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MOO3 - Slamz - 03-01-2003
Just as a sidenote, I picked up Master of Orion 3 for a little fun on the side. I loved MOO and MOO2, so was hoping to get some entertainment out of this.
Bleh, it sucks. Total borefest.
Moo2 was completely turn based and quite intricate as designing ships, picking research and controlling battles was all in your hands, not to mention picking what to build on your planets and so forth.
Moo3 is almost 100% automated. You have almost 0 input into the technology tree, ship design can be done manually, but you'll just spend 15 minutes finding the most effective combination of weapons which is, incidentally, precisely what the computer would have spit out instantly if you pushed "autobuild", so no point in manually doing that. Battles are sort of a crappy RTS type thing, like Homeworld gone all wrong. You can control them yourself, but there again, you're better off just letting the computer do it while you watch. Ground combat (and some other areas of the game) have options which are not, in any way, explained anywhere either in the book or the in-game help, so you're more or less picking at random (and there again, you can just let the computer pick what to do, which is probably best).
I won a game set to "Hard" and feel like I didn't really do much. With all the automation, there's almost no input left for the player to provide.
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On the bright side, C&C:Generals is a lot of fun, if you like RTS.
- Veraphim - 03-01-2003
Well that really sucks.
The MOO series of games has always been one of my my favorties. In fact MOO(1) was the first game I ever got when my parents finally ditched the AppleII for a PC486.
Was really looking foreward to MOO3 building upon the first 2 and being a great game.
- Slamz - 03-01-2003
Oh, it built on it, for sure. The game is amazingly complex.
Or would be. If you actually got to do anything. I don't even know what the techs are. They get automatically researched (you *can't* pick what to research) and then automatically built, so they just kind of whizz by as you play.
Using a liberal version of the word "play".
- Moristans - 03-03-2003
Well, that blows. Glad I got my paycheck today instead of Friday. MOO3 was going to be the first thing I was going to buy thins weekend.
Tankies.
- Flab - 03-24-2003
If you really want to get maximum satisfaction from your paycheck you should buy me a present.
- Moristans - 03-27-2003
What? Like a hooker or something?
- Flab - 03-31-2003
Hooker would be good.....CUz.
- Isys - 04-02-2003
Yur ghey?
- Moristans - 04-03-2003
I got called a slob last week. :cry:
- Xanuarie - 04-08-2003
/smack Flabby
- kynloadz - 04-23-2003
MOO2 was the shiat. Cool ass game even to this day, laptop on road trips, it's all about the MOO2 action. Related question, anyone have a clue how I can do a network game on MOO2 it doesn't seem to recognize the network and wants to connect thru some program that no longer exists.
Kynloadz Family
Bind Point Airlines
- Sigmire - 04-24-2003
the hell have you been Kyn? Haven't heard anything from you in... err.. 4 months?
- kynloadz - 04-24-2003
Chillin cold like,
Comp went ka put and I was off like a prom queens dress. But i'm back and I just upgraded comp, I was only able to play at the very end of Shadowbane beta, and only a very limited Planetside beta so far bleh. Going to get my evercrack on I think, until something swoops along and takes my attention away. I've been trying to get into SWG, anyone got any suggestions? *hint *hint *nudge *nudge.
As for yourself and others where's the attention of everyone lie now? Planetside? SWG? Anything else interesting lurking in the shadows that I need to come up on? Ah! Speaking of which i'm in the process of trying to negotiate myself into Lords of Everquest beta, if it's possible. Seems very cool and would love to test it out. On that note, 5000 g, 5000.
Kynloadz Family
Bind Point Airlines
- Sigmire - 04-24-2003
dont' you have access to the member boards? All those questions are answered within. Good to see ya back.
- Qberticus - 04-30-2003
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.galciv.com/index.asp">http://www.galciv.com/index.asp</a><!-- m --> Haven't played it but heard from people who loved the MOOs that this game is many times better than the crap that is MOO3