MOO3 - for and agin'!

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by moomin
Oh my. They changed the gentle and caring Dr. into a foam-mouthed detractor troll.

Hey! What kind of remark is that you sorry cross between Barney and Kermit! Next time you start labeling people read their sigs!

[DaveC]

having been unfortunate enough to have purchased Outpost which wouldn't even run until it was patched (as per moo1 for those with long memories) I heartily agree that while not great it is definately not the worst game of all time.

[CharlesBHoff]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
MOO3 was simply ill conceived from the very beginning. I've never played a game I had so little control over. You don't play it, it plays you. All a player can do is design ships, create fleets and armies, and launch at a destination. He has no real control over production, research, finance or combat. Yeah, I know that you can always go from planet to planet evey turn and try to control production, but unfortunately doing so eventually screws up the AI's economic management. The control you have over combat is utterly pitiful. This has to be the worst computer game produced in the past ten years. It certainly appears that Infogames has begun a concerted campaign to eradicate the turn based game from the face of the earth.

You are dead wrong on this. First the worst ever computer game was Star Reach from Interplay than real time game which the player never won as the computer have all the advanges.

[moomin]

Originally posted by vmxa1
I am not opposed to saying the game is far from great or even not very good. To call it the worst game ever is way over the top. In the same genre try Outpost and then tell this is the worst.

Well... Outpost did stink, but then nobody expected it not to. You have to factor in the complete and utter ruin of a once great franchaise when judging Moo3.

[Grumbold]

So maybe it should be being nominated as the most disappointing full budget strategy sequel of all time. Its certainly not even close to being the worst game.

Maybe I'm an optimist but I believe if QS can get Infogrames to commit to a second code patch we will really start to see a classic emerge. Of course it will never win back the people who hate its management system, but no game appeals to everyone.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by moomin

Well... Outpost did stink, but then nobody expected it not to. You have to factor in the complete and utter ruin of a once great franchaise when judging Moo3.

right. I still have my outpost cd, saw it the other day when cleaning. I wouldn't have bought it if I expected it to stink. What an awful game. blech.

[Sujanix]

Originally posted by Rogan Josh
I am going to be controvertial, and admit that I prefer MoO3 to Galciv (yes I bought both ).

Galciv is just too 'simplistic' for my tastes. I like lots of complexity and lots of different tabs and windows.

With a few patches this could be a really nice game!

I agree with you completely Josh.

[ChristopherC]

Many thanks for all the replies to this thread which I started. I have found all of them informative. The information about Micropose was particularly interesting. I had waited for MOO3 for what seemed like simply ages and bought it as soon as it came out. I will look to the reviews before I buy other such games. I have also bought 'Galciv' but havent played it yet so the brief comparisons here are interesting.

Having said that, I am now at turn 525 in my present game and it does have, for me at least, , even in its defective state, that quality of 'one more turn and I will go to bed'. I am still hopeful that a decent full patch or two will make it classic. Though I am afraid that when they patch the disinclination of the aliens to invade my planets rather than just bombard and destroy them I will be in real trouble! As it is, three separate alien races are causing me severe problems and are no way 'Ghandi-like' as one person on the board put it.

There are few such TBS space strategy games out there that I feel MOO3 is still worth persevering with.

I remember some one telling me about computer games such as Populous, brought out several years ago. The game was, I was told, bug-free and run on the widest variety of computers. Those were the days! Some one has said that the 'the suits' are ruining computer gaming. They may have a point.

Live long and prosper.