Any news on DOM-III

[PashaDawg]

Wesnoth rocks.

[RibbonBlue]

Don't give up on water. Bad idea
Eat lots of greens.
Eat brown rice and cuscus(sp?)
Leave pasta alone
I think the best eating style in the world = japanese.

[Agrajag]

RibbonBlue said:
cuscus(sp?)

If it will show up: קוסקוס =P
As for the date DomIII comes out at, Im 100% it will be before the latest game of Duke Nukem (Forever? =P).
That should give you a rough estimate

which should be right before pigs grow a seventh leg, in case you are unaware of the Duke "folklore"

[Cainehill]

NTJedi said:

I didn't like the battles and battle maps in the Disciples series.[/b]

Yeah - among other things, Disciple's mechanics (like several other games) put some really artificial constraints on gameplay. IIRC, basically only the heroes could move onto the next scenario, and the experience was only given to units that damaged/killed. Net result was that you only wanted a very few units to be getting into combat, which was itself very simplistic and not terribly rewarding.

[WraithLord]

Cainehill said:

Yeah - among other things, Disciple's mechanics (like several other games) put some really artificial constraints on gameplay. IIRC, basically only the heroes could move onto the next scenario, and the experience was only given to units that damaged/killed. Net result was that you only wanted a very few units to be getting into combat, which was itself very simplistic and not terribly rewarding.

I think Disciples has it's strong points.
I agree that it is simplistic in many aspects but,
It has nice RPG feeling in the sense that you can develop heroes and units.
And it really shines in the esthetics department, the hand made drawing are very good. This, of course, is a matter of personal taste.

[PrinzMegaherz]

Did I already mention Ogre Battle?

It is very much like Disciples, except that you take your complete army into the next mission. And your soldiers choose between different professions, depending whether their alignment tends toward evil or good

Oh, I already mentioned it?
Sorry to bother you

[Cainehill]

PrinzMegaherz said:
Did I already mention Ogre Battle?

Not to mention Final Fantasy Tactics, Brigandine, and the Suikoden and Vandal Hearts series, all for the original playstation, thus cheap (if you can find them) and presumably capable of being played via PS emulators. All of them had different manners of fantasy combat with different units / critters / professions, etc.

Or action / RPGs such as Vagrant Story (one of the most amazing things I ever saw on the PS, with great characters, cut scenes, and voiceovers : "Shouldn't we wait for the reinforcements?" "I am the reinforcements." Or Valkyrie Profile, or various other gems that came to be on the consoles.

[PashaDawg]

RibbonBlue said:
Don't give up on water. Bad idea
Eat lots of greens.
Eat brown rice and cuscus(sp?)
Leave pasta alone
I think the best eating style in the world = japanese.

Yay!!! I can eat sushi every meal.... yay!!!!!!

[CUnknown]

Yeah Zen--

You're definitely in the minority of the minority that is Dominions 2 fans. CivIII can't hold a candle to Dom2, despite the vastly larger budget and huge popularity. Or, actually, because of the vastly larger budget and huge popularity. Any game with such a huge budget is going to be marketed at a large audience so it can make money (or someone is getting fired, right?). Any game marketed at a large audience is going to be hindered by the "common-denominator" factor, therefore probably not as good as dom2 because it isn't limited in that way.

Also--most of that budget is going towards graphics, which any true gamer knows is mostly irrelevant to a good game-playing experience.

So, mass marketed games are a large number of people making decisions about the game with regards more or less only to profits, not to a good gaming experience, and on top of that, they're wasting most of their money on a less-important part of the game (graphics). These games are just bound to be worse than a small project done by gamers for gamers. I'm not saying they -have- to be worse, but if they're not, it's pretty damn awesome. Get me a copy of that game.

[RibbonBlue]

Disicples was a fun game, but Dominions2>civ 3+disciples