GameFront: "Ubisoft conducted a Q&A session with the game’s Lead Writer, Darby McDevitt, who answered a number of interesting, and not-so-interesting questions posed to him by some of the game’s many fans."
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.
"@adamk678 Will there be dialogue options/ conversations in present day?"
"No… because YOU are the protagonist, we didn’t want to put words into your mouth."
Or your too lazy to make an interesting story set in the Present and you can't be bothered with it.
Juno is free, they should of introduced a new character, hell even if it was Desmond's father at least then we can see how they deal with Juno and what she has in store for the world.
By the way I didn't know Juno was an A.I. I thought when they said she was a prisoner it meant her full physical body
"@KamalElgamel13 will the new character have a relation to Desmond?
No, Abstergo’s tech has improved. They have genetic memory cloud servers that allow anyone to dive into another’s memories."
Oh come on thats just ridiculous, when you went into the Animus it was nice to know you were playing a descendent of the character in the present. Now they don't have any relation to them
I feel like they arn;t even trying with the present timeline, they could do so much story wise. What about if the way to stop Juno was to find a descendent of Eve for example
I hope this is the last of these and they move on to something else.
Does anyone actually care about the present day part of AC games? I know I don't, I see those segments as annoying interruptions to the real game.
In assassins creed 2 the purpose of ezio was to train Desmond it would have been cool if Desmond wore the assassin's cloak in present day to stop the Templars.could you imagine running around a modern day city killing politicians and officers,diving off skyscrapers,leaping across buildings and shit a bit ambitious but I'm sure it's doable this is how I saw assassins creed progressing but instead we get never ending game after game after game.