I wouldnt even give this the time of day... It looks like shit and apparently handles as such... I havent played it, but, onlu seen other youtubers comment on it... After watching all of their videoes, I wouldnt even play it, if it was free...
Played it off and on since pre-alpha.. it's come a very long way in terms of mechanics/gameplay. If they released this say 2 years ago it would of been one of the worst games released. It's a much better game today, but in no way is this a AAAA game. The only game I would even remotely place in the AAAA sphere is Star Citizen, but we all know it would be a miracle for that project to be completed.
All they needed to do was cut out the Assassin stuff from Black Flag, make a pirate story, had made it years ago, and kept it single-player with their usual bullshit at the time and the game would have printed money with little effort since they had a blueprint right there. Why Ubisoft faffed about for years allowing them to become the late comers to a niche they had accidentally discovered a market for is mindblowing.
Having played the beta... it really isn't garbage at all. It isn't AAAA, that's for damn sure. I'm also very worried about what the monetisation is going to be like. I do like what I've played though. Enough to know that I will definitely be buying this game and playing a lot of it. I don't actually care about most of what people are saying are it's short comings tbh. I don't really care very much about the swashbuckling side of pirating. I just want to sail around inan age of sail ship and shoot stuff with my friends. That's exactly what we got and all of us are pretty happy with it so far.
I mean, how often have final products differed vastly from "betas" (This is often not even the correct usage of this term). Stop trusting corporations because they owe you NOTHING and will take advantage of blind-faith Only trust what you know as absolute, first-hand verifiable, facts. Otherwise any burns are your own fault, though I won't say "deserved" since nobody deserves to be ripped-off
A grade games are generally reasonably priced. AA games are a bit more than you'd like to pay. AAA games are often expensive to buy, and then get extra wallet drains added later with micro transactions and subscriptions once the sales cash slows down. I can only imagine a AAAA game must sell for around the same price as a typical console, requires a subscription on day 1 for off-line single player, and micro transactions are actually macro transactions with similar prices to a whole ass A grade game.
You know, there is a Greek child god called Plutus who is god of abject wealth/capitalism who’s very presence showers people with so much wealth they become greedy out of touch dimwits. Zeus blinded and crippled him so he’d always need to keep on the move, but gave him so wings so he could still get around - as a result financial power is often slow to arrive, quick to take flight and often ends up in the presence of those who don’t deserve it; I don’t know why but whenever I think of Yves Guillemot, I end up thinking of Plutus. Strange, that.
Having played the closed beta of Skull & Bones, it's uh... A game. [Edit] Let me explain (this is based on my time from CBT so it may have changed), this game really doesn't have much going for it; a huge chunk if your time is spent gathering resources or sailing. Ships are one of three archetypes: Support, Tank and DPS. I didn't try support so I can't comment DPS class, however, was way too squishy and offered no discernible damage difference to a tank class while having (I think) 1/3rd (maybe 1/2?) the hp of a tank ship of equivalent size. Yes, there are multiple ship sizes as well, starting with your little pontoon boat (which its only advantage is it can fit in places the larger ships can't) to Small, medium and eventually large size ships. The ONLY positive I can really give this game is as you sail around and not in combat, your crew will randomly sing sea shanties.
"Hey, everyone creamed themselves over ship battles in AC4 so hard we've been putting it in every new AC game since... I've got a genius idea! Let's take that system and make it the sole focus of an entire game, save money by skimping on the plot and non-ship combat, throw in microtransactions for customization options, and justify all of it by making it a live service game! Live service is the hip thing these days, surely everyone will drop the five other live services they're slaved to in order to play *our* one!"
No basebuilding, no clan based pirate haven building, no sword fighting, no melee combat, no hand held weapons combat, no land exploration, no farming, no animals to hunt, no shipwreck diving, no stealth, and - no Governor's daughter to romance. What did they do for TEN YEARS ? They included none of the basic features !
It's hilarious to me that they're releasing this over 10 years after Black Flag, completely missing the time window where this would've made a big impact, and with less features and gameplay systems than Black Flag. And then they call it a AAAA game, ask full price for it on top of the GAAS BS monetization that they'll have in the game. They just keep digging that hole...
And to think they had the perfect game to use as a starting point for this, too: AC Black Flag. I think Guillemot should 'get comfortable with not having customers' if this is going to be the norm for Ubisoft from now on
Sly 3 had a more dynamic ship system...hell, in that game you could board ships and have mini-boss battles with the captains. Sly 3. A game that came out on PS2 in 2005.
Sure, but it's unfair comparing that game to a current gen game. The tech just isn't there today man :( You'd need a AAAAA game for that. It's called AAAAA because that's the noise you scream when you are infuriated by the dumb shit game dev CEO's say.
5:40 it looks like there may be more tabs after Graphics, but they make it convoluted by needing to press the "E" key. Usually Accessibility is one of the furthest right tabs for options, so perhaps it's there?
Man, I sure loved the sailing and ship combat from Black Flag... But, you know, there was also an Assassin's Creed game attached to it. This? Gonna be a hard pass for me.
All they had to do was export to ship faring mechanics and potentially the on-foot mechanics of Assassin's Creed Black Flag into a multi-player game with some interesting dynamic missions, objectives, factions, etc. for that dynamic experience. Could've been done in a year since the vast majority of the mechanics and art were already there and done in ACBF. But no, they had to mothball it, constantly delaying it, and finally get around to launching it they had to inject it full of MTX for the live service model that was indeed booming when ACBF came out, but is now lamented across all of gaming. Doesn't take this long for a single writer to write out a dynamic "choices matter sorta" story that can branch out into open PvE/PvP/PvPvE/etc. Which tells me that the entire game was practically phoned in.
So, where is the Skull and Bones gameplay? All you showed was a graphics pack for Assasin's Creed Black Flag... Oh wait, that game actually had ship boarding gameplay.
You're right and I feel like most people aren't actually aware of that. Each A is a million dollars in production cost so, a quadruple a game should cost a billion dollars to make. Which is obviously bullshit in the case of this game, this game might be a AA game, if that. The whole A system doesn't mean much though, there are a lot of Japanese companies like Capcom and Nintendo that make what people would consider AAA games in terms of quality but, with a budget of a AA game or in Nintendo's case A games, they are just really frugal(cheap) and use a ton of outsourced labor.
I am very happy they called this a "AAAA" game. The game was such an insult and terrible experience that no one is going to want to use that term again.
Ubisoft is tripping. There are a bunch of places where the game stops guiding you or puts end game level enemies in beginner zones, or has you do your first missions where the objective is half the map away. This is a game that they couldn't abandon because of obligations in the Singapore market and is not a $70 value game. Helldivers is $40 and so much better.
Ship combat has been stripped in terms of fun and functionality from Black Flag. They also seemed to strip all other aspects of Black Flag that was fun. What's left is like a shallow tech demo. I don't think the game they released was being developed for more than a year. Sure other versions were made and scrapped but this feels like something they knocked up quick so they could get something out on sale.
Love that you put in the TB-style review of the options menu 😄 Also love that you consistently mispronounce Guillemot's name, because he clearly does not respect the customers of the games he publishes, so neither should we respect him in turn.
So they took a mechanic from Assassin's Creed: Black Flag and lobotomized it. Then based on your read, they added some World of Warships. Yep, sounds like Ubisoft. That's why I haven't given them any money in so long.
Man, if I had a penny for every time SidAlpha said "I'm working on putting out content more regularly" or "I'm going to start posting content more regularly now", I'd have at least 50 pennies.
I keep waiting for a game to do what Puzzle Pirates did all those years ago: give you the opportunity to get into ship fights with everyone working a station like an actual crew.
usually for MMOs you would use a 4-6 month window until the investors deem it a success or failure. you could apply the same to most live-service games these days so assuming it performs worse than they hope for, which is likely IMO, give it 6months at max
I expect a huge crater in concurrent people playing soon enough, then a muttering existence with only a few hundred or thousand playing it for just a little longer then they decide to pull the plug and it is over.
How is it that a 1987 game for a computer with 64 kilobytes of memory and using a cassette tape to store data has more content in it than a modern "AAAA" game?
there is a lot more content then what this youtuber is showing. has he state him self he only tried it a few hours. we have been going all weekend and we are not even close to have done everything
I *WOULD* hope this tanks badly enough to wake up the people responsible for running the company... But we all onow they're more likely to blame the workers and initiate job cuts than admit the POG's at the top messed things up (again.)
I mean, in an age where "triple AAAYY" is considered a waste of time for the most part, Ubisoft of all people claiming to take that aspect to the next level is rather fitting.
You could literally switch the graphics for 2d sprites, and the gameplay wouldn't change. This is what "Live Service" games have become, upscaled Mobile games.
Remember guys games a ratings are now a descending scale A is topnotch AA is a game that's good in spite of a bad story or mechanic AAA is poorly optimized and large as well as not fun to play AAAA is just fucking garbage
If this is a quadruple A title than Sid is a consistently uploading creator. Love ya Sid, been a long time fan. Hope you can start uploading stuff again.
This is why it’s so hard for me to get excited for “Big” releases nowadays. So many corporate schmucks prioritizing profits over “Is this game fun? Does it have depth”
Talking out the ass. An AAAA game requires more than just beautiful graphics and great gameplay. To tack on an extra "A" an AAAA game must have player freedom and a reactive world on a scale game publishers are not prepared nor brave enough to deliver.
The combat is extremely disappointing as Ubisoft also owns AC black flag... you wanna play a pirate, get that one. Ignore this BS Also remember even if you buy the game Ubisoft still feels you do not own anything. you just give them money for nothing.
"Let me buy live service items in the demo so I can get a scope of what I might be buying at full price" Honestly a fare review for a free demo for a full price live service game.
It's refreshing to see you do real reviews again versus muckraking (not that I'm complaining either way). AAAA also equals the smallest battery you can get short of coin cell, so I wonder where Yves head is besides spraying nonsense.
So I googled it, apparently there's a meaning to each 'A' in AAA, according to google the first one denotes 'critical success', which most AAA games aren't, this one doesn't seem any different so far. The second denotes 'innovative gameplay', which is rare at best and absent here. The third is meant to denote 'commercial success', which, in fairness, happens quite often. So if Skull and Bones sells well then it won't be a tripple A game, it certainly won't be a quadruple A game, it will be an A game. Frankly if this is Ubisoft's A game then that explains a lot.
LMFAO why are the ships 'sailing' at like 50 knots and firing full auto cannons? Nothing happens that fast on the water lol, it looks sped up for comedic effect, It needs a Benny Hill Wacky Sax soundtrack to be "AAAA".
@@asaguda So Skibidi Pirate then? Lol, we're fucking doomed, I, like many 'old' people am glad i won't live to see members of Generation Skibidi get elected to Congress.
It is abysmal how companies will degrade over time but Ubisoft going from Black Flag to this is probably the second worst downgrade after Vomition with Saints Row.
I remember when this was just a game that was taking the piracy aspect of AC4 and making a whole game on it. It's sad that AC4 does pirates better than this.
You know what's funny, about a month prior to Skull and Bones coming out, I picked up another game called "King of Seas" on GoG. After SnB came out and I watched some gameplay, I realized that King of Seas was the same game... Sorta. Ship combat only, different ship types, boarding actions where you don't have to do anything other than grapple hook the other ship... The major differences are its art style, view point, KoS has decent customization of ships and an ok...if not predictable, story. All while being, at time of post, 2.89$ cad, normally 28.99$ and made by an indie dev.
what's said is they could have taken Asscreed 4 worked in a new story, spinning it off of Asscreed canon, tweaked it a bit and boom they would have had a solid pirate game.
Probably about the only time somebody just doing an asset flip from Black Flag to here with some modifications would have been exactly what the people wanted
It looks like a tame version of Black Flag, that is also lacking most of the game play elements that makes Black Flag a far more interesting and playable game!
And sales-current player numbers of AC: Black Flag are up since S&B release. Is very strange, since Ubisoft makes both, that they couldn't give two poots of day old man-jam to just replicate what made Black Flag so good.
If it doesn't have the airship board fights just like in Granblue fantasy relink, If it doesn't have the character create system as complex as PSO2 or Honey select 2 DX, If it doesn't have boss filters just like in AC6/Elden ring, If it doesn't have a trading system just like Warframe does, If it isn't as good as SOMA, If it isn't as immersive as Fallout new vegas, If it isn't as thought-provoking as the Talos Principle, If its gameplay isn't as good as Nier Automata, If it doesn't have a good and complex story like in plane scape torment, If it doesn't have lovable and memorable characters just like in BG3, Then they're just making themselves a clown in the face of the public. ignore this game and look for something else. It is a live service game just like Diablo IV so you can't find a repack/pirated version of it in the future.
Played the beta and while its not horrible... its not good, not worth the $60 baseline (God forbid the $100), not worth a First ever quadruple A rating let alone AAA, and for having spent such a long time in dev hell even with what should have been an easy remake with much much more.... not worth the wait.
Come watch a bunch of voice actors and fools play D&D Tuesday 2/13 at 5:30PM PST: twitch.tv/RachaelMesser
I wouldnt even give this the time of day... It looks like shit and apparently handles as such... I havent played it, but, onlu seen other youtubers comment on it... After watching all of their videoes, I wouldnt even play it, if it was free...
Very good critique, well done mate!
Pretty sure the only reason this game is still releasing is because they're contractually obligated to release it
Played it off and on since pre-alpha.. it's come a very long way in terms of mechanics/gameplay. If they released this say 2 years ago it would of been one of the worst games released. It's a much better game today, but in no way is this a AAAA game.
The only game I would even remotely place in the AAAA sphere is Star Citizen, but we all know it would be a miracle for that project to be completed.
Hey Sid, just want to point out it's pronounced Gui-ye-mo and not Gui-ye-may. Have fun with the D&D stream!
Ubisoft is a fascinating horror show of corporate depravity.
All they needed to do was cut out the Assassin stuff from Black Flag, make a pirate story, had made it years ago, and kept it single-player with their usual bullshit at the time and the game would have printed money with little effort since they had a blueprint right there. Why Ubisoft faffed about for years allowing them to become the late comers to a niche they had accidentally discovered a market for is mindblowing.
If I recall correctly, Callisto protocol was also advertised as AAAA. We know how it ended. I smell the same here. Dead on arrival.
When game's selling point is "This is a game"
The term AAAA is correct if you consider that it screws you over 25% more than AAA. The math checks out on this one.
A-tier games are best. AA games are usually good. AAA games are mid to crap. Skull & Bones, by induction, is garbage.
Having played the beta... it really isn't garbage at all. It isn't AAAA, that's for damn sure. I'm also very worried about what the monetisation is going to be like. I do like what I've played though. Enough to know that I will definitely be buying this game and playing a lot of it. I don't actually care about most of what people are saying are it's short comings tbh. I don't really care very much about the swashbuckling side of pirating. I just want to sail around inan age of sail ship and shoot stuff with my friends. That's exactly what we got and all of us are pretty happy with it so far.
You forget mid tire games and budget, and indie games
I mean, how often have final products differed vastly from "betas" (This is often not even the correct usage of this term). Stop trusting corporations because they owe you NOTHING and will take advantage of blind-faith
Only trust what you know as absolute, first-hand verifiable, facts. Otherwise any burns are your own fault, though I won't say "deserved" since nobody deserves to be ripped-off
A grade games are generally reasonably priced.
AA games are a bit more than you'd like to pay.
AAA games are often expensive to buy, and then get extra wallet drains added later with micro transactions and subscriptions once the sales cash slows down.
I can only imagine a AAAA game must sell for around the same price as a typical console, requires a subscription on day 1 for off-line single player, and micro transactions are actually macro transactions with similar prices to a whole ass A grade game.
Baldurs Gate 3
You know, there is a Greek child god called Plutus who is god of abject wealth/capitalism who’s very presence showers people with so much wealth they become greedy out of touch dimwits. Zeus blinded and crippled him so he’d always need to keep on the move, but gave him so wings so he could still get around - as a result financial power is often slow to arrive, quick to take flight and often ends up in the presence of those who don’t deserve it;
I don’t know why but whenever I think of Yves Guillemot, I end up thinking of Plutus. Strange, that.
Indeed.
Now, now, Sid, don't be this harsh, it is a Quadruple A game, after all:
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Ubisoft try not to blow smoke up their own ass challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
I loved that Yves said 'in the long run.' It's like he's acknowledging the fact that none of Ubisoft's games are ever released in a completed state.
Awe Sid Meyers Pirates is one of my all time favorite child hood games on PC lol.
I played the hell out of that game for years.
I suppose I'll have to put ubisoft's words to work and juts get used to not owning this game
Having played the closed beta of Skull & Bones, it's uh... A game.
[Edit]
Let me explain (this is based on my time from CBT so it may have changed), this game really doesn't have much going for it; a huge chunk if your time is spent gathering resources or sailing. Ships are one of three archetypes: Support, Tank and DPS.
I didn't try support so I can't comment
DPS class, however, was way too squishy and offered no discernible damage difference to a tank class while having (I think) 1/3rd (maybe 1/2?) the hp of a tank ship of equivalent size.
Yes, there are multiple ship sizes as well, starting with your little pontoon boat (which its only advantage is it can fit in places the larger ships can't) to Small, medium and eventually large size ships.
The ONLY positive I can really give this game is as you sail around and not in combat, your crew will randomly sing sea shanties.
"Hey, everyone creamed themselves over ship battles in AC4 so hard we've been putting it in every new AC game since... I've got a genius idea!
Let's take that system and make it the sole focus of an entire game, save money by skimping on the plot and non-ship combat, throw in microtransactions for customization options, and justify all of it by making it a live service game! Live service is the hip thing these days, surely everyone will drop the five other live services they're slaved to in order to play *our* one!"
This isn't even the first time someone has described a game as "quadruple A": remember The Callisto Protocol? That was ridiculous hot air too.
No basebuilding, no clan based pirate haven building, no sword fighting, no melee combat, no hand held weapons combat, no land exploration, no farming, no animals to hunt, no shipwreck diving, no stealth, and - no Governor's daughter to romance. What did they do for TEN YEARS ? They included none of the basic features !
Let me know when Ubisoft makes a AAA game, and I will believe in a AAAA.
It's hilarious to me that they're releasing this over 10 years after Black Flag, completely missing the time window where this would've made a big impact, and with less features and gameplay systems than Black Flag. And then they call it a AAAA game, ask full price for it on top of the GAAS BS monetization that they'll have in the game.
They just keep digging that hole...
"Don't bother asking the innkeeper if the wine is good."
Keep up the great reviews and calling out games and devs for what they are.
Thank you so much for that review. I'll just re-download Sid Meiers Pirates again, which apparently has a lot more features. Including land combat.
I watched my friend play, there were more loading screens than gameplay
And to think they had the perfect game to use as a starting point for this, too: AC Black Flag. I think Guillemot should 'get comfortable with not having customers' if this is going to be the norm for Ubisoft from now on
2024 Anthem Awards Nominees
- Suicide Squad
- Skull and Bones
Anyone spending money on anything Ubisoft these days deserves everything they get, because we're at a point where people really should know better.
Agreed
"... that will deliver in the long run." @1:20
That says it all really. That it is an stereotypically unfinished ubisoft game on launch.
Goddam I've missed 'WTF is....' Thank you Sid.
So patched through my “ubisoft to gamer translator” AAAA means “4/3 the usual cost but were still only selling you less than half the game on launch”.
Sly 3 had a more dynamic ship system...hell, in that game you could board ships and have mini-boss battles with the captains. Sly 3. A game that came out on PS2 in 2005.
Sure, but it's unfair comparing that game to a current gen game.
The tech just isn't there today man :(
You'd need a AAAAA game for that.
It's called AAAAA because that's the noise you scream when you are infuriated by the dumb shit game dev CEO's say.
Starting your review with the options is such an awesome throwback. Thank you. TB would be proud
"Live-Service Game" - Definition;
A 'free-to-play' game you pay full-price for.
5:40 it looks like there may be more tabs after Graphics, but they make it convoluted by needing to press the "E" key. Usually Accessibility is one of the furthest right tabs for options, so perhaps it's there?
There are but it's not hiding back there either.
That's very unfortunate and quite the oversight... Wish this level of incompetence from Ubisoft surprised me nowadays, but it really doesn't.
Man, I sure loved the sailing and ship combat from Black Flag... But, you know, there was also an Assassin's Creed game attached to it. This? Gonna be a hard pass for me.
All they had to do was export to ship faring mechanics and potentially the on-foot mechanics of Assassin's Creed Black Flag into a multi-player game with some interesting dynamic missions, objectives, factions, etc. for that dynamic experience. Could've been done in a year since the vast majority of the mechanics and art were already there and done in ACBF. But no, they had to mothball it, constantly delaying it, and finally get around to launching it they had to inject it full of MTX for the live service model that was indeed booming when ACBF came out, but is now lamented across all of gaming. Doesn't take this long for a single writer to write out a dynamic "choices matter sorta" story that can branch out into open PvE/PvP/PvPvE/etc. Which tells me that the entire game was practically phoned in.
So, where is the Skull and Bones gameplay?
All you showed was a graphics pack for Assasin's Creed Black Flag... Oh wait, that game actually had ship boarding gameplay.
As a long time video game Normie, I always assumed AAA was just an indicator of a game's budget and hardware requirements
It has more to do with the size of the company that is making it (but budget and such tend to increase with company size).
I think it also takes the publisher into account, but yeah, that's about it.
You're right and I feel like most people aren't actually aware of that. Each A is a million dollars in production cost so, a quadruple a game should cost a billion dollars to make. Which is obviously bullshit in the case of this game, this game might be a AA game, if that. The whole A system doesn't mean much though, there are a lot of Japanese companies like Capcom and Nintendo that make what people would consider AAA games in terms of quality but, with a budget of a AA game or in Nintendo's case A games, they are just really frugal(cheap) and use a ton of outsourced labor.
The pronunciation of Guillemot as "Gi-Em-A" is killing me! XD
I can't breathe!
My ass over here still playing assassins creed black flag: "Nope, not getting outta this chair."
Ubisoft can put as many As in the terminology they refer to their games by as they want, I'm still going to keep boycotting their trash.
I am very happy they called this a "AAAA" game. The game was such an insult and terrible experience that no one is going to want to use that term again.
Ubisoft is tripping. There are a bunch of places where the game stops guiding you or puts end game level enemies in beginner zones, or has you do your first missions where the objective is half the map away.
This is a game that they couldn't abandon because of obligations in the Singapore market and is not a $70 value game. Helldivers is $40 and so much better.
I'm just gonna continue playing Black Flag.
the good ending.
Anyone else feel like these ships seem to handle more like a motorcycle than 100 tons of lumber powered by the wind?
Is it just like Battery where the more A the smaller it is?
Ship combat has been stripped in terms of fun and functionality from Black Flag. They also seemed to strip all other aspects of Black Flag that was fun. What's left is like a shallow tech demo.
I don't think the game they released was being developed for more than a year. Sure other versions were made and scrapped but this feels like something they knocked up quick so they could get something out on sale.
Love that you put in the TB-style review of the options menu 😄
Also love that you consistently mispronounce Guillemot's name, because he clearly does not respect the customers of the games he publishes, so neither should we respect him in turn.
So they took a mechanic from Assassin's Creed: Black Flag and lobotomized it. Then based on your read, they added some World of Warships. Yep, sounds like Ubisoft. That's why I haven't given them any money in so long.
Minimum viable product would be a compliment for Ubisoft's "games".
Man, if I had a penny for every time SidAlpha said "I'm working on putting out content more regularly" or "I'm going to start posting content more regularly now", I'd have at least 50 pennies.
Closer to 80. As the saying goes, "If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all." And a LOT of bad things keep happening.
@@SidAlpha I hope I not overstepping by suggesting that the lawsuit probably isn't helping, either.
It says a lot when Black Flag, another Ubisoft game might I add, was a better pirate game. And a better game in general, really.
Sid Meier's Pirates is being compared favorably against this? Excuse me while I call a team for that nuclear burn they just took lol
Algorithm food to help Sid alpha's channel
I keep waiting for a game to do what Puzzle Pirates did all those years ago: give you the opportunity to get into ship fights with everyone working a station like an actual crew.
Extra snacks for the Rithm! Also great video!
So how many months until they abandon it? Place your bets now!
usually for MMOs you would use a 4-6 month window until the investors deem it a success or failure. you could apply the same to most live-service games these days
so assuming it performs worse than they hope for, which is likely IMO, give it 6months at max
Should we set up a lettuce stream?
5 years ago by the looks of graphics
I expect a huge crater in concurrent people playing soon enough, then a muttering existence with only a few hundred or thousand playing it for just a little longer then they decide to pull the plug and it is over.
6 months.
How is it that a 1987 game for a computer with 64 kilobytes of memory and using a cassette tape to store data has more content in it than a modern "AAAA" game?
there is a lot more content then what this youtuber is showing. has he state him self he only tried it a few hours. we have been going all weekend and we are not even close to have done everything
@@johnyellow344 Can you participate in ship boarding and port capturing?
@@PhysicsGamer yes, afther progressing, you will get too the point where you can capture ports/trading routs.
@@johnyellow344 Can you participate in doing so, or is your would-be Blackbeard stuck on the ship waiting for a loading bar to fill up?
I *WOULD* hope this tanks badly enough to wake up the people responsible for running the company... But we all onow they're more likely to blame the workers and initiate job cuts than admit the POG's at the top messed things up (again.)
I mean, in an age where "triple AAAYY" is considered a waste of time for the most part, Ubisoft of all people claiming to take that aspect to the next level is rather fitting.
I'm amazed. All those years, and they made something far worse than Black Flag and NOWHERE NEAR as deep as Sea of Thieves. Wow.
AC4 is yawning
You could literally switch the graphics for 2d sprites, and the gameplay wouldn't change.
This is what "Live Service" games have become, upscaled Mobile games.
Remember guys games a ratings are now a descending scale
A is topnotch
AA is a game that's good in spite of a bad story or mechanic
AAA is poorly optimized and large as well as not fun to play
AAAA is just fucking garbage
I'll add that to my " before you buy" list. Thanks.
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Useful knowledge! Thank you kindly for confirming my suspicions.
Ubisoft should get used to gamers not buying their games.
I'd have thought they'd already be used to that with me. Pretty sure I've never bought anything they offer.
If this is a quadruple A title than Sid is a consistently uploading creator.
Love ya Sid, been a long time fan. Hope you can start uploading stuff again.
This is why it’s so hard for me to get excited for “Big” releases nowadays. So many corporate schmucks prioritizing profits over “Is this game fun? Does it have depth”
Talking out the ass. An AAAA game requires more than just beautiful graphics and great gameplay. To tack on an extra "A" an AAAA game must have player freedom and a reactive world on a scale game publishers are not prepared nor brave enough to deliver.
The combat is extremely disappointing as Ubisoft also owns AC black flag... you wanna play a pirate, get that one. Ignore this BS
Also remember even if you buy the game Ubisoft still feels you do not own anything. you just give them money for nothing.
Never mind that fact that ships rarely sank in battle in that era, and that boarding and taking control was the standard methodology...
"Let me buy live service items in the demo so I can get a scope of what I might be buying at full price"
Honestly a fare review for a free demo for a full price live service game.
It's refreshing to see you do real reviews again versus muckraking (not that I'm complaining either way). AAAA also equals the smallest battery you can get short of coin cell, so I wonder where Yves head is besides spraying nonsense.
Calling it now. Servers will be shut down by this time next year.
Jim Sterling railed on “Triple A” for _years_
I’m shocked that these publishers still think it’s a selling point
So I googled it, apparently there's a meaning to each 'A' in AAA, according to google the first one denotes 'critical success', which most AAA games aren't, this one doesn't seem any different so far. The second denotes 'innovative gameplay', which is rare at best and absent here. The third is meant to denote 'commercial success', which, in fairness, happens quite often. So if Skull and Bones sells well then it won't be a tripple A game, it certainly won't be a quadruple A game, it will be an A game. Frankly if this is Ubisoft's A game then that explains a lot.
Remember, guys: AAA refers to the amount of money the CEOs expect to milk from you. Devs get worked to the grave for it.
NEVER preorder.
This isn't a dirty dev, but they are a delusional dev.
LMFAO why are the ships 'sailing' at like 50 knots and firing full auto cannons? Nothing happens that fast on the water lol, it looks sped up for comedic effect, It needs a Benny Hill Wacky Sax soundtrack to be "AAAA".
Sped up to appeal to the 8 year olds, their mom's credit cards, and their short attention spans. :D
@@asaguda So Skibidi Pirate then? Lol, we're fucking doomed, I, like many 'old' people am glad i won't live to see members of Generation Skibidi get elected to Congress.
Absolutely no reason to play this while AC4 exists. screw you, Ubisoft.
One could even say "screw U-bisoft," perhaps.
I'm not apologizing.
A pirate game with no ship boarding, no hand to hand combat is hardly a "complete" game.
I like how you changed his name, I hope he picks that pronunciation up
Nah, he means Quadruple A as in "It overran the budget of a AAA game" lmao
Four A games? There are also four letters is Nope.
It is abysmal how companies will degrade over time but Ubisoft going from Black Flag to this is probably the second worst downgrade after Vomition with Saints Row.
Quadruple A games: Quadruple the failed promises, quadruple the mess on release! :D
Quadruple the pride? Quadruple the fall
Its called Skull & Bones because that's the amount of Gameplay you get from this Game
I remember when this was just a game that was taking the piracy aspect of AC4 and making a whole game on it. It's sad that AC4 does pirates better than this.
You know what's funny, about a month prior to Skull and Bones coming out, I picked up another game called "King of Seas" on GoG. After SnB came out and I watched some gameplay, I realized that King of Seas was the same game... Sorta. Ship combat only, different ship types, boarding actions where you don't have to do anything other than grapple hook the other ship... The major differences are its art style, view point, KoS has decent customization of ships and an ok...if not predictable, story. All while being, at time of post, 2.89$ cad, normally 28.99$ and made by an indie dev.
Literal intro advert was Skull and Bones.
The sad part is ALL this game did is make we want to go buy assasins creed black flag again and play that instead.
what's said is they could have taken Asscreed 4 worked in a new story, spinning it off of Asscreed canon, tweaked it a bit and boom they would have had a solid pirate game.
Probably about the only time somebody just doing an asset flip from Black Flag to here with some modifications would have been exactly what the people wanted
Sid Meier's Pirates was fun.
All they had to do was take "Black Flack" and make it multiplayer.... The lack of creative vision at these "AAA" studios is beyond disappointing.
Black Flag boat combat with Valhalla raids, you got a winner.
It's the same bloody company, how did they swing and miss so hard?
Skull and Barebones is what I've taken to calling it.
„Thinking on the spot
Cause I am a pirate
And sometimes that takes
Improvisation“
this definitely has that "one of the games of all time" energy
Man O War Corsair does everything Skull and bones does, but better. Also, Warhammer themed.
It looks like a tame version of Black Flag, that is also lacking most of the game play elements that makes Black Flag a far more interesting and playable game!
And sales-current player numbers of AC: Black Flag are up since S&B release.
Is very strange, since Ubisoft makes both, that they couldn't give two poots of day old man-jam to just replicate what made Black Flag so good.
If it doesn't have the airship board fights just like in Granblue fantasy relink,
If it doesn't have the character create system as complex as PSO2 or Honey select 2 DX,
If it doesn't have boss filters just like in AC6/Elden ring,
If it doesn't have a trading system just like Warframe does,
If it isn't as good as SOMA,
If it isn't as immersive as Fallout new vegas,
If it isn't as thought-provoking as the Talos Principle,
If its gameplay isn't as good as Nier Automata,
If it doesn't have a good and complex story like in plane scape torment,
If it doesn't have lovable and memorable characters just like in BG3,
Then they're just making themselves a clown in the face of the public. ignore this game and look for something else. It is a live service game just like Diablo IV so you can't find a repack/pirated version of it in the future.
beta testers say its a bad game
Its very bad
Played the beta and while its not horrible... its not good, not worth the $60 baseline (God forbid the $100), not worth a First ever quadruple A rating let alone AAA, and for having spent such a long time in dev hell even with what should have been an easy remake with much much more.... not worth the wait.