TorinReborn

[quote who="OMG_Jongalt26" reply="53" id="2990908"]Torin, I hear you on that, but you are comparing a sequal to two games that are easily on the short list of best games of all time.... Add system shock, quake, Doom, Warcraft, starcraft, morrowind, Demigod and your MMO of choice and that could round out the list lol. There definitely is some consolization, my main gripes, after playing more, is the save games system sucks. I like naming my saves.&

Actually this game is not that good when compared to games like Deus Ex 1 or Vampire Bloodlines. But compared to the sorry state of today PC game market it is good enough. PC version also suffers a lot from being a console port. I would guess that people who complained that Witcher 2 felt a lot like a console game would hate it in this game even more.

[quote who="markgil" reply="27" id="2989689"]Paradox Interactive announces turn-based strategy game Warlock http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/08/26/paradox-interactive-announces-turn-based-strategy-game-warlock/[/quote] This game seems more awesome http://www.destructoid.com/preview-masters-of-the-broken-world-209470.phtml

Hmm, I wasn't too impressed with the 1st game. Missions were all predefined. You go into them, lose or win if you are lucky and then reload the game to where you pick your ships for the mission and then try to win with different combination. Rinse and repeat until you find a combination that wins for that mission. Stupid way to design a game.

I must say this game looks real interesting. I wish I had time like when I was younger to kill off hours playing FPS games :D

Also for any turn based fantasy themed games fans this game is going to be freaking awesome: http://www.destructoid.com/preview-masters-of-the-broken-world-209470.phtml

There was Dota2 and an awesome Starcraft 2 tournament. It was great for me :)

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="6" id="2979552"] Quoting TorinReborn, reply 5I would say Age of Wonders does it great. My lvl 15+ hero there is very powerful. It can singlehandedly kill any faction top monster 1v1 and lose just a bit of health. But it cannot defeat whole armies, especially when spellcasting comes into effect. If I send him too far ahead they can gank him and kill him. And it is perfect this way. Better then MoM when once you got a group of 5 heroes with a couple of leve

I would say Age of Wonders does it great. My lvl 15+ hero there is very powerful. It can singlehandedly kill any faction top monster 1v1 and lose just a bit of health. But it cannot defeat whole armies, especially when spellcasting comes into effect. If I send him too far ahead they can gank him and kill him. And it is perfect this way. Better then MoM when once you got a group of 5 heroes with a couple of levels each and some equipment there was nothing the AI could do to stop them.

Now, what I wonder is if they are just doing this for the laughs or is this some kind of Anarchy movement using modern technology?

I played Tribalwars a LOT. And it would not be nearly as fun if you could not fight other players directly. I mean I would appreciate a web based 4x game that I can play whereever I am and without installing anything but a browser (and java and flash) on that computer. But the payment system for developers would need to work differently if the game wasn't about killing other players as the player base would not be nearly as big.

[quote who="LightStar" reply="7" id="2977185"] Quoting TorinReborn, reply 6 Quoting LightStar, reply 1I sure hope they catch them all! If China is behind this they cannot do anything to them. Well, I would certainly hope the Chinese government would if they were told. Of course, then again it could be the Chinese government doing it in the first place! [/quote] Do you really think a huge undertaking like this was done from China and n

[quote who="LightStar" reply="1" id="2977116"]I sure hope they catch them all! [/quote] If China is behind this they cannot do anything to them.

If we must have customization then factions need to have access to different special abilities for units as well as different physical look. Of course some abilities can be common, but many need to be faction exclusive. I love how in AoW:SM I can customize my heroes abilities through magic items. And in that game I do not care at all that other units cannot be customizable. I would prefer a similar system for FE as well.

[quote who="Bellack" reply="219" id="2975148"] Quoting Vallu751, reply 172This is a bit off topic, but having customizable units is a bit of a mixed bag IMHO. It's very nice as a concept and ever since the first Master of Orion got it working well, it's been injected into a lot of games. The problem often is that the fine balance which MoO had is not carrying along. Choices in other games often revolve around to simply strapping as powerful items as possible to a unit. Biggest we

Uff, I finally played Age of Wonder Shadow something (:D) this weekend and from the moment I started it it felt like a much superior product then EWoM. From the more pleasing to the eye art style to the better and more spells, to 10x better and more interesting combat. I knew about the game from before but I always thought it was just another HoM&M clone. If I knew it was a Master of Magic clone with better graphics I would have played it years ago :) Anyways, now I think

!"#$%&/(( I lost the wall of text I was writing here :( So a short version now: I continued to play after I got dropped to desktop the other day. I used my sovereign that gives penalties to my cities to explore and fight constantly. I found new areas with resources and founded 3 more cities. I researched equally in all fields. I got to lvl 4 spells (general + earth). And then I got attacked at my capital by a force I had no way to stop even with all the troops I ha

Heh, I decided to try out 1.3. I must say I even had fun for a while (not as nearly as much as Civilization games) until the game dropped me to desktop. Then I lost the will to continue :D After million patches the game still drops to desktop :D

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="2" id="2973994"]Not only is that changelog riddled with errors and not up-to-date, but the 1.3 patch was released in an absolutely horrid state with many of the new mechanics breaking the game. It is beyond me how you can release a wank patch like this. What is the point of beta if you do not pay attention and fix the problems we report? It's a damn shame.[/quote] Maybe they finally given up on WoM and put all their people to FE?

Originally I wanted to complain about only there being 9 spells per each school (water, earth,..) but then I saw the whole other groups of spells that you research or find or do quests for and I decided against it :D Great stuff and great artwork. Oh, I hope you put as much effort into making factions as different and the units they use.

I second Farscape being the most awesome SF show ever :)

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="8" id="2958620"]If not, the devs will have to live knowing that they're still being out-played by a 15 year old game (MoM). [/quote] And every Heroes of M&M out there including the really old ones :D

What you said was actually similar to what Brad said recently (back 2 weeks or so). He said that he fears FE will replace E:WoM instead of being another game. Maybe at the start they planned to make FE a lot different but decided against it, which kind of goes hand in hand with what he told us much earlier about how they originally planned to much for E:WoM and could not do it all. My fear is that FE will not be different enough and with that not good enough. I am still waiting to put

[quote who="noobshot" reply="22" id="2953771"] Quoting Viperswhip, reply 21Maybe after FE comes out the team can push WOM over the proverbial rise to greatness. I don't think it is really that far away. I like that I no longer have to imbue a hero in order for them to use their special ability. However, I don't like how there are basically no heroes wandering around any more. Taking away Janusk was fine, but everyone? I used to vigorously pursue heroes but now there ar

[quote who="Teslacrashed" reply="31" id="2952892"] Quoting TorinReborn, reply 30Isn't D20 OGL? Why can't we use that for combat? WOM has been in development for years now (game+patches) and they still don't have a clue how to do a good combat system. It would be best to use a already established balanced one or go super simple like Civilization. WHY in (insert your supreme beings name here) name would