Sea Dogs

Not sure this is an RPG. Its listed as a strategy\rpg\action hybrid.

Anyone play it and have an opinion?

I have been on a pirate kick lately and was looking for something along the lines of Sid Meier's Pirates! (Which I love the 1987 version, new one pretty good too).

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/sea-dogs

 

Apart from a fuckload of bugs (probably patched by now) it was enjoyable game. I really liked the atmosphere.

 

Yea I heard there were quite a few bugs, but thats the nice thing about a 9 year old game if there were gonna be patches there all out by now.

Yea apparently Bethesda had replacementdocs remove the manuals and stuff from their site for this.....man they are nazi's.

I ordered a copy of the game on ebay so lookning forward to it. It looked the most RPG of the pirate game I could find.

Im gonna check out Corsairs II, thanks for the tip.

 

I dont see a Corsairs 2...you talking about this game?

http://www.amazon.com/Corsairs-Conquest ... 10_rsrsrs0

 

Basically this, just with 'fuckload' multiplied by 1000.

 

Yup.

It had some enjoyable elements in its sights - but missed.

I forgot about it (the picture posted above helped).

As far as sailing games a new one out call East India Trading company is out and is soso in terms of enjoyment (closest game to that old Uncharted Waters SNES game I liked years ago)

...though not the same play style as this'n.

 

Thanks.

Im thinking about ordering it, but it says it does not run on windows XP. Some games from the late 90's are tough to get running even with dosbox.

God I miss the good old 2D games!

 

Great thanks I ordered a copy of the game.

 

The installer in in Polish, does that mean the game will be polish only?

 

Thanks for all your help WhiskeyWolf!

Hopefully game will arrive in a couple of days I and I will give it a try.

 

Sea Dogs AI doesn't seem very good for friendly ships.

You have the option to tell your allied ships to Capture or Destroy enemy ships. I selected "Capture" but my allied ships continue to pummel enemies with canon. Is this one of those many bugs people mention?

Gold also seems a valuable resource in this game because its rather expensive to repair your ship. Im going to train the skill repair up some and maybe that will help. My Sails keep getting battered..

 

I am really enjoying this game. I haven't really seen any bugs at all (Unless the allied ship AI is a bug that I mentioned before).

I am playing with patch 1.06 though so that must have fixed alot of release bugs.

The sea battles are great, I think the best of any ship combat game I have played. It really feels like your really out there on the ships. It is a bit tricky to sail around ships and win with Stealth though because once you head into the wind you have to turn around and go the other way or get blown to pieces standing still.

The land environments are not quite as interesting but they are not bad. So far story nothing special but good enough to keep me entertained.

I like the trading system as well, once I started really focusing on it I finally seem to have enough gold.

From what I have played so far the skills are pretty meaningfull. I just got a mission to attack a fleet of Pirates that are planning an attack on an English town. I went to fight them and there were 4 ships and I get my ass handed to me. Im going to have to level up a couple more times and maybe find some other followers to be able to take them on.

The map exploration is pretty good too, a bit similar to Pirates! Except for towns you have to hear about them in conversation for them to show on your map.

So, from playing about 20 hours or so, a big thumbs up on this game! I hope I enjoy the sequels (POTC) as much.

Oh yea and there is a mod that adds alot to the game, but I didnt use it since you have to start a new game.

www.highnotez.com/hosemerc/sdaddon.htm