Warms my heart to see you talking more about this game. I always enjoyed it more than Wizards, and felt that it really could go the distance as a (more) mainstream game if it could just get out of Wizards shadow.
i like how pirate's a bit more mature than wiz. Like in wiz (atleast arc 1 from what i remember, not sure) doesnt explicitly use the word kill. But in pirate, they show the dead rat crew pretty early and while comical, show gunn get decapitated. During a side quest, someone just says "just kill em" so casually. Questing feels nicer too, not all great tho, damn bumble buffaloon. in wiz its just you and a few people that switch each world, while in pirate you keep and grow your crew throughout the story.
also the ship, maybe not the combat, cause its park near the target and spam the 4 abilities, but i love everything else. Going from island to island and crossing the skyways makes the worlds feel like an actual entire world. And the Skyways, OMG the skyways, they look SO good, cool ranch with the distant huge sun, Valencia with the giant central mechanism, Marleybone with the night sky, don't get me started on Mooshu's.
The crazy thing is that it hasn't even really got good yet. It gets particularly good at around level 30-35ish as the epics system really comes into play.
Pirate101 is actually miles better than Wiz when it comes to the core gameplay. I wish I gave it a shot earlier on at the start of COVID because nowadays I just don't have the time to play it.
An interesting thing about Pirate101's F2P model is that there's actually two different spots for paywalls, depending on when you created your account. For some reason (which I won't complain about, given I have an older account), accounts created before the Blood Shoals revamp can play for free until the end of the Presidio, which adds a couple hours of content as well as multiple pretty damn fun dungeons. People who created their accounts afterwards, who you would think KingsIsle would have more incentive to hook with more F2P content, can only do one of the Blood Shoals quest lines. Really strange decision from KI.
My account was created in 2015 and I can't play until Presidio? Unless I'm remembering wrong when Blood Shoals was revamped but I'm pretty sure I was before.
Created my account in 2012 when the game released and have loved it since, the memories I have on this game with my friends are some of the best moments of my life.
Loved this video. I've played W101 since it came out but I always preferred P101. My family was poor so I only ever paid for W101. I never got past the paywall of P101, but it was really fun in the beginning. Now that I'm older, I might get back into it! This video convinced me!
As someone who’s been playing Pirate101 since the beginning and has an wealth of knowledge on the games lore and story, I’m so glad to see someone else talking about it I would’ve been 9 years old when this game came out, and it’s just really important to me, as funny as that sounds. From the character designs to the dialogue, to the gameplay, to the historical and pop culture references I’d love to see a follow up after you get further into the game. Cool Ranch just has so many references and action stuffed into it Also 2:35 I see what you did there
As a long-time fan of Pirate101, I'm excited to see this! Just be warned: Cool Ranch is a VERY long world. It's fun, but if you insist on doing multiple worlds per video, it might be a while before you can continue.
Appreciate it! This episode covered WAY too much content way too generally bc I came up with this series idea on a whim after canning the nuzlocke. Expect multiple eps per world in most cases!
As a long time player of Pirate101, I'm so glad that you enjoyed the story up to cool ranch! Also hopefully more following after. I really hope that we can see things improve for the game with the servers and maybe we can get cool updates in the future like Wizard gets, but we'll have to wait and see! Good luck out there pirate! I raise an ice cold bottle of yum to ya! :D
I remember liking this game as a little kid, although I never got to the actual combat (maybe because of the swift paywall) Coming back to see it all these years later, after my friends got me back into it, and after scrolling through I'm upset that I didn't really play this more Because it's literally just Pirate MMO Fire Emblem--
I feel like the story in Pirate has a lot more...oomph to it than Wizard. This is especially noticable in Marleybone, very excited to see what you'll say to that.
Get one month subscription with a few friends, rush through the main quest together, do side quests if you still have time, call it a day and try the game again in a few years. That's what my friends do with both this and Wizard101 and we all have a blast with it.
After dedicating time to playing P101, I was honestly shocked and disappointed that it didn't get more attention from the developers and the public. It is a phenominal game with beautiful graphics, designs and animation, as well as an engaging storyline and fun gameplay. It is an underrated gem. I hope it will eventually get the love it deserves.
Honestly the only reason I don’t play this game today is because as a kid, I thought it was a grand idea to make my Pirate account with a different user and password than my Wizard account. So I have no idea where my level 13 Swashbuckler is..
Was a big Pirate101 fan, but I didn't want to be a burden so I had to stop playing, the only reason I got so far into the game was because one of those membership bundles that come with gear and stuff I got seemed to be way more than a month and they probably accidentally gave me a year of membership, that ran out
Absolutely LOVEEED pirate101, more than I ever loved wizard101. It definitely feels like the evolution? Of everything wizard101, just a cute cozy game that makes my strategy brain expand. Great video as always too!
I remember being in love with this game as a kid when it came out, begging my mom to let me play it on her computer during the weekends, and yes, begging her again to use her credit card to continue the story. I recently went back to the game, and it was such a blast remembering this part of my childhood.
Pirate 101 has a unique simpleness to its approach to strategy games. Whenever I try to play a strategy game it quickly feels like it will quickly become something I have to micro manage.
I never made it very far. I played it for about an hour when it first came out and was bored to death lol. Never went back to it, it just didn't give me the same feel as Wiz.
I legit play this game more than wiz(at least it feels like it), and I tend to enjoy it more! I've played wiz first, but since it died down a little in things to do I started playing pirate more again, not recently either! Its really fun 😊
Epic video dude, your streams have definitely made me wanna start playing the game and this video is the push I need. Catch y’all on the seven seas of the sky
I beta test this game when I was a kid, have the boochbeard bundle and it’s exclusive goodies to prove it. When the game finally went live I decided to switch things up and go witch doctor and I had so much fun running an undead crew through the skyways. I stopped playing when I hit the end of Aquila because I got burned out. Also if I remember correctly they added an aztecasaur side content in skull island to help pad the starting area out more later on in the games life.
when it first came out the pay wall only happen when you try to get your first ship, guess they change it, but it really was a fun game, I wish I continues at the time but I didn't any money because I was 10 or 12 maybe and parents didn't like putting up their credit card on the internet back then sadly.
Personally this is my opinion on the game: The game is a solid great game, it just seems to me that kings isle really just doesn't give any care in the world about this game. Valencia 2 is extremely lazy considering it lasts about 3 levels, and is just filled with a bunch of lazy and hard fights with enemies that can just move across the map and kill you in two turns. All of the new worlds that they've added (besides Tartarus) have been tolerable and pretty decent balancing. Now why I say "besides Tartarus" is because a lot if not all of the enemies are EXTREMELY UNBALANCED. they can kill you and your companions in like 1-2 turns and its just extremely unfun NOT MENTIONING how RARE the gear is for Tartarus on top of it not even being that good in the first place, A LOT of the Tartarus is either pretty irrelevant to use in the first place or its very useable and good. Now to talk about the actual development of the game: It seems to me that kings isle truthfully DOES NOT care about this game NEARLY as much as they do to wizard101. We have been sitting on the same level cap for (estimated guess) 5-6 years I wanna think? and they've added 3-4 different content updates that last about an hour or two that are just plain boring or extremely hard for no reason at all. They said that they are going to release krokotopia BUT GUESS WHAT. THEY STILL ARENT UPDATING THE LEVEL CAP. Not to mention krokotopia is probably 2 years away anyway, and they said that they are going to release the level cap after krok which that update is probably another 3-4 years away. This is my massive problem with Kingsisle That's just my opinion though.
The solution to end all P2P (pay to play games like WoW, Wizard/Pirate101, FF14O is to simply stop paying them and hopefully demand a F2P option where the paying feature would just be buffs for EXP, Currency & exspantions.
I didn’t buy membership ever. I just bought the areas outright. I did that about 8 years ago, and haven’t spent much more on the game. I love it though, so I still buy crowns from time to time. But I have saved quite a bit of money in the long run doing it area by area instead of subscribing month to month
I haven’t finished the video, but in regards to your membership complaint. You should know it was even worse at one point. Iirc there simply was no questline with the betrayed rats in blood shoals. You pull up, find out Ratbeard killed his friends, then get pointed towards a different section of the map, there was no Aztec section.
LV70 Privateer here, and Kingsisle has added new content and a new story after almost a decade of this game being dead. So, are you gonna do another one of these videos now that Kingsisle is adding more story to the game?
So basically this is one piece Pirates setting out in mass to find a legendary island after the most infamous pirate of all time died Colorful crewmembers with wacky abilities Big government that creates much more harm than good, even going so far as to replace soldiers with robots Sailing in a place that doesn't act like a normal sea Main character seemingly predestined to be the next big name in pirate history Whether intentional or not, I'm on board with it and I'm definitely hopping onto pirate101 as soon as I've caught up on wizard, remember loving the idea as a kid when it came out and being really disappointed in that paywall
Oh yeah and on top of that, even more simularities: First crewmate is saved from random evil government and immediately loyal. Main character is absent of family (ik luffy still has his grandfather and "brothers" and others but they were absent for the vast majority of his voyage) Mysterious rumored superweapon that can bring the world to its knees Companion(s) that originally were enemies to the protagonist The list still goes on
I would of probaby got into this game if I wasn’t so deep into wiz I’m talking about money wise , if they just made things free and changed things up with the crowns then I would’ve played it
Is pirate101 now completely free? I remember back when i used to play some 7-8 years ago, there was a part in-game where you had to have the in-game currency to access new areas
I've always said my heart will stay with W101 just for the nostalgia, but in almost every department except for game length, Pirate101 is way better than Wizard101
also this game is absolutely hilarious. the dialogue between your companions is just so absurd enough as to something you'd hear from paper mario a thousand year door.
Warms my heart to see you talking more about this game. I always enjoyed it more than Wizards, and felt that it really could go the distance as a (more) mainstream game if it could just get out of Wizards shadow.
Agreed
i like how pirate's a bit more mature than wiz. Like in wiz (atleast arc 1 from what i remember, not sure) doesnt explicitly use the word kill. But in pirate, they show the dead rat crew pretty early and while comical, show gunn get decapitated. During a side quest, someone just says "just kill em" so casually.
Questing feels nicer too, not all great tho, damn bumble buffaloon. in wiz its just you and a few people that switch each world, while in pirate you keep and grow your crew throughout the story.
also the ship, maybe not the combat, cause its park near the target and spam the 4 abilities, but i love everything else. Going from island to island and crossing the skyways makes the worlds feel like an actual entire world. And the Skyways, OMG the skyways, they look SO good, cool ranch with the distant huge sun, Valencia with the giant central mechanism, Marleybone with the night sky, don't get me started on Mooshu's.
I everyone seems to complain about the Bumble Buffaloons for some reason. I completed that quest with witchdoctor solo.
Though I fought the smuggler's arena at level 20.
pirate's story is truly unparalleled! it's so so good. i was jaw-dropped the entire time
The crazy thing is that it hasn't even really got good yet. It gets particularly good at around level 30-35ish as the epics system really comes into play.
Pirate101 is actually miles better than Wiz when it comes to the core gameplay. I wish I gave it a shot earlier on at the start of COVID because nowadays I just don't have the time to play it.
An interesting thing about Pirate101's F2P model is that there's actually two different spots for paywalls, depending on when you created your account. For some reason (which I won't complain about, given I have an older account), accounts created before the Blood Shoals revamp can play for free until the end of the Presidio, which adds a couple hours of content as well as multiple pretty damn fun dungeons. People who created their accounts afterwards, who you would think KingsIsle would have more incentive to hook with more F2P content, can only do one of the Blood Shoals quest lines. Really strange decision from KI.
Only the Azteca blood shoal quest. And side quests earlier.
My account was created in 2015 and I can't play until Presidio? Unless I'm remembering wrong when Blood Shoals was revamped but I'm pretty sure I was before.
Created my account in 2012 when the game released and have loved it since, the memories I have on this game with my friends are some of the best moments of my life.
Loved this video. I've played W101 since it came out but I always preferred P101. My family was poor so I only ever paid for W101. I never got past the paywall of P101, but it was really fun in the beginning. Now that I'm older, I might get back into it! This video convinced me!
Thank you for this video. I hope this game makes a comeback. I miss it.
Servers are definitely more populated now than they were a year ago. It's already slowly coming back imo 👍
2:38 Jerma: "AND I AM DA GIANT RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF DA RULES!"
I hope you were referencing Jerma there 😅
As someone who’s been playing Pirate101 since the beginning and has an wealth of knowledge on the games lore and story, I’m so glad to see someone else talking about it
I would’ve been 9 years old when this game came out, and it’s just really important to me, as funny as that sounds. From the character designs to the dialogue, to the gameplay, to the historical and pop culture references
I’d love to see a follow up after you get further into the game. Cool Ranch just has so many references and action stuffed into it
Also 2:35 I see what you did there
An explanation of Pirate101?
Set our heading, cuz we're sailing onto this windway.
I'll say this much, I like the tactics system.
It's so great to see this game get some of the positive attention I always felt it deserved
Max, you need more recognition for your high quality, well edited content.
Epic Video👍
appreciate it!
As a long-time fan of Pirate101, I'm excited to see this! Just be warned: Cool Ranch is a VERY long world. It's fun, but if you insist on doing multiple worlds per video, it might be a while before you can continue.
Appreciate it! This episode covered WAY too much content way too generally bc I came up with this series idea on a whim after canning the nuzlocke. Expect multiple eps per world in most cases!
@@heyitsmax_ and if you like spooky cool ranch has that for you it is dope as heck.
"Think of it like chess with health bars and abilities"
Welcome to the "tactics" genre of games, and enjoy your stay.
Might have to check this out when i have some free time.
Love Pirate101 so much. Glad to see someon talking about it
As a long time player of Pirate101, I'm so glad that you enjoyed the story up to cool ranch! Also hopefully more following after. I really hope that we can see things improve for the game with the servers and maybe we can get cool updates in the future like Wizard gets, but we'll have to wait and see! Good luck out there pirate! I raise an ice cold bottle of yum to ya! :D
I remember liking this game as a little kid, although I never got to the actual combat (maybe because of the swift paywall)
Coming back to see it all these years later, after my friends got me back into it, and after scrolling through I'm upset that I didn't really play this more
Because it's literally just Pirate MMO Fire Emblem--
I feel like the story in Pirate has a lot more...oomph to it than Wizard. This is especially noticable in Marleybone, very excited to see what you'll say to that.
Get one month subscription with a few friends, rush through the main quest together, do side quests if you still have time, call it a day and try the game again in a few years.
That's what my friends do with both this and Wizard101 and we all have a blast with it.
After dedicating time to playing P101, I was honestly shocked and disappointed that it didn't get more attention from the developers and the public. It is a phenominal game with beautiful graphics, designs and animation, as well as an engaging storyline and fun gameplay. It is an underrated gem. I hope it will eventually get the love it deserves.
Honestly the only reason I don’t play this game today is because as a kid, I thought it was a grand idea to make my Pirate account with a different user and password than my Wizard account. So I have no idea where my level 13 Swashbuckler is..
Was a big Pirate101 fan, but I didn't want to be a burden so I had to stop playing, the only reason I got so far into the game was because one of those membership bundles that come with gear and stuff I got seemed to be way more than a month and they probably accidentally gave me a year of membership, that ran out
@Leeloo_the_fox unsure
Absolutely LOVEEED pirate101, more than I ever loved wizard101. It definitely feels like the evolution? Of everything wizard101, just a cute cozy game that makes my strategy brain expand. Great video as always too!
I remember being in love with this game as a kid when it came out, begging my mom to let me play it on her computer during the weekends, and yes, begging her again to use her credit card to continue the story. I recently went back to the game, and it was such a blast remembering this part of my childhood.
I've beaten Gortez 13 times now as of writting this. Can I get someone to farm him with me 12 more times? I want to unlock the companion
I've long since got the companion
Pirate 101 has a unique simpleness to its approach to strategy games. Whenever I try to play a strategy game it quickly feels like it will quickly become something I have to micro manage.
I never made it very far. I played it for about an hour when it first came out and was bored to death lol. Never went back to it, it just didn't give me the same feel as Wiz.
I legit play this game more than wiz(at least it feels like it), and I tend to enjoy it more! I've played wiz first, but since it died down a little in things to do I started playing pirate more again, not recently either! Its really fun 😊
Appreciate the jerma reference with the giant rat who makes all the rules
Epic video dude, your streams have definitely made me wanna start playing the game and this video is the push I need. Catch y’all on the seven seas of the sky
Good stuff, always nice to see more coverage of this game. It's got some great potential.
And we are _finally_ getting updates again.
Pig day for plundering 💯
The paywall used to be so much later!!
I love pirate 101 but it always had hurt me that it's just abandoned by kingisle, and still have to get the subscription
Always happy to see a pirate video.
Im loving these games still got a community on it cant wait to get my pc back to hop back on
I miss this game so much, it has so much potential to be realised.
I beta test this game when I was a kid, have the boochbeard bundle and it’s exclusive goodies to prove it. When the game finally went live I decided to switch things up and go witch doctor and I had so much fun running an undead crew through the skyways. I stopped playing when I hit the end of Aquila because I got burned out. Also if I remember correctly they added an aztecasaur side content in skull island to help pad the starting area out more later on in the games life.
Great video, love the edits, and glad you enjoy the game so much!
P101 was good as fuck ngl, i played privateer, and i loved the turn based grid combat, takes me back to shit like ff tactics and FE
The Armada really reminds me of the Clockwork Droids from Doctor Who (The Girl in the Fireplace)
Played it many years ago and my brother did too and i can’t emphasize how good this game was
amazing job per usual max!! I couldn’t watch this on first upload but regardless, im excited for the next episode!
when it first came out the pay wall only happen when you try to get your first ship, guess they change it, but it really was a fun game, I wish I continues at the time but I didn't any money because I was 10 or 12 maybe and parents didn't like putting up their credit card on the internet back then sadly.
Personally this is my opinion on the game: The game is a solid great game, it just seems to me that kings isle really just doesn't give any care in the world about this game. Valencia 2 is extremely lazy considering it lasts about 3 levels, and is just filled with a bunch of lazy and hard fights with enemies that can just move across the map and kill you in two turns. All of the new worlds that they've added (besides Tartarus) have been tolerable and pretty decent balancing. Now why I say "besides Tartarus" is because a lot if not all of the enemies are EXTREMELY UNBALANCED. they can kill you and your companions in like 1-2 turns and its just extremely unfun NOT MENTIONING how RARE the gear is for Tartarus on top of it not even being that good in the first place, A LOT of the Tartarus is either pretty irrelevant to use in the first place or its very useable and good. Now to talk about the actual development of the game: It seems to me that kings isle truthfully DOES NOT care about this game NEARLY as much as they do to wizard101. We have been sitting on the same level cap for (estimated guess) 5-6 years I wanna think? and they've added 3-4 different content updates that last about an hour or two that are just plain boring or extremely hard for no reason at all. They said that they are going to release krokotopia BUT GUESS WHAT. THEY STILL ARENT UPDATING THE LEVEL CAP. Not to mention krokotopia is probably 2 years away anyway, and they said that they are going to release the level cap after krok which that update is probably another 3-4 years away. This is my massive problem with Kingsisle That's just my opinion though.
Absolutely LOVE this game!
This is the first time i seen a wizard Vet actually enjoy Pirate
And thats sad
I started to realize that pirate101 is a fun and enjoyable game
If this game got updates, i would come back to pirate101. Wont go back to wiz though
The solution to end all P2P (pay to play games like WoW, Wizard/Pirate101, FF14O is to simply stop paying them and hopefully demand a F2P option where the paying feature would just be buffs for EXP, Currency & exspantions.
I didn’t buy membership ever. I just bought the areas outright. I did that about 8 years ago, and haven’t spent much more on the game. I love it though, so I still buy crowns from time to time. But I have saved quite a bit of money in the long run doing it area by area instead of subscribing month to month
That’s it I’m playing when my wizard101’s memberships done
If you love the game so far, you'll love Mooshu & Marleybone WAY more than you ever loved the wiz versions 😎
I haven’t finished the video, but in regards to your membership complaint. You should know it was even worse at one point. Iirc there simply was no questline with the betrayed rats in blood shoals. You pull up, find out Ratbeard killed his friends, then get pointed towards a different section of the map, there was no Aztec section.
LV70 Privateer here, and Kingsisle has added new content and a new story after almost a decade of this game being dead. So, are you gonna do another one of these videos now that Kingsisle is adding more story to the game?
Is there still paywalls
@@cl4y Paywalls still haven't changed sadly.
You should try more 18+ MMOs sometime!! I have a love hate relationship with Black Desert Online :) but it’s still very fun sometimes!
Avery or Henry Every was a real historical pirate by the way
I grewup playing this game and occasionally I have weird dreams where I'm playing through it again but it's been changed. IE different areas
Today's video is sponsored by Pirate101!
Would love some of that fresh corpo bread
I played it 7 years ago it was amazing
Pirate is the superior game. Always have, always will. Wish it got more love from KI.
it was awesome tuning into these streams, do you have a discord or a streaming schedule?
Discord: discord.gg/xanx57rH
Streams on tuesdays and thursdays, with an occasional random one thrown in
So basically this is one piece
Pirates setting out in mass to find a legendary island after the most infamous pirate of all time died
Colorful crewmembers with wacky abilities
Big government that creates much more harm than good, even going so far as to replace soldiers with robots
Sailing in a place that doesn't act like a normal sea
Main character seemingly predestined to be the next big name in pirate history
Whether intentional or not, I'm on board with it and I'm definitely hopping onto pirate101 as soon as I've caught up on wizard, remember loving the idea as a kid when it came out and being really disappointed in that paywall
Oh yeah and on top of that, even more simularities:
First crewmate is saved from random evil government and immediately loyal.
Main character is absent of family (ik luffy still has his grandfather and "brothers" and others but they were absent for the vast majority of his voyage)
Mysterious rumored superweapon that can bring the world to its knees
Companion(s) that originally were enemies to the protagonist
The list still goes on
Add peger griffing to pi rate 001
Too bad we're forced to wait a few more years for a new world
Pirate 101
Wizard 101 and Evony were my favorite games.
I would of probaby got into this game if I wasn’t so deep into wiz I’m talking about money wise , if they just made things free and changed things up with the crowns then I would’ve played it
I'm da giant rat dat makes all of da rulez
Kid's first fire emblem, but MMO...
Only complaint, ship combat is BOOOORING.
But game's good...
calling Phule fuel is a first. 6:57
I got back into P101 because it reminds me so much of Fire Emblem but like in MMO form
This game has more content than Skull and Bones
Might go back to see what I missed
tried to play it. cant get pass the totorial... the cam keeps messing up and wont let me interact with anything
Is pirate101 now completely free? I remember back when i used to play some 7-8 years ago, there was a part in-game where you had to have the in-game currency to access new areas
They just made the membership free
Do you want to quest together?
wait, the story is just one piece, I love it
If I get it and then cancel it will it stay for the month or does it end when u cancel?
I hate so much how KI handled pirate I love the game so much but I just can’t play because of how little things to do
i like both games its just pirate dont update enough for me to stay interested also they was petty with the anniversary for pirate
my honest opinion memberships should only be $5 for 3 months on W101 and P101
I've always said my heart will stay with W101 just for the nostalgia, but in almost every department except for game length, Pirate101 is way better than Wizard101
2:38 jerma
This game was my SHIT in elementary school(i had a huge crush on Bonnie Anne lmao)
i feel like this game should've been an action combat game instead of a turn based game that's why I never cared to play it.
also this game is absolutely hilarious. the dialogue between your companions is just so absurd enough as to something you'd hear from paper mario a thousand year door.
Its a good game but it never updated I really liked the game but I was stuck at level 70 idk if it's worth it really
if I miss one more stream I sware to god
bro imagine I could never miss a stream
Fin dorsal vin diesel
That's pretty good
Pirate is just the better game.
🧡🏴☠️
Swashbuckler on top
play some more, you might feel different by the endgame
I really wanted to like this video, but it's way too zoomer for me. Breathe man.
yo i think you played the wrong game! that's not sea of thieves!
i’m so excited to see your thoughts as you get further on because i adore the whole kane arc 😭😭🫶