An Old Treasure

Hallo pirates

25 years ago I played Sid Meier's Pirates! on the Amiga. Great nights with the best game ever, the Amiga version was THE BETTER ONE by the way, once a pirate, always a pirate.
15 years later I remembered and started playing it again with the WinUAE emulator, then played Pirates Gold on the DosBox, that one was better in the PC version. Discovered the new Sid Meier's Pirates (2004) and enjoyed it, that was something for a sing and dance man endeed.
Then I started to wonder if there was more in pirate world and discovered Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships. That was kind of a revelation for me. What a game. Later I discovered the Combined Mod 3.1.5 and Gentlemen of Fortune. And then the whole New Horizons POTC Build Mod world. That was as brilliant as GoF. But I have a sense for game history too and so I played Sea Dogs (fantastic sea battles already), Age of Sails 2, and the unmodded version of POTC and Uncharted Waters 2 too.
That's it then with pirate games, isn't it? Except of newer games like East India Company or Commander: Conquest of the Americas (my son likes them). One I want to try is Empire: Total War (already ordered).
But a real pearl, friends, is this one here, I paid the 6 $ and had a lot of fun:

http://www.gog.com/game/corsairs_gold

Oops I forgot the Ascaron games Port Royale, Piraten - Herrscher der Karibik (funny game), Patrizier. Port Royale 3 is actually a good game. And I loved Tropico 2. And I hated Buccaneer and Tortuga - Two Treasures. That wasn't a treasure my god. What about Empire: Rome? Is it fun to fight with Roman ships? What about Assasin's Creeds Black Flag? Worth to play?

Marki said:

What about Assasin's Creeds Black Flag? Worth to play?

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Depends on how much you care about realism in your action scenes and sea battles.
Those are COMPLETELY cartooney, with wind having nothing to do with it and basically all ships being faster than modern-day speedboats.
But that doesn't have to stop it from being fun.

Corsairs!? I remember playing it when I was 7 years old, think I still have it but completely forgot.

@Pieter Boelen "and basically all ships being faster than modern-day speedboats" that were the Black Flag on the black list words. the buccaneer and Tortuga agony. the end of the age of pirates. let's head for New Horizons then

There is no time compression in AC4, I think, but you can sail in real time from Cuba to the Spanish Main in maybe 10-15 minutes.
I do believe in real life that requires a rocket. But if you ignore all the insanity, it CAN be fun. But realistic? Uhm.... No.

Anyway, glad to got that query properly addressed then.