Best Pirate Game of All Time?

[Xmantis]

If mods count I'll throw a recommendation for Pirate Doom, well done pirate themed doom wad.

 

[Black Plague]

"Other (list it below and I will add it to the poll. Voters can change their vote)"

You have no honor.

 

[Jason Liang]

You can play a pirate character in Arcanum. There is also a pirate module for NWN, although I have not played it myself.

 

[Grimlorn]

Dancing minigame knows no mercy.

I used a mod or cheat to auto play the dancing game. I got so sick of it.

 

[std::namespace]

just finally tried sid meiers PIRATES!!1 GOLD

TO THE SURPRISE TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY: its fucking broken game play-wise...
all those dos classics are such a pile of hot shit

 

[Nutmeg]

just finally tried sid meiers PIRATES!!1 GOLD

TO THE SURPRISE TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY: its fucking broken game play-wise...
all those dos classics are such a pile of hot shit

Pirates is one of the more sound ones too because eventually your character dies and you get a score -- i.e. at least it conceives of itself as having a goal for players that is, in this case, bounded by time.

But yes this post from another forum sums up my thoughts on the PC classics from a design point of view.

Actually now that I think of it, "difficult to learn and easy to master" is the recurring theme of the old-school western pantheon. Bloated, counterintuitive rulesets where optimal play is simple and repetitive. RPGs where 99% of the difficulty is in reaching experience level 2. Games that make it it hard to obtain even basic supplies while playing blind, but where a knowledgeable player can obtain top tier equipment right off the bat. They love that stuff. Even genuinely great games like Star Control 2 follow the trend. Well it's still better than the modern "easy to learn, nothing to master" approach.

Best is to treat them as make your own fun sandboxes. You can't rely on Western game designers to actually design their games to be *games*, because that's not their goal. Their goal is for the computer to assist players in playing the children's game of make believe in whatever way they fancy that conforms to the theme of the game. Challenge and forced decision making fall to the wayside in favor of allowing any and all play styles to be winners, and who are you to say someone else's perception of what it means to be a pirate is better than anyone else's? And to be fair the PC classics do indeed succeed in their goal of being make believe sandboxes.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

just finally tried sid meiers PIRATES!!1 GOLD

TO THE SURPRISE TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY: its fucking broken game play-wise...
all those dos classics are such a pile of hot shit

Should have been playing the glorious Amiga port of Sid Meier's Pirates!, instead.

 

[NecroLord]

Captain Claw.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

For a minute there I thought Zed Duke of Banville had completely recycled an earlier post in this thread for his most recent post, but it's just a rehash of the best images.

Still, kinda cheap... but since this is a thread about piracy it's only fitting.

 

[Gostak]

A pirate quartermaster

In space:
I liked Independence War 2 Edge of Chaos.