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Game is fine so far.
People get all in their feelings over a game. A story. Would they get this worked up over a book? These people have to bitch about something to feel alive.
I feel alive taking in a game how it was written and designed to be played. I don't worry about cultural norms or other petty bullshit. Enjoy the gameplay, the world design and a new experience.
Now, give me a Black Flag sequel with a female lead, a revamped ship combat and more pirate comedy. Top it off with some lesbien romance and outfits. Just to piss off the Republican snowflakes.
Also, the only thing that comes from including more people of color, LGBTQ+ people, etc., in media is more variety in characters and possible story lines. How is that ever a bad thing?
it's bad if you're a bigot and have been raised to hate and feel disgust when your beliefs are challenged
I remember feeling this in church as a kid. Know what I did? I asked myself, "why would I react that way? If this is true, then it should be able to withstand challenges, and if it's not then it is not worth believing."
Sounds like you're talking about AC: Odyssey 😄
I did live that fantasy through Kassandra and Odyssey, but it wasn't the Caribbean baby!
What's wrong with the Aegean?
God, I hated that game. I miss my classic Assassin’s Creed.
AC died with Desmond
I still quite liked Black Flag and Unity (although far from perfect, especially at launch) and even Origins was pretty good. But Ubisoft Quebec just managed to poop on AC lore multiple times, most egregiously with odyssey.
AC was mechanically enjoyable, if overly long and repetitive. But the story was lacking to the point that I don't even remember what the fuck the game was about in the first place. that's what you get for making games bigger and longer. it just becomes a
so much so that at first I thought "shame about the story because it had a really strong start with that twist" but I realized was misremembering AC3's plot twist. so there's literally nothing that I remember about AC4's story except for the abysmal modern day parts which proved to me that they stopped giving a shit about the story and caused me to never check out an AC game again.
Ship Blackbeard and Captain Morgan. That would truly piss them off. A lesbian romance only brings performative anger because they're hoping for porn.