why are there NO good pirate games?
sea of thieves comes close, but its microshis and has 0 real progression, gets boring real fricking quick unless you run into someone else
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isn't there an Assassins Creed pirate game or something
AC4 was about pirates and it was probably the best assassin's creed game, but it wasn't really a pirate game.
I've always liked how starsector lets you be a pirate but it's a bit barebones in how you can rob people.
Odyssey had some comfy sailing too
>and has 0 real progression
Good
>0 real progression
Only progression you would realistically get in a pirate game would be the slow and painful demise acquired through scurvy.
I've been saying this for a while
>instance it like the Pirate Legends tavern/GTA apartments
>can be customized like the ship in the upcoming update
>your current gold count determines the size of your hoard like Fable 3 pic related or Mercenaries 2
Meant to quote
They should add a hideout location to the game like the one payday 2 has where you can see the gold you hoarded
sea dogs 2 AKA pirates of the Caribbean
>play with friends
>if another ship is spotted, game is ruined
>"Nooo, not our 1 chest of pixel treasure, it is worth of 500 pixel gold!!!"
>run away from every fight
>even if it takes 40mins to lose the other autistic crew
>that 2 player sloop is could sink our 4 player ship in a moment! We can't risk it!
>stuck doing delivery missions forever
PvP is the only fun thing to do in the game. I don't get why people will run for an hour just to avoid it.
different people get fun different ways
i don't mind the pvp but i do have fun doing the quests and just exploring the islands and sailing about
been that way for years
this game is a great relaxing sandbox when someone isn't hunting you
me and the bros gets on just to destress from other games or just solo sail and deliver cargo
I just started playing a couple of days ago by myself and I've already taken down a 4 player crew. Albeit with suicide tactics but I had nothing on my ship and they lost all of their supplies. Most fun I've had in a game in awhile, and the sea is comfy to boot
sea of thieves NUTS WILL FIT IN YA MOUTH
I disagree
>2004 pirate game
>Still the best pirate game
OP has a point. I have thought about developing a modern reimagining of sid meier's pirates myself (Top-down single-player pirate game).
this
the only thing that can be improved are the graphics and maybe actual fighting mechanics when boarding other ships, everything else they nailed
make it about game piracy lmao
or somali pirates
or asian pirates
gets real dark
gay.
sid meier's pirates
asscreed black flag
blind homosexual
>telling people to play asscreed
anon, are you moronic?
There are very few good pirate movies as well. You have PotC, the Goonies, everything Peter Pan related and thats about it.
Game developer here.
How do you make a good pirate game exactly?
sex with hot island women
You make a single-player game with deep lore and story/world interactions for autists, or you make a multi-player game with fun ship-focused pvp like world's adrift or sea of thieves.
For single player inspiration, look at sid meier's pirates, sunless seas/skies, port royale 4, and kenshi.
>0 real progression
Good, get filtered. The only difference between me and yourself is skill, not bullshit stat boosts.
>sea of thieves comes close, but its microshis and has 0 real progression, gets boring real fricking quick unless you run into someone else
Maybe being a pirate is kind of boring
You want a voyager simulator not a pirate one
Not OP but this is what I want... an age of sail voyage simulator. I wanna be able to walk around the ship above and below decks any time of day in any weather watching lifelike ship stuff happening with the ocean spray and creaking timbers.
If I gotta be a pirate to get that, then fair enough.
have you considered becoming a sailor IRL?
Yes
https://www.gotheborg.se/join-us/sail-with-us/
You can join as a deckhand on Gotheborg.
Wow, that really seems cool
I want to make a top-down game set in a fantasy southeast asia, with semi-realistic sailing mechanics, trade routes, pirates, and behemoths to hunt/avoid, with gamelan music in the background.
ok but where are all the real world games
Are you looking for something like this? You might as well just pick up sailing in real life. You won't regret it, it's really fun and the best thing I ever spent money on.
realistic sailing yes, but mixed with life at sea with a crew, and interaction with other ships
Yeah honestly, a realistic age of sail simulator focused on shipping commodities profitably and avoiding mutiny by your crew would be pretty hard to pull off. The only way I can see that genre being started is if a dedicated indie developer/sailor does it as a hobby/life project. Otherwise, much like realistic survival before "The Long Dark" was created, it's basically a genre that doesn't exist.
you can potentially make it ridiculously huge like when morons say they want a "space game", meaning a game with spaceships where you can do literally anything and you end up with a project like star citizen. but you could also make it a lot more focused, like you start off as a junior officer so the game is quite narrow, and when you get command of a ship it could be nonlinear rather than open world. that way you can have an actual game rather than a gigantic blank slate with nothing interesting to do that takes 30 years to make
I can see that working. I would make it so the tutorial starts because you're a shanghai'd deck hand and you need to learn everything from scratch, kek.
>https://www.gotheborg.se/join-us/sail-with-us/
I've actually done this kind of thing in my region. It was pretty awesome.
pirates of the burning sea
Pirate games also need ships that aren't pirate ships. Pirates in a world with only pirates doesn't make sense.
what about that multiplayer pirates mode in civ 6?
Blackwake was great (but it died) ship vs ship combat is what I want. Like guns of icarus
>0 real progression
You know how I know you never actually played the game?
Why bother when the genre already peaked?
There is always a producer or some other suit to frick it up and insist on putting in other things. Pirates! is supposed to be okay but doesn't put you in the scene, and is showing its age.
Black flag mostly got the right balance of gameplay down without choking itself in simulation. Real naval battles were generally slow and methodical, let alone weeks and months of travel time with careful navigation and supply management.
I know Ubi is coming out with their MMO thing, but it's Ubi so we know it'll be fricked one way or another.
Those Russian devs who made Sea Dogs did a branded PotC game that was surprisingly good (except for the land segments and the back half of the story). That was before Black Flag though which overshadows it in every way. For a while though it captured the sailing aspect very nicely.
>pirate games
try being into ships but not pirates. nothing exists. every time anything involves sailing ships it's pirate homosexualry
Bought eSail this sale, it's fun. Looking at sailwind too but they didn't even have a pity 10% discount so I'm waiting. Looks good though and only $20.
Is Sea of Thieves worth it if I have no one to play with? Can I just hop into a game online?
I've been having fun solo and I just started playing a few days ago. I've run into maybe 4 other crews in 15 hours of playtime and some have been friendly, some haven't. And it's not like there isn't anyone playing, it's just easy to avoid people solo since the sloop (small ship) is small and fast
I might try it then, thanks. I just want to go treasure hunting and explore uncharted islands
Pirates existed because inefficient long-distance hauling, maritime colonial power projection, and arbitrary power structures in the Royal Navy all existed.
Basically what I'm saying is that you can't just have a pirate game, you need a reason to be a pirate in said pirate game, which means you need to make a 1600s-1750s simulator, and that's just too large scale for a lot of devs.
Now the good news is that it's by no means technologically or financially impossible, even now, in fact I would bet some amount of money something like this will exist before the 2030s.
Patience, anon.
just make a hornblower/master & commander game. frick pirates they're gay
with an attitude like that I'd rather nobody ever makes that game for you out of spite
don't worry nobody was going to make a game where you play as the good guys and frick up arabs and french "people" anyway
>frick pirates they're gay
>t. seething reincarnated East India company captain
i know for a fact there's an old redcoat wojak sitting angry at a computer, made when they were still called "feels guy"
>redcoat
a marine game would be one of the least interesting things you can do
I'd love a relatively realistic game set within the Golden Age of Piracy
Closest we have is an Assassin's Creed game, sadly
>good pirate games
Monkey Island 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 exists. Yes 4 and 5 are rough in a lot of places but they're alright mostly.
Also I played the frick out of the Sid Meier's Pirates! remake on Xbox and PC. I made sure to always marry the governor's daughter with the largest breasts. (I believe that was randomized.)
Does Horizon's Gate count?
Thematically yes, mechanically it's just another turn based rpg.
Sea Dogs series. It's eastern euro jank but it hits the spot.
which games let me raid spaceships with a bunch of bros?