Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)

Not my favorite Sid Meier's game, but it was fun to play many years ago. Today, not so much. It's okay to play it for a nostalgia trip, but I wouldn't have enough persistence to play it for hours or all night.

I have a hard time with this game. I just can't wrap my head around the navigation and figuring out where to go to do what I'm trying. I'm sure if I play for longer I'll get the hang of it, so maybe one day I'll come back to this. But I still do recommend this even though it's not quite my taste in games. It's a classic and I can understand why a certain kind of person would love it, I'm just not that kind of person.

I raided a french merchant boat on my way towards some plunder and my matey's called me a coward. pretty accurate game

Пираты, в ремейк которых все играли в 2005 году. Я оригинал не застал. Но отдаю честь его наследию

Играйте лучше в ремейк от автора оригинала. Эта же версия порадует только эстетов жаждущих прикоснуться к древностям игрового искусства или ностальгирующим по юности. Конечно это уже откровенное гвно мамонта, но в хорошем смысле:) Всё равно спасибо NIghtDive за работу над восстановлением игры.

[h1]I spent 20 days walking around an empty island, thinking he was doing something but instead my mouse was actually controlling him. Just to get back to a deserted ship since my crew starved. Conquered the beginning village, only to come back to see that it's not mine anymore. I have no idea what the f*ck I'm doing. 4/10[/h1]

I wanted to play this game because I played the remake up and down for the last 20 years. But this version is just unplayable. It's mostly down to the crappy controls, which are definitely not a game issue itself. The boat doesn't turn when you press the keys, sometimes you really smash them during naval combat and it's a miracle if it moves. And then you oversteer by accident. I lost so many battles just because of that. The fencing, which is definitely a game internal issues and can't be blamed on controls, gives 0 feedback if you're doing good or not. I haven't at all figured out how to be good at it.Or even decent. I think I have lost 20 duels and won maybe 1 or 2, and then I was just button smashing. It's totally unclear if you land a hit or not, what sound means "blocked" and what sounds means "hit". Lastly, I can't really tell what attack the other guy is doing, but that is honestly a player issue. Still all put together makes a terrible game that could be a lot better if they just fixed the damn naval battle steering!!!

Keyboard/mouse controls are buggy and sluggish, making the game needlessly difficult. Sid Meier's Pirates is a better choice.

pirates and gold

Great classic! Unsure how well the archaic interface holds today, but it could be worse.