Pirates of the Burning Sea: Game

[Scouty]

It's been so long, and the pre-order date is here! And I'm gonna pr-order it today :-) . I can't wait to see what it's like!

[Lord Of Pies]

POTBS looks rather good! I may get it when it goes down in price! (I'm a cheap skate like that! X-D )

[Scouty]

Hmm, they just put up some lovely tunes from the soundtrack. I'd recommend listening to them!!

French

Spanish

British

Pirates

My favorite is the Spanish one!

Also a very pretty screenshot right here.

They do an absolutely amazing job on the water and skies.

[Col. Whipstick]

Looks pretty interesting though I seldom seem to ever have the time for any games *sad*

It reminds me of a game I have called Sea Dogs, a few years old but you play as a privateer and can change your fraction between Spain, England and France and take on missions, earn money, trade, upgrade your ship, guns etc, hire proffesional crew... all the usual kinda thing. This looks like a considerably more advanced version of that and I still haven't been able to play Age of Empires III which looks the best of the lot given it's the Europeans vs The New World. Then there's Sid Meier's Pirates which I've yet to play or even the POTC games and that's just the few I can think of on this topic, let alone all the other games.

I dunno... all these games are great but it just feels that I'd need another five lifetimes to be able to fully appreciate what's already out there. The sheer depth and variety of play within these games means that to do them any justice you'd have to spend hours and hours on them and that just seems like hours and hours I don't have. The day I become a multi-millionaire and have loads of scurvy peasants to do all my bidding and peel my grapes for me then I can really get into a game like this. :-P

Edited October 26, 2007 by Col. Whipstick

[El Bucanero]

POTBS vs. SMP

POTBS certainly looks nice. Here are some screenshots of the game I was talking about:

Here's the official website.

Really sucks you can't play it online, it's a great game...

I'm pretty sure they are. They spent 6 years on this game, so I imagine they'd have the time to make he ships accurate.

Did you know you could build your own ships?

Wow!! How awesome is that! 8-

[Scouty]

Though, I think you need your own 3D software, and make it accurate to the ships of that period of time, but cool if you had the knowledge and program to do it!