@@phoenixzappa7366dude, this franchise used to mass produce annual games with minimal changes and make shootload of money every single time. I doubt fans will feel that it is underwhelming that time.
Both good things and bad things do that, what do you think? I think this is garbage. You can't even have semi auto cannon so full auto is just mentally insane
@@vlexonkol8466 It was mainly used on land but they also used it on ship to land. With the ships firing on the shore ahead of landing parties. It may have been used in ship to ship combat but i don't know enough about Korean naval warfare in the 16th century to confirm.
What we wanted: the best pirate game ever. Full of all the tropes. What we realistically expected: Black flag/Rogue with more customisation, and probably a lot of cosmetic DLC. What we're getting: Fantasy boat mobile game gone large. And probably a lot of cosmetic DLC.
I feel bad for the good side of the devs who wasted time making this game all for no one to like it lol. The directors/management are straight mongoloids
An entirely new genre, the PSS: Pirate Ship Shooter. Equip your ship with the GAU-8 Avenger, and proceed to set sail not on water, but on shell casings.
Fat guy with a cigar sitting behind a large desk was once told that the moneybags\kids loved rapid fire and that they needed to keep time to kill as low as possible.
I don’t get why developers think sail boats need to be machine gun speed boats. The slower speed is easier to code and adds so much more impact in getting off broadsides that take a minute to reload vs seconds. It builds anticipation. I’d rather have one hit sinks that take ten minutes to acquire versus 5 minutes of barraging targets
There's a reason games like World of Warships make reloading take a long time, the speed makes it so much more tactical as you have to think about bracketing your opponent and account for their speed and angle.
As someone who is damn near obsessed with the age of sail, disappointment is a massive understatement. 17th and 18th century sea battles were so incredibly epic with giant behemoths slowly riding through the waves before opening a thunderstorm of cannons ripping the hull and men apart. Hell even in sea of thieves, which is basically a cartoon, engagements can last HOURS if both the crews on both sides are competent which makes them so memorable and rewarding even if you lose. Instead Ubisoft treats us like a bunch of 10 year olds whos attention spans couldnt possibly last longer than five minutes.
Amen Brother! Exactly how I feel about this. And in their trailers they made us believe that we will get the best pirate experience ever. Now we have autocanons, torpedos and flamethrowers. Biggest letdown in my gaming history!
Ubisoft doesn't treat you like a 10 year old, but they seem to have decided that you (we) are not the target audience. They hope the 10 year olds will like rocket launchers and machine gun swivel turret cannon and cringe dance moves in hubs and firework emojies, etc.
Naval Action was like this when it first came out. It was absolutely packed with historical ships that acted realistic enough. I haven’t played in years so I don’t know if it kept its player base, but worth a look before buying cause it sounds exactly like what you want
How did the devs not understand that all we wanted was a realistic sea of thieves, or a black flag minus assassins. not a sixteenth century battleship arcade.
I’d love to have an immersive game where you can run around your ship and do repairs. Fill up holes and pump out water or using buckets. Move ammunition to the guns, running to the medical room and accidentally injecting your patient with eggs or fentanyl. I feel like I’m describing Barotruama.
Machine guns, flame throwers, lasers and 30 knot propulsion independent of the wind is exactly what Age of Sail gaming enthusiasts have wanted; throw in Ubisoft's legendary $50 underwear skins and you've surely got a classic in the making
This breaks my heart. I spoke with a dev, when the Ubisoft forum still existed. They were so excited about making a historically accurate pirate game. They wanted to incorporate aspects from “Pirates of the Burning Sea” where you could sail the Caribbean, and then you had ports and each port had it’s own resources that you could cap and craft with. This… this is garbage
It sounds like Ubisoft has a terrible history of being entirely corporate -driven projects to the point where a few powerful higher-ups will disregard what the playerbase is calling for solely to force developers to implement their own ideas. They've been trying and failing to add RPG elements to all their titles for the past decade and it's embarrassing. Nobody is asking for this
100% agreed but if it was historically accurate, the only women in it would be low rent doxie's in some Caribbean dive town. They wouldn't be anywhere near a ship and certainly not Captaining a crew. mary read, anne bonny, madame cheng, and grace o'malley dont count as historically accurate. Cheng and o'malley never went to sea with crews. Bonney and Read were dumbass teenage girls that were passed around by a low rent crew of coastal hugging drunks that robbed fishermen. They were like a pack of cigarettes in a foxhole passed around from man to man. So much so that they were both pregnant when captured. I am sick to death of these woke a**holes ruining historical gaming.
Ubisoft: we need more time, sorry for the delay Players: Maybe we are going to get the game we wanted, a truly pirate experience without Full automatic AR 15 canons and actual battles Ubisoft: We are back with something actually better. Players: Black Flag? Ubisoft: Better yet, Sails with Neon lights so you can get a full mid night club experience in the middle of the ocean with your virgin friends
@@denmarkball7728 *fully automatic AR-15 that shoots high capacity magazine-clips. And then people are wondering "how the hell we got torpedoes in 18th century?".
As someone who lives in Singapore, we are way behind in terms of catching up in the gaming industry. Even if Ubisoft SG has funding from its other peers, they're not going to develop a good game. Most Singapore game companies are known for working with Tencent and getting funding from China.
Having been a part of the past insider's program, I can confirm that they have made it worse between test sessions. They expelled me from the last closed session about 6 months ago, so I don't really know the current state of the game. However, I have reasons to fear that we'll encounter the same issues as with The Day Before, only this time it will be backed by Ubisoft's substantial financial resources. My advice is to steer clear of pre-orders (as is the case with highly anticipated games; in recent years, they have increasingly failed to deliver on their promises).
Substantial financial resources? Ubisoft has lost sooooo much money just from this piece of shit game. Let alone their other titles where they are pissing off their community. I wouldnt be suprised if some time this year i hear that epic games or microsoft buys out ubisoft
@@xodiac-gg7049 for now they didn't exactly "lost" money in this title, they "invested", that makes a slight difference. Not to mention that they received singaporean subsidies for their studio there. Besides, being bought by Epic, why not, but Microsoft has just won a 20 month battle with regulatory authorities over acquiring Activision / Blizzard, I think it's highly unlikely for them to start it all over again for Ubi.
It looks terrible but easily fixed. Ships in those days used to fire 1 at a time because those huge 36 pound cannons could tear a ship apart with the recoil
@teddypicker8799 more cannon weight = less booty and slower speeds, both very important for piracy. Also it'll list your wee boat matie, it's too heavy
6:58 honestly my favorite thing with the boarding was the ability to just jump off your ship, sneak over via the water, and climb on. This way, you could leverage AC's stealth to wipe out the crew and take the ship uncontested.
Why is it so hard to just realize people want a single player that can walk around, give orders, fight and openly sail. Skill based is hard for some to understand
It should have been a game where we create our own pirate, start off small, build a crew, and have ship and sword fights while exploring the caribbean or asian isles (which was very active with piracy as well).
I played beta and when I got the full game I was extremely disappointed I thought there be more content things to do in the full game but there wasn't I thought there be more ships and islands and everything it's a small map with nothing to do after two days your you've done everything I thought full game would have bigger nso more stuff anyways I'm trying to get a refund but Xbox said I can't cause my beta time is over the time they allow they treat the beta as if I had already bought it then it's ridiculously
Pure greed. They saw how popular the idea was and wanted to make a multi-player game out of it so they could bleed that popularity dry with microtransactions etc.
It would’ve been fine if they put actual effort in to making it fun. Imagine commanding a fleet (or even a single ship in the vein of blackwake) with friends or alone, being able to leave the ship to explore cities or search for treasure, getting into naval and land battles, boarding others ships, I can go on and on. If it were fun and well made, it’d be fine to have that stuff. It’s the fact that it’s just an extremely stripped-down AC4 with zero soul put into it to be used as a cash grab that makes it awful.
they forgot to add the fun. now NO ONE will play it and it wont make any money. dont worry. the people with money (us gamers) ultimately have all the power.
Skull and Bones is the perfect example of over engineering. I was just playing AC Black Flag a few weeks ago and it’s still perfect. I still was spending more time than necessary sailing around and getting into fights and jumping off the ship to grab a collectible. That’s what I want. As realistic as possible pirate RPG sticking as close to history as possible cause guess what? The history is actually just as interesting as something someone could dream up. If anyone wants a good book, I’m listening to the republic of pirates on audible. It’s fantastic
It really is, I still play black flag from time to time. It just works so well. Everyone I know who played black flag loves it, it was truly lightning in a bottle unfortunately.
@@Bpinator there’s only a few games that me and one of my friends have really gotten into together one was Arkham city and one was black flag and we just played the shit out of that. I haven’t played anymore cause I got distracted with the cyberpunk 2077 updates but I need to go back and finish it up
@@ciretaorg this was the first time I had played it since it came out years ago and I couldn’t believe how well it holds up. It really just sucks you in and you want to do all the things even though you’ve beaten it once already. I need to go back and finish. I got distracted after the cyberpunk 2077 update came out and started playing the metro games after that
Black Flag stands as the best "Realistic" pirate game. Sea of theives is way to cartoony and team focused. But Black Flag Really Gets it right. All the future AC games that tried to copy them could not compete, because you CANNOT COMPETE AGAINST A FUCKING CANNON UBISOFT.
What I believe is that you have an idea as the core and build a game around it, having the idea influence everything while making the game. Some have "fun" as the core, others "adventure" or even "multiplayer/coop" Skull and bones feels like "monetization" as the core, and they built the game around that... to me, it looks like they thought, "How can we make players spend money for this?" Every time they made something for the game
I disagree, I think initially it was meant to be a fun and realistic pirate game based on what I've heard from back post black flag, but as the game has taken longer and longer to make and times have changed ubisofts priorities changed to make as much money as possible from this devhell game
I played Black Flag many years ago and finished the game for like my 1000th time a week or two ago, I love pirates and have loved them since I was incredibly young, I grew up with pirates of the caribbean and Peter Pan (my favourite character was captain hook as well). When this game's trailer came out (the first one) I was extremely happy, I had hopes that this could be the ultimate pirate game, where you can go around the caribbean pillaging ships, escaping from storms, boarding enemy ships, have awesome brutal swordfights between your crew and the enemy or even manage your own crew, select a quartermaster or decide who goes where and what they do... I wanted something realistic, I wanted to be, to feel, to act like a pirate captain. Then, everything went cold and nothing was spoken about this game, I still had hopes that it would come out and that I would finally be able to do everything I thought and hoped, but as I watched the videos, trailers and whatnot, I became disolusioned, nothing, absolutely nothing that I had hoped for became reality. You don't play as a pirate, you play as the ship itself like another comment said... This is not what the fanbase wanted, this is not what people believed or waited for, this is a completely waste of development and of a pirate game. Even the ship to ship combat doesn't seem fun, it'll eventually be whoever has the weirdest and more random idiotic weapon or how much time you clicked the green thing to collect things and upgrade your ship to look like a baby was told to make a pirate ship. Anyways, this game is not what it was supposed to be and I only wish Ubisoft sees this video or at least LISTENS to the fanbase and realise the mistale they've done and fix it. Sure the game might be delayed more but I believe it'll be better to wait more time for the game to reach what it should be.
The game is essentially fully funded by Singapore if Ubisoft don’t release the game they lose all the funding. The game at this point has no hope of making its money back, yet it also can’t get the axe. So it’s stuck in permanent dev hell.
Literally ALL they had to do was grab Black Flag, remove the assassins creed part of it, make it co-op/multiplayer, add a semi-interesting story and call it a day.
I’m simultaneously glad and sad to be vindicated on this. When this was announced all of my friends were so excited and hopeful and I was the one person who knew with certainty that Ubi wouldn’t deliver.
I was definitely hoping for an open world black flag like game with real boarding and character control, and able to have any size ship if the time (start off with a sloop and work your way up to a ship of the line or something). Between the apparent loot boxes, the weird colour schemes on ships, and the seeming lack of everything else I was hoping for, I won’t be spending any money on this game until I see some stellar reviews on a fully released game. Ubisoft really needs to get its shit together.
We wanted something more casual, we expected it to be more like Naval Action and AC Black Flag. but lo and behold we get world of tanks converted into pirates.
if the game released in 2020 probably he would be like world of warships lmao, they just add up walking in the outpost and etc a lot of menus and black screens ...
Perfect example of why I hate everything about modern AAA multiplayer titles. If its a singleplayer game, I allow myself to get hopeful sometimes. The moment I hear its heavily multiplayer focused, I stop paying it any attention because I already know its going to be hot garbage thats overpriced, more focused on graphic metrics than gameplay, it will have no soul or passion of joy, and most (if not all) of the post-launch development will be on cosmetic goofy nonsense that ensures that any small taste of immersion that was left is soundly scrapped off and tossed in the gutter. Ubisoft did not make AC Black Flag, a team of skilled and passionate people made it. Those people dont work at Ubisoft anymore, the few that do no longer get to be passionate, only using their skills to do what they are told to do by less qualified fools. Making a game is an ART. And Ubisoft doesnt make art. Why do people keep paying them AAA prices to make "free + microtransactions" mobile game crap? Follow the names in the credits, not the corporate logo on a start screen.
When I was younger I played a game called "Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales" and it was amazing. You could either buy your ships or just capture them, any ships, there was no ships off limits, you got to choose what flag you wanted to sail under which either gave you lots of enemies or lots of allies. You could walk around the cities and recruit people and everything, it was like Black Flag before Black Flag. That is what I wanted and damn near expected from Skull and Bones. I believe it came out in 2006 and was part of a series of games. You could even capture ships and assign people from your crew to be the captain and they would follow you around and help you in battles with their ship (and spec in their talent tree as well as your own)
@@nickmelfi3467 I believe that was the first one in the "spiritual series" and the one I mentioned was the second one, or something like that, there were 2 or 3 in total
If this was supposed to be a realistic simulation of Pirate Age naval combat, I'd say our species screwed up by advancing technologies further. These badboys have far superior acceleration, speed, turning radius, and fire rate than current generation ships. 😂 Hell, even Space Pirate Captain Harlock aboard the Arcadia would be outmatched.
If you want a Pirate game, a good Pirate game, go grab "Pirates of the Carribean" by Bethesda from like 2003 or when it came out. The community has done an absolutely amazing job of modding that game, and while sure it will never be mistaken for any modern game, it is so well done.
@@k_-kq3ch I do like Carribean Hunt but it's just not as "big" as PotC. Especially with the Build Mod. But in terms of gameplay it's just as fun, yeah.
When I first heard about this game, I was so excited. I loved Sid Meier's Pirates (which I considered to be the best pirate game of all time). Now, after seeing the closed beta videos, I still consider Sid Meier's Pirates to be the best pirate game of all time.
I played the beta and it sucks ass it does not at all play like blackflag or rouge its fucking shit its like a mmo form 2003 and it lacks a reason to do anything
I cannot describe how stupid it is that that ancient janky game is still the best pirate game ever made. Companies: you know there's a demand go for it.
It just frustrates me! It was so EASY. Make a game out of the black flag part and they f*cked it. And the conclusion will be: "Lets not try this again, they dont want a pirate game!" And its... ahh! And to be honest I have no problem with the unrealistic weaponary but I understand people that have a problem with that. I m just angry! I didnt even need multiplayer. As a bonus maybe but singleplayer as a focus.
I don't understand how you're not bothered by the unrealistic weapory; Torpedoes, machine guns, flamethrowers: it's ridiculous. But even if you're not, there's so much else to be bothered about. The fact that you can pretty much not leave your ship, not even to eneter and raid other ships or to go on shore to cut trees, the cartoony bright colors of the ships, the strange models on the ships, the spikes...etc It's so terrible in so many ways. Skull & Bones has become such a chaotic, cheap looking, hyper arcady game that it has lost all of the things that made Black Flag appealing.
@@allonifrah3465 Yes Im bothered that I cant leave the ship or the farming system is trash and boarding is a cutscene and some ships looks ridiculous but the weaponry looks fun and that is for me more important. I dont like the torpedos but that is that. And I like Customizing my ship and so Im not really bothered by the skins and such. Some are ugly but that just happens sometimes. I understand the struggle though...
@@Inrikator Not being able to leave the ship, having to cut down trees from the ship's deck and boarding other ships only in brief cutscenes are obviously the worst handicaps this game has, but even if they fixed that the game would still be garbage on account of the ridiculous, unrealistic weaponry and the weird ugly, bright ships. I always thought the normal, conventional weapons and ammo types(plain cannons, swivel guns, fire barrels, round shot & chain shot) were alot of fun. I do think that AC:Black Flag was rather limited in that respect and could have benefited from more weapons and ammo types. But they could have done that by adding more, realistic (or at least historically credible) weapons and ammo types: Grape shot, heated shot, Forward facing chase cannons, backward facing cannons, actual harpoon guns..etc. That would've been much better than adding machine guns and torpedoes. They could have further upgraded the game by adding more weapons you can use as your playable character (In the scenario where you CAN leave your ship and fight onm land or on deck) such as: Throwabale handgrenades (Black metal balls with fuses), muskets, many different types of swords, daggers...etc As for the look of the ships: The realistic look of the ships in AC: Black Flag was amazing and one of the things I enjoyed most about the game. Made it feel like an authentic pirate experience. The fact that now, in SaB, the ships look like carnival attractions is terrible. It makes it look even less serious than Sea of Thieves. If people want "fun, arcady, high octane" games, they should go for fortnight; Entirely fictional concepts. Most people who were initially enthusiastic about SaB, just wanted a realistic, open world, online pirate game. AC;Black Flag, but much bigger, much better and online with many other players and crews. Keep the arcady, cartoony, brightly colored, torpedo and machine gun totting nonsense in kiddy games like Fortnite
@@allonifrah3465 I wont argue with you. Yes, historical weapons could have been enough but as I previously stated I dont mind some of the unrealistic weapons. For me it looks fun. A lot of the skins they showed are a ugly and a bit too flashy for my taste but more options in customisation in weaponry and skins are for me always a win. It means more individuality and that is fun for me. The acardy gameplay is what grinds my gears the most. The gathering trees from the deck, the cutscene boarding, etc. That is what doesnt look like fun. That is what makes me upset. That the gameplay doesnt look like fun.
@@allonifrah3465 I also hate that i have seen that in this game when you succcesfully board a ship you get 50% bigger hull points. I HATE when companies try to mask arcade games THIS badly.
Been trying to find a game that could scratch the itch of Pirates of the Caribbean Online and was originally excited because of this game. Then I realized how...unrealistic they made the ship combat. I just wanted a more diverse Blackflag ship experience with different ships, and expanded combat system, but I guess I am not getting that huh.
If your ok with a more cartoony art style, I would suggest Sea of Thieves. While it might not be as diverse as Black Flag and there is really no way to upgrade your weapons or ships, you can have some of the greatest naval battles in that game. Plus it is a PvPvE game, so you can do something else if you don’t feel like fighting
Black Flag reminded me of a modern version of Sid Meier's Pirates... which I fondly remember from the NES days. It is absolutely a game that needs to be made. Black Flag without the assasin part and a more felshed out kind of rpg and leveling side
Imagine an open world pirate game realistic grounded but with some classic fantasy tropes misteries like sea monsters, ghost ships etc towards late game. With gameplay out of the ship, exploring islands and fighting on foot, boarding etc with an NPC system like Middle Earth: Shadow of War, where you can recruit crew members. Even maybe upgrading fortresses that act like your base. With some space to trolling like Sea of Thieves where you can sneak into other players ships
Black flag, remove the assassins add some fantasy spice. That's really all they had todo. Of course make some changes cause what works for black flag wont completly work for anything else, But black flag is the perfect base they had to work on... but they took over 10 years todo everything they could to ignore black flag and everything they did. So much for innovation The gaming industry is way to obsessed with reinventing the wheel when they dont have too
@@Pepe-pq3om a pirate game thats not an actual cartoon? with real combat and maybe a seasoning of grittyness and realism? sea of thieves is good but its not the type of pirate game people want en masse. plus supporting companies that launch half finished games (even if they try to fix it) is for silly gooses who are the reason everything is live service nowadays.
ubisoft in a nutshell: r6 - ruined in years after release for honor - ruined in months after release skull and bones - ruined in development 7 years before release
For any of you confused, the Flamethrower ship is most likely inspired by Greek Fire which was basically 14th century flamethrowers primary used on ships by the Byzantine Empire which have saved them multiple times from neighboring invasion through the Aegean and Black seas. The firework launcher was most likely a emplaced Hwacha from the Imjin wars, the Hwacha was not only used on land but its capability to fire down explosive arrows and fire arrows were much deadlier on Japanese wooden ships and transports. Most of these weapons would likely be effective in some way or form but eventually I'm pretty sure the Dutch and French crews already standardized at least having like a few hundred buckets that could be used in case of a fire in real life.
I think there is a lot of people like myself that wanted more than just the Ship combat aspect because I knew that would get boring. I wanted raiding forts and small settlements boarding ships and having your own pirate base on Nassau that you can upgrade and explore the city do duels, gamble, Drink at a bar, Fist fight, hunt, Recruit new crew and accept bounties. I also think a system where you are competing against AI pirate crews in a sort of ranking where the higher up you get the better equipment becomes available because the better crews get priority over you because they have a system that means more notorious pirates get tribute. They could also have a kind of online mode where a pirate hunter can spawn into your game to try and kill you or something.
@@Dark_Darkonix I've never played it mate but I have heard others mention it was a good/great game before. Curious why they never made a newer version because it seems popular and I think CIV is pretty shit.
This game has most of everything you said go watch TH-cam video about it this guy isn't telling you what you can actually do I have played the only thing you can't do is board ships or sword fights but everything else you said you can do it
The problem is that they listen. They've been listening to feedback for years, and unfortunately players are giving them bad feedback. Last year, a lot of people wanted to have less PvP and more PVE elements. As a result, they've taken away most of the PvP...
Im positive there's like politics going on over at Ubisoft coz it's just too heartbreaking to think devs are producing such hot garbage with the full support of the company.
They absolutely are. Because all the publisher cares about is potential income. This game looks like it has the requisite cosmetic microtransactions that come standard with all Ubisoft games now _and_ confirmed loot boxes. That's all the publishers wanted to hear. They dont care what the games about as long as they think they'll make money off it.
Pretty sure nobody associated with this title EVER had an interest in an age of sail game. They wanted a first person shooter with ships... World of Pirateships
I would of preferred the older Skull and Bones version. The one that they said was going to have a story mode with multiplayer and mini matches that you could play with friends ,and other players. Plus that seemed so neat.
I remember seeing the first gameplay which stopped my excitement, I wanted to see a "realistic" style of Sea of Theives open world type with AC Black Flag type locations and visuals. I saw it as a PVP match COD style. rush the ships shoot them down fast and hard and hunt the other player. And i felt like i was right.
It would be awesome to have a realistic Sea of Thieves. Crewing a ship together with my friends and having to work together to manage the sails and other stuff is some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming.
the people who made Skull and Bones are the same people who enjoyed the 'real world' aspect of the AC series and made sure it was the focal point of the movie. related to each other, if nothing else.
They certainly added more features in the game. But they are not fleshed out. I remember on a comment i left back in the day of the first reveal and also the initial downfall of everyone’s expectations is that all they had to do was look into games like sid meier’s pirates or sea dogs or potc by akella and published by bethesda. Both of the aforementioned games literally had it all. Choosing a pirate life or a letter of marque to join one of the colonial powers. You could be a merchant or you could be a smuggler selling contraband. You could berth ships, explore dungeons filled with pirates and loot while also having a chance to encounter cursed skeletons. You could enter houses and steal loot, explore the islands’ inner jungles. The sailing, at least in POtC was hyper realistic with long drawn naval battles and amazing boarding realism where if you were boarding a smaller vessel you only had to clear out 1 maybe 2 decks of enemies before reaching the captain’s headquarters with a gigantic stash of gold and the ship’s storage, while on larger ships you would have to clear 3 or 4 decks. Your crew would turn mutinous if you failed to divide the plunder soon enough. You had skills such as leadership, fencing, sailing and a massive amount of ships divided into 7 tiers depending on size, speed, firepower, cargo capacity from measly tartanes with no cannons all the way to 4 decked ships of the line with a hundred guns. I wish we got something like that with awesome gritty dark graphics. Oh well
11 years later AC Black Flag is still the blueprint of what an open world pirate RPG should be like. And it's an ASSASSINS CREED game first and foremost. That main menu theme still gives me goosebumps when I boot up the game. They had the perfect formula.
I think another huge thing that ruins it... is the cosmetics, had they gone for the gritty, dirty pirate look like the original trailer, it would look like a better game. Instead they have to go for the colourful cosmetics and silly looking ship designs... no make it more realistic that's what the fan base wanted, like black flag... not Fortnite looking ships for kids.
I really enjoyed sid meiers pirates, the old ancient one on pc, where you could board the enemy ship and duel the other captain, manage your crew numbers and food, cannons and so on. Im gonna replay it, thanks skull and bones for reminding me of a fun game
Myself and everyone I’ve ever spoken to about this game wanted above else 3 things. 1. Black Flag-esque ship physics and combat. 2. Large open world to explore 3. Chance to play as your own pirate captain. How did they fuck that so badly?
It's tough to fathom how Ubisoft mismanaged this decade-long project into a disaster. 10 years ago, it all seemed obvious: make a narrative-driven pirate adventure game replete with (some semblance of) historical accuracy and exploration. Simple, right? Alas... Alas.
I was so hyped for this game when it was announced then it was in development hell forever. I played the closed beta and it was okay, but it is disappointing that it seems there is no on foot combat. Boarding ships just takes you to a loot screen and there is very little in terms of landing on islands like just a small area to maybe dig up treasure.
The Golden age if Piracy is from 1630ish to 1718, in 1721 key figures like Blackbeard, Ben Hornigold, Black Sam Bellamy etc these guys where all dead already...
I don't understand why this is so difficult for them, They could have just made a single player RPG Pirate tale with realistic history, and graphics mixed with mysticism and legends, I would have given it a multi origin story for whatever background one chose for replay value, choices being Privateer (you have steady paying work for the crown until a pirate attack changed your life either for revenge or for personal glory you make a career change), Stole away (poor and lacking any other options after being framed for a crime you didn't commit or one that you did depending on your whim, you hop on the nearest ship to escape but it turns out to be one with Pirates), Shipwrecked survivor, Marooned former Captain (A mutiny left you stranded until ingenuity bid you set sail once more either due to being a good captain or a bad one, The Sailor ( at home amid the waters making an honest or a dishonest living you choose to follow pirates or be chosen by them. The companions would be detailed with their own personal stories and missions for earning their loyalty (Bioware/ Bethesda esq.), Plenty of Romance and hookup options (Witcher 2&3) might even throw in a marriage or two (fable/ Skyrim/Starfield) you're a pirate you should do what you want when you want to do it, Land gameplay is a must, sword fights, with plenty of kill cam shots, treasure hunting, burring a crew members head as punishment, walking the plank punishment, scrubbing the deck, pirate songs galore robbery in general, seizing towns or forts also would be good, third person is a must with first person optional for those that love it, customizable characters, ships, and possible hideouts or islands, engaging story with historical and mystical legend is a must, option to become a cursed pirate such as vampire or werewolf or mermaid for lack of a better option due to the legends but still realistic, ghosts and so forth should be among many sea monsters, legendary ships and both the British navy and Spanish navy both on your trail or trying to recruit you. Become King/Queen of The Pirates or The Bane Of The Pirates your choice dialogue options and overall reaction and tone of story progression, potential for betrayal from you or your crew including lovers on the high seas, Sorry about the fantasy game rant, been dreaming of an ideal pirate game since Black Flag without all the animus stuff. If only right.
@@I_Am_Wasabi_Man All it required was imagination and they are in the field of creation, if they didn't have the ability to be creative then they shouldn't be in the field they are in.
Guarantee there will be a 10 dollar battle pass right after release with ship cosmetics, emotes, clothing etc. They've butchered this game trying to make it a live service multi-player cash grab, all we wanted was an updated black flag we could play with friends.
Is it too much to ask for a pirate game where your ships damage is realistic in the sense where a cannon ball hits, that spot has a hole. If you’re hit below your water line you’re sending someone to fix it & if you’re out of resources you better find land quickly. Is it too much to ask for (I’ll even take procedurally generated) islands with treasure & tribes & things to pillage. For you to become a wanted person & even if it’s just PVE, for a wanted level, with different crew with different personalities that occasionally try to enact mutiny? Apparently the answer is yes.
The trailers for SkullnBone show all the important things that would have made this game good. This means they know what the players wanted, but are no longer up for it.
The best game I’ve played that I expected skull and bones to be similar too was mad max the customization on your car in that game was amazing. Non of the weapons felt out of place for the game everything, you added or removed for your car had downsides and upsides and the freedom to be able to leave your car anywhere on the map made the game really feel like black flag but with cars in an apocalypse instead of ships in the Caribbean
Maybe just maybe.... game publishers should STOP intervening with the creative direction of the games that the game developing studios make.... maybe publishers should listen less to marketing teams, and more to researchers and community managers. Maybe just maybe they should realise that making a game is not hard, and games shouldn't be treated as a consumable product, but as a piece of art, a story book, and an experience orionted around the player, not their wallets.
@@reececaldwell722lol exactly, all that bitching and screaming and at the end of day they are still buying not only the shitty games, but spending twice the price of it in microtransaction
As a sailor, a complaint i have is that the boats are travelling far too quickly for the stated knots. Its ridiculous. Play Ultimate Admiral if you want realistic sail combat
An example of how a good idea can be ruined due to poor execution. Honestly, Ubisoft knows the game is terrible, they hired several streamers to make sponsored content. Probably the only reason to release this game should be agreements and contracts. Ubisoft has branches in several countries and receives many tax benefits from those countries. Ubisoft Singapore appears to have a large stake in this project. When you receive a fortune in tax benefits you need to deliver something, even if it is a bad product.
I think we're all incredibly disappointed. Even the Beta launch was a complete mess. Every time I see Skull & Bones news, it just makes me yearn for what could have been.
Wasn't Ubi making AC Odyssey during this same period 2013-18? Odyssey had a perfectly serviceable naval combat system, boarding and seamless environmental transitions. It's amazing they managed to bork this as bad as they have.
Lately, I feel like it all depends on the management of the team making a game and employees. And their quality is what defines the outcome. A lot of terrible games lately too... So, I think it means one thing only. The question I have to them is why they hire so many horrible people who do not like gaming. Kinda like comics industry that was once made of people who loved comics to now being a joke. Then the movie industry followed with atrocious preaching, societal modern problems replacing exciting stories and heroes.
Didnt they mention at one point how multiple titles in the same franchise are made in paralel by separate branches? If dev set 1 from branch A made Odysey while dev set 2 from branch B plopped out Valhalla left the studio since, theres a decent chance that dev set 3 branch A has 0 members of 1.
The fact that they shows ships sailing next to big cliff and very close to other ships from the start should tell you everything about what level of realism was intended.
The problem with these games at this time in history, is the EXACT image of what these characters appeared as despite any historical evidence or accounts and without any objective or end goal.
The very 1st clip is exactly what I thought after I watched actual gameplay. You can’t even leave the helm or dock your ship. Idk why I’m disappointed, should of known.
I cannot believe anyone expected this to be a good game. It's called skull and bones man. The most generic name you could think of. And it never really even looked promising. All those cutscenes are super vague and generic. And not memorable whatsoever.
Skull and Bones is a classic case of missed identity. It simply doesnt know what it wants to be. Is it and arcade naval combat game? Is it an open world naval exploration/survival game? The corporate overlords are likely pulling the strings and shifting the game to the new meta. They want it to be a live service so they can monetize it. They want to sell cosmetics and eventually expansions, but you cant have expansions if its just a simple arcade combat game.
I have a buddy who worked on the project so I heard some gossips over the years and sometime hanged out with some of them. I definitely don't think it lacked funding from what I understand. My personal guess is that it was just too big of a project for the particular conditions of the singapore studio. They made a advantageous deal with the government to get subsidies at the condition they release this big game and hire locals iirc. So the team was mostly expats from France and Canada managing people from all around the world at relatively high salaries compare to the inexperienced locals. Expats typically don't stick around too long and alot of them got poached by other video games companies that probably enjoyed similar deals. Thr management was changed a few times too. After a few years of developement, it's not the same faces anymore and it's like starting all over again. They all started this during the "game as a service" trend, which is probably why there's a bunch of weird shit on the boats. A few years back it might have been fine, but now it's a much harder sell I guess.
00:28 I figured out that the song is a cover/remix of "Seal - Crazy" thanks to the lyrics, but who sings this version? where can I find this song??!?!?! plz thx
It should be illegal to have such good looking cgi trailers or commercial and the game doesn’t hold up to it at all. I’ve just come to expect, if it’s from Ubisoft, blizzard, activision, EA, and now Bethesda joins them after 76 and starfield were such clusterfucks, just don’t believe a single word they say and only buy the games once they go on sale if you really want to get them. Life fucking sucks nowadays.
Just in case anyone's looking for more reasons not to get this thing: I participated in the closed beta. The game installed BattlEye alongside itself, an anti-cheat software. I had spent maybe 10-15 minutes in the game when BattlEye hard crashed my PC with a kernel heap corruption bluescreen. Rebooted, uninstalled the game, and (of course) had to manually uninstall BattlEye afterwards.
Just curious how would you work out boarding in an MMO when you board a ship and 6 other players swing by and destroy the ship you are boarding, do your guys die or do they just teleport back onto your ship and end your boarding process or do you make it so other players can't attack while you are boarding?
@@Treebeerdz If you get third-partied while boarding, tough luck. Boarding should be a natural extension of the gameplay, not a "process" that has different rules. So yeah, first sentence.
lmao, your ass is still delusional, forget about the defective edition? rockstar removing 50% of the cars available in gta 5 and put it behind a paywall?. yeah no. stop the cap.
Hey Gamedevs and publishers, what we want is basically 'sid meier's pirates' with Black Flag gameplay, historical accurate and modern graphics. Not whatever this shit is. Is that so damn hard to get ? Imo only reason they did this is so they could make it 'a live service game' and sell you shit in the cash shop ....
What i don't get is the fanboys jumping on the game before it's even released, before they even know what the game really is. Here's an idea: relax until the game releases, don't pre-order, watch gameplay footage when it releases, if you like it buy it, if it sucks don't buy it and the next time that game company thinks about releasing a game they'll think twice and take their time.
All they had to do was delete the “assassin” half of Black Flag and add multiplayer.
Not really. That would have been underwhelming
@@phoenixzappa7366dude, this franchise used to mass produce annual games with minimal changes and make shootload of money every single time. I doubt fans will feel that it is underwhelming that time.
And without multiplayer
Obviously you have 0 experience is sales or entertainment industry, if they did this the game would have failed even worse
@@leshuncross9238I honestly doubt it dude 😂
Seeing the full auto cannon actually made my jaw drop
literally me, man, literally me
Both good things and bad things do that, what do you think? I think this is garbage. You can't even have semi auto cannon so full auto is just mentally insane
I think it's supposed to be a Hwacha, which did actually get used on ships by the Koreans during the Imjin wars.
They use hwacha on ship? I thought it was land based artillery, similiar to katyusha
@@vlexonkol8466 It was mainly used on land but they also used it on ship to land. With the ships firing on the shore ahead of landing parties. It may have been used in ship to ship combat but i don't know enough about Korean naval warfare in the 16th century to confirm.
What we wanted: the best pirate game ever. Full of all the tropes.
What we realistically expected: Black flag/Rogue with more customisation, and probably a lot of cosmetic DLC.
What we're getting: Fantasy boat mobile game gone large. And probably a lot of cosmetic DLC.
if you want a really good pirate game, go play sea of thieves
@@leinaD051 Nah, just replay Black Flag.
@@leinaD051 I would rather play mobile games than that
@@HighPriestessGabagool609 once you get a good player in open crew (best sloop open crew) you will have fun
@@NforNivuran I sooo f*cking doubt that mate
There really should be a game award for "biggest divergence from what the customer wanted". Ubisoft would win every time.
There is. It's called "The Whale award" and it's awarded to the company every time people buy into their garbage.
They would have serious competition: Blizzard, Bethesda, et consortes😂 But yes, they would probably win🤣
I feel bad for the good side of the devs who wasted time making this game all for no one to like it lol. The directors/management are straight mongoloids
@@LastDrakkar82 I hate Blizzards disregard for their own playerbase so much
@@JerrySpoonpuncher - Blizzard is a bunch of a$$holes, but Ubi is a bunch of woke m0r0ns... And a$$holes.
An entirely new genre, the PSS: Pirate Ship Shooter.
Equip your ship with the GAU-8 Avenger, and proceed to set sail not on water, but on shell casings.
Don't forget your Healing Class Ships; & cook your sea monster meat, 'till it's done
you cook sea monster meat in SOT and board up the same hole 30 times with a plank of wood that barely covers the hole? :)@@Xion_Toshiro
Fat guy with a cigar sitting behind a large desk was once told that the moneybags\kids loved rapid fire and that they needed to keep time to kill as low as possible.
I don’t get why developers think sail boats need to be machine gun speed boats. The slower speed is easier to code and adds so much more impact in getting off broadsides that take a minute to reload vs seconds. It builds anticipation. I’d rather have one hit sinks that take ten minutes to acquire versus 5 minutes of barraging targets
they prolly target the tik tok generation of players that need the highest ammount of action per second. :D
@@hanswurst-ej3qj 100%
There's a reason games like World of Warships make reloading take a long time, the speed makes it so much more tactical as you have to think about bracketing your opponent and account for their speed and angle.
HMS Warthog goes brrrtttt
while i agree with most, i don't think a slower speed on a boat is easier to code. Its literally just 'when w pressed, move x units forward'
when your pirate ship fires better and faster then 21st century Navy ships
As someone who is damn near obsessed with the age of sail, disappointment is a massive understatement. 17th and 18th century sea battles were so incredibly epic with giant behemoths slowly riding through the waves before opening a thunderstorm of cannons ripping the hull and men apart. Hell even in sea of thieves, which is basically a cartoon, engagements can last HOURS if both the crews on both sides are competent which makes them so memorable and rewarding even if you lose. Instead Ubisoft treats us like a bunch of 10 year olds whos attention spans couldnt possibly last longer than five minutes.
Amen Brother! Exactly how I feel about this. And in their trailers they made us believe that we will get the best pirate experience ever. Now we have autocanons, torpedos and flamethrowers. Biggest letdown in my gaming history!
Ubisoft doesn't treat you like a 10 year old, but they seem to have decided that you (we) are not the target audience. They hope the 10 year olds will like rocket launchers and machine gun swivel turret cannon and cringe dance moves in hubs and firework emojies, etc.
I felt the same and while Age of Pirates II is still a thing, that game shows its age so much at this point.
Naval Action was like this when it first came out. It was absolutely packed with historical ships that acted realistic enough. I haven’t played in years so I don’t know if it kept its player base, but worth a look before buying cause it sounds exactly like what you want
Ever played Naval Action back when it was popular?
How did the devs not understand that all we wanted was a realistic sea of thieves, or a black flag minus assassins. not a sixteenth century battleship arcade.
The concept you’re describing doesn’t sell enough battle pass
@@alexphelps7042 you think this hot garbage is gonna sell at all? Even if it's free on game pass I'm not gonna touch it. Looks boring as hell
ArcheAge. o7
I’d love to have an immersive game where you can run around your ship and do repairs. Fill up holes and pump out water or using buckets. Move ammunition to the guns, running to the medical room and accidentally injecting your patient with eggs or fentanyl. I feel like I’m describing Barotruama.
@@alexphelps7042World of Warships will beg to differ.
Machine guns, flame throwers, lasers and 30 knot propulsion independent of the wind is exactly what Age of Sail gaming enthusiasts have wanted; throw in Ubisoft's legendary $50 underwear skins and you've surely got a classic in the making
Heel, I just wanted Naval Action, without the 2 hour travel times.
yup LMAO
You unlock a seagull napalm strike & eagle orbital vsat after lvl 75
I saw the mg and was flabbergasted. Utterly ridiculous
Forgot to mention the torpedos.
This breaks my heart. I spoke with a dev, when the Ubisoft forum still existed. They were so excited about making a historically accurate pirate game. They wanted to incorporate aspects from “Pirates of the Burning Sea” where you could sail the Caribbean, and then you had ports and each port had it’s own resources that you could cap and craft with.
This… this is garbage
This is what I thought it would be. PotBS 2 with non-instanced boarding.
If that had been accurate I would have certainly played it.
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It sounds like Ubisoft has a terrible history of being entirely corporate -driven projects to the point where a few powerful higher-ups will disregard what the playerbase is calling for solely to force developers to implement their own ideas. They've been trying and failing to add RPG elements to all their titles for the past decade and it's embarrassing. Nobody is asking for this
100% agreed but if it was historically accurate, the only women in it would be low rent doxie's in some Caribbean dive town. They wouldn't be anywhere near a ship and certainly not Captaining a crew. mary read, anne bonny, madame cheng, and grace o'malley dont count as historically accurate. Cheng and o'malley never went to sea with crews. Bonney and Read were dumbass teenage girls that were passed around by a low rent crew of coastal hugging drunks that robbed fishermen. They were like a pack of cigarettes in a foxhole passed around from man to man. So much so that they were both pregnant when captured. I am sick to death of these woke a**holes ruining historical gaming.
That's not a machine gun
That's an auto cannon.
I think thats supposed to be a Hwacha, its still goofy though.
@@Homnicidal_doktoromfg it is, and it's not even hard to get realistic sound for those too
Auto Cannon in the 1700s 😂
They might as well bring modern guns into the game 😂
@@Homnicidal_doktor Definitely looked like it. Not sure if they were used on ship during that period though.
Ubisoft: we need more time, sorry for the delay
Players: Maybe we are going to get the game we wanted, a truly pirate experience without Full automatic AR 15 canons and actual battles
Ubisoft: We are back with something actually better.
Players: Black Flag?
Ubisoft: Better yet, Sails with Neon lights so you can get a full mid night club experience in the middle of the ocean with your virgin friends
LOL😂😂😂
You should look up AR15 before saying it
@@denmarkball7728 *fully automatic AR-15 that shoots high capacity magazine-clips. And then people are wondering "how the hell we got torpedoes in 18th century?".
As someone who lives in Singapore, we are way behind in terms of catching up in the gaming industry. Even if Ubisoft SG has funding from its other peers, they're not going to develop a good game. Most Singapore game companies are known for working with Tencent and getting funding from China.
@@denmarkball7728 seeing that you just used it, I'm gonna assume you did the same thing.
Ubisoft is the king of making mobile game slop for consoles and PC. Its genuinely impressive.
Ubisoft has sucked for over a decade at this point
Having been a part of the past insider's program, I can confirm that they have made it worse between test sessions. They expelled me from the last closed session about 6 months ago, so I don't really know the current state of the game. However, I have reasons to fear that we'll encounter the same issues as with The Day Before, only this time it will be backed by Ubisoft's substantial financial resources. My advice is to steer clear of pre-orders (as is the case with highly anticipated games; in recent years, they have increasingly failed to deliver on their promises).
Substantial financial resources? Ubisoft has lost sooooo much money just from this piece of shit game. Let alone their other titles where they are pissing off their community. I wouldnt be suprised if some time this year i hear that epic games or microsoft buys out ubisoft
@@xodiac-gg7049 for now they didn't exactly "lost" money in this title, they "invested", that makes a slight difference. Not to mention that they received singaporean subsidies for their studio there. Besides, being bought by Epic, why not, but Microsoft has just won a 20 month battle with regulatory authorities over acquiring Activision / Blizzard, I think it's highly unlikely for them to start it all over again for Ubi.
I havent play the game, but that rapid fire. I already forsee the disaster.
Even the normal cannons reload in 3 seconds.
It looks terrible but easily fixed. Ships in those days used to fire 1 at a time because those huge 36 pound cannons could tear a ship apart with the recoil
@@teddypicker8799 neither of these ships are even nearly large enough to have a 36 pounder gun.
@pyroparagon8945 false the size of the ship is irrelevant to a pirate you use what's available.
@teddypicker8799 more cannon weight = less booty and slower speeds, both very important for piracy. Also it'll list your wee boat matie, it's too heavy
6:58 honestly my favorite thing with the boarding was the ability to just jump off your ship, sneak over via the water, and climb on.
This way, you could leverage AC's stealth to wipe out the crew and take the ship uncontested.
I was really looking forward to this game. The torpedoes and rockets are enough to let me save my money for something else.
sea of thieves is actually what a pirate game should be
second this with the other guy just get sea of thieves when its on sale or something lol
@@leinaD051 Sea of thieves isnt bad but it gets exhausting to deal with other players in it very quickly.
@@leinaD051 Nah, it's a Multiplayer game and I want a decent Singleplayer Pirate game.
I'm playing World of Warships and War Thunder Naval right now. Exactly this but more realistic XD
Why is it so hard to just realize people want a single player that can walk around, give orders, fight and openly sail. Skill based is hard for some to understand
It should have been a game where we create our own pirate, start off small, build a crew, and have ship and sword fights while exploring the caribbean or asian isles (which was very active with piracy as well).
You do make your own pirate in this game you also start with a small sloop and have to work your way up
Bannerlord with pirates
It's definitely catered to the casual player that also is about as complicated as a goldfish. 😅
Like Sea of Thieves but with better graphics?
I played beta and when I got the full game I was extremely disappointed I thought there be more content things to do in the full game but there wasn't I thought there be more ships and islands and everything it's a small map with nothing to do after two days your you've done everything I thought full game would have bigger nso more stuff anyways I'm trying to get a refund but Xbox said I can't cause my beta time is over the time they allow they treat the beta as if I had already bought it then it's ridiculously
Pure greed. They saw how popular the idea was and wanted to make a multi-player game out of it so they could bleed that popularity dry with microtransactions etc.
It would’ve been fine if they put actual effort in to making it fun. Imagine commanding a fleet (or even a single ship in the vein of blackwake) with friends or alone, being able to leave the ship to explore cities or search for treasure, getting into naval and land battles, boarding others ships, I can go on and on.
If it were fun and well made, it’d be fine to have that stuff. It’s the fact that it’s just an extremely stripped-down AC4 with zero soul put into it to be used as a cash grab that makes it awful.
you will not be missed in game. thanks. have a nice day
@@lucascapelaosick burn dude.
they forgot to add the fun. now NO ONE will play it and it wont make any money.
dont worry. the people with money (us gamers) ultimately have all the power.
@@thalion3410 Yeah but unfortunately we also have all the brain rot, so I expect this game to sell. Poorly, but still sell.
All they had to do is remove hooded guy.
Upgrade graphic.
And add multi player mode or single mode.
Skull and Bones is the perfect example of over engineering. I was just playing AC Black Flag a few weeks ago and it’s still perfect. I still was spending more time than necessary sailing around and getting into fights and jumping off the ship to grab a collectible. That’s what I want. As realistic as possible pirate RPG sticking as close to history as possible cause guess what? The history is actually just as interesting as something someone could dream up. If anyone wants a good book, I’m listening to the republic of pirates on audible. It’s fantastic
It really is, I still play black flag from time to time. It just works so well. Everyone I know who played black flag loves it, it was truly lightning in a bottle unfortunately.
@@Bpinator there’s only a few games that me and one of my friends have really gotten into together one was Arkham city and one was black flag and we just played the shit out of that. I haven’t played anymore cause I got distracted with the cyberpunk 2077 updates but I need to go back and finish it up
I go back and play a.c. black flag every year or 2. it's the best one in the franchise
@@ciretaorg this was the first time I had played it since it came out years ago and I couldn’t believe how well it holds up. It really just sucks you in and you want to do all the things even though you’ve beaten it once already. I need to go back and finish. I got distracted after the cyberpunk 2077 update came out and started playing the metro games after that
Black Flag stands as the best "Realistic" pirate game.
Sea of theives is way to cartoony and team focused. But Black Flag Really Gets it right. All the future AC games that tried to copy them could not compete, because you CANNOT COMPETE AGAINST A FUCKING CANNON UBISOFT.
What I believe is that you have an idea as the core and build a game around it, having the idea influence everything while making the game. Some have "fun" as the core, others "adventure" or even "multiplayer/coop"
Skull and bones feels like "monetization" as the core, and they built the game around that... to me, it looks like they thought, "How can we make players spend money for this?" Every time they made something for the game
I disagree, I think initially it was meant to be a fun and realistic pirate game based on what I've heard from back post black flag, but as the game has taken longer and longer to make and times have changed ubisofts priorities changed to make as much money as possible from this devhell game
0:44 I was today years old when I learned pirate ships had autocannons.
I played Black Flag many years ago and finished the game for like my 1000th time a week or two ago, I love pirates and have loved them since I was incredibly young, I grew up with pirates of the caribbean and Peter Pan (my favourite character was captain hook as well). When this game's trailer came out (the first one) I was extremely happy, I had hopes that this could be the ultimate pirate game, where you can go around the caribbean pillaging ships, escaping from storms, boarding enemy ships, have awesome brutal swordfights between your crew and the enemy or even manage your own crew, select a quartermaster or decide who goes where and what they do... I wanted something realistic, I wanted to be, to feel, to act like a pirate captain.
Then, everything went cold and nothing was spoken about this game, I still had hopes that it would come out and that I would finally be able to do everything I thought and hoped, but as I watched the videos, trailers and whatnot, I became disolusioned, nothing, absolutely nothing that I had hoped for became reality. You don't play as a pirate, you play as the ship itself like another comment said... This is not what the fanbase wanted, this is not what people believed or waited for, this is a completely waste of development and of a pirate game. Even the ship to ship combat doesn't seem fun, it'll eventually be whoever has the weirdest and more random idiotic weapon or how much time you clicked the green thing to collect things and upgrade your ship to look like a baby was told to make a pirate ship.
Anyways, this game is not what it was supposed to be and I only wish Ubisoft sees this video or at least LISTENS to the fanbase and realise the mistale they've done and fix it. Sure the game might be delayed more but I believe it'll be better to wait more time for the game to reach what it should be.
Right, I m with you
The game is essentially fully funded by Singapore if Ubisoft don’t release the game they lose all the funding. The game at this point has no hope of making its money back, yet it also can’t get the axe. So it’s stuck in permanent dev hell.
Not reading allat 😂💀💀
Because Ubisoft is a trustworthy company that always delivers a product that is 100% accurate to what they tell you it will be like
krappa
at least it isnt EA
@@Guardian582 that's a low bar to set for a multi-million dollar game making company
@@ladahieno2382 true but the bar is still there since alot of EA(the company not the 'access') games are freaking loaded with 'nolan sorento' ideas
And people are still hyped for Xdefiant lol I can’t wait to see the bad reviews pile up lolololol
Literally ALL they had to do was grab Black Flag, remove the assassins creed part of it, make it co-op/multiplayer, add a semi-interesting story and call it a day.
I’m simultaneously glad and sad to be vindicated on this. When this was announced all of my friends were so excited and hopeful and I was the one person who knew with certainty that Ubi wouldn’t deliver.
my main issue is the loss in scale, the boats looks tiny
I also appreciate that it started looking worse over the years. Very promising.
I was definitely hoping for an open world black flag like game with real boarding and character control, and able to have any size ship if the time (start off with a sloop and work your way up to a ship of the line or something). Between the apparent loot boxes, the weird colour schemes on ships, and the seeming lack of everything else I was hoping for, I won’t be spending any money on this game until I see some stellar reviews on a fully released game. Ubisoft really needs to get its shit together.
We wanted something more casual, we expected it to be more like Naval Action and AC Black Flag.
but lo and behold we get world of tanks converted into pirates.
World of Pirate Ships
"Lo and behold" :)
Thank you lol@@latestgreatest5116
if the game released in 2020 probably he would be like world of warships lmao, they just add up walking in the outpost and etc a lot of menus and black screens ...
Ship combat looks like World of Warships with those healthbars
Perfect example of why I hate everything about modern AAA multiplayer titles. If its a singleplayer game, I allow myself to get hopeful sometimes. The moment I hear its heavily multiplayer focused, I stop paying it any attention because I already know its going to be hot garbage thats overpriced, more focused on graphic metrics than gameplay, it will have no soul or passion of joy, and most (if not all) of the post-launch development will be on cosmetic goofy nonsense that ensures that any small taste of immersion that was left is soundly scrapped off and tossed in the gutter.
Ubisoft did not make AC Black Flag, a team of skilled and passionate people made it. Those people dont work at Ubisoft anymore, the few that do no longer get to be passionate, only using their skills to do what they are told to do by less qualified fools.
Making a game is an ART. And Ubisoft doesnt make art. Why do people keep paying them AAA prices to make "free + microtransactions" mobile game crap? Follow the names in the credits, not the corporate logo on a start screen.
When I was younger I played a game called "Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales" and it was amazing. You could either buy your ships or just capture them, any ships, there was no ships off limits, you got to choose what flag you wanted to sail under which either gave you lots of enemies or lots of allies. You could walk around the cities and recruit people and everything, it was like Black Flag before Black Flag. That is what I wanted and damn near expected from Skull and Bones. I believe it came out in 2006 and was part of a series of games. You could even capture ships and assign people from your crew to be the captain and they would follow you around and help you in battles with their ship (and spec in their talent tree as well as your own)
That was a great game. I think it released under original exbox as pirates of the carribean. Phenominal game.
@@nickmelfi3467 I believe that was the first one in the "spiritual series" and the one I mentioned was the second one, or something like that, there were 2 or 3 in total
Thats what we wanted too, with todays resources.
If this was supposed to be a realistic simulation of Pirate Age naval combat, I'd say our species screwed up by advancing technologies further. These badboys have far superior acceleration, speed, turning radius, and fire rate than current generation ships. 😂
Hell, even Space Pirate Captain Harlock aboard the Arcadia would be outmatched.
If you want a Pirate game, a good Pirate game, go grab "Pirates of the Carribean" by Bethesda from like 2003 or when it came out. The community has done an absolutely amazing job of modding that game, and while sure it will never be mistaken for any modern game, it is so well done.
💯💯💯💯
Or Sid Meyers Pirates
Caribbean hunt is the same game as this but better in everyway and it's literally a mobile game
@@k_-kq3ch I do like Carribean Hunt but it's just not as "big" as PotC. Especially with the Build Mod. But in terms of gameplay it's just as fun, yeah.
Are you joking?
That pirate ship with machine-gun part caught me off guard. I never expecting such a thing.
Even the trailer was looking like "put a chick in there and make it gay" was taken too seriously
Oh, nice to see a WW2 Soviet Katusha cannon on a damn pirate ship. Truly a historic game.
When I first heard about this game, I was so excited. I loved Sid Meier's Pirates (which I considered to be the best pirate game of all time). Now, after seeing the closed beta videos, I still consider Sid Meier's Pirates to be the best pirate game of all time.
Gets repetitive, but the fights were great. Black Flag revived that feeling and made it better, at least for me.
Tf black flag is the best sid meier is 2nd
I played the beta and it sucks ass it does not at all play like blackflag or rouge its fucking shit its like a mmo form 2003 and it lacks a reason to do anything
I cannot describe how stupid it is that that ancient janky game is still the best pirate game ever made. Companies: you know there's a demand go for it.
@@Jack_Slatean ideal pirate game would be some sort of synthesis of the best aspects of Sid Meier’s Pirates and Black Flag.
It just frustrates me! It was so EASY. Make a game out of the black flag part and they f*cked it. And the conclusion will be: "Lets not try this again, they dont want a pirate game!" And its... ahh!
And to be honest I have no problem with the unrealistic weaponary but I understand people that have a problem with that.
I m just angry! I didnt even need multiplayer. As a bonus maybe but singleplayer as a focus.
I don't understand how you're not bothered by the unrealistic weapory; Torpedoes, machine guns, flamethrowers: it's ridiculous.
But even if you're not, there's so much else to be bothered about.
The fact that you can pretty much not leave your ship, not even to eneter and raid other ships or to go on shore to cut trees, the cartoony bright colors of the ships, the strange models on the ships, the spikes...etc It's so terrible in so many ways.
Skull & Bones has become such a chaotic, cheap looking, hyper arcady game that it has lost all of the things that made Black Flag appealing.
@@allonifrah3465 Yes Im bothered that I cant leave the ship or the farming system is trash and boarding is a cutscene and some ships looks ridiculous but the weaponry looks fun and that is for me more important. I dont like the torpedos but that is that.
And I like Customizing my ship and so Im not really bothered by the skins and such. Some are ugly but that just happens sometimes.
I understand the struggle though...
@@Inrikator Not being able to leave the ship, having to cut down trees from the ship's deck and boarding other ships only in brief cutscenes are obviously the worst handicaps this game has, but even if they fixed that the game would still be garbage on account of the ridiculous, unrealistic weaponry and the weird ugly, bright ships.
I always thought the normal, conventional weapons and ammo types(plain cannons, swivel guns, fire barrels, round shot & chain shot) were alot of fun. I do think that AC:Black Flag was rather limited in that respect and could have benefited from more weapons and ammo types.
But they could have done that by adding more, realistic (or at least historically credible) weapons and ammo types:
Grape shot, heated shot, Forward facing chase cannons, backward facing cannons, actual harpoon guns..etc. That would've been much better than adding machine guns and torpedoes.
They could have further upgraded the game by adding more weapons you can use as your playable character (In the scenario where you CAN leave your ship and fight onm land or on deck) such as: Throwabale handgrenades (Black metal balls with fuses), muskets, many different types of swords, daggers...etc
As for the look of the ships: The realistic look of the ships in AC: Black Flag was amazing and one of the things I enjoyed most about the game. Made it feel like an authentic pirate experience. The fact that now, in SaB, the ships look like carnival attractions is terrible. It makes it look even less serious than Sea of Thieves.
If people want "fun, arcady, high octane" games, they should go for fortnight; Entirely fictional concepts. Most people who were initially enthusiastic about SaB, just wanted a realistic, open world, online pirate game.
AC;Black Flag, but much bigger, much better and online with many other players and crews.
Keep the arcady, cartoony, brightly colored, torpedo and machine gun totting nonsense in kiddy games like Fortnite
@@allonifrah3465 I wont argue with you. Yes, historical weapons could have been enough but as I previously stated I dont mind some of the unrealistic weapons. For me it looks fun. A lot of the skins they showed are a ugly and a bit too flashy for my taste but more options in customisation in weaponry and skins are for me always a win. It means more individuality and that is fun for me.
The acardy gameplay is what grinds my gears the most. The gathering trees from the deck, the cutscene boarding, etc. That is what doesnt look like fun. That is what makes me upset. That the gameplay doesnt look like fun.
@@allonifrah3465 I also hate that i have seen that in this game when you succcesfully board a ship you get 50% bigger hull points. I HATE when companies try to mask arcade games THIS badly.
Been trying to find a game that could scratch the itch of Pirates of the Caribbean Online and was originally excited because of this game. Then I realized how...unrealistic they made the ship combat. I just wanted a more diverse Blackflag ship experience with different ships, and expanded combat system, but I guess I am not getting that huh.
If your ok with a more cartoony art style, I would suggest Sea of Thieves. While it might not be as diverse as Black Flag and there is really no way to upgrade your weapons or ships, you can have some of the greatest naval battles in that game. Plus it is a PvPvE game, so you can do something else if you don’t feel like fighting
Black Flag reminded me of a modern version of Sid Meier's Pirates... which I fondly remember from the NES days. It is absolutely a game that needs to be made. Black Flag without the assasin part and a more felshed out kind of rpg and leveling side
Imagine an open world pirate game realistic grounded but with some classic fantasy tropes misteries like sea monsters, ghost ships etc towards late game. With gameplay out of the ship, exploring islands and fighting on foot, boarding etc with an NPC system like Middle Earth: Shadow of War, where you can recruit crew members. Even maybe upgrading fortresses that act like your base. With some space to trolling like Sea of Thieves where you can sneak into other players ships
Black flag, remove the assassins add some fantasy spice. That's really all they had todo. Of course make some changes cause what works for black flag wont completly work for anything else, But black flag is the perfect base they had to work on... but they took over 10 years todo everything they could to ignore black flag and everything they did. So much for innovation
The gaming industry is way to obsessed with reinventing the wheel when they dont have too
This ended up being an absolute disaster but man that trailer was so good. We really need a gritty pirate fantasy game
Just play Sea Dogs. The newer one still holds up.
Watching this makes me want to play black flag again.. seems like that’s the closest game I’ll get to an open world pirate game
Sea of thieves
Idk how it holds up now but I have found memories of sid Meyers pirates
@@Pepe-pq3om a pirate game thats not an actual cartoon? with real combat and maybe a seasoning of grittyness and realism? sea of thieves is good but its not the type of pirate game people want en masse. plus supporting companies that launch half finished games (even if they try to fix it) is for silly gooses who are the reason everything is live service nowadays.
ubisoft in a nutshell:
r6 - ruined in years after release
for honor - ruined in months after release
skull and bones - ruined in development 7 years before release
For any of you confused, the Flamethrower ship is most likely inspired by Greek Fire which was basically 14th century flamethrowers primary used on ships by the Byzantine Empire which have saved them multiple times from neighboring invasion through the Aegean and Black seas. The firework launcher was most likely a emplaced Hwacha from the Imjin wars, the Hwacha was not only used on land but its capability to fire down explosive arrows and fire arrows were much deadlier on Japanese wooden ships and transports. Most of these weapons would likely be effective in some way or form but eventually I'm pretty sure the Dutch and French crews already standardized at least having like a few hundred buckets that could be used in case of a fire in real life.
I think there is a lot of people like myself that wanted more than just the Ship combat aspect because I knew that would get boring. I wanted raiding forts and small settlements boarding ships and having your own pirate base on Nassau that you can upgrade and explore the city do duels, gamble, Drink at a bar, Fist fight, hunt, Recruit new crew and accept bounties. I also think a system where you are competing against AI pirate crews in a sort of ranking where the higher up you get the better equipment becomes available because the better crews get priority over you because they have a system that means more notorious pirates get tribute. They could also have a kind of online mode where a pirate hunter can spawn into your game to try and kill you or something.
So literally a Sid meier’s pirates but better?
@@Dark_Darkonix I've never played it mate but I have heard others mention it was a good/great game before. Curious why they never made a newer version because it seems popular and I think CIV is pretty shit.
This game has most of everything you said go watch TH-cam video about it this guy isn't telling you what you can actually do I have played the only thing you can't do is board ships or sword fights but everything else you said you can do it
I expected as much from this game. All Ubisoft had to do was listen to the playerbase.
They never do...
Lol that’s like Hitler going to a bar mitzfa
They are deaf
The problem is that they listen. They've been listening to feedback for years, and unfortunately players are giving them bad feedback. Last year, a lot of people wanted to have less PvP and more PVE elements. As a result, they've taken away most of the PvP...
Im positive there's like politics going on over at Ubisoft coz it's just too heartbreaking to think devs are producing such hot garbage with the full support of the company.
They absolutely are. Because all the publisher cares about is potential income. This game looks like it has the requisite cosmetic microtransactions that come standard with all Ubisoft games now _and_ confirmed loot boxes. That's all the publishers wanted to hear. They dont care what the games about as long as they think they'll make money off it.
Not politics, greed.
@@eddiebernays514he means studio politics
Pretty sure nobody associated with this title EVER had an interest in an age of sail game. They wanted a first person shooter with ships... World of Pirateships
The Battle Royale and World of Tanks trend are going strong everyone wants a piece, and executives want that 5th Lamborghini.
Warthunder had an event called the sailing fleet wich i say, displays almost exactly what we wanted from ship fights.
I would of preferred the older Skull and Bones version. The one that they said was going to have a story mode with multiplayer and mini matches that you could play with friends ,and other players. Plus that seemed so neat.
I remember seeing the first gameplay which stopped my excitement, I wanted to see a "realistic" style of Sea of Theives open world type with AC Black Flag type locations and visuals. I saw it as a PVP match COD style. rush the ships shoot them down fast and hard and hunt the other player. And i felt like i was right.
It would be awesome to have a realistic Sea of Thieves. Crewing a ship together with my friends and having to work together to manage the sails and other stuff is some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming.
@@ItsATrap614 I just want a SoT 2, with leaderboards and progression. That game is the real pirate experience
the people who made Skull and Bones are the same people who enjoyed the 'real world' aspect of the AC series and made sure it was the focal point of the movie. related to each other, if nothing else.
They certainly added more features in the game. But they are not fleshed out. I remember on a comment i left back in the day of the first reveal and also the initial downfall of everyone’s expectations is that all they had to do was look into games like sid meier’s pirates or sea dogs or potc by akella and published by bethesda.
Both of the aforementioned games literally had it all. Choosing a pirate life or a letter of marque to join one of the colonial powers. You could be a merchant or you could be a smuggler selling contraband. You could berth ships, explore dungeons filled with pirates and loot while also having a chance to encounter cursed skeletons. You could enter houses and steal loot, explore the islands’ inner jungles. The sailing, at least in POtC was hyper realistic with long drawn naval battles and amazing boarding realism where if you were boarding a smaller vessel you only had to clear out 1 maybe 2 decks of enemies before reaching the captain’s headquarters with a gigantic stash of gold and the ship’s storage, while on larger ships you would have to clear 3 or 4 decks. Your crew would turn mutinous if you failed to divide the plunder soon enough. You had skills such as leadership, fencing, sailing and a massive amount of ships divided into 7 tiers depending on size, speed, firepower, cargo capacity from measly tartanes with no cannons all the way to 4 decked ships of the line with a hundred guns.
I wish we got something like that with awesome gritty dark graphics. Oh well
11 years later AC Black Flag is still the blueprint of what an open world pirate RPG should be like. And it's an ASSASSINS CREED game first and foremost. That main menu theme still gives me goosebumps when I boot up the game. They had the perfect formula.
there was this black flag mobile game, this game feels so much like that. you just sailed everywhere and got in ship battles
I think another huge thing that ruins it... is the cosmetics, had they gone for the gritty, dirty pirate look like the original trailer, it would look like a better game. Instead they have to go for the colourful cosmetics and silly looking ship designs... no make it more realistic that's what the fan base wanted, like black flag... not Fortnite looking ships for kids.
Another company will eventually make a good pirate game I'm sure. Would love rockstar to take a stab at it considering how detailed their worlds are.
Sure but considering Rockstar would rather rape their online playerbase for cash nowadays, idk
It's called Sea of Thieves.
@@vordt4139 while it is no doubt the best pirate game out there, it is not the living breathing world I would love to have from a more detailed game 😁
Imagine if RDR2 and Black flag had a baby.
Never gonna happen, it will end up like RDR2 online, not much to monetize as far as 18th century tech would be concerned.
It's Ubisoft... why are people surprised.
Ubisoft can't make quality games anymore, they haven't been for the past few years.
I really enjoyed sid meiers pirates, the old ancient one on pc, where you could board the enemy ship and duel the other captain, manage your crew numbers and food, cannons and so on. Im gonna replay it, thanks skull and bones for reminding me of a fun game
Myself and everyone I’ve ever spoken to about this game wanted above else 3 things.
1. Black Flag-esque ship physics and combat.
2. Large open world to explore
3. Chance to play as your own pirate captain.
How did they fuck that so badly?
I’m not regretting turning down the invitation to closed beta after seeing this video 😂
I don’t regret it either
Its like Dice said its WW2 like you have never seen before than we got Battlefield 5 lmao
It's tough to fathom how Ubisoft mismanaged this decade-long project into a disaster. 10 years ago, it all seemed obvious: make a narrative-driven pirate adventure game replete with (some semblance of) historical accuracy and exploration. Simple, right? Alas... Alas.
I was so hyped for this game when it was announced then it was in development hell forever. I played the closed beta and it was okay, but it is disappointing that it seems there is no on foot combat. Boarding ships just takes you to a loot screen and there is very little in terms of landing on islands like just a small area to maybe dig up treasure.
The Golden age if Piracy is from 1630ish to 1718, in 1721 key figures like Blackbeard, Ben Hornigold, Black Sam Bellamy etc these guys where all dead already...
More like the Sunset of the pirates...
I don't understand why this is so difficult for them, They could have just made a single player RPG Pirate tale with realistic history, and graphics mixed with mysticism and legends, I would have given it a multi origin story for whatever background one chose for replay value, choices being Privateer (you have steady paying work for the crown until a pirate attack changed your life either for revenge or for personal glory you make a career change), Stole away (poor and lacking any other options after being framed for a crime you didn't commit or one that you did depending on your whim, you hop on the nearest ship to escape but it turns out to be one with Pirates), Shipwrecked survivor, Marooned former Captain (A mutiny left you stranded until ingenuity bid you set sail once more either due to being a good captain or a bad one, The Sailor ( at home amid the waters making an honest or a dishonest living you choose to follow pirates or be chosen by them. The companions would be detailed with their own personal stories and missions for earning their loyalty (Bioware/ Bethesda esq.), Plenty of Romance and hookup options (Witcher 2&3) might even throw in a marriage or two (fable/ Skyrim/Starfield) you're a pirate you should do what you want when you want to do it, Land gameplay is a must, sword fights, with plenty of kill cam shots, treasure hunting, burring a crew members head as punishment, walking the plank punishment, scrubbing the deck, pirate songs galore robbery in general, seizing towns or forts also would be good, third person is a must with first person optional for those that love it, customizable characters, ships, and possible hideouts or islands, engaging story with historical and mystical legend is a must, option to become a cursed pirate such as vampire or werewolf or mermaid for lack of a better option due to the legends but still realistic, ghosts and so forth should be among many sea monsters, legendary ships and both the British navy and Spanish navy both on your trail or trying to recruit you. Become King/Queen of The Pirates or The Bane Of The Pirates your choice dialogue options and overall reaction and tone of story progression, potential for betrayal from you or your crew including lovers on the high seas, Sorry about the fantasy game rant, been dreaming of an ideal pirate game since Black Flag without all the animus stuff. If only right.
"I don't understand why this is so difficult for them"
then proceeds to list off a million oddly specific expectations
@@I_Am_Wasabi_Man All it required was imagination and they are in the field of creation, if they didn't have the ability to be creative then they shouldn't be in the field they are in.
@@I_Am_Wasabi_Mannot so much expectations, more so suggestion. And again, they're a professional AAA game dev studio, they have no bloody excuse
Guarantee there will be a 10 dollar battle pass right after release with ship cosmetics, emotes, clothing etc. They've butchered this game trying to make it a live service multi-player cash grab, all we wanted was an updated black flag we could play with friends.
Is it too much to ask for a pirate game where your ships damage is realistic in the sense where a cannon ball hits, that spot has a hole. If you’re hit below your water line you’re sending someone to fix it & if you’re out of resources you better find land quickly. Is it too much to ask for (I’ll even take procedurally generated) islands with treasure & tribes & things to pillage. For you to become a wanted person & even if it’s just PVE, for a wanted level, with different crew with different personalities that occasionally try to enact mutiny? Apparently the answer is yes.
The trailers for SkullnBone show all the important things that would have made this game good. This means they know what the players wanted, but are no longer up for it.
The best game I’ve played that I expected skull and bones to be similar too was mad max the customization on your car in that game was amazing. Non of the weapons felt out of place for the game everything, you added or removed for your car had downsides and upsides and the freedom to be able to leave your car anywhere on the map made the game really feel like black flag but with cars in an apocalypse instead of ships in the Caribbean
Maybe just maybe.... game publishers should STOP intervening with the creative direction of the games that the game developing studios make.... maybe publishers should listen less to marketing teams, and more to researchers and community managers. Maybe just maybe they should realise that making a game is not hard, and games shouldn't be treated as a consumable product, but as a piece of art, a story book, and an experience orionted around the player, not their wallets.
Well if the smooth brains would stop buying the games the companies would stop making them.
@@reececaldwell722lol exactly, all that bitching and screaming and at the end of day they are still buying not only the shitty games, but spending twice the price of it in microtransaction
As a sailor, a complaint i have is that the boats are travelling far too quickly for the stated knots. Its ridiculous. Play Ultimate Admiral if you want realistic sail combat
They travel as fast as modern day motorboats.
An example of how a good idea can be ruined due to poor execution. Honestly, Ubisoft knows the game is terrible, they hired several streamers to make sponsored content.
Probably the only reason to release this game should be agreements and contracts. Ubisoft has branches in several countries and receives many tax benefits from those countries. Ubisoft Singapore appears to have a large stake in this project. When you receive a fortune in tax benefits you need to deliver something, even if it is a bad product.
Whoever thought the full auto cannon was a good idea should be fired.
All they had to do was make more black flag.. wtf
I just want a modern version of Sid Meiers pirates with the ship gameplay of AC black flag, or maybe even something a little more realistic!
I think we're all incredibly disappointed. Even the Beta launch was a complete mess. Every time I see Skull & Bones news, it just makes me yearn for what could have been.
Wasn't Ubi making AC Odyssey during this same period 2013-18? Odyssey had a perfectly serviceable naval combat system, boarding and seamless environmental transitions. It's amazing they managed to bork this as bad as they have.
Lately, I feel like it all depends on the management of the team making a game and employees.
And their quality is what defines the outcome. A lot of terrible games lately too... So, I think it means one thing only.
The question I have to them is why they hire so many horrible people who do not like gaming.
Kinda like comics industry that was once made of people who loved comics to now being a joke. Then the movie industry followed with atrocious preaching, societal modern problems replacing exciting stories and heroes.
Didnt they mention at one point how multiple titles in the same franchise are made in paralel by separate branches?
If dev set 1 from branch A made Odysey while dev set 2 from branch B plopped out Valhalla left the studio since, theres a decent chance that dev set 3 branch A has 0 members of 1.
The fact that they shows ships sailing next to big cliff and very close to other ships from the start should tell you everything about what level of realism was intended.
Why is every game that comes out now so mediocre? Why are testers and/or focus groups not telling developers how lame these games are?
The problem with these games at this time in history, is the EXACT image of what these characters appeared as despite any historical evidence or accounts and without any objective or end goal.
And this is the reason why SOT stills one of the best Pirate Games
The very 1st clip is exactly what I thought after I watched actual gameplay. You can’t even leave the helm or dock your ship. Idk why I’m disappointed, should of known.
I cannot believe anyone expected this to be a good game. It's called skull and bones man. The most generic name you could think of. And it never really even looked promising. All those cutscenes are super vague and generic. And not memorable whatsoever.
Skull and Bones is a classic case of missed identity. It simply doesnt know what it wants to be. Is it and arcade naval combat game? Is it an open world naval exploration/survival game? The corporate overlords are likely pulling the strings and shifting the game to the new meta. They want it to be a live service so they can monetize it. They want to sell cosmetics and eventually expansions, but you cant have expansions if its just a simple arcade combat game.
I have a buddy who worked on
the project so I heard some gossips over the years and sometime hanged out with some of them. I definitely don't think it lacked funding from what I understand. My personal guess is that it was just too big of a project for the particular conditions of the singapore studio. They made a advantageous deal with the government to get subsidies at the condition they release this big game and hire locals iirc. So the team was mostly expats from France and Canada managing people from all around the world at relatively high salaries compare to the inexperienced locals. Expats typically don't stick around too long and alot of them got poached by other video games companies that probably enjoyed similar deals. Thr management was changed a few times too. After a few years of developement, it's not the same faces anymore and it's like starting all over again.
They all started this during the "game as a service" trend, which is probably why there's a bunch of weird shit on the boats. A few years back it might have been fine, but now it's a much harder sell I guess.
Ah, that fucking "live service" garbage, thanks for reminding about that.
For what it's worth, flamethrower ships were a real thing, albeit from a much older period in time
yeah, eastern romans in the byzantine had greek fire during the 600's, but far from the use of pirates or any navy a thousand years later lol
@@I_Am_Wasabi_Manmainly because when Byzantium fell no one brought the knowledge to the west during the emigration period and the recipe was lost
00:28 I figured out that the song is a cover/remix of "Seal - Crazy" thanks to the lyrics, but who sings this version? where can I find this song??!?!?! plz thx
Same need that song
It should be illegal to have such good looking cgi trailers or commercial and the game doesn’t hold up to it at all.
I’ve just come to expect, if it’s from Ubisoft, blizzard, activision, EA, and now Bethesda joins them after 76 and starfield were such clusterfucks, just don’t believe a single word they say and only buy the games once they go on sale if you really want to get them. Life fucking sucks nowadays.
Just in case anyone's looking for more reasons not to get this thing:
I participated in the closed beta. The game installed BattlEye alongside itself, an anti-cheat software. I had spent maybe 10-15 minutes in the game when BattlEye hard crashed my PC with a kernel heap corruption bluescreen. Rebooted, uninstalled the game, and (of course) had to manually uninstall BattlEye afterwards.
What the worst thing about the machine gun was the lack of real impact it had.
I knew it’d be bad when there was no ship combat. Not being able to board ships and have person combat I was worried.
Just curious how would you work out boarding in an MMO when you board a ship and 6 other players swing by and destroy the ship you are boarding, do your guys die or do they just teleport back onto your ship and end your boarding process or do you make it so other players can't attack while you are boarding?
@@TreebeerdzHave you ever heard of Sea of Thieves? You would love it.
@@NautyCat yeah its a great game, definitely a different type of game though. The only thing they have in common is a pirate theme.
@@Treebeerdz If you get third-partied while boarding, tough luck. Boarding should be a natural extension of the gameplay, not a "process" that has different rules. So yeah, first sentence.
@@Treebeerdztheir fault for making it an MMO
Only RockStar can give us what we want if they decide to make a RDR2 like Pirate game!!
lmao, your ass is still delusional, forget about the defective edition? rockstar removing 50% of the cars available in gta 5 and put it behind a paywall?. yeah no. stop the cap.
Hey Gamedevs and publishers, what we want is basically 'sid meier's pirates' with Black Flag gameplay, historical accurate and modern graphics. Not whatever this shit is.
Is that so damn hard to get ?
Imo only reason they did this is so they could make it 'a live service game' and sell you shit in the cash shop ....
What i don't get is the fanboys jumping on the game before it's even released, before they even know what the game really is. Here's an idea: relax until the game releases, don't pre-order, watch gameplay footage when it releases, if you like it buy it, if it sucks don't buy it and the next time that game company thinks about releasing a game they'll think twice and take their time.