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    Historical accuracy in Sid Meier's Pirates?

    Evening, slags.

    I'm toying with the idea of trying out Sidney's watery opus, but being stickler for historical accuracy there's something I need to know. Is there much man-on-man action in it?

    After all, those bluff jack tars on the Spanish Main (all burly lads, with hands like plates) tended to take the sort of approach with each other's chutney gutters that rats take with drainpipes, and it would be the very worst sort of bowdlerisation to omit this crucial detail. So does Roger the Cabinboy make an appearance, or what? If they ain't bumming, I ain't buying.

    Your helpful advices, as ever, would be appreciated, and I shower down my love and affection upon your well-scrubbed and upturned faces.

    Gimp.
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    Is this meant to be a joke? The game carries an ESRB rating of "E", so there's no blood, no language, and certainly no gay subtext.

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        Originally posted by DaveV
        Is this meant to be a joke? The game carries an ESRB rating of "E", so there's no blood, no language, and certainly no gay subtext.
        I knew it! What a sell-out. It's as bad as his convenient overlooking (in Civ) of the fact that the Colossus of Rhodes sported a 25-foot long bronze knob-on.
        The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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          Buggery in mainstream games
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            • #7
              I'm at a loss for words.

              I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                I blame myself for clicking on the thread after I noticed who'd posted it ...

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                • #9
                  In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.

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                  • #10
                    Laz is always entertaining.
                    I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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                    • #11
                      On a more serious note, Sid said numerous times in interviews that he wanted the game to be cartoonish and funny. This puppy would have been much better IMO in the hands of the Fallout team.
                      In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.

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                      • #12
                        Why would you make a game about pirates cartoonish and funny?
                        "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock
                        phasers on the Heffalump. Piglet, meet me in transporter room
                        three. Christopher Robin, you have the bridge."

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                        • #13
                          So you can sell it as light entertainment.
                          I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                            . . . and get a whole bunch of players to "remember it fondly" eight years hence, when its time to remake it again.
                            "We may be in a hallucination here, but that's no excuse for being delusional!." K.S. Robinson, 'The Years Of Rice And Salt.'

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                            • #15
                              does this mean we're going to have another remake of Pirates eight years from now?
                              I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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