Armageddon Empires Comments by Kieron Gillen
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Clive Dunn
19/12/07 @ 11:51
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I worry that a load of Magic : The Gathering fans are going to turn up in a minute and launch a forum invasion on us. But I guess they'll need to spend £50 on cards first.
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Mentalist(air)
19/12/07 @ 12:03
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It's a 4X game, which stands for "I'm incapable of realising what letter starts a word" (or rather, "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate"
Really, then they should be called 4ex games. Although, it'd be even better if they added "eXperiment" (i.e. Research, which often plays a bit part in these games). Then they could be 5ex games! |
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BremXJones
19/12/07 @ 12:18
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Google for Dubious Quality Armageddon Empires to read their five part walkthrough, if you're playing the demo. It kind of introduces stuff well. There's a manual on the site too.
Its' worth the effort getting in, I think. KG |
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downloading the demo from http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/AE/ae_... so I'll see what it's like. At $30 it's cheap as chips :)
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MrChuckles
19/12/07 @ 12:50
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I already bought this a month or two ago. The base game is great, but they have missed a trick with unlocking cards in a campaign game tbh. But plays like a short MOO without the complexity of building on planets, which is no bad thing.
Just diappointing you get to choose from EVERYTHIng as soon as you load the game up. i want a base set of crap to beat a similarly crap deck of enemies, then earn more cards etc... Then again, i am a nerd...which is the target audience... |
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lol is magic online still going?
there's a nice technical positive review of armageddon empires here: http://www.gameshark.com/features/359/p_... |
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WanderingTaoist
19/12/07 @ 14:16
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I have it for some three months now and I love it. Fast, engaging, Falloutesque, very deep. Get it.
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groovychainsaw
19/12/07 @ 14:17
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It's brilliant, trust me. The demo will convert all who are interested in this type of game. I'm just not allowed to buy any more games this side of xmas (sob), but new year, this is must first purchase. Yes, it has all the flaws that Kieron mentioned (you WILL play your first couple of games before you find out how to access your commander's abilities - its not obvious!), but it has great depth and a great boardgame feel.
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Thankyou Kieron for bringing this game to my attention....
played it all last night .. haven't even managed to complete 1 game of the demo but loved every minute figuring stuff out. Reading the manual now at work.. will purchase this tomorrow when my wages come through, for £15 its a bargain its going to save me a fortune i wont need another game for months now. What a corker just in time for the xmas holiday .. |
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BremXJones
20/12/07 @ 10:47
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Oh - important and useful shortcut: "F" makes you make the next dice roll in battles. Saves a lot of clicking.
KG |
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Coughthulu
20/12/07 @ 12:10
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Woohoo!
Never heard of it till this review yesterday. Played demo, got hooked, bought game. Can't stop playing it. Now I can do something worthwhile on the laptop and still be "social" whilst the rest of the family watch Christmas Tele Tat. ;-) Cheers to Kieron for reviewing deserving Indie stuff like this! |
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Tried the demo - really painful to get into. Really annoying and unfriendly interface. It somehow reminds of Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron which I really couldn't get myself into.
Yet if you give it an eight, there must be more to it, so I will try again at the lame PC at work to see if it works. |
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Played this a lot on the train in the past few days, and it really is very good. It's a lot less fiddly if you know that you can avoid about 60% of your mouse clicks by pressing "f". There's a surprising amount of depth to it, and it's filled with fun popular culture references :D Thanks for reviewing it, Kieron!
And: free expansion pack in March! |
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Portal is my GotY 2007, but if there were only one game I could take into 2008, this'd be it. Interface issues aside, it's absolutely brilliant.
1.06a is now out (see here) which, among other things, allows armies to be renamed, which is a godsend.
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i was wondering if you can play this on a mac. I have an apple and would love to play it on there.
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