Set sail for Booty cause it's time to get hype for Sea of Thieves!

@waahahah: Eh what ever its meant to be like, for what it is and the price its a no thank you from me. If I didnt get to play the Alpha/Beta I would have bought it because the game sounds and looks good in trailers and on paper but from my play time the fun moments are slim and rare.

As for the whole treating it like a MMO thing?... Aside from grinding for money to upgrade things there really is nothing else to do in the game, your interactions with other people are simple you just attack or run.

I guess its not for me and you can have fun with every game out there so I don't understand that argument that if its fun its all that matters, its a interactive medium that you pay money for and the content should count especially if their are games out there like Blackwake that are similar and are more complex with more content but cheaper?...

At the end of the day its a good game but lacks content for the price and would really benefit with a character/ship progression system. 7/10 in my opinion... if it was a $30 game it would be a 9/10 but for the full price its just not enough especially if you play alone or the you happen to not run into another ship or player for 1-2 hours which can happen and makes the game feel just dull and empty.

I just signed up for the game pass 14 day free trial so I can try out the full game and see for my self if its any better than the Alpha/Beta. My opinion on the game is from someone who is a fan and wanted the game to succeed and be what I hoped it would but so far I am heavily disappointed, I am even a member of their forums and have been since the game was in Alpha, so anyone thinking my opinion is blind fan boy hate needs to cut the c***.

Oh people actually thought this garbage was going to score an 8 or higher?

My God this is hilarious but predictable. Fanboys are damage controlling everywhere still defending this atrocity that is the Xbox One LOL. It's sad and you fanboys talk shit about Sony's games LOL. MS really needed this to be a good game and they failed miserably again as usual. This is a dumpster fire full of poop. Sony is killing them, Nintendo is killing them, but fanboys remain loyal. They are so desperate for something good especially after seeing the amazing God of War footage and hearing Smash Bros. was announced. Some one said you can just pay for game pass at $10 instead of SoT for $60, but why would someone pay anything to play this piece of steaming, stinking, ugly monkey crap? $10 is still too much and games like this make game pass garbage too.

Yeah cause Xbots don't trash other games though they are good lol. Sony put out HZD and MS put out Sea of Flop rofl.

Man, don't drink at sea. We got ambushed at night whilst we were drinking. 2 guys stumbled off the boat. Me and the others went down with ship. You can't do shit when you're drunk.

Right and this guy keeps talking about twitch. as if that means something lol. When the game sells poorly they will say its because people are playing it through game pass instead of buying it though most Xbox users dn't even know what game pass is since they are casual.

People were expecting more than what they got for the money, you can't just tell people to lower their expectations because if you are saying that then Microsoft needs to lower the price or say it's early access.

Precisely. Expectations are set by the games that already existed... Games don't come out in a vacuum where only that one game exists, you get what you pay for is the mentality with Early Access games on steam or arcade games but when a $60 game doesn't even live up to the standards set by $20 steam game?... The f*** am I meant to treat it as?... A ripoff is the only thing I can think off.

• No end game
• No plot line
• Ship and weapon customisation is just cosmetic
• No character progression
• Character randomiser... You cant even create your own pirate?!

So what do you do?... Do fetch quests for money to customise your ship and character while shooting the same skeletons over and over?... Oh but you might run into another group of people doing the same thing so kill them before they kill you?... But wait they spawn back 30 seconds later?... Also the kraken are just tentacles that you shoot for 10 minutes.

There is no real content.

This game from what I have played and seen is just a group of friends fucking around role playing as pirates... The game isn't really doing anything but giving you a empty sand box with little to actual do.

I like the game, but it does get old too fast for my taste. It is pretty good so far, saying that, I am glad it is on game pass though. it's sure is not worth the full retail price what there asking for. The biggest flaw it's not fast paced enough. It gets boring traveling 10 minutes to find a single chest. Nobody should have been surprised by this though. It gave off the same disappointing vibe as Destiny, NMS, The Order: 1886, Division, etc. The only difference is I wanted this game to be good and fun, but I cannot dismiss how terrible it is by justifying its 'fun with friends'. Every game is fun with friends, but Sea of Thieves should be able to stand on it's own. The way things are going for MS, I don't even expect Crackdown 3 to be any better.

Well having said that, I'll be uninstalling SoT next week to get ready to play Far Cry 5 and the next MS game I'll be playing is State of Decay 2 since that looks real fun to play for only $30, a $30 game is what SoT should have been.

@davillain-: I hate that saying "its fun with friends"... Its fun being with a group of friends in a empty room let alone a game.

I think these survival game developers are exploiting this realisation that it doesn't matter about the content or quality of the game just give them a interesting sandbox with a theme and then say in the trailer "you make your own story!"... Its funny and sad at the same time.

I remember when ARK came out and everyone was going crazy for it, I had a 1070 at the time and couldn't get it to run smoothly... The game was glitching a LOT, there is no story or missions just a empty map where you can build something and watching it get destroyed by others or you can be the one destroying what others have built and I sat back in amazement that this is what people like and play daily?... And their answer is but you can play with friends and there are dinosaurs.

Oh well.

I have paid $50 for a game thats over in 12-15 hours, I have 30+ hours in SOT and going to put a lot more before I call it quits.

I put 191 hours into Path of Exile and its a free to play game.

Content and time spent in the game are two separate things.

I get what you're saying but for me it's different with SOT, it's not just about an empty game that's fun just because you have friends in it, rather the entire way the game functions benefits greatly from people co-operating with each other. A lot of the mechanics are built around that premise, and this game does it very well.

For example yesterday I was playing with a random crew and while we were sailing, we saw a storm approaching and a ship on the far right side of the screen. Fortunately, I was able to spot the ship with my binoculars because it was far away, and made the quick judgement call the change course to the opposite side and go to a different outpost to unload our 4 chests... anyways long story short is I basically took command and acted like the captain, shouted orders to the others what to do and they listened, they brought up the sails, etc and the mission was a success....I was actually surprised they listened to me, It was an awesome feeling of co-operation, and I think this kind of scenario is what they are calling "emerging gameplay", there is no UI or progress indicator dictating everything you need to do, it's up to you and every voyage has been different for me so far.

The day before I Was playing with another crew where already another person was acting as the captain, and my role was different, I was in charge of clearing the water from the bottom decks and that session had completely different things going on and we snuck up on another boat at night and rammed it, then unloaded canons on it point blank, they never saw it coming, and mostly it was due to the great direction the other captain I Was playing with. Reading some of the negative comments from people who played this game, I get the feeling a lot of people did not play it enough and didn't try out several scenarios like that with good crews, for me that is the main gist of the game, these experiences.

I will say that this game is definitely for people who enjoy those types of cooperative scenarios, I do not recommend this game for people who just want to play it solo, you will miss a huge part of its design.

Most random people I have loaded up with are playing it on Game Pass. Just anecdotal evidence, but it wouldn't surprise me if most people are playing like that, as Game Pass (with Sea of Thieves) is always advertised on the dash board.

@blufalconultra: Twitch is relevant because its bringing people into the game. It will also bring in content creators to use the game and ramp up the publicity. Sales arent everything. Digital media trends are changing, sales arent the be all. You have record lables selling less physical albums and making more money from streaming services and other means. The record charts will look at activity into clicks and views of songs more than sales.

Its great too see people coming out and ignoring the negative reviews and making it the minority(reviewers pale to the number of gamers), as there is a huge majority of people ignoring it and enjoying the game.

This looks like Microsoft's No Man's Sky...

@BigBadBully: I think a lot of the people bashing SOT just didn't play it enough as it was meant to be played, and that is their loss, it's just not the type of game for them. If they don't like it that is fine, but so far I have played with 3 different crews and each time it was great, we were co-operating and communicating, each session was very different from the next. Had I not done that, I would not be in a position to really comment on the core experience.

Playing it alone was nowhere nearly as fun, so I would not recommend it to people who just want to play alone. I also bought "A Way Out" yesterday, such a fun game so far stayed up late playing it, but that game is completely different than SOT, but also very fun in its own way. In that game you have a lot less freedom and although there are heavy co-op mechanics, it is story-based and you have very specific scenarios to get out of. I just like trying different kind of games and experiences, and see how I feel about them. SOT is unlike any other game I played, I'm glad I got to experience it.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/reviews/sea-of-thieves-review-xbox-one-x-windows-10-pc-1827814

5/10

Game may not come out in a vacuum but again your measuring it against your own expectations of what you wanted it to be. A progression system? Its completely designed not to have it since its an arena game. And since when do arena games have plots or end game?

There is no real content in counter strike or pubg. The fetch quests aren't supposed to be important other than it occupies your time in the arena and sets a goal. Its kind of like playing capture the flag and complaining you have to constantly try to get the flag.

Well to be honest I had more to do as a solo player in No Man's Sky then I did in Sea of Thieves. The game lacking in progression really kills it for me. Some people need those hooks or a purpose to keep playing. Unfortunately Sea of Thieves doesn't have this. The power of Game Pass is it allows me to try out the game periodically to see if their are any improvements. I am looking forward to State of Decay 2 coming up soon. This first game really hooked me for a while and I had a blast playing it.

More like "No Man's Sea" is what I would say since I already stated the comparison between No Man's Sky & Sea of Thieves. Granted, I have put lots of hours into No Man's Sky since launch and it's a good single player game to that and I do love sci-fi stuff which is why I never went on a rant about the game and the only good thing about MNS was to able to enter/leaving planets and going through FTL is what really puts the icing on the cake. Plus it's a relaxing game.

Sea of Thieves focus on MP/Co-Ops but it's not a bad of a game but the servers issues and glitches doesn't bold well for MS at this moment.

(By the way, welcome back Zero)

No Man's Sky was made by an unknown indie studio, this game was entirely bankrolled by Microsoft, not a fair comparison.

Twitch is not a measurement of a game's success or interest in the game, which you fail to realize. Most people on Twitch are PC gamers anyway so its not going to help Xbox since the game is also on PC. Twitch is not even used by 20% of the gaming community as many don't even know what it is. The general gamer and consumer is not on twitch. YouTube has a far larger user base than Twitch. Twitch views is as useless as how many miles people drove in Forza or any other metric that MS likes to use except sales. Sales are everything since it means the game is a success financially. They don't make games not to sell them lol. Wow only defending Xbox do I hear someone says that money doesn't matter.

Right LOL. The fact that Sea of Thieves is being compared to a team of what 5 people from an indie developer? You can't compare Sea of Thieves to HZD or Breath of the Wild, because MS can not make a game on that level. Sad.

LOL, it's funny how your defense of the game only makes it sound worse. So it's like Counterstrike, only with less weapons, no specialized characters, it can take an hour or more to find an opponent and there's no victory condition to win the match. It's capture the flag but with little opposition and doing so only allows you to change the color of some things, eventually.

Its been a terrible generation for them man lol. They just won't except the flop.

No Man's Sea lol

I'm a PC gamer, I play this on PC. Its super fun. Yes the match making needs to fix a few things and maybe rework the missions to push people into each others paths a bit more but for the most part I'm happy with the content that's there. But I don't play online RPG's because they tend to cater to a different type of person.

Seems to be fun mostly if you're with friends. And if you encounter an other crew.

It is always amazing to see people settle for such little content for the money. This game should have been $20.00 max.

Black Wake looks like a billion times better

wow! the difference is radical

The people at IGN who are making videos while playing it seem to be having fun. Personally, I'm not interested.

Last night I logged in, played with a friend I made the previous day in the game, we went out as a duo to get just a plain normal treasure (nothing special) and as we were getting on our ship with the treasure I saw a ship closing in on us, we raised the anchors and set sale and they gave chase for the next half hour as we were trying to shake them, from time to time we trades shots with no real progress made, in the commotion we crashed into a small island and they were circling us taking shots at our ship, I was patching up hull breaches left and right and bailing the water off the ship, quite honestly I thought we were done for at that point, but we managed to get out alive, we got moving again and kept going, in the next chase I managed to get a shot down below their deck which slowed them down while they fixed it, gave us some running room, I decided we needed to crash into an outpost and dump off our treasure before they could take it. We crashed right into an outpost and cashed in our chips. They eventually caught up, came at our crashed ship and rammed it. While my teammate was fighting them off I swam up onto the ship and climbed aboard. I went below deck and found three treasure chests they were carrying. I managed to sneak off and sell the first one, while my teammate managed to fend off both of them, we then both went back to get the two remaining chests and sold them before the two we were fighting could spawn back on their ship. Oh, was a glorious moment, we had to celebrate at the bar with grog and music and and dancing and and more grog and puking in buckets and throwing it on each other.

When I logged into a bigger group later we were all sharing our adventures of that day. Moments like these, you can't script them.

The Giantbomb crew seems to be unimpressed with the level of content... I quote "This doesn't seem like a finished product to me".

Again though... You yes men can keep hyping no content games where you do the same shit you do in every other open world survival game, grind and role play with no content.

Sea of Thieves flopped

ummmm

And what does this have to do with what I posted?

Now this is just to funny, must be a 8 bit game!

you didnt even watch the first 8 seconds clearly

@rrjim1:

Your saying that the amount of time you spend with the game is a indication of the amount of content or quality of content which is not true... The amount of time you spend in the game is purely based on how much you enjoy the game which is based on your own preference.

So you putting 30 hours in to Sea of Thieves means what?... You sailed around the same map grinding the same quests over and over and the only thing that changed was the interactions with other people?... Great but that has nothing to do with the content of the game which is the reason why the game is getting its flack, so you bringing up play time like it has any relation to the quality of the game is hilarious.

I put 330 hours into PUBG and 23 into Metro Last Light... Which game has more content or is a higher quality product based on the time I spent with it?... See it doesn't make sense does it?

Don't forget that it also costs two to four times as much as CS.

@lamprey263: Lol nice, that's exactly the type of scenario why I'm enjoying this game

Thanks. Life got crazy busy.

well that's unfortunate

@Alucard_Prime: this is definitely a game defined by cooperation, for instance it's not the boldest job to man the crow's nest and spot ships, point out hazards, spot sunken ships, navigate rocky waters, but it's necessary to a well functioning ship, just as someone has to jump around and adjust sail lengths and angles, and someone to watch the big map, or even when arriving on an island someone needs to watch the ship and keep a lookout. And if everyone can do their job, really helps with a successful completion of quests. Plus, another great feature of the social dynamic is simply learning many of the unwritten things about the game and passing it along to others.

If they can lower the price and give details on future updates with release dates, then I’ll buy. Game looks fun/relaxing with friends, but lacking on content for the price their asking.

It would have to be deep to flop, but its as shallow as a puddle lol.

It's at 71 on MC.....not terrible, people are having cool experiences with it.

A few Xbox sites helped it. One even gave it a 90% lol so yeah the game is still trash