[quote who="wbino49" reply="6" id="3528657"] God I miss the days of 200 page PC gamer with loads of upcoming games, that were published, not crowd funded or paid demos(I mean Early Access). [/quote] Yeah, things have changed. Getting my PC Gamer and CGW in the mail was a huge deal to me back then.
+1 Sounds like a good idea!
It has been awhile since I have played FE:LH, mainly because Civ V(with both expansion) keeps pulling me back. After a marathon game of Civ V, I tell myself I'm going to try something else but within a day I'm firing it up again.
I'm in.
1. Heroes of Might & Magic III(I consider it a 4X) 2. Civ IV 3. SMAC 4. Gal Civ II 5. Civ II (nostalgia at work here)
Pariden. With the scrying pools I can assure getting an enchantment slot to cast Bless City and reduce unrest in newly conquered cities.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="3396806"] First off, I'd like to say that after Derek follows through with his promise to remove the bunny slippers as a random drop and make them sovereign-selection only, I WILL BUY THE LOOT DLC. In the future, please make the gag items optional. Second, here are some ideas for DLC that I would purchase in a heartbeat: 1) More Mounts - I love Bonesplitter and if you made a mounts DLC, i.e. panthers, black fire horses
Generally they become bear food or buried by turn 20.
One of the updates must have made this event rarer(as it should be). My first 6 or 7 games I received it, but my last 8 I've seen neither hide nor hair.
In my last game I took a run at a big Capitar city with my sovereign in a deadly rated stack and got blasted by Pillar of Flame, knocking my armies health down by about 33%. I was more than 2 turns away from the city at the time, so I scuttled out of his zoc but not before taking another pillar which killed a henchman. This was only on Normal difficulty, too. I've seen them ignore some goodie huts, though.
I always thought with those high unrest numbers in conquered cities there was some looting going on.
I only play sandbox as well.
Hmm. Perhaps my disappointment should have been foreshadowed by its predecessor in the series but mine is "The Girl Who Played with Fire" by Steig Larsson. The first book in the trilogy was average but the second was a terribly boring story with the biggest Mary Sue I've seen in modern times. The number of people who enjoyed it(and I kept reading thinking it would turn around for that reason) is astounding.
My last game I had three dragon camps; of course, I had the game well in hand by then but I had fun stomping a couple Gilden cities before casting the Spell of Making.
Lots of great games mentioned here, but I'll say HoMM 3.
Good buy, IMHO. For years I've rotated playing many of the turn based strategy favorites I have and FE is the first to get played back to back for me in that time. Best release(for me) since Civ4 or Gal Civ2O(with expansions).
Master of Magic
Front Page Sports Football back in 1993. For 10 years a friend and I played a pen & paper football game we wrote involving dice, each game taking a couple hours to finish. We played about 15 seasons painstakingly going through every game of each of the 30 teams' schedules and always imagined how great it would be to let a computer do all the legwork for us. Once that was realized, and we could blow through games at about a season a week, the magic was g
I'll keep an eye on this one.
Also in no order! Civ IV w/ BtS. The way pollution was handled knocked the earlier iterations out. Heroes of Might & Magic III X-Com (and append X-Com TftD to it, I guess) Everquest Might & Magic VI
[quote who="michaeluk12" reply="28" id="3179438"]Quoting Scutagira, reply 27 In 1993 I saw the first Civ advertised in a computer magazine; a picture of an Egytian sarcophagus under a modern cityscape and started saving up for a pc right away. Got the game with its two or three 5 1/4 inch floppies and read the manual for at least a month before even installing it(for some reason, I thought losing would be a really bad experience and wanted to be an expert out of the gate)
In 1993 I saw the first Civ advertised in a computer magazine; a picture of an Egytian sarcophagus under a modern cityscape and started saving up for a pc right away. Got the game with its two or three 5 1/4 inch floppies and read the manual for at least a month before even installing it(for some reason, I thought losing would be a really bad experience and wanted to be an expert out of the gate). Great times from I through IV (and SMAC).
[quote who="FadedC" reply="20" id="3083133"]It certainly looks extremely exciting with such incredible difference between factions. Of course my first thought when I read it was that Dominions looked incredibly exciting too but I hated actually playing it. But if this has more of a single player focus and less micromanagement then there is hope that I'll like it a lot more.[/quote] Although I never really hated Dominions III, I think I'm in your camp. I would get to thin
[quote who="Nenjin" reply="3" id="3049544"]I hate these threads. Don't make me choose! I nominate Dwarf Fortress, for its sheer depth and vision (and continuous development), if for nothing else.[/quote] Eventually, I'm going to retry DF when I have the time to really figure it out. It should be extremely developed by my retirement. Until then, I'll say CIV IV.
[quote who="tanafres" reply="9" id="2957502"]Quoting Thormodr, reply 5I loved the fights to win an elemental node from the guardians in MoM. ^^ That was one of the funnest parts about MoM I think. Absolutely; also how the node itself applied an automatic countermagic to any spells not of the node's type? So you ended up with a built-in preference for ownership of wizards that align with the node. Gave it character, as well. Love t