I hate how the only place you'll find a real medieval setting is in strategy games. Action and RPG games always mix fantasy and magic like the Thief series. I'm pumped about the new Assassins Creed (who isn't?) but it concerns me greatly that there's some sort of mysticism surrounding the overall plot. Can't we just have a game to play a 1st person medieval assassin? The up and coming Pirates of the Burning Sea MMORPG has a pure historical setting in the 18th century, so why not more games like this? How many more WoW and LotR settings do we need?
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lords of the realm phalluman
Holy cow I thought I'd be the only one! Lords of the Realm III.
And Medieval II: Total War, but I hate to pick a "new" game and call it "best ever".
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Praetorians. All attack with only basic base building to make more units. Good "forward" strategy but moves too fast for me.
The Total War series has the RTS/TBS combination I've been in love with since I played Lord of the Realms III. However, I would like a much stronger power in economy and politics. A real challenge should be to win the game through means other than force (although force is fun, don't get me wrong). Micromangement shouldn't be any more detailed than the general tax rate and construction settings in the TW series. The aesthetics of where to place a building or happy little gardens, a la Sims and Sim City, gets old quick and has little bearing on a real game.
Oh...must have realistic naval combat as well, where wind current and cannon ammo makes a difference.
City States: Stone to Steel
http://www.goblinz.com/goblinz/develop.php It was going to be a HUGE Roman-era RTS game. The game world was completely open ended and the lives of every single person on the map was individually run. Roman citizens went to the colloseum and fields on a schedule, individual Roman solider's had scarring and subtle differences in their uniform as campaigns wore on. Goblinz took the game to a Russian producer that said the game was far too innovative to be true and threatened to turn it into another standard RTS game. They never got the chance to ruin it because the lead developer had some personal problems and the rest of the company put him in the corner. City States was dropped and Goblinz now makes little web-based games like you play on Yahoo!. What's funny is I still have a copy of the pre-alpha build that the lead developer gave me.
Desert Warriors
From Dynamix, the Sierra company that developed the Red Baron series and the original Starsiege. The game was in beta-testing, the demo was public, and it was literally canned weeks before release. Sierra cut the Dynamix branch and didn't want to distribute the game. Why...oh why? It was a WWII flight simulator set in the North Africa campaign with the same kind of open campaign as Red Baron where you flew scheduled sorties over a map thousands of square miles and made an impact in the actual war. Really sad to see it go.
[QUOTE="MythPro1"]It's time to kick ass and chew bubble-gum. And I'm all outta gum. - Duke Nukem
GTJimmy
the vault dweller from Fallout said "im in town to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and im all out of gum.
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Roddy Piper also said it in "They Live" back in the 1980's. Everyone rips off someone.
in Black and White if you play it at midnight, the game whispers your real name (reads it from the windows settings) Now that was really freaky!muscrat_01
That game did have some freaky whispering going on. "Death" every time someone on the map died.
Speaking of your other post with SWAT 4:
"Churches creep me out."
"That's because you've been bad."
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