EDGE: "You’ll have to forgive us, but we’re getting déjà vu. A year ago, we were presented with a new Assassin’s Creed, one that moved the series to the New World, changed its systems and promised wholesale franchise reinvention. And now here we are being presented with a newer Assassin’s Creed, a game that moves the series to an even newer New World, changes its systems and promises wholesale franchise reinvention. We’ve made a note to keep our schedule free this time next year, but in the meantime we can’t help – despite our cynicism – being intrigued by the promises made by the fourth numbered game in the series, subtitled Black Flag."
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.
Skull and Bones borrows more than naval combat from Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, but Ubisoft's live-service adventure doesn't compare.
Black Flag was the Pinnacle of pirate games for me. Wild that it’s been 11 years, played it after coming home from college classes every day
Watching Skull and Bones gameplay really shows how important all the AC elements like land exploration and fighting really were in making it such a great game. To go back to just sailing with those basic ass controls a decade later is just sad.
Anyone else think it seems way to soon for a new AC? Aren't they still releasing DLC for AC3? But this one has me interested, I've never really got into the series just played AC2 and Liberation which I enjoyed. I was thinking maybe I should go play through the series but heard AC3 was terrible so anyone who has played through the series should I bother playing through all the games or what? :)
I'm just tired of the ancestor's point of view when playing the game. I'm tired of the Animus. Take a new route with the game already!
Meh...Witcher III urinates on Assasin's Creed IV's face any day
AC3 didn't please a lot of AC fans, although personally, I enjoyed the hell out of it.
AC4 looks to impress and usually it is a big deal at E3. I'm sure the footage will be impressive.