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@@juliuspearceluckily we have all this trash that people forget about. Something to laugh at, but most importantly, eventually it will lead to good games again
i am Brazilian and your name feels ominous for some reason. Quadruple A quality is much like a lot of modern astrophysics. we have never seen it work, but a bunch of nerds swear that in theory it must exist.
@@white6505what does quadruple A even mean that everyone these days are talking about??? I'm from the other side of the world and everyone is talking about those A:s
@@jimmykarlsson2567The CEO of Ubisoft marketed Skull and bones to be a quadruple A game. Which everyone knew was an out of touch joke because if anything GTA 6 would be considered quadruple A because quadruple A would be the above and beyond of budget and quality and Ubisoft doesn’t even make good games alone to be anywhere considered in that range
Honestly it could work if they went full into the wacky pirate stuff (basically rip off or partner with One Piece). The issue is that the fanbase for this game are AC fans who like historical settings. Can't have both, wacky pirate stuff with fire bombards and torpedoes and historical accuracy lol
My favourite part was them saying that Hogwarts legacy was good so how do you turn a single player game like that into a game closer to suicide squad 😂 I guess they are the REAL suicide squad.
Skull & Bones - the game that nobody wanted, everybody expected it to flop and yet it couldn't die due to the Singapore government deal. Was it worth it, Ubisoft?
It's sooo weird. Black Flag 2 would've easily made Ubisoft a Billion Dollars in revenue - it would've sold like hot cake. Skull & Bones will never break even. There is no way this shipwreck will make back 200M in development cost. I don't understand how this could get greenlit - it's a weird grind with no story where you can't even jump off ship - like in Black Flag. And the boarding maneuver is automatic and just a cutscene. WTF. So the only thing you do is upgrade the armor of your ship. And the cannons on board, which have different firing ranges and hit angles. That's kinda about it. You gotta feed your crew, bring in wood for repairs, but that's also not very interactive - you literally park your ship next to an island and wait till the wood comes in. You don't even cut down the tree yourself :D
@@DerDudelino I understand exactly how it was greenlit. Players loved the naval combat of Black Flag, and Ubisoft believed they could make a game featuring ONLY that aspect and make easy money. They forgot that it wasn't the naval combat nor the notoriously janky gameplay of the OldCreed games that made them popular, it was the narrative. The narrative arc of Edward Kenway was excellent. If you simply removed that from Black Flag, you'd be left with a broken, unplayable game. If you developed a game centered only around the singular gameplay mechanic of naval battles, sans any story or narrative, you're left with a boring forgettable experience. A pirate game, outside of the AC setting, could have been really compelling, but Ubi wanted a live service title not a narrative driven single player game. Ten years of development hell had S&B release well after the consumers had thoroughly soured on cash grab live service games.
@@Bateluer Black Flag played very dynamically as well. You could jump ship, dive through the ocean, board another ship, climb in their planks, attack enemies from above - it was never boring. Skull & Bones is always the same gameplay rhythm.
What I really wanted from skull and bones was a pirate rpg, where I can make my own character, pick my ship and “plunder my measly black guts out.” Literally take the systems in black flag and refine it. The pirate fantasy was achieved, and they still found a way to mess that up! I do have hope for that remake tho… keep the game the same for the most part. Refine combat, add more customization options and I’d be happy. Skull and Bones better not be the last pirate game, cuz I NEED more.
It's the new method of promoting new games, movies and series. Doctor Who for example claims record viewings, solely based on the fact that the BBC has declared that THIS Doctor Who reboots the series and therefore the previous decades of Doctor Who don't count........... and yes, that IS as stupid as it sounds. Game studios pretty much do the same things, as you've pointed out: This games has record-breaking numbers......... for this game. Well, duh!
@@tjroelsma Not defending this game.. but the player count has always been pretty decent... Nothing crazy... But as someone who hosted events on discord getting a full lobby was pretty easy.. The hard part was finding a lobby that wasn't full so I could bring over players.. It has a pretty dedicated fanbase...
@@mc-qx6ue ? XD Rdr2 is probably a contender for best game of all time wtf are you talking about. Pirate game RPG made by Rockstar on par with Rdr2 would be legendary hands down.
It really is a shame because Ubisoft has always been amazing at building fantastic worlds for their games. And having great visuals. It’s just the content therein that has struggled. When I think of the ideal pirate game I think of something like red dead 2. With all these dynamic encounters. Great detail. Slow paced. Riveting narrative. Interesting characters. But also the ability to just kind of feel like a pirate doing whatever you want. Whether it’s transporting goods, taking on bounties. Or just going into a tavern and playing dice, or cards, knife throwing. Maybe even having a little village that you can invest money in and build up. But other obvious things like sword fighting. Gunplay. Hunting fishing, tracking down, rumors of other pirates that you’re looking for or treasures that you want to find. Dynamically finding treasure maps. Song songs. Hire crew. So many fun things you could put in this game, that would really make it feel like a pirate fantasy. That could put it on par with red dead two. And a few through co-op in there, so you could play with your friend, that would be amazing
@@planexshifter Hell no. He said he pops them in for two minutes and it’s done. If he ate one of those, he would know it needs to be stirred, then cooked some more.
Check out Sea Dogs, Caribbean Legend in particular, if you’ve got a pirate itch. It can be overwhelming, and a little too simulation heavy rather than arcadey, but it’s methodical, has great depth, and a long solid story.
Re-downloaded Asassins Creed Odyssey. Got a sudden urge to play it again. Tell you what, this game aged very well and might very well be the best ship combat game, where ''stamina'' makes actual sense. Guys, give that game a shot again. Its so good.
I want a privateer during the time before the golden age of piracy. Narrative heavy, realistic (it takes literal in game months to reach some places,) etc.
It'd be kinda interesting to see a game explore multiple ages of piracy. Sid Meier's Pirates kinda did it but the start dates were basically just difficulty settings. It would be fun to watch the rise of piracy, first as simple illegal acts, and then its evolution into an entire political landscape.
It is even worse, Black Flag's gameplay loop is much more complex than Skull and Bones. The fact you can board someone's else ship on foot, fight the crew and get all the spoils is something that Skull and Bones can never do.
@@azzy9293 Exactly what I was saying. There's a lot of demands for a pirate game, and when this game was first announced, everybody was hyped. It just turned out to be bad, but there's demands for this kind of games
I wonder how long Ubisoft can go on like this before they get into serious trouble. Imagine if the next ACs were financial flops. - What other big brands does Ubi have to keep their business going?
I personally find pirate settings really really boring, which is weird because I think Black Flag is an amazing game. Like Pirates of the Carribean didn't land with me. Sea of Thieves not for me. I just don't know why, but nothing landed well with me in the pirate genre at all but Black Flag.
This week has free game trial. Have played all night for 8 hours. Start is sluggish, sure, but once I got my first pirate ship and got a bit used to the UI, inventory and other systems, I was having a blast all night. Game runs smoothly, the atmosphere is amazing. Sure wish we could walk on our ship or visit cabin though, but honestly this "explore the forest off the ship" kinda thing is not that much missed. I think if you go into this game thinking you want Black Flag v.2 you not gonna get what you want. Go in with open mind and its not that bad. Deffo gonna grind hard this free week, hope it stays this fun =)
I just finished the show black sails on Netflix and my itch for a pirate game like that show is absolutely through the roof right now. GIVE US A SINGLE PLAYER OPEN WORLD PIRATE GAME SOMEONE PLEASE!!!
The season 2 boss fight with these two “opera” weirdos is probably almost exactly like the HMS Fearless and Royal Sovereign legendary ship boss fight in AC Black Flag.
man, I was really looking forward to this game all the way up until lunch. I didn't end up getting it, but I still love the art. I just happily received the artbook in the mail this morning. 🏴☠️
As a player who played it a lot in the first season and hit max diamond rank in the leaderboard, this season is trash it’s exactly the same as the first season but reskinned. They just took out the old shark and put a ‘new’ one in. The new bosses don’t add anything interesting into the game, and they were removed after week 1 to be put back in the game later, and the worst part is that they are time limiting the updates so that we have to wait 7 weeks or so for all the content of the season to drop. Inventory and ship management is now a joke as you have to craft like 30 ships to do your pieces of 8 runs and you have furniture and cannons everywhere. They also made the game extremely unbalanced as you can now upgrade your ships to different levels affecting hull health so now there is no such thing as an equal and fair PVP fight. They also removed having to sail to get your pieces of 8 so now I have no reason to play at all other than logging in every other day for 30 seconds to fund the manufactories. Items were duped and sold so now every player who played in season 1 is a millionaire and the game economy is broken from the start. I’ve also been kicked off the servers 3 times due to Kingfishererror04. I’m already in the top players on the leaderboard for this new season and I’m not even trying, there must be barely any players for this game. They also added in skins to the store which are cooler than anything you can unlock by doing the hardest endgame fights so I have no reason to want to play it. I haven’t even mentioned yet the bug where people lost their entire ships when upgrading them.
I spent weeks player testing this game in their Singapore office. I definitely do not have an NDA with 9 years remaining. You should not come back to this comment one day as i definitely do not have any interesting tales about all the feedback given and how they responded.
Sid Meier's Pirates was such a simple yet deep Pirate RPG franchise that STILL 20 YEARS LATER hasn't had a worthy spiritual-successor. Someone get on it, I'm tired of waiting and being disappointed.
I really wanted this game to be good and had such high hopes. I still hope they can fix it ala CyberPunk by adding content. The foundational mechanics seem good.
Everyone getting their manufactories attacked - so....basically, the players are now honest merchants and the npcs are the actual pirates, raiding them. Complete role reversal.
@@TheVillainInGlasses But the game itself is almost exactly the same, so what specifically is wrong with the game? The existence of a cash shop that sells ugly skins?
I wouldn’t want a pirate game if I hadn’t played AC Blackflag. But after I played that game I definitely wanted more! So I obviously bought AC Rogue and loved it as well! When Skull and bones was announced I couldn’t wait! A pirate game from the studios that made an amazing pirate game without it really being one. I ended up not even buying skull and bones. I couldn’t and still can’t understand what they were thinking… I hate online service even though I love the concept. As far as I’ve played online service just means: “Here is our crappie mess but don’t worry it will get good!” “Well, we couldn’t possibly have calculated the bug-fixes we had to do… But it will get better later!/But we’ll fix the bugs later!” “I guess nobody likes this genre?” Had they given us a real pirate AC-ish game people would’ve loved it! I remember coming on the job (bartender) and someone whistling what shall we do with the drunken sailor from the kitchen… But they gave us something that makes me fear for the future of pirate games. Sigh… There was so much opportunity… If you’re gonna do online then Imagine being able to be part of the navy. Able to choose British, Dutch, Spanish etc. Hunt down other players/pirates. Defending other transports ships with tons of gold. Have different fighting styles to choose from bulky to nimble to Sparrow like. And of course add all black flag features. One of the most mind blowing features of Blackflag was the actual on board fighting to take the ship! The swashbuckling those things make the game. Maybe some day… maybe in a different dimension I don’t know…
You know what Ive always wanted, an actual Viking game. We have had several great pirate games over the many years of gaming yet Vikings have only gotten indie dev games, AC Valhalla and For Honor.
People did ask for this game, the dev(probably the suits) just 5% gave us the game we wanted, no one ask for ships with stam bar, resource collection, asked for ship and person combat, explanation sea and land,
X100. Saying we never asked for skull and bones feels disingenuous. We asked for black flag without the assassin nonsense and were led to believe that skull and bones would scratch that itch.
@@VnVnV-893 that's not what the guy is saying. He's saying that the game that skull & bones ultimately turned out to be is not something anyone wanted because it's not what you're describing
Luke I agree we need an authentic pirate game, that life is so fascinating, the ships are incredible, and learning about stuff like pirate insurance was really interesting to learn about. Did you know if you were injured on a pirate ship you could recieve the maximum of $1 to use for a peg leg or an eye patch, or a false hand.
You do bring up a good point; I think that's why speedrunning isn't that big of a hobby or some speedrunning games are super niche because the grind isn't fun usually while others I have over 250 hours clocked in because of how fun it is.
If they added more people stuff. Ship boarding, island exploration and so on then it would probably be huge. Like next year drop a massive update all in 1 to revive the game
If you read the current feedbacks from players who play the game, no one talks about the features you mention. All the players who have asked for this kind of feature have stopped playing and thus put pressure on the devs.
The average play time for Skull and Bones isn't 4 hours because the game is engaging, it's because it takes forever to sail around and grind out literally anything in this game.
YES PLEASE! Please more pirate games. I have been getting by with To Each His Own and City of Abandoned Ships for far too long. I would love if ANY studio made an open world, story driven pirate game. Just give me all the detail, all the grit, cool stories. GIVE IT TO ME, I WILL PAY FULL PRICE AT LAUNCH FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. LET US LIVE OUR PIRATE FANTASIESSSS
Pirate games are arguably underrepresented, but I don't really care much for traditional pirate stuff, was never into it, I think the only pirate themed stuff I ever really enjoyed would be the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, which I think I like purely because of Depp, and One Piece which is technically a pirate story, but doesn't look and feel like a traditional pirate story. So I really don't mind the lack of pirate stuff personally...
Pirate games are underrepresented. However, Sea of Thieves has everything I've ever wanted in a pirate game, so I am ok with that. Just started at the PS5 launch and am already at 165 hours - which is highly unusual for me as I usually game 10-15 hours a week. I've never had so much fun with a video game, and I've been gaming for over 45 years.
The comedic timing of my RUclips assigned ad break being for Skull and Bones is not lost on me. They must be more desperate for a player base than I thought.
What I would like is a GOW style Pirate game. With the great set peaces and acting and fun action. Maybe a bit of POTC with some humor and a great story. Idk I just that would be a hit if done right.
I find it so funny that the execs at these big game developers can never just take the L. Exact same thing happened to Suicide Squad and Starfield, all released to dismal critical and fan reception, and all have or are in the process of doubling down and putting more time and money into these failures. Some games can be saved, but when a concept is fundamentally flawed there really isn't much that can be done to salvage it
There are so little pirate games. I think my favorite pirate-themed game is Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, where you can become a pirate if you want.
Sadly that’s what this was supposed to be haha. Atleast that’s what it started as until the person who said “Forget everything you know about pirate games” got hired.
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Does it have eggs in? I can’t eat eggs, or pineapple.
Blah... Wish it was like Black Flag ... but well Black Flag 2... But meh... I can't even.
I had completely forgotten this game exists. It came out, I laughed at it, then it left my brain.
i did play it for around 30m and i deleted it tho i wanna try again Avatar
Same here lol , hell I didn’t even know it released. why do they even bother with this game
So true. I expected the dumpsterfire to burn longer tho.
@@juliuspearceluckily we have all this trash that people forget about. Something to laugh at, but most importantly, eventually it will lead to good games again
The best moment was when I uninstalled that rubbish
I still don't understand what they were thinking of having a Pirate game where you do not get off the ship at all
And you dont even board other ships lmao
Smoking Meth
They could have had a real gem on their hands, but they sunk the ship with this one and now it belongs in Davy jones locker
u can get off the ship, but game was fun 40h for what is was, only cuz i like pirate stuff.
You sound a bit uninformed.
Is the "quadruple A game quality" in the room with us now?
Think it's like chromosomes. 1 to many and it doesn't develop properly
Lmao
i am Brazilian and your name feels ominous for some reason. Quadruple A quality is much like a lot of modern astrophysics. we have never seen it work, but a bunch of nerds swear that in theory it must exist.
@@white6505what does quadruple A even mean that everyone these days are talking about???
I'm from the other side of the world and everyone is talking about those A:s
@@jimmykarlsson2567The CEO of Ubisoft marketed Skull and bones to be a quadruple A game. Which everyone knew was an out of touch joke because if anything GTA 6 would be considered quadruple A because quadruple A would be the above and beyond of budget and quality and Ubisoft doesn’t even make good games alone to be anywhere considered in that range
Pirate ships. With stamina. With poison damage and resistance. With torpedos. Who the hell decicded this was a good idea
Honestly it could work if they went full into the wacky pirate stuff (basically rip off or partner with One Piece). The issue is that the fanbase for this game are AC fans who like historical settings. Can't have both, wacky pirate stuff with fire bombards and torpedoes and historical accuracy lol
Ship has stamina.. like bruh..
I'm sure it represents the crew's stamina but i do appreciate everyone clowning on it.
Pirate Souls
Yh it might get tired. Playing this game is very strenuous
@@slipstream7324no it represents how unrealistic this game is.
@@slipstream7324 it's a crap idea whatever they were thinking.
Cant wait for suicide kills the justice league 2
Paralel universe and shit.
Oh my god, could you imagine they bring back batman just to kill him again
Currently had 320 players on Steam.
That was a Liveservice game btw and this number is not good.
My favourite part was them saying that Hogwarts legacy was good so how do you turn a single player game like that into a game closer to suicide squad 😂 I guess they are the REAL suicide squad.
Before that happens we gonna get a "Justice League attempts Suicide" game
"Imagine GTA but you don't leave the car"... you just aptly described Driver 1 and 2 😂
But you could exit your car in Driver 2 it just really had no purpose lol
So this game is being unfavourably compared to a game from 1999. Checks out
At least those games were fun and didn't try to claim they were the best
Except they were good games
IN DRIVER: SF you could only like possess people in their cars and then you’d have that car.
Skull & Bones - the game that nobody wanted, everybody expected it to flop and yet it couldn't die due to the Singapore government deal. Was it worth it, Ubisoft?
I had forgotten this game existed
And I will quickly resume that mentality, it’s the game equivalent of dry toast
Can anyone see this comment? Pretty sure RUclips has shadow banned me
how can you forget such exquisite AAAA game?
@@johncole4882you’re fine mane 🤙
I imagine there are a lot of games you have forgot existed, bro
After replaying Black Flag a few days ago, man, the game this could have been.
It's sooo weird. Black Flag 2 would've easily made Ubisoft a Billion Dollars in revenue - it would've sold like hot cake.
Skull & Bones will never break even. There is no way this shipwreck will make back 200M in development cost.
I don't understand how this could get greenlit - it's a weird grind with no story where you can't even jump off ship - like in Black Flag.
And the boarding maneuver is automatic and just a cutscene. WTF. So the only thing you do is upgrade the armor of your ship.
And the cannons on board, which have different firing ranges and hit angles. That's kinda about it. You gotta feed your crew, bring in
wood for repairs, but that's also not very interactive - you literally park your ship next to an island and wait till the wood comes in. You don't even
cut down the tree yourself :D
@@DerDudelino I understand exactly how it was greenlit. Players loved the naval combat of Black Flag, and Ubisoft believed they could make a game featuring ONLY that aspect and make easy money. They forgot that it wasn't the naval combat nor the notoriously janky gameplay of the OldCreed games that made them popular, it was the narrative. The narrative arc of Edward Kenway was excellent. If you simply removed that from Black Flag, you'd be left with a broken, unplayable game. If you developed a game centered only around the singular gameplay mechanic of naval battles, sans any story or narrative, you're left with a boring forgettable experience.
A pirate game, outside of the AC setting, could have been really compelling, but Ubi wanted a live service title not a narrative driven single player game. Ten years of development hell had S&B release well after the consumers had thoroughly soured on cash grab live service games.
@@Bateluer Black Flag played very dynamically as well. You could jump ship, dive through the ocean, board another ship, climb in their planks, attack enemies from above - it was never boring. Skull & Bones is always the same gameplay rhythm.
@@DerDudelino Black Flag is a single-player game, Skull and Bones a multiplayer game. The gameplay will be drastically different as a result.
@@astronotics531Nice try but Black Flag had multiplayer and what a surprise, the gameplay worked. That is no excuse to make a low tier "AAAA" game.
It's a weird coincidence that all these live service games have drawn/illustrative cutscenes and not fully rendered in engine ones.
Because it’s cheaper
What I really wanted from skull and bones was a pirate rpg, where I can make my own character, pick my ship and “plunder my measly black guts out.” Literally take the systems in black flag and refine it. The pirate fantasy was achieved, and they still found a way to mess that up!
I do have hope for that remake tho… keep the game the same for the most part. Refine combat, add more customization options and I’d be happy.
Skull and Bones better not be the last pirate game, cuz I NEED more.
What's the opposite of King Midas? Whoever it is, they work for Ubisoft.
Nobody wants a rpg but anime One Piece bros.
Rpg question, story. I’ll take that all day long
Come play sea of thieves. Bit of a learning curve but its a pretty good pirate game
Record player engagement. How many players were playing before launch? 0. How many are playing on launch day? 5. Hey, a new record!
It's the new method of promoting new games, movies and series. Doctor Who for example claims record viewings, solely based on the fact that the BBC has declared that THIS Doctor Who reboots the series and therefore the previous decades of Doctor Who don't count........... and yes, that IS as stupid as it sounds.
Game studios pretty much do the same things, as you've pointed out: This games has record-breaking numbers......... for this game. Well, duh!
@@tjroelsma
Not defending this game.. but the player count has always been pretty decent... Nothing crazy... But as someone who hosted events on discord getting a full lobby was pretty easy.. The hard part was finding a lobby that wasn't full so I could bring over players.. It has a pretty dedicated fanbase...
I'm genuinely convinced that Luke's coverage of this and suicide squad is the only thing keeping these games on life support
The problem though he as not played the new update as his save was corrupted. so he really cannot comment on the new update other breaking his saves.
@@Mulberry2000 it doesnt add much
I went on the PSN store and the digital deluxe edition of Sushi Squad is currently over 60% off for Plus subscribers. That's wild.
If anyone working at Ubisoft is actually listening:
I'm extremely glad I'm not you.
A Pirate game made by Rockstar, now that would be the dream eh Luke!
If they gave it a story as well-written as RD2 I’m down.
Nah
@@mc-qx6ue you good blood?
@@mc-qx6ue ? XD Rdr2 is probably a contender for best game of all time wtf are you talking about. Pirate game RPG made by Rockstar on par with Rdr2 would be legendary hands down.
4:30 that graph made all the difference.
lmao I kinda forgot what I was trying to do with it and just moved on :D
@@LukeStephensTV tbf, the game is just that forgettable...
Basically, garbage is still garbage.
The game sounds grindy af
Forget everything you know about pirate games
I have a professor at my college that started its most popular class (pirate literature) because he played Black Flag and loved it so much
It really is a shame because Ubisoft has always been amazing at building fantastic worlds for their games. And having great visuals. It’s just the content therein that has struggled.
When I think of the ideal pirate game I think of something like red dead 2. With all these dynamic encounters. Great detail. Slow paced. Riveting narrative. Interesting characters. But also the ability to just kind of feel like a pirate doing whatever you want. Whether it’s transporting goods, taking on bounties. Or just going into a tavern and playing dice, or cards, knife throwing. Maybe even having a little village that you can invest money in and build up.
But other obvious things like sword fighting. Gunplay. Hunting fishing, tracking down, rumors of other pirates that you’re looking for or treasures that you want to find. Dynamically finding treasure maps. Song songs. Hire crew. So many fun things you could put in this game, that would really make it feel like a pirate fantasy. That could put it on par with red dead two.
And a few through co-op in there, so you could play with your friend, that would be amazing
Our boy is really trying to sell us some factor microwave meals
You think he really eats them everyday for lunch?
@@planexshifter Hell no. He said he pops them in for two minutes and it’s done. If he ate one of those, he would know it needs to be stirred, then cooked some more.
Check out Sea Dogs, Caribbean Legend in particular, if you’ve got a pirate itch. It can be overwhelming, and a little too simulation heavy rather than arcadey, but it’s methodical, has great depth, and a long solid story.
Re-downloaded Asassins Creed Odyssey. Got a sudden urge to play it again. Tell you what, this game aged very well and might very well be the best ship combat game, where ''stamina'' makes actual sense. Guys, give that game a shot again. Its so good.
That was one of my games of that year no one believes me but with all the dlc it was so good
I want a privateer during the time before the golden age of piracy. Narrative heavy, realistic (it takes literal in game months to reach some places,) etc.
It'd be kinda interesting to see a game explore multiple ages of piracy. Sid Meier's Pirates kinda did it but the start dates were basically just difficulty settings. It would be fun to watch the rise of piracy, first as simple illegal acts, and then its evolution into an entire political landscape.
You might like the Sea Dogs games.
Thumbnail looks like an 80's rock god
What is the point of the game with sailing ships if they behave like motorboats?
It feels illegal to find a Luke Stephen’s video this early 😭😭
Ah yes, quadruple A game that is worse than macromedia flash games.
" Forget everything you know about traditional pirate fantasies "
They said at launch and i was lik " what 😳???"
3 years for an asset flip on a game they already made is crazy
You mean 10 years?
It is even worse, Black Flag's gameplay loop is much more complex than Skull and Bones. The fact you can board someone's else ship on foot, fight the crew and get all the spoils is something that Skull and Bones can never do.
“A game no one asked for”??
Literally everyone is asking for a pirate game.. just not this
Pirates are a genre bro, it's not specific to this game. Just because people wanted a pirate game doesn't mean they wanted this game
@@azzy9293 Exactly what I was saying. There's a lot of demands for a pirate game, and when this game was first announced, everybody was hyped. It just turned out to be bad, but there's demands for this kind of games
15:42 lol thats actually exactly what the first Driver game was on PS1, to give them credit it was 3D and looked amazing for its time.
I wonder how long Ubisoft can go on like this before they get into serious trouble. Imagine if the next ACs were financial flops. - What other big brands does Ubi have to keep their business going?
I’m not sure we have to imagine it
Appreciate the credit for the racing clip at 14:29 🙏
I personally find pirate settings really really boring, which is weird because I think Black Flag is an amazing game. Like Pirates of the Carribean didn't land with me. Sea of Thieves not for me. I just don't know why, but nothing landed well with me in the pirate genre at all but Black Flag.
Its because it still hasnt lived up to its full potential. Black Flag was the closest we’ve seen
"What do you do in your pirate game?" " Grind for furniture."
This week has free game trial. Have played all night for 8 hours. Start is sluggish, sure, but once I got my first pirate ship and got a bit used to the UI, inventory and other systems, I was having a blast all night. Game runs smoothly, the atmosphere is amazing. Sure wish we could walk on our ship or visit cabin though, but honestly this "explore the forest off the ship" kinda thing is not that much missed. I think if you go into this game thinking you want Black Flag v.2 you not gonna get what you want. Go in with open mind and its not that bad. Deffo gonna grind hard this free week, hope it stays this fun =)
Absolutely agree.
I just finished the show black sails on Netflix and my itch for a pirate game like that show is absolutely through the roof right now. GIVE US A SINGLE PLAYER OPEN WORLD PIRATE GAME SOMEONE PLEASE!!!
Just replay Black Flag.
@@godfatherezio hoping for a remake or remaster like they’ve been rumoring.
Him: “I love ships, I love pirates”
Me: “is that the titanic?!”
I was lucky to never had the save failing
Skull and bones is fun
I played skull and bones 14 hours on it every day
I'm lmao'ing so hard at the wooden 40 meters sailboat handling like a freaking modern speedboat. It's giving me cognitive whiplash.
I’m literally shocked Luke didn’t say that an Egyptian Pirate game isn’t his ideal game. I mean isn’t that an obvious win?!
How about a civil war game with the steel steam ships
The season 2 boss fight with these two “opera” weirdos is probably almost exactly like the HMS Fearless and Royal Sovereign legendary ship boss fight in AC Black Flag.
They are already STOPPING weekly updates 😂😂
man, I was really looking forward to this game all the way up until lunch. I didn't end up getting it, but I still love the art. I just happily received the artbook in the mail this morning. 🏴☠️
Bro Skull and Bones is all that's gonna be left of this game in a year
You can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse no matter how much content is added.
Gotta hand it to Ubislop for going for historical accuracy 😂
They never went for historical accuracy
@@ehenningsenthey did
@crazygamingyt7245 no, they went for inspiration by history - not historical accuracy
@@crazygamingyt7245 what part of pirates with torpedoes, poison damage and stamina bars is historically accurate
@@ehenningsen I guess sarcasm is lost in 2024
As a player who played it a lot in the first season and hit max diamond rank in the leaderboard, this season is trash it’s exactly the same as the first season but reskinned. They just took out the old shark and put a ‘new’ one in. The new bosses don’t add anything interesting into the game, and they were removed after week 1 to be put back in the game later, and the worst part is that they are time limiting the updates so that we have to wait 7 weeks or so for all the content of the season to drop. Inventory and ship management is now a joke as you have to craft like 30 ships to do your pieces of 8 runs and you have furniture and cannons everywhere. They also made the game extremely unbalanced as you can now upgrade your ships to different levels affecting hull health so now there is no such thing as an equal and fair PVP fight. They also removed having to sail to get your pieces of 8 so now I have no reason to play at all other than logging in every other day for 30 seconds to fund the manufactories. Items were duped and sold so now every player who played in season 1 is a millionaire and the game economy is broken from the start. I’ve also been kicked off the servers 3 times due to Kingfishererror04. I’m already in the top players on the leaderboard for this new season and I’m not even trying, there must be barely any players for this game. They also added in skins to the store which are cooler than anything you can unlock by doing the hardest endgame fights so I have no reason to want to play it. I haven’t even mentioned yet the bug where people lost their entire ships when upgrading them.
I spent weeks player testing this game in their Singapore office. I definitely do not have an NDA with 9 years remaining. You should not come back to this comment one day as i definitely do not have any interesting tales about all the feedback given and how they responded.
Sid Meier's Pirates was such a simple yet deep Pirate RPG franchise that STILL 20 YEARS LATER hasn't had a worthy spiritual-successor.
Someone get on it, I'm tired of waiting and being disappointed.
I really wanted this game to be good and had such high hopes. I still hope they can fix it ala CyberPunk by adding content. The foundational mechanics seem good.
Sea of Thieves is the clear winner here now that it came to Playstation. Literally ZERO reason to play Skull & Bones.
Skull and Boners
Everyone getting their manufactories attacked - so....basically, the players are now honest merchants and the npcs are the actual pirates, raiding them. Complete role reversal.
I want EVE online with pirates.
Where it takes several real world days to sail from one end of the world to the other.
You got a lot of free time 😂
EVE Online Pirates would be great. I miss when EVE Online was good. 🥲
@@TheVillainInGlasses Whats bad about it now?
@@KakavashaForever All the macro transactions. It's gone to shit since the Koreans bought CCP.
@@TheVillainInGlasses But the game itself is almost exactly the same, so what specifically is wrong with the game? The existence of a cash shop that sells ugly skins?
I'll wait until it's free to play or something on Epic.
pirates legend of black kat is another old pirate game that’s so old school
I would love to hear more on your ideal pirate game. I would love to hear your ideas for systems and progression.
It's surreal Ubisoft could fuck this game up so badly when they had a very straightforward blueprint for an absolutely money printing game.
I hope pirate games gain so much popularity that developers compete with each to release better and better pirate games.
GTA without leaving a car is called Driver😂
I wouldn’t want a pirate game if I hadn’t played AC Blackflag. But after I played that game I definitely wanted more! So I obviously bought AC Rogue and loved it as well! When Skull and bones was announced I couldn’t wait! A pirate game from the studios that made an amazing pirate game without it really being one. I ended up not even buying skull and bones. I couldn’t and still can’t understand what they were thinking… I hate online service even though I love the concept. As far as I’ve played online service just means:
“Here is our crappie mess but don’t worry it will get good!”
“Well, we couldn’t possibly have calculated the bug-fixes we had to do… But it will get better later!/But we’ll fix the bugs later!”
“I guess nobody likes this genre?”
Had they given us a real pirate AC-ish game people would’ve loved it! I remember coming on the job (bartender) and someone whistling what shall we do with the drunken sailor from the kitchen… But they gave us something that makes me fear for the future of pirate games. Sigh… There was so much opportunity…
If you’re gonna do online then Imagine being able to be part of the navy. Able to choose British, Dutch, Spanish etc. Hunt down other players/pirates. Defending other transports ships with tons of gold.
Have different fighting styles to choose from bulky to nimble to Sparrow like. And of course add all black flag features. One of the most mind blowing features of Blackflag was the actual on board fighting to take the ship! The swashbuckling those things make the game. Maybe some day… maybe in a different dimension I don’t know…
You know what Ive always wanted, an actual Viking game. We have had several great pirate games over the many years of gaming yet Vikings have only gotten indie dev games, AC Valhalla and For Honor.
People did ask for this game, the dev(probably the suits) just 5% gave us the game we wanted, no one ask for ships with stam bar, resource collection, asked for ship and person combat, explanation sea and land,
Waited for a sale, $29.99 at target currently as of July 2024.
I’m interested, worried about the live service side of it.
Ubisoft already did GTA where you can't get out of the car: Driver San Francisco
You know, if this was a rowboat I would excuse the stamina mechanic. But on a sailship? What the fuck
Forget everything you know about pirate games
Luke Stephens, This is fantastic! I subscribed because I love it!
Just want black flag back.
X100. Saying we never asked for skull and bones feels disingenuous. We asked for black flag without the assassin nonsense and were led to believe that skull and bones would scratch that itch.
@@VnVnV-893 that's not what the guy is saying. He's saying that the game that skull & bones ultimately turned out to be is not something anyone wanted because it's not what you're describing
@@CErra310 if that's what he meant, then he's right. Fair enough.
“It’s a really full, triple… quadruple-A game, that will deliver in the long run.” This quote from Yves Guillemot just gets worse and worse by the day
why does your ship get some much air, it could count as a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater trick?
Luke I agree we need an authentic pirate game, that life is so fascinating, the ships are incredible, and learning about stuff like pirate insurance was really interesting to learn about. Did you know if you were injured on a pirate ship you could recieve the maximum of $1 to use for a peg leg or an eye patch, or a false hand.
16:00 GTA but you can't leave your car. NFS underground? That was a fair amount of fun, if you like rubberbanding of course.
You do bring up a good point; I think that's why speedrunning isn't that big of a hobby or some speedrunning games are super niche because the grind isn't fun usually while others I have over 250 hours clocked in because of how fun it is.
If they added more people stuff. Ship boarding, island exploration and so on then it would probably be huge. Like next year drop a massive update all in 1 to revive the game
Or you could just not buy this game and instead play Sea of Thieves which already had that at launch
Yea but thats first person trash we dont want that either. @MLGames99
@@jordanward263 oh ok
If you read the current feedbacks from players who play the game, no one talks about the features you mention. All the players who have asked for this kind of feature have stopped playing and thus put pressure on the devs.
If they don't make it like Black Flag, I will never want to play it.
Same.
The average play time for Skull and Bones isn't 4 hours because the game is engaging, it's because it takes forever to sail around and grind out literally anything in this game.
Ive watched every one of these videos and never even thought about playing this game
An actual boarding a ship with your avatar and be able to fight on the ship side by side with other players
Ship has stamina and sails like a bistro. 100% history legit.
Dark gritty pirate game would be awesome!
A lot of people ask for this game, but they wanted a different type of Sea of thieves and what they got was this instead 10 years later.
YES PLEASE! Please more pirate games. I have been getting by with To Each His Own and City of Abandoned Ships for far too long. I would love if ANY studio made an open world, story driven pirate game. Just give me all the detail, all the grit, cool stories. GIVE IT TO ME, I WILL PAY FULL PRICE AT LAUNCH FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. LET US LIVE OUR PIRATE FANTASIESSSS
it also limited the saling it self, by limiting the windfaktor. the game always has good wind
Pirate games are arguably underrepresented, but I don't really care much for traditional pirate stuff, was never into it, I think the only pirate themed stuff I ever really enjoyed would be the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, which I think I like purely because of Depp, and One Piece which is technically a pirate story, but doesn't look and feel like a traditional pirate story. So I really don't mind the lack of pirate stuff personally...
The person who decided caliing ur upgrades Furniture should get fired immediatly, what a stupid fkng idea
Pirate games are underrepresented. However, Sea of Thieves has everything I've ever wanted in a pirate game, so I am ok with that. Just started at the PS5 launch and am already at 165 hours - which is highly unusual for me as I usually game 10-15 hours a week. I've never had so much fun with a video game, and I've been gaming for over 45 years.
The comedic timing of my RUclips assigned ad break being for Skull and Bones is not lost on me. They must be more desperate for a player base than I thought.
What I would like is a GOW style Pirate game. With the great set peaces and acting and fun action. Maybe a bit of POTC with some humor and a great story. Idk I just that would be a hit if done right.
Whats POTC?
Oh boy an AC4 Blackflag remake...made by the team that made THIS game...joy...
I find it so funny that the execs at these big game developers can never just take the L. Exact same thing happened to Suicide Squad and Starfield, all released to dismal critical and fan reception, and all have or are in the process of doubling down and putting more time and money into these failures. Some games can be saved, but when a concept is fundamentally flawed there really isn't much that can be done to salvage it
"A GTA, but you can't leave your car"
Driver San Francisco:
There are so little pirate games. I think my favorite pirate-themed game is Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, where you can become a pirate if you want.
All they had to do was use Black Flag's engine with all the AC jank removed and boom, perfect single player pirate game.
Completely down for a remake of AC Black Flag
Sadly that’s what this was supposed to be haha. Atleast that’s what it started as until the person who said “Forget everything you know about pirate games” got hired.
@@Schrogs Sounds about right
Literally forgot this game existed until this video popped up on my feed.
I still cannot wrap my head around why they chose a STAMINA BAR for a fucking ship and not just Wind, like SoT
Forget everything you know about pirate games
SOT remains the only decent modern pirate game