ravinhood -> RE: Paradox signs Mad Minute Games (1/1/2006 8:01:38 AM)
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[Where did you see that? I'm not familiar with anything like that.] Bet you thought this would be deleted from The Wargamer by now huh? Sadly these guys have copped out on us for more money in the long term. Have you read the latest on there site? http://www.madminutegames.com/ quote: Doing the entire Civil War became more than our small team could handle. We've been developing this engine for over 3 years and really wanted to get something out (should've added OF IT). Our original plans had been an elaborate $60 game, basically our dream game. We realized that we were shooting too high for our first release, and decided to tone it down to something more manageable. So our first release is going to be just the 1st Bull Run battle. There's going to be plenty of other stuff in there to take up all of your time. But as far as historical battles go, we are just doing the 1st Bull Run at a lower price point than we originally planned. Not sure what it will be yet. We want to get you our engine so that you can finally see what we've been talking about. We will still be developing the our dream game, but we want to get something out there to the loyal fans that have been emailing us over the last year. We are a very small team and were reaching too high for our first release. We still plan on releasing this winter, not sure on an exact date yet. We are very close and did not want to make everyone wait another 1 or 2 years for a product. We want to make sure that whatever we release is a top quality product, so that's what we have been focusing on. [unquote] @ Pasternakski, lol "keep your day job" that's a good one. ;) Truth be said about the CWBR game. You don't really do a whole awful lot. You "watch" the game more than you actually play it. I guess you could say the AI is good since "it plays itself moreso than it plays against you". The more I have played it, the more I started to notice this. {one example, I just wanted to play one artillery group, but, everytime I would unlimber them the AI would limber them and start to move them where IT wanted them to go and that was smack dab out in front where they got slaughtered eventually because of this silliness} It's like watching a movie and you jump into a "scene". But, the AI has way too much control in many situations. It's a $20 "VALUE" game as Activision promoted it. Fair price for what one got. But, $40?? little much for basically the same thing, same engine and near same if not same "battlefield". Typical Paradox type games, especially "same engine" part. I still prefer Sid Meiers Gettysburg/Antietam to MM's. Lots more activity by the player and it does have a mutliplayer feature. Oh and 2ndM "doesn't even have a multiplayer feature". Now most grogs will be turned off by this and a LOT of the mainstream since this is their bread n butter for just about all games. Many want BOTH included in games nowadays, single player AI and multiplayer features. $40 for a game without a multiplayer feature?? Might as well go back to playing Commodore 64 games. {Note: a multiplayer feature isn't a must for myself, but, I've seen the rants when a game doesn't have a multiplayer feature and a mulitplayer campaign game} And if you think the spam is bad here Pat, you should see them over at The Wargamer. They are no different from the "typcial Paradox" fans that start numerous threads on the same game when it could easily all go into one. You do see a lot of forum hoppers coming into praise their beloved games from other forums at the Matrixgames forums though (must be they KNOW Matrixgames gets the most audience) ;). And I certainly don't forum hop other forums and tout how great Matrixgames, HPS, Sharpnel and other games I like are. Maybe I should triple thread Ron Dockals Schwerpunkt game AGW. ;) Nah, one thread is sufficient when a game is "good", if you have to spam 3 or more threads, there must be some doubt about the game. Main thing I'm not going to wish them good luck or bad luck, my position still stands. I'm not going to support "any" Paradox published only games retail.
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