OT: Master of Magic 2 - now looking quite likely

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Pickles:
The other games must be truly dire (I tried AoW and it was)

I think you've understood my point.

Gandalf's comment about Dom 2 being "good" in SP for a game that's intended to be played MP is spot on. AoW and its ilk spent too much money on coding graphics and not enough on AI. But AI coding is hard work, and graphics is pretty straightforward (given today's toolkits). Warlords 3 had decent AI (not great, just decent). But that (and AoW) are simpler games than Dom 2. Being simpler makes it all the more annoying that a game has an inferior AI. With all the many flaws the Dom 2 AI has, it's still decent enough to whip the stuffing out of noobs, and there aren't many games I know of that can do that.