Vote Dom3 as Strategy Game of the year on Gamespot

[HoneyBadger]

Very good news, Annette-P.S. Love your icon. I have (vaguely) heard good things about Kohan. The other games mentioned, except for 7 kingdoms, I haven't played or heard about before. Might be worth checking into. I'm not (quite) anti-RTS, I like the aspect of watching to see what happens. I think it would be great if someone would come up with a horror-themed RTS worth playing, something expanding from the concepts of the original Night of the Living Dead for instance. It would have to be legitimately spooky-scary though and ornate to the level of the original Starcraft atleast (it's an old game, so I don't think that's an impossible request. I don't expect balancing to be as perfect as the Starcraft series, though, but if so it'd be a nice bonus). By ornate, I mean details, storyline, fun little features, etc. I think RTS has the potential to lend itself to a more story-driven experience, and to directly/emotionally involve the player more in a game, while at times sacrificing some of the strategy areas in terms of planning and depth of overall strategy.

[Boron]

Annette said:
I'm happy to say we just got word that Cyberstratege has awarded Dominions 3 it's Golden Laurel award for Strategy Game of 2006. Silver Award went to Heroes V and Bronze Award to Medieval: Total War. Read about it in the issue hitting newstands in France and Belgium on Friday. Congratulations, Johan and Kristoffer!

Very weird. Place 1 is of course well chosen .

But that they awarded Homm V surprises me. Imho Company of Heroes would have deserved a Top 3 Place much more

[Agrajag]

Boron said:

Very weird. Place 1 is of course well chosen .

But that they awarded Homm V surprises me. Imho Company of Heroes would have deserved a Top 3 Place much more

HoMM V is fun.
CoH is not.
:X




(IMO of course)

[Twan]

They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions (edit : and one for classical/historic wargames, that may explain why fantasy games had such good positions in the general strategy category -don't know the winner for this one-)

[Boron]

Twan said:
They have several awards, one for RTS where Company of Heroes has won, and one for strategy games in general where it's Dominions.

Ah i see thank you. That makes more sense .

I was just a bit disappointed by HoMM 5, it is HoMM 3 imho with better graphics but with 2 nations less!

Before i discovered i liked the HoMM Series and thus out of nostalgia bought HoMM 5.
But HoMM 5 just sucks imho compared to Dom 3 .

It is another fine proof for the statement "Gameplay > Graphics" though .

[olaf73]

I thought HOMM5 was the best of the series.

I dont agree that there are many RTS games that reward strategy and tactics over UI efficiency skills. Kohan is perhaps the only one.

In nearly all RTS games it comes down to who can sling the mouse fastest and master the keyboard shortcuts.

[Twan]

Hum Paradox games (Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, etc), or games like Knights of Honor, Star Wars Revolution, or all the slow paced games mixing city building gestion and strategy (Anno 1602 etc) are all strategic games in real time and very far to be like common RTS (Kohan is closer from the Command and Conquer genre than all these games).
The hundreds of Command & Conquer clones are the common idea of what a "RTS" should be in the minds of clueless reporters, but are far to be the only games in real time and very far to be the most strategic.

[Caduceus]

As far as the Gamespot article goes, it shows the other "write-in" strategy games that people nominated, so hopefully, it will send some folks to this gem of a game.

[calmon]

bump

Lets defend the second place on the "more top picks" list. Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is only 2 votes behind us!

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[Faenaris]

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