The modern-day Animus user in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag appears to be You, The Player; the present-day sections are in first-person, and nobody uses gendered language when referring to you, and you never see your character's skin or hear their voice. You're hired by Abstergo to go through Edward's memories, presumably for some sort of ( Read more... )

I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by a tendency amongst gamers to go 'there are implications that this character may not be straight, but I personally believe that this character is straight, THEREFORE ANYONE WITH A DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION IS WRONG'. It's something I've seen a few times, but it was the GTA Wiki article on Trevor Philips that ( Read more... )