They made Master of Orion II : Battle at Antares which is a 4X turn by turn space game I still play in 2025, as much as fun as Heroes III
They made Master of Orion II : Battle at Antares which is a 4X turn by turn space game I still play in 2025, as much as fun as Heroes III
MoO2 and Heroes 3; there's a combo that sends me right back.
I think there's a serious argument somewhere in there that perfection of a game is much easier in the "2D" realm and even now we've not really gotten close in 3D space - as proof I'd offer Factorio.
There’s so many wrong things about 3D games, I’m surprise I didn’t read an article about that yet
3D is harder than 2D for a multitude of reasons.
Because of this, heavy heavy code reuse is common and likely the folks who wrote it are gone, leaving only behind an ABI and a doc. This is why so many games have very similar design components to them. It worked for the business before (or a similar one), someone said sales go up, they pull in the ABI, now everything’s an open world, scavenger, PVP, base building, inventory management, shooter, looter, micro transaction scooter, rpg (with aimbot if you use a controller)
ahah that's a fun description, is there a game that is all those things at once though :) ? I asked ChatGPT and it told me Rust video game (and a few others if we remove one criteria such as base building or open-world)
To me, some gameplay was lost going from 2D to 3D, and there's a huge opportunity for some game makers to make something beautifully cartoonish pixel perfect 3D / 2.5D with the perfect gameplay of 2D
Oh Masters of Orion… such a die hard fan base :D and such an amazing game. I think it’s still the OG of 4X for me.