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Detailed Preview of Masters of Orion 3
garibald writes "Constantine, the head developer, promised that there would be a detailed preview of the game this week, and here it is at Apolyton. Constantine also said the game was in it's final regression testing. Here's hoping that the game will be out by the end of this month." Oh, Lordie, if I counted the hours I spent playing MOO and MOO2 - I'm really looking forward to this one.
I think you got a couple of songs mixed up. It's Master of Puppets and Orion is another song from that album altogether.
Muusssst have my ORION 3F)JSKDL Musssst have it now. WHy do they taunt me? WHY DO THEY TEASES ME? I hatesssss them. precioussssss
By the way, still playing computer geek games past the age of 12? GROW THE FUCK UP!
Let's all guess who just turned 14 and thinks he's the hot shit now...
Ok, so I slightly changed it. ;-)
--gal
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Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
dilbert
Yeah, the next parts of the preview will cut'n'paste completely different parts of the manual ;-)
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
The stellar converters were awesome. On very stressful days, I'd sometimes go around trying to destroy every planet in the galaxy by not quite killing off an enemy, letting him settle a new world, then vaporizing it. A guilty pleasure. I suppose I'm going to be up in front of a war crimes tribunal some day
is that when they are removing features?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
The AI in MOO2 didn't cheat. But it did get very lucky.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
My best moment in a space sim was an old PC (as in, IBM PC) game called Reach For The Stars.
During one of these games several computer opponents steamrolled over me early on and conquered *all* of my systems. Even though I now had NO systems and NO ships the game wasn't over. I couldn't do anything except hit "next turn". Now, in RFTS you had to maintain a certain level of military presence to control the planet. So when another computer opponent tried to invade one of my former planets they didn't conquer it - but they reduced the number of troops there so my people rose up. I had a planet again! And I went on to win the game.
From zero planets to galactic overlord.
*bow*
One cute thing to do is to conquer all the galaxy except one enemy world
My favorite goal, was to cripple an incapacitate the other races, without genociding them. Each race was allowed to have its homeworld, and only that homeworld. I would take all the others, beating them back to their origins... then my lvl 100 warships would patrol orbit. Never again, would I allow them to leave the surface... or for that matter, to build industry! Had to be careful, never to let them go much below 10million population, or you could accidentally extinct them on the next volley. What a pity that would be, the curator of the intergalactic zoo would have had my head! Figuratively speaking, of course. As emperor, I had him executed for sneezing in my presence.
Those were the days. It was only later that I discovered that the Urquan had been doing the same for millenia. But that's another game, another story.
PS I used to do this on Herzog Zwei too... ring his home base with SAMs, and he could never leave to place units, but would never lose either. Just turn the TV off for a week, come back and end the game to see that you died 4 times, but he died 376,122 times. Caimlas, if you are reading this, you won't believe that either, I suppose. Yes, I did beat Zelda without ever getting the sword, asswad.