Forum Overview :: Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark :: I'm enjoying it

[quote name="Roop"]It's like Civ 5, which got boring after a while, making me go back to playing Fall from Heaven. This doesn't seem as boring right now. It doesn't have stacks, 1 unit per hex, like Civ 5. So I haven't actually finished a game yet, but I'm enjoying it and plan on starting a new game. I may decide it sucks... I'm still figuring it out, which may be making it fun. The manual sucks. Still unsure exactly how you gain favor with which Gods, but apparently it's all about which spells you cast. I was unclear on how to upgrade my normal troops into their more elite versions, but finally noticed a little button on the city screen that showed me ALL buildings I can build, even if I don't meet requirements. That cleared things up. I hadn't picked one city and made it my 'military city.' So I hadn't gone up the the line, barracks let you build armory, let's you build training grounds, whatever. I guess the key is specializing all your cities. Humans are good at making gold, goblins are good at food, skeletons have more specialized building for mana. Unlike Civ 5, this game doesn't punish you for having more than a handful of cities. It's all about having LOTS of cities. This is okay, because after a while, you won't be building anything in your cities. They fill up fast. The buildings are placed on the terrain. Eventually you'll fill up the terrain, and never be bothered by the city again. This game was clearly influenced by Master of Magic, and it made me think about that game again. In so many ways, it's a better game. You had lots of races, not just three, and the tech tree was unique depending on the spell books you picked. This has one tech tree, but I guess it randomly gives you spells. So you might not get particular spells from one game to another. Not sure though, only playing one game, but there's a lot of variety. The DLC was some preorder bonus to give you overpowered units at the start if you customize your Warlock to take them. Easily passed upon. $20 bucks for this thing, which on the one hand is great, on the other hand it means there probably won't be much support with more DLC or expansion packs. Maybe. This feels like a game that could use those. Still, lots of weird monsters to discover, which is fun. You get to the mid-late game, and can try to enter these portals (like in MoM) to other dimensions. The two I saw were packed with dragons. Kill em, and the special huts I found there sometimes rewarded unique units. So if you like exploring and discovering things like that, you'll enjoy it. Oooo Werebears! OooOO liches! I think Tom Chick complained the AI wasn't trying to sodomize him constantly, because he must be sodomized constantly to be happy. But Civ AI has ALWAYS been awful, so whatever. The AI seemed about the same as any Civ game. It cheats at higher difficulty levels. I'm less about being banged hard up the ass, and more finding the weird stuff in the other dimensions right now. [/quote]