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Sid Meier Developing Pirates! Remake

Posted by simoniker on from the pieces-of-eight dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a press release at Yahoo stating that Sid Meier's company Firaxis has signed a long-term publishing deal with Atari. This includes the announcement of Sid Meier's Pirates!, a remake of the classic Microprose strategy title, for 2004 release, and another Civilization III add-on pack, Civilization Conquests, for Xmas 2003. Since Atari, formerly Infogrames, purchased Microprose a couple of years back, they've transferred the rights to Silent Service, Colonization, and many more classic Meier titles to Firaxis, and these are also mentioned for possible remakes down the road.

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  1. I loved that game by tjensor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spent FAR too much time playing it on my old Amiga 500.

    So many memories...
    The countless raids on Maraciabo...
    The capturing of all those towns for England...
    The first time I managed to get the really Foxy chick to marry me...

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  2. Praise Be To One Eye'd Willy! by th3walrus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe we'll finally get a decent pirate themed game. Sea Dogs was buggy. Sea Dogs 2 was looking good until it became Pirates of the Caribbean (Blech... Disney). Pirates! still remains the ultimate pirate game.

    Anyone tried Tropico 2: Pirate Cove? That's supposed to be pretty decent as well.

    1. Re:Praise Be To One Eye'd Willy! by SLot · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Let's see. I've enjoyed Cutthroats

      Going back to ancient games, my favorite sea faring game was Dreadnaughts (can't find a link for it.)

  3. Some basic questions about the game. by immanis · · Score: 5, Funny

    How much hARRRRd disk space will it use?

    How complex are the graphics? Do I need to buy a new video cARRRd?

    How fARRR will it be from town to town?

    If your characted gets wounded in a dual, will he keep his scARRRs?

    When you go into a town, can you shop at the bazARRR?

    Will there be a map, or do you have to navigate by the stARRRs?

    Can you get into a bARRR fight?

    Is it going to be written in java and distributed in a .jARRR?

    Can you voyage to QatARRR?

    Will you just get gold and jewels, or can you also collect dinARRR?

    Does your ship get a minstrel, perhaps someone who plays guitARRR?

    Can you practice before a duel? I'd really like to spARRR.

    When the cannons go off, do they leave chARRR?

    Will I be loved for these jokes, or covered in feathers and tARRR?

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  4. Mapless . . . by Dausha · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bought the original game on the manual alone. My first day with the game was a Friday, so I started at 3p and stopped the first round of playing the next morning around 6a. So, you can bet that I'll buy the new version.

    I lost my map in the first week, but by then I developed to the point where I didn't need the map. However, my brother did, so I spent a good deal of time plotting every-stinking-square on the game on graph paper!

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  5. Just to expand on the story by NetDanzr · · Score: 4, Informative
    The rights to the following games were transfered back to Firaxis: (I've been following this development for some time, due to the fact that this deal would take the games from under the IDSA protection, where Firaxis is not a mamber.)
  6. Pirates! by Tarindel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    was one of my favorite games of all time. I had the apple II version and the apple IIgs version (which was buggy). I have great memories of playing the dutch circa 1620 and plunding the cities along the southern coast of the mediterranean.

    Another thing I would be really curious to see is a Sid Meier done version of XCom. There's an interesting article from last August where this deal was being discussed. Amongst other things, interesting relevant paragraphs:

    GameSpy: Would that include your old stuff? Like Pirates, F-15 Strike Eagle, Gunship...
    Sid Meier: ... Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, Covert Ops. And we're looking at the other games as well.
    GameSpy: Like Master of Magic and X-Com?
    Sid Meier: Yes.
    GameSpy: You realize Usenet is going to go nuts over that answer.
    Sid Meier: We're not going to announce our next game until October or so.
    GameSpy: You've been asking fans, yesterday I heard people saying Pirates more often than anything else.
    Sid Meier: We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

    I can think of at least one or two people who would love to see a MOM sequel... :)

  7. Pirate games! by Echnin · · Score: 4, Informative
    This is awesome! Will take a while for it to come out, though.

    Meanwhile, you might be interested in this game, World of Pirates. It's an MMORPG set in, er, a Pirate universe. That doesn't sound right, but it's cool. Anyway, it's in beta at the moment, and you can sign up for it at their site.

    Another good pirate game is Puzzle Pirates, where you do puzzles for piratey stuff. Pretty cool. In open beta.

    Really looking forward to this Pirates! remake, though. It'll kick all those games' asses. :)

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  8. Thank God by August_zero · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pirates! is one of my all time favorite games, and If this remake is handled right it could be a great game.

    Pirates are like ninjas in that anything you put them in, becomes that much cooler.

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