Comments on: Unknown Pleasures 2009: Majesty 2

By: Lilo

Lilo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:59:49 +0000

TF2 has a brilliantly simple interface and never once have I been upset about it

By: shiggz

shiggz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:21:27 +0000

Remember in ancient days when not every game that came out was a 95% re-skinned clone of other games in the same genre?

Regarding not liking final fantasy, if your writing this in English it probably doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you. You know how a overly macho game like gears of war is designed to appeal to he cultural lowest common denominator? Well Asians aren’t any different then the west in that regard their lowest common denominators are their own flavor of part animal/human and androgynous men and women who squeek instead of talk. I’m certain their are plenty of Asians who get as tired of theirs as we westerner get tired of ours. Unfortunately like TV if you grow weary of least common denominators there is no home for you.

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:45:57 +0000

@Ergates

The Console RPG is really a different (but related) genre to the PC RPG. Final Fantasy to me is not a good rpg.

And on topic, I do look forward to this.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:11:31 +0000

Settlers 5 has 2 millitary units and a few siege weapons. The best way to play is free for all 4 or more.

No one wants to over extend but the resources are valuable. So extend you do, you can’t wall everything off so conflicts light and heavy happen.

By: Tei

Tei — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:47:54 +0000

Why I haver never read about this game before? WTF?, this game seems awesome!

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:48:46 +0000

I bought Settlers 5 but took it back the day after due to being nothing like the originals and trying too hard to be a normal RTS.

In hindsight I probably didn’t give it enough time to grow on me.

Oh and back on topic: Never played Majesty but M2 looks interesting.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:16:38 +0000

Freaky, almost no-one reviewed Settlers 10th anniversary
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/934321.asp
Thats kinda sad.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:02:38 +0000

Settlers 5 (rise of an empire) is quite interesting too, much better than 4 ion my mind. But its odd, you need to get used to its oddness. For example, your worst shortage is clothes, unless you have a wool trading partner, then your shortage is water (for feeding the sheep).

Oddly the expansion adds buildable wells which i feel ruins the origional dynamic of building an economy around limited water. But the inherent centralisation of the town building allows for interesting scenes.

All your miners going on a journey back to the town centre to buy clothes, except the married ones who’s wives go for them.

Marrage is an upgrade which effects the game, But you can only get people married by hosting a party, but who gets married is totally out of your control. you are actively encouraged to host parties. Genius.

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:52:37 +0000

Most of the original Settlers multiplayer didn’t work. My wife and I were wishing to play Settlers 3 or 4 multiplayer only for them both to crash out or de-sync :(

I may give this a try, it sounds fun.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:59:28 +0000

Sassy, i believe that a closed platform is unhealthy for the creative freedom of the form. History does not excuse future actions. The strengths of the consoles are built around control, I believe they are not worth the cost as the only option, but as long as pc’s exist I’m happy consoles do too.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:49:50 +0000

Its settlers 2 with horribly high system requirements (relatively speaking) and a fast forward button.

There also seems to be some differences in how goods and stock manipulated with stores houses, but its mostly under the hood stuff. Probably as a result of greater available processing power for the path finding.

Multi player is a chore to get working as there are only about 2 people in the lobby at any given time. Add me on xfire(heliocentric) and we can hook up for a game ^_^, but yes, worth it if just to see settlers 2 pretty, you can get it cheap.

It makes me realise how terrible a game it must be for multiplayer, when large games can take 9 hours without fast forwards.

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:27:19 +0000

@ Heliocentric

Slightly off topic, but how is Settlers 2: Anniversary? I loved the original Settlers 1, 2, 3 and 4.