Dominions II - Low Budget and Overpriced? I think not.

[Gandalf Parker]

I think generally that the "low budget / high budget" thing is that when something obviously wasnt done like one of the big budget things, then it could be priced less than the big budget thing. Some feel that it was big-budget priced unfairly.

But worth is a seperate subject. Thats how you decide the fairness of the pricing. Dom1 lived on my machine while at least 2 dozen games of far more price came and went. Therefor I feel it was a good purchase.

Dom2 I highly expect will live on my machine for longer than any game of equal cost. Therefor I will not consider that to have been a waste of money.

[PvK]

If you measure "big budget" in terms of the amount of effort put in by the developers compared to their cash resources, I bet Doms II is very "big budget".

If you measure the amount of production value in gameplay as opposed to eye candy fluff, then Doms II is enormously "big budget".

Doms II is worth hundreds or thousands compared to most megacorp crapware games, in terms of gameplay, uniqueness, replay value, fun, multi-player challenge, etc., IF it is your kind of game. So, as usual, try the demo, and if it looks like a great game to you, you're right, so buy it. If, on the other hand, it doesn't look like something that would be worth the price to you, then don't buy it - it's not your cup o' tea, but whining about it being "low budget" or "not worth it" is just pointless, and misleading to players who would appreciate it, so don't.

PvK

[ceremony]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
add some more sound tracks, and offer it to customers as a "patch" (more medieval music in the form of a downloadable mp3 "patch" would be totally wonderful, and it can't be all that expensive to hire performers since the intellectual property rights to authentic medieval pieces have long since expired).

Why not just buy the CD of medieval music available from the group that did the music for Dom2? That's what I did.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/falsobordone

[UNIVAC]

Originally posted by ceremony:

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
add some more sound tracks, and offer it to customers as a "patch" (more medieval music in the form of a downloadable mp3 "patch" would be totally wonderful, and it can't be all that expensive to hire performers since the intellectual property rights to authentic medieval pieces have long since expired).

Why not just buy the CD of medieval music available from the group that did the music for Dom2? That's what I did.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/falsobordone

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Or try Hedningarna or Dead Can Dance...similar formations

[SurvivalistMerc]

You will laugh at me...I don't buy many music CDs. I had no idea this was commercially available. And actually I don't recall hearing Medieval music until the Dom 2 background music, which I totally loved for the first 3 days and then (due solely to lack of variety) it got old.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[Lord Hammer]

One important point IMHO is how many games we've bought for $50 without blinking an eye because so and so made them or it's "title" 2 or 3. I consider myself a professional gamer and have bought/played just about every turn-based fantasy or wargame ever made and was blown away with all Dominions 2 has to offer. AOW2:SM has all the eye candy, more races...sites etc. and after playing all the previous iterations of it i still felt there was nothing really new, a rigidly structured campaign where you were forced to master the "race de jour". Hundreds of turns later after finishing the game once or twice i felt no desire to do it all over again, i can't change my starting race or opponents and every map was the same...yeah, so i got better at "getting it over with" ...big deal! That is just one of the "popular" games of that type. I have been playing Dom2 since the release only as the different Undead armies against 6 or 7 ai races so far one or two at a time and EVERY game has been radically different plus i still have 10 ai opponents/races to go against. Then i will pick another race to play as...well, do the math: i have only scratched the surface of this deep game...a small percentage of gaming goodness. Replay value is not a strong enough word for Dominions 2...it's a handful of games all in one package. If we were able to buy this game "by the race" for $10 each that would be a steal,right? So in my eyes i'm getting $170 worth of game for $50 . The ironic thing is i happened upon the demo quite by accident, a Holiday buying guide from a gamers website, i shudder at the thought of not having found Dominions 2...call it Divine intervention or just good luck but i call it the best game experience to happen to me in all my jaded years as a gamer . Now i am spoiled and the bar has been raised!

[olaf73]

Low budget=low price

At least that is the way it usually works for video/computer games. So that is why people (myself included) bring it up when discussing Dominions 2.

olaf