palestine (1st game a lot)
I honestly can’t believe Ubisoft would’ve made a game like this even without Trump in office without somehow both-sidesing it by making half the KKK black or something
They’d have Frederick Douglass lecture you about how violence isn’t the answer and you’re just making the KKK attack more black folks.
yeah that’s way too much “something to say” for ubisoft considering how far cry 5 was
Meanwhile on
when someone pointed out the same thing about FC5 in relation to this cancellationNo, that’s a good thing. FC5 did a great job of making fictional extremists that wasn’t one sided. A hippy drug addled religious zealot. If they tried to take a stand either way it would be worse. Doing a civil war AC would just need to be accurate and not try to act like a poor modernization to mirror a political opinion.
“accurate”
why does a game that had a magical alien orb thing need to be “accurate”
Ubisoft is kinda funny in that it’s a French company with a bunch of studios including the famous Ubisoft Montreal in Canada. So sometimes they dgaf. In Watch Dogs 2 there’s a level where you break into an FBI office to steal from them, and they’re an enemy faction you can fight. I cannot imagine any American company making the literal FBI an enemy faction (the other factions are the police and gangs).
AC4s DLC was quite literally one dude fighting against slavery. They could make this happen if they wanted to.
scared to insult an english speaking nation, lolI think this is literally the coolest premise you could have for an AC game that could be published in America, or at least that you used to be able to but evidently not anymore if you’re a big studio.
I’m trying to think of others. Apartheid South Africa could maybe be published, probably not Palestine for some time now. Maybe Ethiopia or Algeria. A Black Panther assassin would obviously be interesting but I think that would be too much. Probably the same goes for representing the IRA. Maybe the Mexican Revolution?
assassin’s creed gameplay really stops working when repeating firearms are competent so there’s a hard date limit on it and reconstruction is pushing up on that with revolvers and lever guns.
firearms are loud, so if they’ve embraced more hitman vibes (plan your shit, don’t fight 50 guards) with climbing into hotels and stuff, it could still sort of work. basically introduce thief mechanics with stealth, only with wall climbing and garottes.
they already massively changed gameplay once, i guess they could do it a second time if they think they’ve exhausted history
it would be absolutely hilarious to make an AC game that climaxed with killing JFK and getting away with it
Why didnt Lee Harvey Oswald use his wrist blades?
No bales of hay to jump into.
That’s an interesting point, though honestly I don’t think it’s that different from Hitman or really even Arkham, fundamentally, not that you can’t draw distinctions between them. I think guns would just be a design consideration and not a hard limit, plus they already have some stuff in WWI, don’t they?
I’d like a return to middle ages and early modern with the Hussite Rebellion or German Peasants War
You are right, I was being too small-minded. I think the Ikko-Ikki uprising could also be cool, though it presents too much opportunity to lib out, and also they just did Japan.
Taiping Rebellion in China too would be pretty wild.
Assassin’s KKKreed.
aSSaSSins KKKreed
We gotta oppress G*mers
They finally listened to the G*mers who voted with their wallet and this time they want to play as the KKK 😤
just to troll people they should make one where you play as a KKK guy but it’s absurdly difficult and literally impossible to progress after the tutorial area. they wouldn’t even need to make the full game, just like 1 hour or so of content
I hope the saudis buy ubisoft too
that sounds awesome. someone else should make this
Good news is that this means someone else can steal the idea and run with it
Just replace Assassin’s and Templars with other shit
Hell, you don’t even need a reason, just Django it up
That fucking sucks. This sounds awesome.
Go die Ubisoft. Fucking cowards. If you work for these people it’s time to fin d something else.
