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    Sad about duels, won't buy Pirates! after all...

    Hello! I remember writing here about how important the sword duels where in the original Pirates! game (and how they weren't as good in Gold either, as in the original), and many people agreed with me. Due to me disliking the graphics in the game (too childish) I stalled in buying it, but I...
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    This is Great- if Sid would just do the same for `X-Com`...

    I bet you know this, but Julian Gollop did `X-com`, not Sid Meier. Anyway, Gollop DID attempt to `re-create` `X-com` for a modern machine, but the publishers thought it was too ambitious and taking too long, so they shut him down (well, it was more complicated than that, I think, but that was...
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    Free Pirates!

    <!--QuoteBegin-CatalinaThePirate+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CatalinaThePirate)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->You can still buy Pirates! on eBay and like sites... Original versions, sometimes even with the books and box... <img...
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    The New Designer Diary....

    Wow, everyone but Mack avoided to comment on that developer's strange vision of the old Pirates! game. Was I the only one who thought that the original Pirates! went for realism instead of flashly graphics?
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    The New Designer Diary....

    Haha, yes, I was quite suprised by that statement as well: <span style='`font-size`:16pt;`line-height`:100%'><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><i>We also reread a bunch of the historical documents on pirates and piracy, which reminded us of a...
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    Ropes

    WHY, WHY, WHY? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />
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    Limted Edition

    I already own Pirates! Gold, and I also own Ultima `3-9`, complete with cloth maps, and they sold for normal price, so that map in the limited edition would have to be pretty f**king special to warrant $30 more. The Ultima games also came with fake leather and parchment manuals, btw. and most...
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    What Are Your Expectations For Pirates!?

    There is not a chance in hell that it won't be action packed. Today's games aren't made to take a long time to play. They aren't deep and involving and they don't come with 300 page manuals, maps and keyboard overlays. You don't have to make tables with graph paper or walk into every wall to...
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    What Are Your Expectations For Pirates!?

    As long as they don't screw with the fencing, and make sure the graphics can be replaced (yes, including 3d models... but perhaps retain skeleton animations). I am still satisfied playing the original Pirates! and so far, I have seen nothing which has made me want to play the new one instead.
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    The original vs. Gold

    Pirates! Gold for PC was a pretty bug ridden affair, thought with very nice graphics. I recently tried it, and the fencing isn't as bad as I remember it to be. It is very realistic, and thus, very difficult. If you want to try a Gold version which is as good as the original Pirates!, get...
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    Look at the Facts

    Catalina, you should read the previous posts better! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blah:" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> I know that you can escape by running through a village, but I was wondering if...
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    Look at the Facts

    So, back to Pirates! perhaps? Does anyone know the prison break I'm talking about? I think I even may have read about it on these forums, but I don't recall anything beyond what I've already written about it.
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    I am worried about sword duels!

    Could you answer if the `8-directional` system of attacks/defense is still in place? I don't care for memorizing special moves. I think it is an unintuitive and slow system, suitable for console kids, and not PC gaming. It is things such as this which scares away the `8-bit` people like me...
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    Look at the Facts

    I don't know where I read this, but apparently, there was a very famous pirate escape from a prison fort(?) in the carribean... the prisoners escaped by tunnels, though, and not through a village, as seen in screenshots. I'd be very suprised if there wasn't a variation of the prison escape...
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    I am worried about sword duels!

    Ok, to get this thread back on track: I'm really worried about sword duels now. I saw one of these gameplay movies, and the stupid cartoon character did a backflip in the middle of a duel! Ridiculus! I also read something about pulling off special moves with key combinations? Aaarg, what...
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