OT: Stardocks Fantasy TBS

[Endoperez]

It could also be terraforming. Raising mountains around your cities, creating bridges over vast seas, etc. You know, stuff that would require lots of memory (i.e. 64-bit) to be feasible in a large map.

[JimMorrison]

Seriously, I think he was just implying that they wanted to implement late-game magic as something so powerful, that you don't so much counter it (fireball? but I am resistant to fire, haha!), but rather things become so massive in scale, that it just becomes a contest of godly carnage.

So while one person may be raining down comets on your lands, you could either counter him with 8.0 magnitude earthquakes, or maybe if you specialized in nature, you would focus on sprouting entire forests in your devastated areas, to boost your economy even as the destruction makes your opponents lands wither.

But yes, I'm sure the idea is things along the lines of BoT, Armageddon, Utterdark, Master Enslave, etc etc.


And I wholeheartedly agree that the release of that trailer can't help but be more detrimental than anything. I felt like I was in some really cool 8th grade English class "so can you use Exterminate in a sentence?" ..... but 8th grade English is anything but cool. I'd have sent them $10 just to have whoever made that trailer, spend the time on the game instead.....

[Tifone]

Guys, stop the dreaming or the awakening might be painful We've all passed through that

[Epaminondas]

Here's the inevitable thread at the Elemental forum comparing that game to Dominions III:

http://forums.elementalgame.com/330416

It quite contentious, as one would expect. Dominions III is the type of game that elicits passionate responses, whether for or against!

[lch]

What did they compare it with? The trailer that they released for the upcoming game, scheduled in 2010?
I've not seen one single person praising that trailer, in fact even people that were enthusiastic about the game didn't appreciate it.

[JimMorrison]

That thread is funny. The guy complaining about Shrapnel not sending him a new CD key even though they can verify the purchase, is hilarious.

I am not aware of a single gaming company that will send you a new CD-key. How do you prove yours is gone? Not like they know what key you had, and can deactivate it somehow..... Just pure comedy.

[S.R. Krol]

Yeah, I just don't see how you can start comparing the two games when for one game all your have is a possible feature list. But hey, it's the Internet, who says things people post have to make sense?

And really, why worry about comparing and contrasting? I'm sure their hard drives have enough room for *gasp* two games. Probably even more!

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by S.R. Krol

Yeah, I just don't see how you can start comparing the two games when for one game all your have is a possible feature list. But hey, it's the Internet, who says things people post have to make sense?

And really, why worry about comparing and contrasting? I'm sure their hard drives have enough room for *gasp* two games. Probably even more!

Some of the new fangled high end machines can hold 4 or even 5 games at a time, but who can afford such technology?

[Tifone]

I'd like to underline the fun, in the 3ad Epaminondas brought to our attention, that the elemental guys are skinning each other alive after Dom3 and how our paladins are defending our fortress well (Omni, DC FTW)

[HoneyBadger]

I'll say this in favor of Dominions3's low requirements and "primitive" graphics--I was able to play it for the first time in many, many moons, last night, because it'll run on a crappy, broken, 10 year old laptop. Woohoo!

As far as Stardock goes, they weren't even able to make freakin' GalCiv2, a science fiction game, without filling it chock full of Tolkien references, so I can only imagine how hopelessly generic their quality of fantasy will turn out to be.