What other games complement your Dominions 3?

[Stryke11]

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.

[Wokeye]

Will have to try those TW:Med mods. I would love a Total War:Fantasy game. Even better if it had significant imporvements to the AI/diplomacy aspect too, then it would be *almost* my ultimate single player game.

Ironhawk, I agree with you re MOO3 - I enjoyed it when I was expanding/building/exploring, but once I started having to fight other races I lost interest very fast.

Good to see so many DF fans, I actually enjoy seeing the progression of the game more than I do actually playing it ATM. The next version should be great.

[Ballbarian]

Lately my game plate is pretty sparse.
I have been playing the heck out of the free Digital Eel games just for some quick entertainment:
Big Box of Blox
Plasmaworm
Dr. Blob's Organism

Especially the Blox. It is like an insane Tetris, and I was never a big Tetris fan.

Probably the newest game that I enjoyed was Call of Duty 4. After you beat the campaign, you get a bonus mission involving a plane and terrorists. I must have played that mission 30 times. Easy, but fun as hell.

I briefly played a couple of rounds of Wesnoth not too long ago and still enjoy it.

I played quite a bit of Galactic Civ for awhile and purchased Sins of a Solar Empire. Big disappointment for me. It looks really good, but the way the whole pirate thing was handled just made me hate to play it. I finished one game and tried to start another, but just got to the point where I dreaded playing it. I imagine that I will go back to it some day and try to keep an open mind...

I am sort of looking forward to Spore, but a big part of me is afraid it will be a little too cute. By cute, I mean like the newer Sims cute. I really want to get excited about it, but I am afraid that I will be disappointed. The creature creator is good fun, but it won't take me long to get bored with it unless the Spore environment and game itself can draw me in. Conceptually, I find it fascinating.

[JimMorrison]

Ballbarian said:
...and purchased Sins of a Solar Empire. Big disappointment for me. It looks really good, but the way the whole pirate thing was handled just made me hate to play it. I finished one game and tried to start another, but just got to the point where I dreaded playing it. I imagine that I will go back to it some day and try to keep an open mind...

Was this immediately after release? The first few patches did wonders for the game, including a toggle for pirates on/off for all maps, in case you just don't like dealing with them at all. Honestly for my first few games I struggled so badly with the pirates, but as soon as I let my economic patterns revolve around making sure to have plenty of money to hire the pirates, they made the game too EASY in SP, I could practically win the game just by putting the pirates against my largest foe with increasingly massive bounties.

So yes, if you haven't played Sins in v1.3 or higher, you should give it another run, with or without pirates.



Gnadalf - It struck me after I read your post, and Googled around for Mail Order Monsters (I should have said MOM, not MoM) that you thought I meant Master of Magic. My mistake.

[das123]

Sins certainly improved with the latest patches. Actually, I liked the pirates because it only takes one capital ship to destroy them and then the capital ship get heaps of experience.