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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject: Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday!
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:55:43 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> >Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:12:02 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,
> >> >Ant wrote: 
> >
> >
> >> >>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287330/Empire_of_the_Ants/
> >> >>And I'm still too busy and using an old video card (MSI NVIDIA GeForce 
> >> >>GTX 750 Ti (N750TI-2GD5/OC; 2 GB of VRAM) so I can't play it for now. :( 
> >> >>Maybe I will finally play it in a decade when it is free and have better 
> >> >>hardwares. Ha! :P
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:29:03 -0600, PW
> >> <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
> >> >Maybe we should all chip in and get Ant what he needs to play his
> >> >family game.  Or maybe Spalls will find something good at the
> >> >dumpsters for Ant.
> >
> >> The dumpsters have been sadly quite empty recently. I think the
> >> building staff is on to me and hoarding the good stuff for themselves
> >> inside rather than leaving it on curb. 
> >
> >Did your previous good stuff include good video cards though? :p
> >

> Actually, I once found a complete system with a GeForce 790GTX and an
> i7 processor; it wasn't top-of-the-line stuff even at the time, but it
> was still a pretty decent gaming rig. 

Ha, that video card would handle this game well than my old card. ;P


> (It also had its hard-drives complete with all the user data on it in
> unencrypted format. People really need to learn to wipe their drives
> before tossing their PCs)

Geez. Did you find anything good in their HDDs? ;)


> >> As to the game itself...
> >
> >> Firstly, there's a demo for those not sure if it's for them:
> >> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062270/Empire_of_the_Ants__Demo/
> >
> >> Beyond that... well, the visuals are the game's biggest hook (and the
> >> bugs, if you're into that sort of thing). But what little the trailers
> >> show of the gameplay just doesn't look all that interesting. At best
> >> it seems a rather humdrum RTS; some of its mechanics (riding a giant
> >> snail? or leading armies of ants against armies of beetles?) seem
> >> outright silly (and in direct opposition to the ultra-realistic theme
> >> the visuals suggest), and apparently everything is done in
> >> third-person mode, requiring you to shepherd your forces everywhere? 
> >
> >> It just seems to lack any novelty or sophistication beyond its
> >> graphics. I can't personally get excited about it.
> >
> >So, you're not a RTS fan?

> I play them. I enjoy them. They're not my favorite genre, but I don't
> dislike them in general. 

> I'm a bit less sanguine about action/strategy RTS games, where you
> have to take on the role of one of the soldiers on the battlefield and
> order your troops from a ground-level perspective. I find it messy and
> overly complicated. Even though several games -- "Battlezone" (1998)
> or "Hostile Waters: Anteaus Rising", for instance-- rose to prominence
> based on the mechanic, I think a lot of their success came from the
> novelty of the idea rather than its workability. It's a concept that
> is better left in the dustbin of history, as far as I'm concerned. ;-)

So, you didn't like RTS games like Dune, C&C, WC, SC, AoE, etc. I love those.
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