As far as unexpected E3 2017 talking points go, comparing two big - budget, online -
focused pirate games must surely have ranked pretty highly before the start of the show.
It's why I was encouraged by an article on PC Gamer yesterday, where Rare said it was trying to engineer their social -
focused pirate game, Sea of Thieves, to run on objectively bad hardware.
Not exact matches
Until now, we've never had a
game focusing on the Federation Force fighting against the space
pirates.
Just a couple of weeks after Gore Verbinski formally turned down the opportunity to direct
Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in order to
focus on the video
game adaptation Bioshock, the project has reportedly hit a major snag.
The specifics of the
game were kept vague, but it seemed to
focus on having your own crew of friends and your own
pirate ship.
We asked Rare, the developers of the upcoming open world
pirate sailing coop -
focused adventure
game Sea of Thieves, if they're intending to make a public beta test for
gamers to participate in, and they've confirmed that they will indeed have a beta test.
Unfortunately, this criticism led to Disney Interactive terminating most of its studios, firing hundreds, cancelling the nearly completed
Pirates RPG, and
focusing almost exclusively on mobile
games, social apps, and movie - tie ins.
Though Skull and Bones does posit itself as a
pirate game, at the moment there's less
focus on you as an individual
pirate and more
focus on you as a collective
pirate ship.
So in addition to
games Space
Pirate Trainer, Kittypocalypse and The Assembly, Viveport will feature content verticals
focusing on music, education, shopping, design and news to name a few.