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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.
At a time when AAA often sucks so much, it sounds really out of touch to say your overpriced game is "quadruple-A".
Xfinity "10G" energy
There’s plenty of other comments ragging Ubisoft for their anti-consumer business practices so let me just point to those as a preamble and say “what they said”
… HOWEVER I remember someone on Youtube, maybe SirSwag, saying something years ago that rings true about Skull and Bones. For a big company, they’re taking notable risks by investing so heavily in unique multiplayer games. Basically every other big budget multiplayer game I’ve seen has been trying to compete with Call of Duty or Fortnite by being functionally the same thing with minor differences.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Rainbow Six Siege, For Honor, Shootmania Storm, Riders Republic, and Skull and Bones, are not like most other games that come before. Yes, Ubisoft is a massive corporation and fuck that noise, but as a consumer of video games I appreciate that they are at least putting a good amount of the money they trick people into spending into studios with designers and developers who have creative minds and they’re supporting that creativity. Games like For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege can’t come from indie teams with no funding.
Sirswag is easily the single most underrated creator on that platform.
The 4th A is for "Assholes"
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.
Double Plus Good
Cant remember the last "AAA" game i enjoyed.
Your not supposed to enjoy them, you pay so the shareholders get to enjoy them.
Can they stop making things up. MOre aaaassssss
Quadruple Ass
All AAA games and AAA studios are garbage.
Long live the indie game developer
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.
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.
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.
Bwahahahahaaa. No.
I won't buy another Ubisoft game after the nft shit and them deleting old accounts with purchased games.
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.
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.
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
From what I read the game is pretty much a repurposed Black Flag naval gameplay.
I mean that is what it spun off from. It's been in development hell all the way from then.