John Funk said:
In all seriousness, this is actually an interesting thought. We have a great many readers from the various parts of Great Britain - do you feel that Assassin's Creed III is unfairly targeting you? Is it going to be odd playing a character who stalks and kills your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers?
Nope. I think "too soon" is not something that can apply to a war that happened in the 1700's. I don't much care, really. It'd be like a whole bunch of people still whining they lost a rebellion and still waving the flag their side used... *looks at the American Deep South* oh...
I'm utterly detached from the whole Revolutionary War in every possible way. Frankly I'm glad America won it. You're your own problem now.
To be fair, though, you were kind of the bad guys.
To be even more fair, both sides were kind of dicks in equal measure. Sure we were arseholes but the kicker is that the Americans were arseholes too. There's a Cracked article about this somewhere I cannot be arsed to find and link to, but it basically points out that the "oppressive taxes" issue really wasn't that much of an issue, since most colonists barely paid them anyway and the crown didn't really give much of a shit to begin with.
Plus because we were an ocean away and the guy in charge to reporting shit to us loved us to begin with and wasn't exactly in touch with what the everyday colonists were feeling about the whole situation, we didn't even really know people were pissed off over taxes they weren't even paying. Plus you guys dragged us into a war we had no fucking reason to be fighting and then threw a *****-fit when we suggested you
maybe shoulder some of the cost of said war.
So really, let's call it a wash and move on. People are still trying to convince the Americans that they weren't the lone patriotic heroes during World War 2 that liberated Europe by themselves, do we really still need to be arguing about the
very first war you guys ever fought?
To cut a long story short: I don't give a fuck about murdering virtual old-timey British people. Though I do have some reservations about getting blood and bullet-holes in those
fabulous coats.
Bvenged said:
The Russians bit the bullet for a while as the main antagonists, so why not step it up a notch to the best nation on the planet?
A while? They're still doing that. And will be until America gets into it's next proper war (those little bullet-filled excursions into developing nations don't count) so it can find someone fresh to demonise for the sake of flag-waving bullshit and patriotic hooting.