Skull and Bones AAAA Game Review - What a joke 

Not suprised at this point. The sub reddit is licking this game ass though

Thank you for all your hard work and years of content Mack! Been subbed to your channel since 2015!

This game is the best advertisement for Black Flag I've seen.

Sid Meir's Pirates! is still the gold standard as far as I'm concerned

But Mack.... It's AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA game!!! The more A's there are, the more half-AAAAAAssed it is XD

At this rate, Ubisoft would need to pay me to play their games. Maybe that is what they are talking about doing. Change the landscape of gaming....

It is the usual corporate greed from Big IT. Their ideal is Gaming as as Service, ideally server / cloud dependent, packed with (micro) transactions, surprise mechanical, you own nothing subscription, forcing diversity down your throat and whatever holes you have, shallow gameplay etc. Of course people can stop this by not buying into the business model. People decide where and when this stops.

Except that quote applied to subscription services like Ubisoft+, GamePass, EA Play etc. but you can't beat taking something out of context to shit on something you don't like and forcing a narrative to spread misinformation and propaganda. Fun times.

epic burn and truth

@@Getoffmycloud53 TK421 you are alive! Why aren’t you at your post?

AAAA must mean that they wasted more time and budget than they would have with a AAA game.

Who needs boarding, that sounds boring, you wanna upgrade n stuff right? Upgrade n collect, like, like, like Destiny here look Destiny lots collect goodies yummy progression very neat, we have that too! See here that coconut tree, now you click the tree and, be careful not to miss the sacred spot, strike at the right time when the icon shifts to get a coconut! Yes yes, lots of stuff, collect stuff, good good, good game, very good.

I’m okay with no boarding and wash buckling. We already have that with Sea of Theives and that game didn’t so so well not I’m not sure why everyone is complaining when they didn’t show a high demand for sea of thieves. Kind of weird if you ask me.

@@alexmendez3681then why release it at all? The only sea of thieves content I EVER saw popular on RU-vid was when people boarded ships

@@BanditoBurrito Because it’s a different experience! This game focuses on nautical combat. Some of us are tired of shooters and first person games. Again, why design a game that is exactly like Sea of Thieves? That game was trash and no one bought it but now you guys want that same game again, make that make sense. If you want a sea of thieves experience than play sea of thieves. Haha. I’m so confused.

I'll never look at that character creation screen. (period). Though this one time was quite funny I agree 🙂

What were they thinking?

That absolutely cracked me up. Have no idea what they were thinking ...

Surprising you ever did

What is that, is it a British thing?

@@Re-Todd_Howard yeah, night before a wedding the bride & her friends go out, basically a stag do for women.

@@geehammer1511 so like a bachelorette party.

@@Re-Todd_Howard yep that, not heard it called that before we call them hen nights in UK

​@@Re-Todd_Howardlike a Tuesday for Todd Howard

what u crazy , an open world Pirate game based on the Black Flag fundamentals, add the ability to walk around the ship in 1st person while sailing, fleet management, do raids on forts , towns, get chased down by the Royal Navy and maybe have some form of Shadow of Mordor Nemesis system against other Pirates, no one would want that :)

damn that was a great game! Forgot about that one.

Agree

Dream on!! ....with thousands of other likeminded gamers!!

That sounds pretty sick forgot about that shadow of Mordor game the nemesis system was great ​@@davidrenton

Yo mate I STRONGLY disagree. Cuz, you know, I played AC Odyssey back then and... well, they had ships (with upgrading and crew stuff) and you could also shoot and also board enemy ships and then play the AC-Arcade style combat on top of ships like... Well I did not even play Black Flag back then, but it seems even the other AC games had more pirate gameplay than a dedicated pirate game? My point being: Copy pasta your own games and you have boarding LOL. With 0 work MORE LOL. Did they just invest into upgrading graphics for 13 years and didn't even bother to add gameplay to their game? I am left speechless after seeing all of that... (wait the graphics look like arcade s*** that would have been possible 13 years ago OMG WTF

@@puffel3178 didnt ask

Play black flag or any other Assassins creed if you want that 🤷‍♂️

Why do people still buy their tripe?

@@divinecomedian2 cuz they stupid

An upgraded version of this came out just yesterday on steam. Apparently there are some bugs to be fixed, but otherwise you might want to put it on your wishlist. It's called Caribbean Legend and I have my eyes on it too. 🖖

Looks way more like a proper pirate game than Skull and Bones. @@theinnerlight8016

"Honestly, "Caribbean Legend" is just "Sea Dogs: To Each His Own" from 2012 with a "new" coat of paint. Expected a fresh adventure but got the same old bugs, outdated graphics, and clunky gameplay. The engine feels ancient, and the controls haven't improved at all. Disappointed big time. Not worth the hype or money." Yep I copied this from a steam review. @@theinnerlight8016

It’s when people who made these games had imagination. Ubisoft don’t care about games anymore. It’s lazy and greedy game making now that’s taken over. It’s sad because the potential is enormous.

This was the Bethesda version were you didn't play as any of the film characters? Was a great game

lmfao xD

For real, its like a warning label for me for years by now. "If you hear AAA, stay away \o/"

Yeah, I'm still a loser. Might have to get a second degree. Careerless.

Ubisoft: is that a challenge?

Best go back to Black Flag will be a much better experience in 2024 than this.

OH MY GOD… Yeah! I forgot it was that long! I was looking forward to this in a different life! Crazy! I knew when I saw the trailer it was all about ‘Girl Bossing.’ I’m so glad I moved to PC from Console!!!

​@@3G00dboys41 This has been the case since AC: Viking Edition I couldn't remember the name.. To think I used to know which game was what back in the day..

And probably rescoped and restarted several times. They did not spend 11 years on this. No way.

@@The_Noticer. Yeah it seems like it was a low-priority project to work on in downtime while they churned out the big franchises they have.

When we encountered our first sea monster in Valheim our all crew went OOOOOOHH SHIT!!!

To be honest there are some high level privateers that will wreck you, later on in the game. It's fun if you have the plus subscription but not worth 70 bucks.

My heart still stops whenever the little boat in the distance turns out to not be so little up close..

I played ac4 a shit ton. Man o war would still scare me lol

Yeah that's my favourite pirate game for sure. The actual pirate part of Black Flag would be a great game on its own without the weird AC storylines and setpiece fights and that. In fact in my last playthrough, I barely advanced the story at all, just sailed around taking over other ships and exploring islands

stop please say sike

ohh yeah and dont forget about the cargo being stored on the sides of the ships. silliest thing ever has never happened.

That's the norm for AAA too lol. I don't buy corpo slop games anymore.

7 Cities of Gold for the C64 is deeper...

i remember a old game corsairs or something it also had boarding ather ships and fighting on the deck in window 95 era... + also attack towns / resupply and capture ather ships for you're fleet. Way more advanced then this trash pile of ubisoft XD dissapointment

@@KnexJunkie The way you write made me lose faith in Humanity.

@@hillehai if spelling errors in a you tube comment effects you that deeply then id say you have bigger issues to worry about

Too bad, these are the times when woke shit is happening, so either indie devs will make such thing or there wont be such game.

It's funny he said that because that was the first thought I had as well. Some opening to a game just seeing your character getting jolly rogered.

​@@LordofRacoonscame here to say jolly rogered.

If you're paying full price for this then you'll be right at home during character creation..

​@@neinstein-sayslol

Nice!

The AAAA thing just refers to budget, it just means they spent a, quite frankly, criminal amount of money to make it lol. I'm sure Candy Crush was made for pennies in comparison. I bet Candy Crush had made far more money than this will, though.

@@BarneyGoogl It used to refer to budget, now it refers to scope and ambition. This game has neither.

​@@Pankypops it can also stand for effort and quality

well as you should when you are making a pirate game😂 i mean spending anything less than a criminal amount on making a pirate game would be a crime😂(just be careful Ubisoft you know pirates exist in the real world too and they get tons of downloads when a game is overpriced)@@BarneyGoogl

@@Pankypops It's never referred to that, and people only assume it means scope and ambition/quality. Every time you hear someone talk about the A's from a studio, they mean budget.

Hahahahaha

For The Fifth Time

arrrrrrgh

Genius! 😂😂 perfect summary of current Ubisoft

Just like social media and stories invading every platform, Executives think all games must be transformed into Fortnite.

@@Daniel__Nobre Being tough or realism is soo 90's. Soon we ll WW2 games full of women, hearts, 2020's poses, outfits and where hitler regrets it. Probably because he was gay himself.

@@Feja2503 Yeah, truth is it has been happening for awhile even. i.e. Regarding WWII having soldiers and their stories replaced by fictional female characters it has already happened with Battlefield.

I​@@Daniel__Nobre i dont mind women in games nor strong ones. I just hate it when its so obvious in history games. In era's where it was 98% male and in the game its 70% female.

@@Daniel__Nobre More like woke culture invading every platform.

This is bad even by Ubisoft standards

Boobiesoft

More like Makesmypenissoft

More like UberScuffed.

All it's missing is some x-ray vision

Ive spent time with over 20 white women and not a single one knows how to cook, yet they are the "caretakers" for kids and automatically win custody but can't make healthy food for the kid.

hon hon hon

No one wanted them to make a "new IP" for this: they just need to create Black Flag 2, without changing anything about BF1, and definitely with them not adding any woke crap to it either.

@@True_Christian The worst parts of Black Flag were when they pulled you out of the pirate fantasy to remind you it was an Assassins Creed game. Walking around the Abstergo offices to read emails and other garbage. A new Pirate IP built on the foundations of the Black Flag is exactly what they should have done. Also, they litterally did create a new pirate IP, you're looking at it.

@@GruffGames They had 70% done already, yet they managed to screw it up. How... Build upon and improve on what you have. Not make it worse

@@Feja2503 It's the same dumb ass move every game company ever, does.. They have a game that's loved, they go "hey, they love this aspect of the game, lets make an entirely new game and reinvent the wheel" then they get surprised when its dog shit and everyone hates it.. It's like I'm a fucking genius 900 IQ individual here, because its the same fucking tune from every development company ever for the last 3 decades.. Apparently just working off of the successful foundation and building on that is just way to above and beyond the idiots at these companies to comprehend.

Did you just assume their gender???

I'm sure the young women and twinks who worked on implementing those features are very proud of themselves.

​@@Cha4k Psssh, like they do any work. Not at all.

it's the Fortnitification of gaming. That's what happens when profit leads artistic decisions.

The state of Ubisoft and the industry ffs 🤣

Ah man, some of the most fun of had gaming was when I used to go into a game shop with absolutely no idea what I was looking for, spending 10 to 15 minutes picking up games with cool names, staring at the pictures on the back then fucking off to play these random games. No trailers, no review sites, just fun. Anything that had a 12 to 18 rating and a picture of explosions on the back got bought. I came away with all sorts that I probably wouldn’t have touched if I saw trailers. Good times. Sometimes I’ll run up to the second hand shop to find something for an old gen console, you’d be suprised how much random shit exists that nobodies ever heard off, it’s all better than what comes out nowadays.

@hydra8612 completely agree mate! The times of company names and box art alone being enough to sell you a game! Luckily that isnt the sales tactic anymore, which is good for us since we're comparing it to modern day games. I do still find joy in alot of modern games, but to me if we're talking in terms of era, like console generations, Xbox 360 and PS3. Sooooo many smash hits and randomness that all seemed to be their own thing. Put it this way, I still play games from a decade or two ago more than anything modern. There's still gems out there, just seems we had a whole treasure chest back in the day!

I bet like half the gamers today can't even imagine the good old days when today's most hated companies were liked and making good games. That Blizzard or Bioware logos were marks of quality and instant hits. And gaming magazines people were trustworthy hobbysts who knew and liked games. I think that is what we wanted in the 90s, but going mainstream and online really destroyed games.

@Sicarius888 couldn't agree more! Actually sad that young gamers will never no the kind of milestones that games like Halo/ Crysis/ Mass Effect laid out. A time when you paid a single/ fair price for a game, good and long story, fun multilayer, single player dlc and overall, plenty of replayabality. I think that's where the disconnect is between us and the developers. Now we pay more than double the money for the complete edition, only to then get half a product. Young kids will enjoy their Minecraft, Roblocks, Fortnite, PUBG ect. And I'm OK with that. But devs have to understand that their main target market for games like this; are people in their 30s, 40s and 50s. So because we had that point in time, we aren't gonna settle for anything less, or we'll just play old games. Last thing I'll say, last game I pre-ordered, was AC Unity, let that sink in..

In my time we rented a game for the weekend to see if it was any good. Mario Bros 3 blew my mind. EA sports and Konami were the companies I searched for when looking for a game in the late 90's. Man how gaming has changed. Not for the good I know that.

Who said you can't ?

@@raspvidy Mack did. In the review 😀

Censor bots are out of control, they don't know what words mean.

@@user-vf4je7ne3d who told mack you can't say rapier? Is he an idiot?

To be fair, it has been said that the British navy was built on sodomy, the lash and rum

Heck even Tempest has boarding action. What a joke this quadruple A game is.

There's always some idiots.

I was so close to buy this game, I am glad I checked for a gameplay first. I would be so scammed from ubisoft. This shiiit locks like an early access game not a full release.

Don't forget the sea shanties. Sailing across the map and then your crew starts singing. I loved that.

Play AC rogue if you haven't already, it's the sequel l to AC 4, has exactly the same game play , but it's set back in North America like AC 3 instead of the Caribbean.

They are the comedy itself

Homing balls 😂

AAAA magic of course

They're using Worms weapons "The first of many!"

WoW from 2005 got solutions like that for bullets. Must Hit the programmet point at front of hitbox. Nothing advanced to see here.

@@Infernal_Elf I thought it was sarcasm in the original comment... Now you make me doubt 🤣

Come on now, Rayman was a challenge twenty years ago ;)

The game industry will be better without them.

A bit like Atari's crash in the 80s, I think that the end of that era would leave a bitter sweet feeling. Maybe not right away, but certainly in hindsight.

Come on now, where will be the CTRL + C CTRL + V Assassin's Creed every year? Someone has to compete with Call of Duty.

@@dingickso4098 🤣🤣 so true!

Husband of Incontinentia.

The pegged prince is a better name

Stinky Pinky is the name of my ship in Sea of Thieves. It's the little things that make a game great

Your ship is LGBT?

Boaty McBoatface.

Same. Wasted advertising.

Same.

I did too, half the budget went on advertising it seems (no surprise) even got one with fast and furious girl talking about it

@@SpritelyGuys 3/4 of the rest came from the DEI diversity hires who just do meetings then off to yoga breaks and wine-on-tap and in-house lunches. The remaining 1/4 for the cucked devs who have to shoulder all the development of this shitty "AAAA" game.

Leave it to Ubisoft to add a bunch of women pirates even though in this time period women weren't allowed on ships because they were bad luck

@@Mr_Mistah History cannot stand in the way of wokeness.

​@@Mr_Mistah 2 of the famous pirate women (among 4) also had to disguised themselves as males throughout their pirate life, yet the women crews in game just openly dress showing skin. Same misandristic wahmen power leftists always treat men as horny rapists and abusers who'll lose control if they got stuck in a place with a woman for a long time, yet at the same time they don't think it'll happen in a ship in the middle of the ocean for long periods of time? Especially among ruffians who couldn't care less about rules, laws and manners? lmao

I rather have my og jackdaw crew in AC blackflag

Does it actually have wind and sail mechanics?

Considering the gov of Singapore was involved in this with heavy money, Ubisoft was basically forced to release it, in whatever state wouldn't actually matter, they had to get this game out, no matter what, otherwise the Singapore folks would have lawsuited Ubi's arses off to the next moon.

@@Lorifel0 People in subreddit said that it does have wind mechanics. Unfortunately, you can't turn your sails so that the wind would be in your favor.

I glad I got to play the trial version… saved me $70. I thought we would get sword fights ect but all you can do is sail and shoot other ships. The steering is trash too hahaha. I thought it would get better, but it didn’t.

With the current price of yachts. $70 for a virtual boat seems reasonable.

To be fair, most ships didn't fire all at once anyway. If you hold lmb they all fire one after another which was common.

@@Ethan-fz6tp But each canon doesnt fire twice, chain firing in rapid succession like it does in this game.

Yeah..who cares, I wouldn’t buy this trash game anyway

demi-cannons fire all at once

@@Ethan-fz6tpno ship can fire at once they have fire in a line or the ship would break a part

lol ya it looks like a UE4 asset flip weekend gamejam.

Don't forget to add woke garbage propaganda too.

The guided missiles were coming in, hot and heavy. Good thing the ancestor had a ship that could turn on a dime and speed away.

It’s for a “modern audience “. Didn’t you get the memo? Lol, what a joke.

at least they're not on helm

So what!? The game also has torpedoes that never existed. Its a fantasy take on Piracy, give your sexism a day off!!

@@Cyrstal_RoseAwh, Soy Boy got triggered. 🥲

@@Cyrstal_Rose Female crew members, especially ones who are drawn in a modern woke way as these are, that is a *dystopian nightmare,* not a "fantasy."

Not to mention funny and eye opening.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

Wait so AAAA is a thing now

@@AuthorMorgan7436 According to Ubisoft yes

@@imrileth6618 that’s insane 😭

@@AuthorMorgan7436 Ubisoft kinda is. Thats why i haven't bought any of their games in 10 years.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA 7 days freeee

This is straight up misinformation. You do get to attack towns or monuments. And you do find treasure maps. Tell me you haven’t played this game without telling me you haven’t played this game.

Ah yes, because all the people watching reviews played the game... you do know people usually watch reviews before buying/playing the game, not after?@@alexmendez3681

@@alexmendez3681 ''No town attacks by crews''. If you played sid meiers pirates you'd know what he means. The treasure map is not an argument though.

@@Sarnatuile No I never played that game. The one from 2004 right? Haven't played it.

@@alexmendez3681 1987 the 2004 is a reskin.

One of the best games ever made. Always loved the end game screen that would tell you your score like it's a historical record, how I was haunted by not rescuing my family and died from the clap after spending my fortune on French girls.

Great. Now I have the tune to that advert as my ear worm.🙄

Typical game developer no research, no immersion just give us your cash and F888off

Should have remade it

​@@mablesfatalfable6021 do you have a link to the mod

I don’t care for the Assasins nonsense. Why couldn’t they just make a pirate game based on the assasins creed game? Build upon that.

And bras with beards... lots of them when you actually look close to your crew... and once you do, you'll start spotting them on enemy ships and cash store..