Close combat looks clunky for sure but bad gameplay didn't stop me from loving Mount & Blade, and the combat in this game doesn't look that bad.

At the end of the day though, it's the naval battles that really caught my interest.

Scalebound looked like the video game equivalent of dog shit. This looks way better. 

Yea, the gun combat is fine. Its the melee that I do not like. It has no impact and just seems kinda weak. 

Is this F2P? Regardless, I was hyped for this game, but the preview didn't do much for me.

Nope it's a retaill title.

I want to like this game, but something about it turns me off. I don't know if its the first person camera or the combat...But I still hope this is a success, we need more pirate games

Game doesn't look that great. Everything looks ropey from visuals to gameplay. I hope this alpha isn't representing final product because I'm quietly hoping this succeeds but I can see this flopping harder than a fat kid from the top diving board. That is if papa Phil doesn't pull the plug on it Scalebound style first.

Hopefully it doesn't flop. Insiders of Gaf are saying MS have invested lots of money on Rare with SoT and the other unannounced game their working on. If it flops could see Rare getting shut down.

As for the game the graphics match with the artstyle in a weird way but not necessarily a bad thing. Hopefully MS will actually let me into the Alpha to try this game cause I've been dying to give it a try.

I think "artstyle" is used way to much to defend bad graphics. But while I do like good graphics, gameplay is more important but that also looks bad. Hopefully the game has depth to it in other areas that we haven't seen yet.

Well the game has a cartoon style so don't really know what people were expecting but it does looks rough some parts like the rocks so hopefully they can change those parts to higher resolution textures.