Any news on DOM-III

[Zen]

Everyone who likes World of Warcraft are the lowest common denominator? Or just the 90% who like crap which also includes the good 'games'.

Some people also don't like FPS, RTS, or Fantasy or Sci-Fi and it has nothing to do with them liking or not liking crap.

I have friends who I play games with who didn't enjoy Dominions 2, are they suddenly tasteless because they don't enjoy everything Dom2 has to offer?

No. Some of them don't like the pace, some of them can't get past the UI, some of them have issues with graphics, others don't enjoy some of the mechanics of the game. It has nothing to do with how good Dominions 2, but merely their preference.

I think that's why Shrapnel is what it is, the same with Matrix games and Stardock. You have to get lean, mean and approach consumers with a plan to deal with personal preference especially as a working business model.

[Reverend Zombie]

Zen said:
Everyone who likes World of Warcraft are the lowest common denominator? Or just the 90% who like crap which also includes the good 'games'.

You seem to assume that I argue that everything that is popular is crap? Not so. But not everything wildly popular is good, either. See, Revenge of the Sith.

My point is that claiming something is "good" or "better" than something else because it is more popular is a fallacy, which is what you were doing with CiV4 vs. Dom3.

[Beorne]

Nobody mentioned Wesnoth for TBS?

[PashaDawg]

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It's fair to say that I am on the "Dominions 3 Diet". I am seeking to lose 10 pounds, and my reward will be a sassy new 20-inch IMAC. But, my DEADLINE is the release of Dominions 3, because I will need a new computer to play the new version of the game. (If I am wrong, don't correct me on the technical requirements for running DOM 3, because it would spoil everything.)

If Dominions 3 is coming out SOON, tell me now, because I will need to hop on that stairmaster more often. I might even need to make more radical changes to my eating habits (e.g., no more pizza or maybe even giving up water).

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[PashaDawg]

Wesnoth rocks.

[RibbonBlue]

Don't give up on water. Bad idea
Eat lots of greens.
Eat brown rice and cuscus(sp?)
Leave pasta alone
I think the best eating style in the world = japanese.

[Agrajag]

RibbonBlue said:
cuscus(sp?)

If it will show up: קוסקוס =P
As for the date DomIII comes out at, Im 100% it will be before the latest game of Duke Nukem (Forever? =P).
That should give you a rough estimate

which should be right before pigs grow a seventh leg, in case you are unaware of the Duke "folklore"

[PashaDawg]

RibbonBlue said:
Don't give up on water. Bad idea
Eat lots of greens.
Eat brown rice and cuscus(sp?)
Leave pasta alone
I think the best eating style in the world = japanese.

Yay!!! I can eat sushi every meal.... yay!!!!!!

[CUnknown]

Yeah Zen--

You're definitely in the minority of the minority that is Dominions 2 fans. CivIII can't hold a candle to Dom2, despite the vastly larger budget and huge popularity. Or, actually, because of the vastly larger budget and huge popularity. Any game with such a huge budget is going to be marketed at a large audience so it can make money (or someone is getting fired, right?). Any game marketed at a large audience is going to be hindered by the "common-denominator" factor, therefore probably not as good as dom2 because it isn't limited in that way.

Also--most of that budget is going towards graphics, which any true gamer knows is mostly irrelevant to a good game-playing experience.

So, mass marketed games are a large number of people making decisions about the game with regards more or less only to profits, not to a good gaming experience, and on top of that, they're wasting most of their money on a less-important part of the game (graphics). These games are just bound to be worse than a small project done by gamers for gamers. I'm not saying they -have- to be worse, but if they're not, it's pretty damn awesome. Get me a copy of that game.