Comments on: Death of Strategy Gaming is Greatly Exaggerated http://www.topofcool.com/2006/02/death-of-strategy-gaming-is-greatly-exaggerated/ Your tongues can't repel taste of this magnitude! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Botswana http://www.topofcool.com/2006/02/death-of-strategy-gaming-is-greatly-exaggerated/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Botswana Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:32:55 +0000 http://www.topofcool.com/?p=140#comment-139 Sounds encouraging. To be honest, even though I am a long time turn-based fan, the latest games have been something of a turn off. I just could not get Civ III started to save my life. It seemed overcomplicated for its own sake and I finally gave up when I realized it felt more like work. It seems like we are in a phase right now where games seem more like work than entertainment, which is a deadly time to be developing turn-based games that have a natural built-in "slog factor" already. I don't know if one good game being released, or even two if you count Civ IV, is going to save the genre. There was a time, hard as it might seem to believe, that a few turn-based strategy games were released every quarter. Not the few a year we're lucky to see now. Sounds encouraging. To be honest, even though I am a long time turn-based fan, the latest games have been something of a turn off. I just could not get Civ III started to save my life. It seemed overcomplicated for its own sake and I finally gave up when I realized it felt more like work.

It seems like we are in a phase right now where games seem more like work than entertainment, which is a deadly time to be developing turn-based games that have a natural built-in “slog factor” already. I don’t know if one good game being released, or even two if you count Civ IV, is going to save the genre. There was a time, hard as it might seem to believe, that a few turn-based strategy games were released every quarter. Not the few a year we’re lucky to see now.

]]> By: Troy Goodfellow http://www.topofcool.com/2006/02/death-of-strategy-gaming-is-greatly-exaggerated/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Troy Goodfellow Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:43:12 +0000 http://www.topofcool.com/?p=140#comment-138 Who's saying strategy gaming is dead? Strategy gaming is doing fine. Now turn based strategy gaming...that's another story. And it will take more than GalCiv2 and Civ4 to resurrect that corpse. Who’s saying strategy gaming is dead? Strategy gaming is doing fine.

Now turn based strategy gaming…that’s another story. And it will take more than GalCiv2 and Civ4 to resurrect that corpse.

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