And later, Horatio wrangles with being racially profiled by his own employer (even if said employer alleges he has dirt on him, Marcus wipes it clean). As they walk through the pristine tech campus, they note the uncomfortability that comes with being not-white in Silicon Valley. Marcus is about to infiltrate faux-Google with the help of his friend Horatio, a fellow black hacker who works at the company. On the morning of November 9th, it was hard to face my city again, let alone the world. That morning I saw the election results of offices and ballot propositions, and realized that, yeah, apparently the majority of San Franciscan voters don’t care about any of this. I’ve seen the homeless community continuously ignored and villainized, just for visibly existing. I’ve seen entire communities uprooted in favor of overpriced condos. Yet in the years since moving here, I’ve still seen friends and family members priced out of their homes. Techies aren’t leaving, and the bubble shows little signs of popping anytime soon in spite of constant predictions, even as San Francisco prepares for the inevitable, eventual fall out. This has happened before with the two dot-com booms, except new tech is showing itself to be more persistent-and it has more money. In the five years since I officially moved into the city from the East Bay where I grew up, six-figure making technology entrepreneurs have risen up, while seemingly everyone else has been pushed out. Maybe for real this time.īut it’s been a long-time coming. That morning, I realized that I was falling out of love with San Francisco. Propositions to build desperately needed affordable housing got shut down, and homeless people now live with the worry of having their shelters (tents) being forcibly removed in the streets on the promise to offer them beds in a shelter-an impossible task, considering there are only 35 beds per 100 homeless in the city. After scrolling through the other local results, I felt even more disappointed and angry.
It takes a minute to hit me that the Orange Man had been elected as our next President the night prior. It’s the morning of November 9th and I wake up groggy as usual. And not just b ecause in Ubisoft’s condensed version of the city, the neighborhood I’ve lived in for the past three years literally doesn’t exist. As I roll into the squashed forested area of the Presidio and Golden Gate Park (two woodsy parks conveniently combined for the sake of an open world game), I realize that this isn’t the San Francisco I once knew.
Probably for the best, anyway-Christopher would probably find some utterly petty way to snub him.I direct Marcus to steal a car and drive across the Golden Gate Bridge into that picture-perfect vista.
Considering the almost superhero origin-story ending of the first game, it doesn't even seem that far-fetched.įor now, it looks like Marcus won't be crossing the pond anytime soon. Apparently, one writer had plans for getting three or four protagonists established before pulling them all together for an "Avengers"-style team-up. The interview does touch on an interesting tidbit regarding the wider franchise, mind. We had a fun time making that game, but it's one of those things where, even when he was announced, I'm getting messages like, ‘Hey, is Marcus coming?’” "The fans, the way they received Wrench, absolutely valid. Even so, there's been a clamour for Marcus' return since Ubisoft made it clear they'd bring back returning characters, with Prentiss receiving messages from fans asking for the leading lad to come back. Prentiss doesn't appear to resent Marcus' omission, praising actor Shawn Baichoo's "wonderful, fluid, and versatile" performance in the role.
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