OT) Best Turn Based Game: Fantasy or Space or War

oleg · #1 March 19th, 2003, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by klausD:

BTW: MoM was great. Now there are at least 3 turnbased fantasy games in the works. One is "MOM2" from Firaxis (yes Sid does it again) the second is "Elementals" from Stardock and the third is Warlords IV from I2. (former SSG)

KlausD

Sid had no relation to MoM. MoM and Moo have been made by Steve Barcia !

klausD · #2 March 19th, 2003, 07:01 PM

"Sid had no relation to MoM. MoM and Moo have been made by Steve Barcia !"

Oh,you misunderstood me. I meant with SM does it again that he is developing a good game again. (after his civ series, colonization and pirates) Fact is that he announced MoM2 several weeks ago in an interview I read at "the wargamer".

klausD

Baron Munchausen · #3 March 19th, 2003, 07:36 PM

Argh... Sid Meier just re-does the same game over and over! MoM 2 will just be CIV with fantasy units if he's doing it. They already did that for Civ 2 'Test of Time' anyway...

We need Steve Barcia to come back for MoM 2 to be good.

Foiden · #4 March 19th, 2003, 07:44 PM

What's scary is that as of late, he has been doing Civ kind of games. I wonder what happened to the great leaps of gameplay divergence like he had going from Pirates to Civ. Kind of funny how Sid made Pirates so good and fleshed out, that he never went back and truly did a sequel to it. It's like he exhausted all of his ideas on the first one. Sure, we got updates, but those were simply graphical updates or updates so that it would run on newer machines.

Perhaps, Sid will notice that and realize he should stretch his bounds again and make MOM2 a true sequel to the first one, and take the series very differently.

[ March 19, 2003, 17:46: Message edited by: Foiden ]

capnq · #5 March 19th, 2003, 10:13 PM

Before SE IV came along, my favorite computer game was Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire.

Rexxx · #6 March 19th, 2003, 10:22 PM

wargaming: TOAW (if you like the strategic level IMO there is nothing better), the same is true for SPWaW on tactical level.
CRPG: Wizardry 6 and 7
Sci-fi: Ufo, SE IV.

Fyron · #7 March 19th, 2003, 11:35 PM

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One is "MOM2" from Firaxis (yes Sid does it again)

Sid needs to be forcibly retired (or better: shot) before he butchers yet another classic game...

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hope too that SEV has a similar sytem, but I dont think so. Aaron is more tending to a real time tactical game (similar to his present game project) - not my taste at all.

This only stems from not understanding the goal of real time combat. It will not be anything like RTS games. A simple pause option and then being able to issue orders while paused makes combat IDENTICAL to turn-based combat because you can control the lenght of the rounds (whereas they are fixed in turn-based), except that you get rid of all of the absurdities inherent in all turn-based combat systems.

[ March 19, 2003, 21:40: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]