Pirates! gold

[Kassiopeia]

The dancing is not mandatory, you can skip it if you like and it won't have too big an impact on the game. The same can be said for many things in Pirates!.

I shouldn't have gotten this, now I'm torn between HL2 and this.

[vovan]

Hey, nice avatar, Dissident.

[Barinthus]

Thanks for the input on dancing, fellows.

It's frustrating when I purchase a game only to find that spoken dialogues or whatever are critical to playing and there's no subtitles or anything like that. It's extremely difficult to persuade the store to take back the game due to concerns of people making illegal copies or whatnot.

[Dinner]

I can remember playing the original night after night on my C64 while in elementry school. Of course that was when Pirates! was considered state of the art. I'm glade to see a new edition has come out and I plan on picking up a copy tomorrow.

[Aramis]

Reading this thread a day or so ago, the dancing part seemed off-putting. Recent posts have restored my interest.
But I'd still like to see a bit of the game.
Is there a demo out there?

[Ljube]

Originally posted by The diplomat


You don't need to listen to the music to do the dance part. You do not use the music as cue but the hand gestures of the lady. The lady does a series of hand gesture, each one is a cue to do a certain dance move. So, the key is to follow the hand gesture. However, the music does help with timing.

They introduced dancing mini game to make the charm trait more appealing. In the original game it was next to useless.

Please note that I haven't played the game yet and these are my observations based on my experience with the original game and what you have posted in this thread.

Originally posted by The diplomat

And the review author is also incorrect about attacking cities. You can attack by sailing into the city. However, there is no sea battle mini-game when attacking a city, you will automatically be taken to the "chess board" whether you sailed into the city or walked into the city.

Shame they didn't include the sea battle mini-game. Even though I always tended to avoid attacking like that, still, with favourable wind, it had a few applications.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Ljube-ljcvetko
They introduced dancing mini game to make the charm trait more appealing. In the original game it was next to useless.

I think you are correct. In the original, the player did not have much control over winning the daughter's heart. The dance mini-game gives the player more control over whether or not you successfully win the lady's heart. And the charm trait along with the special shoes item give the player a real measureable bonus in that mini-game.

I think that is why they also added the sneaking in and out of town mini-game. In the original game that was simply a roll of the dice. The dancing and the sneaking in and out of town mini-games eliminate some randomness and give the player more control over the outcome.

Shame they didn't include the sea battle mini-game. Even though I always tended to avoid attacking like that, still, with favourable wind, it had a few applications.

Well, the turn based battles are so very good that you really don't need a sea battle against cities.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Alex
IGN review.

They gave it a 9.2.

Gamespot Review

They gave it a 9.2.

Conincidence?

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's a conspiracy .

Damn... 64 MB VRam to play this game . I need a new computer. Funny that a Sid Meier game is making me do that.

[Nostromo]

Wait for the Xbox version.

[vovan]

Originally posted by nostromo
Wait for the Xbox version.

[Panzeh]

Cavalry is brutal in those battles with big cities though. Cavalry can tear all of your units to shreds in the open.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by nostromo
Wait for the Xbox version.

Yep, that's what I'm going to have to do.

[Dis]

real men play games on PC's, not kiddie consoles.

[General Ludd]

I haven't really gotten a chance to play Pirates much, but on first impression it seems rather easy and lame - little more than a collection of simple mini-games.