OT: Dusting Off Imperium Galactica II

[Karibu]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
Can't say I've ever played it. maybe the next time I go to EB or someother place that sells used games, I'll see if they have and give it a go. I did buy MOO2, but I never did finish that game. Had some interesting features and technologies, but I'll stick to SEIVG.

IMHO MOO2 was the very best single player strategy game ever. I still play it when I visit my parents (they have sufficiently old computer which still runs MOO2 with Win95 ). SEIV has the best multiplayer, but MOO2 is best single player strategy game.

The catch is to make a race which is not all too powerful. Interesting is to use original races and play Impossible. Then it is really hard to win. Or to give your race all research penalties and spy everything

[ April 29, 2004, 17:34: Message edited by: Karibu ]

[Makinus]

what i liked to do in Moo2 is to create a game where i play against custum races that have the maximum research penality, so the game Lasted longer (yes, you can play against custom races, just create a lan game, save in the first turn, and load it as a single player game).

How you can't play Moo2 in WinXP? I have WINXP and MOO2 still works in it....

[Karibu]

I have never tried it on XP. It was very unstable with W2k. That's a good trick to know, how to create custom races. I think I will use it.

[Atrocities]

Thanks guys.

XP has a compatablity mode that you can access through the short cut menu.

[Roanon]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I hate to say it, IG2 even though it is over four years old, is still a better game than Masters of Orion 3.

Not really a recommendation. I know C64 games that were better than MOO3. Nearly all of them, in fact.

[Atrocities]

Well I have been playing IG2 and I have some things to add.

1. I love the tutorial of the game. Very well done if not limited. It provides a very good working understanding of the game but lacks depth. Still very good though.

2. After about four hours of play I have to agree the game is very borning when compared to SEIV. It is simply to shallow in the game play department.

3. I like how some of the features of the game work, intel seems to work well, IE you hire,train, and deploy spies on missions. They can be turned and if you suspect such you can kill them.

I like ease of use of the menu system of the game. Although compared to SEIV it is a simplistic.

I hate to say it, IG2 even though it is over four years old, is still a better game than Masters of Orion 3. And we all know that SEIV is far better than that.

IG2 had some nice Bink - avi graphics and such that I would hope Aaron can incorp into SEV. I like the idea of planets and stars rotating as they do in other 4 X games, and I like how IG2 used rotating facilities and ship components. Very slick.

Combat was ok, a bit like rebellion, which took up a lot of processor time in the day.

All in all IG2 is a nice beginner 4x game but is is far to limiting for hard core players. It is however a fun game.

[Karibu]

Sad, but I have to agree with Roanon. Before MOO3 was shipped to stores, I read in the forums when some people had memories of BattleCruiser 3000. I have never played it but when several players wrote that the most fun time with that game was when they broke the CD on the pieces, it told me something.

I had not such feelings with MOO3, but I was disappointed with it. However, it had potential which was never achieved. Too much ambition mixed with poor project management (right out from the horse's mouth, the game developers) and lack of resources --> half completed game with some great aspects in it but not fully shaped. Where is ELITE when I need it...

[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, I think "unfinished" is the best single word for MOO3. Even the patches are unfinished! There are just so many flaws and gotchas in the whole thing that you can't catalog all of them. I'm just about to give up on the game I am trying to finish. I had to try to complete a game, but it's become nothing but a chore to go back and play a few more turns. Guess I may as well recover the ~500 megabytes of disk space and accept that there isn't going to be any further patching.

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Yes, I think "unfinished" is the best single word for MOO3.

For me that word should be "boring"!
Most the time, surprised myself just clicking "next turn", after became tired to deal with the viceroy...

[Atrocities]

Unfinished
Alpha Version
POS
Worst Game Ever Made
Rip Off
Con job
Pathetic Dissapointment

They all fit.

I think Aaron said it best though: "I am a programer and I couldn't even figure it out."

Nuff said.