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Adagio is offline Adagio

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Jun 2001
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For crying out loud.

Am I the only person on this planet that loves 1602 AD and 1503 AD????!!!!


Yep...


I never played the second game, but the first one got very boring... I never got far into the game before deciding to uninstall it... I even gave it two tries...

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Belgium, land of plenty (corruption)
Jan 2000
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  Old Post 28-12-2003 02:43
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Yep...


I never played the second game, but the first one got very boring... I never got far into the game before deciding to uninstall it... I even gave it two tries...


I have one of those on my computer, but I have yet to try it out.... gaming takes so much of a person's time it's unbelievable!

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Jul 2000
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I tried 1602AD, but it was far too hard for me
I might give it a whirl again some time later, when I have more time

asleepathewheel is offline asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
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  Old Post 28-12-2003 02:53
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outpost what a horrible game.

lord of the mark is offline lord of the mark
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Dec 2000
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  Old Post 31-12-2003 21:12
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Yep...


I never played the second game, but the first one got very boring... I never got far into the game before deciding to uninstall it... I even gave it two tries...



I liked the music and pace of 1602 ad, but i didnt find it all that gripping a game, i might go back to it someday.

Blake is offline Blake
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Oct 2000
time: 17:13
  Old Post 01-01-2004 16:47
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Civ3

Although I do have a tendency to not play the really bad games, or at least ruthlessly suppress any memory of playing them. But no, playing Civ3 just made me bored and disappointed. Not sure if it's the worst I ever played, but definitely the most dissapointing.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe was excellent, I played it a few months ago and it still kicked ass. I have something of intersection building obsession, the crown jewel of intersections I built was a 4 lane 4 way any-any straight-through (not roundabout) intersection that worked with the dumbass train AI, tunnels and raised land everywhere. It took up about 4 normal screens. It could handle quite some train traffic. I had modified the game so the industries produced 10x as much, thus justifying 4 lane railway tracks everywhere (actually I used 6 lanes going to the entrances to some larger industry complexes). Mostly I didn't bother with the economic side of things and just tried to build networks that could handle ridiculous levels of production.

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Sep 2001
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  Old Post 01-01-2004 18:41
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I'll add another black mark against Outpost..........a truly dreadful game.

General Ludd is offline General Ludd
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Minion of the Dominion
Aug 2001
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  Old Post 01-01-2004 18:44
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Originally posted by Chronus
For crying out loud.

Am I the only person on this planet that loves 1602 AD and 1503 AD????!!!!


I haven't played 1503, but I do like 1602.

Jon Miller is offline Jon Miller
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May 1999
time: 23:13
  Old Post 01-01-2004 20:31
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I played Outpost for quite a while

always getting to one poitn and couldnt' figure out how to progress further or what I was suppose to do

than I discovered that that was how it was made

and lost interest

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Jun 2001
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I tried outpost once... well... I didn't 'try' the actual game, but I tried to start the game, but it popped up with some error msg... deleted it 2 secs later, never bothered with it since...

VetLegion is offline VetLegion
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Sep 1999
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  Old Post 04-01-2004 22:33
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MoO III.

I did try.

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Oct 1999
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  Old Post 05-01-2004 01:22
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Pax Imperia.
Imperium Galactica 2.

Wow, this old thead is still active

Joseph is offline Joseph
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Ca. USA
Feb 2000
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  Old Post 05-01-2004 02:27
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I hate Transport Tycoon by Chris Sawyer because it just sucks.
I love that game. Had a lot of fun playing.

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Oviedo, Fl
Nov 2001
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Pax was a good game, I still have it, It did have a ton of micromanaging and the AI was weak. Lots of tech.

Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
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May 1999
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Did I mention Birth of the Federation?

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The backlash starts here
Feb 2000
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I'm pretty careful with what I buy, so I've never bought a truely bad game.

That said, I'd nominate Simcity 3000 as the least good empire-building game I've plaed. While not a bad game, it disappointed me due to it's useless in-game advisors and various problems with the city growth model which acted to cripple city growth at certain city sizes and population structures for no good reason.

EU-2 was also underwealming. While fun, it's interface was painful to deal with - everytime war broke out I got buried in pop-up messages, even when I turned these down to the minimum necessary.

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Did I mention Birth of the Federation?


I actualy finished two games with it, but could not face another one. It is not the worst, but was a disappointment. It did have a cool combat, but you really only watched it.

Sort of like Deadlock2, not good nor awful.

Deadlock I was awful, but not the worst.

Spaced Cowboy is offline Spaced Cowboy
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Nov 2001
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What made BotF bad for me was the conversion of the other races with diplomacy. Just made the game way too easy.

MoO3 is the worst game ever. Post patch/pre patch, doesn't matter. It is just terrible.

Rebellion was also very bad.

Ascendancy was not too bad, very nice interface and good graphics for the time, but 4X space games with warp points are really stupid. Chokepoints in space...give me a break.

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Sep 2001
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  Old Post 05-01-2004 21:42
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BotF wasn't great to be sure, but its nothing like as bad as some of the other games mentioned here.

General Ludd is offline General Ludd
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Aug 2001
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  Old Post 05-01-2004 21:57
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Yeah, BotF atleast had some potential. Where as a game like MOO3 really has no redeaming features at all.

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Jul 2000
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  Old Post 06-01-2004 03:12
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Moo3 takes the crow as the worst piece of thrash to pollute anybody's hard drive ever. I'd be happy install a boatload of spyware on my computer before I even consider touching Moo3.

You can't really compare it to anything else out there; there are bad games, terrible games, BC3k and then, all in it's very own lowest circle in the TBS abyss, there's Moo3. If they tried to fill land dumps with unsold Moo3 copies they'd have to drill the stuff down into the core to prevent the toxic waste from utterly wrecking the Earth's environment, that how bad it is.

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Nov 2001
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Moo3 takes the crow as the worst piece of thrash to pollute anybody's hard drive ever. I'd be happy install a boatload of spyware on my computer before I even consider touching Moo3.

You can't really compare it to anything else out there; there are bad games, terrible games, BC3k and then, all in it's very own lowest circle in the TBS abyss, there's Moo3. If they tried to fill land dumps with unsold Moo3 copies they'd have to drill the stuff down into the core to prevent the toxic waste from utterly wrecking the Earth's environment, that how bad it is.


Don't hold back moom, tell us how you really feel about MoO3!

vmxa1 is offline vmxa1
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Nov 2001
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While I felt I got ripped with Moo3 I at least play a few games and got a little someting out of it. Outpost did not give me anything. So while M003 was a bigger rip off, outpost was a worse game. Yeah I know Moomin that is hard to believe.

Now all this talk has me thinking about firing up Ascendancy/Pax or maybe just a good ole Moo1 game. I need a Civ break anyway.

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Apr 1999
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I'm sorry, but I don't agree with all the negativity about MOO3. It has a steep learning curve and requires some patience. I'm currently playing a game with a small universe - a cluster, not an arm - aganst 3 other races. I thought I'd start off relatively small to get the hang of it. Anyway, maybe I'll get disappointed down the track, but for now I like it.

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I hope you enjoy Moo3, a few people claim to like Outpost, not sure I believe them though. It won CGW coaster of the year way back then and still gets mentioned as a worst of.

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Of course, I also like the Deadlock games. When the original Deadlock demo first came out, I was mad about it, trying to see how much I could do within the limited 40 turns and held more breath for months until the game proper arrived. The sequel ironed out some of the limitations of the original, made the tech tree better etc - my main disappointment was the ugly graphics - I wish they'd stuck to the cutesy ones of the first version.

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Jun 2003
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the orignal release of civnet. first cd i intentionally destroyed. i'm amazed civnet 2 is considered one of the best ever made, considering how bad the original was.

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Civ net 2? Never heard of it! How different was it to civnet 1?

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Sep 2001
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Call to Power was just real....clunky. Some good ideas, but a lousy user interface and complete lack of flow to the game. Didn't have that Sid magic.

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CTP was not my cup of tea, but come on it was not in the running for the worse game. You could at least finish it, many games where not even playable.

 
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