Honest Game Trailers | Skull and Bones

Trailers that tell you the TRUTH about your favorite video games: this week is Skull and Bones!
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Honest Game Trailers | Skull and Bones
Written by Bailey Meyers, Max Song, and Spencer Gilbert
Edited by Max Song
Produced by: Bailey Meyers & Max Song
Post-Production Manager: Emin Bassavand
Content Manager: Mikołaj Kossakowski
Post-Production Specialist: Rebecca Castaneda
Assistant Editor: Kayla Fyfe
Director of Video Production: Max Dionne
#HonestTrailers #HonestGameTrailers #skullandbones

[@kingsleycy3450]

Skull and Bones looks like a free to play game that KZbinrs promote

[@mukilanselvakumar4927]

Like Raid: Shadow Legends and the like?

[@IchBinIntrovertiert]

I agree, it's a shame what Ubisoft has become

[@pumirya]

Except that one would probably be better, lol

[@kryptonianguest1903]

How dare you insult Raid: Shadow Legends like that!

[@zadarthule]

Don't you guys have phones?

[@jasonmcmurtry7812]

Why does your ship have stamina, cause it's sails get tired lol, like who the f**k thought of that idea 😂

[@ryannurse2890]

Maybe it's meant to represent the crew's stamina? It does sound like a silly idea in a game that revolves entirely around sailing though...

[@HuhHa-pm8fc]

Do you even sail, bro?? XD

[@hazukichanx408]

If stamina were consumed when furling and unfurling sails, for instance, that could sort of make sense. Clambering around the rigging and moving ropes around would gradually tire out the sailors, one must presume. But I'm assuming it's not that, and instead just a dash stamina bar or similar... in which case, bleh.

[@Modie]

Excuse me, do you think ships travel through magic? Of course, your crew is constantly blowing wind into the sails.

[@jesuschrist2284]

That's your biggest concern, lol ?

[@sirrys]

“As you dive into- wait, there’s no diving!?” 😂😂

[@TheDeceptiveHero]

Just fitting for a pirate game you don’t even wanna pirate.

[@GrimGalore]

A brilliant 4-D chess move by Ubisoft to promote more sales for AC:BF.

[@iansteelmatheson]

especially if they remake it in two years

[@mattm7798]

That actually would be pretty cool. Just jam Skull and Bones into the remake@@iansteelmatheson

[@danjudex2475]

Unfortunately if you have a ps3 you can’t use the fleet mini game because the servers are down.

[@copiumkiller]

Kid: I want "One piece" game. Mom:We have "One piece" game at home "One Piece" game at home:

[@zelasko607]

Should've called it 4A because they called it a quadruple A game

[@TheDeceptiveHero]

The first QUADRUPLE AAAA game is basically the embodiment of: “You know you f-ed up when people don’t even wanna pirate your stuff.”

[@BadMomentum]

Seems to me the "A" rating system works in reverse. The more you have, the worse the game.

[@kyrasoze516]

That's 16 A's.

[@tegopro86]

@@BadMomentum Like with batteries, they get smaller and shittier.

[@peonoreeves3852]

Lmao

[@peonoreeves3852]

@@kyrasoze51616 times the A

[@lordnightingale7346]

Most accurate "Starring" section to date

[@XTheManWithoutNameX]

This game's release is literally the opening of the Black Pearl movie. Depp looking awesome on the mast of a ship, only to be revealed that it's a leaky little tub of a boat that's slowly sinking.

[@adamloga3788]

I think that's unfair. Jack Sparrow at least looked cool as his ship sunk.

[@reddeaddude2187]

One of the best character intros of all time.

[@Klishar122]

At least there, there was a good soundtrack.

[@MrReubenTishkoff]

"AAAA" is the sound of sheer horror people scream when they play the game.

[@momon969]

Or a teeny tiny battery.

[@krunoslavkovacec1842]

An honest trailer for this game would be a sinking ship

[@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov]

Ah, i've seen those trailer, DiCaprio were pretty good there

[@BlueLiminality]

Ba dum tiss 🥁

[@eddapultstab2078]

Anthem 2.0, hold my whatever makes games good EA!

[@xPUFNSTUFx]

I don’t think it ever floated to begin with.

[@CliffordTheBigRedDog-cu4cl]

​@@eddapultstab2078 At least people enjoyed Anthem before they figured out the game is just grinding for the sake of grinding dose anyone even like skull and bones?

[@Cerran032]

Jesus Ubi, you literally have the blueprint for a kickass pirate game, how did you manage to screw it up

[@daftpanda6533]

Budget cuts, corporate greed, and lack of self respect? Sounds about right.

[@quicklaughsbro]

Why are you giving a company a nickname

[@86Kadi]

@@quicklaughsbrothey couldn’t be bothered to finish an entire game, why should we bother to write out The full Company name?

[@sunnysteel6598]

@@86Kadi Facts. Ni.....a.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

I think it was kick from studio to studio within Ubi. Everytime the scope and vision for the project changed. In the end it was probably only the deal with the Singaporean government, who underwrote some of the cost in exchange for making it there (they are probably trying to kick off a local games industry), that even saw the project released.

[@Phanthief95]

I still wonder how Ubisoft screwed this up when Black Flag already gave them the blueprint for this game, & Black Flag came out over 10 years ago!

[@fraxizztv6433]

A different subdivision, I reckon. It's made on Singaporean subsidiaries

[@drayle71]

@@fraxizztv6433 thing is the singapore studio is credit with creating the naval combat for the AC series including black flag. Honestly if they just took the AC engine and made a straight pirate game without all the AC big picture stuff people would have been happy.

[@mantiscoregaming6699]

​@@drayle71facts. But corporations don't care what you think. You're just a peon, you'll play whatever the produce.

[@dayvie9517]

They probably just wasted alot of time with developing multiplayer and microtransactions, forgetting that a game has to be fun to be played 😂. Probably alot of bad leadership decisions

[@Schumilex5]

If you dont know you dont want to know because there are countless videos about it, even in the angry joe review.

[@guilherme5094]

We didn't expect anything and were still disappointed. Congratulations Ubisoft.

[@douglasduda9826]

Epic comment. Even though the studio did do AC:BF long time ago... It just goes to show...these new kids will take anything...even if it sucks ass, all the ass.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@douglasduda9826 idk, the game has bombed pretty hard. I think every generation has come together to give this a miss

[@douglasduda9826]

@@somethinglikethat2176 Yea, its bad by Most standards, but somehow a few people still play it...

[@BlazingRay1]

"Aww sweet! Look at all those pets I need to pay an extra 49.99 for!"

[@dalampslayer]

Next one should be Princess Peach Showtime. "In a world where Peach doesn't use her emotions as a weapon..."😊

[@universalperson]

I am still convinced someone at Nintendo saw Balan Wonderworld and said "we can do better"

[@CliffordTheBigRedDog-cu4cl]

​@@universalperson I mean anyone can do better than that that

[@universalperson]

@@CliffordTheBigRedDog-cu4cl yes, but they still took some time to do so.

[@TurtleShroom3]

That's "Super Princess Peach".

[@thelengedaryhero6900]

Say, “if there’s one thing video games taught me, it’s that meat is weak against knives.”

[@Shikamaru621]

I learned that from my ex.

[@seanmsw5977]

"What are they gonna do? Stab me?"

[@greenhydra10]

VICTORY ACHIEVED

[@DarkHeartTheEmo]

One of the Devs said for us to forget everything we knew about Pirate games, they were right but not in the way they think they are, one think is sure we will forget this "Pirate" game.

[@MattHunX]

5:35 Ha! That was the shortest "Starring" segment ever.

[@UwUOwl]

"People can barely stand each other in Rainbow Six" lol so true

[@reneburian9398]

dont forget guys. your ship has got stamina bar ... you ship can literally get tired :d

[@dblthnk6655]

It's crew stamina that is refueled by food rations

[@SuddenSpeed]

@@dblthnk6655 that doesn't make it any better.

[@bottomlefto]

@@dblthnk6655 then that crew's a bunch of wusses. the jackdaw's crew can sail for hours without complaining. and still maintain their singing voices.

[@ak-ub1ym]

​@@SuddenSpeed Does explain the premise though however useless it is 🤷 So dont just whine.

[@Louis13XIII]

@@ak-ub1ymno, it doesn’t. Just because theoretically it could make sense it doesn’t mean that the way it’s implemented now does.

[@LordMoonshadowGaGa]

Sea of Thieves: “Yeah, my Monkey Island collab is looking real good now, isn’t it?”

[@somethinglikethat2176]

Sid Meier's Pirates is looking good compared the SnB, and it's 20 years old.

[@JunkPhubeta]

I'm so happy for your Korean Jesus reference. As soon as I heard that, I was like "Come on 21 Jump Street clip!"

[@BrotherMag]

He ain't got time for this Game's problems!😂😂😂

[@baird5682]

This trailer makes me want to play the game. Black Flag to be exact. I guess good job Bugisoft

[@captaintoyota3171]

Yup still best sailing pirate game ever

[@Primaeva]

So glad you guys have earned the chops to do AAAA honest trailers seriously not many people can attempt that level of coverage

[@mag1ckyle799]

A moment of silence for the guy who had to buy a 1-day Disneyland ticket, walk all the way to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, go on it while filming, leave the park, go home, buy this game, and then play it for a a few hours to get all the shots for this video. He was so young. We lost him too soon. RIP

[@Nasser851000]

Say: "Avast Ye Maties!"

[@Lohengrin88]

Dear Narrator, Ever since I heard your epic voice years ago, I knew im gonna be hooked to this channel. I love your voice.

[@Koubles]

Man, 6 years ago people would've laughed if the genuine reaction was "Just play Sea of Thieves". Amazing how the tides have turned.

[@Sandboxcode]

I love the pets at the end around 5:40 (how you lead into it). Yeah what a shame with this game they'd shoulda just rebooted Black Flag.

[@riningan]

Oh no, you just know that if they redid Black Flag that it would instead turn into this.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

My sympathies to the developers who poured so much time and work on this project.

[@mattm7798]

Yeah, the rank and file devs are not to blame. It's either the project manager who made the gameplay decisions or Ubisoft.

[@robocyclops2854]

Yeah, a good chunk of them even left the project because of the higher ups

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

@@mattm7798 More like managers cause holy I can only imagine the executive roulette happening with this project.

[@Ajguy]

Please say, "You see, Sub-Zero? You can trust a sorcerer sometimes."

[@TheUnnamedOnes]

Sea of Thieves walked, ran, and soared, all so Skull and Bones could trip and fall down a comedically long staircase

[@mahieuwim]

I'm starting to think that Alestorm's 'Shit Boat (No Fans)' was written about this game.

[@brosephthejoe9433]

How about an honest trailer on that new Princess Peach game?

[@raversmiracle2]

There was more content in the closed beta than there is currently on the live game. Also, once you finish with the first guy you get to do it all over again with another NPC that is moderately cool. Then there's the fact that you can get to the best ship/best build within 1-2 days of gameplay. Oh and the fact that the dhow is completely useless and last I heard was removed from the game. Also also, there's tons of ways to exploit all of the pvp events including taking over an entire server so you never lose a helm wager or cutthroat cargo event. Also also also, the hardest content in the game can be solo'd with one weapon from 2km away (twin winch ballista) by simply preventing the enemy from becoming hostile.

[@Enakaji]

Nah, the Dhow is still there and is actually required to be used for some of the missions and to get to some locations, since the passageways are too narrow to use the "normal" ships.

[@netwarrior1000]

Sorry but this description of the game is completely and utterly incorrect garbage (apart from the ability for groups to basically fully populate a server to render some pvp content trivial)..

[@andrewcoulthard-clark]

I keep thinking the idea of two ships packed with real players manning cannons racing to see who boards the other first should have been a feature of Star Wars Battlefront 3...

[@My_Naginta]

Epic Voice Guy pulling a Sterling Archer at the end. 10/10

[@dmanshouse1]

I just don't understand how you fail at Black Flag online you literally already had the formula

[@altaafsheik5725]

Ubisoft :Forget everything you know about pirates Me :im just gonna forget this game 😂😂

[@silas6328]

The ship combat in Black Flag that Skull and Bones was supposed to be based off of was SO GOOD. How do you f&*@ that up?

[@Mario-SunshineGalaxy64]

It _IS_ Tuesday!

[@shizuoheiwajima221]

Please do a Killer Instinct Honest Trailer

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Say "The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate..."

[@HIT14MAN2]

Do a Honest Game Trailer for Hyperdimension Neptunia

[@cmdraftbrn]

nep nep

[@stax6092]

+

[@ruggedlemmings9163]

The fact that Yves "I Still Have Yet To Take Any Kind Of Accountability Over The Fact That My Company Actively Protected Sexual Predators In Its Ranks" Guillemot had the gall to call this pile of crap a AAAA game is just insulting, especially since the only reason this game actually saw the light of day is because if they didn't release it the government of Singapore would sue Ubisoft into oblivion. Even more mind-blowing is how they managed to screw up such an easy game to make. This was an absolute layup. Here's what they had to do: Step 1: Take AC: Black Flag. Step 2: Remove all references to Assassins and Templars. Step 3: Ship the game. Would have likely had a GotY contender.

[@daftpanda6533]

They must have had a managers meeting to discuss how they could possibly f that plan uop.

[@Masterplan15]

Please say "Ubisoft, sinking like the ships in its sunk pirate game Skull and Bones".

[@hpracecraft]

This has more use as a case study into product development than a form of entertainment

[@SplinterMJH]

I didn't get into gaming to hangout with other people. Glad someone said it

[@dersteffen5948]

Give me the chills with the line "Welcome to PlayPaintChill. You just gained honor +2 for following us ! ".

[@TheParasiteDk]

Was so happy I had time to play the free trial weekend, as I got to the largest ship in that time, and really got a feel for why not to buy it, and just play Black Flag instead.

[@kharmachaos667]

That skelly cat is so cute i'm tempted to just yar harr the game, yoink those assets, and then delete all the other unnecessary files off my computer.

[@skyounkin]

To quote Richie Cusack from A History of Violence, "How do you fuck this up?"

[@daftpanda6533]

To misquote Lee Emery in Full Metal Jacket "What is you major malfunction Pirate Pyle?!?!"

[@johntrifunov9597]

this game is the equalvient of the sea shantie the worst old ship The worst old ship that ever did sail Sailed out of Harwich on a windy day [Chorus] And we're waiting for the day Waiting for the day Waiting for the day That we get our pay She was built in Roman time Held together with bits of twine [Chorus] Nothing in the galley-nothing in the hold But the skipper's turned in with a bag of gold [Chorus] Off Orford Ness she sprang a leak Hear her poor old timbers creak [Chorus] We pumped our way round scalby Ness When the wind backed round to the west-nor'-west

[@johnchristianson515]

Those pirate cats are the only worthwhile part of the whole game

[@duicic8541]

That, and the theme song, which has the added virtue of one not having to play the game to listen to it.

[@Zerotan]

And then do Sid Meier's Pirates!

[@eddapultstab2078]

Yes!

[@ipilaitela7115]

Please say: "Tis no man! Tis a remorseless eating machine! Arrr!" with the Sea Captain's voice.

[@leevillanueva7432]

The only live service game I'm truly enjoying right now is Helldivers 2

[@LargeHawaiian]

The only reason Ubisoft didn't cancel this years ago was that they took too much money from the Singaporean government to fund development. They had to release something, or else be forced to repay them.

[@IvanJeta]

Next up you should do Dragon's Dogma 2.

[@skynet0912]

It's rare that the easiest joke you can think of is so perfect for a game: "Dull and bare Bones!"

[@howardnagelblat8217]

Please say: yo ho, yo ho, it's a pirate's wife for me.

[@anubusx]

Do Hogwarts Legacy.

[@stevenlinquist3084]

Good ass game

[@Blackwingk]

Hell yeah! Been waiting for this!

[@legionaireb]

Hey, Epic Voice Guy! Please say "The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved." (You can replace 'Blues Brothers' with anything you think appropriate).

[@redirasslow8505]

I lost it at the "Korean Jesus" 😂😂😂

[@TheGaming_Dragon13]

Please do an honest trailer for Princess Peach Showtime!

[@Memelord2020]

Make an Honest Trailer for Princess Peach: Showtime!

[@meric12131415]

Man I haven't seen an honest game trailers video in a very long time and I'm glad I just clicked on this one 😁

[@awolpeace1781]

Resource gathering and not plundering, what a concept for a pirate game

[@SgtCthulhu]

Please do Rise of the Ronin

[@Cragnous]

Sea of Thieves so much infinitely better.

[@NastyMagic]

And thats already bad enough of a game

[@mechcommander7876]

That’s a lotta damage…

[@lotkf1]

Someone said Atlas was a better game as well and it was practically DOA 💀

[@devinpol4258]

It’s like Ubisoft Executives said “only put mechanics in the game we can monetize”. And they realized they could monetize so much stuff they had to cut all the content so they could really focus on the good monetization. Like sails. And cat clothes.

[@baobhan9094]

The idea of a ship combat game thats a lot like black flag, is a really good idea! But NO BOARDING!? NO SWASHBUCKLING!? What the hell!?

[@AnAttackCorgi]

Ironic, a pirate game only worth pirating.

[@claytonrios1]

Yo ho! Yo ho! A pirate live service for no one!

[@DeusExCanis]

So ten years ago they made an excellent open world pirate game. Instead of taking that, expanding it, and reskinning it from AC to general piracy, they spent a fortune to make a game that does less than a ten year old game, and a feature in several of the recent AC games. How? Why?

[@iainballas]

'Black Flag without the stuff that made it fun' is the best summary of this game I've heard. Probably because it's what everyone is saying XD

[@shiebler2]

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth please

[@smithwesson1896]

As Captain Jack Sparrow, say "Today's the day you will always remember as the day you *almost* caught....Honest Game Trailers!"

[@Mike__B]

Did I see that right, were cannon balls flying in every direction that your cannons aren't actually facing? Seems realistic...

[@BenthewildchildE750]

I would like to have a suggestion for you to say at the end of the next video, from battlefront, two 2005: “watch those wrist rockets” or maybe, “that’s a point for the CIS.”

[@TheFlagnard2]

Hopefully Helldivers will set the bar for modern live service games.

[@cavernus26]

Skull and bones is terrible so im not defending it but my god is Helldivers 2 overrated , its a good game but its the same thing over and over i have played about 20 hrs i dont see how its getting so much praise , gues people are just happy to have a decent game for a change after so many dissapointments

[@ethanrandall4297]

There are also animals in sea of thieves The games only redeeming quality and they didn’t even come up with it 😂

[@user-xx3cu5ks6y]

This game was made to take singapore's subsidy money. Money was game industry promotion in singapore but they used it as holiday destination for executives

[@catriamflockentanz]

Skull and Bones managed something no game did before. I read the review from Die Zeit about it. Why? They had actual employees from Ubisoft Mainz trying to explain this mess. Which was funny as heck because they kept repeating that their Studio wasn't directly involved in any of the development of this title as they were busy with their ~8000th Anno.

[@kxmode]

They could have spent all that time and money rebuilding Black Flag in the Origin/Odyssey/Valhalla engine and adding multiplayer support. That would be an infinitely better game.

[@CaptainAshSpearow]

Please say "What I remember about the rise of the Empire is how quiet it was..."

[@SnowdropRaccoon]

Do Dragons Dogma II and the PTSD the pawns are suffering from after being constantly thrown off cliffs by their masters!

[@raves8451]

Watchign it on Tuesday when it releases, really hits home.

[@rickywilliams1586]

Just remember, your boat has a stamina bar.

[@shameerismail5347]

Can't even sail in peace. Ship's got a stamina bar🙄

[@BlueShellshock]

A game made by suits instead of programmers. I heard they went from coop PvE to MMO to a few other ideas while the game was already half-done, forcing reworks.

[@daftpanda6533]

Funny that the released fans is somehow *less* done.

[@theshlauf]

Correction, this is their third rehash of Black Flag. The second one was AC Rouge.

[@olivanthememer]

We need a Trepang² trailer

[@Nanarchy_2k7]

Now there's a review that's spot on. And we told them so during beta surveys.

[@StateBlaze1989]

Every year that goes by in the gaming industry makes me increasingly feel like the aged out gramps that goes "back in my day..." when looking at all these games that won't even let you boot it up without an internet or server connection.

[@meric12131415]

Hey honest game trailers guess what? You just earned your channel a big fat subscription from me 😁 I love your videos and even in the past in never got old your videos always make me laugh even now in fact

[@jerkfudgewater147]

I’d like to know more about the pirate pets…. Like a whole hour about them I used to know a black cat with a skull shaped spot on his face… called him “skull-kitty” he was pretty awesome

[@Nymphonomicon]

So, the USP of this Asscreed Black Flag asset flip is that you can have a ship's pet? I am very tempted...

[@ScaerieTale]

I literally forgot this game even existed until after I clicked on this video 🤣

[@Texas240]

"When will game devs realize I didn't get into gaming to... interact with people?"