Sid Meier's Pirates! Live The Life (2004)

[wings7]

I was browsing Steam the other day and found "Sid Meier's Pirates! Live The Life (2004)". A wonderful (can be repetitive) little game and was about to purchase it. Then I thought I think I purchased the physical version back in 2005. So I searched my game archive and lo and behold there it was in all it's glory! I cracked open the box and it had a game map and a game guide, a spiraled game guide!! [:)] My point of all this is it would be nice to have physical games with game guides again (not many left)...I understand in today's world, with the cost of paper going thru the roof, keeping costs low to keep the share holders happy and on and on [:(]...I can only dream and keep all my physical boxed games (some Apple II games) that I have bought over the years...[:)]

Patrick

PS. That is why I'm so attracted to Matrix, they publish terrific games and still produce some with game guides!! [:)] I would pay extra for spiraled guides!!

[Orm]

I do understand you. I miss the games with well made game maps, laminated charts and rule books.

I recently played Sid Meier's Pirates! Live The Life (2004) again. And it was fun for a while but because it was the original version the fencing and dancing was way to fast on the higher difficulties. When computers get faster then such games get harder without modification.

[aaatoysandmore]

And grease pencils, don't forget the grease pencils with those laminated maps. [:'(] I just remember what the publishers of SSI said when CD's and CDroms first came out. How it was going to change the industry and make everything "cheaper" lol boy was that a hype and scam. Now, it's digital and no cd's and really no dvd's. I wonder what will be next? Cloud games? No downloading required? No media at all? Just stream the games you want to play from a massive library of games?

[gradenko2k]

It also happens to be Talk Like a Pirate Day today!

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Orm
And it was fun for a while but because it was the original version the fencing and dancing was way to fast on the higher difficulties.

My main issue with the dancing is that;
a) it becomes a rather large part of the game
b) it is plain boring

So tbhm I wish they had found another way for the romance interaction in the game.

The game itself is pretty nice though, and give me nice flashbacks to the C64 days, and let's face it, we all want to be pirates [;)]




Terje

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000

It also happens to be Talk Like a Pirate Day today!

The best "international anything"-day beside May 4th [;)]



Terje

[gradenko2k]

ORIGINAL: terje439
My main issue with the dancing is that;
a) it becomes a rather large part of the game
b) it is plain boring

What reinvigorated the game for me was finding a trainer that basically automated and aced the dancing sequences every time.

[chemkid]

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[bairdlander2]

ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore

And grease pencils, don't forget the grease pencils with those laminated maps. [:'(] I just remember what the publishers of SSI said when CD's and CDroms first came out. How it was going to change the industry and make everything "cheaper" lol boy was that a hype and scam. Now, it's digital and no cd's and really no dvd's. I wonder what will be next? Cloud games? No downloading required? No media at all? Just stream the games you want to play from a massive library of games?

[wings7]

ORIGINAL: chemkid

I would pay extra for spiraled guides!!

@wings7 - i know excacly how you feel.
just ordered my 'To End All Wars' manual as a spiral-bound book in pocket format at my favorite print-on-demand-service... [:)]

That's a great idea! Thanks for that! [:)]

Patrick

[aaatoysandmore]

Wow I just found that green dot thing! I'm so thankful for that. Bye bye Baird.....gone forever in the sea of whatever you were lol. [:D]