Sid Meier's next game! YARRRR!

[Skanky Burns]

DaShi!

[Sarxis]

I never played Pirates, and frankly, the idea was never appealing. I'd rather see a new Colonization game first.

[Lord Zalzabad]

1. 17th century captain- Starting dates no longer an option

The 17th century was a long time, in fact, it was 100 years. The statement in the press releace you have supplied does not tell us anything other than the game is based in the 17th Century. Because of this, it would be premature to make such assumptions. You could have starting times based every 20 years, like in the original (1600, 1620, 1640 (my favorate time period to play in), 1660, 1680), all of which are in the 17th Century.
(That is unless you want to be technical and say that 1600 is a part of the 16th century since there was no year zero, but for simplicity, I will not take that into consideration)

Ok, thats my ranting over for the moment.

[Sten Sture]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
Do Call to Power I and II, Test of Time, Civ 3 ring a bell? And from what I have gathered from reading the fora, can you spell MOO3?

Those weren't all bad, the jewel boxes can be used for bootleg CDs!

Pirates was great, but I am afraid of all remakes.

[Kropotkin]

About the more role-playing part: Surely it could turn out to be interesting if it's done in the right way. Before, it was this constant hunt for long lost relatives that was the role-playing part as you hunted down evil spaniards with maps. This was a sub-plot to the game that didn't disturb the balance of the game itself. If they could come up with a lot of smaller plots that are weaved into the main story by chance it could spice things up a bit.

[Mahdimael]

True enough....as I remember, though, there were starting dates in the late 16th century. What I meant was that the starting dates wouldn't extend into that era. I just phrased it in a terrible way

Originally posted by Lord Zalzabad


The 17th century was a long time, in fact, it was 100 years. The statement in the press releace you have supplied does not tell us anything other than the game is based in the 17th Century. Because of this, it would be premature to make such assumptions. You could have starting times based every 20 years, like in the original (1600, 1620, 1640 (my favorate time period to play in), 1660, 1680), all of which are in the 17th Century.
(That is unless you want to be technical and say that 1600 is a part of the 16th century since there was no year zero, but for simplicity, I will not take that into consideration)

Ok, thats my ranting over for the moment.

[Gramphos]

Logo revealed

Found this on Firaxis' frontpage.

But it hasn't been posted here yet.

[albiedamned]

I just read through the beginning of this thread. Personally I would rather see a new Colonization (as you can see in my signature), but I'm sure I'll probably get this. However it sounds an awful lot like Bethesda Softworks new game, Pirates of the Caribbean, which comes out in July. You can read about that one here. I'm a huge Morrowind fan, so I have a lot of faith in BethSoft. I doubt their game will be a lightweight, so it will present serious competition for Firaxis.

I'm currently hooked on the Rise of Nations trial version, which has presented me with quite a dilemna. It's hardly fair that RoN and the Bloodmoon expansion for Morrowind are being released on the same day! I can only play one game 18 hours a day, not two!

[tniem]

albiedamned,

Looks like the game that you are refering to is drawn right from the ideas of the original Pirates. Not the first time that one of Sid's designs has been used by someone other than his staff. I wonder how this competition will be. Since this first game is tied in with the Disney movie it has a chance to have good promotional tie in and challenge the Sid name. It will be an interesting fight. But it will all come down to how good the game is.

[Main_Brain]

There is already a Pirates2:

http://www.geocities.com/Marcel_Strbak/pirates2.htm

Actually an Remake with some spiffy new features..
Check it out its really very nice. And im afraid its better than the upcoming one..

[Mahdimael]

How could it be better than something that doesn't exist yet?

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Mahdimael
How could it be better than something that doesn't exist yet?

Either Main Brain is clairvoyant or is taking a 50% chance of looking cool on a future forum.

I'm holding out that neither case is true.

[MrProxy]

I dont know if this has been mentioned, but theres also Uncharted Waters 1 and 2 from KOEI that are kind of similar to Pirates but with more RPG elements. I played them for a while, and the second one was pretty good, but never really got into it.

Pirates! on the other hand is brilliant and Ive spent thousands of hours playing it going back to its release circa 1987 for the fine Tandy 1000 system. Its not quite as good as the Civilization franchise (except for Civ III which of course is horrendous and an insult to my years of financially supporting Sid Meier and his decadent lifestyle) but Id say its the second best game series ever. I didnt really like Pirates! Gold though. Too buggy. For that matter, the original crashed when you started to do well in the game. If they just release a faithful remake of the game without the usual critical errors Ill be happy.

As for these Colonization sequel proposals, I dont get it. That game was terrible...just a crippled version of Civilization with the added "fun" of ridiculous micromanaging of the economy. My understanding is that Sid Meier tried to distance himself from this abomination and had nothing to do with it other than his name being slapped on the box to sell product. If true, a wise move

[The Templar]

Originally posted by Grumbold
Pirates! was great in its day, but the gameplay was pretty repetitive. Blend it with a dash of "The Guild" so that you can play a pirate, merchant, weaponsmith and so on while establishing a dynasty and I would be really excited.

I have to agree with this, Pirates! would get old fast. Pirates!2 would have to really expand the amount of gameplay and non-repetetive stuff.