OT, Stardock's MOM influenced game news

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lch said:
How is this news? There's info on this since almost four years now. http://www.masterofmagic2.com/

I've visiting this site on a regular basis. They did mention that stardock wanted to buy MOM rights from ATARI and that the negotiations blew up for some reason. Then sometime 2k7 the gave some more details about stardock developing a MOMish like game but the information I saw in AOW-SM forum was completely new to me.

Give it time and see what they come up with. They already said half a year ago that they are not going to produce a Master of Magic 2, but something with influences from MOM, Populous and X-Com *. They didn't buy the MOM license. There are already quite a number of MOM-inspired games.

Actually, I've stumbled over Dominions only because I was looking for a MOM substitute and neither Age of Wonders nor Spellforce nor Heroes of Might and Magic or whatever else I tried was really getting it right. There's half a dozen clone projects that stopped more or less halfway through the design phase, too. And incidentally, I've played a MOM game the whole of yesterday in DosBox, for old times sake. (I pretty much unlearned to play it effectively in hard mode)

Funny I stumbled over Dominions on the same circumstances as you
And I was also following the progress of many clone projects, none of which too successful or even halfway complete. An exception may be Leylines (not exactly a MOM clone but similar nonetheless)

But I think now that MOM had its time and it has long since gone past. There will be other games similar to it, but they won't be a 100% adaptation. So give it a rest and just look if those other games are maybe good in their own regard.

Hey I fully agree, I've "buried" MOM two years ago and accepted the fact that MOM-II will never happen. This after many years of anxiously waiting and after signing protest letters etc.
A good example is dominions, its not a MOM clone at all. It is IMHO however currently the best TBS fantasy game in existence.

Now, having played stardock's Galciv games I can attest that they are *excellent* TBS games and if their new fantasy game will be anywhere as good as those then its guaranteed to be top notch.


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