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ORIGINAL: Deride

I worked on the AI, so if you like it -- please let me know. Otherwise, you can keep your comment private.

Deride

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ORIGINAL: Deride

So, have downloaded and played Tin Soldiers:JC yet? Hope that you enjoy it -- I know we really enjoyed developing it.

I worked on the AI, so if you like it -- please let me know. Otherwise, you can keep your comment private.

Deride

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

I didn't say I didn't like the Total War series, I said RTW was crap and it is. Didn't you see my thread on M2TW I had up here recently? I don't mind a clickfest as much if there is no micromanagement in building things in real time and moving units all over gawds creation like 99.9% of rts games. See, I'm the type if/when I do play an rts game or some pauseable continous time games I will NOT use PAUSE ever (I feel it is cheating the ai to use pause in real time games of any type). If the game doesn't have a setting that can slow time down to a crawl without me having to press pause every 5 seconds then it's just another kiddy clickfest game and leave it at that, don't try to sugar coat what it already is, a real time clickfest (kids or no kids lol).

I play several real time games that don't have severe micro management and/or have a turn based system; strategic and then real time combat. Take Command has an excellent game engine that uses real time I can deal with. Excellent game imho. The speed of combat and death is at near the perfect settings. The Total War series except for the gawd awful RTW are pretty fair in the speed of combat and death speed. Kohan series has a very good strategic game in real time and an easy and simple enough real time combat that isn't tedious and kiddy clickfest frantic. Sacrifice also is a game with near perfect speed of combat and no micro management whatsoever really. Last, but, not least The Seven Kingdoms is another game that did rts right. Simple strategic micromanagement and a very good combat speed and death speed. It is when RTS/PCT games reach that point of moving faster than I can think that they become kiddy clickfests as I have stated for several. All RTS/PCT games should have speed controls that do not require you to use pause because the speed it just too damn fast. That is not real time when the speed of the game is faster than you can think. It's beyond real time and runs into the ranks of faster than the speed of light or sound. lol

My opinion is if a game needs a pause feature or pause is required to keep up then it should have been a turn based game in the first place. That will always be my stand on real time/pauseable continuous time games. When the movement is faster than I can think or want to think then it is a kiddy clickfest and nothing less. Paradox games as much as I really despise Paradox have time slowing features that make any of their games playable for me. That very slow setting is just perfect and I don't cheat the AI because it is still playing in this speed setting. I do not have to pause any Paradox games and I won't ever, because they are intended to be played in some time frame, not paused, though you can pause it, but, then you are just cheating the ai and yourself when you do. I prefer turn based or wego, but, I'm not adverse to ALL RTS kiddy clickfest games, just the ones I feel are totally kiddy clickfest and will always be and nothing less.

Once again I'm a big fan of the Total War series as a whole, just not RTW, figures too the one game I wanted to be so great and challenging like the others and it's total crap wars. Nothing can fix the ai issues or strategic ai or diplomatic ai of RTW, no mods can do anything with the interior of the game code that needs adjusting. I found one way and one way only to make RTW fun and that was by shutting down morale which makes the game lose all realism, but, definitely makes for a more challenging game if you play with large or huge army settings and making the population increases most important to survive. Doesn't change the stupidity of the battle ai, but, does make them last a lot longer on the battlefield before they run.

As far as games I recommend, you can bet they will be fun, challenging and have an ai above the normal average of what you get 95% of the time. I don't sugarcoat any game though. If it has issues I'll sure let everyone know and most people here know I will (though they always give me a hard time about it lol). The Tin Soldiers:Caesar is a good game from Matrixgames. I'm only saddened that Koios went the WWII route so quickly. I was hoping for more from the Tin Soldiers series in the ancient period of time. I didn't get Alexander, but, I intend to this "christmas season at Matrixgames" hehe I'm into Medieval and Ancients right now, both in gaming and historical value. I was glued to HBO's mini series of ROME. ;) Waiting on 300 to hit bargain bin pricing hehe.

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ORIGINAL: LarryP

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ORIGINAL: Deride
I worked on the AI, so if you like it -- please let me know. Otherwise, you can keep your comment private.

So you only want good news? I've been wanting to buy TSJC for some time. It's a shame this series is finished though.

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ORIGINAL: Punk Reaper

Re Ravinhood

If you like Total War medieval have you tried Knights of Honor its a neat little game of the same period.

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ORIGINAL: Deride

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ORIGINAL: LarryP

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ORIGINAL: Deride
I worked on the AI, so if you like it -- please let me know. Otherwise, you can keep your comment private.

So you only want good news? I've been wanting to buy TSJC for some time. It's a shame this series is finished though.

Yeah, I was trying to be a bit sarcastic -- probably should have put my own

As far as the series being over -- yeah, unfortunately it had to be that way. I'm sure you can venture a guess as to why.

Deride

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ORIGINAL: Punk Reaper

Has anyone played the Pc game War! Age of Imperalism, if so where did you get from because Eagle games no longer seems to reply. I'm waiting for EiA nd thought this may pass some time.

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

I can't give you a direct link, but, there are numerious used copies of this game that you can get thru Amazon.com Just goto Amazon and type in "Age of Imperialism and you'll find them. All under $10 I might add.

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Re Ravinhood

Yes, that is one of the games I got myself for me birthday. It's alright, but, it's not one of my top 16 games. ;) I will say this for it, it's battle ai is much more challenging than the total war ai. Ruthless little suks. lol

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Hehe I have a 16 unit case atop a 150 unit case and the 16 unit case is where I keep my top 16 games.
They are:
1: Combat Mission assorted series (all 3 of the cmx1 games) ;)
2: Crusader Kings
3: Medieval Total War (origional and now 2)
4: Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri
5: Civ IV
6: GalCiv II
7: Diablo II w/expansion
8: Warlords IV (III is in same case as well)
9: Sid Meiers Civil War series
10: Master of Magic
11: Spartan
12: Kohan II
13: Tropico
14: The Guild 1400 Gold edition
15: Battlefield 1942
16: Take Command 2nd Manassas

A note: SPWAW isn't in that list because it is not a cd, it was downloaded direct to drive longgggg time ago, but, it is also in the ranks of top 20. ;)

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warlords 4 pfffffffffffff.... that was disaster, I am long time fan of warlords, 1,2,3 were great.

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Diablo II may have been one of the worst sequals in gaming history. It completely lost the incredible flavor of the original.

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Yup another game out of the box that was pretty bad, but, the 1.04a model is quite different from the out of the box game. The AI is ruthless, quite a fair game now since the PATCHES all these flippin games require. lol I got so beatup by the AI on the upper two tiers I had to come down to I think it was Prince level to have half a decent chance until I could build up some retinues of leaders. Trust me, it's much better than it was. ;)

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

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warlords 4 pfffffffffffff.... that was disaster, I am long time fan of warlords, 1,2,3 were great.

Yup another game out of the box that was pretty bad, but, the 1.04a model is quite different from the out of the box game. The AI is ruthless, quite a fair game now since the PATCHES all these flippin games require. lol I got so beatup by the AI on the upper two tiers I had to come down to I think it was Prince level to have half a decent chance until I could build up some retinues of leaders. Trust me, it's much better than it was. ;)

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Diablo II may have been one of the worst sequals in gaming history. It completely lost the incredible flavor of the original.

That may be true about the losing the flavor of the origional, but, the loot and the skills and being able to play a necro with 40+ pets was quite fun. The horadric cube was half the fun of the game creating unique items and gambling for items was fun also. The 2nd Chapter Tombs was my favorite area and I musta played that 100 times or more, I hated them little pigmy creatures in Chapter 3 though, reminded me of them things in "The Mummy Returns" near the end of the movie.

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Well there's always TROPICO. ;)

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ORIGINAL: Punk Reaper

The time has come to buy a new game. I have Carrers at war, John Tillers Campaign series, BOA, Campaigns on the Danube, Conquest of the Agean and Crown of Glory, but I was wondering if there was any sort of concenus as to which of the Matrix games was the best, in terms of gamplay, ease of use and replayability.

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Well there's always TROPICO. ;)

Markshot raves about Tropico.

I have considered picking up a copy. Not sure how your reference to it relates as I am unfamiliar with it's graphics.....is it 2D artwork with sprites?

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

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warlords 4 pfffffffffffff.... that was disaster, I am long time fan of warlords, 1,2,3 were great.

Yup another game out of the box that was pretty bad, but, the 1.04a model is quite different from the out of the box game. The AI is ruthless, quite a fair game now since the PATCHES all these flippin games require. lol I got so beatup by the AI on the upper two tiers I had to come down to I think it was Prince level to have half a decent chance until I could build up some retinues of leaders. Trust me, it's much better than it was. ;)

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Diablo II may have been one of the worst sequals in gaming history. It completely lost the incredible flavor of the original.

That may be true about the losing the flavor of the origional, but, the loot and the skills and being able to play a necro with 40+ pets was quite fun. The horadric cube was half the fun of the game creating unique items and gambling for items was fun also. The 2nd Chapter Tombs was my favorite area and I musta played that 100 times or more, I hated them little pigmy creatures in Chapter 3 though, reminded me of them things in "The Mummy Returns" near the end of the movie.

The other big failure of D2 was it's inclusion in an entire genre of loser games that straddled the transition from 2D sprite driven graphics to 3D. Panzer General 3 is probably the king of that genre. The early introduction of photo mapped terrain background with 2D sprite characters was a grand abortion across the board.

In both PG3 and D2 the extremely low res necessary for the photo mapped terrain background to be able ot run on the computers of the day was so atrociously out of scale with the 2D sprite characters that the combination was laughable. Early 3D was so horrible compared to the richness of the 2D sprite artwork that it was a guaranteed recipe for failure.

I played and loved the Ultima series of RPGs in the 90s and jumped at the chance to immerse myself in the world of Britannia when Ultima Online came to be. I played UO for 4 years until they made the mistake of trying to force a transition to abominabal 3D graphics on their subscribers.

The transition to 3D in the computer gaming industry was rocky to say the least.

After 16 years, Civ II still has me in it's clutches LOL!!!
Now CIV IV has me in it's evil clutches!

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ORIGINAL: DirkX

if the question is "what is th ebest matrix game", it CANT be WITP
because playing WITP is like a fulltime job

i consider myself a "grognard" but i discarded WITP after 30 minutes of trying it