![]() Battles in GSB tend to get tedious because there is nothing to do but watch… when you find yourself hitting the fast forward button after the first few games, that is not great game design. But you can give them something to do like jumping into controlling turrets and where they are aiming during battle. What gamers want is to PARTICIPATE in the battle. ![]() I bought GSB and I still hate the lack of control… also I think you’re being a little bit black and white. The problem I have is that we have Popcaps games, and then Hearts Of Iron 3. You might think there are not enough complex strategy games for the PC, and maybe you are right. Sometimes, it’s a good idea to leave out the boring stuff. You don’t have to find a quiet spot in combat during call of duty to go take a crap. This isn’t the case when you sit down to play a PC game. Churchill did that because it was his full time job, a matter of life or death, and a neccesity ( and he farmed stuff like that out to underlings, anyway). I don’t want to give over my life to worrying about the diplomatic situation in pakistan and whether or not the armor plating on the decks of the 23rd oil-transport flotilla that goes from Cuba to Portsmouth is sufficient. The key is, I want to FEEL like I am doing it, not actually do it. I *want* to feel like I am Winston Churchill, leading the British empire to ultimate victory over the Nazis. I may not like the styling, or the subject matter, but they know how to boil things down to the bare minimum required to capture a particular feeling. In game design terms, their products are absolutely awesome. Controlling all the lasers would be frustrating and hard work, so GSB doesn't make it an optionĪ company that really *gets* this, is popcap. Over 100,000 enjoyed it enough to buy it, so I can’t be the only person with this point of view. it admits you can’t, and thus doesn’t make it an option. GSB does not pretend you can control 300 starships in a complex battle. This, in essence, is part of the rationale behind GSB. ![]() Ship me a simpler game, that uses less than 800MB of RAM before the menu screen, please… I don’t boot up my PC so the AI can enjoy itself. I would rather not play HOI3 at all, than play with most of the game being played by the AI. We don’t want to admit to anyone, even ourselves, that we are overwhelmed and giving control over something to someone else. We are tyrants and megalomaniacs who want TOTAL control over our universe. Do not tell me that people who enjoy complex turn-based strategy games are happy to turn over some decisions to an AI manager. That is a horrible sticking plaster over a gaping wound. The usual game-designers excuse for this behavior, to people who complain (like me) is that there are ‘AI-managers’ that you can switch on to handle the tedious stuff. Do you really want to spend world war 2 micromanaging the rate at which you sell electricity to Nicaragua? Really?īuying production rights from Bhutan, is not something spielberg will make a movie about any time soon. ![]() If you must add diplomacy to the game, please ignore Costa Rica, Guatemala, Andorra, and other countries whose impact on world War 2 was at best marginal. That just INSISTS that I will spend most of the battle frustrated, panicked and annoyed. If I can control what ammo is used, what target engaged, what stance is adopted, and what hat is worn by my troops, and even take direct control of them, do NOT give me 150 of them in one mission. In my view, Men of War does the same thing. The result is a game like HOI 3, a game which absolutely bludgeons you with exceptional levels of micro-management and geekery. game designers, especially very insular ones with no hobbies or interests outside games, tend to go way too far in the direction of over-complexity and over features. I agree, that’s a bit extreme, but the direction is possibly the right one. I remember people giving him a lot of stick about wanting to simplify combat to just one button. The older and more experienced I get, the more I understand Peter Molyneux. The game is, in my humble opinion, a design train-wreck of epic proportions, despite being a game production miracle of awe inspiring proportions. I lasted less than 1 hour of game time (5 minutes of real time), and quit in frustration. Having been kicked from a game of red orchestra, for no explicable reason (I presume another of many bugs), I fired up Hearts Of Iron 3, to give it another go.
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