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

[ceremony]

Originally posted by pole_shift:
If you enjoy the game what the hell is 10$ more or less. You can easily spend 20$ on night out at the movies. 1 Night. A few hours.

Exactly. You can easily spend $100 just going out to dinner. The idea that a game costs $7 more than some other game and thus isn't worth buying seems kind of strange.

[ January 24, 2004, 05:55: Message edited by: ceremony ]

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Do you recommend Betrayal at Krondor, today? I mean... can it stand up to modern competition? ...is it like Civilization 1, "Fun when it came out, but outdated now" or like XCOM, "Fun when it came out, and is still its genre's reigning champion"?

I think that BaK can probably stand up fairly well to modern competition, and it might still be available for free from Sierra, so you can always try it out.

[Karacan]

BaK still is freely (and legally) avaiable out there.

It stands out not exactly due to technology or elegance of implementation (while I still think the combat system very clever and well done, apart from the fact that it gets too easy once you got mass freezing spells - or too hard, once your opponents do -, there's a lot of things I really hate about it... chests and traps mostly), but primarily due to the great storytelling.

It's much more of an interactive story with a lot of interesting things happening to various interesting characters you control. Unfortunately, it's bloody hard to get to run, and if you do, there's a high chance that it'll crash at the end of the chapter where you venture into the Elven Hold...

Definitely a "you could still play it today" game, though.

[PvK]

Dominions II is very definitely well worth $50, or more, if it's the sort of game you'd enjoy. It's unique and wonderful and has years of fresh gameplay for players who appreciate it. For volume and quality of gameplay, I can think of very few other games that offer as much as Dominions, and none that offer more (though that's of course subjective, and based on my own tastes).

This is from a gamer who's extensively played well over a thousand games, since the first ones, though that also means my tastes are rather rare, snobby, gameplay-oriented and glitz-apathetic.

They don't get much better than this, except when the next patches come out for the best games. If you think you can do better saving $15 and getting some other corporate drivel, either you're very wrong, or your tastes are simply a lot different than mine, which is fair and true in many cases. So, play the demo - if it seems really fun, unique, and well-done, then I'm confident that if you buy it, you'll probably still be hooked months or years later.

PvK