Thar She Blows
Yar! It is I, the dread pirate Dondongo Sweetcheeks!
Many of us have been playing the shit out of Pirates of the Caribbean Online. Some of us who live on the east coast have been losing considerable amounts of sleep. I for one, may be sleeping more soundly soon.
These quests are about as fun as barnacles on my balls. I put up with the errand boy / scavenger hunt tasks for a while, but the hoops they make you jump through to get your voodoo doll have put me over the edge. First I need 4-5 pieces of straw, silk, and pitch and a rod. I sink ships, kill soldiers, and search through barrels to get this stuff. When I bring it to her she says I then need 3-4 blood from alligators, crabs, scorpions, and wasps. For this I have to take slow ass boat rides to various islands just to find these creatures. When I gathered all the blood and brought it back, she made me a doll, but then told me it’s useless unless I collect 4 bone dust from four different varieties of undead pirates. At this point I threw my hands in the air and decided I’d had enough. The combat gameplay is not entertaining enough for me submit myself to this hazing.
The only real fun is plundering enemy vessels with 6 other friends on a ship and that’s the only reason I haven’t uninstalled the game yet. Boat combat is interesting. It requires tactics you don’t often see in gaming. It’s slow moving most of the time and then really fast paced when things get hairy. I like having someone at the helm barking orders to the crew. I wish most of our team FPS games could feel that organized instead of the usual “Someone get in the damn paint!”