In this adventure game, players build a fleet of ships, explore the high seas, and engage in sword battles on their way to finding a seafarer's abducted family. Players can shoot cannons at ships and fortresses, and engage in one-on-one sword fighting on the ships. Historical footage sometimes references pirates' violent exploits (e.g., "slashing his throat so badly that blood gushed everywhere"). Some female characters wear low-cut dresses that expose a lot of cleavage. In one cutscene, a woman hugs a man then squeezes his buttocks. Some locations are named after alcohol (e.g., "Rum Rock" and "Rum Bay"), and the crew is once referred to as "dead drunk." The word "hell" sometimes appears on screen.
I was just gonna submit it to the site and not make a topic, but the submit news link is down.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 22, 2010, 05:23:39 PM
I don't think it's the NES version because of the mention of cutscenes. I wonder if it's a port of the 2004 game or if it's a new game.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Toruresu on April 22, 2010, 05:29:23 PM
Didn't the 2004 game sell like crap?
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: broodwars on April 22, 2010, 05:30:55 PM
Cool. I've heard good things about the 2004 remake, but never got around to buying it.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on April 22, 2010, 06:44:25 PM
I've just been playing that on my PC again recently. It's one of the most addicting games I've ever played. Everything you can do takes so little time that you keep saying "Just a little more" until the sun comes up.
My only complaints are the lack of fleet battles (extra ships are only used for hauling more cargo/crew and for saving you from being stranded for long if you lose a sea battle, and they tend to slow you down) and there only being one rather simplistic story to play through. I'd buy the Wii version in a heartbeat if they expanded the game.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 22, 2010, 11:57:22 PM
I've been toying with buying the 2004 game on Xbox Originals or the recent Mac rerelease for a while. I'm not sure I'd rather have the Wii version than either of those, even if it weren't significantly more expensive as I'd assume it would be since the Xbox version is $15.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: noname2200 on April 23, 2010, 01:13:04 PM
Anyhow, assuming this is the PC game, and that it isn't dramatically improved, I'm extremely unexcited.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: kraken613 on April 24, 2010, 11:45:00 AM
^ No it didn't. It was a great game and crazy addicting. I used to play it so much.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: noname2200 on April 24, 2010, 07:39:30 PM
Different strokes, I guess. I loved the first hour, but replaying that same hour over and over wore thin quickly. My roommate saw me playing it four different times: the fourth time he called out exactly what was going to happen, when it was going to happen.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Stratos on April 27, 2010, 05:28:44 AM
I adore the remake on PC! I do hope they expand the game more. I had heard a rumor that there was going to be an expansion for the game.
It's fun to woo the hawt Spanish senoritas but I always thought it would be cool to be able to woo Indian princesses and Pirate Princesses. Plus no matter how much I tried to reconquer the Spanish Main for Mother Spain it felt that little was legitimately done when I did convert most of them over.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on April 28, 2010, 02:57:04 PM
It's fun to woo the hawt Spanish senoritas but I always thought it would be cool to be able to woo Indian princesses and Pirate Princesses.
That's a good point. While a beautiful governor's daughter should probably still be the "best" wife score-wise, it would be neat if you could also woo serving wenches, merchants' daughters, chiefs' daughters, etc. Maybe they could change it so you get the best score for the prettiest woman in the Caribbean regardless of her social standing. Then every game would be a little different. You already have to rep grind, so to speak, to have a chance with the beautiful governors' daughters, so they'd need to add ways to rep grind for the others. Wealthy merchants would be impressed if you played the trade side of the game well (and they should really add pirate attacks on your own ship if you have valuable cargo), and serving wenches might just go by your notoriety, though that seems a little thin by comparison. They'd have to add a whole new way to play the game to earn credit with the natives, probably.
It would also be fun if the gifts the girls gave you differed. Only the chief's daughter could give you the medicinal herbs that extend your life, but she wouldn't have access to the pistols, for example.
Plus no matter how much I tried to reconquer the Spanish Main for Mother Spain it felt that little was legitimately done when I did convert most of them over.
That's because Spain already owns 90% of the major ports. Quit being such a loyalist. I conquered everything for Holland once, and that really changed the feel of things. There were fluyts everywhere, all with names I couldn't pronounce.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Stratos on April 29, 2010, 05:12:31 AM
Plus no matter how much I tried to reconquer the Spanish Main for Mother Spain it felt that little was legitimately done when I did convert most of them over.
That's because Spain already owns 90% of the major ports. Quit being such a loyalist. I conquered everything for Holland once, and that really changed the feel of things. There were fluyts everywhere, all with names I couldn't pronounce.
I picked the eras when Spanish control was weakening and played like I was the last true pirate of Spain standing in the gap of history's march. Made the game feel very epic and gave me new purpose in playing.
I remember finding a mod that changed the look of the prettiest women into different types. So I had a hot gothic princess for a wife in one game. It was awesome because in the game there was only one like that and all the other women of the same type looked like the normal ones. Made my lady appear more unique instead of running into copies in other ports.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Stratos on August 05, 2010, 07:17:03 PM
IGN has a preview of the game up. Sounds like it is a pure port not not yet confirmed to have no new additions. I wonder how they will handle the controls. If they included Classic Controller support then they could copy the Xbox control scheme but I have no idea how motion controls could work unless they revamped parts of the game.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 05, 2010, 07:30:50 PM
If it's just a port, I'm not interested at all. If I want to play that game, I'll pick it up on 360; it's available on Xbox Originals, for $15, probably half what this will cost.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Morari on August 05, 2010, 10:44:16 PM
Or on the PC for $10. ;)
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: kraken613 on August 06, 2010, 01:30:45 AM
If it's just a port, I'm not interested at all. If I want to play that game, I'll pick it up on 360; it's available on Xbox Originals, for $15, probably half what this will cost.
Seriously get it on PC, the requirements have to be next to nothing.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 06, 2010, 01:33:35 AM
As a Mac user, I'd rather pay $15 for the Xbox version than pay $10 and have to boot into Windows to play it. I think they actually ported it to Mac very recently; some company making a business of porting over old games, but it's recent enough that it'd still be more expensive than the Xbox one.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Stratos on August 06, 2010, 04:51:38 AM
I recall that when it released on Xbox a Gamecube one was mentioned on early release lists. I wonder if they half ported it or even finished porting it to Gamecube and never released it for whatever reason. Then, years later realize that the new 'GC 1.5' could easily host a slightly tweaked version of their finished port.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Morari on August 06, 2010, 11:11:04 AM
As a Mac user, I'd rather pay $15 for the Xbox version than pay $10 and have to boot into Windows to play it. I think they actually ported it to Mac very recently; some company making a business of porting over old games, but it's recent enough that it'd still be more expensive than the Xbox one.
It looks to run around $30 for the Mac version. :\
I wonder how well the PC version would run in Parallels?
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: jrlibrarian on August 06, 2010, 12:05:39 PM
I loved the PC version. I still have a copy of it if anyone wants it. Send me a PM if interested.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 06, 2010, 01:51:31 PM
As a Mac user, I'd rather pay $15 for the Xbox version than pay $10 and have to boot into Windows to play it. I think they actually ported it to Mac very recently; some company making a business of porting over old games, but it's recent enough that it'd still be more expensive than the Xbox one.
It looks to run around $30 for the Mac version. :\
I wonder how well the PC version would run in Parallels?
I'm sure it'd run fine in it; I can get Modern Warfare 2 to be (barely) playable in Parallels. It'd probably run just fine in CrossOver as well, which would be even easier. I'd still probably rather play it on the 360. I generally prefer to play things on consoles unless they're not available anywhere but PC, or are much better on PC, and since I don't consider that to be true of first person shooters and have never really liked real time strategy, that's not a very long list.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Morari on August 06, 2010, 03:21:25 PM
I generally prefer to play things on consoles unless they're not available anywhere but PC, or are much better on PC, and since I don't consider that to be true of first person shooters and have never really liked real time strategy, that's not a very long list.
Wait, what? Oh my. We'll not discuss that. Hehe.
I'd always choose the PC version simply because of flexibility if nothing else. I like being able to load up and play 15 year old games without a hitch, as opposed to dragging out a dusty console and hooking it up. Of course that's not always true with Macs, due to Apple's planned obsolescence, but still a point to consider. I've actually been revisiting the original Quake and it's expansion packs lately. They're as fun as ever due to a slew of user-created graphical updates... That game that I was playing back in 1996? Yeah, it looks just as good as (and sometimes better than) most of the games released just this year. :P
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 06, 2010, 05:21:24 PM
I'll freely admit that mouse and keyboard is more precise and accurate; I've just never felt comfortable with that setup.
And there's no planned obsolescence in this area; any current Mac can run any OS X program ever made, provided they installed Rosetta when they installed the OS and the program hasn't been broken by an OS update. Of course, Apple rewriting the OS with OS X (something Microsoft really should have done with Windows) prevents direct compatibility with earlier programs, but I have a classic Mac emulator that lets me play SimCity 2000 or Master of Orion II whenever I have the urge.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Morari on August 06, 2010, 10:56:26 PM
You just made me want to install SimCity2000. I'm not sure if that's a good thing either... I might not have a life for several weeks if I proceed.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Shaymin on August 07, 2010, 09:32:17 AM
YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON SC2000! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Mop it up on August 07, 2010, 08:14:30 PM
This topic makes me want to boot up my Win98 machine and see if SimCity 2000 is still on it (which it should be because I don't recall ever deleting anything).
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 07, 2010, 08:18:24 PM
I think I still have my copy of SimCity 2000, I have no idea if it works on my laptop or not though. I know that RollerCoaster Tycoon does (I had the itch to play it last year), but the expansion pack I own for it, RollerCoaster Tycoon: Corkscrew Follies, does not. A shame too since the expansion pack added good stuff like "No Entrance" signs (to stop stupid park visitors from going up the exit path of a ride).
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Stratos on August 08, 2010, 06:08:28 AM
I loved playing Sim Tower. One of the class computers in my middle school had it installed and we would spen a lot of time playing it between lessons. It was great.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Morari on August 08, 2010, 12:47:46 PM
Ah yes, Sim Tower. I loved those multi-level lobbies! ;)
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Mop it up on August 08, 2010, 05:02:07 PM
I have SimTower on there too. I remember I would always get stuck once the tower rating reached three stars. Then suddenly there was a lot of stuff which could be built and keep track of, and I never figured out the best way to manage it all and have the tower be good enough to reach the next rank.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: Morari on August 09, 2010, 01:07:20 AM
I assume you missed out of the chapel then? That's sad... and not very romantic. :(
I always liked renaming random janitors to "Dirty Harry" for some reason.
Title: Re: Sid Meier's Pirates!! Wii bound
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 09, 2010, 02:12:46 AM
I loved Sim Tower. Yoot Saito's sort-of sequel to it was one of the reasons I bought a DSi, but sadly it never made its way out of Japan. I recently learned, though, that there's an iPad version of it, and they are planning on releasing that here, which made me very happy.
