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Originally posted by Nerfix:
And AoW is generic on the top of all other things!
Dwarwes, Elves(URGH!) and Orcs... Blargh...
Dominions has creative, pseudo-historical nations, i realy like the idea and perhaps thats why Dominions "hit me so hard". And no alignment system! For gods sake, i HATE it when alignment system gets mixed in strategy games!

Hmm, perhaps AoW is generic in terms of the names of the races, but within the races are interesting units with interesting abilities. Unfortunately many of those units are not worth building, and many of the abilities don't quite work the way they should...

If you ask me Dom is also very 'generic', but the gameplay does a better job perhaps at covering that up. There is simply 'more' in Dom though, but realistically HI from one nation (or independant) isn't always *that* much different from HI from another source. The same for most units and commanders. Granted each nation has some unique units or commanders, but for the most part, I don't feel any greater attachment to them than I did to unique units in AoW (the Glutton is just a wicked cool creature, though somewhat underpowered for its level).

Well either you like one or the other better, or you try not to get too hung up on the outer shell and really enjoy the game play.

Heh, I had a looooong debate over on the AoW forums about this type of topic. It was more about how much immersion and suspention of disbelief mattered in playing a computer game. Obviously thats a personal matter, but for the sake of that discussion we were talking about game elements, and one side was trying to attack them using realism arguments. I just don't think that it makes sense to attack a game element you don't like simply because it 'isn't realistic'. Better to address how the game mechanic effects gameplay, rather than any individuals ability to rationalize its inclusion in the game in the first place