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assassins creed odyssey making what is undoubtedly a ton of money off gay people buying the game to play as gay characters and then adding a dlc where your character ends up in a straight relationship and has a baby, unlocking the achievement “growing up” (lmao) no matter what choices you made is just *chefs kiss* video games
you’d think they’d know a bit better in 2019 and yet,,,
Some of y'all haven’t put 200+ hours into a game romping and romancing your way through ancient Greece as a badass queer mercenary only to end up in a forced heterosexual relationship with a baby, so you can “grow up” and it really shows.
My two cents: Look, I’m not burning my AC: Odyssey, but I’m certainly not interested in finishing this DLC and feel like I wasted my money. Bottom line, this is disingenuous on Ubisoft’s part. This game’s success has been about the choices and consequences and to take that from players at the end is a real kick in the gut and it wasn’t necessary.
And don’t give me the “bloodlines” speech. This isn’t about bloodlines. As far as continuity is concerned, the animus can be used by anyone. There’s no real impetus to continue the line unless (as someone else said) Desmond or Layla or Aveline or Edward or somebody is a direct descendant of Kassandra.
In the end, I as gamer who chose to play Kassandra as a lesbian, I got played. If you played Alexios as gay you got played. And if you played as bi or straight you still had your choice taken from you. Reading comments and responses is exposing people’s privileges and it’s too hard to make y'all get the point because you’ve never been marginalized. There were other options. The Atlantis storyline takes away any rush to have a child (and least of all with Nut-tacos) and quite frankly having a kid in the middle of a war seems crazy town. Kassandra seems smarter than that.
Anyway, AC is one of my favorite franchises and I’ve been singing the praises of this game for months. At this point, I’m telling folks to not bother with the DLC. This development was unnecessary and I’d really like someone to make it make sense.
End rant. Big sigh. Peace and soul grease.
Really well put. I just submitted this as a story to Polygon. Maybe some miracle would happen and they’d take it up. I just need Ubisoft to know they fucked up because I’m really not sure they do.
Cheat on each other or anyone else (especially not if the cheating is portrayed as romantic).
Die tragically, violently or AT ALL.
To all the people in the notes going “but but tragedy is a valid form of…” Yeah, sorry, straights broke it with decades of nothing but tragedy for LGBT characters. This is a moratorium on all such tragedy films with tragic endings for at least the next 50-75 years at which point there will be a review to determine if mainstream media has EARNED it.
From 1922 to 1968 the Motion Picture Production Code(commonly known as the Hays Code) enforced rules regarding the treatment of gay characters in tv and film. Homosexuality and gender nonconformity could be acknowledged, but it had to be punished to show that consequences would come from such “immorality.” Showing these characters as creepy, predatory, unfaithful, etc etc was common, and for decades pretty much every queer or queer coded character was brutally murdered. The homophobic tropes born from the Hays code are pervasive in media today. The sheer amount of tragedy and violence written into queer media in the last century has in the long term damaged people’s perceptions of what queer stories are “supposed” look like.
New Bechdel-like test for gay/lesbian romance films: If your queer piece of media complies with the Hays code, start over.
