I love this new Skull and Bones game so far. Only played a couple hours. It looks fire. Wow, no idea why anyone’s harshing Ubi’s mellow on this one.
It truly shows the “AAAA” status, the graphics and scope and pure fun are top notch. 2024 is a winner for gaming so far, what with Palworld, LID infinite wealth, suicide squad, prince of Persia. Can’t wait for new Final Fantasy
Psy_Kikk
Why are the pirate ships in this game crewed with women? It looks and sounds ridiculous. Jesus christ, imagine trying to maintain ship discipline in the 1500 or 1600s with a 50/50 crew…
And I’m sorry, but if that’s the devs approach you know exactly how the rest of the game is going to be – a pirate themed game for gen z fortniters, who know frontpage reddit-politik and ‘room reading’, but fuck all history, filled with MTX, flashy but shallow combat, and live service addicting shite, but little else of substance. What a colossal waste of money.
*barf*
sly_like_Coyote
This thread, in this exact state, should be in a museum encapsulating reddit.
There are two responses total. One of them is ranting that the game is a woke exercise in emasculation because women exist in it. The other is a marketing intern on a burner account engaged in fellatio so deep and performative it would make Heather blush. Both have been piling up downvotes.
KvotheLightningTree
I’ve never been able to get excited for this game because the boat combat in the assassins creed games was my least favourite part of those games.
So, a game that is exclusively that sounds like it would get old in about 3 hours.
General shittiness from Ubisoft is another thing entirely.
GleepGlop2
First thing I noticed skimming this video is why are the ships nosediving with their rear end in the air. How did they fuck up the most basic thing of getting the ships to sit on the water properly.
RaNerve
As someone who has played many ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT GAMES, I feel qualified in saying that SKULL AND BONES^tm is an exhilarating exploration of PIRATE THEME and fun for the whole family. SKULL AND BONES^tm truly shows the AAAA quality: it has GRAPHICS, and GRAPHICS, and PIRATES. Among other things too! Truly you should go and BUY SKULL AND BONES^tm if you want to be part of this year’s top gaming sensation.
Hep_C_for_me
So is it good or not? I don’t want to watch an hour video I just want to have fun.
Cosmic--Sentinel
Well this is definitely one of Ubisoft games of all times
XyzzyPop
As a big fan of the Age of Sail and the pirate genre (Tropico Pirates, Sid Meier Pirates, Black Flag, etc.) I watched a streamer on Twitch for a few hours and it looked like a lowest common denominator arcade game with a pirate theme. I wasn’t disappointed, I’m just absolutely uninterested and see no reason to watch the streamer while they play it -.let alone buy it. Smugly generic is the only descriptor I have.
loganthegr
I’ve been following it since day 1 and it’s only gotten less and less impressive. Combat is extremely boring, no boarding ships, mini games for resources, NO STORY etc. what a joke of a “AAAA” game.
I’ll just replay Black flag.
ca_metal
I am a huge fan of Black Flag and played some of the betas. It’s not for me.
And this was a game I was looking for back when they first announced it. 🙁
AestheticNoAzteca
What I don’t understand is how they didn’t realize how boring it is to destroy ships in a loop. In AC Black Flag, sailing is fun because there are other things to do. If I had to be on the ship all the time, it would be very repetitive.
They could have done it One Piece-style, where you have to explore diverse islands, maintaining the survival focus but giving the player an adventure/exploration section outside of the ship.
Or introducing other types of ships, departing from realism, and bringing in giant and slow ships, or ships that can attack by sending people in droves, or battles on the same ship (as they already did in AC Black Flag).
Sticking to “shoot until it sinks” is a formula that feels repetitive very quickly.
The_Silent_Manic
This is actually making me want to give Black Flag another chance and I don’t even like the franchise (quit the game when had an early quest to catch an NPC while avoiding capture/or something and I kept failing for almost an hour before I gave up in frustration).
Icefiight
Lol shit game is shit
1985jmcg
Just remaster Black Flag with better graphics, 60fps a new minimalistic HUD, adding a few islands/sidequests, let us play as Aveline and Adéwale in some missions and call it a day. Easiest profit ever.
Umicil
Jesus fucking christ dude. Don’t post a **FORTY-SIX MINUTE VIDEO**. Of anything. Ever.
There is no information about a video game I’m willing to spend 46 fucking minutes of my life to learn. This shit isn’t that important.
MoreMegadeth
I cant wait for the entirely predictable Dunkey review.
OnlyTwoGenderzz
The fact that it took them 11 years to make this game by itself shows how awful it is. Very limited game with outdated mechanics and very simple. And they still charged 60 or $80 for it.
ThatsThePlan
A 46 minute “review”?!?!
Who is watching 46 minutes of this toilet bowl flushing?
GhostOfChar
The issue I have with this is I feel like I’ve already played it before, even with the bits of things Black Flag didn’t have. This release just pushes my opinion of Ubi a bit lower.
Wazzzup3232
Should have remade sidmeyers pirates. Can get it on backwards compatible for xbox
ThatFilbo
Ubisoft is about to learn about sunk cost fallacy.
Myhtological
If the Guillmont family didn’t own Ubisoft, Yves would be out on his ass
Instantcoffees
I know that thid is an unpopular opinion, but sounds like a game for me. I liked the beta and I like open world games with constant progression. I also love the pirate setting. I suppose that I like that Ubisoft formula a lot more than most players because I enjoyed AC Valhalla and especially Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
My only complaints from the open beta were a gamebreaking bug and the fact that the graphics looked fairly dated. So I might wait till it goes on sale, not sure yet.
SlimShaners
From putting many hours in Sea of Thieves, I’ve been excited for this game to release. However, after watching a few stream, I’m so glad I didn’t preorder. In fact, AC Black Flag was on sale in steam, still is I believe, so I picked that game up instead. Sounds like after reading everyone’s comment, this is the best route lol.
ConfusedAndCurious17
For a very low budget pirate game with great naval combat, multiplayer, ship boarding with melee combat (admittedly a bit jank), as well as some islands you can explore for quests (extremely jank), check out Tempest Pirate RPG.
I absolutely love that game. The downside is that once you figure out the game you start rolling in so much money that the game becomes trivial, but I’ve enjoyed it so much that I’ve restarted and played through it many times.
It’s on PC and mobile phone. Don’t go in expecting high end graphics or super refined features, but to me it seems more fun than this game.
What_A_Good_Sniff
My favorite part of the game is when the pirate looked directly at the camera and said “It’s Skull and Bones time!”
Fated47
Review is too generous and comes off strangely blind to the inherent failures of this game. Atypically soft review.
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I love this new Skull and Bones game so far. Only played a couple hours. It looks fire. Wow, no idea why anyone’s harshing Ubi’s mellow on this one.
It truly shows the “AAAA” status, the graphics and scope and pure fun are top notch. 2024 is a winner for gaming so far, what with Palworld, LID infinite wealth, suicide squad, prince of Persia. Can’t wait for new Final Fantasy
Why are the pirate ships in this game crewed with women? It looks and sounds ridiculous. Jesus christ, imagine trying to maintain ship discipline in the 1500 or 1600s with a 50/50 crew…
And I’m sorry, but if that’s the devs approach you know exactly how the rest of the game is going to be – a pirate themed game for gen z fortniters, who know frontpage reddit-politik and ‘room reading’, but fuck all history, filled with MTX, flashy but shallow combat, and live service addicting shite, but little else of substance. What a colossal waste of money.
*barf*
This thread, in this exact state, should be in a museum encapsulating reddit.
There are two responses total. One of them is ranting that the game is a woke exercise in emasculation because women exist in it. The other is a marketing intern on a burner account engaged in fellatio so deep and performative it would make Heather blush. Both have been piling up downvotes.
I’ve never been able to get excited for this game because the boat combat in the assassins creed games was my least favourite part of those games.
So, a game that is exclusively that sounds like it would get old in about 3 hours.
General shittiness from Ubisoft is another thing entirely.
First thing I noticed skimming this video is why are the ships nosediving with their rear end in the air. How did they fuck up the most basic thing of getting the ships to sit on the water properly.
As someone who has played many ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT GAMES, I feel qualified in saying that SKULL AND BONES^tm is an exhilarating exploration of PIRATE THEME and fun for the whole family. SKULL AND BONES^tm truly shows the AAAA quality: it has GRAPHICS, and GRAPHICS, and PIRATES. Among other things too! Truly you should go and BUY SKULL AND BONES^tm if you want to be part of this year’s top gaming sensation.
So is it good or not? I don’t want to watch an hour video I just want to have fun.
Well this is definitely one of Ubisoft games of all times
As a big fan of the Age of Sail and the pirate genre (Tropico Pirates, Sid Meier Pirates, Black Flag, etc.) I watched a streamer on Twitch for a few hours and it looked like a lowest common denominator arcade game with a pirate theme. I wasn’t disappointed, I’m just absolutely uninterested and see no reason to watch the streamer while they play it -.let alone buy it. Smugly generic is the only descriptor I have.
I’ve been following it since day 1 and it’s only gotten less and less impressive. Combat is extremely boring, no boarding ships, mini games for resources, NO STORY etc. what a joke of a “AAAA” game.
I’ll just replay Black flag.
I am a huge fan of Black Flag and played some of the betas. It’s not for me.
And this was a game I was looking for back when they first announced it. 🙁
What I don’t understand is how they didn’t realize how boring it is to destroy ships in a loop. In AC Black Flag, sailing is fun because there are other things to do. If I had to be on the ship all the time, it would be very repetitive.
They could have done it One Piece-style, where you have to explore diverse islands, maintaining the survival focus but giving the player an adventure/exploration section outside of the ship.
Or introducing other types of ships, departing from realism, and bringing in giant and slow ships, or ships that can attack by sending people in droves, or battles on the same ship (as they already did in AC Black Flag).
Sticking to “shoot until it sinks” is a formula that feels repetitive very quickly.
This is actually making me want to give Black Flag another chance and I don’t even like the franchise (quit the game when had an early quest to catch an NPC while avoiding capture/or something and I kept failing for almost an hour before I gave up in frustration).
Lol shit game is shit
Just remaster Black Flag with better graphics, 60fps a new minimalistic HUD, adding a few islands/sidequests, let us play as Aveline and Adéwale in some missions and call it a day. Easiest profit ever.
Jesus fucking christ dude. Don’t post a **FORTY-SIX MINUTE VIDEO**. Of anything. Ever.
There is no information about a video game I’m willing to spend 46 fucking minutes of my life to learn. This shit isn’t that important.
I cant wait for the entirely predictable Dunkey review.
The fact that it took them 11 years to make this game by itself shows how awful it is. Very limited game with outdated mechanics and very simple. And they still charged 60 or $80 for it.
A 46 minute “review”?!?!
Who is watching 46 minutes of this toilet bowl flushing?
The issue I have with this is I feel like I’ve already played it before, even with the bits of things Black Flag didn’t have. This release just pushes my opinion of Ubi a bit lower.
Should have remade sidmeyers pirates. Can get it on backwards compatible for xbox
Ubisoft is about to learn about sunk cost fallacy.
If the Guillmont family didn’t own Ubisoft, Yves would be out on his ass
I know that thid is an unpopular opinion, but sounds like a game for me. I liked the beta and I like open world games with constant progression. I also love the pirate setting. I suppose that I like that Ubisoft formula a lot more than most players because I enjoyed AC Valhalla and especially Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
My only complaints from the open beta were a gamebreaking bug and the fact that the graphics looked fairly dated. So I might wait till it goes on sale, not sure yet.
From putting many hours in Sea of Thieves, I’ve been excited for this game to release. However, after watching a few stream, I’m so glad I didn’t preorder. In fact, AC Black Flag was on sale in steam, still is I believe, so I picked that game up instead. Sounds like after reading everyone’s comment, this is the best route lol.
For a very low budget pirate game with great naval combat, multiplayer, ship boarding with melee combat (admittedly a bit jank), as well as some islands you can explore for quests (extremely jank), check out Tempest Pirate RPG.
I absolutely love that game. The downside is that once you figure out the game you start rolling in so much money that the game becomes trivial, but I’ve enjoyed it so much that I’ve restarted and played through it many times.
It’s on PC and mobile phone. Don’t go in expecting high end graphics or super refined features, but to me it seems more fun than this game.
My favorite part of the game is when the pirate looked directly at the camera and said “It’s Skull and Bones time!”
Review is too generous and comes off strangely blind to the inherent failures of this game. Atypically soft review.