#SEA OF THIEVES VS SKULL AND BONES INSTALL#

Which says a lot about the energy behind this brilliant game.ĭon’t get me wrong I think Sea of Thieves is pretty brilliant as a multiplayer experience with friends. The emphasis is theirs, by the way the exclamation mark is in the title. I’m talking, of course, about the all-time classic Sid Meier’s Pirates! (2004).

#SEA OF THIEVES VS SKULL AND BONES INSTALL#

Ubisoft’s cannons are clearly trained on Sea of Thieves, but hearing this description from Dom and watching a little footage of Skull and Bones gave me that lightning bolt of inspiration, and rather than getting me to pop in a pre-order, it simply made me set a course for my Steam Library to install the real best open-world pirate game.

The pitch? “ The best open-world pirate experience” around, built into an ever-growing live service game fuelled by free updates and cosmetic unlocks. This was what happened to me when I was listening to Dom’s fairly mixed impressions on Skull and Bones, Ubisoft’s attempt to harness the popularity of the piratical antics in some of the Assassin’s Creed games and muscle in on the huge, 25-million player strong market that Rare’s Sea of Thieves has tapped into. Sure, Ubisoft's new one looks good – but a gmae nearly 20 years older is still better. You know when something just ‘breaks’ a memory? Somebody says or does something, and it’s like a bolt of lightning to your brain, unlocking a thought that then feels like it’s been there forever, just unspoken.

Sea of thieves vs skull and bones