Best Pirate Game of All Time?

[Gregz]

I think it's Sid Meier's Pirates!, but I haven't played the others in this poll, and I'm extremely biased because I played the original Pirates! as a kid.

So what is the official, no nostalgia, best pirate game ever?

Votes are anonymous.

 

[luj1]

Pirates of the Caribbean is garbage

Its either Pirates! or Sea Dogs. Though the gameplay of Pirates! can get old fast.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Assuming Pirates of the Caribbean is the overly difficult trash that was the PC version, not that. Had interesting ideas, but not very good.
Both of the two Pirates for DOS had some issues regarding controls that I can remember. Gold in particular had horrible mouse usage.
My answer is Gold fore Genesis, because I am a scrub who enjoys being able to control his ship without having the planets aligned.

 

[Black Plague]

The Secret of Monkey Island.

 

[Atlet]

Fitgirl repacks

 

[overly excitable young man]

Risen 2 of course

Spoiler

LOL

 

[Gregz]

My answer is Gold fore Genesis, because I am a scrub who enjoys being able to control his ship without having the planets aligned.

For the purposes of this poll, any version or platform differences between the various releases of Sid Meier's Pirates! are disregarded, because they are negligible.

 

[Tigranes]

Perhaps not strictly pirate, but

 

[asfasdf]

Sea legends

 

[Wunderbar]

Sea Dogs - City of Abandoned Ships

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Raven's Cry.

 

[Gregz]

Perhaps not strictly pirate, but

What's the name of this game?

 

[Risewild]

What's the name of this game?

That's Uncharted Waters 2. I used to play that on the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis if you're from the US).

 

[mondblut]

Blood & Gold is the only one with decent melee, being a Mount & Blade-based game.

The first Port Royale for economy and fleet battles.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Sid Meier's Pirates! also boasts one of the best manuals of all time.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Probably Pirates! yeah. Sea Dogs was pretty good, and I'd say it would be amazing if it weren't so incredibly buggy, basically to the point of unplayability (at least for me).

I'd say the poll also misses Tropico 2, but I'd never vote for it so. It was a large step down from Tropico 1.

 

[Lady_Error]

Perhaps not strictly pirate, but

The first Uncharted Waters is even better as it doesn't have "cute console sprites" running around.
Firmly in my Top 10 favorite games.

 

[Wunderbar]

I want to point out that Sea Dogs, Pirate of Caribbean and City of Abandoned ships are all parts of the same series developed by a russian dev Akella.

- Corsairs (Sea Dogs in the west);
- Corsairs 2 (Pirates of Caribbean in the west);
- Corsairs 3 (Age of Pirates - Caribbean Tales in the west);
- Corsairs 3 - Return of the Legend (standalone expansion, was never released in the west);
- Corsairs 3 - City of Abandoned Ships (second standalone expansion, was known as Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships in the west and currently sold on steam under the name of Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships);
- Corsairs - To Each his Own (third standalone expansion, known as Sea Dogs: To Each His Own in the west).

 

[Lady_Error]

The Secret of Monkey Island.

It is actually a pirate game, so should be in the list. Unless parodies don't count.

 

[NJClaw]

The Secret of Monkey Island.

This, but unironically.

Otherwise, I'd have to agree on Uncharted Waters 1 & 2. I had so much fun with them as a kid, even if I couldn't understand what I was doing. Also, I found most of the female characters extremely hot and, since I was VERY young, I think that may have scarred my sexuality forever.

 

[Morkar Left]

Sid Meier's Pirates!
For indeed the best manual (just a joy to read like almost all Micropose manuals) and relatively easy to catch up, fun sea battles, best worldmap with best map traveling (wind directions)

Blood & Gold
For best melee/firearms combat on land, unfortunately no first person travel on map

PotC with New Horizons mod
Best overall experience, best customization, has rpg elements, quests, good ship combat and customization, sail the Caribbean completely in first person (very relaxing experience for me), traveling on map has unfortunately no wind directions, your own logbook, partly still feels unfinished/unbalanced

Age of Pirates CoAS
Better graphics and a bit better melee combat than PotC, no first person sailing between islands, not as modded as PotC, more cartoon like graphics for characters (but not much). Overall good but I still prefer New Horizons instead.

Sea Dogs Teho
By far the best melee combat from the whole Sea Dogs series. Weapons feel really different in style and handling. It has the best graphics of the Sea Dogs series (but overall still lackluster compared to todays standards). It has a huge amount of content (especially quests) and a pretty good pirates story that feels like the classic novel ones but still fresh (but the translation is sub optimal). It has the best graphics from the Sea Dogs series, too.
The bad: only a fixed starting character (with 3 specializations to choose), can be atrociously grindy and frustrating (sometimes korean mmo-like levelscaling), horrible timed quests where you need a guide in which order and when and how you should take them (lots of dead ends or breaking the game otherwise).
Atm it's sometimes really enjoyable and sometimes just outright frustrating (the no fun kind of frustration where you have to game/exploit the systems instead of playing the game). If the game gets opened for modding and the modding community takes it up it will be the best Pirates game out there so far, by far. Oh btw. I even liked the tutorial. Feels like you earned your ship.

If I had to choose one it would still be New Horizons but the graphics are getting really old by now and melee combat is just boring. I dream of New Horizons for Sea Dogs Teho.

 

[Carrion]

The Secret of Monkey Island.

LeChuck's Revenge.

 

[NJClaw]

Also: Claw.

It may not be a "pirates" game, but it's a game with pirates.

[...] no nostalgia [...]

Oh fuck, oh no. You can't ask me to provide unbiased opinions, you monster!

 

[distant]

PSA- Sea Dogs: COAS is selling for 2 dollars on GOG.

https://af.gog.com/game/sea_dogs_city_of_abandoned_ships?as=1649904300

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Raven's Cry.