Master of Orion 3 - First Impressions

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-01 09:10am

MKSheppard wrote:MOO3 report:

Dissapointment so far:

Why:

No control over research......dammit, I want to tell my guys to develop
the death ray of DOOM Mk3 instead of some dumbshit missile!

That's much more realistic Shep- how do you really know which tech is gonna give you which gun? The tech tree is huge- in most games you probably won't discover everything.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-03-01 10:07am

Vympel wrote: That's much more realistic Shep- how do you really know which tech is gonna give you which gun? The tech tree is huge- in most games you probably won't discover everything.

I'd like to at least have SOME control over it.....you know, like having
my top scientists come to me and say: "Lord Sheppard, our research
into energy has allowed us to achieve breakthroughs...it looks like our
research will allow us to come up with better engines or weapons...which
do you want, mein leader?"

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-01 10:28am

MKSheppard wrote:
I'd like to at least have SOME control over it.....you know, like having
my top scientists come to me and say: "Lord Sheppard, our research
into energy has allowed us to achieve breakthroughs...it looks like our
research will allow us to come up with better engines or weapons...which
do you want, mein leader?"

That might be good- but I thought MOO3 already had the tech tree so you could look ahead a few steps?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-03-01 10:36am

Vympel wrote: That might be good- but I thought MOO3 already had the tech tree so you could look ahead a few steps?

The tech tree is a joke. It's all a random mess, with no FUN. It's more
like a giant crap shoot than a real sense of discovering things.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-01 10:41am

MKSheppard wrote:
The tech tree is a joke. It's all a random mess, with no FUN. It's more
like a giant crap shoot than a real sense of discovering things.

I like being surprised by new discoveries- MOO2 bored the shit out of me after the first dozen times of Class V shield.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-03-01 11:54am

Dalton wrote:How does it compare to SE4 Gold?

SE 4 Gold has it fucking beat six ways to sunday...

And space combat is utter fucking shite

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2003-03-01 12:58pm

I think some of the worst parts of the game is orbital
bombardment. It takes ages to depopulate a planet.
Oh and ground forces are not affected by orbital bombardment.
Combat is OK if you zoom out and the shipbuilding AI is braindead.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-03-01 10:43pm

I bought it this afternoon. After 2-4 hours of playing I've finally figured out how to tell the game I want to build a ship. In contrast, I knew how to do that almost the moment I started playing MoO1. On the other hand, I do appreciate the new level of contol I get. I still have yet to play a space battle, so I don't know what that'll be like. I'm a bit worried about my bad mouse losing me some battles.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-03-07 04:40pm

I can't get into this game at all for some reason

It looks good but I can't get interested enough to play a long game.