The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates by bogzz on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:12AM (#49386918)

Also, nothing quite like the Black & White games has matched what the originals offered.

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Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates by embedding-shape on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:38AM (#49388848)

All (?) of Lionhead Studios are basically classics like that with no true successors, B&W and also The Movies and Fable.

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Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates by alendit on Friday August 21, 2026 @02:44PM (#49392290)

B&W is awesome. But Populous has been the first game to wow me and will forever have a place in my heart.

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Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates by partomniscient on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:08AM (#49507412)

B&W was weird. It took its key game mechanic (training up your creature) and denied it to you in one of the (only 5) levels making it just another RTS type thing. Wait, what?

Peter Molyneux did some amazing stuff but overpromised and underdelivered a lot. [1]

But some stuff was amazing, PowerMonger was pretty impressive too, but didn't have the succinctness Populous had.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/godus-is-deadus-peter-molyneuxs-cont...

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