I bet it’s just assassins creed.
Sail the seas, activate ice bergs to unlock the map, gather five million useless trinkets.
I played a closed beta quite a while back and it’s pretty much this. Was all set to play the whole weekend but only made it like 2 hrs in before uninstalling. it feels like just fetch quests, and checking off boxes, and I didn’t find it fun at all.
It’d have to be pretty damn compelling to not just play black flag again instead
I play one game at a time until I beat it or decide it isn’t worth playing. I’m currently playing Black Flag for the first time and am about 35 hours into it.
I’m still holding interest, but it’s pretty damned repetitive and full of fetch quests and check boxes.
If you’re not enjoying your time at sea, on the ship itself, I’d recommend powering through the quest line, possibly the legendary ship battles and leave it there.
I stopped trying to 100% after AC2, and sped through the ‘housekeeping’ pre-assassination missions. Follow this guy, loot this chest, pick her pocket, etc gets real old quick
I absolutely hated the sea stuff. I played black flag for like two or three hours then I never touched it again.
I really enjoyed Sea of Thieves, though I wasn’t a huge fan of the direction they took the game.
That was the best part for me lol - open world piracy simulator with your crew belting out sea shanties and upgrading your ship. The on foot parts of the AC franchise might as well be on train tracks, not my jam
It was so shallow though. Then again I didn’t get very far into the game, it failed to hold my attention.
I like the sea stuff more than the land stuff (which is crazy repetitive as well. Go to dock, unlock view points, beat up guys to open the pub, do a couple contract missions, grab the few collection things lying about etc. Like 50 places where you do the exact same thing.) But the ship fighting is fun, even though boarding the enemy ship portion is boring.
At this point I just want to hit the story line, get the last few upgrades to my ship in hopes I can defeat the legendary ships that have been whooping my ass, and I’d like to get all the little rocks collected I need to find out what’s behind the door on the assasins island.
The end game armor you unlock is good… but it is walled off until the very end game when you’re otherwise super geared up, so it’s not the ‘epic purple loot’ it seems like
The Flying Dutchman fight is hella bullshit though, I swear that thing was midair and turned 180 on the spot multiple times. Made lining up broadsides annoying af when a man-o-war is nimble and tough
Thanks for ruining what’s behind the door, dumbass.
From what I read the game is pretty much a repurposed Black Flag naval gameplay.
I was mostly joking because Ubisoft pretty much only has one game they reskin endlessly, but I’m somehow not surprised.
I mean that is what it spun off from. It’s been in development hell all the way from then.
I was excited when they first showed this game.
Now I wish it had either been delayed again or outright cancelled. Not that they legally could have, but to release this and not admit that its a massive L is just sad at this point.
Im not looking down at Ubisoft anymore. Now I just feel pity. This is literally begging.
I have a quintuple-A bridge I’d like to sell this guy
Do you happen to have any insurances I could buy for the bridge?
Not yet, but I have a plan to release coverage in the future. If you put a deposit down now I’ll give it to you sometime I determine in the future
This has big J. Wellington Wimpy “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” vibes.
The 4th A is for “Assholes”
Maybe it’s how long it’s been in development, maybe it’s how many times that they’ve changed direction, or maybe it’s just that Ubisoft just put so much garbage in their games, but I predict that this game is going to be a trainwreck.
I was intrigued when they first announced it, but now I’m just so fucking sick of Ubisoft and their bullshit that I’m now just curious to see just how much of a mess it turns out to be.
You mean when it was a game and not a shitty live service treadmill?
I’m going to keep eating the popcorn I got out for Suicide Squad.
Finished the campaign before the bucket, eh?
Oh, I don’t intend to play either game. I just enjoy watching games that are bad for the industry crash and burn in the market.
It’s literally sunk cost fallacy, they wasted so much money for this game, but always spent more instead of putting it in a drawer. Nobody cares about pirates anymore, and lot of ppl are tired of the live service games. Add to this that the Black Flag remake is in the works, so not many will have the urge to buy the game, and it will fail spectacularly.
I won’t buy another Ubisoft game after the nft shit and them deleting old accounts with purchases games.
At this point I wonder if there are some internal politics that want this project to fail and be over. 70 price tag, live service but only on ubisoft platform, ignoring the most demanded features, etc.
It’s like they are tired of a project that was a money black hole for years and they just want to pull the plug.
Doesn’t matter to me, I ain’t playing this shit.
Quadruple Ass
Bwahahahahaaa. No.
All AAA games and AAA studios are garbage.
Long live the indie game developer
FromSoft, Santa Monica?
I don’t like FromSoft games personally, but I can recognize that they are well-made and aren’t problematic in the ways that other major AAA studios are.
So I’ll just acknowledge that of course there will be some notable exceptions, despite my hyperbolic use of “all” in my original comment. I’m a huge fan of BotW and TotK and Nintendo certainly counts as a AAA studio, but I think those games are exemplary and also non-problematic in the ways other major studios are. But despite these very real and very notable exceptions, I think my statement still stands pretty well as a general rule.
Oh and the only Santa Monica games I’ve played are Twisted Metal: Black (2001) and God of War (2005) so I’ll simply abstain from an opinion on them as it doesn’t seem fair to me to judge them based on experience that is now two decades old.
edit: also I see you were downvoted and while I know that doesn’t matter, just want you to know that I didn’t downvote you and I don’t think you said anything inappropriate or off-topic so I wish whoever did had not.
FromSoft and Santa Mónica release amazing AAA games and are always respectful to their player base. GoW Ragnarok just released a free DLC a month ago. FromSoft charges 60 dollars for games that have 200 times the content of other games that charge 70 dollars. Zero micro transactions. DLCs are always mind blowing and at great prices.
I really have no idea why they downvoted, these two companies are just good guys. I’d love to hear if they have something negative to say about these companies.
Just wait a year or two and then play the stuff people are still talking about. It’s hilarious how often it’s indy games.
Cant remember the last “AAA” game i enjoyed.
God of Wars and Hitman
Hitman is almost always good! 🔥
Some Nintendo games are pretty decent, even just over the last year. Super Mario Wonder, Tears of the Kingdom (I didn’t personally play this one, need to!), and Pikmin 4. As well as some remasters in there, like Metroid Prime. It’s been a good mix of AAA and a lot of indie on Nintendo Switch!
Your not supposed to enjoy them, you pay so the shareholders get to enjoy them.
Double Plus Good
Fuck me, that is some quadruple-A-level bullshit from our man Yves. I played the closed beta and I am sorry to say that this game is going to tank, hard. Its gameplay loop is waaaay too simplistic to be making those grandiose claims.
Just like battery, the more A it has the smaller it is, but the price stay the same or much more expensive.
Sure it is, Yves. If any game would qualify as quadruple A it’s the Black Flag spinoff that’s been in development hell for years. Genuinely curious how long this game lasts, even if it does get good reviews and finds an audience. Feels like Ubisoft would have cancelled this ages ago if the government of Singapore hadn’t been providing subsidies to help fund the project.
It would be great if it was a black flag spinoff. A single player pirate action rpg. But nooo. It has to be a live service multiplayer game without any soul
Yves is a douche canoe.
It’s not even a subsidies thing so much as they are legally obligated to release a game for Singapore
