Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: "8 Classic Games You Haven't Played (but should)" Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 15:20:28 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:20:29 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b4b886586bce4e93369ccdbe368249ac"; logging-data="175622"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/dr1rnQsTsZxS8EUmDYQLO" Cancel-Lock: sha1:14mGcKBOwFbsviuYb6vICORWptE= Originator: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >Personally, I preferred the older game. "Powermonger" just added on >layers of complexity I felt were unnecessary. Although, again, that >might be because I came across it later. Perhaps had I played >"Powermonger" first, I would have been bitching about how stupidly >simplified they'd made "Populous". ;-P I was disappointed by Powermonger. It sounded like the strategy game I had been waiting for, but it turned out to be underwelming. It's been so long I'm not entirely sure why I thought I'd like it and why I didn't, but I think the main problem was a lack of depth. >Can we both agree, though, that "Syndicate" was the better of both >games? ;-) I might also agree, but Syndicate crashed a lot for me so I never got far in the game. -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca:11068/ db //