OT: MOO3

Ragnarok-X · #1 March 18th, 2007, 02:27 PM

Well, the money interface is pretty broken. There is a thread about it in the atariboards. I remember that it goes like this: The amount that is displayed is not really your actual treasure, a few budget "positions" are missing.

cshank2 · #2 March 18th, 2007, 03:06 PM

Well, I reinstalled MOO3 last night. Got the Tropical and 1024x768 mods. Game isn't half bad now.

(Yes, I'm being serious.)

Raapys · #3 March 18th, 2007, 04:57 PM

I didn't really like the high-res mod. Something about the interface didn't feel right to me. It's nice to have the lists show more items, though.

SothoTalKer · #4 March 18th, 2007, 05:18 PM

There have been a few nice mods. And the game is also very easy modable. Although the developer/publisher never made any docs regarding that.
They acted like: "Hey you got the game from us - now play it. Oh, there are a few bugs? Ok, we will make 2 patches and then thats it - no more support - 2 patches should be enough to fix the game (even though we released it in beta stage), we don't care about this MoO series at all. Be lucky that you got a new MoO. Ah, and the game is modable, but you have to figure out things alone, we won't help you with it.

More patches, more fixes, a developer/publisher that would have cared for the game itself, the MoO series and the fans would not have buried the game. The game was released on 02/25/2003. The latest patch was released 07/18/2003. I do not know if it is common practise that a game is abandoned after 6 month, even if the developer and the publisher know that there are many bugs left.

The game IS good with the additional fan-made fixes/patches. But it will never be as good as SEV due to the reasons stated above.

cshank2 · #5 March 18th, 2007, 06:23 PM

It's Atari. They just suck no matter what.

Ragnarok-X · #6 March 18th, 2007, 06:46 PM

Yes, i agree. Atari is by FAR the worst publisher out there. I figured as much after they abandoned Temple of Elemental Evil.

Raapys · #7 March 18th, 2007, 07:17 PM

Quicksilver was a pretty decent developer company, I'd say. They really listened to fan input, they were ambitious, and they listened to my favorite music, Tool. Not much they can do when the publishers cuts the funding, though.

I thought I read somewhere about MoO4 being planned by some other company.