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Yeah, I think some people are overreacting when it comes to this game. It doesn't seem that broken (not Unity broken, for instance), it's just bad.
After slugging through 17 hours of the game, a bug in a story portion of the game--where there was only one way back to the overworld out of the labyrinthine temple I'd been exploring--crashed my computer over and over again at the same point. I turned the game off, came back a couple of hours later, and tried again. The game crashed again. And I'd had enough.
Has there even really been a great example of a pirate RPG? The concept has been around for a while. I remember playing Uncharted Waters: New Horizons back in the day, but even that was more of a light sim game than an RPG. If you want to see the mid-nineties KOEI take on Sid Meier's Pirates!, that game might be worth a look for some of you out there, even if its skirting the line of 'RPG'.
Has there even really been a great example of a pirate RPG? The concept has been around for a while. I remember playing Uncharted Waters: New Horizons back in the day, but even that was more of a light sim game than an RPG. If you want to see the mid-nineties KOEI take on Sid Meier's Pirates!, that game might be worth a look for some of you out there, even if its skirting the line of 'RPG'.
PotC with New Horizons mod or AoP2:CoaS. The stories are all pretty linear and the engines are pretty clunky for rpgs but they have theoretically everything that qualifies for an rpg. And all the pirates sim stuff is in place of course.
I haven't played Risen 2 and 3 but they are fully rpgs in a pirate setting.
There was an ambitious campaign for NWN2. I think it was calles Dark Waters. Pretty cool but not too big.
When Raven's Cry writing is memorable, it becomes so for all the wrong reasons. Though it has seemingly been patched out since launch, the "barks" of your ship's crew mostly consist of gendered and homophobic slurs. I haven't heard the male iteration of the "c" word this often since Deadwood (and with none of David Milch's redemptive style). And don't worry. The female "c" word pops up just as often as well. Christopher openly insults black people in the face of his black first mate--who disappears for seemingly no reason early in the game. And, also early in the game, Christopher physically assaults a sex worker to gain information for a quest. Villains casually joke about rape. Tribal natives are treated as mindless cannibal savages that you slaughter in high numbers. The game has the cultural sensitivity of Birth of a Nation, and I needed a bath to wash away the grime of this game's world every time I stopped playing.
Wow, miso soup, homophones and dats raycist all in one review? Is he going for a record or something? I couldn't read much of that drivel but what little I did was already too much.gamespot 1/10 but it was reviewed by a SJW tranny. https://archive.today/8JwUj
Has there even really been a great example of a pirate RPG? The concept has been around for a while. I remember playing Uncharted Waters: New Horizons back in the day, but even that was more of a light sim game than an RPG. If you want to see the mid-nineties KOEI take on Sid Meier's Pirates!, that game might be worth a look for some of you out there, even if its skirting the line of 'RPG'.
It's a tale of deeply unsettling gendered violence and racist slaughter played for casual drama. The tale's written in the language of cheap misogyny and homophobia
Risen 2, Risen 3
When Raven's Cry writing is memorable, it becomes so for all the wrong reasons. Though it has seemingly been patched out since launch, the "barks" of your ship's crew mostly consist of gendered and homophobic slurs. I haven't heard the male iteration of the "c" word this often since Deadwood (and with none of David Milch's redemptive style). And don't worry. The female "c" word pops up just as often as well. Christopher openly insults black people in the face of his black first mate--who disappears for seemingly no reason early in the game. And, also early in the game, Christopher physically assaults a sex worker to gain information for a quest. Villains casually joke about rape. Tribal natives are treated as mindless cannibal savages that you slaughter in high numbers. The game has the cultural sensitivity of Birth of a Nation, and I needed a bath to wash away the grime of this game's world every time I stopped playing.
Risen 2, Risen 3
Fuck no, those are horrible examples of a pirate rpg, in Risen 2 you dont even sail your boat, in Risen 3 its a horrible minigame that you do 2 or 3 times in the game to fight a giant sea monster.