Why I HATE Sea of Thieves

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So today I want to talk about Sea

of Thieves and why I don't think it's a

very good video game. So as an avid fan

of sailing games and pirating in general,

I just knew I had to play this game when

it first came out. Unfortunately, it

wasn't that great when I first tried it

and I decided to stop playing it after a

while. But it's been a few years now and

there's been quite a few updates to the

game, so I thought I'd pick it up again

and see if it's any good now.

Unfortunately, the game is still kind of

bland. Dull and uninspired. I would say

it's rather lacking in luster in certain

areas. So this game is basically an

open-world sandbox kind of

choose-your-own-adventure type of game.

You don't really have to do anything

unless you actually want to do it, and you

get a lot of freedom in the game. But the

problem with this is when you have too

much freedom, it also becomes a little bit

overwhelming because you don't really know

what you have to do. And to be honest,

you don't really have to do anything

either. You could just stand around And it

wouldn't really matter. So really, you

have to put a lot of effort into trying to

find your own fun in the game. The game

won't really handhold you and tell you

what to do. So the basic gist of the game

is you've got this massive ocean, this

huge sea, and you've got islands dotted

around all over the place. You've got

outposts where you can get resources and

buy stuff and stock up your ship. You've

got islands where you can explore and find

treasure chests and fight skeletons and

ghosts. And that's basically it. The whole

game is just sailing a ship around the

oceans, looking for treasure on these

islands, or you can go to forts and attack

the forts and steal the treasure. And then

you take your loot back to the outpost and

you sell it to get gold. And then you can

repair the ship and stock up on stuff like

wood and food and cannonballs. And the

main goal of the game is basically to make

lots of gold so you can then buy fancy

stuff like new ships, upgrades to the

ships, customize your ship so it looks

imposing and scary. Now you might think

that sounds like a lot of fun. You get to

explore this entire ocean, you get to go

to different islands and see what's on

them. But the problem is all of these

islands kind of look the same, they're

just in different shapes. There's nothing

interesting about the islands in and of

themselves. You pick up these treasure

maps and you go hunting for treasure, and

you just dig them up out of the sand and

bring them back to your ship and do a bit

of fighting with some ghosts. But the

problem is the gameplay is extremely

boring and repetitive. For example, most

of the gameplay is just you holding X or

holding Y to do some kind of interaction.

The combat in the game is really dull and

really rubbish. You get a few weapons like

a pistol, a sharpshooter rifle, a

blunderbuss, and some cutlasses, but the

combat just feels really janky. It doesn't

really feel very satisfying, and I'd

rather just avoid the combat if possible.

The cannon combat is okay. Sometimes you

get like a big massive shark that attacks

you, and then you can use the cannons to

shoot at it, or you can even attack other

players. Sometimes you come across other

player ships on the seas and they might

approach you, they might try to avoid you,

and sometimes you can get funny exchanges

between your crew and their crew because

you're trying to find out if they're going

to be friendly or if they're going to be

hostile. And if they are hostile, then you

get to the cannons and then shoot each

other's ships down. But the problem is

this kind of excitement rarely happens.

The ocean is pretty big and usually

there's not many players in the ocean. I

don't know if they have like a limit of

how many people can be in one ocean at the

same time, but I've never really seen more

than 1 or 2 other ships around, and most

of the time they just try to avoid you.

So most of the time you'll be sailing in

these seas which are very uninhabited.

They're just completely lifeless and

barren, not much going on. Sure, the waves

look pretty and the sunset looks pretty,

but apart from that, not much else is

going on. To sail the ship, you need a few

people You can sail the ship by yourself,

but then you're going to be running up and

down trying to get everything done. So

depending on the size of the ship, you're

going to need more people to help out.

For example, in this big ship— this is the

biggest ship you can sail— you're going to

need someone to do the steering, you're

going to need someone to be checking the

map to make sure you're going the right

way, you're going to need someone to raise

and lower the sails and raise and lower

the anchor, which can take quite a long

time if only one person is doing it. So

there's quite a lot of things to do on the

ship whilst you're trying to get to your

destination. The problem is all of this

stuff is just kind of tedious. It's not

actually fun to get the ship going and to

work on the ship. It's just like a load of

little minigames you have to do basically

just by holding X or Y, and sometimes you

might get some damage on the ship and

you'll need to repair it using wood.

Otherwise, water gets into the ship and

then it starts to flood. And the problem

with this is the game just feels very

repetitive and boring for most of the

time. I've had quite a few game

experiences so far, and the only times

when the game was actually fun was when

there were fun people in the crew using

the microphone in the voice chat. And I

was quite lucky when I first started the

game because I just randomly happened to

stumble across a few people who were very

fun, very talkative, and very helpful,

which made the whole experience way

better. Than it usually is, because after

those few experiences, I never really

found another crew that was as fun as that

crew was. And every time I just joined a

crew, it's either just people not really

talking at all, or it's just like a load

of kids just squealing at each other. And

that is the main problem with Sea of

Thieves, in my opinion, is that your

enjoyment of the game completely relies on

who's in your crew. You can have a really

boring crew, or you might even be unlucky

enough to have a few members in the crew

who just want to troll and grief you,

which has happened a few times. One time I

was in my ship and it was just me because

I started a new game, and then a few

people joined my crew, and for some reason

they decided to lock me up in the prison,

in the cage below decks, and they wouldn't

let me out. And then they set my ship on

fire and just let me drown and burn alive

in my own ship, and they just ran off,

which was kind of silly. And then there's

another time when I joined this other guy

in his ship and And I didn't know what I

was doing at the time, and I went into the

captain's area to where the desk is, and I

saw a key. The captain's key was lying

there, and I thought, what happens if I

just take the key? So I picked the key up,

and then somehow I dropped it. I wasn't

sure how that happened, but he realized

the key was missing, and then he started

harassing me about what happened to the

key. He was really upset and really angry.

He said he spent all day trying to find

this key so he could loot some wreckage.

And I had no idea because I just started

the game, and I thought it was kind of

silly that I was able to take his key just

so easily. If I wanted to, I could mess

around and just steal his stuff and just

run off with it, or just take control of

his ship and maybe even attack him. I

don't know. I feel like I had way too much

power in this ship, even though it's

supposed to be his ship. I think you have

way too much power to be able to grief

people, and then you kind of rely on

people to not be dicks, because if you

come across people who are intent on being

dicks. It's just gonna really ruin your

gameplay enjoyment. And I also think the

game feels way too barren and way too

lifeless. They should have more players

roaming the seas. That would make it way

more fun. And maybe they should make it so

you can form like a navy, so then you can

protect yourselves better from people who

want to be pirates and want to attack you

and steal your stuff. I feel like there's

a lot of potential that they've missed in

this game. As of right now, the gameplay

just feels a bit basic, a bit bare-bones,

and Because you're just going to be

sailing from island to island fighting

these silly ghosts and skeletons, which

are not really any kind of challenge, and

it's not really fun either. I just feel

like they've missed a lot of opportunities

with this game. They could have made it so

much more interesting than what it

currently is, but for some reason the game

isn't like that at all, and it just feels

very dull, and I got bored with the game

very quickly. So unfortunately, I won't be

able to recommend this game And I think I

would have to give it a score of 4.2 out