Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications

Re:Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications by imdsm on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:19AM (#25159370)

Surely people are aware of this before they buy a game? And I mean, at the end of the day, it's a video game. There are also video games about killing aliens, killing other players, killing monsters, capturing animals and making them fight other animals, and more. You could likely pick any game created and find someone that it upsets.

Nobody plays a game and suddenly becomes the character in the game, no more than anyone reads a book and becomes the character in the book. If someone disagrees with it after purchasing it, then they don't play it.

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Re:Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications by throwaway894345 on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:52AM (#25160942)

It sounds like this game is vilifying one religious/cultural group as a whole while glorifying another. I’m not familiar with many games that do this (at least not for real/nonfictional, extant groups at any rate). Some might argue that this is the same things as having Muslim terrorist villains, but the distinction is that these games don’t vilify Muslims in general but rather terrorists.

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