OXCGN:
"For those of you who don’t know, we at OXCGN are arguably the biggest Assassin’s Creed fans out there.
Most of our most-viewed articles of all time are in some way connected to Assassin’s Creed.
Ever since 2007 when we began, David Hilton — OXCGN’s resident old person — has been been conjecturing and offering guesses as to where the next games in the series will go. Nearly every single time, has has been right.
With the most recent rumors circulating about Assassin’s Creed 4 (or whatever it will be called) being pirate-themed, we bring you the final piece of the puzzle."
Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.
BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.
PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???
And they never fixed it.
Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.
I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)
/grabs popcorn
11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.
The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.
What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.
Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.
Not too sure about this. Naval battles were fun... but an entire game?
This site's been right in the past, so we'll see
Pirates are always fun if done right. The RPG games that have attempted it recently have had faults...mainly too much questing, not enough action!
I still think back with fondness to Legend of Black Kat last gen.
I do agree this should be a new franchise offshoot, not AC4 though.
I think it will work and be a good game to feature on both sets of generation consoles.
The next big one will probably be 5, and this one will just work on what they did with the ships from 3.
I could see it working out for them. Ubisoft does a good job with their games and while naval warfare can be a little boring, I can see the fights being especially fun.
I don't see them going that way though.
If they decide to go Pirates, I'm sure they will put their best foot forward. It's not like Ubisoft is gonna be like "lets make a half-assed game. It feels like they should have gone in a different direction rather than the next Assassins Creed. Only time will tell