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Master of Magic's great appeal was its diversity. The races didn't really add much on their own, but combined with the customizable spellbooks, retorts, magic items and heroes, it gave you some really interesting options for victory. Of course, there are some pretty nasty bugs that prevent some of those options being as viable as they should... which is a shame. Oh and the AI is utterly atrocious... and cheats like hell. Meaning that some of the options were completely pointle

[quote who="Cerevox" reply="37" id="2536466"] So, if these things annoy a ton of people, and don't actually do anything, whats the point?[/quote]I never said they didn't actually do anything, I said the effects were mostly psychological. Have you ever played Dominions? It's possible to build an incredibly powerful pretender god, that you can use from turn 1 to rampage all over pretty much anything (they call them supercombatants). I don't see the OP complaining about thos

Just because something is less popular doesn't mean it doesn't have merit. In fact, more popular often just means "better marketed", or "appeals to a lower common denominator". I don't really care about the majority of gamers, and lucky for you Stardock don't either, or they'd be developing Sportsgame2011 or GimmickyPopstarSimulator4. Both Nethack and DungeonCrawlSS are still under active development, and are still enjoyed by many people btw. This is slightly adjunct t

[quote who="Cerevox" reply="30" id="2535704"]We are all so used to having our dispel magic and remove curse and raise dead and resurrection spells that the idea of a permanent effect spell is damn near unthinkable.[/quote]Ever played a roguelike? It's not unthinkable for a lot of people, in fact, for many a game isn't enjoyable if your choices have no meaningful consequences. Most people are too used to having their decisions wrapped up in cotton wool by games, you just have to learn