From Dastardly Villains to Swashbuckling Heroes: How Video Games Reinvented the Pirate Captain
Once upon a pixelated time, pirate captains existed solely to make your life miserable — stealing your gold, sinking your ships, and generally being the worst neighbors imaginable. Fast forward a few decades, and those same scallywags are now the protagonists we root for, the morally complicated legends we aspire to become. So what happened, and why do we love it so much?