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@djtomoy

Ай бұрын

Does it have eggs in? I can’t eat eggs, or pineapple.

@shivermetimbers5246

Ай бұрын

Blah... Wish it was like Black Flag ... but well Black Flag 2... But meh... I can't even.

I had completely forgotten this game exists. It came out, I laughed at it, then it left my brain.

@christonchev9762

Ай бұрын

i did play it for around 30m and i deleted it tho i wanna try again Avatar

@juliuspearce

Ай бұрын

Same here lol , hell I didn’t even know it released. why do they even bother with this game

@patrickbarker2492

Ай бұрын

So true. I expected the dumpsterfire to burn longer tho.

@fepethepenguin8287

Ай бұрын

​@@juliuspearceluckily we have all this trash that people forget about. Something to laugh at, but most importantly, eventually it will lead to good games again

@frozencreeper

28 күн бұрын

The best moment was when I uninstalled that rubbish

Is the "quadruple A game quality" in the room with us now?

@LG1ikLx

Ай бұрын

Think it's like chromosomes. 1 to many and it doesn't develop properly

@cubana2

Ай бұрын

Lmao

@white6505

Ай бұрын

i am Brazilian and your name feels ominous for some reason. Quadruple A quality is much like a lot of modern astrophysics. we have never seen it work, but a bunch of nerds swear that in theory it must exist.

@jimmykarlsson2567

Ай бұрын

​@@white6505what does quadruple A even mean that everyone these days are talking about??? I'm from the other side of the world and everyone is talking about those A:s

@stimswwolf7867

Ай бұрын

@@jimmykarlsson2567The CEO of Ubisoft marketed Skull and bones to be a quadruple A game. Which everyone knew was an out of touch joke because if anything GTA 6 would be considered quadruple A because quadruple A would be the above and beyond of budget and quality and Ubisoft doesn’t even make good games alone to be anywhere considered in that range

I still don't understand what they were thinking of having a Pirate game where you do not get off the ship at all

@MrKylljoy

Ай бұрын

And you dont even board other ships lmao

@champagneson9

Ай бұрын

Smoking Meth

@eljefe308

Ай бұрын

They could have had a real gem on their hands, but they sunk the ship with this one and now it belongs in Davy jones locker

@RipaStar00

Ай бұрын

u can get off the ship, but game was fun 40h for what is was, only cuz i like pirate stuff.

@NeuroticWolf13

Ай бұрын

You sound a bit uninformed.

Ship has stamina.. like bruh..

@slipstream7324

Ай бұрын

I'm sure it represents the crew's stamina but i do appreciate everyone clowning on it.

@wearevenom82

Ай бұрын

Pirate Souls

@TheHK_47

Ай бұрын

Yh it might get tired. Playing this game is very strenuous

@Krampus6-1-6

Ай бұрын

​@@slipstream7324no it represents how unrealistic this game is.

@bushmonster1702

Ай бұрын

@@slipstream7324 it's a crap idea whatever they were thinking.

Pirate ships. With stamina. With poison damage and resistance. With torpedos. Who the hell decicded this was a good idea

@LaBandaRoja9

28 күн бұрын

Honestly it could work if they went full into the wacky pirate stuff (basically rip off or partner with One Piece). The issue is that the fanbase for this game are AC fans who like historical settings. Can't have both, wacky pirate stuff with fire bombards and torpedoes and historical accuracy lol

"Imagine GTA but you don't leave the car"... you just aptly described Driver 1 and 2 😂

@danielmiller4354

Ай бұрын

But you could exit your car in Driver 2 it just really had no purpose lol

@CErra310

Ай бұрын

So this game is being unfavourably compared to a game from 1999. Checks out

@bubbablake3983

Ай бұрын

At least those games were fun and didn't try to claim they were the best

@WayStedYou

Ай бұрын

Except they were good games

@quiethate

Ай бұрын

IN DRIVER: SF you could only like possess people in their cars and then you’d have that car.

Cant wait for suicide kills the justice league 2

@buttergolem8584

Ай бұрын

Paralel universe and shit.

@0o-0o694

Ай бұрын

Oh my god, could you imagine they bring back batman just to kill him again

@aoihitori

Ай бұрын

Currently had 320 players on Steam. That was a Liveservice game btw and this number is not good.

@PauloCesar-oz6dy

Ай бұрын

My favourite part was them saying that Hogwarts legacy was good so how do you turn a single player game like that into a game closer to suicide squad 😂 I guess they are the REAL suicide squad.

@CallMeTeci

Ай бұрын

Before that happens we gonna get a "Justice League attempts Suicide" game

I'm genuinely convinced that Luke's coverage of this and suicide squad is the only thing keeping these games on life support

@Mulberry2000

Ай бұрын

The problem though he as not played the new update as his save was corrupted. so he really cannot comment on the new update other breaking his saves.

@LaBandaRoja9

28 күн бұрын

@@Mulberry2000 it doesnt add much

@coltonwilkie241

21 күн бұрын

I went on the PSN store and the digital deluxe edition of Sushi Squad is currently over 60% off for Plus subscribers. That's wild.

Skull & Bones - the game that nobody wanted, everybody expected it to flop and yet it couldn't die due to the Singapore government deal. Was it worth it, Ubisoft?

I had forgotten this game existed

@bencarlson4300

Ай бұрын

And I will quickly resume that mentality, it’s the game equivalent of dry toast

@johncole4882

Ай бұрын

Can anyone see this comment? Pretty sure KZread has shadow banned me

@totallynotlars1189

Ай бұрын

how can you forget such exquisite AAAA game?

@issahumps

Ай бұрын

@@johncole4882you’re fine mane 🤙

@whatskrakalaken1940

Ай бұрын

I imagine there are a lot of games you have forgot existed, bro

If anyone working at Ubisoft is actually listening: I'm extremely glad I'm not you.

After replaying Black Flag a few days ago, man, the game this could have been.

@DerDudelino

Ай бұрын

It's sooo weird. Black Flag 2 would've easily made Ubisoft a Billion Dollars in revenue - it would've sold like hot cake. Skull & Bones will never break even. There is no way this shipwreck will make back 200M in development cost. I don't understand how this could get greenlit - it's a weird grind with no story where you can't even jump off ship - like in Black Flag. And the boarding maneuver is automatic and just a cutscene. WTF. So the only thing you do is upgrade the armor of your ship. And the cannons on board, which have different firing ranges and hit angles. That's kinda about it. You gotta feed your crew, bring in wood for repairs, but that's also not very interactive - you literally park your ship next to an island and wait till the wood comes in. You don't even cut down the tree yourself :D

@Bateluer

Ай бұрын

@@DerDudelino I understand exactly how it was greenlit. Players loved the naval combat of Black Flag, and Ubisoft believed they could make a game featuring ONLY that aspect and make easy money. They forgot that it wasn't the naval combat nor the notoriously janky gameplay of the OldCreed games that made them popular, it was the narrative. The narrative arc of Edward Kenway was excellent. If you simply removed that from Black Flag, you'd be left with a broken, unplayable game. If you developed a game centered only around the singular gameplay mechanic of naval battles, sans any story or narrative, you're left with a boring forgettable experience. A pirate game, outside of the AC setting, could have been really compelling, but Ubi wanted a live service title not a narrative driven single player game. Ten years of development hell had S&B release well after the consumers had thoroughly soured on cash grab live service games.

@DerDudelino

Ай бұрын

@@Bateluer Black Flag played very dynamically as well. You could jump ship, dive through the ocean, board another ship, climb in their planks, attack enemies from above - it was never boring. Skull & Bones is always the same gameplay rhythm.

@astronotics531

Ай бұрын

@@DerDudelino Black Flag is a single-player game, Skull and Bones a multiplayer game. The gameplay will be drastically different as a result.

@SammEater

29 күн бұрын

​@@astronotics531Nice try but Black Flag had multiplayer and what a surprise, the gameplay worked. That is no excuse to make a low tier "AAAA" game.

What I really wanted from skull and bones was a pirate rpg, where I can make my own character, pick my ship and “plunder my measly black guts out.” Literally take the systems in black flag and refine it. The pirate fantasy was achieved, and they still found a way to mess that up! I do have hope for that remake tho… keep the game the same for the most part. Refine combat, add more customization options and I’d be happy. Skull and Bones better not be the last pirate game, cuz I NEED more.

@user-hb3fi3vn2w

Ай бұрын

What's the opposite of King Midas? Whoever it is, they work for Ubisoft.

@deathproof8732

Ай бұрын

Nobody wants a rpg but anime One Piece bros.

@elijahhkerns6898

Ай бұрын

Rpg question, story. I’ll take that all day long

@Th3_n3rdtavrn

Ай бұрын

Come play sea of thieves. Bit of a learning curve but its a pretty good pirate game

It's a weird coincidence that all these live service games have drawn/illustrative cutscenes and not fully rendered in engine ones.

@bigdongkong1854

Ай бұрын

Because it’s cheaper

Record player engagement. How many players were playing before launch? 0. How many are playing on launch day? 5. Hey, a new record!

@tjroelsma

Ай бұрын

It's the new method of promoting new games, movies and series. Doctor Who for example claims record viewings, solely based on the fact that the BBC has declared that THIS Doctor Who reboots the series and therefore the previous decades of Doctor Who don't count........... and yes, that IS as stupid as it sounds. Game studios pretty much do the same things, as you've pointed out: This games has record-breaking numbers......... for this game. Well, duh!

@obiwanshinobi87

Ай бұрын

@@tjroelsma Not defending this game.. but the player count has always been pretty decent... Nothing crazy... But as someone who hosted events on discord getting a full lobby was pretty easy.. The hard part was finding a lobby that wasn't full so I could bring over players.. It has a pretty dedicated fanbase...

@futakisser

25 күн бұрын

You type like you're 50

A Pirate game made by Rockstar, now that would be the dream eh Luke!

@MilesJ.

Ай бұрын

If they gave it a story as well-written as RD2 I’m down.

@SayHiToNyz

Ай бұрын

Nah

@cheeto6057

Ай бұрын

@@mc-qx6ue you good blood?

@pseudophi

Ай бұрын

@@mc-qx6ue ? XD Rdr2 is probably a contender for best game of all time wtf are you talking about. Pirate game RPG made by Rockstar on par with Rdr2 would be legendary hands down.

Basically, garbage is still garbage.

@theoutsiderjess4869

Ай бұрын

The game sounds grindy af

@Schrogs

Ай бұрын

Forget everything you know about pirate games

What is the point of the game with sailing ships if they behave like motorboats?

Our boy is really trying to sell us some factor microwave meals

@planexshifter

Ай бұрын

You think he really eats them everyday for lunch?

@mistadopeman

Ай бұрын

@@planexshifter Hell no. He said he pops them in for two minutes and it’s done. If he ate one of those, he would know it needs to be stirred, then cooked some more.

This week has free game trial. Have played all night for 8 hours. Start is sluggish, sure, but once I got my first pirate ship and got a bit used to the UI, inventory and other systems, I was having a blast all night. Game runs smoothly, the atmosphere is amazing. Sure wish we could walk on our ship or visit cabin though, but honestly this "explore the forest off the ship" kinda thing is not that much missed. I think if you go into this game thinking you want Black Flag v.2 you not gonna get what you want. Go in with open mind and its not that bad. Deffo gonna grind hard this free week, hope it stays this fun =)

@DutchToast

28 күн бұрын

Absolutely agree.

Re-downloaded Asassins Creed Odyssey. Got a sudden urge to play it again. Tell you what, this game aged very well and might very well be the best ship combat game, where ''stamina'' makes actual sense. Guys, give that game a shot again. Its so good.

@tys9610

Ай бұрын

That was one of my games of that year no one believes me but with all the dlc it was so good

4:30 that graph made all the difference.

@LukeStephensTV

Ай бұрын

lmao I kinda forgot what I was trying to do with it and just moved on :D

@buggart

Ай бұрын

​​@@LukeStephensTV tbf, the game is just that forgettable...

Check out Sea Dogs, Caribbean Legend in particular, if you’ve got a pirate itch. It can be overwhelming, and a little too simulation heavy rather than arcadey, but it’s methodical, has great depth, and a long solid story.

Thumbnail looks like an 80's rock god

" Forget everything you know about traditional pirate fantasies " They said at launch and i was lik " what 😳???"

3 years for an asset flip on a game they already made is crazy

@deathproof8732

Ай бұрын

You mean 10 years?

@SammEater

29 күн бұрын

It is even worse, Black Flag's gameplay loop is much more complex than Skull and Bones. The fact you can board someone's else ship on foot, fight the crew and get all the spoils is something that Skull and Bones can never do.

It feels illegal to find a Luke Stephen’s video this early 😭😭

I wonder how long Ubisoft can go on like this before they get into serious trouble. Imagine if the next ACs were financial flops. - What other big brands does Ubi have to keep their business going?

I want a privateer during the time before the golden age of piracy. Narrative heavy, realistic (it takes literal in game months to reach some places,) etc.

@reaven2535

Ай бұрын

It'd be kinda interesting to see a game explore multiple ages of piracy. Sid Meier's Pirates kinda did it but the start dates were basically just difficulty settings. It would be fun to watch the rise of piracy, first as simple illegal acts, and then its evolution into an entire political landscape.

@TheDipdoo

Ай бұрын

You might like the Sea Dogs games.

I personally find pirate settings really really boring, which is weird because I think Black Flag is an amazing game. Like Pirates of the Carribean didn't land with me. Sea of Thieves not for me. I just don't know why, but nothing landed well with me in the pirate genre at all but Black Flag.

@kriskater

Ай бұрын

Its because it still hasnt lived up to its full potential. Black Flag was the closest we’ve seen

It really is a shame because Ubisoft has always been amazing at building fantastic worlds for their games. And having great visuals. It’s just the content therein that has struggled. When I think of the ideal pirate game I think of something like red dead 2. With all these dynamic encounters. Great detail. Slow paced. Riveting narrative. Interesting characters. But also the ability to just kind of feel like a pirate doing whatever you want. Whether it’s transporting goods, taking on bounties. Or just going into a tavern and playing dice, or cards, knife throwing. Maybe even having a little village that you can invest money in and build up. But other obvious things like sword fighting. Gunplay. Hunting fishing, tracking down, rumors of other pirates that you’re looking for or treasures that you want to find. Dynamically finding treasure maps. Song songs. Hire crew. So many fun things you could put in this game, that would really make it feel like a pirate fantasy. That could put it on par with red dead two. And a few through co-op in there, so you could play with your friend, that would be amazing

They are already STOPPING weekly updates 😂😂

"What do you do in your pirate game?" " Grind for furniture."

I'm lmao'ing so hard at the wooden 40 meters sailboat handling like a freaking modern speedboat. It's giving me cognitive whiplash.

“A game no one asked for”?? Literally everyone is asking for a pirate game.. just not this

@azzy9293

20 күн бұрын

Pirates are a genre bro, it's not specific to this game. Just because people wanted a pirate game doesn't mean they wanted this game

@junechevalier

20 күн бұрын

@@azzy9293 Exactly what I was saying. There's a lot of demands for a pirate game, and when this game was first announced, everybody was hyped. It just turned out to be bad, but there's demands for this kind of games

How about a civil war game with the steel steam ships

Him: “I love ships, I love pirates” Me: “is that the titanic?!”

I’m literally shocked Luke didn’t say that an Egyptian Pirate game isn’t his ideal game. I mean isn’t that an obvious win?!

You can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse no matter how much content is added.

I just finished the show black sails on Netflix and my itch for a pirate game like that show is absolutely through the roof right now. GIVE US A SINGLE PLAYER OPEN WORLD PIRATE GAME SOMEONE PLEASE!!!

@godfatherezio

Ай бұрын

Just replay Black Flag.

@TheBasedBalkan

Ай бұрын

@@godfatherezio hoping for a remake or remaster like they’ve been rumoring.

I have a professor at my college that started its most popular class (pirate literature) because he played Black Flag and loved it so much

So random question what type of gaming mouse is that like model, etc the white one been looking can't find it !

15:42 lol thats actually exactly what the first Driver game was on PS1, to give them credit it was 3D and looked amazing for its time.

The season 2 boss fight with these two “opera” weirdos is probably almost exactly like the HMS Fearless and Royal Sovereign legendary ship boss fight in AC Black Flag.

Skull and Boners

why does your ship get some much air, it could count as a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater trick?

Gotta hand it to Ubislop for going for historical accuracy 😂

@ehenningsen

Ай бұрын

They never went for historical accuracy

@crazygamingyt7245

Ай бұрын

@@ehenningsenthey did

@ehenningsen

Ай бұрын

@crazygamingyt7245 no, they went for inspiration by history - not historical accuracy

@TheHK_47

Ай бұрын

​@@crazygamingyt7245 what part of pirates with torpedoes, poison damage and stamina bars is historically accurate

@OurLou

Ай бұрын

@@ehenningsen I guess sarcasm is lost in 2024

Gritty Dark And Bloody Pirate Game

what was the previous record this "new" record is based on?

Ship has stamina and sails like a bistro. 100% history legit.

As a player who played it a lot in the first season and hit max diamond rank in the leaderboard, this season is trash it’s exactly the same as the first season but reskinned. They just took out the old shark and put a ‘new’ one in. The new bosses don’t add anything interesting into the game, and they were removed after week 1 to be put back in the game later, and the worst part is that they are time limiting the updates so that we have to wait 7 weeks or so for all the content of the season to drop. Inventory and ship management is now a joke as you have to craft like 30 ships to do your pieces of 8 runs and you have furniture and cannons everywhere. They also made the game extremely unbalanced as you can now upgrade your ships to different levels affecting hull health so now there is no such thing as an equal and fair PVP fight. They also removed having to sail to get your pieces of 8 so now I have no reason to play at all other than logging in every other day for 30 seconds to fund the manufactories. Items were duped and sold so now every player who played in season 1 is a millionaire and the game economy is broken from the start. I’ve also been kicked off the servers 3 times due to Kingfishererror04. I’m already in the top players on the leaderboard for this new season and I’m not even trying, there must be barely any players for this game. They also added in skins to the store which are cooler than anything you can unlock by doing the hardest endgame fights so I have no reason to want to play it. I haven’t even mentioned yet the bug where people lost their entire ships when upgrading them.

I want EVE online with pirates. Where it takes several real world days to sail from one end of the world to the other.

@matthewwebster3143

Ай бұрын

You got a lot of free time 😂

@TheVillainInGlasses

Ай бұрын

EVE Online Pirates would be great. I miss when EVE Online was good. 🥲

@KakavashaForever

Ай бұрын

@@TheVillainInGlasses Whats bad about it now?

@TheVillainInGlasses

Ай бұрын

@@KakavashaForever All the macro transactions. It's gone to shit since the Koreans bought CCP.

@KakavashaForever

Ай бұрын

@@TheVillainInGlasses But the game itself is almost exactly the same, so what specifically is wrong with the game? The existence of a cash shop that sells ugly skins?

You know, if this was a rowboat I would excuse the stamina mechanic. But on a sailship? What the fuck

@Schrogs

Ай бұрын

Forget everything you know about pirate games

Luke Stephens, This is fantastic! I subscribed because I love it!

it also limited the saling it self, by limiting the windfaktor. the game always has good wind

There are games that I look forward to, watch videos about, listen to podcasts and then only play for a few minutes before uninstalling...

pirates legend of black kat is another old pirate game that’s so old school

Literally forgot this game existed until this video popped up on my feed.

Ubisoft already did GTA where you can't get out of the car: Driver San Francisco

I hope pirate games gain so much popularity that developers compete with each to release better and better pirate games.

GTA without leaving a car is called Driver😂

I really wanted this game to be good and had such high hopes. I still hope they can fix it ala CyberPunk by adding content. The foundational mechanics seem good.

I still cannot wrap my head around why they chose a STAMINA BAR for a fucking ship and not just Wind, like SoT

@Schrogs

Ай бұрын

Forget everything you know about pirate games

@n8mo

Ай бұрын

SOT remains the only decent modern pirate game

I would love to hear more on your ideal pirate game. I would love to hear your ideas for systems and progression.

You do bring up a good point; I think that's why speedrunning isn't that big of a hobby or some speedrunning games are super niche because the grind isn't fun usually while others I have over 250 hours clocked in because of how fun it is.

The comedic timing of my KZread assigned ad break being for Skull and Bones is not lost on me. They must be more desperate for a player base than I thought.

Egyptian theme pirate ship, and we got Luke to heaven

People did ask for this game, the dev(probably the suits) just 5% gave us the game we wanted, no one ask for ships with stam bar, resource collection, asked for ship and person combat, explanation sea and land,

My poor little brother pre-ordered this game without seeing gameplay and I told him why would you do that and when the game came out he literally played it for 15 minutes and uninstalled it

Age of Sail/Pirate Republic games are few and far between. I am PC only games, so I have some options on Steam. I have about 5 games for that Genre on my Steam Wishlist. Right now, the two I play are Blood and Gold: Caribbean! (a fun Mount and Blade Warband mod), or Naval Action. Naval Action is a fun game, but sinking a ship can take 10 minutes, and there is no fast travel, so sailing across the map is time consuming. The Naval Action devs have a new Early Access coming out soon called Sea of Legends that takes Naval Action as an offline/RPG game. We will see if any of the 5 wishlist pirate games actually launch. The one with the best chance is Sea of Legends, since most of the development is ported from Naval Action.

Sid Meier's Pirates was such a simple yet deep Pirate RPG franchise that STILL 20 YEARS LATER hasn't had a worthy spiritual-successor. Someone get on it, I'm tired of waiting and being disappointed.

Ah how I hate it when my ship gets poisoned

I remember wanting a mass effect like pirates game

Guys, this is a quadruple A game if I’ve ever seen one

13:52 What the hell was that jump? Hahahah!

You know what Ive always wanted, an actual Viking game. We have had several great pirate games over the many years of gaming yet Vikings have only gotten indie dev games, AC Valhalla and For Honor.

Everyone getting their manufactories attacked - so....basically, the players are now honest merchants and the npcs are the actual pirates, raiding them. Complete role reversal.

I have never played a Pirate game, ever. The only thing remotely similar was the Pirates of the Caribbean World in Kingdom Hearts 3 lol. But it it sounds like an very interesting premise not gonna lie.

"A GTA, but you can't leave your car" Driver San Francisco:

Why do u have a scooner at level 2? Where's ur endgame ship?

18:16 “from the time who made skull and bones” bro, I have something to tell you 💀

Completely down for a remake of AC Black Flag

@Schrogs

Ай бұрын

Sadly that’s what this was supposed to be haha. Atleast that’s what it started as until the person who said “Forget everything you know about pirate games” got hired.

@Gman33777

Ай бұрын

@@Schrogs Sounds about right

You can definitely take the twins (new bosses) right from the start this season. Like it’s tough to do alone but doable and with one of more players it’s actually pretty simple and the loot drops are decent. I don’t mean to insinuate there aren’t issues here but your wrong about the season bosses.

A pirate game bassd on AC: Blackflag should've been an EASY homerun. It blows my mind that Ubisoft messed this up as bad as they did.

That game concept sounds amazing

Bro Skull and Bones is all that's gonna be left of this game in a year

Luke I agree we need an authentic pirate game, that life is so fascinating, the ships are incredible, and learning about stuff like pirate insurance was really interesting to learn about. Did you know if you were injured on a pirate ship you could recieve the maximum of $1 to use for a peg leg or an eye patch, or a false hand.

If they added more people stuff. Ship boarding, island exploration and so on then it would probably be huge. Like next year drop a massive update all in 1 to revive the game

@MLGames99

Ай бұрын

Or you could just not buy this game and instead play Sea of Thieves which already had that at launch

@jordanward263

Ай бұрын

Yea but thats first person trash we dont want that either. ​@MLGames99

@MLGames99

Ай бұрын

@@jordanward263 oh ok

@astronotics531

Ай бұрын

If you read the current feedbacks from players who play the game, no one talks about the features you mention. All the players who have asked for this kind of feature have stopped playing and thus put pressure on the devs.

If they don't make it like Black Flag, I will never want to play it.

@marioccoprey9177

Ай бұрын

Same.

Brother. We make our own food. This is the way.

Did he explain a naval battle with poison damage and proper furniture like it was armor or talisman??? And i already heard about the boat stamina. They didnt try to made a nice UI for this quadruple game at all.

Hmm you say on one hand grind is terrible and awful but in the next video you're saying the game is away too easy ?

@verb5066

Ай бұрын

Yeah, a game can be too easy and too grindy at the same time. These are not exclusive characteristics

Didn't realise this game was even released

16:00 GTA but you can't leave your car. NFS underground? That was a fair amount of fun, if you like rubberbanding of course.

Another Live Service Game with comic book storylines for each season 😂

Its crazy that lukes name is literally my middle name and surname

there is a game that did the GTA driving thing, it's called Driv3r and a lot of people loved it

I think that's why Black Flag did so well. Pirate games are such an untapped genre in video games. And when pirate games are made they're things like sid meier's or this where you don't get the real or full experience of what the pirate genre and era of history has to offer.

The irony of the situation is that, while both Suicide Squad and this came out at about the same time, and both were ruthlessly mocked online, SS still had more of a lasting impact than S&B. I regularly track how the player count of SS continues to decrease and all its other failings (including the asinine design for "Mrs. Freeze"), but I sometimes straight up forget this game came out. That is just sad. And it seems like that will not change for gamers at large. Maybe it's better to be vilified than forgotten...