James009D

[quote who="Eisenhund" reply="42" id="2779031"]The way I see it, and as some have mentioned, it's the overly simplistic, non-tactical battles used in GalCiv and now Elemental. It's boring as all get up. To me, GalCiv II is really a Sim 3 style game. Make stuff all perty but that's about it. In my recent games of MOOII, I found the combat much more fullfilling and ship design more interesting. It isn't just a Lego set. Just look at weapons development.

MOOII was... is still one of my most favorite strategy games to date. I don't understand why nobody can successfully re-invent it. Don't get me wrong, I love the Gal Civ 2 series, especially with all the expansions, but it's still missing some of the inginueity, charm, uniqueness, and technologies that MOOII had. I cannot help wonder why no one can make a good sequel to MOOII. It may be due to some of the "best practices" in