GShock
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Looks like HOI3 is planned for Q3 2009. So it's about 1 year from now.
I have to say Paradox games, according to me, are highly overrated. The infamous ping pong land combat bug totally spoiled EU3 for me. Now am tackling Victoria Revolutions (with VIP mod) and while i admit it's a brilliant way to devise economic, social and political issues in the industrialization period, i find myself at a loss on how bugs such as Pay 100$ loan (tooltip showing loan will be reduced 105$) can make it through final releases. There also seems to be a huge bug with AI management of PoPs who do not split when reaching 40k manpower thus hurting the AI economy very much (strange isn't it, that the AI can field such megalithic armies with a crippled economy? Not at all, it's called AI cheating, something everyone can do when he can't program an average AI player).
The guys at VIP have done a huge job with their mod to improve balance and gameplay. I think i am facing a huge game that was abandoned much sooner than it should have and which, under many aspects, is much better than EU3/NA (last expansion i bought).
I would really buy HOI2 + armageddon, but you see how it goes, Paradox is releasing a new title, after leaving behind severe bugs. It's the common doctrine of most dev houses in the strategy/simulation segment nowadays and it's truly sad.
What about Take Command2 Manassas...arty batteries shooting on each other for 30 minutes and the total kill count being 1 or 2...or AACW, when you siege Richmond and the Army supposed to stop you is in New York. These are gamebreakers.
One might decide to really buy a game only 2 years after its release when the most critical bugs have been solved and after making sure there's an alive modding community on the forums....the problem is that modding has its limits and after 2 years the game has been abandoned. Modders do what they can, but the game remains screwed up.
Too much competition in this segment, too many fragmented sales shared among too many companies...that's why.
It's between hard and impossible to find a game you can play for a year without fighting bugs yourself from morning to night. I share the same vision as Adam with difficulties when picking a new title. I am optimistic for a few Dev houses and very pessimistic with 90% of others i rate between insufficient and mediocre (happy to have discovered a few surprises lately).
You know what...that's all because they try to make things more complex than their manpower and investments can sustain. Why they do not want to merge with one another to release a big title with much increased quality i'll never understand. Perhaps that's because of greed.
With the best of luck wished to Paradox, I'm possibly (not surely) gonna buy HOI3 in 2011 IF the community is still alive by then and modding...and this will include 1 or 2 expansions they choose to release in place of fixing the game without further costs on their users. Objectionable policy but as long as quality is good that's not a problem with me. I'd rather pay 5EU per semester to sustain the developing than have them forced to build a new title and abandon the old one with all the users who bought it.
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