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Yeah. Even within geek spaces there are, unfortunately, ridiculous hierarchies. Raiders look down on regular pve players. Pvp teams look...

Given some of the personalities there, I cannot be surprised.

I've seen ones that are okay, but most of them are similar in kind rather than trying to duplicate it. (the new Master of Orion is okay...

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.

That really sounds like dammed if you do situation. Folks complain that the adventure is a railroad if they can run it like a script...

Well, maybe not the map, but there's plenty of tile based map things out there.

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

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...

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

Well, you're at least practiced with it now.:eek:

As I recall, you are frequently a bag of "Huh. That shouldn't work like that..."

It’s an oddity of my health that I have weirdly little retinal damage despite a diabetic catastrophe that led to me losing 120 pounds in...

Nah. They save that for console players.

I don't know about MMO players--they're almost a thing to themselves--but you get some distinct stresses between people interested only...

Hi, let me help. I'm not going to pretend I remember all the details of a game that happened over a decade ago. But let me give what I...