General video game discussion

[Gradine]

Picked up a bunch of classic Squeenix titles on my Switch because they're all on sale, including Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D, Romancing SaGa 2 Revenge of the Seven, and The Last Remnant Remastered.

So of course as soon as I do I come down sick as a dog and can barely think so I just fall back on my comfort game (Civ)

 

[trappedslider]

Picked up a bunch of classic Squeenix titles on my Switch because they're all on sale, including Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D, Romancing SaGa 2 Revenge of the Seven, and The Last Remnant Remastered.

So of course as soon as I do I come down sick as a dog and can barely think so I just fall back on my comfort game (Civ)

 

[Bohandas]

Eh, I've been playing it for a while now and it seems fine. My only complaint was they had an opportunity to fix the diplomatic system from the original and not only didn't, it seems if anything worse. Other than that I haven't seen anything to complain about.

I guess calling it trash was a bit harsh, but I didn't see much in the new version that was actually improved. IIRC Even the modernized unit models were harder for me to tell apart than the ones in the original. And on my system it also ran slowly and occasionally soft-locked.

Also it felt like it wanted to be Civilization rather than Master of Magic.

Admittedly though my impressions of the game are rather sparse and fragmentary, as I pretty quickly gave up due to how poorly the game runs on my computer.

 

[Gradine]

I guess calling it trash was a bit harsh, but I didn't see much in the new version that was actually improved. IIRC Even the modernized unit models were harder for me to tell apart than the ones in the original. And on my system it also ran slowly and occasionally soft-locked.

Also it felt like it wanted to be Civilization rather than Master of Magic.

Admittedly though my impressions of the game are rather sparse and fragmentary, as I pretty quickly gave up due to how poorly the game runs on my computer.

In fairness to what I know of the MoM fandom, opinion on the remake is as low as your chances of retaking a rebellious town housing a full stack of high-leveled halfling slingers.

Speaking from personal experience, of course

 

[Thomas Shey]

Picked up a bunch of classic Squeenix titles on my Switch because they're all on sale, including Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D, Romancing SaGa 2 Revenge of the Seven, and The Last Remnant Remastered.

So of course as soon as I do I come down sick as a dog and can barely think so I just fall back on my comfort game (Civ)

Or, "why am I playing Master of Orion 2 again?"

 

[Thomas Shey]

I guess calling it trash was a bit harsh, but I didn't see much in the new version that was actually improved. IIRC Even the modernized unit models were harder for me to tell apart than the ones in the original. And on my system it also ran slowly and occasionally soft-locked.

Can't say I had any of that.

Part of it will be your tolerance for the graphics. I'm not completely hostile to older style graphics--as noted, my default comfort food game is Master of Orion 2--but the original Master of Magic goes a bit too far.

(The remake also addressed some mechanical balance issues with some units I thought mattered considerably).

Also it felt like it wanted to be Civilization rather than Master of Magic.

Master of Magic was Civilization; just with magic. The only difference was on some of the tactical elements because of the breakdown, and that's still there.

Admittedly though my impressions of the game are rather sparse and fragmentary, as I pretty quickly gave up due to how poorly the game runs on my computer.

Well, that's never going to give a good impression. I'm not running on a particularly new computer, but it is a gaming laptop so some of that may just be invisible to me.

 

[Thomas Shey]

In fairness to what I know of the MoM fandom, opinion on the remake is as low as your chances of retaking a rebellious town housing a full stack of high-leveled halfling slingers.

Speaking from personal experience, of course

Yeah, but, honestly, the number of remakes of older 4x games that get a good response is, shall we say, thin on the ground.

 

[Bohandas]

Or, "why am I playing Master of Orion 2 again?"

Master of Orion 2 is another one that never got a proper sequel or spiritual successor. Everything I've seen (especially the official sequels) that's tried to be has had either used spacelanes, had a dodgy and/or realtime combat system, or had a bad interface

 

[Bohandas]

Yeah, but, honestly, the number of remakes of older 4x games that get a good response is, shall we say, thin on the ground.

That's because they all try to be Civilization instead of the game that they're supposed to be

 

[Thomas Shey]

That's because they all try to be Civilization instead of the game that they're supposed to be

Well, as I expressed, most older 4x games were trying to be Civilization too from my POV, so I don't find that much of a critique.