What other games complement your Dominions 3? - Page 9

Ironhawk · #81 June 26th, 2008, 02:05 PM

I've seen a couple of people here list MOO3 as one of the games that they are currently playing or played and enjoyed. This is really surprising to me. I played that game and was quite turned off by it. After a while, I was able to get a grip on how to manage an empire - but there were still some crippling problems. First and foremost that comes to mind is that there was no way to accurately tell the composition of enemy fleets.

How did you guys get around all the problems of MOO3? I would very much like to know cause I desperately wanted to like that game, but couldnt...

MaxWilson · #82 June 26th, 2008, 02:44 PM

I haven't played Moo3 but I followed it during the early design stages. I heard it was way too "macro." Sometimes during late game Dominions I decide that "macro" is not such a bad idea...

-Max

JimMorrison · #83 June 26th, 2008, 05:04 PM

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Calahan said:
Anyone here ever played, or even heard of a game called 'PSI 5 Trading Company' on the CBM 64?

Haha! I LOVED PSI 5! What's a Cravenlator?

I still randomly say that, people just disregard it now as part of my general oddness. >.> It makes me sad though, I could never win on the later missions. I tried them over and over and over, and a couple of times got within 2-3 minutes of completion, and still no dice.

For MoO3, I worried less about what the other guy had, and rather did the same thing I did in "Stars!", that is to make fleets that had their own built in rock-paper-scissors progression that could kill anything out there (carriers + missiles + beams + point defense). In later game, I'd take some losses like that, but the computer always had a strat, so after I saw if they were going all missiles, or all carriers or whatever, I would retune my fleets to compensate. I have to say though, enemy carrier fleets were the most frustrating, you were guaranteed a lot of losses. Damn, now you're making me want to play it again..... not because it's "such a great game", but because it was ALMOST such a great game, and my imagination was generally able to fill in the gaps.

Reverend Zombie · #84 June 26th, 2008, 05:23 PM

AGEOD's American Civil War.

it's only other thing I'm playing, and it's great if you're a Civil War buff!

Calahan · #85 June 26th, 2008, 05:34 PM

JimM

Glad to hear I'm not alone on PSI-5 :-) I find so few people have ever heard of it that it sometimes seems like I own the only copy in the world!

Think I have about a 5-10% success rate on the toughest mission. Best chance is to set-up engineering so that you can go full pelt and still fire. And despite playing it 100's of times, I've still no idea what half the things available to repair actually do! "What's a Cravenlatorr" :-) LoL

Although I am sure that the fuzzy furry pink bloke is the best kick arse gunner around!

JimMorrison · #86 June 26th, 2008, 05:40 PM

The teddy bear guy? The one that keeps gumming up his controls with chocolate?

Are you running on an EMU? I had one for the 64 once, but it had some severe issues with core clocking and such. Half the things that I tried to run on it just didn't do anything right at all.

I still want a modern remake of MoM..... And of Archon and Archon II. Hell, if someone could make an Oblivion-esque version of the Ultima games, I would be a happy happy camper. I tried to play them again, but just moving around and looking at things took SO LONG I couldn't handle the pain.

Also, what about Worms? The C64 Worms, not the stupid Artillery knockoff that everyone thinks of when I say the name.....

Gandalf Parker · #87 June 26th, 2008, 07:17 PM

There are a number of projects trying to recreate MoM as a MoM2. But at the moment there are very few trying to do it authenticly. They cant seem to help trying to upgrade it (such as adding multiplayer mode) which tends to kill it.

GrudgeBringer · #88 June 26th, 2008, 07:22 PM

I was in Caeser III (at least my name 'GrudgeBringer' and my other alias 'Three toed Pete" are Barbarian's in that game.

I was as a moderator on Civil war Generals 2 and they liked the names...my only claim to fame.

I play Great invasions, Ageod's American Cilvil War (talk about Micro though) but a very realistic game.

MOO3 was a terrible game I thought but I played MOO 2 online and THAT was a good game so I guess it just didn't live up to my expectations.

Stryke11 · #89 June 26th, 2008, 09:55 PM

1) Medieval 2: Total War (Not vanilla, but MODS - Stainless Steel and Broken Crescent - seriously, if you have M2TW you NEED to try these mods, 500X better than actual game).
2) Galactic Civilizations 2: Twilight of the Arnor
3) The Witcher (pretty unknown, but absolutely awesome, think Oblivion with more action and for adults).
4) Dwarf Fortress (it's been so long since a patch that I don't actually play it much, but it's there waiting).
5) Battle for Wesnoth (occasionally).
6) Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES (Playstation 2 game, but it's still a game, so it counts.)

P.S. HoneyBadger: You mentioned you would like a Fantasy: Total War, well, I highly recommend you try Fourth Age: Total War, which is a LotR mod for Rome (with Barbarian expansion) and is set in the 4th age of Middle Earth (after the events in the novels/movies). You can be Gondor, Rohan, Harad, Rhun, this bizarro evil-twin Gonder that has Gondor infantry with orcs and trolls, located in what was formerly Mordor), and Dunland. They are also working on a mod for Medieval called Third Age: Total War, which also looks very pretty.

Wokeye · #90 June 26th, 2008, 11:00 PM

Will have to try those TW:Med mods. I would love a Total War:Fantasy game. Even better if it had significant imporvements to the AI/diplomacy aspect too, then it would be *almost* my ultimate single player game.

Ironhawk, I agree with you re MOO3 - I enjoyed it when I was expanding/building/exploring, but once I started having to fight other races I lost interest very fast.

Good to see so many DF fans, I actually enjoy seeing the progression of the game more than I do actually playing it ATM. The next version should be great.