I don't understand the point of this game. You can't board ship, can't leave your ship whenever you want, it's black flag but worse in every way. So what's the point of this game when you can play black flag instead which is better in every way ?
This is why gamers from the 6th and 7th-generation of gaming (2000 - 2013) are always playing remasters, remakes, ports, and backward-compatible games because the current state of gaming and its future is just depressing.
@@Trenex1000 Exactly! I also notice that I play fewer and fewer new games each year and replay the old ones. I find the new games stuningly lacking of fun
@@alp9323 I'll admit that the 8th and 9th-generation of gaming has given us some solid games and even a few bangers; I know this because I play them, but it's not what it used to be.
@@Trenex1000 That's true, and I have to say some of my all time favorite games were released after 2013, but in general gaming is becoming worse somehow. I don't think that I am being nostalgic, or I grew too old to enjoy a good game, the thing is there is a visible decline in quality in writing, innovation, creativity etc. Also game production became so expensive and understandably most of the companies avoid taking big risks. Instead of creating new IPs, they are constantly producing sequals and some unnecessary remasters. Some games are just being designed to maximize profits by promoting microtransactions. In addition; we have so fewer double A titles which were way common in PS2 and PS3 era. I don't think the gaming is dead like some people are clamoring, but just like you said, it is nowhere near how it was as i see. Maybe I am being too pessimistic, maybe things will get better in time.
This is why gamers from the 6th and 7th-generation of gaming (2000 - 2013) are always playing remasters, remakes, ports, and backward-compatible games because the current state of gaming and its future is just depressing.
@@russbennett5470The best quote about that film is from Michael Caine himself, "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."
@@wrecklesstrain1991 Its not "Bulshittery" Man, its a damn Pirate game, a game where 80% of your time will be in a ship, ON WATER! being able to swim is like...common sense!!! Also they even have water physics for the character when it interacts with water...so, Why The Fuck not? we demand quality from a 70$ Game bro, if u dont...i'm sorry, then you're a sucker!
Fuck swimming, what about boarding? It was a big part of pirating And don't say that boarding is but in form of cutscene. It doesn't count if there is no risk of loosing
Now that’s not totally accurate- your boys go have all the fun and you wait to wait till they finished being a pirate, then it’s back to the boat that has stamina 👍
For $70 I got Black Flag limited edition which included the game and a badass figure of Edward swinging from a mast that I keep on my desk to this day. Much better use of my money.
@@TiberiusCaeser Well no, to be honest you stated that skulls&bones, which it is exactly the "sorry copy&paste" of AC IV Black Flag it weren''t even cheap, which it is definitely right but it also implies either curiosity or at least a some kind of interest in the new AAAA game from yourself. So I simply suggested to not worry about it, how copy?
So you can't swim, and boarding is just a screen that says "good job, you boarded. Here's loot." Literally all S&B had to do was copy Sea of Thieves but make a pirate game that isn't cartoony, and what does Ubisoft give us? A pile of shit that is priced at $70 lmao GGs Ubisoft...
If they had just taken out the "Assassins Creed" elements of Black Flag (all the modern bits), updated the graphics, created a new storyline... it would have worked.
@@SamuraiKensei276dude... The only reason why they brought SOT to PlayStation is because the servers are barren and empty. The game is having a slow death and at the moment is in Palliative Care.
I can't believe there are no land exploration, swimming, melee combats, and board combat in 'Skull and Bones' even though it was the same dev with 'AC: Black Flag'.
Because A) Navel combat in Black Flag was primarily made from Ubisoft Singapore and that's why they wanted to expand it and B) I already told you, it's navel combat from beginning. Never was marketed as a Black Flag game or exploration landing game rather navel combat
@@Hakeraidendude... you are trying too hard to justify this $70 let down. It doesn't hold a candle to older games.... it was said it's a AAAA GAME lmao yet WATER DOESNT EVEN DRIP... you are sucking turds straight from ubisofts hole dude
@@Hakeraiden I saw you constantly comment this on other reply's. My brother in christ its a fucking pirate game that was marketed as "exploration" and, well, fighting like pirates would. Which includes boarding the bastard ships because it was more valuable to take hostages and take what's on board instead of just sinking the dam vessels. They threw away so many good elements that would be ideal in a game such as this. I can't understand why you would defend this so adamantly?
I feel like swimming would be pointless and a waste of time, but hey, if you weird people out there want to waste time swimming instead of more important things to do, then be my guest, waste of fucking thing to do imo
EU put some extreme efforts to prevent the fentanyl drug to reach our land but... we failed in that gravious task apparently. Now it is too late for it, there are zombies everywhere the eye can see...!😱😂
Its amazing to see how much we have improved from skull and bones to get to black flag. The new technology adding all the extra climbing, swimming, smooth transitions from boats to ship, improved graphics and world interaction to make everything feel alive. Its amazing!
Not to defend S&B but despite concerning 2 main story missions, ship related gameplay is 80% of your playtime in Black Flag, otherwise the game gets boring pretty quickly
Not really. AC3 had a naval component that was pretty much bonus that you described. They then wanted to make a DLC focusing on that and that scope increased until they decided to make a full fledged game.
@@sadfrog5787 Yeah playing Ac4 like right now lol, watching a fight between like 3 British Man O Wars, 2 British Frigates and 1 Spanish Man O War, while my pirate gleeby ass is watching with popcorn lol EDIT: they took the fight straight to my direction as i was typing, shit went from 0 to 100 real quick lol
@@Damian-oe6mg I left my crew to die and jumped on one of the ships, some say im still hitching a ride on the side of one of the british hulls to this day
@@viktorholgersen4920 not lazy to implement it, more like implementing that would complicate things, if he can swim, how far can he go, if he can swim can he jump off the ship and tahtkind of stuff. They just didn't want to deal with it.
If rockstar works on something for 8 to 10 years we get games like RDR2 and GTA VI. Meanwhile when Ubisoft "works" 10 year on a game you get a game that looks 15 year old. Impressing.
@@BlueSquareMemes well, they've made multiple GTA games, and more than 1 Red Dead Redemption... Also, what's wrong with making one pirate game masterpiece, and not making a sequel?
1 thing which irked me the most regarding to "boarding" was that if you managed to get onto a anchored ship (by yourself, 'on foot') and kill everyone on board, the ship isn't "incapacitated" or how the gunners of the ships can spot you in the waters immediately when you're 50m in compared to them trying to spot you in a restricted area at sea. Also, those gunners can shoot you regardless of obstacle. Doesn't matter if you managed to have a ship between you and the shooter, you still get hit. But I will say that at least the enemies spawn and patrol on those ships, which helps the immersion if the eagle eye, near sighted gunner didn't break it.
@@dumbleking5172you can manage to get on a still ship without the ship by timing your diving at the correct moment so you wont get shot then when you get on the ship, if you kill everyone in it, go back to your ship, shoot once and the ship is incapacitated, it will instantly be one hp and if I remember correctly you can board it and directly get the loot without fighting(because you killed everyone, maybe you only have to do the objectives such as blow barrels, cut the flag etc)
@@FlabbergastedFish88 whelp, I just boarded a Man O' War on my lonesome as it was circling around trying to take out my friendly Man O' War (AFTER the last naval contract). Managed to board it as it was moving and for some reason these ones don't shoot me whatsoever. The ship came to a halt immediately and I killed everyone. Did things that proved what you said.
Ubisoft didn't understand. It was supposed to take everything from Black Flag and expand it to pirates and remove the Assassin's Creed part. Sorry my English!
I think you didn't understand. I'm not defending the game. It's bad. But nowhere in its road map did anyone claim it was going to be anything like black flag.
I just noticed that there IS an animation for swimming in Skull & Bones, but it only happens when you get hit by a wave, which means that not only was swimming planned originally, but it also got cut somewhere along the way... For NO APPARENT REASON.
Black flag is so far ahead and a 10+ yr old game, it’s actually crazy. I saw that some Ubisoft exec called skull and bones a quadA game. I was astonished when I hopped on the open beta and it looked and played like a small budget indie game with a fraction of the resources, team and funding. When I played the beta for a couple hours my immediate reaction was “I can’t wait to watch the inevitable comparison videos that surely follow this train wreck of a game”.
@@Sylwan23 true. What I meant tho was that BF was so far ahead of S&B. Although I thought BF was very impressive for the time back when I played it on launch day.
@@Sylwan23Indeed. I see this sentiment alot now, about how X game from 10 years ago was "so developed for its time". The elephant in the room is that, in reality, this was simply just the standard for games then, which most people have forgotten about. That standard has slipped considerably. Not just in gaming but all media. I call it 'Marvelification'. Everything more basic, more dumbed down, less creative but also more expensive.
@@harrypike5140 That's why i just dont buy new games expect a really good one, no pre-orders i always pre-watch GAMEPLAY and trusted people who are not paid to say good about game, i bought baldur and had great fun i would even pay for that 70 dollars NO PROBLEM for such a great game here i spend 600 hours but there is no way i even give 40 dollars for half made products so i just stick to my older games or small games who deserve their price hey i even use there micro transactions like i did a lot in poe for example cuz i SUPPORT game which is free to play, but this days scumy devs like blizzard love to triple tax their games for example wow, you pay FULL PRICE for game (even fcking early acces for 70 dollars or more) you pay abonament which is 11 dollars per moth and also expensive item shop ingame, in diablo IV aka crap of the year they just added horse skin for 50$ ... in 70$ product..
Remember, guys, $70 is a low price for "The first AAAA game ever created". It reminds me of that time that Ubisoft compared Watch Dogs with GTA V, to put Skull and Bones in a category ABOVE RDR 2, Elden Ring or Baldurs Gate 3 is just delusional.
Us when we were teenagers: “Oh my word everything looks so realistic I can’t wait to see what games look like in ten years!” Games 10 years later: Skull and Bones
Seriously. I remember around 2008-2016 or so when every new game was a big improvement. Then things started to flatline and now new games don’t feel like an upgrade at all!
They removed boarding? thats like my second favourite part, you'd swing across to the other ship, shoot a volley of shots, blow up some black powder barrels, kill like 20 people and toss the captain overboard. Then in the cutscene you let the crew go because you have way too many hunter ships after you. but no they cut all that out.
It's baffling, how can you screw something up when you already had a blueprint that everybody loved? It's like missing a wide open layup in the game 7.
@@BlazerPandaI Yeah, but the Mayan armor is a costume that you either love or hate, no middle ground, that's why I'm not saying it's one of the best, even though I like it.
The only thing Black flag lacked is the ability to dive outside the special dive missions. When origin added it i was very happy. But after using it for 10000 times you forget about it
@7thGLM After the Ezio trilogy, play AC3, AC4: Black Flag (which is my favorite), then AC Unity (or AC Rogue before Unity if u want) If you just wanna do pirate stuff, skip to IV: Black Flag. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey also has some ship combat and sea stuff, and it's pretty good, except it's really ancient, so no cannons.
@@7thGLMthe ezio trilogy, then black flag. Ease your way into the assassins universe first. Get a feel for the flavour of it. Then take a look at origins
@@ReachTeaWomen pirates did exist since Antiquity. Illyrian pirates were notorious. Entire tribes participated in raiding and piracy, which included women. Pompey earned his title "the Great" by elemenating pirates for good. One of the most famous Illyrians Queen Teuta who was also a pirate Queen and what motivated Romans to expand westward toward Balkans and later Middle East. Vikings also had women as Byzantiens noted unsual ammount of women among the dead when Rus invaded. Sayyada Al-Hurni had a pirate fleet and sailed as privateer for Moroccan Sultan. And there were likes of Anna Bonny who participated as pirates. To be fair, most of the pirates were men, as the usual background of the pirate were tribal raiders, deserters or muteneers from the navy and smugglers. But pirate societies are less hierarchical which usually allowed rome for more egalitarian society which included between sexes. I say usually, because I don't remember any Greek female pirates or during Renneaisance Italian/Maltese female pirates. I haven't played that thing and I won't play anything from Ubisoft as their games reached the point where they are not even worth pirating ever since 2014, so I don't know if this thing is trying to be historically accurate or where the setting is (jusging by the sails I assume somewhere in the Indian Ocean)
Black flag was the first AC game I played and the one that sparked my love for the series. If they ever remaster the game for new gen I would buy it in a heartbeat
@@metrosaint11 I played ac3 and that was a great game too, but I still like black flag more just because of the ship battles and the map is more fun to explore
Fun fact: those distinctive trees seen at 6:44 were actually based on 'Adansonia grandidieri', (one of the 6 endemic species of Madagascan Baobab Trees)
The fact that Unisoft Singapore played a huge role in creation of AC4 - they made almost everything related to water, things like details, sound, lighting etc - and then created S&B hits hard. It is like everything that could go wrong went wrong. Downgrade like that shows that problems on all levels exist... I do not know enough words to properly explain what I feel...
Easy answer: The original devs all quit the sinking ship. If you're on a potentially doomed (i.e. cancelled) project with directionless, revolving-door management with no idea what the game should be, and the job market's still hot, you leave.
Exactly what the other comment said. Gaming companies have a lot of overturn in them and by the time the next game comes out, most of the original dev team might not even be around People wondered why Outer Worlds wasn't as good as Fallout New Vegas and the truth is most of the original team had gone. Same for why Battlefield turned to garbage
Skull and Bones would have been cancelled if ubisoft didnt have a deal with the singaporean government which forced them to release the game. Thats why they kept delaying it. They didnt want to release it. During development a bunch of devs stated that all hope for the game was lost a while ago. But since the singaporean government funded the game they had to eventually release it.
Some of you may not have noticed there's no comparison between combat systems or fighting mechanics. That's because Skull and Bones just doesn't have it, combat like with your actual character. You're either on the boat clicking or holding down like it's a mobile game or RTS (even with gathering resources), or you're walking along islands and port areas navigating upgrade ui. Who needs sword-swinging, blunderbuss shooting, swashbuckling combat anyway?
Honestly when I watched the gameplay I couldn't believe there was no gameplay for boarding. I looked at others, did some research and still didn't believe it. How can you create a pirate game without a boarding phase? This is a real question, if anyone here knows a single reason not to do it, please tell me! I can't sleep at night anymore.
@Thomas-sr5mn it's well known that Skull and Bones has been in development hell for the greater part of a decade, and "boarding complete" really does feel like boarding was supposed to be some kind of mechanic with that cutscene indicating that you succeeded. My guess is that they either ran out of time/couldn't complete boarding, or it'll be a dlc like how Oddssey added ground combat to Elite Dangerous.
People saying "Oh, but the graphics are improved" for newer games. I honestly believe, apart from a few exceptions specifically focusing on graphical fidelity. General game fidelity peaked 10 years ago. Artists did a lot more with a bit less. Now we have massive games that have distracting graphical inconsistencies or flat out poor art direction.
Exactly! Gamers keep talking about graphics, graphic cards, teraflops, 8k, FPS...ok, it's good when you have a game with great graphics, stable and high FPS, but the overall experience it's most important than great graphics. The new Forza Motorsport, for example, mademe miss the old and great Forza Motorsport 4. When I started to play Trepang 2, I thought "the graphics are not great but, man, I loved it!".
@@Hakeraiden It's actually 10. It started out as Black Flag Multiplayer DLC, but they thought they could make it better and this is what we got after 10 years.
@@Hakeraidenthat’s why the industry sucks right now. Multimillionaire companies keep putting out crap like this and not only do you defend them, you keep throwing money at them. You’re an idiot.
A Pirate game should be: 1. Detailed Naval Warfare like smokes from cannons add cinematic and realistic effect that doesn't dissipate immediately and other effects. 2. Weather system like fogs and heavy thunderstorms which can damage you and your fleet and Ambushes that makes Pirating a dangerous job. 3. Treasure hunting, like a pirate game should have a hideout where you store treasures, enemy prisoners and supplies that you need to protect from spies or the royal navy and treasure maps that you protect from the others or steal and get into fights with other pirate factions. 4. Hunting. Even Rayleigh said that you can't be a pirate if you don't know how to hunt. This also includes diving into shipwrecks or open seas for materials to sell. 5. Crew management and loyalty. Pirating is very dangerous as you work with literal cutthroats and you have to earn reputation to get loyal crew members and Fear for your enemies. 6. Realistic Ship Damages like ship holes, Ship Debris and supplies left on ocean during and after the battle. and torn Sails. not just Health Bars. 7. Talents, Perks, and other RPG elements for you and for your crew. 8. Sabotage and Hijacking other ships. 9. Of course, Ship Upgrades, Supplies and other QOL Elements for survival. 10. Boarding, Stealing ships and then adding those ships to your fleet which protects your hideout and grow your reputation. The enemies should be able to do it against you also. 11. Ability to change Ships based from captured or Bought ships but also gatekeeping progress thru stonks of requirements like repairing and upgrading larger ships vs smaller upgrade requirements for smaller ships. 12. Pirate Mercenaries and Alliances. 13. Sneaking and blending through towns. Buy and sell from the black market, solve problems for reputations and earn relationships with crime lords or factions, recruit, do crimes and evade guards that will try to capture you. 14. Jail time, Jailbreaks, Execution based from your wanted level or notoriety, and Fortress fights. A real pirate game can't be a pirate game without violence bro. 15. Online Multiplayer Coop Experience where you can play pirate with friends. If this happens, it'll be a 10/10 for me.
Realistic smoke covering miles around ships in a major naval fight, that is a scene worth dreaming off. Imagine they also recorded authentic sounds from different cannons firing. I dream of a game like this
@@Shineinpoverty yes! smoke makes naval battles such a badass. The sound and light effects of cannons lighting horizontally and the feel of bloodlust after you shoot an enemy warship head on with flying debris and different kind of destructions based from what parts were damaged. damn the detail. 😍
I skipped many games after it. But Odyssey, I liked it too. Not for grinding and clone missions but a setting in ancient Greece. This game made me fall in love with ancient Greece. I would recommend it for someone who is into history like myself.
@@Shineinpoverty the only really crappy thing about AC Odyssey was the inability to use a shield. I mean, you play a spartan... and you can't use a shield??? It is in some ways reverse of what they did with AC Valhalla - main hero can't use a single-handed swords. At all. You can use a shield and a greatsword (which shouldn't be in game at all...) but no normal sword ans shield? Also, I think that in Odyssey they got a bit lazy with sidequests - compared to other AC games those feel kinda weird: "My neighbour put some nets where I normally fish, go kill him for me!" or "A client didn't respect me enough, go kill him!" And, as usually for AC games, main heroes outfit is just really weird, but aside from Black Flag it has been the problem with pretty much all of the series - you walk around dressed up like something completely out of place and nobody notices :)
I think a lot of the problems boil down to the tech industry in general. Before people became devs because they were passionate and they weren't all that common. That's how you got small teams making masterpieces. Now it's been so commoditized that tons of mediocre devs exist that just want a paycheck with minimum effort put in. They pushed all the passionate experienced devs that get payed for their decades of experience out, well, more specifically the companies did in favor of the cheaper and mediocre devs and it shows in the products. This is an across the board problem. Very few once great dev companies maintain the quality they once were known for.
5:07 Wait a minute.. did I see that right? A swimming animation for a fraction of a second in Skull and Bones when the character gets fully submerged by a wave? did…. Did these dumbasses add swimming systems to this game and then make them unavailable through the use of invisible walls?
Sadly I will place money on Ubisoft cancelling any remake when Skull and Bones flops. They will use the excuse it shows the pirate genre is dead, before admitting they just made a absolute rubbish game. I don’t know whether to be impressed or shocked that Ubisoft has managed to mess this up So badly. It shows just how incompetent the current management are when it comes to what gamers want.
No we did, trust me lol. I understand what you're saying; if we knew what games would be like 10 years from now, we would probably try and treasure it a lot more. But I assure you we most certainly made the most of it.
@2:15 When you forget to record the voice lines so you get the devs to gather around the one working microphone in the office lol it always stuck out every time I played this game and now there's finally a place for me to talk about it
I liked the diving bell missions in BF. It really added that sense of urgency; like every breath could be your last while hiding from sharks and avoiding the eels and jellies!
yeah I’m surprised the mortar wasn’t mentioned here, also explosive barrels, ramming mechanic, much better brace mechanic and sea animations (especially in stormy conditions)
@@jaspelino1963 Assassin's creed 4, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Splinter Cell Blacklist - These games don't look like they were created to pump out as much money as possible. Of course, the goal of any company is to make a profit, but it's just that in the past Ubisoft created great games in parallel with this, and the developers themselves put their heart into what they do. And now, when you hear from developers something like "During the development of S&B we could sit in TH-cam for days, because we don't know what to do", or when the developers themselves say that their game will fail, it becomes a shame. It's just my opinion.
@@IamJake2376 yeah I understand, but I think their work was far more original even ten years earlier, back when they released AC 1 and 2, the first Splinter Cell, the first Far Cry, PoP Sands of Time and games like Beyond Good and Evil. They were creating one or even two new IPs every year back then. The games you mention were still pretty good, but they were already sequel number 4 in long-running series, albeit with a nice little twist in the case of Black Flag and FC Blood Dragon. I think they haven’t shown true passion and originality since that time, except for a brief moment when they released Mario + Rabbids.
@@jaspelino1963 Compared to what we have now, I think even in 2013 they still loved what they were doing and created games primarily for players to have fun. Ubisoft of the 2000s were certainly some of the best. Before, when I saw their logo, I knew something super interesting was coming. But really talented people started to leave Ubisoft, because of idiotic decisions of the management. When developers want to create something original, management just says "nah, do a sequel to one of the series". That's what happened with Assassin. Odyssey was supposed to be an unrelated game to the series, but because of brand recognition, the management decided to add the name "AC". They just decided to take no chances and only take out at the expense of the brand. Of course the good developers didn't like that and started leaving. Now they don't hire people who love games, they hire just anyone. Hence we have complete indifference to their projects, cringe-worthy plots, and of course a lack of understanding of what they are doing. (Sorry if it's too long. Just wanted to share my thoughts... Heh.)
@@IamJake2376 yeah I think you make a good point. To me it seems they were already in decline around 2013, but I can see how you wouldn’t agree with that 100%. Have a good night! 😄
A sailor can't swim, a shark roaring like a lion, cannons that shoot only fireballs, and no boarding combat. Ubisoft, what were y'all thinkin'? I am so glad that I did not get Skull And Bones.
remember this games was announced 7 years ago, and most likely in development before the announcement this game was in development for almost a decade remember that
I can’t believe Ubisoft does this they make a game years ago called black flag and then they make some wash out version of it, every game they end up making seemed to reuse assets and shit and don’t get me started on those massive ass projects that where probably never see, just wish they go back to the old days.
I was impressed by how wet your clothes are in Black Flag. The biggest improvement in Black Flag is the water physics. The water is random. There are random waves. Skull and Bones is like a mobile game.
In black flag you can physically go to any island you see, walk away from your steering wheel, and go wherever you want. In s.b. there are a limited amount of islands you can explore. For the rest you're stuck to your ship.
You can't even compare most of the modern games to stuff like Black Flag. It was peak freedom and realistic experience, and it shows how much creators cared about this, honestly saying, art.
They had 10 years time to make this game. Even copy paste everything from BlackFlag would be better. And they even deleted the swimming, parkour, fighting system, even hijacking a ship is cut out. I mean damn for 10 years prep time they were not able to make Skull and Bones like Blackflag is dissapointing. They should have used AC4 as their Blueprint instead of downgrading it. Even modders could do that better.
I am impressed how ubisoft managed to downgrade newer games.
It’s WAY too impressive..
I don't understand the point of this game. You can't board ship, can't leave your ship whenever you want, it's black flag but worse in every way. So what's the point of this game when you can play black flag instead which is better in every way ?
It's been doing it for 10 years. Nothing new really. They suck even in sucking.
Wouldn’t call it a ac 4 inspired game then it’s a ac3 inspiration not bad but not great either lol
It’s a 2015 game in2024 😂😂😂 pathetic
A pirate game where the main character cannot even swim... here is the first "quadruple A" game for you
This is why gamers from the 6th and 7th-generation of gaming (2000 - 2013) are always playing remasters, remakes, ports, and backward-compatible games because the current state of gaming and its future is just depressing.
@@Trenex1000 Exactly! I also notice that I play fewer and fewer new games each year and replay the old ones. I find the new games stuningly lacking of fun
Maybe he ate a devil fruit?
@@alp9323
I'll admit that the 8th and 9th-generation of gaming has given us some solid games and even a few bangers; I know this because I play them, but it's not what it used to be.
@@Trenex1000 That's true, and I have to say some of my all time favorite games were released after 2013, but in general gaming is becoming worse somehow. I don't think that I am being nostalgic, or I grew too old to enjoy a good game, the thing is there is a visible decline in quality in writing, innovation, creativity etc. Also game production became so expensive and understandably most of the companies avoid taking big risks. Instead of creating new IPs, they are constantly producing sequals and some unnecessary remasters. Some games are just being designed to maximize profits by promoting microtransactions. In addition; we have so fewer double A titles which were way common in PS2 and PS3 era. I don't think the gaming is dead like some people are clamoring, but just like you said, it is nowhere near how it was as i see. Maybe I am being too pessimistic, maybe things will get better in time.
I absolutely loved how Edward would put out his hands like he's feeling the waves when walking in waist deep water. It's very immersive.
The shark fucking *ROARS* when attacking in Skull and Bones. I can’t even. 😅
And the ships explode like they are filled with propane. There is zero realism in this trash game.
Wait to you see the parrots barking! Ah, someone whispers in my ear that there are no parrots.. My bad.
King of the sea
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I mean the main character being black and not being able to swim seemed pretty realistic to me
A game that costed ten times as much as black flag and 3 to 4 times the development time doesn't hold a candle to it. This is modern gaming
Ikr? AAAA game, yeah suuuure.😂
@@SamuraiKensei276 more like Black Flag was AAAA
This is why gamers from the 6th and 7th-generation of gaming (2000 - 2013) are always playing remasters, remakes, ports, and backward-compatible games because the current state of gaming and its future is just depressing.
@@ASSASSIN19923
Exactly!👍🏻
Modernity has failed us
Honestly I think the technological improvements are insane
AC4 obviously improved on all the things Skull and Bones didn't have in 2013
Lol
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I had to read this twice to get it 😂
Brilliant comment
You had us in the first half not gonna lie
I didn’t know sharks roar like lions, Ubisoft
You have clearly never seen Jaws 4: the revenge. Which we all no to be a historical documentary
@@russbennett5470The best quote about that film is from Michael Caine himself, "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."
I didn’t know excluding the ability to fight, board, or swim off land would validate a game as a “pirate” game
Now we know the level of quality to expect from Ubisofts Quad 'A' titles
It means a Significant Downgrade from AAA....for More Money
@@russbennett5470 you spelled 'know' wrong
a pirate game where u can't EVEN SWIM? ok...no more words to this.
Wtf is the point of swimming, imo itd be a waste of time and space if they added that extra bullshittery in the game
@@wrecklesstrain1991 Its not "Bulshittery" Man, its a damn Pirate game, a game where 80% of your time will be in a ship, ON WATER! being able to swim is like...common sense!!! Also they even have water physics for the character when it interacts with water...so, Why The Fuck not? we demand quality from a 70$ Game bro, if u dont...i'm sorry, then you're a sucker!
@@wrecklesstrain1991found the Ubisoft dev
Fuck swimming, what about boarding? It was a big part of pirating
And don't say that boarding is but in form of cutscene. It doesn't count if there is no risk of loosing
@@piotrwisniewski70 Fuck "fuck swimming". Not being able to swim in a pirate game is a travesty.
no boarding is the most egregious offense of slop and bones
Now that’s not totally accurate- your boys go have all the fun and you wait to wait till they finished being a pirate, then it’s back to the boat that has stamina 👍
Based N.E.E.T pfp
@@LittleSilva422 ty
Very amusing
True you are not a pirate in skull and bones you are a sentient ship that waits for the pirates to finish boarding.
For $70 I got Black Flag limited edition which included the game and a badass figure of Edward swinging from a mast that I keep on my desk to this day. Much better use of my money.
Indeed.
*Friends, I did 17 one arm pull ups, please support me* *..*
I just bought Gold Edition on Ubisoft store for 11USD :D
I gotten the same back then! Money well spend indeed!
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Every masterpiece has it's own cheap copy.
Ironically,the copy isn't cheap 😂😭
@@TiberiusCaeser
Why would you even bother about?🤷🏻♂️ Let it sink simply.
@@SamuraiKensei276 That's what she said
@@TiberiusCaeser
Well no, to be honest you stated that skulls&bones, which it is exactly the "sorry copy&paste" of AC IV Black Flag it weren''t even cheap, which it is definitely right but it also implies either curiosity or at least a some kind of interest in the new AAAA game from yourself. So I simply suggested to not worry about it, how copy?
@@SamuraiKensei276 Seems you got the point
So you can't swim, and boarding is just a screen that says "good job, you boarded. Here's loot." Literally all S&B had to do was copy Sea of Thieves but make a pirate game that isn't cartoony, and what does Ubisoft give us? A pile of shit that is priced at $70 lmao GGs Ubisoft...
And... now it is reality, yes Sea of Thieves is available for preorder on PS5 it's finally here! P.S. this is not a trolling! Hype over 200%🤙🏻
If they had just taken out the "Assassins Creed" elements of Black Flag (all the modern bits), updated the graphics, created a new storyline... it would have worked.
Fortunately I get skull and bones for free on Ubisoft plus so I don’t have to pay $90 for it. Is it really this bad? Like is it almost ssktjl bad?
U forgot its AAAA game😂
@@SamuraiKensei276dude... The only reason why they brought SOT to PlayStation is because the servers are barren and empty. The game is having a slow death and at the moment is in Palliative Care.
I can't believe there are no land exploration, swimming, melee combats, and board combat in 'Skull and Bones' even though it was the same dev with 'AC: Black Flag'.
Because A) Navel combat in Black Flag was primarily made from Ubisoft Singapore and that's why they wanted to expand it and B) I already told you, it's navel combat from beginning. Never was marketed as a Black Flag game or exploration landing game rather navel combat
@@Hakeraidendude... you are trying too hard to justify this $70 let down. It doesn't hold a candle to older games.... it was said it's a AAAA GAME lmao yet WATER DOESNT EVEN DRIP... you are sucking turds straight from ubisofts hole dude
@@Hakeraiden I saw you constantly comment this on other reply's. My brother in christ its a fucking pirate game that was marketed as "exploration" and, well, fighting like pirates would. Which includes boarding the bastard ships because it was more valuable to take hostages and take what's on board instead of just sinking the dam vessels. They threw away so many good elements that would be ideal in a game such as this. I can't understand why you would defend this so adamantly?
@@Hakeraidenwait there is no land exploration or anything at all???????
@@BIGD-cc7ru nope just strictly ship fighting that’s it … I didn’t buy it for that reason
How ironic that the game about the open sea has an MC that can't even swim.
Bro ate a Smile devil fruit 💀
One piece
I feel like swimming would be pointless and a waste of time, but hey, if you weird people out there want to waste time swimming instead of more important things to do, then be my guest, waste of fucking thing to do imo
@@wrecklesstrain1991ur an idiot how else are you supposed to find sunken treasure
@@wrecklesstrain1991ubisoft bot
There was truly nothing like sailing the open sea in Black Flag with the shanties.
"Let's make a pirate game where the main character cannot swim. Sounds like a good idea."
EU put some extreme efforts to prevent the fentanyl drug to reach our land but... we failed in that gravious task apparently. Now it is too late for it, there are zombies everywhere the eye can see...!😱😂
@@SamuraiKensei276
Did you know there more plane in the ocean than alien mothership in D.C?
funny thing is there's already 1 anime/manga with the same premise😂
ONE PIECE
I laughed hard to this at almost 4am.
@@dvnth6168 They can drown at least they're not stuck behind an invisible wall lol
ubisoft: we're evolving! just backwards ;)
Edwards*
But you can be sure, the recurring revenue generating crap like skins and micro transactions- will be executed perfectly.
More like revolving
Its amazing to see how much we have improved from skull and bones to get to black flag. The new technology adding all the extra climbing, swimming, smooth transitions from boats to ship, improved graphics and world interaction to make everything feel alive. Its amazing!
the absolute audacity of these assholes to charge 70$... this looks like a 40$ budget game not a full price AAA title in 2024.
Don't you know? Ubisoft said this is an AAAA game.
not even 20$
good thing ubisoft games devalue pretty quick
@@zozstarpoor you if you think the gaming peaked
@@verguco6051he clearly means gaming has already peaked... we are behind the peak. This is the trash we get now.
And everything ship related in black flag is just a bonus, let that sink in.
Not to defend S&B but despite concerning 2 main story missions, ship related gameplay is 80% of your playtime in Black Flag, otherwise the game gets boring pretty quickly
@@Cesare-Borgia I think Black Flag is an accidental success
Not sure I'd agree... the map in black flag is segmented beyond reason and the citys are small... the navel is the main focus of the open world.
Not really. AC3 had a naval component that was pretty much bonus that you described. They then wanted to make a DLC focusing on that and that scope increased until they decided to make a full fledged game.
The fact that you can’t physically swim or board a ship baffles me…
The fact that the most fun part about a pirate game is boarding and ship combat, they somehow managed mess up the two most important things
Ok your totally right but... come on the ship combat in Skull & Bones looks pretty epic lol
dude it looks dumb and arcady, ac4 is literally more realistic@@LittleSilva422
@@sadfrog5787 Yeah playing Ac4 like right now lol, watching a fight between like 3 British Man O Wars, 2 British Frigates and 1 Spanish Man O War, while my pirate gleeby ass is watching with popcorn lol
EDIT: they took the fight straight to my direction as i was typing, shit went from 0 to 100 real quick lol
@@LittleSilva422 did you survive? or did you kill all of them
@@Damian-oe6mg I left my crew to die and jumped on one of the ships, some say im still hitching a ride on the side of one of the british hulls to this day
A pirate that can't swim...you fucking joking...
5:08 If u look close, the animation for swimming is there, they were just too lazy to implement it.
@@viktorholgersen4920 not lazy to implement it, more like implementing that would complicate things, if he can swim, how far can he go, if he can swim can he jump off the ship and tahtkind of stuff. They just didn't want to deal with it.
Its a ship game.
One Piece 😅
Teaching a sailor how to swim could lead to desertion. Thus, many navies refused to teach their seamen how to swim. Many pirates were former sailors.
If rockstar works on something for 8 to 10 years we get games like RDR2 and GTA VI.
Meanwhile when Ubisoft "works" 10 year on a game you get a game that looks 15 year old.
Impressing.
Do you think Rockstar should try making a pirate-themed videogame?
@@Rayen14946Would be interesting but they would drop one masterpiece of a pirate game and never give us another
@@BlueSquareMemes well, they've made multiple GTA games, and more than 1 Red Dead Redemption...
Also, what's wrong with making one pirate game masterpiece, and not making a sequel?
@@Rayen14946 i would love that
imagine a game like rdr2, only instead of the gang, you would have your pirate crew... don't let me dream
I forgot the AC4 boarding doesn't even have a cutscene, you literally pull up next to it, hit the button, get off the wheel, and it immediately starts
1 thing which irked me the most regarding to "boarding" was that if you managed to get onto a anchored ship (by yourself, 'on foot') and kill everyone on board, the ship isn't "incapacitated" or how the gunners of the ships can spot you in the waters immediately when you're 50m in compared to them trying to spot you in a restricted area at sea.
Also, those gunners can shoot you regardless of obstacle. Doesn't matter if you managed to have a ship between you and the shooter, you still get hit.
But I will say that at least the enemies spawn and patrol on those ships, which helps the immersion if the eagle eye, near sighted gunner didn't break it.
@@dumbleking5172you can manage to get on a still ship without the ship by timing your diving at the correct moment so you wont get shot then when you get on the ship, if you kill everyone in it, go back to your ship, shoot once and the ship is incapacitated, it will instantly be one hp and if I remember correctly you can board it and directly get the loot without fighting(because you killed everyone, maybe you only have to do the objectives such as blow barrels, cut the flag etc)
@@FlabbergastedFish88 whelp, I just boarded a Man O' War on my lonesome as it was circling around trying to take out my friendly Man O' War (AFTER the last naval contract). Managed to board it as it was moving and for some reason these ones don't shoot me whatsoever. The ship came to a halt immediately and I killed everyone. Did things that proved what you said.
"Quadruple A" game btw
Rofl.
In which of their twisted dreams exactly?🤣
@@SamuraiKensei276
In that one where they successfully implemented NFTs
Aka Quadruple L
Cost more than 110 millions to create this game due to so much restart to zero. Quadruple for x4 the money for not sink...
Ubisoft didn't understand. It was supposed to take everything from Black Flag and expand it to pirates and remove the Assassin's Creed part. Sorry my English!
Its ok , you have nothing sorry
Even with your limited english (in which you made no grammatical errors) you managed to describe what the game SHOULD have been.
English was good only give away that your likely in South America is the Tasmanian devil profile pic 😂🤙🏼
@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeatIs that such a giveaway for us? 😂😂😂
I think you didn't understand. I'm not defending the game. It's bad. But nowhere in its road map did anyone claim it was going to be anything like black flag.
I just noticed that there IS an animation for swimming in Skull & Bones, but it only happens when you get hit by a wave, which means that not only was swimming planned originally, but it also got cut somewhere along the way... For NO APPARENT REASON.
Well now you mentioned it, i think they're planning a deep dive dlc😂
Black flag is so far ahead and a 10+ yr old game, it’s actually crazy. I saw that some Ubisoft exec called skull and bones a quadA game. I was astonished when I hopped on the open beta and it looked and played like a small budget indie game with a fraction of the resources, team and funding. When I played the beta for a couple hours my immediate reaction was “I can’t wait to watch the inevitable comparison videos that surely follow this train wreck of a game”.
Its not blackflag ahead of time its modern game industry who fallen behind 20 years where good games are called anomally
@@Sylwan23 true. What I meant tho was that BF was so far ahead of S&B. Although I thought BF was very impressive for the time back when I played it on launch day.
@@Sylwan23Indeed. I see this sentiment alot now, about how X game from 10 years ago was "so developed for its time". The elephant in the room is that, in reality, this was simply just the standard for games then, which most people have forgotten about. That standard has slipped considerably. Not just in gaming but all media. I call it 'Marvelification'. Everything more basic, more dumbed down, less creative but also more expensive.
@@harrypike5140 That's why i just dont buy new games expect a really good one, no pre-orders i always pre-watch GAMEPLAY and trusted people who are not paid to say good about game, i bought baldur and had great fun i would even pay for that 70 dollars NO PROBLEM for such a great game here i spend 600 hours but there is no way i even give 40 dollars for half made products so i just stick to my older games or small games who deserve their price hey i even use there micro transactions like i did a lot in poe for example cuz i SUPPORT game which is free to play, but this days scumy devs like blizzard love to triple tax their games for example wow, you pay FULL PRICE for game (even fcking early acces for 70 dollars or more) you pay abonament which is 11 dollars per moth and also expensive item shop ingame, in diablo IV aka crap of the year they just added horse skin for 50$ ... in 70$ product..
just remember. Skull and bones is not supposed to be Black Flag, and never was. It's Ubisoft's version of World of Warships but worse.
Remember, guys, $70 is a low price for "The first AAAA game ever created".
It reminds me of that time that Ubisoft compared Watch Dogs with GTA V, to put Skull and Bones in a category ABOVE RDR 2, Elden Ring or Baldurs Gate 3 is just delusional.
It's not the first AAAA game, they said the same for Callisto Protocol 😅
It’s all a foolish marketing ploy that they’re betting on
@@furanhartbad as that game was, at least it had proper facial animations lol
It's above if you look upside-down.
“Turn back or your crew will mutiny”
Ship capsizes for no reason
Assassin’s Creed IV: *FIIRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
Skull and Bones: fire
*fired
Us when we were teenagers: “Oh my word everything looks so realistic I can’t wait to see what games look like in ten years!”
Games 10 years later: Skull and Bones
Pathetic times we live in.
🤣🤣☠️
Pathetic eh 😂😂
Seriously. I remember around 2008-2016 or so when every new game was a big improvement. Then things started to flatline and now new games don’t feel like an upgrade at all!
Mucho mejor hace 10 años jjjj😂
They removed boarding? thats like my second favourite part, you'd swing across to the other ship, shoot a volley of shots, blow up some black powder barrels, kill like 20 people and toss the captain overboard. Then in the cutscene you let the crew go because you have way too many hunter ships after you. but no they cut all that out.
This is literally the game they were making outside the Animus
kek
Ubisoft had one job the blueprint was already set. They like holding the title for most failed triple A games
Mas jogo não é um triple AAA ele é um quadruple AAAA 😂
It's baffling, how can you screw something up when you already had a blueprint that everybody loved? It's like missing a wide open layup in the game 7.
They literally had everything already there. HOW do you fuck it up. HOW?!
I mean, it's Ubisoft lol. Give it 10 years and they won't be a company anymore
@@go_rizzo_grow With how everyone is consuming every slop and shit companies now make? I'm giving it a bit more.
I swear, ever since the "Ubisoft Original" thing has been getting written, everything has gone down.
A pirate game where you cannot get in the water and swim is a sin.
Because it's about pirates and ships, duhhhhhh
But you can in ac black flag and its same creator and skull and bones is inspired of black flag
@@Hakeraidenlmao ya... and ships are on water kiddo lmao man you are a straight up ubisoft clown
@@titouancarre1527 I know. Still a sin
it's stupid
This video confirmed to me that indeed
The Templar armor from AC4 is one of the best suit designs in the entire saga
You meant the templar armor from AC Rogue right?
@@SamuraiKensei276 Nu uh
Idk I absolutely loved the Mayan armor
@@BlazerPandaI Yeah, but the Mayan armor is a costume that you either love or hate, no middle ground, that's why I'm not saying it's one of the best, even though I like it.
@@BaldianOfIbelin that’s fair
2:24 gotta watch out for those LionSharks
The only thing Black flag lacked is the ability to dive outside the special dive missions. When origin added it i was very happy.
But after using it for 10000 times you forget about it
Odyssey added so much to its seas. The ship/sea stuff is 10 times better than Skull & Bones, and it's not even a pirate game.
What assassins creed game do you recommend to me, it’ll be my first time playing an AC game
@@7thGLM
Assassin's creed 2 then brotherhood and revelations, prepare for a journey you will not soon forget.
@7thGLM After the Ezio trilogy, play AC3, AC4: Black Flag (which is my favorite), then AC Unity (or AC Rogue before Unity if u want)
If you just wanna do pirate stuff, skip to IV: Black Flag. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey also has some ship combat and sea stuff, and it's pretty good, except it's really ancient, so no cannons.
@@7thGLMthe ezio trilogy, then black flag. Ease your way into the assassins universe first. Get a feel for the flavour of it. Then take a look at origins
Guys let agree on something that ac 4 is the best pirate game ever made❤
Sure not even close
Sid Myers Pirates has entered the room..
Sea Dogs: hold my rum
P.S. Black Flag is sure a good pirate-themed game, but not the best
sea dogs was awesoke
Sea of thieves: Am i a joke to you ?
3:56 damn that woman scream "fire" got me off guard 😂
We're there even women on those ships or is this a Ubisoft modern gaming type deal
@@ReachTea being a woman on these ships would be a living hell
@@ReachTeaif there were you bet they were firing another types of cannons
@@ReachTeaWomen pirates did exist since Antiquity. Illyrian pirates were notorious. Entire tribes participated in raiding and piracy, which included women. Pompey earned his title "the Great" by elemenating pirates for good. One of the most famous Illyrians Queen Teuta who was also a pirate Queen and what motivated Romans to expand westward toward Balkans and later Middle East. Vikings also had women as Byzantiens noted unsual ammount of women among the dead when Rus invaded. Sayyada Al-Hurni had a pirate fleet and sailed as privateer for Moroccan Sultan. And there were likes of Anna Bonny who participated as pirates.
To be fair, most of the pirates were men, as the usual background of the pirate were tribal raiders, deserters or muteneers from the navy and smugglers. But pirate societies are less hierarchical which usually allowed rome for more egalitarian society which included between sexes. I say usually, because I don't remember any Greek female pirates or during Renneaisance Italian/Maltese female pirates.
I haven't played that thing and I won't play anything from Ubisoft as their games reached the point where they are not even worth pirating ever since 2014, so I don't know if this thing is trying to be historically accurate or where the setting is (jusging by the sails I assume somewhere in the Indian Ocean)
@@aleksapetrovic6519women pirates were incredibly rare and if included in the game should definitely not be part of the random crew
Black flag was the first AC game I played and the one that sparked my love for the series. If they ever remaster the game for new gen I would buy it in a heartbeat
Ply the one before it.. the revolution.. ac 3 … I’m from Boston so I’m half biased but it was my favorite game
@@metrosaint11 I played ac3 and that was a great game too, but I still like black flag more just because of the ship battles and the map is more fun to explore
After a bunch of botched remasters have come out I really don’t want them to remaster that game…. Unless they put an honest effort into it
Also, did anyone else here enjoy rouge? It was basically 3 and 4 combined with the added bonus of having an income
They are making a remake of AC Black Flag, your wish will be come true 😉
Fun fact: those distinctive trees seen at 6:44 were actually based on 'Adansonia grandidieri', (one of the 6 endemic species of Madagascan Baobab Trees)
Cool!
Oh that's pretty neat
I am malagasy and i haven't even knew that before XD thank for the fact
And immediately ruined by the flock of what look like male mallards flying by 😂
0:04 the animation recognizing the water body and interacting with it using the hands is also missing from the new pirate AAAA game
The fact that Unisoft Singapore played a huge role in creation of AC4 - they made almost everything related to water, things like details, sound, lighting etc - and then created S&B hits hard. It is like everything that could go wrong went wrong. Downgrade like that shows that problems on all levels exist... I do not know enough words to properly explain what I feel...
Easy answer: The original devs all quit the sinking ship. If you're on a potentially doomed (i.e. cancelled) project with directionless, revolving-door management with no idea what the game should be, and the job market's still hot, you leave.
Exactly what the other comment said. Gaming companies have a lot of overturn in them and by the time the next game comes out, most of the original dev team might not even be around
People wondered why Outer Worlds wasn't as good as Fallout New Vegas and the truth is most of the original team had gone. Same for why Battlefield turned to garbage
Skull and Bones would have been cancelled if ubisoft didnt have a deal with the singaporean government which forced them to release the game. Thats why they kept delaying it. They didnt want to release it. During development a bunch of devs stated that all hope for the game was lost a while ago. But since the singaporean government funded the game they had to eventually release it.
I thought the no swimming bit couldn’t be topped until I seen the boarding process 🤣🤣
Man do I miss Black Flag! I think I'll look for it.
Some of you may not have noticed there's no comparison between combat systems or fighting mechanics. That's because Skull and Bones just doesn't have it, combat like with your actual character. You're either on the boat clicking or holding down like it's a mobile game or RTS (even with gathering resources), or you're walking along islands and port areas navigating upgrade ui. Who needs sword-swinging, blunderbuss shooting, swashbuckling combat anyway?
Honestly when I watched the gameplay I couldn't believe there was no gameplay for boarding. I looked at others, did some research and still didn't believe it. How can you create a pirate game without a boarding phase? This is a real question, if anyone here knows a single reason not to do it, please tell me! I can't sleep at night anymore.
@Thomas-sr5mn it's well known that Skull and Bones has been in development hell for the greater part of a decade, and "boarding complete" really does feel like boarding was supposed to be some kind of mechanic with that cutscene indicating that you succeeded. My guess is that they either ran out of time/couldn't complete boarding, or it'll be a dlc like how Oddssey added ground combat to Elite Dangerous.
People saying "Oh, but the graphics are improved" for newer games.
I honestly believe, apart from a few exceptions specifically focusing on graphical fidelity. General game fidelity peaked 10 years ago. Artists did a lot more with a bit less. Now we have massive games that have distracting graphical inconsistencies or flat out poor art direction.
Exactly! Gamers keep talking about graphics, graphic cards, teraflops, 8k, FPS...ok, it's good when you have a game with great graphics, stable and high FPS, but the overall experience it's most important than great graphics. The new Forza Motorsport, for example, mademe miss the old and great Forza Motorsport 4. When I started to play Trepang 2, I thought "the graphics are not great but, man, I loved it!".
Maybe in S&B graphics are better, in black flag ships, sea and fights looks more natural even with 10 years old graphics.
Now i´m looking for my Sid Meier´s Pirates Disc up in the attic..
This game was in development for 10 years btw.
FYI, 6 years
@@Hakeraiden It's actually 10. It started out as Black Flag Multiplayer DLC, but they thought they could make it better and this is what we got after 10 years.
@@Hakeraidenwow kid here you are again coping and trying so hard.... while being wrong...
Is there anything that takes people out of the immersion more than health bars and damage numbers 😑
Especially for the damage numbers 💔
If you see this numbers in gameplay, its tells you about quality of game 😂 and care from devs😂.
Can always turn off
Ya when I see that I don't even play the game. Even if you can turn it off you know the game is going to be a shitty grind just because it's there.
@@TylerMBuller12 Yep, that means everything is focused about getting the biggest number. So boring.
Black flag was a rare masterpiece, and I'm happy that it maintains it's unique position. Art is hard.
Black flag is currently on sale on the steam store if you’ve never tried yet!!
Gutted there is no land sword and hand combat 👀👀👀
Navel combat my dude. If you don't like it, go play Sea of Thieves
@@Hakeraiden I'll gladly play sea of thieves instead of this garbage
@@Hakeraiden gladly, this shit doesnt hold a candle to SOT.
@@Hakeraidenwow the cope for this watered down garage is pathetic. You are drooling over a 70 trash heap. Lmao ubisoft loves you
@@Hakeraidenthat’s why the industry sucks right now. Multimillionaire companies keep putting out crap like this and not only do you defend them, you keep throwing money at them. You’re an idiot.
Edward was never the same after eating the Ubi-Ubi fruit. Poor bastard can't even swim anymore
Underrated comment rofl
actually the wokewoke fruit turned him bleck and unable to swim
funny how Black Flag looks like the actual "quadruple " A game compared to Piss and Poop
piss and poop got me rolling
So glad to se black flag getting the recognition it deserved. Last game I played on the ps4
Those water effects in Skull and Bones look like the background water in the PS2 Eragon game from 2006! I played that game with my older brother!
The shanty they singing in skull and bones is from Black Flag, if u didnt know
I love that they took not Caribbean setting in this game, and forced poor Chinese-Indonesian pirates sing English shanties
A Pirate game should be:
1. Detailed Naval Warfare like smokes from cannons add cinematic and realistic effect that doesn't dissipate immediately and other effects.
2. Weather system like fogs and heavy thunderstorms which can damage you and your fleet and Ambushes that makes Pirating a dangerous job.
3. Treasure hunting, like a pirate game should have a hideout where you store treasures, enemy prisoners and supplies that you need to protect from spies or the royal navy and treasure maps that you protect from the others or steal and get into fights with other pirate factions.
4. Hunting. Even Rayleigh said that you can't be a pirate if you don't know how to hunt. This also includes diving into shipwrecks or open seas for materials to sell.
5. Crew management and loyalty. Pirating is very dangerous as you work with literal cutthroats and you have to earn reputation to get loyal crew members and Fear for your enemies.
6. Realistic Ship Damages like ship holes, Ship Debris and supplies left on ocean during and after the battle. and torn Sails. not just Health Bars.
7. Talents, Perks, and other RPG elements for you and for your crew.
8. Sabotage and Hijacking other ships.
9. Of course, Ship Upgrades, Supplies and other QOL Elements for survival.
10. Boarding, Stealing ships and then adding those ships to your fleet which protects your hideout and grow your reputation. The enemies should be able to do it against you also.
11. Ability to change Ships based from captured or Bought ships but also gatekeeping progress thru stonks of requirements like repairing and upgrading larger ships vs smaller upgrade requirements for smaller ships.
12. Pirate Mercenaries and Alliances.
13. Sneaking and blending through towns. Buy and sell from the black market, solve problems for reputations and earn relationships with crime lords or factions, recruit, do crimes and evade guards that will try to capture you.
14. Jail time, Jailbreaks, Execution based from your wanted level or notoriety, and Fortress fights. A real pirate game can't be a pirate game without violence bro.
15. Online Multiplayer Coop Experience where you can play pirate with friends.
If this happens, it'll be a 10/10 for me.
Realistic smoke covering miles around ships in a major naval fight, that is a scene worth dreaming off.
Imagine they also recorded authentic sounds from different cannons firing.
I dream of a game like this
I would buy that game
Sea Of Thieves is almost exactly like that
@@pleucido I haven't played that but I would love to try
@@Shineinpoverty yes! smoke makes naval battles such a badass. The sound and light effects of cannons lighting horizontally and the feel of bloodlust after you shoot an enemy warship head on with flying debris and different kind of destructions based from what parts were damaged. damn the detail. 😍
If anything, it shows how ahead of its time Black Flag was. Man that was a good game.
Black flag was the last assassins creed I played and it was amazing
I skipped many games after it. But Odyssey, I liked it too.
Not for grinding and clone missions but a setting in ancient Greece.
This game made me fall in love with ancient Greece.
I would recommend it for someone who is into history like myself.
@@Shineinpoverty the only really crappy thing about AC Odyssey was the inability to use a shield. I mean, you play a spartan... and you can't use a shield??? It is in some ways reverse of what they did with AC Valhalla - main hero can't use a single-handed swords. At all. You can use a shield and a greatsword (which shouldn't be in game at all...) but no normal sword ans shield? Also, I think that in Odyssey they got a bit lazy with sidequests - compared to other AC games those feel kinda weird: "My neighbour put some nets where I normally fish, go kill him for me!" or "A client didn't respect me enough, go kill him!" And, as usually for AC games, main heroes outfit is just really weird, but aside from Black Flag it has been the problem with pretty much all of the series - you walk around dressed up like something completely out of place and nobody notices :)
That was a good place to stop. Besides unity there's really been no good ac game since.
I think a lot of the problems boil down to the tech industry in general. Before people became devs because they were passionate and they weren't all that common. That's how you got small teams making masterpieces. Now it's been so commoditized that tons of mediocre devs exist that just want a paycheck with minimum effort put in. They pushed all the passionate experienced devs that get payed for their decades of experience out, well, more specifically the companies did in favor of the cheaper and mediocre devs and it shows in the products. This is an across the board problem. Very few once great dev companies maintain the quality they once were known for.
YES, YES, YES...
5:07 Wait a minute.. did I see that right? A swimming animation for a fraction of a second in Skull and Bones when the character gets fully submerged by a wave?
did…. Did these dumbasses add swimming systems to this game and then make them unavailable through the use of invisible walls?
Looks like many of us will just stick with Black Flag lol
I hope assassin's creed 4 black flag remake 🙏
Why?? They'll just make it worse and less detailed... maybe even throw in their political nonsense of "capitalism bad, socialism good" bullshit.
Naaah,just keep it the way it is!
they are working on a remake actually
Sadly I will place money on Ubisoft cancelling any remake when Skull and Bones flops. They will use the excuse it shows the pirate genre is dead, before admitting they just made a absolute rubbish game. I don’t know whether to be impressed or shocked that Ubisoft has managed to mess this up So badly. It shows just how incompetent the current management are when it comes to what gamers want.
just watch AC 3 vs 3 remaster 💀💀💀
I still play Black Flag.
It is still the best One piece... ehm pirates game ever imho.
One of best Ubi games 👍
Black flag looks good and has some good ship mechanics but Sid Myers Pirates is the best when it comes to an actual Pirate game.
Yep i played FC5 even after all their other games in the recent years,Still their last best far cry game.
Yep i played FC5 even after all their other games in the recent years,Still their last best far cry game.
2013 was one of the best years in the history of video games, and we didn’t appreciate it.
Speak for yourself
No we did, trust me lol. I understand what you're saying; if we knew what games would be like 10 years from now, we would probably try and treasure it a lot more. But I assure you we most certainly made the most of it.
Not even close, 2004 was the best year.
@2:15 When you forget to record the voice lines so you get the devs to gather around the one working microphone in the office lol it always stuck out every time I played this game and now there's finally a place for me to talk about it
I liked the diving bell missions in BF. It really added that sense of urgency; like every breath could be your last while hiding from sharks and avoiding the eels and jellies!
virgin skull and bones vs Chad assassin's creed black flag
Damn this really changed my mind to buy Skull and Bones
Remember, one of these is supposed to be an AAAA title
Assassins Creed Black Flag right?
When I've seen the boarding in skull and bones for the first time, I was like "did I miss the boarding part? That's it?"
Dont forget, BF ship has long range mortar, have tons of side activities -like diving bell is my fave. Capturing fort, god that was badass
yeah I’m surprised the mortar wasn’t mentioned here, also explosive barrels, ramming mechanic, much better brace mechanic and sea animations (especially in stormy conditions)
The fact you cant even BOARD ANOTHER SHIP IN A PIRATE GAME, is reason enough to show how AC is better
The harpooning section of skull and bones looks like one of those mobile game ads
In the past games were created and driven by passion over profit. Todays games are created and driven by PROFIT without any passion.
You actually believe 2013 Ubisoft was driven by passion? 😂
@@jaspelino1963 Assassin's creed 4, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Splinter Cell Blacklist - These games don't look like they were created to pump out as much money as possible. Of course, the goal of any company is to make a profit, but it's just that in the past Ubisoft created great games in parallel with this, and the developers themselves put their heart into what they do.
And now, when you hear from developers something like "During the development of S&B we could sit in TH-cam for days, because we don't know what to do", or when the developers themselves say that their game will fail, it becomes a shame.
It's just my opinion.
@@IamJake2376 yeah I understand, but I think their work was far more original even ten years earlier, back when they released AC 1 and 2, the first Splinter Cell, the first Far Cry, PoP Sands of Time and games like Beyond Good and Evil. They were creating one or even two new IPs every year back then. The games you mention were still pretty good, but they were already sequel number 4 in long-running series, albeit with a nice little twist in the case of Black Flag and FC Blood Dragon.
I think they haven’t shown true passion and originality since that time, except for a brief moment when they released Mario + Rabbids.
@@jaspelino1963 Compared to what we have now, I think even in 2013 they still loved what they were doing and created games primarily for players to have fun.
Ubisoft of the 2000s were certainly some of the best. Before, when I saw their logo, I knew something super interesting was coming. But really talented people started to leave Ubisoft, because of idiotic decisions of the management. When developers want to create something original, management just says "nah, do a sequel to one of the series". That's what happened with Assassin. Odyssey was supposed to be an unrelated game to the series, but because of brand recognition, the management decided to add the name "AC".
They just decided to take no chances and only take out at the expense of the brand. Of course the good developers didn't like that and started leaving.
Now they don't hire people who love games, they hire just anyone. Hence we have complete indifference to their projects, cringe-worthy plots, and of course a lack of understanding of what they are doing.
(Sorry if it's too long. Just wanted to share my thoughts... Heh.)
@@IamJake2376 yeah I think you make a good point. To me it seems they were already in decline around 2013, but I can see how you wouldn’t agree with that 100%. Have a good night! 😄
A sailor can't swim, a shark roaring like a lion, cannons that shoot only fireballs, and no boarding combat. Ubisoft, what were y'all thinkin'? I am so glad that I did not get Skull And Bones.
Me, an intellectual, playing sea of thieves for pirating adventures
Intellectual? HAH, dont make me laugh. Black flag would earn you that title
Ubisoft never failed to downgrade game from time to times
Tbf if you gave me 10 years to do my homework... I probably still wouldn't have it ready.
remember
this games was announced 7 years ago, and most likely in development before the announcement
this game was in development for almost a decade
remember that
Remember Crowbcat's Ubisoft Downgrades video
5:30 “tirateli vicino! Su forza!“😂🇮🇹
4:04
Are those flares?!
I can’t believe Ubisoft does this they make a game years ago called black flag and then they make some wash out version of it, every game they end up making seemed to reuse assets and shit and don’t get me started on those massive ass projects that where probably never see, just wish they go back to the old days.
I was impressed by how wet your clothes are in Black Flag. The biggest improvement in Black Flag is the water physics. The water is random. There are random waves. Skull and Bones is like a mobile game.
Skull and Bones in ship battle when enemy ship is at an angle canons are positioned straight and still hit enemy ship XD true AAAA game experience
No swimming? ok fine but no boarding and sword combat too ? Thats the big missing thing on a pirate games
In black flag you can physically go to any island you see, walk away from your steering wheel, and go wherever you want. In s.b. there are a limited amount of islands you can explore. For the rest you're stuck to your ship.
I miss being excited about new games
I just hope when they fully released it, they can add details
You can't even compare most of the modern games to stuff like Black Flag. It was peak freedom and realistic experience, and it shows how much creators cared about this, honestly saying, art.
A pirate game where you can't even board a ship by yourself... ok ubi.
They had 10 years time to make this game. Even copy paste everything from BlackFlag would be better. And they even deleted the swimming, parkour, fighting system, even hijacking a ship is cut out. I mean damn for 10 years prep time they were not able to make Skull and Bones like Blackflag is dissapointing. They should have used AC4 as their Blueprint instead of downgrading it. Even modders could do that better.
why did the shark roar like a lion lol
truly a AAAA game moment