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Actually, it might set a pleasent trend...

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Hmmm as nice as that sounds, the newsgroups for discussing strategy games has gone from hundreds of posts a day to a couple of dozen posts over the last year. There just doesnt seem to be much to discuss after we all figured out that we were playing games that were a few years old.

Somehow I dont see the pleasant trend getting us more games.

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Yeah, it's depressing. The trend for strategy seems to be going all towards Real Time Strategy, with not much turn based strategy being created. Which sucks, cause I'm old, and I can't keep up with the RTS games.

There's Civ, and GalCiv, and Dominions, and a handful of less popular historical games. Ahh well... at least there is still a good group of players for Dominions.

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Stardock the creators of Galactic Civilizations are developing a Fantasy TBS game for SP and MP. They wanted to create the sequel for MastersofMagic yet Atari didn't want to sell the name. I believe its estimated release is the end of next year.

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What really killed the creation of new 4X games (and more classical strategy games) is the passion editors seem to have with 3D. You end up with games offering you very small maps, and most of the time repetitive strategies.

What also is strange is the tendency to publish all games on the same period at the same time.(I can't play any WW2 games anymore, got totally disgusted...)( they did the same with greek mythology)(all that to say that, when they've got an idea(WHAW!!!), they use it to produce 10 to 20+ games on a period of 2+ years).

3D doesn't favorise mods either.(and creating mod friendly games isn't the trend anymore).

If anyone here is working in the marvellous game edition domain, I wanna say (as usual) I'm so sorry...

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Well, it's logical computer (un)evolution.
Now you can have very nice graphics with cool 3D effects that are catching eyes of potentiale buyers. In the past, the relativly poor graphs were a good pretext to offer deep strategy games. Unfortunatly for us, like all industry, the game industry focus on what sells better. So only few editors take a risk to publish strategy games. And even them put more time and bucks on graphs that on deep of scenario or quality.

So we have to count on fantastic teams like Illwinter that will coninue to do games we like.

Personnaly I prefer amator games with relativly simple graphics like Dominions 3 that we can easly custm that projects where you have to be almost a 3d designer with thousand dollars software needed to edit a simple unit.

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I have to say the last year has been dire for strategy games.

Fortunately, I have had Dom 3 to play during that time.

Other than GC2, Dom3 and Civ4 expansions what else has there been?

Can anyone name any good strategy games released in the last year that I may have missed due to my immersion in Dom 3? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Slitherine produces historical 4X games which are supposed to be pretty good, but the only game of theirs I bought was a very odd RTS hybrid.

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Does SE5 count?

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SE5 does not count. Big disappointment over SE4 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif