Sid Meier's next game! YARRRR!

[Skanky Burns]

Press 1 and 7 alternatively on the numeric keypad. That should work somewhat. I think space or enter might be involved too.

[Nikolai]

I'll try it. Thanks for fast response!

[Main_Brain]

I recall it was enter and the direction of the slash was set due to up down.

[Skanky Burns]

In the original pirates it was the left-hand side of the numeric keys that did attacks. My battle in the Pirates2 game I also used those keys to hit the enemy a few times. Unfortunately I had ~70 men and he had ~450...

[To_Serve_Man]

Originally posted by Lord Zalzabad
Name me one game that made the transition from 2d to 3d sucsessfully? You could proberly name about ten or twenty...

Grand Theft Auto Series
Super Mario
Metroid
Zelda
Every fighting game (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc etc)
Doom (FPSs)
Every RTS (ex: C&C: Red Alert -> C&C: Generals. Warcraft -> Warcraft III)
Every RPG (Morrowind, Everquest, Final Fantasy.... the list goes on and on)

Not only could I name twenty, I could name probably into the hundreds.

Not to bash you personally or anything. I'm just showing a trend that gives Pirates II! a little hope here.

[marcuspeddle]

I seem to remember playing a pirate game on my Commodore 64. I can't remember the title but I suppose it could have been Pirates. I think a new version of the game would be great if it was complex enough. Something like a naval version of Total War would be fabulous.
Hmm, thinking about that. The game I'm hoping someone will develop in the future would be lik Civ3 with batlles played out like Total War. Clicking on a city would bring you to a screen like SimCity. Mmmmm, strategy, tactical battles, detailed city building . . . . . . all in one. Battles for cities would take place on your actual city screen a la the Sierra city building series. This will probably never happen but I can dream . . . .

[~OmegaRed~]

Never played, lets hook up a version for XP!

[RGBVideo]

Pirates!

I loved the Gold edition, it was instable, but a great game nonetheless.

[Laughing Mind]

Imo, the Nintendo version (!) was best. Much less cutting across screens (when going from one to another) and much faster. Also, you really didn't need too many keyboard inputs....

edit: it won't let me delete? I just realized there were so many pages, apologize if I've repeated someone's comment... it won't let me delete

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
In the original pirates it was the left-hand side of the numeric keys that did attacks. My battle in the Pirates2 game I also used those keys to hit the enemy a few times. Unfortunately I had ~70 men and he had ~450...

C'mon Skanky - you can win at odds of 1 to 450 in the original (so long as you don't get hit).

It made capturing a galleon with a pinnace and 8 men so much fun. It's going to be difficult to recreate that kind of "taking on the odds" factor in 3D - but I'll give Firaxis the benefit of the doubt until I'm proved wrong.

[Raion]

Pirates, I really, really enjoyed.
From going to Port and meeting the Govenor's Daughter, to sailing around the Caribbean, and fighting battles with the ships, and drifting along the wrong way with the wind, to trying to get up the Florida Coast to catch the Spanish Galleons loaded up with gold during that certain part of the year, (and usually missing them), and finding buried treasure with a map bought in a bar, to the sword fights in town, to the land battles to trek through the jungles to get there, to take over a town from land.

That was the original Pirates on 5 - 1/4 floppy, on an Apple IIC with 128k of memory, and sixteen colors for the 592 x 184 (or something like that) screen resolution.

And you know what, do you know what?
It was and is still the best game that I ever played.

Yarrrrr~~~~~~
Mateys~~~~~~~

Get the sloop ready to rumble!
And get some Spanish Gold, ye Hardys!
Smell the salt water, and drift with the winds of the Caribbean!

[Raion]

The sea battles at the city with their fortesses, like Cartegena.

All in the day and life of the Bucaneer!

Pirates II, I missed.

Load up the muskets, thar's a town that needs to be taken down, here.

[Raion]

Ah, well, actually I used a joystick to do the swordfights and play the game, moving the ships and gunning.

Still, have that joystick, I think!

[Raion]

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=2346

Pirates' Gold

Also one of my favorite movies -- Roman Polanski's Pirates with Walter Matheu (sp?) old movie - funny sort of.

Whas th' barrel of rum!

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Laughing Mind
Imo, the Nintendo version (!) was best. Much less cutting across screens (when going from one to another) and much faster. Also, you really didn't need too many keyboard inputs....

edit: it won't let me delete? I just realized there were so many pages, apologize if I've repeated someone's comment... it won't let me delete

AFAIK, your comment was original. Not only that, but it was interesting as well.

C'mon Skanky - you can win at odds of 1 to 450 in the original (so long as you don't get hit).

That's the problem, I wasn't playing the original. I didn't even get to pick what sword I was using.