Any news on DOM-III

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FrankTrollman said:
Indeed, the best that series ever got was Alpha Centauri (which was made by a different company, but the same people, so it's part of the series). Brian Reynolds is doing Rise of Nations, which is real time, and Civ IV promises to still not actually have the original staff that made Civ II so astoundingly awesome.

Which incidentally the new RoN looks awesome. But I have higher hopes for Civ4 simply due to the fact that they have made advancements and recognized their mistakes and in Civ4 rectifies most of them AFAIK. I still don't think it's an accurate comparison to put Dominions in the same caliber of game as one that has a budget in the millions. I love Dominions and will love Dominions 3, but like with any other game there are things which need improvement and lessens the game experience. (Such examples might be UI, micromanagment, etc.) This may vary from person to person what people feel should always be included in every game, whether it be graphics, UI, etc.

Seriously, other than Dominions III, what turn-based strategy would you actually play with and against your friends? My Crystal Sphere doesn't see all that far into the future, but I'm just not seeing anything else even being offered that is going to be a decent TBS multiplayer game. This is a genre that has been completely lost to the Playstation Generation.

Laser Squad Nemesis, Age of Wonders:SM (potentially Spartan Total War) comes immediately to mind. While I agree the genre is now mostly a niche genre, European developers continue to churn out unhyped nuggets of gaming goodness.

This doesn't mean that Dominions 3 won't be a fantastic game, but putting it up against the kind of competition and resources of a huge (non-indy) brand is setting yourself up for disappointment.

Dominions might be superior in every aspect due to cost/effort ratio (being able to do everything it does well with only X investment of time/programming) but it doesn't erase the fact that unless Sweden changes their tax laws or Dominions 3 sells millions of units that you can't compare it to Civ4 realistically.