Trashdome - Galactica VS Twilight Imperium 3rd

MrZir wrote:

"Yay! We survived together!"
vs.
"I amassed the most prestige points through such elaborate tasks as 'Spend 10 influence' or 'Spend 6 trade goods'."

I corrected that for you.

BSG, on the other hand, was obviously designed to fit the theme of it's source material. And is a 100x better game the TI3 because it SUCCEEDS at this task to an incredible degree.

I SUCCEEDED at the task of dressing myself this morning. I also SUCCEEDED at the task of going to work and not getting fired. Hell, I even SUCCEEDED at the task of not shitting my pants all day.

Success? Yes. Remarkable? Yes.

TI3 is the same boring design we've seen 100x before, but this time with Puerto Rico shoe-horned in because "Shit, it's #1 at BGG!!!".

100 times before, eh? Give me ten examples of where we've seen it before. Here, I'll even spot you Battlemist and Thunder's Edge. That leaves you with 8 to go, genius.

I think GalCiv2 is pretty good, and its free to download I believe(you are encouraged to register and pay for it)

lj1983 wrote:

I think GalCiv2 is pretty good, and its free to download I believe(you are encouraged to register and pay for it)

I'm pretty sure GalCiv2 still costs money, but there may be a demo version you're thinking of?

No game has yet to pick up the MOO mantle. MOO3 was an abomination. The Space Empires series is okay but way too tedious. GalCiv2 comes closest, but imo has some bad core design decisions and a nigh-useless diplomacy interface. The AI is tops, though, which counts for a heck of a lot.

I agree with this sentiment. GalCiv2 was much better than MOO3, but still ultimately a disappointment. None of the techs or weapons were interesting at all, just variants of "+# bonus to X" and too much of the time playing the game was spent spamming starbases and making trade routes. The customizability of races and stuff was nice, though.