maartos said:I was going to make that joke
I don't see how a 3D engine would benefit map-based games like HOI.
Because our earth is in 3D and not flat like all false map
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Because our earth is in 3D and not flat like all false map
boromir said:
quote from a bugs bunny cartoon "Thatsa right everyone knows the world a she's a flat!"
Corey
Diplomacy - Grand strategy game that you can play in an evening over pizza and beer.
Right up Johan's alley, the beer part that is...
Corey
Right up Johan's alley, the beer part that is...
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christianx said:But...Paradox is all about grand strategy...? I don´t get it.
What is diplomacy then?
Awful
...or to rephrase that, not one I can ever see becoming a satisfactory one player game vs AI nations. Those people who like the game play it multiplayer very easily via email.
grumbold said:Awful
...or to rephrase that, not one I can ever see becoming a satisfactory one player game vs AI nations. Those people who like the game play it multiplayer very easily via email.
This is going OT quickly, but I'm having a hard time seeing Diplomacy translate well into a computer game. Either it will have to become a game entirely different than Diplomacy, or will will have to be ONLY MP (no AI).
Diplomacy is a very simple game in technical terms. The fun of it comes from getting together with friends and forming alliances and backstabbing and whatnot.
Well, we'll see...
I also feel a bit uneasy with the idea of a new engine. Hopefully Johan and others know what they're doing...
While I'm definitely not against 2-D, by all means...moving to a new 3-D engine eventually is simply logical and increasingly necessary in today's gaming market. Hopefully the transition is beneficial to all involved.
Imagine a full world map like the one in RTW. Just beautiful with real moving fronts and not the capture the square style of play we have now. This would problably be off a couple of years for a WWII game but one could only dream. I guess some people will have to upgrade their computers now that Paradox is going modern gaming.
The only constant is changeEnPeaSea said:Change can be frightening.
"Beg, threaten, plead and argue"... sounds like a husband-wife relationship
"You'll have to be cunning, smooth, and deceitful"... not yet, but I can learn
Diplomacy seems worth looking into, thnx for the tip.
3D graphics is interesting but fundermentally irrelevent to a Strategic game
Cheers, Ice
Cheers, Ice
Icecold said:3D graphics is interesting but fundermentally irrelevent to a Strategic game
Cheers, Ice
Though it is visually more pleasuring, while not changing the concept of moving armies and clicking on this and that to change things
and trying to be smarter than your opponent.If you take it to the core, the scenario or the armies or the units are also totally irrelevant to a strategy game, though its more interesting for the player to play a strategy game set in his favourite timeframe.
3D is a great improvement. Although a "map-game" with strategic scope doesn't really need it it's required if they choose to make any other kind of games, especially more tactical ones (Squad leader perhaps...). And even on a map-game it could be a good feature, anybody remember Alpha Centauri?
Time to get a 256Mb PCI-Express graphics board...
And a new Motherboard, and processor...
OMG, I think Paradox should employ me as historical advisor or a records manager, because I don't have the money
And a new Motherboard, and processor...
OMG, I think Paradox should employ me as historical advisor or a records manager, because I don't have the money
Luis de Aveiro said:
No company goes from requiring a 4MB graphics card and a dual rusty can modem for one game to needing a $2000 computer for their next game. Well, except for Origin with Ultima Online->Ultima Ascension.
christianx said:
Diplomacy is one of the all time classic board games from the early 70's. A great game face to face. In my opinoin, there is nothing there to make a good computer game from. Someone released a computer version of Diplomacy a few years ago and it was absolutely awful.
The game is set on an area based map of Europe with the 7 major powers at the beginning of WWI. It has an extremely simplistic combat engine which only has generic armis and fleets and only one per area. It is a diceless system in which 2 armies push out 1 etc.
The entire depth of the game is in the communication with the other human players. It is a game of making/breaking deals and of betrayal. Any good computer version of Diplomacy will keep little other than the name.
