Looking back at the match day...
Hari Seldon
Can't help it, but I've the feeling that the match day option to view these
running ants has taken the magic away.
I used to shout at the letters on CM1
I used to scream and cheer at the flashing boxes of CM2
I used to ponder, whine and stammer reading the lines in CM3
And now... I see circles moving.. and I can't help but feeling homesick to
these days that the texts filled my imagination with bicycle kicks and
all... There is almost no room for thinking how a player looks with the
piccies and how a player acts with the match screen.
This may be a big compliment but....
I think I''m off to CM 01/02 (3)
Maybe I'm getting ol' or something. After finishing Rome, Total War I looked
up on an abandonware site for Centurion...
Hari Seldon
Mr. Pink
Let me know if you find it...
Mikael Schøler
Gareth
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bother to correct a problem that has obviously so easy to solve!
Hari Seldon
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No no no.. It's like Icarus flying too high or low, or Pygmalion falling in
love with his own statue. Once you've seen the sirens of match view....
you're spoiled for ever
Hari Seldon
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http://www.abandonia.com/game.php?ID=23&genre=strategy
That Abandonia site sure ROCKS!
Centurion
Ascendancy
Sam & Max
Dune
Dune II
etc. etc.
All the goodies for the dosbox etc.are there
The Wielder of the Scythe
> Hari Seldon wrote:
> > Video killed the radio-star...
> > Can't help it, but I've the feeling that the match day option to view these
> > running ants has taken the magic away.
> >
> uhm can I remind you of the feature that lets you disable 2D view?
Yes, you can turn to a completely virginal commentary view and/or switch to match stats and
ignore the 2D when it pops up. But that is not the point. The 2D view is the dominant engine in
the game. Turning it off/ignoring it is an exercise in self-delusion. All the bad AI (and
sometimes good AI) is still there, you cannot get away from it.
It is a given that once SI put in the visualisation engine of the matches, they must get it as
close to possible as football; TV football at the least. If they cannot, gamers will not be able
to suspend their disbelief even more. They cannot most of the matches and we laugh our heads off
for one, and for two, get frustrated for lack of interventional options and toss the game away.
My posit is this - if the AI was half as good as the matches we watch on TV, the little dots
behaved like amateur footballers would, we would be playing just this game and nothing else.
The Wielder of the Scythe
> http://www.abandonia.com/game.php?ID=23&genre=strategy
>
> That Abandonia site sure ROCKS!
> Centurion
> Ascendancy
> Sam & Max
> Dune
> Dune II
Since you like old-fashioned uncomplicated strategy games, may I suggest one very underrated and
almost unheard of title? Fields of Glory. It is at the site too.
http://www.abandonia.com/game.php?ID=106&genre=strategy
Almost no AI to speak of. But how does it work as a strategy game? That, my fellow strategist,
is the magic of it.
The Brazilian Man
escreveu:
you have valid point here, we could be able to manage and play both
versions, as the games are different.
I miss when I had no info about european players, and my first CM2 games
were totally intuitive and stats reading.
But as I'm a realism hunter, I'm very happy with FM, and in opposition to
majority I hope to be still alive and playing it in 3D with good AI.
--
The Brazilian Man
Fil Arkonus
>
> No no no.. It's like Icarus flying too high or low, or Pygmalion falling
> in love with his own statue. Once you've seen the sirens of match view....
> you're spoiled for ever
You could just watch the commentary and then watch the highlights in match
view after. Get the best of both?
--
Fil
Mikael Schøler
laptop.. Why? Simply because it doesn't run that good - requires too
much power..
Hari Seldon
"Fil Arkonus" <f...@arkonuspants.f9pants.copants.ukpants> schreef in bericht
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Hmm.. seems like asking Hades to let me cross the Styx just one more time
(and again and again)... But all in all that's no bad idea at all..
I'll give it a whistle - along CM3... After I've finished my dosbox-games ;)
Hari Seldon
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You have a Pentium I 200Mhz MMX laptop?
Mikael Schøler
playable as long as I don't view the 2D..
Mr. Pink
Thanx
Hari Seldon
"Mikael Schøler" <BLAm...@tdcBLAadsl.dk> schreef in bericht
Playing with a PII machine... I make a deep bow for thee. That's what I call
patience!
I run it on a Athlon 64-bit 3000Mhz. and still think it's sluggish, mind
you... just bought this laptop :(
Mikael Schøler
playing a Schalke 04 game and it doesn't run that bad.
I actually got an offer yesterday for a 700-something laptop.. I think
it will improve the gameplay a bit :-)
Hari Seldon
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Remember playing it once... Can't recall it exactly, give it a wizz this
week..