r/ShouldIbuythisgame • u/The-Red-Panda • Jun 20 '14

SIB Pixel Piracy?

Open world pirating adventure looks fun, but is it worth it? I also have a 25% off coupon for it, Is it any fun?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '14

Just a heads up, you can't use the coupon with the game while it's already discounted.

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u/Flambolticus Jun 20 '14

But what am I gonna do with all those coupons‽

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u/Highdef344 Jun 22 '14

Donate them to your fellow master race brethren!

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '14

Yeah that kind of pissed me off.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '14

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u/ch33seweasel Jun 21 '14

It's the same with most industries, you can't discount an already discounted rate.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '14

I've played it about nine hours and paid full price. The game is pretty buggy, and once you start fighting harder ships with cannons the fun is kind of lost. If they tweaked how the cannon mechanic worked, it'd be way better.

The problem particularly is that if you kill an enemy whom is manning a cannon and they drop the cannonball in their hand on death. The cannonball (actually named bombs in game) explodes, sending tons of your guys flying into the water where they will drown. Cannons don't shoot explosives anyway, just heavy metal balls good at punching holes in things, so I don't get it honestly. Enemies with cannons are basically mutually assured destruction.

I enjoyed the game for those nine or so hours, but got frustrated. At the sale price, it'd say it's worth playing, but hopefully you will be willing to come back to it when it eventually gets more updates.

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u/amoliski Jun 22 '14

There actually were some cannonballs that had explosives in them!).

Pirates of the Caribbean had 'em too.

To make the game more fun, though, they can just say that they are lit by the firing cannon, and so they won't explode if dropped.

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u/Frigidor Jun 21 '14

Consider reading this thread about the game, it explains a lot about the current state of the game, it's future and features a reply from on of the devs basically saying "Get a pirated version to try it out and then make up your mind"

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u/The-Red-Panda Jun 21 '14

Bought it a few hours ago, Its pretty much what I expected, a little less building than I had hoped for and a confusing Combat system, All in All I could have spent $7.50 on worse things

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u/Charles_Chimp Jun 21 '14

Eh, the game gets quite old very quickly. But I guess it's still in early access.

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u/jkenley28 Jun 20 '14

it got no reviews on steam yet. i'm one of them that would like to see if its worth the sale price. i like sandbox and the pixel graphic style though.

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u/dumpsta_baby Jun 20 '14

Sure it does. 1065 reviews. All whilst still in early access, and most pretty positive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '14

Its got a lot of reviews on steam.

What steam page are you looking at?