Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:28:01 +0000 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday! Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <0akvgjd4c0h37f61u5c8rnlhkku863agkn@4ax.com> User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.10.7-100.fc39.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: <5zudnXnHZP8cAIz6nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:28:01 +0000 Lines: 82 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.180.143.226 X-Trace: sv3-gLhv0RTcCxJ7yQ83synYGJt10h1nfyIDh3HnJHf0o+APo4alZM0R7FBwET5CtCpItj5Eno8LRgYSKOV!w2VsVtsPmXiaxrvPzd+95ICX4tBKUEN2dYVEacDu+GYBO2iNHvmfYGgeboEx+rpVBJbRKub+NIDQ!hgnYJ0hcqftBWlkj2rVYgBOj+QUzli6M X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 5093 Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:55:43 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: > >Spalls Hurgenson 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 > >> 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. -- "He who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray." --Proverbs 10:17. Am I an astrayer? Yay 4 Doyers' winning yesterday's winter hump day. Will they do it again for Thurs.? Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )