Is anyone having fun with this game?

[Forrest]

I DESPISE this game.

I started Arcoscephale for a Astral war. Astrologers with masses of communion slaves walking over the petty mortals. Then I found "The Citidel of Pyriphlegeton" with +4 fire gems and lvl 3 Fire adepts. My dream became corrupted by their siren call of Fire Arrows. I was weak.

I am so ashamed.

But, they also have a 60 buck lvl 1 fire mage. Give them a communion slave gem and .........

The ones that don't burn are in trouble.

[Cainehill]

Tyrant said:
I agree with all of Cainehill's gripes, but i am having a blast with it anyway. Rough edges on niche game made by two guys who have day jobs? Of course! Since they made not one, but two games that are on my all time favorite list, i forgive them.

Perhaps this is an age thing. I remember the days when it was foolish to buy a 'puter game before you played someone else's copy because many of them did not work *at all*!

An age thing? Heh, don't think so. _I_ remember the days where you _had_ to buy a game without playing anyone else's copy, because there'd be at most two copies of the game, packaged in ziploc bags, in the computer stores in your city. So you'd drop 60-70 bucks on a game, and sometimes get lucky (the original Wizardry, Loderunner, etc).

And I'm not saying I don't like the game - I do, and I appreciate the improvements IW has made. And I'll stop short before saying anything more, 'cause Gandalf already thinks I hijacked his thread.

(Gandalf - I missed the bit about wanting a more upbeat thread, and only keyed in on the question, "is anyone having fun?", which is a question with more than one answer. Sorry. )

[Forrest]

This game is awe inspiring. It sells a fantasy world that is rich and complex. Yet easy to enter. It is a sign of how jaded some players are that they don't just sit back and go "wow" sometimes.

Could it use patching? Of course and I look forward to it. That does not make it a monumental achivement.

I like the dom 1 combat graphics better. Which goes to show you can't please everybody. It will never be perfect for everyone. Welcome to the real world.

[PDF]

Forrest said:
This game is awe inspiring. ...

Yes, even Awe+6 !

[JaydedOne]

I think it's pretty clear, given my near-Pollyanna love for Dominions, that I'm having a fun time. Playing in three MP games, getting ready to host a fourth, tinkering when work allows in SP.

Yes, as in every game I've ever played, going back to Chivalry and Aztec, my first two loves on the Apple II+, there are improvements I'm looking forward to, both from the devs and from the community. But I think for the gold release, it's a great start. I think we sometimes get so blinded by the potential of Dominions and how much we want it to achieve that we forget how much we like where it began. And I'd say we like that a lot.

That said, bring on the first patch! Or some patch notes!

[Twan]

I'm having fun but don't think the game is perfect. I think many things may be improved, and it's logical to see people who like the game asking for these improvements. I see no post on this forum giving the impression that the author has as a definitive opinion "dom3 sucks" (except perhaps one or two Cainehill messages ), just players asking with passion for one or another thing that would make the game better for them.

PS : globally I also think that many of the qualities of this game may become defaults due to bad luck in the early game and give a bad opinion of it. In example the aging system is good but IMO having entire categories of mages starting more than old instead of 1-3 years before the old age limit is not, the event system is good but having a plague in turn 3 without a big misfortune scale is not, etc... After 2-3 tests by an unlucky player this game may appear far worse than it is.

[Teraswaerto]

I'm having fun even though I don't have the game yet, just think of what it'll be like when I do get it.

[Tichy]

The thing I've noticed is that the complaints about Dom3 sound much less like customers griping about problems with a product they bought, and more like friends critiquing (usually constructively) the work of their friends.

And astral travel not working is a good handicap for playing LE R'lyeh SP. Otherwise it'd just be moidah! Make them all crazy and THEN drop an army on their heads.

[curtadams]

PDF said:

Yes, even Awe+6 !

Obviously there's some high MRs around here because a lot of people manage to attack it anyway.

I'm most impressed with the random map feature. I play SP, and mostly Aran-sized maps. Now every game is different! All in all, it's a big step up from Dom2. The "griping" is inevitable, and I take it as a good thing. When people don't say anything, or just say it's bad, you have a problem. When people discuss what to improve, it means they like it.

[Nerfix]

I'm a Three Star veteran from the sheer amount of time I've been recruited.