Re: Just got the full game 2 days ago...I have to say..
 

I reckon, the game is really cool! Thanks to IW!
Btw the game is a bit too expensive, but oh well, lol. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

The AI will be better with the patches, I am pretty sure about that! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Re: Just got the full game 2 days ago...I have to say..
 

I've been playing the game non-stop since I got it.

I think there were many who, like me, simply couldn't get around the dreadful graphics and horrible UI of Dom I to see how deep and wonderful this game really is. It's a jewel.

I'm very glad to see this new incarnation and hope it's selling well?

If nothing else, I think it's the most *literate* computer game I've ever played.

Re: Just got the full game 2 days ago...I have to say..
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmmm, you should play Xenogears. Quite a lot of excellently-written text there.

As for Dominions II: My copy finally arrived! Yay! And so far, I can say - it as at least as good as the demo! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Hopefully, with no turn limits, I can win a game... maybe even cast "Nether Darts", which I always hated in the past, when it was just a tool the AI used to punish me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Just got the full game 2 days ago...I have to say..
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmmm, you should play Xenogears. Quite a lot of excellently-written text there.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm not really so much talking about well-written text (though that certainly applies) as about knowledge about history/mythologies/etc.

Bottom line -- the designers are not drooling idiots http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Just got the full game 2 days ago...I have to say..
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I was looking for a historical PBEM game as a complement to Stars! when I first found Dominions. The quality of the background thought put into the game meant that the fantasy setting was no problem. Things have only got better in this respect with Dom II.

I'm with you on this one Raen.

Cheers

Keir

Re: Just got the full game 2 days ago...I have to say..
 

I also like the mythological based background...with the item descriptions and everything I feel like the gameworld has a history and a depth of background. It helps the epic feeling by not making you feel your goal in the game is more important than "invade other people because we don't like them".
After all...that's a hard goal to get divinely inspired about, IMO. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Just got the full game 2 days ago...I have to say..
 

Keir, Arioch: Agreed 100%. The background, and the flavour of the different countries, are one thing I love to death about Dominions.

Cherry: 'Gears had some great dialogue, but some terrible -- or just terribly translated -- dialogue, too. Remember Bart's lame insults directed at Ramsus when they met?

Incidentally, anyone seen Pirates of the Caribbean and <SPOILER WARNING> the "Undead are Poor Amphibians" scene there? I did a couple of days ago, and I immediately thought of Ermor. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif