Pirates!
Among the old games I remember with the most fondness, near the top is Sid Meier's Pirates!, and it's updated Sequal, Pirates! Gold.
They were among the first open-ended games that I remember, where you could totally ignored the story line and just "be a pirate", if you wanted to. It had role-playing, adventuring, action, and greatest of all, piracy!
They were just plain fun!
Today I came across This press release from Firaxis, Sid Meier's game company, detailing that they are working on a Pirates! remake!
Now I just need to hear that LucasArts is doing another Monkey Island game, and that Sierra's doing another Quest For Glory game[1], and I'll be totally content. ;-)
[1] This last is, unfortunately, almost impossible at this point. A few years ago, Sierra killed the division that had been responsible for the truly great old Sierra adventure games.
They were among the first open-ended games that I remember, where you could totally ignored the story line and just "be a pirate", if you wanted to. It had role-playing, adventuring, action, and greatest of all, piracy!
They were just plain fun!
Today I came across This press release from Firaxis, Sid Meier's game company, detailing that they are working on a Pirates! remake!
Now I just need to hear that LucasArts is doing another Monkey Island game, and that Sierra's doing another Quest For Glory game[1], and I'll be totally content. ;-)
[1] This last is, unfortunately, almost impossible at this point. A few years ago, Sierra killed the division that had been responsible for the truly great old Sierra adventure games.
I also wholeheartedly support any game with an exclamation mark in its title!
QfG.
QfG1 was one of the first games I *really* played on a computer.
games.slashdot.org.
Even after 10-15 years (15 for Pirates!, 10 for Pirates! Gold), it's still one of my all time favorite games. I just *hope* that the new one lives up to that legacy.
Civ.
I hope the new Pirates! game lives up to what the old ones were, 'cause then you'll have an opportunity to see just how cool it is.
Honestly, if it's even half as good as the old ones, it'll still be twice as good as most of the popular games these days. ;-)
Uncharted Waters.
I'd almost forgotten about Uncharted Waters. That was a truly awesome game, too.
Both of them rank up there as games that you can literally play for hours and hours without getting tired of them.
And Uncharted Waters reminds me of how awesome Romance of the Three Kingdoms was, too. Koeig knows how to make some damn fine video games.