Big Huge Games

[Asher]

Fun game, goal seemed to have succeeded.

[Bkeela]

Originally posted by Tacc
I officially strike Brian Reynolds off of my "w00tly people" list.
tis painful

Same.

[DrSpike]

Well you can't take his early triumphs away because of later mistakes (unless he becomes the lead for the next Sims x-pack or something). However, he has been off my currently wootly people list for some time.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
Fun game, goal seemed to have succeeded.

I guess YMMV. I found Oblivion to be a beautiful, poorly-executed game.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Asher
It sold how many times more copies RoN?

Oblivion >>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything BHG has ever released.

So all of a sudden sales numbers do matter? I thought it was all about the target market?

By the way, definitely Oblivion == RoN. Both suck donkey balls.

[FrostyBoy]

I found both games equally fun in their own right.

But neither engrossed me as other games in the past have.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
So all of a sudden sales numbers do matter? I thought it was all about the target market?

Don't you think if RoN's sales were sufficient, even in its target market, BHG would keep making games like that?

hint, hint.

[Harovan]

To be honest, since I realized that RoN is going to be Age of Empires in a Civ ambiente, my interest in this game dropped to zero and, considering the burstling place Apolytons RoN forum is, nearly everyone else's too. Finally even BHG seems to have realized this, better late than never. But the damage is done and hurts. R.I.P. BR's image as "teh game designing genius".

So I can't comment on sales numbers, because I frankly don't give a rats. It just amused me slightly, that you in one thread dismissed my sales numbers troll and brought in another thread a similar one.

[Solver]

RoN/RoL forums are active elsewhere. We're not in the top 10 of sites that people looking for info on those games would find, hence the lack of activity.

I'd be interested to see what BHG come up with next. I maintain that RoN is the best RTS game out there, and it actually managed to do some innovation instead of being an AoE clone.

Looks like Brian Reynolds just wants to try doing different things. He's had lots of success with TBS (Civ2, SMAC), now succeeded at TBS (community & critic reception for RoN has been great), so why not try designing a RPG? As long as they stick to the PC as their platform, I'll quite likely be interested in BHG's next game.

[Harovan]

As long as he makes it a true RPG and not an f'ing first person shooter in RPG disguise like Oblivion, he has my blessings, provided that he sticks with PC as platform.

[Nostromo]

I guess YMMV. I found Oblivion to be a beautiful, poorly-executed game.

An example that comes to mind are the lock picking and the persuasion mini-games. On paper, the idea is great, since it solves one of the problems with its predecessors: practicing non-combat related skills was mind-numbingly boring in Morrowind. Unfortunately, the mini-games are poorly designed. They're not fun and they're too easy. I wonder why Bethesda kept them as is.

[Protra3211]

What about a Rise of Nations 2.Something along the lines of the real time games put out by Pardox.The real sense of history found in Europa Universalis 2,along with the deep tactics in Hearts of Iron.Some detail will have to be cut down to play civilization. But what a game that would make.It would appeal to a wide range of gamers.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Solver
I'd be interested to see what BHG come up with next. I maintain that RoN is the best RTS game out there, and it actually managed to do some innovation instead of being an AoE clone.

Relic has done much better things with the genre than BHG, IMO.

[DinoDoc]

I dunno. I found CoH kinda boring before my comp decided not to play it anymore. Dawn of War on the other hand was and is awesome.

[Solver]

Relic kicks ass, yeah. Homeworld is definitely one of the best RTS games, but the innovation was in a completely different direction than RoN's. And RoN was still more innovative, IMO.

Company of Heroes plays almost like a squad-level tactical game instead of a RTS. Very solid, however.