Making History--Is it any better than World at War?

[cdbeck]

I wish I was better at computer artistic design. I would make a literal seal that had your avatar's face in the middle, smiling coyly. Along the top it would say 'Give me Turn Based or Give me Death!" and on the bottom "RH's Seal of Approval." You could even make varying levels of seals, like "Bargain Bin Special" and "Clickfest!"

To the OT... I really like MH:C&S. I played it all the way through as Germany from '36. I knocked the US out of the war with a Nuclear bomb to DC, otherwise they would have eventually broken me down in their wide scale war (they did off Japan). The only thing I did not like is how difficult it is to get your ALLIES to agree with a peace treaty with nearly defeated enemies. I had taken all but a few far flung colonies of France and the UK, and they were fully ready to agree to giving me France and UK proper, along with switching to Fascist governments. However, Italy and Japan would not agree to it (despite the colonies they would gain)! I had to leave the alliance to get it to work, forming my own Germany alliance from those crushed beneath my bootheel. Of course I eventually turned on Italy... it was just too tempting.

SoM

[JudgeDredd]

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[sterckxe]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
It's not your likes or dislikes with certain games that get my back up...it's your misrepresentations of said games....potentially putting people off purchasing what they may consider to be a good game by your narrow minded, self righteous, over opinionated, uneducated views.

Hi,

Take a deep breath [:D]

It's Ravinhood - anyone who has ever spend more than a couple of days on these forums *knows* this is a guy who has realized you don't actually have to spend $50 on buying a game if you can have just as much fun for free by not buying it and just posting in that game's forum.

You know about my deep involvement with Panther Games and their HTTR and COTA games, and I don't think he's chasing away any customers at all. On the contrary. Thanks to reverse psychology he might be making people very curious about this engine that seems to generate so much love/hate reactions.

Well, shortly everyone will be able to check this engine out for himself as Arjuna has just announced that a demo for Conquest of the Aegean is almost ready :

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Now, who wouldn't want to try this game Ravinhood seems unable to get his head around ? [:D]

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

[JudgeDredd]

Bugger....I seem to have removed my attempt too late!

I had removed it because I promised myself and my local priest I would not lock horns with him again...and I took so long putting it all together as well!!!

[sterckxe]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
I had removed it because I promised myself and my local priest I would not lock horns with him again...

Why ? Just look at this forum as free entertainment, an RPG game where mock duels are fought between the usual suspects.

And I'm getting *paid* while typing this while WoW has a monthly fee [:D]

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

[Skeleton]

My two cents; I have found Making History to be a good game with the possibility of being an excellent game with the upcoming patch. My main problem with most of Paradox's titles are the "real time" aspect. I did not like the four turns a year of World At War. I just prefer turns and turns that equate to a week. This game is, without question, somewhere between Hearts of Iron and World at War and borrows from both. There are aspects that I would like to see improved or changed (supply, more units, alliances, unrealistic air bombardment of land units) but on the whole I have found it a breath of fresh air. For what it is worth, I preferred Hearts of Iron over World At War and Making History, for me, is more enjoyable then both. I hope this was of some help. Cheers