04-02-2005 16:30									#1
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When's it coming out? And will it be good this time?

	04-02-2005 18:11									#2
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I don't know but it looks good. Then again, so did the first.

	04-02-2005 18:21									#3
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I look forward to being disappointed again...

	04-02-2005 23:51									#4
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not me, because I refuse to buy it .

It was my own fault for buying it in the first place, I thought the gameplay would be different.

	05-02-2005 00:33									#5
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I'll watch with interest, but doubt I'll get it.

	05-02-2005 03:11									#6
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No release date yet? It's been in development a long time.


It seems like Molyneaux games lately are all overhyped and underdeveloped, even though they take a very long time to make.

	05-02-2005 05:57									#7
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Just don't expect Creature AI equal to sentient life, and you won't be disappointed.

	05-02-2005 06:34									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Bkeela Just don't expect Creature AI equal to sentient life, and you won't be disappointed.

That was the least of the original's problems. The real reason it sucked is that it had no direction. Peter wanted to make a god sim, but couldn't figure out what to do so he turned it into a half-assed strategy game at the last minute. It ended up not really being a god sim and not really being a strategy game either - just some half-concieved game with no real direction that wasn't consistently thought out.

As far as B&W2 goes, they seemed to have atleast picked a direction (that of a strategy/war game) so there is some hope that they can redeem themselves.

	05-02-2005 06:38									#9
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I agree with Ludd. And having so few maps and so few worlds didn't help. There wasn't really enough to do.

	05-02-2005 13:16									#10
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I still have nightmares of looking for sheep

	05-02-2005 20:39									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I still have nightmares of looking for sheep

	05-02-2005 22:23									#12
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Mine involve those damn stones never quite sounding right...

	05-02-2005 22:57									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I still have nightmares of looking for sheep

I looked up their locations on the internet

	06-02-2005 02:04									#14
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As long as they remember to include "fun" this time when it ships

	06-02-2005 06:55									#15
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I had fun building up villages and watching my temple grow greater and greater. It was baby sitting the stupid creature that got on my nerves. In fact, when my creature was kidnapped on the second island, it was such a relief.

	07-02-2005 03:48									#16
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I only played the first game once, but it certainly seemed to have potential. I did get the feeling it had little to no replay value, though.

	07-02-2005 05:43									#17
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I actually quite enjoyed the first one, mainly building giant cities. Something that amused me immensly was founding a new village and placing in it exactly 1 young pregnant villager and watching as the village grows to a population of hundreds.

Creature? What Creature? Oh that lost soul that roams the beaches and ocassionally looks mournfully at me.

Some people got annoyed with the whining of villagers but the simple thing to do was ignore them, keep them hungry and cold and they worshiped you better (especially if you only feed the worshipers - chaining the pet to the food flag is good for this) - and, healing a villager dying of malnutrition is worth a LOT more belief and goodness points that healing a fat lazy spoilt villager. Hungry homeless villagers also have nothing better to do than charge up aritfacts for you all day and night, possibly in feverent hope that you will grace them with a food miracle or not give them flying lessons. Wonders that improved birth rate were excellent for this, and also the ones that reduce food consumption (because you do have to ensure they have atleast some food, and building more wonders beats building more farms). The only really nice thing I did was supply the villagers with all the wood they could use, usually by growing trees using rain or Norse Power wood miracles.

So on earth, God, by ignoring us, is just using good strategy

	07-02-2005 06:01									#18
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It is nice to know I wasn't alone in enjoying Black & White.

	07-02-2005 16:27									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Blake I actually quite enjoyed the first one, mainly building giant cities. Something that amused me immensly was founding a new village and placing in it exactly 1 young pregnant villager and watching as the village grows to a population of hundreds. Creature? What Creature? Oh that lost soul that roams the beaches and ocassionally looks mournfully at me. Some people got annoyed with the whining of villagers but the simple thing to do was ignore them, keep them hungry and cold and they worshiped you better (especially if you only feed the worshipers - chaining the pet to the food flag is good for this) - and, healing a villager dying of malnutrition is worth a LOT more belief and goodness points that healing a fat lazy spoilt villager. Hungry homeless villagers also have nothing better to do than charge up aritfacts for you all day and night, possibly in feverent hope that you will grace them with a food miracle or not give them flying lessons. Wonders that improved birth rate were excellent for this, and also the ones that reduce food consumption (because you do have to ensure they have atleast some food, and building more wonders beats building more farms). The only really nice thing I did was supply the villagers with all the wood they could use, usually by growing trees using rain or Norse Power wood miracles. So on earth, God, by ignoring us, is just using good strategy

	09-02-2005 08:59									#20
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Lol. When's B&W2 supposed to be out?

	10-02-2005 00:22									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar No release date yet? It's been in development a long time.

	10-02-2005 10:27									#22
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Ahh, the original B&W - the game which convinced me to stop reading all gaming magazines with their "fair and balanced" game reviews. Most Finnish ones gave it scores varying 94-98 / 100.

	12-02-2005 10:55									#23
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I saw a tentative release date for B&W II- June, '05. I'll post the link if I can find it again.