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Pirates

Andhaira

Andhaira

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More specifically,sid miers pirates(remake). Have you played it? If so what are your thoughts?

IMO it was a greta game, though I wish the mini games had more substance, the stealth mini game sucked balls IMO and could have had been a ton better.
 

trystero

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Good...

It's pretty good. The only issue I've had is I start to get bored once I have captured whatever ship I was looking for and tricked it out with crew and options. I sort of wish the game had been a bit deeper in that aspect, such that certain ships maybe could not take the same kinds of options as others ( ie: triple hammocks, iron scantlings, etc ). Capturing a notorious pirate should have been more difficult, and it would have been nice had the notorious pirates been a bit more dynamic ( if you remove one from the top 10 chart, another may pop up lower down the chart, etc ). The stringing together of mini-games works really well in a certain sense, but they end up so simple it can't help but feel repetitive after a few hours. I actually liked the town attack mini-game, but, again, felt it could have been a bit deeper :)

It did bring back fond memories of sailing about with a frigate on the C64 version so many years ago. It also seemed true to the original spirit of the game.

-trystero
 

k_bits

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^^^ I think the freeware / fan remake of pirates (amazingly called...pirates 2) had most of that going on.
 
barker_s

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Even though I haven't played the original, I found it pretty amusing. Eventually I got bored, but I think it's a good piece of game.

While we're at pirates' topic, has there ever been a pirate-themed roleplaying game? Can you point me to at least one title?

Edit: I meant good pirate themed RPG.
 
Walkin' Dude

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Pirates of the Caribbean, which was originally SeaDogs 2, is supposed to be pretty good. There is a fan patch that is supposed to improve it significantly. It was published by Bethesda, but not developed by them, if I am not mistaken.

There is a thread around here somewhere, if you feel like searching.
 

Section8

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Last night I just wanted to have fun
To go out with my friends
I took my dad's car
I never thought he would find out
But I crashed in a wall
Man, I'm dead

I guess it's no use
I'm screwing up every little thing
I ever try to do
I'm born to lose
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

God must hate me
He cursed me for eternity
God must hate me
Maybe you should pray for me
I'm breaking down
And you can't save me
I'm stuck in hell
And I wanna go home

Last night I had to study for this test
I forgot
Man, I'm dead
And now my brain
Is bursting out of, of my head
I can't think, I can't breathe once again

I guess it's no use
I'm screwing up every little thing
I ever try to do
I'm born to lose
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

God must hate me
He cursed me for eternity
God must hate me
Maybe you should pray for me
I'm breaking down
And you can't save me
I'm stuck in hell
And I wanna go home

So what in the world
Am I supposed to do?
I never did anything to you
So can't you find something else to do?

God must hate me
He cursed me for eternity
God must hate me
Maybe you should pray for me
I'm breaking down
And you can't save me
I'm stuck in hell
And I wanna go home
(God must hate me)
I wanna go home
(God must hate me)
I wanna go home
(God must hate me)
I wanna go home
(God must hate me)
I wanna go home
You can't save me
God must hate me now
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This has to be irony, right?
 
Oarfish

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The fan patch is pretty crappy. Loads of features that 15 year olds would think were awesome with no overall control. The whole series is a damn shame really, the engine has loads of promise but the overall execution of both PotC and the sequel Age of Pirates is god awful.

Which is a pain, as its a great RPG setting.
 
vrok

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ghostdog

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The original pirates had a different flavor that I liked much better and the truth is that pirates gold is the first remake and the best game version. It had some gorgeous background graphics with as lot of style and atmosphere. The graphics of the new pirates remake are too cartoonish for my taste but it's still an ok remake.

On a side note Andhaira and Vrok make a very strong team. Andhaira's unmatchable skills of continuous topic spamming and Vrok's unending sources of visual furry epresentation can produce an unholy force of massive destruction and horror. The end is nigh...
 
Xi

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One of my favorite console games is "Uncharted Waters: New Horizons" for the SNES. That was a great piece of piracy for sure. Well, that is if you role-played a pirate because the game offered many different sea faring roles and I always found it fascinating and endless, fun.

I also played the new Pirates!, but not the old. It wasn't half-bad, but not nearly as good as that SNES gem. ;P
 

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Uncharted Waters for PC is excellent, too. It just edges out shitporn on the list of the greatest achievements of modern Japan.
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Son uva bitch!
 

Dmitron

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Asspirates besides, Sid Meier's Pirates was far too easy.

I don't think I lost a single "sword fighting the captain" minigame.
 
Elwro

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The 1988 PC Pirates! game was the game of my childhood. I remember my mother bought me a real map of the Caribbean and I was stunned to find that everything really fits. (Unofficial copies only became illegal in Poland in 1994.)
 
DraQ

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Elwro said:
The 1988 PC Pirates! game was the game of my childhood. I remember my mother bought me a real map of the Caribbean and I was stunned to find that everything really fits. (Unofficial copies only became illegal in Poland in 1994.)
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I still have my warezed tapes and disks for C64. :D
 
MisterStone

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I remember when I played this as a wee kid (first on my Apple II :oldskool:). My brother got ahold of a warez version, and it did not have a copy protection crack, so we couldn't play the full game. I remember that when it gives you the copy protect question it says something like: "If you can't answer this, maybe you are a pirate!" Comedy gooold!

Anyway, the game was so cool that even playing the stunted copy protected mode convinced us to buy it eventually... the Amiga release of Pirates! Gold was pretty sweet, and it had some nice music tracks.
 
Andhaira

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Dmitron said:
Asspirates besides, Sid Meier's Pirates was far too easy.

I don't think I lost a single "sword fighting the captain" minigame.
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Try it on the hardest difficulty.
 

Sir_Brennus

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MisterStone said:
I remember when I played this as a wee kid (first on my Apple II :oldskool:). My brother got ahold of a warez version, and it did not have a copy protection crack, so we couldn't play the full game. I remember that when it gives you the copy protect question it says something like: "If you can't answer this, maybe you are a pirate!" Comedy gooold!

Anyway, the game was so cool that even playing the stunted copy protected mode convinced us to buy it eventually... the Amiga release of Pirates! Gold was pretty sweet, and it had some nice music tracks.
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I agree.

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburgische Konzert No 3" (aka the Plundering Music) is still one of my favourite pieces of classical music.

http://www.geocities.jp/pastorel2/midi/bwv1048_1.html

The version history of the game is somewhat sloppy, though.

The original C64 and PC release was ugly but very detailed. The first Amiga release was quite fathful to that.

Pirates! Gold on PC is nice, but suffers from bad controls and missing details (where are the fucking CLOUDS??) while the best version is the C32 and Genesis version.

http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/piratesgold/Pirates_Gold.html
 
Wyrmlord

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Sid Meier's Pirates! is awesome. Once you go Swashbuckler, you can't go back. And boy, did it feel great when I became a Governor at that difficulty.

Finished with 2-3 lost cities found. I tried to manage finding each of them with a quarter map, after finding each relative.

And I feel so proud when I finally got the Ship Of the Line.
 
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