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Anyone feel like they have done everything?

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galeninjapan

Landlubber
I got the game monday night and played alot since then, probably a total of 10 hours. I have sacked a dozen ports, fought the best pirates, found buried treasure and rescued my sister. What else is there to do? I cannot help but feel a little `UNDER-whelemed`. I feel like I have done everything. I hop the mods for this game keep it fresh. I also felt the game is way to easy, even after I
move up the ranks.

Some things I felt they did great with this game.
-The simulated naval battles are perfect
-The world is wonderful
-The land combat

Some things I think they did bad.
-The dancing game is horrible.
-The sneaking into town seems kind of out of place.
-The game needed more random events
-The traveler in the bar needed more secrets. (2 hours into the game i bought all the special items, or at least i think it was all of them. I had 36 special items)



Overall the game is great, I think it is lacking something the old pirates! game had. I feel the game is too easy and it blows its load too early in the game. By that I mean, it is fun for the first few hours then it just gets repetitive. Which is sad, because I have been waiting for this game for a very long time. I hope a mod/patch/update can breath new life into it. Overall If i had to rate it i would give it a B-
 
<!--QuoteBegin-galeninjapan+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galeninjapan)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I got the game monday night and played alot since then, probably a total of 10 hours. I have sacked a dozen ports, fought the best pirates, found buried treasure and rescued my sister. What else is there to do? I cannot help but feel a little `UNDER-whelemed`. I feel like I have done everything. I hop the mods for this game keep it fresh. I also felt the game is way to easy, even after I
move up the ranks.

Some things I felt they did great with this game.
-The simulated naval battles are perfect
-The world is wonderful
-The land combat

Some things I think they did bad.
-The dancing game is horrible.
-The sneaking into town seems kind of out of place.
-The game needed more random events
-The traveler in the bar needed more secrets. (2 hours into the game i bought all the special items, or at least i think it was all of them. I had 36 special items)



Overall the game is great, I think it is lacking something the old pirates! game had. I feel the game is too easy and it blows its load too early in the game. By that I mean, it is fun for the first few hours then it just gets repetitive. Which is sad, because I have been waiting for this game for a very long time. I hope a mod/patch/update can breath new life into it. Overall If i had to rate it i would give it a B-<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I think you play at to low difficulty level..

I have heard that the swashbuckler level is really difficult.

while others say that apprentice is to easy unless you are bellow 7 years old. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
I started at the easiest difficulty level and moved my way up to swashbuckler, which is alot harder. I got my ass kicked in that mode. But that isn't anything different, its just the same stuff, but harder.
 
Yeah, it is repetative only when it is way too easy. Heck, even the level below Swash is difficult.
Jump up a level, I suggest. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
I'm new to this forum, and I'm not american, so the game isn't officially released yet. However, I just couldn't wait, so I imagined <i>(Keith: Naughty!)</i> it.

This game is incredible! I think you've missed the point of the game, it's not about discovering new things, doing things you never did before. I don't know how you can say this is any worse than the original, because the original had even less features than this, and still it kept going for 15 years (in my case). Now I finally have an updated edition, and will spend another 15 years, or at least until Pirates! 2 comes out. Seriously, I can't quit playing the game.

For me it's doing the same thing over and over again, you never get tired of it. Pirates of the Caribbean was fun for a while, but after a while I thought the only positive thing about it was the `sea-battles`. The world was far too small, there were far too few things to do, the game was too easy, it had a terrible interface, saving system became annoying after the third time of deleting unwanted saves... in short, that game really really sucks compared to this. The only reason I liked POTC at first was because of the elements borrowed from the original Pirates, and now I have a remake of the game that started it all.This is just plain fun.

I was going to play Metal Gear Solid 3 this weekend, now I wonder which game will consume most of my time.

Oh, and don't worry. I will buy the game the minute it gets out. But after 15 years of waiting, I just couldn't keep away.
 
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For me it's doing the same thing over and over again, you never get tired of it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I did!

The reason I think the original was better was because i felt it had alot more.
 
<!--QuoteBegin-Cpt. StarEye+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cpt. StarEye)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->However, I just couldn't wait, so I downloaded it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


Ya gotta love this...... Pirated a game about Pirates.
 
DJ1 said:
galeninjapan said:
Cpt. StarEye said:
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The reason I think the original was better was because i felt it had alot more.
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like what?
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It has been a while since I have played the original (`8-10` years) so this is all from memory. In the original couldnt you torture or at least try to get ionformation from the enemy captain you just defeated. The traveler in the corner used to sell his information about ports.

But then again the newer version does have the land battles and the dancing. Maybe someone can come up with a mod with more random events and the ability to toture.


Now that I think about it my biggest gripe is the fact that everything is given to you oon a silver platter. You barely have to do any work to get things.
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the traveler still gives you info about ports from time to time. I wish they had kept the option to keep pirates for ransom or to send them to prison.

But I certainly think it has more to offer than the original.
 
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />
I to am finding that it "feels" like I've done everything already. I've not played the original game in what feels like a decade, so I can't say what the game is lacking. The dancing for me is a bit frustrating. I've yet to lose a Sword fight, a ship to ship battle, but.. It would seem I have 2 left feet, with only 1 toe on each. That's the only explanation for why I dance so poorly.

Just a little info: I started the game in default mode, played a bit, and found it tooooo easy so I restarted at the next level or the one above it, I can't remember exactly. I loot and plundered my way all over, then divided the plunder, and went up to the next difficulty. Did this again, and divided and now am at Rogue level. But I'm finding things to be a tad repitive. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock:" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" />

Looking at my Pirates accomplishments, the only thing it would seem I've not done is found a hidden city?

Argh.. I've babbled long enough, I did have a blast with the original, the new one is doing well, but I just 'feel' like I'm missing out on something.



p.s. When one aquires the Dutch Rutter, does it automatically show up new infor on your map?

p.p.s While writing this, I was fooling with my video settings and by turning off the shadows, the lighting, etc, it sped my game up about 250% and now the sword fighting is a bit more fun being that it doesn't seem to be going in slow motion! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/william.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":will" border="0" alt="william.gif" />
 
What you can do is start a game at Rogue level. This way you won't have any of the special items or crewmembers that help out. When you start out on a lower level and move up and you are successful, by the time you get to the higher levels, you have gotten so many "game aide" items, that it's almost like playing on a lower difficulty level. Try starting out in a higher level from scratch. You should notice a difference.

As far as dancing... you WILL get better. Trust me.

Yes, when you have a rutter, it will notate things on the map. Which is really handy for find a place to fix up your ships.

Once you finish this career - start a new one at Rogue level, in a different era and I bet it feels like a whole other game.
 
Yes, Im finding it rather lack in things to do. I too feel like I've already done it all. After getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter after trying to take over a dutch merchant town I decided not to try that again. I think to that I dont feel like Im getting enough treasure as a pirate and have to go attack other pirates to get what I feel would be more appropriate a loot. Attacking merchants and treasure ships and only gaining 500 or so gold and couple bags of sugar doesnt really make me feel like Im a pirate at all. The game may be somewhat historic, but I think it could lend itself better to the player if it were to be more of the myth of pirates type of gameplay.

Big loot in merchant ships instead of a merchant ship traveling with just 30 bags of sugar and 2 bags of goods. Seems rather odd to me that a merchant would set sail with that small amount of cargo.

But it is `same-o` `same-o` when I play

1. Get new ship
2. Go attack other ships
3. Sail to port and woo the governors daughter
4. Go attack other ships
5 sell extra ships
6 divide the plunder
Start all over again.

I think what might have helped, would be to add just a small touch of RPG to the game. Or collection of visible items. It's fine and all to be able to get certain items that are in your inventory from the gov's daughter or the mysterios traveller, but I'd like to be able to buy stuff that my character actually wears (perhaps a cape of some kind, or my own style of hat, and then see it whenever Im in a cut scene of my pirate fighting or in the tavern etc). Something along the lines that I get a bonus and gain experience points everytime or so that I go dueling, but it seems very console game in this area. You merely click on buttons to stab, chop jump etc. I think the sea battles are great, though I think that the ships get destroyed too easily, but the dancing is for the birds to me, I see no point in that anymore, and the sword fights are well........ How fast can you click.

I guess Im just not getting sword play properly (I've yet to lose a duel yet though), but it just seems rather random in what it does since the game doesnt respond very quickly to what you do, I can click the 4 button while in a sword duel probably 5 or 6 times before the character on the screen actually does anything.

But yes, overall, playing the harder levels just meant more of the same, just more difficult, but overall the same.
 
Swordfighting I figured out rather early. Until they start Feinting with one move then going to another, it's all simple.

When he goes for a backhand(chop), you Jump(<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="8)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" />
When he swings back on the forehand(slash) you Duck(3)
When he just steps back and cocks his arm(thrust) you parry(5)

and personally, I always just follow each defensive up with a Chop(7) as it does 2 move damage, as opposed to a thrust(quicker) that does only 1.

If when you follow up with an attack they dodge it, then pay attention to what they do again, and follow up another round of defensive/attack. Typically all sword fights(on ships that aren't a named pirate, etc) end in 4 moves.

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" />


p.s. Dancing is still giving me fits, even with the special slippers.

p.p.s Kuplo. you said "I guess Im just not getting sword play properly (I've yet to lose a duel yet though), but it just seems rather random in what it does since the game doesnt respond very quickly to what you do, I can click the 4 button while in a sword duel probably 5 or 6 times before the character on the screen actually does anything."

I was having this problem as well, and after playing with my video settings, the game sped up quite a bit. (Using a GeForce4 MX440 64Mb 8xAGP)
 
Seriously, is a MX440 really 8xAGP? If the card doesn't support it, it won't help if you motherboard does. I had a GF4MX440 64mb once, but I don't think it's 8xAGP.
 
one of the things i noticed that seems to make the game repeditive is abusing the save option. It gets boring if you're never in danger of losing anything ever. Once in a while it's good to get your arse kicked, and lose your flagship. It gets more interesting when you lose a few battles and have to rebuild your fleet and upgrades again.
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Cap`'n Toast+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cap'n Toast)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->the traveler still gives you info about ports from time to time.  I wish they had kept the option to keep pirates for ransom or to send them to prison.

But I certainly think it has more to offer than the original.[/quote]

it gives you options like that when you encounter wanted criminals. They offer to bribe you. Or, you can send them to the slammer.
 
But that's not exactly the challenging part, is it? I mean, you do that all the time.

I don't know what other people do, but I know I've yet to find all treasures, all missing members, capture all the pirates and lost cities, gotten married, basically getting a perfect game. That's the tricky part. Trying to best your score. That's what keeps me coming back.

One of the things I wondered about is, how do I know I will play this game over and over again. I ask myself, this game is pretty shallow, it doesn't have much depth, and it's pretty repetetive. How do I know I will keep coming back for more, and that this is not just a passing breeze.

I know, because I've played the same game for 15 years already. I knew instantly that this is the same game that I've been playing for the last 15 years, only better graphics and sound.
 
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