I've got to say, Corsair Cove is probably the game I'm looking forward to the most right now.It feels like somebody finally remembered that pirate games are supposed to be about actually being a pirate instead of grinding battle passes for 800 hours. The whole vibe just looks right. Sailing around, building up your crew, upgrading your ship, getting into naval fights, exploring islands, hauling back treasure—it just looks like it's focused on being fun first.I know people love to be cynical about every new game announcement, but honestly I hope this one does well. It feels like the kind of project that's aiming for a niche a lot of us have wanted for years instead of chasing whatever trend is hot this month.The art style has a ton of personality, the gameplay they've shown looks surprisingly polished, and every update makes it seem like the developers actually care about making a good pirate game rather than a storefront with gameplay attached.Maybe I'm setting myself up for disappointment, but I genuinely think Corsair Cove has the potential to become one of those games people randomly sink 300+ hours into without even realizing it.Day one purchase for me unless something goes catastrophically wrong. Really hoping this one gets the attention it deserves.
how much content in the demo? the steam page lists it as a city builder and i see it has a demo, but imagine a demo for a city builder being worth playing. you're talking about sailing around, the steam page is talking about "complex production chains". sounds more like anno, where the sailing around part will be only and adjunct to the main gameplay>getting into naval fights, exploring islands, hauling back treasure—it just looks like it's focused on being fun firstoh no, did i get baited by an ai thread or a copypasted reddit post?
>>2455593thanks chatGPT but you must buy an ad
>>2455593buyanad
>>2455611>>2455612I dont think there are actually any real gamers on this fucking forum! AAA studios just hire folks to respond to every thread and accuse posters of being shills or AI.
>>2455593I too got recommended that JumboPixel video recently
>>2455711sorry saaar you must be tiny leetle creative if want advertise slop game for free here saaar.
>>2455608It is a city builder first. Sailing is very important, but you spend most of your time optimizing production chains.
>>2455593Im always down for a pirate game so I hope its good
>city builderYeah I don't know
>>2455593the game wasn't bad but the demo was way to railroady.Since the production chains are so simple I don't really know what you do once you can produce most stuff
How does it compare to Tropico 2?
>>2455915Gorgeous game. Superior in every aspect.
Anyone else taking this Friday off for when this game drops?
>>2456668yes! I'm going to enjoy a long weekend and bought a copy for myself and my wife's son! His father said it looks like a terrible game, but I'm sure his son will have fun with me while his mom and dad catch up in the bedroom!
>>2455593>—
>>2455593>It feels like somebody finally remembered that pirate games are supposed to be about actually being a piratebeing a pirate means running a shitty colony sim? fuck off
>>2456694Great another fucking Incel. Just because some girl somewhere won't fuck you this is how your going to act? This is how you're going to behave?
>>2456705They aren't always sailing motherfucker. Pirates need to drink and fuck whores and spend their loot.
Less than a week to go for the drop. There is so much hype around this game right now that you can just feel the energy out there.
How dpes this game address trafficked West African labor and the disruption of indigenous people's? Will it also pay respect to the storied history of female pirates or are all the pirates male?
>>2457890You can have a black voodoo doll wielding piratess if that's what you're asking.
>>2456720that's in the game? weird!
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>>2459359Agreed, I also enjoy [game]. Among many others I 010111011010101010001111010101010101110101010101010111101001001010101001010101010101010101010101001010101!
>>2455608>how much content in the demo? Enuf. You can do the first level of unlocks after a tutorial.>lists it as a city builderIt is a city builder>imagine a demo for a city builder being worth playingIt's not really worth playing after the tutorial because while you can do things, you can't do enough to bother being motivated and you don't really have any goals besides setting up production chains. There are quests to do to unlock stuff, mind you, and you do get raided, but there's no point in doing it in the demo.>sounds more like anno, where the sailing around part will be only and adjunct to the main gameplayThere's no real sailing, just sending ships off to do missions and unveil the map. >getting into naval fightThese are are FUCKING TRASH. Just a screen with a shitty card game on it. It wouldn't be that bad even if there were animations of the ships or whatnot shooting at each other like your towers do when a ship comes invading. All the other scenes, and there are many cutscenes in the story(tutorial) are shitty like that, just images that are animated a little bit. It's like the animations in Endless Space 2, mostly still images that move a tiny bit, but lacking any sort of style to the point it makes you wonder if they put any effort into it. It'd be better if they were just stills. Also the character models look like some generic assets. In the actual game, there's some graphical issues with all the fucking paths it makes between buildings and birds kinda just get stuck flying in place. Feels like some beta or even alpha build that needs a lot of touch up rather than something that's about to release. idk maybe they'll fix it later.
>>2455608>>2459396As a game, your goal is basically to fulfill your people's needs so they don't lose motivation to stay together and disband the island, losing you the game. Making food to pacify them, medicine and other stuff to use in events that try to screw your over, mats for building advanced buildings and boats, and ammo for your defense towers. You can then explore and look things and whatnot if you want. Some resources seem limited so I assume you'll have to trade/rob to stay alive. The game doesn't really force any sort of moral choices on you, things only affects the "cohesion" of the pirate island, which ends the game if it runs out. Naturally the pirates are all assholes who don't like anything, so it's actually a resource for getting certain good outcomes or penalizing you for not having other options. You also use money to build some things so you have to go trade or pirate. You get cheevos to get research points to put in your research point wheel and unlock things. Something about the animations of the villagers going on pisses me off. I have no idea why, they aren't bad they just annoy me. The ship battles aren't awful either but the game's art direction is just demotivating somehow. It doesn't seem bad but it doesn't seem great either. I'd rather play County of Fortune, which is the same kind game but promises diplomatic relations as an interesting thing. The resource chains are less annoying in this game, though.
>>2459396>>2459401@Grok is this true?
8 more hours Fucking Bros until it drops! Going to sleep to wake up to buy and play this Fucking Pirate sim game!
>>2455593>The art style has a ton of personalityDropped.
Fucking Bros! 90% positive we are Fucking LOVING this Fucking game right now! It got hit out of the park! Its a winner!
>>2460268Are you having fun? Or are you seething to death over a thread you don't have to be in for a game you won't play?
>>2460268POGGERS!!!!
>>2455593I pirated it (lol), played like 30 minutes and shift-deleted it off my drive.The vertical building is a cool gimmick but all it serves is making ass looking fantasy towns.The ship selection looked stupid as fuck too.It seems middling as a city builder ans absolutely does nothing to actually be even adjacent to a pirate fantasy because it's just fantasy pirates. I'm sure there's a ton of unrefined tofu boys that will cream their pants over this kind of bullshit but it's honestly just tiresome at this point. PoTC and it's consequences were a disaster for pirate media.I'll just play Tropico 2 instead if I feel like playing a pirate city builder, thanks. Port Royale 2 maybe. Or just Pirates!.
>>2459359>No "It's not just X, it's Y" motifA meatbag typed this.
Very funny thread.
>>2456695also>but honestly
>>2460528Also pirated it, doesn't seem all that fantastical but it IS full of PotC references
>>2461038You are an absolute piece of shit.
>>2461175>make game about piracy>piss and shit yourself when your game gets piratednext time just make zomboid and keep it in early access for 20 years retards
>>2461175you lost little boy?
>>2461175Why did I get that but he didn't?
Is everyone done being ironic or seething? Is anyone actually enjoying it?
>>2465133>Is anyone actually enjoyingDoes anyone here ever enjoy anything new?
>>2465133There is no organic discussion and the thread is dead on top. What do you think?
>>2465133came here for some discussion because i was enjoying the game but it's just inane babble from joyless retardsthreads for games are dead on this fucking site outside of the gacha ones, sad
>>2465208I really liked War Pips.
>>2465133>>2465208Imagine someone taking every shitty element from one of the newer anno games, streamlines and simplifies it further, adds card-based combat and then wraps the entire thing into the most generic pirate fantasy mashup imaginable. We're talking everything short of Captain Harlock all at once and I'm not convinced he doesn't show up later. Then add a healthy dose of bugs, ui designed by a mongoloid and outright jank because why not.The problem isn't that the game is new. The problem is the game is ass.
>>2465264gacha threads are filled with shizos trying to appear like dozen of people having a healthy interaction
>>2460528it does suck that it seems like, 20 years later, city building as a genre has turned largely into "place 3D assets with AOE effects for nearby buildings".
So they looked at anno1800 and then focused on the pirates. its ok. I hope theres higher difficulty in here somewhere.
Pigs are not funny.>>2466735Do the birds still get stuck flying in place in the air?
>Send your fast Blue ship here!>You exceed all the recommended stats>lol eat shit and take 30 crew damage per turnHappened on two different events so far with level 3 ship, just gonna make a second red ship for the blue events.Also who the fuck puts some sappy soft singing in a fucking pirate game menu. You had one fucking job.
