15th May 2003, 9:47 PM
Its Sid Meier... why should I have to say more? :)
Pirates... yes, strategy game. But it had elements of roleplaying and stuff in it too...
Oh, I'm also really looking forward to the almost out Rise of Nations... Civilization II and Alpha Centauri are the two best Sid-related games ever, and they are both by Brian Reynolds... it'll be VERY interesting to see how he does on his own. So far it looks great... like it'll beat out Age of Empires. Oh, Age of Empires is alright... but somewhat dissapointing, IMO. Its glacial pace is frusterating sometimes... you know, once in a while I actually like when games take under an hour... that never happens in AOE. Lack of variety of gametypes really hurts... and it doesn't help that its just kind of boring when compared to Blizzard RTSes. I don't expect RON to match Blizz, but it does look like a unique take on the genre that should be better than AOE... though I'm still waiting for the ancient combat game the begins to model ship-to-ship combat. AOE and RON and all the others just have them tossing spears... when I first saw that in AOE I was SO DISSAPOINTED! It would've been so cool if they did real ancient ship combat... but they just throw those stupid spears. How lame. RON does it too, I think... since emulating real ancient combat would be so hard. But still, I want someone to try! No more stupid spearthrowing!
*wonders if anyone else cared about that at all*
Pirates... yes, strategy game. But it had elements of roleplaying and stuff in it too...
Oh, I'm also really looking forward to the almost out Rise of Nations... Civilization II and Alpha Centauri are the two best Sid-related games ever, and they are both by Brian Reynolds... it'll be VERY interesting to see how he does on his own. So far it looks great... like it'll beat out Age of Empires. Oh, Age of Empires is alright... but somewhat dissapointing, IMO. Its glacial pace is frusterating sometimes... you know, once in a while I actually like when games take under an hour... that never happens in AOE. Lack of variety of gametypes really hurts... and it doesn't help that its just kind of boring when compared to Blizzard RTSes. I don't expect RON to match Blizz, but it does look like a unique take on the genre that should be better than AOE... though I'm still waiting for the ancient combat game the begins to model ship-to-ship combat. AOE and RON and all the others just have them tossing spears... when I first saw that in AOE I was SO DISSAPOINTED! It would've been so cool if they did real ancient ship combat... but they just throw those stupid spears. How lame. RON does it too, I think... since emulating real ancient combat would be so hard. But still, I want someone to try! No more stupid spearthrowing!
*wonders if anyone else cared about that at all*
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