I just read a comment on Unity's lack of lady assassins where the guy said "I much rather wait for the right game with the right historical setting to have a female Assassin. Than have one in just for the sake of having one," and I'm like, "IT'S SET IN THE FUCKING FRENCH REVOLUTION! DO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THAT ENTIRE PERIOD OF HISTORY?! WOMEN WERE EVERYWHERE! THEY MARCHED ON VERSAILLES WITH WEAPONS AND IT WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST EVENTS OF THE REVOLUTION! THEY DID SO MUCH SHIT AND THE MOST FAMOUS ASSASSIN OF THE WHOLE GODDAMN REVOLUTION IS A WOMAN!"
And the animation director of ACIII already debunked the "omg it'd take so much extra work!" excuse.
And some people're all "What's the point of having a multiplayer avatar that only your friends can see in-game because you only play as Arno?" and I'm like "You can customize the face of your stubbly assassin that no one but your friends can see, so shut up, fool."
When does that guy want a woman assassin? In the thrilling next installment, "Assassin's Creed: US Women's Suffrage Movement" ?
It could be fun to run around beating up the men force-feeding women who got imprisoned. I'd also enjoy punching Susan B. Anthony since she was actually a racist bitch, but I digress.
I have no idea what that guy was talking about. That just seems to be the go-to excuse. "Oh there's not a time period appropriate for ladies. They just stay at home cooking and stuff..." Like how the one ACIII guy said the American Revolution was men's history or some bullshit. Yeah, because women weren't the ones revolutionizing the medical field and they damn sure weren't disguising themselves and going to the battlefield as soldiers...
I just wanna shake Ubisoft like "You keep doing these things that are important to representation and that you could do more of and then you fuck it up because you're too lazy! Stop fucking it up!"
I didn't know Susan B. Anthony was racist. Wasn't she the one who was big in anti-slavery before she focused on women?
She was, but she was also like "I'd rather die than see black women get the vote." Okay, she was not actually like that, but she was pissed off that black men might get to vote before white women could and she was like "omfg why are they getting voting rights? they were just slaves! they're too stupid for politics!!" and was a fake ally that way
I really conflict with this series because I love it and love the idea, but I haven't finished a single game. I am just bad with storyline/rpg type games because I play them for a week or two then life gets really busy. Then I forget what I was doing last and I like to get the whole story so I restart and same thing happens. But I want to play this series all the way through so bad and get the full breadth of it. Maybe I'll start now that summer is here and school is done.
Also the setting reminded me of Les Miz. When he was climbing the barricade, I was waiting for someone to say "Who's there?" "FRENCH REVOLUTION!" "FIIIIIIIIIIRE!!!"
I'd better be able to find Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and be able to hit people with baguettes. And I want to be able to run around all of Versailles. I don't care that it's outside of Paris. If you set a game in the French Revolution, you'd fucking better be able to go to the palace.
I confused Jane Raymond and Patrice Désilets (two of the AC creators) in a conversation (because I didn't read closely enough and have never known that there're guys called Patrice) and I'm like "lemme just go crawl into a hole" even though I corrected myself pretty fast and gained two new followers on Tumblr after.
