Re: Strategy on the Decline

Steven Thomsen-Jones wrote:

On 5/27/24 05:29, Lane Larson wrote:

Mike S. wrote:

On Sat, 25 May 2024 15:32:22 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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Do you find you've less interest in strategy games (assuming you had
any to begin with, of course)? Or are you just as deeply invested in
the genre as you used to be?

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I think I still play strategy games about as much as I used to but
that isn't very much. RPGs are my genre of choice. But I do always
have one Civ game, Colonization, Heroes 3 and MOO and MOM installed.

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I'd like to see Disciples go to Disciples IV.  Disciples III isn't too bad but they have about a zillion pixels spinning animation whenever you visit your castle.  What's good about Disciples is that it is like an RPG with several parties.  I got into it at first because of the similarities to Heroes.  I won the Undead campaign in Disciples II.  My Ghosts are unstoppable.

 This game series seems to have passed me by, but reading up a bit on it it looks rather like something I'd enjoy. Would it still be worth jumping in to II or III?
My computer is 10+ years old so I'm used to playing older titles, so from that point of view it wouldn't be an issue.

If you can get II to work, it's really good.  It has much depth when paired with the Gallean's Return expansion.  I got the feeling that III was a failure commercially.  The formula was changed to add a level of micromanagement in unit positioning which wasn't done very well.