@@Shionfromyt we got lucky games are $60 they use to be anywhere from $100 to $200 50 years ago, it does suck they are going back to the real normal but it was bound to happen sooner or later
The fact that a decade-old game like Black Flag had better pirate mechanics than Skull and Bones is mind-boggling. How do you mess up a game about pirates when the blueprint is right there? 🤦♂️
Worse yet it's by the same publisher that was behind Black Flag. That means that not only could they have looked to Black Flag as an example, they could probably have gotten code, resources, testing data and documentation, and even people that worked on Black Flag to help out and do at least as good a job at being a pirate game as Black Flag was. They have less of an excuse than just about any other developer else for failing this hard.
Patrician II/Rise of the Hanse had better pirate machanics, and that was a trade/eco simulator that just made it's pirate side-feature way better than it needed to be.
My first thought was "This looks like a cool indie game made by a game studio with 30 employees. They're charging what, 20 bucks for it?" Then I learned it was a "quadruple A" title that costs $70. LMAO
Companies are simply trying to push for live service slop because making money outside of the game’s price itself is so alluring to them. Single player games don’t really have these so of course they want to move away from these for the sake of profit.
@@maxmikester8185 Keep in mind also, most gaming companies, as a business make gamers for their shareholders, not their players. They will prioritize anything that makes quick income over anything of note...or quality due to that.
@@H4L0GUY117 Gaming is absolutely thriving. Are there plenty of terrible, money grubbing, gacha, live service "games" made by big studios to separate you from your money first and be fun second? Totally. But the sheer number of amazing games coming out all of the time is simply incomparable to the past. There's no way I would want to go back to before the indie game explosion of the early 2010s.
As an ex-games journo from the 90s (actual printed magazines), I don't recognise much actual "journalism" going on in the games industry these days. Back in my day, nobody would call a game "product" or "content", or just regurgitate press releases or marketing speak without critical thought, or even outright mocking. We had an unwritten code of conduct that put integrity above all else, because shilling for cynical games companies would obviously lose you credibility and readership. These days, most gaming websites can't even spell integrity, never mind do it. There are some exceptions (People Make Games and MVG come to mind), but most mainstream games "journalism" these days is devoid of quality, integrity, investigation, or a healthy distancing from PR and marketing people.
Modern gaming journalism is like that, because they're actively being paid by game publishers to make fluff pieces. Its not even a secret anymore, its a well-known scheme that's been around since the 2000s. Case and point, Kayne and Lynch 2.
Going from reading gaming magazines as a kid compared to the websites today is completely jarring. Especially with the last couple years most articles I read are ripped straight from a reddit post, or look it was written by an ai that doesn't know what a game is.
Thanks for commenting this. I have been saying this about companies like IGN, etc No ethics, no integrity, no unbiased reviews, no professionalism. It's about which company is paying them and/or giving them early access and those companies reviewing their reviews before uploading which is hilarious and ironic. They even have the gall to upload reviews without actually having played or finished the game which in any job should grant that person being fired on the spot. Any journalist on any field, should first and foremost act with the the truth and their integrity in mind. Anything less and that person should never be able to be in that profession. Thank you for telling it how it is, despite being a journalist yourself and hope you have found success in whatever you are doing.
You guys should've made the rules written then. Unwritten may work for a while but then someones gonna come around and "revolutionize" the way we wipe our asses so to speak. Thus, sewer clogging ass wipes are born.
Every media outlet and 90% on social media have an addiction to saying media is dying, be it films, games, comics, books etc. when none of them are. I just tune it out whenever I see that. Its clear they ignore most of the media they talk about.
@@glebglubthe kinda people who can't bear to pirate a 20 year old PC game but will instead emulate the far worse console version because of some odd standard
@@kellymountain honestly the "odd standard" is probably "a softmodded wii with remotes costs £20 but a computer costs 10x that for anything decent that doesn't slurp power" plus the time sink into getting DOSbox configured, XP games patched IF patches exist otherwise you gotta use a VM, etc., vs download a ROM and it just _works_ (edit: even on a shitty £5 android 4.0 tablet) also the PSX and snes were 30 years ago, you're thinking of ps2 and gamecube/wii. sorry to make you feel old with that one
The wildest thing about Skull and Bones is the fact that all they had to do to print a shitton of money was basically copy and paste Black Flag's piracy mechanics over to a full standalone game and even then they managed to fail spectacularly. Like, how do you fail at making a game about pirates when the literal blueprint was right there in a game that's a decade old!?
As a journalism student, gaming "journalism" is an affront to real journalism. Most of it is based on money, speculation, wishful thinking, and a combination of all three. I love video games, I love journalism, but I despise gaming journalism with every fiber of my being
all modern journalism (specifically anything done for a corporation/well known news site) is complete irredeemable slop. even if there is truth or sources involved it is presented in a way that it provides nothing at all to the reader except fear or outrage or whatever else pulls in viewership.
I despise live service games, battle royales, multiplayer grinding sessions, microtransactions, etc. They are the worst things plaguing the VG industry! Best memories I have playing video games were single player experiences!
As Ubisoft said when Baldur's Gate 3 came out: That is not gonna be a new standard. (Because nobody else will make good games anymore, except maybe From Software every few years.)
Honestly I really miss the era of good single player campaigns setting up really solid franchises like the OG Gears of War, Halo, Infamous, Dead Space, etc. Now the new fad is to make a live service shooter thats multi-player heavy and only renewed with seasonal updates instead of a new installment in the franchise. So sad to see
Dude, I was just about to mention Sid Meier's Pirates - that game was amazing for its time, I remember playing it at the library fondly. Still solid to date, even.
Yes, but on occasion ,if your ship and crew are significantly more powerful than the ship you are boarding, they would immediately surrender. So, I was just wondering if that is the case in this clip. If it's always this cutscene when you board the ship, then I stand corrected
The thing about Single Player games is that if the story is good it can be seen as a sort of interactable novel yes their would be drop off eventually just like after one has finishing reading a novel but just like novels that are well loved because of its story its next release would be highly anticipated by those that are invested in it. The gameplay also helps for the anticipation of the next release given that some single player games gives off a feeling of a power trip or that of a conquering Emperor marching with his Legions.
You’re absolutely spot-on about this console generation. My entire PS5 dashboard is remastered Yakuza games, Bloodborne, and FF7 Remake 😂. Im very excited for Stellar Blade (Project Eve) in April though 🔥
Sounds like anqmazing dashboard mine is like Darksouls123. Elden ring all Assassin games Kingdomhearts 123 , tekken 7 and 8.. and some random games like star wars ..
I still think AC4 is thd best pirate game. The ship combat was just phenomenal. And the boarding was so fun. The fact you have to merc the crew, get rid of the captain and cut the flag is so fun. Then after you have to choose what to do with the ship: pillage it for extra resources, repair your ship of damages, or promote a man in your crew to take over the ship you beat and add it to your fleet
being a gamer can be a super frustrating, angering place. We're always getting conned, scammed, lied to, overcharged, microtransactioned, etc. I can see your frustration and understand it Muta.
they are trying so hard to take away physical media and put everything online so you can't just play a console up at a cabin with no internet, it's so stupid @@jasonalec6573
It's funny how they say such words like "Single-player games are dying" when it stems from a company/publisher that inherently made one bad product. and assume everything else following or before will be the same. gaming journalists are so stupid at times.
They doing the exact same thing they did with movies, disney made one shit pirate movie and belived pirate movies werent in even tho it was the quality of the product
Single-player games just aren't close to dying yet, So many people still play them and I'd rather play a nice relaxing single-player experience than have some snot-nosed 9 year old throwing every insult under the sun at me because I killed him in a fight.
Journalists don’t believe half the stuff they write. Unfortunately, they’re under strict mandates from executives and often resort to rage bait to score page visits for their articles.
I wouldn't even be surprised if the EA heads are happy that this failed after the backlash they got from saying single players had no future. Now they can say "see?! We invested big in a flashy single player game and it failed! Live service games are the future and that's all we'll do. No more single player games!"
I can't stop shaking my head at this. The fact that all they had to do was rehash the Ship stuff from Black flag and change up the story a bit and BOOM its what we all wanted. Of course Ubi gotta F it up somehow.
gaming is thriving more than ever before; its just the big companies putting out slop that are fading away very much like network TV - which basically no one watches anymore
The thing about most gaming journalism (and a significant portion of modern journalism) is that their goal is making money, not presenting accurate information. And the amount of money they make is based on how many articles they make and how many clicks they get. This is why you see them constantly churning out low quality articles that sometimes contain wrong information and seemingly only exist to get people mad and stir up controversy. It is simply the most efficient method to making a profit in the current climate.
I used to get trash on Twitter when I would mention things like "AAA gaming is on a decline" or "PS5 gaming lineup isn't that special" so I'm glad to see others that agree
I'm right there with you. Saying ps5 lineup sucks is an objective fact when comparing 3-yr-post-launch lineups for all prior Sony consoles. Anyone debating that fact simply doesn't having a higher powered gaming PC, where they could be playing the majority Sony exclusives with even better graphics, along with all of the other great non-sony exclusives. Just like Mutahar, I MIGHT dust off the ps5 for rebirth.. but more than likely I'll pick it up in a year on PC once the bugs are ironed out.
Man it happens everywhere outside of gaming as well. I follow the Formula 1 Racing scene and the journalism coming out of a few of the "news" pages is absolutely disgusting. Designed for you to read the headline, get brain damage, be infuriated enough to click and then it ends with "Even though the headline says this, what actually happened is "this". Or another case recently in Australia, a sign was graffiti'd making a mockery of a poor woman's disappearance, the news blew up the story when in reality nobody would of seen the graffiti if it hadn't been for "Journalists". I understand it's all designed to get clicks and make money but it's just disgusting, always has been.
Sounds like just another average day in political news. So much propaganda for "left" or "right" attacking each other its hard to tell what's truth anymore. Then they wonder why people are getting more disillusioned with politics or tired of it.
They did it to themselves though, when they dropped any pretence of objectivity and professionalism for deeply biased op-eds and clickbait. If journalists can't be trusted to be factual, unbiased and objective, then they lose any credibility. If enough journalists do this (and they did), their entire profession loses all credibility.
It seems like AAA(A) games are inching into becoming NFTs with gameplay. There could arguably be a motive to pushing the narrative of "no one plays single-player games anymore" since multiplayer games are more naturally online-only / live service, which are moving closer to the point of no one owning the games that they bought, if were not at that point already. To me it makes more sense that single player games are more accessible for a wider aucience of players since they can pick it up and enjoy it not dependend on their friends having the same free time slot for gaming - but maybe that's just the "playing multiplayer games like singleplayer games" in me.
I used used to say AAA gaming is dead...after that clip I'm convinced I'm right. They are on the joke with this "AAAA" stuff. They don't deserve a dollar.
@@diegomedina9637untrue. It's one of the highest selling games of the ps2 (it's in the top 200) and is seen as a cult classic. I still think it's the best in the sly trilogy gameplay and graphics wise
If you want to play another pirate game, I would recommend Sid Meier's Pirates. It's kind of old, but I liked the gameplay a lot. Thanks for the video, Muta!
This Ties in with what I dealt with on X/Twitter a week ago regarding the Yellow paint phenomenon. People were Actively Advocating for lower and lower mental requirements for games, to the extent people were saying tic tac toe level gameplay should be the norm and that may even be too hard. (not trolling people actively were pushing for that level of gameplay difficulty) Currently people are advocating for gaming to be like watching movies and less actual games. And Seeing the "AAAA" Slop there seems the heads of companies have been listening to that crowd for a while. Its why many are advocating for games to have barriers to entry via either skill or brain power, otherwise we will get games so dumbed down it will be boring/not worth playing as it does not provide entertainment/challenge at all anymore.
My issue with the difficulty discussion in games is people often treat it like a zero sum game, that having an easy mode in otherwise challenging games somehow devalues the art. We're either trying to dumb all games down or creating barriers to entry when you can just have difficulty levels? Every other hobby I've partaken in does this, my main one being dance, but gamers just seem to despise this idea. I think it's why I've grown further away from gaming as I've gotten older, the audiences seem to have gotten older, but they don't ever seem to grow up.
@@thecrispymaster difficulty levels are fine and not even a concern. The issue at hand is you can't just reduce the difficulty of a puzzle. And that's what games are doing. They are reducing the interaction part of video games. Notice how puzzles and interactive parts of games are all dumbed down more and more to allow easy entry. You can tweak stats for difficulty but you can't stat tweak a puzzle or make the player have a brain.
I saw an ad for Skull and Bones with “You should see me in a crown” by Billie Eilish. I was so baffled by that decision. Also, Immortals of Aveum was advertised. $85 Million for the development and another $40 Million for marketing and distribution.
Sea of Thieves and Cyberpunk (and also No Man's Sky) seem all to patched up quite nicely. Great to see that some devs out there have the capacity and willingness to improve past faults.
As a journalist that mainly worked in game journalism but saw a bit of everything, journalism as a whole is really falling apart. The editors are often hired for nepotism reasons and will rewrite your articles to push whatever weird crap they have going on in life. Many of the writers are outsourced to countries where they're okay with making pennies an hour, but then they'll give someone else the writing credits. For game journalism in particular, several of the game journalists don't play games and get their info from the game publishers and skimming let's plays. That's not just some rumor, I've seen it first-hand. They don't seem to realize how important integrity is to repeat readers. They just to churn out as many articles as possible with AI generated, SEO optimized titles, which buries the competent independent journalism and makes it harder to discover.
I did some testing for this I can't believe they delayed it and basically looks the same as it did back then. Reminded me more of the Pirates of the Caribbean MMO than Black flag
dawg i like how battlebit (a roblox game ported off of roblox to unity) is better than most of the recent AAA (or AAAA games if your mentally unstable)
In Immortals of Aveum's defense or whatever it's called. It was shown off at almost every trade show in the last few years. I vividly remember seeing it multiple times shown off on stage at Not E3 shows and game awards shows. It just didn't look like a very good game. Honestly I think that makes it look even worse. It definitely had a marketing budget.
Black Flag being one of my favorite games, was really excited for Skull & Bones, but playing the beta is complete crap :/ they took out a bunch of mechanics and mini games that made it so special
I despise all journalists. Gaming, movies, anime, books, politics, etc. Mfs can't do the ONE JOB they have( objective unbiased review/commentary & critically thinking rather than going with the mainstream view to appease casuals & get views & subscribers)
A review bias is always going to be a thing, but when reviewing, we should be looking at the cons and pros of a game, what it excels and what it falls short on. At the end, that's where you can give your opinion piece that was made with critical thinking, and the actual resources the game gave you.
There was magic based FPS games before Immortals of Avium. You know, kinda like Heretic or Hexen. You remember those? I know that I do. Well, besides popular FPS games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Duke Nukem, Rise of the Triad and f-ing Chex Quest. God, I love those classic FPS games. I always enjoy them more than any modern FPS games.
Whoa whoa there bucko. This is the SECOND time you've heard of a AAAA game. lololol. Calisto Protocol claimed it was a AAAA game first ;) (Yes, I realize this adds to the irony) :p
Honestly my preference for console doesn’t come down to game exclusivity, rather just convenience. I tried PC gaming and for the budget I was on, it was rough not knowing when and what I could run, and always having to compromise on settings just to make it run well. Consoles solve all that trouble for you and have consistency with performance (for the most part)
Good, now understand that this vein of thinking - "x" journalist hates "x" topic - applies to 95% of all journalism. It's just most obvious with video games because these journalists are incessant in their complaining of what we love in games and their zealous demands for things that drag the industry down into a dirty, low quality cesspool of microtransactions and garbage.
@@ValiantGoat Those journalist shouldn't bite the hands that feed them! Absolutely sickening seeing all of these "journalist" write nonsense review just to appeal to masses nowaday!
I'm happy with my switch & PC, I love FPS games. However after playing the newest COD for about 3 weeks I got bored and went back to Playing single player games, which pushed me to buy BOTW & I'm freaking loving it!
You said every thought I've ever had on this subject. The gaming industry isn't dead its just transforming while journos and AAAs are trying to resist it instead of adapting to it. AAAs are downgrading/inefficient/political, smaller and indie are upgrading/imaginative/focused on fun and urinalists are still lying to you about it like they do every subject and industry.
Thank god this game exists, I was just thinking about how my favorite part of pirate games and movies and shows is the bit right after the cool fight where they open a chest with some stuff in it. I was just saying “I wish Pirates of The Caribbean had less on-ship fights” to my friend the other day 💀
I agree with IT.93. If you only play mainstream games, that will happen. They only want profits. There's still a lot of gems that are coming and there's a lot of them that have come out. Don't limit yourself on mainstream games.
I saw an ad for skull and bones and they had Michelle Rodriguez and i started thinking about the fast and furious game. I thought thanks ubisoft for telling me to steer clear of this game
The reason this is called AAAA its because that's going to be the reaction of the people who actually bought it and realized they are out 70 bucks
Can't wait for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA game
What makes you think it is that cheap?
Games will soon cost 90 to 100 dollars soon
@@Lovuschka that's what they said it would be
@@Shionfromyt we got lucky games are $60 they use to be anywhere from $100 to $200 50 years ago, it does suck they are going back to the real normal but it was bound to happen sooner or later
The fact that a decade-old game like Black Flag had better pirate mechanics than Skull and Bones is mind-boggling. How do you mess up a game about pirates when the blueprint is right there? 🤦♂️
Worse yet it's by the same publisher that was behind Black Flag. That means that not only could they have looked to Black Flag as an example, they could probably have gotten code, resources, testing data and documentation, and even people that worked on Black Flag to help out and do at least as good a job at being a pirate game as Black Flag was.
They have less of an excuse than just about any other developer else for failing this hard.
Even AC Odyssey which is not even a pirate game has better pirate mechanics lol
Cause that isn't what the studio wanted to do. originally the game was only a 5 vs 5 mode. not even openworld
Patrician II/Rise of the Hanse had better pirate machanics, and that was a trade/eco simulator that just made it's pirate side-feature way better than it needed to be.
By being Ubisoft.
A pirate game not even worth pirating. Thats ironic🏴☠️😂
Kinda game you get somebody you hate😂
Game you pirate but still want a refund
And kind of iconic
My first thought was "This looks like a cool indie game made by a game studio with 30 employees. They're charging what, 20 bucks for it?"
Then I learned it was a "quadruple A" title that costs $70. LMAO
If your kid is acting up, threaten them with "If you don't behave, I will tell Santa to have your Christmas present to be Skull and Bones" 😂
Yes, gaming isn't dying but there's definitely questionable practices in the industry. The skull and bones scenario was quite shocking.
The fact that they have been making this game for the past 10 years
Companies are simply trying to push for live service slop because making money outside of the game’s price itself is so alluring to them. Single player games don’t really have these so of course they want to move away from these for the sake of profit.
@@maxmikester8185 Keep in mind also, most gaming companies, as a business make gamers for their shareholders, not their players.
They will prioritize anything that makes quick income over anything of note...or quality due to that.
I think the big budget gaming space has become unsustainable and is due for another crash like the early 80s.
It may not be actively dying, but gaming has definitely stagnated/plateaued. And the future does not look bright.
They saw "sea of theives" and went "yeah we can make this 10000% worse, lets do it"
The irony is that gaming is thriving while gaming “journalism” is completely dying.
Depends on the games lol
thriving isn't a word i'd use
Indy scene been thriving.
@@H4L0GUY117 Gaming is absolutely thriving. Are there plenty of terrible, money grubbing, gacha, live service "games" made by big studios to separate you from your money first and be fun second? Totally. But the sheer number of amazing games coming out all of the time is simply incomparable to the past. There's no way I would want to go back to before the indie game explosion of the early 2010s.
gud
Journalist is a strong word
Urinilist is more fitting for most of 'em.
Right? I can rarely take a writer seriously these days. They make journalism seem like a joke
Urinalalist
@@johnmagus6341 I second that, definitely a lot more fitting name
Paid mouthpiece
As an ex-games journo from the 90s (actual printed magazines), I don't recognise much actual "journalism" going on in the games industry these days. Back in my day, nobody would call a game "product" or "content", or just regurgitate press releases or marketing speak without critical thought, or even outright mocking. We had an unwritten code of conduct that put integrity above all else, because shilling for cynical games companies would obviously lose you credibility and readership. These days, most gaming websites can't even spell integrity, never mind do it. There are some exceptions (People Make Games and MVG come to mind), but most mainstream games "journalism" these days is devoid of quality, integrity, investigation, or a healthy distancing from PR and marketing people.
If only u guys still existed the gaming industry would've listen to constructive criticism
Modern gaming journalism is like that, because they're actively being paid by game publishers to make fluff pieces. Its not even a secret anymore, its a well-known scheme that's been around since the 2000s. Case and point, Kayne and Lynch 2.
Going from reading gaming magazines as a kid compared to the websites today is completely jarring. Especially with the last couple years most articles I read are ripped straight from a reddit post, or look it was written by an ai that doesn't know what a game is.
Thanks for commenting this.
I have been saying this about companies like IGN, etc No ethics,
no integrity, no unbiased reviews, no professionalism. It's about which company is paying them and/or giving them early access and those companies reviewing their reviews before uploading which is hilarious and ironic. They even have the gall to upload reviews without actually having played or finished the game which in any job should grant that person being fired on the spot.
Any journalist on any field, should first and foremost act with the the truth and their integrity in mind. Anything less and that person should never be able to be in that profession.
Thank you for telling it how it is, despite being a journalist yourself and hope you have found success in whatever you are doing.
You guys should've made the rules written then. Unwritten may work for a while but then someones gonna come around and "revolutionize" the way we wipe our asses so to speak. Thus, sewer clogging ass wipes are born.
Glad to hear that the big gaming companies are giving indie creators as many openings into the market.
Every media outlet and 90% on social media have an addiction to saying media is dying, be it films, games, comics, books etc. when none of them are.
I just tune it out whenever I see that. Its clear they ignore most of the media they talk about.
A quote that i remember from dunkey “why is everyone in such a rush to play the latest games when you haven’t even experienced any of the classics?”
Very true!
kids raised by non-gamers who think emulating psx and snes will get them arrested
Can't wait to dust off my copy of S*x quest 1994
@@glebglubthe kinda people who can't bear to pirate a 20 year old PC game but will instead emulate the far worse console version because of some odd standard
@@kellymountain honestly the "odd standard" is probably "a softmodded wii with remotes costs £20 but a computer costs 10x that for anything decent that doesn't slurp power" plus the time sink into getting DOSbox configured, XP games patched IF patches exist otherwise you gotta use a VM, etc., vs download a ROM and it just _works_ (edit: even on a shitty £5 android 4.0 tablet)
also the PSX and snes were 30 years ago, you're thinking of ps2 and gamecube/wii. sorry to make you feel old with that one
The wildest thing about Skull and Bones is the fact that all they had to do to print a shitton of money was basically copy and paste Black Flag's piracy mechanics over to a full standalone game and even then they managed to fail spectacularly. Like, how do you fail at making a game about pirates when the literal blueprint was right there in a game that's a decade old!?
I still like to imagine it now, Black Flag as an endless mode with roguelite mechanics, would've been a blast.
The more info that was released over the years about this game, the less I was interested. It was like a 1:1 scale.
That's how S&B started in 2013
Competence crisis
Because boarding the same ship 1000 times makes for engaging combat
The first time I heard of an "AAAA Game" was when Perfect Dark 3 was announced a few years ago. I've heard no further news on it since.
Did that game get cancelled or something? Last time even I remember hearing about it was when the Xbox X was announced
That and Metroid Prime 4
Thought you said Dark Souls 3 and I was like "fair". That game slapped harder than my mum after a Martini.
Wait, was there a perfect dark 2? I know about zero, but that was a prequel wasn't it? I'm not exactly a rareware expert.
It kinda feels like the studios wanted to label themselves as pioneers in gaming rather than actually do any pioneering at all.
As a journalism student, gaming "journalism" is an affront to real journalism. Most of it is based on money, speculation, wishful thinking, and a combination of all three. I love video games, I love journalism, but I despise gaming journalism with every fiber of my being
So just like modern corporate journalism
@@MrMpa31 Exactly
If only every journalist or game journalist was like FriendlyJordies. Jesus Christ we need more people like him
all modern journalism (specifically anything done for a corporation/well known news site) is complete irredeemable slop. even if there is truth or sources involved it is presented in a way that it provides nothing at all to the reader except fear or outrage or whatever else pulls in viewership.
You should switch degrees. There are no jobs and you will starve
' from my understanding', sure Muta, sure. Nice save there
I despise live service games, battle royales, multiplayer grinding sessions, microtransactions, etc. They are the worst things plaguing the VG industry!
Best memories I have playing video games were single player experiences!
As Ubisoft said when Baldur's Gate 3 came out: That is not gonna be a new standard. (Because nobody else will make good games anymore, except maybe From Software every few years.)
Honestly I really miss the era of good single player campaigns setting up really solid franchises like the OG Gears of War, Halo, Infamous, Dead Space, etc. Now the new fad is to make a live service shooter thats multi-player heavy and only renewed with seasonal updates instead of a new installment in the franchise. So sad to see
Then play single player games and stop crying lmfao
Isn't battle royale just a larger scale Free For All multiplayer? Battlefront 2 classic?
Goldeneye with the boys. Pistols only on Facility. ♥️
20 years ago Sid Meier's Pirates let you board the other ship and duel the captain, that was pretty neat
Dude, I was just about to mention Sid Meier's Pirates - that game was amazing for its time, I remember playing it at the library fondly. Still solid to date, even.
Man, I loved that game when I was a kid
Yes, but on occasion ,if your ship and crew are significantly more powerful than the ship you are boarding, they would immediately surrender. So, I was just wondering if that is the case in this clip. If it's always this cutscene when you board the ship, then I stand corrected
I still play Sid Meier's Pirates. It's got all I want out of a pirate game.
Sly cooper 3 from 2005 let you board ships and fight the captain
a 'quadruple A' is a game designed specifically for game 'journalists'
The thing about Single Player games is that if the story is good it can be seen as a sort of interactable novel yes their would be drop off eventually just like after one has finishing reading a novel but just like novels that are well loved because of its story its next release would be highly anticipated by those that are invested in it. The gameplay also helps for the anticipation of the next release given that some single player games gives off a feeling of a power trip or that of a conquering Emperor marching with his Legions.
The Metro game series was that for me.
The problem, is the mass amount of online players who don't have the attention span to play single player games that have depth and good narrative lol
You’re absolutely spot-on about this console generation. My entire PS5 dashboard is remastered Yakuza games, Bloodborne, and FF7 Remake 😂. Im very excited for Stellar Blade (Project Eve) in April though 🔥
Sounds like anqmazing dashboard mine is like Darksouls123. Elden ring all Assassin games Kingdomhearts 123 , tekken 7 and 8.. and some random games like star wars ..
Man, I’ve never seen a gaming company cope so hard for a clearly bad game…
Very cool pfp
Not just a gaming company, the people who bought it too. I'll get it when it's on sale for 30 bucks in 5 months
They're already hundreds of millions in deep
They think they made a masterpiece, they're going to be very salty when no one buys this crap and they all get laid off.
@@lareolanKFPI dont even think that's it, I think they forgot about it for the most part which was the issue.
I still think AC4 is thd best pirate game. The ship combat was just phenomenal. And the boarding was so fun. The fact you have to merc the crew, get rid of the captain and cut the flag is so fun. Then after you have to choose what to do with the ship: pillage it for extra resources, repair your ship of damages, or promote a man in your crew to take over the ship you beat and add it to your fleet
being a gamer can be a super frustrating, angering place. We're always getting conned, scammed, lied to, overcharged, microtransactioned, etc. I can see your frustration and understand it Muta.
Literally every form of entertainment. Games are just more expensive
they are trying so hard to take away physical media and put everything online so you can't just play a console up at a cabin with no internet, it's so stupid @@jasonalec6573
Maybe cuz you don't have the spine to stand up for your fellow gamers
Kotaku is an example of a grim time for games journalism.
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"...From my understanding"
Nice save, bro
*experience 😂
It's funny how they say such words like "Single-player games are dying"
when it stems from a company/publisher that inherently made one bad product.
and assume everything else following or before will be the same.
gaming journalists are so stupid at times.
They doing the exact same thing they did with movies, disney made one shit pirate movie and belived pirate movies werent in even tho it was the quality of the product
Single-player games just aren't close to dying yet, So many people still play them and I'd rather play a nice relaxing single-player experience than have some snot-nosed 9 year old throwing every insult under the sun at me because I killed him in a fight.
Journalists don’t believe half the stuff they write. Unfortunately, they’re under strict mandates from executives and often resort to rage bait to score page visits for their articles.
At times???
I wouldn't even be surprised if the EA heads are happy that this failed after the backlash they got from saying single players had no future. Now they can say "see?! We invested big in a flashy single player game and it failed! Live service games are the future and that's all we'll do. No more single player games!"
I can't stop shaking my head at this. The fact that all they had to do was rehash the Ship stuff from Black flag and change up the story a bit and BOOM its what we all wanted. Of course Ubi gotta F it up somehow.
gaming is thriving more than ever before; its just the big companies putting out slop that are fading away very much like network TV - which basically no one watches anymore
It is so satisfying to see people finally calling out their garbage for what it is.
It wasnt much different in the 80s and 90s either.
Just no one remembers the mediocre and forgettable games not tied to non-gaming IPs.
Every live service is burning down
Gaming journalists: can't believe single player is dead
9:10 tonsil stone flew out of his mouth 😂
came here for this
Did he lost a tooth
@@leoulquiorra2 nah, its a tonsil stone. Super common. Look em up. You may have had em and never known.
Thought it was spit/saliva
I wish you didn’t point that out.
This footage makes Sea of Thieves look like a AAAAAAA game...
Muta got so pissed he spit on his own beard 9:09
what's the beef with his beard? are they in a love triangle with his lips?
@@Ar1AnX1xMust be,gah lee
Lol you beat me to it
The thing about most gaming journalism (and a significant portion of modern journalism) is that their goal is making money, not presenting accurate information. And the amount of money they make is based on how many articles they make and how many clicks they get. This is why you see them constantly churning out low quality articles that sometimes contain wrong information and seemingly only exist to get people mad and stir up controversy. It is simply the most efficient method to making a profit in the current climate.
You've basically described much of TH-cam as well
sometimes contain wrong information? it's always
"From my understanding."
Nice save, Muta
I used to get trash on Twitter when I would mention things like "AAA gaming is on a decline" or "PS5 gaming lineup isn't that special" so I'm glad to see others that agree
I'm right there with you. Saying ps5 lineup sucks is an objective fact when comparing 3-yr-post-launch lineups for all prior Sony consoles. Anyone debating that fact simply doesn't having a higher powered gaming PC, where they could be playing the majority Sony exclusives with even better graphics, along with all of the other great non-sony exclusives. Just like Mutahar, I MIGHT dust off the ps5 for rebirth.. but more than likely I'll pick it up in a year on PC once the bugs are ironed out.
As someone with both a ps3 and a smart buttplug, i can confirm that the plug has more processing power and gotten more use.
Bro wha😂
Can it run crisis tho?
@@shadow_realm47 it's ok, both are a fun time :p
Man it happens everywhere outside of gaming as well. I follow the Formula 1 Racing scene and the journalism coming out of a few of the "news" pages is absolutely disgusting. Designed for you to read the headline, get brain damage, be infuriated enough to click and then it ends with "Even though the headline says this, what actually happened is "this".
Or another case recently in Australia, a sign was graffiti'd making a mockery of a poor woman's disappearance, the news blew up the story when in reality nobody would of seen the graffiti if it hadn't been for "Journalists".
I understand it's all designed to get clicks and make money but it's just disgusting, always has been.
Then stop clicking on them
@@GrimTheDestroyer Did it take both of your brain cells to make that comment? Get out of here lmao
@@Chrissorox atleast I have braincells to know that i shouldn't click those news articles
Sounds like just another average day in political news. So much propaganda for "left" or "right" attacking each other its hard to tell what's truth anymore.
Then they wonder why people are getting more disillusioned with politics or tired of it.
Who doesn’t hate game journalism?
Gameranx are the goats tho
@@UnabashedShep-4L20 these people don’t play video games is the thing that irks me most
@@ldope3904 i would say Kotaku/ign is what people think when it comes to game "journalist"
Me, we get funny videos because of them
Game Urinalists
Written Journalism was already dying, gaming journalism is just hopping on the Titanic, that has been sinking for all to see.
9:10 this is the moment where Muta accidentally spit on his beard
we're friends now...
Who even trusts Journalists at this point nevermind Gaming Journalists? 😂
SILENCE CHECKMARK 🙄
They did it to themselves though, when they dropped any pretence of objectivity and professionalism for deeply biased op-eds and clickbait. If journalists can't be trusted to be factual, unbiased and objective, then they lose any credibility. If enough journalists do this (and they did), their entire profession loses all credibility.
oh god another random checkmark?
Found the trump cultist
Bought account. How much did you pay?
"AAAA"? More like "AAAAH! NO! Get it away from me!"
That moment when Ubisoft's AAAA pirate game has less depth than the pirate themed level from Sly Cooper 3.
It seems like AAA(A) games are inching into becoming NFTs with gameplay.
There could arguably be a motive to pushing the narrative of "no one plays single-player games anymore" since multiplayer games are more naturally online-only / live service, which are moving closer to the point of no one owning the games that they bought, if were not at that point already.
To me it makes more sense that single player games are more accessible for a wider aucience of players since they can pick it up and enjoy it not dependend on their friends having the same free time slot for gaming - but maybe that's just the "playing multiplayer games like singleplayer games" in me.
That clip felt like a mobile game ad fr
I used used to say AAA gaming is dead...after that clip I'm convinced I'm right. They are on the joke with this "AAAA" stuff. They don't deserve a dollar.
Imagine Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves having a more developed ship boarding mechanic than your 2024 naval warfare game
Yeah but no one bought it because it was a mascot platform game on the PS2.
@@diegomedina9637untrue. It's one of the highest selling games of the ps2 (it's in the top 200) and is seen as a cult classic. I still think it's the best in the sly trilogy gameplay and graphics wise
@@diegomedina9637Not really, game sold pretty well. The one true flop Sly Cooper had was Thieves in Time and dear lord, it messed up everything
@@rivy-lurk-869 Actually it's historically known that the only good selling Sly Cooper game was 1 with each subsequent release selling less and less.
If you want to play another pirate game, I would recommend Sid Meier's Pirates. It's kind of old, but I liked the gameplay a lot.
Thanks for the video, Muta!
This Ties in with what I dealt with on X/Twitter a week ago regarding the Yellow paint phenomenon. People were Actively Advocating for lower and lower mental requirements for games, to the extent people were saying tic tac toe level gameplay should be the norm and that may even be too hard. (not trolling people actively were pushing for that level of gameplay difficulty) Currently people are advocating for gaming to be like watching movies and less actual games. And Seeing the "AAAA" Slop there seems the heads of companies have been listening to that crowd for a while. Its why many are advocating for games to have barriers to entry via either skill or brain power, otherwise we will get games so dumbed down it will be boring/not worth playing as it does not provide entertainment/challenge at all anymore.
Once again Twitter proves that they are subhuman
My issue with the difficulty discussion in games is people often treat it like a zero sum game, that having an easy mode in otherwise challenging games somehow devalues the art.
We're either trying to dumb all games down or creating barriers to entry when you can just have difficulty levels? Every other hobby I've partaken in does this, my main one being dance, but gamers just seem to despise this idea. I think it's why I've grown further away from gaming as I've gotten older, the audiences seem to have gotten older, but they don't ever seem to grow up.
@@thecrispymaster difficulty levels are fine and not even a concern. The issue at hand is you can't just reduce the difficulty of a puzzle. And that's what games are doing. They are reducing the interaction part of video games. Notice how puzzles and interactive parts of games are all dumbed down more and more to allow easy entry. You can tweak stats for difficulty but you can't stat tweak a puzzle or make the player have a brain.
Quadruple MID is the best way to explain skull and bones at absolute most
Devs making a live service title is the game industry equivalent of the Tide Pod challenge
Hold up, there's no combat after "boarding"? Wow wtf
I saw an ad for Skull and Bones with “You should see me in a crown” by Billie Eilish. I was so baffled by that decision.
Also, Immortals of Aveum was advertised. $85 Million for the development and another $40 Million for marketing and distribution.
Sea of Thieves and Cyberpunk (and also No Man's Sky) seem all to patched up quite nicely.
Great to see that some devs out there have the capacity and willingness to improve past faults.
No Man's Sky is amazing these days. Just got another update as well. Well worth £20.
Also what makes this sad/funny is that skull and bones was in development for like 10 years.
The 4th A checks out...as they screw their customers 25% more.
It truly was an ordinary of a time!
5:52 I am ancient. I remember when COD was only single player, or couch co-op. Some of the best gaming memories are there.
Same but I was on the Finest Hour online multiplayer on the PS2 lol
As a journalist that mainly worked in game journalism but saw a bit of everything, journalism as a whole is really falling apart. The editors are often hired for nepotism reasons and will rewrite your articles to push whatever weird crap they have going on in life. Many of the writers are outsourced to countries where they're okay with making pennies an hour, but then they'll give someone else the writing credits.
For game journalism in particular, several of the game journalists don't play games and get their info from the game publishers and skimming let's plays. That's not just some rumor, I've seen it first-hand.
They don't seem to realize how important integrity is to repeat readers. They just to churn out as many articles as possible with AI generated, SEO optimized titles, which buries the competent independent journalism and makes it harder to discover.
I did some testing for this I can't believe they delayed it and basically looks the same as it did back then. Reminded me more of the Pirates of the Caribbean MMO than Black flag
Lmao wait I enjoyed the pirates of the carribbean MMO as a kid.
Ubisoft's ad for Skull and Bones: "If you're going to be a pirate, do it right"
Me opening Torrent: "You're damn right!"
Mutahar's eyebrows have a mind of their own wtf
Don’t fire up wind waker on the GameCube. Fire it up on Wii U or upscaled on dolphin. The change in visual quality is amazing
Thanks for the tip
tbf modern gaming “journalism” has been trash since like 2013-14, so no surprise here
It's about ethics in gaming journalism
dawg i like how battlebit (a roblox game ported off of roblox to unity) is better than most of the recent AAA (or AAAA games if your mentally unstable)
I think another fun single player experience is the Pikmin series
In Immortals of Aveum's defense or whatever it's called. It was shown off at almost every trade show in the last few years. I vividly remember seeing it multiple times shown off on stage at Not E3 shows and game awards shows. It just didn't look like a very good game. Honestly I think that makes it look even worse. It definitely had a marketing budget.
Love the head turn away from the camera as he signs out in this video 😂
Black Flag being one of my favorite games, was really excited for Skull & Bones, but playing the beta is complete crap :/ they took out a bunch of mechanics and mini games that made it so special
I despise all journalists. Gaming, movies, anime, books, politics, etc. Mfs can't do the ONE JOB they have( objective unbiased review/commentary & critically thinking rather than going with the mainstream view to appease casuals & get views & subscribers)
try Gameranx, they're goated
A review bias is always going to be a thing, but when reviewing, we should be looking at the cons and pros of a game, what it excels and what it falls short on.
At the end, that's where you can give your opinion piece that was made with critical thinking, and the actual resources the game gave you.
hear that?...(cranes his ear to a distant whooshing sound) that's not the sea, that's the sound of Ubisoft circling the drain...
There was magic based FPS games before Immortals of Avium. You know, kinda like Heretic or Hexen. You remember those? I know that I do. Well, besides popular FPS games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Duke Nukem, Rise of the Triad and f-ing Chex Quest. God, I love those classic FPS games. I always enjoy them more than any modern FPS games.
Wind Waker slaps to this day
When has Kotaku or game journalism ever been considered good lol
Whoa whoa there bucko. This is the SECOND time you've heard of a AAAA game. lololol. Calisto Protocol claimed it was a AAAA game first ;)
(Yes, I realize this adds to the irony) :p
As long as someone is playing single player games, single player games will always be alive.
I love hearing this guy spinning up on some stuff, pleasure to hear!
Me: Why would they make a stale game
Then I heard the words "live service"
Honestly my preference for console doesn’t come down to game exclusivity, rather just convenience. I tried PC gaming and for the budget I was on, it was rough not knowing when and what I could run, and always having to compromise on settings just to make it run well. Consoles solve all that trouble for you and have consistency with performance (for the most part)
I remember browsing IGN and GameSpot all the time back in the 2000s. Don't know what happened, but I'm glad we got TH-cam now.
Time for that meme again:
Ps5: hey babe
Girl: No.
PS5 HAS NO GAME!
I still can't believe someone came out and said you shouldn't expect new games to be as good as baulders gate 3.
I'm excited for the next video! Thanks for this video Muta.
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> Denuvo
> Mandatory EA login
Plenty of reason for me to not bother, before assessing the game's merits, lol.
Mutahar be getting zassty with these thumbnails.
Gaming journalists hate videogames.
Good, now understand that this vein of thinking - "x" journalist hates "x" topic - applies to 95% of all journalism. It's just most obvious with video games because these journalists are incessant in their complaining of what we love in games and their zealous demands for things that drag the industry down into a dirty, low quality cesspool of microtransactions and garbage.
They hate gamers even more.
@@ValiantGoat Those journalist shouldn't bite the hands that feed them! Absolutely sickening seeing all of these "journalist" write nonsense review just to appeal to masses nowaday!
I'm happy with my switch & PC, I love FPS games. However after playing the newest COD for about 3 weeks I got bored and went back to Playing single player games, which pushed me to buy BOTW & I'm freaking loving it!
You said every thought I've ever had on this subject.
The gaming industry isn't dead its just transforming while journos and AAAs are trying to resist it instead of adapting to it.
AAAs are downgrading/inefficient/political, smaller and indie are upgrading/imaginative/focused on fun and urinalists are still lying to you about it like they do every subject and industry.
It seems that in the years that DEI became big in the AAA studios, their games have tanked.
This isn't the first time you said this.
Thank god this game exists, I was just thinking about how my favorite part of pirate games and movies and shows is the bit right after the cool fight where they open a chest with some stuff in it. I was just saying “I wish Pirates of The Caribbean had less on-ship fights” to my friend the other day 💀
If Skull and Bones is a quadruple A game, Morbius should've won at least 14 oscars.
Gaming isnt dead but the soul of the games have.
Only if you're playing the "wrong" games.
Exactly how I felt when AC4 released. Ubisoft just became like EA sports, uncreative, uninspired, no narrative, yearly released mid.
I agree with IT.93. If you only play mainstream games, that will happen. They only want profits.
There's still a lot of gems that are coming and there's a lot of them that have come out.
Don't limit yourself on mainstream games.
There's a ton of great "mainstream" games too
Journal these nuts ubisoft
Muta saying sly cooper made my cry. I’m glad he’s a knower
The word "Journalist" has changed in meaning since we all can look up for our self about the stuff they are talking about.
Once again; a massive “CALLED IT”!!!! Nobody thinks Ubi was ever caring about this game.
Taking black flag's ship combat and just adding for honour combat I feel like would've been a lot of fun
I saw an ad for skull and bones and they had Michelle Rodriguez and i started thinking about the fast and furious game. I thought thanks ubisoft for telling me to steer clear of this game