Captain_Python
Rogue Scholar
I have decided to make a list of most and least Historicaly Accurate Game. The smaller the rating on a game, the less it is historically accurate.
7)<u>Pirates of the Burning Sea</u>
This game is the most historical game I have seen out on the market. After the game gets fixed up after it's release, the Internet world of play will be the best example of what the world was like, and what the ratio of pirates to legal operations ships are.
6)<u>The Port Royal Games & Tortuga </u>
While I have not played these games, while investigating them, they are better off than others in accuracy.
5)<u>Captain Blood</u>
While studing this, the game seems very close to the book. I have read the book, and the book is 75% accurate, so the game should be pretty good.
4)<u>Sea Dogs</u>
While this game is very off in time period (it would fit better in 1700, not 1600), Not using pistols or muskets as weapons, menchioning historical places like Cadiz in the game, and other details like this makes it good. But there are many details like the amount of pirates that are in the game, the ships they are armed with (A `100-gun` Pirate!?), and what ships that were available to players makes it a low rating.
3)<u>Pirates! 2</u>
This new game seems to look like it will be very steriotypical, with oversized cutlasses, treasure, and the like. But at least the time zone will probably be the same. The ships don't seem promising either.
2)<u>Pirates of the Caribbean</u>
This game is worse that it predisesor, due to it includes skeletons, and including flintlock pistols at the time of 1630 is not accurate. It has the same problems as Sea Dogs, but has a small decrease in how much pirates have big ships, and the amount of pirates.
1)<u>Tropico 2</u>
This game is the worst of the worst. about 60% of it is steriotypical. There are characters in there like Long John Silver and Captain Hook in there, who are just fiction story characters. But things I see adressed in it is that brothels and prostitution were a big part of pirate life, and slavery was too.
While this list can change over time, the bottom 4 are very close together, and are almost tied for all 4 places. All except #7, all the games are very close in the race for being the least historically accurate. Most pirate games are just out there to get profits. Sad isn't it?
7)<u>Pirates of the Burning Sea</u>
This game is the most historical game I have seen out on the market. After the game gets fixed up after it's release, the Internet world of play will be the best example of what the world was like, and what the ratio of pirates to legal operations ships are.
6)<u>The Port Royal Games & Tortuga </u>
While I have not played these games, while investigating them, they are better off than others in accuracy.
5)<u>Captain Blood</u>
While studing this, the game seems very close to the book. I have read the book, and the book is 75% accurate, so the game should be pretty good.
4)<u>Sea Dogs</u>
While this game is very off in time period (it would fit better in 1700, not 1600), Not using pistols or muskets as weapons, menchioning historical places like Cadiz in the game, and other details like this makes it good. But there are many details like the amount of pirates that are in the game, the ships they are armed with (A `100-gun` Pirate!?), and what ships that were available to players makes it a low rating.
3)<u>Pirates! 2</u>
This new game seems to look like it will be very steriotypical, with oversized cutlasses, treasure, and the like. But at least the time zone will probably be the same. The ships don't seem promising either.
2)<u>Pirates of the Caribbean</u>
This game is worse that it predisesor, due to it includes skeletons, and including flintlock pistols at the time of 1630 is not accurate. It has the same problems as Sea Dogs, but has a small decrease in how much pirates have big ships, and the amount of pirates.
1)<u>Tropico 2</u>
This game is the worst of the worst. about 60% of it is steriotypical. There are characters in there like Long John Silver and Captain Hook in there, who are just fiction story characters. But things I see adressed in it is that brothels and prostitution were a big part of pirate life, and slavery was too.
While this list can change over time, the bottom 4 are very close together, and are almost tied for all 4 places. All except #7, all the games are very close in the race for being the least historically accurate. Most pirate games are just out there to get profits. Sad isn't it?