Wow that sucks. I was never too clear on that leading up to release, during the betas and all. And Rare had such a good character creator in Kinect Sports Rivals.
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Sea of Thieves - (Good & Bad) Review Thread
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demigod
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Ouch, he just called out xbox fans right off the bat.
Alx
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You can re-roll the randoms ad libitum.
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ABrokenToy
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"an "endgame boss" kraken that has already been turned into a meme by players, as the thing is just tentacles with no actual body lurking under the water. Perhaps a metaphor for the entire game."
Ouch... haha
Ouch... haha
daibaron
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Yes, eurogamer is really pushing it too much. It is even doing the game a disservice because it has exhaustively shown pratically everything about the game. I am led to believe eurogamer owes MS for the exclusive of the XOX. Rare is also british and there is the national pride at play. I am not saying they will give the game a higher score than it deserves, but they are pumping and pumping the hype baloon.
Calibos
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Was there? I saw a whole bunch of trepidation about what SoT is and how much content it would have.
Why is SoT constantly compared to NMS? Rare never said anything about NMS nor did they say their game would be anything like it. They also never promised a Destiny style narrative or any amount of content...They have always only shown a great co-op experience where most of the fun is had at sea against other players...non-scripted, emergent gameplay is their tagline it seems.
Twitch streamers are having a blast. People are having a great time playing this game with friends. Is that not a successful game? Rare has said that they have a DLC roadmap and that free content will be added regularily. GAAS this is.
Xbox Live and PC have some very entertaining people playing...Maybe try and make some "entertaining friends" instead of writing clickbait, coat-tailing articles?
Rare has delivered what I expected and what they have been talking about for a couple years. A pirate game where the players make the narrative and create the fun and chaos. Like I said earlier, people have over inflated this game with comparisons and their imaginations.
ThatStupidLion
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First game to make me want an xbox - enjoy folks! Looks fun!!
Calibos
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Deputy Moonman
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I wouldnt listen to any of the nonsense that comes out of WaterAstro's mouth. Literally every single post. And for whatever reason it has been like his life goal/dream to make sure everyone knows how horrible of a game Sea of Thieves is. Look up his post history. Its quite comical and sad.
Chip Chipperson
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What the fuck were the doing with all of that development time? Just making sure the water looked fucking awesome?
WaterAstro
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Yeah, except Lirik has hundreds of thousands of followers, and 50 thousand people were watching him quit. His opinion, as a top streamer, is already having far reaching affect on any potential customers. People watch twitch instead of reading reviews because it's the actual game being played, and it's not scripted like Let's Play on youtube. It's also only the first week, so you don't even have proof that people will keep playing it.
First, I'm not Lirik, so what reason do I have to bait you into clicking someone's Twitch vod? Second, it really shows your lack of knowledge on the issue surrounding Rare when you don't even know that Rare is a Microsoft 1st party studio.
Given that they spent 3 years to make this little, don't hope for anything to be done quickly. They really took their time.
sigrad
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You are unfuckingbelievable man. Seriously, what do you get out of shitting all over this game in this thread? I mean really? Does it make you feel better about yourself?
I've seen quite a few "real" players playing the shit out of this game on Youtube and I've dropped in on a few of their channels and they have nothing but praise for this game. Are their opinions not valid because they like it?
And it's not just you. What does anyone get out of shitting on a game they clearly aren't going to and haven't played?
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DonF
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Its also on PC.
DryvBy
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I thought that was just a glitch on my end lol! I jumped down there and saw nothing.
I'm writing a review for this game and I need to rest on it first. My review is already so brutal, it feels like bullying.
Revolutionary
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This bit from the Forbes article made me laugh out loud:
"My last three quests in a row, I went to turn in a chest and came back to find that someone had stolen my empty ship for literally no reason other than to be irritating. The last time, someone called me a "c***" on their mic as I tried to swim after my departing ship, and then shot me in the head. Good times."
"My last three quests in a row, I went to turn in a chest and came back to find that someone had stolen my empty ship for literally no reason other than to be irritating. The last time, someone called me a "c***" on their mic as I tried to swim after my departing ship, and then shot me in the head. Good times."
I mean, it does look really fucking awesome.
Codes 208
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Exclusively through the garbage windows 10 store*
Just like every other xbox one exclusive**
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Evil Calvin
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Wow! That is a scathing review! Thats kind of what i thought after the beta. Seemed waaaay to lifeless and barren. No sense of progression or stats.
MilkyJoe
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MilkyJoe
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Sounds like the forbes chap is missing the point.
The Bloody-Nine
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Serious question, what's wrong with the Windows 10 Store? I don't believe I used it before and I wouldn't mind playing Gears 4 at some point.
Codes 208
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My biggest complaint is its download service. If your game stalls or your pc goes to sleep at all, it not only pauses a download but cancels it. Ive had to redownload gears 4 three times because of that shit and redownloading 80+ gigs with limited monthly internet is not exactly the ideal situation.
On top of that, the windows 10 games are a wallee garden with a seriously low population count. If it werent for crossplay with xbox, gears and halo wars 2 wouldve been dead for awhile now.
The Bloody-Nine
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Yeah, that does sound annoying and rather obtuse. Thanks for the reply.
-MD-
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After having played it for 7 hours, I feel like this game is going to get absolutely shredded by reviewers.
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TheDuskwalker
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ABrokenToy
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Sorry mate, I sincerely apologize, but that thing has been plastered all over every gaming community site I've been to. Again, my apologies.
Codes 208
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Care to explain? (I dont mean in a pretentious manner. Im legit curious) The more i read this thread the more divided the outcomes are. Perhaps playstyle comes into account, i have a friends who is now addicted to it because shes been playing with her posse. But i have a few other friends who kinda tried solo-ing and it seemed frustrating to them.
Seems their ambitions were just a tad too high.
-MD-
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I'm just echoing what's already been said but theres just nothing to do after you run around for a few hours, 200 person studio over 4 years and we have 3 unique quest types (kill a group of skeletons, find a buried treasure, capture animals) as our gameplay loop. The combat is pretty atrocious, just a simple 3-hit slash or a charge up attack if you hold the button down, you can also block. There is no ADS sensitivity setting for guns (it's 2018, fellas). The only interactive objects in the environment are cannons, the only thing you can collect are bananas for health, wood planks for ship repairs and cannonballs. The extremely minimal dialogue available is pretty standard, nothing stood out there.
I highly recommend using the trial to play this because I can see the majority of players bailing soon.
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ABrokenToy
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The lighting engine is good at least
The Bloody-Nine
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ABrokenToy
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Back to the screen tearing on the XBOX One X. WTF. I don't even think it's hitting 30fps at times.
hiphopcr
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Forbes has been doing weekly slam pieces on Xbox this entire gen. It's like they know the PS4 fanbase is huge and has an insatiable appetite to pupu all things Xbox.
MilkyJoe
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Advertising revenue is a hell of a drug
WaterAstro
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Did you miss it too? You clearly didn't read that the mod wanted posters to articulate their position, which I have, and I have actual player feedback to back up my positions. I didn't post a troll photoshop comic.
Posting a streamer's negative feedback on the game as he quits is as factual as it gets, and nobody has responded to his criticisms, rather, they attack the integrity of Lirik like his opinions doesn't matter.
Caipirinha
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Most of the reviews and sentiment I have seen has been pretty negative.
Leocarian
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I've been playing the game quite extensively including the closed beta, and the 3 stress test and final open beta and of course the main game. Stay tuned to our review at Gaming Instincts. We will have pro tips and tricks guides in both text and video format and of course a full fledged video review with the article. Just give us a few more days please. It will be ready on or before Friday this week. We have a lot to say.
PuppetMaster
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Man this game is getting shredded. OP jumped the gun a bit early with the in progress reviews.
This just might be the final nail in Rares coffin.
This just might be the final nail in Rares coffin.
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VertigoOA
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I've never seen people freak out about a game so friggin quickly about having nothing to do. That's pretty bad.
Doesn't help that melee and shooter mechanics are beyond weak.
The game as service line doesn't work either since most GAAS titles launch with far more content than base Sea of Thieves and feature some semblance of progression or at their core have stellar competitive and cooperative gameplay elements and activities.
Not even Monster Hunter held strong for too long and that game features both masterclass gameplay, progression and compelling social gameplay whereas I don't expect Sea of thieves to survive the week. It's not fortnite or PUBG.
Yea, I'm starting to think it's time Rare really does close up shop.
Doesn't help that melee and shooter mechanics are beyond weak.
The game as service line doesn't work either since most GAAS titles launch with far more content than base Sea of Thieves and feature some semblance of progression or at their core have stellar competitive and cooperative gameplay elements and activities.
Not even Monster Hunter held strong for too long and that game features both masterclass gameplay, progression and compelling social gameplay whereas I don't expect Sea of thieves to survive the week. It's not fortnite or PUBG.
Yea, I'm starting to think it's time Rare really does close up shop.
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Chip Chipperson
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Is Ubi still making this?
Leocarian
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Yes... it's slated for later this year assuming there are no delays. Expect more at E3. But it's nothing like Sea of Thieves, its purely PvP based which is a complete shame and there is no land gameplay.
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That piece actually pears to be from a contributor rather than being a full Forbes piece.
I'd be interested to know if you have any evidence that they're saying negative things about one brand rather than it just being that the authors of the particular articles you're talking about not being happy about whatever they weren't happy about? I haven't played the game yet so I can't really comment on it's quality but much of what is said in this article does seem to match up with what some other sites are saying that they think about the game.
Chip Chipperson
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Journey
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GOLD!
Now we need one for: "Cool, time to buy an Xbox One... but it's on PC! Yay, another Xbox exclusive/killer app... but it's not exclusive, you can also get on the PC. Glad this turned out great, another Xbox game worth having.... Stop buying games for Xbox!!!"
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WaterAstro
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Yes they are, but if you want to play a good naval battle game now, Blackwake is really good. They just introduced several different ships and fort invasions in a recent update.
We don't know that yet. The game is not finished, and Ubisoft is usually good with updating. The game is based on Assassin's Creed engine, so they have the tools to make land gameplay happen. It would be more accurate to say that it probably won't be an open water free roaming game, at least from what we've seen.
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