Graphics vs ideas; the tide has turned

[Edi]

I got myself a brand spanking new machine about a year ago, to replace the 500 MHz Celeron rig from 1999/2000 that crashed and burned. I've been enjoying a lot of games that I could not run on the old machine, but I still come back to Dominions.

I've always loved the HoMM series, which ran on the old one apart from Heroes V, but a lot of other stuff did. I enjoy the hell out of the kickass graphics in the games I do play, yet it is the classics AoW1 and Dominions 1-3, HoMM 2-5, Freespace SCP and the Thief series that I most come back to.

It depends on what you like, but I'm fairly brutal about what games I accept and what I don't. New games do not very often hold my interest.

[Captain Kwok]

I don't think the developers here intentionally choose to have low quality graphics, but rather have no alternative due to the costs that come with better quality graphics. That usually requires contracting out the artwork, which costs money that the developers don't have to spend.