So first of All, yes its amazing that flameheart is back and has a awsome ship too. But like where is the Story, like at all. People waited over 5 years now that He comes back (me included). And i was expecting at least 1 Tall tale befor season 13 to Show HOW he comes back, maybe for once where on the the side of the reapers in this tall tale. But for now theres nothing (and moving some people and the sword around is not realy exiting when you bring the biggest Evil back). So to round it all out, when i watched the Xbox Showcase, i was exited when the sea of thieves Trailer started, but at the end i Was like: "thats it? There was nothing New?" Btw yes i saw the Details from reapers hideout and all. But i was just sad that there is like no real good and replayable Story 😞 yes its kinda like a alive Word and stuff is moving but why not have some good Story again. Am i the only one that Sees that the made the Story smaller and smaller, just Look at heart of fire, that was the last big "sea of thieves" based tall tale, then the adventures (that wasen't even sea of thieves based at the end) and now theres no real Story anymore. Am i wrong? Im just woried that we dont get anything like that anymore.
Can we Talk about the New Trailer?
Unfortunately the "story" (such as it was) regarding Flameheart's revival was covered by the The Herald of the Flame and Return of the Damned time-limted adventures in Oct and Nov of 2022.
The adventures were a mostly-failed and now abandoned attempt by Rare to advance the storyline while taking advantage of a FOMO mindset that kinda blew up in their faces.
They've (maybe?) learned their lesson about drip-feeding the primary story of the game in time-limited chunks like this going forward, but I wouldn't hold my breath either...
I wouldn't be surprised if a tall tale shows up.
Nothing I've seen suggests that it's off the table, the way they word things in videos sometimes and some interactions I've seen over social media that include people from Rare seems like they are pretty interested in it.
That's just going off my observations though, never really know in SoT.
Man, I would love if they did that! There's so much of the story that get missed out on when you have time-limited events in a live-service game.
@thegrimpreacher said in Can we Talk about the New Trailer?:
Man, I would love if they did that! There's so much of the story that get missed out on when you have time-limited events in a live-service game.
The thing about trying new stuff out is that sometimes it strengthens the appreciation for how it used to be.
Adventures may have led to mixed feedback at best but that also has people missing how tall tales used to be in SoT. Some new appreciation for the original design of storytelling in SoT.
Veteran players used to say "not another tall tale"
and now maybe they will eventually release one and people will be excited for it.
Making it all worth it in the end.
@wolfmanbush there where two reasons they went for adventures and their time limited nature,
1 - tall tales (according to rare) are a massive time and money investment without a real roi
2 - adding more and more tall tales in the main world locks the world in more and more in its current state, islands becoming unchangeable etc due to their requirements in tall tales etc etc
However what they did in the end failed for multiple reasons:
1 - putting actual good plots in removed content on such a high pace will leave more and more people in the dust
2 - they again tried to do too much stuff in too small of a time span: Adventures, mysteries, seasonal content updates and apparently also Tall Tales and ps5 ports
Rare does this for sea of thieves time after time and when they announced this adventure cadence there where ALOT of people that warned them that it wasn’t sustainable but hey here we are
Retconned lore, bad seasons and extremely long seasons like s9
Hopefully finally they try to keep focus instead of trying to reinvent the wheel every single year
@knurd9369 i know they are, but thats not my point. All im saying is that there is no real good Story for something that has the most reason to have the biggest of them all. And yes i do replay some of them, not just for me, more for some of my friends that never got around to them. and thats what im saying even i, who plays alot, havent even goten arount to play all the timelimited story based content. and i just fell like thats why so many people dont care about the story anymore, bc it got pushed aside for the longest time.
@callmebackdraft to the second reason, i have a small idea. If the island has a tranformation that makes it not playable whit the tall tale, why not put that Memory in the land of the dead. think about it in almost all Tall tales its a memory anyway at this point so they could move the whole Tall Tale there and it would also remove the age old problem of geting attakt by other crews on those Storys. (dont @ me btw we all know its anoying getting sunk midway on the Story)
