the WORST Empire building game youve ever played(Turn based or RTS)

[Az]

Yeah, Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

The only thing wrong with it, is that when you founded an Industry, you didn't actually own it, and you didn't make any profit from it.

I really liked capitalizing South America, though

I've heard a rumor that there is a sequel coming on. Could it be?

[Alex]

Wow, a 1999 thread... Some posters have way too much time on their hands lately...

Oh, and Transport Tycoon:

[Dis]

they are catching up on threads for the past 4 years. I wonder how long that would take...

[Apocalypse]

The best part of that original post I made (that DC replied to and brought this thread back up) is that I had a completely different personality at the time.

I had troll tendencies back in the day.

[MBD]

Transport Tycoon is still a good game, and the patch makes it even better. For one thing, now if you own 75% of another company you can take go in whenever you want and run it as if it was your original company.

[DarkCloud]

Wow, a 1999 thread... Some posters have way too much time on their hands lately...

Sorry I was looking at the old posteruserids and found a poster with two posts- then clicked the link to see where it led- noticed that Apocalypse had posted in the thread before- noticed that he was online and knew that he still posted in othergames... and so I posted

and at least this thread has been worth some discussion!

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Apocalypse grew up

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I've heard a rumor that there is a sequel coming on. Could it be?

I thinks so- I have heard about that as well.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by DarkCloud

Sorry I was looking at the old posteruserids and found a poster with two posts- then clicked the link to see where it led- noticed that Apocalypse had posted in the thread before- noticed that he was online and knew that he still posted in othergames... and so I posted

and at least this thread has been worth some discussion!

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Apocalypse grew up

Well, at the time I was also a webmaster for Apolyton's rival SidGames.

About his version Elite - some of the same graphics from there (mainly the menus) are also in Transport Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon. It's crazy.

BTW, when is there going to be some list for people like me who have been around a long time and did a lot of stuff back in the day but haven't done much lately?

[DarkCloud]

BTW, when is there going to be some list for people like me who have been around a long time and did a lot of stuff back in the day but haven't done much lately?

Not sure... I know a little bit about people such as yourself and fjxorc and others... but since I wasn't there in 1998 or 1999, I relaly can't write as an expert- I would be glad to assemble the information, but I would need a collaborator... If I had a collaborator and we were serious- I bet that Ming and DanQ would help us out, as dan has expressed interest and I bet I could rope Ming or rah into the thing

If you want to work on the preliminaries for such a thing, I'll be glad to work with you

[DrSpike]

How can anyone not like Transport Tycoon?

For worst BotF was not good, but I'm sure there must be worse. I'm struggling to think of any though, since I normally manage to avoid really bad games.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by MarkG
I don't know... something screamed "get away get away!" in my head...

The interesting is that I liked Settlers 2...

Markos, Apolyton CS

The Settlers II is among the best games ever made, while S3 + S4 doesn't even come close...

Settlers III + IV has almost no strategy in the game anymore... I'm doing my best to convince BB/Ubi-soft to get back to the S1 + S2 gameplay (Of course in a much more updated version )... They are making The Settlers 3D, and in an interview they mentioned a little about having a look at the Settlers I + II gameplay, if I'm not mistaking (It's been some time, since I last time read it)... let's just hope they do more than "just looking at"


The worst one I can think about at the moment, is AoE (I + II)... not that it was THAT bad, but I simply hate games that have average gameplay, but a very famous for some strange reason... AoE is a very known game, but the gameplay is below average

[Cookie Monster]

Moo3 was the only TBS empire building game that I really hated.

[Kropotkin]

Compared to the expectations I had on the game CTP sucked gigantic elephant balls. I could never get any feel for the game world at all, I borrowed it to a friend and never cared to get it back.

[Sava]

Superpower....
Civ3 (before PTW)

[Az]

Why don't you like it- was it too hard?

longest bump. EVER.

[Grumbold]

I think I've managed to block out all the truly awful games. Outpost was bad but I'm sure there were worse Empire building games than that. Pretty much every tycoon game except Transport, Railroad and Monopoly are dire. Then there are the sort of games that PC Gamer award under 20%. I've never dared load any of those to see how bad they really are