What other games complement your Dominions 3?

DaveCG · #1 June 22nd, 2008, 07:56 AM

Ok, just to be different...

SEV (YEAH! TAKE THAT...really though I don't/didn't play IV enough to notice any differences, or rather any stiking ones..)

CivIV+Fall from heaven mod i.e masters of magic in civ...

Don't hate me for this one...it's my second guilty pleasure...

Sims...

OH GOD THE SHAME!

(first guilty pleasure is dynasty/samurai warriors.)

Oh, abit of City of Heroes too atm, and the odd game of age of wonders 2 shadow magic.

Twan · #2 June 22nd, 2008, 08:53 AM

Armaggedon Empires best indie game of last year.

Except that I mostly play oldies, good old hex wargames (WinSPWW2, Fantasy General), and 4x like MoM/MoO.

No MMO since I've stopped EQ and WoW. I was tempted by AoC but system requ are too high.

WraithLord · #3 June 22nd, 2008, 09:34 AM

NWN, Hordes of the underdark, Truth is it got quite boring towards the 3rd expansion but I want to complete it (like reading a book with a slow ending, seems to drag on forever)

GC-II, I'm trying to complete the first campaign but damn dominions always gets in the way

I've some newer flashier games on my shelf, all shiny new and hardly touched. I hope to get to them sometime soon, but my dominions condition makes chances of that slimmer every day.

When stardocks new FTBS game is out I promise (to myself) I will give it a serious try.

sector24 · #4 June 22nd, 2008, 10:51 AM

Stars! is a fantastic game, I still play it occasionally. I'm really starved for new games lately, did you guys see that there's a 3d remake of King's Bounty coming out this year? Oh the fond memories...

Chacal · #5 June 22nd, 2008, 11:04 AM

hmm for my part i lack time actually to playing, but I can say :

Football Manager 2008
Flight Simulator 2004 and X
Ultima VII and VII 1/2 via Exult

More rarely but still :
WinSPMBT
Harpoon III
DBA online

some oldies :
Doom
MofM
First Encounter...

kickthedead · #6 June 22nd, 2008, 11:12 AM

What ever happened to Stars!? I have that game from like 1995 or so. Is that the newest one still? I can barely find any information about it on the web. Did they ever make a new one? It is a great game.

sector24 · #7 June 22nd, 2008, 01:12 PM

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kickthedead said:
What ever happened to Stars!? I have that game from like 1995 or so. Is that the newest one still? I can barely find any information about it on the web. Did they ever make a new one? It is a great game.

From wikipedia:

Stars! Supernova Genesis
The huge popularity of the original Stars! game convinced the developers that there would be a market for a sequel. The developers of Stars! formed a company called Mare Crisium Studios and began development of Supernova Genesis. This was intended to be a much more advanced game, with significantly better graphics, and also to remove some of the irritations of the original (such as the level of micro-management).

Unfortunately there was little interest from games publishers who by that time had become focused exclusively on the video game console and high-end 3D games markets, and so the project was eventually abandoned. As rights to the ingame graphics remain with Empire, it is unlikely that the game will be brought back into production.

[edit] Stars! 3
On August 27, 2005, information about a second sequel, tentatively named Stars! 3, was posted to Usenet.[3] Developed in private by ex-members of the Supernova Genesis team, it has an uncertain future, hinting on a return to the self-publishing model.

I played Protector on Kongregate all the way through. Those dektop defenders are fun, but if you play one you've pretty much played them all.

das123 · #8 June 22nd, 2008, 06:54 PM

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kickthedead said:
What ever happened to Stars!? I have that game from like 1995 or so. Is that the newest one still? I can barely find any information about it on the web. Did they ever make a new one? It is a great game.

There was a new game being built but it was abandoned many years ago. I think that this is the only Stars site left...

Stars Auto Host

Stryke11 · #9 June 26th, 2008, 09:55 PM

1) Medieval 2: Total War (Not vanilla, but MODS - Stainless Steel and Broken Crescent - seriously, if you have M2TW you NEED to try these mods, 500X better than actual game).
2) Galactic Civilizations 2: Twilight of the Arnor
3) The Witcher (pretty unknown, but absolutely awesome, think Oblivion with more action and for adults).
4) Dwarf Fortress (it's been so long since a patch that I don't actually play it much, but it's there waiting).
5) Battle for Wesnoth (occasionally).
6) Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES (Playstation 2 game, but it's still a game, so it counts.)

P.S. HoneyBadger: You mentioned you would like a Fantasy: Total War, well, I highly recommend you try Fourth Age: Total War, which is a LotR mod for Rome (with Barbarian expansion) and is set in the 4th age of Middle Earth (after the events in the novels/movies). You can be Gondor, Rohan, Harad, Rhun, this bizarro evil-twin Gonder that has Gondor infantry with orcs and trolls, located in what was formerly Mordor), and Dunland. They are also working on a mod for Medieval called Third Age: Total War, which also looks very pretty.

DonCorazon · #10 June 22nd, 2008, 01:31 PM

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Twan said:
Armaggedon Empires best indie game of last year.

I tried the demo as I loved the theme on this but found even a minor battle just takes too long. It was like a clickfest but in turn based mode. Maybe I was missing something on the UI but I gave it up when my fingers started cramping up...