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How Rare Successfully Reinvented Sea of Thieves - IGN
Despite a lukewarm reception at its initial launch, the team at Rare remained committed to its vision of a pirate adventure on the high seas.
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IGN - How Rare Successfully Reinvented Sea of Thieves
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Successfully reinvent it? Didn't IGN themselves recently re-review it and give it a 7?
Edit: Nvm, 7 was the original score. They re-reviewed it to an 8:
Edit: Nvm, 7 was the original score. They re-reviewed it to an 8:
They gave it 8/10. That's "great"
Sea of Thieves Review (2020) - IGN
Sea of Thieves presents an endless sea of exciting encounters and fun things to do.
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And you don't like the new story campaigns? or the PvP mode?
Yes, it's amazing now. The game has an incredible journey behind it, love it that Microsoft trusts and enables its studios to create Games no one else is able to do.
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I'll tell Rare. Hope they don't fire the 150 people working on the game.
Well, Ubisoft can get away with it, releasing half assed games and then improving them over time. That's what Microsoft did
Plus the game was on Gamepass
Top 20 in the UK in most played Xbox games, top 25 in the US. Ahead of Borderlands 3, PUBG, Monster Hunter World, MK11, Elder Scrolls Online, Division 2, and others.
And its coming to Steam soon.
Why would you want something popular to die lol?
Regardless of the actual quality of the game, Microsoft and Rare definitely deserve props for turning it into something that has clearly resonated with a really large audience
Unfortunately it wasnt much fun when I played it at launch and I just dont have the time or enthusiasm to go back and revisit. At least it wasnt a total failure after all by the sounds of it.
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There seems to be a growing list of games that have released less than stellar but seen significant improvement over the years (Destiny 1+2, R6 Seige, For Honor, Sea of Thieves, No Man's Sky, Street Fighter V, and more) . A Larger discussion could be made about the seeming see saw of people who praise it for its current state and those that rip on it for not being in said state in its original inception. Probably something off topic though.
Glad to see this game do so well. Don't really have a group of people to play with to try it out but the concept had always seemed novel enough.
Glad to see this game do so well. Don't really have a group of people to play with to try it out but the concept had always seemed novel enough.
I absolutely disagree, how can you call a game that was soooo barebones at launch "reinvented"? Also the combat is still boring and soo simple
Sea of Thieves looks a lot more interesting now than it did upon release. I still don't know if I want to praise games that follow the No Man's Sky model.
It's beautiful and conceptually really cool. The Tall Tales have fun stories and their quests are thoughtful and interesting.
That said, it has a ton of very serious flaws to this day. No checkpointing in Tall Tales even though they can take hours (Supposedly this is going to be addressed soon, though way too long after it's been a problem), sword and gun combat that remains pretty bad, PvP encounters with people who want nothing to do with PvP that leads to trolling and ruining someone's experience. The list goes on.
It's a game I really like when everything is clicking, but it's also a game that can feel absolutely awful when things are not.
That said, it has a ton of very serious flaws to this day. No checkpointing in Tall Tales even though they can take hours (Supposedly this is going to be addressed soon, though way too long after it's been a problem), sword and gun combat that remains pretty bad, PvP encounters with people who want nothing to do with PvP that leads to trolling and ruining someone's experience. The list goes on.
It's a game I really like when everything is clicking, but it's also a game that can feel absolutely awful when things are not.
That just corroborate my point. I want more of these instead of keeping Rare for the whole generation busy with a single GaaS.
And let's be honest, XB needs more SP exclusives than another multiplayer.
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I'm not encouraging this from any dev, if you offer something for $60 then it should be worth it day one. Not "eh, we'll fix it later."
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Game is simply brilliant, and a real plus for MS first party offering. I rediscovered it during lockdown, 5 of my friends (via Gamepass) are now hooked.
Game is one of the most successful new ips this gen, it's Rare best selling game of all time, and features some of the best naval combat in a game.
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That's why Rare has added a lot of new developers to their studio. They are now a full two team studio. I'd be very happy if Rare could both support a popular GaaS and create new experiences at the same time.
It's the title of the article.
The new story quests are basically jazzed up quests, they have more story deliverd via text and some speech, they have jazzed up skeletons to kill and theres some cool tombs.
But they are still very similar and rather boring.
I want new enemies, that are not skeletons, new locations like inside moby dick or the under water cave of mermaid sea mermaid sirens, maybe you got to find the ghost barge which is more detailed and bigger then a galleon, with ghost pirates, there so much they could do.
But now even the new quests are more primitive the skyrim side quests.
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Hmm, yeah I can see what you mean. Though I really liked the latest addition to the Tall Tales. The platforming and story was quite good. A little short maybe (2 hours or so?).
I'd love to see more interesting enemies and locations for sure. But for me and my friends (I think I play 2 times per month or something) it still gives us enough to do. We are playing through all the Tall Tales, doing some fortresses and sometimes PvP a little.
This is not true. My estimates are they sold 4 - 5 million copies at most. Last year, with 8 million people who've played, around 50% of them came from sales (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-10-the-second-launch-of-sea-of-thieves / https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-06-13-sea-of-thieves-reaches-8-4m-lifetime-players). 10 million people have played Sea of Thieves so far. But Game Pass has become more popular. So 4 to 5 million sales would be a good estimate.
Meanwhile GoldenEye 007 is Rare's best selling game with 8 million copies sold. Sea of Thieves is somewhere between Banjo-Kazooie (3.6 million) and Diddy Kong Racing (4.8 million) would be my guess.
This game singlehandedly got me back into playing multiplayer games online for the first time in over a decade. I have gotten like 10 people to try it since quarantine started, and I keep evangelizing to recruit more. A few of my teammates from my wednesday night soccer team started playing this with me on Wednesday nights since soccer is canceled for the foreseeable future. My daughter has started playing it with me. It is just so, so good.
I have a cool love/hate relationship with the game. I love the naval gameplay and the general feel, but hate the progression. Tall Tales were fun, but they should wait and release a big one instead of small ones imo. Also, the game could really have more vivid islands and enemy diversity. I don't blame Rare for focus in more PVP stuff, it what people want, but they could blend this better into SP stuff. I'm happy the game is doing well, it means that they'll continue with updates or even a sequel. I hope someday the game delivers the true potential that I have in mind.
i feel like their combat balancing has been in complete limbo ever since streamers popularized the double gun exploit back during the first christmas update. even some of the changes they were recently trying in insiders they decided not to go along with were still trying to mitigate a two gun combo even if the original exploit from year 1 has been fixed.
How do you even access that stuff? Friends and I started again a couple days ago and from what I can tell it's still just the same fetch quests from the 3 quest givers