With all the old threads nuked, I now have no reference for the game. So, simply put...is the game worth it? The price has gone down to $55, which is not terrible, but I'm not sure I want to plunk down the cash if the intelligent sorts around here hate the game.
It's a love it or hate it game, have you tried the demo?
Trying it now, actually. Finished downloading shortly before I posted.
Do you love it or hate it, Vin?
Quote from: Habbaku on April 06, 2009, 04:06:44 PM
Trying it now, actually. Finished downloading shortly before I posted.
Do you love it or hate it, Vin?
I've never played 3. I played the demo for 2 and, after utilizing a very detailed walthrough so that I could finally understand what was going on, came to the conclusion that between the amount of complexity involved and the eye-gouging quality of the graphics it just wasn't for me. I can understand why people that love these games love them, they're amazingly deep and lovingly crafted, but they've got a learning curve reminiscent of the EVE graph and require a real commitment to get into.
I fear I just don't have the patience necessary to enjoy them, these days. In some ways I regret that, though. If you can get fahdiz's attention I know he's a big fan of these games.
Sale price is currently only is $44.30. The sale ends today. :mad:
Quote from: vinraith on April 06, 2009, 04:13:02 PMI played the demo for 2 and, after utilizing a very detailed walthrough so that I could finally understand what was going on, came to the conclusion that between the amount of complexity involved and the eye-gouging quality of the graphics it just wasn't for me.
:yes:
I had the same experience with Dominions 2, which I regret buying.
Have feelings about Dominion 3 changed? I'm in the mood for a turn based fantasy strategy game.
Was very confused that Vinny had returned. :angry:
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on April 10, 2011, 03:26:09 PM
Have feelings about Dominion 3 changed? I'm in the mood for a turn based fantasy strategy game.
If you can get past the broken UI than yes it is perfectly fine game, in fact aside from the UI it is one of my favorite turn based games of all time. Though at the same time I think they charge WAY to much
Of course, saying "aside from the UI, Dominions 3 is a good game" is like saying "aside from the cannibalism the Donner Party had a great trip."
Download the demo.
I thought it was shown that they weren't cannibals?
Didn't know there was a thread on this game. I had a big play with it the other month.
Its thoroughly meh. It gets very old and samey very fast,
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2011, 03:28:02 PM
Was very confused that Vinny had returned. :angry:
I can't help that. I saw the game listed and was curious about it, there was already a thread opened about it, and I am the Necromancer. Why start a new thread when an old one would do?
I thought vinny made his bitchy exit years before this.
Dominions 4 is out, price point €24.99:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom4/
Is the UI working? I didn't try 3 because a bad UI is a suck game. Or something.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on October 20, 2013, 07:51:30 AM
Is the UI working? I didn't try 3 because a bad UI is a suck game. Or something.
Supposedly they improved it. At least that's what the guys at P'dox are saying.
Quote from: Syt on October 18, 2013, 11:28:18 PM
Dominions 4 is out, price point €24.99:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom4/
:wub:
One of my favorite fantasy strategy series ever.
Quote from: fhdz on November 01, 2013, 08:55:56 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 18, 2013, 11:28:18 PM
Dominions 4 is out, price point €24.99:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom4/
:wub:
One of my favorite fantasy strategy series ever.
I remember you introduced me to it. I enjoyed it but the lack of tools to customize and the poor graphics became too much. Last weekend however I found something on Steam that is very reminiscent of D3 - yet even more in depth and quite pleasing visually -
Eador: Masters of the Broken World ( http://www.snowbirdgames.com/eador/?lang=en (http://www.snowbirdgames.com/eador/?lang=en) ).
G.
I'm playing that one on and off at the moment. Quite a serious time devourer.
Yeah, I always liked D3 but it's very boring on single player. If you aren't into the heavy multiplayer aspects it's questionable if it's very worthwhile. It's a very deep game, but once you get to "decent" proficiency it's pretty obvious what sort of nation/god configuration and expansion strategy make the game effortless to win every single time you play it.
MP on the other hand is very deep, some of my best online strategy MP experiences have been with D3. But you really need to be heavily involved on the official Dominion forums, these used to be hosted on Shrapnel Games back when I played. Although last I heard Dominions contract with Shrapnel had expired so I dunno if they still have a presence there. The key with the official forums is a college student in the UK set up a server (iirc called the Llamaserver) that you could email game save files to, and basically it creates a self-managed PBEM aspect to the game. This is key to really having a good time with multiplayer, because D3 is so complex that once you get about 30-40 turns in you're going to spend 1-1.5 hours a day just working on a turn if you want to really succeed.
I estimate probably only 5-10% of turn-based strategy gamers (already a small crowd) actually will enjoy playing this game FWIW. If you enjoy it, it will be something you sink an immense amount of time into, almost MMO level time sink. If not, you'll hate how user-unfriendly it is. The graphics are obviously atrocious as well, note that the development team all this time has been I believe two guys. One of whom does all the back-end code development and the other who works on the game balance and pixel art (which isn't great.)
What is UI?
User Interface.
Btw, there's MP communities over on Paradox (Peter Ebbesen is a big fan), and there's an active community over on Rock Paper Shotgun, too.
Quote from: Syt on November 02, 2013, 01:22:43 PM
Btw, there's MP communities over on Paradox (Peter Ebbesen is a big fan), and there's an active community over on Rock Paper Shotgun, too.
No surprise there. He likes games where he can find one aspect that is horribly unbalanced then abuse the crap out of it. I generally do that as well but I tire of it quickly after that while he seem to have this weird idea that its how games are to be played.