Assassin's Creed Devs Don't Hate the British

[SL33TBL1ND]

To be fair, though, you were kind of the bad guys.

And oh, how times have changed.

 

[Artemis923]

Lame. I'm an American, and I don't want to fight solely on the Rebel side...I want it to be like AC1, where Templars were found on both sides.

That, and I have an overwhelming desire to go after George Washington...

 

[Clearing the Eye]

A product depicting a war in which the British were involved, has some British soldiers die? Oh the controversy.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go back to slaughtering Arabs in my Modern Battlefield: Clancy Warfare 2013 game.

 

[Amnestic]

You expected a sequel to game where you could share a bro-hug with leonardo da vinci that is set in revolution-era America to

NOT

have you exchange dialogue with George Washington?

Exchanging dialogue is one thing. Riding casually on horseback surrounded by a retinue of Colonialists is another.

 

[Frostbyte666]

being British all I can say is meh, as long as it doesn't show the revolutionists being pristine white goody goodies and British soldiers being baby eating demons no problem and they keep away from the Mel Gibson rascism (Patriot and Braveheart pissed me off). Though I would say it is very odd to have freedom, liberty, etc. etc. coming across while a native american is butchering british soldiers since native americans were, you know, butchered by the colonials and other nations.

 

[Giftmacher]

To be fair, it'd be rather hard to avoid killing red coats in a game set in the midst of the war for independence.

And yes, we were wrong. Irritatingly there were even British members of parliament who pointed this out. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Speech_against_the_Stamp_Act] Seriously, we were undermining our *own* democratic ideals and "winning" in the Americas might have set a terrifying precedent that we'd still suffer under today. Splitting with the US was bitter medicine, but better that than the police state alternative. For example, who knows how long it might have taken to get universal voting rights in the UK had we won?

Anyway, we're all friends now right?

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

Same argument, if Ubi had the balls to kill a single Blue Coat in a trailer then I'd believe it, right now everything they say is just bouncing straight off "We aren't anti-British, we just solely kill them while stars n stripes fly in the background" >_> I'm not even bothered that the game is all about killing British soldiers, I'm bothered they're pretending it isn't. Also bothered they made him part British/part Mohawk then appear to have thrown history out the window and made him a colonist.

Lame. I'm an American, and I don't want to fight solely on the Rebel side...I want it to be like AC1, where Templars were found on both sides.

That, and I have an overwhelming desire to go after George Washington...

Never before have I gone from reading something to having the exact same thought as I did just then. If the end game is Connor assassinating George Washington onto the declaration of independence (hell, if they just make the founding fathers Templars) then all is officially forgiven Ubi.

 

[GasparNolasco]

I don't see a division so easy as Good Guys/Bad Guys in a war like this. Specially when seem by the point of view of a Native American.
I was expecting Connor to kill on both sides of the war like they did in the first game and in Revelations, would be kind of a bummer if they Americanize this too much by making you fight the Bad Guys in red and defend the Bad Guys in blue.

 

[banthro]

Well surely it will be just like the first AC right? You're Arab and you're grudge is against the Templars, yet you fight both Crusaders and Arabs because you are a neutral party in their conflict.

 

[J Tyran]

I can see why they picked the period, it was an interesting and pivotal point in history. But if its assassins Vs Templar's why is he hanging out with George Washington?

In case anyone is unfamiliar the Freemasons share some links with the Knights Templar.

 

[Metalrocks]

this interview tells who we kill.
http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/06/aj-e3-2012-ubisoft-interviews/

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

But then this one game appears that has the gall to show some British imperialists getting slit up and suddenly we all start losing our shit. Really guys? I mean really?

It's because Ubisoft is French, and nobody likes the French. Everything the French do is out of spite and their cheese-smelling evil. This is fact.

 

[Timberwolf0924]

Who else wants to hear an enemy say "buggar" when you stab and or shoot him?

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

But then this one game appears that has the gall to show some British imperialists getting slit up and suddenly we all start losing our shit. Really guys? I mean really?

I'm still having the problem with Ubisoft claiming it's anything other than 'Murika f*ck yeah'. If it is, that's fine, it's showing the war from one side, a little dissapointing from AC but I can live with it. It's constantly claiming 'nono, we aren't anti-British' while simultaneously showing Connor killing Redcoats with a glorious stars n stripes backdrop while chilling with his best friend George Washington.

I dunno, I just reckon if they'd done this the other way round with a British Assassin killing Templar Bluecoats there would have been a vastly bigger shitstorm than we're kicking up.

Captcha: pumpkin pie, yessiree

 

[Sparrow]

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?

As long as we get to kill our fair share of Americans, I doubt I'll care much. Would it kill someone to make a game where America is the goddamn bad guy, though?

 

[M-E-D The Poet]

To be fair, though, you were kind of the bad guys.

And you needed the french to win.

We'd rather lose than ally with them.

See? Latent historical resentment. I knew it!

Seeing as I'm Irish born this may sound a little silly but :
They weren't the bad guys, colonies are colonies, the people living in those colonies came from the european mainland, they drove out the native americans (which the protagonist is) with force and underhanded dealings.

The war for american independence had little to do with culture but more with " Oh look we've got ourselves a country seperated at great distance from a different country constantly taking money from us, how about we be our own country"


It's not like in Ireland where the native population is being opressed and huge cultural differences develop into war.

You see the U.S is to the native Americans, what Britain is to Ireland.
The only difference is that the native Americans lost.


Point and case MR. Funk, don't talk about history if you know nothing of the laws of cause and effect or circumstance.

Especially when you can't put things into context.

 

[Flames66]

That is not a part of my nations history I am particularly proud of. I don't see a problem with it anyway, it's fiction.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

There's no latent anti-Brit feeling but naturally we're the ones who are siding with the evil faceless Templars hellbent on world domination and kill people to create order as opposed to the nice faced Assassins hellbent on letting the world be a shit place and kill people for money. I'm still going to get this game but I was always slightly uncomfortable with the idea of using extreme free-running skills to effortlessly slaughter huge numbers of British soldiers.....