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Dominions3 has eclipsed the playing most other games.

I dropped my World of Warcraft, rarely play Heroes of Might and Magic V, no longer play HOMM4 or HOMM3, rarely play Wesnoth, no longer play Master of Magic, Civilization, Stars, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Empire (1979), Tome derivatives, and so many others. Mule is still on my 1983 atari computer, but I would have to take it out of storage. Chess ruled from 1961-1982 but I never played in a FIDE or USCF national tournament after I was married. Chess programs have become far better than most humans, but I rarely play them. I like Lords of Magic SE in the late 1990's. There were several role playing games in addition to the strategy genre, but I am not going to list all of them.

I am still finding out new things about Dominions3. New mods, maps, game versions (add ons), player guides, forum / community, ect... just keep me coming back for more.

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if you can find it "masters of orion 2" is a hoot. for you older players close combat 2 is hair raising tension.(if your side is the poor allies). this only counts in head to head as the ai is stupid. Bwaha

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I've got copies of MOO and MOO2. MOO2 is great! I used to have MOO3-I know, it's not very good, but I was fond of it-but one of the disks went missing, and I haven't found a replacement for it.

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MULE! Thats a memory.
Did you know that Shrapnel sells a version of that called Space HoRSE?
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/gilliga...ce_HoRSE/1.htm

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I've thought about getting a copy of Space HoRSE-and I will, if I ever have any money again.

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MOO 2 was greatness. MOO 3 was, well, ok. I enjoyed it. Nothing like MOO 2 though.

I've moved onto GalCiv2, but I have to admit the expansions are quite buggy until, like, the fourth or fifth update. I'm playing the newest expansion now, Twilight of the Arnor, and it's very cool, but riddled with bugs. Things like crash to desktop buggy. But it's good fun. Save early, save often.

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Yeah that was the biggest problem I encountered with GalCiv2-fun game, but buggier than anything except, well, MOO3 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yes I know that, and in the most recent Space HoRSE thread I commented that it too bad it is NOT available to MAC users.

Lingchih says:
. Agreed MOO2 was best, then MOO1, and MOO3 least.

I played many "epic" multiplayer games with MOO2 and HOMM3. These games ran for 12 hours or more non-stop (microwave ovens reduced food preparation to a couple minutes at the most and seconds to reheat coffee between turns). Being able to do your turn while others simultaneously did their turn was an improvement over other games where each player took one turn at a time. MOO2 is still an immortal but it is not available to MAC and can not be played on any of today's PC computers. I miss MOO2. Civilization, Europa Universalis, MechWarrior, Warlords 1-3, 4 was buggy, Age of Empires II, Starcraft series.

For the rpg's I also played Diablo, Diablo2, GuildWars, NeverWinterNights (very good), Dungeon's of Moria, Morrowind, and World of Warcraft, and more.

For Wargames I liked Allied General a lot (my son loved it also), and Operation Crusader.

There is a lot more, but it is late so I must be going.

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No, I have MOO 2 for the Mac. In fact, that is where I play it. It is the only machine I have that can still play it.

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I also was quite fond of MoO3. Maybe because I hadn't played the other two, so I didn't know what I was missing? I just felt MoO3 had so much interesting content, and it seems like the AI was actually competitive (all too rare to find), that it was easy enough to overlook most of the flaws. It's funny now that I think about it though, the "hands off" scripted method of combat in Dom3, for all its quirks, gives better results than the "hands on" tactical combats of MoO3. There was nothing like watching a task force of Point Defense ships get completely flattened by missiles without firing a single shot. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

I think I'm going to get AoW again, I've been missing it, and seeing so many people talk about it is really getting under my skin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif