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[freddie_1897]

I never micro manage what the story arch to games are. being that it is just a games storyline... the opportunity to purchase something offered to the rest of the world is a real issue. not a game storyline. that is a make believe issue. Real issue of discrimination vs make believe storyline. there were no Assassin's Creed Assassins in the war of Independence. so we all understand it is a work of fiction based on historical events. if Connor kills colonist so be it. he was raised native American. I am not going to get all bent about that...

I watch movies all the time that do not bother me because they are make believe. however discrimination be it institutional individual or racist remarks do bother me. That is a real issue. I have reads no less than one hundred hateful posts and ethnocentric remarks towards my country. I may refute them. but I believe people should be allowed to express themselves with free speech. regardless of whether I agree with them or not. That is once again real life. I would not think to censer or complain to a writer of a fictional book because I did not like the content. or game. Secret wars MMO for Example the United States is the Illuminati back stabbers. power hungry ect. Europe is the Templars. they stand for justice and good ect. Asia is the Dragons which is Chaos, I do not have a problem with that. even though many here would have a cow over it and call it propaganda ect. It's just a game. Now if they offered the United states players the game for 60 bucks and no additional content. and the rest of the world received additional content I would complain. because that is a REAL WORLD ISSUE. not a make believe storyline issue. I cannot believe I have to sit here and explain the difference to you.

it's not that different, while AC3 may not be real world the setting is, and their marketing is. the real thing i'm annoyed about is their marketing strategy. they are appealing to the US, fine, but now they've appealed enough, i thing they should change their marketing strategy now into something that isn't so controversial, because if the game is made to appeal to americans then we are gonna have a pretty boring time.

if AC3 is made out to be colonists=good, redcoats=bad, then the game will be both boring, and incorrect. while the redcoats may have been complete arseholes back then and on the whole i agree with what your saying, it shouldn't be taken to seriously, as long as the game isn't based on appealing to the US market then I'm fine, i'll happily kill redcoats, but i want to be able to get through one LP on youtube where their aren't 4 million racist comments about English people coming from some nationalistic arsehole because frankly us British are hated enough already and anything that fuels that is a bad thing by my standards.

and about my comment, their doesn't have to be a similarity between the 2 types of sensitivity, a sensitive topic is a sensitive topic, an english person can be sensitive about someone telling them that they have bad teeth and are football hooligans (soccer), just like americans can be sensitive about people burning their flags, with different cultures comes different views, we have our controversial british humour, America has their patriotism, both things are viewed differently by either cultures, but both views are equally valid, what one person finds sensitive another does not, if i like carrots, you do not have to like carrots, if i like rock music, you can like classical, everyone views things differently, but neither views wrong, and what one person finds sensitive, the other doesn't have to.

[steveeire]

every time I see the title of this thread I end up singing that song of lady ga ga's

[Sabastian_AC]

I’d like to address the whole “MURICA!” issue for a second by reminding people that this is, at the end of the day, an Assassin’s Creed game. It is not Call of Duty or Medal of Honor. Connor is not a soldier in the Colonial Army; the developers made him a Native American so that he would be removed from the obvious conflict. We have been shown gameplay of Connor killing redcoats, but what we don’t know is exactly why he is killing these men, and that is important.

This is pure theory, but I don’t think it’s completely out of the question to imagine that there is some kind of conspiracy involving a selection of British and Colonial figures (who died during the time period covered by the game) that Conor is trying uncover. I believe that these figures and their plot to exert control on the North American Continent (be it through Royal or Colonial control) will be the driving plot of the game.

If Conor is targeting a British general during a battle, it would make sense that he would have to cut his way through more than a few redcoats. Remember, if the targets in ACIII are going to be generals (like Pitcarin at Bunker Hill) who actually died during battles, then Connor will likely not be stabbing them in their beds.

To address the redcoat issue, it is important to remember that the British had a significant military presence in New York and Boston during the war, so it makes sense that they would be playing the part of “rooftop guard” in ACIII. Will we be killing a lot of redcoats? Yes, but I think, like the guards in other AC games, these redcoats will die simply because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Locopells]

We back at the beginning already?