“You are not a pirate. You are a ship.” Incredible.
@mechwarrior136 ай бұрын
Forza Horizon but with ships. Cant believe they left out the pirate part...
@Cyberbrickmaster19866 ай бұрын
Sea of Thieves has a lot more going on than this! And that's not an over exaggeration!
@jasonseery48856 ай бұрын
People need to learn that's these big hyped games end up crap and steal our money, stop buying them until you see reviews, gaming is dead
@blakestewart72006 ай бұрын
Skull and Bones: Fenix Rising@@LT-dn7mt
@blakestewart72006 ай бұрын
Pretty incredible that the response to AC: Black Flag being a hit was to spend 10 years and like a billion dollars on a fancier version of Sid Meier's Pirates instead.@@mechwarrior13
@GENESIS_76 ай бұрын
"Your ship has stamina" 💀
@FelipedPaulaSantos6 ай бұрын
Skull and Bones is a soulslike confirmed
@Lucas-gt8en6 ай бұрын
@@FelipedPaulaSantosi hope they implement combat rolling ships
@wile1234566 ай бұрын
This game is a case study in incompetence and terrible game design
@l00t3R6 ай бұрын
This ship has sailed already 😂
@PwnyPony6 ай бұрын
It is actually the crew that has stamina. You need to feed your crew to keep your stamina meter up. I don't know if you can actually get stamina upgrades like Alex is thinking you do as I have only played a few hours of the open Beta and could not be bothered to progress further as I just felt tired when I was playing it. Probably because of the forced TAA straining my eyes.
@Fuuntag6 ай бұрын
No Black Flags here only red ones.
@zedus40426 ай бұрын
lol a good one
@kkarlo7776 ай бұрын
love this hahaha
@MoniemJr6 ай бұрын
too good of a comment
@Fuuntag6 ай бұрын
@@MoniemJr thanks, I gave it a solid IGN 7/10.
@TheRedRaven_6 ай бұрын
Nice.
@qb35406 ай бұрын
Quadruple A games: 4 times the lies 4 times the disappointment
@Gliese3806 ай бұрын
16x the detail.
@astronotics5316 ай бұрын
which lies? The game has always been shown to be centered around naval gameplay. There's a difference between what people want and what has been shown.
@icemaniceburg23906 ай бұрын
And still can't hold a candle to Black Flag. Passionate developers pre-2014, vs "I need to be included and represented" developer we have now.
@tr3v986 ай бұрын
4 broadside cannons....
@j.r.shartzer6 ай бұрын
Pac-Man is the only AAAA game because it has a disco song.
@FSAPOJake6 ай бұрын
All Ubisoft had to do was make a game based on Black Flag's naval combat. That's it. I don't understand how Ubisoft could miss such a huge opportunity for a winning gameplay formula like that.
@StormsparkPegasus6 ай бұрын
Because Ubisoft doesn't want to make games. They want to make pay to win "live services" that are based around a store, rather than a game.
@BrianWood746 ай бұрын
At least keep the pirate part in the pirate game.
@Crashed1319636 ай бұрын
You can board a enemy ship and do melee combat . S&B could not even offer that in naval battle .
@awsomeboy3606 ай бұрын
Ubisoft is more focus on lvie service.
@StormsparkPegasus6 ай бұрын
@@awsomeboy360Yep, and as I've said very often, *live services are not games*. They're not designed to be games. They're designed to be stores. What appears to be a "game" is a bare minimum effort skinner box to drive traffic to the store which is the real focus.
@reinaldopereira12686 ай бұрын
Your first AAAA analysis. I'm proud of you, guys. Really proud. Wow. What a time to be alive!
@Ghost-pb4ts6 ай бұрын
they include 10 more A's and their game would still be crap
@MKR32386 ай бұрын
the 2nd, Calisto Protocol had the "honor" of being the first AAAA game lol
@akydo70706 ай бұрын
@@MKR3238Microsoft's Perfect Dark Reboot was Suppose to be a AAAA game, Before it got shelved and pass off to another team , lol
@amanpradhan026 ай бұрын
@@akydo7070That's false information. The Initiative is a small studio so they are working with crystal dynamics. They didn't shelve it or passed it off. The game is in full development right now. We can agree on the fact that no game should be called AAAA even if they are backed by a big publisher.
@1.N.Decent6 ай бұрын
11:52 the dude running up on the ramp is hilarious 😂
@ruekurei886 ай бұрын
Was looking for this comment....wtf was that fr tho. AAAA indeed.....
@kenmckell6 ай бұрын
Walk like a pirate, I guess...? 🤷🏻♂🤷🏻♂
@paracuja6 ай бұрын
We have to get used to those AAAA animations - it's the future (of Ubisoft) 😂
@awdrifter33946 ай бұрын
AAAA animation right there.
@simonrockstream6 ай бұрын
AAAA
@Ajax-3226 ай бұрын
"AAAA" famous last words
@Mitch936366 ай бұрын
Skull and Bones is a AAAA game.
@Gloamy176 ай бұрын
Callisto Protocol was 'AAAA' too 😌 although that one turned out quite a bit better lol. Especially visually.
@fepethepenguin82876 ай бұрын
Ohhhhhhhhh i thought they said Quadriplegic game... wtf is AAAA game
@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu6 ай бұрын
Just makes me think it's a last ditch effort by the marketing team. Acting like they have nothing to lose. Maximum fake it til you make it/false confidence vibes.
@Fuuntag6 ай бұрын
@@DaRkLoRd-rc5yuStefan from marketing probably just had too much coke and vodka the night before saying this.
@305SEGA3056 ай бұрын
The fact that you can't walk around the ship killed it for me 😆
@user-ds8rj2vc4v6 ай бұрын
The fact it was made by Ubisoft killed it instantly for me.
@remotecontrolaxe6 ай бұрын
*can't walk around AS the ship Ftfy
@Izhen_UwU6 ай бұрын
AAAA GAME DESIGN 💀💀💀
@HMAcademia6 ай бұрын
Also, You can't just take your ship yo shore and get off like in black flag. You have a loading screen then You are on land. I played the beta up to that point and realized I wouldnt like the game. I only tried it because I loved black flag. I don't like any other Assassin's creed.
@Linkale_6 ай бұрын
When the video began I thought "so this is just like AC Odyssey's ship mechanics". By the end of the video I realised AC Odyssey's mechanics were actually better
@TrueBoricua6 ай бұрын
Congratulations digital foundry on your first quadruple A game analysis
@NerdyWeaponXGames6 ай бұрын
22:35 ah yes, pirates were famous for emoting like a twat.
@thebaffman48986 ай бұрын
"You're a ship, Harry." "I'm a what?"
@RickR696 ай бұрын
A SHIP ARRY!
@AlfieWoodland6 ай бұрын
@@RickR69Harry openened his mouth to reply, but to his disbelief all that came out was the sound of a foghorn.
@cmbjive6 ай бұрын
I booted up ACIV Black Flag and marveled how well that game holds up ten years later. Then I look at Skull and Bones and wondered where all that time and money went. An utter disgrace.
@AdaaDK6 ай бұрын
spend on sallery´s for the top 1% exces, AND for the devs in the low income country that they outsourced the project too, they didnt go for quality but in stead wanted to save a buck, and it shows big time, this game deserves notthing but failure.
@crestofhonor23496 ай бұрын
Went into it's absolute development hell of working and reworking the game that should have never released. That 10 year development is why it's so expensive because they could never decide on a single idea. The game should have been scrapped years ago and never should have came out. AC4 look old but even titles like AC Origins and AC Unity look much better in some areas than Skull & Bones
@NarutoUA6 ай бұрын
@@crestofhonor2349 Singapore government funded development so Ubisoft had to release something
@theinsfrijonds6 ай бұрын
DEI employees collecting a paycheck kind of like modern colleges/universities
@davem12dim176 ай бұрын
I'm replaying rogue at the moment. That blows skull and bones out of the water. The naval combat in that is only a slight evolution from black flag, but it's superb Battle this afternoon in the middle of a snow storm was epic
@SuperKillJoy156 ай бұрын
I hate how fast the ships move, the slower and heavier ship movement from Black Flag made the ships have weight and presence in the water. These ships look like they have engines attached
@kngat36 ай бұрын
It’s not a ship sim it’s a pirate game…
@pvsweetypie6 ай бұрын
@kngat3 So a game that is 100% ship navel combat, even if it's a bit arcadey, isn't a ship combat sim? And the same game, which has 0 melee combat on land or sea including boarding, is somehow a pirate game? I'm breaking down your comment in this manner to hopefully display to u how backwards your comment is.
@cube2fox6 ай бұрын
In another thread people are complaining the game is too realistic (that the crew members have limited stamina), it should be more unrealistic to be more fun. Now you are saying the opposite, the game is too unrealistic. If the ships go fast, some people complain it's too unrealistic, if they go slow, some people will complain it's too tedious.
@RaveN_EDM6 ай бұрын
The ships move fast but still feel unresponsive and sluggish when it comes to controls. A slower ship would’ve likely hid those flaws.
@ThePreciseClimber6 ай бұрын
Curious. I already thought Black Flag was too "arcade-y" compared to AC3's naval combat which felt heavier.
@NiKS166 ай бұрын
"You are not a pirate, you are a ship"
@wehavetogoback3696 ай бұрын
"Press F to cut down tree from sea"
@buggart6 ай бұрын
@@wehavetogoback369 Or to make it more braindead, you can set it to auto-harvest in the settings menu.
@magicmulder6 ай бұрын
“You sunk my ship.” - “No, Luke, I AM YOUR SHIP.”
@oj24166 ай бұрын
sheep of ubisoft.
@RafaelSafo6 ай бұрын
AC Black Flag with the sea shanties alone makes you FEEL like a pirate.
@ab-hx8qe6 ай бұрын
“They did it better 10 years ago.” I feel is going to be a trend for 2024.
@seanmcbay6 ай бұрын
Feels like a trend for literally everything, not just video games.
@cldpt6 ай бұрын
In games, maybe. But media like Film is looking promising this year just like last year surprised us, and this year has some pearls incoming
@randybobandy98286 ай бұрын
@@cldptno... Films have gone down hill too. There are far less good movies coming out each year then ever.
@Exotic-97806 ай бұрын
@@cldptno everything is going downhill
@simonrockstream6 ай бұрын
you need help @@cldpt
@cronodoug45016 ай бұрын
The only thing Skull and Bones did was make me want to play Black Flag, I never had that opportunity. 🤣
@HakanMB6 ай бұрын
Too bad they havnt released a ”nextgen” patch for the game. Im also interested to play it, but doubt they will do it any time soon, it would compete against Skull & Bones.
@Ghost-pb4ts6 ай бұрын
pc, mods , rtgi, hdr there's your next gen patch@@HakanMB
@modermonkula6 ай бұрын
Might pick up Black Flag, never played it
@randybobandy98286 ай бұрын
It's on sale on steam for $11 I'm going to buy it 😂
@robertwalker33576 ай бұрын
Slayer
@DessertMonkey6 ай бұрын
This feels like a "too many cooks in the kitchen" situation, especially once you see how many studios worked on it.
@Frrk6 ай бұрын
Yeah, 11 studios I counted in the clip. They were probably passing this game around like a hot potato
@Deliveredmean426 ай бұрын
You know, they didn't exactly told us if those studios they shown are actually the ones from different reboots of this project.
@Aarkwrite6 ай бұрын
Too many cooks in the galley
@JJSideshowBob6 ай бұрын
Absolutely. Ubisoft leadership fell for the outsourcing trap and everything that goes with it, including organizational challenges and cultural barriers. They cheaped out and it cost them everything. I wonder when Tencent will pull the plug.
@Thedownliner20156 ай бұрын
This game really feels like it was planning to be released as a mobile product because the way you collect stuff for your ship is ridiculous and would only ever pass muster on a mobile where you have to get the ship to the edge of an island then get the line into the green area 3 times. You can also tell they tacked on the movement getting out of the ship really late in the production as this is like a beginners level movement system.
@willi13976 ай бұрын
I agree. Looks like a free to play mobile game with loot boxes and all that rubbish. I wouldn't download it for free.
@douglas2156 ай бұрын
Even Sid Meier's Pirates that had simple gameplay and let a lot of the things for imagination, has more gameplay mechanichs like ship boarding, sword figths, crew management, treasure hunt, prison breaking, dancing, trading and much more...
@clarkkentbr6 ай бұрын
Sid Meier's Pirates is a masterpiece! Played it a heck of a lot growing up. Such a fun game.
@candycabngfl6 ай бұрын
Pretty much my thoughts as well. Loved that game on C64.
@115zombies9356 ай бұрын
Ain’t no way they gave the ship a stamina meter 💀
@balaam_70876 ай бұрын
Shout out to Alex for falling on his sword in volunteering to cover this.
@kupokinzyt6 ай бұрын
So glad you guys have a video on this. I tried watching Nick 930's video and it's clear Ubisoft has slipped him a nice, crisp 5-dollar bill as he's currently deleting comments and hiding users from his channel calling him out from saying this game is a masterpiece and everything Black Flag was and more.
@randybobandy98286 ай бұрын
Nooooooo😢 nicks channel used to be good. I watched 5 minutes of that video and got bored but I didn't think he would praise it
@christophluger7936 ай бұрын
No way. What a shame. Need to see it for myself.
@SupertoastGT6 ай бұрын
Upscaling used as a crutch. This is what we feared. No need for optimization right? 720p... Brilliant.
@dradis16 ай бұрын
You entitled gamer! How dare you demand higher resolutions and a stable image!? Would you have the devs sacrifice their artistic vision for your unreasonable demands?! It’s 2024, 720p upscaled is fiiiiiiiine. /s
@TruTrae6 ай бұрын
This game would've had trash image quality even if techniques like FSR and DLSS didn't exist.
@SixShots56 ай бұрын
720p on a 2024 game on the latest console gen is laughable, devs should be ashamed of themselves
@HarryS776 ай бұрын
Only AAAAA games get optimization.
@leoni76496 ай бұрын
540p on Series S. WTF. I would rather play OldSchool runescape on that resolution.. At least the game is good
@itsd0nk6 ай бұрын
I can safely say that I HATE ssr reflections. They are truly the black eye of the past two generations of gaming. I’ll take basic cube maps, even poorly aligned ones, over ssr reflections. Used sparingly, it can add to the cube maps for dynamic objects like for the ships in this game or characters in other games.
@balaam_70876 ай бұрын
SSR might as well be salt. A little bit sprinkled on your food can bring out the highlights, but just a pinch too much turns it into something totally inedible or induces vomiting.
@RockyRacoon56 ай бұрын
Honestly Ray-traced reflections should be mandatory in 2024. SSR is by far the most distracting graphical setting, it has ruined the image quality of so many games :/
@MLWJ19936 ай бұрын
@@RockyRacoon5 Just the fact that they didn't do planar reflections on this huge flat ocean that occupies the majority of the game is just really funny to me. It's even better when you realise the older version of the same engine did that more than 10 years ago. 😂 We really don't even need RT to pull this one off & make it look convincing.
@RockyRacoon56 ай бұрын
@@MLWJ1993 It’s like everyone forgot of planar reflections, a decades old technique. Trully a shame.
@omgawesomeomg6 ай бұрын
SSR can look really good, it's just overused.
@dungeonmaster86126 ай бұрын
720p in perfomance mode on high consoles what a shame
@115zombies9356 ай бұрын
1080p and even 720p are getting more and more common on the current consoles. There were some games running 1080p near launch, but it seems to be more common now.
@TruTrae6 ай бұрын
It's 720p upscaled to 1440p which can look passable in certain games but not all. This game's Image quality looks atrocious because of its dependence on quarter res particles and because FSR just doesn't work well with low res particles and water.
@115zombies9356 ай бұрын
@@TruTraeThe idea to use quarter res particles while the game is 720p shows an incredible level of incompetence from Ubisoft IMO. Those particles are being rendered at 180p, that’s beyond silly. N64 games were higher res.
@Lightsaglowllc6 ай бұрын
The consoles are seriously underpowered. It’s no wonder Sony and Microsoft are looking to dump them much quicker than anticipated.
@JamieRobert_6 ай бұрын
@@Lightsaglowllcexactly
@TechnoTurtle99746 ай бұрын
Bro, just you wait until my ship isnt tired 💀
@OrionXIXI6 ай бұрын
The best part is you shovel down food items to refill stamina quickly, so I guess your ship gets hungry too.
@eldenringer64666 ай бұрын
Why do all the ships when hit with a cannon ball...explode in FIRE? In black flag they exploded wood splinters unless you hit oil with fire. This game doesn't make any sense :?
@Myrillin6 ай бұрын
They're filled with gasoline, of course. 💁🏼
@MarkTheCat6 ай бұрын
that’s a quadruple-A experience for ya
@FrankMackeySpam6 ай бұрын
Another point in Black Flag's favor is that you can actually play the game 10 years after its release. I imagine 10 years from now the Skull & Bones servers will be shut down and you won't even be able to play the game.
@Billy_the-cat6 ай бұрын
This truly one of the best AAAA game that has ever existed
@Demmrir6 ай бұрын
Honestly, I think Star Citizen might actually be better. (SC has also claimed to be a AAAA game, and as it's costed over half a billion to develop so far, it deserves the title.)
@WickedWeavile6 ай бұрын
It certainly is a game that exists. One of the games of all time, for sure.
@Ghost-pb4ts6 ай бұрын
game that exists let's see for how long will ubisoft pay for those live servers @@WickedWeavile
@diobrando12396 ай бұрын
@@Demmrirso because they put half billion dollars it deserves the AAAA title lmao makes no sense
@Billy_the-cat6 ай бұрын
@@Demmrir 🫡
@jordanr.48566 ай бұрын
This game just reeks of corporate bloat. You can almost feel the exorbitant amount of JIRA tickets they had open that went unaddressed for months and years. The unnecessary meetings, the weird oversight, the constant backtracking on plans and ideas; all the while paying for the privilege to be so inefficient. I am certain this game is "AAAA" in terms of production cost, but it looks AA in the final product. Helldivers II, Palworld, and Valheim make this game look flat out silly. I cannot wait for companies like Ubisoft and EA to make these mistakes one too many times so they can finally just go away and these devs can go work somewhere that actually lets them shine.
@oopsgaming71116 ай бұрын
"You are not a pirate. You are a ship" This perfectly summed up this game and why it's a disaster.
@radioactivebitflip88736 ай бұрын
The bleeping in the AC Black Flag dialogue for this video makes it feel funnier.
@Scimarad6 ай бұрын
I think all 4 of those 'A's stands for Arse.
@jinx200016 ай бұрын
this game man, its such a big step backwards for ubisoft and thats difficult to do considering where they were operating. i truly think the effort put into previous games was much higher and poor reception of those games must have led to layoffs and here we are. Going back to a game like watch dogs 2 is an eye opener on todays hardware, its a really nice looking game and plays really rather well.
@Swisshost6 ай бұрын
Same as DICE studio, many veteran devs left after BF1. Result is, 2 failed BFs in a row.
@djayjp6 ай бұрын
Those internal resolutions make zero sense.... 4k at 30fps and 720p at 60fps.... Like what the actual f...? Perf mode should be 1600p at worst.
@xikaryo67356 ай бұрын
AAAA gaming right there
@Rem_NL6 ай бұрын
Ubisoft high on their own farts
@michaelmonstar42766 ай бұрын
11:50 - Love the performance the motion-capture actor did there!
@KillYourInnerLoser6 ай бұрын
Hah! Thanks for pointing that out.
@Letheon.6 ай бұрын
‘I think it’s built to disrespect player time’, this is the core problem with nearly every Ubisoft game in the past decade. They deliberately waste your time-making their games intentionally less fun than they should or could be-in order to sell you convenience through a store. Even in single player only titles.
@Sparkyy-16 ай бұрын
22:28 Now that's proper pirate behavior 💀
@MilosCsrb6 ай бұрын
god dammit
@mbsfaridi6 ай бұрын
🤣
@missfortune92696 ай бұрын
Man, those quadruple A quests really are something else.
@roarsack5036 ай бұрын
Wow. One of the most appealing and groundbreaking advancements with the naval system from AC3 to Black Flag was that you were able to leave your ship at any point and swim to land. This was further improved upon in Odyssey, where everything is truly seamless. The fact that they'd downgrade on one of the core aspects that sold the idea of a fully-fledged pirate experience to begin with, is mind-boggling.
@Veon16 ай бұрын
A few years from now, we will see a YT documentary with the insider story of how the fuck Skull & Bones happened, and it will be the only entertaining thing to come out of this whole debacle.
@hemogoblin696 ай бұрын
Silly comment. It's Ubisoft, what'd you expect
@JC-xq2qe6 ай бұрын
GVMERS video for sure
@christianlech10846 ай бұрын
It was stated in an article years ago that the game had an issue of severe visionlessness during development and basically the only reason the game wasn't being cancelled was tax credits from the Singapore government. Not very surprised the game ended up as it did
@tokinimo546 ай бұрын
your boat mining rock and cut trees ...really blown my mind. They really tried hard not to let your character do basic stuffs on land like blackflag.
@Sithedd6 ай бұрын
Typical of the industry to give us a game like this that nobody asked for instead of what we all actually wanted: Black Flag 2.
@fcukugimmeausername6 ай бұрын
People don't understand. When Ubisoft say 'Quadruple A', don't mean better than 'Triple A', they mean 'Appalling, Abysmal, Awful & Alarming'. Ubisoft are correct, Skull & Bones is Appalling, Abysmal, Awful & Alarming
@darkauscus6 ай бұрын
720p AAAA image quality lmao xD
@antarcticanman6 ай бұрын
Lol at 720p internel resolutions on the bigger consoles.
@adk49866 ай бұрын
Actual joke. Im so sick of this console gen. The so called 4K 60FPS generation running games at 720p
@mmarshfairc36 ай бұрын
@@adk4986no games I’ve played or am interested in run like that. It’s mainly crappy slop games that run like that, games that no one should be playing anyways.
@herr-a54606 ай бұрын
To be fair, I think thats‘s the fault of the developers. The consoles have enough power to run games like TLOU and Horizon Forbidden West with decent graphics at 60fps. Badly optimized games have become a real problem recently.
@adk49866 ай бұрын
@@herr-a5460 true, its worse than evet
@aprilmeowmeow6 ай бұрын
@adk4986 to be fair, most PCs that cost over double the price of current gen consoles cannot achieve this in most games.
@jimbeaux896 ай бұрын
This is a mobile game masquerading as a “AAAA” game 😂
@Lolkork6 ай бұрын
I kinda wonder if the performance mode is broken, since 720p 60 seems extremely low for a game that can run at 4k 30. Maybe its supposed to have DRS but is stuck at the minimum resolution at all times.
@eduardharsch41506 ай бұрын
xbox series s runs in 540p 💀
@Darksjeik6 ай бұрын
I haven't played it but the way Alex describes it here, combined with the gameplay mechanics it strikes me as a mobile game ported to consoles. What a shame. A pirate game should be about adventure, swash buckling, torch lit caves and back alleys. Shady deals, double crosses and hidden treasures. It boggles the mind how this is what they came up with after a decade.
@Lalesama19876 ай бұрын
Black Flag is such a master piece.
@ff_user6 ай бұрын
Right? I'm playing it right now.
@ThePreciseClimber6 ай бұрын
@@jazzfan67 AC4 did polish some gameplay elements but, IMHO, in terms of actual content, it was a downgrade compared to AC3. AC3 had the Homestead missions, the search for Kidd's treasure, an open wilderness map, a reasonably small amount of naval combat and a smaller number of collectibles. AC4 had very little notable stuff outside of the main story. Basically just those 4 Templar hunts. The majority of the gameplay was grabbing loads of collectibles & grinding resources for ship upgrades. Both of which were nowhere near as bad in AC3. Completing AC4 was a lot more monotonous to me. Present Day was also pretty weak. At the very least, they could've made it third person so you could climb the outside of the building or something but nooooo.
@supersardonic11796 ай бұрын
Great game if you're not an Assassin's creed fan
@supersardonic11796 ай бұрын
@@ThePreciseClimberYou didn't enjoy that a game about Assassination and stealth was relegated mostly to naval combat and a few tiny islands?
@itsuadman6 ай бұрын
The RTXGI only applying to the ship is absolutely asinine. There's just no other words for it. Well, there are, but that's enough.
@Dorraj6 ай бұрын
My favorite part is the RTGI only applies to the ship... The ship YOU CAN'T WALK AROUND ON You couldn't make this stuff up, it's like poetry
@itsuadman6 ай бұрын
It almost makes you ponder what the point was including it. To say it has rtx? I wonder
@winslowpippleton71576 ай бұрын
"You're not a pirate. you're a ship" Haha best sums this game up. See of Thieves all day
@MegaLPlover6 ай бұрын
the running animation looks like you're gliding around across the ground
@Jean-jk4zv6 ай бұрын
Yes I hate that, it looks like ice skating
@BigHomieTyreese6 ай бұрын
It's baffling that so many of these design decisions were not only accepted, but I imagine pushed and encouraged. Can't tell if this is a symptom of the culture we live in where companies are forced to validate and promote ideas that they know are terrible out of fear of retaliation, or if this is true incompetence and everything here looked "good" to them and ready to ship. *no pun intended
@randybobandy98286 ай бұрын
They have to promote ideas from people that have terrible ideas in order to be "inclusive and accepting"
@thingsiplay6 ай бұрын
Quadruple A is what the game costed in the end, but its not a Quadruple game. Because they restarted from scratch I think 2 times, which would take one A away each time. The game is build as AA, but due to the restarting process it costed AAAA at the end.
@Crashed1319636 ай бұрын
How is this a AAAA game and Horizon Forbidden West is a AAA game is what I want to know .
@thingsiplay6 ай бұрын
@@Crashed131963 Because Skull & Bones is 10 years in development, restarting from scratch multiple times. That ballooned the cost (what Ubisoft calls it) to Quadruple A. And in my initial comment I tried to make the differentiation of a regular developed title to this special case. To explain how this came to be.
@tinyrogerts64496 ай бұрын
In summation, just play (or replay) Black Flag.
@pagla076 ай бұрын
Alex is probably one of nicest dudes on KZbin, but it’s genuinely hilarious to watch him tear into this game like this 😂
@joergbock19766 ай бұрын
AA Game, AAAA price tag. At least they gave us a few days open beta to see how bad it's gonna be. Kudos to Alex for showing the resilience to wade through this analysis!
@ClarkWasHere16 ай бұрын
I feel bad for the devs who have to put up with the publisher and marketing's claims of Quadruple A
@Rew1236 ай бұрын
Yes because the devs did such an amazing job on this game?
@Lightsaglowllc6 ай бұрын
Tbh, the devs in Singapore were part of the issue. Clear there wasn’t much talent on that team thus why Ubisoft had to get help from a dozen other studios to ship the game.
@dhgmrz176 ай бұрын
Even as a AAA game this would be considered underwhelming. Heck, it would still be pushing it as a AA game, based on other AA games that have released previously.
@ObamaTheHedgehog6 ай бұрын
@Rew123 they knew the game was ass but the CEO still goes out an calls it AAAA, set the devs up to be laughed at.
@Deliveredmean426 ай бұрын
Tho its that really the reason? We don't know exactly what each of said studio did in this "game". If anything it could be anything like listing the name since they work on in during each reboot.@@Lightsaglowllc
@tiffyfemboy5 ай бұрын
*The cannon balls.... explode???* They are made of full Iron! Not gunpowder! And no, if you hit an piece of wood with iron, its not gonna fuckin explode.
@IcedPTO6 ай бұрын
AC4's water reflections still look amazing to this day. It's pretty baffling they're not using a similar and improved solution 10 years later if they didn't want to go with RT.
@martinmp196 ай бұрын
We fail to realize that AAAA simply refers to how much money they spent making it lol
@BewareSabotage6 ай бұрын
An Absolutely Absurd Amount
@bruskydu6 ай бұрын
With nothing to show for😂
@mleolv4266 ай бұрын
11.54 that guy getting to run up the steep platform is hilarious.
@o-parts6 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking one for the team, Alex. There's no way I'm spending money on this game.
@rock2k146 ай бұрын
How are some of those ships moving like 60mph 🤣
@the_kovic6 ай бұрын
Escape from Monkey Island makes you feel more like a pirate than this game.
@ChaseSchleich6 ай бұрын
I don't understand what all those studios did. I could see one studio handling the ship gameplay and another handling the land based, but there were like 8 studios listed, maybe more. What were they all doing? Did one studio just do trees and the other did cannonballs? There's nowhere near enough game here to require so many studios. That alone is a huge red flag.
@Deliveredmean426 ай бұрын
Probably from different eras of the project before they got rebooted. Imagine that's why they are showing so many studios since they technically contributed in the project during each versions and resume said assets.
@elzjpeg6 ай бұрын
So obvious they they didn’t bother optimizing on performance mode and just dropped the resolution to an unbearable low. It is very similar to warhammer dark tide in performance mode. It looks horrible. There is no way in hell they couldn’t run this game at a higher internal resolution on series x and PS5 with proper optimization.
@J-Pow6 ай бұрын
Ubisoft was the first "quantity over quality" developer with the amount of people they'd hire for a single project, starting with the Assassin's Creed series.
@James-gj8rn6 ай бұрын
I’d love to see a Tech Review on Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth
@riaz87836 ай бұрын
I mean it's pretty much the same as any other recent Dragon engine game. Doesn't make the gameplay less incredible, but the tech isn't that interesting.
@zaggnutt6 ай бұрын
Why stop with four A’s when you can have five? Bring on quintuple “A” game development!
@VanSanProductions6 ай бұрын
the just needed to take black flag, and make it multiplayer. i don't know how they failed so bad.
@Gkhn326 ай бұрын
What the hack went wrong in terms of visual modes ? 720p 60fps VS 4k native 30fps ? 6 times resolution difference for +30 fps increase ? I mean the game gets as bad as it gets, but still that visual quality drop for x2 framerate is unfathomable. Plus, the native resolution mode also uses better AA solution(TAAU) compared to FSR ? How come ?
@pipgoesthepossum6 ай бұрын
I feel like the AAAA part of Skull & Bones is the development cost. 10 years of laborious development and redevelopment has to have cost them a lot. My understanding is the reason it wasn't cancelled had to do with a government deal in regards to the main dev studio, and so it had to come out- eventually, or they would have been in a bad legal situation.
@XiaOmegaX6 ай бұрын
What blows my mind is comparing this to black flag on an RX6400. Where the RX6400 can do full native 1440p60 in black flag, coming out looking better than S&B on Series S (or on RX6400). Modern games have taken too many steps backwards in render res to accommodate increased asset quality
@DeepteshLovesTECH6 ай бұрын
AMD needs to fix FSR.
@Dick_Valparaiso6 ай бұрын
Glad you cleared up the video quality problems at the end. I thought my internet and/or computer was the culprit at first.😅
@kirankara6 ай бұрын
Alex's preferred platform is pc, wouldn't have known unless I hadn't heard him go on about it all the goddamn time
@alexatkin6 ай бұрын
Current-gen only, missing 99% of the current-gen improvements? Very very sad. The lack of proper boarding a ship, something you did often in Assassins Creed, is even more crazy.
@TomTom-kq2lr6 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention the funny character creation, where it's animated like your character is taking it up the *BEEP*.
@killer1one16 ай бұрын
13:10 That is simply unbelievable. We truly, *truly* did not know how good we had it during the 360/PS3 era.
@maxducoudray6 ай бұрын
Good job, Alex. Thanks for the painfully honest overview.
@Beaut_Beau6 ай бұрын
720p in 2024, we've finally arrived at next gen folks!
@WickedRibbon6 ай бұрын
Someone needs to do a massive postmortem on Skull and Bones. How and why did it take 10 years to end up with THIS??
@CheckmateStallioN6 ай бұрын
PoP Lost Crown and the PoP IP in general is the only ubisoft games worth buying. All their other games are copy pasta mid AF overated titles just like the COD we get every year. When is the Sands of Time remake coming? Literally the only upcoming game from them I'm intetested in
@Yodagamer16 ай бұрын
Id buy another Rayman and splinter cell in a heart beat 😅
@LeesChannel6 ай бұрын
You don't want a bunch of studios in the credits; those are outsourcing studios, and have a negative relationship with quality. You want development in house.
@WH2503986 ай бұрын
Ubisoft can't remake a linear, 6 hour long Prince of Persia game, but this does get released.
@mmarshfairc36 ай бұрын
What do you mean? The Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake is in development
@SLRModShop6 ай бұрын
They are also making Beyond Good and Evil 2, what's your point exactly? @@mmarshfairc3
@mmarshfairc36 ай бұрын
@@SLRModShop Uh, my point was letting OP know that they are making a Prince of a Persia Sands of Time remake.
@jonahbrown56696 ай бұрын
@@mmarshfairc3OP is referring to the fact that their first attempt at remaking PoP looked laugably bad, so they had to release a shitty sidescroller game in its stead while they make the PoP remake looks somewhat good.
@WH2503986 ай бұрын
@@mmarshfairc3 It has been in development hell since 2020.
@noahflare68256 ай бұрын
"FSR2 is a massive detriment to this game's image quality"... with a native resolution of 720, even DLSS will have a hard time to upscale this game properly, given the very low base resolution to begin with. 4k30 in Quality while 720p60 in Performance really?!?!
@jasonblalock44296 ай бұрын
9:10 OK, throughout the next few scenes, why do the characters look like they're in front of a bluescreen? There's something very mismatched between the character lighting and the environmental lighting.
@Jean-jk4zv6 ай бұрын
This is called hero light. They light the character from the viewer perspective 😊
@megapro1256 ай бұрын
720p internal resolution on Series X and PS5 oof. 540p on Series S really delivers on that next gen feeling.
@Jay23Villa6 ай бұрын
An Absolutely Apprehended Atrocity
@joshzzzzrg6 ай бұрын
10 years in development and the chat doesn't even work. AAAA. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
@MarkTheCat6 ай бұрын
jesus christ why do they use SSR when planar reflections exist? Did they forget about a tech that was used 20 years ago in Half Life 2 for some great water reflections? What the hell was Ubisoft thinking?
@aaronpettit38136 ай бұрын
While I think it's clear, and reasonable, for DF to be a bit less harsh in games where the lack of fidelity or consistency is hard to perceive, I'm also not at all surprised they are taking a moment to lambast the world's first quadruple-A title...especially considering its roots! The real beneficiaries to skull and bones release are the key resellers turning over fresh copies of Black Flag. I'm thinking of booting it up myself!
@duskobjelajac51226 ай бұрын
The only reason this game even came out is because Ubisoft had a deal with the Singaporean government, which funded a big part of the game's development with the intention of growing the gaming industry in Singapore. Needless to say, they chose the wrong company to partner with