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[–] mickey@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Obligatory plug for Sid Meier's Pirates!: Live the Life (PC, 2004).

I want to be clear, so you scalawags don't get the wrong idea; I'm the best sailor, the best gunner, the best sword fighter, the best dancer & romancer, the best treasure hunter, the best bounty hunter, the best discover of Lost Cities. I don't usually mess with the Indian villages, and their canoes are too fast for me to bother hunting but I won't shy away from capturing one with a rumored treasure aboard. When I pull up on the Jesuits they tell me right where Baron Raymondo is sailing. I duel Jealous Fiances as a trifle, and Colonel Mendoza's galleon is a speed bump in the waves.

I will lead my band of pirates and buccaneers in to land battle against a fortified European garrison. Plunder the town, leave, and attack again. I'll raise a country's flag, get promoted with that country, then sack the town again for a rival power. I will coax a pirate captain to raid a nearby town, sink or capture the pirate interceptors, then betray the pirate ship I summoned. I will sword fight Marquis de Montalban on his ship without disabling his crew first. I fuck with this game, but I do not fuck around with this game.