Vote Dom3 as Strategy Game of the year on Gamespot

[Boron]

Annette said:
I'm happy to say we just got word that Cyberstratege has awarded Dominions 3 it's Golden Laurel award for Strategy Game of 2006. Silver Award went to Heroes V and Bronze Award to Medieval: Total War. Read about it in the issue hitting newstands in France and Belgium on Friday. Congratulations, Johan and Kristoffer!

Very weird. Place 1 is of course well chosen .

But that they awarded Homm V surprises me. Imho Company of Heroes would have deserved a Top 3 Place much more

[Agrajag]

Boron said:

Very weird. Place 1 is of course well chosen .

But that they awarded Homm V surprises me. Imho Company of Heroes would have deserved a Top 3 Place much more

HoMM V is fun.
CoH is not.
:X




(IMO of course)

[Twan]

They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions (edit : and one for classical/historic wargames, that may explain why fantasy games had such good positions in the general strategy category -don't know the winner for this one-)

[Boron]

Twan said:
They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions.

Ah i see thank you. That makes more sense .

I was just a bit disappointed by HoMM 5, it is HoMM 3 imho with better graphics but with 2 nations less!

Before i discovered i liked the HoMM Series and thus out of nostalgia bought HoMM 5.
But HoMM 5 just sucks imho compared to Dom 3 .

It is another fine proof for the statement "Gameplay > Graphics" though .

[olaf73]

I thought HOMM5 was the best of the series.

I dont agree that there are many RTS games that reward strategy and tactics over UI efficiency skills. Kohan is perhaps the only one.

In nearly all RTS games it comes down to who can sling the mouse fastest and master the keyboard shortcuts.

[Twan]

Hum Paradox games (Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, etc), or games like Knights of Honor, Star Wars Revolution, or all the slow paced games mixing city building gestion and strategy (Anno 1602 etc) are all strategic games in real time and very far to be like common RTS (Kohan is closer from the Command and Conquer genre than all these games).
The hundreds of Command & Conquer clones are the common idea of what a "RTS" should be in the minds of clueless reporters, but are far to be the only games in real time and very far to be the most strategic.

[Caduceus]

As far as the Gamespot article goes, it shows the other "write-in" strategy games that people nominated, so hopefully, it will send some folks to this gem of a game.

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Twan said:
They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions (edit : and one for classical/historic wargames, that may explain why fantasy games had such good positions in the general strategy category -don't know the winner for this one-)

Winner in Wargame category is Conquest of the Agean, and #2 Birth of America.