Game of the Year for 2003/Good & Bad

[Growltigger]

Best game?

Definately Mediaval Total War and the Viking expansion pack for it.

Very very close second is Hidden & Dangerous II

Worst game?

I dunno, I dont really buy and play many computer games. Someone told me the Lord of the Rings games are bad, so may be those, but I havn't tried them so dont know

[Loser]

Definately Mediaval Total War and the Viking expansion pack are definately great. I got pretty frustrated at its lack of automation in larger games. It could be a real chore moving my massive numbers of units around...

Unfortuantely I'm still using the nine gigabyte SCSI hard drive I picked up about five years ago, so I had to can it for space. Time to buy a new hard drive...

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Worst game is tied for that Civ 3 expansion (because it is part of Civ 3) and MOO3.

Ouch. At least Civ III ws playable.

[edit: 2 != 3]

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So? There are a lot of horrid games that are "playable." And besides, part of the problem with Civ 3 is the evil marketing BS they pulled with it, splitting the game into 3 parts so they could milk more money without adding ANY meaningful features in any of the expansions. Civ 3 + 2 expansions at their best almost equal Civ 2 Gold at its worst, save some really stupid things like removing the hit point/firepower system of Civ 2 that helped tremendously over Civ 1. No comparison at all to Civ 2 ToT.

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Fyron and I are on the same page when it comes to Civ 3. In fact I think it was how we started talking. You should do a search for Civ 3, Civ III or something like that.

[Growltigger]

Loser, I bought Mediaval when I had my old machine (a 500Hz Celeron with about 4GB of hard drive and a really lousy voodoo graphics card). The game was appalling.

Then tried it on my new machine (3GB Hz 120GB hard drive with a Radeon Pro) and oh lordy, it is really someone rather special indeed oh yes oh yes indeedy. Damn I love it.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
You can't really compare a free download to a purchased expansion... expansions are supposed to add new hard-code features, not just changed data sets.

I disagree. What if Aaron decided to hide data files inside the .exe file like other dudes do ? Than the SAME change will be regarded as a "new hard-code feature, not just changed data sets".

It is a testimony to the MM greatness and a shame on the major games developers that incrediably radical game play change can be so easily ridiculed by you !

[DavidG]

Best Game of the year:

F1 2003. (F1 racing game for PS2 by Sony)
(maybe that is, if I could play it)

Worst marketing descision of the year:

Sony's descission not to release game in North America and their exclusive deal with the FIA meaning no one else can make an F1 PS2 game either.

[Loser]

Medieval Total War runs great on my machine, a 2.4 GHz P4 with a mid-grade GeForce4, it just took up a lot of space that I needed for other things. I'm sure I'll put it back on when I get a new, larger SCSI hard drive.