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rick334
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This is my opinion and I already know many will disagree with me. I hope I am just missing somthing, does someone know of a listing of what the demo does not include.
1) Is there no speech
2) Units are jerky when moving - not due to FPS, I have 80 throughout the entire demo game, but more like not enough frames were put in the animations and they jerk when they move
3) Where is the speech and music ?
4) Graphics (This one is killing me) they are not very clear and crisp. The edges on the units are blocky and smeared, not crisp and straigh.
**I have all graphics turned up and a good system with Radeon 9700 turned all the way as well @ 32 bit**
In my opinion I was really disappointed with the game. Cancelled my preorder. I hope I find that I was missing somthing the whole time from the Demo that was just not included. The graphics are really what is killing me, they just seem so fake, the units don't look like they belong in the environment. What are you opinions ? Do you know if the Demo is missing some of the features I mentioned above (Especially not clarity of graphics option ?).
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windupmerchant
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In the full game does the quick battle have saving?
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windupmerchant
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to ask once again, can you save in a quick battle in the full version?
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wilebill
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columbus, ohio
Feb 2003
time: 05:28
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The game music, and probably other sound features were left out of the demo to save space.
I spent about three hours with the demo last night and I am even more enthusiastic about the game itself after playing the demo than before. I can hardly wait for the delightsome boxen from Amazon to arrive!
However ... the graphics in the RON demo are ... um ... not as impressive as they might be? Running 2.2 GHZ P-4 / 512 Meg Ram and an Nvidia GeForce Go 440 / 32 Meg Ram I tried resolutions of 1024 x 768 and 2040 x whatever, both 32 bit. Monitor has a true diagonal of 16.1 inches. I tried various zooms. Well, the graphics are impressive, just not as impressive as I expected somehow.
I agree with the post that asked why not use 2D technology and have sharp graphics? With my setup it was easy to confuse workers and military units. At least the scout has a dog at its side to distinguish it from an ordinary worker. Even buildings seemed sort of blurry.
After playing RON demo for about three hours, I played AOE II/C for a few minutes by way of comparison. The 2D graphics in AOE II/C are far sharper, more detailed, more sophisticated, more pleasing to the eye. Fired up AOM for comparison to another contemporary 3D game and, well, RON demo loses that battle instantly and on the spot. Cranked up the sensational C&C Generals and RON loses that confrontation even more quickly. Civ III/PTW is hard to compare directly, perhaps someone else could comment.
The graphics in RON are not bad, not even poor, I do not mean that. Maybe in the context of the game as a whole they make sense. After all, the scope of the game is very large. But all I have at the moment is the first impression made by the demo's graphics and I was not thrilled. Fortunately a game is far more than its graphics and my initial impression of RON is that this is a game that I am going to spend a lot of time playing. Wish the graphics were sharper, though.
I wonder if with a really high-end graphics card and a really big screen, like with a projector, would the graphics look any better?
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fluffy_ferret
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Who cares how the graphics look... go buy some fireworks...
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Snotty
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After a quick run through, I wanted to pop in here to see if any of my observations matched up with other peoples experiences. The game seems top, although I am worried that the very early game is going to get somewhat repetetitve. Also in the mid to late game, I seem to be rushing around clicking things to research and upgrade. Heaven forbid a big war kick off. And then my laptop ran out of power.
Back to it now then........
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STING
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mar 1999
time: 06:28
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quote:
Originally posted by One_Dead_Villy
hmmm why is so many people mentioning the animation smoothless beinbg a problem? Its completely smooth for me.... |
As smooth as AoE II Conquerors or Empire Earth?
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Nethog
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Canton, MI, USA
May 2001
time: 00:28
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I am a hard-core turn-based simulation (TBS) Civ game player (Civ1, Civ2, Civ3/PTW, SMAC/X) but in the last couple of years have started to play RTS as well, primarily since my two young boys find RTS more exciting . So I have played Age of Kings/TC, and I am currently playing Age of Mythology. When the RON demo was posted a couple of days ago, I downloaded it and tried it, and here is my assessment:
Overall assessment: a fascinating, captivating, interesting RTS game that I definitely plan on buying when it comes out next week. Gameplay is definitely different from AOE/AOK/AOM and makes for extremely interesting gameplay.
I found that my knowledge of Civ games greatly helped me understand how to play RON, whereas I would guess that a person who has never played civ TBS games would have to make a big adjustment from what they knew playing AOK/AOM/etc. Having said that, although RON is supposedly a RTS Civ game, it definitely does not have the "feel" of a Civ turn-based game, and in my opinion no RTS ever will. Although strategy plays a big part in RTS, and a much bigger part in TBS games, ultimately quick reflexes, and memorization of hot-keys/hot key sequences will be the differentiator in RTS games - not strategy, all things considered. So in conclusion, although RON does not "feel" like a TBS Civ game, it has a much different feel from the AOE/AOK/AOM series of games, and I say this in a very positive sense since the gameplay is excellent.
On the graphics of RON - I must say after playing Age of Mythology for the last 3 weeks or so, when I fired up RON I was disappointed. As I played the demo more and more, the excellent gameplay makes up for the graphics, but the graphics are still a disapointment if you compare them to Age of Mythology. If you zoom in in RON, the quality of graphics dramatically improves with an amazing amount of detail/animation on the various game objects, but of course it is not practical to play zoomed in for any length of time. By the way I am running a 3GHz P4 system with a 21" monitor, Radeon 9700 Pro card, with the RON resolution set to the highest (1600x1024, 32 bit color I think).
With respect to the 2D vs 3D debate for RTS - I too at one time thought being able to rotate graphics on a RTS game to be useless, but I have grown to absolutley love the capability in AOM, and rotate all of the time in order to better see around objects and/or select a viewing angle that just "feels" better. By the way, rotation in AOM can be done with the mousewheel so it is very easy to rotate even in the heat of a battle.
So BHG, bring on the game I can't wait to buy it!
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14-05-2003 02:41
(was up all night the first night :P) . The only things that bother me are the wonder victory, I wish I could shut that feature off, and for the ally's , you try to ally up with another nation and they rip you off that really got me going 
. I know that the full vers will allow the wonder feature off, and hopefully the AI will be alittle bit better when it comes to alliances. As for the graphics, they are fine, and I patiently waiting for the 20th.
I discovered that further when I entered the game.. 
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