Re: Any One Still Playing This Game?
Its fairly baseless to say that it is just a "flashy 3d game" (or little more than). "Flashy 3d game" connotes a lack of depth, a lack of solid game mechanics. These are things SE5 does not lack. The fact of SE5 being just as deep of a strategy game as SE4 is pretty hard to dispute in a supportable manner. Whether or not you are willing to weather its UI quirks to get to the gameplay is another matter entirely, and is where opinion on it being a fun experience comes into play.
Potential assertions of SE5's UI suffering _because_ it is a 3d game are rather speculative (I'd wager that its just more of Aaron not being good at designing UIs in the first place). Luckily, it is obvious that the game mechanics and the moddability suffered naught for the 3dness.
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