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bout time i make a NEW post.

Anyway there I was stuck in the city after drinking with mates going hmm, trams (public transport) aren't running for another 3 hours, what can I do to pass the time. So i head to the 24 hour lan center, sit down for abotu 30 mins playing cs with just two other guys, after thinking I'm not gonna waste my next 4 1/2 hours on this, I decide to give a game I had been avoiding for a while. Sid Meier's Pirates.

GASP!!! i hear you all say. Surely the forum pirate would play a game called "pirates". The reason i avoided it was because I had assumed that it was more numbers than anything. Sure I like some number based trading games (some win95 one ages ago, space cargo transport called z something, object was to make a million dollars before the other players did.) but i didn't want to sit through a ton of crap to not even get to blow up stuff of raid towns or do fun simplistic stuff. So i load up the game to check it out, choose the spanish (for some reason), and set sail. Cool i think, you get to controll the ship and sail where you want, oh look the french... ATTACK!!! holy crepe! you get to control the combat action style!! YES I JUST BOARDED THe SHIP! awesome teh fighting is funky, (really easy but funky none the less). So after about 20 mins I have a full fleet of cargo ships and a sloop, then i attack the baron, and due to my awesome pirateness I conquer him easily and take controll of his ship (is it me or is the baron's ship the best in the game?). So for the next 4 hours i sit there building up a huge fleet, plundering towns (which is an awesome strategy mini game) and winning the heart of the governor's daughters by the carraige load, love the dancing. i end up in most bodacious expensive armor with brace of pistols and many a sword, sailing from port to port capturing renegades only to take their bribes . Then every now and then i divvy the loot and do it all again. Of course I only got two pieces of sister map, but damn if it wasn't an awesome game. Why? WHY did no one inform me of my false pre-conceptions of this title...

Because we were to busy playing x2/x3 and being space pirates. With lasers and stars and big shiny spaceship stuff.

ive been avoiding this game too. it looks poor. maybe id give it a go.
but no voices at all in the game?? whats that about

Aww I nearly bought this for xbox yesterday but didn't becuase I had heard it wasnt great. Wish I had now it sounds cool!

Talking of pirate games, have you played Galleon? I have the demo of that and its pretty cool

I heard it had limited replayability factor, which is why it wasn't recommended, but still sounds cool. I might give it a go to in a few months after uni.

Like pirate games? Then this might peek your interests. Not released yet but its in beta, I think you can sign up. Might be a draw back for you but it will cost $10 per month when its released, personally I don't mind the monthly costs but a lotta people have got something against em.

http://www.flyinglab.com/pirates/index.php

I have Sid Meier's Pirates and my initial experience was pretty good and I spent days in a row playing it. Although I also must say for me it's true that it does not have a great replayability factor. You can be one of five loyalties, but that only changes the game slightly. Also when on land the game speed is realistic, but agonizingly slow. This I think is the problem that makes playing it over and over again seem un-fun: There's no time-compression, so much of the gameplay is spent waiting to get somewhere.

From a graphics standpoint, Sid is coming up in the world. But playing other Meier's games, it's not as addictive or replayable as other popular games he's made.

Pirates of the Burning Sea, an MMO I'm highly anticiapting, just glad someone else knows about it.

I played it almost as long as KOTOR. Great game. I found my sister, and I helped capture a few towns for the English. I loved raiding Spanish Villages, and by the end of day 1, I was the top Pirate. I even found blackbeards loot!

Wigget, I did not tell you of teh sexiness because I thought you had already played te snot out of of it.

How can you say there's little replayability? That's all it is, replaying! But it's FUN! You just own those nubbie pirates and become the main pirate man. You can blow through the main thing in a couple of hours, but that's not the point, the point is whenever you're feeling a little bored you turn it on and have a pirate adventure. The Baron's ship does kick serious ass. 40 some-odd cannons, it's erotic.

so there are many others who thought it would just be a numbers game, AWESOME! kinda makes me feel less bad.