Comments by "" (@timogul) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions"
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Laziness is no excuse. Just because it's cheaper to record the same dialog doesn't mean that it's justified. AC shouldn't be a fantasy game, the franchise originally took their historical setting seriously. The only difference between the setting in an AC game and the real world should be the covert activities of the Templars and Assassins behind the scenes of known history.
"AC has never been a historical simulation, and when AC fans complain about historical inaccuracy it's usually only when the developers make playable female characters. They're alright with Ancient Aliens creating humanity as a slave race and Assassins being an ancient order of freedom fighters locked in an endless battle with the Knights Templar who are a prehistoric evil conspiracy controlling the world from the shadows, though. At least there are no cooties there."
This paragraph betrays a prejudice that's unwarranted. This is not about having a female protagonist, I've been playing as female protagonists in most of the games I've played over the past few years. I bought a PS4 just to play Horizon on. But if you do have a female protagonist in a historical simulation game, the character needs to be portrayed accurately to that time period. A female character can be an exception to rules, she can behave any way she wants, but that society should react to her presence as that society would react.
As I said, part of the draw of this series is that it portrays an alternate depiction of history. The entire point of it is that it should be a history that could have happened in our real world, and we were just unaware of certain aspects. This franchise is not and should not be about "fantasy" where the setting is only loosely related to the real world, that is what God of War is for. If Ubisoft wants to make a game like that, they can, but they should call it something other than Assassin's Creed.
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I think one of the core elements of Mary Sues that you leave out is that they should be foreign to the established narrative. I think that if you write an original story, like Dragon Ball, then you're free to make the lead as "Mary Sue" as you like without criticism. If you add on to Dragon Ball, like Dragon Ball GT, let's say, and add a new character who's better and cooler than everyone from the original series, then you might face a Mary Sue complaint for it. This is why a character like Rey is much more of a lightning rod for "Sueism" than a character like Luke, because Luke was an original protagonist, whereas Rey showed up, attracted the attention and love of all the old cast, showed off powers and capabilities that the old cast were not as adept with, etc. If the Force Awakens had been the first Star Wars anyone had ever seen, I doubt there would have been any "Mary Sue" claims about Rey, but as a sequel work, the examples are pretty blatant.
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Interesting point about mistakes, but I do think it just tends to boil down to "everything is because some writer said so." Writers don't set up situations where the die roll is a critical fail so they just scrap the whole idea. If a character makes a mistake, it's not happenstance, it's because the writer made him make a mistake, and writers just don't seem to do that very often. They don't set up situations only to then defuse that situation by an error, unless that error brings greater meaning to the plot. It's like Chekhov's gun, you don't show the gun unless you intend to use it, you don't have the character make a mistake unless there's some larger point to the mistake. Characters do make mistakes fairly often though, if there's a reason.
Stragely, Naruto actually does a solid job of countering a few of your points in this one (not that it invalidates them in general, just that it defies them). Tsunade is the 4th Hokage, and while it could be argued that Naruto sometimes sidelines her as the hero does, she is in charge, and while she exhibits masculine traits like massive physical strength, when it comes down to it her most effective role on the battlefield is as a healer. Likewise, Naruto often makes mistakes, like when he had a big showstopper new attack that he was using for the first time in combat, but on the first attempt it sputtered out completely, forcing everyone to regroup and try again. If not for that, the fight would have been practically over at that point.
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Flash once got shot in the back of the head, and instantly went into time stop as a reflex, and then moved out of the way, but this didn't start until he actually felt the bullet. I think when a speedster is running coast to coast, in a second it is mostly a blur to them. It wouldn't feel like only a second to them, but it might only feel like minutes. When they are traveling through an area like Nebraska, with wide open roads, they might perceive it as only a split second, while when moving through a major city on the highway it might feel more like thirty seconds or more of making sure to avoid traffic, and having to run through down town would be even more focused. The more attention you have to pay, the slower it would feel.
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As someone who's been reading comics over 30 years now and gone through a lot of positions on this topic, the one thing that I can't get past in the modern era is just how literally IMPOSSIBLE it would be to maintain a secret identity in 2024. I mean, at minimum you would need to have a full body, intentionally misleading costume that never breaks, voice editing, paranoid roundabout ways to convert from civilian to hero, etc., otherwise, your villains would inevitably figure out your identity eventually.
Between voice analysis, facial recognition that could work with even a Batman style cowl, finger printing, DNA testing from any blood or hair samples, video cameras everywhere, etc., if anyone REALLY cared who some masked person was, they would be able to figure it out, no question. So, basically, what's the point in trying?
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