The very first pirate I saw was a Captain.
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Once I worked out how to park the boat and disembark fighting ensued. The landmark I chose was a pair of large, moored vessels along the coast and by sheer chance (or possibly unconscious memory) that turned out to be the very beach where the pirates I was meant to be dealing with were based.
Since I hadn't paid the least attention to what either the rowboat man or the man in armor who sent me to him had said I just looked for a landmark and rowed towards it. I rowed around for a while just for the fun of watching myself row.Įventually I decided it was time to row somewhere specific.
It moved responsively and smoothly but with enough heft and resistance to feel convincing. Boarding and rowing were equally intuitive (if in doubt Press "F"). Stand near water, open inventory, click on icon. The mechanics of launching a boat seemed familiar. They weren't much help but a regular human standing not far off pointed me to a rack of rowboats and invited me to help myself. A six-foot tall walking fish in a frock-coat, monocle and tri-corn hat isn't really going to look "in keeping" anywhere outside of a museum of surrealism or a 1950s Disney animated classic.Īre you sure that's the right translation? No, I do not want to go on a cruise around the bay with "a real pirate", thank you, fishface.Īt the docks there were more of the strange air-breathing fishmen, their scales and piratical stylings looking marginally more in keeping at waterside than in the farmland where I'd encountered them earlier. By a stroke of synchronicity he suggested I speak to someone at dockside about getting a rowing boat.Ī boat! That's so much better than a horse! Don't have to ask me twice. I headed that way but, on a whim, I spoke to a man in dress-armor reviewing some troops in the atrium on the way out. Opening the map again showed a detailed view of the city with the docks clearly marked. I have an odd feeling I might have seen some of those paintings before. Even the guards were editorializing about their own lax security so it's hard to be sure. Gawping around town like a sightseer I found what might pass for an art gallery, although it might have been a palace. That fountain's no LA lion, that's for sure. The architecture is no great shakes compared to other worlds I've visited either. If I play regularly it may be the first where I have to turn the music off altogether.Įxcuse me, can you tell me the way to The Prancing Pony? Unfortunately whatever music they might have been making was drowned out by the ArcheAge soundtrack, which is among the worst I have heard in an MMO. There seemed to be a band playing in front of the fountain in the main square. The city, whose name I didn't note, was built on the scale of most fantasy MMO towns, with ceilings way too high and doors way too large to feel natural or comfortable for anyone shorter than a half-giant. You shall be Lord Mayor, Dick Whittington! Although horses cantered past me as I jogged along the miles passed quickly enough and the gates of the city soon came into view. Even the harpies flapping in the nearby fields declined to pay me any mind.
Traveling along the road seemed entirely safe. Since he didn't seem inclined either to comment or to take me for a test-ride, after a minute or two I jumped down and continued my travels on foot.īy now I could see a coastal town of some size on the map so I headed there to get a look at the famous ArcheAge sea. The designated rider just sat there as if uninvited horse-passengers were an everyday occurrence, which, for all I know, they may well be. No-one would sell, rent, or lend me any kind of mount but I did manage to vault onto the back of someone else's horse, while they were still on it, which was profoundly unexpected and not a little embarrassing. They kept thundering past me on the road, kicking dust in my face. I opened the latter, oriented myself, and headed off along the road in search of adventure.Īfter a short stopover at a farm, where I sheared some sheep (hmm, this reminds me of Mabinogi) and killed some bees wasps (the farmer seemed confused over which they were and, hmm, this reminds me of GW2) I wandered around a stable-yard trying to work out how to get a horse. ArcheAge features an extremely unattractive, alienating HUD-style "mini" map (I put mini in inverted commas because something that covers the best part of a quarter of the field of view can hardly be called small) and a lovely, faux-parchment, immersive main map.
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