After Christmas I decided I wanted to try out Pirates of the Burning Sea during there open beta testing. Now I didn’t have all that much time to get very far as I joined the open beta late, but I did get to try it out non the less. When you start you get to pick your country of alligence or you can become a pirate, which is what I picked, seriously, the game is called Pirates of the Burning Sea for a reason. So after I customized my pirate with a slew of options I was off on my pirate adventure. The game starts off on a pirate ship that is under attack and it’s your job to save it. It’s basically a tutorial to teach you how to move, fight and steer a ship.
Pirates is made by Flying Lab Software and is similarly setup as Eve Online where you have your character and then a ship which is how you travel around. If you’ve ever played Eve I don’t need to tell you that it is very overwhelming when you start, Pirates I’m glad to say was not like that, much easier to learn. In not to long of a time span I was leveling and improving my pirate and ship. If you ever played Sid Meier’s Pirates, a turned based strategy game, its somewhat similar with a lot more options, depth and its obviously a MMO not a turned based game.
As you level, your character gains new fighting skills which come in handy when you board another ship or are being boarded. There’s also a lot of upgrades you can do for you ship, bigger/better guns, thicker hull, better sails, ect. Or you can just get an new ship altogether.
I only got about 10 hrs of gaming in before the beta ended so again I didn’t get very far, but to be honest the whole pirate theme didn’t float my boat. Sorry, had to get at least one pun in. The game seems like it would be fun if you got into it, just wasn’t that fun starting out.
I made it as far as the tutorial where you’re supposed to siege the fort from the sea in your pirate ship… taking 2-3 minutes to make each pass due to horrible wind conditions was enough to make me quit the game in mid-battle.
I uninstalled it shortly afterwards. Downloading the 5GB open beta and patching it for about 6 more hours was probably my biggest waste of time in 2007. :P
I’d have rather walked the plank in shark infested waters than keep playing PotBS…
So if you only spent 10 hours on Pirates of the Burning Sea, what the hell are you spending most of your time on these days? Mythos? Did you ever go back to LoTRO? Did you get into any new betas?
Did you ever get screenshots, or a report regarding, the WoW march for Ron Paul?
I’ve been in the beta and now I’m in the pre-order release and I have to say this game is fantastic! I’m having so much fun, I can’t get over it. When I first heard about Pirates of the Burning Sea, I couldn’t see how a pirate theme could be expa
nded into an MMO. So I applied for beta and got in to /check it out first hand and I’m so glad I did! Once you play the game, you’re hooked! It’s cleverly wrtten and has beautiful graphics, a robust and creative economy and awesome ship combat. This game is going to be successful for a long long time.
Well, now i wanna try this.but i just wanna know if you have to pay money [real life money] to play.i hate games like that.HUGE EXAMPLE:WOW.world of warcaft is another one of those stupid boring paid games.i hope this one is a free non-stupid game.