Any news on DOM-III

[WraithLord]

Cainehill said:

Yeah - among other things, Disciple's mechanics (like several other games) put some really artificial constraints on gameplay. IIRC, basically only the heroes could move onto the next scenario, and the experience was only given to units that damaged/killed. Net result was that you only wanted a very few units to be getting into combat, which was itself very simplistic and not terribly rewarding.

I think Disciples has it's strong points.
I agree that it is simplistic in many aspects but,
It has nice RPG feeling in the sense that you can develop heroes and units.
And it really shines in the esthetics department, the hand made drawing are very good. This, of course, is a matter of personal taste.

[PrinzMegaherz]

Did I already mention Ogre Battle?

It is very much like Disciples, except that you take your complete army into the next mission. And your soldiers choose between different professions, depending whether their alignment tends toward evil or good

Oh, I already mentioned it?
Sorry to bother you

[Cainehill]

PrinzMegaherz said:
Did I already mention Ogre Battle?

Not to mention Final Fantasy Tactics, Brigandine, and the Suikoden and Vandal Hearts series, all for the original playstation, thus cheap (if you can find them) and presumably capable of being played via PS emulators. All of them had different manners of fantasy combat with different units / critters / professions, etc.

Or action / RPGs such as Vagrant Story (one of the most amazing things I ever saw on the PS, with great characters, cut scenes, and voiceovers : "Shouldn't we wait for the reinforcements?" "I am the reinforcements." Or Valkyrie Profile, or various other gems that came to be on the consoles.

[Beorne]

Cainehill said:
Not to mention Final Fantasy Tactics,
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Or action / RPGs such as Vagrant Story (one of the most amazing things I ever saw on the PS, with great characters, cut scenes, and voiceovers : "Shouldn't we wait for the reinforcements?" "I am the reinforcements." Or Valkyrie Profile, or various other gems that came to be on the consoles.

You have cited the best of the best of the PS games, I think these almost unknown games are the best of the best in "athmosphere" and story. They have a mysterious, obscure and dramatic story. PC games are nowhere near (reagarding script).
It is impressive how, in the modern days, high tech is cheap and good ideas are scarce (I'm thinking of SWep3, but the concept is similar)

[PDF]

About Civ4 : I don't expect much from it, except more eye-candy and (surely) simplified mechanisms... I was enthusiastic about Civ, happy with Civ2, get bored with Civ3, now what's the point of doing a 4th sequel ?