Best Pirate Game of All Time?

[samuraigaiden]

Deadfire

 

[Raghar]

Risen 2.

 

[janior]

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Action: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Adventure: The Secret of Monkey Island
RPG: Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

I haven't played Sid Meier's Pirates but it's on my list.

 

[RuySan]

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.

The console versions, including the amiga CD32 version of Gold had a very different aesthetic compared to the PC version.

For me my favourite was the Amiga version of the original Pirates!

 

[Citizen]

sea doggos blows every other pirate game out of the water

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

surprisingly entertaining. for a while. it outstays its welcome and it still has to truly begin. dreadful.

 

[DraQ]

I have played Pirates! on my c64, so unless someone hijacks the thread with SPAAAACE! piracy in SPAAACE! that will be my answer.

 

[Norfleet]

To be truly meta, and truly a Dread Pirate, you had to pirate Pirates!...and then beat the manual-based copy protection purely from experience, without having ever seen the manual. Because real pirates don't read manuals.

 

[Glop_dweller]

That assassin has 10 fingers.

Wasn't it some part of the fiction that they all cut off the finger that blocks that forearm knife; whatever it's called.

 

[Norfleet]

We don't know if all of those fingers are real, though. Maybe he has a wooden peg-finger to disguise the missing one?

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Yeah, they said the design of the blade was updated so it wasn't necessary any more.

Less hassle to model and write around I assume.

 

[Obama]

Sid Meier's Pirates! remake was actually pretty good - played it a lot back in the day. It was also a decent harem simulator.

 

[DraQ]

To be truly meta, and truly a Dread Pirate, you had to pirate Pirates!...and then beat the manual-based copy protection purely from experience, without having ever seen the manual. Because real pirates don't read manuals.

Done and done (c64 era Poland, after all).

 

[RuySan]

To be truly meta, and truly a Dread Pirate, you had to pirate Pirates!...and then beat the manual-based copy protection purely from experience, without having ever seen the manual. Because real pirates don't read manuals.

Done and done (c64 era Poland, after all).

Ahhaha, also done here, but for the amiga. What was with this game copy protection? I don't recall having copies of the manual for any other game. All of them were cracked.

 

[moleman]

Everyone who votes for AssCreed 4 deserves to walk the plank.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

Risen 2, POE2 Deadfire and the Monkey Island series should be on the list.

AC Black Flag's basic pirate gameplay loop is heavily inspired by Pirates!, it's the AC story crap + ubiworld design that drags it down.

Sea of Thieves could've similarly been a good blueprint for ubi's canned multiplayer pirate game.

 

[Norfleet]

Ahhaha, also done here, but for the amiga. What was with this game copy protection? I don't recall having copies of the manual for any other game. All of them were cracked.

You had to answer various questions from the manual, depending on which edition you had, ranging from having to know the schedule of the Treasure Fleet to identifying pirate flags.

 

[Mexi]

Raven's Cry.

Never played that game, fucking amazing! Makes me want to be a pirate dancing there !

Shameless plug for my favorite song from Monkey Island.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Dancing minigame knows no mercy.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Someone should make Cutthroats remake, but make it... you know... playable?
That game was pretty game ambitious.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Ahhaha, also done here, but for the amiga. What was with this game copy protection? I don't recall having copies of the manual for any other game. All of them were cracked.

You had to answer various questions from the manual, depending on which edition you had, ranging from having to know the schedule of the Treasure Fleet to identifying pirate flags.

If I remember it correctly at least on C64 version it was about Treasure Fleet and wrong answer gave you worse starting ship.

 

[vonAchdorf]

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

I have read the Pirates manual and the Darklands manual more often than many books.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

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

I have read the Pirates manual and the Darklands manual more often than many books.

Microprose did the best manuals.

 

[Xmantis]

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