Or Dungeon Keeper, would love Dungeon Keeper. Please please please (the 2 games above are good too btw)

I'd be interested to see Stardock's take on a Dungeon Keeper themed game.

I'd vomit fish with excitement if Stardock took a swing on a dungeon keeper like game.   (Startopia?  It was the same game, except you weren't specifically evil, and it was in space not in a dungeon.... and you had to pay to open up areas of the map, which solved the problem of digging towards the opponents as fast as possible and basically end the game in 10 min if its fair multiplayer)

right, in the 1st game fortified walls were ok.   I think they should have stuck it with DK1, but made the tremor spell really easy to come by.

It was still that way in DK1 though, just because the tactic was "Box the other player" by encircling him in fortified walls.   And if you messed up or the other player tried the same thing, you very quickly dug into each other.    That is WHY DK2 made fortified walls destructable, because players would just box in DK1.

I'm skepitical about X-Com successors due to no one really out doing the first two in my books. Anyways, how about a spirtual successor to lords of the realm 2 and don't say they made lords of the realm 3 if you know what's good for you

I would like to see a spiritual successor to:

- Dungeon Keeper

- Syndicat

- Populous

- K240

- Wing Commander

- Strike Commander

- Severance: Blade Of Darkness

- Lords Of Magic

- Wizardry

- Might & Magic

- Whales Voyage

- Star Control

- Starflight (i never played the original but what i've read sounds interessting)

- Crusader: No Regret

- Hard Nova

- Ultima

- X-COM

- Master Of Orion 2

But I know they will never come...

Theme Hospital

Laser Squad

Quoting FidelCastrol,

reply 15

I'm so evil.

Very well said FIDEL CASTROl hehehe

This thread made me run to D2D and download X-com Apocalypse.  Haven't played that in FOREVER.

If i had to create a new mod of UFO:Defense/Terror_from_the_Deep/Apocalypse for GC2 with X-Worlds... it sure does qualify me as being another "huge" fan of that franchise by Mythos & the Gollop broothers.

Trick is -- i still play these in a Dos-Box mode and they are as good as they ever were! Totally addictive concept and superb elements.

As for a sequel to the original X-Com (as in, true tactical ground combat and other excellent gameplay stuff that legend introduced to the PC market), don't hold you breath yet -- i've seen soooooooo many projects come and go over the years since.

Even Cydonia's Fall (by some European group) kinda staggered for a long time.

Here's hoping - to something.

Yes right now

2k Games is working on and X-com sequal, but we have no Idea what form it will be in, and its very possible it will be a FPS, which will just make me want to off myself,

Extraterrestrials was closer to the X-com feel, but I didn't like the story,

UFO aftermath was pretty good,

so was aftershock and afterlight, unfortunently the missions became very tedious very fast, and I never found that with X-com.

EA games is ruining a new version of Syndicate as we speak, and there have been rumors that it is an FPS/MMORPG type version, and not an actual strategy game.

As for dungeon keeper, I liked it. but i wish there was more to the game, playing both sides, I actually liked Evil genius better, even though it was riddled with bugs.

These two games aren't up Stardock's alley, but I'd like them to make a successor to Nexus the Jupiter Incident or Freespace 2.

Correction: Imperium Galactica 2 needs a remake - easily the best one. If my install disk wasn't scratched to hell I'd still be playing that.