“Sea of Thieves is the best game Rare has ever made” claims Kudo Tsunoda

[Arlo]

ktay95 said:

Arlo said:

ktay95 said:
I call bullshit but honestly I dont care. This could possibly be the first good pirate game ever which is something Ive wanted since I was a kid. I will never understand why the setting/genre is underused.

You wouldn't consider Assassin's Creed 4 to be even a "good" pirate game?  The rad pirate stuff was like, the ONLY reason I got that game!  XD

Never played it. Most of the people Ive talked to who played it though said the pirate stuff was kinda average and I dont want to deal with AssCreed just for some average pirate stuff in between.

But seriously outside of ACIV can you think of any others?? They are so damn rare (huh Rare) and yet we get a new zombie game or a new space game etc. every freaking quater.

I found the pirate stuff to be amazing.  Epic sea battles, upgrading your ship, capturing enemy ships, stealing and selling cargo, organizing a trade fleet, treasure hunting, harpooning, raiding smuggler's dens...  The assassination stuff is almost beside the point, though I will say I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected.  If you're into pirate stuff I highly suggest you give it a try, because it's undoubtedly the best pirate experience in a game to date.

You're right though that the theme is hugely underused, and I've thought about that a lot myself.  There's so much potential there, and pirates are otherwise very popular.  Yet so few people have tried to really give us that kind of experience beyond just the setting for a story.