What comic is that from? The art looks familiar, but I can’t put my finger on where I’ve seen it before.
Jesus, that was the inspiration for this comic? Man, Ubisoft isn’t even pretending anymore that there was any other reason Jade Raymond was front and center for all the Assassin’s Creed hype than because she’s hot.
The more I hear about this whole comic-kerfuffle makes me side with the comic maker. Yes, it’s crude, but I’m almost surprised the game wasn’t published as Jade Ramond’s Assassin’s Creed for all the facetime she got (and she’s not even the director).
Ah, I got it. Dave Cheung’s Chugworth Academy. A bit over the top, even for him. Not very funny, but if a company is going to whore out one of its employees to sell a game, they can’t really complain when she’s portrayed as a whore in the popular media.
Huh, I’d been keeping an eye on the trailers and articles about the game, and I never heard of her before this thread. shrugs
While I think the “win a date” thing is awfully sleazy, I also think the comic is way over-the-line inappropriate about making their point. I used to read Chugworth Academy for a little, and one of my frustrations about it was that they were talented enough to make a point or write a funny story without resorting to being ultra low brow, but always kept resorting to it. I mean, I loved South Park when it came out, but that kind of humor gets really tired after a while, IMHO. You just get numbed to how “shocking” it is, or you get offended.
Oh, check her wikipedia page, she’s actually got some pretty decent credentials in game development. I’m not saying anything about how involved she was with this game, just that maybe she deserves more respect than that.
I’m prying myself away from the game long enough to post this, get lunch, watch the UGA-UK game (go Dawgs!), and then I’m back in. I love this game so far. The criticism about it being somewhat repetitive may be accurate, but I don’t mind – doing the same thing over and over when that same thing is incredibly fun isn’t a bad thing to me. I feel like a complete badass, and I love the fact that you can be undetectably stealthy but aren’t so weak that a stray rock will kill you, as it is in some other assassin-type games.
This is just plain fun fun fun. Fun fun fun fun fun. I loves it. My only complaint so far is that the guy who voices Altair does NOT do a good job at all. Everyone else sounds so appropriate, so nicely accented and immersing, and then here comes my main character who sounds like an angry newscaster. Grr.
Agree. The voice acting is not really bad, but it jars with all the other voices: everyone else in the game (so far) sounds like a Spaniard or vaguely ME. Your character sounds like a caucasian american 20th century jock. Then again, maybe that’s intentional, since on some level he really is some 20th century guy, thanks to the lame backstory, but I find it clashes quite badly.
So far (and I’m maybe an hour in or so), its mostly cool, but some of the stuff is tedious. I just got a horse, and to “blend” in and not be attacked, you have to walk the horse almost everywhere. So why the hell do I have a horse then?
I can see why Ubi’s upset, but if Jade Raymond’s going to do a Maxim spread that’s to be expected. To me the nerds are clearly whackin’ to (and on) the mag and fantasizing about her as they fap. Somehow this seems less offensive than representing her as a cum dumpster. The fact is she’s a very pretty woman, and that fact alone will sell pallets of games.
I ask myself that almost every day. 
Guys, I fucking love this game. I think Mike from Penny Arcade is spot on–if you rush through everything and don’t treat it like the sandbox it is, you might not like it. Many of the actions are repetitive, but you don’t have to do them in some kind of order. Just go out and fuck around. I think that this game’s going to be loved or hated, but I’m definitely in the “love” category.
The animation is gorgeous, and I think this game illustrates that you can pump polygons and bump-map/light-map/normal-map all day, but that if your animation sucks it still looks like a game. The animations alone make this a prettier game than most.
Always have the hidden blade selected if you’re walking around the streets. This may seem obvious, but I’ve sneaked up behind someone and pressed X too many times to have Altair suddenly whip out his sword and clock some guard in the face with it.
Usually I sidle up behind guards holding A, trying to stay in someone’s blind spot. Once you’re in range quickly tap X to assassinate, then mash A again and walk off in a random direction. When you find a ladder, take it up. It seems like you have a window of one to two seconds (while the guard is staggering around) where nobody notices that anything’s amiss. Usually I don’t have any trouble getting away scot-free.
Often, when the next guard is examining the body. I shiv him too. One would think the growing pile of bodies might tip them off to not stand there alone, but oh well.
“WHO HAS DONE THIS! SHOW YOURSE–URRRRRK”
I know some guys in the industry (not at the producer level though), and they’ve said things to the effect of: Jade Raymond is extremely talented, and it’s a byproduct of the male-centric gamer culture that she’s not taken more seriously. Seriously, this “win-a-date” bullshit is about the stupidest thing Ubisoft could have done. I’m quite certain the people marketing Ubi’s games are well aware of her unique appeal.
Anyone remember Stevie (Killcreek) Case?
Yeah, she was a programmer at Ion Storm, married John “He Will Make You His Bitch” Romero, posed for Playboy, divorced Romero and left the industry.
Ubisoft is smarter than that and should realize a corporate sponsered “Win a date with Jade Raymond” contest is 100x more insulting than some random Internet dweeb’s dirty cartoon.
I’ve never heard of Jade Raymond. Yes, she’s hot, but I don’t care about that.
I heard about the game beforehand and I’ve only heard about this promotion here. I don’t care about it (although I can’t say I wouldn’t mind it…) but the game looks pretty beefy.
I’m still held by Halo 3.
I dunno, this seems like a step down the path of an abuse victim “asking for it” for the way they’re dressed. I don’t think you’re saying that, but still.
My BF was terribly excited about this game, and I spent the past several days watching him play because it is so beautiful. Plus he likes to quiz me about the historical aspect. I do like the fact that all of the bigshots you’re trying to assassinate are real men who were in the Holy Land and actually died in 1191 (not necessarily assassinated, but it’s cool that it’s plausible). In fact, I pulled out one of my books from this semester on Henry II, flipped through to a lineage of the kings of Jerusalem, and said, “Hey, that guy you’re about to assassinate- I’ve just been reading about his cousin. See, here’s how he’s related to the king of England. I knew that name sounded familiar!”
BF beat the game in a couple of days, though. He has a bad habit of doing that. He hasn’t told me what his total gameplay was, but he’s been coming home from work and basically monopolizing the living room TV until he goes to bed.
He (and I) was disappointed that
the game ends so abruptly. You’ve been gradually hearing more and more about some sinister plot going on in the present (future?) when you take a break from the animus. Then suddenly after you’ve finished the work you were doing in the animus, you get crazy vision and see all these symbols and writing written all over the walls and floors. Then it’s over. Really leaves you hanging, but obviously leaves room for a sequel.
I know I spoiler-boxed that, but that’s a pretty major spoiler, so I wouldn’t read that until you’re pretty close to beating the game.
You did not just compare this to rape, right?
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was saying. :dubious: And if fapping onto a pictorial spread is to be considered abuse, I hereby tender my sincerest apologies to Jenny McCarthy and Sharon Stone. It was a youthful indiscretion quickly swabbed with a tissue. I am terribly ashamed.
I wasn’t trying to be that inflammatory. But some of the “they had it coming” responses do make me uncomfortable (I’m not singling out El Cid). And that comic was fairly offensive, and not funny. YMMV.
Well, I just said that you weren’t saying that.
But it’s still just a comic and not rape. And if Jade Raymond is actually appearing in Maxim, then I think that certifiably makes her an attention-whore, and thus the comic (while extremely exaggerated) is spot-on.
I thought it was beyond parody, and quite vicious. Especially when singling someone out by name and likeness. Again, YMMV.
Well, an attention whore or some attractive woman that was offered the chance to show off a side that few to little would normally see. I can’t think of an equal analogy that applies to men, though. I can’t see faulting a man for doing something similar, so why would I fault a woman? If you’ve got it, flaunt it.