Sid Meier's Pirates! vs Sid Meier's Sim Golf

[The Rusty Gamer]

I've gotta ask the admins here - what was going through their minds when they deemed that Sim Golf was newsworthy and its development and progress be followed here but that Pirates! wasn't - I would've thought that the latter was at least a little closer to empire-building and would be far more popular among the people that hang out at Apolyton!

[lord of the mark]

I can only presume that the combination of Sid and Will Wright sounded interesting, more interesting than what actually came out, while Pirates! is a sequel to a well known game.

[Alex]

And SimGolf could have been a huge success like the Sims, and this would attract even more people to the forums...

[MarkG]

it was more a matter of time rather than will

[DrSpike]

Damn I was expecting a poll.

[Alex]

Me too. SimGolf rulez!!!

[Dis]

ahh sim golf

one of those games I played for like 2 hours and never played again.

money down the drain .

oh sid, how you have failed me.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Me the same. And within a very short time (like 3 months or so - is this a record?) , it dropped drastically in price from $69.95 to $29.95. There's $40 I'll never get back. (BTW, I'm talking NZ$ here).

That's a story in itself, the number of games I've bought and before I've really got value for money from them (maybe only played them a bit), they've dropped in price.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Originally posted by MarkG
it was more a matter of time rather than will

Has it really been that wise devoting so much time to RON? It's a bit of a sneak to consider it an empire-building game in any case. Why no coverage of other RTS games of similar ilk then?

I've got to say that RON is a most disappointing game for me. I just don't get it and why nearly everyone raves about it. For me it has no soul and feels empty somehow. The only thing "innovative" is the borders I suppose.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by The Rusty Gamer


Has it really been that wise devoting so much time to RON? It's a bit of a sneak to consider it an empire-building game in any case. Why no coverage of other RTS games of similar ilk then?

I've got to say that RON is a most disappointing game for me. I just don't get it and why nearly everyone raves about it. For me it has no soul and feels empty somehow. The only thing "innovative" is the borders I suppose.

Given Brians track record, i would have been surprised not to see the coverage.

[Alex]

hehe, simgolf was not a bad game at all, it was just... boring. after you had seen all the little things in the game, there simply wasn't anything else to see.

[Nikolai]

I think the admins should consider a Pirates! dedicated forum, I'm sure it will be a good idea.

[DrSpike]

I will be very much surprised if there is ever a forum for Pirates.

[Nikolai]

Why? Because it's not Civ? I think that reason is nonvalid now that we have had RON here... Of course, as Ming says, the owners have the last word.

[conmcb25]

Ghengis Farb can be the mod of the Pirates Forum.