/v/ - Video Games

really depends on what you actually want to play

there's everything from Sid Meier's Pirates (simulation, PC) to Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat (action, PS2 and XBOX)

Uncharted Waters - New Horizons (SNES) has a pirate chapter

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean MMO had multiple players act as crew on a single ship

countless One Piece games in all sorts of genres

Real life. Go make a boat bucko.

In all seriousness windward is a comfy ship game that you can larp as a pirate upon.

Raven's Cry.

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is alright. If you can stomach the Ubisoft pozz, that is.

I would also recommend The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, but that's not actually a real pirate game. So disregard that suggestion.

>>16645495

Most pirate games tend to be really really low budget and very clunky. For some reason they tend to be simulation games (Like Sid Meier's Pirates and Tropico's pirate expansion). There are exceptions like Monkey Island. The pirate game that is the most well liked is Assassins Creed 4.

I think the main reason there aren't a lot of pirate games is for the same reason there aren't a lot of old west games and American Revolutionary War/Civil War games. The lack of automatic (or in pirates case semi automatic) weapons limits it for FPS-like titles and the reliance on ships and sailing requires gameplay systems that are way more complicated than most developers really want. (Since you have to account for things like wind and the fact a boat doesn't operate the same as a car) they also essentially necessitate an open world style game. I would also say it's just developers being uncreative because one can take elements from the Golden Age of Sail and put them in any vidya. Like you could make a Dark-Souls style rpg with pirates if you wanted to it's just nobody wants to push the envelope too far artstyle wise.

>>16645576

The sailing was most of the game. It also was much more polished compared to a lot of pirate vidya where sailing and ship combat tends to be very clunky and awkward.

>>16645585

>6 hours of land content

>Sea content is low as fuck and casual as fuck

>Can't even roleplay

It's garbage

>>16645615

Exactly. There isn't enough in customization or ship types so that in an hour or so you already maxed out your ship. Then besides the four ship "bosses" in the corners of the map, the rest is either infinite npc fighting for no real benefit or typical ubishit collectathons for no real benefit.

>>16645576

I can recommend this as well, plus it has an extensive modding community that added a lot of new ships, quests, characters and so on.

>>16645576

>Age of Pirates 2

damn, no idea why I never heard of it before but I gotta check it out

>>16645694

It lacks a lot of polish, but if I were to compare it to a game, it would be Mount & Blade Warband.

>you can pledge your allegiance to any of the 4 empires, or to the pirates, by doing missions for them, from sneaking into enemy towns, to fighting a few bandits in the jungle outside of the city, to sinking a few enemy ships

>you can have your own minifleet of several ships, and give them commands like which ammunition to use, whether to protect or attack a ship, or even to board an enemy ship

>you can capture cities either for a certain nation or for you alone

<sadly the world is a bit more static, in that no nation will go out of it's way to attack other nations

>you can change the flag of your ship to sneak into enemy ports, but they might detect you, if your stats aren't high enough, in that case you can staton your ship on a beach on the other side of the island, and go on foot into the city, hope you bought map of the island :^), oh and you can still be recognized by the guards in the city, so avoid bumping into them.

sadly no pirate songs as in AssCreed, but the stock classical music is really fitting

>there is both land and sea combat, and you can make time go faster, to speed things up

>you can capture enemy ships, which is the fastest and cheapest way of upgrading your ship, however bigger ships require bigger crews, which costs more every month, in food, rum and monthly payments, otherwise they will rebel against you

>if fighting is too much, just become a merchant, sailing your ship from town to town and trading, or better yet, the merchants will ask you transport large amounts of cargo from one city to another

>there is also a main quest and some side-quests, but they are completely optional, though they will give some unique ships as rewards

I also recommend getting the Gentlemen of Fortune modpack, which adds several new ships, characters and more

Blackwake was mediocre and Early Access to boot but it's the only fps pirate game I know of.

Yarr, there be a piratically themed mod fer Doom

I'm also recommending Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure because no one else will. It's a point-and-click adventure game like the Monkey Island series. One that really deserves a sequel imo.

>>16645725

IIRC all the pirate games from that Slav developer have a huge and autistic mod community trying to make the game playable, with Pirates of the Caribbean being the one most actively developed for.

It's a damn tragedy that Ubisoft raped Black Flag into becoming an AssCreed game, because it could have been a genuinely great franchise on its own. The ship combat is basically the best part of the whole AC franchise, and with better combat it could have done all the stuff you could do in Pirates! but better.

Naturally, even if it had been it's own franchise, the disgusting French would have pozzed it out of simple spite.

>>16645778

It could never have been a better game for two reasons besides pozz

>no mod support

>no slave trading

Yes you can actually buy and sell slaves in stores in Age of Pirates. You can also recruit them as permanent crew members if you wish.

>>16645780

I'm just saying, the ability "seamlessly" go from ship combat, to boarding actions, to duels to exploration of land was pretty impressive, and the Pirate songs were a nice touch.

But as you said, the game suffered from being a console title and lacking in proper pirate elements. At the end of the day you were still an Assassin with a ship, not a proper pirate free to do your own thing, but a man can try and imagine what could have been done if the tech had been given to actually competent people that wanted to make a good game.

Oh well, still plenty of time to genocide the French if the niggers and mudshits don't do it by then.

>>16645697

Guns of Icarus should get a singleplayer mod that has good writing and cool locales.

>>16645757

>Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

Confirmed for dank game. Great puzzles, amazing use of motion controls. Pirate theme aint bad, just dont expect any actual rp or writing.

>>16645770

Ive always heard praise of this game. I think this is the summer where I check it out.

>>16645787

While it was "seamless" it still suffered from the same problem as the other russian games, in that when you board a ship, the two ships are sent into an alternative dimension where time outside of it is frozen, so while you fight the enemy crew and captain, all the other ships do nothing, but wait for your ass to finish the boarding. Hell in Pirates, you even have time to transfer cargo, and canons from one ship to another, while in the middle of a battle. Tough I do not know how you could easily solve this problem, and if it is actually a problem, and not just something that makes the game more fun, at the expense of realism.

Perhaps the multiplayer only game, Ubisoft was working on, will fin a solution to this.

>>16645802

>as the other russian games

I was actually talking about Black Flag, should have make it clearer.

>Perhaps the multiplayer only game, Ubisoft was working on, will fin a solution to this.

It's going to be shit. All I wanted was a game like Black Flag or Origins/Odyssey (without the homosex, letting you play as a Greek Mercenary) and leave you to explore mythical Greece or magical Caribbean in a reactive sandbox.

I saw the ones behind New Horizons are doing some Unity """remaster""". I am less not hopeful.

>>16645826

>I was actually talking about Black Fag, should have make it clearer.

No you were clear enough, the error was on my part, what I wanted to say s that both Black Flag and the russian games(Sea Dogs/Age of pirates) suffered from the same problem, namely when you board an enemy ship time stops for the other ships on the map.

>>16645844

Rouge wasn't bad, but the thousand-lakes area was boring

>>16645849

<boring

Much more an interesting setting than every goddamn pirate game being the same territory and it was a bit more wild story-wise.

>>16645843

>when you board an enemy ship time stops for the other ships on the map.

It would be fun to board an enemy ship only to have one of their allies board your ship in turn.

>>16645844

Rogue pretty much proved how soulless and morally bankrupt the AssCreed writers are. If the protagonist is an Assassin, the Templars are irredeemably evil and if you're playing as a Templar it's now the Assassins that are complete monsters (even though both sides on their retarded ideological divide have valid points to make).

Also, as the other anon has said, the setting is rather boring and the plot, besides "you're a Templar" gimmick is even more forgettable than other AssCreed stories.

>>16645857

You have your opinion and you're both entitled to be wrong, being centrists and all.

>>16645878

>centrists

I'd gas every centrist first chance I got. Templars would be the superior faction if Ubisoft didn't constantly go out of their way to paint them as cartoon villains. It's like the leftist hacks responsible for writing are incapable of grasping how absolute freedom might be a bad thing when applied to concepts such as morality and rule of law.

>>16645904

That doesn't explain why you'd wag Black Flag instead.

I'm quite certain neither of you were made for high Atlantic piracy to begin with. More or less high-to-do individuals to be ransomed. Not just the treachery of nations but the sea herself. Face it, you'd just be looking for sailors that don't know your family.

I was thinking of starting a thread on this myself. I'll have to check out Age of Pirates 2 now

>>16645929

Should. This is full of faggots that likely never even touched Pirate Grove.

WE GOT US A MAP

>>16645495

Everyone suggested the good ones so that's about it. The world is sorely missing a good naval game, blood and gold came close but the engine has terrible limitations. Just how hard is it to make a port royale clone, but with age of pirates / blood&gold combat?

>>16645495

A couple of weeks ago I began to play Sea of Thieves (aka Sea of Faggots) and I ended up making a thread about it over here.

https://8ch.net/v/res/16530495.html

I wish more people would give it a shot if they have an Xbox One or Windows 10 PC because the more time I spent with it the more I ended up enjoying it. Sea of Thieves doesn't hold your hand and it can be pretty obtuse when you first start out. Each time you load the game you start at a tavern/outpost and you have nothing on your person besides some default equipment and your ship spawns at a dock nearby with a preset amount of food, wood for repairs, and cannonballs. You can search the outpost for more food/wood/cannonballs if you want, and you might even stumble upon a barrel or message in a bottle which can get you started on a quest without having to interact with one of the three factions. Then once you have a quest you can head to your ship, look at the map and chart your course, raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, and begin sailing. There are three different ship types in the game (galleon for 3 - 4 players, brigantine for up to 3, sloop for 1 - 2). I usually play solo so I tend to play with a sloop all to myself.

When you complete quests for the factions in the game you'll receive a set amount of gold which can be spent on cosmetic items, but it's not about how much gold you can make or what you can spend money on. The ultimate point of the quests in Sea of Thieves are so that you can get out in the game world and engage with other players; the thrill of PvP. Encounter another player's ship at some random island, begin to fire cannonballs at their ship while the other player stops whatever they're doing on the island to come and defend their ship, they could come and chase you down, you might sink them or they might sink you, and whoever's crew sinks resets on an outpost having lost all their resources and treasures. There's no handholding.

The other day I was playing the final Tall Tale storyquest which had me sailing to the Devil's Roar region for the first time (this part of the map has active volcanoes with falling rock which could damage your ship, ash, lava, etc). Devil's Roar is basically the hard mode of the game. While I was making my way through there the kraken attacked me, then the megadolon shark attacked me the same time as the kraken, and while all this was happening an inactive volcano near me became active. I was overwhelmed but I managed to outlast a crew in a galleon. The other crew came near me but they were sunk pretty quickly by the kraken. The next time I sailed through the Devil's Roar it wasn't as hectic but still can be tough to navigate for solo players like me. I have fun though.

>>16645994

TO LEAD US TO A HIDDEN BOX

>>16645585

nice song

>>>/v/16646526

>can't crosslink

>Xbox One or Windows 10 PC

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this post looks mighty suspicious.

>>16645571

Black flag is amazing game, but not for reason you might thing. Gameplay is bland as fuck, climbing is worst in series, story is booring as fuck most part, main character is blandest white rice motherfucker there is and voice acting is hit and miss. But then there is boat mechanics that's not even that deep, but is still amazing. It's just show how much potential in propper piracy game whit good boat mechanics.

Whitout sailing and piracy in that game, it would have been biggest failure in AC series. But now it might be best one.

>>16646886

The very fact that it's Asscreed should be enough of a redflag

>>16646930

But it's Black Flag.

>>16652457

Does the Jap version have anime girls? Or is it just the box art?

risen 2 if you can put up with jank

Puzzle Pirates is the only good pirate game.

>>16645780

I'm curious: exactly what gameplay element would you be getting from having slave trading, other than showing off how much of an edgy counterculture fifteen-year-old you are?

>>16659730

You could say the same thing of any immoral action taken in video games. It could be an interesting mechanic, and you could enslave anyone anyway. You could make it so that the player can choose what form of slavery they practice if you moved away from just pirates and into empire or kingdom management. Maybe the children of your slaves are free? Maybe the slavery doesn't last forever, but for a set period of time? Maybe it is serfdom, which is feudalism but stricter? Or you just go full chattel slavery and don't give a shit (and then watch as your slaves are less productive as a result, compared to those well taken care of).

i don't know but now i'm an active isp

>>16646809

Potential doesn't make a game good, failed potential makes it even shittier.