Mr Moose
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Skull & Bones open beta tomorrow, releases soon - where's the hype at?
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StueyDuck
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I've been playing it off an on for like 3 maybe even 4 years now
I've all but had enough of skull n bones
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Ah yes the 18 rated Sea of Thieves again...
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Michelle Rodriguez keeps interrupting my youtube videos over this, it had better leave sand in my shoes after all of that cacophony
Meicyn
Gold Member
Played it for a bit, hated it. The opening act was just weird, I’m in the open seas and the first thing that happens is that I hit some kind of boundary and had sixty seconds to return to the quest area. Seriously, why?
Aiming and firing cannons like I’m in control of a turret is also weird. I grew up playing Sid Meier’s Pirates in the late 80s and so I judge pirate games based on that. I found the simplistic ship combat game of that title more fun than Skull and Bones, since you and the enemy could only fire from the broadsides which affected how you would attack and how you would evade since wind direction and speed would heavily affect your maneuvering.
Then there’s the hamfisted writing. The dialogue coming out of characters‘ mouths isn’t even remotely believable. There were several borderline “Jill, here's a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you” moments in execution.
I had little interest in the first place, and the open beta helped confirm my suspicions. Gameplay is meh, it’s aesthetically mediocre at best, outright ugly in some spots which I suppose coincides with it having been delayed for so long. Even with a lot of games I end up disliking, there’s usually at least one aspect that stands out. Everything was just bleh. I can’t help but compare it to another Ubisoft product like The Division, and I can only shake my head at the stark contrast.
Aiming and firing cannons like I’m in control of a turret is also weird. I grew up playing Sid Meier’s Pirates in the late 80s and so I judge pirate games based on that. I found the simplistic ship combat game of that title more fun than Skull and Bones, since you and the enemy could only fire from the broadsides which affected how you would attack and how you would evade since wind direction and speed would heavily affect your maneuvering.
Then there’s the hamfisted writing. The dialogue coming out of characters‘ mouths isn’t even remotely believable. There were several borderline “Jill, here's a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you” moments in execution.
I had little interest in the first place, and the open beta helped confirm my suspicions. Gameplay is meh, it’s aesthetically mediocre at best, outright ugly in some spots which I suppose coincides with it having been delayed for so long. Even with a lot of games I end up disliking, there’s usually at least one aspect that stands out. Everything was just bleh. I can’t help but compare it to another Ubisoft product like The Division, and I can only shake my head at the stark contrast.
WhamBamThankYouMaam
Member
I think everything lacks…weight? I
The tutorial had ships that could take ten thousand cannonballs, and the boats behaved like fast cars. I would like it if the ships were more sluggish.
And the graphics of characters are…not too hot.
And the sharks jumping around…what the hell?
The tutorial had ships that could take ten thousand cannonballs, and the boats behaved like fast cars. I would like it if the ships were more sluggish.
And the graphics of characters are…not too hot.
And the sharks jumping around…what the hell?
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Shin-Ra
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UBISOFT MULTIPLAYER GAAS
So it’s a means for drip feeding worthless shit for years rather than releasing the best game possible day one and then moving onto the next game.
A leach game like Fortnite that suck up everyone’s time and money so fewer varied and exciting games are successful.
So it’s a means for drip feeding worthless shit for years rather than releasing the best game possible day one and then moving onto the next game.
A leach game like Fortnite that suck up everyone’s time and money so fewer varied and exciting games are successful.
VenomousCoffee
Member
Everything I'm seeing so far makes a good case for replaying Black Flag.
Solarstrike
Gold Member
Aye ready Captain!
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Played about fifteen minutes, got my fill and deleted.
Bond007
Member
Well, ignoring all the negative hype around it. Cause its the popular thing currently regarding this game and Ubisoft.
Considering the trouble the game has had. I find it fun and have already put a few hours into it. Great time in naval combat and the ship customization.
To each their own.
Considering the trouble the game has had. I find it fun and have already put a few hours into it. Great time in naval combat and the ship customization.
To each their own.
YeulEmeralda
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Reminds me of Beyond Good& Evil 2.
I reached the Infamy cap and will definitely be trying the game out at launch (for 15 UBI bucks; in no way should this have been sent out full price - I have no idea why they didn't go the Resident Six: Extraction route with this game). If you can get some people to grow some stones, the elite fights are fun and the actually smuggling bits (which are - at least so far - just you being hunted by other thieves) offer a good excuse for what the game does well: clunky (as I'm sure it was) ship combat.
. . .I'm not sure if the earlier E3 presentations were bullshots, but I absolutely agree that the game has suffered a SEVERE aesthetic downgrade; like it is wild just how consoley the current UI/UX is compared to what we've seen before (like older videos went hard on the old-timey, piratey writing style, whereas here it's just pick a font from UBI's focus group tested list of approved fonts).
MayauMiao
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NewYork214
Member
My hype died with how long it took. I'll wait for a sale at this point
I legit had forgotten about that TD1 presentation. After seeing this video it is basically confirmed this is how they sell games: overproduced "gameplay" that likely has post-processing elements that were never intended to be in the final version. Hell even the geometry is leagues better in that video than what the Open Beta is showing (like the shots of islands: fine that you can't go on them, but they should at least LOOK impressive).
. . .I guess this is another one that's going to be added to the pile (there's a link to a FC5 presentation, another good UBI smoothbrain game that didn't play or look as good in the presentation trailer). Legit shocked that there's no mainstream articles about this or any ex-UBI developers coming forward to talk about it.
