Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.
Assassin's Creed III
Game » consists of 24 releases. Released Oct 30, 2012
- Xbox 360
- PlayStation 3
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The fifth console entry in the Assassin's Creed franchise. It introduces the half-Native American, half-English Assassin Connor and is set in North America in the late eighteenth century amid the American Revolutionary War.
Desmond looks ridiculous
@Shun_Akiyama said:
You mean Connor?
No, he means Desmond. This is the entry where Desmond can travel through time and meet up with his ancestors and steal their clothing for no good reason.
@Winternet said:
Yeah, because that's the part that doesn't make sense about it.
He makes a good point. These are games about putting Nolan North Desmond into a machine and finding memories from his ancestors in his DNA in order to find ancient artifacts from long dead aliens or something.
@Wolverine said:
Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.
Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.
@Wolverine said:
Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.
Yeah... except it's not Desmond...
The main characters have always painfully stuck out, with no one dressing even remotely similar to them. But, it's a videogame.
The Native Americans wore all kinds of shit didn't they? I'd say it's just another primitive outfit, I don't see how he "sticks out like a sore thumb."
P.S. The name is Connor not Desmond. Get your Assassin's Creed right bro!
Don't feed idiocy@Shun_Akiyama said:
You mean Connor?No, he means Desmond. This is the entry where Desmond can travel through time and meet up with his ancestors and steal their clothing for no good reason.
http://www.native-languages.org/headdresses.htm
Native american males wore a variety of headgear. But none of the examples were hoods.
As for Westerners during the 1700s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne
@TentPole said:
Both the colonist and Native Americans wore hooded cloaks. Especially if it was raining.
I thought the benefit of the tricorne was to shield you from rain.
I think he looks ridiculous as well. I play on PC so hopefully someone will mod it to give him more appropriate clothing.
It's not Desmond, but I've thought about it before and kind of agree with you. I still think the white hooded robes look cool, but I'm not sure they really work here. I could accept that Altair and even Ezio could use them to disguise themselves as priests in their time periods (although you'd think after some time the guards would get damned suspicious of priests), but a native American trying to remain stealthy by running around in white hooded robes is gonna need one hell of a story justification if they want to make it seem like it fits. Oh well, it's not the biggest deal.
Ezio stood out as well. No matter how well dressed you are, if you're walking around with a sword, crossbow, and throwing knives around your belt people should take notice. I think Connor gets away with it more because it's the wild frontier and it'd make sense to have something on you to defend yourself with as you travel. It makes less sense when you're in a crowded city like Florence and the only threat is town guards. I think the hood is the last thing to worry you.
@Gamer_152 said:
It's not Desmond, but I've thought about it before and kind of agree with you. I still think the white hooded robes look cool, but I'm not sure they really work here. I could accept that Altair and even Ezio could use them to disguise themselves as priests in their time periods (although you'd think after some time the guards would get damned suspicious of priests), but a native American trying to remain stealthy by running around in white hooded robes is gonna need one hell of a story justification if they want to make it seem like it fits. Oh well, it's not the biggest deal.
There were screenshots of snowy areas, so the white cloak and hood could conceivably work as camouflage in those areas. If that were to be the case, then the outfit would become immediately more useful than it ever was to Ezio. Seeing as you're playing a native American (or someone of that descent, if I recall correctly), it would make sense if there were a lot of areas where you weren't allowed in, regardless of your attire. Hopefully, this game will have a functional-ass stealth system to accompany that.
@The_Nubster: I thought about that as well, but surely if this game is taking on a colonial American theme you're not going to spend the majority of your time in snowy areas. And it disguises the fact that he's a native American but there are about a million other outfits that would do the same job.
I'm not a follower of AC. I do remember one of the main charactore in The Black Robe, (a pretty good movie about Early indians and the push to convert them) wearing a hood-like head covering, I think the modified front and head of stitched together fox fur or something like. But that was a very individual type of wear and hand crafted, not at all a norm. Closest thing I can think of is catholic priest, monk, that sort of thing. Or a Nun..hehehe. Maybe just maybe being a trapper / frontier outdoorsman might gravitate back to my first example...again handcrafted out of hide.
considering the ability to dye clothes has been around for a while, I'd be surprised if it didn't carry over to this entry as well. He's probably all in white here for the same reason that most of the Mass Effect promotional stuff still use the default Cmdr; it's what people recognize.
@Gamer_152 said:
@The_Nubster: I thought about that as well, but surely if this game is taking on a colonial American theme you're not going to spend the majority of your time in snowy areas. And it disguises the fact that he's a native American but there are about a million other outfits that would do the same job.
That's true. Well, as some of the other people in this thread have said: videogames!
@Dany said:
@Wolverine said:
Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.
Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.
Though you can totally unlock a Desmond skin in Revelations, haha.... If you wanna talk about out of place, try playing the game like that.
Hey man, Da Vinci designed that shit.You rolled around an a wooden tank in AC:B. This should not be a big deal.
The real reason the hood is there is not because "now it got associated with it so it has to be there"... that was always the intention. The reason they wear the hoods, especially with a big peak in the middle, is to keep hammering home the Eagle motif. It's not an accident based on public reception, it's intentional artistic theory.
Even Desmond wears a hood, he just always wears it down.
You've been able to color your outfit since AC2. Let's hope that this type of thing will actually matter now. Maybe even allow you to colorize certain parts yourself, instead of having to go with premade color patterns.Hoods have been worn throughout history, it's the white outfit that sticks out, not the hood.
@Wolverine said:
Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.
Its not about what they wear in that time period, its about what the Assassins wear you nooblet. Besides, the lead character isnt part of the Colonist, he can wear whatever the fuck he wants.
@Djratchet said:
@Dany said:
@Wolverine said:
Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.
Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.
Though you can totally unlock a Desmond skin in Revelations, haha.... If you wanna talk about out of place, try playing the game like that.
You can unlock Raiden in brotherhood can't you? As an outfit for completing to animus challenges? Never tried that, that would ahve been weird.
@Dany said:
@Djratchet said:
@Dany said:
@Wolverine said:
Hoods, they look fine in ancient Jerusalem, they look fine in ancient Rome, they even look fine in contemporary ghettos, but they do not look normal at all in colonial America. Desmond sticks out like a swore thumb and if they're going to have the next game in 18th century America, they need to change his costume.
Desmond is not a time traveler. He also wasn't in ancient Rome or ancient Jerusalem.
Though you can totally unlock a Desmond skin in Revelations, haha.... If you wanna talk about out of place, try playing the game like that.
You can unlock Raiden in brotherhood can't you? As an outfit for completing to animus challenges? Never tried that, that would ahve been weird.
Haha, yeah. You totally could. I remember one of the story missions was triggered by Ezio finding a cardboard box too, lmao. Gotta love that cross promotion.
@MooseyMcMan said:
@Winternet said:
Yeah, because that's the part that doesn't make sense about it.
He makes a good point. These are games about putting
Nolan NorthDesmond into a machine and finding memories from his ancestors in his DNA in order to find ancient artifacts from long dead aliens or something.
Nolan north voiced him?!
It's confirmed, he is a cyborg.
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