Can MOO3 survive with games like Hegemonia,Orb and IG3 crowding?

[Atragon]

I'll limit my reply to the original topic of this thread.

Yes, it can. O.R.B. Hegemonia, and IG3 are an entirely different type of game, they're all RTS games and as such, compete directly with homeworld.

[Vipermmx]

Graphics Sell.

Simple as that people. QS designed a game on aging tech. Very bad idea no matter what most you think. Going voxel was REALLY BAD IDEA. The game looks TERRIBLE!!!! Im talking 1994 terrible.

Hegemonia has exploration,economy,expand,eliminate.

You build on planets and colonize. Yes its not near as detailed but its pretty and fights are enjoyable.

Let me see fights with voxel or true 3d. Fights on planets that look like crap because there little images or attacking planets from space and killing population.

Hegemonia is considered a Mini-MOO. I think it will be a fight between the 2. Multi solar system and everything in Hege.

[Anguille2]

Originally posted by Vipermmx
All those games offer fun gameplay and GREAT graphics. Thats the point.

M003 is a spreadsheet with a crappy voxel tech renderer. We all known voxel is crap no matter trying to explain.

You fans here may not care but you guys play civ 3 and moo2 which have 0 graphics most you probably dont even own a system above 500mhz.

Most people on other forums dismiss Moo3 and a living spreadsheet with crap ass graphics. Ive seen far more negative about the game then good.

This is why i worry. Moo3 has alot to compete with since moo3 is comming out RIGHT after Hege and orb.

You're right for most of it. The fact that games like Haegemonia, Imperium Galactica and Orb come out at the same time is a danger. However, you compare MOO3's graphic to CIV3....and CIV3 sold a lot of copies despite the poor graphics...
Many people know the game by name...and MOO3 is much deeper than the above mentioned games (and i do play and like IG1 and IG2). But it could be that the game won't get a lot of support from the Game's Magazines...i hope it sells well.

[Trifna]

Originally posted by Vipermmx
Graphics Sell.

Simple as that people. QS designed a game on aging tech. Very bad idea no matter what most you think. Going voxel was REALLY BAD IDEA. The game looks TERRIBLE!!!! Im talking 1994 terrible.

Hegemonia has exploration,economy,expand,eliminate.

You build on planets and colonize. Yes its not near as detailed but its pretty and fights are enjoyable.

Let me see fights with voxel or true 3d. Fights on planets that look like crap because there little images or attacking planets from space and killing population.

Hegemonia is considered a Mini-MOO. I think it will be a fight between the 2. Multi solar system and everything in Hege.

MOO3 is not the same type of game. It's like saying Civ3 is gonna have problems because Age of Mythology has better graphics. May have some kind of influence, but it's not that bad. MOO3 or Civ3 are oriented towards something else than graphics mainly.

[Grumbold]

Trifna has said pretty much what I was going to say. IG3, Orb and Hegemonia will compete more directly with each other than with MoO3. Those of us who don't want a twitch game have only one obvious choice

[Mr. Orange]

Originally posted by moomin
Seems the continued problems with the official fora spill over here - now we get all the trolls. For shame!

and out of my chair.

[vmxa1]

The people that are waiting for Moo3 are not going to look to any RTS games as a replacement. They may buy them and like them, but it will not be analagous to a tbs game. I for one can not play 3d flying games. Many I have bought, but none have I managed to play. I have two problems and they are mine, not the games. 1- most will give me motion sickness 2- I am too lame to figure out my spatial location to combat ships.
So will there be some people who look at the box and see pictures they do not like them and not buy, I would think so. Are those people likely Moo fans anyway, probably not.

[vmxa1]

One more point on graphics. I have shown many people in the last two years Moo and Moo2 and everyone of them liked both games and how current are those graphics? There must be a 1000 games with great graphics that no one liked.

[Vipermmx]

Why do they hide there combat screenshots? They said new ones would be online soon??? I mean it would be nice to see the GROUND combat control screen and the SPACE combat screen!!!

Just give some shots of that thats my biggest gripe. I want to see them!

[Main_Brain]

While i would only accept IG3 as an opponent to MoO3 still I foretell that we'll see the Sales. Then you can come back and I will say Vipermmx is the New Nostradamus.
happy? :=)

[YC4B4U]

I have played games that have fancy graphics and allow you to rotate your view. It sure looked good.

But when it came to playing the game I found that I set the view to a certain zoom, usually the one that gave me a 'strategic view' whilst still allowing me to identify units.

Moral of the story: Eye candy will leave you hungry, gameplay will leave you sleepless...

[Gooberman32]

trifna has a point a game with a 500 page design document has got to have alot of depth and replayability. to be honest though good graphics are for the teeny boppers of gaming(not implying anything) if graphics are your criteria for judging a game than so be it youll only be hungry for more. But if graphics are all a game has going for it is probably a one trick pony. You look at it go oooh.... wow.... and after a month it gets boring. MoO3 wont be that game it is one of those game that its fans will be playing for a long time because of its depth, fun and replayability.

[Vipermmx]

Well Im joining the MOO3 crowd now =)

I looked at the shots and there is just sooooo much depth in the control panals and I can play Hegemonia for my 3d space needs =)

MOO3 will probably have me going afew hours of sleep a night.

[SeanV]

Welcome to the circle of believers Vipermmx.

Now repeat after me, "There is no computer game but Master of Orion and Rantz is its prophet."



(I apologize to all Muslims that I have offended by this post.)

[Saber Cherry]

Viper is *****ing and trolling constantly, all over the place, spreading unwanted slime like a drooling dog. He's uncontrollable in sheer volume... like a cross between a drooling dog and a fire hydrant, really... poor kid, having those as parents.

I'd call him "Hydrool" but it's not obviously insulting, and there's nothing to say to him... so I'll just diagnose him as having terminal "diarrhea of the mouth" and stay away

btw, this was not his first "conversion". He's more like those freaks who follow televangelists around to be converted, or healed, or de-crippled, or exorcised...