JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
Worst history rape was still what they did to Byzantines in Revelations. SUPERTOLERANT PROGRESSIVE MULTICULTURAL OTTOMAN EMPIRE VS REACTIONARY CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN OPPRESSORS
AC Liberation has chick protagonist. But it's also probably most boring game in series, because most of time you spend slogging through Louisiana swamps.I'd prefer the story of the series if it was just about being an assassin dude (or even assassin chick, you know they'll do that in one of the games one of these days) running through historical cities and killing people. I don't even give a fuck about the story, this is basically historical GTA with a pretend-stealth theme (cuz there's no actual stealth lul), and my impression is that most people play it for the same reason - parkour through cool historical locations, kill people, be badass assassin. Renaissance GTA.
In 1, the crusaders were actual, historical bad guys
Worst history rape was still what they did to Byzantines in Revelations. SUPERTOLERANT PROGRESSIVE MULTICULTURAL OTTOMAN EMPIRE VS REACTIONARY CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN OPPRESSORS
Doesn't explain why they cream themselves over 2 so much though...
EDIT: Massive lol at the transgender character. Victorian England was indeed very much known for their transsexuals and open sexual values. I honestly don't care about any character in any story as long as that character is added for artistic reasons. This one is not. It's just added because there is a 'demand.' Fuck that as it triggers every part of the indicators of artistic bankruptcy: homogeneity, fear, self-censorship, trend pursuit, relevance consideration and concern for the audience.
But from the two sequences of Syndicate's story that were available to play, it's important to note that Wynert's story does not involve his gender and, in the scenes we saw, is not even remarked upon. Wynert has also not featured in any marketing to date.
old said:"designed, developed and produced by a multicultural team of various religious faiths and beliefs."
new said:"Inspired by historical events and characters, this work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multicultural team of various beliefs, sexual orientations and gender identities."
They only really got the hang of their cookie-cutter open world formula with Assassin's Creed 2. Assassin's Creed 1, along with Far Cry 2, were made in those awkward years between the release of FC1 and AC2, where they were still basically just throwing ideas at the wall to see what stuck., which is why the latter felt so bare-bones and repetitive content-wise.Replayed AC 1 for a bit recently and was amazed at how badly it has aged. Did like the story, walking around old Jerusalem and grabbing people and using them to soak up arrows but otherwise the gameplay was shit.
I am really out of touch with those issues, but can anyone remind me how exactly people switched genders in the 19th centuries ?
This was especially important to early Americans. At this time, the difference between male and female was more social (gender) than biological (sex). Women's genitals were seen as simply inverted forms of males' genitals. If a woman portrayed masculine traits too often, her genitals could fall out as a penis. Men's penes could likewise go back into their bodies if they were too feminine. The case of Thomas/ine Hall shows this -- because Virginians were unable to determine Hall's sex, they reinforced the sexual ambiguity through clothing.
While I don't have much to offer in the realm of historical information that others could not provide, I do want to warn against the error of presentism, as well as Euro-Centrism when approaching this topic.
Much in the same way we have cautioned over and over and over again in this sub when it comes to gender roles as well as homosexual relationships, you have to remember that the modern concepts of transgenderism only goes back to the 1920's and was created by Magnus Hirschfeld in Germany. Since then men such as Harry Benjamin have furthered the modern understanding of transgendered people.
With this in mind, do not read into past accounts of people who did not subscribe to normal gender roles or dress through the same framework you would today. Even the Fa'afafine who exist today in American Samoa are not to be framed through Western concepts with complete accuracy.
Understand the time periods expectations of gender and sexuality before you start pointing at eunuchs or others in the past and proclaim them transgender.
you have to remember that the modern concepts of transgenderism only goes back to the 1920's and was created by Magnus Hirschfeld in Germany.
Magnus Hirschfeld in Germany.
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld
(14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a Jewish physician and sexologist educated primarily in Germany
Jewish physician
Haven't played the game, but Ottomans at the time were indeed more multi-cultural and multi-confessional than Europe. And more tolerant because of that. Otherwise all of Balkans would be Muslim now, instead of patches here and there.Worst history rape was still what they did to Byzantines in Revelations. SUPERTOLERANT PROGRESSIVE MULTICULTURAL OTTOMAN EMPIRE VS REACTIONARY CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN OPPRESSORS
Haven't played the game, but Ottomans at the time were indeed more multi-cultural and multi-confessional than Europe. And more tolerant because of that. Otherwise all of Balkans would be Muslim now, instead of patches here and there.
Pity more: I actually did a 100% playthrough of unity... OCD stupidity maxed out.
That doesn't mean there weren't any forced conversions, and the Ottomans weren't the peace-loving super-progressive guys shown in the game, while the heir to the Byzantine empire, last of the Komnenoi, is a evil scheming bad guy who is also a templar. It's so goddamn fucking ridiculous.
I primarily cast Assassins Creed under the same net as shit like Vikings and Spartacus, i.e. historical fiction designed for stupid people who don't know much about history. Though the latter two at least have the excuse that they cover people that we don't have any first-hand historical records of, so the writers are able to be a bit liberal with their personalities.