Skull and Bones vs Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag | Physics and Details Comparison 

A pirate game where the main character cannot even swim... here is the first "quadruple A" game for you

I am impressed how ubisoft managed to downgrade newer games.

Honestly I think the technological improvements are insane AC4 obviously improved on all the things Skull and Bones didn't have in 2013

This video makes me wanna replay Black Flag. What a masterpiece.

A game that costed ten times as much as black flag and 3 to 4 times the development time doesn't hold a candle to it. This is modern gaming

Every masterpiece has it's own cheap copy.

no boarding is the most egregious offense of slop and bones

I absolutely loved how Edward would put out his hands like he's feeling the waves when walking in waist deep water. It's very immersive.

a pirate game where u can't EVEN SWIM? ok...no more words to this.

I didn’t know sharks roar like lions, Ubisoft

So you can't swim, and boarding is just a screen that says "good job, you boarded. Here's loot." Literally all S&B had to do was copy Sea of Thieves but make a pirate game that isn't cartoony, and what does Ubisoft give us? A pile of shit that is priced at $70 lmao GGs Ubisoft...

I forgot the AC4 boarding doesn't even have a cutscene, you literally pull up next to it, hit the button, get off the wheel, and it immediately starts

The shark fucking *ROARS* when attacking in Skull and Bones. I can’t even. 😅

The fact these effects are STILL present on the 360 and ps3 version of black flag Shows how much they put effort to these games back then, unlike now.

There was truly nothing like sailing the open sea in Black Flag with the shanties.

The fact that the most fun part about a pirate game is boarding and ship combat, they somehow managed mess up the two most important things

For $70 I got Black Flag limited edition which included the game and a badass figure of Edward swinging from a mast that I keep on my desk to this day. Much better use of my money.

How ironic that the game about the open sea has an MC that can't even swim.

Its amazing to see how much we have improved from skull and bones to get to black flag. The new technology adding all the extra climbing, swimming, smooth transitions from boats to ship, improved graphics and world interaction to make everything feel alive. Its amazing!

The fact that Unisoft Singapore played a huge role in creation of AC4 - they made almost everything related to water, things like details, sound, lighting etc - and then created S&B hits hard. It is like everything that could go wrong went wrong. Downgrade like that shows that problems on all levels exist... I do not know enough words to properly explain what I feel...

I can't believe there are no land exploration, swimming, melee combats, and board combat in 'Skull and Bones' even though it was the same dev with 'AC: Black Flag'.

A pirate that can't swim...you fucking joking...

So glad to se black flag getting the recognition it deserved. Last game I played on the ps4

Man do I miss Black Flag! I think I'll look for it.

"Let's make a pirate game where the main character cannot swim. Sounds like a good idea."

And everything ship related in black flag is just a bonus, let that sink in.

They literally had everything already there. HOW do you fuck it up. HOW?!

Now i´m looking for my Sid Meier´s Pirates Disc up in the attic..

ubisoft: we're evolving! just backwards ;)

If rockstar works on something for 8 to 10 years we get games like RDR2 and GTA VI. Meanwhile when Ubisoft "works" 10 year on a game you get a game that looks 15 year old. Impressing.

I think a lot of the problems boil down to the tech industry in general. Before people became devs because they were passionate and they weren't all that common. That's how you got small teams making masterpieces. Now it's been so commoditized that tons of mediocre devs exist that just want a paycheck with minimum effort put in. They pushed all the passionate experienced devs that get payed for their decades of experience out, well, more specifically the companies did in favor of the cheaper and mediocre devs and it shows in the products. This is an across the board problem. Very few once great dev companies maintain the quality they once were known for.

I just noticed that there IS an animation for swimming in Skull & Bones, but it only happens when you get hit by a wave, which means that not only was swimming planned originally, but it also got cut somewhere along the way... For NO APPARENT REASON.

Ubisoft didn't understand. It was supposed to take everything from Black Flag and expand it to pirates and remove the Assassin's Creed part. Sorry my English!

the absolute audacity of these assholes to charge 70$... this looks like a 40$ budget game not a full price AAA title in 2024.

3:56 damn that woman scream "fire" got me off guard 😂

They removed boarding? thats like my second favourite part, you'd swing across to the other ship, shoot a volley of shots, blow up some black powder barrels, kill like 20 people and toss the captain overboard. Then in the cutscene you let the crew go because you have way too many hunter ships after you. but no they cut all that out.

"Quadruple A" game btw

Remember, guys, $70 is a low price for "The first AAAA game ever created". It reminds me of that time that Ubisoft compared Watch Dogs with GTA V, to put Skull and Bones in a category ABOVE RDR 2, Elden Ring or Baldurs Gate 3 is just delusional.

2:24 gotta watch out for those LionSharks

Never got tired of boarding ships in Black Flags. So many different options when boarding from the Daw.(This is what i would call the Jackdaw while chatting to my crew, while seafaring, pirating, boarding and singing) Swim to the ship,solo kill everyone, then swim back the Daw and board an empty ship. Or jump from the side of the Daw onto the other ship and raise hell. Or swing from the rope into an air assassination. Or zipline to the top, skip through the sails, air assassinate from there or, climb to the top and clothesline or FU the sniper into ocean.

Black flag is so far ahead and a 10+ yr old game, it’s actually crazy. I saw that some Ubisoft exec called skull and bones a quadA game. I was astonished when I hopped on the open beta and it looked and played like a small budget indie game with a fraction of the resources, team and funding. When I played the beta for a couple hours my immediate reaction was “I can’t wait to watch the inevitable comparison videos that surely follow this train wreck of a game”.

Assassin’s Creed IV: *FIIRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* Skull and Bones: fire

@2:15 When you forget to record the voice lines so you get the devs to gather around the one working microphone in the office lol it always stuck out every time I played this game and now there's finally a place for me to talk about it

If anything, it shows how ahead of its time Black Flag was. Man that was a good game.

Ubisoft had one job the blueprint was already set. They like holding the title for most failed triple A games

A pirate game where you cannot get in the water and swim is a sin.

Watched this video earlier wand was shocked about the dropping of water of the wet clothes, playing assassins creed 2 rn 2009! And it had this detail

Black flag was a rare masterpiece, and I'm happy that it maintains it's unique position. Art is hard.

Guys let agree on something that ac 4 is the best pirate game ever made❤

This is literally the game they were making outside the Animus

AC Black Flag ending and the song 😎 The memories

i used to play skull n bone when i was kid. what a nostalgic memory that time

Us when we were teenagers: “Oh my word everything looks so realistic I can’t wait to see what games look like in ten years!” Games 10 years later: Skull and Bones

Is there anything that takes people out of the immersion more than health bars and damage numbers 😑

Black flag: pirate game where you can, attack the British, Spanish, or mercenaries, take fortress, swim for across the sea to find secrets that your ship couldn’t reach, dive deep underwater for sunken loot, engage in boarding so you can steal resources from a ship you attacked, steal a ship entirely and add it to your fleet, hunt for animals across the land and sea, engage in actual story and have a assassin’s creed game if you’re a filthily landlubber, and play board games, and so much more. Skull and Bones: can’t swim, no boarding, only the naval combat from assassin’s creed IV black flag.

A few years ago I watched a video comparing the animations of walking through water from Black Flag and Watch Dogs Legion, exact same vibes

The only thing Black flag lacked is the ability to dive outside the special dive missions. When origin added it i was very happy. But after using it for 10000 times you forget about it

Fun fact: those distinctive trees seen at 6:44 were actually based on 'Adansonia grandidieri', (one of the 6 endemic species of Madagascan Baobab Trees)

0:04 the animation recognizing the water body and interacting with it using the hands is also missing from the new pirate AAAA game

The harpooning section of skull and bones looks like one of those mobile game ads

This video confirmed to me that indeed The Templar armor from AC4 is one of the best suit designs in the entire saga

ac4: you can board and plunder ships hunt for treasure use a dive bell get drunk get into bar fights hunt sea animals all the way to the white whale and swim skull and bones: uh................................well you can cut down trees and fight with the worst ship combat ever

I miss being excited about new games

Me, an intellectual, playing sea of thieves for pirating adventures

Black flag was the first AC game I played and the one that sparked my love for the series. If they ever remaster the game for new gen I would buy it in a heartbeat

Black flag is currently on sale on the steam store if you’ve never tried yet!!

Footprints in the sand is sure impressive. It's even better than when Super Mario Sunshine did it, back in 2002.

When you shoot a ship in black flag you truly see and feel the impact of this attack. In skull and bones, it feels like hitting plastic on metal

Some of you may not have noticed there's no comparison between combat systems or fighting mechanics. That's because Skull and Bones just doesn't have it, combat like with your actual character. You're either on the boat clicking or holding down like it's a mobile game or RTS (even with gathering resources), or you're walking along islands and port areas navigating upgrade ui. Who needs sword-swinging, blunderbuss shooting, swashbuckling combat anyway?

I thought the no swimming bit couldn’t be topped until I seen the boarding process 🤣🤣

I've forgotten how fun Black Flag's ship battles looked

This game was in development for 10 years btw.

Gutted there is no land sword and hand combat 👀👀👀

Now I have an itch to start a new game on Black Flag.

I just wanted open-world black flag with bigger cities, better graphics and the ability to claim islands, build and defend bases with friends, and build a real fleet that isn't a minigame like Kenway's Fleet. I wanted absolute PVP chaos in the bars, in game "gambling" etc. Getting npcs to fall in line and support me or die, with other players battling for the allegiance of the NPCs. And maybe the ability to play as a non-pirate and get rewarded for safely getting cargo from one place to another. An absolute back-stabbing push for regional supremacy. Let me make my own faction or join someone else's. If I lose my ship make it hurt. Etc etc. Lawless PVP chaos and extra XP for doing it while drunk.

funny how Black Flag looks like the actual "quadruple " A game compared to Piss and Poop

People saying "Oh, but the graphics are improved" for newer games. I honestly believe, apart from a few exceptions specifically focusing on graphical fidelity. General game fidelity peaked 10 years ago. Artists did a lot more with a bit less. Now we have massive games that have distracting graphical inconsistencies or flat out poor art direction.

I ind it surprising how throughout this whole debate, even across youtube, nobody even brought up how well sea of thieves took on the pirate adventure style

I've got played a ubisoft game for a decade. And I've never been happier lol

A Pirate game should be: 1. Detailed Naval Warfare like smokes from cannons add cinematic and realistic effect that doesn't dissipate immediately and other effects. 2. Weather system like fogs and heavy thunderstorms which can damage you and your fleet and Ambushes that makes Pirating a dangerous job. 3. Treasure hunting, like a pirate game should have a hideout where you store treasures, enemy prisoners and supplies that you need to protect from spies or the royal navy and treasure maps that you protect from the others or steal and get into fights with other pirate factions. 4. Hunting. Even Rayleigh said that you can't be a pirate if you don't know how to hunt. This also includes diving into shipwrecks or open seas for materials to sell. 5. Crew management and loyalty. Pirating is very dangerous as you work with literal cutthroats and you have to earn reputation to get loyal crew members and Fear for your enemies. 6. Realistic Ship Damages like ship holes, Ship Debris and supplies left on ocean during and after the battle. and torn Sails. not just Health Bars. 7. Talents, Perks, and other RPG elements for you and for your crew. 8. Sabotage and Hijacking other ships. 9. Of course, Ship Upgrades, Supplies and other QOL Elements for survival. 10. Boarding, Stealing ships and then adding those ships to your fleet which protects your hideout and grow your reputation. The enemies should be able to do it against you also. 11. Ability to change Ships based from captured or Bought ships but also gatekeeping progress thru stonks of requirements like repairing and upgrading larger ships vs smaller upgrade requirements for smaller ships. 12. Pirate Mercenaries and Alliances. 13. Sneaking and blending through towns. Buy and sell from the black market, solve problems for reputations and earn relationships with crime lords or factions, recruit, do crimes and evade guards that will try to capture you. 14. Jail time, Jailbreaks, Execution based from your wanted level or notoriety, and Fortress fights. A real pirate game can't be a pirate game without violence bro. 15. Online Multiplayer Coop Experience where you can play pirate with friends. If this happens, it'll be a 10/10 for me.

Saddes thing is you can see the potential, at least in the ship combat. Though in 2024 for a AAA or even AAAA game you'd expect it to be actual physics based to a significant degree.

I remember about a year after Black Flag released there was dev talk about a new game being built off the same engine but be fully multi-player. Sad it took this long and looks the way it does.

Shout-out the new ultra immersive AAAA game😭😭😂

Looks like many of us will just stick with Black Flag lol

I'm glad im not the only one who was comparing S&B to BF while I was playing the beta. It seemed so cheap and bland. I kinda liked the take on the harpooning (minus the roaring shark lol) but that was it. I only played for a few hours but failed to see how there was any long term play potential. They already had the blueprint with BF, they just needed to follow it.

If they added the option to get a island in black flag upgrade it. Build new buildings. Defend it from others. Etc etc it would have been the perfect pirate game. What would really make it all is having a whole fleet with you

AC Black Flag was what got me hooked into the AC series-so maybe it’s nostalgia talking, but Black Flag does many of these details much better! Black Flag could use a graphical upgrade but the combat and the story is still great. It was fun to just pause the story, go out and destroy ships and see how long you lasted while being hunted. I winced when the boarding was automatic in Skull and Bones-that was one of the BEST part of Black Flag! You could destroy the ships AND kick ass and take all their stuff! 😂 As a player, I want to feel like a pirate, get invested and involved-I don’t want just a menu. But I guess as an MMO they had to do it that way? Not sure but…totally breaks the immersion.

The shanty they singing in skull and bones is from Black Flag, if u didnt know

I’m guessing swimming part is the loading issue. Since it’s a multiplayer game, would probably need to hop between the servers when at sea and on land. But it’ll mess things up if a player decides to just swim out without loading into a different server. Which is the boat serves as the buffer zone I’m guessing.

This game was in development for 10 years

Black flag was the last assassins creed I played and it was amazing

2013 was one of the best years in the history of video games, and we didn’t appreciate it.

To be fair, during the pirate era most sailors were unable to swim, and that didn't change well into the steam ship era, so its not exactly wierd to not be able to swim, but i can see where you are comming from

Question? Why are there machine guns in Skull and Bones(during the ship fighting)?

I hope assassin's creed 4 black flag remake 🙏

I still play Black Flag.

A pirate game, which turns boarding enemy ships, arguably the most iconic scene of any pirate movie ever made, into a simple generic cutscene, which doesn't even show you boarding the enemy vessel, when the 10yo game it's basically ripping off could do it without issue, is an amazing leap forward for this Quadruple-A title... Hell, there's more Pirate related activities to do in Sid Meier's Pirates, and the very first version of that is almost 4 decades old, releasing in 1987!

I want to play Black Flag, but why does my game always force close/crash during cutscenes?

Remember, one of these is supposed to be an AAAA title

Dont forget, BF ship has long range mortar, have tons of side activities -like diving bell is my fave. Capturing fort, god that was badass