Uncharted Waters

[Officerpuppy]

<a href="http://www.unchartedwatersnewhorizons.com/" target="_blank">http://www.unchartedwatersnewhorizons.com/</a>

I ran into this game by chance, I thought some would like to check it out since it's a Pirate/sea adventure RPG. It's not new or anything, the graphics resemble an old Zelda game for the SNES, but the concept sounds interesting, I hope to get a little further into it before I can give an opinion if it's good or not.

 

[Old Salt]

This is an old game from the early 90s. It was the sequel to Uncharted Waters, which was on the SNES and Sega Genesis.

 

[Officerpuppy]

Grrr.....I saved it after I won this seemly impossible battle, but the problem is my ship is badly damaged and my save file is right before a storm; my ship sinks before I reach the safety of a port, I reloaded my file over ten times, I sink every time......there went two hours of my life. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="modding.gif" />

 

[Old Salt]

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

I've had that happen plenty of times. Best to just put it out of your mind as fast as possible and play on. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />

 

[Cylon13]

Old Salt's post short: Been there, done that. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

 

[Stallion]

I played the original at a friend's house ages ago, then his cat got hold of it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/urgh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":urgh" border="0" alt="urgh.gif" />

 

[Old Salt]

Is this one a lot better?

 

[Officerpuppy]

Well, I started over and I decided to go on a long voyage, I sold off my galleon and bought an Xebec with some modifications and set sail from Lisbon. Sailed down to Africa, around the horn, bought myself a sword in Japan and right now I'm in Rio <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bounce.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":b:" border="0" alt="bounce.gif" />

<b>Update:</b>After Rio, I sailed all the way past the Caribbean and past the US and into Canada, or at least what will be Canada and the US one day. I tried sailing through the arctic but I lost my crew when I was half way between Russia and Canada. So I reloaded my game and decided to turn around after hitting Jamaica.

My voyage was super expensive but prior to sailing out I hired myself to this Portuguese explores club so any discovery I make, I would receive gold in return. I must of made at least 20 discoveries, from ruins, to exotic animals. The thing that gave me the highest pay out was the Dodo, I got 100,000 gold for that bird.

Overall, a profitable trip, I have about 300,000 gold total and I was able to capture what I think is the strongest ship in the game from a pirate I defeated, so I'm all set.

 

[Old Salt]

I never finished the original game. It was massive. You could play as one of many characters as I remember. The only problem was that it became much to easy too fast, ship battles were never a problem. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

 

[Captain Monty]

Blimey - I used to play this too, it had "something" that is missing from most games these days, proof that gameplay is better than graphics (although both would be ideal).

Could I ask a question though please. Is this download converted in some way for running on XP, or are you running it via DOSBox or similar ? Or perhaps you just have an old PC kicking around...... Hang on!, I remember now, it ran on Windows 98 quite happily I think and I do still have a 98 PC in the loft......

I think that PC still has "Die by the Sword" on it too....

I always wanted to try out High Seas Trader too but could never get it to work on any system I owned.

 

[Stallion]

So, is this a remake, or the original game? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> Would there be any hope of it running on XP?

 

[Officerpuppy]

I think it should work on XP, I don't know since my laptop runs on Linux. I'm using Zsnes to play the game.

Right now in my game I'm sailing to Santo Domingo to hunt down a Spanish fleet that the King has asked me to destroy for the safety of the world <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="keith.gif" /> After I beat the game with the English, I want to try the Dutch. The Dutch players story seems to revolve around sailing and making various discoveries.

 

[Stallion]

I completely forgot about emulators. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> I might have to give it a try. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />

 

[Old Salt]

<!--quoteo(post=287508:date=Nov 2 2008, 07:04 PM:name=Officerpuppy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Officerpuppy @ Nov 2 2008, 07:04 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=287508"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think it should work on XP, I don't know since my laptop runs on Linux. I'm using Zsnes to play the game.

Right now in my game I'm sailing to Santo Domingo to hunt down a Spanish fleet that the King has asked me to destroy for the safety of the world <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="keith.gif" /> After I beat the game with the English, I want to try the Dutch. The Dutch players story seems to revolve around sailing and making various discoveries.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That sounds different from the original game. You played characters as I remember in the original. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />