Sid Meier's Pirates! preview

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

I see a Fez in-coming

Indeed... it's incredible. To even say PR2's graphics is better than Pirates! with a straight face shows an amazing ability to block out reality.

More denial. I'm surprised you haven't called me a criminal yet.

I'm not saying that PR2 is better than Pirates

Yes you are... I was talking about the graphics .

No, I'm not. It was you that compaired the graphics of the two in the first place, I just took it a step further.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Want to explain how Port Royale's supposedly questionable use of shadows and shading stops Pirates! from looking like washed out crap?

Oh please. Even if I grant you the Pirates! scene looks like washed out, which I don't, it doesn't mean the PR one is automatically better because of the messed up lighting.

Originally posted by General Ludd
Want to explain the relevance of lighting in scenes which have static lighting?

I was explaining to you why the colours in the Pirates! scene are so much brighter and saturated.

Originally posted by General Ludd
Want to explain why you think houses with pixelated edges, gaudy lighting, and no decour or flavour look more 'real' than the high-res and highly detailed sprites?

What do you think houses in a medieval town looks like? I would argue that the streets look too clean and the houses too tidy, but they are real houses. The houses in the other screenshot looks exactly like the toy houses my SO collects, complete with little animals going about their businesses.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Oh please. Even if I grant you the Pirates! scene looks like washed out, which I don't, it doesn't mean the PR one is automatically better because of the messed up lighting.

Too bad I didn't say PR is better - I said they where both pretty bad.

Remember, i wasn't the one who brought up PR as a comparison.

I was explaining to you why the colours in the Pirates! scene are so much brighter and saturated.

Well, it's nice that you understand why it's ugly.

What do you think houses in a medieval town looks like? I would argue that the streets look too clean and the houses too tidy, but they are real houses. The houses in the other screenshot looks exactly like the toy houses my SO collects, complete with little animals going about their businesses.

So you are arguing about style and theme rather than quality? I can accept that.

[Sava]

you all are a bunch of haters...

I'M not going to be negative.

But I didn't play the first one, so perhaps I'm the only one here who can be objective. Maybe this game will suck, I don't know... all I know is that being a pirate is pretty ****ing bad ass.

[GhengisFarb™]

Port Royale 2's going to be way better than Pirates! 3.

Go Germans! You can program! (Ascaron)

Down Frenchies! Your losers! (Atari - the losers formerly known as Infrogrames)

Go Germans! .......

[vovan]

There is now also another preview:

Gamespot Pirates Impressions

[child of Thor]

I'm feeling sad i wont be able to play this game - for a while atleast(maybe next xmas i will get another newer pc?)

[DrSpike]

I think it's about time.

[Imran Siddiqui]

More denial.

Denial? Because I acknowledge that Pirates! looks beautiful?!

Ah, a Fez in the making you are.

How is this not absolutely gorgeous?

[DrSpike]

Before this degerates further into "you suck", "no, *you* suck" perhaps everyone could agree that both styles are not inherently superior but could conceivably each have their own admirers?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I never said PR2 was ugly. I'm simply responding to those who say P! is ugly, by simply saying PR2 looks worse.

[Rasputin]

all i can say is that the proof of the pudding will be in the eating ...

lets await the release as graphics are not everything, i wouldrather have bad graphics and good gameplay than brillaint graphics and lousy gameplay..

[Sava]

I want to shoot that ship with an Apache gunship!

[Grumbold]

Originally posted by Doc
Before this degerates further into "you suck", "no, *you* suck" perhaps everyone could agree that both styles are not inherently superior but could conceivably each have their own admirers?

That idea sucks

Both styles of architecture are correct. Just for different countries and levels of wealth. Neither look accurate in the way they have laid them out if they are attempting to represent colonies in the tropics.

[Imran Siddiqui]

graphics are not everything

Of course, but the haters are insulting the graphics (so far).