Every other straight man ever singing about a woman: wow baby you’re so sexy I love you because your body is sexy
Hozier, an intellectual and lesbian ally: I am a bird of prey and you are a sharp spike upon which I impale small rodents
Straight man #2505: we met at the club she was really hot
Forest lad himself: it was as my baby churned up the mud that she found me there, buried and alone
Fucking eduardo sheerman or whomever: I just want to errr kiss you babe
Andrew Hozier Byrnes: I want nothing more than for us to lay in a field together until we decompose and are eaten by foxes
So that Odyssey DLC…
Wow Ubisoft you screwed the pooch hard. I draw your attention to the interview featured in this article: https://ew.com/gaming/2018/10/09/assassins-creed-odyssey-lgbtq/
“Since the story is choice-driven, we never force players in romantic situations they might not be comfortable with,” Dumont says. “Players decide if they want to engage with characters romantically. I think this allows everybody to build the relationships they want, which I feel respects everybody’s roleplay style and desires.”
Apparently that no longer applies? What a way to undermine the very promise you sold the game on.
Y'all remember how Pythagoras was never there for Kassandra and that it kinda pissed her the fuck off? Y'all remember how Kassandra really values family? But how she also takes her duty to rid the world of the Cult and guard Atlantis seriously?
She wouldn’t have a child she couldn’t be there for and she wouldn’t abandon her duty either so this DLC is shit from a gameplay standpoint as well as a misogynistic, homophobic one.
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.
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JELLYFISH IN SPANISH IS JUST “BAD WATER”
Listen, sometimes you’re swimming and you dont see the angry ocean ghost zap you, so you decide that its the water that hurts
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
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