What other games complement your Dominions 3?

[Calahan]

JimM

Glad to hear I'm not alone on PSI-5 :-) I find so few people have ever heard of it that it sometimes seems like I own the only copy in the world!

Think I have about a 5-10% success rate on the toughest mission. Best chance is to set-up engineering so that you can go full pelt and still fire. And despite playing it 100's of times, I've still no idea what half the things available to repair actually do! "What's a Cravenlatorr" :-) LoL

Although I am sure that the fuzzy furry pink bloke is the best kick arse gunner around!

[JimMorrison]

The teddy bear guy? The one that keeps gumming up his controls with chocolate?

Are you running on an EMU? I had one for the 64 once, but it had some severe issues with core clocking and such. Half the things that I tried to run on it just didn't do anything right at all.

I still want a modern remake of MoM..... And of Archon and Archon II. Hell, if someone could make an Oblivion-esque version of the Ultima games, I would be a happy happy camper. I tried to play them again, but just moving around and looking at things took SO LONG I couldn't handle the pain.

Also, what about Worms? The C64 Worms, not the stupid Artillery knockoff that everyone thinks of when I say the name.....

[Gandalf Parker]

There are a number of projects trying to recreate MoM as a MoM2. But at the moment there are very few trying to do it authenticly. They cant seem to help trying to upgrade it (such as adding multiplayer mode) which tends to kill it.

[Epaminondas]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

There are a number of projects trying to recreate MoM as a MoM2. But at the moment there are very few trying to do it authenticly. They cant seem to help trying to upgrade it (such as adding multiplayer mode) which tends to kill it.

Isn't Stardock doing one? Also, there are rumors that the makers of Fantasy Wars have acquired the trademark from Atari.

[lch]

No. Stardock expressed interest in acquiring the license, but ultimately didn't do it.

[Epaminondas]

Originally Posted by lch

No. Stardock expressed interest in acquiring the license, but ultimately didn't do it.

While Stardock decided not to pursue the MoM license (which I already implied saying that the makers of Fantasy Wars is rumored to have acquired the MoM license), the company is making a MoM clone right now designated "Not MoM."

[lch]

Originally Posted by Epaminondas

While Stardock decided not to pursue the MoM license (...), the company is making a MoM clone right now designated "Not MoM."

That "Not MoM" label might have to do with my irate rebuttal on another forum where somebody created an "oh look, this is gonna be MoM 2" thread. And I don't think any company would have interest in developing a real clone of the game. They'll make something inspired by it, but we all know from Hollywood how well it can work out if something new is made based on something popular.

I do look forward towards whatever fantasy TBS they're going to release in the end.

Originally Posted by Dragar

For the Civ IV players out there, try the Fall from Heaven 2 user mod. That was my staple for months before finding Dom3. Still the same combat system, but it is a very rich fantasy setting, huge differentiation between civs and religions, plus lots of magic All while maintaing pretty decent balance. It is supported amazingly well by the development team.

Yeah, I've played it and it's indeed very very good, particularly because they spent a lot on the ingame lore. They even won a $25k price for "best mod" for it and donated it to Unicef, like all the other money they receive.

The good, it has all the nice stuff: Mages, spells, summons, mana nodes, different factions with three alignments (Good, Neutral, Evil) and so on. The gameplay is pretty awesome for a Civ setting. The bad: In SP, the AI is not really up to the task to make use of the things offered to it, it's like a lobotomized Civ4 AI that can't make any real use of the spells. So you can actually play about 2-3 AI levels higher than you use to do under normal Civ4. Maybe that's because some game mechanics can be exploited too much by a human player, too. But worse is that MP gaming isn't really possible at the moment, because you'll get out of sync errors whenever an event occurs, which is a main storyline device in FFH. Like in Dom3, events may occur randomly, but even when you rob a graveyard, for example. In case they ever get to fix the MP issue, it'd be an interesting choice.

[GrudgeBringer]

I was in Caeser III (at least my name 'GrudgeBringer' and my other alias 'Three toed Pete" are Barbarian's in that game.

I was as a moderator on Civil war Generals 2 and they liked the names...my only claim to fame.

I play Great invasions, Ageod's American Cilvil War (talk about Micro though) but a very realistic game.

MOO3 was a terrible game I thought but I played MOO 2 online and THAT was a good game so I guess it just didn't live up to my expectations.

[MaxWilson]

JimMorrison said:
I still want a modern remake of MoM..... And of Archon and Archon II.

There was an entertaining Archon-esque game called Dark Legions a few years back. The biggest difference was that there were no power points and, more importantly, your army was purchased with a point-buy system and not fixed. Great fun for hotseat play against a buddy.

-Max

[Leif_-]

Let's see...

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword,
City of Heroes
Alpha Centauri
Steamband
Sins of a Solar Empire