The North PacificBoard

Illusia and Neverendia wrote:

Why?: While I never got to play the original one from 1987 (I was born in 2001), it was one of the first games I took much notice of when I was a little kid. My big brother extensively played it, and I enjoyed what it looked like - for 2004 graphics, it was quite stunning for a three/four-year old like me, let alone the fact that it was running on notebook laptops of the day, which, in today's standards, are pretty crappy and outdated. When I grew up, I decided to play it myself, even if the said graphics are so antiquated. Adding some modifications, having a firsthand experience on it myself - it was the best feeling that I had back then.

The fact that one could forcibly turn the entire Caribbean into the control of one nation (the game had four nations - England, France, the Netherlands, and Spain), and of course, the grind to get the Ship of the Line - the game's exclusive warship and the rarest of them all, was a factor that I will never forget and something I continue to savour. Playing under the hands of the Dutch was significantly fun, and of course, since your role is a pirate, you could always ditch being a privateer and attack that own nation's shipping all by yourself. Of course, in the later years, I tried other nations, but there was always one common ground:

I hated Spain in that game. Their shipping were such easy pickings; since their Galleons proved no match against the square-rigged vessels of the non-Spanish nations. That, and because the main villains of the game were Spanish (if I recall correctly - Marquis Montalban, Baron Raymondo, and Colonel Mendoza). I laughed at the experience of sinking Spanish pirate hunters - and then laughing devilishly off-screen.

The greatest challenge one could do in that game is to conquer a city via land combat. It gets better when your entire fleet of pirates and buccaneers go against a city's army of about 500 to 700 soldiers. I usually employed about a thousand pirates and buccaneers beforehand, and after sacking it, I either change the allegiance of the city (by installing a new governor), or just sack it and watch its wealth and prestige crumble.

Ayuzhhhhh wrote:

Ayuzhhhhh is ranked 217,136th in the world and 10,047th in The North Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.87 bananas ingested per day.

Kastonvia wrote:

I loved everyone's entries but this one had to win. Log in tomorrow so maybe you can win!

Marshava wrote:

Actually,

screw this i wont guilt trip myself-

Ill win the next one for sure!

Illusia and Neverendia wrote:

Is.

Glorious.

Illusia and Neverendia wrote:

Is.

Glorious.

Illusia and Neverendia wrote:

Illusia and Neverendia is ranked 253,713th in the world and 11,667th in The North Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.42 bananas ingested per day.
Woah, slow down there. Problem Solver 68 deserves all the credit. Not just Aru.

Marshava wrote:

^{for legal reasons this a joke}

Marshava wrote:

^{for legal reasons this a joke}