Late 90s/early 00s turn based strategies were so soulful

aow used to be really fast.

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>>712359482
This game clearly has higher visual fidelity, yet the spritework in >>712357959 (OP) looks objectively cleaner and better.

>>712360413
>"objectively"

>>712360413
Disciples 2 had a very distinct style to it, by no means it was perfect but you couldn't find a game just like it

>>712359482
you can't fool me that's Tower

>>712357959 (OP)
is that Age of Wonders 1?

only played 2 and tried the sequels altho I didn't like them as much as 2.
How does 1 fare to 2?

>>712365532
As someone who played 2 when I was 8 which was 20 years ago and played 1 a few years ago, I found myself enjoying the game. It's rougher around the edges but it's great in its own right. Old school fantasy really, as old school as it gets while not being ancient.

>>712359482
>>712363249
Disciples 2 is still my favorite turn base strategy

How many of these old gems can be found on Nintendo Eshop? I know its not rts but I recently bought NWN1 from eshop

>>712365532
>>712365787
Is that really AoW? I get Warlords vibes from the map and texts.

>>712359482
I beat Disciples 2's undead campaigns recently, were pretty great. Love me some fucking weapon immunity on every unit in the hero stack.

>>712366038
GOG is the best platform for games like these, they often come with patches that make them work on modern computers

>>712366038
probably not many, altho I hope this will change now that the switch2 has a built in mouse, hopefully they will no longer force devs to shoehorn joystick controls on these kind of games to get them on the store

>>712357959 (OP)
>Born too late to explore new continents
>Born too early to explore space
>Born at just the right time to experience the golden age and evolution of videogames

>>712366245
>mission will still act like you have typical team and throw weapons based enemy teams at you

>>712365939
Wish the modding scene was as popular as HoMM3

>>712365939
How did they fuck up the new one so badly?

>>712365532
>>712366240
That is AoW1, yes. The game is amazing. I had a demo of it as a kid but didn't really play until about 5 years ago and it instantly became a favorite

>>712367737
Different devs

>>712367737
Russians
Oh wait, there is even newer one, I don't remember who made it but it's in name only

I really love AoW1 and I tried 2 and SM multiple times over the years but they feel so inferior to the original

>>712370750
I like AoW4 as a multiplayer game because of the amount of options you have but I wish it had more single-player scenarios and not just random map template slop. Campaign is also very short.

>>712367907
>getting BTFO by an army of goblins
How will halflings every recover from this?

>>712367907
AoW1 is great. There's even a few points where you can choose how you procceed and depending on the missions you complete you get different outcomes, like how when you're playing storm cult you can either beat orcs into submission or ally with lizardmen.

I'm trying to learn Master of Magic, but I'm a brainlet when it comes to 4X games.

>>712374360
11 Death Magic books.
Summon Wraiths.
Win on turn 20.

>>712374741
I'm using Caster of Magic, they might've rebalanced this.

>>712370750
never played 1, only 2
what does 1 do better than 2?
I really liked 2's campaign, my only gripe with it was that heroes are so fucking important in it, yet you have almost no ways to revive them, so you constantly have to savescum if they die

>>712375009
Yeah, it was broken as fuck in vanilla, you have to work for it now.

>>712374360
Whatever happened to that one Master of Magic remake anyway? The one that was hex-based for some reason (not Warlock or its sequel).

>>712377279
We don't talk about it.

>>712377279
I think I pirated it, played it for like 10 minutes, and couldn't get why the game needed a remake in the first place so I uninstalled it.

>>712357959 (OP)
This is why I still play Dominions

HoMM3 HD looks good.

>>712378081
*HD mod

I will never forgive Blizzard for what they unleashed upon the world with Warcraft 3's shit models

>>712357959 (OP)
Everything said in this post is true

>cant find this in a playable state anywhere because of legalese horseshit
One of the best Civs because of all the freedom you had in what to do. Would kill for a good remaster

>>712357959 (OP)
>turn based

>>712379363
Age of Wonders has simultaneous turns.

>>712379363

>old games weren't politica-

>>712378081
>that zoom out
no
widescreen support and the QoL features of HD mod are good but zooming out so much more than originally intended should be punished by law

>>712381793
Okay, how about this?

bump

>>712363249
yeah heroes of might and magic 3 is better.

>>712357959 (OP)
>Age of Wonders on /v/
Sunk a fucking lot of time into this game at my friend's house on a dogshit IBM Thinkpad.

>>712382160
>Ivor

>>712378081
>>712378164
That is an EXTREMELY important distinction, because the official "HoMM III HD" release is a dogshit downgrade.

Just do HoMM III Complete.

How come there are spiritual successors for HOMM (Songs of Conquests and others) and AoW (Spellforce Conquest of Eo) but Disciples gets nothing? People love turn-based overworld management as evidenced by Civ, Endless Legend/Space, Total War; people enjoy 3-6 niggas in a row (Darkest Dungeon, E33, old Final Fantasy), people love dark fantasy as evidenced by fromsoft games, so why has nobody even tried?
Shit's not fair man

>>712381793
I don't mind that zoom out so much. I have more issues with how tiny city and battlescreens are highest resolutions

>>712389227
Disciples got Liberation instead.

>>712389807
This one pisses me off, AoW still getting sequels, 3 and 4 are pretty good, Olden Era looks a bit shit but at least it's still Heroes gameplay, meanwhile Liberation is literally some random mobile game that looks or plays nothing like Disciples and the only things connecting it to the franchise is that they renamed some npcs to D2 characters. Can't have shit in Nevendaar