When they say "Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy" what I hear is "Lower your expectations because you will be disappointed."
We've seen it all before. 1) It releases horribly. 2) Whistleblowers (rightfully) call out horrible work practices while making the game. 3) Executives apologies. 4) Promise 1 year roadmap to make the game better. 5) Although executives reassure what little fans there are that the game will not be abandoned...the game is abandoned after 1 year. 6) Release "leaks" about next grift to get Ubisoft fans excited. 7) Cycle repeats.
They literally had it. They had the foundation, the feedback, everyone told them exactly what they wanted. This could have been an easy win for Ubisoft but they still somehow fumble
They rather focus on Diversity, Diversity, Diversity. 11:20 that subliminal clip is really telling, now we can have a black trnz pirate, can't be more inclusive than that lmao
Maybe it's an insurance plan, they knew after a while that the game they were making was bad so they went with continuing a bad game build in hopes they make more money on an insurance claim.
And nothing that looks like fantastical 'Kraken awakens' moment, perhaps a sprinkled out 'minor events' where you barely see this gigantic thing move underwater. Mermaids, Ghosts, Getting stuck in Davy Jones' Locker, etc. etc.
@@trevorn2969 don't forget an exact replica of the Jackdaw from AC4 except it has none of the same features or abilities and it cost 39.99 oh, but it comes with Ed Kenways cloak and overcoat tho
That ship movement looks SUPER arcadey too... those ships will not feel like you're handling a ship, it looks more like tank-controls because they can turn on a dime.
I don't get why they seemingly started from scratch, I really feel that just taking ACIV:BF, removing the AC element from the game, then building up on that would've resulted in a great game and would've been what most people wanted. It was probably Black Flag that got lots more people wanting a pirate game after all.
Half the games I've bought from them don't work because of some server issue on their end (Steep, Watch Dogs). So, pirating their sh*t is the only way to make them playable lol.
@@JohnSmith-px5nf don’t you know? Historically every society that ever existed was very diverse and pro equality,and reflected the problems our current society blah blah blah...new fans blah blah blah...
Diversity, Diversity, Diversity. 11:20 that subliminal clip is really telling, now we can have a black trnz pirate, can't be more inclusive than that lmao
If we forget all about traditionally piracy and all that comes with it. What is the game about then, what is left 🤔. I don't think i will go down that road either
This makes _Sea of Thieves_ look like a hardcore immersive sim. How much do you want to bet that docking your ship leads to a hub area where everyone shows off their cosmetic microtransaction purchases? I don't believe that the dev team wanted this; it has Ubisoft's feces-stained corporate fingerprints all over it.
@@XDarkBrotherhoodHD Sea of thieves is boring. No content compared to something like black flag. Just run around collecting random crap until someone attacks and sinks your ship...great fun.
@@NuStiuFrate Theres so much more to it now. The game came out like 4 years ago and has had constant, free updates with content. It absolutely was pathetic in terms of stuff to do at launch. But yall judge it off that its not a good example of a bad game anymore. Similar to no mans sky
This just makes me realize that we need a reboot/next gen Sid Meier's Pirates. Still my favorite pirate game and really the only one that gives you a vertical slice of all the classic swashbuckling/pirate stuff that you associate with it. Treasure hunting, ship battles, duels, wooing governors' daughters, trading, sacking ports, etc
Honestly this would've had me go crazy for a remaster of Pirate101 for petes sake. And that had crappy ship combat. But it was still fun because boarding was actually done properly and even your character would board, you had places to explore and such
Sid Meier's Pirates is the best game nobody talks about. I wouldn't even be asking for as much as a reboot. Just give me the same game with expanded content and I'd be happy. Given the current state of Firaxis though, I wouldn't have much hope in them getting it right. Next favourite 'pirate' game would be DioxineX Piratez for XCom. However I don't think it's what most people would consider a pirate game.
i don't understand why this is such a difficult concept, you literally have the blueprints for a great pirate game with AC Black Flag, literally just expand on that and you have a winner
Watching your ship magically collect resources by simply going next to the island is totally mobile game material😂 Like seriously why even include that unless you let us walk around the islands…and since we can’t shouldn’t we just play black flag or odyssey?
Sort of yeah. It was more, they has a circular hole, and a circular peg whose diametre was a fair bit smaller than the hole. Instead of buffing out the peg to be more inline with the hole's diametre, they squared it off. It fits the hole but isn;t snug, and leaves a lot of room for want.
There are lessons to be learned from every game in development hell. This was a disaster because management had no clear vision and kept chasing trends.
Guaranteed there was some jackass in analytics with charts showing poor performance of past multiplayer pirate games (cuz they were all low budget small studio attempts) and management ate that shit up.
@@valentinhofmann951 forget black flag ... Sid Meiers' Pirates! did all of this already. Sure, not the same point of view ... but it is the Golden Age of Piracy game.
Haha! Well luckily for me I think I can enjoy it. Especially like I enjoyed “King of Seas” and this seems like a super version of it. I just don’t think I’ll enjoy the multiplayer aspect of it.
If Ubisoft was really having such a hard time figuring out a direction for this game to take for years it sounds like, then they really need to do some restructuring and putting new people in charge.
Imagine a huge open-world game set as being a pirate. you need to spend time and energy hiring in crewmates, make sure you're able to disguise your ship in case you run into a privateer group or Country's Navy, etc. And then also have something to spend the money on and go full Rated R about it with Tortuga style pirate-ports, booze, prostitutes and lavish living. Just raiding for money for the sake of money to spend on 'ship upgrades so you can raid more money' sorta makes me think it's some bullshit lootbox type sensation 'endless gameplay loop' that can ruin a game i might have looked forward to.
@kinagrill not even that i would've been fine with an AC4 copycat but just with a custom character and custom ship Co-op multi-player single player i don't care just let me do some naval combat in my custom made Black Pearl damnit !!!
Literally all they had to do was: make a good single-player pirate game with a good story, with real historical pirates you meat along the way, and just AC: Black Flag assets.
Or make it coop. Yet another mindless multiplayer vs game is the last thing anyone wanted. Thdn to strip all the things people even liked from black flag was a hilariously moronic idea
Maybe there is more? I mean their storytrailer was really cool, the one starting in London. But the gameplay looked so bad, like no dialogue, just random merchants selling you stuff. No cutscenes. What have they done with 100M Dollar budget?
Honestly, I just wanted a modern Pirates of the Caribbean (Sea Dogs 3) Xbox game. One of the funnest Pirate games I played. You could steal ships and add them to your fleet, explore cities and fight on land. Buy and sell stolen ships and goods. All they needed to do was that with Ubisoft modern graphics. Not a hard concept 🤦♂️
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine an awesome pirate adventure. Following treasure maps, raiding ports, swinging on ropes onto ships, drinking grog while running away from the local constabulary, exploring jungle ruins. Okay, now forget everything you thought you knew and open your eyes to a pirate game with none of that.
@@Frank-li8uj i own all 5 PlayStations and an xbox one original (mostly for forza and halo and a few other titles) but i rarely play it and i dont have xbox live. But sea of thieves looks damn cool and makes me wish i played xbox more
So in this pirate game, you role-play as an uber driver for a crew of kick ass pirates, and wait on the ship while they do all the cool shit you immediately think of when you hear "pirate" Sounds like it would've been a decent mobile game 5 years ago
There's a lot to say about this and most of it revolves around the disappointment, but as for the Indian Ocean I don't really have a problem a pretty massive chunk of the Golden Age of Piracy was actually targeted towards British and Dutch East India company targets in the region as well as various Indian Princely State. What most people think of when they think of Caribbean pirates was only about a decade following the War of the Spanish Succession.
I am not a historian by any means, but I would imagine all the trade going through the Indian Ocean because of the wealth and spices in the Indian subcontinent, the East Indies and China; it makes sense that piracy would be more lucrative in this region. Sure, when we think of piracy, we generally think of the Carribean during the 18th century with dudes like Blackbeard, but when a guy they called "the King of Pirates" made his big heist here, I don't think the setting is as bad as they make it out to be. It's a little dry, but if they had just done more with the setting they ended up with it could've been the big "oh, forget EVERYTHING you know about pirate fantasies. This is going to be a REVOLUTIONARY pirate game!" they were going for.
I agree. The 'Pirates' movies have definitely made pirates feel synonymous with the Caribbean, but there was a ton of piracy in regards to the spice trade out of India. This gives them a chance to explore a different variety of piracy, and focus more on parts of the world that are a little less represented in video games. I don't think this game looks 'bad', it just looks kinda... 'meh'. And maybe that's the best you can expect for a game with a development cycle that sounds like it could rival Duke Nukem Forever...
Its literally like AC Black Flag, without the other half of the game. Jesus christ Ubi, just make another goddamn AAA full game about pirates (just like AC IV but without the AC lore). And that's all, you win, we win. Why keep burning money like that...
These narrators make everything sound good. (My life) “ when you wake up, you can take the bus or the train to work, or just stay home. It’s all up to you “
So accurate. When the narrator described "socialising" all I kept thinking was that I'll tap the emote button once for 5 seconds and rarely do it again.
"But if youre not one to follow the beaten path, just a little exploration will reveal a revolver with one round in your nightstand. A note on the gun says "do it pussy". Our devs love adding little easter eggs from their own lives into our games"
“You can go outside and touch grass,experience the felling of freedom,take your fate in your own hands! Go to shop and buy some milk,trade and upgrade,craft a sandwich! The game of life,join the adventure today” Ubisoft original,in game purchases and diversity,internet connection required,all rights reserved.
The company is literally being told by their target audience for YEARS for they want to pay for and they aren’t delivering smh. It’s make or break time and until we see swordfighting we ain’t buying
It's always amusing when people say "i don't mind if it takes them long to develop the game, at least it's gonna be released polished". It doesn't surprise me at all how the game is. If the development takes too long, they are not polishing anything. It means there are some problems with development/production.
Can't wait to see the micro transactions in this game. Boosts: collecting materials, exclusive crew, faster xp gain. Exclusive ships n custom upgrades.
dont forget the neon pink giraffe mask cosmetic pack that will completely destroy every other players immersion all so little timmy feels special for 19.99. Which will be defended by half the community as "its just cosmetics bruh, it doesnt effect your gameplay experience"
Yeah, they were 3rd party that had no association with any military, but were given permission to act in the governor’s behalf unless caught. Pretty much they were bounty hunters that walked the fine line of legal and illegal.
@@liamhogan4369 What? They were like a normal pirate until someone hired their services and turned them into PMC of the sea? So if you didn't want to be robbed by them you'd have to hire them?
Sea of Thieves has come a long way. Captaincy update coming this month will be a big deal and the Adventures they've been releasing every few weeks have been a great addition.. and enemy wise you have the skellies, phantoms, sirens, kraken, megalodons, and more. If someone just did a realistic version with more plater ships it would perfect. You guys should try sot again when the new season comes out
I rather play sea of thieves then this loot garbage press a to board game. The pvp is still there but the map is to big now for the player count in servers.
I feel so bad for devs who put YEARS of their life into making a game: only for it to come out like this... Edit: Yes I know they still get paid, but I'm talking about fulfillment.
Bro they got paid if your a dev that wants to make a big and magical game that you think will inspire people, your defiantly not working at ubisoft, you work at ubisoft for the paycheck. Ubisoft is the 1# game studio I would say are never innovators., at least not anymore Assassins creeds climbing system was a innovation I am saying this as a dev who codes, but ever since AC unity ubisoft has been a dead studio, they killed beyond good and evil 2 the only game ive seen from them trying to innovate, even EA innovates, ubisoft just copies other people and even themselves at this point but doesnt get what made those ideas great.
@@Ytomany when was the last time EA innovated? They literally release the exact same sports games with a few name changes here and there every year and even their other projects like the star wars games are just derivative of other games. Sure, at the end of the day the paycheck is also important but I don't believe for a second that not a single dev working at ubisoft hasn't got at least some passion for making video games, otherwise they wouldn't have gone into such a stressful industry in the first place. Ubisoft wasn't always shit so maybe it was their dream going up to work for them on their favourite franchises, the devs are not to blame for the choices the management makes
25:53 The mission tells you all you need to know: You're disembarking on a big ol' multi-man boat to go a couple miles away to "get a jar of oil for a dude". This would be like hopping in an 18 wheeler to get a scented candle from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
I've been playing black flag again recently and it's really disappointing to see how that game did pirate ship combat way better. When you board a ship, your crew would pickup muskets and fire onto the enemy crew until you get close enough to swing on ropes onto their deck. Then you'll engage in combat until you kill enough men. That was always so much fun.
33:35 Holy shit, he's right...if they don't change the release date (like many other games have done in the past when they went against massively anticipated games) YOU KNOW why....and I hope they do release some kind of statement saying that GoW was to blame...it's going to give me a nice chuckle
To this day Black Flag remains my all time favorite pirate game. Most other pirate games after never really impressed me and so far this hasn't impressed me either.
I can't think of a better pirate game honestly. Modern Sea of Thieves is DAMN close, but it's all multiplayer. Black Flag was just the perfect pirate game. You could go anywhere, stop and hop out seamlessly onto any island! Upgrading your ship, controlling the fleet, pillaging other ships, fighting forts, building up the Iquana Cove. It was so good! Shit, I wish they just made a full on remake of 4! I haven't played Rogue yet, so fuck it, that will be my new pirate game. Skull and Bones looks so lame in comparison
Pirates of the caribbean online was my all time favorite and to this day nothing has come close to it. The game now has a small player base but still super fun to play.
This is a very minor thing, but look at how the flags behave in relation to the sails. At 23:51 where you're in the lookout's POV, the ship is theoretically being propelled forward by wind from the rear, but your flag is being blown backwards by the same damn wind. XD It's a small thing, but if you have any idea how sailing ships work, it's immersion breaking in a very basic way.
Fun fact: piracy in the Indian ocean was EXTREMELY prevalent, just as much as the Caribbean. Mughal Empire (India) ships would be OMEGA rich. Henry Avery, a famous pirate, made his fortune when he plundered a Mughal ship on it's way to Mecca, and basically retired after that (it was also the biggest score captured by any pirate). I actually love the setting, it's different but also accurate.
Yup! I felt Joe was being overly negative nonstop. It does not look like 2013 either to me. Doesn't look amazing but it doesn't look BAD how he keeps saying
@@digit861 It doesn’t look bad, it looks fucking terrible. It looks exactly like a more polished Ghost Recon Wildlands, graphics wise, which launched in 2015ish. It’s unpolished, boring, uninspired, based on a minuscule gameplay element of a much better, older game (Black Flag battleships) and it’s horrid. Honestly, how can Joe not be “a nonstop negative whiner” when he is looking at this garbage? I honestly do wonder how you take one small comment he made on the setting (which is true, you think Pirate, you think Jack Sparrow, you think Carribeans) and extend this to the whole video as him being bitchy? He is right. This is so ass, as most of Ubi’s shit has been.
I truly don’t understand how these companies fumble such incredible ideas. Seriously it blows my mind it’s so easy you actually have to be somewhat incompetent. And top comment said it best, it feels like your driving and everyone else gets to have fun.
While they were needlessly negative about things during the video, I feel they really got it when they said "I would have been really excited about this in 2016, etc". This game screams "the perils of development hell". It has potential but its feels overbaked and ripe for MTX from executives despite the good work the devs have been doing.
It's like that everywhere. I work at a bullshit car wash and even there, the bigwigs don't listen to customers or front line employees. We were handing out Google review cards for a bit supposedly to hear from customers, but then come to find out they only posted the favorable reviews. It's just bean counters making the rules for product/service delivery across the board. When it comes to what actually works, they don't give a daaaamn.
@@tenjenk I don’t think they were overly negative. Have you played Sea of Thieves like current build? He blows this game out of the water! This game had an amazing build up from starting from a little ship to getting a big one! And having NPC crew! That’s so amazing! And then the gameplay is just you sitting in your boat shooting objectives while your NPC bots roll and rng dice to see who wins the boarding battle.
And don’t get me started on the multiplayer! I want to play with my friend in the same boat! One person on the sails one on the cannons omg how fucking cool would it be to have friends command different sections of the ship! Holy shit! But no you can just ride together next to each other. Fantastic. Fuck that
I've got a felling nobody will be playing this after a month. If they had a more in depth game like black flag or with sid myers pirates. This could be something special. But it's going to bomb.
Like they do with pretty much every title they’ve released in the past decade. Can’t remember the last Ubisoft game that I thoroughly enjoyed. Honestly it was probably Black Flag.
Watch Dogs 2 was fun, but I try not to support a studio rife with misogyny trying to claim it's apolitical despite pointed politics in their games. Especially when said games are samey and lacking.
I remember this was supposed to be a dlc for assassin creed 4. This would have been really cool as an extra mode or expansion for black flag but as a stand alone game 7 years later this is really underwhelming.
Dude, Black Flag was released NINE years ago. So for nearly a decade they've had the road map, the code, and everything just sitting right there in front of them to simply improve upon. "Underwhelming" isn't nearly enough to explain the catastrophe this game will be. I don't understand how they can come out with a new AC game every year with a new story, new location, and some new features....yet after this long, they couldn't figure out how to add onto the core mechanics to just make Black Flag an even bigger and better game.
“Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy.” “Oh, so I should just forget about sailing, fighting and getting rich off of plundered ships?” “…” “Okay, bye now!” In all seriousness though, your commentary has more appeal than anything in this trailer. I guess those behind-the-scenes-issues really were that bad.
The ships seem to handle awfully weird for y'know, giant naval vessels? They all seem to turn on a dime as if they've got thrust vectoring or some shite.
I noticed that too, the guy stops his ship and turns like 180 degrees in a matter of seconds. Just stupid. They've got to cater to stupid kids who would wind up getting frustrated at why they cant drive the pirate ship at 100 knots and pull a 360 no scope, so now its dumbed down for everyone.
One of the ships explodes and creates a big shockwave that shakes all the boats, that was pretty impressive and not in sea of thieves, aside from that, looks crap especially char models
Stuff like this really makes me wish I was a fly on the wall in the meetings between management/executives. Feels like every single major studio either has morons leading them or incompetent people who can't convince the suits to trust in their vision of what the game should actually be. Either way, it's clear they aren't suited to do their jobs appropriately.
@@David-ys4ud That isn't how software development works. You have a project manager whose job is to essentially function as a middle manager between the dev team and the actual company executives. They meet with the executives to discuss project goals and then relay that to the dev team to work on. This clearly looks like those discussions led down the wrong path. A senior dev/QA team could have been telling them these ideas won't work or aren't compelling enough after testing but if the project manager can't convince the execs to agree with this, you end up with this shit. It's their job to convince the money men that they need more resources (time/money/personnel) to complete the job. Every single thing you see is cleared by upper management. If they had problems with it then they would have said something before any of this was shown to the public because there is way too much money riding on these projects. Nothing about this game looks like it's broken. It just looks like the people making the big decisions couldn't come to an agreement on what the game should be and that's why it went through development hell. You blame the construction workers if your light fixtures aren't fitted properly or if your wiring is borked. You blame the architect when the building's design is fundamentally flawed and it caves in on itself.
@@David-ys4ud You should really take the time to look at some of those "What happened/What went wrong" series here on RUclips. Almost *EVERY SINGLE ONE* of them has to deal with incredibly terrible management from the top level. Just look at Anthem as an example. Not only did that game suffer from a lack of direction, but the higher ups made the developers build an RPG in the Frostbite Engine, an engine designs for shooters i.e. the Battlefield franchise. The developers had to spend months retooling the engine just to make it work, clearly setting the project back.
And people buy into the hype and they churn out more garbage. Our wallets should show that these so called 'AAA' game studios need to make decent products. This has Anthem written all over it.
The problem I see is this game seems like it couldn't decide if it was going to be an action game or a strategy game. If this had been designed purely as a PC RTS game where you frantically try to control everything happening on a large pirate ship. That would have a lot of potential.
I don't even play or like RTS games personally, yet I agree. The concept they're about to crap out of the door is so deeply underwhelming and incoherent.
and watching that trailer, a question came to my mind.. umm, so, where is that dark and gritty? All i saw was even more fantastical and quite cartoony world than most of the earlier games. If you say dark and gritty, i want to see actual seriousness and grimdark atmosphere. But well, it is UBI.. so yeah, i always keep my expectations low anyways. Maybe it is just me, but i'm pretty much disappointed about most Ubisoft's games at this point
"In Skull & Bones, ships serve many different purposes. Mainly to siphon as much money out of your wallet a possible..." A pirate game, for a pirate company.
Nah pirates actually had more unspoken codes of honor than these trash corporations. For instance most pirates, especially during colonial rule, often only pirated from the crowns trading companies, not stealing credit card info from some moms wallet for microtansactions.
It's like that everywhere. I work at a bullshit car wash and even there, the bigwigs don't listen to customers or front line employees. We were handing out Google review cards for a bit supposedly to hear from customers, but then come to find out they only posted the favorable reviews. It's just bean counters making the rules for product/service delivery across the board. When it comes to what actually works, they don't give a daaaamn.
I actually like the idea of the Indian Ocean. It’s probably their only good idea because there’s a lot of cool stuff and exotic locations there. Caribbean is a classic but it’s also overly represented when you could do the South Atlantic, Mediterranean, or the South Pacific/Australia where there was a lot of trade and a lot of piracy.
27:05 to 27:30 Pretty much sums it up. You have no idea what you should be doing for like 7 years, then the guys paying you are like "Show me SOMETHING", so you squeeze out what you can put together in 1 or 2 years.
In Sea of thieves, me and my friends could play together. One of us in the crows nest, one person cooking food and repairing the hull, another driving, and another playing the music. That was so incredible!!! Being a part of a ship together. When they said you could play with friends I got so excited!!! And then they said you can just ride next to each other…. Wow… I’m just so disappointed. Ubisoft just needs to liquidate it’s assests and stop making games.
In your opinion, because they make a lot of games that people seem to enjoy playing. Just because you don’t like something does it mean an entire company needs to go into liquidation and fire all of its employees just to make you happy
@@JoshuaJacobs83 making a game that some NPC’s enjoy vs a quality video game are 2 different things. If you like playing trash then go ahead. But I ain’t a raccoon, I enjoy playing games with passion out into them.
@@georgelanadar4047 Again, you seem to have an overinflated idea of your own worth. Clearly you can’t be reasoned with. You may not be a raccoon but you’re as dense as a rock
This game is trying so hard to not become a 1/1 Sea of Thieves copycat that it's removed the fun features of that game, and kept the traditional Ubisoft bullshit like the skins you can buy with real money.
30:41 - 30:58 Spot on. What I wanted was more of a Mass Effect 2 type situation where you maybe recruit a crew to go on a big mission to take down a formidable frigate. You can have crew members try to displace you as the captain and other conflicts. All while still maintaining the naval combat of course. I'd also like to see some supernatural elements like curses, voodoo, sea monsters, etc. All the stuff that makes pirate fantasy fun. I also don't want to collect resources. That is the most boring part of being a pirate lol. Just let me go on missions where the reward is an upgrade to my ship. For example, let me go into dangerous caves to collect figureheads that give my ship some sort of advantage. Or let me go break some merchant's daughter out of prison and be rewarded with better sails. I don't like having to get a bunch of wood, iron, etc. just to go buy that stuff from a merchant. That's just busywork.
Try sea dogs series bruh, lmao. It is full fledged age of pirates naval rpg, and this type of games you wanted already exist since early-mid 2000s. You can hire new officer in town and they have different skills and Stats that will help your overall crew efficiancy. If you attacked and successfully capture a settlement (by actually being in the ground, swordfighting together with your crew, instead of only shooting at a wall) you can assign one of your officer to manage the settlement.
Tactical, realistic tier-one operator games where you fight drones and get colorized loot drops with increasingly more powerful versions of the same weapons; games about historical leagues of assassins where you fight mystical beasts and aren't an assassin (and can't even wear your signature hood during combat) and are bad at stealth; games about modern urban combat special forces units where you fight alien zombies from space that cover you in goo; and now games about pirates where you somehow don't swashbuckle, plunder forgotten treasures, or even walk the plank... It amazes me that modern day Ubisoft is still a functioning company. One of the biggest gaming companies in the world. Incomprehensible. Can't wait for the Crew 3 where, I assume, you will mostly walk around on foot and maybe race the occasional bicycle.
I was hoping for the ability to actually board an enemy vessel.... fight man to man... useing sword... daggers and pistols... then if you win, you could make the enemy captain "walk the plank" etc etc etc
they need to at least add a sword fighting mechanic as simple as mount and blade. if we could ditch our ship and take a position on an island and duke it out there that would be nice.
10:29 "And take advantage of their weak points to deal more damage." That is just as obvious and boring as the Massive Enemy Crab. Like it should go without saying. The fact they stated it outright is a warning in and of itself that they have no other features worth touting.
They’re also on a ticking clock. The agreement with the Singapore government is that they will develop a game by the Singapore studio within a certain year. I believe they already missed that milestone and the government is breathing down their necks to get it out. So this game has alot going against them and the best case scenario is a rushed released, buggy game with features missing.
ticking clock my ass. they started this shitpile in like 2013. they have had 9 years to make a shitty ship combat game that nobody wants to play, using decade+ old assets from old AC games, particularly Black Flag which will STILL be a better ship combat game than this piece of shit could ever hope to be. they should have scrapped it years ago and taken the L and just repaid the Singapore government
33:22 Alex has a damn good point and Joe's reaction is priceless. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to release a game just a day before God of War: Ragnarok? They're F*cked!
@@aeso3555 It is quite obvious they are using Ragnarok as a scapegoat, yes. Skull and Bones was supposed to be the first AAAA game, this is a disaster for Ubisoft.
@@fish5645 What has Ubisoft come to? Its like the days of Prince of Persia and the OG Assassin's Creed are long gone. I just don't feel the magic anymore.
"Crafting is an essential activity for you to progress as an infamous pirate." IN LITERALLY WHAT PIRATE ERA BLACKBEARD WAS NOT KNOWN FOR MAKING PLANKS AND NAILS
The UI to this game looks like they pulled it from one of their Tom Clancy games. Really weird disconnect in the UI's theme to the theme of the game. Idk why, but the game feels overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time.
It feels to me like, initially they tried to make Skull and Bones, they couldn't, so they went back and grabbed the Black Flag engine and recreated Skull and Bones in it. And now they're trying to sell that as if it was the Skull and Bones they initially tried to make. The sad part is, if this doesn't make money, they'll say something like "well, pirate games don't sell well" and abandon the franchise.
I remember hearing years ago it was based on Assassin's Creed Black Flag. To me, it literally looks exactly the same as it. Water physics and graphics look the same (for better or worse), it shares weapons and ship designs, the hubs look to use reused assets, they even have the exact same ship drops and hud for ship damage and info over the spy glass.
This kind of reminds me of how some of the sound design, animations, and visual effects got worse, or got removed in subsequent Assassin's Creed games. It's like Ubisoft re-invents the wheel every time they make a game.
Just you all wait. Microtransaction with exp boosters, resource boosters, ship skins, 5 star crew, buy instant weapons to your ship instead of waiting 12-24 hour and buy increase loot storage.
I'd rather not wait since this company hasn't made a good game in over half a decade and any person with remotely good taste would never play something like this.
All they had to do was re-release Assassins Creed 4 with an updated combat system and updated and improved ship combat. Without the Ac story and, improved graphics...
One of these days, the joes will learn to record using multiple audio channels so they can properly balance their audio in-post and we can actually hear everything they are trying to show us.
November-“Layoffs occur at Ubisoft due to disappointment of Skull and Bones, a disappointing year, and blame God of War.” Also-“Ubisoft CEO gets a huge bonus/raise due to imagination.” Not sure where I am going with this comment.
The main character is actually the ship, and the captain is its puppet. The ship sends the captain to outposts to do its bidding. This is what they meant when they said 'forget everything you know about pirate games
When I think of an awesome RPG pirate game I think about going on an adventure, finding unique crew mates on different islands, befriending and looting everything to power up your ship and crew. Have a bond with them. Base management. Fighting with your crew singing shanties with you in the forefront. This just looks like a point a click sailing game with very little interaction. You cant even board other ships with your crew. Didnt even see any musket and sword gameplay. It's like you're super glued to your ship. Hard pass. Guess I'll just boot up Black Flag. Atleast it's a full game.
You should give Odyssey a try if you haven't. I spent a good 60+ hours not even touching the main scenario. I was just sailing around collecting crew members and fighting other ships.
@@mittensfastpaw Well shucks... now that you mentioned it, that's a move Ubisoft would make in order to make just 1 more person buy their shittier version of what they already sold us back in 2013. I'd never thought I'd see the day, when you have to sail the seas to get working versions of games you actually bought for full money when they were being released... If the same thing happens here? Just wow xD
Huge missed opportunity. I don’t understand why you can’t board other ships or explore islands. How cool would it be if you could engage in Pirates of the Caribbean-type duels with other players and the winner gets a sum of gold? Edit: The game we wanted is represented in the 2017 trailer with some added Black Flag sword combat. The game we got is just…disappointing.
"Forget everything you know about pirate games" Translation: " This game is going to be a terrible pirate game" They warned us one year ago. I feel bad for AJ. He seemed so excited for this game.
With how mobile game-esque some of the mechanics like resource harvesting look, the poor graphics etc, i'd frankly be shocked if some kind of microtransaction wasn't present. I suspect alot of the delays could also have originated from over-meddling executives trying to get this stuff put into the game, and after 10 years of chaos we've got whatever the hell this game is supposed to be.
When they say "Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy" what I hear is "Lower your expectations because you will be disappointed."
True very true
Kratos: Lower your expectations boi and you will never be disappointed.
Exactly what that means is “forget it because none of that is in this game”
SAVAGE
"Well I did, and it was a load off of my mind!"
So basically, "forget everything you know about" all the things that made AC: Black Flag great.
This may have been posted a year ago but my god does it still hold true.
We've seen it all before. 1) It releases horribly. 2) Whistleblowers (rightfully) call out horrible work practices while making the game. 3) Executives apologies. 4) Promise 1 year roadmap to make the game better. 5) Although executives reassure what little fans there are that the game will not be abandoned...the game is abandoned after 1 year. 6) Release "leaks" about next grift to get Ubisoft fans excited. 7) Cycle repeats.
Sounds just like Anthem
@@TheHudsonPhoenix They never learn.
sounds like bf2042
Very accurate to live service games
!!!!!!!!
They literally had it. They had the foundation, the feedback, everyone told them exactly what they wanted. This could have been an easy win for Ubisoft but they still somehow fumble
They rather focus on Diversity, Diversity, Diversity. 11:20 that subliminal clip is really telling, now we can have a black trnz pirate, can't be more inclusive than that lmao
Yes, but the amount of money made from Diablo immortal encourages making games this way. More than just peoples feedback.
@@georgeelliott6877 and now the games a hot mess
Sea of Thieves anyone?
Maybe it's an insurance plan, they knew after a while that the game they were making was bad so they went with continuing a bad game build in hopes they make more money on an insurance claim.
"Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy"
*_Shoves in a $50 pink pirate ship with spikes and fire effects in the game_*
And nothing that looks like fantastical 'Kraken awakens' moment, perhaps a sprinkled out 'minor events' where you barely see this gigantic thing move underwater. Mermaids, Ghosts, Getting stuck in Davy Jones' Locker, etc. etc.
Rainbow 6 siege logo plastered on the side of a ship with crew that looks like a swat team for only 15.99
LOL
@@trevorn2969 don't forget an exact replica of the Jackdaw from AC4 except it has none of the same features or abilities and it cost 39.99
oh, but it comes with Ed Kenways cloak and overcoat tho
Right?! I don't wanna forget about traditional pirate fantasy. It's not like there are tons of pirate fantasy games. Gimme!
That ship movement looks SUPER arcadey too... those ships will not feel like you're handling a ship, it looks more like tank-controls because they can turn on a dime.
buh accessibility
Yer rather just play ac odyssey or black flag for ship battles
It looks like they were going to drift.
@@Subject_Keter can't wait to create my AE 86 ship
That and they are flying through the water. To feel more real for me would be much slower cannon loading and ship movement
I don't get why they seemingly started from scratch, I really feel that just taking ACIV:BF, removing the AC element from the game, then building up on that would've resulted in a great game and would've been what most people wanted. It was probably Black Flag that got lots more people wanting a pirate game after all.
^ This. This is my problem. ^
dude, thats exactly what they have done. But dumbed down all the mechanics
Removing the AC element...
IV:BF lol
I got stuck on the section where you're supposed to ram the ships that blockade Libertalia
@@HeirofAzaran Ubisucks NFTs vision 👏👏
It's strange hearing a videogame company telling me to "embrace piracy" with their new game 🤣
After that trailer I think the Bay is the only place I'd "buy" it
Half the games I've bought from them don't work because of some server issue on their end (Steep, Watch Dogs). So, pirating their sh*t is the only way to make them playable lol.
it aint even worth the time in my opinion@@bombarded15
Devs: *Dark and gritty and realistic*
Also devs: Proceeds to show the most arcade-y gameplay imaginable.
Also, ships that are not historically accurate whatsoever.
The original trailer look way more dark and gritty.
@@betelguse16 the crew is like half female which is total bs.
@@JohnSmith-px5nf don’t you know? Historically every society that ever existed was very diverse and pro equality,and reflected the problems our current society blah blah blah...new fans blah blah blah...
@@JohnSmith-px5nf I feel like if that's what you got from the showcase, you're missing alot of big glaring issues.
this game feels like you are in charge of driving, while everyone is going out drinking and actually doing the fun stuff
Exactly. You're the limo driver who gets to watch all the rich dude passengers drink all the booze and pick up the senoritas.
Diversity, Diversity, Diversity. 11:20 that subliminal clip is really telling, now we can have a black trnz pirate, can't be more inclusive than that lmao
@@devilsadvocate1436 and have fun in the backseat while you trying to listen to a loud radio 📻
@@NormanReaddis um there WERE black pirates.....in fact there still ARGH black pirates??? ;)
@@Neroevelocity i mean black trnz pirate check the time stamp lol.
Even black flag had a DLC on that character.
When someone says "forget everything you know" what they are really saying is "forget everything you like."
"Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy"
Me: No, I don't think I will.
If we forget all about traditionally piracy and all that comes with it. What is the game about then, what is left 🤔.
I don't think i will go down that road either
This makes _Sea of Thieves_ look like a hardcore immersive sim. How much do you want to bet that docking your ship leads to a hub area where everyone shows off their cosmetic microtransaction purchases? I don't believe that the dev team wanted this; it has Ubisoft's feces-stained corporate fingerprints all over it.
Sea Of Thieves is great
@@XDarkBrotherhoodHD Sea of thieves is boring. No content compared to something like black flag. Just run around collecting random crap until someone attacks and sinks your ship...great fun.
@@NuStiuFrate Maybe back in 2018. You should try it again nowadays. There is a ton more to do now.
You just know those corporate officers handle feces.
@@NuStiuFrate Theres so much more to it now. The game came out like 4 years ago and has had constant, free updates with content. It absolutely was pathetic in terms of stuff to do at launch. But yall judge it off that its not a good example of a bad game anymore. Similar to no mans sky
This just makes me realize that we need a reboot/next gen Sid Meier's Pirates. Still my favorite pirate game and really the only one that gives you a vertical slice of all the classic swashbuckling/pirate stuff that you associate with it. Treasure hunting, ship battles, duels, wooing governors' daughters, trading, sacking ports, etc
Honestly this would've had me go crazy for a remaster of Pirate101 for petes sake. And that had crappy ship combat. But it was still fun because boarding was actually done properly and even your character would board, you had places to explore and such
Sid Meier's Pirates is the best game nobody talks about. I wouldn't even be asking for as much as a reboot. Just give me the same game with expanded content and I'd be happy. Given the current state of Firaxis though, I wouldn't have much hope in them getting it right.
Next favourite 'pirate' game would be DioxineX Piratez for XCom. However I don't think it's what most people would consider a pirate game.
i don't understand why this is such a difficult concept, you literally have the blueprints for a great pirate game with AC Black Flag, literally just expand on that and you have a winner
Nahh I will get bored after 1 week
@@vitadude5004 make it like RDR and I would play like I do play RDR
bUt hOw dO I mOnEtIzE AnD mAkE mOnEy.
THAT'S why its so difficult, dood
8:15 because of that Cambodian pirate ship 🤣
@@vitadude5004 not really if they mixed RDR with black flag it would be incredible
Watching your ship magically collect resources by simply going next to the island is totally mobile game material😂
Like seriously why even include that unless you let us walk around the islands…and since we can’t shouldn’t we just play black flag or odyssey?
Seriously what is a pirate? I can't remember anything after the intro.
And you know those boarding and raiding cutscenes I going to be re used and repetitive
Pretty sure they said we could walk in the islands? we just can't fight or attack anyone.
How did they make Atlas, look like a better pirate game...
I'm looking at it more like it's Sid Meier's Pirates. Not as Black Flag.
This whole project was Ubisoft trying to fit a square peg into a round hole for 9 years
Pegleg
@@imo098765 well played. Parley!
Sort of yeah. It was more, they has a circular hole, and a circular peg whose diametre was a fair bit smaller than the hole. Instead of buffing out the peg to be more inline with the hole's diametre, they squared it off. It fits the hole but isn;t snug, and leaves a lot of room for want.
There are lessons to be learned from every game in development hell. This was a disaster because management had no clear vision and kept chasing trends.
who cares at this point. Thats every game nowadays.
Live service MMO with predatory microtransactions, time savers, Fuck this trash. Just give us Black Flag 2
Guaranteed there was some jackass in analytics with charts showing poor performance of past multiplayer pirate games (cuz they were all low budget small studio attempts) and management ate that shit up.
What I don't get is that the vision was already there. Black flag was the model to copy. This wasn't a new idea where you are not sure where to go.
@@valentinhofmann951 forget black flag ... Sid Meiers' Pirates! did all of this already.
Sure, not the same point of view ... but it is the Golden Age of Piracy game.
I've wanted this game to be good for so long that all my hype died like 3 years ago
I thought it was canceled tbh...... guess it should have been.
it ended up being not what i expected. its sea of thieves but you're glued to you ship
i stopped getting hyped for games years ago, hype just leads to disappointments
@@Warriorsghost dead ass i remember in middle school being hyped, im in college now like bruh tf is this
Haha! Well luckily for me I think I can enjoy it. Especially like I enjoyed “King of Seas” and this seems like a super version of it. I just don’t think I’ll enjoy the multiplayer aspect of it.
If Ubisoft was really having such a hard time figuring out a direction for this game to take for years it sounds like, then they really need to do some restructuring and putting new people in charge.
"Do you know what a ship is? A ship is freedom..." - Jack Sparrow
Well....... not when your very ship is your mobile PRISON.
Imagine a huge open-world game set as being a pirate. you need to spend time and energy hiring in crewmates, make sure you're able to disguise your ship in case you run into a privateer group or Country's Navy, etc.
And then also have something to spend the money on and go full Rated R about it with Tortuga style pirate-ports, booze, prostitutes and lavish living. Just raiding for money for the sake of money to spend on 'ship upgrades so you can raid more money' sorta makes me think it's some bullshit lootbox type sensation 'endless gameplay loop' that can ruin a game i might have looked forward to.
DUDE!! Forget everything you know about piracy :D
@kinagrill not even that i would've been fine with an AC4 copycat but just with a custom character and custom ship
Co-op multi-player single player i don't care just let me do some naval combat in my custom made Black Pearl damnit !!!
Literally all they had to do was: make a good single-player pirate game with a good story, with real historical pirates you meat along the way, and just AC: Black Flag assets.
AC Black Flag had historical pitates in it. And was just a single-player Pirate game(the Assassins side of things wasnt a factor until later).
@@Walt_Xander94 Yeah, but it was still a AC game. I'm talking about just a pirate game.
Or make it coop. Yet another mindless multiplayer vs game is the last thing anyone wanted. Thdn to strip all the things people even liked from black flag was a hilariously moronic idea
Maybe there is more? I mean their storytrailer was really cool, the one starting in London. But the gameplay looked so bad, like no dialogue, just random merchants selling you stuff. No cutscenes. What have they done with 100M Dollar budget?
Honestly, I just wanted a modern Pirates of the Caribbean (Sea Dogs 3) Xbox game. One of the funnest Pirate games I played. You could steal ships and add them to your fleet, explore cities and fight on land. Buy and sell stolen ships and goods.
All they needed to do was that with Ubisoft modern graphics. Not a hard concept 🤦♂️
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine an awesome pirate adventure. Following treasure maps, raiding ports, swinging on ropes onto ships, drinking grog while running away from the local constabulary, exploring jungle ruins.
Okay, now forget everything you thought you knew and open your eyes to a pirate game with none of that.
:D
Yeah such a damn shame… sea of thieves looks way cooler ! And im a PlayStation guy lol
@@kriskater you mean you own a playstation or your identity is that you like playstation?
@@Frank-li8uj i own all 5 PlayStations and an xbox one original (mostly for forza and halo and a few other titles) but i rarely play it and i dont have xbox live. But sea of thieves looks damn cool and makes me wish i played xbox more
That was Sid Meier's Pirates
So in this pirate game, you role-play as an uber driver for a crew of kick ass pirates, and wait on the ship while they do all the cool shit you immediately think of when you hear "pirate"
Sounds like it would've been a decent mobile game 5 years ago
I sure love playing as a pirate ship and big not a pirate...
There's a lot to say about this and most of it revolves around the disappointment, but as for the Indian Ocean I don't really have a problem a pretty massive chunk of the Golden Age of Piracy was actually targeted towards British and Dutch East India company targets in the region as well as various Indian Princely State. What most people think of when they think of Caribbean pirates was only about a decade following the War of the Spanish Succession.
Yep not to mention the greatest pirate heist of all time took place in the Indian Ocean against a convoy of the Mughal empire on their way to Mecca.
I am not a historian by any means, but I would imagine all the trade going through the Indian Ocean because of the wealth and spices in the Indian subcontinent, the East Indies and China; it makes sense that piracy would be more lucrative in this region. Sure, when we think of piracy, we generally think of the Carribean during the 18th century with dudes like Blackbeard, but when a guy they called "the King of Pirates" made his big heist here, I don't think the setting is as bad as they make it out to be. It's a little dry, but if they had just done more with the setting they ended up with it could've been the big "oh, forget EVERYTHING you know about pirate fantasies. This is going to be a REVOLUTIONARY pirate game!" they were going for.
I agree. The 'Pirates' movies have definitely made pirates feel synonymous with the Caribbean, but there was a ton of piracy in regards to the spice trade out of India. This gives them a chance to explore a different variety of piracy, and focus more on parts of the world that are a little less represented in video games. I don't think this game looks 'bad', it just looks kinda... 'meh'. And maybe that's the best you can expect for a game with a development cycle that sounds like it could rival Duke Nukem Forever...
Glad someone brought this up before I did.
@@raymondrembert6870 most successful pirate and he got away with it
The dark and gritty they are referring to is the feeling you get while watching the gameplay and thinking about what could have been.
:D
Its literally like AC Black Flag, without the other half of the game.
Jesus christ Ubi, just make another goddamn AAA full game about pirates (just like AC IV but without the AC lore). And that's all, you win, we win. Why keep burning money like that...
They literally fucked up the easiest thing to do as a studio. The one time people wanted copy and paste and they just didn’t lol
@@richrod0122 Ubisoft be like: but they get mad when *EA* do that 😲
This game looks like it has no idea what it wanted to be. A pirate RPG is all they needed to do to print money. Why is this so hard?
You should watch YongYeas video on this games fked up development. It's like Anthem, it's probably gonna suck
@@philippaul6039 it's definitely gonna suck. Ubisoft is entirely incompetent at this point
@@philippaul6039 At least Anthem was pretty and fun to blow crap up in. I don't want to even try this game.
This was recommended to me a year later.
These narrators make everything sound good. (My life) “ when you wake up, you can take the bus or the train to work, or just stay home. It’s all up to you “
So accurate. When the narrator described "socialising" all I kept thinking was that I'll tap the emote button once for 5 seconds and rarely do it again.
"But if youre not one to follow the beaten path, just a little exploration will reveal a revolver with one round in your nightstand. A note on the gun says "do it pussy". Our devs love adding little easter eggs from their own lives into our games"
Toast or cereal - the choice is yours.
@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming NICE!👍
“You can go outside and touch grass,experience the felling of freedom,take your fate in your own hands! Go to shop and buy some milk,trade and upgrade,craft a sandwich! The game of life,join the adventure today”
Ubisoft original,in game purchases and diversity,internet connection required,all rights reserved.
The company is literally being told by their target audience for YEARS for they want to pay for and they aren’t delivering smh. It’s make or break time and until we see swordfighting we ain’t buying
It's always amusing when people say "i don't mind if it takes them long to develop the game, at least it's gonna be released polished". It doesn't surprise me at all how the game is. If the development takes too long, they are not polishing anything. It means there are some problems with development/production.
Can't wait to see the micro transactions in this game. Boosts: collecting materials, exclusive crew, faster xp gain. Exclusive ships n custom upgrades.
yeah man, pre order to get Ezio and Altair as a pirate, may be they add Sam Fisher too
@@johnniewaiker6203 They gonna add mythical skins, like hellrider or something stupid.
Definitely gonna have Time Savers
More transactions than actual game.
dont forget the neon pink giraffe mask cosmetic pack that will completely destroy every other players immersion all so little timmy feels special for 19.99. Which will be defended by half the community as "its just cosmetics bruh, it doesnt effect your gameplay experience"
10:55 "Privateers are pirate hunters". NO! WHAT? WRONG!
Privateers are (state approved) pirates. That's a vegan steakhouse level of failure.
wow
"Vegan steakhouse level of failure" I actually lol'd 😂😂😂😂
Yeah, they were 3rd party that had no association with any military, but were given permission to act in the governor’s behalf unless caught. Pretty much they were bounty hunters that walked the fine line of legal and illegal.
Basically, the were pirates for most everyone that didn’t employ them, especially if you were at war with their employer.
@@liamhogan4369 What? They were like a normal pirate until someone hired their services and turned them into PMC of the sea? So if you didn't want to be robbed by them you'd have to hire them?
Sea of Thieves has come a long way. Captaincy update coming this month will be a big deal and the Adventures they've been releasing every few weeks have been a great addition.. and enemy wise you have the skellies, phantoms, sirens, kraken, megalodons, and more. If someone just did a realistic version with more plater ships it would perfect. You guys should try sot again when the new season comes out
Yeah but the pvp has stagnated so its basically just a pick up treasure chest simulator.
I rather play sea of thieves then this loot garbage press a to board game. The pvp is still there but the map is to big now for the player count in servers.
I really don't care for SoT (I don't enjoy pvp), but I think I'd still prefer that over Skull and Bones.
no doubt SoT has issues, but its better than this shit
Ubisoft make Rare look competent.
I feel so bad for devs who put YEARS of their life into making a game: only for it to come out like this...
Edit: Yes I know they still get paid, but I'm talking about fulfillment.
same dude, i always feel bad when a game is dead on arrival because at least some people might have put their heart and soul into making it.
Bad management kills so many titles.
Bro they got paid if your a dev that wants to make a big and magical game that you think will inspire people, your defiantly not working at ubisoft, you work at ubisoft for the paycheck. Ubisoft is the 1# game studio I would say are never innovators., at least not anymore Assassins creeds climbing system was a innovation I am saying this as a dev who codes, but ever since AC unity ubisoft has been a dead studio, they killed beyond good and evil 2 the only game ive seen from them trying to innovate, even EA innovates, ubisoft just copies other people and even themselves at this point but doesnt get what made those ideas great.
@@Ytomany when was the last time EA innovated? They literally release the exact same sports games with a few name changes here and there every year and even their other projects like the star wars games are just derivative of other games.
Sure, at the end of the day the paycheck is also important but I don't believe for a second that not a single dev working at ubisoft hasn't got at least some passion for making video games, otherwise they wouldn't have gone into such a stressful industry in the first place. Ubisoft wasn't always shit so maybe it was their dream going up to work for them on their favourite franchises, the devs are not to blame for the choices the management makes
Comes out mere hours before ragnorak as well. What a way to kill ur game.
I always say it but I love how Alex’s facial expressions tell you everything you need to know about this game 😂😂
He needs his own content
@@BigALBoomer he’s got AJS news and rapid fire reviews, but i agree he should start his own side channel or something
He looks like he's bored to hell
Alex looks the same for everything. Never seen the dude happy about anything.
@@tonyjunior92 he streams sometimes on his own and plays random games on twitch.
25:53 The mission tells you all you need to know: You're disembarking on a big ol' multi-man boat to go a couple miles away to "get a jar of oil for a dude". This would be like hopping in an 18 wheeler to get a scented candle from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
This game’s so forgettable Angry Joe forgot the whole video he made on it
This company has less and less to offer to their customers. Year after year its either the same or poorly executed developpement / ideas. Ridiculous.
I've been playing black flag again recently and it's really disappointing to see how that game did pirate ship combat way better. When you board a ship, your crew would pickup muskets and fire onto the enemy crew until you get close enough to swing on ropes onto their deck. Then you'll engage in combat until you kill enough men. That was always so much fun.
Being one of the testers for this game I was VERY disappointed.
being one of the people that saw the initial trailer, and ever trailer since, we are ALL very disappointed
Tested when? There have been many testing phases
@@greggblack8205 like.. a month or two ago maybe?
I feel for you. Doesn't seem enjoyable 😕
I'm guessing it failed the test
How is this even called triple a game it looks so bare bones
you mean skull and bare bones
Triple A for AAASSSSSSSS
@@SuperMandibleclaw the skull and bones are from the players who died sitting in their chairs grinding who didn't want to spend money on timesavers...
Ubisoft moment
I see what you did there
This could have been posted last week and still be accurate
33:35 Holy shit, he's right...if they don't change the release date (like many other games have done in the past when they went against massively anticipated games) YOU KNOW why....and I hope they do release some kind of statement saying that GoW was to blame...it's going to give me a nice chuckle
To this day Black Flag remains my all time favorite pirate game. Most other pirate games after never really impressed me and so far this hasn't impressed me either.
I already want to play it again for like the 5th time on switch
I can't think of a better pirate game honestly. Modern Sea of Thieves is DAMN close, but it's all multiplayer. Black Flag was just the perfect pirate game. You could go anywhere, stop and hop out seamlessly onto any island! Upgrading your ship, controlling the fleet, pillaging other ships, fighting forts, building up the Iquana Cove. It was so good! Shit, I wish they just made a full on remake of 4!
I haven't played Rogue yet, so fuck it, that will be my new pirate game. Skull and Bones looks so lame in comparison
@@rileymachelle4088 sea of thieves looks like some nickelodeon children game... for kids
What's crazy is that Black Flag isn't even an out and out pirate game. Imagine if we got an actual fully fleshed out pirate game
Pirates of the caribbean online was my all time favorite and to this day nothing has come close to it. The game now has a small player base but still super fun to play.
This is a very minor thing, but look at how the flags behave in relation to the sails. At 23:51 where you're in the lookout's POV, the ship is theoretically being propelled forward by wind from the rear, but your flag is being blown backwards by the same damn wind. XD It's a small thing, but if you have any idea how sailing ships work, it's immersion breaking in a very basic way.
Thats goes on my nerves 24/7. However some games even dating back to the 1990ies got that right
Fun fact: piracy in the Indian ocean was EXTREMELY prevalent, just as much as the Caribbean. Mughal Empire (India) ships would be OMEGA rich. Henry Avery, a famous pirate, made his fortune when he plundered a Mughal ship on it's way to Mecca, and basically retired after that (it was also the biggest score captured by any pirate). I actually love the setting, it's different but also accurate.
Was going to write something similar, just to add southeast China... Largest pirate ships on ever were in this waters
Yup! I felt Joe was being overly negative nonstop. It does not look like 2013 either to me. Doesn't look amazing but it doesn't look BAD how he keeps saying
@@digit861 welcome to his brand. He’s just peak Reddit comment section now.
@@digit861 THANK YOU. Hes such a whiner anymore. Its exhausting
@@digit861 It doesn’t look bad, it looks fucking terrible. It looks exactly like a more polished Ghost Recon Wildlands, graphics wise, which launched in 2015ish. It’s unpolished, boring, uninspired, based on a minuscule gameplay element of a much better, older game (Black Flag battleships) and it’s horrid. Honestly, how can Joe not be “a nonstop negative whiner” when he is looking at this garbage? I honestly do wonder how you take one small comment he made on the setting (which is true, you think Pirate, you think Jack Sparrow, you think Carribeans) and extend this to the whole video as him being bitchy? He is right. This is so ass, as most of Ubi’s shit has been.
I truly don’t understand how these companies fumble such incredible ideas. Seriously it blows my mind it’s so easy you actually have to be somewhat incompetent. And top comment said it best, it feels like your driving and everyone else gets to have fun.
While they were needlessly negative about things during the video, I feel they really got it when they said "I would have been really excited about this in 2016, etc". This game screams "the perils of development hell". It has potential but its feels overbaked and ripe for MTX from executives despite the good work the devs have been doing.
It's like that everywhere. I work at a bullshit car wash and even there, the bigwigs don't listen to customers or front line employees. We were handing out Google review cards for a bit supposedly to hear from customers, but then come to find out they only posted the favorable reviews. It's just bean counters making the rules for product/service delivery across the board. When it comes to what actually works, they don't give a daaaamn.
@@tenjenk I don’t think they were overly negative. Have you played Sea of Thieves like current build? He blows this game out of the water! This game had an amazing build up from starting from a little ship to getting a big one! And having NPC crew! That’s so amazing! And then the gameplay is just you sitting in your boat shooting objectives while your NPC bots roll and rng dice to see who wins the boarding battle.
And don’t get me started on the multiplayer! I want to play with my friend in the same boat! One person on the sails one on the cannons omg how fucking cool would it be to have friends command different sections of the ship! Holy shit! But no you can just ride together next to each other. Fantastic. Fuck that
You make a game.......Then talk about how "easy" it is.
This game is like an object lesson on the Sunk Cost fallacy.
I've got a felling nobody will be playing this after a month. If they had a more in depth game like black flag or with sid myers pirates. This could be something special. But it's going to bomb.
Even if it like black flag or sid myers etc end of the day it's ship battle I will get bored after 1 week or so..
Not my cup of tea
@@vitadude5004 No one here cares what you think tho 😂😂😂
@@MrStopAsking when did I say people should care I just say it's not my cup of tea..
Read..
@@vitadude5004 Don't care
@@MrStopAsking Then don't comment lol
I bet Ubisoft just finally kicked this one out the door to not deal with the dev hell it has been in.
Like they do with pretty much every title they’ve released in the past decade. Can’t remember the last Ubisoft game that I thoroughly enjoyed. Honestly it was probably Black Flag.
They actually kicked it out the door because they have some weird deal with Singapore that forces them to finish it
@@travixo last Ubisoft (China) game I enjoyed was Tom Clancy's Endwar, still play it from time to time.
@@xxvaltielxx1789 very underrated, my first introduction to the strategy genre
Watch Dogs 2 was fun, but I try not to support a studio rife with misogyny trying to claim it's apolitical despite pointed politics in their games. Especially when said games are samey and lacking.
I remember this was supposed to be a dlc for assassin creed 4. This would have been really cool as an extra mode or expansion for black flag but as a stand alone game 7 years later this is really underwhelming.
Dude, Black Flag was released NINE years ago. So for nearly a decade they've had the road map, the code, and everything just sitting right there in front of them to simply improve upon. "Underwhelming" isn't nearly enough to explain the catastrophe this game will be. I don't understand how they can come out with a new AC game every year with a new story, new location, and some new features....yet after this long, they couldn't figure out how to add onto the core mechanics to just make Black Flag an even bigger and better game.
“Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy.”
“Oh, so I should just forget about sailing, fighting and getting rich off of plundered ships?”
“…”
“Okay, bye now!”
In all seriousness though, your commentary has more appeal than anything in this trailer. I guess those behind-the-scenes-issues really were that bad.
How can they start with that? Talk about killing its own game.
"We are moving into a darker and grittier direction"
THE BRIGHTEST COLORS YOU'VE EVER SEEN INVADE YOUR EYES
this is like a abridged version of the sea battles from the assassin games. Like where they kept all the bad parts and cut all the good stuff instead.
The ships seem to handle awfully weird for y'know, giant naval vessels? They all seem to turn on a dime as if they've got thrust vectoring or some shite.
It looks like tank controls
I noticed that too, the guy stops his ship and turns like 180 degrees in a matter of seconds. Just stupid. They've got to cater to stupid kids who would wind up getting frustrated at why they cant drive the pirate ship at 100 knots and pull a 360 no scope, so now its dumbed down for everyone.
The one thing I noticed was how bad the ocean physics looked, even sea of thieves has that down and is probably one of the better part of that game.
One of the ships explodes and creates a big shockwave that shakes all the boats, that was pretty impressive and not in sea of thieves, aside from that, looks crap especially char models
sea of thieves is awesome bro, definitely the best water in any game i've seen
SoT has amazing water physics, are you serious?
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 obviously didn’t read my comment properly.
Even the in game characters looked bored walking through the harbor lol
Stuff like this really makes me wish I was a fly on the wall in the meetings between management/executives.
Feels like every single major studio either has morons leading them or incompetent people who can't convince the suits to trust in their vision of what the game should actually be. Either way, it's clear they aren't suited to do their jobs appropriately.
And they'll be paid an absolute fortune to fuck it all up while the Devs work hard for nothing
Or ir could be the devs are just bad? You can like an idea all you want and give it ten plus years of development and still suck
@@David-ys4ud That isn't how software development works. You have a project manager whose job is to essentially function as a middle manager between the dev team and the actual company executives. They meet with the executives to discuss project goals and then relay that to the dev team to work on. This clearly looks like those discussions led down the wrong path. A senior dev/QA team could have been telling them these ideas won't work or aren't compelling enough after testing but if the project manager can't convince the execs to agree with this, you end up with this shit. It's their job to convince the money men that they need more resources (time/money/personnel) to complete the job. Every single thing you see is cleared by upper management. If they had problems with it then they would have said something before any of this was shown to the public because there is way too much money riding on these projects.
Nothing about this game looks like it's broken. It just looks like the people making the big decisions couldn't come to an agreement on what the game should be and that's why it went through development hell. You blame the construction workers if your light fixtures aren't fitted properly or if your wiring is borked. You blame the architect when the building's design is fundamentally flawed and it caves in on itself.
@@David-ys4ud You should really take the time to look at some of those "What happened/What went wrong" series here on RUclips. Almost *EVERY SINGLE ONE* of them has to deal with incredibly terrible management from the top level.
Just look at Anthem as an example. Not only did that game suffer from a lack of direction, but the higher ups made the developers build an RPG in the Frostbite Engine, an engine designs for shooters i.e. the Battlefield franchise. The developers had to spend months retooling the engine just to make it work, clearly setting the project back.
And people buy into the hype and they churn out more garbage. Our wallets should show that these so called 'AAA' game studios need to make decent products. This has Anthem written all over it.
The problem I see is this game seems like it couldn't decide if it was going to be an action game or a strategy game. If this had been designed purely as a PC RTS game where you frantically try to control everything happening on a large pirate ship. That would have a lot of potential.
Yeah like an FTL but in water.
I don't even play or like RTS games personally, yet I agree. The concept they're about to crap out of the door is so deeply underwhelming and incoherent.
and watching that trailer, a question came to my mind.. umm, so, where is that dark and gritty? All i saw was even more fantastical and quite cartoony world than most of the earlier games. If you say dark and gritty, i want to see actual seriousness and grimdark atmosphere. But well, it is UBI.. so yeah, i always keep my expectations low anyways. Maybe it is just me, but i'm pretty much disappointed about most Ubisoft's games at this point
"In Skull & Bones, ships serve many different purposes. Mainly to siphon as much money out of your wallet a possible..." A pirate game, for a pirate company.
Nah pirates actually had more unspoken codes of honor than these trash corporations. For instance most pirates, especially during colonial rule, often only pirated from the crowns trading companies, not stealing credit card info from some moms wallet for microtansactions.
"Forget everything you know about pirate games" is a terrible thing to hear from the company who made the excellent Black Flag game.
Welcome to Ubisoft
It's like that everywhere. I work at a bullshit car wash and even there, the bigwigs don't listen to customers or front line employees. We were handing out Google review cards for a bit supposedly to hear from customers, but then come to find out they only posted the favorable reviews. It's just bean counters making the rules for product/service delivery across the board. When it comes to what actually works, they don't give a daaaamn.
Looks like I'll continue playing Sid Meyers Pirates for the sheer variety of things to do as a pirate despite the old graphics,
I actually like the idea of the Indian Ocean. It’s probably their only good idea because there’s a lot of cool stuff and exotic locations there. Caribbean is a classic but it’s also overly represented when you could do the South Atlantic, Mediterranean, or the South Pacific/Australia where there was a lot of trade and a lot of piracy.
Ye like Jamaica captain Morgan etc
27:05 to 27:30 Pretty much sums it up. You have no idea what you should be doing for like 7 years, then the guys paying you are like "Show me SOMETHING", so you squeeze out what you can put together in 1 or 2 years.
In Sea of thieves, me and my friends could play together. One of us in the crows nest, one person cooking food and repairing the hull, another driving, and another playing the music. That was so incredible!!! Being a part of a ship together. When they said you could play with friends I got so excited!!! And then they said you can just ride next to each other…. Wow… I’m just so disappointed. Ubisoft just needs to liquidate it’s assests and stop making games.
In your opinion, because they make a lot of games that people seem to enjoy playing. Just because you don’t like something does it mean an entire company needs to go into liquidation and fire all of its employees just to make you happy
@@JoshuaJacobs83 making a game that some NPC’s enjoy vs a quality video game are 2 different things. If you like playing trash then go ahead. But I ain’t a raccoon, I enjoy playing games with passion out into them.
@@georgelanadar4047 Again, you seem to have an overinflated idea of your own worth. Clearly you can’t be reasoned with. You may not be a raccoon but you’re as dense as a rock
This game is trying so hard to not become a 1/1 Sea of Thieves copycat that it's removed the fun features of that game, and kept the traditional Ubisoft bullshit like the skins you can buy with real money.
30:41 - 30:58 Spot on.
What I wanted was more of a Mass Effect 2 type situation where you maybe recruit a crew to go on a big mission to take down a formidable frigate. You can have crew members try to displace you as the captain and other conflicts. All while still maintaining the naval combat of course. I'd also like to see some supernatural elements like curses, voodoo, sea monsters, etc. All the stuff that makes pirate fantasy fun.
I also don't want to collect resources. That is the most boring part of being a pirate lol. Just let me go on missions where the reward is an upgrade to my ship. For example, let me go into dangerous caves to collect figureheads that give my ship some sort of advantage. Or let me go break some merchant's daughter out of prison and be rewarded with better sails. I don't like having to get a bunch of wood, iron, etc. just to go buy that stuff from a merchant. That's just busywork.
Try sea dogs series bruh, lmao. It is full fledged age of pirates naval rpg, and this type of games you wanted already exist since early-mid 2000s. You can hire new officer in town and they have different skills and Stats that will help your overall crew efficiancy. If you attacked and successfully capture a settlement (by actually being in the ground, swordfighting together with your crew, instead of only shooting at a wall) you can assign one of your officer to manage the settlement.
Anything to do with resource farming, if I can, I always end up with farming money to then spend on buying resources from the merchants.
Tactical, realistic tier-one operator games where you fight drones and get colorized loot drops with increasingly more powerful versions of the same weapons; games about historical leagues of assassins where you fight mystical beasts and aren't an assassin (and can't even wear your signature hood during combat) and are bad at stealth; games about modern urban combat special forces units where you fight alien zombies from space that cover you in goo; and now games about pirates where you somehow don't swashbuckle, plunder forgotten treasures, or even walk the plank...
It amazes me that modern day Ubisoft is still a functioning company. One of the biggest gaming companies in the world. Incomprehensible. Can't wait for the Crew 3 where, I assume, you will mostly walk around on foot and maybe race the occasional bicycle.
I was hoping for the ability to actually board an enemy vessel.... fight man to man... useing sword... daggers and pistols... then if you win, you could make the enemy captain "walk the plank" etc etc etc
they need to at least add a sword fighting mechanic as simple as mount and blade. if we could ditch our ship and take a position on an island and duke it out there that would be nice.
You're thinking too much more than the devs thats for sure
@@amirhb7531 Am pretty sure they thought of this idea but to why it didn't got implemented, am not sure why
10:29 "And take advantage of their weak points to deal more damage."
That is just as obvious and boring as the Massive Enemy Crab. Like it should go without saying. The fact they stated it outright is a warning in and of itself that they have no other features worth touting.
They’re also on a ticking clock. The agreement with the Singapore government is that they will develop a game by the Singapore studio within a certain year. I believe they already missed that milestone and the government is breathing down their necks to get it out. So this game has alot going against them and the best case scenario is a rushed released, buggy game with features missing.
ticking clock my ass. they started this shitpile in like 2013. they have had 9 years to make a shitty ship combat game that nobody wants to play, using decade+ old assets from old AC games, particularly Black Flag which will STILL be a better ship combat game than this piece of shit could ever hope to be. they should have scrapped it years ago and taken the L and just repaid the Singapore government
33:22 Alex has a damn good point and Joe's reaction is priceless. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to release a game just a day before God of War: Ragnarok? They're F*cked!
Somebody is getting fired for that choice probably.
@@OkamiToge Or like they said, it was probably a deliberate scapegoat since they probably don't think the game will do well anyways.
@@aeso3555 It is quite obvious they are using Ragnarok as a scapegoat, yes. Skull and Bones was supposed to be the first AAAA game, this is a disaster for Ubisoft.
@@fish5645 What has Ubisoft come to? Its like the days of Prince of Persia and the OG Assassin's Creed are long gone. I just don't feel the magic anymore.
All according to plan.
"Crafting is an essential activity for you to progress as an infamous pirate."
IN LITERALLY WHAT PIRATE ERA
BLACKBEARD WAS NOT KNOWN FOR MAKING PLANKS AND NAILS
The UI to this game looks like they pulled it from one of their Tom Clancy games. Really weird disconnect in the UI's theme to the theme of the game. Idk why, but the game feels overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time.
Joe, Skull and Bones IS a game. Of every game I've ever seen, Skull and Bones is DEFINITELY one of them.
Can confirm. From the trailers and other videos I've seen. It is certainly a game.
From what I've seen, definitely a game.
from my calculations, i also have concluded this is a game
One of the games of all time
actually looks like a dlc for a game, and a bad one
This video aged like wine.
Ubisoft be like: "You know those game trailers where two people with annoying voices yabber back and forth? I invented those."
[punch]
"Happens all the time."
It feels to me like, initially they tried to make Skull and Bones, they couldn't, so they went back and grabbed the Black Flag engine and recreated Skull and Bones in it. And now they're trying to sell that as if it was the Skull and Bones they initially tried to make. The sad part is, if this doesn't make money, they'll say something like "well, pirate games don't sell well" and abandon the franchise.
I remember hearing years ago it was based on Assassin's Creed Black Flag. To me, it literally looks exactly the same as it. Water physics and graphics look the same (for better or worse), it shares weapons and ship designs, the hubs look to use reused assets, they even have the exact same ship drops and hud for ship damage and info over the spy glass.
It's all good Joe I'm sure we all forgot about this game as well.
This kind of reminds me of how some of the sound design, animations, and visual effects got worse, or got removed in subsequent Assassin's Creed games. It's like Ubisoft re-invents the wheel every time they make a game.
A year ago, I thought this was 1 hour ago haha.
26:00 I'm getting flashbacks to that meme "if Ubisoft made Elden Ring" the whole screen is fucking UI. 😂
Just you all wait. Microtransaction with exp boosters, resource boosters, ship skins, 5 star crew, buy instant weapons to your ship instead of waiting 12-24 hour and buy increase loot storage.
I'd rather not wait since this company hasn't made a good game in over half a decade and any person with remotely good taste would never play something like this.
All they had to do was re-release Assassins Creed 4 with an updated combat system and updated and improved ship combat. Without the Ac story and, improved graphics...
One of these days, the joes will learn to record using multiple audio channels so they can properly balance their audio in-post and we can actually hear everything they are trying to show us.
One day, hopefully one day...
Do you mean the vid they watched?
You expect too much.
@@nazaxprime Bare minimum average/standard practices within youtube is too much?
Never
November-“Layoffs occur at Ubisoft due to disappointment of Skull and Bones, a disappointing year, and blame God of War.” Also-“Ubisoft CEO gets a huge bonus/raise due to imagination.” Not sure where I am going with this comment.
The main character is actually the ship, and the captain is its puppet. The ship sends the captain to outposts to do its bidding. This is what they meant when they said 'forget everything you know about pirate games
The way ubisoft makes its game is like SpongeBob drawing a circle
When I think of an awesome RPG pirate game I think about going on an adventure, finding unique crew mates on different islands, befriending and looting everything to power up your ship and crew. Have a bond with them. Base management. Fighting with your crew singing shanties with you in the forefront. This just looks like a point a click sailing game with very little interaction. You cant even board other ships with your crew. Didnt even see any musket and sword gameplay. It's like you're super glued to your ship. Hard pass. Guess I'll just boot up Black Flag. Atleast it's a full game.
Gotta play Black Flag before they remove the option for that as well.
You should give Odyssey a try if you haven't. I spent a good 60+ hours not even touching the main scenario. I was just sailing around collecting crew members and fighting other ships.
@@mittensfastpaw Well shucks... now that you mentioned it, that's a move Ubisoft would make in order to make just 1 more person buy their shittier version of what they already sold us back in 2013. I'd never thought I'd see the day, when you have to sail the seas to get working versions of games you actually bought for full money when they were being released... If the same thing happens here? Just wow xD
just buy pillars of eternity 2
Boat Pilot: The Game
Huge missed opportunity. I don’t understand why you can’t board other ships or explore islands. How cool would it be if you could engage in Pirates of the Caribbean-type duels with other players and the winner gets a sum of gold?
Edit: The game we wanted is represented in the 2017 trailer with some added Black Flag sword combat. The game we got is just…disappointing.
Joe deals with so much shit he barely even yells now.
He’s adjusted to the torture.
33:22 Alex always being the best part of the video
"Forget everything you know about pirate games" Translation: " This game is going to be a terrible pirate game" They warned us one year ago. I feel bad for AJ. He seemed so excited for this game.
With how mobile game-esque some of the mechanics like resource harvesting look, the poor graphics etc, i'd frankly be shocked if some kind of microtransaction wasn't present.
I suspect alot of the delays could also have originated from over-meddling executives trying to get this stuff put into the game, and after 10 years of chaos we've got whatever the hell this game is supposed to be.