Master of Orion 2 returns (soon)

[Atrocities]

The problems with MOO3 are too numberous to list here. I bought the game and can speak from first hand experience, the game is uber crap. Do not waste your time or money on it even if you find it for $1.00 at a sale.

[Frederick_d_Ohlmann]

In fact I could get it for free... But I dislike downloading game ; after all even the worst one is mean to pay a programmer.

[Atrocities]

Trust me, the guys who programed for MOO3 don't need any more pay than they already got. In fact they went laughing all the way to the bank. (Still pirated software is not the way to go. If you cannot pay for a game, make your own I always say.)

[ironman]

MOO3 is what happens to us when they change to what they think we want [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Poison.gif[/img]

[Ragnarok-X]

ironman said:
MOO3 is what happens to us when they change to what they think we want [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Poison.gif[/img]

Agreed. A real pity. I bought the game right on the day of release, and i cant tell you how ashamed i was. MoO 3 was the game i was waiting for years for, and once i had it, i got nightmares, no joking. I never seen a game this pushed and awaited and failing its expections that bad.

[Ron_Lugge]

ironman said:
MOO3 is what happens to us when they change to what they think we want [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Poison.gif[/img]

Moo3 is what happens when the puplisher canges hands three times, each time changing what it wants to "what the market wants".

Please, don't attack Quicksilver; attack Atari / Infogrames instead. They were the ones calling the shots, not QS which has made several very effective games (when not required to release "on time" by a publisher that doesn't know anything other than FPSs and action...)

Example: Star Fleet Command -- Great game, done by quicksilver.

[Tampa_Gamer]

About a month ago I saw MOO3 sitting on my shelf and had recently seen several posts at Apolyton about major user-made mods/patches which supposedly made it playable. So I said, what the heck - I am 2 years older, *wiser* perhaps I was too harsh. So I proceeded to spend 2-3 hours a night, for around 20+ days, first installing about a dozen mods, then playing one game until around Turn 250+. I admit that it was a better experience (namely do to the user mods) than my experience when it first came out - but that is akin to saying I would prefer death by firing squad over drowning...still an absolute frustration b/c they had a lot of great ideas and I think ground combat is actually implemented in an *almost* cool way. Its very sad actually.

[Zereth]

Atrocities said:
The problems with MOO3 are too numberous to list here. I bought the game and can speak from first hand experience, the game is uber crap. Do not waste your time or money on it even if you find it for $1.00 at a sale.

There was a breif period where Amazon was selling it for something like $-5.00 after rebates. Even people who got _paid_ to take it felt ripped off.

[Gandalf Parker]

GalCiv2 borrowed from SEIV? Kewl, considering SEIV was fairly old by then. Nothing wrong with that. Might actually get me to check out GC2. GalCiv the original pre-dated the Space Empire series I think, altho most of that was on OS/2 instead of Windows

[Puke]

Gandalf Parker said:
GalCiv2 borrowed from SEIV? Kewl, considering SEIV was fairly old by then. Nothing wrong with that. Might actually get me to check out GC2. GalCiv the original pre-dated the Space Empire series I think, altho most of that was on OS/2 instead of Windows

this is correct. the original was a ground breaking game with brilliant AI, for OS/2.

the current release of GC has gotten some very mixed reviews. some of them are quite good, and it sounds like i would enjoy playing it.

the feature list from the upcoming GC2 seems to be read straight from SE4. Every feature on it was a feature of SE4.