Thunderous Cacophony said:
However, they are all assassins with the same lean body type, all wearing hoods and coats, and -most importantly- all presumably Frenchmen in the 1790's.
Unless french men from the 18th century were cloned in a vat, that still doesn't mean they have to be uniform. It's not like Assassins have been defined as one specific thing.
The people are going to look much the same if they want to keep even a veneer of historical accuracy (at least in terms of race; AFAIK, at this time France was still supporting the slave trade and there were very few free non-white people running around Paris).
Slavery was abolished in the 1780s. Even before then, the idea that there were very free free non-whites is ridiculous. There were very few free non-whites of higher status, yes.
This rationalisation of why historically speaking we need TEH WITE GUISE is getting absurd. I cannot wait for an AC game set in Edo period Japan with people insisting "of course it makes sense the protagonist is a white guy!" because we're already pretty much pretending the rest of history was white, so why not Japan? Or howabout pre-Columbian America. Maybe we can have a white Assassin in the Kingdom of Kongo?
Because it's really not that far off. We've white-washed everything else. Except American history, where we're suddenly quick to admit that history was nuanced.
Still, I'd like to see some confirmation Jim was talking racism/sexism and not just making a stab at how these guys seem to have the AC version of Space Marine Syndrome. They do look like clones with slightly different facial hair, or....
Lilani said:
Yeah, if I didn't know any better, I'd look at that and wonder if perhaps they were doing a game where you play as one character but in four different situations or realities, and each of these is representing the four scenarios.
OMG! Assassin's Scree: Shattered Dimensions! I wonder which one is Noir Assassin and which one is Ultimate Assassin!
But yeah, I think this is just a joke. I'm not even sure it would count as racism. It just looks like lazy cloning.
But since we're going there....
Rozalia1 said:
So the right end one doesn't have more of a olive skin look, while the left end one has more of a...Germanic look?
Okay, I've seen all the pictures on page 1 and I haven't seen this "olive skin" yet. As far as the "germanic" guy, all I see is different facial hair. If that's enough to make a guy germanic, then I guess that counts. But I think that's grasping at straws. Then again, I think this whole thing is/
Unless Jim's said something that's been quoted on page 2 or 3. in which case, allow me to stand corrected prematurely.