Comments on: Beta Impressions: GalCiv2: Twilight Of The Arnor

By: Twilight of the Arnor released 27 days Ago! | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Twilight of the Arnor released 27 days Ago! | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:48:08 +0000

[...] it interesting beneath the cut, clearly. Okay, we’ve talked about the game before, when I did our Beta impressions way back in December of 2006, those halcyon days when more than half of RPS’ Gaming PCs had internet connections. And [...]

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:04:03 +0000

That Tom Francis diary is great, alright, and I’m tempted to try the game myself even if space strategy is not exactly my forte.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:50:36 +0000

Doh and I’ve just discovered I was playing vanilla galciv 2 and not Dark Avatar. Silly Boy

By: Funkula

Funkula — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:25:10 +0000

Never got that into GalCiv 2 before now. It just couldn’t displace Alpha Centauri (with its major faction differences and superior tech tree) or MoO2 (with its tactical combat and again superior tech tree) from their TBS pedestals. Sounds like this expansion addresses those issues aside from tactical combat. I’ll definitely have to give it another go.

By: Feet

Feet — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:31:16 +0000

I am so going to get the hang of this game with this expansion pack. Mark me. Mainly cause I love TBS games and I love Stardock for being brave and shipping with no anti-piracy gubbins. Plus, ofcourse, it helps that it’s an awesome fun game.

Just a shame that there’s no MP to go with the awesome SP and SP AI. I appreciate that the game is better as a focused SP game, but nevertheless Civ4 MP has proved how good TBS MP can be if done right.

By: David

David — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:32:13 +0000

The best thing about GalCiv2? Definitely the way that the game keeps on maturing; I hate to say it, but it makes me think that it’s the kind of thing CCP would have come up with if they’d made a single-player game. Definitely a title worth of respect.

By: The_B

The_B — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:46:58 +0000

Mister British: You could do what I do and breadrumb your way through most of the Future gaming writers via their blogrolls. There’s some excellent stuff within most of them.

Not that I condone cyber-stalking in any way. Oh no. ¬_¬

(Also Tom should totally start putting adverts just on that post. He’d be raking in the extra dough… :P )

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:29:57 +0000

That Tom Francis thing is amazing.

By: Vexor

Vexor — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:51:42 +0000

The Tom Francis diary sold this game to me. Superb game, if only I could find my copy!

By: Bob Arctor

Bob Arctor — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:59:42 +0000

Wow. I now have to get it to come up with stupidly long ship names after the Culture.

So many good games. So little time.

By: MisterBritish

MisterBritish — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:10:23 +0000

I’d missed that blog before; utterly fantastic.

I read his brilliant HL2 gnome thing too, and I want more of the funny. Is there anything similar written by PCG/RPS that I might have missed?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:07:17 +0000

Absolutely, evil cackles abound! I’m going to play this right now!