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Notre Dame on Fire is Ubisoft next new VR game
- Thread starter IbizaPocholo
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Kev Kev
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Hunchback lives matter
Quasimodoes
Shits_McGiggles
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It’s an interesting concept I suppose. What people should be outraged about are the sweeping interior changes France has in store to modernize Notre Dame.
www.theartnewspaper.com
Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage
Plans to revamp the fire-ravaged cathedral with contemporary art and multilingual projections of Bible quotes have been compared to Disneyland
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
Some weird outrage in this thread.
Maddoxswe
Member
The cancel culture is trying harder and harder
VN1X
Banned
I guess you've missed the part where churches across france have been burned and vandalized throughout the last 5 years or so. I think it was close to a thousand cases of this in 2017 (or was it 2018?) alone.
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KungFucius
King Snowflake
Bizarre. Why would anyone want to play this?
kalecsan
Banned
Right, and I have a cat called retardo.
What is the relation between your vandalism's history lesson and the ubisoft game?
Physiognomonics
Member
Indeed. Publishers are doing countless of games on actual wars that killed millions of people and nobody is saying it's tasteless.
Kev Kev
Member
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
what? Why would you ever think british?
I could understand if you thought canadian, but brits?
ymoc
Member
You know....since the historic rivalry between England and France, so it would make sense for a English company to troll the French and not an actual French company doing this to themselves.what? Why would you ever think british?
I could understand if you thought canadian, but brits?
VN1X
Banned
You were asking why everyone's reacting in a certain way and why people give a fuck about a famous church/classical piece of architecture such as the Notre Dame.
EDIT: by the way for those saying "cancel culture" or whatever: the devs can create whatever they want nor would I ever advocate for outright cancelling of anything. Who knows, it might end up in good taste after all (it might also not). I just won't play it either way as it doesn't sound like something that would be interesting, personally speaking of course.
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yurinka
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French, even if they have around 40 offices in a ton of countries, and the one where they have more people is Canada.Wait, is Ubisoft a French or British company? I'm confused.
In fact, their headquarters are in Paris, which almost is a different country. The rest of the French people hate Parisians, and Parisians hate the other French people. And Ubi comes from Union des Bretons indépendants (Union of Independent Bretons), Bretons are the ones from a region of France, that I may be wrong but some time ago they wanted to be independent from France.
So who knows. Let's say they are French.
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ymoc
Member
Bro, it was just a bad joke...
Edgelord79
Gold Member
The outage is ridiculous considering this is a good opportunity to showcase a building with tremendous history.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Im down if its on Quest and reviews well. One thing I've noticed about VR is that nearly every single game is a new IP. This sounds pretty unique. Like Burning Rangers meets The DaVinci Code lol.
As far as the outrage, save it for your next modern war glory fps game snowflakes.
As far as the outrage, save it for your next modern war glory fps game snowflakes.
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Rivet
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It's not so much outrage, it's just it's a weird idea.
"Wow, the famous cathedral just burnt, let's make a VR escape game about the event !"
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It sounds interesting tbh. I'm down for concepts like this in gaming instead of more bland open world shooter garbage.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
I can see that point of view for sure.
Hopefully they add a large historical component to this game.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
My thoughts exactly... It's just a building. Sure, it's an old and famous one, but nobody died. It's not like they're making a game about escaping the WTC during 9/11.
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
Yeah, I was going to say the same as you. I thought they (Ubisoft) did a CRAZY amount of scans of the place before the fire even happened and made all of those assets available to the restoration team to help with the rehab.
Also, tangentially related, VR simulations the recreate hazardous situations in an effort to educate and train are immensely helpful to people working in hazardous situations. Yes, the simulations recreates (sometimes fatal) real world situations but it helps train new and existing team members WITHOUT putting them in actual burning building and trains them how to react situations that create a high point of vulnerability.
**I have not used the sim mentioned but have been involved with making others**
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
why ubisoft dont make A VR Rayman with Ubiart engine?
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Because I've never played anything like that, and I dont know what to expect.
Halo is Back
Member
Some people are being a little too butthurt about this, but I wouldn't necessarily call this a good idea for a game. I think it will be offensive if they decide to heavily monetize or something like that.
Solarstrike
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Brigandier
Member
This is absolutely preposterous.... How dare they make a tasteless game like this, WTF are they thinking, So many people died in this unbelievably traumatic disaster... #FUCKUBI
TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
That would be my condition for acceptance as well. But knowing Ubisoft - probably not happening.
It is not the "famous building". The cultural n historical significance, n spiritual meaning this "building" has is quite beyond just being a famous building.
And when it was set on fire by a "person of certain peaceful religion" it was a big failure for the western civilization.
So yeah...this game is rather very tasteless.
And if it was purposefully that it would be one thing...
But it seems like they in full seriousness making this game not as a joke.
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The Cockatrice
Gold Member
Just dropping by to say Ubisoft sucks but other than that I see no reason why this is bad. It's pointless but no reason to get offended by.
WTF are you talking about?
This would be happening indirectly anyway seeing as the producers of the film and the company making the game are French. It helps raise awareness of the disaster, the building as a monument for tourism and helps the French economy. All this outrage about a game where you save Notre Dame just seems bizarre honestly.
TheSHEEEP
Gold Member
You cannot seriously be so gullible as to believe that.
This is not a Ghost Of Tsushima situation.
"France" or "French company" does not qualify as being a charity.
Notre Dame is already a well-known tourism magnet - if anything, the game benefits from THAT and not the other way around.
SJRB
Gold Member
Because this is Ubisoft which makes it impossible to think this whole thing is not done in bad faith as a cash grab.
No but I mean these are French companies paying their taxes and therefor paying for restoration indirectly from anything made in addition to the 500,000 Ubisoft donated already.
Yes it is but having played the game you might be more inclined to see the real thing. There is no negative to having a game like this other than what seems like bizarre outrage to me.
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SleepySlippy
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What's wrong with it?
Mercador
Member
I was doing a parallel, I didn't know it was actually a thing.