Skull & Bones VS. Sea of Thieves: Two VERY DIFFERENT Pirate Games - Polygon - E3 2018
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Date: 2023-12-10
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-middlemonster
Honestly after seeing more about Skull & Bones it looks more like World of Warships or a game like that. Its more of an Arcade game and has very little immersion. Where as Sea of Thieves has a sense of exploration of mystery about it, especially to new players. I doubt you'll ever fight a Kraken or a Megaladon in Skull & Bones, and no matter how good the lore is, I don't think it will create lasting memories like Sea of Thieves can when you get caught by a Kraken while fighting a Skeleton Ship and just before you are about to win, a player Galleon swoops in to sink you. Memories that will make you want to rage and ones that will make you feel so satisfied when you do succeed.
Sea of Thieves is near impossible to play Solo now. I wish they had Solo servers where the threats were just a little more toned down and more rare.
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Honestly after seeing more about Skull & Bones it looks more like World of Warships or a game like that. Its more of an Arcade game and has very little immersion. Where as Sea of Thieves has a sense of exploration of mystery about it, especially to new players. I doubt you'll ever fight a Kraken or a Megaladon in Skull & Bones, and no matter how good the lore is, I don't think it will create lasting memories like Sea of Thieves can when you get caught by a Kraken while fighting a Skeleton Ship and just before you are about to win, a player Galleon swoops in to sink you. Memories that will make you want to rage and ones that will make you feel so satisfied when you do succeed.
Sea of Thieves is near impossible to play Solo now. I wish they had Solo servers where the threats were just a little more toned down and more rare.
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-zarchc4834
She would not like to mention that sea of thieves is not a game not to include upgrades. The games combat is pretty balanced and fun because it is more about skill and teamwork than upgrades and ships with different abilities. With the two ships in sea of thieves, you and your friends could come up with new and interesting strategies because the ships are so simple to take care if you have a good crew, it also feels so good when you sink an enemy ship after a hard fought battle, which is great because a player would know that they didn't sink them because they had a stronger ship or better abilities than the other player, but because their skill and teamwork outmatched the enemy which shows the player that they are a better pirate than their foes.
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She would not like to mention that sea of thieves is not a game not to include upgrades. The games combat is pretty balanced and fun because it is more about skill and teamwork than upgrades and ships with different abilities. With the two ships in sea of thieves, you and your friends could come up with new and interesting strategies because the ships are so simple to take care if you have a good crew, it also feels so good when you sink an enemy ship after a hard fought battle, which is great because a player would know that they didn't sink them because they had a stronger ship or better abilities than the other player, but because their skill and teamwork outmatched the enemy which shows the player that they are a better pirate than their foes.
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-Scottoest
I loved AC4 Black Flag, but a game that is 100% of that game's ship combat, with none of the boarding and so on, seems kinda dull. Sea of Thieves could use more things to do, and it's slowly getting them, but I have to say the core of what SoT is just strikes me as a more compelling -pirate- experience than what S&B is aiming for.
It feels like Ubisoft kinda misunderstood what people liked about the ship-related stuff in AC4. Yeah the combat was fun enough - but it was having your own hidden base you could wander around in, and being able to swing over with your cutlass to board other ships, etc.
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I loved AC4 Black Flag, but a game that is 100% of that game's ship combat, with none of the boarding and so on, seems kinda dull. Sea of Thieves could use more things to do, and it's slowly getting them, but I have to say the core of what SoT is just strikes me as a more compelling -pirate- experience than what S&B is aiming for.
It feels like Ubisoft kinda misunderstood what people liked about the ship-related stuff in AC4. Yeah the combat was fun enough - but it was having your own hidden base you could wander around in, and being able to swing over with your cutlass to board other ships, etc.
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-johnnyjohnson6643
Oh. S&B-s gameplay is nothing at all like SoT-s; I did not expect that! Looks like you play as. the ship. I don-t think that-s what I want, but, that-s cool. Seems like it-s chock-full of high-octane action, albeit totally unrealistic (Other than the -gritty- realistic look. Weird that SoT has the (Slightly) more realistic version of pirate battles. I guess I would-ve known this if I-d heard that S&B was just gonna be AC: Black Flag-s ship combat! Seems like that would get stale for me really quickly, but it sure does look cool.
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Oh. S&B-s gameplay is nothing at all like SoT-s; I did not expect that! Looks like you play as. the ship. I don-t think that-s what I want, but, that-s cool. Seems like it-s chock-full of high-octane action, albeit totally unrealistic (Other than the -gritty- realistic look. Weird that SoT has the (Slightly) more realistic version of pirate battles. I guess I would-ve known this if I-d heard that S&B was just gonna be AC: Black Flag-s ship combat! Seems like that would get stale for me really quickly, but it sure does look cool.
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-HunterJE
I'm probably all alone in this, but I'd love to see a mainstream sail-combat game about anything other than -golden age- pirate stuff. I know that's what the culture has an easy existing language for but there's so much more out there that could be super interesting.
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I'm probably all alone in this, but I'd love to see a mainstream sail-combat game about anything other than -golden age- pirate stuff. I know that's what the culture has an easy existing language for but there's so much more out there that could be super interesting.
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-sethsanchez1222
-Game play is static- you don-t really run into enemy npc. -
That-s funny because every time I am trying to get stuff done I get Skelly gally, megladon, kraken trifecta out of nowhere.
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-Game play is static- you don-t really run into enemy npc. -
That-s funny because every time I am trying to get stuff done I get Skelly gally, megladon, kraken trifecta out of nowhere.
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polygon
i don't get what's all this comparison fuss about - if there are hundreds of world war FPSs, i think we can have two or three similar pirate games, don't we?
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i don't get what's all this comparison fuss about - if there are hundreds of world war FPSs, i think we can have two or three similar pirate games, don't we?
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-mattlrussell
Sea of Thieves is sooooooooo much better looking.
And are those rapid fire cannons? I hope it's not rapid fire cannons, that would just be dumb.
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Sea of Thieves is sooooooooo much better looking.
And are those rapid fire cannons? I hope it's not rapid fire cannons, that would just be dumb.
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-RealDFShadow
Wow she doesnt care that in skull and bones ur ship is npcs in sea of thieves ur ship is full of real people i feel sea of thieves has more freedom
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Wow she doesnt care that in skull and bones ur ship is npcs in sea of thieves ur ship is full of real people i feel sea of thieves has more freedom
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polygon
Skull & Bones looks more like a ship steering game. Game physics look nothing compared to Sea of Thieves and you can't even explore and go on land.
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Skull & Bones looks more like a ship steering game. Game physics look nothing compared to Sea of Thieves and you can't even explore and go on land.
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-Triigger20
Thank god for Skull and Bones, Sea of thieves is such a dead game. wide like the ocean, deep as a puddle just like no man's sky
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Thank god for Skull and Bones, Sea of thieves is such a dead game. wide like the ocean, deep as a puddle just like no man's sky
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-ShwintyKat
If Sea of Thieves were on Steam, I'd totally play it. But as it is, I'm more likely to go with Skull & Bones.
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If Sea of Thieves were on Steam, I'd totally play it. But as it is, I'm more likely to go with Skull & Bones.
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