E3 Conference Thoughts

Ubi dug themselves into a hole with how they phrased it. Even if it is pretty late in development, they could always just add the female Assassin in a free DLC to the game whenever they got around to finishing the modeling and everything. Assuming they do proceed to do that later, unfortunately the damage is already set.

 

Yeah, though the people unfamiliar with the series are making the hole unfairly deep, not aware that there have been plenty of female Assassins shown, never mind a playable one

 

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That's what's stupid though, they've already had customisable female multiplayer characters before. To say they can't now is a lie, they're simply saying they won't. The animator for ACIII, who also worked on Mass Effect 1 & 2 and now works at Naughty Dog, made an educated guess that the actual animation work would take a few days to complete not the 8000 unique animation changes that Ubi argued was one fo the reasons. He said that most animations are androgynous, it's mainly the idle stances and walking/running animations that are sexed specifically to give visual character. He even quipped 'look at FemShep.' [link]
It's a step backwards in many ways. I get why they''ve done it, you as the main character will always see yourself as Arno, the main character. To others in co-op you will be seen as someone else, one of several male assassins like in the trailers. But why can't you specifically choose how you want to look to others if they're going to generate a customised character anyway? Even Halo has allowed you to play as a woman in the main campaign, and still does in its multiplayer, with customisable armours. How is it you can't customise your multiplayer character to show off to others? They say it's too costly, in effort, money and time, so they cut women altogether. Dragon Age: Inquisition originally was going to have you play only as a Human, yet because the fans wanted to pick between different races as they did in the original, Bioware decided to return the elves and dwarves to pick from, and even introduce the Qunari as an option to play as. And of both sexes as well. So that's 6 extra (8 altogether) body structures, animations, textures and so on for them to include. But because it's what their fans wanted, they aimed to do it. Ubisoft just don't seem to give a **** about adding more to their game even if they know people want it.

Have you played The Last of Us?

 

Can't say that I have- all I know is it's Ellie's story and Joel's the protagonist.

 

Play the game.

 

With what PS3/PS4? It's out of my reach. Is Ellie playable? Like, equally? it doesn't really hurt my point if not... I get she was written REALLY WELL (at least, so I'm told) but that's... different.

 

She's playable for a small segment near the end of the game but is the protag of the Left Behind DLC.

 

Yeah, I mentioned Left Behind earlier. There's a big difference between observing a good female character and interacting with a world as a female character. I'm not against or with Ubi on this one, just pointing out there's a difference.

 

I kind of like the theory that we'll be playing as Aryll. Based on the landscape it couldn't possibly be Windwaker era, but I can always hope, right?

We will play Splatoon together forever and ever.

 

ME, YOU, @Novashadow , AND @Trigger CAN BE A PLATOON

 

**** man, Scalebound and Sunset Overdrive. I guess I need an Xbox One.

 

Maybe I just want to see Link in royalty garb.

Personally I'm all for it being Zelda or Fem!Link, but hell, Aryll would be cool too.

 

So, nobody thinks it's Ganondorf you play as in the new Zelda game? I think that would be neat ;P

 

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Actually yeah that would be a really big plot twist.

 

The character in the trailer is apparently wearing Gerduo style arm bands, so it's not that impossible

 

I was half-joking. I'm not really a fan of The Legend of Zelda, but I think playing as the quintessential villain for once would be a cool twist.