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Drakenred is offline Drakenred
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Jan 1970
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the WORST Empire building game youve ever played(Turn based or RTS) Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

for me, its a tos-up

Acendancy,
Spaceward ho!(atualy this could ALMOST be a pole question)
folowed by Pax emperia,
StarWars Rebelion

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Destiny, a real time strategy game from interactive magic. The WORST game of any kind I have ever played. A vain attempt at 3d graphics. BAD!!!! Micromanagement to the extreme. Particularly with now way to slow down the game. While dealing with one city, the others would go to hell. Very, very buggy. And the computer manager (to eliminate micromanagement) would cancel the orders to my units and assume full control. By the way the AI handled the other players, I had to wonder how much time actually went into this game. I feal ashamed for wasting my time attempting to play this game.

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I hate Transport Tycoon by Chris Sawyer because it just sucks.

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Spaceward Ho??? Why? I liked it very much!!

I gave the Settlers 3 demo a try today... It was uninstalled after 5 minutes...

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Akbar is offline Akbar
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This is tricky because games, GENERALLY speaking, get better as technology and past experience builds. Nevertheless I'd have to say "War in Middle Earth"(not worthy of its inspiration, repetitive, downright boring), or an even greather disaster,"Cohort 1:Fighting For Rome"

So another person thinks "Star Wars Rebellion" was terrible. Cheesh, i'd been anticipating and imagining a Star Wars strategy game for a long time. Too bad they blew the idea.

Settlers 3 was bad? Now i'm really glad I didn't choose that as my"Appetizer", MarkG. But like i said I smelt "pettiness" in that game just by the title which quickly turned me off.

Akbar is offline Akbar
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What am I thinking!?!. "War in Middle Earth" and Cohort 1 should've gone in your other thread Drakenred.

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I don't know... something screamed "get away get away!" in my head...

The interesting is that I liked Settlers 2...

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I hated Caesar III despite the fact that I loved Caesar II. I guess I should buy a legal copy of Caesar II now, just to fuel my appetite wasted on the crappy $70/150 mb minimum Goliath of cartoonish graphics and unrealistic buildings.:-)

Drakenred is offline Drakenred
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Actualy Star wars rebelion was ok once you actualy got enough units to do somthing on a regular bassis

It was the mind numbing wait to get built up enogh to actaly DO Somthing that made me not want to run a second game

to me Spaceward ho played more like a striped down Space Civ

My one Pax game ended up being a one way bash-a thon down a tunnel to sterilise oposing planets(fly into solar system/sector , blow up defending fleet in open space then fly second fleet of CVs over to straff orbitals out of existance untill you either ran out or fighters or oposing orbitals then do the sloww crawl through the mines to carpet nuke the planet.Colonize, rince, repete::SHRUG::

Kyle is offline Kyle
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I've played a lot of bad demos, but I'll just go by one's I've bought. Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain, was just disgusting. So bad, that THQ, folded up Heliotrope Studios, and fired the programmers working for it. The game was really, really shallow.

No depth at all.

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Imperium Galactica, beyond doubt. Blecch! From the bad Latin in the title (which with proper matching of the genders, should have been Imperium GalacticUM) through the crappy battle graphics, dumb scenarios, and stupid video clips, it was a total piece of nonsense. I bought it based on a good review in PC Gamer and was horribly disappointed.

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History of the world was pretty bad, at least judging from the demo

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I hate Transport Tycoon by Chris Sawyer because it just sucks.


Why don't you like it- was it too hard?

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I heard some hype over a quite recent game called "Hooligans : Storm Over Europe". I tried the wondrous version before the whole game. I'm glad I did that. Man, that 'RTS' sucked.

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Transport Tycoon:

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I enjoyed Transport Tycoon somewhat, but the pathfinding algorithm for AI railroad track placement ruined a lot of the fun for me. Also the obscene year-long traffic jams. And the fact ships would get lost anyway no matter how good your buoy placement was.

I can easily see why some whould hate it.

I seemed to have more fun creating gigantic mountains to put my headquarters on than actually managing any transportation systems.

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Superpower. Hands down.

I remember a cheap knock-off of civilization along time ago, aswell - terrible game, but I can't remember the name.

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LOL MArkG for some reason you are on my ignore list!!!! I didn't do anything... where do i unignore you??


Btw caesar II , Caesar3 had some interesting ideas but I don't understand how they completely ****ed the combat system that was so finely tuned out in Caesar 2. Also the annoying thing about housing was that sometimes nobody would want to come to your city no matter what...

Stupid they didn't improve (graphically and gameplay-wise) the good caesar2 concept...

For example the battles there involved some tactics already even though types of troops were limited to just 4 (for the romans anyway)

i'm still waiting for a game in which you can play tactical battles with ancient armies (including moving your army over greater distances, using weather and terrain at your advantage etc... Hannibal, at the battle of Cannae, fed his troops well that morning, while the romans hadn't had breakfast yet; and placed them on the battlefield with the wind in their back so the romans had it tough with the wind and dust in their faces!! Such things I simply find magnificent because it can effectively add to the power of an army!!)

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Superpower. Hands down.


No argument there.

Real fun downloading a 40+ MB patch and still having the game be crap

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! MarkG is on my Ignore List as well!

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I don't know... something screamed "get away get away!" in my head...

The interesting is that I liked Settlers 2...

Markos, Apolyton CS


Why is Markos a guest?

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hes on mine too..

star trek botf , horrible game.......

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anything on a console!

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! MarkG is on my Ignore List as well!

Yeah, I presume it has something to do with older post's, it's not the same at A/C.

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MarkG is on my ignore list too. A bug or...God is trying to tell you something MarkG!

Actually, I don't mind any of the games mentioned. Ascendancy could have done with a better AI but still hours and hours of enjoyment. And a good example of good graphics and low hard disk space (12MB) for DOS! So, who hoodwinked us into thinking we needed the resource-hungry Windows for such a game?

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@MarkG.

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Star Wars rebellion

CTP II. although I have been thinking of reinstalling this with some mods.

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why is mark g on my ignore list?

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well no wonder. holy thread ressurection!!

That has to be a record.

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CTP II. although I have been thinking of reinstalling this with some mods.

I've heard that it isn't a game at all without mods, but highly modifiable.

 
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