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[Mortifer]

Aye, DoM is lot better.
I think that DOM is one of the best tbs strategy games, its very unique as well.

[licker]

Yes the KOEI games are probably the best comparison for Dom, though the KOEI games did have tactical combat. Heh, I can remember playing BKoAC for something like 60 hours over 3 days in college once... we'd skip classes, skip food, skip sleep, skip women, ... now that was the true sign of a great game. I can see that Dom is on that level for me, though I no longer have a group of friends to do something like that with... oh well, that's what PBEM is all about I suppose

LOL I can still remember most of the quotes the heros would give you when you worked them too hard (or at all...). Gemfire wasn't that good though, anyone else ever try that? I think KOEI also did something called Balor of the Evil Eye (or something like that) it was their standard game in Celtic times and trappings, never got it though so I can't really comment on it.

You can find alot of the older KOEI games at various AbandonWare sites, I won't mention any though, don't wanna get in trouble

[Mortifer]

WOW! I loved the old KOEI games, they had an excellent diplomacy system as well! [Bribe, alliances, joint attacks and many other options!]
Haha I remember that I was so happy, when I had ~ 1.3M troops ready for combat.
I think that was in RotK 4.
Too bad that RotK 7,8,9 are only released in the asian countries. There is no english Version from them.

[ September 25, 2003, 23:15: Message edited by: Mortifer ]

[Bard of Prey]

Originally posted by licker:
[QB]I think KOEI also did something called Balor of the Evil Eye (or something like that) it was their standard game in Celtic times and trappings, never got it though so I can't really comment on it.

Balor was a great game, very much like the RoTK series, but a little simpler, and of course with a Celtic theme. I think Dom reminds me more of this one than the RoTK games as well... probably because of the greater similarity in themes, and the use of magic. I'm pretty sure you can find it on the same 'unmentionable' sites...

Btw, if there are any Shrapnel staff hanging around, what is your policy on 'abandonware'? Do you consider it to be the same as software piracy (some publishers do, others don't)? Just curious...

[licker]

Another interesting game in the same genre is King of Dragon Pass. I only fooled around with the Demo though, so I don't really know if it got any more interesting or not, but it seemed to have alot of potential. Though it used a lot more story telling to drive along the game play (not that it was scripted or particularly linear) which made it not appeal to some people.

Hmm I wonder how many of these games the Dom devs have played or looked at

[Yojinbo]

I liked King of Dragon Pass, but the full game seemed repetitive to me. The feeling of tribal membership that game gave was wonderful.

I missed about 100 hours of university classes playing Nobanaga's Ambition - that was the best for me. I liked the ability to build-up provinces; it helped me emerce into the game. I know the Illwinter developers focus on research and expansion, but building up cities would appeal to certain personality types.

[Mortifer]

Originally posted by Yojinbo:
I liked King of Dragon Pass, but the full game seemed repetitive to me. The feeling of tribal membership that game gave was wonderful.

I missed about 100 hours of university classes playing Nobanaga's Ambition - that was the best for me. I liked the ability to build-up provinces; it helped me emerce into the game. I know the Illwinter developers focus on research and expansion, but building up cities would appeal to certain personality types.

Wow how true, King of the Dragon Pass was awesome.
As for KOEI, I prefer the 3 kingdoms series.