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There was no reason for an SE-style game to be 3D, none at all.

A First Person Shooter has to be 3D, and that's where 3D belongs.

That old game, are you guys talking "Carriers at War"? I had that for my Apple IIc, and it rocked, no doubt. Even on a monochrome monitor http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Oh, and as far as graphics vs gameplay, welll.....

I'll take a game with boobies over no boobies any day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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No fair using the trump card! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Actually Ascendency had a true-3d system map, which was a decent reason to have 3D. And SEV has far more on screen at once in '3d' mode than it would in 2d (switch to top-down mode and note how much farther you have to zoom out to see all the hexes).

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Actually I was refering to a Battle of Midway game, which I believe was made by Avalon Hill...Carriers at War was as a great game, but that actually had some graphics, not just plain ASCII characters like Midway.

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hah, Battle of Midway!! I remember playing that in 5th grade, and it eventually led me to my career as a programmer. My buddy and I hacked the game and made US "Super carriers". Yes, that was my idea of fun http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

One of the best games I ever played is North Atlantic '86. It was a text game that actually made you feel like you were sitting in a war room someplace.

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I still play Pacific War, a game that came out in 1990. Back then it had many bugs but after a considerable amount of patches it turned into a little gem.The graphics are not great but the level of detail is immense.

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Huh, I played the AH board game called Midway, and it was great good fun. But I don't recall a computer game by AH...

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id taken gameplay over this 3d stuff.


Sadly even EU3 is going the way of 3d =(

I hope it does better than this.