Yeah true I'm trying to replay BF for 3 years but i quit it because the Kenway's fleet doesn't work, and Ubi support team "investigating" this issue for over a year and doing nothing. such a shame that this is a Ubisoft game ...
they know whales will still defend and throw money at the game cus people are stupid enough to play the division thinking its anything more than a dull looter shooter. dont worry though give it 5 months the game will be on game pass when most of the community has left and ubisoft has to try to bring people into the game by making it free.
Funny thing is that it's their own game. They would be allowed to copy and paste it. In fact, that's what people wanted. But they still said "nah, we can make it worse".
I am always confusing about this.....why do some company old games are masterpiece yet the news one with newer technology is worst....LIKE how the fuck is that possible?? I am sure they write and saved all the gaming codes of the game somewhere in their company base.
Slow the ships down, make more realistic sail motion, improve damage models, make ship interios to walk around out of battle for repairs, medic room, crew quarters to improve visuality and rpg features. This game looks like a tech demo from 2015.
S&B looks like the Demo for Black Flag, would've been nice if it was basically Black Flag without the Assassin stuff in it. Being able to go to all islands, If you were fast enough being able to hop off the wheel and solo board a vessel and exploring the shipwrecks were all so fun. Just wish there was more interaction with your fleet/crew like calling for aid when in a naval battle or have some crew work like the Assassins in Brotherhood. Plus I like the Jackdaw however I did wish at times that I had a bigger ship to use the swivel to hit the top deck of a Man O' War's.
@@molassesman4066 You aced the test 10 years ago, had your copy of the test to cheat off of, threw that in the garbage and said "I'm just gonna wing it" lol
@TheWolfman112 actually hold on Given what we know we shouldve also added "procrastinated on attempting the test so hard you were about to be in diplomatic trouble."
same Black flag, Ogrins revelations. all the best AC games. Skull and bones isnt what i thought it would be it needs hand to hand and open world elements then it would be a top contender for the grown but that was wishful thinking
Skull and Bones it's like a half assed game compared to Black Flag. No boarding animation, no ship landing aground, while on ship you can walk around, climb on ship or just jump out. The freedom to do whatever. Now it's gone woke too.
@@jackman5840 it costs $120 aud lmao. I played the open beta and I did enjoy it a bit (though never have played black flag so I can't compare), but not for that price. No way, never.
Black flag : 1. feels the weight of the ship 2. the damage caused by the iron cannon hitting the wood feels more reasonable 3. the horror of the waves on the dark open sea during a bad storm was felt more Skull & Bones : 1. the ship feels more like a lego ship, it is light and can fly whenever it wants. 2. too much fire from an iron cannon hitting a wooden ship, if they used modern missiles it might make more sense that there would be that many sparks 3. the storm at sea is more like just colored dark effects, less feel the real horror of the open sea in the middle of a very bad storm In terms of graphics, it's probably more about over-enhancement and unnecessary effects
AC4 was made through 3 years of development, 4 if we add the fact that AC3 had been in development since before AC3's release, and AC4 was basically created out of AC3's leftovers. S&B took 10 years to create... Just think of the development chaos behind this game, it is unbelievable...@@JsphCrrll
I gave the victory to Black Flag when Skull has no battle in the ship invasion, a much newer game, but half-made, blackflag is complete and made with love, a game ahead of its time.
Who wants to just press X to invade a ship and have it all done in 10 seconds with a cutscen where in black flag u can actuly swim / swing to the ship yourself climb all around it while fighting off its crew and cut the flag down.
S&B is a joke to me. But the release of it is an attempt to make money on trash. This project needed to be shut down because it was a failure. It never became what it set out to become. And now. Ubisoft have stitched it together as a somewhat complete game. If you see world of tanks but with pirate ships like a complete game. Nah. I see this being pushed because they saw oppertunities for adding microtransactions to the game when it's more just an online battle game like world of tanks. Like i said. It's a joke. But it's ment to be taken seriously. Don't waste time on it. Don't let them think that the game has a player base. Let them know that you find the game presented to you to be disappointing by not engaging in the game and by not adding a number to the active players. If only people understood this simple and logic trade in the gaming industry. When the big corporations f up. You show it by not giving any attention to their bad product. We've just had years where people instead engaged in bad products. Bad games and glitchy games were treated like gems that were fun because they were broken. This completely ruined the gaming industry for way too long. Where games actually just released broken because it gave the game popularity and people wanted to play and stream it because they wanted to laugh at the bad product. But in the end these games made a lot of profit on the popularity they got on being broken.
@@iamwillgodzie7145 Thats because you like to just shoot wherever by pointing with a mouse and not where the guns could actually shoot ie 90 degrees to the hull and you need to steer the ship to do that..
@@UlpianHeritor you do realize that the original AC: Black Flag itself had numerous in-depth and well written female characters. Throwing the word "woke" around is not good of a criticism. Black Flag wasn't considered woke in 2013/2014, but I guess now, people like you will call it that.
Black flag is truly on a league of its own! One of the best games ive ever played! That right there was a pirate simulation! Being on the boat really felt like you were sailing thru the ocean!
And the songs! Ohh the songs. Always made me sing too. And it was a blast. There were moments where the crew sang in an intense battles too, that was *AWESOME* I want to play it again.
@@SymonTemplah that’s the beauty, the annoyingly long mission suddenly became so much more bearable with just the fact the crew could sing. I enjoyed sailing from one side of the map to another with out speed travel, doing anything I found on the way to the main objective. Truly a great game.
A slower paced pirate rpg would be one of the best selling games ever. Ship battles that actually took time and tactics, maybe even able to comand small fleets. That would be amazing
There's a game called Naval Action. Its slow paced and realistic. The gameplay could took maybe 20min to an hour just to sunk a ship. But that's why its not so great, some people complain its too looong to play. So I think this fast paced ship battles are enough.
@@Shadow-mi8qs That game is pay to win, it's that slow, so you just buy them the good stuff and be more realistic in the process. but it's still interesting
That S&B gameplay sequence with the ships crashing into each other at full speed felt more arcadey than Mario Kart. Only missing thing would be torpedoes with koopa shells...
Jesus the storm in Skull and Bones looks so much worse than in Black Flag. The one field where S&B should actually be easily winning and it fails miserably. So sad.
no its not, people just overpraised old video game because its og, and now they hardly want to accept new good game because its gonna make them "not classic enough"
The constant switching of the camera during battle in S&B looks so janky and adderall addicted, whereas the original's more static camera looks so much more immersive.
I felt dizziness while watching the video. I had never experienced such state while gaming before, so that’s a great indicator how fucked up the camera movement is.
Not sure about that, port royal back in the days even had fighting and naval combat... Feels like this was rushed even tho over 1 decade of development...
The interaction between the ship and sea animations looks better in black flag. I want more spray. More movement of the water level in relation to the ships hull. Whoever animated skull and bones seems to have never been on the sea
If Black Flag is an Assassin’s Creed fanfic of the Golden Age of Piracy, then Skull and Bones is a fanfic of Black Flag, and that’s not a compliment. It’s ironic how Ubisoft made fun of themselves in Black Flag with Abstergo’s concept trailer for Devils of the Caribbean (or whatever it was called), and yet this fits exactly like what Abstergo would release. When will they realize that self-awareness means nothing if they don’t actually DO anything about the flaws they admit to.
The entire point of a pirate game is to make you feel like a pirate and Ubisoft went and removed the BIGGEST part of being a pirate. Boarding and looting the enemy ship
So wait wait wait you wanted to sit there for hours just clicking on a some little commands Your opinion in terms of fun is completely muted by making this comment go back to your strategy games bud
I think two things have happened. Black Flag did something so ahead of its time (in terms of the navel sections) they set the bar incredibly high to begin with. It's obvious S&Bs has gone through development hell which even if things were plain sailing (pun intended) it would have been tricky to beat the brilliance of the 'at sea' sections of BF.
They didn't have to beat it though, they just had to do the EXACT SAME THING. If this was another company, maybe, but it's literally the same one, so they get no grace from me
No such thing as set the bar too high. Its a decade ago, everything has increased and improved. Games were 20 gb max, now 100gb avarage. We played with 900 pixels, now with 2k at least. They were working with UE2 or 3. We have 4 (and partly 5). There is nothing that can justify a game thats 10 years older but plays like 10 years younger. They have every technology at their disposal to create a game 10x better than BF. There is no walking hand combat, no boarding combat, cannons shoot like pistols, graphics are meh. Basically this game is half the game of what BF was and thats just not right for a game thats 10 years older.
@@RidoDrago I didn't say 'too high', and I didn't say about it graphics wise. I just mean in terms of the experience over all. Absolutely agree though - to not even have features that were in BF is unforgivable, such as boarding.
@@user-jt1js5mr3f Yeah. No excuse. I do wonder if they did a CP2077 and had loads of cool features but had to pull them one by one as time went on. Something has gone very wrong I imagine.
@@benwilliams5760 this game was supposed to release in 2018, and it appears much the same as it did then. They had ample time to fix it, to listen to the fan base of Black Flag who they should have made this for, but they just didn’t.
Look at the crew during the storm. In Black Flag they get down, sailors hold on to objects. In S&B people just walk from side to side like it was sunday.
was really funny watching the black flag boarding in super speed. though i will say it is unfortunate that blag flag still seems to have more atmosphere and character. I am excited for, and had fun playing the beta for skull and bones, but I wish they took more inspiration from black flag than just the ship combat. BF was amazing from start to finish, the feeling was unique, every moment felt like you were really there and free to sail and do as you wished. It was a really unique feeling...idk why they couldnt nail that again, its the same damn company.
why do people always want another AC game on the Sea ??? its a game that only concentrate on the life of the sea nothing more just a pirates life. No Jumping around much on land or anything else related to AC gameplay.
@@teddyslullaby89 yeah as much as I'd love land combat in skull and bones, I understand their choices. My main point here is more about the visuals and atmosphere. I'm usually telling people to stop expecting skull and bones to be black flag 2, but it is striking how amazing and timeless the original was. Probably because their team had a unified vision and stuck to it, unlike skull and bones which has had many issues during development
@@zaclovesschool2273 the thing is every thing skull and bones has sea of thieves does better sure you dont have the cannon options like skull and bones but that the only thing better, sea of thieves is way better, skull and bones has more cannons and graphics. sea of thievs has combat with swords naval combat plus exploration solo or with a crew up to 4. a more realistic sea of thieves would be a award winning pirate game. sea of thieves for veteran players needs a refrewsh but for new players there so much to do i got over 700+ hours in the game and there is still more to grind for but ive played so much i need a refresh. on graphics and new stuff to do. but the game is great.
I wonder if you are willing to kill 15 people on that ship to be able to capture the ship everytime. Having all the animations and all in multiplayer game. How would that work on the server with 20 people. It seems like SnB is more focused on fast naval fights. Just play BF if you want the atmosphere and character.
its the best pirate game thats for sure,ac oddysey is a better game overall,a shame they didnt put more effort in the sailing,yeah its ancient greece not the golden age of piracy,but realism was never a thing with these games so why not just go full on the ship system also
I’d like skull and bones more if they put more into the pirate boarding like they did black flag , it looks great. Ac4 was great honestly makes me want to replay
although ship boarding was a crucial part for pirates. how do you think infamous pirates gained their fleets and wealth? they incapacitated and boarded other ships, either looting them, or making them part of their fleet@@curbowbass6124
@@curbowbass6124 My guy, BOARDING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING in a pirate game or any naval battle before WWI. Nelson's battle with Napolean's fleet, Boarding was the most crucial tactic he did when faced again the Franco-Spanish fleet that it even gave a name to his strategy - the Nelson touch. Also Captain Blackbeard died in a boarding battle and pirates mostly board their enemies to secure their ship and more loot. Even Sid Meier Pirates get this point, a game decades old. It was because of this face, AC4 felt more like a Pirate game than this Arcade over glamourized barnacle trash.
Do you think ubisoft could nail the landing when S&B would probably be the blueprint for an AC4 remake? I mean they had the blueprint for a perfect game with AC4 to S&B and they fucked it up HARD. I mean 11 years and 120 mil budget for S&B, compared to 4 years and less than 100 mil budget on AC4
As long as AC4 is a faithful remake without any of the live service BS I dont see how they could F it up... But then again.. I would not be surprised if they did.... FIngers crossed @@damonfalk
4:22 - AC IV - The water on deck moves better in physics and the people on board are careful during a storm. 4:38 - S&B - The water on the deck is almost invisible and people on the ship walk as usual and not with caution during a storm. AC IV - 4:22 - People on deck be careful!!! S&B - 4:38 - People on deck on a sunny day.
@@jeanmouchellasablonniere no a remastered !! Remake will change the overall gameplay and story. All we need a good graphics which can adopt to this gen gaming, black flag already has everything but it's an old game...
black flag has you board the ship and fight them, but Skull and Bones doesn't, so really, I prefer black flag as you can do that however Skull and Bones has better graphics
Great video. Thanks for posting. Disappointed that when boarding in S&B, there is no combat. Also appears, maneuvering in AC:BF is slower and more realistic. S&B battle look like they are on speed. This video convinced me to ignore S&B and go replay AC:BF again.
I'm not even touching skull and bones unless they add the other half of the game back in, wtf ubisoft really? Defend it all you want but its nothing but a stripped down black flag with less than half the content.
No thanks, we want ignorant naval battles and only naval stuff, for other stuff we already have Sea Of Thieves wich lacks naval combat ( fun ones that doesn't feel like a chore when solo)
@@cristianfatu2088 If you only want naval combat (no boarding, no sword fighting etc.) then you're not playing a pirate game, which this is.. This is a ship version of world of tanks.. Its lacking arguably the 2nd most important part of pirates, the fucking sword fighting, boarding ships, swashbuckling.
disappointed with S&B so far - Black Flag is old but it looks better and way more realistic and fun. Also seeing such diverse crew in S&B with so many 'strong and independent' woman's looks so weird and out of place for 16th century Pirate ship
@@SnidgetAsphodel well there is no problem with representation. Create your own character or have woman captains since they really existed like Zheng Yi Sao. But half of crew filled with womans is cringe and cheap.
Dont forget to charge 60 quid for the plesure of pressing X to board ships and then charge 20 quid every 3 months for a battle pass u cant earn ingame that gives gameplay effecting things.
It make me think Ubisoft should making single player Pirate of the Caribbean game, they could just adapt the movie trilogy or maybe make story about young Jack, with combat and Naval battle similar to AC black flag... It would be so awesome
If you ever actually opened one, you would know that ships of that era could equip rocket launchers, primitive ones but still rocket launchers, an archaich Katjuša on ships and even big mortars/Howitzers.@@Shadowclaw25
4:36 love how the person on the canon is wiping the sweat out of his face while being in a storm😂 also how casual they all walk around like nothing happens...
Yes it’s releasing sometime in February (almost here). It’s not single player, pvp is insignificant (pvp component might change on release). Not much land exploration, only in town hubs to trade stuff, or pick up voyages. Not sure about the story but your character doesn’t speak
The fact that skull & bones came from the same studio that made black flag, they should have known better. They should've just added things that were missing in black flag and made skull & bones the improved version of it more focused on sailing and pirating. Boarding the ship and getting your crew go head to head with theirs is a major key that adds to the fun. It seems that skull & bones doesn't have that, I'm not saying its not going to be good, but for players who played black flag, that's gonna be tough to accept.
I wanna love this so much but that ship boarding is disgraceful. Thats part of what it means to be a pirate in my eyes and to leave that out is a deal breaker
@@cristianfatu2088because the majority of gamers and pirate fans says so. Funny how you ignore trends when they’re the exact thing people look for to see if a product is worth it. Where do you think game scores come from? The 6 hour beta was boring after 4 hours. Some people got bored before that, others after. And then there’s the minority, yes, you, an empty headed individual looking for ignorant empty gameplay, just like you expressed
My Pirate Videogame whislist: 1 A real open world with islands to explore. We need slavery plantations to set free and treasures to discover. We need Nations like England France Spain and Netherlands fighting each others for the control of the islands. Also these islands should be full of extra content missions like: Kill the governor Steal goods Conquer a military fort We should decide which nation we want help or not. 2 A ship with internal rooms where we can store goods and jewels. We should be able to fully walk inside the ship and being able to customize it 3 A crew hiring system with different abilites and skills for every member. So we can have a crew with npcs good in sailing, good in battling, good in shooting ecc. Kind of a pokemon team where everyone is necessary to build a full operative crew. The more you pay them the better they are. Skills could be: sailing, shooting, hand fighting along with the usual stamina health and speed movement. 4 An experience system with ranks where you start as a normal sailor and you can become a cannoneer, then a carpenter, then a doctor(or the crew chef) a boatswain, a quartemaster and finally you become a Captain. Everyone with different duties on the ship: the captain set the route, the quartermaster sail the ship, carpenter fix the boat holes, crew chef will cook food and he will be the doctor during and after battles. In this way we could have a cool MMO Rpg with people cooperating together. Missions could be decided by crew voting between multiple options. Imagine being part of a crew of people from internet all together sailing the sea with gold and conquers in their minds.❤
Skull and Bones (SAB) was a good thought, and I get the ambition, but they should have left it as that. A good thought. SAB is inside of Black Flag (BF), but BF is not inside of SAB. That being said, we get more bang for our buck with BF. Maybe they should have done what most developers are doing these days and redefine BF into a definitive version of the game and voila.
Given the conflicting content videos shown prior I have no idea what actual gameplay for skull and bones will be. People would have been happy to take Black Flag and expand on it.
Go to island craft resources, go to town, buy ship and cannons, get voyage, sink ships, back to town, upgrade ship cannons, get voyage, repeat until you unlock better ships and resource factory, repeat till your ship gets stronger
yeah, thats why other multiplayer games like remnant2 look bettern then EVERY old single player :D :D Trying to defend ubisoft is like trying to protect a donkey thats taking a shit on your face right that moment :D Enjoy your 120bucks phone game
Thanks to Skull and Bones for getting me to do another play through of AC4 Black Flag. My pirate urges have been satisfied once more me trumps! ☠️ 🏴☠️
nothing Ubisoft makes is able to kill anything. Not even their own stuff. they said they go back to the roots with mirage and now YOU actually believe they are able to remake a great game?? you completely lost touch, everyone should have realized by now that good old Ubisoft is dead. the games from them are made to exploit 12y olds nowadays. The good old Splinter Cell days with adult content is OVER.
@@GaryTabarJr The Day Before is a real scam, fake trailers, fake communications, fake promises, etc... He is just doing the typical Ubisoft hater, so no I don't think he meant dumpster fire.
I played the betas and I was abit bummed out by no ground/boarding combat but I guess the main appeal here would be that it's online and you can play with friends, and do PvP, it basically takes Black Flags ship combat which I always wanted a black flag multiplayer ship game, I didn't get a chance to play with a buddy or try PvP yet but I can say that I def got fairly bored just cruising in the ship to point A then B, and having to farm for ship upgrades, I mean BF is like that too but I think the ship and ground combat boarding on that game is just way too fun, story is pretty good too, I was about to buy Uplay Pass for $20 to give s&b a real playthrough but I settled for reinstalling Black Flag and ordering doordash with the $20 instead lmao.
The fun thing is this video doesn't makes me want to play S&B, it makes me want to play Black Flag again !
true
Same
Im downloading it rn 😭💯
Yeah true I'm trying to replay BF for 3 years but i quit it because the Kenway's fleet doesn't work, and Ubi support team "investigating" this issue for over a year and doing nothing.
such a shame that this is a Ubisoft game ...
skull n bones is gonna be ubisofts biggest flop,imagine taking away the human combat and exploring of islands from your pirate game
It’s just crazy to me that they had a perfect blueprint and just said nah.
they know whales will still defend and throw money at the game cus people are stupid enough to play the division thinking its anything more than a dull looter shooter. dont worry though give it 5 months the game will be on game pass when most of the community has left and ubisoft has to try to bring people into the game by making it free.
This should be top comment! Not only that, but Ubisoft should read that!!
Funny thing is that it's their own game. They would be allowed to copy and paste it. In fact, that's what people wanted. But they still said "nah, we can make it worse".
Yup
I am always confusing about this.....why do some company old games are masterpiece yet the news one with newer technology is worst....LIKE how the fuck is that possible?? I am sure they write and saved all the gaming codes of the game somewhere in their company base.
Slow the ships down, make more realistic sail motion, improve damage models, make ship interios to walk around out of battle for repairs, medic room, crew quarters to improve visuality and rpg features. This game looks like a tech demo from 2015.
S&B looks like the Demo for Black Flag, would've been nice if it was basically Black Flag without the Assassin stuff in it. Being able to go to all islands, If you were fast enough being able to hop off the wheel and solo board a vessel and exploring the shipwrecks were all so fun.
Just wish there was more interaction with your fleet/crew like calling for aid when in a naval battle or have some crew work like the Assassins in Brotherhood. Plus I like the Jackdaw however I did wish at times that I had a bigger ship to use the swivel to hit the top deck of a Man O' War's.
"Slow the ships down" LOL no
@@Hydra-dr8hd "LOL yes" !?? The heck is that? World Of Warships Pirate version?
@@rlrl2011 Nobody wants slow boring ships in a game except for a tiny minority like you and that @gunplaboy5248 guy
@@rlrl2011 it's a pirate ship from XVII Century. Why th it would be faster than modern battle cruisers?
When u had the answers to the test and you still somehow manage to fail.
THIIIIIIS
No
Not just the answers
You easily aced the test 10 years ago and now you got a 15/100
@@molassesman4066 You aced the test 10 years ago, had your copy of the test to cheat off of, threw that in the garbage and said "I'm just gonna wing it" lol
@TheWolfman112 actually hold on
Given what we know we shouldve also added "procrastinated on attempting the test so hard you were about to be in diplomatic trouble."
Black Flag is one of my favorite games of all time
same Black flag, Ogrins revelations. all the best AC games. Skull and bones isnt what i thought it would be it needs hand to hand and open world elements then it would be a top contender for the grown but that was wishful thinking
Have you fully completed the campaign in Black Flag ?
And mine
Skull and Bones it's like a half assed game compared to Black Flag. No boarding animation, no ship landing aground, while on ship you can walk around, climb on ship or just jump out. The freedom to do whatever. Now it's gone woke too.
Yes also mine
Skull and Bones feels like a ported mobile game
a ported mobile, games as a service, stripped down version of black flag
hell even AC Pirates on mobile plays better than this shit@@OZYMANDlUS
No it doesnt lmao
@@idkanymore3382 ... Yeah it does, are you seeing the fucking gameplay?
Looks like S&B ships are using Rocket launchers instead of cannonballs
AC Black Flag: You actually feel like a pirate 🏴☠️
Skull and Bones: Ubisoft ARE the pirates. 💰
They will be when they reveal the 30 quid battle pass for random cosmetics and ingame boosts that the whales that are defending it will no doubt buy.
except skull and bones is fun and what should have come out. it's a great game that will be loved for decades mark my words.
@jackman5840 is that to say Black Flag wasn't fun? I hope the best for Skull n Bones, but I don't see this being memorable.
Oh no, im still gonna be a pirate just not in the way ubisoft hoped
@@jackman5840 it costs $120 aud lmao. I played the open beta and I did enjoy it a bit (though never have played black flag so I can't compare), but not for that price. No way, never.
"Ready to fire captain!"
-Random pirate from Edwards crew
"fire!" *Crew cheers*
Black flag :
1. feels the weight of the ship
2. the damage caused by the iron cannon hitting the wood feels more reasonable
3. the horror of the waves on the dark open sea during a bad storm was felt more
Skull & Bones :
1. the ship feels more like a lego ship, it is light and can fly whenever it wants.
2. too much fire from an iron cannon hitting a wooden ship, if they used modern missiles it might make more sense that there would be that many sparks
3. the storm at sea is more like just colored dark effects, less feel the real horror of the open sea in the middle of a very bad storm
In terms of graphics, it's probably more about over-enhancement and unnecessary effects
So this comment was: Things I liked about Black flag, and things I didn't like about Skull & Bones.
@@JsphCrrllquality and attention to details, skull and bones will be a mid game, considering it's from ubisoft, hard pass.
AC4 was made through 3 years of development, 4 if we add the fact that AC3 had been in development since before AC3's release, and AC4 was basically created out of AC3's leftovers. S&B took 10 years to create... Just think of the development chaos behind this game, it is unbelievable...@@JsphCrrll
S&B 10 years ago could be amazing. But with today's Ubisoft? Absolutely not.@@zbeatza9910
tbf many people don't care about realistic details PERSONALLY I like games with good graphics and good gameplay
I gave the victory to Black Flag when Skull has no battle in the ship invasion, a much newer game, but half-made, blackflag is complete and made with love, a game ahead of its time.
S&B has no on ship battle invasion??? Nah Black Flag is goated. I will say I do like the shooting in S&B
Who wants to just press X to invade a ship and have it all done in 10 seconds with a cutscen where in black flag u can actuly swim / swing to the ship yourself climb all around it while fighting off its crew and cut the flag down.
S&B is a joke to me. But the release of it is an attempt to make money on trash. This project needed to be shut down because it was a failure. It never became what it set out to become. And now. Ubisoft have stitched it together as a somewhat complete game. If you see world of tanks but with pirate ships like a complete game. Nah. I see this being pushed because they saw oppertunities for adding microtransactions to the game when it's more just an online battle game like world of tanks.
Like i said. It's a joke. But it's ment to be taken seriously. Don't waste time on it. Don't let them think that the game has a player base. Let them know that you find the game presented to you to be disappointing by not engaging in the game and by not adding a number to the active players. If only people understood this simple and logic trade in the gaming industry. When the big corporations f up. You show it by not giving any attention to their bad product.
We've just had years where people instead engaged in bad products. Bad games and glitchy games were treated like gems that were fun because they were broken. This completely ruined the gaming industry for way too long. Where games actually just released broken because it gave the game popularity and people wanted to play and stream it because they wanted to laugh at the bad product. But in the end these games made a lot of profit on the popularity they got on being broken.
@@iamwillgodzie7145 Thats because you like to just shoot wherever by pointing with a mouse and not where the guns could actually shoot ie 90 degrees to the hull and you need to steer the ship to do that..
@@shawbag11 want to play as a pirate and just ride around the shit that’s lame you’re part of the problem not the solution bud
Id love a remaster Black flag with new generation graphics.
its in the early stages of creation now
It’s coming
wouldn't that make it worse? I mean look how good it looks compared to skull and bones :'D
Knowing Ubisoft they're probably gonna woke it up. Add female crewmembers and everything. They will ruin it.
@@UlpianHeritor you do realize that the original AC: Black Flag itself had numerous in-depth and well written female characters. Throwing the word "woke" around is not good of a criticism. Black Flag wasn't considered woke in 2013/2014, but I guess now, people like you will call it that.
Damn, didn't know pirates had machine guns on board of their ships!👌
Well you could say that "they were ahead of their time" 🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏🙏💀💀💀
Black flag is truly on a league of its own! One of the best games ive ever played! That right there was a pirate simulation! Being on the boat really felt like you were sailing thru the ocean!
its not a simulation, but its the best arcade playable game to feel like a pirate.
While skull and bones feels like Eve Online with boats and water. I will pass . Sea of thieves had better features then this
And the songs! Ohh the songs. Always made me sing too. And it was a blast. There were moments where the crew sang in an intense battles too, that was *AWESOME* I want to play it again.
@@justareguralcitizen9492 I loooved the songs too bro! My favorite part of sailing long missions!
@@SymonTemplah that’s the beauty, the annoyingly long mission suddenly became so much more bearable with just the fact the crew could sing. I enjoyed sailing from one side of the map to another with out speed travel, doing anything I found on the way to the main objective. Truly a great game.
You can stop watching at 0:02, it's Black flag, obviously.
A slower paced pirate rpg would be one of the best selling games ever. Ship battles that actually took time and tactics, maybe even able to comand small fleets. That would be amazing
A remake of 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean would be amazing. Or any Sea Dogs title for that matter.
There's a game called Naval Action. Its slow paced and realistic. The gameplay could took maybe 20min to an hour just to sunk a ship. But that's why its not so great, some people complain its too looong to play. So I think this fast paced ship battles are enough.
Just search for Sea of Thieves
@@Shadow-mi8qs That game is pay to win, it's that slow, so you just buy them the good stuff and be more realistic in the process.
but it's still interesting
Empire total war allowed you to do that, highly realistic but I personally found it too tedious
That S&B gameplay sequence with the ships crashing into each other at full speed felt more arcadey than Mario Kart. Only missing thing would be torpedoes with koopa shells...
They already implemented torpedos into Skull and Bones 😂
@@BSiegi there not motorised right?
Jesus the storm in Skull and Bones looks so much worse than in Black Flag. The one field where S&B should actually be easily winning and it fails miserably. So sad.
It looks HORRIBLE, it misses all the Effects of BF and even got a graphics dowgrade, that is... a disgrace.
And also the boarding ship in Black Flag is more funny and detailed.
Boarding in Skull and Bones is something lazier...
no its not, people just overpraised old video game because its og, and now they hardly want to accept new good game because its gonna make them "not classic enough"
@@aditcaesa203 uh, no it simply looks worse in every aspect.
@@aditcaesa203 you are blind eh?
The constant switching of the camera during battle in S&B looks so janky and adderall addicted, whereas the original's more static camera looks so much more immersive.
I felt dizziness while watching the video. I had never experienced such state while gaming before, so that’s a great indicator how fucked up the camera movement is.
SnB's speed makes you feel like driving a canoe rather than a ship lol
And the fact that sometimes you can see the boat drift and I'm just waiting for the "Deja Vu!" to kick in lol.
The best thing about Skull and Bones is that it pushed players back to Black Flag.
Im merciful as fuck to excuse the boarding and the storm, but when you mess up my sea shanties that badly... There is no recovery.
I’m stuck between not wanting complete silence and not wanting to listen to those shit shanties. They’re so awful.
@@Rain-Man915 holy shit bro how do you find those awful? i guess each to their own taste
Black Flag was ahead of its time.
Not sure about that, port royal back in the days even had fighting and naval combat... Feels like this was rushed even tho over 1 decade of development...
No, its just that these days big studios have gotten too lazy to even try making a decent game
The interaction between the ship and sea animations looks better in black flag. I want more spray. More movement of the water level in relation to the ships hull. Whoever animated skull and bones seems to have never been on the sea
You cant let alone explore as freely in land, they dont even touch grass lol
@@fabianustertius6460 I know. They really missed an opportunity to create an amazing open world game with the Black Flag universe.
Him having to fast forward through the boarding fight shows you exactly why it's not in Skull and Bones.
If Black Flag is an Assassin’s Creed fanfic of the Golden Age of Piracy, then Skull and Bones is a fanfic of Black Flag, and that’s not a compliment. It’s ironic how Ubisoft made fun of themselves in Black Flag with Abstergo’s concept trailer for Devils of the Caribbean (or whatever it was called), and yet this fits exactly like what Abstergo would release. When will they realize that self-awareness means nothing if they don’t actually DO anything about the flaws they admit to.
Black Sails movie is more realistic? :)
Based af comment lol
The entire point of a pirate game is to make you feel like a pirate and Ubisoft went and removed the BIGGEST part of being a pirate.
Boarding and looting the enemy ship
They went from a Sid Meiers Pirates feel into some sort of arcade MOBA in water
This exact comment is why I love skull and bones. I'm a huge MOBA fan and it feels good to play.
So wait wait wait you wanted to sit there for hours just clicking on a some little commands
Your opinion in terms of fun is completely muted by making this comment go back to your strategy games bud
@@CreationAbound eat sh*t - you won't notice the difference
Black Flag storm: crew reacting to the storm.
S&B storm: crew just walking about like the ship is tied alongside. 🤣
even in minute 4:44 there's someone climbing and then disappear, just horrible. hahaha
@@carlossegovia1014 Yes, I noticed that too 🤣
I think two things have happened. Black Flag did something so ahead of its time (in terms of the navel sections) they set the bar incredibly high to begin with. It's obvious S&Bs has gone through development hell which even if things were plain sailing (pun intended) it would have been tricky to beat the brilliance of the 'at sea' sections of BF.
They didn't have to beat it though, they just had to do the EXACT SAME THING. If this was another company, maybe, but it's literally the same one, so they get no grace from me
No such thing as set the bar too high. Its a decade ago, everything has increased and improved. Games were 20 gb max, now 100gb avarage. We played with 900 pixels, now with 2k at least. They were working with UE2 or 3. We have 4 (and partly 5). There is nothing that can justify a game thats 10 years older but plays like 10 years younger. They have every technology at their disposal to create a game 10x better than BF. There is no walking hand combat, no boarding combat, cannons shoot like pistols, graphics are meh. Basically this game is half the game of what BF was and thats just not right for a game thats 10 years older.
@@RidoDrago I didn't say 'too high', and I didn't say about it graphics wise. I just mean in terms of the experience over all. Absolutely agree though - to not even have features that were in BF is unforgivable, such as boarding.
@@user-jt1js5mr3f Yeah. No excuse. I do wonder if they did a CP2077 and had loads of cool features but had to pull them one by one as time went on. Something has gone very wrong I imagine.
@@benwilliams5760 this game was supposed to release in 2018, and it appears much the same as it did then. They had ample time to fix it, to listen to the fan base of Black Flag who they should have made this for, but they just didn’t.
Look at the crew during the storm. In Black Flag they get down, sailors hold on to objects. In S&B people just walk from side to side like it was sunday.
was really funny watching the black flag boarding in super speed.
though i will say it is unfortunate that blag flag still seems to have more atmosphere and character. I am excited for, and had fun playing the beta for skull and bones, but I wish they took more inspiration from black flag than just the ship combat. BF was amazing from start to finish, the feeling was unique, every moment felt like you were really there and free to sail and do as you wished. It was a really unique feeling...idk why they couldnt nail that again, its the same damn company.
why do people always want another AC game on the Sea ??? its a game that only concentrate on the life of the sea nothing more just a pirates life. No Jumping around much on land or anything else related to AC gameplay.
@@teddyslullaby89 yeah as much as I'd love land combat in skull and bones, I understand their choices. My main point here is more about the visuals and atmosphere. I'm usually telling people to stop expecting skull and bones to be black flag 2, but it is striking how amazing and timeless the original was. Probably because their team had a unified vision and stuck to it, unlike skull and bones which has had many issues during development
@@zaclovesschool2273 the thing is every thing skull and bones has sea of thieves does better sure you dont have the cannon options like skull and bones but that the only thing better, sea of thieves is way better, skull and bones has more cannons and graphics. sea of thievs has combat with swords naval combat plus exploration solo or with a crew up to 4. a more realistic sea of thieves would be a award winning pirate game. sea of thieves for veteran players needs a refrewsh but for new players there so much to do i got over 700+ hours in the game and there is still more to grind for but ive played so much i need a refresh. on graphics and new stuff to do. but the game is great.
I wonder if you are willing to kill 15 people on that ship to be able to capture the ship everytime. Having all the animations and all in multiplayer game. How would that work on the server with 20 people. It seems like SnB is more focused on fast naval fights. Just play BF if you want the atmosphere and character.
I honestly dint like the way you cannot board ships and lands explore like black flag good game but i hope they change something about the game 👌🏻👌🏻
In a world without gold, we might've been heroes
F for respects
Toll payed againts for his crimes the spanish empire ships and coast and treason of his english king
In a world without gold, we might have been heroes . -Blackbeard
I'm already sold on the ship gameplay! Reinstalling Black Flag now xD
Black Flag was one of my most favorite games and its unfortunate that that they didnt take more inspiration from it.
its the best pirate game thats for sure,ac oddysey is a better game overall,a shame they didnt put more effort in the sailing,yeah its ancient greece not the golden age of piracy,but realism was never a thing with these games so why not just go full on the ship system also
@@deenman23ac odyssey was ass tf you talking about
@@PostBASH why?its an easy top 5 open world rpg in the same vein as witcher 3,it was goty condender with rdr2 and god of war...
@@deenman23 the rpg games are somewhat bearable but are beaten by their predecessors like ac 4
@@PostBASH beaten how?they are inferior in every way besides some having a better parkour system and story,
4:44
lol guy just disappeared
I’d like skull and bones more if they put more into the pirate boarding like they did black flag , it looks great. Ac4 was great honestly makes me want to replay
although ship boarding was a crucial part for pirates. how do you think infamous pirates gained their fleets and wealth? they incapacitated and boarded other ships, either looting them, or making them part of their fleet@@curbowbass6124
@@curbowbass6124ac Black flag looks more like a Pirate game. S&B looke like fortnite with ships
@@curbowbass6124 My guy, BOARDING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING in a pirate game or any naval battle before WWI. Nelson's battle with Napolean's fleet, Boarding was the most crucial tactic he did when faced again the Franco-Spanish fleet that it even gave a name to his strategy - the Nelson touch. Also Captain Blackbeard died in a boarding battle and pirates mostly board their enemies to secure their ship and more loot. Even Sid Meier Pirates get this point, a game decades old.
It was because of this face, AC4 felt more like a Pirate game than this Arcade over glamourized barnacle trash.
@@kingdarklp7584ok
@@curbowbass6124You have it the wrong way around. Boarding is all about piracy.
Everyone knows that the sailors of that time had a sign: “a woman on a ship means trouble.” What kind of floating brothel were they showing us here?
Woke bs for a 'modern' audience that doesn't exist
More hyped for the AC4 remake
Do you think ubisoft could nail the landing when S&B would probably be the blueprint for an AC4 remake? I mean they had the blueprint for a perfect game with AC4 to S&B and they fucked it up HARD. I mean 11 years and 120 mil budget for S&B, compared to 4 years and less than 100 mil budget on AC4
As long as AC4 is a faithful remake without any of the live service BS I dont see how they could F it up... But then again.. I would not be surprised if they did.... FIngers crossed @@damonfalk
@@damonfalkubisoft make ac 4 more fun than SnB
Black Flag was a fucking masterpiece
4:22 - AC IV - The water on deck moves better in physics and the people on board are careful during a storm.
4:38 - S&B - The water on the deck is almost invisible and people on the ship walk as usual and not with caution during a storm.
AC IV - 4:22 - People on deck be careful!!!
S&B - 4:38 - People on deck on a sunny day.
We need a remastered version of black flag !!
It's actually already in the works!
remake
@@jeanmouchellasablonniere no a remastered !! Remake will change the overall gameplay and story. All we need a good graphics which can adopt to this gen gaming, black flag already has everything but it's an old game...
Yeah, no... just polish Black Flag's graphics a bit--but otherwise leave it alone. Remasters and remakes give me the willies...
black flag has you board the ship and fight them, but Skull and Bones doesn't, so really, I prefer black flag as you can do that however Skull and Bones has better graphics
The lack of smoke and DOF in skull and bones is disturbing
Ok, Darth Vaper
I find it sad that Sid Maiers Pirates from the 1980s has better boarding mechanics then a quadrupedal A (AAAA) game from 2024....
Great video. Thanks for posting. Disappointed that when boarding in S&B, there is no combat. Also appears, maneuvering in AC:BF is slower and more realistic. S&B battle look like they are on speed. This video convinced me to ignore S&B and go replay AC:BF again.
AC Black Flag : we're the pirates
S&B : Ubisoft are the pirates
I'm not even touching skull and bones unless they add the other half of the game back in, wtf ubisoft really? Defend it all you want but its nothing but a stripped down black flag with less than half the content.
No thanks, we want ignorant naval battles and only naval stuff, for other stuff we already have Sea Of Thieves wich lacks naval combat ( fun ones that doesn't feel like a chore when solo)
@@cristianfatu2088 have your shitty half finished product.
@@cristianfatu2088 If you only want naval combat (no boarding, no sword fighting etc.) then you're not playing a pirate game, which this is.. This is a ship version of world of tanks.. Its lacking arguably the 2nd most important part of pirates, the fucking sword fighting, boarding ships, swashbuckling.
@@justespelund then go play one of those, i want exactly this.
@@cristianfatu2088 then your a loser lol
the AC Black Flag menu sound got me nostalgic
black flag and rougue were the best!! the camera angle was perfect, it captured the sense of being part of the crew, much better immersion
I’d honestly rather just pay for black flag remastered
Love the realistic pirate machine guns in skull and bones. Really adds to the authenticity. Do you think you can unlock harrier jets too?
Just remake Black Flag in terms of control and graphics a bit and we get the best pirate game ever made
disappointed with S&B so far - Black Flag is old but it looks better and way more realistic and fun. Also seeing such diverse crew in S&B with so many 'strong and independent' woman's looks so weird and out of place for 16th century Pirate ship
S&B - On the Waves of Intersectional Feminism. Point of game is to get highest body count.
I'm a female gamer and even I agree. I don't want 'representation' for the sake of it. I want realistic representation and story.
@@SnidgetAsphodel well there is no problem with representation. Create your own character or have woman captains since they really existed like Zheng Yi Sao. But half of crew filled with womans is cringe and cheap.
Black Flag music, gameplay and the characters were so damn good, i dont get it how they got that worse
Yo no way the shanties in S&B are absolutely egregious
Black Flag is 9 years older however it is still better then Skull and Bones.
I mean Skull and bones will probably be a really chill casual game to plow hours into after work :)
For 70$ tho?
It's evolving, just backwards
AC BF takes the cake all the time.
Smoke effects on black black are amazing
people: we want an AC4 like game!!
ubisoft: sure, let me strip AC4 of everything it is known for, here you go
Dont forget to charge 60 quid for the plesure of pressing X to board ships and then charge 20 quid every 3 months for a battle pass u cant earn ingame that gives gameplay effecting things.
Brian Tyler really killed it with the music composition in this game
It make me think Ubisoft should making single player Pirate of the Caribbean game, they could just adapt the movie trilogy or maybe make story about young Jack, with combat and Naval battle similar to AC black flag... It would be so awesome
very good idea
What do you think sea of Thieves is
Well, it's definitely not a single player, that's for sure. @@jackalhead1542
After playing the Beta for S&B it does not top Black Flag even after all these years.
Skull and bones has to much explosions in the fight. Unless you have explosives cann8nballs all the time but it seems false.
wait till you see the multi-rocket-launcher ^^ just like in the history books
If you ever actually opened one, you would know that ships of that era could equip rocket launchers, primitive ones but still rocket launchers, an archaich Katjuša on ships and even big mortars/Howitzers.@@Shadowclaw25
In black flag you feel the weight of the ship in skull and bones thats all gone and it feels like your sailing skips made out of balsa wood
they wont dare to release this game as a new product. NO WAY! it would be a disgrace
huh ? so it fits perfectly...ubisoft is a disgrace aswell.
They will release it and not care about your opinion
That number of women on the crew in S&B is unrealistic.
Black Flag Top Tier Game
missing steam achievements lol
4:36 love how the person on the canon is wiping the sweat out of his face while being in a storm😂 also how casual they all walk around like nothing happens...
is skull and bones actually releasing?? i was hoping it would be a single player with a great story with land and sea battles
Yes it’s releasing sometime in February (almost here). It’s not single player, pvp is insignificant (pvp component might change on release). Not much land exploration, only in town hubs to trade stuff, or pick up voyages. Not sure about the story but your character doesn’t speak
Black Flag даже спустя столько лет, всё так же хорош😊 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I'll keep my money thanks for vid
The fact that skull & bones came from the same studio that made black flag, they should have known better. They should've just added things that were missing in black flag and made skull & bones the improved version of it more focused on sailing and pirating. Boarding the ship and getting your crew go head to head with theirs is a major key that adds to the fun. It seems that skull & bones doesn't have that, I'm not saying its not going to be good, but for players who played black flag, that's gonna be tough to accept.
The cannonballs in black flag look rediculously big.
Hopefully they don't fuck up the Black Flag remake
It’s been a decade waiting I’m going to play the game and judge it my self.
Black Flag was so good they only AC game I ever finished. S&B looking to be a major disappointment
Skull and Bones looks like a game from 2003 and Black Flag like a game from 2023.
I wanna love this so much but that ship boarding is disgraceful. Thats part of what it means to be a pirate in my eyes and to leave that out is a deal breaker
There is a good way to do a game and a bad way, skull and bones invested years into the bad way
Because you say so and it's a trend to hate? The 6 hour beta was refreshing and a needed ignorant naval battle game.
@@cristianfatu2088because the majority of gamers and pirate fans says so. Funny how you ignore trends when they’re the exact thing people look for to see if a product is worth it. Where do you think game scores come from?
The 6 hour beta was boring after 4 hours. Some people got bored before that, others after. And then there’s the minority, yes, you, an empty headed individual looking for ignorant empty gameplay, just like you expressed
I legit just played Black Flag the other day! Time to hop back on!😂
My Pirate Videogame whislist:
1
A real open world with islands to explore. We need slavery plantations to set free and treasures to discover.
We need Nations like England France Spain and Netherlands fighting each others for the control of the islands.
Also these islands should be full of extra content missions like:
Kill the governor
Steal goods
Conquer a military fort
We should decide which nation we want help or not.
2
A ship with internal rooms where we can store goods and jewels.
We should be able to fully walk inside the ship and being able to customize it
3
A crew hiring system with different abilites and skills for every member.
So we can have a crew with npcs good in sailing, good in battling, good in shooting ecc.
Kind of a pokemon team where everyone is necessary to build a full operative crew.
The more you pay them the better they are.
Skills could be: sailing, shooting, hand fighting along with the usual stamina health and speed movement.
4
An experience system with ranks where you start as a normal sailor and you can become a cannoneer, then a carpenter, then a doctor(or the crew chef) a boatswain, a quartemaster and finally you become a Captain.
Everyone with different duties on the ship: the captain set the route, the quartermaster sail the ship, carpenter fix the boat holes, crew chef will cook food and he will be the doctor during and after battles.
In this way we could have a cool MMO Rpg with people cooperating together.
Missions could be decided by crew voting between multiple options.
Imagine being part of a crew of people from internet all together sailing the sea with gold and conquers in their minds.❤
Skull and Bones (SAB) was a good thought, and I get the ambition, but they should have left it as that. A good thought. SAB is inside of Black Flag (BF), but BF is not inside of SAB. That being said, we get more bang for our buck with BF. Maybe they should have done what most developers are doing these days and redefine BF into a definitive version of the game and voila.
Absolute AC:BF !
(- have all AC ...)
I have play both (S&B CBT1+2/OB)
Ac Black flag >>>>> S&B
Skull and Bones just looks and feels like Call of Duty with a Ship
Given the conflicting content videos shown prior I have no idea what actual gameplay for skull and bones will be. People would have been happy to take Black Flag and expand on it.
Go to island craft resources, go to town, buy ship and cannons, get voyage, sink ships, back to town, upgrade ship cannons, get voyage, repeat until you unlock better ships and resource factory, repeat till your ship gets stronger
Just leave her, Johnny....
Maybe the graphics were downgraded on Skull and Bones for the multiplayer.
yeah, thats why other multiplayer games like remnant2 look bettern then EVERY old single player :D :D
Trying to defend ubisoft is like trying to protect a donkey thats taking a shit on your face right that moment :D
Enjoy your 120bucks phone game
Thanks to Skull and Bones for getting me to do another play through of AC4 Black Flag. My pirate urges have been satisfied once more me trumps! ☠️ 🏴☠️
Skull&Bones is a bad joke
AAAA
Abandoned
Aspirations
After
Assassin's Creed 4
Ac4 remake gonna kill skull and bones
nothing Ubisoft makes is able to kill anything. Not even their own stuff.
they said they go back to the roots with mirage and now YOU actually believe they are able to remake a great game??
you completely lost touch, everyone should have realized by now that good old Ubisoft is dead.
the games from them are made to exploit 12y olds nowadays.
The good old Splinter Cell days with adult content is OVER.
completely different game.. AC is more simulation, SB is more arcade
4:42 there is no water inside the boat. But in black flag there was realistic water inside theboat flowing.
Skull and bones is a scam exactly like "The Day Before".
pretty much, but ubisoft is rich enough to get away with it.
Its not cause you are crying on it 2 month before release.
Ubisoft didn't lie. Its just a battleship mini-game.
Do you know what is a "SCAM" ?
@@dohfire2592 I think he meant dumpster fire, not scam...lol!
@@GaryTabarJr The Day Before is a real scam, fake trailers, fake communications, fake promises, etc... He is just doing the typical Ubisoft hater, so no I don't think he meant dumpster fire.
Having the Black flag soundtrack in S&B would be amazing as well as the Jackdaw
I played the betas and I was abit bummed out by no ground/boarding combat but I guess the main appeal here would be that it's online and you can play with friends, and do PvP, it basically takes Black Flags ship combat which I always wanted a black flag multiplayer ship game, I didn't get a chance to play with a buddy or try PvP yet but I can say that I def got fairly bored just cruising in the ship to point A then B, and having to farm for ship upgrades, I mean BF is like that too but I think the ship and ground combat boarding on that game is just way too fun, story is pretty good too, I was about to buy Uplay Pass for $20 to give s&b a real playthrough but I settled for reinstalling Black Flag and ordering doordash with the $20 instead lmao.
Black flag is a real Pirate game!!