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ravinhood -> RE: Happy B-Day Ravinhood (5/31/2007 11:58:49 PM)
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Bargain bin prices are like going to a movie to me. Some movies are crap. Some are pretty good. How many movies can you goto for $4.25 nowadays and get to keep the movie afterwards? $11 for Imperial Glory is a decent price for what I read to be a poc game by grogs, but, casual drive by night gamers seemed to like it. Remember I'm not into this historical fubar must be realistic and accurate syndrome of most wargamers here. I like my wargames pretty light for the most part. You'll rarely see me buy the likes of a WitP or Battles in (whatever country) or TOAW's, etc. I'm more the Combat Mission, SPWAW abstract tactical battles (I rarely play the boxed scenarios or campaigns), Spartan and Tin Soldiers:Ceasar things like that.
Knights of Honor got some pretty great reviews as well from the casual gamer. I like medieval games. Have played both MTW (great game), Crusader Kings (another great game AFTER the final 1.05 patch note: I paid like $4.99 for CK), now interested in trying out this version of a Medieval type game. It scored much higher than lets say than UFO Extraterrestrials recently. ;) Even beat out TOW by 1pt. Imperial Glory pulled in the 70's overall as well. I wouldn't say it's a wargamers wargame. It's a gamers wargame. They have Korsun Pocket for less than $10, but, I just ain't interested in that.
The thing with me though if I get one good game out of the 5 (the Siatek controller doesn't count) then I'm not going to feel ripped off as it was before when I bought game after game for $40-$50 and got ripped off 3/4th of the time. A $5.00-$20 game that is crap is much better than a $50 game that is crap. Even if they are both crap, one smells just a bit less rank than the other. ;) Plus, I got alllllllll the patches already downloaded now and only had to download just ONE, instead of umpteen jillion. BOA may have more coming I just downloaded the 1.12 one though.
Also, actually I'm pretty interested in "GUN". I have GTA-VICE CITY and San Andreas and The God Father games (this is actually better than the GTA's since it has wall hugging combat). I like those for action shooters. I like them better than say first person shooters like Ghost Recon or Operation Flashpoint and the like. The only FPSer I can stand for the most part is BF42, the only one of the series I own, never bought any expansions or whatnot. One shooter is plenty since they all feel alike, run n gun and piss off your teammates in online play. lol I did buy Call of Duty because it was a bargain (like your wife lol). I don't really care for linear shooters, but, for $4.25 I figured I'd give it a looksee, this edition does come with several expansions.
It's kinda funny though the game that fits more into the catagory of your wife is going to be BOA (shock). I'm not really interested in boargame type no tactical battles wargames (games like Forge of Freedom, For Liberty and Crown of Glory I like), but, for the price I figured I'd help the ole boys out who developed it. It is a new game not a used one so they should get a penny or two off the sale. ;)
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