OT: Master of Magic 2 - now looking quite likely

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MOM 1 was one of my Favorites in the past, I hope they don't screw MOM2 up, like Quicksilver did with Master Of Orion 3.

Hillarious, I was thinking the same thing. God did I ever try to like MOO3. I literally worked at trying to like it. In the end, it was just a steaming pile of donkey refuse. Same goes for UFO or whatever that supposed X-Com remake was. What it was was garbage. Consider yourself lucky. StarDock has one good game under their belt. I didn't like GalCiv, but it seems like I was one of the only TBS nuts who didn't so they must have gotten something right.

Take pity on my BELOVED Jagged Alliance series. First, Sirtech goes tits up, then the franchise is purchaced by infamous garbage-spewer Strategy First, who oh by the way just layed off everyone and fired the whole JA legacy team. Then they hand the whole kit and kaboodle over to an unknown russian developer, who don't seem to have anyone on staff who speaks english. Actually to call them unknown would be generous, as they are best-known for a horrible piece of trash cyberpunk game whose name escapes me. To make things worse? TWO DAYS after the 2-year development program is announced, they RELEASE SCREENSHOTS. Yes in two days, they managed to get a working alpha going and post screens on the webpage. Seems they are using the "engine" of another TBS to kick start their process. I've never heard of a TBS using an engine from an existing game before. This ought to be interesting.