OT: Master of Magic 2 - now looking quite likely

Arryn · #1 July 21st, 2004, 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
I can't imagine how you'd manage to do a first-person game in turn-based mode. How would that even work?

Try "Return to Krondor", just to name one. There have been others.

Unknown_Enemy · #2 July 23rd, 2004, 02:08 PM

Just wanted to post a thought in this thread :

Why should I bother with MM2 when I have dom2 ?

Pickles · #3 July 23rd, 2004, 03:23 PM

"Why should I bother with MM2 when I have dom2 ?"

'Cos Dom 2 is terrible SP and MOM wasn't?

(this may be 10 years and a general disatisfaction with SP talking. I do remember longing to play MOM MP.)

Pickles

Arryn · #4 July 23rd, 2004, 03:50 PM

Dom 2 is actually one of the best non-historical strategy games playable in SP. It is certainly better than any of its competitors in the genre (AoW, etc.).

Gandalf Parker · #5 July 23rd, 2004, 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by Pickles:
'Cos Dom 2 is terrible SP and MOM wasn't?
(this may be 10 years and a general disatisfaction with SP talking. I do remember longing to play MOM MP.)

I would tend to agree. Not that I consider it a major "broke" thing since Dom2 is meant to be a multiplayer game. Its pretty good SoloPlay for being an MP game. I think MoM was a great SoloPlay game, and would make a terrible multiplayer game. I certainly hope that MoM2 just recreates MoM without trying to add that.

Now if they tried a MoM3, and could possibly figure out how to do MP balance the way Dom2 does, then MAYBE they can achieve a game that does both fairly well. But rather than mess it up Id rather have both. Dom2 for MP, and MoM2 for SP.

[ July 23, 2004, 14:59: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Pickles · #6 July 23rd, 2004, 04:07 PM

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
"I think MoM was a great SoloPlay game, and would make a terrible multiplayer game. I certainly hope that MoM2 just recreates MoM without trying to add that."

MP games need simpler core mechanics and fewer turns to complete than SP games IMO. Dom is of course fiendishly complex but the core movement system is simple, there are no alliance rules, and economic admin is straightforward. until mass forging comes along.

I am unsure what I want in MOM2. I would be happy with the same game pretty much revamped to 2005 standards. Or a MP game that had the feel of the original. But a bastard offspring that did both poorly would be very sad.

In reply to Arryn. Obviously we have different opinions as I cannot be bothered with dom SP - I sandbox a bit to test but that's it. The other games must be truly dire (I tried AoW and it was)

Pickles

[ July 23, 2004, 15:12: Message edited by: Pickles ]

Kel · #7 July 23rd, 2004, 04:15 PM

I wouldn't want them to alter the gameplay significantly to make it MP but if they added MP as an afterthought, without changing SP, I wouldn't mind. It wouldn't be great MP, battles would probably have to be computer run, but as long as it didn't affect SP, it would just be a bonus (like the hotseat MP shell was).

- Kel