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I mean they're perfectly free to use it I suppose (it's released under a derivative of the SIL licence as far as I recall, and I've seen it all over the place), but c'mon... that's just trolling us, surely? :><:
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I wrote a post at the ubisoft forums detailing my experience but heard of no interest.
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https://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-unity-free-notre-dame-donation/
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And, just to be clear, I was being a little tongue-in-cheek with my “trolling” accusation. But it did take me aback when I saw the font.
interesting actually never played any AC game but I consider the Silent Hunter series an honest and historical interpretation on world war II, are you saying the historical events on AC are completely deranged or just maybe over the top, but honest?
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As far as calendar events (the day of the Pazzi murders, the beheading of Louis XVI, & many more) are concerned, those are represented pretty accurately; and the famous personalities involved in them are portrayed in a way that's in line with the romanticized celebrity images those people usually have in the public consciousness.
As to the behind-the-scenes of those events, though -- *why*, according to the game, things happen the way they do -- oh boy... it's an off-the-wall historical conspiracy, based on a mixture of popular tropes such as 'hidden history'/Atlantis & secret societies & the human race as a genetic experiment by an ancient civilization, and so on.
The (mini) controversy with respect to Unity was that its portrayal of Robespierre & Co. (the 'Montagnard' faction of what remained of the original Jacobin party) was too unfair, and that this 'progressive' albeit bloody faction deserved better. At the time I played the game, I really didn't know any better; but then I decided to read up on the subject. One major study that I've read since then (Jonathan Israel's 'Revolutionary Ideas dispelled all doubts in my mind as to whether the Montagnards were anything more than a group of proto-fascists that helped plunge the revolution into complete madness by 1794. Pretty much none of the progressive agendas of the revolution (including the abolition of slavery) were due to that faction; but they've received credit all the same.
I now wish that the game had applied its trademark 'Forrest Gumpification' to the landmark events of the revolution, to portray our here (the good guy Assassin) as the collaborator of the true progressives at every significant turn. In Assassin's Creed 3, the player character wins all the major battles of the American revolutionary war, pretty much single handedly -- it's borderline caricature-silly, but it fits with the silliness of the entire 'hidden history' angle of the series.
thanks very insightful comment, I just started the game (seems to work ok though the overlay must be disabled) so the message at the intro that the game is inspired on true events might be not completely true is more inspired on the conspiracist side of history . Seems the game that Alex Jones and David Icke would love.:P
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What's surprising is how much accuracy is left after all that rubbish. They really go out of their way to make it as “believeable” as possible.
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That's what I'm saying too.