Ubisoft Cancelled a Post-Civil War Assassin's Creed Last Year (gamefile.news)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/10/10/1029240/ubisoft-cancelled-a-post-civil-war-assassins-creed-last-year
- Source link: https://www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubisoft-cancelled-a-post-civil
> In July of last year, word began to trickle through Ubisoft that an ambitious new installment of the company's top franchise, Assassin's Creed, had been cancelled.
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> The new game would have brought the history-spanning series to one of its most modern settings: The American Civil War and, moreso, the Reconstruction period that followed in the 1860s and 1870s.
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> In this Reconstruction-era Assassin's Creed, gamers would play as a Black man who had been formerly enslaved in the South and moved west to start a new life. Recruited by the series' Assassins, he would return to the South to fight for justice in a conflict that would, among other things, see him confront the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.
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> That's according to interviews with five current and former Ubisoft employees who spoke to Game File on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the project. The people were enthusiastic about the game but were also frustrated by its cancellation, which they perceived as Ubisoft bowing to controversy.
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Merely delayed (Score:1, Troll)
It's probably just been delayed for about 5 years, for political reasons.
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> It's probably just been delayed for about 5 years, for political reasons.
It will probably take longer than that to get the fragile minded who are picking up rifles under control. It might be prudent to not feed their vivid imaginations given their inability to tell political metaphors from reality. They, and the politicians gratuitously inflaming them, are the reason we can't have nice things like this game.
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Hear, hear!
The one Assassins Creed (Score:2, Insightful)
where they could plausibly and meaningfully add a black protagonist and they let it pass?
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Zulu Africa would seem a good spot to me...
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> where they could plausibly and meaningfully add a black protagonist and they let it pass?
Was there an absence of black people in ancient Egypt, Islamic bagdad, the holy lands during the crusades, or colonial America? I think not. And they included many soldiers and warriors.
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At least for part of history, Africans from Nubia conquered and were the rulers of Egypt: [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia
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> At least for part of history, Africans from Nubia conquered and were the rulers of Egypt:
And in other eras, IIRC, served as excellent cavalry for Ptolemaic Egypt and the Romans. And probably indigenous Pharos as well. And probably Islamic cavalry later on too.
That's a shame, it sounds great (Score:1)
It sounds like it would have been the first Assassin's Creed game since the Ezio trilogy that I would have been interested in playing.
A very good call (Score:3)
There is literally no way to handle those topics in any commercial entertainment product right now that isn't going to enrage 15% of the audience. Those 15% will certainly use social media to make the normal people who understand it is just a fictional game, to uncomfortable to want to deal with it.
I would have canceled it too. There is no winning marketing something like that right now.
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A video game based on "violence solves problems" is going to avoid mentioning:
1) Southern blacks moving north for better wages and living conditions ("Thanks Mr. Assassin, but we're moving north anyways")
2) Exposing the "secrets" of the KKK did more to damage the KKK, than reciprocal violence.
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As long as the rage increases sales/engagement, then rage is a good thing. That's the social media motto.
Re: A very good call (Score:2)
DarkOx on self censoring to not to enrage a minority group's feelings. When he is in that group.
Yah I know your post history bud, fuck your feelings.
Oh No! (Score:2)
Anyway...
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Pretty much.
[Gritting Teeth Emoji] (Score:2)
I'll leave the historical vengeance fantasy genre to Tarantino, thank you very much.
Here we are (Score:1)
When you're angry about the Klan being portrayed as the bad guys...
What am I missing? (Score:2)
Why is a game that was cancelled well over a year ago suddenly a new item?
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News. News item.
Don't worry - Ubisoft pivoted politically (Score:2)
"We're excited to share today that the game will be launched, just in time for the holiday season! The original game action is still there, in all its glory, with only a minor tweak.
"This time, it's a alt-universe post-Civil-War setting where Lincoln survived the Boothe assassination attempt. Your job? Kill Lincoln..."
Recent ACs (Score:2)
The recent AC's have been crap anyways, so I think it has more to do with the economy than the main character. Black Flag was the last AC I enjoyed playing.
That phrase was wrong (Score:1)
It is, instead, this:
The most fragile shall inherit the earth.