Stardock: "People like strategy games, but don't like playing them online"

[gryeyes]

Id sacrifice my first born for a multiplayer Galciv2 that didn't gimp all the diplomacy stuff. The reasons for only 23% of Demigod players trying multiplayer probably has more to do with the online shit STILL being fucked. Most people (myself included) just shelved the game after the first month or two of being unable to play online.

[Teugeus]

Anyone here tried Dawn of War 2 ? That was the first RTS I played online on a regular basis, and I've been playing RTS' since I got warcraft 2 on my old mac. The emphasis they place on co-op really helps to make it feel more forgiving. Also Last Stand mode is damn good fun, albeit it gets repetitive after a while.

[Malakili]

Anyone here tried Dawn of War 2 ? That was the first RTS I played online on a regular basis, and I've been playing RTS' since I got warcraft 2 on my old mac. The emphasis they place on co-op really helps to make it feel more forgiving. Also Last Stand mode is damn good fun, albeit it gets repetitive after a while.

I played quite a lot of DoW2 when it was new, and had a fairly good time, but I got to a "true skill" level where I really hit a wall and seemed to either be able to destroy someone a bit below me, or get detroyed by someone above me.  And since I would rarely get a really even "good" match, I eventually just got sick of it and haven't played it much since.  That was a while ago now though, I think there have been a few fairly large updates since then that I'll probably get around to trying out when I get an RTS itch again.

[jth]

I'd love to play a squad-type turn-based game multiplayer, something like a souped-up Jagged Alliance.

That reminds me of the many, many days and nights we spent playing hotseat Laser Squad and Lords of Chaos on Amiga. Great games. Should probably try those again (on emulator) next gaming weekend, to see if the magic is still there.

[Azazel]

  Empire http://www.classicempire.com/help.html  was the first and only real RTS I played multiplayer, both ghetto hotseat (turn your back fucker I know you're looking) and LAN but I was tempted to try again with Sins of a Solar Empire and am suprised it hasn't been mentioned yet as I thought it was much more interesting than Civ (god forbid) or AoE.

Actually, yeah. Empire: Wargame of the Century was one my brother and I  (and on occasion his mate as well) used to hotseat. Still very different to being online when you're in the same room and able to BS with each other, though.

[Yegolev]

Id sacrifice my first born for a multiplayer Galciv2 that didn't gimp all the diplomacy stuff. The reasons for only 23% of Demigod players trying multiplayer probably has more to do with the online shit STILL being fucked. Most people (myself included) just shelved the game after the first month or two of being unable to play online.

I was thinking this... could be that Stardock thinks no one even tried because the shit networking wasn't even able to report the attempt.  I had fun in the TWO games I managed to get in, but fuck that shit.  Also I was discoed from the second one close to the end, so I'm not likely to try it again.

[UnSub]

There's a proportion who probably bought Demigod and have never played it.

Then there are a proportion who played single player a bit, didn't like it and walked away.

Then there are those who loved single player but aren't multiplayer gamers.

And then there are those who were probably either put off playing multiplayer when they heard all the negativity around the launch and, as Yegolev says, there might even be a group who tried to play multiplayer but couldn't log-on during launch.

[Kail]

Anyone here tried Dawn of War 2 ?

Played vs. the CPU a bit, and didn't think it was for me.  Seemed to be mainly zerg vs. zerg with a bunch of "Whack-a-mole" command points where the CPU runs to wherever you aren't defending and caps it while you do the same.  Probably I just suck at it, but I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.