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Sea of Thieves RPG

Started by Batjon, June 03, 2019, 02:01:59 AM

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tenbones

#15
June 08, 2019, 04:11:06 PM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;10911882009: What's the best Pirate RPG?
2019: What's the best Pirate RPG for OSR?

2020: What's the best Pirate RPG for the OSR with Cyberpunk elements for Left-Handed GM's. WHERE IS IT?

Spinachcat

#16
June 08, 2019, 04:25:55 PM
Quote from: tenbones;10911962020: What's the best Pirate RPG for the OSR with Cyberpunk elements for Left-Handed GM's. WHERE IS IT?

Lefties and redheads are demon spawn! Nobody writes games for them!

:D

Snowman0147

#17
June 08, 2019, 04:27:30 PM
Quote from: JRT;1091194Except that...this really isn't true.  The game got some mixed reviews, but there's been enough of a large player base that appears to be having a lot of fun with this.  Microsoft talked about 5 million players, and here's a sampling of articles about the game:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/sea-of-thieves/sea-of-thieves-sales-player-count
https://www.newsweek.com/sea-ofthieves-worth-it-twitch-microsoft-store-sale-summit1g-1303931
https://www.gamesradar.com/sea-of-thieves-found-its-niche-by-leaving-enough-space-for-the-imaginative-to-create-something-unique/
https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/5/9/18538173/sea-of-thieves-anniversary-update-review-xbox-pc

While the game is polarizing to some extent, the game is definitely not a failure and I doubt we'd see a Tabletop RPG if it was.

It is still shit compared to a game with actual polish and care given to it.  Not to mention once there is no more profit to be made the publishers will just shut down the game and no one can play it any more.  At this point your just a pay pig waiting for the next scraps to be toss at you by publishers who don't care about making good games, but satisfying the greed of their investors.

Thornhammer

#18
June 08, 2019, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1091197Lefties and redheads are demon spawn! Nobody writes games for them!

:D

Hey, that's fine, more redheads for me.  ;)

Shawn Driscoll

#19
June 08, 2019, 05:24:17 PM
Quote from: JRT;1091194While the game is polarizing to some extent, the game is definitely not a failure and I doubt we'd see a Tabletop RPG if it was.
Let's assume that the video game is good. Does that mean the players of that video game will buy a tabletop version? Does that mean that tabletop gamers that never heard of the video game will buy the tabletop RPG?

JeremyR

#20
June 08, 2019, 06:04:12 PM
I don't think there is necessarily a correlation between success of a video game and success of its PNP RPG version.

A game example is Aden/Thunderscape. The original games were not great and probably played a role in the demise of SSI, one of the early pioneers of CRPGs. Yet the pen & paper version of the world is still going somehow.

Spinachcat

#21
June 08, 2019, 06:09:55 PM
Thunderscape D6 was a very good game. Sadly, I could never find extra copies for my gaming group.

And I agree there's no correlation between Videogame RPGs and Successful RPGs, as the graveyard of FLGS bargain bins will attest.

tenbones

#22
June 09, 2019, 11:07:34 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1091197Lefties and redheads are demon spawn! Nobody writes games for them!

:D

My wife (redhead) me - lefty.

No wonder our kids are monsters... Your theory has legs.

Charon's Little Helper

#23
June 09, 2019, 11:19:51 PM
Quote from: tenbones;1091407. Your theory has legs.

Hopefully they're right leg dominant.

Shawn Driscoll

#24
June 10, 2019, 07:17:58 PM

Batjon

#25
June 11, 2019, 03:22:16 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1091521Sea of Thieves system preview: https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/sotpreview.pdf

Thanks!

Batjon

#26
June 11, 2019, 03:23:14 PM
After reading the preview I am glad I skipped pre-ordering this.

I think I will stick with Pirates of the Spanish Main for Savage Worlds.
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