Skull And Bones Is Baffling & Redundant... | Review/Impressions
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Following a decade or so of development, we finally have Skull and Bones in hand. Yes, it's a real game, and no, it's not a trainwreck. However, it's impossible to ignore that compared to games like Assassin's Creed Rogue and Black Flag, Skull and Bones is lapped by its own predecessors. Even when ignoring the past, lining it up against its competition in Sea Of Thieves means it'll be rough waters for Skull and Bones for sometime before anything comes of it.
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I stopped playing this game a few months ago. Played for years. But they keep adding and adding stuff like in game currency's, stuff to mine or collect (loot) and soo much packs... Many €50 and €100 ones... Because of those the game is stil alive. 🤷🏼♂️
This will go down as one of the GREATEST missed opportunities in gaming history.
ubisoftdic is the DEFINITION of tone deaf!
Star trek is total garbage. Its like a AAAAA game
The reason this game exists is because the government of Singapore had a 10 year contract with Ubisoft to develop a game using Singaporean workers in order to create jobs. Ubisoft spent most of this time sending their execs on vacations to Singapore until the contract was ending where they then pushed this game out.
The thing that's also kind of fucked up is that anybody who was from Singapore who worked at that studio couldn't get a promotion they just kept flying in people from France to be leads.
Which makes me think the governments involved will take legal action against Ubisoft. It seems they've been taking money for a decade, because what's here with skull and Bones is a year to make at most.
This is insane. 🤯 So basically it's a government funded game, so therefore the success of the game doesn't matter as much because they already got their money from it? Is this game dead on arrival or am I missing something?
@@DHID2682If a completely new branch of a company locates to a whole new country it is pretty common to have the home office deeply involved for years. Leads and management are supposed to institute developed practices and a mature culture from established branches of a company. Once a product ships or a project reaches completion the goal is to integrate whatever worked that is different on the local level and begin to hand off key roles to native talent. What happened with Skull and Bones is misalignment in incentives and mismanagement both by the home office and the new studio.
@@FADWCWell no. Sales absolutely do matter, they have to at least make some of the money back from the funding they received. Otherwise the Singaporean gov't just dumped money into a 10 year project for absolutely nothing
Ubisoft, not content with mugging off their customers, figured out how they were gonna mug off the government of Singapore. GG, Yves.
"that's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen"
RL pirate simulator. Lol
Common Ubisoft mugging
I mean that's pirate behavior it's on brand
"quadruple A" is the new 16 times the details
"it just works!" 😂
Fans: Make Ac4 part two.
UBI: You think you want that but you don't.
All they had to do was get rid of the Assassins Creed-y bits, and let us commandeer or buy, and customize different kinds of ships.
What they did was copy the combat mechanics but make it worse, then gut cool features that existed in the source material and would make sense for a pirate game.
Climbing around on the rigging of my ship and others was always so impressive to me as a kid. Being able to stop anywhere you want and just dive off the side of the ship was such an immersive feature.
Im sorry you must be mistaken Matty, this is a AAAA game... you should be in awe !
"Forget everything you knew about pirates"
I mean, they were right, irl pirates didn't chop trees with their minds
"Quadruple A"
Heard the game is nothing but fetch quests
@@e3vL1 Heard ? Bruh, this video is litrally about it
I feel bad for the freshly graduate Singaporeans who sold their body in hope for a better position at Ubisoft only for this game to fail because to be honest it's mismanaged and turnout garbage.
“It’s like what we did before, but worse and priced higher!” -AAA Gaming Devs.
Ez skip
Those cannons aren't even pointing the way they are shooting. 11 years AAAA game right there.
Reminds me of the pathetically outdated hitscan gunfire in Starfield.
A hit with a cannon shows explosion but zero damage to the hull.
Was watching a streamer yesterday and I noticed that. You basically can shoot at the other ship from all angles when I don't think real ships could.
To offer a more unique opinion that hasn't been covered, the UI still has that sterile Animus computer font, none of the text or interface graphics is themed.
I hadn’t noticed that but that’s a great point. Kinda shows how little attention to detail this game has.
Hated that animus garbage. It’s what completely destroyed the AC games for me. Love the idea of playing stuff set in historical time periods, don’t need some trash computer ai crap shoehorned in to vaguely try to tie it all together.
@@balaam_7087 I understand that they wanted to maintain that the game world is a simulation with the world borders and loading screens being computerized but I certainly agree with most people that they hated Abstergo portions where they just forcibly get yanked out to do some mundane boring shit in a modern office.
You mean like... the original ac games?..
@@kylegriffin8783 More like all the AC games, isn't a negative in itself but Skull and Bones isn't some computer simulation, neither a modern setting, it just doesn't fit, give it a parchment font at least.
If you look at the game by itself, it's actually alright. I'm enjoying it. I've described S&B to my friends as "Need For Speed, with boats". Everyone understands this analogy. What is NFS? You're a car, you drive around the world, do races, why? To get money or car parts to upgrade your car, and get better cars, to repeat the cycle. S&B is the same game imo, it's NFS with a pirate skin. Not everybody likes NFS though.
I really don't get how you start with an A-tier product and "develop" it into a F tier product. The sailing alone feels absolutely horrible, which is the most important part of a sailing game (oddly). I think it might be worse than redfall tbh
…but Skull & Bones is quadruple-A tier
Horrible horrible mismanagement
Haven’t played either but from what I’ve see Skull & Bones is functional and I know Redfall was filled with bugs and not functional
@@ryanb9305 I guess its the age-old philosophical question: Is a deformed dog turd or a flawless cat turd better?
@@TheKotor2309 from what I read it ain't "complacency and resting on laurels". If that were the case, the game would have come out years ago with solid ship combat and mediocre everything else.
It was the same old same old.
Bad decisions by upper management.
Multiple restarts.
Devs quitting in frustration.
Bad project leads brought in.
Add in the lawsuit, the Thailand deal which wouldn't let them cancel the project and Sea of Thieves for some reason and this is what we get.
it’s so funny to see live services such as ss and skull and bones on one hand…and then helldivers 2 and palworld on the other. the difference is astronomical.
Skull & Cutscenes 😎😎
Ss is fun but it came out at the time when pretentious content creators are at their most rage baity
@@LeonJohnson-yi3hgwhat’s SS?
That one army in ww2@@Hoppelite
@@HoppeliteSweet Sausage
I'm shocked. Shock I tell you. You're telling me Ubisoft lied about their game and overcharge for the game. NO, not Ubisoft. A company is known for looking at EA and Activision handbooks and saying hold my beer, sorry I mean wine.
AC4 is still my fave AC.
Played AC Black Flag for the first time when I was 13 years old. Two words: Mind. Blown. I was head over heels for it. Absolutely amazing game. Still is to this day. To think that well over 10 years later it is still leagues better than this new garbage is both incredible and depressing.
Totally agree! They would have made millions had they just taken the foundation of the AC games and made a SP Pirate RPG. Let you board ships on foot, explore islands, on foot combat, recruit your crew similar to Odyssey, and recruit your first mate. I think we all thought that was what we were going to get. If they wanted online, have MM world of warships, where you just have that boat combat. Very disappointed, hoping some indie studio realizes the opportunity here and makes the game we all want!
We got some big flops this year and its only February. We already know how this Live Service game will end. 😂
What hurts more this day and age is that heavy-weight titles take too long to develop. Not only is the wait painful, but it also means each individual game project has higher risks, thus must justify itself with higher potential revenue on a business perspective. This causes bigger companies to lean more and more towards the "cautious side", which in the business world is to "copy what other people did so there is less risk of failure than trying something new".
Also the longer the projects, the further ahead in time you have to project those sales/revenue number, the harder it is to estimate correctly. This trend of longer development is just going to cause more games to miss the mark, lost their way, or get morphed mid-way to fit a different model, which leads to higher chances of failure.
In your Retro Rebound video you described Black Flag's ship sailing as being arcadey in a really good way. This looks arcadey in a really bad way.
Like I get having a stamina meter for rowing, but having a stamina meter for sailing is just weird. I'm bummed at how boring the shark hunting looks, harpooning in Black Flag and Rogue was exhilarating!
Trimming the sails is literally sailors pulling ropes on sails to make them catch the wind better, the sailors doing the pulling tire out over time
It makes perfect sense
@@theartistformerlyknownasth8612 Haha yeah never mind that point. I had just finished a play session of Odyssey and imagined what contextual use of a stamina meter with short duration would make most sense. Where fast rowing from quick use of muscle power surely would tire you out pretty quickly. But I forgot that this game don't have pirates that row.
We're on our way to a big crash in this industry, and games like this are the reason why.
Spot on 👏👏
The most unsurprising release of the decade in terms of quality. I'm just shocked that it wasn't canceled.
This is a fully released game and we know the seasonal content structure. No shot they're going to work on fundamental mechanics or gameplay features when we already experienced what they came up with in 9-10 years of development.
This is what AAAA gaming is like, I'll go back to indie games
One of my most favourite MMO pirate games I played back in the day was Pirates of the Caribbean Online.
Not to mention $70 & already they added microtransactions
Yo Matty I was on multiple beta tests for s&b and I mentioned in the forum on my report every time that it felt like all they did was take ac4 and rip out what made it great and how it wasn't worth more than 20$ they didn't seem to care..
The Black Flag theme in the background transported me back to my childhood
how did it take 11 years to make a game worse than black flag
Man I was pumped for this game back when I 100% AC black flag
FUCKING 12 YEARS AGO.
If you could control an entire Fleet and quickly switch between ships like in Driver San Francisco it would be so much better.
Maybe I’ll pick this up on *sail*
i'd rather keep my refund
@@xKurtx601
For real lol. The game has no point to playing currently. It’s decent at first, then it goes downhill from there. It got boring really quick, it’s bland with no swimming or land exploration, and it’s just really uninteresting especially when I can play other, better games that are cheaper.
Anything "Ubisoft" I'm not even touching with a ten-foot pole... The sooner they go down the better.
14:03 this loop is not comparable to Sea of Thieves. There is some amount of trader interaction, but it’s usually very limited and strictly about acquiring supplies or a mission very quickly. Though I understand you don’t really play sea of thieves, so don’t sweat it
It’s not that hard to convert Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag’s pirate ship navel combat into a fully fleshed out game. Skull and Bones should have only taken 2 years max to make with a small indie sized development team.
i’d give this game a shot if only they’d allow me to free roam on foot, personally board vessels and lands for loot, fight other player that board my ship or the other way round. a colossal misstep that cost them my “70$”
I was really jacked for this game… until I saw some “early gameplay.”
I… am no longer excited.
How hard is it, to just make Assassins Creed black flag, add more pirates, add more customizations, and put it online?
4:35 go to the outpost and get contracts. Its basically every Ubisoft game.
The thing about Skull & Bones is that it feels like you are the ship.
You control the ship and all aspects.
But none of the mechanics are fleshed out.
The impact of cannon fire just isn't there either.
Sailing is super fast and the arcade feeling of the movement controls never goes away.
It feels like you are always in control of where you go; which for ships back then; wasn't always the case.
The open sea is in control.
In AC Black Flag it felt like you were the captain of the ship.
And while at the helm, you did in fact controlled the ship; the cannons, etc.
But you could also let the helm go and roam the ship, board other ships, swim, dive, go on land and explore, fight with pirate themed weapons...
Skull & Bones was inspired by ACBF and thus needed to do the same thing but bigger, better...
It failed at that task spectacularly.
It removed half of what made the naval aspect of ACBF fantastic and what they kept wasn't upgraded but downgraded.
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
All they had to do was make AC Black Flag, remove the assassins vs templars story plot and the abstergo bullshit and flesh out the naval systems.
I'm actually having fun with this game. Now, to be clear, I do not consider this a GOTY or even a AAA game. It is a good game to turn the ol' brain off and do some sea battles. Am I bummed about the lack of sword play and actual boarding? Yes. I would say that actual boarding should happen once you get to the east. The first part would be a bit dumb due to the size of the ships. Bonus: Unlike Sea of Thieves, I don't have to worry about randos sinking me when I'm trying to get my groove. This is not being contrarian to be contrarian. Simply stating my opinion. Am i pissed that I paid full price? Yup. This would be a good game to grab when it is 30-50% off, and you want something to play to turn off your brain for a while like I mentioned before. Way too much hype for a decent game.
What you are seeing Mr. Matty is the computer game equivalent of one of those long projects you see with shop classes and the such. You know, like when a school assembles a house or car over a few years? What probably happened is when Epic was contracted to a project using only Singapore labor then ended up having to train all of their personnel from scratch. Goodness knows that this was probably their first time gaining full-time access to a computer, including classes. Then as personnel got trained they would move to other companies, departments, ect. resulting in more training and as the government itself eager for more programmers in its own infrastructure...and so on. With that kind of environment and turnover this is how far you get.
My theory: Sweet Baby Inc. advised Ubisoft that good gameplay was offensive, racist, sexist, something like that so Ubisoft felt obliged to remove it, lol.
Personally loving it. Enjoy the feel and love the graphics. And yes im well aware of ACBF, played it back in the day. But i dont wanna play AC on water again. I wanna play ship based naval combat with a nice chilled game loop.
Also, the game opens out much more later on when you start building your empire. Its not a short game, dont be so impatient for everything to happen at once.
You've got to reach a decent hi lvl for example before Sea monsters start to appear.
Release the Kraken! (AC dont have the Kraken lol).
Matty: I’m going to the toilet, you better have loaded me back in by the time I return
S&B: Is it number one or number two?
Matty Stares
S&B: I just want to know how much time I have!
Matty I’d love to see your impressions on Helldivers 2, I’m having a ton of fun with it when I can connect.
He's an Xbox fanboy. Anything regarding Playstation will always suck in his eyes. He's not the type you should rely on for an honest opinion.
This entire Xbox multiplatform drama has exposed so many RUclipsrs as nothing more than toxic loyal fanboys.
All the devs had to do was take Black Flag and remove the 3 or 4 Assassin’s Creed animus scenes and it would be a near perfect pirate 🏴☠️ game. But noooo, somehow they F’d up even that simple job. 😢
I'm playing this game with brother and we are having fun. We are using Ubisoft plus so we only paid 17 bucks and probably won't play it for longer than a month
And then there’s Helldivers. Absolutely destroying the gaming industry.
I'm most upset about the aiming arch. Like what they had for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. I was part of the closed beta, and then also the open and... sigh... in the closed Beta THEY HAD IT. They had the Black Flag aiming arches, and it felt nice and was wonderful. Then they did away with it for the closed beta with their new targeting reticle thing and that's whats in the final game. Like. It was in there, and it felt good, and then it didn't.
The last mmo i played was Age of Conan. Now Conan Unchained. The delayed loot/quest items etc, was happening even back then. I remember picking up a quest item, another player was just standing there afk. He got SO pissed at me for taking it. Called me every name in the book. LOL. I told him it would respawn in *5 minutes. You could also ask a mod for help. And they will spawn the item for you I would assume S+B items are on a timer too. Plus, with the volume of players. Get in line.
January: Prince of Persia The Lost Crown gets a great reception, Ubisoft look like they're turning a corner
February: ...and it's gone...
Personally really enjoying Skull and Bones and that’s because I went into the beta expecting it to be a massive disappointment, so when it wasn’t a bad game I was surprised.
I disagree that the sea combat isn’t better as in my opinion it’s far better personally, just disappointing that you can ‘board’.
If you go into the game hoping it’s Black Flag you’re not going to like it. It’s not Assassin’s Creed, it’s Skull and Bones, they’re two very different IP’s.
One is an open world single player experience, the other is a multiplayer games. Take it for what it is and you’ll have some fun.
I hate multi games but I enjoy this as I can see the difference.
When I played the closed beta, I was disgusted. When it got pushed back, I was intrigued as to what they could change. After playing the open beta and seeing that they only added a ship boarding cutscene and a few outposts to walk around in, I just said NOPE
Ac Rouge, while not really a good ac game, in my opinion, had much better ship missions because the map was smaller for them than Black flag. To me, it made them more unique and less grinding than the others where it was first introduced.
But geeze, every new ac game has ship combat so yea I have the same question - who's this for? Oh well, it wasn't for me anyway. Thanks for the input, Matty.
The game is a lot of fun if you want to be a pirate and manage a ship or a pirate party with friends. Sea of Thieves is the only pirate game alternative, but the gameplay is very different and the cartoony graphics provide a very different feel. People seem to be criticising that “this isn’t Black Flag 2!”, but that’s just silly, it was never meant to be. It’s like criticising Elden Ring for not having ship battles. Duh.
Even the ship damage is bare bones. If at least if felt satisfying demolishing a ship...
I’m only a few hours in and I’m really enjoying the game. I had none of the issues with getting wood early in the game. I didn’t play any of the AC games but I did put 7 days worth into Sea of Thieves and I appreciate the differences.
I think we shouldn't be comparing apples to oranges. Sea of Thieves and Skull and Bones are two very different games. If you were wanting a PVP pirate game, this isn't it. Sea of Thieves is your Fortnite. Skull and bones is a pirate Sim that opens up more and more the more you progress. It's not for everyone, so the comparison doesn't work. Hating on it because you want another Sea of Thieves doesn't make sense. You don't like it, fine. Some people do.
Bruh why wouldn’t an energy bar make sense? Do you think those old ships and raising their sails were automated?
Its not like they can't copy what they did before, its their own IP. I guess that is what happens when you have so many studios whom don't collaborate.
It actually bothers me how so many streamers can pretend that this game is fun. This is a reskin for world of warships. Who asked Ubi to make world of warships, but pirate themed? $70 for a free to play experience, and streamers are pretending that this game is quality. Blows my mind how dishonest and disingenuous people can be. Pretending something bad is good doesn't make you agreeable, it makes you a blatant and obvious liar.
To be honest it was fun and im not pretending so Yeah just so u know
I hated every minute I played Sea of Thieves and am having a total blast playing Skull and Bones 😁
This game is exactly what you all wanted a pirate simulator based on the ship stuff from ac4 now it comes out and your all hating on it well your all hypocrites the game was not meant to be some deep rpg pirate exploration simulator it’s not meant to compete with sea of thieves they are 2 completely different games this game has no real competition that’s why it’s good to have it it’s not personally something I care about but I would not say it’s bad
I want Rockstar to make an open world pirate game. I think they could do an amazing job honestly.
Yes brother yes!! I’m saying this for ages. I’m glad more people are a are of this legendary chance
They should make an open world space game. Was disappointed with Starfield
the game has its share of issues and is grindy, but what this dude calls the big ship is really the smallest ship you can put guns on. you have to find the blueprints for better ships and then find the resources to build them. the level of zoom varies by weapon. i feel like this dude didnt get very far and gave up, which is totally fine he should just say so
He’s not a good reviewer, he normally likes to hate on stuff after seeing where the wind blows on other sites (no pun intended). This review just shows he barely played the game as he completely seems to have missed most of the details, like the ones you mentioned.
This game exists because “The Captain of the Ship of Ubisoft” should have let this project sink in development but would not. It was a pet project of his and after dumping so much money into it here is what we have.
If they wanted it to be a live service it should be free to play lolz
I got the amazon special edition and admittedly I didn't pay full price (as I has a £50 discount from work) but I like it. Yes it's inferior to Black Flag in a lot of ways; harpoon hunting, underwater treasure diving, and big boss ship battles feel. I like how you harvest and loot quickly - I would be going nuts if every time I had to harvest resources in a mini game that involved leaving the ship as often as you do. I also agree that ship maneuvering is not great and generic. But this can be remedied with a change to the mechanics say a sloop that is quick and nimble compared to a galleon which is turns like a cow but packs more of punch. I would find that interesting because you can choose a ship for a mission. I think there's a lot potential if Ubisoft are committed to make some changes. Alos the microtransactions are for cosmetics only and can be ignored, I don't see an issue here as yet. It's not like AC where there are in game buffs that come with a charge.
So, in other words, you got fooled and you are insisting on continuing to fool yourself. Modern gaming is trash. It's just a big greed machine with very little in it for consumers.
@@danbauer3669 jumping to interesting conclusions...no I'm not "fooling" myself. I didn't pre-order and pay full price nor am I insisting it's better than anything that came before it. I played the free open beta and just happened to like it enough despite its shortcomings. I dunno if all modern games are trash - I try to take a balanced view still play some old games and accept that tastes change along with age
or you remember things through rose tinted glasses in some cases.
Yes, micro-transactions are a blight but unlike FIFA, for example, where the game is engineered to get people to spend on Ultimate Team, the microtransactions here are purely cosmetic consumables unlike the Assassins Creed. Nothing is perfect and given there's been precious little in the genre other than Sea of Thieves (which I didn't that much) that I'm content.
@@JavierMitchell-b4o the big money AAA modern games are generally trash. You can like whatever you like. Not buying the current console generation is the best decision I've made in my life. I've got 15+ other consoles full of games that don't spy on me, don't beg me for money everyday and don't take 100+ hours to compete. I'm tired of the overbearing capitalist trends in the industry. They used to actually care about making a quality entertainment experience. Now it's nothing but wealth extraction and control.
@@danbauer3669 I agree with some of your points around modern games, yes hits are few and far between, but I don't agree they are trash. I don't like the capitalistic machinations but they are easily ignored.
I don't agree on not caring about quality and entertainment experience - if anything I think they are too ambitious and that is their ultimate downfall.
The Horizon games for example highlight this for me, Zero Dawn (amazing), Forbidden West (Good). Similarly, Assassins Creed Origins (Great), Valhalla (Good). My biggest gripes with both was the ambitious scale of their respective worlds felt like filler and used the space to level up characters and treasure hunt without much diversity in mission type. But overall, the core stories were decent - marred by anti-climactic endings, the main and minor characters were solid, and did offer enjoyment before becoming a slog.
But I can agree that both lacked quality. The attention to detail and world design and detail was immense. It's not like say Bethesda games where the worlds are very obviously cut and paste rinse and repeat, as an example. But yes there are games that take the piss with reskins being passed off as new games.
@@JavierMitchell-b4o keep wasting your money on modern games and eventually you'll see it as I do.
I think the newest game I've played was Cyberpunk 2077, which was a good game, a year or two after release.
Ignoring the capitalist machinations doesn't make them go away.
Maybe they care about the quality of new IP's, but tried and tested IP's? Not a chance.
Here's another dogsh!t Batman game. The publisher has zero chance of losing the license and to the consumer "you want a Batman game? Well, this is the only one in town. Love it or leave it."
Monopoly is the ultimatum of capitalism.
Obviously, you know what you like and you'll decide what's best for you. As I have done for myself. I only buy games PS2 and older now. I've been gaming for 40 years and I've come to this conclusion: F__k modern gaming.
I was hoping for group raids on islands or some kind of "one piece" type ungodly treasure that everyone could hunt for. Basically, just rip off One Piece and Pirates of the Caribbean and mainly feature the boat battles of AC4. The hunting for hidden and magical islands I could explore with my crew is what I wanted and not having that is a hard pass for me. Also, where is the law? Are there cops (or similar) anywhere in the game? Corrupt government officials, sunken ships full of gold, diving suits, volcano events, tsunamis.... I wanted so much more.
I have a theory as to why they chose not to make the game more like black flag. I think it’s because of the deal they made with Singapore. I think they are holding back the core gameplay mechanics of black flag because they intend on releasing a black flag 2. And honestly I’ll be playing it when it comes out. I’m hoping for a division 2 kind of multiplayer experience. With loot that continues to scale.
What Skull and Bones has accomplished most for me is making me really really want Rockstar to make a pirate game after GTA VI
Everytime I am actually having fun with the game.... It reminds me of black flag and I get sad because I see what could have been instead of what we got
Dude boarding the ship with a sword is the only reason I want to play a pirate game
What’s weird is that they could’ve made a sword combat system to board ships and just…. Didn’t
all they had to do is make it like assassins' creed but just pirates and they cant even do that well
People are just sick of half baked live service games.
This will go down as one of the GREATEST missed opportunities in gaming history.
ubisoftdic is the DEFINITION of tone deaf!
This is one of those games that is multiplayer/online for absolutely no reason at all and suffers a lot of gameplay restrictions because of it
The reason is so a corporation can spy on you. Modern gaming is trash.
It’s set in the Indian Ocean… how could it not have sucked? That’s not the pirates people read and go to see movies about…
I think Skull and Bones is not at all comparable to Sea of Thieves. They belong to almost completely different genres. Skull and Bones is a weird and sterile crossover between an MMO and World of Warships. The whole "being a pirate" thing is just a skin on top of that. While Sea of Thieves on the other end is more of a multiplayer action/adventure game. It's not perfect, but a the very least it makes you feel like a pirate.
These reviewers are just a hive mind in many ways. Like, what are you going to play if you want to play as a pirate? You only have these two games! And they’re very different, as you point out.
This game makes you appreciate sea of thieves so much more 😅
Wish Sea of thieves had this graphical aesthetic though. SoT looks so ugly. That hideous ‘everything is clay’ Fortnite style 🤮
@@balaam_7087 true the graphics are cheeks but the gameplay mechanics are golden which hold a lot of replay value.
This gameplay gives me a few ideas to speculate what had possibly happened during the game's development, at least that's the first impressions this gameplay gives me.
Since the game is to be separated from AC entirely, the development team struggled to define unique features to put into this game (that doesn't overlap with Assassin's Creed). All the "mythical stuff" belongs to AC, all the "land content and discovery" also belongs to AC. So this project has a hard time making itself unique.
Soon after the development started, live service games became popular, so the company decide to use this new project as an attempt for their own live service game. This is probably not envisioned by the team from the beginning, thus putting more variables and confusion onto what this game is supposed to be.
Because of so many uncertainties, the game's development stayed in putting together "very generic" systems and components for a very long time. Anything that's supposed to be the game's unique elements (like combat) feels empty and incomplete because there was no final decision made on what it should be, and time ran out eventually.
I have a feeling Ubisoft higher ups put a very small team on this project and that explains the outcome
This game cost them more than anything they have done before
Shoutout to the Black Flag menu music you used.
If it was F2P, I'd feel differently. However, the fact that there's a price tag on it is laughable. I think I'll hold off for a year or three and see if they add enough content and polish to make it worth anything.
I don’t understand why they didn’t have so many of the features that were already in black flag.
Because they don't give a f__k about making a quality entertainment experience. The point of modern gaming is to extract wealth from customers. That's it, that's all. "Buy this crap."
I played about 6 hours and I didn’t have any disconnects. I played with a friend and also some on line players and we wound up having a blast. Hopefully Ubisoft will continue to improve the experience. It’s not quite Sea of Thieves yet but it was way better than expected after watching some reviews.
i wish open world games were as detailed as genshim impact employees put actual effort in their addiction slot game
I remember how refreshing the ship was in AC3.
Good times. Outside the time in the woods, good times, hahaaa
the game has the illusion of being open world
you have a giant map, but all you do is use the sea part of it aka the empty part. You find yourself sailing from A to B just to do something for 60 seconds and have to sail back again
the game is what I call "a time thief", you play it but the progression and rewards are not worth the time
I played the game expecting it to just be multiplayer AC black flag… what I got was 1/10th of AC black flag for $60 and ten years later. The worst part is my dad got this for me as a gift so we could play together and we’re already basically done with the entire fucking game.
If anyone still has trouble early game gettting the acacia tree or whatever it's called... Go to a spot.. if it's already chopped just log out and log back in. It should spawn back when you load in
thats happening cause you are logging into a different server where it hasnt been chopped not that its just magically respawning
Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Skull and Bones, Sea of Thieves.... nah man. You guys arent talking about THE REAL pirate game. Sly Cooper 3
If you have never played Black Flag then it is an ok game. Well said. I and many others have played Black Flag unfortunately.
If you work for Ubisoft, AAAA clearly means make a game that is AAA but REMOVE all the good bits!!!
The thing is i don't se ubisoft as a dev that would improve S&B to the level that is SoT, NMS...
Skull&Bones isn't even a "AAA" game, let alone a 'AAAA' game(whatever that is).
It should cost 40$, maybe even free to play, because of how heavily monetized it is
Pirates of the carrabean online was pretty good lol
If anyone wants a pirate RPG there is a game called Caribbean tales in steam, and also sea dogs. The graphics may not be pretty but it's a good game.