If you’re looking for some plundering fun to fill the pirate void before Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones releases then these 6 games should definitely be on your Wishlists
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What about pirates of the Caribbean by bethesda?
Its tragic that Age of Pirates 2 City of Abandoned Ships is not on this list!This is HERESY! If you want a damn good age of sail game that has all the ship customizations and swash bucklings and ship boardings and such, this is the game! It may not be as action packed and flashy as Black Flag, but it does pretty much everything else just plainly better, from merchanting, to actual piracy, to privateering. If you havent checked it out, DO ITAlso check out Pirate Ahoy!'s Gentlemen of Fortune mod as it adds a ton of ships and customizations and such to the game.
sea of thieves the best pirate game by far
And after skull and bones and during skull and bones,or better yet just dont play skull and bones
This list is great if you just want to look at pirates through a lens of tired game play.
Uh…….Atlas?
replace "before" with "instead of" and the title will be correct for the current time, haha.
Really? No Age of pirates: City of abandoned ships? No Port royale (2 is best) ? this is very weak list, still after many years AoP is unbeaten pirate game
40 dollars tho
Cutthroats Terror on the High Seas beats Pirates! for me. Best Pirate game of all time.
Caribbean!
POTC New Horizons is a revamped and updated 2003 xbox game called Pirates of the Caribbean. Its been a work in progress for a long time but it is really good !
the Song from 00:00 to about 1:30 in video is Experia- The Final Battle in case anyone is looking for awesome pirate battle music!
lmfao. Skull and Bones what a heart breaker.
in the aftermath of the FAILED 'skull and bones ' game, a GOOD pirate game must have (yes im looking
especially at u ubisoft traitors(!) not in specific order :
they functions and firing of cannons must be beliable and well made and fun, shooting back and forth between ships, the explosions must be good,
the screams and chaos and shouting orders must be top notch dammit
ambient souds must be good and natural for background noise from animals, nature, town noises, etc
the sfx and music must be of good quality and FIT THE THEME and natural mood of the settings at any given time !!
some sea monsters
believable wave looks and physics, nothing crazy but still
beliveable change of weather functions , not to often but still
good controls of the ships maneuvers
(not either slow gran turismo or arcade extremes
should have confrontations and /or fights w wild animals
must have sieges of towns and strongholds !
must have some kind of believable diplomatic options that will influence the game in some degree
the players CHOICES SHOULD have some kind of consequences
doesnt have to be a rpg game but SHOULD have rpg ELEMENTS
must have some kind of supernatural elements or vibe in it somehow
the possibility of treasure maps and and digging up at least 5 hidden treasures at 5 very different locations Scattered in the game world…
a decent story, not on a book level but relatable
good and fun boarding functions ships
good and fun fighting on those said ships
having the POSSIBILITY to WALK around freely at least in 30% of the gameworld LAND MASS minimum but not everywhere all the time
but sailing around EVERYWHERE none the less , no limitations here !!
building and modifying, customizing and repairs options of ur ship(s)
must be able to build and maintain at least 3 ships if so wishes at any given time during the first HALF of the game
must have some kind of romantic and perhaps lewd content, but silly and not to serious or raunchy
must have character duels,either as a part of the story, sidewuests or both !!
must have backstabbing story content and side quests
must have freedom of choice in every aspect of the word…explore, dialogue options etc… the players should feel that they are in a world where things they do matter and whatnot
the firing of cannons and the aim mechanism must be easy to learn but can be hard to master
must have different cannonballs
should have customizable weapons
recruiting and maintaining and interactions between u and your crew and among the crew members themselves crew SHOULD be a big part of the game
a suggestion for night and day cycles would be either to have it scripted related (like some quests are days , some are nights) and/OR have them constant , like 3 hour daylight vs 1 hour night IRL…
Rockstar needs to step in and give us a pirate gta like they gave us a cowboy gta with red dead
6 pirate games you should play instead of Skull and Bones
You should not play skull and bones at all. terrible game
I would check out Pirates of the carribbean 2003 game. One of my first experience of pirate game. Nostalgia
I gotta go Old School here… Sid Meier's Pirates, OG and 2004 editions! Both are some of the best fun you'll ever have playing an open-world game. 😁
Pillars of eternity is awesome and I don't even like it's genre much…
no corsairs? wow i am surprised, it is one of the best ever made imho
There’s 5 pirates of the Caribbean movies not 4.
2024 and AC4 is still the best pirate game out there.
Was Risen 2 any good? It was apparently a little pirate-y; never played it myself.
5:39 you forgot the fifth movie as well apparently.
Its really depressing that "best pirate games" in 2023 is still just a bunch of low res isometric games…. how have we not had any AAA pirate games…. its criminal.
The only good one hre is AC IV. Skull and bones will be a disaster, and hopefully some other studio will make an actual pirate game that will be a thousand times, overshadowing black flag and S&B
The best pirate game's of all time is Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas, followed by Sid Miers Pirates! and last but perhaps not least AC IV: Black Flag. Port Royale 2 was pretty good for piracy as well…. If you enjoy any of those games do NOT waste your time with Sea Of Thieves
If u want storyline and funny cutscenes sid meier s pirate is best ,black flag is great too
To this day, all I've wanted was Pirates! redone in a AC4: Black Flag style n look hahaha
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Sea of Thieves is really the only option but it still has some major flaws I wish they would adjust: the combat system, more ships and customization than just 3, more incentive than just cosmetics and gold.
sea of thieves ruined pirate games for at least 5 years, it'll forever be at the bottom of my list. it's literally nothing lmao just a cash shop and water.
It is old but Sid Meier's pirates is really good
Buccaners – Skyward digital – a polygon pirate SP simple adventure
Add chapters please.
Sot would be alot better if we could have our own town/hideout to upgrade
Skull & Bones looks lame!
Margaret…..MAAAARGARET. Have we got any pirate memory games?
Before Skull and bones? Dislike immediately
Black flags the best and will never be beaten
*6 pirate games you should play instead of skull and bones
Don’t waste your money, skull and bones is gonna be a broken meas
It's a shame that up to this day the only good modern non-isometric single-player RPG about pirates is AC IV: Black Flag.
Ubisoft have exhausted all its resources to invent a new game. They are just giving us new enteries of previous franchises and expanded certain events/in-game mechanics to give us RB6 extraction as well as Skull & Bones
The only game on your list, that makes it on my list, is Black Flag. I've been waiting decades and since the birth of video games, for that perfect pirate game, that most likely I'll never see in my lifetime.
1) Vendetta: Curse of Raven's Cry
2) Two Worlds 2: Pirates of the Flying Fortress
3) Sea Dogs/Pirate's of the Caribbean (series)
4) Age of Pirates (series)
5) Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
6) Pirates of the Burning Sea
7) Tortuga (series)
P.S. I also have zero interest whatsoever in Skull & Bones or any other Pirate ship Battle Royale simulator. What an insult of a game, to all pirate fans of the world!
Don’t sleep on Blazing Sails
You missed One Piece game
i think you meant to say instead of skull and bones
Sorry….but there are five PotC films, not four…