OT: Recommendations?

fahdiz · #1 March 11th, 2004, 06:00 PM

Yes, I saw that there was a patch released Last year.

I'll be sure to grab it.

I was looking at what happens in the "short" Version...and I was thinking the same thing. "Why would I play this when there's a LONG Version?"

As for A#, it appears that they at least haven't abandoned their website. They Last updated it in February of this year...perhaps I'll write them and see if they have any future plans for KoDP.

Kel · #2 March 12th, 2004, 02:10 AM

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Originally posted by fahdiz:
Yes, I saw that there was a patch released Last year. I'll be sure to grab it.

I was looking at what happens in the "short" Version...and I was thinking the same thing. "Why would I play this when there's a LONG Version?"

Note that a long game could be *extremely* long, depending on your actions

You get a choice of when you want to 'go for the gold' as they say and you can just keep chugging along for as long as you want before you decide to go for it.

Also note that events are done very subtlely and the same 'right path' for one event is often different from game to game and situation to situation...so while there are X number of events that can happen, there are more than X different paths, if that makes any sense.

- Kel

fahdiz · #3 March 12th, 2004, 04:18 AM

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Originally posted by Kel:

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Originally posted by fahdiz:
Yes, I saw that there was a patch released Last year. I'll be sure to grab it.

I was looking at what happens in the "short" Version...and I was thinking the same thing. "Why would I play this when there's a LONG Version?"

Note that a long game could be *extremely* long, depending on your actions You get a choice of when you want to 'go for the gold' as they say and you can just keep chugging along for as long as you want before you decide to go for it.

Also note that events are done very subtlely and the same 'right path' for one event is often different from game to game and situation to situation...so while there are X number of events that can happen, there are more than X different paths, if that makes any sense.

- Kel

It sounds like you feel there's a lot of replayability in the game, yes?

PvK · #4 March 12th, 2004, 04:48 AM

Hey, you people do have good taste.

Also worth mentioning, IMO, are Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth II: Soulblighter (I don't really care much for Myth III.)

Great detailed real-time tactical fantasy/medieval combat with good atmosphere, humor, and interesting tactical problems, good scenarios, and good multi-player. No RTS genre badness like having to gather resources and do construction and R&D while trying to fight. No fake-o wrong proportions of time and space.

PvK

fahdiz · #5 March 12th, 2004, 04:55 AM

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Originally posted by PvK:
Hey, you people do have good taste.

Also worth mentioning, IMO, are Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth II: Soulblighter (I don't really care much for Myth III.)

I actually did fairly decently for a while on bungie.net with Myth 1. More wins than losses, which made me happy enough.

I was *so* disappointed in Myth III. But then again, I don't know what I was expecting, given that Bungie didn't develop it.

Well, since I've spent my money for the month on King of Dragon Pass, next month I'll hunt down Europa Universalis II. No bargain bin shall be left unruffled.

Thanks for all the suggestions, folks!

[ March 12, 2004, 02:56: Message edited by: fahdiz ]

fahdiz · #6 March 12th, 2004, 08:37 PM

Speaking of EU2, has anyone been looking forward to Crusader Kings? I was checking it out Last night...and the fact that you'll have the ability to import your finished Crusader Kings games into EU2 so that you can continue play is a very, very cool feature.

As that also happens to be one of the most interesting periods in history (to me), I might have to add yet another game to the "wish-list".

Arryn · #7 March 12th, 2004, 09:01 PM

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Originally posted by fahdiz:
Speaking of EU2, has anyone been looking forward to Crusader Kings?

After being burned by Vicky, I have no intention of giving any more of my money to Paradox until they fix the things that are wrong with their engine that they should have fixed years ago. No matter what condiments you put on it, a burger is still meat in a bun. I'd like my meat to be a bit less raw than the way Paradox is serving it ...