Game of the Year for 2003/Good & Bad

PvK · #1 January 9th, 2004, 08:37 AM

Dominions II

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 January 9th, 2004, 08:54 AM

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Dominions II

best or worse?

Growltigger · #3 January 9th, 2004, 01:53 PM

Best game?

Definately Mediaval Total War and the Viking expansion pack for it.

Very very close second is Hidden & Dangerous II

Worst game?

I dunno, I dont really buy and play many computer games. Someone told me the Lord of the Rings games are bad, so may be those, but I havn't tried them so dont know

Loser · #4 January 9th, 2004, 01:59 PM

Definately Mediaval Total War and the Viking expansion pack are definately great. I got pretty frustrated at its lack of automation in larger games. It could be a real chore moving my massive numbers of units around...

Unfortuantely I'm still using the nine gigabyte SCSI hard drive I picked up about five years ago, so I had to can it for space. Time to buy a new hard drive...

Atrocities · #5 January 10th, 2004, 02:46 AM

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Originally posted by Loser:

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Worst game is tied for that Civ 3 expansion (because it is part of Civ 3) and MOO3.

Ouch. At least Civ III ws playable.

[edit: 2 != 3]
So? There are a lot of horrid games that are "playable." And besides, part of the problem with Civ 3 is the evil marketing BS they pulled with it, splitting the game into 3 parts so they could milk more money without adding ANY meaningful features in any of the expansions. Civ 3 + 2 expansions at their best almost equal Civ 2 Gold at its worst, save some really stupid things like removing the hit point/firepower system of Civ 2 that helped tremendously over Civ 1. No comparison at all to Civ 2 ToT.

Fyron and I are on the same page when it comes to Civ 3. In fact I think it was how we started talking. You should do a search for Civ 3, Civ III or something like that.

Growltigger · #6 January 10th, 2004, 02:49 AM

Loser, I bought Mediaval when I had my old machine (a 500Hz Celeron with about 4GB of hard drive and a really lousy voodoo graphics card). The game was appalling.

Then tried it on my new machine (3GB Hz 120GB hard drive with a Radeon Pro) and oh lordy, it is really someone rather special indeed oh yes oh yes indeedy. Damn I love it.

oleg · #7 January 9th, 2004, 03:09 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
You can't really compare a free download to a purchased expansion... expansions are supposed to add new hard-code features, not just changed data sets.

I disagree. What if Aaron decided to hide data files inside the .exe file like other dudes do ? Than the SAME change will be regarded as a "new hard-code feature, not just changed data sets".

It is a testimony to the MM greatness and a shame on the major games developers that incrediably radical game play change can be so easily ridiculed by you !