https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0gQb6KTSA

And this is why I ditched Tales of Berseria (and Tales altogether) for Sea of Thieves! I swear if MS opens an amusement park, they'll put Disney out of business...

What?

I hooe the sailing is as good as Black Flag...

I want to bang my head every time I see the video and chide myself for not accepting my bro in law's offer to attend E3... Seriously, this thing looks and feels like it'd make an epic ride at an amusement park! 

"Rare wants this to be a game, first and foremost, about player skill, particularly skill at working together."

Yeah, not for me.  I did end-game raiding in WoW for a long time and it was more like a second job than a game.  I'm not interested in crewing someone else's ship.  Also, "smaller ships banding together to take down bigger ships" sounds interesting in theory but will probably rarely happen in live play.  Someone powerful comes through, the weak will scatter.  Death penalties scare people off and doing 'tasks' to return to the land of the living probably isn't much fun after you've died a bunch of times.

If I sound cynical, it's because my friend only played MMOs.  He'd jump from one to the next and sometimes he'd get me to join him.  When a new MMO was announced, they'd have all these plans and features, most of which ending up being no where near as fun as they sounded--or, rather, people always, always found the min-max and nothing stayed balanced.

More importantly, how are they going to keep this interesting?  Procedurally generated quests will eventually turn old, not unless there are an absolute TON of them, to where you aren't going, "oh, not this quest again."

Fighting will only be good if you're powerful, which makes me think that early-starters will have a huge advantage over those who trickle in late.

They've got a lot to prove with this.

It seems kind of a cool game, but the thing is I could just pick up Assassin's Creed 4 again for my pirate fix.

I guess it comes down to interest and gameplay.

Im just not a guy that plays games online, since I mostly live on a millitary barracks with a 80Kb/s internet Wifi line, I would have to sadly say, it sounds awesome but not for me ^^

Not sure if its for me but it certainly sounds interesting and I'm sure there is an audience for this style of game.

I'm open to unique experiences but I hope Rare is also working on some more traditional games as well... such as Fable 4.

Why did you abandon Tales for this? As far as I know, they don't have similar gameplay.

Current Tales is a pirate game and it was the last nail in the coffin for me. I wanted to play it, but the Tales series and everything it represents collapsed after Team Symphonia was sacked...