I am having difficulty arguing against Gabe’s position, here. Pirate ships are, indeed, awesome game accessories. I kind of regret not having one in my MMORPG, and probably not in Dragon Age Inquisition next week.
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The whole power fantasy of Assassin’s Creed has long since grown stale for me. (Even before the devs at Ubisoft decided that what the game really needed was a tower defense mini-game.)
But I loved Black Flag, if for no reason than nostalgia over all the hours I sunk into Sid Meier’s Pirates! I actually kind of resented that I kept having to leave my ship to do silly and ahistorical things.
Years ago in one of the editions of D&D, there were some very bare bones ship to ship combat rules (maybe they were from Dragon Magazine, I don’t even remember) that we thought were cool so we expanded on them, play tested them and tweeked them until we had a pretty fun setup. I think we only used the rules once in an actual campaign and it was a great disappointing to me. Screw dungeon crawls, THIS was the game I wanted to play.