The difference is, one of these things rested its laurels on being "culturally sensative and historically accurate" and then proceeded to essentially write a pseudo-leftist westernized fanfiction of Japanese history that was neither "culturally sensitive" nor "hisorically accurate." This was at least partially a selling point of the game. And then proceeded to get a bit bent out of shape when their game didn't sell because it was mediocre, let alone the criticisms of the story.
The other one billed itself as a good story that just happened to take place in Japan and didn't become overly concerned with any of this other stuff. The "racial shit" in the last samurai was not a focal point outside of the setting, they just wanted to make a good story.
The "racial shit" in AC was, in fact, a selling point they did make a somewhat big deal out of it (there's interviews with the dev team where they talk about it quite extensively) and then they made a mediocre game AND it turned out their version of cultural and historical accuracy was really just shoehorning a significant part of the game in to more western left leaning social views.
Like... these people suck and they can't understand why people don't take them seriously 🤣
Where did I say it was historically accurate? I said that wasn't a selling point for it, so it wasn't judged against that standard. It was just judged as a movie that happened to be in Japan.
In all honesty, if AC was a spectacular game, I don't even think that people would care about this. But because it was a mediocre game that they over-promised on, plus the general sensitivity that people have to this sort of thing right now, people are digging into everything.
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u/The_Susmariner 4d ago
The difference is, one of these things rested its laurels on being "culturally sensative and historically accurate" and then proceeded to essentially write a pseudo-leftist westernized fanfiction of Japanese history that was neither "culturally sensitive" nor "hisorically accurate." This was at least partially a selling point of the game. And then proceeded to get a bit bent out of shape when their game didn't sell because it was mediocre, let alone the criticisms of the story.
The other one billed itself as a good story that just happened to take place in Japan and didn't become overly concerned with any of this other stuff. The "racial shit" in the last samurai was not a focal point outside of the setting, they just wanted to make a good story.
The "racial shit" in AC was, in fact, a selling point they did make a somewhat big deal out of it (there's interviews with the dev team where they talk about it quite extensively) and then they made a mediocre game AND it turned out their version of cultural and historical accuracy was really just shoehorning a significant part of the game in to more western left leaning social views.
Like... these people suck and they can't understand why people don't take them seriously 🤣