I played Black Flag after Skull & Bones 

Been saying this same thing for years. Such a miss by Ubisoft, right next to letting another company successfully do a proper “assassin” game in Japan first. 🤦‍♂️

Wasn't that Assassin's Creed: Rogue?

@@smartalec2001 Indeed, and that was a good release too, all things considered.

I wonder what you think of AC Rouge. Edit: Never mind you already played it.

I cringed hard when I saw Skull and Bones was being developed by Ubisoft Singapore. Here in Singapore, we're never known for game development. People here have little to no idea about the gaming industry. Most of them are usually mobile or casino game developers. Video gaming to Singaporeans are considered "childish" but yet these are the same people who play a rip off League of Legends game called Mobile Legends Bang Bang. Over here its all about trends and money, never about fun.

In German that's still done, looks kinda cool

I played this game over 3 times and never noticed the capitalised nouns.

Never even noticed that till now. What's the reasoning behind it?

@@Goofiest-Goober0h that's how english used to be written during the 17th and 18th century, as the comment states

​@@Goofiest-Goober0h There is no reasoning to how any language works.

Especially for this series it really isn't.

To be fair you can say that to a lot of games made nowadays.

That’s 2024 for you

we are unironically in a dark age of game dev, early to late 90s, up to about 2015 were truly great era after that we started going downhill, getting progressively worse and games got more expensive ironically

What’s crazier is that a game made in 1994 (Super Metroid) is superior to 99.9% of Metroidvanias that come out these days

Haven’t seen skull and bones gameplay but that is hilarious

There’s no wind system in black flag you still go the same speed when against the wind

@@nathan2194 no, there actually is... wind makes you go slower when facing it and makes you go a bit faster when going in the same direction

To be fair, that is your crew's stamina. Though I still think the wind mechanic in skull and bones is lame, nothing but an unnecessary inconvenience. The game is already super arcadey anyway, so why bother.

​@@elgallokriki2105 it can also push you off course

oh a hundred percent. there are maybe a handful of prerendered scenes in valhalla that look excellent. everything else is robotic... a real shame

@@jayveeeee cutscene animation in general was better. I get why. A bigger scale and making the series an rpg needs a system to automate some animations. Though I'd rather have the team go to a smaller scale. Mirage is a good start, but they took the worst parts of the rpg games for a much cheaper product

hot take because I think Unitiy has the best graphics and animations, but IV is amazing

@@ViktorRadoslavov not that controversial. That's just a general fact. Cause man animation took a real dive after Oddysee. Especially cutscenes

Not really Unity is the peak of facial animations and parkour animations.Just compare this to that you will notice the difference.But blackflag is still decent.

let's not pretend like people weren't over trilogy games after Ezio's story arch, was it cool to see him grow as a character? yeah but I also remember feeling like following Ezio around for so long held the games back in a bunch of different areas. plus after revelations, people were practically begging Ubisoft to never do another trilogy series with AC ever again. honestly, I think I prefer that Edward got one exceptionally good game rather than a trilogy, but that is just me.

@@unfortunately_fortunate2000That’s a fair point. Although I consider AC3 and Black Flag to be the Kenway Duology. It’s a shame they never continued the Kenway bloodline, it would have been interesting to see an Kenway sailing the seas in a pre-WWI era with steamboats.

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@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 Maybe do a trilogy with each game being one Kenway: 1st Black Flag, 2nd Edward in London and the transition to Haytham, 3rd game AC III

whilst I agree to the extent that I LOVED Kenway and wanted more, there is an issue as Black Flag and Kenway's story neatly documents the end of the Golden Age of piracy. 1 of the things I truly loved about Black Flag was how historically accurate a lot of the storytelling was. Basically, all these pirate 'characters' (most of them anyway) were real historical figures and their ultimate fates in the game are more or less in line with their real life fates. Bartholomew Roberts, in real life, was the 1 pirate who really held out and caused havoc and, once he was done for, there were just not so many great stories nor characters left - his death is usually used to describe the end of piracy in the Caribbean (even though he died in Africa). So I don't really know where a Kenway sequel would go after Black Flag, not unless it wasn't a pirate game and focused on his return to London but that would defeat the point a bit. They could've maybe done some sort of prequel, as Black Flag hints at his origin story but then just picks up with him already in the Caribbean. Thing is, a prequel couldn't be an Assassin's game because he only discovers the creed at the start of Black Flag. Basically, unless they just invented an entirely fictional cast of characters and history, a Kenway pirate sequel just wouldn't make sense unfortunately. Maybe they could've weaved another story with Kenway that took place in the same timeline as Black Flag, with many of the same characters returning but perhaps focusing on other pirates such as Ned Lowe who didn't really feature in Black Flag, or maybe they could've done Black Flag prequels set in other time periods, such as that of the Buccaneers or the Pirate Round, and used a new main character with Kenway as a rough template. Maybe his father or his uncle or something.

same

Very clever strategic marketing from ubisoft, making AC4 black flag sells spikes up.

This game did hit hard, marys death, blackbeard shouting in a world without gold, we might have been heroes, bonnets hanging, just blows after blows, broke my teenage heart. I absolutely love the gameplay, but cant bear to play the storyline again.

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wtf are you talking about. isn't the ending with his daughter ?

Facts

Well, maybe a little modern day context with Edward being automatically very not racist. Prefer him that way mind you, but it's still very much implied in the game that such views are not uncommon.

@@fluidthought42 It’s not really a stretch that Edward specifically isn’t very racist. Not everyone is the same firstly. Some white peoples racism varies. Some still value the skills of someone regardless of their color, while some just don’t care. Historically, there have been plenty of black pirates and black seamen that have had lots of success, even among white men. Apparently, life for a lot of black men as pirates was much better than life in the colonies.

@@fluidthought42his best friend is black 😂 born in Barbados as a slave 😂😂😂😂

@@diiii_mond Oh yes, abolishinists have existed for as long as slavery itself has. But we've never really gotten an exploration or answer as to why Edward doesn't have any particular racist tendencies.

hell yeah! send me a link when you do :)

​@@jayveeeeeThanks! I really appreciate that. Will do :)

@@calebmurphy9406 I want one too😥😅

Bro I'm sorry but no one cares about your AC Essay

NERD! Seriously though that’s cool.

Aye! Them Sea shanties!

The music is sick everywhere in this game.

the legendary ship track lives in my head rent free

Just got a physical copy to replay for my ps4

The game maim ost is also goated

Odyssey feels so cloistered. You get on your own boat in Athens and a bounty hunter is waiting for you already when you get off at Crete.

seriously so good, power fantasy

Today's Ubisoft would have charged 5$ for these swords

Yup! Also the way you could pistol counterattack to kill pretty much any enemy in the game

@@lynx2 On the topic of counterattacks, you could steal a weapon when countering and see some single weapon executions you won't see that often.

Yhh and also go hapooing

It does. You can fast travel to any harbor (where you'll still be at the helm) or any sync point (where you'll be on foot). Short of completionism in the post-game though, it is indeed rarely used by most.

i didn't know it had a fast travel feature, and i finished it twice. Lol it says a lot about the game.

A wise man once said that open world is only as good as the methods of it's traversal. Cruising around in your ship listening to the sea and shanties was as good as it can get, never used fast travel either.

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Please save the last remaining original multiplayers of the older assassins creeds! The multiplayer is still alive and theres dedicated players to it! Try at 9 a.m. - close to 12 am to try and find a server! Just had a full lobby of noobs and played for 2 hours! Please save the multiplayer!!

what 9am? new york time?@@Chickensea10

@@khalidalnabti3208 Pacific standard time! So yeah! Maybe try closer to 10 a.m.

Having a pistol equipped and pressing triangle/Y when counterattacking also makes an instakill at the cost of a single bullet

He was in a relationship with a wealthy and smart women and became a privateer, its not crazy to think he would learn to read from either of those experiences. Plus a lot of pirates are a lot smarter than you probably think. Pirates of the Caribbean isn't a good representation of real pirates

@@ZGh0st1422 To be able to navigate the open sea and trade. Pirate captain can at least read, basic math skill, and knowledge of the seas and sky. They are smarter than we give them credit for.

@@mr.q337 idk why you're saying that to me, that was my point

To add to your point​@@ZGh0st1422

I miss those days when you could pick something up and have new anticipation from it on how much better things would get years later. Now if I find a good game I just clutch onto it as hard as I can without even hoping I'll someday get a better version of it

what about the first mate?

@@moonlord9294Vice President.

Freedom cry (dlc) and rouge (full sequal) are made Its just rouge was released on ps3 days befofe the ps4 was a thing and immediately forgotten

Not every game needs a next gen update... that's just an opportunity for things to be revised and ruined. You don't take the Mona Lisa and update it for modern audiences. Just go buy a ps3.

@@CranialExtractor theres already a remaster of both black flag and rouge for ps4 so i really dont think we need a Re-Remaster

@@CranialExtractor Nah this game deserves a remaster or a remake

@@bruh4628 Why because today's generation can't come up with their own new ideas?

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the multiplayer is pretty fun thats for true@@Chickensea10

1000%

Game should be called skin and bones

Skull & Fraud

@@joehanz9217 💀 I like this one

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Which one, bro? I have almost all of them@@Chickensea10

We all did that with the elder scrolls, go back and see if you cant do it again. Take a week off if you get frustrated, but don’t let that go any longer than a week.

i believe stede bonnet was an actual person in history, i forgot his pirate name

Stede Bonnett was a real pirate. Known as the Gentleman Pirate. Also played by Rhys Darby in Our Flag Means Death

@@stevengreco2075 Stede stands out, because he was already a wealthy married man. He became a pirate essentially because he wanted to. That is what the "Gentlemen Pirate" moniker is referring to. If you read into him some more, you'll find he was pretty hated by those that dealt with him.

seems like skull and bones is missing most of what's in this game, and if it does have it, it's worse lol

so sea of thieves open world pirate game that lets you go on land and sea customize your ship and give it a name

Sea of Thieves but PvE basically?

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We've known since the game was announced that it was going to be strictly ship based. I don't know why everyone is so up in arms about not being able to do much off the ship.

@@dailydiemer8765 Because Skull and Bones is far worse for it. Simple.

Because that's what players didn't want lmao. We wanted Black Flag without the assassin stuff, not Skewered&Barebones@@dailydiemer8765

Nope it isn't. That is called AC Rogue. Very much like Black Flag, just you played in northern oceans instead.

@@dex4sure361 "Hur dur the parallel development game is actually way more similar"

I think AC3 and Black Flag do a great job of how having tunnel vision for some vague "freedom" can make everything worse and cause you to lose sight of what's really important to you. Unlike Rogue which was just hilariously shallow about the conflict, and the Ezio trilogy which played "tenplars bad" completely straight. AC1 kinda touches the issue of the two sides not being so different, but that's a rather different story from watching a guy hit rock bottom on one extreme.

Thank you. 4 was an awesome pirate game, but an awful AC game, both in gameplay and story. And Rogue indeed doesn't get the attention it deserves, with a vastly improved story, much more adjacent (alongside gameplay) to AC. It's so sad it was super rushed and so didn't get the chance for some further polish to everything, and much more content than the ~6 to ~8 hours story we got.

@@StimkySkunko agreed. I was so underwhelmed by everything in IV besides the naval missions...at least Rogue felt like a coherent story. The open world content was terrible though.

True 😂

And they had all the tools to do so bc they refined the game engine with ac rogue, like they LITERALLY already had a well made game engine they could have built on top of and they just… didn’t 💀