New Game Selection Advice

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Total war is turn-based.

The turnbased (strategic) part of the game is pretty crappy, though. It's the realtime (tactical combat) that makes it.

Anyways, I'd wait untill Rome: Total War. That must be almost done by now... I should check on it's progress.

[SpencerH]

I'm finding that MTW to have much more strategic depth than Shogun TW. I'm on my fourth campaign and each has been different. It's kinda like EU2 in that you can add the depth by the choices you make.

[DrSpike]

I really like the Total War series.........Rome TW should be great.

[Japher]

Total War looks intimidating What's with the cards?

[SpencerH]

Cards?

[Stuie]

If you're talking about the bottom of the screen, those aren't cards, that's your different units' status.

[quantum_mechani]

Re: New Game Selection Advice

- Master of Magic

If you liked Master of Magic you might like Dominions II, one of the few games that comes close in complexity. You can find the demo at Shrapnel Games .

EDIT: Now that I think about it your probably better of trying the Dominions I demo first if you're interested, since the other demo dosn't have a manual. The Dominions I demo can be found here .

[Japher]

Thanks Quantum, that game looks awesome I'll give it a shot.

I just ran out and bought Age of Wonders:SM, looks fun. The only thing I think it might be lacking is lack of complexity in initial character generation. One thing I liked about MoM was the many ways you could start out the game, just by allocating points. Still, this game looks promising, I'll give it a shot this evening.

[Japher]

Is the only way to get Dominions II to order it? From what I am seeing it is hard to find.

[Japher]

I just skipped the demo and ordered the game...

If it sucks I am going to put quantum on ignore

[Jon Miller]

played dominions 2 some

decent concept and application, but has some ballancing issues

Jon Miller

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by Japher
I just skipped the demo and ordered the game...

In that case be sure to check out the FAQs on the shrapnel games forums after you read the manual. They can really help the high learning curve.

[Japher]

I like games with a high learning curve

I check out the faqs, I also saw a patch...

I played Age of Wonders last night. Didn't have a lot of time to play, but I got through the first few tutorials. My first impressions is that while it appears to be alot like Heroes of Might and Magic, there is a lot more there that can be done... That it allows you to use your imagination... I think I will have fun with this game

[Sharpe]

By the way, just picked up a February 2004 issue of PC Gamer and they have the 60MB demo of Dominions 2 on it (along with Deus Ex 2, Uru Beyond Myst and Silent Storm Demos).