Why is it so difficult to develope a good pirate game?

Monkey island does not have ships you sail around in and loot/capture other ships , Monkey island does not have blood , Monkey island is an adventure point and click.

This would be my type of game
a) A ship travel map out of port royale
b) When you visit a town you get a view point like sid meiers pirates(amiga)
c) Sea combat out of age of pirates
d) Treasure hunting ( sid meiers pirates(amiga) )
e) Oh and blood , proper hand to hand fighting

How does this relate to Monkey Island lol


Pirates of the Caribbean or age of pirates is just as bad as age of pirates 2 , horrible interface and hand to hand combat e.t.c

Captain blood i'll keep an eye on :D
 
Got to throw in another vote for Pirates of the Caribbean (aka Sea Dogs 2)

Ok, it's made by Bethesda so it's full of game-breaking bugs. Yes, it's got Disney's POTC franchise shoe-horned into it. True enough, the main plot is terrible. But despite these flaws it remains one of my favourite games.

It's a huge improvement over Sea Dogs 1, with a fully explorable set of islands and huge amounts of freedom in exploration. For example, you want to get from one side of Oxbay island to the other. You can either:
1. walk from one side to the other
2. get on your ship and sail in real-time around the island
3. get on your ship, go to the map view and sail super-fast

You can build up either a super-death armada or a high-capacity trading fleet. You recruit and station officers to join you on land or man your ships, each with their own skills which can be levelled up in parallel to you.

If you havent got it, grab it any way you can. The best advice for avoiding bugs is to save often and in different slots.

With a little more work, this game couldve been absolutely fantastic. It's such a shame that it suffers from a lack of real plot and a huge number of bugs.
 
It's pretty much the same as age of pirates 2 http://www.ageofpiratesthegame.com/ , i remember because i've played sea dogs 2. Although i completed it , it wasn't an enjoyable experience. There is a number of things i really hate about potc and it's spin off games. Even AOP2 is highly modded now with lots of fancy bits but the pirates only chasing me and nobody else is just ****
 
Seriously, the POTC build mod transforms the game. It's completely uncrecognisable and anyone who's played it in it's original state needs to try it!

The list of changes are too many for me to even think about listing here. It would be a monunetal task. This gist is however, you cannot compare the base game to the build mod. Even AOP2 has fewer features!
 
Treebiter said:
+1 Pirates of the Caribbean (POTC)

Firstly, ignore the name. This is for all intents and purposes Sea Dogs 2. Unfortunately Disney got their hands on it at the last minute and made some minor changes.

There is a huge mod named rather unimaginitively 'the Build mod'. This mod has been in production for years and has made the game, in my opinion, the greatest pirate game available. Any Disney-ified features can be disabled through the mods options menu!!! Seriously, this is one of the greatest mods ever made.

http://forum.piratesahoy.net/index.php?showforum=37

Of course, you'll need to get a copy of POTC to play it but you won't find a more piratey package than this.
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Many thanks for the heads up - was a massive fan of sea dogs and was gutted when I played POTC. Followed the development of Sea dogs 2 and it was looking great until Disney got their mitts on it. Definately need to did it out somewhere (if i haven't checked it) and try the mod
 
Remember having those sea dogs 2 desktops back in the day. Shame that never happend, one of those games i sat through the development waiting hard.

For what it's worth though, they used the engine in a f2p mmo called voyage century, or bountybay online in euro land.

While not anything great, the first month or two of it are rather fun doing the sea fairing port royale type thing. Ambience abound, just you'll soon realise you're on a treadmill and it's time to jump ship and bail.
 
heh maybe all i'm really after is a pirates remake from the amiga , a TRUE remake not some cartoon crap not a half assed disney job :(
 
One more suggestion: East India Company. The game has a couple of DLC, Pirate Bay and Privateer. I own both though haven't really given them much of a play-through yet (Another victim of the Steam sales). They seem to fit the bil for what your're after.
 
Treebiter said:
One more suggestion: East India Company. The game has a couple of DLC, Pirate Bay and Privateer. I own both though haven't really given them much of a play-through yet (Another victim of the Steam sales). They seem to fit the bil for what your're after.
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Very very boring i'm afraid , see that video i posted that's the new one to come out soon. Apparantly they've listend to the fans and overhauling the game :D:cool:
 
Pirates of the carribean by bethesda was awesome. Don't think it's what you're looking for but was still awesome.
 
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