I mean they clearly wanted to get across that the vikings weren't solely plunderers in horned helmets who jump off boats and kill people with axes. But they chose a very awkward way of sharing that information.
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I've watched Vinland Saga and thus I'm an expert in Viking culture.
I can confirm that Vikings were both farmers and raiders.
vikings definitely got disproportionately represented as raiders compared to other civilizations due to england having such a strong effect on our culture, at least
Viking is a weird word that people, often mistakenly, use to mean different things. People often use it as a catch all for norse people of a certain era but that's not really accurate. It's more specifically for people who took part in overseas expeditions, be it raiding/trading/colonizing
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Just finally watched the Ubi Forward thing and wow, having Farcry 6 leak really took the legs out from under the end, huh
Anyway I still think those games look pretty good, even if Ubisoft is the weirdest most cowardly company in existence because it's like they specifically look for subject matter that is the most politically relevant to the moment possible, and then do whatever they can to try and avoid saying anything.
It will never stop weirding me out how CEOs and other big shots at these massive companies so often have garbage ass mics for their pre recorded bits on all these digital showcases
Having worked with high level corporate officers on presentations like E3--including voice overs for digital demonstrations--let me assure you that literally none of them think recording quality is actually important. Also none of them know how to speak into a microphone, even if you coach them exhaustively. It would be distressing if it actually led to consequences for yours truly, but thankfully it never has.
I skimmed through the AC Valhalla demo and hoo boy they're just barely even bothering with regional accents this time at all huh
I know at least both versions of the main character is voiced by Danish actors. Do other viking characters not sound appropriate?
I should maybe just watch it myself.
Eivor and a couple of the other Danes sounded fine, but it seems like almost every ancillary character either sounded like a caricature or just jarringly modern American.
I skimmed through the AC Valhalla demo and hoo boy they're just barely even bothering with regional accents this time at all huh
I know at least both versions of the main character is voiced by Danish actors. Do other viking characters not sound appropriate?
I should maybe just watch it myself.
Eivor and a couple of the other Danes sounded fine, but it seems like almost every ancillary character either sounded like a caricature or just jarringly modern American.
Looking at the previews it seems like you'll be able to switch between the male and female Eivor at any time in the game this time. It's just a menu option. No having to make a decision at the start that locks you into one choice for the entire game.
Also they say they somehow tie you being able to do that into the story because I guess everything needs to be explained in game rather than "We wanted to let the player play as whichever they wanted just because".
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The DNA they're extracting the memory from is missing the chromosone information, so you can toggle the artificial information the Animus uses to complete the DNA strand from within the machine.
If they spend more than thirty seconds explaining it, they've fucked up.
it started off as some dumb memes that had some "ironic racism" in it and then of course immediately turned into full throated undisguised racism with dipshits who started taking it 100% seriously and are basically neo nazis
I can unfortunately report that all of those are real
Blackpill: aka "doomer," nihilists who often lean right-wing and/or fash just to get things over with faster because none of it matters
Tradcath: Traditional Catholic, a surprisingly recent strain of radical catholic conservatives who's politics and aesthetics are right out of the middle ages despite all of them being millenial twitter posters
Dark Enlightenment: aka neo-reactionaries, edgy "intellectual" alt-righters from before the term alt-right was a thing
I can unfortunately report that all of those are real
Blackpill: aka "doomer," nihilists who often lean right-wing and/or fash just to get things over with faster because none of it matters
Tradcath: Traditional Catholic, a surprisingly recent strain of radical catholic conservatives who's politics and aesthetics are right out of the middle ages despite all of them being millenial twitter posters
Dark Enlightenment: aka neo-reactionaries, edgy "intellectual" alt-righters from before the term alt-right was a thing
the last category wants to bring back heredity absolute monarchs and feudalism
Yeah ever since the whole FC5 situation and Ubisoft being all "our highly politicized games aren't at all political" I've kind of soured on them a bit.
Not even cause I need my entertainment to be political...just like please don't insult my intelligence like that.
I'll be looking at 6 cause Gus and I did enjoy Watch Dogs 2 in spite of all that but yeah...
I would never have actually cared if their games were remotely political but I feel betrayed because I feel like they explicitly invoked politics and then ran in the other direction. I don’t think it was fear, either, of criticism. I think it was an intentional marketing ploy. It was kind of irritating.
Far Cry 5 was, in my opinion, really excellent. But I can’t help but be really annoyed at how that played out.
According to a report from VGC, the reason we didn't see Skull & Bones is because it is currently undergoing a total reboot, away from a traditional boxed singleplayer/multiplayer package and toward a persistent world live service game, with a changing world ala Fortnite/Apex Legends. Also, the lead on the project is now Elisabeth Pellen, former VP of Ubi's editorial team who was the lead writer on XIII.
Speaking of Ubisoft being "apolitical", they appropriated First They Came For, the most famous of Holocaust poems and then changed the wording for their marketing. It's super gross.
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They were farmers. Just like when I'm playing WoW and I massacre a village for their loot I'm farming.
I can confirm that Vikings were both farmers and raiders.
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Anyway I still think those games look pretty good, even if Ubisoft is the weirdest most cowardly company in existence because it's like they specifically look for subject matter that is the most politically relevant to the moment possible, and then do whatever they can to try and avoid saying anything.
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I know at least both versions of the main character is voiced by Danish actors. Do other viking characters not sound appropriate?
I should maybe just watch it myself.
Having worked with high level corporate officers on presentations like E3--including voice overs for digital demonstrations--let me assure you that literally none of them think recording quality is actually important. Also none of them know how to speak into a microphone, even if you coach them exhaustively. It would be distressing if it actually led to consequences for yours truly, but thankfully it never has.
Eivor and a couple of the other Danes sounded fine, but it seems like almost every ancillary character either sounded like a caricature or just jarringly modern American.
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something something glitches in the Animus.
Also they say they somehow tie you being able to do that into the story because I guess everything needs to be explained in game rather than "We wanted to let the player play as whichever they wanted just because".
If they spend more than thirty seconds explaining it, they've fucked up.
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it started off as some dumb memes that had some "ironic racism" in it and then of course immediately turned into full throated undisguised racism with dipshits who started taking it 100% seriously and are basically neo nazis
I can unfortunately report that all of those are real
Tradcath: Traditional Catholic, a surprisingly recent strain of radical catholic conservatives who's politics and aesthetics are right out of the middle ages despite all of them being millenial twitter posters
Dark Enlightenment: aka neo-reactionaries, edgy "intellectual" alt-righters from before the term alt-right was a thing
the last category wants to bring back heredity absolute monarchs and feudalism
Really really should have been in the game at launch.
I would never have actually cared if their games were remotely political but I feel betrayed because I feel like they explicitly invoked politics and then ran in the other direction. I don’t think it was fear, either, of criticism. I think it was an intentional marketing ploy. It was kind of irritating.
Far Cry 5 was, in my opinion, really excellent. But I can’t help but be really annoyed at how that played out.
According to a report from VGC, the reason we didn't see Skull & Bones is because it is currently undergoing a total reboot, away from a traditional boxed singleplayer/multiplayer package and toward a persistent world live service game, with a changing world ala Fortnite/Apex Legends. Also, the lead on the project is now Elisabeth Pellen, former VP of Ubi's editorial team who was the lead writer on XIII.
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