Sid Meier's 'Pirates!' is being remade

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I have Pirates! Gold (DOS version, and not pirate for a change ^^) and it’s simply one of my favorites. It’s almost as old as me and still one of my favorites :yipee: And now it’s being remade!!!

Go check:

BTW, for my fellow eye-patched mateys - my records so far in Pirates! are (got each of these in a different game):

2 years without a single muttin
120k gold pieces in the cave (that’s what you get when you steal the silver train, find two treasure chests in a row and get to a safe port with only 10 sailors left to split the booty)
Married to the daughter of a governor
Found lost father and sister
15 acres of land and the title of Captain from the Spanish, letters of marc (or something spelled like that) from the other nations.

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Yeah, I read about it a while back, maybe a half a year ago, whenever it was announce. Looks wicked sweet. Well, sounds sweet, since they havent released screenshots.

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They’ve released some 32 screenshots now (screenshots and sketches), check the link I posted ^^ I think they’re using an engine similar to the one Lucas Games used for Escape from Monkey Island.

Edit: by the look of it, they have removed all those info panels from the game. A pity, for they gave a humongous strategical advantage if you had the time to read them.

I wish someone would do that to Sea Legends too. Pirates! and Sea Legends are very alike, the main difference being that Sid Meier’s game is a kind of “Sim Pirate”, whereas Legends follows a storyline.

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I’ve never heard of this game before.

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Wow. Don’t know how those screens got by me. Nice, but I heard somewhere they were using the morrowind graphics engines for it, though I found that hard to believe at the time, and I still do looking at those screens.

And Escape from monkey Island used prerendered backgrounds, and those don’t look prerendered, so I doubt its that engine. Who cares what engine it is though, it still looks great!

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I mentioned this ages ago. Slowpoke!
I haven’t played the original, but I’m still looking forward to this one.

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Thats because Pirates are now trendy.

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That’s funny, I could have sworn it was already released. Then again, maybe I’m thinking of a different pirate game…

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Your’ probably thinking of Pirates of the Carribbean, or Sea Dogs 2. Neither were Sid Meier games. Though I heard they were respectable, they apparently didn’t live up to the legacy of the original pirates game.