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

[GhengisFarb™]

Colonization was fun, I would like to see a cross between Pirates!Port Royale and Colonization so that there's a little more area to play towards.

[Paul Hanson]

Dark Reign was a pretty poor game.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Dark Reign was a pretty poor game.

Yeah, but all that hype made me want to buy it. It was in the days when suddenly games publishers went RTS crazy with the release of C&C and had alot of extra options, was technicially superior but just didn't have much of a fun factor.

[vmxa1]

Less than stellar, but it was among the first to use elvation.

[Straybow]

R4TS (demo) would be my vote. Usually a poor game is either boring or frustrating. I couldn't imagine how anything so boring could also be so frustrating.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by The Rusty Gamer
The thing about SMAC is, when I first started playing it I was disappointed. It was same old, same old. I left it for a while and then went back to it and then "something happened" It just suddenly took off for me.

oh im not tossing the disk away - I havent even uninstalled the game - And since I DID play through two games, and i bought the CD as shovelware, Id say I did get my moneysworth - especially since i wanted to see what everyone was talking about - I can conceive of trying it again - i didnt mean to imply it was the WORST empire builder (just that the mention happened to come up on this thread) there are LOTS of good gameplay ideas in it, the setting and story are innovative and very interesting, BR was courageous to include all the philosophy - just "the something" hasnt happened for me yet. And i have some difficulty seeing at as the best game of all time. In particular I think SMAC illustrates very well the problems of depth and complexity - while it does seem to be a deep game, it added a huge amount of complexity to buy that depth.

[DrSpike]

If you don't want complexity you know what game you should play.

Just kidding.

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by Straybow
R4TS (demo) would be my vote. Usually a poor game is either boring or frustrating. I couldn't imagine how anything so boring could also be so frustrating.

R4TS??????

[War4ever]

i really disliked Star Trek BOTF i just found the interface and the whole rts/tbs mix of the game to be idiotic.

sim city 2000 was pretty lame as well....

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Father Beast


R4TS??????

Come on Mr. Beast, you should know this one!

Reach for the Stars

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by War4ever
i really disliked Star Trek BOTF i just found the interface and the whole rts/tbs mix of the game to be idiotic.

sim city 2000 was pretty lame as well....

simcity2000

my first PC game.

[DrSpike]

Wow War long time no see.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


simcity2000

my first PC game.

SC 2 was a great game and I still have it.

[vmxa1]

RFTS the new one was lame.

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy


Come on Mr. Beast, you should know this one!

Reach for the Stars

Actually, I do. I just got thrown by the number. if he said RFTS like vxma did, I would have gotten it.

I bought it cheap last year and had some fun with it. It got fair to mediocre reviews, and probably deserves it, but I certainly got my money's worth, since I paid about $8 for it.