New Master of Orion reboot won't be free-to-play

http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/11/8765643/master-of-orion-reboot-wont-be-free-to-play-will-incorporate-best

Given that Wargaming acquired the rights to Total Annihilation at the same time they picked up the Master of Orion rights, it is likely we would get a non free-to-play Total Annihilation sequel too. Hope Chris Taylor and his guys won't screw it up.

There's Freeorion so who cares?

bet they gonna screw up royally.

Fealthas wut? I don't. Elalalaborate!

Shush it's awesome if anything.

MoO3 was awful. Haven't played the other two.

quote: MoO3 was awful. Haven't played the other two.

Moo3... oh dear, how I wanted that to be good. The concept of a game you play through higher-level automation isn't even a bad one, as long as you don't totally mess up the high-level tools like they did. I have heard of mods which make the game at least playable.

I played a game of Master of Orion 1 earlier this week actually. (Still not finished... got stuck in a Final War against the rest of the galaxy which I believe is winnable, but it's gonna take a while. Damn Darlok diplomatic penalties.)

Even now MoO 1 is a good game (if antiquated), the depth of strategy compares reasonably to recent games in its genre (GalCiv, Endless Space, etc.) and its interface is a lot less contrived.

Then again, I learned to love strategy games as a young bub on MoO and Civ 1, so maybe I have the nostalgia glasses on.

I tried FreeOrion a while ago, but it was a prototype at best at the time.

I'm hoping that a MoO reboot is as good as Age of Wonders was as a "sequel" to Master of Magic. Hoping for an XCom class reboot EDIT: reboot of the quality of XCOM would be too much, but I suppose you never know.

quote: Hoping for an XCom class reboot would be too much, but I suppose you never know.

Why don't you enjoy UFO:AI? (besides the lack of destroyable terrain and saving)

You mean Enemy Unknown? Ugh that was awful. :P

No really, Enemy Unknown was awful. Yes not as awful as some other versions of the game (eg UFO: Extraterrestrials), but still. Broken mechanics like some Aliens not taking action until you get close enough or shoot them comes to mind, or annoying combat cutscenes. If I remember correct there were cover being calculated super-weird/unintuitive and visual models not properly matching the models used for hit/miss chances is a big issue as well. All in all the game was probably just dumbed down too much, perhaps exactly because it is commercial though.

Most of the games I play do seem to be commercial ones, so all this is probably not because of a strict preference for open source games that I have.

UFO:AI is pretty great imo, largely better than xcom (didnt play ufo). it has some flaws and balancing issues (like alien weapons being generally not as good as beefed up human stuff), but overall, def worth a try if you like the original games.