Is this the best Sea Dogs game?

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Does this game have all the same features from the pervious games?

[CSA FD]

No. CoAS is better.

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Originally posted by CSA FD:

No. CoAS is better.

Is Age Of Pirates the same as Sea Dogs?

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by SnF Charger of Flares:

Originally posted by CSA FD:

No. CoAS is better.

Is Age Of Pirates the same as Sea Dogs?

yes, it just had a different name because of legal reasons back then.

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Originally posted by Legatus Lucanus:

Originally posted by SnF Charger of Flares:

Is Age Of Pirates the same as Sea Dogs?

yes, it just had a different name because of legal reasons back then.

So just get city of abandoned ships? And skip this game?

[LHookins]

Do the previous games have all the features of this game?

If nothing else, TEHO is more polished. Other games have other features, some have more, but none has the polish.

Play whichever one you like. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.

Hook

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Originally posted by LHookins:

Do the previous games have all the features of this game?

If nothing else, TEHO is more polished. Other games have other features, some have more, but none has the polish.

Play whichever one you like. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.

Hook

Can you take over towns in this one?

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Originally posted by SnF Charger of Flares:

Can you take over towns in this one?

No.
CoAS is nothing compare with this game.
People love CoAS because its mods. I don't see many good mods for TEHO. We might have more mobs in the future
As Hook said, TEHO is more polished ( graphic still suck though) and devs are keep adding stuffs to this game

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Originally posted by ZZZzzz:

Originally posted by SnF Charger of Flares:

Can you take over towns in this one?

No.
CoAS is nothing compare with this game.
People love CoAS because its mods. I don't see many good mods for TEHO. We might have more mobs in the future
As Hook said, TEHO is more polished ( graphic still suck though) and devs are keep adding stuffs to this game

Is CoAS with mods better then this game?

[LHookins]

Is CoAS with mods better then this game?

No, but Pirates of the Caribbean with the New Horizons mod definitely is. If you're going to abandon the good features and polish of this game, you might as well go with the best of the modded earlier games.

Hook

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by SnF Charger of Flares:

Originally posted by ZZZzzz:

No.
CoAS is nothing compare with this game.
People love CoAS because its mods. I don't see many good mods for TEHO. We might have more mobs in the future
As Hook said, TEHO is more polished ( graphic still suck though) and devs are keep adding stuffs to this game

Is CoAS with mods better then this game?

the answer to this question is more a matter of personal preferences then a matter of facts. But anyway, CoAS is not available at steam yet, hopefully it will be in the future, so if you do not want to buy the game at GOG you have not the choice at this moment.

and i am not shure if i understand ZZZzzz wrong but just to clarify: you can take over towns in CoAS, you can do it at any point you want as long as you are strong enough to do so and regardless if you have a faction quest to do it or not.

CoAS has cheats, larger mods and a way easier start as positive points in comparison to TEHO.
TEHO is the latest game in the series and it has without doubt some improvements over the old games but it is not developed by the developer of the other games but by a former modding group which got a deal with the publisher who owns the rights to the series. They do a amazing job but they are not full time developers so things like localizations for dlcs can take a while.


But regardless what you do, if you buy TEHO then dont buy the latest dlc if you want to play in englsich, the englisch localization of it is not released yet as far as i know.

Originally posted by LHookins:

Is CoAS with mods better then this game?

No, but Pirates of the Caribbean with the New Horizons mod definitely is. If you're going to abandon the good features and polish of this game, you might as well go with the best of the modded earlier games.

Hook

you can buy pirates of the caribbean today?

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and i am not shure if i understand ZZZzzz wrong but just to clarify: you can take over towns in CoAS, you can do it at any point you want as long as you are strong enough to do so and regardless if you have a faction quest to do it or not

The original poster was asking if you could take over towns in TEHO. The answer is no. You can in the earlier games, especially with mods.

The English translation is ready and it should be published in a day or two. It would have been out today but the lead developer got busy with Real Life. I'd still hold off on getting the latest DLC until you have the English translation in your hands and a few people play it and post comments.

Good post. Thanks.

Hook

[LHookins]

you can buy pirates of the caribbean today?

Possibly on Ebay. Check out the Pirates Ahoy forums (creators of the New Horizons mod) for other possible sources of the game. They are the ones who keep up with it.

Hook

[Death]

I'd take Hooks advice and go with PotC first if you can get your hands on a copy, but if you can't then CoAS is the next best option. I just can't recommend TEHO to someone new to the series. It gives me trouble even as someone experienced in those other games. Part of my issue here is the ships that you just can't outrun while on missions. It can be frustrating and annoying when you don't even have a decent ship. So definitely check out an earlier entry before sinking your teeth into this one.

[lucien sanchez]

I'll agree with Death that it's probably best to begin with CoAS. I'm playing through it now and it's MUCH easier than TEHO. That said, TEHO has quite a lot of features that CoAS doesn't have, which may or may not appeal to everyone: two currencies with different uses and crafting/alchemy off the top of my head. And in my opinion the quest variety is much better in TEHO.
Also the storyline quests in TEHO are vastly more memorable. I'm playing through CoAS at the moment and many of the quests are just dull and/or tedious. I've just quit for the day in the middle of a quest for the English storyline that just involves visiting like seven different islands, looking for a cave on each one, searching through the cave for the correct chest, and collecting gold ingots out of each one, which are too heavy for my character to carry so I have to take as many as I can, give them to an officer, repeat until the chest is empty, then get back to my ship and painstakingly repeat the process in reverse to get them into my ship chest so I can repeat the whole tedious process on the next island. I just keep thinking back to TEHO and quests like The Dutch Gambit (All three versions!), The Pirate Saga, City of Blood Harvest, The Calleuche, Hot Sun of Maracaibo, Long Walk to the Gallows; just great, well-written, memorable quests. There's just nothing of that calibre in CoAS.
Full disclosure, I'm playing Vanilla CoAS so maybe the quests get better with mods.
Also, the last DLC for TEHO got a translation released today. Finally.

[LHookins]

I've got a few hundred hours in stock unmodded COAS, and a *lot* of hundred hours in TEHO. I don't play the storylines, I only play sandbox. The sandbox in TEHO is incredibly better than the one in COAS. I gave up on COAS when I realized there was no reason to talk to anyone in town besides a couple of shopkeepers. In TEHO it's worthwhile to talk to almost everyone. The TEHO street merchants are a lot better, for example, and some townspeople have quests. Exploring the jungle is better in TEHO. The TEHO sandbox was simply more fun, had more to do, and was more rewarding.

I tried COAS mods and much prefer the stock game.

TEHO is a bit more hardcore than COAS, but there's no reason to avoid TEHO if you haven't played the earlier games. A lot of people started with TEHO.

Hook