OT: Flowers for the grave of MoM.

[littlemute]

Originally posted by Saarud:

Chaos Overlords is still on my top 5 list of favorite games. This is another excellent MP game and I've had so much fun playing this against my friends. Usually we could finish a game in one session though by the end we were all rather drunk.

Wait a sec...I played this game eons ago and it was totally panned by reviewers, isn't that the one with the competing gangs in a city? I'm curious what's good about it?

EFS was fun but got SO BOGGED DOWN with the hex/counter style and the building. They should have used provinces like Genghis Khan 2 (or of course Dom2). Also the AI didn't protect it's nobles/voting staffs, so you could drop in and take their stuff, then you make yourself the commander of the imperial fleet and take down your rivals.

I have to say I liked Master of Orion better than Master of Magic.

[Saarud]

Originally posted by littlemute:

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Originally posted by Saarud:

Chaos Overlords is still on my top 5 list of favorite games. This is another excellent MP game and I've had so much fun playing this against my friends. Usually we could finish a game in one session though by the end we were all rather drunk.

Wait a sec...I played this game eons ago and it was totally panned by reviewers, isn't that the one with the competing gangs in a city? I'm curious what's good about it?

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Never trust reviewers. I love Chaos Overlords just because the simplicity of the game mechanics yet you need to employ a skillfull strategy to win the game. AI is hard and does not cheat but it is playing MP this game really shines. My gaming group changed from Risk (The Boardgame) to Chaos Overlords once we understood how good it was playing MP.

The game is really more an empire building game than a gangster game. I think this might be one reason that reviwers panned it, they were expecting a game were you were dealing drugs and robbing banks and so on, instead they got a simple Empire building game with gangs as units.

[PrinzMegaherz]

Like dominions, CO had some very detailed units with their own background.

There was a gang called "Low Life Scum". Its picture was that of two heads sticking out of a pool of bile, one of them vomiting. Very disgusting

[sachmo]

MOM:

Get Nature, and then Cracks.

Build a flying unit, and attack any number of land based creatures. Cast Cracks until land based units are dead.

[FadingSuns]

EotFS and MoM improved remarkibly when patched. They were good on their own, but a few patches really expanded their scope. Emperor was 100% less buggy and MoM was like a completely different game. Shows that when designers stick with their product the fans will stick with the company. Gotta love anything distributed by Shrapnel.
Voting in Emperor was one of the most ingenious twists I've seen in a game. Being forced to reward your enemies was brilliant. Stealing votes was fun too!
When I found that "Galactic Civilizations" had a voting model I bought the game. Wished I'd saved my money. Here is an example of reviewers loving an Empire building game with slick graphics... but nothing 'under the hood'. Lord knows I tried to love it, but it just didn't happen. Dom2 hooked me right away, spelling errors and all.

[Tuskerlove]

Does anyone know how I can get Windows XP Professional to play MoM? I have a brand new MoM disc sitting in my office a thome but I can't load it on XP. I was was actually going to buy a Windows 98 computer so I could play it again.

Sorry if this is a ignorant question ~ I tried playing the game in an emulation mode but it still crashed. Any advice would be appeciated.

I've had this problem on some of my other software as well.

Try using DosBox. Some people can get XP to work for them on XP by just using the memory functions of XP for individual exes, but for myself, Dosbox is the only thing that has worked.

You can find it here

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

There is a specific help area on the forums of Dosbox for MoM. It also tells you to probably use the Speed up Function in Dosbox if MoM is crawling for you.

Edit: Dosbox will also run most sound cards. So you get the old school music running in the background. A must for old fans. Also there was, at one time, a hex-balance for some things, (including settlers having water movement) to counter some of the AI stupidity.

[ June 08, 2004, 22:10: Message edited by: Zen ]