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    Does Age of Booty Bring Out the Best of Us?

    Friday, October 17, 2008, 03:42 PM [General]

    Has Age of Booty Found the Holy Grail of XBLA Order?

     

    An interesting thing happened last night -- I fired up Age of Booty, played a few games, and players were remarkably... civil? People using their headsets, people laughing, people teaming up, working together. It was amazing.

    Stunned, I headed over to the NEO GAF Age of Booty launch thread to see if they had the same experience, and it seems some of them did.

    So it made me wonder: have you had the same great experience that we did? If so, why do you think 'civil' gamers are attracted to Age of Booty? Is it the genre, is it the team work? Is it the kick ass name?

     

    Give me your thoughts...

     

     

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    I think it was because it was during the week... Wait until the weekend when people don't have to work, and they can finally drink as much rum as they use to upgrade their ships. The pirate inside them all will come out...

    adamazing
    October 17, 2008
    04:07 PM CST

    I'm a PS3 user (and European), so...

    Yurinka
    October 17, 2008
    04:48 PM CST

    Defeating someone by capturing more towns has a certain air of gentility. Even when you get owned it's not brutally in your face, and you don't feel like "that idiot just got lucky/camped/etc."



    You can see the skillz and be like "that's okay, I think I'm getting the hang of this" and actually learn something without being constantly exploded by a sugar-addled 13-yr old with a rocket launcher.



    It's nice!

    s-kill
    October 17, 2008
    07:03 PM CST

    Hopefully this stays true as the game keeps going. It's what destroys most live games for me.

    Thane
    October 17, 2008
    07:29 PM CST

    What I find most shocking is that everyone seems to know how to play this game. Aside from one bad game on launch day, everyone has a grasp of strategy, when to upgrade towns. Every time I'm about to upgrade a town, someone else does it, and I say "Good call" on the headset.



    I am matching, in RANDOM TEAMS, on XBOX LIVE, and people are very civil on how to divvy up ship upgrades. That, more than anything, has the possibility of abuse. To see people working together just blows me away.



    I have no reasonable idea why this is happening, but I love it.

    Thoth
    October 17, 2008
    07:44 PM CST
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