A Historical Analysis of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:49 Time period
7:04 Sponsor
8:52 Ships
19:43 Combat
24:00 Crafting
28:07 Locations
30:22 Conclusion
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Ah, Gold and Gunpowder ! I was expecting someone with your reputation to be a little older.
Being reminded about how important getting food, drinking and toilet was while on the high seas makes me wonder why there hasn't been a survival video game set in the period, since survival elements in games seem to be so popular
yeah, it would fit very much with the boucaniers or even just open seas survival
@GoldandGunpowder i just want a quick time event to flip over a turtle with a hook that would be perfect
Have you heard or seen anything about the Atlas video game, it is a pirate themed survival game in open seas, you can build ships and draw whatever you want in sails and flags, you have to search for different types of food to balance the vitamins, you can tame animals, it has some fictional creatures, and of course you can steal ships from other players but that takes a long time so is better to sink them unless youre on a roleplay server or something, or you can add mods to fight human npcs and have more ship types
I haven't played it in a while but in my opinion it's better to play it in pvp enabled multiplayer with a lot of people, who at least don't attack when you're offline, and without bad losers, cuz they can throw the loot and defend it until it despawns its really annoying
You might want to check out sailwind, it’s kinda what your thinking of
Sid Meier’s Pirates is at its core a resource management game
They said I had 31 minutes and 47 seconds to do whatever I wanted before they hanged me for high-seas piracy
I liked how the ingame UbiSoft emails talked about how they'd have to change the story to make the game more entertaining to mass markets over historical accuracy.
One thing to point out regarding the muskets used by the Jackdaw crew is that they were equipped with bayonets, which is highly unlikely to be used by pirates during the Golden Age. I'm guessing the developers probably reused the same musket models from AC3.
A lot of stuff in ACIV is reused assets from AC3. I think it's one of the reasons why the ships are too big.
I disagree with Woodes Rogers being depicted as a “villain”. Yes, they were antagonists, but by AC III, they [mostly] return to showing that Templars aren’t all too different from Assassins, save for their means; how they achieve the goal of peace. The Ezio trilogy mostly made it about super heroes vs super villains, and while there are some Templars from each game that are certainly mustache twirlers, many are depicted as still being honorable in their own right. Rogers was depicted as far more patient, understanding, and considerate than others. He goes out of his way to spare the pirates and grant them new purpose, as opposed to hunting them down despite their crimes granting him a right to do so. While he may have been apart of a plot to erase privacy and snoop on the world, the reasoning he and the Templars of the West Indies were understandable from a certain point of view. He also doesn’t really hunt down Edward, funnily enough, perhaps hoping that turning the other captains would cause a domino effect. Woodes, and even the other Templars are more so antagonists than absolute villains. I’d say Black Bart (the Sage) and Laurens Prins are the most villainy main antagonists. The game merely depicts Woodes Rogers as an obstacle for Edward, and a catalyst that aids the shifting tides of the Pirate’s Life. They were already hitting a dead end. He just eased that end by providing new opportunities and potential salvation for the pirates. He never kills anyone in the game. Not that we see nor hear of. If we do hear of it, it’s old news. On the other hand, Edward kills people left and right for monetary gain, and eventually in defense of freedom and privacy.
Just because a character is depicted as an antagonist to the protagonist, doesn’t mean they are the villain. Just read or watch Death Note to learn that. I can’t speak for Black Sails, however, since I haven’t watched it because it seemed like a Vikings (the show) style reimagining of history with myths and legends and historically inaccurate costume design.
Ships do not have health bars?? :(
I loved Black Flag so much. It's shame there aren't better pirate games. I heard Skull & Bones isn't very good
there is definitely some enjoyment to be had, it’s just not the best. Black Flag does pretty much everything better than S&B. With the exception of ship customisation, which S&B does really well.
imagine though someone did a Pirate Game on the same caliber as Red Dead Redemption 2
The only thing that is hilarious is a Brig, a sloop and a Ship-of-the-line pushing 20 knots. And it brings me to what Jack Sparrow said about why he wouldn't take on a Ship-of-the-line because the Black Pearl would be pounded into kindling. And any pirate to take on such a ship would have to be beyond insane.
I'm so glad you set the record straight on shanties
so many people call random leisure songs shanties
Words change meaning my dude.
Except he's wrong about shanties. Shanties were not just work songs at all.
@@weirdofromhalo exactly!!! i found this "Shanties are work songs and were originally sung only for work. However, sailors also sang for pleasure in the forecastle where they slept or, in fine weather, gathered near the fore bitts (large posts on the foredeck). While songs with maritime themes were sung, all manner of popular songs and ballads on any subject might be sung off watch. "
I'd be interested to see a video where you took a crack at re-imagining some of the fictional characters (as opposed to the historical figures) from AC4 the way you did with Jack Sparrow. Would be cool to see your idea of how a character like Edward might be clothed more accurately while maintaining the general look expected from the series' Assassins like the white hood and long... coat tails or skirts, for lack of a better term.
Agree 100% that its downright criminal how no!!! pirate game lets you design your own flag. Sid Meiers doesnt let you do it, neither does Black Flag, nor Sea of Thieves (and they dont even offer a classic pirate flag :( )
I’m pretty sure SoT does have a classic pirate flag but I’m forgetting its name of the top of my head. And in a technicality, the new guild system does offers a custom flag but under preset patterns and colors
@@padilla2828jolly rodger
There is one game which is Tortuga: A pirates tale
In the Jurassic Park book, theres a conversation between the scientist and Dr Grant while discussing the way the dinosaurs look.
Essentially Grant mentions the lack of feathers and colors on the dinosaurs.
The Dr says that if they did their best to create athletic looking dinosaurs that it would destroy peoples executions and they would feel cheated of an experience.
Because they have so much genetic control over the dinosaurs they adulterated them too look like that people think dinosaurs would look like.
The public’s expectations vs really can really clash especially when you’re trying to sell them on something.
I will note that Kingston in game is a weird mix of Kingston and Spanish Town. One of the viewpoint spots is called a Parish Church but its blatantly St Jago Del La Vega Cathedral in Spanish Town, where IRL Mary Read is buried.
I think the devs realized Kingston is a better known spot and includes Port Royal and just mixed aspects of Spanish Town since it was the capital of the colony at the time.
Your mention of pirates using black and native people for diving wrecks makes me wonder if they singled out people from specific coastal groups for this. Someone who grew up spear fishing or pearl diving would be invaluable for diving a wreck of any depth over 50 feet or so, and some could even go below 100 feet and still be able to function. Those are skills and physical attributes that would take a lifetime to acquire. Ordering inexperienced divers to those depths is probably just going to drown them, if they even make it down that far at all before giving up, and that's not even considering the danger inherent to swimming inside a wreck.
just hold your breath and find gold, youll be fine sir :,D
I just found your videos last night and I must have already spent hours enjoying them thanks for the hard work much love and best wishes
fun fact: skull and bonus doesnt seem to have a wind direction system at all ... sigh. weird for a sailing game
it's a mod of AC4 and AC4 doesn't have a wind direction system either
i mean i dont think the game and black sails endorses piracy, just romanticises it. its all fictional with historical flavour, and in a lot of assassins creed games historical figures that were mostly good guys are represented as villains or templars because they were powerfull people
16:30 both naval action and The Pirate Caribbean Hunt/Plague of the dead have a degree of flag customisation, at least you can select which you want to fly.
In regards to your ships section.
I've looked a bit some naval vessels of 17th to 19th century and a recurring issue is that the hulls seems to be closer to ships from the Napoleonic era or later. The Man of War is obviously a modified version of Napoleonic era 1st rates but so do the brigs. If you take out the ram and extent the bowsprit it bears a striking resemblance to some 1800s french brigs. The most recent design seems that of the schooner as it's near identical to a 1850s american one called The Californian. The frigate, gunboat and fishing vessels do seem like the closest to period ships but even then they are a bit modern.
The Jackdaw doesn't seem to have a direct inspiration. You could say she's an enlarged Lady Washington. The Russian mercury is also possible as it's particularly large brig even if it's from 1850s as well. Interestingly though, there's two ships that seem to be the main inspirations. The rigging is closest to a Bomb Vessel called the Granado, which is somewhat appropriate given you can mount mortars on it, and the hull is a larger version of a replica of supposed Spanish frigate called the Rattlesnake.
The Pirate Caribbean Hunt is a pretty fun game
~5:00 The dialogue can be quite historically inaccurate as well, the last few times I went through the game I made note every time I heard something that sounded out of place, and sure enough, many of these examples were only attested late in the 19th century. A few memorable examples were Charles Vane saying "I'll cap you," to mean "I'll shoot you," which is a reference to 19th century percussion cap firearms (the first thing that caught my attention and got me questioning other lines), Edward talking about getting in "a dustup," which is a late-19th century euphemism for a fight ("to kick up a/the dust" is attested in the 1750s, and "to dust (someone's) coat" in the 1660s, but "dustup" specifically was first attested in the 1890s), and Adewale referencing "plum duff" (a term for Christmas Pudding first attested in the 1840). These are just some examples that I both noticed and remembered, I'm sure there are many similar uses of British slang throughout the game that are more recent than the setting.
Aside from the writing but still on the subject of spoken dialogue, I'd also like to note that many if not most of the accents are anachronistic too; during the early 18th century, non-rhotic accents hadn't developed in Great Britain (such accents seem to have started to develop right at the end of the 18th century, and gradually become the norm in England through the 19th), so many of the characters should speak with hard or rolled R's on the ends of words instead (hard R's for most English accents, R's for some though not necessarily all Welsh accents ad possibly Northern English accents like the one they presented Mary Read with. Unfortunately we don't have a lot of records of African and Afro-Caribbean accents from the time, so it's difficult to know whether dropping R's in modern anglophone Caribbean accents is a feature of African influence or later non-Rhotic British accents, but since that's unknown I can accept accents like Adewale's as plausible). Of course, using more accurate reconstructed accents would rob Edward of Matt Ryan's lovely natural accent, so... tradeoffs. I'd be willing to bet there are some anachronisms in the French and Spanish accents and dialogue we hear too (as there are with languages in every AC game), but I don't know very much about either of those languages' historical development, so I couldn't say.
I don't really point out accents in historical fiction mostly because it's hard to teach voice actors to speak in 300 y.o accents, and in many cases it might sound like a complete LARP. Like in Barry Lyndon where the main actor doesn't even bother not sounding like an American. I know there are a few series which nail it but if they don't bother I don't blame them.
@@GoldandGunpowder I can't blame them for not doing it (although I would like more things to try lol, and if the Assassin's Creed series can get a full cast to speak in Italian accents I think they could do the same with period accents), but it's still worth mentioning in a list of historical inaccuracies imo, at least if there isn't any conceit of translation for the modern audience.
I'm pretty sure "I'll cap you" is meant as kneecapping (no idea if that happened or if I'm right so sorry if I'm not.)
@@fivesARC--5555 Nah, it was definitely about shooting, he was threatening Edward with a gun at the time.
I think all your critiques are pretty fair and reasonable. Calling a sloop a cutter hurts my soul.
I will praise the voice cast they did a pretty good job, especially Ralph Innison as Charles Vane. That's how I always hear his voice while reading about Vane. The Anne Bonny depiction is... well I'd probably have written and designed her differently.
Vane sounds great, but his accent... really implausible. Non-rhotic (R-dropping) British accents may have started to develop by the end of the 18th century, but at the time of AC4 they definitely hadn't, so most of the British characters in game should be saying hard R's like in General American, Irish, or West Country accents.
@@SomasAcademy West Country, I know Mark Bomer the VA for Blackbeard is doing West Country. Is that broadly accurate?
Accent aside its the gravally voice I like for Vane. Very gutteral and not eloquent.
@@LadyTylerBioRodriguez Yeah Blackbeard's VA represents a pretty typical West Country accent, though Blackbeard himself is believed to have been from Bristol, which has a slightly different accent to the one he's portrayed with in the game. Do note though that I'm just talking about the pronunciation of the letter R on the ends of words, other sounds would vary from accent to accent (that's why I mentioned a few different modern accents with similar R sounds). If you want some examples of historical accent evolution, the channel Simon Roper has some great videos where he tries to reproduce accents from different periods.
@@SomasAcademy Accents are fascinating and quite frequently wrong since they don't remain static.
10:26 you mentioned that ramming was abandoned as a tactic in the 6th century and whilst that is true to some extent, the last recorded use of ramming as an intentional tactic was at the battle of Lissa in 1866. Where admiral Tegetthoff ordered his ship to ram and sink the Re d'Italia.
that was because steam-powered ships made from iron were unlimited by the structural damages caused to wooden, sail-powered ships which engaged in ramming. ramming was unproductive and dangerous for the latter type of vessel which are the ones discussed in the video
@@GoldandGunpowder very sorry for my pedantry, I just thought I would point it out. If I may point out something else, in the game's sequel Assassin's Creed Rogue, the main ship features a ram that is frankly ridiculous to the point of farce.
some spanish and portuguese sailships in the 16th century deployed a ram-like device called the "spur" or "spiron", however it was mounted above the waterline and was used to bury into an enemy hull to secure the two ships and be used as a bridge during boarding action, not to destroy the enemy ship, however a few of these very large spurs could be used as saws to destroy large chains blocking waterways
@@GoldandGunpowder , I do think that compliments your point further as most Mediterranean vessels were galleys with a shallow draft.
Could you do the same historical analysis on The Pirate Caribbean Hunt? Its a surprisingly impressive game about pirates on IOS
Hi Golden gunpowder
Gold&Gunpowder: Nassau pirates were thieves and rapists.
Mainstream Pirate Enjoyers: :O
Sorry, I know I'm late to the party, but there's one point on naval ramming that I just find hilarious: the Austrian navy actually tried reintroducing it into doctrine in the mid 19th century after the Battle of Lissa, which was such a... series of events, including several collisions (Admiral Tegethoff is quoted with "ram everything that's grey!"), it basically tricked their admiralty into believing that ironclad warships should be feasibly usable as rams. There were wooden ships at the battle, some even experienced collisions- and promptly showed the world why nobody really conducted large scale ramming for centuries.
That idea kind of made it into popular fiction even, with HG Wells writing the HMS Thunderchild as a "Torpedo Ram".
I have to say this, though AC brotherhood will always be my favorite. I do like AC4 for the ship combat.
I think the heavy shot is based on siege artillery naval defense, where some canon balls could be heated up in a special oven to be fired on attacking ships. So innacurate for a ship I think. One such oven exist at Fort la Latte at Saint Malo, France.
Some ships did have shot heaters on board, 100 years later in the Napoleonic Era.
The game is not very accurate but god damn is it the reason for my pirate love and honestly it really is one of the best assassins creed game
It ought to be, with 900 people working on it at the time...
Great video as always, I know of a pirate themed survival game where you can customize the flags and your entire ship, you can play singleplayer or multiplayer, and I think there are mods for more types of ships, there may be one with more historically accurate ones, but the ones in the game are not that bad if i remember correctly, except for the biggest one i hate turning that thing and has like 6 masts its ridiculous, I haven't played it for a while, it's not really in the Caribbean, it's in a fictional world where almost the entire surface is sea, has a few mythycal creatures, being a sandbox i think its as historically accurate as you make it, It's called Atlas in case anyone wants to take a look
Small nitpick, but the Jackdaw isn’t a brig it’s a frigate, and it’s explicitly referred to as so in game. One of the Spanish or English governors even comments saying how it was big for a pirate ship which makes sense when taking account for Edward’s ego. All the other NPC pirates are shown either using brigs or schooners
16:30 in the game “Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale” the first thing you do is create a custom flag.
I love this channel I'm so glad i found this it should be way more popular or mabey I'm just weird
I think for a better naval combat system you'd have to separately track crew casualties and damage (largely functional rather than structural) on enemy ships. It's kind of a prerequisite for having baoth cannon and muskets serving their own purpose before the boarding phase. (though there should ofc be stuff like cannister breaking it up a bit) On the boarding phase a loose command system could be kind a cool. Maybe something that a allows you to have the crew kinda following Edward (alternatively the AI controlled SIC) so you can direct them a bit.
Oh yeah Gold and Gunpowder uploaded 🙏🙏
What a great video but now I wish we had a more accurate Pirate game.
Only game I'll give an accuracy pass for. If they remake it I hope they make it more accurate.
I’m hoping they keep it accurate as well but given the theme of the past few games, they’re probably gonna stick with the abhorrently anachronistic theme of the other open world games
I'm willing to give a complete pass on some inaccuracies for gameplay purposes (I don't mind that the ships are way faster than in real life and don't need to worry about wind direction, for example, because in a non-simulator game more realism would probably make things really boring), but less so on things like clothing accuracy (except for Edward, I'll give him a pass since Assassins dress weird), ship accuracy, and setting accuracy, all of which I think the game could have done a lot better without sacrificing anything. That said, it's still a great game, the inaccuracies just make it slightly less good than it could have been. It would definitely be a dream come true if they used the rumored remake as an opportunity to increase the historical accuracy, though I'm not holding out hope for that lol
Can we get a pirate game that’s not a copy of Sea of Thieves PLEASEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Not too mention Sea of Thieves really doesn't even need a competitor.
I will try ;)
@@CosplayZine will highly appreciate it. May I suggest some pirate games for inspiration 1. Sid Miers Pirates and 2. Pirates Legend of Black Kat
Could you do a historical analysis on pirate names? I feel like it is very possible there is a lot of misconceptions in that area of pirate history.
Although not very about pirates, I'd love an analysis of AC: Rogue in this fashion, as it still has naval combat as a key mechanic
Additionally, maybe the reason why the pirates are seen as ‘good’ is because they’re the POV we’re seeing the most of, so of course Rogers is seen as a villain.
Had the perspective been reversed then it would be the other way around.
Plus, in the game the pirates aren’t really portrayed as saints, far from it actually, but they’re at least seen as aphable and sympathetic to a degree to make them compelling protagonists.
As a guy who loves all things pirates, I know these guys were bad news. But that doesn’t stop me from liking stories about them.
Honestly, your disregard for how the story is told POV wise makes this video even more difficult to take seriously.
and the way they're portrayed is completely ahistorical. if the Nassau pirates were portrayed historically you would not feel sympathy for them, and if Rogers in turn was portrayed historically, you'd feel sympathy for him. so they had to twist the history to hit the story they wanted to tell
@@GoldandGunpowder Oh for god’s sake, this is what I can’t stand about historians.
For you guys everything has to be 100% accurate or it’s considered ahistorical and bad.
That term barely makes any sense too, history is full of conjecture and guesswork just in general.
And to add to that point-saying something is accurate or inaccurate is making an assumption about something that we only know bits and pieces of in some cases or a lot of others-particularly because of source bias screwing things in certain directions.
this is a historical analysis video - a historical analysis is made. what did you expect?
@@GoldandGunpowder It’s just generally annoying. The fact that historians have to um actually every single thing in existence and just can’t let people try to make historically authentic works without having to rigidly adhere to full accuracy and restrict themselves creatively.
That’s what ticks me off. Not the analysis itself.
Actually, I found some of the stuff in the video rather interesting.
But the way it was presented just pushed my buttons.
And to my point about historical authenticity rather than accuracy, Blue from OSP put it best in his Detail Diatribe on the Historical elements of AC: Historical Accuracy can be tweaked in games like this, so long as it still provides a general sense of historical authenticity that doesn’t completely break the immersion.
I’m not explaining it well as him so I suggest seeing said video, but hopefully you get my point
The scope of the video was clearly clarified from the start: people ask me how historical this game is, I answer. People ask me about AC4 in several comment sections, in my email, on the Discord, on my livestreams. It was a video in high demand. Historical accuracy or inaccuracy does not mean a game is bad or good, I remain neutral on this point. The people who are "generally annoying" are YOUR sort who barge into these discussions, get angry when anything you perceive as negative is said about your favorite video game, without comprehending a very basic message or simply being able to enjoy something in spite of its flaws.
Great video can u do a video on assassin's creed rogue please and do the history of that game because u get a ship in that game like ac black flag
Pretty good, but I wished you talked about the army/navy uniforms of the British, Spanish, and Portuguese. They never seemed accurate to me, and I’m wondering what they would have looked like instead. Haven’t found much on the subject.
Also found it odd whenever you raid a ship, your only fighting the soldiers (no sailors or anything)
From what I can identify, the accuracy of the outfits are somewhat of a mixed bag.They have many elements of uniforms from the period but appear to be largely anachronistic.Some of the enemies are seen wearing bicorn hats (the type worn by Napoleon).These hats came into fashion in the 1790's which is around 60 years after the golden age.
Really weird question and request but when skull and bones comes out in full release will you look at all the ships and tell us what you think about their design their a little cartoonish but over all I think their pretty nice also I don’t care what people think I’ve had fun with the beta and I like the way their road map looks and anything with ship combat and sense of progression I’m down for
Cough cough somebody send me to rehab for war thunder
Note the reason I’m asking this is because I noticed there are ships like the snow and some other ships named from real life but I don’t know how accurate they are and I’d like to know even though I really don’t care it is a game after all made by Ubisoft so their gonna take creative liberties where ever they want
They'll not only take liberties. They'll disregard potential customers by doing things like removing all comments from their trailers. They don't care about actual pirate lore and they'll run it into the ground with automatic weapons and nonsense until it breaks and dies out in no time. Another cannon simulator. That's all people want to make these days. Real pirates didn't even want to fire their cannon at the prize. They weren't much unlike the outlaws of the west or bank robbers of today in those regards.
4:54 well, abour the message
You play as a pirate, and from your perspective, someone who wants to get rid of the pirates is a villain. Same goes for pirates fo rhe Caribbean
Exactly... this guy knows history but still sounds like a ret@rd who can't comprehend sides or the viewpoint of YOUR characters...
Have you ever played the game Pirates and Traders? It's a mobile game, I've been curious if you had an option on it.
On the frigates, wouldnt it be possible that a frigate could have referred to a larger warship that had been cut down, removing decks?
This became an insanely long comment but: What really strikes me when comparing the world building of AC4 BF to Witcher 3 for example, is that despite the latter game taking place in a fantasy world it feels more historical, like medieval North/East Europe with added fantasy elements and some later technology (smoking pipes, American plants like sunflowers etc.). Even the costumes in Witcher 3 look like real Medieval or Renaissance costumes most of the time, Witcher gear excluded in some cases (and even it makes more sense most of the time more than AC4 leather pirate armor). Even the fantasy elements are better included, both have these as precursor technology and Templar vs Assassins setups are nothing if not fantasy in the AC universe. Of course Witcher 3 is based on a book series that did most of the world building but still. AC 4 has some nice historical touches here and there and I do like it as a game, I just do not like the visuals like the horrible ramming brigs or ridiculous clothes. Also, Red Dead Redemption 2 did so much better work in setting up a historical fictional universe too, despite some liberties like leather cowboy hat (leather hats seem to be so an obsession in media ever since Potc) and use of fictional states (which is a decent creative decision in my opinion). BTW the most striking historical errors in the cities are later built structures like Havana's grand cathedral built between 1748-1777 and Nassau's The Queen's Staircase built in 1790s. These are forgivable in my opinion as these games also work as cheap ways to "travel" to other places and it is nice to have some local landmarks features that are still there and both of these do date to the same century at least. I wish they had done more realistic geography in the game too and more diverse nature as there would be in the Caribbean. Great Inagua base is utterly ridiculous with its giant Mayan ruins (I like their inclusion, but there could have been just more of then in the Yucatan area to be explored) and mountains whereas the real island in Inagua is very flat. The idea of your own pirate town was cool though. Anyway nice video. Cheers!
Oh since this video opens up other pirate games what about checking out sea dogs series?
Is that Burzum at 7:47?
There is one game that lets you design your own flag though it has limitations. Tortuga: A Pirates Tale.
Not a bad game if I am honest.
Do Sea of Thieves next please!
Woodes Rogers portrayed as a villain doesn't send any kind of "message". AC4's portrayal of pirates is more a fantasy and less historical, so having a figure like Rogers as an antagonist only serves that purpose. There isn't any kind of message telling people that anything the Nassau pirates did was actually good because those are not the type of pirates depicted in the game. Don't be so quick to make a sweeping moral judgement.
By this logic you can make a historical "fantasy" game where Pol Pot is a superhero who fights against evil people with glasses. Most people are unaware of Pol Pot and since this will be their only exposure to him they will gain a positive perception of him, which judging by his historical deeds, is entirely unjust. But let's say you make a similar game on Hitler. People know his story well enough to recognize this game as complete bullshit. It is not the case for Pol Pot, Woodes Rogers or the Nassau Flying Gang. AC4 and Black Sails are essentially slanderous hit pieces on a man who died 300 years ago. You might say that it happened so long ago that it doesn't matter, but people still celebrate Kings, scientists and authors from the same period as national heroes. Individuals and their deeds are posthumously celebrated or villified. It should be presented frankly for everyone to make their own opinions. And these works have twisted people's opinions. Throughout the years since this game's release I've encountered people whose opinions on historical pirates are completely twisted by works like these. So yes, I am going to be very quick at making sweeping moral judgements because I know what I am talking about.
7:47 is that dunkelheit i hear?
15:10 spainiards aren't people but hanoverians are also could you cover sea of thieves a tiny bit?
Man I really hope they make the ships more realistic in the remake or with a mod.
Too bad Skull & Bones is a cartoony parody of AC Black Flag.
Based review. Poor manatees though...
Manatees aren’t “le cute Reddit animal”, they’re an endangered species because of the fact they’ve been hunted so much
this must be the video that took down ubisoft 😶🌫
O of course the Brit making the video would say Woods Rodger’s was a good guy. Typical
I'm not British
@@GoldandGunpowder red coat!
Any story where Pirates are romantic Swashbuckling heroes is going to have to have to villainize Woods Rogers for the exact same reason Pirates get romanticized.
Makes for a good story; but in all seriousness I have become wary of stories that romanticize historical pirates. Because while that romantic image makes for a fun story; it also has done great harm to the general Public’s understanding of a critical period of Colonial History and the relationship between Colonialism and Piracy.
And while I don’t think it matters if people think pirates wore tricorn hats and sang shanties from 1800s. I do think it matters that people think Pirates were revolutionary proto-anarchists when they were in fact the vanguard of European Colonialism.
RIP the comment I posted early. Poor thing, bet its pretty dark stuffed up google's asshole.
It can be found in "my data in CZcams" section of something like that. I could at least find an old comment of a video which was deleted.
@@unknowntrooper_2791 All this time I thought it was stuffed up google's ass.
Sea of thieves
Swedish.
You did not understand the lore of black flag. Not all pirates are good but only the assassins.
I think a heavy shot is like putting twice the amount of gunpowder into the cannon but i dunno.