If you can't find the links for this you don't deserve to be on this forum of emo Paradox fanbois.
The new AGEOD project is Napoleon's Campaigns 2, which is painfully obviously a strategy game on the CK2 engine.
Now, it is perfectly probable that a historical nerd designer of Thibaut's skill is exactly what the Paradox engine needs to make historical games which are, you know, historical, but I hate the fact that their unique WEGO engine, and beautiful maps, and of course turn-based gameplay, is gone and a thing of the past.
It supports my original fear that the buyout of AGEOD by Paradox was a way of eliminating a competitor.
Quote from: Tamas on January 19, 2012, 08:35:14 AM
If you can't find the links for this you don't deserve to be on this forum of emo Paradox fanbois.
The new AGEOD project is Napoleon's Campaigns 2, which is painfully obviously a strategy game on the CK2 engine.
Now, it is perfectly probable that a historical nerd designer of Thibaut's skill is exactly what the Paradox engine needs to make historical games which are, you know, historical, but I hate the fact that their unique WEGO engine, and beautiful maps, and of course turn-based gameplay, is gone and a thing of the past.
It supports my original fear that the buyout of AGEOD by Paradox was a way of eliminating a competitor.
Paradox won't do turn-based, so that much was a given.
They lost me at Pride of Nations, so no big loss.
Was AGEOD much of a competitor? Thibaut seemed like he should have stuck to board games as his computer games invariably suffered from lack of polish.
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 19, 2012, 12:14:15 PM
They lost me at Pride of Nations, so no big loss.
Never bought it, but the whole "doesn't work" seemed like a major problem with the game.
Quote from: garbon on January 19, 2012, 12:35:44 PM
Was AGEOD much of a competitor? Thibaut seemed like he should have stuck to board games as his computer games invariably suffered from lack of polish.
Well, he always made the designs, which were very nice, but also way too complex to be turned into a financial success by one lone coder, or a team which didn't give a fuck (like it happened with Pax Romana).
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?611767-Paradox-Interactive-amp-Paradox-France&p=13913374&viewfull=1#post13913374
Quote from: JohanI can't comment on what PI would publish from Ageod, as I am not involved in those matters.
Quote from: Some PosterMy only regret is what does Napoleon Campaigns 2 getting "Europa-Universalized" mean.
It will feel like a PDS game in play. Deep historical flavour with a relatively intuitive interface. The team was 50% PDS before, and now its 100% PDS and I have personally taken charge of the project to make it into a succesful game.
My goal, as was the original goal for the game, has not changed. A unique strategy game set in Europe in the Napoleonic era, focusing on diplomacy and warfare to become the dominating power.
I'd say it takes a fair bit of HoI (armies), some eu3(diplomacy) and adds in a pinch of Sengoku (goals) with a fair amount of unique features.
My pants are a dairy factory.
Seriously, if that is even moderately good, I will buy it at release.
as little pinch of HoI as possible plz.
And hopefully not as exciting as Sengoku.