• OttoVonNoobOP
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      4 months ago

      Yes, right wing gamer guy has full on panic attack black samurai in AC game because it’d inaccurate. But Black Samurai existed historically and did quite well on top of that complaining about a game being historically accurate when golden apple god bomb exists is wild…

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        The “historical accuracy” discourse on games is really frustrating. Good games care about player immersion. If representing historically uncommon physical characteristics make it easier for contemporary players to identify with characters, it’s a plus.

    • liquidparasyte@pawb.social
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      4 months ago

      Considering that the goober on the right is Grummz, and the image on the left is a traditional Japanese illustration of a samurai, I’m going to go with: Yes

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    So this is why yasuke (black retainer to obu nobunaga) was trending on wikipedia a while back.