Machinima: "As a major port city of the developing south east Asian seas, Singapore was a significant hub for traders and pirates alike. Despite that history it’s not the reason to experience the country in anticipation of the latest Assassin’s Creed game, the pirate-themed Black Flag."
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.
What shall we do with a drunken sailor...
I thought that the underwhelming ACIII following the lackluster Revelations had ruined this franchise for me.
Nope. I want to fight, yes fight, a shark. I have a phobia of open water so the ocean exploration will be very intense for me.
At some point before AC4 I'm gonna pop in the ol' dvds of Jaws and Moby Dick.
Ballin'.
*I enjoyed the read btw. Much appreciated.
Can't wait to get my hands on this game. One of the few games that I see truly utilizing the next gen console capability. For the first time since brotherhood this game looks like an actual assassins game.
Focusing on stealth.
Improved combat from ACIII.
New weapons. (Most excited for the blowpipe.)
Open gameplay that gives the player a simple objective and lets him choose, out of the thousand possibilities, what way he wants to complete that task.
This game is going to be big. I predict it to be the best in the series. (Yes, even beat AC2)