Is Pirates a really good game?

[RoboPig]

Is pirates so good that i should buy it?

 

[MangeTonChapeau]

A good game ? Yes. Not the best game ever, nor the game you have to sell your shirt for, but definitely a game in which you have a great freedom, and at least 30 hours of play time. Maybe more if the genre really appeals to you, but it is the minimum time to have a rather complete look at the game in a normal difficulty (truly, try not to start at the first difficulty, it almost made me wanna quit after something like 10 hours).

 

[Civrules]

Yes, it is a great game.
Maybe it's not as addictive as Civ, but other than that, everything about it is awesome.

 

[Capt Redde]

Aye matey, It be a treasure worth havin.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Aye, its great entertainment for afew weeks. I got bored of it after a while though, its too repetetive.

 

[Megalou]

It's not chess and it's not civ, but it was fun. I mean, it was really really fun but I lost interest much quicker than with civ because the possibilities for developments seem limited to me. You can't score higher than 126 (well, a little higher if you use that multi-Mendoza exploit, but still) and I really can't be bothered to "make the whole world Dutch" or something like that, although I would be impressed if someone does it.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

It's very disappointing, IMHO, and feels very much like the badly programmed retread of a ten year old game that it is.

I did persevere with it for a while, and really wanted to like the game, but... it becomes awfully predictable and mundane awfully early.

Probably the worst PC game I've bought in the last year.

 

[Dida]

It is a good game,however, the execution is kind of bad

 

[~Corsair#01~]

A bit OT here, but not worth starting a new thread over:
I expect to be getting the game tomorrow.
I have to ask: is the game easy on beginners? Are the out-of-ship controls easy to pick up? I haven't actually played any 3rd-person adventure games on my PC yet.
Also, to those who know:
how technically demading is the game compared to, say, Rome: Total War?

 

[Shinatoo]

I really enjoyed the game but it didn't have the lasting power of Civ.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Corsair, the controls are very easy, almost everything is done with the num pad.

Ye won't regret getting it, its a superb game.

 

[Civrules]

For beginners, it is said that it takes around 30 minutes to get it, which is not much.
Compared to RTW, I'm not exactly sure though.
What's your system's specs?

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I think I prefer Cutthroats. But Pirates is still very good.

 

[Volstag]

Pirates, sorta, reminded me of DungeonSiege... it's great fun for those first two weeks, but then the entertainment value dwindles off -- noticeably. It's fairly easy to "do it all" in a short amount of time. YMMV, of course.

Personally, I wish it was a lot more "strategic".

-V

 

[Dreadnought]

I think it was a good game. However, I can't seem to find any beautiful ladies except the Dutch one...

No kidding, it is FUN