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AngryJoe Reviews Ubisoft's "QUADRUPLE A" Open-World Pirate Game nearly 10 years in the making! FORGET EVERYTHING you know about Pirate Games indeed! Is this a worthy adventure for enterprising swashbucklers? No. Here is why!
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Mass Effect Andromeda: Sorry my Face is tired
Skull and Bones: Sorry my Ship is tired
I was looking for this comment.
😂
I even guess their AAAA is so tired that they skipped their boardings
Overwatch 2: sorry, my brand is tired.
Your ship isn't tired its your crew. If there was no stamina for your crew faster ships could just sail away. What a stupid thing to say.
10 years later, and Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag is still the best pirate game ever made. And its literally based in a franchise thats not even about pirates
Sea of Thieves is up there, fantastic game as of now.
Talking about One Piece?
Sea of Thieves is better imo but Black Flag is still very high up there.
You're 100% right. Before that game came out, it was probably Sid Meier's Pirates. Hell, I'd rather play LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean than any pirate game post Black Flag.
Sea dogs 2 is better
Ironically, this game is not even worth pirating
I don't understand how Ubisoft can pay 200 people to make a game that nobody wants to play. Like the entire leadership team and management team needs to get demoted or kicked out for wasting years of money.
@@alargecorgi2199 In Reality though: "Good Job! Here are your promotions!"
@@alargecorgi2199it’s more the big corporations forcing the devs to make these shitty games.
Not even worth looting
I wonder if they'll make DLC for it? I hope so I can see Joe's reaction to it.
"Your ship gets tired!"
That is such a stupid concept that it took several moments for me to realize how stupid it is.
It's the crew that gets tired
@@Qbopit’s not a fucking rowboat dude. It’s a sail ship, which is powered by the WIND.
The only real pirates were the Devs taking peoples money 😂
I never understood why people blame the devs instead of the actual CEOs making these discussions.
@@goosinator6066cause it’s a shitty game.
@@oficijalni5713Created by directors/CEOs changing ideas, so devs had to abandon features to create a new one, repeat this cycle for 10 years and you get this.
They were only doing what was requested, most of the time is not their fault, they were only doing what was asked to be done
kiss Joe's mexican hiney
@@pax1217 People just don't like to admit that the majority of the time it's the higher ups in the studios and their shareholder masters that make the decisions, and the developers just have to do the best they can. I mean this game according to what Gameranx's reported in their video about S&B supposedly costed Ubisoft 120 million dollars in budget and that's probably not even fully accurate since that number was reported back in 2021 so who knows how much more cash got burned into this game three years later, at that point the shareholders were likely going "ok, where's our money" and they had to push the game out as it was just to try and make SOMETHING back.
"Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy."
"But I like that fantasy."
"Yeah, well... Forget it."
Starfield did this but replaced "traditional pirate fantasy" with "traditional space fantasy." I am one of the few people that actually liked Starfield, but the bare bones and empty planets was my biggest complaint.
She looked dead inside when she said its darker and grittier
Thanks Ubisucks, very cool! 👌
And yeah, four A letters there for more
"No"
Vanessa Seow demonstrates Todd Howard levels of integrity.
fun fact in all the early play tests before the first "open beta" there was no stamina bar. Instead there was a morale system where you had to feed your crew or go back to port once in a while or your crew would cause a mutiny. It actually was a really fun system that forced you to pick your battles and although health slowly regenerated damage to your ship would also lower your max hp and morale. It added so many layers to the games core loop and systems that you actually felt that you were controlling a crew and not a ship. you wanted to hunt animals for better food for longer morale boosts. You wanted to avoid damage instead of just tanking it. You felt adrenaline when you just barely scrape an engagement, are out of food and had to rush back to shore to completely repair your ship and crew. the larger the ship the longer the morale took to drain but the less effective the food would be. I have no idea why they removed this system. Not only did it make moving across the map faster and more engaging, but it actually made the game feel like a complete product.
also other fun fact. In the playtests your female first mate was this really cool stoic black guy that looked like he could kill a shark in a single punch. they removed him for the Indian woman you see today. No idea why the VA was vastly superior and his character design and personality was infinitely better.
Dont make me more mad than i already am please
The more I hear about this game the more it feels like Ubisoft actively wanted it to fail for a tax write off. After how much money they dumped into its development, I wouldn’t doubt it.
Why was the superior character replaced with the shoe-horned in “STRONG, INDEPENDENT WOMAN”?
Not sure. Really. All I can say is she
Didn’t
Earn
It
That sounds amazing, and makes so much more sense than “my sails need a breather”
Ubisoft didn't make games nowadays, they make agressive left propaganda in the form of games.
The trailer: "AN ENTIRE WORLD OF MASSIVE SHIPS AND SWASHBUCKLING!"
The game: "AN ENTIRE POND OF TINY RAFTS, SWASHBUCKLING SOLD SEPARATELY!"
"Not since Suicide Squad have I seen a game bungled their concepts so bad"
So basically a week later then 🤣
Must be a record
It's a race to the bottom now tbf
the dips keep dipping
Both games have been in development for at least 8 years to lol
Remember when we all thought red fall would be the worst game for a few years….then we had gollum and it’s been a race to the bottom ever since
French lady
"it's sad to hear that people are upset that we are not making black flag 2"
THAT'S LITERALLY ALL WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOU WE WANT FOR 11 YEARS.
Stupid consumer, we hired a consulting firm they know better what you want. They also told us to add more women.
The closest you get is AC rogue and while I think it's a very nice assasins creed game it's not really an evolution of black flag just more of it... what a shame this game turned into
“We were sad to hear what our customers wanted” fucking game devs
We are so sad that the customer is too stupid to know what they want is basically what they were saying.
We know what we want and we voiced it quite clearly. Bean counters are what ruined AAA games.
Sadly most game companies don’t give a fluck anymore. They criminalize their own customers and see them as obstacles to their wallets. Despicable and desperate is the name of the game nowadays :/
Watching the entire thing now, but in case anyone isn't aware; the likely reason Skull and Bones was completed at all, is because Ubisoft was legally required to since they received money from the government.
So, all the employee and team changes throughout the years, never having an official direction where to take the game, realizing they HAVE to make something because otherwise they'll be in big trouble, this game is the equivalent to writing a paper last minute because you just need something to submit. (post edit: Oh hey he mentioned it at the end. lawl)
That is what most Ubisoft games feel like.
I took the lyrics to one of the sea shanties to heart.
" Leave her Johnny, leave her.
Oh, leave her Johnny, leave her.
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow,
and it's time for us to leave her."
It's actually sad that Ubisoft, a company notorious for copy and pasting, couldn't do just that for Black Flag with a new coat of paint.
Wow, you actually made me realize that, what a pathetic corpo they are, it's disgusting
Its really funny that the ONE TIME we actually want them to copypaste something they fail even at that XD
It actually feels like they intentionally make games to be crap.
U want some swashbuckling get pillars of eternity 2
This is the truth. They just had to make black flag without any assassins creed and bam. Instead they choose to make a garbage live service game
@@TackyKnackyThere are reasons I call "Ubishit" the name that I do
Crazy how they saw Black Flag and Sea of Thieves, grabbed both their foundations, removed the gameplay, replaced it with mobile game-like minigames and then call this a quadrupple A game.
I've seen mobile games with better cutscenes.
Im not advocating them but the game from what ive seen from endgame battles seems fun for abit. Its an arpg but pirates, not supposed to be a singleplayer story driven game or anything.
assassins creed odyssey and I'm pretty sure valhalla had better ship mechanics then this quadruple A garbage.
Absolutely Abysmal Avaricious Application.
@@rmedrano9752I agree about Odyssey but in AC Valhalla there's no ship combat nor storms & the ship would get stuck in shallow water & you'd have to very slowly try to get it unstuck whilst the crew say insults at you. Who tf at Ubisoft thought that would be a good idea? AC Valhalla has got good viking raids. Perhaps they should've copy & pasted that into Skull & Bones.
A random note how Sly 3 (a game from 2005) had a ship combat that actually took some effort. AND you could actually board enemy ships and fight their captain for more loot.
20 years later and our beloved quadruple A games aren't able to do even that. Even with Black Flag being a thing... Ubisoft, shame on you.
Sly 3 was actually fun too for the most part, as long as you didn't think too much into it.
10 ships in 10 years. They took one year per ship. That is some dedication from Ubisoft.
How the hell did they fuck up this badly when they already had a blueprint on how to make a good pirate game more than a decade ago.
Because they are making games for Journalists and focusing more on being woke, not what a true fan want and love
They touched it over and over again.
lucky for everyone sea of thieves is on sale and has way more content since it released
@@louniisbeing woke or not has nothing to do with this game being dogshit
They copied a mobile game instead.
"A level 3 CROWBAR!?"
"No no no. Much more better... It is a DRAWING of a level 3 crowbar." 😂😂
Thank you Jack Spa…I mean Captain Jack Sparrow.
Lolol
Dammit what a missed opportunity for a joke..god this game sucks the fun outta everything
"Gentlemen, what do crowbars do?"
For a "game" that is 90% sea and ocean, get this, you CAN'T SWIM!!! Some really dumb leaders there at Ubisoft. I pity the grunts that have to work there and put up with this sh*t.
So sick of Ubisoft developers dumbing down gameplay to fit the entire PC family.
I wish somebody could make an actual gritty pirate experience. Think Red Dead Redemption, except pirates instead of cowboys.
“Basic mechanics never nailed down”
“Are you a pirate, or a ship?”
“THEY CHOSE A SHIP”
Another iconic Angry Joe moment in the books! 😂😂😂
Such a weird decision
"What this bitch won't sell me chicken...?!"
Uncharted Waters Online v1.1
*FUCK!*
I love when Joe just plays footage of the game and the audio from Ubisoft's own promo video and just watch the company make a joke of the game itself
ubisoft is a joke ALL they had to do was make black flag 2 and it wouldve made billions but no they chose the lame ass route
When you're selling "timer savers", you are incentivized to waste the players' time. When you're selling powerful items, you're incentivized to piss off the players so much that they would just cave in and buy. Microtransactions are incompatible with game design, it's a conflict of interest.
What really annoys me is this is literally the studio who set the gold standard for pirate games with Black Flag and they still somehow managed to make it worse than modern AC ship combat. They had a great base and instead of building on it they started from scratch and delivered something substantially worse.
Joe I havent checked you out in so many years. I recently heard your name dropped in a video and got reminded about you. I used to watch every single video you put out and you were my number one reviewer. I started watching when you made the borderlands 2 review. I’m so fucking happy you are still going strong.
no one cares
Ubisoft did the unthinkable. They made a pirate game where not even the pirates will want to pirate it. Y'arr fucked it up!
they made the unsinkable
@@schuhsuppe7228 you cant sink what's already sunk
…oh my god
What if THATS it. What if THATS why these studios are making live service games, to scare away pirating gamers!!
You bastards!! You basically punishing everyone ELSE for it!!
@@dereknight861AGAIN!! AS USUAL!!
@@dereknight861😂
Gamer's said: _"Give us AC: Black Flag with multiplayer!"_
Ubisoft heard: _"Sell us pirate themed micro transactions..."_
They could have added them that's the thing. If they made a good game with paid resources, people would get them.
I’m pretty sure if this was released 2-3years ago,they would sell those AC4 costume as NFT
These game companies make no sense. They want to follow in the footsteps of GTA online but don't want to actually do what rockstar did to make it as successful as it was.
Lol
They already have the blueprint for it and failed miserably
The fact that people actually expected Ubisoft to make a decent game without having their ridiculously terrible expensive infested microtransactions tactics really blows my mind
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!!! ITS UBISOOOOOOFT!!!!!!!
The sad thing is that Halo 3 literally made a better version of this with the Mammoth vehicle battles (& that was just a CTF game variation in multiplayer).
I miss playing that.
8:25 "The game made him so mad he left his own house"
That's a glowing recommendation if I've ever heard one!
*YAARRRRRRR* matey
😊I thought you deserved a pirate chant.
When the game is so bad you go to touch grass
So the game basically makes you rather play real-life than video games 😂
Poor memory allocation
This is peak Ubisoft unfortunately, gone are the days when they actually cared about crafting a great player experience, and even then have mutilated some of their older games like ghost recon wildlands with loot boxes.
The stamina bar thing kills me. Since I was young, my family had a sailboat. The main purpose of a "Sail boat" is to not require any resources outside of water and wind. And there's always water and wind in the Caribbean. Adding a stamina bar is basically removing the main purpose of using sails. On a "Sail" boat.
No no, every sailboat comes with a standard issue stamina bar so you can’t utilize the wind to its maximum resource potential. You must abide by the speed limit of the open sea.
Yeah when I think about this game to maybe try it out just for the graphics, the stamina bar is the first thing that comes to my mind. It's so immersion breaking and tedious. Even most modern shooters like cod got rid of it and replaced it with hearing distance
From what I can tell it isn't even the Caribbean. Seems more Indian/ Indonesian waters.
No no no, everyone knows you physically hold the sail up with your hands (or ropes with bigger boats) and when you can't do it any more, you have to rest for a bit before you can do it again!
…you’re bang on
“You can do other things while playing this game” … probably the greatest compliment for the game. Ubisoft should use that quote from Alex to promote Skull and Bones
"Singapore is going to be so pissed when they see what you've done to this pirate game." 😂😂 It's wild that statement is based in reality
So Ubisoft wastes hundreds of millions on this joke, but a simple Rayman platformer is somehow impossible to make.
I mean how are they gonna put a cash shop in a rayman platformer?
With what happened of Ancel's departure (allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior), it may as well be... especially since the Beyond Good and Evil 2 markering was having some headway... and now nothing.
@@bencomer2339 The same way nintendo added a cash shop to mario kart.
@@bencomer2339 Of course they can’t make that platformer to cash shop since they think NFTs in cash shop are better 😂
@@bencomer2339boom
The absolute audacity of the Ubisoft CEO saying this is the first Quadruple A game. The resource gathering minigame and the fact you get a cutscene for boarding an enemy ship is straight out of a free-to-play MOBILE GAME.
Yup. Came here to say something similar
Ill not bother this game and keep playin rimworld with its whoever many A game it is
Goes to show how out of touch they are . Same with the new MLB on my PS5 rn, the crap windows I can click are so ridiculous . Another game, I forget what now, but was pushed on my PS5 Home Screen and it was just SO CRINGE . They have no idea what gamers actually want .
This is just an Assassin's Creed: Pirates port to pc
i know, I kinda feel bad for Singapore, they financed a lot of the game only for these developers to lie in their faces and made a mobile game and ran away with the money
I just looked it up because I got curious. The game plays in the year 1721. The first known use of the word kingpin was in 1773. You can't make this shit up.
I'm almost thoroughly convinced that most game developers either don't actually have experience playing modern games or let their children have full creative control.
All you have to do to make a good Pirate game:
1. Take Assassins Creed Black Flag.
2. Cut out the Assassins stuff.
3. Add more Islands where you find treasure or Sea Shanties.
4. Make it Multiplayer.
How can anyone fuck that up?
Hold my sexual harrassment cases........Ubisoft
The Triple A games industry is 95% of the time these days, no longer about making a good and fun game, it's about making a game that can hook you into only playing that one game, spending thousands of hours and money on it, and playing it forever... Until they shut down the servers, because they're all Always Online now and won't be accessible once servers are down 🙃
Black Flag was a gem of a game. Listening to the Sea Shanties while sailing was a fucking VIBE. Holy shit you actually felt like a badass pirate too.
@@fakskisyeah but these models don’t work especially when the gameplay sucks ass.
@@CommanderSuberox Yeah I know, I'm complaining about it too lol
Guys, you don't get it. Sure, Ubisoft made AC Black Flag in the past but they lost the blueprints
Those Blueprints require King Pin I to unlock. Ubisoft was still trying to grind and ran out of time.
😂
Swivel guns have been around since the 1300’s but they where made for being stationary, if you had it on a moving vessel, say a ship, you would be more likely to hit yourself or nothing then your target.
Id like to see a pirates game like black flag with Sniper Elite elements (shooting cannons through the wood ships and exploding shrapnel going in the crew) would be awesome
What you’re talking about sounds more like War thunder. But yeah
Skull and Bones is what's left of you by the time you finish the game
🤣🤣
This needs more likes.
@joeyzapata6786 no it doesn't he stole the joke from a dunkey vid
@@stormblahblah5589no he didn’t donkey stole that shit from him, they were in a discord call. Next time do your research
Please never get rid of “ya done fucked it up!” For bad games. Makes me chuckle every time.
Looks especially good while dressed as a pirate😂
ARE Y-ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIIIIND!
@@stevenesbitt3528 I agree. And how angry he is AS one.
There were literally .01% women being pirates in the Caribbean pirate era, the women were servants or victims why cant we have a game thats fun and historically accurate?
To be fair, the game doesn't take place in the Caribbean. It takes place in the Indian Ocean. It was made by Ubisoft Singapore, which is going off the history of piracy in the Indian Ocean during the Dutch colonization of Southeast Asia in the 1600's.
There's literally hundreds of sins this game has. There's no need to insert your wahmen rant. We get it, you don't have a girlfriend.
There were many women who were pirates. There were even female pirate captains. And if you were a woman pirate you got an equal vote and an equal share the same as a man on most ships.
All Quadrople A! moments:
1# 9:37
2# 39:17
3# 50:39
4# 52:12
5# 53:30
6 and 7# 57:15
8 and 9# 1:05:05
"players should stop feeling comfortable in owning their games"
Well Ubisoft, if these are the games we are talking about, you don't have to worry about it: no gamer wants to own them...
This. The only Ubisoft games I still play are like fucking over 10 years old at this point!
@@oliverboisen7475 same. Ironically I am currently playing Black Flag for the first time, and it pains how this "AAAA" garbage is described by devs as "best pirate game ever".
And it's still beated by ~10 year old game which wasn't solely a self-standing pirate game...
I am absolutely comfortable with never owning any one of ubishite games ever 👍
The insatiable greed of these suits will never cease to amaze me. Disgusting.
wyd? Its amazing, most people havent tried it. But the issues are non issues really, its not that grindy and you can get awesome customizations. Just get the micro transactions, all games have them and its not that expensive.
Torpedoes?!? What's next, pirate submarines? "Ahoy captain! An enemy submarine on sonar." "Yarrr, drop depth charges and launch countermeasures!"
Scramble the fighters!
Honestly, thatd be way doper. Traditional pirate fantasy game but your in a sub/uboat., going all the way up to a battleship
Or maybe just like a fantasy take on wood and sails with submarines and needing to visually see em
It's so stupid for real.
The first torpedoes didn't come about until over 200 years after the golden age of piracy. You started seeing them in use during the American Civil War and they weren't underwater torpedoes yet, but rather explosives attached to poles sticking out of small boats used for ramming enemy ships!
I can see that happening if it was like One Piece pirates, that would be cool
@@Jack1994hoo yeah if it leaned into the wacky fun theme like One Piece, I would totally be down for that.
Your ship has a sprint meter?! Doesn't that go against the mechnics of sailing???😂😂😂
They used the same shantys from AC: Black Flag.... wow....
Who ever thought a stamina bar should be on a ship needs to be fired
That made so little sense, I legitimately needed to do a double take on that section of the video to make sure I was seeing and hearing him correctly. In WHAT world does something like this make on the drawing board let alone past development?
hehe 😅
No they will get promoted. Line went up and you bought it
@@TempoLOOKING Doubt, the game sold worst than Suicide Squad
Probably thought that "hey since pirates are operating the ship. They can get tired too! Let's put a stamina bar.". Likely the same person who allowed head winds in every direction.
Love that you used Sea of Thieves for the green screen of you on the boat, because this game, a pirate game, doesn't allow you to walk around your ship...
They made Sea of Thieves look good
And Sea of Thieves is a game that has gotten better and better with each year, where as this live-service disaster will just be forgotten..
This makes sea of theives a QUADRUPLE A GAME!!
@@cuddlecakes7153 Sea of Thieves is good...
Actually had some great moments on Sea of Thieves. There’s problems with it, but it’s incredibly fun setting sail with your friends, cooking up some meat, getting drunk and singing songs all the while narrowly avoiding being plundered by another ship. Just fucking around on the ship in SoT looks infinitely more fun than anything this game can offer
Honestly with the number of delays the writing was all over the building not just the walls😂. It's crazy how so many companies (not just games) absolutely drop the ball on what would have easily been a slam dunk...
Don't worry AngryJoe once you try out Stellar Blade on April 26th you will finally have a great game to do an Angry Review this year. The demo comes out on March 29th by the way. So yeah it's almost time.
I have to say, I’ve been having the best time since Skull & Bones released.
Caribbean islands, hunting for treasure, building a crew, sailing your own ship, raiding other ships, getting the best outfits and just being the best pirate you can be!
Yes, getting my old copy of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag has really been one of the best things I’ve done recently since that boring chore of a game came out. :)
Glad you're enjoying it. Obviously it hits some spots that people like👍
Makes me think are these AAA companies going into a 40k style age of strife where the technological achievements they had a decade ago are just lost to time or something and they're using the in game store and season passes to hide what was lost? They can't make a climbing or combat system to walk around your ship but they have 100s of in game models the majority aren't going to see. Makes me think how few developers that are not in the art department that are holding the spaghetti code all together.
@@cookie4wookiee read the whole comment lol
Had me there at first in the beginning paragraph 🤣
You had us in the first half not gonna lie!
Every time someone advertise a game by saying "forget everything you know about this type of game..." means they just made it worse and they don't want you to compare!
It was such a mobile game thing to say 😂
Skull and Bones left such an impact that all the skits are done with Sea of Thieves in the background instead, on a series note though, such a fail from a game I knew so little about, spent maybe an hour at most playing before I got bored and played Black Flag on my Switch
He didn't just used visuals from SoT, but music too. Main theme in his first segment, and medley a played on in game instruments later on.
Sigh, i had really been looking forward to this game ever since it was first announced. After playing AC4 and getting a taste of what a good game focused on being a Pirate could be like, i really had my hopes high that someone would make a game like that in the future.
And after the huge letdown that was Sea of Thieves was, i really hoped that Skull & Bones would finally be the Pirate game we all were waiting for (especially considering they had 10 years of time to make it) But alas, it looks like we'll have to keep waiting :/
Give Sea of Thieves another shot maybe - game is great
'Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy' is a wild marketing technique given most people want a pirate game for the traditional pirate fantasy.
Honestly I'm surprised that to this day nobody created a pirate game set in a fantasy setting for maximum pirate fantasy.
@@CommanderBohnthat's what I started thinking about listening to this video. It's actually a great idea!
@@CommanderBohn Now would be the perfect time for one to emerge.
Such a mobile game as thing to say 😂 ain’t surprise if the game free to play
46:26 This is a pirate game, where the only combat is ship combat, and the final boss has the rank of *_General?!_* I've seen people confuse army and navy ranks before, but having someone be called a _general_ instead of an _admiral_ is just ridiculous.
😂
Maybe he's got one of them there fancy tank-boats that can go anywhere. He's the Omni-General. Ever present on Land and at Sea. His power is terrifying. 😨😨😨
I’m pretty sure those diversity hire developers have better things to do, like complain on X, get triggered and call gamers problematic homophobic racist transphobic aka normal people. Seriously, have you seen those feminist ship captains and the main game art having weird people that look like some bunch of privileged Californian insufferable zoomers than anything looking even slightly pirate.
That chubby Asian girl from that developer video doesn’t even have a clue what’s the difference between admiral, general or pirate.
Something may have gotten lost in translation and they meant Generaladmiral....
Nah who am I kidding, they just didn't give a shit.
😂😂
They put a minigame for harvesting materials...
But boarding an enemy ship is a short, underwhelming cutscene...
In a PIRATE FANTASY game...
Truly one of the worst directed games ever made
The only good "pirate" or age of sail games I've played are:
- Pirates of the Burning Sea (Sony killed it) - MMORPG with Great faction wars and an amazing collection of historical ships to sail and upgrade.
- Sid Meiers Pirates - Great solo fun, but limiting of course because ai can be stale.
- Uncharted Waters Online - MMORPG Great game simulating mercantilism and military resource building in an mmo environment.
- Sea of Thieves - because it's the only really successful modern title, as it's an FPS with loot grinding. Nice waves.
Every other title such as Naval Action, Hold Fast, other crap, are too niche to be successful. That and the only reliable servers are typically north american OR european, never both, and there's never any asian/oceanic servers (locking out a huge gaming commnity behind lag frustration)
I love that the marketing for "AAAA" flopped so hard. And a good time to remind everyone, "AAA" 'triple-A' literally means nothing. It's a marketing term and nothing more.
It's funny because "AA" and Indie studios are making FAR better products with a fraction of the budget and man-power. Honestly, no AAA game is worth a pre-order or even a day 1 purchase anymore.
@@Wulfen109I preordered starfield for 100$ just to play early and after that disaster I will never pre order a game ever again. That was the nail in the coffin for me.
@@sc_diemonds219You’ve got to learn the hard way sometimes!
@@sc_diemonds219 Mine was Cyberpunk
I’ve always just consider “AAA” to mean high budget and only really look into a game being called double or triple to know what quality to expect (I’m just more forgiving to the faults of a AA or indie game) when that guy came out with AAAA a to describe skull and bones and I tried the beta I couldn’t help but laugh to myself. I though the beta was decent and the game has promise but honestly playing skull and bones just makes me want to replay ac4 black flag idk.
If this is an AAAA game, I want them to make just single A games.
AAAA games are supposed to be classics like Grand Theft Auto 5, Minecraft, Tetris, and Super Mario
Or make DEMAKE games play 2 is very fun or remakes like Demons Souls
@@trithientran7146 modern games by AAA are Starfield or movies of PlayStation
Instead of Elden Ring o Baldurs Gate 3 ( well this one is like 6 years of develop)
I think AA games are the best future for the industry. Large enough to have greater “scale” than indies but small enough budget to not be filled with AAA (and “AAAA”) bullshit. Something like Robocop Rogue City was a ton of fun despite the budget because it was just me, being Robocop, shooting bad guys in the dick while doing other police work in the 2.5th movie. No bullshit.
So indies?
AC black flag playership went up thanks to S&B and Batman Arkham games got more players thanks to SS. These companies are making bad games on purpose so we'll go back and play classics 😂😂
They should have just combined the looting/upgrade/crafting systems from the modern AC games and the mechanics/setting/style of AC black flag and that would’ve been sick
What’s hilarious to me is that this game is already 25% off.
It's a suicide squad situation lmao
It needs to be lower
Quadruple A's all over the place.
If this what a Quad A title needs to be the bar has been set very very low, so im expecting an Octuple A game any month now then.@@kentonbaird1723
I just looked it up in the Epic Game Store and you're right lol. It's pretty fucking pathetic for both this game and Suicide Squad because both games are a month old and they already have the publishers being pressured to make any bit of money they can out of it.
And what I think is more ironic is that both companies got outdone by their older titles. More players play Arkham Knight then SS and I'm sure that is the same case for AC Black Flag and Skull and Bones.
The large ships are missing because it's a marketing tactic. If they sold medium AND large, people would just buy large. So they'll wait till people buy the medium ships and in a few months, offer the large ships so you now need to buy the large ships too. It's all about the money.
By the time large ships do come out, NOBODY will be playing this game anyways.
@@crackalacs74 everyone's playing Helldivers II 😂😂
Remember! Tradewinds 2 was released 22 years ago, and Sid Meier's Pirates was released 23 years ago. & remains to be my favorite. pirate-themed video games. ever! Nothing even approaches it.
Say what you want about Sea of Thieves. But they at least knew what they were doing.
Your ship dosen't have a stamina bar.
You can choose what ship you want if you dont want a sloop. ( there should be more ship types but still at least your not stuck with the sloop.)
You have a lot of customaztion options
Wind isnt broken in game. Your ship functions differently when wind is against it ( sloop will move faster against the wind)
Each ship is useful in some way.
You can walk around your ship and even get off and on your ship making exploring more fun as it allows you to go places.
Plus theres things you can find or encounter in the game that make it exciting.
Plus there's intresting missions.
And when you chop the trees down, the animation is so lazily designed that the tree falls straight down through the stump! I haven't seen something like that since the PS2 days lmaooo
Imagine the country singapore subsidizing this game. I can't wait to see their face, $100 millions only for 900 jobs and garbage product. They should ask for their money back.
That's the sort of stuff you see in a shovelware survival-crafting game, not in a.. ''AAAA'' game.
@@NerevarOfficialRealwell seeing as this is the first "AAAA" game apparently this is what we should expect going forward...
@@iank472the fourth A being the government money.
@@DMartinov Hahaha ha! 😅
"Forget everything you know" is just code for "Lower your expectations" lol
Or it means prepare to get your expectation subverted
Forget everything you know = Forget this game exists
Something went so badly at Ubisoft that the people in charge seem to think video game = mobile game.
Fave fergitton who to wirte
Boy I bet that lady (and Ubi) REALLY regret that comment of “forget everything you know about pirates” 😮💨 probably, ironically the most pertinent thing the devs have said in regards to the game
"Forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy".
That's the best fucking part
As a Singaporean, I have a few friends who worked on this game. The project started around the time they got out of schools with their diplomas and degrees in game design or project management, bright eyed and eager. I can feel their heart break with what this game became. I can see now why most of them chose to leave ubisoft despite it being, at one time, a dream place to work for them.
what happened behind the scenes for it to go so wrong?
No one correlates this game with Singapore
Many Ubisoft games are rife with design decisions designed to milk the player instead of providing a fun experience. They games are sullied by greed, they feel dirty to play.
@@bridgesbane7032that’s a bit of an over exaggeration
@@rigulur I imagine they got the Ubisoft special.
"Here's the plan you get the game like THIS"
"Sir, this is a store schematic" "Glad to see you understand, you have a week to finish while Steve from management breathes near your neck and makes you overtime to keep schedule, good luck"
All they had to do is take black flag, remove the animus and futuristic simulation shit, and boom a 10/10 pirate game.
But no, Ubishit mathematically calculated the worst possible pirate game they can think of and put so much money into it you'd think this game was an excuse to funnel money into shareholders pockets. AAAA my ass.
It’s well aware that most of those devs who made AC4 and so on are gone, they can’t even recreate and copy and paste what was already there ☠️
Your *AAAASS*
They just didn't care after many years of mismanagement. They had to ship this game just because they recieved govt (Singapore?) funding. Ubisoft needs a massive change in leadership.
@@EternalNightingaleso it was doomed to fail cause thats what we were toldwe were gettin for years…… 🏴☠️
imagine going from Sid Meier's Pirates and Black Flag naval combat to this 120+ mil $ turd. You could tell all the game designers were lifeless husks with their souls sucked out by corporate at the end of it, just by looking at that stamina bar.
AAAA industry in a nutshell.
5:07 who dun synced that background footage up so perfectly
This game was doomed to fail the moment they added all these Fortnite health bars and no sword combat. Quite literally could’ve made multiplayer AC Black Flag and it would’ve been better
Wtf is fortnite health bars
A green bar?
@@manwithballsonarm6775 like how the game has too much UI. Like everything has a health bar, and it’s up and in your face like you can’t just, yk, see the ship or whatever you’re shooting is damaged
Noobs don't get it@@haydennr6
Fortnite has the trademark for green health bars?
Ubisoft: Player engagement!
Players: But I'm not having fun.
Ubisoft: But engagement!
Player: I Am Not Having Fun
Fundamental disconnect between game companies and players in a nutshell
The funny thing is that the thing that Joe liked which is the whale? That's from Black Flag, not Skull and Bones lol
Replace player engagement with diversity and inclusion and you would be right
I'm always shocked what kind of false advertising is allowed in the USA. Those PR people in the video are straight up lying through their teeth. Those are downright illegal in my country. Marketing in the USA is like the Wild Wild West, anything goes.
@@TomCruz54321 We call it hype.
I'm Singaporean.
And I am pissed.
And I beta tested it many years ago; its just a War of Warship clone then.... it suck... i never expected them to follow thru with the game mechanics.... and I'm not even a player of Assassin's Creed.
Studio: “What do players want”
Devs: “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag”
Studio: “Ok. So let’s do something else.”
Sid Meier : Pirates 2004. A game that came out 20 year ago before this game, was mechanically deeper than this game.
It has ship management, cargo management, Crew management, Boarding strength based on crew number, Plundering success chance based on crew number, faction diplomacy, Retire system, Marriage, Treasure hunting, and Duel.
Skull & Bones can just copy that at bare minimum
I offer you Pirates! Gold 1993 as a counter that we had better games 30 years ago! With boarding and combat to take over the ships! Where you actually needed to take in account the wind, had tactical battles with your broadsides ...
The pirating minigame from Curse of Monkey Island was deeper than this game. :p
@@poilboileryou talking about "what a coincidence, you fight like a cow!" 😂😂😂
The pirate level in Sly Cooper 3 was better, and it was like 1/7th of the game
The original Sid Pirates from 1987 was better
Arrowhead (Helldivers) said it beautiful: "A game for everyone, is a game for no one".
That's not a new thing, they didn't say anything there as it's an old saying. Also it's not necessarily always true.
@@voidoxyou sound fun
@@ItsAlpacaMan aww, fanboy mad at facts and reality.
@@voidox I don't think his point was to "glaze" the helldivers studio, it is just a very recent well received videogame. The main point he was trying to get at is that big developers make these games that cater to all types of people but in the end, they often fail to fully understand and the wants and needs of their consumers.
34:00 I just love how OJ breaks character 😂😂😂
They literally said that it takes darker and greedier approach.
They meant grittier of course, but you know, sound never lies.😂
How f.... difficult can it be to make a decent pirate game with krakens, mysteries like the flying Dutchman, crafting your own ship, buried treasure, killer mermaid? I can go on forever like this..
It's 2024 damm it.
It's obvious all the top developers have aged and opened up their own companies or freelance, whilst new ones don't know how to source code and just know how to use pre built assets on modern engines so they can't innovate. Then there's the blatant management cancer that is all about corporate appearance that plagues every modern business. These execs were never gamers and the idea of what their audience is is now gone forever. Very few old studios remain that have their past identity and mostly the new ones show promise until they inevitably fall to the same date of losing top developers and hiring useless top managers
@@yazzzlet3549 yep its that easy look the people they interview not a clue
Sea of thieves did it
All of that is exactly what Sea of Thieves has done over the years.
@@oldspice051The two big problems with Sea of Thieves is that it’s filled to the brim with sociopaths, and you basically need to play with a group of friends. Solo play is not really an option, though God knows I tried to play it that way.
Been waiting for this one! The first ever angry review of a AAAA game!
A what?
@@TrickyTalon23 Ubisoft Called this thing a "AAAA Game"
@@TrickyTalon23 they call it the first "quadruple A" game. so yes. it's the first 4A crap.
@@TrickyTalon23did he stutter?
@@01oo011sigh….its a joke that went over your head,
28:43 "That was _EXTENT_ OF MY *SWASHBUCKLING?!!?!"*
Kills me every time. 😭
The hilarious thing is the smaller ships move slower than the bigger ships. The way the ship upgrades work, medium ships just move faster than small and are better in every conceivable way. The dev's need to implement something to make smaller ships just as good as the medium ships.
I love how "forget everything you know about the traditional pirate fantasy" is now synonymous with phrases like "16 times the detail" and "it just works" love me a good Angry angry Review! 😂
We needed a new meme. Keep it up
😂😂😂 What the fuck, a ship has stamina. I'm crying. You can't make this shit up.
Reminds me of that shitty Harry Potter mobile game where you need to spend energy to take a break between lessons.
I know it😅@@CaptainTitforce
Pirate game? nah this is Ship simulator =)))
@@mr.q337ship simulator? With stamina? No man 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Surprised they didn't include gas. "You have run out of gas, please wait 3 hours or purchase Pirate coins for more gas"
I think the best line here which all gamers are asking 'You had a perfect template RIGHT FUCKING THERE' WHAT HAPPENED?!
Hey joe review WindBound , its not exactly a pirate game but its got most of the flavor that you like about pirate games and its got a pretty good wind mechanic
The blueprints are like that scene at the beginning of pirates of the Caribbean dead man's chest. "It's a key." "No, it's a drawing of a key."
The one time everyone would have been completely fine with Ubisoft just copying one of their previous games, they decided not to do it and to fuck up a concept they already had nailed down 10 years ago.
The wost part in playing both black flag and rogue, they had missions where you played as the npc ships (frigate in Black flag, Man o war in Rogue) and they showed that they were practically a DLC away from all being fully playable. That's the real heartbreak that they were so close to the finish line 10 years ago.
Black flag is still the best game hands down, and they have it in countless games especially black flag 😂
9:40 Sorry but I'm going to be that guy. You misspelled Quadruple. Joke is still funny though.
$18 FOR BLUE?!?! FOR FUXKING BLUE?
God I love it every time, it's always blue.
You know what's funny? In Watch Dogs 2, the game that was also made by Ubisoft, which is focused mainly on hacking and electronic gadgets, you can use a sailboat to swim at Bay area. Unlike other boats, sailboat's speed is determined by wind's direction, and I dare to say, that the way you navigate it, is almost as like navigating The Jackdaw in AC Black Flag. You get it? Watch Dogs 2, the game which is not focused on sailing adventures, piracy and plunder, has much more realistic sailing mechanic, that the "AAAA" game! AND - the sailboat in WD 2 doesn't have stamina bar!
Do you want to know why they use Stamina here? Because they want you to waste as much as time in game...
WD2 is underrated btw.
@@devilgames2217it's a good game I just don't consider it a sequel. It's more of a spin off, then watchdogs legion is a Holocaust, devs told us they were only following orders.
Watch Dogs 2 was the last Ubisoft game I actually enjoyed
Black flag still rains supreme as the best pirate game and it’s the same company that produced this garbage
As a Singaporean, I'm actually getting a lot of satisfaction from watching this game fail spectacularly. The government of Singapore has always prioritised technical skill over art and innovation, using its education system and the country's work culture to churn out obedient, hardworking, pragmatic workers while dissuading artists and creatives from pursuing their passions. This deal with Ubisoft is them trying to buy their way into the game industry without first taking steps to encourage and support homegrown indie talent. And their investment blew up in their face.
@@jltheking3 I'm not saying there's anything wrong with offering subsidies. I'm saying the SG govt did so without first taking steps to organically nurture homegrown game development talent and cultivate a society where art isn't viewed as frivolous and impractical. When it comes to art, Singapore has an abundance of money but a lack of talent, whereas places like Hollywood have an overabundance of talent but not enough money to give them all jobs (hence the foreign subsidies).
When it comes to addressing Singapore's lack of artistry, simply throwing money at the problem isn't going to work, and this game is testament to that fact. You can spend millions in taxpayer and foreign corporate money and still end up with a pile of garbage. And now the game development industry in SG has been humiliated on the global stage.
When you say you work there do you mean Ubisoft Singapore? So you're essentially confirming the "alleged" report that Ubisoft took money from the govt and that's why they couldn't cancel this stinker? That's hilarious. Thanks for the confirmation.
It actually gives me even more satisfaction to know that Ubisoft SG devs are watching this review, cos you are the ones who need to hear this criticism. Last question: did you all know while working on this game that it would be complete garbage?
@@jltheking3You sound like that Starfield dev whining about how hard game development is. No one cares dude. It is not the responsibility of the consumer or critic to understand how hard it is to make whatever they consume. They simply judge the final product and choose whether to spend their money on it or not. If my plane crashes can Boeing tell my family, "hey you don't understand how hard and complex aerospace engineering and maintenance is. Airbus can do it cos blah blah blah but most of us can't because blah blah." If you go to a steak restaurant and receive a burnt steak can the chef say, "making a steak in these working conditions is phenomenally hard, you don't understand." No, the consumer/end user shouldn't need to understand anything beyond "this product/service is worth my money."
Y'all "AAA" devs sound so immature and insecure when you bring up Larian and BG3. BG3 aside, there are plenty of great games that were made by AAA/"quadruple A" studios that were beholden to shareholders and facing the same challenges y'all did (and probably more, without govt subsidies). It's very easy to see your situation as unique when you need to pardon your own failure. And sure, every game and its development process is unique, but being a unique snowflake doesn't excuse anyone from what is expected of them. And as your Singaporean parents probably told you too, "you should compare yourself to the best in your class, not the worst."
And even if we understood on a deeper level why so many bad games get made, does that mean we shouldn't criticise? No. A bad game is a bad game regardless of the circumstances surrounding its development, and consumers have a right to know what they should spend their money on. So Joe and other critics are still doing the right thing, and absolutely nothing changes if we knew everything you know. Should I buy a bad game because it was made with suboptimal datelines, lacking manpower, the right skillset, the right team, lacking funding, and needing to fight the money people to get the game out the door? No. Knowing all that changes nothing.
Not saying this game's failure is your fault specifically as a dev. Chances are Ubisoft management is mostly to blame. But you don't have to jump to their defence with the whole "boohoo video games are hard" argument. It's so played out at this point and for the reasons I've stated, I stress again, no one cares, nor should they.
@@jltheking3 You were the one who brought up the challenges of game development buddy. That didn't even have anything to do with my original comment. But I see that you don't know how to offer a rebuttal, so you resort to personal attacks on me and this channel's entire viewership (which includes you). How very mature and adult of you. But admittedly, very on brand for a Skull n Bones dev.😂🤡
Hollywood... talent? You high?@@naviuhyuaehiushvg
@@naviuhyuaehiushvgguessing he deleted his comments
So about the stamina bar, its your crew that gets tired because if you watch them they go to a much more agressive stance on the ship when you are trimming. They tire out and go back to normal once you arent trimming. Not an excuse its abnoying but thats the reason not the actual ship.
Also the second ship I believe is the brig
That is kinda weird, Stamina are for ship. Especially since I would expect a Game with a ship to already be limited by the direction of the wind, I.e. Sail against the wind, Moves slowly, sail with the wind move fast.