Your thoughts on a pirate game (not POTC)

So there are all sorts of settings for games anymore. However, there are really close to none that are pirate themed. I find this surprising since the popularity of POTC. Surely one company would have decided to make a really good open world pirate game by now. I can definitely see it working, and after the success of the western themed RDR and through the AC games it's obvious that people are more than willing to play a game in a past setting if it's done right. Does anyone else think it would be cool to play as a pirate in a lengthy open world game, and if so what kind of things would you like to see in it?

videogames like to add a layer of fantasy to pirateness, and thus sky pirates are born. airship combat and stuff. i'd take a look into skies of arcadia if i were you.BrunoBRS

But that's my point. Why not have a true pirate era themed game. I'm sure you can count rogue galaxy as a sort of space pirate game (and it's a rather good game), but it's not a true pirate game. I think with our current gen systems the graphics would really suit a pirate game since a lot of it relies on travel through water. It could be like AC where there are a number of cities you could travel to, or really just one open world so there wouldn't be any load times between areas.

One of my favorite games is Sid Meier's Pirates!, though it isn't on the PS3, and doesn't have much to do with your question. :P

I would love to have an open world pirate game for consoles (as long as it was done right), and I think it would have a large audience with the popularity of pirates right now. Though it would probably have to have a fast travel option because sailing around on a slow ship would get boring after a while. Conflicts between different pirate crews, pillaging islands, capturing and looting merchant ships, treasure hunting, recruiting people for your crew, epic naval battles, etc.

I just think it would be quite fun.

id like a new verison of pirates on the NES. That would be sweet!

I'd love to see a decent pirate game. I liked Sid Miers Pirates! but I would definitely like to see a more serious take on the genre, and less of that cartoony feel. Open-world would fit perfectly, as others have said.

I´d buy that.

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One of my favorite games is Sid Meier's Pirates!, though it isn't on the PS3, and doesn't have much to do with your question. :PJadeNic

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One of my favorite games is Sid Meier's Pirates!, though it isn't on the PS3, and doesn't have much to do with your question. :Pcorigan

Risen 2: Dark Waters is coming out

http://pc.ign.com/objects/083/083947.html

Honestly, it would be a huge task to undertake. A developer would have a number of important things to work around, like water physics (and the actual look of the water), boat/ship physics, probably a living and changing economy, making ships fun to operate given their slow speed and long travel times (you can't just skip every time you set sail, or have a sea battle every time). Then there would be whether they would add layers of micro-management to it (ie crew and supplies/cargo). Multiple types of battles (ship vs ship, crew vs crew, both at the same time?, atttacking ports from sea, attacking places on foot etc).

There are other things too that I can't think of right now, but again, it would be a huge task.

However, if a dev could get everything right, whilst not skimping on content, and giving it a good polish, it would be one hell of a game.

edit: thought of a few more: finding a balance between swordplay and gunplay. And how it would work when the player with a sword comes up against enemies with guns. Also, an actual swashbuckling system instead of just slashing until someone goes dowm.