Vote Dom3 as Strategy Game of the year on Gamespot

[Horst F. JENS]

Gamespot is making a "Game of the Year" poll for strategy games:
http://www.gamespot.com/special_features/bestof2006/genre/index.html?page=11

Out of curiousness i typed in "Dominions" and got an option to vote for Dominions 3. The vote is not processed until logged in with an Gamespot account. (login and register fields are in the upper right corner of the web site.)
So far Dom3 has 1 vote and ~0% of all votes.

Edit: also vote for best multiplayer game:
http://www.gamespot.com/special_features/bestof2006/achievement/index.html?page=14

[HoneyBadger]

Up to 4 votes for us now

[Tim Brooks]

Vote! Registration is free.

And while you are there check out the Gamespot review of Dominions 3 -- they gave it an 8.2 "Great"!

[HoneyBadger]

It's nice they reviewed it, but it's not nice that it doesn't make their list. In a poll for best strategy game of the year they only list 5 titles? 25 titles to me seems like a minimum. It makes me wonder how much the producers of those 5 games had to pay Gamespot to get their titles in the running. I have a suspicious mind.

[olaf73]

They probably chose the five games that got the best reviews from their site.

This category, and this goes for everyone doing '...of the year' awards, needs to be broken down into RTS and TB. Company of Heroes is going to crush everything and while it was a great game, its not my idea of strategy.

[calmon]

Vote also for "Best Multiplayer Game":

http://www.gamespot.com/special_features/bestof2006/achievement/index.html?page=14

[Caduceus]

Up to 11 votes.

[tibbs]

Voted

[Tyrant]

Well, if Dom3 doesn't win then their poll is rubbish since it's very clearly the best strategy game of the ENTIRE 21st CENTURY!

[HoneyBadger]

and the 20th, and maybe the 19th. When did Stratego come out? Stratego's a pretty find turn-based strategy game, IMHO

[Gandalf Parker]

The problem is that its a POLL. The facts wont matter if the votes dont get in there.

[HoneyBadger]

Dom3 has been very well-recieved, but in a popularity contest it's very difficult to get enough write-ins for this kind of game. I'll personally be delighted if we get over 1000 votes. I hope that we win their rubbish poll, but clearly the deck is stacked against us.

[Saarud]

I voted for Dom3. I must say that I really dislike the way RTS and Strategy games are mixed. RTS games are as much strategy as Pacman, with a few axceptions ofcourse.

[HoneyBadger]

The best (and only, as far as I'm concerned) RTS is Starcraft. That's the only one I'd put forth as a real hardcore "strategy" game.

[Reverend Zombie]

HoneyBadger said:
The best (and only, as far as I'm concerned) RTS is Starcraft. That's the only one I'd put forth as a real hardcore "strategy" game.



Kohan: Ahriman's Gift was an awesome, strategic RTS--better than Starcraft IMHO. I can't vouch for the latest iteration of the series however--I've heard it was substantially dumbed down and lost the hardcore following that KAG had.

[Twan]

There is a good number of RTS that are real strategy games not for click fanatics (and in most cases pausable) : the Kohan serie, all Paradox games, one of the many serie of games about WWII -forgotten it's name, a rts with mechanisms very close to squad leader/spww2-, the old Seven Kingdoms serie very slow paced and about gestion/spying more than fights, etc... There are also some TBS with far simpler mechanisms and no strategic interest.

RTS should be splitted in several genres considering their diversity (command&conquer inspired games are very arcade, warcraft/starcraft/ToA inspired games a little less, rts with buildings and an important financial element, rts without troop construction, rts using tabletop mechanisms / maps with provinces like Paradox games, etc.... and each of these categories can be splitted between pausable and non pausable games which are very different).

[Potatoman]

Yeah, Kohan II was a huge step backwards from the near-perfection of Kohan: Ahriman's Gift. 6 years after Kohan came out, I still play it online. It's that good!

[Reverend Zombie]

Potatoman said:
Yeah, Kohan II was a huge step backwards from the near-perfection of Kohan: Ahriman's Gift. 6 years after Kohan came out, I still play it online. It's that good!



How many of the old diehards are still there? I played a fair bit of MP under a different name--you used Potatomon in KAG too, IIRC.

[Annette]

I'm happy to say we just got word that Cyberstratege (http://cyberstratege.com/) has awarded Dominions 3 it's Golden Laurel award for Strategy Game of 2006. Silver Award went to Heroes V and Bronze Award to Medieval: Total War. Read about it in the issue hitting newstands in France and Belgium on Friday. Congratulations, Johan and Kristoffer!

[Potatoman]

I go by "Setsuna" in-game when playing Kohan. There are still enough people that, at any given time in the afternoon or evening, there is usually at least one 4v4 going.

[HoneyBadger]

Very good news, Annette-P.S. Love your icon. I have (vaguely) heard good things about Kohan. The other games mentioned, except for 7 kingdoms, I haven't played or heard about before. Might be worth checking into. I'm not (quite) anti-RTS, I like the aspect of watching to see what happens. I think it would be great if someone would come up with a horror-themed RTS worth playing, something expanding from the concepts of the original Night of the Living Dead for instance. It would have to be legitimately spooky-scary though and ornate to the level of the original Starcraft atleast (it's an old game, so I don't think that's an impossible request. I don't expect balancing to be as perfect as the Starcraft series, though, but if so it'd be a nice bonus). By ornate, I mean details, storyline, fun little features, etc. I think RTS has the potential to lend itself to a more story-driven experience, and to directly/emotionally involve the player more in a game, while at times sacrificing some of the strategy areas in terms of planning and depth of overall strategy.

[Boron]

Annette said:
I'm happy to say we just got word that Cyberstratege (http://cyberstratege.com/) has awarded Dominions 3 it's Golden Laurel award for Strategy Game of 2006. Silver Award went to Heroes V and Bronze Award to Medieval: Total War. Read about it in the issue hitting newstands in France and Belgium on Friday. Congratulations, Johan and Kristoffer!



Very weird. Place 1 is of course well chosen http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

But that they awarded Homm V surprises me. Imho Company of Heroes would have deserved a Top 3 Place much more http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[Agrajag]

Boron said:

Annette said:
I'm happy to say we just got word that Cyberstratege (http://cyberstratege.com/) has awarded Dominions 3 it's Golden Laurel award for Strategy Game of 2006. Silver Award went to Heroes V and Bronze Award to Medieval: Total War. Read about it in the issue hitting newstands in France and Belgium on Friday. Congratulations, Johan and Kristoffer!



Very weird. Place 1 is of course well chosen http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

But that they awarded Homm V surprises me. Imho Company of Heroes would have deserved a Top 3 Place much more http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif


HoMM V is fun.
CoH is not.
:X




(IMO of course)

[Twan]

They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions (edit : and one for classical/historic wargames, that may explain why fantasy games had such good positions in the general strategy category -don't know the winner for this one-)

[Boron]

Twan said:
They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions.


Ah i see thank you. That makes more sense http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

I was just a bit disappointed by HoMM 5, it is HoMM 3 imho with better graphics but with 2 nations less!

Before i discovered i liked the HoMM Series and thus out of nostalgia bought HoMM 5.
But HoMM 5 just sucks imho compared to Dom 3 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

It is another fine proof for the statement "Gameplay > Graphics" though http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

[olaf73]

I thought HOMM5 was the best of the series.

I dont agree that there are many RTS games that reward strategy and tactics over UI efficiency skills. Kohan is perhaps the only one.

In nearly all RTS games it comes down to who can sling the mouse fastest and master the keyboard shortcuts.

[Twan]

Hum Paradox games (Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, etc), or games like Knights of Honor, Star Wars Revolution, or all the slow paced games mixing city building gestion and strategy (Anno 1602 etc) are all strategic games in real time and very far to be like common RTS (Kohan is closer from the Command and Conquer genre than all these games).
The hundreds of Command & Conquer clones are the common idea of what a "RTS" should be in the minds of clueless reporters, but are far to be the only games in real time and very far to be the most strategic.

[Caduceus]

As far as the Gamespot article goes, it shows the other "write-in" strategy games that people nominated, so hopefully, it will send some folks to this gem of a game.

[calmon]

bump

Lets defend the second place on the "more top picks" list. Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is only 2 votes behind us!

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[Faenaris]

I have voterized. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Twan said:
They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions (edit : and one for classical/historic wargames, that may explain why fantasy games had such good positions in the general strategy category -don't know the winner for this one-)



Winner in Wargame category is Conquest of the Agean, and #2 Birth of America.