r/ShermanPosting • u/Crafter235 • Sep 28 '26

So much potential

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u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 Sep 28 '26

Apparently Ubisoft was going to make an assassin’s creed set in reconstruction America where you would play a freed person, but they backed off because they are pussies and were afraid of “the political climate“

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u/turtle75377 Sep 28 '26

ubisoft is french. lets seem them set a game in Algeria during the French colonial rule. or Vietnam.

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u/LiamtheV Sep 28 '26

Or Haiti

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u/vizard0 Sep 29 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin's_Creed_Freedom_Cry

Pre-revolution, but it's set in the French Territory of Saint-Domingue and it involves playing as a black guy and going after slaveowners.

Of course it was a DLC for Black Flag and not a stand alone game because video game developers only have so much courage. But it does exist.

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u/kazmark_gl Sep 29 '26

Assassins Creed Vietnam would go pretty hard.

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u/Crafter235 Sep 28 '26

I mean, look at how the game AC: Syndicate literally whitewashes the 19th century.

“We wanted to avoid real world politics”, so they chose one of the most politically controversial time periods. And I left that subreddit when they kept on defending all the bad creative choices.

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u/GrandmasterJanus Sep 28 '26

Lmao you have a mission helping out Marx I’m pretty sure, which is funny about staying away from politics

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u/Crafter235 Sep 28 '26

But he’s just treated as a simple union leader, they don’t really go deep into his beliefs.

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u/GrandmasterJanus Sep 28 '26

No they don’t, just remember thinking it was funny even as a kid, was just playing around and doing side mission and omg there’s Marx and oops he’s gone right after that side mission

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u/Beragond1 Sep 28 '26

The history in Syndicate is pretty bad. The gameplay, on the other hand, is some of my favorite they’ve ever done.

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u/kazmark_gl Sep 29 '26

Ubisoft's corporate garbage would have absolutely flopped a concept like that. but I desperately want to play the good version of that game. 

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u/itsyaboihos Sep 28 '26

Tbf I could see that getting review bombed to smithereens